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Edgar Allan Poe :

'At sixteen I discovered the work of Edgar Allan Poe. I happened to read first his biography, and the sadness of his life made a great impression on me. I felt an enormous pity for him, because in spite of his talent he had never been happy.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Book

Aeschylus :

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Sophocles : unknown

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Euripides :

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Euripides : [all plays]

'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that very few men had done as much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Feuillet Octave : La Petite Comtesse

'The other day for a treat Charlie got me La Petite Comtesse to read. I never was more delighted with any story. It is so beautifully and pathetically written, but so sad that it made me miserable. I shan't read any more books. For a whole day after I had finished my charming petite comtesse, I found I took not the faintest interest in any of my household duties, and wanted only to sit by the fire and read, read, read, all through my life.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Katey Dickens Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Funeral Ode

'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best of humours. He read the Funeral Ode to us afterwards, and one or two shorter poems (Blow, Bugles, Blow); and I was so glad and thankful that Cecco should see him so, and have such a bright recollection of him to carry through his life.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book

Francis Lathom : Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incidents in Real Life

'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Austen Print: Book

Inigo Jones : Stonehenge Restored

'In the year 1655. was published by Mr Web a Booke intituled Stonehenge-restored (but writt by Mr Inigo Jones) which I read with great delight: there is a great deale of Learning in it: but, having compared his Scheme with the Monument it self, I found he had not dealt fairly: but had made a Lesbians rule, which is conformed to the stone: that is, he framed the Monument to his own Hypothesis, which is much differing from the Thing it self. This gave me an edge to make more researches.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Aubrey Print: Book

Samuel Egerton Brydges : Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel

'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's works of which his family are ashamed. That these scruples, however, do not at all interfere with my reading it, you will easily believe. We have neither of us yet finished the first volume. My father is disappointed - I am not, for I expected nothing better.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

James Boswell : Tour to the Hebrides

'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

William Cowper : unknown

'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Austen Print: Book

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'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolute solitude.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less difficulty in getting through him than in reading Fielding, and that as a matter of taste I actually prefer Lovelace to Tom Jones! I suppose that is one of the differences between men and women which even Ladies' Colleges will not set to rights.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Edward Jenkins : Ginx's Baby

'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensely the "Peasant Life".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

unknown : Peasant Life

'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensely the "Peasant Life".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

George Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine and powerful. Is it Laurence Oliphant? I can't think of anybody else with such a power of realism and wonderful command of the subject. It is vivid as Defoe.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Montalembert : journals of Montalembert

'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the sight of these volumes, which Madame de M. reads to me for a couple of hours in the afternoon.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Madame de Montalembert Manuscript: Codex

Collins : unknown

'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Caesar

'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Alexander William Kinglake : Eothen

'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember being very much amused by the opening out of two old neighbours of mine at Ealing, after a discussion of his first volume. In the enthusiasm created by it one of them, an old Peninsular officer, instructed me carefully how to make a pontoon bridge and get my (!) troops over it; while the other, Admiral Collinson, burst forth into naval experiences.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Major Lockhart : [verses]

'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant

Alexander Allardyce : City of Sunshine

'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture of an old Mohammedan officer in the old sepoy army. It is a very clever book. I don't know if it would interest you, who have the real thing under your eyes, as much as it interests us, or I would put it into the next box that is sent.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : Mrs Arthur

'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy surprise, for I had never been prepared for it by any advertisement - I found awaiting me "Carita"! As far as I have gone I like it immensely.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: A.W. Kinglake Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : Carita

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: A.W. Kinglake Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : [novels]

'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine

'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complicated my other businesses, and I did not even read the article till somewhat late in the month. I am now overwhelmed by Mr Shand's (it is Mr Shand?) civilities in the present number.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: Times, The

'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

Heinrich Heine : De l'Allemagne

'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Print: Book

: [newspaper]

'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the blaze of whose parliamentary escutcheon has never yet been dimmed by the bar-sinister or inconsistency." What do you think of that?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Print: Newspaper

Thomas Sherlock : [sermons]

'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Regeneration and Conversion", especially Sherlock's'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

unknown : [novels]

[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [novels]

'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : [Gothic novels]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Regina Maria Roche : [novels]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : [novels]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins : [novels]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Jane West : [novels]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Hannah More : Coelebs in Search of a Wife

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

: Lady's Magazine

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Lennox : Female Quixote, The

'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which shaped her fullest treatment of the subject in "Northanger Abey".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Eaton Barrett : The Heroine

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richardson, especially "Sir Charles Grandison".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Spectator

'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", and read the "Spectator" to her daughters while her "Maid... was dressing [her] Hair".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale Print: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form

unknown : unknown

'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Humphry Repton

Maria Edgeworth : [novels]

'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore Print: Book

Eusebius : Life of Constantine the Great

'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Delany Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Peregrine Pickle

'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Delany Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charles Grandison".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Alan Ramsay : The Gentle Shepherd

'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "Ancient and Modern History", though he did sometimes read a "novel or nonsense buke", like "Sir Charles Grandison". He had also read Alan Ramsay's "The Gentle Shepherd", and contrasted it ironically with the life of a real shepherd.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wully Carruthers Print: Book

: [ancient and modern history]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wully Carruthers Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wully Carruthers Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe :

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Sibbald Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced Prince Regent she discussed and exchanged books with her friend Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, including memoirs and recent history, Byron's poems, and novels including Gothic fiction and works by Anne Plumptre and Jane Austen. (The perceptive Charlotte especially enjoyed "Sense and Sensibility" because she discerned in herself"the same imprudence" as Marianne's).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

: [memoirs and history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

Anne Plumptre : [novels]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas

'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little ("only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and few pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's "Tour of the Hebrides", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's "The Cottagers of Glenburnie", but generally finds them a "dangerous, facinating kind of amusement" which "destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Mary Wortley Montagu : [Letters]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

: [newspaper]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Newspaper

: [magazine]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Serial / periodical

James Boswell : Tour of the Hebrides

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Mungo Park : Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

[Madame] de Genlis :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : The Cottagers of Glenburnie

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Hilaire Belloc : 'The Dons', 'The Poor of London'

'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by Mr de la Mare reading five poems of great beauty. Elizabeth was thrilled at seeing for the first time W.H. Davies, a strange tiny poet. He read "Love's Silent Hour" and three others. Hilary [Hilaire Belloc] read "The Poor of London" and "the Dons". He got a big reception'.

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilaire Belloc

Walter de la Mare : [five poems]

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter de la Mare

William Henry Davies : 'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies

: The History of Whittington and his Cat

'Robert Colyer, who rose to become a celebrated Unitarian minister, deliberately chose to dwell upon the moment when, as a child labourer in a Fewston linen factory, he bought his first book, "The History of Whittington and his Cat":..."in that first purchase lay the spark of a fire which has not yet gone down to white ashes, the passion which grew with my growth to read all the books in the early years I could lay my hands on, and in this wise prepare me in some fashion for the work I must do in the ministry... I see myself in the far-away time and cottage reading, as I may truly say in my case, for dear life".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Collyer Print: Book

Byron : Don Juan

'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'advisd me to raed 'Don Juan'we talkd about books & flowers & butterflyes till noon& then he discanted on Don Juan [...] I think a good deal of his opinion & shall read it when I am able. 'Friday 17 Sept Began Don Juan 2 verses of the Shipwreck very fine & the character of Haideeisthe best I have yet met...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

Homer : The Iliad

'Growing up in extreme poverty in East London, Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand "Iliad" and was dazzled: "What a revelation it was to me. Pictures of romance and beauty I had never dreamed of suddenly opened up before my eyes. I was transported from the East End to an enchanted land. It was a rare luxury for a working lad like me just home from work to find myself suddenly among the heroes and nymphs of ancient Greece".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Crooks Print: Book

: John Bull Magazine

"Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one comfort to those that it nicknames 'Humbugs' [.]"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

: The New Testament

'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

John Foxe : Foxes Book of Martyrs

I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: The Bible

' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the pages and looked up the texts cited by the preachers, discussing the passages among themselves to see whether they had quoted them to the point, and accurately, and in harmony with their tenets. Also, they would start arguing among themselves about the meaning of passages from the Scriptures - men, women, boys, girls, rustics, labourers and idiots..."'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Puritans Print: Book

Izaak Walton : The Complete Angler

'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him discourse of fish ponds & fishing. What a delightful book it is the best English Pastoral

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: The London Magazine

Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goethe' by De Quincey these are excellent and sufficient to make a bad No. interesting.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

: The Bible

'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that god created the sun moon & stars [...] for no other purpose than its use " the greater light to rule the day & the lesser light to rule the night" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: [Puritanic and abstruse divinity texts]

'Aucterderran, Fife: In common with the rest of Scotland, the vulgar are, for their station, literate, beyond all other nations. Puritanic and abstruse divinity come in for a sufficient share in their little stock of books; and it is perhaps peculiar to them, as a people, that they endeavour to form opinions by reading, as well as by frequent conversation, on some very metaphysical points connected with religion, and on the depper doctrines of Christianity. They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects... Although the parish consists wholly of the poorer ranks of sociey, newspapers are very generally read and attended to'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the people of Auchterderran, Fife Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Sonnets

'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he speaks of the Lady smock [quotes from 'The Battle of Hastings'].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects [religion]... Although the parish consists wholly of the poorer ranks of society, newspapers are very generally read and attended to.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the people of Auchterderran, Fife Print: Newspaper

Thomas Chatterton : 'Poems of Chatterton'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries Print: Newspaper

: Moore's Almanack

'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: almanack

: [history]

'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries Print: Book

: [magazines]

'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries Print: Serial / periodical

: [religious books]

'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries Print: Book

William Collins Collins : 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors]

'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of the name of Oglivie [...] they appear to me to be bold intruders to claim company with Gray and Collins'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

John Ogilvie : 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'Wigtown:...Not only the farmers ,but many of the tradesmen, read the newspapers'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the people of Wigtown Print: Newspaper

: 'the Song Solomon'

till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown

John Milton :

'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' "'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'Penserose' are those which I take up most often"Quotes from 'Comus' ll.291-3.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Letters

Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare

: The Human Heart

'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making in half filld pages & fine paper'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: [travels]

'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read history, travels and the English classics. He joined a club of twelve men, mainly artisans and mechanics, who met weekly to discuss literary topics'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Campbell Print: Book

: [history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Campbell Print: Book

Josiah Conder : The Star in the East

'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: [English classics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Campbell Print: Book

John Hamilton Reynolds : The Garden of Florence

'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: Epistle of St John

'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: [playbill]

'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Handbill, playbill

Keats : 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in my back street urchin accents - of La Belly Dame Sans Murky, yet in Keats's chill little poem I seemed to sense some essence of the eternal ritual of romantic love. And Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur" bowled me over. I read it again and again until I fairly lived in a world of "armies that clash by night" and stately weeping Queens. So the poets helped me escape the demands of communal living which now, at thirteen, were beginning to be intolerable to me'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Burnham Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : More d'Arthur

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Burnham Print: Unknown

:

Read the News

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Yeoman Print: Newspaper

: [newspapers]

'The political awakening of J.R. Clynes came when three old blind men paid him 3d a week to read the newspapers to them: "Reading aloud was a new joy to me. Some of the articles I read from the local Oldham papers of the time must have been pretty poor stuff I suppose, but they went to my head like wine...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.R. Clynes Print: Newspaper

Hugh Kelly : The School for Wives

Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Yeoman

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captains over the Men, Esspeatialy the Sick, in a Most Shocking Manner, Which I believe in a great Measure to be true.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Yeoman

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sneaking a look at "Paradise Lost" during a work break at the mill.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.R. Clynes Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Yeoman

:

after [a morning walk] I Read the News.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Yeoman Print: Newspaper

:

home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the News

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Yeoman Print: Newspaper

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

: The Two Covenants

'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Robert Burton : The Anatomy of Melancholy

In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book or other) in the Anatomy of Melancholy: and coming to this passage of the author, that I have just now cited, viz of his having Jupiter in the sixth house, which made him a physician,I was really non-plust, and Planet-struck for that bout, and forced to lay aside my book, being unwilling to read what I could not understand. I then endeavoured to go to my rest, but in vain, my active genius was watchful, and constantly solicited me,even in my dreams, to enquire, and discover if I could, what Jupiter in the Sixth house meant. . . .I had then. . . some small acquaintance with the learned Dr. Nicholas Fisk. . .who presently gave me such satisfaction in the Point as I was thencapable of receiving.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Gadbury Print: Book

follower of Joanna Southcott :

'Proselytised by a follower of the mystic Joanna Southcott, he read some of his propaganda but found "Some things that did not Correspond with the bible and also that it was a trick to get money so I declined his religion and bid him adue".''

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Unknown

Hannah More : The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain

'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were often put into my hands in a dictatorial way in order to convince me of my errors for instance there was [Hannah More's] the Shepherd of Salisbury Plain... the Farmers fireside and the discontented Pendulum and many others which drove me almost into despair for I could see their design'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

: The Farmer's Fireside

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Robert Nelson : Life of Dr. George Bull

Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James Clre

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg Print: Book

Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest.

At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded with reading Mr Baxters Saints. Rest and prayer as usual.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg Print: Book

William Cobbett :

'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all the sins of oppression in all those that had supremacy over the lower order of people and when I Compared this with the preceptive part of the word of God I began to Conclude that most if not all professors of religion did it only for a Cloake to draw money out of the pockets of the Credulous..."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Richard Carlile :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Richard Baxter : An abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. With

At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded with reading Mr Baxters Saints. Rest and prayer as usual.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg Print: Book

T.J. Wooler :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

: The Northampton Mercury

May 24th. My black mare fell down and threw me over her head, but God be praysed I got not the least harm. I rode a slow trot reading the Northampton news paper [...] it was upon Bury Heath.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Coe Print: Newspaper

William Whately : The New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deli

August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and search of my selfe

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book

Richard Sibbes : The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax

May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, and resisting ... Soon after in Dr Sibbs his Bruised Reed, I found that resisting sin was one degree of victory, so that if I cannot root out ill thoughts, I will resi[s]t them...

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book

Richard Alleine : Vindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of Godliness

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa Harlowe

At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret 'Peggy' Turner Print: Book

Robert Bloomfield : The Farmers Boy

'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: T.W.M.

William Cowper : The Negro's complaint

Complete transcript of Cowper's poem.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anon

James Montgomery : Evening

'Evening [transcription of poem] James Montgomery. Weedon Nov 11th 1836.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group:

James Montgomery : The West Indies

From the 'West Indies' a Poem by Montgomery.Part 2 Page 22 'In These romantic regions[...] From the same, Part 3 'There is a land[...] From the Same part 3. Page 35 'And is the negro outlaw from his birth [...] From the same, part 3rd. Page 40.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Warburton

Thomas Moore : The Song Of Music

Transcription of poem as 'The Song of Music'. 'Moore'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : 'The Fickleness of Love'

'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : A Reflection at Sea

'A Reflection at Sea'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : Weep Not for Those

'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : Stanzas

'Stanzas'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]'Go, let me weep there's bliss in tears /...'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : Perpetual Adoration

'Perpetual Adoration'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : The Inspiration of Love

'The Inspiartion of Love'. 'Moore'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : The Meeting of the Waters

'The Meeting of the Waters'. 'Moore'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : The Tear

'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Moore : The Wintery Smile of Sorrow

'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

John Bowring : The Infinity Of God

'the infinity of god a Russian fragment translated by Mr Bowring' followed by transcript of text '-yes as a drop of water in the sea /..'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Gray : The Progress of Poesy

transcription of the poem headed 'the progress of poesy./ thos. gray'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Campbell : Hohenlinden

transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Campbell : The dirge of wallace

transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Bernard Barton : To Mary

transcript of the poem headed 'to mary'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Bernard Barton : Winter

transcript of the poem headed 'winter / bernard barton'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Bernard Barton : The Joy /addressed to a young friend

transcript of the poem headed 'the joy / addressed to a young friend / by bernard barton'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Thomas Campbell : Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale

'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

James Montgomery : Friendship, love and truth

'friendship, love & truth / montgomery'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

James Montgomery : Stanzas, Addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child

'stanzas. addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child. / montgomery'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

James Montgomery : Poet's address to twilight

'poet's address to twilight / montgomery'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

William Wordsworth : Song: she dwelt among th' untrodden ways

'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significant errors when compared to wordsworth's original. The original first line 'she dwelt among the untrodden ways'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Samuel Rogers : The Sailor

'the sailor / rogers'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Samuel Rogers : An Italian Song

'An Italian Song / Rogers' [transcription of poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Felicia Dorothea Hemans : Coeur De Lion At The Bier Of His Father

'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Lines On The Death Of A General Officer In The East Indies

'lines on the death of a general officer in the east indies / ladies monthly museum' 'the muffled drums dull moan /... [transcription of poem]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom Print: Serial / periodical

Professor Gellert : The Life of Professor Gellert; with a course of ...

Transcription of part of text: 'From Professor Gellerts Moral Lessons / 'Faith in God, the sublime thought...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: B.A.T. Herbert

William Cowper : My Father! When I learned that thou was Dead

Transcription of Cowper's poem and ''By W. Cowper'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: B.A.T. Herbert

Laetitia Elizabeth Landon : The Emerald Ring

'the emerald ring' 'it is agem which [...]' [transcribes poem] 'le landon'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

Miss Elizabeth Smith : Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady

'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

Miss Elizabeth Smith : Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady

'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those who are rendered unhappy by frivolous troubles seek comfort in frivolous enjoyments...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

Miss Elizabeth Smith : Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady

'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

Robert Pollok : The course of time

''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descending, sat and smiled.' signed 'aunt a.' 'quarry bank july 1830'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

James Montgomery : The world before the flood; a poem in ten cantos

'far less shall earth now hastening to decay...' 'world before the flood' 'isle of man June 15th 31'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

James Hogg : Stanzas for music

'stanzas for music by the ettrick shepherd' [transcribes 2 stanzas] 'my sweet little...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

Hugh Blair : Sermons

'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan

: Library of Entertaining Knowledge

[illustration of a Deer, followed by prose on hunting ascribed to] 'Library of Entertaining Knowledge' [part of album with begining of transcript missing].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R.

Felix MacDonogh : The Hermit in London; or Sketches in English Manne

'Highland Hospitality' 'I once resolved to leave London for a little time [...]' 'Hermit in London'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R. Print: Book

John Clare : 'Address to Time' from The Village Minstrel

'To Time' 'In Fancy's eye, what an extended span / ...' 'Clare'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R. Print: Book

John Clare : 'On Taste' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II.

'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R. Print: Book

John Clare : 'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel,

'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R. Print: Book

John Clare : 'Life' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II.

'Life' 'Life thou art misery, or as such to me...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R. Print: Book

John Clare : 'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel,

'Sorrows for a Friend' 'O ye brown old oaks that spread the silent wood...' 'Clare'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R. Print: Book

: The Regatta

'The Regatta' [transcribes poem]'Ho! Hearty steeple chasers...' 'Blackwood's Mag 1830'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.R. Print: Serial / periodical

Pindar : unknown

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Callimachus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Apollonius Rhodius : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Quintus Calaber : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Theocritus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Herodotus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Thucydides : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Xenophon : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Aristotle : Politics

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Aristotle : Organon

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Lucian : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Athenaeus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plautus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plautus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Aeschylus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Sophocles : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Pindar : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Theocritus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Terence : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Lucretius : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Catullus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Albius Tibullus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Sextus Propertius : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Lucan : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Silius Italicus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Livy : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Velleius Paterculus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Sallust : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Caesar : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Aristophanes : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Monk : Biography of Richard Bentley

'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the character. Energy, acuteness, tyranny, and audacity in every line of the face." Those words are writen above the portrait of Richard Bentley, in Bishop Monk's biography of that famous writer.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Theocritus : Seventh Idyll

' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich profusion of rustic imagery about it which I find nowhere else. It opens a scene of rural plenty and comfort which quite fills the imagination, - flowers, fruits, leaves, fountains, soft goatskins, old wine, singing birds, joyous friendly companions. The whole has an air of reality which is more interesting than the conventional world which Virgil has placed in Arcadia". So Macaulay characterises the Seventh Idyll of Theocritus.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Jonson : The Alchemist

'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great art,' even to his accomplice. As Hume says, roguery and enthusiasm run into each other. I admire this play very much. The plot would have been more agreeable, and more rational, if Surly had married the widow whose honor he has preserved. Lovewit is as contemptible as Subtle himself. The whole of the trick about the Queen of Fairy is improbable in the highest degree. But, after all, the play is as good as any in our language out of Shakespeare."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Catiline

'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The characters are certainly discriminated, but with no delicacy. Jonson makes Cethegus a mere vulgar ruffian. He quite fogets that all the conspirators were gentlemen, noblemen, politicians, probably scholars. He has seized only the coarsest peculiarities of character. As to the conduct of the piece, nothing can be worse than the long debates and narratives which make up half of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock

'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is very extravagant and foolish. It is the blemish of a poem which, but for this blemish, would be as near perfection in its own class as any work in the world." '

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Horace : Satires

'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, far more variety, more sentiment, more thought. But that to which Horace chiefly owes his reputation, is his perfect good sense and self-knowledge, in whcih he exceeded all men."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Paul Louis Courier : Le Simple Discours

[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Paul Louis Courier : Le Simple Discours

'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, with the punkah swinging overhead, with as much enjoyment as ever Charles James Fox read the romances of Voltaire to his wife in the garden at St. Anne's Hill, though with a less irreproachable accent.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Bernard Barton : 'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Albu

'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Album' 'Bernard Barton' 'The Warrior is[pleased?] when the war is won ....'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

Bernard Barton : Remember Me!

'Remember Me! By Bernard Barton Esq' ' "Remember me!" However brief / Those simple words... [transcribes text]'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

Bernard Barton : Farewell

'Farewell' 'Nay [shy] not from the word "Farewell"! / As if twer friendships knell ...' 'Bernard Barton' [transcribes text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

Samuel Rogers : The Wish

'A Wish' 'Rogers' [transcribes text] 'Mine be a cot beside a hill...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

Thomas Campbell : The Last Man

'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

Laetitia Elizabeth Landon : 'Change'

'Change' 'We say that people ... [transcribes text]'LEL'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

John Wolfe : The Burial of Sir John Moore

Pencil drawing of Sir John Moore by 'J.G.' followed by 'On the death of Sir John Moore' [transcribes text] 'Wolfe'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

John Clare : Early Rising

'Early Rising' 'Just at the early peep of dawn...' [transcribes text] 'Clare'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale

Reginald Herber : Narrative of a journey through the upper Provinces

'If thou wast by mys side my love...' [transcript of poem] 'Hebers Journal'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

F. D. Hemans : The Graves of a Household

'Graves of a Household' [transcript of text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

Robert Hartley Cromek : Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: with histo

'My Ain Fire Side' 'O I hae seen great ones...'[transcript of text] 'from the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B. Sheridan

'Extract from Byron's Monody on the death of Sheridan' [transcript of text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

Lord George Gordon Byron : 'Sonnet on Chillon'

'Sonnet on Chillon' [transcript of text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles

'Autumn departs- but still his mantles fold...' [transcript of text] 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles

'Stranger! if e'er thine ardent...' [transcript of text] 'Lord of the Isles 14th Canto'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

: Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucester Advertiser

'To the Great Pyramid' 'Mountain of art!... [transcript of text] 'From the [Cheltenham] Chronicle Feb 7th 1833'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Swain : Song of the Bells

'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain'... 'Soft upon the summer air /...'[transcript of text] [NB there was a poet called Charles Swain who published from 1828-1850s].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

John Milton : Sonnet XIX When I consider how my light is spent

'Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness / 'When I consider how my light is spent...'[transcript of text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Bowly

: Cheltenham Chronicle

'From The Cheltenham Chronicle of 11 Oct 1832 on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' ...'Harp of the North! the mighty hand /...[transcript of text].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Deveraux Bowly Print: Newspaper

: Annual Obituary

''Annual Obituray for 1833' [Prose passage on the Death of Sir Walter Scott]' [transcript of text].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Deveraux Bowly Print: Serial / periodical

F.D. Hemans : The Homes of England

'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Browne

F.D. Hemans : Evening Prayer at a Girl's School

'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Browne

F.D. Hemans : The Wings of the Dove

'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Browne

Robert Burns : Winter: A Dirge

'A Dirge- Burn' 'The sweeping blast, the sky o'ercast [transcribes alll of poem from l.10.]'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: B.A.T. Herbert

Robert Burns : Despondency

'Despondency---Burn' 'Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care...' [transcribes poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: B.A.T. Herbert

Robert Burns : Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish

'A Prayer by Burn' 'O thou great Being! What thou art, /...' [transcribes poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: B.A.T. Herbert

Robert Burns : The Chevalier's Lament

'Burn. May 1812' 'The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning /...' [transcribes poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: B.A.T. Herbert

Cuthbert Shaw : Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady Who Died in C

'Shaw's Monody' 'I who the tedious absence of a day /...' [transcribes poem from line 11]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: B.A.T. Herbert

Henry Kirke White : On Disapointment

'Ode on Disapointment' 'Come, Disapointment, come! /...' [No author given]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

George Crabbe : The Church

''Affecting picture of Constancy and Love' 'Yes! There are real mourners- I have seen /...' [transcription of 'The Church' from l.170 - 'While visions please her, and while woes destroy']

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

L.E. Landon : Love's Slaves

'Where is the heart that is not bow'd /...' 'L.E.L'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

L.E. Landon : Love's Last Lesson

'Loves Last Lesson' 'Teach me if you can- Forgetfulness!'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Rev. John Moultrie : Forget Thee?

'"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem].

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Felicia Dorothea Hemans : Fairy Favours

'Fairy Favours' [transcript of poem] 'Mrs Hemans'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Bernard Barton : The Heaven was Cloudless

'The Heaven was Cloudless' [transcript of poem, no author given]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Alaric A. Watts : Sketch From Real Life

'Sketch from Real Life / Alaric A. Watts' [transcript of poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

William Robert Spencer : To The Lady Anne Hamilton

'Verses / Spencer' 'Too late I staid, forgive the crime; /...' [transcript of poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

Bernard Barton : Violets. A Sonnet

'Violets. a Sonnet / Bernard Barton' 'Beautiful are you in your lowliness/...[transcript of poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom

William Law : A Practical Traetise Upon Christain Perfection

at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading it

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

completed the perusal of the firstvolume of Perry's French Revolution, which requires to be read with care, the author a Democratic writer too often attempts to justify principles in themselves unjustifiable

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Continued the perusal of the 2nd volume which opens a display of the insubordination & cruelty of the French populace

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTION

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Continue the perusal of Perry's French Revolution, which like the murmurings heard at the foot of the crater become more dreadful as we approach to its summit

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Still engaged in the perusal of Perry's French Revolution together with a few periodical publications by way of a change of its summit

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

William Cowper :

Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Thomas James Mathias : The Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical Poem

Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

: Monthly Magazine

Engaged in a 2nd perusal of The Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Serial / periodical

Edgar Allan Poe : Tales Arabesque and Grotesque

'When I came home from the office where I worked, I went straight to my room, took out the cheap edition of "Tales Grotesque and Arabesque", and began to read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Book

Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-Holstein : Germany

Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : The Murders in the Rue Morgue

'I still remember my feelings when I finished "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". I was afraid, but this fear made me discover something I've never forgotten since: fear, you see, is an emotion people like to feel when they know they are safe.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Ancient History of the Egyptians

Continue the perusal of Rollins Ancient History- this work reflects great light upon the sacred volume.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life of Wesley

Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

: Motion Picture Daily

'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Serial / periodical

: Motion Picture Herald

'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Serial / periodical

: Cinematograph Lantern Weekly

'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Serial / periodical

: The Bioscope

'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Serial / periodical

Gustav Flaubert : Madame Bovary

[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Book

Marie Corelli : The Sorrows of Satan

[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Book

Caesar : Commentaries On The Gallic War

'In the spring of 1826, after getting through Valpy's Delectus, and a part of Stewart's "Cornelius Nepos, " and also a part of Justin, but somewhat clumsily, with the help of Ainsworth's Dictionary, I commenced Caesar, and sped on well, so that by the time I had reached the third book, "De Bello Gallico, " I found myself able to read page after page, with scarcely more than a glance, now and then, at the dictionary. I remember wll myfirst triumphant feeling of this kind. I sat on Ping

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorabilia

"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Anacreon : Odes of Anacreon

"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the Odes of Anacreon, ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Homer : The Iliad

In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad. I worked hard at Greek.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Voltaire : Charles the Twelfth

"Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' of Moliere - I caught hold of such good French pronunciation as would have enabled me soon to converse very pleasantly in the language, could I have found acompanion"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Moliere : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

"Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' - I caught hold of such good French pronunciation as would have enabled me soon to converse very pleasantly in the language, could I have found a companion."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Goldoni : Comedies

"As I thought I could easily learn Italian, I took lessons from Signor D'Albrione... So we read together part one of the comedies of Goldoni...."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata

So we read together ... a part of the beautiful "Gerusalemme Liberata", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Herder : [volume of tales]

I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took care to attend to its duties assiduously; and yet kept firm hold of my studies, rising early in the morning, and, with my book in my hand, as of old, walked from our little home in St. Mary's Street, along the Sincil Dyke, and on to Canwick Common, whenever weather permitted me to do so.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

Lessing : [volume of tales]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

: The Times

there is a leading article in the "Times" about New Zealand

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Newspaper

Samuel Maunder : The Treasury of Geography

I am reading "Maunders Treasury of Geography" a very entertaining work.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Charles Tomlinson : Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy

"I have been reading lately "Natural Philosophy" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the "Chemistry of Creation" by Dr Ellis."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Walter Scott :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

John Herschel : A preliminary discourse on the study of Natural Ph

"I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Robert Ellis : The Chemistry of Creation: being an outline of the

"I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Charles and Mary Lamb :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

George Eliot :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Unknown

George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Samuel Maunder : The Treasury of Geography

I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli :

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Benjamin Thompson : Philosophical Papers: being a collection of memoir

I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Serial / periodical

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : The Court Servant

Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Samuel Lover : Rory O'More

Have just finished "Rory O'More" by Samuel Lover

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Julia Kavanagh : Nathalie

Read "Nathalie" by Julia Kavanagh

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Locksley Hall

'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Listen now, children" began to declaim "Locksley Hall". When she reached "I to herd with narrow foreheads" she burst out, flinging down the book, "What awful rubbish this is!"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Thomas Print: Book

: unknown

I find by the newspapers this morning that Dr Wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Lincoln Print: Newspaper

Daniel (Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham) Finch : The Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr Whiston

I find by the news papers this morning that dr wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham [to give] their thanks for his book agst Mr Whiston. Which book i do also much approve of and accordingly Did return my own thanks to his lordship in the House of Lords as soon as it was published

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Lincoln Print: Book

Hans Christian Anderson :

'Charles was reading Hans Andersen: I wanted the book, asked for it, fussed for it, and finally broke into tears.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Thomas Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Bible (Old Testament), the

'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to read aloud the strange doings of the Patriarchs. No comments were made, religious or otherwise, my questions were fobbed off...and occasionally mother's pencil, with which she guided me to the words, would travel rapidly over several verses, and I heard a muttered "never mind about that".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

David Lewis : Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th

Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope. Cost 5s. Mother paid half of that... Read Philip of Macedon after supper. Does not read as well as I expected.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

:

'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some length.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil and

After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: A Child's History of Rome

'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Richard Baker : A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time

No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's Chronicles

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Dr Brewer : Guide to Science

'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : A Tale of A Tub

Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Rosy's Voyage Around the World

'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Richard Baker : A Chronicle of the Kings of England

I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: The Little Gypsy

'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland

'"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Eliza Fowler Haywood : The Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded...

Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Lewis Carroll : Through the Looking Glass

'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...buried myself in it all afternoon, my pleasure enhanced by the knowledge that there was a boring vistor downstairs to whom I ought to be making myself agreeable!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Eliza Haywood : Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on t

Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old story.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love

Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Like a black desart at th' approach of night I'll lay me down and stray no further on' (All for Love)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love

"Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Thomas Killigrew : Chit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre

'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or never efface the first stains'. (Chit-Chat)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

James Shirley : The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie...

Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures. I think he is a better orator than casuist: his argument is not so clear a stile.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

Read after supper the contempt of the clergy.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Charles Sedley : The Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two Volumes

Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Nathaniel Lee : Constantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works...

'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Nathaniel Lee : Caesar Borgia. A Tragedy

Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his Eyes their Wildness lose And vows the keepers his wrong'd sense abuse. But if you hitt the cause that hurts his Brain Then his Teeth gnash; he foams; he Shakes his Chain, His Eyeballs roll, and he is madagain'. (Lee, 'Caesar Borgia')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Eachard; a book with much truth and much witt, but too ludicrase I think for the subject. It belongs to our [Quaker] Landlady.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : Travels of Cyrus

Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus

Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book

: Bible

None went to Church. Aunt gave us coffee. Mother read scriptures.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Savile Print: Book

: Church of England burial service

Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending their Band - the Commodore was obliged to read the Burial Service as there was no Clergyman out here

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : A Tale of A Tub

Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Thomas Wotton : The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and His

Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Saviles (in a book of the Baronets lately come out), with the account Brother sent to be inserted.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt

Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Charles Beckingham : The Life of Mr Richard Savage

Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

(Sir) John Denham : The Sophy OR Poems and Translations

Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Martin Luther :

None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Sturmy : Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy.

Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Tatler

Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

(Sir) John Vanbrugh : A Journey to London, being part of a comedy...

Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by Cibber, vastly mended by him I think.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Gay : The Beggar's Opera

Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book

John Gay : The Beggars Opera

Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o

Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extreordinary stile. Poeticall, exceeding entertaining.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o

Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back with Aunt near 10.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Gay : The Beggar's Opera

Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 were here, and Mrs D'Enly alone in Mother's room, I read 'The Beggar's Opera' to them in intervals before and after supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Tatler

Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

(Sir) Richard Steele : The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy.

Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Conscious Lovers'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : The Universal Passion

Read the 'Universal Passion'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : The Universal Passion

Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. He is grown a favouritt Author of mine. I am not content with once reading it, but design to bye it.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted st

Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Hang'd. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

'B.L' OR 'A Lady' : Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had m

Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Haywood : The British Recluse; Or the Secret History of Cleo

Read 'The British Recluse'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Essay on the Fates of Clergymen

[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I have been more fortunate or prudent than Swift or Eugenio.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.

Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.

Read 'The Prude'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Vindication

Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame is the motive, it is the reward, of our labours: nor can I easily comprehend how it is possible that we should remain cold and indifferent with regard to the attempts which are made to deprive us of the most valuable object of our possessions, or at least, of our hopes.' Macaulay writes: 'But what if you are confident that these attempts will be vain, and that your book will fix its own place?'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.

Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jean Regnauld de Segrais : Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F

Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate".

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jean Regnauld de Segrais : Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F

Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Conyers Middleton : Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church

[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I do not at all admire this letter. Indeed Middleton should have counted the cost before he took his part. He never appears to so little advantage as when he complains in this way of the calumnies and invectives of the orthodox.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: [A Novell] OR [A Novel]

Read a Novell after supper. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: 'Brutus' OR 'A Tragedy'

Slept in the chair - knew not what to do with myself. Read a New Tragidy in Maniscript that has not been acted; the story of the first Brutus that putt his 2 sons to death.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Manuscript: Codex

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scene, whatever the French critics may say. It at once puts us thoroughly in possession of the state of the two families.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is not what would be commonly called fine; but I would give any six plays of Rowe for it.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo be? / Came he not home to- night?' in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is the free conversation of lively, high-spirited young gentlemen.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: 'Almanack' OR 'Almanick'

Mrs Winn told us our fortunes out of the Almanick, some things to me very strange...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: (Mrs) Winn Print: Book, almanack

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is beyond the reach of anybody but Shakespeare.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels'in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is as fine an instance of presentiment as I remember in poetry. It throws a sadness over all the gaiety that follows, and prepares us for the catastrophe.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in which Juliet at once withdraws her whole confidence from the nurse without disclosing her feelings'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures of

Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil...

'Life of Count De Venivill' after supper. Bed near 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Lawrence, Macaulay remarks on the wonderful genius with which the poet delineates a timid, delicate girl of fourteen excited and exalted to an act of desperate courage.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

'Young Nobleman' : Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr

Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

'Young Nobleman' : Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr

Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Elijah Fenton : Mariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal...

'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: As the vex'd oceean [sic] working in a storm Off brings to light the wrecks which long lay calm, In the dark bosom of the secret deep. ('Mariamne')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Sturmy : Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy...

Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Fowler Haywood : The City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel.

After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...

Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...

Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures of

Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Fowler Haywood : The Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...A

News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...

Made an end of 'Gil Blas'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Philip Massinger : The Very Woman

Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Nicholas Rowe : The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy...

I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in it. - Rows Ambitious Stepmother

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers : The Rehearsal

Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers : The Rehearsal

Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..

Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..

Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..

Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Tatler

Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Thomas Jevon : The Devil of a Wife

Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Abraham Cowley : The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles

Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : The Economy of Human Life

I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Biographical Sketch of Dodsley is drawn with much beauty and taste.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horrocks Ainsworth Print: Book

Allan Ramsay : The Gentle Shepherd

I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to me from not being acquainted with it.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horrocks Ainsworth Print: Book

: The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal

Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of the tides of the Mediterranean. At Venice they...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horrocks Ainsworth Print: Serial / periodical

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horrocks Ainsworth Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horrocks Ainsworth Print: Book

Walter Scott : Peveril of the Peak

Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horrocks Ainsworth Print: Book

Walter Scott : Peveril of the Peak

Finished Peveril of the Peak.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horrocks Ainsworth Print: Book

: The Story without an End

'The story itself was an allegory, and was too subtle for us, but it is impossible to describe the endless pleasure given us by those full-page pictures.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

:

'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture text-book, given to me on my seventh birthday, and still preserved...some of the little pictures are very crude, but most of them, especially such short commands as "Walk Honestly, "Fear God"...are tasteful enough.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

: The Safe Compass

'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me many a joyful hour. It took the gloomiest views as to the fate of the disobedient. But if you left out everything that was in italics, and altered the endings of the plots, the stories were good.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

: The Peep of the Day

'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King Lear" in class."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Thomas Print: Book

: [French play]

'Some three or four times during the reading of the French play...Charles ... neatly, but with becoming hesitation, spouted the Latin line.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Thomas Print: Book

:

'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Richard Arkwright.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

: Little Arthur

'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : The Lover and his Lass

'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover and his Lass." It is by your powerful, truth-seeing imagination, and not by what pedants are prone to describe as "analysis" of character, that you enchant us [...] I "pitied myself," as they say in Cumberland, when I got to the end of the book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Kinglake Print: Book

George MacDonald : David Elginbrod

[Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his first successful book, "David Elginbrod", had been published many years before by Messrs Hurst & Blackett, at Mrs Oliphant's warm recommendation. She always spoke of it as a work of genius, and quoted it as one of the instances of publishers' blunders, for when the MS. came to her it came enveloped in wrappings that showed how many refusals it had already suffered.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Manuscript: MS of a book

John Morley : Life of George Eliot

'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ever saw. The personality of the great writer is as yet very confusing to me in the extreme flatness of the picture. I don't mean by flatness dulness [sic], though there is something of that, but only that it is like mural paintings or sculpture in very low relief. I have just run over your reviewer's article and think it very good.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Review of the Life of George Eliot

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Laurence Oliphant : Land of Gilead, The

'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I am making the most prodigious effort to understand his book, but I have to catch hold of the furniture after a few pages to keep myself from turning round and round, and yet the absorption of such a man of the world as he is in a religious idea has something very fine in it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Athenaeum

'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine

'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine

'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article on Hayward is very good. Sir Edward Hamley, I think?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Margaret Oliphant : Makers of Venice

'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages saying, first, that he was not going to Venice, as had been reported; and next, that he must contradict himself, and say that he had been in Venice, the book having quite given him that feeling; after which he enters into a question of Venetian political history about Bajamonte, whose very name, I should think, was unknown to most readers, but with whom this amazing old man seems intimately acquainted.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

A.K.H. Boyd : Taking in Sail

'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued thoughts that come to us with the decline of the day.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Unknown

J.M. Barrie : Auld Licht Idylls

'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I think exceedingly clever. Indeed there seems to me genius in them, though the Scotch is, as you say, much too provincial.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : The Duke's Daughter

Dear Mrs Oliphant, - It is with ceaseless admiration that I have read 'The Duke's Daughter'. My remembrance of what you had told me respecting the origin of your inclination to undertake the narrative put me into the mood for studying it, if so one may speak, instead of too placidly 'reading' your delightful pages, and the effect of this special care was such as to make me think more - more even than ever before - of what - distinguished from 'fancy' - I should call that sound, healthy, that strong Imagination of yours which tells you, and lets you tell others, the very, very truth.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: A.W. Kinglake Print: Book, Unknown

Margaret Oliphant : In Trust

Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and I am only now towards the end of the second volume. I am greatly interested, and more than ever admiring the way in which your powerful yet truth-loving imagination proves able to deal with the mazes of Human Nature.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: A.W. Kinglake Print: Book, Unknown

: Blackwood's Magazine

I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, I think, according to these specimens, in poetry.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Margaret Oliphant : Jerusalem: Its History and Hope

I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion of those evidences of the sacred volume which are so much higher than the "higher criticism", and which have a range of flight beyond its reach.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book, Unknown

: [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria]

I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chalmers's great experiment in Glasgow, which I think a very fine thing indeed, and which has fallen out of recollection.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper, Unknown

A.P. Stanley : A Selection from the writings of Dean Stanley

I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine

I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year. It has been more full of interesting articles, and altogether stronger than for a long time before.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Andrew Lang : Life of Lockhart

Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' personalities.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book

Marie Corelli :

I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the way in the only book of hers I can read, seems to be founded upon Bulwer

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Crossing the Bar

One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping her voice steady, repeated the last lines, the listener fell suddenly into a calm sleep."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Annie Coghill Print: Book

: The Iris

The Iris came this morning, in it there was the following article: at Paris there is proposals for publishing by subscription Parisgraphy, or a language that may be read by any nation... I have not copied this exactlyas it is in the newspaper, but that is the substance.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

: Monthly Review

I wrote out of the Monthly Review, an anecdote of Dr Franklin's [surgeon?] who said that the [king?] was the only gentleman in the kingdom. I began to make an index to this journal.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

: Gentleman's Magazine

I wrote out of the Gentleman's Magazine the various [games?] assigned for the 9 of diamonds... to which I added my opinion on the subject.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

: 'An old Hymn Book'

I will here give an account of the Hymns which I could say ... This I have copied from Mr E[vans] writing in an old hymn book of mine.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

William Seward : Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly o

Reading "Anedotes of Some Remarkable Persons Chiefly of The Present and Two Preceding Centuries'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Mark Noble : A Genealogical History of the Present Royal Famili

I drew out of a book entitled 'a genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe' the pedigree of several of them.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Robert Ainsworth : Robert Ainsworth's Dictionary

Looked at Ainsworth's dictionary for the derivation of all the Christian names; Joseph is derived from the Hebrew of I will multiply ...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

William Cobbett : Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young W

'I had read in Cobbett's "Advice to Young Men" a caution not to depend upon the Muses for substantial support ... he illustrated the sufferings of Bloomfield ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Teer Print: Book

William Cobbett : A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le

Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a Franc and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque, and to these materials I applied doggedly from six in the morningtill dinner time. I read the grammer through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards ...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

Richard Westall : A Day in Spring, and Other Poems

Have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems containing a DAY in SPRING, and other detached pieces, with four lovely engravings from his own designs? One of them representing ayouthful Spenser, dreaming about knights, and squires, & Dames of high degree, and Fairies, & other entertaining whimsies. And all these visionary personages are dancing around him in the prettiest groupes you can imagine.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

William Mitford : The History of Greece

I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, and I really believe a perfectly upright & honest man [...] the merit of this history is great, in proving that bad as the world is now, even under Christian regulations, it is not nationally anywhere so bad as it was in Pagan Greece - except during the height and fury of the French Revolution - and still and ever perhaps inTurkey.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Marie-Emilie, Comtesse de Flahaut Adelaide : Eugenie et Mathilde

Let us talk of Eugenie and Mathilde. It saddened but did not make me cry. I foresaw it would end like a Turk, nay I am not sure I did not peep, for I cannot bear to be graduallyworked up into an agony by these dismal stories... I shall not desire to look into it again...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson

I wanted to have sent you a translation of the Epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's, and inserted in Piozzi's anecdotes - but my father has lent, & lost (often synomymous terms) his copy of that work, & I cannot immediately think of anybody to apply to. There are no bookish people here - on the contrary, they seem to me to look with an evil eye on every reader of every production save a newspaper.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Marquis of Chatele, Paul Hay : The Politics of France

Volume annotated in Dawson's own hand. Includes correction to Preface and a contents list.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Dawson Print: Book

Nathan Bailey : Universal Etymological Dictionary

Manuscript list of 'The Proverbs & c in this Book' (in Dawson's hand) has been bound into the rear of the book.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Dawson Print: Book

William Camden : Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Gre

Contains a contents list, index to illustrations, index to maps and cross references to other texts in his library.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Dawson Print: Book

: The Historical Register

Two volumes bound together by Dawson and including his 'The Pages Where the affairs in this Book begin for 1723' and 'continued for 1724'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Dawson Print: Book

Laetitia Landon : When Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?

Accurate transcript of complete text, probably from The Improvisatrice.

Unknown

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Laetitia Landon : The Soldier's Grave

Transcript of poem partially obscured by later use of the manuscript as a scrapbook. Probably copied from The Improvisatrice.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: member of Carey/Maingay group

William Cowper : The Task, Book IV

I never framed a wish or formed a plan that flattered mewith hopes of earthly bliss. But thou wert there. [rewriting of lines 695-697 of Book IV]

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Thomas Moore : Whene'er I see Those Smiling Eyes

To Jane Whene'er I see those smiling eyes... [the 'transcript' does not follow the original to the letter]

Unknown

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Walter Scott : Rokeby

'From Rokeby' 'The tear that down childhood's cheek...' [4lines]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: member of Carey/Maingay group

Arthur Murphy : The Grecian Daughter

'Extract from Murphy's Grecian Daughter' 'Filial Affection'

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Mary Masters : To Marinda at Parting

May heavenly Angels their soft wings display And guide you safe thro' ev'ry dangerous way In every step may you most happy be And tho far distant often think of me [some differences from the original]

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh

'I knew, I knew it could not last...' [transcript (exact) of lines 277-294]

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Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh

'Oh! Had wenever met/...' [transcript of lines 384-387]

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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert : Allgemeine Naturgeschichte

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling : Zeitschrift fur speculative Physik

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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert : Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaft

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Sir Walter Scott : Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley

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Sir Walter Scott : Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley

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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert : Die Symbolik des Traumes

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Sir Walter Scott : Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley

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Henry Scougal : The Life of God in the Soul of Man OR The Nature a

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Sir Walter Scott : Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

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Charles Scudamore : A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of

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Thomas Amory : The Life of John Buncle

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Henry Augustus Zwick : Calmuc Tartary

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Edwin Atherstone : The Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Pa

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John and Michael Banim : Tales by the O'Hara Family

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Pietro Metastasio : Opere

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Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxteriana

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Robert Leighton : The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop o

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[unknown] : La danse des morts

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Immanuel Kant : Vermischte Schriften

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[unknown] : Declaration of Principles

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Johann Gottfried Herder : Verstand und Erfahrung

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Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee : The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers, a

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John Haslam : Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity, a

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George Samouelle : The Entomologist's Useful Compendium

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William Shakespeare : Plays [various]

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Joseph Beaumont : Some Observations upon the Apologie of Dr Henry More

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Oliver Cromwell : His Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber

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William Tindal : The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Borough of Evesham

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James MacPherson : The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal

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John Milton : Paradise Lost: a poem in twelve books

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Adam Weishaupt : Pythagoras

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John Hewitt : [conjecture] Nine Select Sermons

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Ekkehart : De prima expeditione Attilae

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William Shakespeare : Plays

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Robert Burton : The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee : The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers

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William Dunbar : The Poems of William Dunbar

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Hugh Farmer : A Dissertation on Miracles

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[n/a] : A New Version of the Psalms of David

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Rachel Baker : Remarkable Sermons of Rachel Baker and pious ejaculations

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Aristaenetus : Epistolae graecae

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Johann Ludwig Tieck : Phantasus

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Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty : Gedichte

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Edward Thomas Stanley Hornby : Childhood (?)

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Paul de Rapin-Thoyras : The History of England

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Heinrich Rimius : A Candid Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Herrnhunters

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Daniel Sennert : [unknown]

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Giovanni Boccaccio : Opere (vols I-IV (of 6))

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Immanuel Kant : Vermischte Schriften (vols I-III (of 4))

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[n/a] : The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803

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: Apocalypsis graece Vol II (of 2)

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Dante Alighieri : [Divina Commedia]

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Johannes Cocceius : Opera omnia theologica

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William Chillingworth : The Works

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William Chillingworth : The Works

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Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

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Gilbert Burnet : The History of the Reformation of the Church of En

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Henry Peter Brougham : A Speech on the Present State of the Law of the Country

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Immanuel Kant : Vermischte Schriften (vol II (of 4))

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John Donne : LXXX Sermons

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John Donne : LXXX Sermons

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Einleitung in das Neue Testament

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Einleitung in das Neue Testament

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Commentarius in Apocalypsin Joannis

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Commentarius in Apocalypsin Joannis

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Christopher Harvey : The Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the Temple

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Christopher Harvey : The Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the Temple

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George Herbert : The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations

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George Herbert : The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations

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Abraham Cowley : The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley

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Charles Dallison : The Royalist's Defence

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Charles Bowker Ash : Adbaston: or Days of Youth

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Thomas Amory : The Life of John Buncle, Esq

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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter : Palingenesien von Jean Paul

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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter : Museum von Jean Paul

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Martin Luther : Samptliche Schrifften

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William Wordsworth : Benjamin the Waggoner

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Plato : The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of Pl

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Christoph Friedrich Nicolai : Ueber meine gelehrte Bildung

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Blaise Pascal : Les Provinciales

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Gometius Pereira : Antoniana margarita, opus nempe physicis medicis

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Adam Weishaupt : Ueber Wahrheit und sittliche Vollkommenheit

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Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus : Ueber die Grunde der menschlichen Erkentniss und der nat?rlichen Religion

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Xenophon : Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the defence o

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Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann : Geschichte der Philosophie

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[unknown] : Sammlung vorzuglich schoner Gedichte...

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Kasper Lodewijk Valckenaer : Diatribe de Aristobulo Judaeo

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Sir Henry Vane the Younger : A Healing Question Propounded and Resolved

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[n/a] : The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery

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Robert Vaughan : The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe, D.D.

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Francois Rabelais : The Works of Francis Rabelais

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Sir Walter Raleigh : The History of the World

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William Vincent : The Greek Verb Analysed. An Hypothesis

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Thomas Randolph : Poems

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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire : A Treatise on Toleration

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Gerardus Joannes Vossius : Poeticarum Institutionum, libri tres

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield : A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australia

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John Walker : A Dictionary of the English Language

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James Relly : The Believer's Treasury

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William Wall : A Conference between Two Men that had Doubts about Infant-Baptism

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John Benn Walsh : On the Present Balance of Parties in the State

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John Benn Walsh : Popular Opinions on Parliamentary Reform

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John Reynolds : The Triumphes of God's Revenge against the Cryinge

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Jacob Rhenferd : Opera philologica, dissertationibus exquisitissimi argumenti constantia

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Daniel Waterland : The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity

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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter : Jean Pauls Geist oder Chrestomathie der vorzuglich

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Daniel Waterland : A Vindication of Christ's Divinity

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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter : Das Kampaner Thal oder uber die Unsterblichkeit de

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Daniel Sandford : The Remains of the Late Right Reverend Daniel Sandford

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John Whitaker : The Origin of Arianism Disclosed

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Jacopo Sannazaro : Jacobi Sannazarii, patricii neapolitani, opera

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Friedrich Carl Von Savigny : Of the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence

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Gilbert White : The Works, in Natural History

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Joannes Scapula : Joan. Scapulae Lexicon Graeco-Latinum

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Thomas Whitfield : A Discourse of Liberty of Conscience...

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Darlegung des wahren Verhaltnisses der Naturphilosphe

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Christoph Martin Wieland : Comische Erzahlungen

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Denkmal der Schrift von den gottlichen Dingen

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Einleitung zu seinem Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Philosophie und Religion

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Robert Anderson : The Works of the British Poets

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Robert Anderson : The Works of the British Poets

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Karl Leonhard Reinhold : Versuch einer neueren Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsverm?

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Christoph Martin Wieland : Wielands Neueste Gedichte

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Publius Virgilius Maro : Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta

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August Wilhelm Rehberg : Ueber das Verhaltniss der Metaphysik zu der Religion

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Thomas Bateman : A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases

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George Berkeley : Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions

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[n/a] : The Holy Bible

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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Warburton proposed to read 'hymn' for 'him'; - the most ludicrous emendation ever suggested".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

[n/a] : The Apocryphal New Testament

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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, of fancy, as it is, - seems to me, like much of this play, to be not in Shakspeare's [sic] very best manner. It is stuck on like one of Horace's 'purple patches'. It does not seem to spring naturally out of the conversation. This is a fault which, in his finest works, Shakspeare [sic] never commits."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Walter Birch : A Sermon on the Prevalence of Infidelity and Enthusiasm

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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If this had been in Cibber, Cibber would never have heard the last of it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

George Dyer : Academic Unity

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George Dyer : Poems

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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Here begins a noble series of scenes. I know nothing grander than the way in which Romeo hears the news. It moves me even more than Lear's agonies."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel [John] Hutchinson

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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of Romeo is sublime beyond expression; and the manner in which he is softened into tenderness when he sees the body of Juliet is perhaps the most affecting touch in all poetry."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Samuel Parr : A spital sermon preached at Christ Church

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John Strype : The History of the Life and Acts of the most Reverend Father in God

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Abraham Parsons : Travels in Asia and Africa

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

John Strype : Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated" : "Sweet writing".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

John Strype : Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer

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Johann Caspar Suicerus : Joh. Caspari Suiceri...Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to me to be a clumsy addition to the plot".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Giuseppe Luca Pasini : Vocabolario Italiano-Latino per uso degli studiosi

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of Hamlet during the earlier part of this scene is very fine, but not equal to the silence of Prometheus and Cassandra in the Prometheus and Agammemnon of Aeschylus."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Christian Franz Paullini : Christiani Francisci Paullini disquisitio curiosa

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John Pearson : An Exposition of the Creed

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Emanuel Swedenborg : The Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the only thing deserving of much admiration in the speech is the manner in which it is raised above the ordinary diction which surrounds it. It is poetry within poetry, - a play within a play. It was therefore proper to make its language bear the same relation to the language, in which Hamlet and Horatio talk, which the language of Hamlet and Horatio bears to the common style of conversation among gentlemen. This is a sufficient defence of the style, which is undoubtedly in itself far too turgid for dramatic, or even for lyric, composition."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Emanuel Swedenborg : True Christian Religion

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Emanuel Swedenborg : De coelo et ejus mirabilibus, et de inferno

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Emanuel Swedenborg : De cultu et amore Dei

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specimen of Hamlet's peculiar character. His intellect is out of all proportion to his will or his passions. Under the most exciting circumstances, while expecting every moment to see the ghost of his father rise before him, he goes on discussing questions of morals, manners, or politics, as if he were in the schools of Wittenberg."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Emanuel Swedenborg : De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi

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Emanuel Swedenborg : De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,/ And could of men distinguish, her election/ Hath sealed thee for herself, - ' : "An exquisitely beautiful scene. It always moved me more than any other in the play. There is something very striking in the way in which Hamlet, a man of a gentle nature, quick in speculation, morbidly sluggish in action, unfit to struggle with the real evils of life, and finding himself plunged into the midst of them, - delights to repose on the strong mind of a man who had been severely tried, and who had learned stoicism from experience. There is wonderful truth in this."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Emanuel Swedenborg : Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa

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Emanuel Swedenborg : Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa

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Robert Percival : An Account of the Island of Ceylon

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a most admirable scene. The fooling of Osric is nothing; but it is most striking to see how completely Hamlet forgets his father, his mistress, the terrible duty imposed upon him, the imminent danger which he has to run, as soon as a subject of observation comes before him; - as soon as a good butt is offered to his wit."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Thomas Percy : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and sweat under a weary life'. Johnson wrote, "All the old copies have to 'grunt and sweat'. It is undoubtedly the true reading, but can scarcely be borne by modern ears." Macaulay writes: "We want Shakespeare, not your fine modern English."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Isaac Taylor : Natural History of Enthusiasm

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often hit off such corrections, he would be entitled to the first place among critics."

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Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) : Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca

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Jeremy Taylor : The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

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Alaric Alexander Watts : Poetical Sketches

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncle in the act of praying. Johnson comments that the speech in which, "not content with taking blood for blood, he contrived damnation for his enemy, was too horrible to be read or uttered." Macaulay responds: "Johnson does not understand the character. Hamlet is irresolute; and he makes the first excuse that suggests itself for not striking. If he had met the King drunk, he would have refrained from avenging himself lest he should kill both soul and body."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."

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William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who has been praised for bluntness: "Excellent! It is worth while to compare these moral speeches of Shakspeare [sic] with those which are so much admired in Euripides. The superiority of Shakspeare's [sic] observations is immense. But the dramatic art with which they are introduced, - always in the right place, - always from the right person, - is still more admirable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell!' : "This last struggle between rage and tenderness is, I think, unequalled in poetry."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...' : "Where is there anything like this in the world"?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot but feel that the whole scene is very unnatural. He took it, to be sure, from an old story. What miracles his genius has brought out from materials so unpromising!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fault in the play, to my thinking, that Kent should behave so very insolently in this scene. A man of his rank and sense would have had more self-command and dignity even in his anger. One can hardly blame Cornwall for putting him in the stocks."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under the discipline of severe sorrow, is mot happily marked in several places."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpleasing character of a story, "in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry." Macaulay responds: "There is nothing like this last scene in the world. Johnson talks nonsense. Torn to pieces as Lear's heart had been, was he to live happily ever after, as the story-books say? Wonderful as the whole play is, this last passage is the triumph of Shakspeare's [sic] genius. Every character is perfectly supported."

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John Petvin : Letters Concerning Mind

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Jeremy Taylor : The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living

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Esaias Tegner : Die Frithiofs-Sage

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William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nonsense! Had Shakspeare [ sic] no eyes to see the sky with?"

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Lord Alfred Tennyson : Poems, Chiefly Lyrical

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Saint Teresa : Works

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Johann Nicolaus Tetens : Philosophische Versuche

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Thomas Gaisford : Poetae Minores Graeci

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Jean de Thevenot : The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot

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Sir John Pringle : Observations on the Diseases of the Army

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Thomas Pringle : African Sketches

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Johann Ludwig Tieck : The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm

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Bryan Waller Procter : Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems

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Samuel Pepys : Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq

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John Taylor : An Essay on Money

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Jeremy Taylor : The Worthy Communicant, a discourse on the nature, effects and blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper

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Jeremy Taylor : The Worthy Communicant, a discourse on the nature, effects and blessings consquent to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper

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Plotinus Plotinus : Plotini Platonicorum facile coryphaei operum philosophie

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Proclus Proclus : The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries

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Charles Tennyson : Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces, by Charles Tennyson

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Aulus Persius Flaccus : Auli Persi Flacci Satirarum liber

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William Shakespeare : Henry V

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, who remarks that to call a circle an O was a very mean metaphor. Macaulay responds: "Surely, if O were really the usual name of a circle there would be nothing mean in it, any more than in the Delta of the Nile."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Emanuel Swedenborg : Regnum animale anatomice, physice et philosophice

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William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hungry lions roar, / And the wolf beholds the moon'. Macaulay writes: "In my opinion, this is one of Warburton's very best corrections."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence': This is Shakspeare's [sic] manly sense and knowledge of the world, introduced with perfect dramatic propriety. How different from Euripides's lectures on such subjects."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath such force and blessed power": "Beautiful and easy beyond expression".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes Fletcher might perhaps have written. The fairy scenes no man but one since the world began could have written."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

St John Chrysostom : Commentary on the Ephesians

I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing to look at! Very eloquent sometimes: but such a monotony & lengthiness! Sunday is not a reading day with me. Driving to church, driving back again, driving to chapel, driving back again - & prayers three times at home besides! All that fills up the day, except the few interstices between the intersections.

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Read as I have done lately, not for the pleasure of thinking: but for the comfort of not thinking.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

: Bible

Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they should be ? witness what I have written today. I would erase every line of it, could I annihilate the feelings, together with the descriptions of them; but, since I cannot, let the description pass!

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Aeschylus :

Very busy today. Reading Aeschylus & learning the verb τύπτω.

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: Bible

Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.

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: Annual Anthology

'W[ordsworth] received a copy [of the Annual Anthology] in Aug. [1799], and discussed it in his letter to [Joseph] Cottle of 2 Sept.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: Annual Register

"In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also read Beattie's 'Illustrations on Sublimity.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Horne :

Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

: [prayers]

Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s speech on Reform, in the midst of which, I who am interested in reform & admire Lord John Russell, fell fast asleep. My politics were not strong enough to keep my eyes open.

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John Russell : [Speech on Reform]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett

Homer : unknown

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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Aeschylus : unknown

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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Aeschylus : Prometheus

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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Euripides : Medea

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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William Shakespeare : unknown

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on 21 March 1796, " ... yesterday we began Ariosto."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho

'And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them herself ? a kind of generosity which quite dazzled my weak moral sense. I have read the mysteries; but am anxious to read them again ? being a worshipper of Mrs. Radcliffe.'

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Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho

Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.

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: Cyclopaedia

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Victor Hugo :

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Lamartine :

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Lamartine : Childe Harold

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James Beattie : Minstrel, The

'W[ordsworth] was introduced to The Minstrel by his teacher, Thomas Bowman ... during his schooldays at Hawkshead. De Selincourt emphasizes its influence on the juvenilia [quotes Minstrel I st.32 lines 3-8 featuring "clanking chain," and "owl's terrific song," and Wordsworth's uses of these features in The Vale of Esthwaite (1787)]'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Beddoes : Domiciliary Verses

'W[ordsworth] did not read it [Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses] until it was reprinted in the Annual Anthology (1799). [Joseph] Cottle sent W[ordsworth] a copy ... in Aug. 1799, and on 2 Sept he wrote back: "Pray give yourself no uneasiness about Dr Beddoes's verses [which parodied the Lyrical Ballads] ... it is a very harmless performance."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

John Bell : Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry

'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]included an extract from [William Julius Mickle's] Sir Martyn in the Album he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther in 1819 ... '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: The Bible

"In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regularly attended Church, and were catechized at least once a week."

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Homer :

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Zenophon [Xenophon] : unknown

'Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Print: Book

Euripides :

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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Marcus Antoninus :

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Callimachus :

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: Anthologia

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Epictetus :

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Isocrates :

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Leonardo Da Vinci : [Painting]

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Giovanni Boccaccio : Il Decamerone

"[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " This "consistent" with W[ordsworth]'s remark in Nov. 1805 to Walter Scott (followed by reference to Fourth "Day" of the Decameron): "'It is many years since I saw Boccae ...' Later in the letter W[ordsworth] quotes Boccacio from memory, showing that he knew the Decameron well."

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Susan Ferrier : Destiny

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Susan Ferrier : The Inheritance

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Euripides : Alcestis

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Euripides : Alcestis

I liked my solitude, even tho? I had no one to say so to - & in spite of La Bruy?re & Cowper! ? Nearly finished the Alcestis. I will finish it tomorrow, before breakfast

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Antoninus :

They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

: Bible

They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

William Lisle Bowles : Fourteen Sonnets

'At some point after 1828, W[ordsworth] told Alexander Dyce that he read Bowles's Fourteen Sonnets on publication: "When Bowles's Sonnets first appeared, - a thin 4to pamphlet, entitled Fourteen Sonnets, - I bought them in a walk through London with my dear brother, who was afterwards drowned at sea."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Henry Brooke : The Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland

"On 7 March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] remarked that 'I am now reading the Fool of Quality which amuses me exceedingly.'"

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Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]

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Marcus Antoninus :

I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown

[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]

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Hans Christian Andersen : Tales

[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].

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Marcus Antoninus :

I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my time in this way, between philosophy & folly. Anoninus wd. not be well pleased, if he could know whom he has for a reader!

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress, The

[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Marcus Antoninus :

On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I do anything without them? Nothing but reading the 3d. vol: of Mrs. Shelley, which I despatched in two hours ? (which did come at last!! - ) No going out today. Marcus Antoninus after Mrs. Shelly [sic], and drinking tea after Marcus.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

: Good Words for the Young

[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes

Mary Shelley : The Last Man

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Marcus Antoninus :

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: The Dark Journey

'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion. You may wonder why I did this more than once, but I always hoped that I had been mistaken, and that such a splendid title must mean a good story.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical

Cebes : Dialogue

Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed. It is rather a pleasing than a profound performance, - & on this account as well as on account of the extreme facility of the Greek, it can bear fast reading.

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: Henry Milner

'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but his school-fellows did, and all their gay activities shone like misdeeds in a pious world.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

John Keats : Lamia

I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them. But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion. The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine. Poor poor Keats. His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

John Keats : Isabella

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John Keats : Eve of St Agnes

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John Keats : Hyperion

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John Keats : Endymion

I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy. You don?t know where to put it. Your imagination is confused by it: & your feelings uninterested. And yet a poet wrote it. When I had done with Keats, I took up Theophrastus. Theophrastus has a great deal of vivacity, & power of portraiture about him; & uplifts that veil of distance ? veiling the old Greeks with such sublime mistiness; & shows you how they used to spit & take physic & wear nailed shoes tout comme un autre?Theophrastus does me no good just now: & as I can?t laugh with him, I shall be glad when I have done hearing him laugh.

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Theophrastus :

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Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam

Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up. He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a great poet as we acknowledge Spenser to be so, & do not love him for it. He resembles Spenser in one thing, & one thing only, that his poetry is too immaterial for our sympathies to enclasp it firmly. It reverses the lot of human plants: its roots are in the air, not earth! ? But as I read him on, I may reverse this opinion.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Goldoni : Pamela

I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is not much in the second, for anybody to claim!

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Goldoni : Pamela Maritata

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: Bible

I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all the epistles, marking with my pencil every expression that seems to glance at or against the doctrine of particular exclusive election.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

: Bible

Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa Harlowe; but the heroine is more immaculate than even Clarissa, & more happy finally! ? The book is well-written & interesting. A combination of fortitude & delicacy always interests me in a particular manner.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

: Bible, The (Book of Esther)

'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in the plot.'

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Mary Brunton : Self Control

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Beverley : Letter to the Archbishop of York

I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse enough, & in some places too highly colored. For instance, I do not believe that the body of the established clergy are as much opposed to the reading of the scriptures, as the papistical clergy are; and I do know instances of members of that body, refusing the sacrament to persons of immoral character?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Beverley : Tombs of the Prophets

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Dr Card : Discourse

I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason, it is unconvincing. At least this is true of one or two material parts, where even I have detected fallacies. Dr. Card?s sermon on the Athanasian creed, is bound up in the same volume; & I have read it.

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Card : Sermon on the Athanasian Creed

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Channing : On the importance & means of a national Literature

Mrs. Martin lent me Dr. Channing?s treatise ?On the importance & means of a national Literature?, & I ought to be grateful to her. I have been reading it this morning. It is a very admirable, & lucidly & energetically written production. The style is less graceful than powerful. Indeed it has so much strength, that the muscles are by necessity, rather too obvious & prominent. But its writer is obviously & prominently an extraordinary man.

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: Jessica's First Prayer

'The question of conscience once arose when mother was reading "Jessica's First Prayer" aloud to Barnholt and me.'

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: Lloyd's Weekly

'How horrified my father was on discovering that the servants had been reading little bits to me out of "Lloyd's Weekly" [on a Sunday].'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare :

'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Molly Vivian Print: Book

Richard Harris Barham : The Ingoldsby Legends

'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Molly Vivian Print: Book

: The Misadventures at Margate

'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Molly Vivian Print: Unknown

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'

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Aunt Lizzie : Persons for Whom our Prayers are Requested

'Charles...seized the list [of prayers for the redemption of sinners] hopefully, and hooted with delight when he found: "For a family of four boys and one girl [namely his own family]."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Thomas Print: Serial / periodical, Religious magazine with blank pages for individual prayers

: The Narrow Way

'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.'

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:

'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired of reading we could get laughter out of its absurd pictures.'

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John Foxe : Book of Martyrs

'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.'

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Robert Michael Ballantyne : The Iron Horse

'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many more.'

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: March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers

'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.'

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: Cassell's Family Magazine

'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical

Jules Verne : Journey to the Centre of the Earth

'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

: Iphigenia in Aulide

Getting on with Iphigenia [in Aulide] I am very much interested in it ? particularly in the scene between Iphigenia & her father. How much simple affectionate nature there is in her character! The opposition between her?s, & Clytemnestra?s stately dignity, is skilfully conceived.

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Gregory : Apologetick

We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & came to the conclusion, that our tastes certainly do agree!! And so they do.

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: Hippolytus

Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.

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Aeschylus : Supplices

Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.

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Aeschylus : Choephori

Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficulties.

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Aeschylus : Eumenides

Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficulties.

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Joseph Clarke : Sacred Literature

I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire. So that my opinion is nothing outrageous. I do not feel well; & look like a ghost.

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Synesius : Poems

Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine. He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each. I like the 7th. hymn extremely. A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th. I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps. The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest.

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Gregory : Odes

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Gregory : Odes

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Synesius : Poems

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Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

'Uriah Plant, a wheelwright's son, affirmed that "My uncertainty about the truth of religion not only increased my sense of its importance... but gave me a habit of thinking, a love of reading, and a desire after knowledge"... he organized a discussion group devoted to religion and, over six years spent "only" ?21 10s. 9d. on books, mostly secondhand. He fearlessly read across the spectrum of theological opinion, including The Age of Reason'.

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James Thomson : The Seasons

'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry, he was immediately enthralled by Thomson's evocation of spring'

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John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgrim's Progress and a translation of Klopstock's Messiah'.

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: New Testament

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Friedrich Klopstock : Messiah

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: The Heir of Redclyffe

'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say I had no notion of any difficulties after the bells had pealed.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Unknown

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason for knocking down Lord Steyne.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'

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William Gladstone :

'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understood no single sentence.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare :

'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chapel was noticed, "I was called to account for it; by way of defence I pleaded my desire for, and indulgence in, reading. This appeared rather to aggravate than serve my cause. It was evidently their opinion, that all books, except such as they deemed religious ones, ought not be read by young men. I ventured somewhat timidly to hint, that it was possible for a young man to read novels, and other works of fiction, and still keep his mind free from irreligion and vice...".'

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John Milton :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Laurence Sterne :

'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chapel was noticed, "I was called to account for it; by way of defence I pleaded my desire for, and indulgence in, reading. This appeared rather to aggravate than serve my cause. It was evidently their opinion, that all books, except such as they deemed religious, ones ought not be read by young men. I ventured somewhat timidly to hint, that it was possible for a young man to read novels, and other works of fiction, and still keep his mind free from irreligion and vice...".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Samuel Johnson :

'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chapel was noticed, "I was called to account for it; by way of defence I pleaded my desire for, and indulgence in, reading. This appeared rather to aggravate than serve my cause. It was evidently their opinion, that all books, except such as they deemed religious ones, ought not to be read by young men. I ventured somewhat timidly to hint, that it was possible for a young man to read novels, and other works of fiction, and still keep his mind free from irreligion and vice...".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare: "What pleased me most was the simplicity and beauty of his style. He had always a meaning in what he said, and you could easily see his meaning. He never talked at random or lost himself in a mist. I had at this time been so accustomed to meet dull, mysterious and unmeaning stuff in many religious books as they are called, that I felt quite delighted to read something that was rational, plain, stirring, and straightforward".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

William Cowper :

'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Christian Library: eventually Barker realised that "the reason why I could not understand them was, that there was nothing to be understood - that the books were made up of words, and commonplace errors and mystical and nonsensical expressions, and that there was no light or truth in them". When his superintendent searched his lodgings and found Shakespeare and Byron there, Barker was hauled before a disciplinary committee'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

Alexander Pope :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

John Dryden :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

James Thomson :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]

'Shakespeare incited his appetitie for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Christian Library: eventually Barker realised that "the reason why I could not understand them was, that there was nothing to be understood - that the books were made up of words, and commonplace errors and mystical and nonsensical expressions, and that there was no light or truth in them". When his superintendent searched his lodgings and found Shakespeare and Byron there, Barker was hauled before a disciplinary committee'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

George Gordon Byron :

'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he seemed to take pleasure in painting". The general effect of reading Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Newton had been "to make me resolve to be free. I saw that it was impossible for the soul of man to answer the end for which it was created, while tramelled by human authority, or fettered with human creeds. I saw that if I was to do justice to truth, to God, or to my own soul, I must break loose from all creeds and laws of men's devising, and live in full and unrestricted liberty..."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

John Milton :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

John Locke :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

Isaac Newton :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and quoted from him on most of the 440 pages of his autobiography, he was anxious to insist that "Shakespeare can be far more appreciated and better understood in the closet than in a public theater".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Westcott Tilke Print: Book

Farell Lee Bevan : Peep of Day

'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my first idea of the moral foundations of the universe, was handed the first key with which to unlock the mysteries of the world in which I found myself. These little books served the purpose of an index or filing system; a framework of iron dogma, if you like, providing an orderly arrangement of the world and its history for the young mind, under two main categories, Good and Evil". But Jones also attended a board school, where he found "salvation" in an old cupboard of books presented by the local MP. They were mainly volumes of voyages and natural history, "which took a Rhymney boy away into the realms of wonder over the seas to the Malay Archipelago, to Abyssinia, to the sources of the Nile and the Albert Nyanza, to the curiosities of natural history, piloted by James Bruce, Samuel Baker and Frank Buckland".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Book

James Bruce : Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Book

Samuel Baker : [Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Book

Frank Buckland :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Book

Thomas Babington MacAulay :

'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library of 3d paperbacks. MacAulay's essays, Goldsmith's History of England, Far from the Madding Crowd, Self-Help, Josephus, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Pepys, Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and The Sorrows of Young Werther were among the books Jones read, often on his employer's time. (He hid them under the ledger at the Rhymney Iron Works, where he worked a thirteen hour day as a timekeeper for 9s. a week.)'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of England

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd

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Josephus :

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Plutarch :

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William Shakespeare :

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Samuel Pepys :

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets

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: The Bible

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:

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: father of Thomas Jones Print: Serial / periodical

Adam Smith : The Wealth of Nations

'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to trying to improve myself, not only morally, but mentally, and towards the latter end I took to serious and systematic study." He read deeply in history and philosophy, as well as such this-worldly tracts as The Wealth of Nations, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy, and Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Johnson Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : Principles of Political Economy

'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to trying to improve myself, not only morally, but mentally, and towards the latter end I took to serious and systematic study." He read deeply in history and philosophy, as well as such this-worldly tracts as The Wealth of Nations, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy, and Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Johnson Print: Book

Alfred Marshall : Principles of Economics

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Johnson Print: Unknown

: [history and philosophy]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Johnson Print: Unknown

: Great Thoughts

'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and great literature. There were articles on 'aspects' of Ruskin, Carlyle, Browning, and other uplifting Victorians, and a great number of quotations, mainly "thoughts" from their works.... For some time this paper coloured my attitude to literature. I acquired a passion for "thoughts" and "thinkers", and demanded from literature a moral inspiration which would improve my character.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare :

'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and George Henry Lewes's History of Philosophy. He was even prepared to acknowledge the "genius" of Jude the Obscure, though he would have preferred a happy ending'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Pyke Print: Book

James Boswell :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Pyke Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Pyke Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : History of Philosophy

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Pyke Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Pyke Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : [poetry]

'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chartist and something more'". Frost had been an omnivorous reader since childhood, when he read his grandmother's volumes of The Spectator and The Persian Letters. Most subversive of all were the letters of the second Lord Lyttelton: "The attraction which this book had for me consisted, I believe, in the tinge of scepticism to be found in several of the letters, and in the metaphysical questions argued, lightly and cleverly, in others. I was beginning to assert for myself freedom of thought, and to rebel against custom and convention; and there was naturally much in common between the writer and the reader",'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Frost Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [poetry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Frost Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Spectator

'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chartist and something more'". Frost had been an omnivorous reader since childhood, when he read his grandmother's volumes of The Spectator and The Persian Letters. Most subversive of all were the letters of the second Lord Lyttelton: "The attraction which this book had for me consisted, I believe, in the tinge of scepticism to be found in several of the letters, and in the metaphysical questions argued, lightly and cleverly, in others. I was beginning to assert for myself freedom of thought, and to rebel against custom and convention; and there was naturally much in common between the writer and the reader",'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Frost Print: Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books

Charles de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu : The Persian Letters

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Frost Print: Book

Thomas Second Lord Lyttelton : Letters

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Patrick Brydone : A Tour through Siciliy and Malta in a Series of Letters to William Beckford

"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

John Moore : Travels in France

"'Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France,' D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes Savedra : Don Quixote

"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever books I liked ... I read all Fielding's works, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and any part of Swift that I liked." (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 3 p.372).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

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Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of the Tub, both being much to my taste' (Prose Works vol 3 p.372)."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : A Tale of a Tub

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Osorio

"In June 1797, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote to Mary Hutchinson, telling her that, as soon as [S. T.] C[oleridge] arrived at Racedown Lodge, 'he repeated to us two acts and a half of his tragedy Osorio.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

William Collins : An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

"[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines - and was extensively circulated through the English newspapers, in which I remember to have read it with great pleasure upon its first appearance.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

:

"On 27 July 1799, W[ordsworth] told Cottle that 'Looking over some old monthly Magazines I saw a paragraph stating that your 'Arthur' was ready for the press!'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Enrico Caterina Davila : Historia delle Guerre Civili di Francia ... nella quale si contegnono le operationi di quattro re, Francesco II., Carlo IX., Henrico III. e Henrico IV. cognominato il Grande

"On 21 March 1796, [Wordsworth] told [William] Mathews that D[orothy] W[ordsworth] 'has already gone through half of Davila.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Bryan Edwards : The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft on the Negroes in the West Indies, and Hearne's deeply interesting Anecdotes of similar workings on the imagination of the Copper Indians ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Samuel Hearne : A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, Undertaken ... for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, etc. in the Years 1769-1772

"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend [ii 89], 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft on the Negroes in the West Indies, and Hearne's deeply interesting Anecdotes of similar workings on the imagination of the Copper Indians ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Euclid : Elements I-IV, VI

"W[ordsworth] recollected that at Hawkshead ... ' ... I, with the other boys of the same standing, was put upon reading the first six books of Euclid, with the exception of the fifth ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

John Bernard Farish :

"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Farish, long since deceased. The verses were by a brother of his [John Bernard Farish], a man of promising genius, who died young.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Manuscript: Unknown

John Bernard Farish :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Farish Manuscript: Unknown

John Foxe : Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable

"W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: Gentleman's Magazine

"W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil alludes to in the expression 'Castella in tumulis.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

"'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to find the work much improved. I cannot say that I have been encouraged in this hope by the perusal of the second preface, which is all I have yet looked into.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :

"On 27 Feb. 1799, W[ordsworth] told [S. T.] C[oleridge] that 'My internal prejudge[ments con]cerning Wieland and Goethe ... were ... the result of no negligent perusal of the different fragments which I had seen in England.'"

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

Paul Hentzner : A Journey into England

"Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Paul Hentzner : A Journey into England

"Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Robert Heron : Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland

"in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: [history]

'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating library and much else besides... Where a prescribed reading list might have reflected the biases of the compiler, improvisational reading offered him a broad "general knowledge of history,... poetry and imaginative literature." The very fact that "I read without any order or method" forced his mind to exercise "A ready power of arranging the information this desultory reading presented". It inspired him to write poetry and fiction.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lowery Print: Book

: [poetry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lowery Print: Book

: [imaginative literature]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lowery Print: Book

John Milton : L'Allegro

'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings which my romantic imagination had not unfrequently led me to indulge, but which, until now, I had deemed beyond all human utterance".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

John Milton : Il Penseroso

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Homer :

'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages, and ultimately William Cobbett's Political Register'.

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Virgil :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

[the great poets] :

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Unknown

: [classic histories]

'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

: [voyages]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

William Cobbett : Political Register

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord Chesterfield : Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son

'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary gossip that made her aspire to be a writer, but she had no idea which books to read until she came across Elinor Glyn's The Career of Catherine Bush. In this story of a romance between a duke and a secretary, the secretary is advised to read the Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son. Catherine McMullen visited a public library for the first time in her life and borrowed the book: "And here began my education. With Lord Chesterfield I read my first mythology. I learned my first history and geography. With Lord Chesterfield I went travelling the world. I would fall asleep reading the letters and awake around three o'clock in the morning my mind deep in the fascination of this new world, where people conversed, not just talked..." ... He launched her into a lifetime course of reading, beginning with Chaucer in Middle English, moving on to Erasmus, Donne, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and even Finnegan's Wake.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine McMullen Print: Book

: T.P. and Cassell's Weekly

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Elinor Glyn : The Career of Catherine Bush

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine McMullen Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :

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John Donne :

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Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus :

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Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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James Joyce : Finnegan's Wake

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Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus

'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a small mirror to provide early warning of the foreman's approach and studied the Everyman's Library Sartor Resartus when he was being paid to solder gas-meter fittings.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: V.W. Garratt Print: Book

John Keats :

'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shelley, and Tennyson "swamped the trivialities of life and gave my ego a fulness and strength in the lustre of which noble conceptions were born and flourished'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: V.W. Garratt Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

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Alfred Lord Tennyson :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: V.W. Garratt Print: Book

Homer :

'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undermined his confidence in the status quo: "I began to wonder in what way we had advanced from the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome". In the First World War, he took Palgrave's Golden Treasury with him to France and wrote his own verses in the trenches'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: V.W. Garratt Print: Book

Epictetus :

'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undemined his confidence in the status quo: "I began to wonder in what way we had advanced from the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome". In the First World War, he took Palgrave's Golden Treasury with him to France and wrote his own verses in the trenches'..

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: V.W. Garratt Print: Book

Longinus :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: V.W. Garratt Print: Book

Plato : Dialogues

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Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) : The Golden Treasury

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Thomas Carlyle :

'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Thomas Carlyle and was held spellbound by the dark fury of his spirit and the strange contortions of his style".'

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Thomas Carlyle :

'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for something on the subject and was sold Carlyle. At first it was hard reading, but eventually he extracted an entire political education from its pages: "I learned...of the great and lasting influence the Revolution had on peoples and countries struggling to establish democratic principles in Government in various parts of the world".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Stonelake Print: Book, Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus

'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or seventeen. He had to read it through three times before he understood it: "I felt I was in the presence of some great power, the meaning of which I could only dimly guess at".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Keir Hardie Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth and beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year- old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

John Dryden :

'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth an beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith :

'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth and beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Joseph Addison :

'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth an beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Richard Steele :

'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth and beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Alexander Pope : 'Ode on Solitude'

'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth an beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

George Payne : Elements of Mental and Moral Science

'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: "Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Thomas Brown : Moral Philosophy

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Richard Whateley : Logic

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Johann Gottlieb Fichte :

'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller :

'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :

'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus

At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience of being kindled to the point of explosion by the fire of words", words that expressed what she had always been trying to say: "It seems that from our earliest days we are striving to become articulate, stuggling to clothe in words our vague perceptions and questionings. Suddenly, blazing from the printed page, there ARE the words, the true resounding words that we couldn't find. It is an exciting moment... 'Who am I? The thing that can say I. Who am I, what is this ME?'. I had been groping to know that since I was three". She consumed Heroes and Hero-Worship, The French Revolution and Sartor Resartus with the same intoxication'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bryson Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero-worship

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bryson Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bryson Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship

'Labour Party pioneer F.W. Jowett..., reading Heroes and Hero-Worship as a young millworker, was attracted by its vision of a new society but repelled by its authoritarianism: "there must have been something in me that could not respond to his powerful and eloquent glorification of the supermen - including the captains of industry who would organise production not for profit but for use - for in all things else he made a deep impression on my young mind... The more I read of Carlyle's heroes, the less attraction they had. I did not like his Luther, his Frederick the Great, nor his Cromwell... the more Carlyle crowned and canonised the ruling class, the more I felt I was on the side of the common people'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus

'[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I threw the book across the room. I felt I should never be able to write like that".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Blatchford Print: Book

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft: James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertisement in the 'Daily Advertiser' about the prisoner at the bar being detained with a piece of ticking on his shoulders, I went in consequence of that..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James James Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in a trial for highway robbery William Aldrich: "on the 23rd of June, at half past ten at night, the prisoner Hanlon brought me a watch to pledge... on the Monday evening I sent for the 'Daily Advertiser' and there I saw a robbery had been done near Caen-Wood"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Aldrich Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial of Sarah Evans for murder Thomas Aris: "The first thing I heard of the child being drowned, I saw it in the paper, saying, the child of Sarah Evans. On Tuesday the 16th, I think it was the 'Daily Advertiser', and seeing Sarah Evans in the paper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Aris Print: Newspaper

: Morning Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods: Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle of November I saw it in the 'Morning Advertiser' -I never heard of it, or read it before, on my oath, I did not speak to my brother about it when I read it in the 'Morning Advertiser'..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Davies Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft: Thomas Jones: "reading the 'Daily Advertiser' and finding they were advertised, I went out and fetched them from Mr Humphreys, to whom they were sold..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft: Benjamin Bunn: "I am a pawnbroker and live in Houndsditch... I was reading the 'Daily Advertiser', and I saw an advertisement of a box, and some garden seeds, and a gown and thirteen yeards of blue silk, lost from the George on Snow-hill..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Newspaper

: Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft: Samuel Spencer: "The next day about 11 o'clock I read in the 'Advertiser', 'A silver pint mug, marked E.M.M. stole out of the Two Chairmen, in Warder-street, Soho..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Spencer Print: Newspaper

: Public Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: Robert Alexander: "[the prisoner] brought a saw to pawn... I lent him 2s upon it; the next morning I was reading the Public Advertiser, I saw this saw expressed particularly, and mentioned to have been stolen; I went to Mr Fieldings as the advertisement directed..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Alexander Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been looking over the papers there I read about Mr Parker's being robbed: I charged all my people, if any handkerchiefs were brought in to stop them; in about half an hour after came Alice Raney and Rose Fay; they offered me these three handkerchiefs...then I sent my boy for the Daily Advertiser, and read over the advertisement to them, and said they must certainly know the rest; they would not own any further..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wyn Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wyn Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft: George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I read it in the 'Daily Advertiser', only in the paper it is said to be marked with letters on the handle, but the letters on the belly of the cup..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Martin Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: Charles Clark: "On the 18th of November, in the forenoon, Mary English came and pledged four silver teaspoons with me... A little after I read the Advertiser, and I found by the description, they were stolen..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Clark Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing: Thomas Burch: "On Monday morning the 7th of July, the prisoner brought this watch to me... I lent him two guineas on it; after that I read the Advertiser, the advertisement mentioned a green ribbon, but this is a white one, everything else answers; I immediately went with it to Justice Fielding..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burch Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for fraud: Thomas Douglas: "I saw this advertisement in the Daily Advertiser of the 1st of March last. (It is read to the court)... In consequence of this advertisement, I went to the Globe Tavern..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Douglas Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Gravat: "I am in the news business; my son delivered me the watch-cases on Monday night, soon after he had found them I received a handbill, and then I carried them to Mr Johnson..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gravat Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Dobree: "I am a pawnbroker: I took in this property of a witness who is here, Mary Brown, on the 5th of May; the next day a handbill came in, describing, as I thought, the property, directing to apply to Mr Rendington, Charles-street, Covent-Garden; I took it there, it proved to be part of the property lost..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Dobree Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: John Monk: "I have for some years past supported myself by thieving... Waine came about twelve the next day. Percival was there and an acquaintence called upon me, and shewed me a handbill of the robbery..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Monk Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Flint: "...in consequence of a handbill that I received I had the prisoners taken into custody..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Flint Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for burglary/ receiving stolen goods: Henry Ewer: "I am a shopman to Mr Dobree, Oxford-street... I found the watch answered to the description of one of the watches in Mr Seabrook's handbill, I stopped the watch and sent for an officer..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Ewer Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: James Gideon: "On the 29th of October, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, the prisoner Chord came and offered a small gold brooch set... I suspected him and sent for a constable who came; I showed him the brooch, which appeared to answer the description of one in a handbill which I had received before; I showed the constable the handbill in the prisoner's presence..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Gideon Print: Handbill

: Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for shoplifting: Elias Mordecai: "I set my Basket one Day upon a post, and saw Moses show a Watch to two Gentlemen... five or six days after, I read in the Advertiser, that there was a watch lost belonging to Mr Seddon..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elias Mordecai Print: Newspaper

: Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for theft: Josiah Howard: The 19th of May I and three journeyman-packers left work and came to the Bull-head in Jewin-street; I get much in liquor; ...[in Redcross-street] I tumbled down... I felt my watch, my hat and my handkerchief go from me... I advertised my watch the 27th of May and the 26th of June; I read in the Advertiser there were eight people taken up in Kingsland-road and divers things found upon them..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Josiah Howard Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery: "When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked for the Daily Advertiser, there I saw the paragraph about a dead highwayman..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Bourk Print: Newspaper

: Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: James Palace: "A night or two after I read in the Advertiser a watch, name Ingraham, describing it to be the same as I had received. I went away to the prosecutor's house by the direction of the advertisement..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Palace Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for receiving stolen goods: Robert Daniel Liddell: "I am in Mr Marshall's employ. On the 10th of March he left me to bring these boxes home and when I got opposite St Sepulchre's church I was looking at a playbill, a man in a white great coat came up, tapped me on the shoulder and said I was wanted..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Daniel Liddell Print: Handbill, playbill

: Temple of Reason

Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: William Smith: "I saw [the prisoner] serving in the shop and bought this book of him... I read part of the pamphlet as I went along the streets..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Smith

: The Republican

Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: Prisoner questions witness Raven Q: Pray, did you read no.17 of 'The Republican' before you employed that person to purchase it? A: I did. Q: You consider it an impious and blasphemous book? A: Most assuredly. Q: Pray, what do you mean by blasphemy? A: Any publication which has a tendency to vilify the Bible, the Christian Religion, or our Lord Jesus Christ

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Baldwin Raven

Sir John Fielding :

Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a handbill from Sir John Fielding, describing this watch to have been stolen by a single highwayman on the 24th, with a reward of ten guineas over and above the reward allowed by act of parliament; between four and five that afternoon my apprentice came to me in the parlour, and brought me this watch and the handbill..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Masters Print: Handbill

Sir John Fielding :

Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26th of December; I saw it in the shop between three and four, and the prisoner came in the evening... he told me he wanted ten guineas upon this watch... I seeing it answered the description in the handbill, I took that and the bill into the parlour to my master..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Brooks Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for forgery: William Moreland: "I saw the handbill that had been circulated, advertising that Mr Ryland had been suspected of forgery, and a reward advertised for apprehending him..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Moreland Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Allen: "I took the prisoners that night in Kingsland-road... in the morning a printer's boy came to me with a handbill, and I then found that it answered to the property that I found on them"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; that was on the Tuesday evening and on Wednesday there was a handbill mentioning these things; I was going up to Bow-street..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Brown Print: Handbill

Homer : Iliad

"[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... "

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : [odes]

"On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted the latin measures' (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 1, p.91).

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

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"In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

Isaac Newton : Opticks

"[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned to find him reading the Opticks."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at school, that I was in quite a passion, whenever I found him, in books of criticism, placed below Virgil.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days after...a handbill came in; I read it over, and thought it was some of this plate: I shewed it [to my employers]: the two spoons I delivered up at Bow-street."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Butt Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for theft: William Aldus: "I am a servant to Mr Salkeld; I produce four table-cloths, and twelve napkins, which I received from the prisoner; ...I immediately carried them to Bow-street on seeing the handbill..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Aldus Print: Handbill

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Rebecca Johnson: "I began to wash a few things after dinner, and soon after she came -we dine at one o'clock; we have a newspaper, which comes at one, and goes at three -my husband goes to work about five minutes past two; the newspaper had been about three-quarters of an hour when she came ...Mr Whitewood let her in; he was reading the newspaper when she knocked." Anthony Whitehead: "I am a sail-maker and lodge at Johnson's... [I] let the prisoner is from half-past two to three o'clock -I was reading the paper when she knocked..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Whitewood Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for murder: Samuel Davis: [in reply to question about length of time he spent in the water closet] Some few minutes -I cannot say how long, not longer than was necessary... I had a newspaper reading there..." Jonathan Smithies [his defence]: "[Davis] asked me for my Sunday's newspaper, saying he wished to use the watercloset -he took the newspaper... [I waited] sufficient time for him to come out; I then went down again, having occasion to go to the watercloset myself, and asked him if he was coming out, when he said, 'I shall be half an hour yet' -he had the newspaper with him and I suppose he was reading it..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Davies Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: John Osrorne: "I know Wood, he came to my house on the 29th of July... I then heard he was in trouble, and in reading the newspaper I saw it was on the 29th of July..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Osrorne Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: Elizabeth Baglee: "I read in a newspaper of the robbery, a day or two after the robbery, and from the description it gave of Sanderson, I went immediately to him where he lodged.."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Baglee Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for robbery: James John Conolly: "I am a policeman, I apprehended the prisoner Wright on Monday afternoon, about four o'clock (the afternoon of the robbery) in Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, in a house of ill-fame where he lodged; he was reading the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Wright Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: James Robertson: "I keep a public house in Stanhope-street, Clare market -the prisoner and another came in on the 12th of February, and called for a pot of hot -they went into the parlour, where the clock was -I had the paper-hangers at work there the night before, and asked them to go into the tap-room, but they objected -the man with him came out and read the newspaper to me at the bar -this raised my suspicion -I told my servant to keep watch..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anon Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: James Collins: "I was sitting near the bar reading the newspaper, when I turned my head, and saw the prisoner come out of the room, go up stairs, and come down again..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Collins Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the prisoner came and laid his hand on my shoulder as before, and said, They will all be acted tonight, meaning the plays..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Price Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Pead Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: James John Streath: "On the 18th of October last this man watched me in the Strand. He was looking at a playbill... This was about nine o'clock. I saw this man and another looking at a playbill at a small butter shop, the other side of Bedford-street..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Constable Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill

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Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing: John Everhard Berckemyer: "On the 11th of October, about ten o'clock, I stopped in Newgate-street, to read a playbill;..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Everard Berckemyer Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, playbill

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Witness statement in trial for assault: Charles Bradfield: "In the forenoon of Saturday, 4th of October, I went into the Bull public-house to have my breakfast -I was reading the newspaper and had a beef-steak, which I gave to Sherman, the servant, to be dressed -the prisoner came in, and asked me for the newspaper -I said he should have it in a minute or two -he said if it had not been for me, he should have been in service at that time... [fight ensues, prisoner stabs Bradfield with knife]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Bradfield Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for coining: "Arthur Cross deposed, that he was reading the newspaper at the Black RAven in Fetter-lane about six weeks ago, wherein Mr Cooper was mentioned, Mr Sutton said he knew him very well, was in Holland with him...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Cross Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Isaac Reeve: "After this I happened to read in the Newspaper of a quart silver tankard being stole in the prosecutor's house. I went tither, and there was the prisoner. I told the affair before Sir Samuel Gower..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Reeve Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Feling: "I was at the Lion in the Wood reading the newspaper, there was Esq; Henson's coachman, then came the prisoner..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Abraham Feling Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Everill knew John White had been charged with stealing a trunk as it was read to him from a newspaper by a landlady named Fox 2 or 3 weeks before the trial

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Everill Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Sharpling: "last Thursday was with [the prisoner] between four and five o'clock, he was very much in liquor, this was at the Bear and Ragged Staff; I was looking over the newspaper, he insisted on my drinking a glass of wine with him..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sharpling Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Q: "Do you know when Cox was taken up?" Taylor: "I saw it in the newspaper"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Taylor Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Crocket: "I keep Pan's Coffee-house in Castle-street; on the 9th of November last, the prisoner came into my house, between six and seven in the evening, and called for a glass of brandy and water; I served him with it; he staid about a quarter of an hour reading a newspaper; after he had read the paper he asked for a bason of soup;..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Watson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stolen, was advertised, but did not make any discovery that day [23rd Dec]; upon Tuesday the 24th I examined again;..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Barnard Print: Newspaper

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Barnard Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my hand; she said she had found a purse with bank notes and money in it to the value of three hundred pounds, and asked me if it was advertised..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Williamson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Elizabeth Marlow: "In the morning of the 23rd I was looking into the newspaper for a particular thing I wanted to see. I saw an advertisement that answered the description of the prisoner. I went immediately to Sir John Fieldings..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marlow Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: James Harrison: "I know both prisoners. On the 7th of September, I was in company with Underwood, at the Angel, Mr Fitzpatrick's, at Hoxton, between nine and ten o'clock. I took up the newspaper, to read it: I saw an account of the robbery of Mr Sharpe's house: I told him it was a great robbery..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Harrison Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: 2 statements -that George Todd was apprehended in a public house, reading a newspaper at the time

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Todd Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for coining: John Bailey: "I am an engraver in Fleet-market. I saw the prisoner, as well as I can recollect, the first time was June last. I met him accidently at a public house in Fleet-market, where I used to go to read the newspaper..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bailey Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for stealing: John Jackson: "I came up by coach, I got down at the White Horse Cellar in Piccadilly, I was very much benumbed with cold. I drank several glasses of rum on the road to keep out the cold, then I went and had a pint of beer, and read the newspaper, then I had another."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Jackson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: Joseph Jackson: "I come on account of recollecting a circumstance in an advertisement, that I saw in the newspaper, concerning the robbery committed on the 25th of May...What brought me was to see whether it is either of the prisoners at the bar, on account of an advertisement that I read in a newspaper..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jackson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for stealing: William Watson: "...my house was robbed on the 17th of March... I told my case and on the 19th, I saw in the newspaper a description that answered my marks; I went to the constable and told him what I had..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Watson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Alexander Jack: "...we went to another house a little further on, and there was a man sitting with a pot of beer, reading a newspaper by himself..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anon Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for shoplifting: Walter English: "on the 15th of January last, in the morning, I was in my parlour reading the newspaper, about ten in the morning..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter English Print: Newspaper

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Defence of prisoner in his trial for theft James Lewis: "...we went to the Gun, and he asked me to go in; the gentlewoman said come into the parlour, we staid there, and drank the liquor out, then we went into the kitchen, I was reading the newspaper, I went out to the door..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lewis Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Keturah Dyts (wife of landlord): "...on the 15th of August my husband was taken ill; the prisoner was sitting in the kitchen reading the newspaper, about four yards from where the watch hung..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Mills Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for murder: Joshua Parish: "I know the middle man (Payne); it is near three weeks ago since I first saw him... after this I saw in a newspaper an advertisement that I thought applied to him; I gave information..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joshua Parish Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Q: "When did you hear of Sadi's death, madam?" Sullivan: "I really cannot tell; I was in the country; I first read it in the newspaper"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sullivan Print: Newspaper

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for robbery: Jane Toosey swore to the court that she read about this crime in the newspaper -The Daily Advertiser

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Toosey Print: Newspaper

: Gazetteer and Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for theft: Esther Radford: [Bevan picks up parcel in Pond-street and takes it to Radford]... he gave them into my possession, and I put them into a bureau, and I desired my servant, when she went out, to get me a newspaper; which was produced to me on Monday; I read it through to see if such things were advertised; I saw no such thing... I fancy it was the Gazetteer and Daily Advertiser; it was the Monday's paper to the best of my knowledge, but I cannot particularly say; I looked the paper particularly through..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Radford Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for forgery: Joseph Lecree: "...a card was left for me to go to Ibberson's Coffee-house, where I was directed to my Lord, the first time I went at twelve, my Lord was not come in, but calling again about half after twelve, he was there, reading the newspaper, he hired me as a servant..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Griffin Print: Newspaper

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This trial concerned with the manner in which William Hudson read the newspaper (or several) to other customers at the New London Coffee-house and the seditious comments he made on its content. For example, witness statement: John Leech: "Mr Hudson and Mr Pigot came into the London Coffee-house, between seven and eight o'clock, the 30th of September last, it was on a Monday evening, they had been in the house more than half an hour, and they had had three glasses of punch and began to be noisy, they called for several papers, in fact I believe all the papers, and as they called them they read different paragraphs from them and commented on the paragraphs as they went on..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Hudson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Elizabeth Kinsey, describing actions of prisoner William Mortimer while in tap room of the public house: "I did not see him doing anything but sitting there; after some time he looked at the newspaper..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Mortimer Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Rose: "I was reading in the newspaper some time after, and saw a person that had been deprived of half-a-guinea and was in custody, and I went to Marlborough-street and saw him there

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Rose Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Tuck: "Last Saturday, about three o'clock, the prisoner was in my parlour, drinking a glass of liquor; I keep a public house; I lost the things mentioned in the indictment; he was looking at the newspaper for about an hour and a half..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Simmonds Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for embezzlement: Anthony Parkin: "he went on Saturday morning to a public house, the sign of the Goat, in Cheyne-street, near Gower-street, where he saw the landlord and landlady of the house; he asked for the newspaper; to see if they were advertised, but he did not find any advertisement..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Norton Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for forgery: Eleanor Castle: "The very day he was taken up, he read the paper at our house... Near two o'clock, in the middle of the day... it was that day's paper, and we never let it out; he sat down and read it" Prisoner: "I went to the public house to see the paper to see if such notes were advertised; the last time I went into the public house was the Saturday morning, the day I was taken up"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Lovell Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for theft: James Streeter: "...says I, Mich, how did you come by this, I am afraid you did not get it honestly; he persisted in it, that he had received it for his cousin's prize money; the next morning, I saw it advertised in the newspaper and sent for a constable..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Streeter Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Q: "How came Mrs Carey to read the almanack?" Norris: "She was reading it, looking over it to see what day of the month it was" "...I heard a person reading a newspaper...I mean an almanack, not a newspaper" Q: "What sort of almanack was it?" A: "Almost like a newspaper, it was stuck up against the wall"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey Print: Broadsheet, Poster, Almanack

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Witness statement in trial for theft: William Olley: "On Thursday the 7th of May, about ten in the morning, I was sitting at the top of the shop reading a newspaper, opposite the east door..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Olley Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: John Lench: "On Saturday the 7th of May, between twelve and one, I was reading the newspaper at the public house, the Blue Bell..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Lench Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Watts: "...there was a gentleman in the house reading a newspaper and I shewed it [the case] to him..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anon Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: Robinson: "I was reading the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Robinson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: John Wiffin: "On the 1st of August, I was reading the newspaper at the Northumberland Arms, Grafton-street, ...during the time I was reading the paper the prisoner came in, he asked me what news..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wiffin Print: Newspaper

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prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Thomas Vaughan: "I got up in the morning to breakfast along with the man's wife. I never went out of the parlour, only through the parlour, I read the newspaper before I went out of the house..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Vaughan Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for forgery: Robert Eddington: "we occasionally read the newspaper, I suppose we sat for half an hour..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Eddington Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft: Charles Fenn: "I went into Mrs Bow's public house, the sign of the Wheat-sheaf, Holywell-street. I put my bankers book on the table, called for a glass of ale, I took up the newspaper; I staid in the house about five minutes, put down the newspaper and went out..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Fenn Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft: Mr Hanley: "About eleven o'clock it rained very hard. I stopped at the public house, reading the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hanley Print: Newspaper

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prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Brown: "I was going to the West India Dock, I had a newspaper in my handing reading of it, and when I got into the court I was reading of it..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Brown Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft: Samuel Leigh: "I lodge at the Elephant and Castle, Holborn. On the 12th of October I was sitting in the tap-room breakfasting...after I had finished my breakfast I removed two or three yards to look at a newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Leigh Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods: William de Roach: "In the middle of August I was in Pollard's Parlour, Pollard was reading the newspaper, he saw these things advertised and said 'they have got a good booty', I made answer, 'I think they have'."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pollard Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods: William de Roach: "Then the week following Mrs Rippen came down several times and asked what such stones and such ear-rings were worth. Then after she came down and made these enquiries, then Pollard sent for the same newspaper, and on his reading the same paper, she said, 'I think these things are upstairs'."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pollard Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft: William Pocock: "On the night of the 8th of January I was at the King's Head... I took up the newspaper, and while I was reading the newspaper I saw him put the pint pot in his pocket, under his great coat..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Pocock Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Bracken: "I caused hom to be apprehended. I read the description of him in the newspaper and caused him to be taken up"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Bracken Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for deception/forgery: John Dougan: "I was going to the West Indies, in pursuance of that my business. I had occasion for an interpreter; I advertised for that purpose, and the prisoner applied in consequence of that advertisement. He represented himself as having been in business at Liverpool... A newspaper happened to be present, and he immediately, without hesitation, translated a passage, first into German, then French, then English, and proved to me that he was well skilled in languages."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony McKenrott Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft: Michael McNally: "Jack brought a newspaper to me, and read a statement that Cooper was apprehended upon this, and he said that Messrs Winchester had offered a large reward, and he told me to keep my tongue quit, and all would be right..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John (Jack) Winter Print: Newspaper

: Morning Advertiser

witness statement in trial for burglary: Ralph Hope: "[Spencer] was apprehended and committed for examination. In about a fortnight after, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Advertiser. [Witness here produces that newspaper and reads it to the court]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Hope Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft: George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank my beer -I looked at the newspaper. I was not there above a quarter of an hour"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Nash Print: Newspaper

Pliny : Epistolarum

"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters which you have express'd when I read them many years ago.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Italian

"Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Italian,' he had, by some strange accident, read, - read, but only to laugh at it ... '"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

"Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading Clarissa Harlowe.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Coxe : Lettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'etat politique, civil, et naturel de la Suisse; traduits de l'Anglaise, et augmentees des observations faites dans le meme pays par le traducteur

"W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

George Redpath : The Border History of England and Scotland

"In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degree from local history more than my knowledge enabled me to do I read Redpath's history of the Borders but found there nothing to my purpose.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere : An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Roland

"[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have lately perused with much delight La Citoyenne Roland.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Poole Print: Book

Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere : An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Roland

" ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the Dangers to Which I have been Exposed, since the 31st of May, 1793. With historical memorandums. By Jean-Baptiste Louvet, one of the representatives proscribed in 1793. Now President of the National Convention.

" ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller : The Robbers

"[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... "

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Southey : Joan of Arc

'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Maid of orleans. From the specimens I have seen I am inclined to think it will have many beauties."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

Lawrence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two or three papers of the Spectator."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: Spectator, The

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

: Weekly Entertainer, The

'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bligh, of which he was the Ringleader" in The Weekly Entertainer 28 (26 Sept. 1796), some time in Sept. or Oct. 1796.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Uvedale Price : Essay on the Picturesque

"My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... "

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

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'Mary has been reading to us (I stopped writing to hear it) the account of the death of Mr. Pitt - happy for him that he had died at this time!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

Philip Massinger : Bashful Lover, The

'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives

'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Clarkson : Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Oeconomy and Character of the Society of Friends

Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a fortnight or three weeks for the other [received by William Wordsworth at a separate address (Basil Montagu's)] ... We have determined not to read the Book till we can begin at the beginning, so I have done little more than turn over the leaves ... I think it is a very well-looking Book, with enough of stuff in each page, not too large margins, and a good type. As to the matter, it looks very nice, (I have heard you say that you can judge of a book in turning over the leaves) and I have read some very sweetly written bits.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Richard Payne Knight : An Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of Taste

'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Lady Beaumont : [letter]

Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter arrived, William [Wordsworth] had set forward with his Daughter on his back, and our little Nursemaid and I were on foot following after, all on our road over the high mountain pass betwixt Grasmere and Patterdale, by which road we were going to Park House to remove the Child from the danger of catching the hooping-cough which is prevalent at Grasmere. The letter was sent after us and we halted by the way-side to read it ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Clarkson : Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil OEconomy and Character of the Society of Friends.

'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use of the word tract.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: [newspaper]

William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

John Fox : Book of Martyrs

'I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book The account of the deaths of Ridley and Latimer (especially the latter) is most affecting and impressive. There are some very sweet passages in them, yet I do not think the whole of such merit that they ought to have been published.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Life and Letters

'I am now reading Gray's life and letters.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been little tainted by that detestable crime. I had read of it, though not the particulars, in the newspapers, and had been very much shocked.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson

'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Sister have read the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which is a most valuable and interesting Book. - My Brother speaks of it with unqualified approbation, and he intends to read it over again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

D. Thiebault : Anecdotes of Frederick II

'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them ... I have not quite finished the anecdotes of Frederick which I find exceedingly amusing; and instructive, also, as giving a lively portrait of the hard-heartedness and selfishness, and servility of the courtiers of a tyrant, and of the unsatisfactoriness of such a life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson

'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read Mrs Hutchinson's account of the troubles there in Oliver Cromwell's time.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady

'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the African Slave-Trade] when I first read it at 14 years of age.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The

'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had not time for much criticism, and in fact having only one perusal of the work he was too much interested.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Dunham Whitaker : History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, The

'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been only two days in his possession - Almost the whole time he has been greedily devouring the History of Craven ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: Edinburgh Review

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: 'You had been strangely misinformed of the nature of the Edinburgh Review of William [Wordsworth]'s poems [ie his Poems in Two Volumes, 1807]. Luckily Lloyd takes it in, therefore I have seen it. W[illia]m and M[ary Wordsworth] chanced to see it at Penrith ... the review is ... plainly so spiteful, that it can do no harm with any wise or feeling mind; and for me, I have not laughed so heartily this long time as I did at the reading of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

: Edinburgh Review

William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's] last Review [of Wordsworth's Poems on Two Volumes, in the Edinburgh Review]. I had before skimmed over, some time ago, what he had written in the article on [Southey's] Thalaba [in Oct. 1802] ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Wordsworth : [poems]

William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former grocer on his first day in the new job: 'At Lancaster I happened to mention Grasmere in the hearing of one of the Passengers, who asked me immediately if one Wordsworth did not live there. I answered, "Yes." - "He has written," said he, "some very beautiful Poems; The Critics do indeed cry out against them, and condemn them as over simple, but for my part I read them with great pleasure, they are natural and true." - This man was also a Grocer.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [a grocer] Anon

Symmonds : Life of John Milton, The

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some future occasion I will tell you what I think of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Wordsworth : White Doe of Rylstone, The

'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, or part of it, one evening. There unluckily I found [William] Hazlitt and his Beloved [Sarah Stoddart] ... though I had the Poem in my hand I ... absolutely refused, to read it. But as they were very earnest in entreating me, I at last consented to read one Book ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Wrangham : Human Laws best supported by the Gospel

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I lately received from Longman) with much pleasure. I only gave it a cursory perusal, for since it arrived my family has been in great confusion, we having removed to another House, in which we are not yet half settled. The Appendix I had received before in a frank, and of that I feel more entitled to speak, because I had read it more at leisure [goes on to discuss this in detail].'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Walter Scott : Marmion

William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

John Dryden : unknown

William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which would have interested me most, namely the historical and illustrative ones; but some of the critical introductions I read ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Andrew Bell : Experiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madras, An

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a most interesting work and entitles him to the fervent gratitude of all good men: but I cannot say [?it has made] any material change in my views ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Gilbert White : Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Dunham Whitaker : History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honour of Clitheroe, The

' ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Grave : The History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire

William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it from a belief that you are admirably qualified for such a work ... and from a regret in seeing works of this kind ... utterly marred by falling into the hands of wretched Bunglers, e.g. the History of Cleveland whiich I have just read, by a Clergyman of Yarm by the name of Grave, the most heavy performance I ever encountered ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Francis Wrangham : Gospel best promulgated in National Schools, The

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach me till the night before last. I believe we all have read it, and are much pleased with it.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

unknown : [Greek book]

Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is beside me, quietly turning over the leaves of a Greek book ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey Print: Book

Thomas De Quincey : letter

Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterday morning my brother and I walked to Rydale, and he ... sate upon a stump at the foot of the hill while I went up to Ann Nicholson's, and there I found your letter ... I opened the letter in Ann's house just to see if all were well with you, and I then hastened with my prize to William, and sat down beside him to read the letter, and truly a feast it was for us ... "

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

Thomas De Quincey : Letter

Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how John Wordsworth received a letter from him: "When your Friend Johnny came from school last night, his mother said to him, 'Here is a letter from - .' 'From,' he replied, 'Mr. De Quincey?' ... he ... asked me to read [it]; which I did, with a few omissions and levelling the language to his capacity ... you would have thought yourself well repaid for the trouble of writing it if you could only have seen how feelingly he was interested."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

[Italian deputies] Anon : [address to Buonaparte]

William Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, regarding editing of The Convention of Cintra: 'I have alluded to the blasphemous address to Buonaparte made by some Italian deputies, which you remember we read at Grasmere some time ago, and his answer; I should like to have referred to the very words in the Appendix ... If ... you could find it in the file of Couriers at the office, I should exceedingly like such parts as you might approve of ... to be inserted ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth and Thomas De Quincey Print: Serial / periodical

Don Pedro Cevallos : Exposition of the Arts and Machinations which led to the Usurpation of the Crown of Spain ...

'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those of her husband].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : Memoir of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock

'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those of her husband].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : [newpapers]

'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John] Moore's [about the Peninsular Campaign].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel

'I ... found Miss [Sara] Hutchinson reading Coleridge's Christabel to Johnny [Wordsworth] - She was tired, so I read the greater part of it: he was excessively interested especially with the first part ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson and Dorothy Wordsworth

: Edinburgh Review

Dorothy Wordsworth reflects on prospect that her brother William might turn to newspaper journalism for a living: 'This reminds me of the last Edinburgh Review which I saw at Mr. Wilson's. There never was such a compound of despicable falsehood, malevolence and folly as the concluding part of the Review of Burns's Poems (which was ... all that I thought it worth while to read being the only part in which my Brother's works are alluded to).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Wordsworth : White Doe of Rylstone, The

'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of which he was much delighted.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel

'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of which he was much delighted.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

unknown : [magazine]

'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate four months ... for a libel, as it was termed, upon the Bishop of Llandaff ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper

Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery: 'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what murders and robberies there is now!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Virgil : Georgics

'Here I am reading Virgil?s delightful Georgics for the first time. They really attune perfectly well with the plains and climate of Naseby. Valpy (whose edition I have) cannot quite follow Virgil?s plough?in its construction at least. But the main acts of agriculture seem to have changed very little, and the alternation of green and corn crops is a good dodge. And while I heard the fellows going out with their horses to plough as I sat at breakfast this morning, I also read? Libra die somnique pares ubi fecerit horas, Et medium luci atque umbris jam dividit orbem, Exercete, viri, tauros, serite hordea campis Usque sub extremum brum? intractabilis imbrem. One loves Virgil somehow.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book

Arthur Penryn Stanley : Life of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of Rugby

As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who was a noble fellow; and the letters of Burke, which do not add to, or detract from, what I knew and liked in him before. I am meditating to begin Thucydides one day; perhaps this winter. . .

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book

Edmund Burke : Letters

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book

Virgil :

I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary. What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics!

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book

Juvenal :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book

John Wesley : Journal

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Letters

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book

Charles Knight : Half Hours with the Best Authors

'Some one by chance read out to me the other day at the seaside your account of poor old Naseby Village from Cromwell, quoted in Knight?s "Half Hours, etc." It is now twelve years ago, at this very season, I was ransacking for you; you promising to come down, and never coming. I hope very much you are soon going to give us something: else Jerrold and Tupper carry all before them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar] "These two or three pages are worth the whole French drama ten times over."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch's narrative. But the working up of Brutus by Cassius, the meeting of the conspirators, the stirring of the mob by Antony, and (above all,) the dispute and reconciliation of the two generals, are things far beyond the reach of any other poet that ever lived."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nights" in Julius Caesar] "Plutarch's hint is admirably expanded here".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

G.W.M. Reynolds : The Mysteries of London

Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illiterate costermongers when cheap serials are read to them, comments on the story lines they like, characters and illustrations; reading of G.W.M. Reynolds's "Mysteries" and Edward Lloyd's penny bloods

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

G.W.M. Reynolds : The Mysteries of the Court of London

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Lloyd : [various titles published by Lloyd]

Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illiterate costermongers when cheap serials are read to them, comments on the story lines they like, characters and illustrations; reading of G.W.M. Reynolds's "Mysteries" and Edward Lloyd's penny bloods

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

: Garden of Heaven

Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister: "'We've always had good health. We can all read'. [Here the three somewhat insisted upon proving to me their proficiency in reading, and having procured a Roman Catholic book, the 'Garden of Heaven', they read very well."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: History of England

Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker: "One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the room of seller before mentioned was -Acts of Parliament. A pile of these, a foot or more deep, lay on a shelf. They are used to wrap up the rock, etc, sold. The sweet-stuff maker bought his 'paper' of the stationers or at the old bookshops. Sometimes, he said, he got works in this way in sheets which had never been cut, and which he retained to read at his short intervals of leisure, and then used to wrap his goods in. In this way he had read through two Histories of England!"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets

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Henry Mayhew interviews a long-song seller: to sell ballads he not only cries their titles, but also sings the songs he has for sale in print. "I sometimes begin with singing or trying to sing, for I'm no vocalist, the first few words of any song, and them quite loud..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads

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Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometimes also 'cocks' or fiction. Patterer's seeling techniques include chanting part of text of sheets to potential purchasers to induce sale

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet

Oliver Goldsmith : Edwin and Angelina

Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet: "I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I could read and understand almost. Yes, very likely sir; perhaps it was that put it into my head to write them afterwards... I was very fond of Goldsmith's poetry always. I can repeat 'Edwin and Emma' now. No sir; I never read the 'Vicar of Wakefield'. I found 'Edwin and Emma' in a book called the 'Speaker'. I often thought of it in travelling through some parts of the country." + recites some of his own poetry to Mayhew

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Henry Mayhew interviews a 'cheap John': "From selling the printed songs, I imbibed a wish to learn to read, and, with the assistance of an old soldier, I soon acquired sufficient knowledge to make out the names of each song, and shortly afterwards I could study a song and learn the words without anyone helping me."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads

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Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son: "My youngest son -he's now fourteen -is asthmatical; but he's such a good lad, so easily satisfied. He likes to read if he can get hold of a penny book, and has time to read it. He's at a paper-stainer's and works on fancy satin paper, which is very obnicious to such a delicate boy"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book

[n/a] : Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper

Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper: "The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my family's dinner to the bakehouse, bring it home after chapel, and read Lloyd's Weekly"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper

: Examiner

Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by the underselling of slop masters , that though in his youth he could take in the 'News' and 'Examiner' papers (each he believed 9d at the time, but was not certain), he could afford, and enjoyed, no reading when I saw him last autumn, beyond the book-leaves in which he received his quarter of cheese, his small piece of bacon or fresh meat, or his saveloys; and his wife schemed to go to the shops who 'wrapped up their things from books', in order that he might have something to read after his day's work."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical

: Daily News

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper

: various

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases

n/a : [newspaper]

Henry Mayhew interviews a regular scavager: "No, I can't say I was sorry when I was forced to be idle that way, that I hadn't kept up my reading, nor tried to keep it up, because I couldn't then have settled down my mind to read; I know I couldn't. I likes to hear the paper read well enough, if I's resting; but old Bill, as often volunteers to read, has to spell the hard words, so that one can't tell what the devil he's reading about."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Print: Newspaper

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Henry Mayhew interviews an "aristocratic" crossing sweeper of Cavendish-square: "There was the Earl of Gainsborough as I should like you to mention as well, please sir. He lived in Chandos-street, and was a particular nice man and very religious. He always gave me a shilling and a tract. Well, you see, I did often read the tract; they was all religious, and about where your souls was to go to -very good, you know, what there was, very good; and he used to buy 'em wholesale at a little shop, corner of High-street, Marrenbum."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Billy ? Print: religious tract

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What did I read last night? Well, Reynolds's Miscellany; before that I read the Pilgrim's Progress. I have read it three times over; but there's always something new in it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

G.W.M. Reynolds : Reynolds's Miscellany

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical, novels

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Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read the bible and the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Print: Newspaper

: The Bible

Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read the bible and the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary ? Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read the bible and the newspaper. Story books I have read too, but not many novels. Yes, Robinson Crusoe I know..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Print: Book

:

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Print: Book, story books

: London Journal

Henry Mayhew interviews a juvenile crossing sweeper: "I can read and write -oh, yes, I mean read and write well -read anything, even old English; and I write pretty fair, -though I don't get much reading now, unless it's a penny paper -I've got one in my pocket now -it's the London Journal -there's a tale in it now about two brothers, and one of them steals the child away and puts another in his place, and then he gets found out, and all that, and he's just falling off a bridge now..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Print: Serial / periodical

: Family Friend

Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my boy, sir; he's reading the Family Friend just now. My boy goes to school every evening, and twice on a Sunday. I am willing that they should find as much pleasure from reading as I have in my illness"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous expense, while the weight of the labour lies on my family more than it does on myself. Over and over again, when I have been in acute pain with my thigh, a scientific book, or a work on history, or a volume of travels, would carry my thoughts far away ...I always had love of solid works. For an hour's light reading, I have often turned to a work of imagination, such as Milton's Paradise Lost, and Shakespeare's plays; but I prefer science to poetry... I think it is solely due to my taste for mechanics and my love of reading scientific books that I am able to live so comfortably as I do in my affliction."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

:

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: Gospel

Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader': "I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years ago, in consequence of an aneurism... At last I thought I might earn a little by reading in the street. The Society for the Indigent Blind gave me the Gospel of St John, after Mr Freer's system, the price being 8s.; and a brother-in-law supplied me with the Gospel of St Luke which cost 9s. ...I first read in public in Mornington Crescent. For the first fortnight or three weeks I took from 2s6d to 2s9d a day... Since the 1st of January I haven't averaged more than 2s6d a week by my street reading and writing... There are now five or six blind men about London who read in the streets. We can read nothing but the Scriptures, as 'blind-printing' -so it's sometimes called -has only been used in the Scriptures."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age: "Of a night some one would now and then read hymns, out of books they sold about the streets -I'm sure they were hymns; or else we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin, and all through that set..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, religious tracts sold in streets containing hymns

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age: "Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin, and all through that set. They were large thick books, borrowed from the library. They told how they used to break open the houses, and get out of Newgate, and how Dick got away to York. We used to think Jack and them very fine fellows. I wished I could be like Jack (I did then), about the blankets in his escape, and that old house in West-street -it is a ruin still."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Rookwood

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Watts :

Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a religious turn, and what people might think dull. But they never made me dull. I read Wesley's and Watt's hymns, and religious magazines of different connexions. I had a natural inclination for the sae, and would like to get to it now. I've read a good deal about it since -Clark's 'Lives of Pirates', 'Tales of Shipwrecks', and other things in penny numbers (Clark's I got out of the library though). I was what people called a deep boy for a book; and am still. Whenever I had a penny, after I got a bellyful of victuals, it went for a book, but I haven't bought many lately. I did buy one yesterday -the 'Family Herald' -one I often read when I can get it. There's good reading in it; it elevates your mind -anybody that has a mind for studying. It has good tales in it... I've read "Windsor Castle" and "The Tower", -they're by the same man. I Liked "Windsor Castle" and all about Henry VIII and Herne and Hunter. It's a book that's connected with history, and that's a good thing. I like adventurous tales."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

John Wesley :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: religious magazines

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

Clark : Lives of Pirates

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?

: Tales of Shipwrecks

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers

: Family Herald

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

William Harrison Ainsworth : Windsor Castle

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book

William Harrison Ainsworth : The Tower of London

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book

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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I thought I should make my fortune in London -I'd heard it was such a grand place. I had read in novels and romances -halfpenny and penny books -about such things, but I've met with nothing of the kind."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three volumes; and I used to tell stories out of that sometimes."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar', they got out of the neighbouring libraries by depositing 1s. These were read with much interest; the lodgers would sooner have these than any other books."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Rookwood

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: Newgate Calendar

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

: Bible

Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "I went to school to learn to write and cipher, and had before this learned to read at home with my father and mother. We had a very happy home and very strict in the way of religion... My father had family worship every night between 8 and 9 o'clock, when the curtains were drawn over the windows, the candle was lighted, and each of the children was taught to kneel separately at prayer. After reading the Bible, and half an hour's conversation, each one retired to their bed..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: Bible

Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...We often had ministers to dinner and supper at our house, and always after their meals the conversation would be sure to turn into discussions on the different points of doctrine... At this time I would be sitting there greedily drinking in every word, and as soon as they were gone I would fly to the Bible and examine the different texts of Scripture they had brought forward, and it seemed to produce a feeling in my mind that any religious opinions could be supported by it..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Thomas Paine :

Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake, those infidel writers, and have also read the works of Bulwer, Dickens and numbers of others..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Volney :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

George Jacob Holyoake :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

John Keats : 'Ode to a Nightingale'

'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned both with visionary experience and with the need to transcend human suffering. He tells us: I was enchanted by The Solitary Reaper, the Ode to a Nightingale, the Ode to the West Wind, The Lotus Eaters, and the chorus from Atalanta in Calydon'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Unknown

Alfred Lord Tennyson : 'The Lotus Eaters'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Ode to the West Wind'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Unknown

Algernon Charles Swinburne : 'Atalanta in Calydon'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Unknown

Wiliam Wordsworth : 'The Solitary Reaper'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Unknown

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly and Mayhew records this: "Respecting their education, according to the popular meaning of the term, 63 of the 150 were able to read and write, and they were principally thieves. Fifty of this number said they had read 'Jack Sheppard' and the lines of Dick Turpin, Claude du Val, and all the other popular thieves' novels, as well as the Newgate Calendar and Lives of Robbers and Pirates. Those who could not read themselves, said they'd had 'Jack Sheppard' read to them at the lodging houses. Numbers avowed that they had been induced to resort to an abandoned course of life from reading the lives of notorious thieves and novels about highway robbers."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume

William Harrison Ainsworth : Rookwood

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume

C. Maurice Bowra : The Heritage of Symbolism

'[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing symbolist poetry himself for years without realising it. He added: "He inspired me to write one deliberately, which I enclose".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

: Claude du Val

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume

: Newgate Calendar

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

: Lives of the Robbers and Pirates

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

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: group of London thieves Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either as penny numbers or in volume

The Bible :

'[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathered us together to read a chapter of the Bible and kneel down in prayer. These Sunday nights are among my happiest memories; there was a feeling of complete security and union among us as we sat reading about David and Elijah".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : [Essays]

'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could afford and kept notes on fifty-eight of them... There were Emerson's essays, Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Lamb's Essays of Elia, classic biogaphies (Boswell on Johnson, Lockhart on Scott, Carlyle on Sterling), several Waverley novels, Wuthering Heights, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, The Imitation of Christ, Shakespeare's sonnets, Tennyson, Browning, William Morris and Palgrave's Golden Treasury.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Catullus : Carmina

'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); "Lesbia" (1786); "Septimius and Acme" (1788)] ... he had studied Catullus closely as a schoolboy ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

John Donne : Holy Sonnet 10

'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful ... "]'.

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : The Life of Scott

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : The Life of John Sterling

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

John Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Thomas a Kempis : The Imitation of Christ

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Horace : Works of Horace. Translated into English Prose, for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language. By Christopher Smart

'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's translation.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Robert Browning :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Francis Turner Palgrave : Golden Treasury (ed.)

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Horace : Odes

'W[ordsworth]'s translation of Horace's Ode to the Bandusian Fountain (Ode III xiii) appears in a manuscript dating from his time at Windy Brow in 1794.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Richard Payne Knight : Progress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, The

'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Society.'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

David Herd : Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems

'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book used by Wordsworth after 1800 contains "four verses from a ballad ['The Cruel Mother'] in Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems (1776) ... "'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Robert Heron : Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland

'[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Villette

'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individuals in the eyes of the world, with only their dogged determination and lack of 'frills' as weapons against the dash and arrogance of those haughty and wealthy rivals among whom their lot was cast". Yet he admired Jane Austen for an equal but opposite reason: "The world of which she wrote, in which elegant gentlemen of fortune courted gentle, punctilliously correct ladies in refined drawing rooms, was a remote fairy-tale country to me. Some day, I thought, perhaps I would get to know a world in which voices were always soft and modulated and in which lively and witty conversation was more important than 'brass'."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Jane Austen : [novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Man of Ten Thousand, The

'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I have attempted to read Holcroft's Man of Ten Thousand, but such stuff! Demme hey, humph."'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him think, Vanity Fair and Les Miserables taught him human sympathy, and Wuthering Heights taught him respect for man and nature.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett Print: Book

Juvenal : Satire X

Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal's Satire upon Nobility - or rather parts of it. How far the choice of a Subject might be influenced by the run at that time against Aristocracy, I am unable to say ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

John Ruskin : Unto this Last

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett Print: Book

Juvenal : Satire X

William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal's Satire upon Nobility - or rather parts of it. How far the choice of a Subject might be influenced by the run at that time against Aristocracy, I am unable to say ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Wrangham

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les Miserables

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Edward II

'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied from Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

: Select Collection of Old Plays

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Philip Massinger : Picture, The

' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ... '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Queen Mab

'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lambb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them "I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Unknown

Moschus : Lament for Bion

'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Ralph Waldo Emerson :

'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them "I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay :

'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them "I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Francis Bacon :

'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them "I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Bion : Death of Adonis

'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Shakespeare :

'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them "I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Charles Lamb :

'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neither father nor son applied ideological tests to literature. In the prison library - with some guidance from a fellow conscientious objector who happened to be an important publishing executive - Percy discovered Emerson, Macaulay, Bacon, Shakespeare and Lamb. It was their style rather than their politics he found liberating: from them "I learned self-expression and acquired or strengthened standards of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Petrarch : Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet)

'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning Italian with Agostino Isola.'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Jean Racine : Athalie

'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82, 292-94 ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Thomas More : Utopia

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Jean Racine : Athalie

Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing to hear him and Wordsworth at cross purposes on the subject of "Athalie"; Wordsworth saying that he did not wish to see it acted, as it would never come up to the high imagination he had formed in reading it ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Herbert George Wells : The World Set Free

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

: [biography of William Penn]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Walt Whitman :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

George Sandys : Relation of a Journey Begun 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of AEgypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy and Ilands Adjoyning

'[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Begun 1610] in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay :

'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered "not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..." Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

George Shelvocke : Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea, Performed in the Years 1719-1722

'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the killing of the albatross in C[oleridge]'s Ancient Mariner. W[ordsworth] dates this reading "a day or two before" the walking tour to Lynton - which would make it c.11-12 November 1797.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

James Anthony Froude :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

John Richard Green :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Thorold Rogers : Six Centuries of Work and Wages

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : [sonnets (two)]

'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first published in her novel, Celestina (1791), and reprinted as XLIX and LI in Elegiac Sonnets (6th edn, 1792) ... W[ordsworth]'s copies vary from both texts as published.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

: Spectator, The

'In later years, W[ordsworth] recalled that under Agostino Isola "I translated the Vision of Mirza, and two or three other papers of the Spectator, into Italian" [Prose Works 3:373].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Virgil : Aeneid

'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: "Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula," from Virgil, Aeneid vi 37. In The Death of the Starling several pages later, we find the epigraph, "Sunt lacrimae rerum" ... from Aeneid i.462.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics

' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manuscripts indicate that the translations were made in summer 1788 and spring 1789.'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Christoph Martin Wieland : Oberon

'"I am translating the Oberon of Wieland," C[oleridge] told [Thomas] Poole, 20 Nov 1797.'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Francis Wrangham : Brutoniad

'[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sept. 1794.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Wrangham Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : Edda Soemundar hinns Froda

Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799: '[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seemed to have no idea of knowing how or where to look for it. The "Edda" [with facing Icelandic and Latin texts] fell into his hands and delighted him. His brother [Joseph], who knows no language but English, wanted to read it, and he had begun a prose translation, when I advised him to versify it ... '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Amos Cottle Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Amos Cottle : Italia, vastata

'Coleridge's interest in [Amos] Cottle dated back at least to May 1797, when he read his Latin poem, Italia, vastata ... '

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth : Fidelity

Transcription of William Wordsworh, "Fidelity" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first four stanzas as in 1807 edition, followed by further eight varying from these).

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

Michaelangelo Buonarotti : [sonnet]

Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : Star-Gazers

Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 November 1806.

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Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : The Force of Prayer

Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 18 October 1807.

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : [advertisement]

Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 11 May 1808: 'Would you believe it we too had dreams about Loch Kettrine when we saw the advertisement ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Advertisement

anon [working people] : ["half-penny Ballads"]

William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808: '... I find, among the people I am speaking of, half-penny Ballads, and penny and two-penny histories, in great abundance; these are often bought as charitable tributes to the poor Persons who hawk them about (and it is the best way of procuring them); they are frequently stitched together in tolerably thick volumes, and such I have read; some of the contents, though not often religious, very good; others objectionable, either for the superstition in them (such as prophecies, fortune-telling, etc.) or more frequently for indelicacy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: ["penny and two-penny histories"]

William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808: ' ... I find, among the people I am speaking of, half-penny Ballads, and penny and two-penny histories, in great abundance; these are often bought as charitable tributes to the poor Persons who hawk them about (and it is the best way of procuring them); they are frequently stitched together in tolerably thick volumes, and such I have read; some of the contents, though not often religious, very good; others objectionable, either for the superstition in them (such as prophecies, fortune-telling, etc.) or more frequently for indelicacy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : [magazine]

William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a paragraph stating that B. Flower had been fined ?100, and commited to Newgate for 4 months, for reflecting on the Union of Ireland, in some comments upon a speech of the bishop of Llandaff.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Wordsworth : Convention of Cintra, The

William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]': 'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in this affair of the Pamphlet [The Convention of Cintra]. Mr De Quincey according to my request sent me down ten stitched Pamphlets ... and it was not till today that I discovered that in two copies of those stitched the page which was cancelled remains as it first stood, the corrected leaf not having been substituted.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

various : Edinburgh Review

Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the Edinburgh Review on Cam[p]bell's Poem [Gertrude of Wyoming]? I know not whether the Extracts brought forward in illustration of the encomiums or the encomiums themselves are more absurd ... The Review of Miss Hannah More's work [Coelebs in Search of a Wife] is equally as foolish, though in a different way ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Campbell : Gertrude of Wyoming (extracts)

Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the Edinburgh Review on Cam[p]bell's Poem [Gertrude of Wyoming]? I know not whther the Extracts brought forward in illustration of the encomiums or the encomiums themselves are more absurd ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Wordsworth : Introduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, by the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, Rector of East and West Wretham, in the County of Norfolk and Chaplain to the Marquis of Huntly

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy in transcribing ... For William [Wordsworth] she has been transcribing the introduction to a collection of prints to be published by Mr. Wilkinson of Thetford (of which I believe you know the history as your husband's name is down among those of the subscribers). I hope you will be interested with William's part of the work (he has only finished the general introduction, being unable to do the rest until he has seen the prints). It is the only regular and I may say scientific account of the present and past state and appearance of the country that has yet appeared.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson Manuscript: Unknown

Christopher Wordsworth : Ecclesiastical Biography, or Lives of Eminent Men connected with the History of Religion in England

Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, [c.19 February 1810] (letter fragmentary): 'Have you seen my Brother Christopher's publication? Lives of eminent men connected with Religion from the Reformation to the Revolution? I am reading it with great inter[est]. The lives of Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More are delightful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Friend, A Literary, Moral and Political Weekly Paper

Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 28 February [1810], on departure of Sara Hutchinson after four years with Wordsworths: 'Coleridge most of all will miss her, as she has transcribed almost every Paper of the Friend for the press.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson Manuscript: Unknown

:

Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 'Sunday night, 13th April [1810]': 'When I saw the advertisement [for house at Watermillock] in the papers I thought of you: but instantly concluded the house would not do.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales

Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 August 1810: 'In the afternoon we looked over half the drawings from Chaucer, and read as much of the prologue ... the next day looked over the rest of the drawings to my great delight, and read the Knight's Tale.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during October (c.26-29) 1810 at Hackett (overlooking Langdale and other Lakeland locations) with William and Mary Wordsworth, their four children and a maid: 'The weather was heavenly, when we were there, and the first morning we sate in hot sunshine on a crag, twenty yards from the door, while William read part of the 5th Book of the Paradise Lost to us. He read the Morning Hymn, while a stream of white vapour, which covered the Valley of Brathay, ascended slowly and by degrees melted away. It seemed as if we had never before felt deeply the power of the Poet ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

Extract of letter from Thomas De Quincey to Mary Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: '"W. Scott's last novel, the Lady of the Lake, is the grand subject of prattle and chatter hereabouts. I have read it aloud to oblige my Mother, and a more disgusting Task I never had. I verily think that it is the completest magazine of all forms of the Falsetto in feeling and diction that now exists ... I have given great offence to some of Walter's idolaters ... in particular, by calling it a novel (which indeed it is; only a very dull one)."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey

: [a romance in the style of Ann Radcliffe]

Extract of letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: "'I amused myself a day or two ago on reading a Romance in Mrs Radcliffe's style with making out a scheme which was to serve for all Romances a priori ... '"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Walter Scott :

'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson... would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Charles Reade :

'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

George Eliot :

'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Emily Bronte :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Victor Hugo :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

: The Bible

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay :

'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic critics today might discern ideologies in all of the above, but that was not Lawson's reading of them. "Of politics I knew nothing and cared less", he recalled, yet his purely literary readings had helped him form "some very definite opinions on the right and wrong of things social..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

John Richard Green :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

John Lothrop Motley : The Rise of the Dutch Republic

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

William Hickling Prescott : The Conquest of Mexico

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

William Hickling Prescott : The Conquest of Peru

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Karl Marx :

'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and affairs from the proper angle, for was not all our work to this end - that little children should live in their Wonderland, and mothers and fathers be heartful of the good of life because they were".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Lewis Carroll :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Lawson Print: Book

Karl Marx :

[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact. At night school she staged a personal revolution by writing a paper on Romeo and Juliet and thriling to the "new romantic world" of Jane Eyre. She joined a Socialist Sunday School where 'Hiawatha' was recited for its "prophetic idealism", and a foundry hammerman intoned Keats's 'Eve of St Agnes and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

William Morris :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Hiawatha

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

John Keats : 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

John Keats : 'The Eve of St Agnes'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Bishop Blougram's Apology'

'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions read and explored Browning's poems. It was a strange joy to browse overthe niceties of Bishop Blougram's Apology or to delve into the intricacies of The Ring and the Book... It was a month of almost complete happiness; a pinnacle of joy never to be quite reached again".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'The Ring and the Book'

'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions read and explored Browning's poems. It was a strange joy to browse overthe niceties of Bishop Blougram's Apology or to delve into the intricacies of The Ring and the Book... It was a month of almost complete happiness; a pinnacle of joy never to be quite reached again".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

Robert Herrick :

'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic tales of the Ballads" and, yes, "the wry eloquence of Shylock".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Daffodils'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

Charles Lamb :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy :

'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who studied Dickens in the Whitechapel Public Library and read aloud from Man and Superman. Another friend - the son of a widowed mother, who left school at fourteen - exposed him to Egyptology, Greek architecture, Scott, Smollett, the British Musuem and Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

Alexander Pushkin :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Man and Superman

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: a revolutionary Russian rag merchant Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :

'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes :

'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

Marcus Aurelius : [Meditations]?

'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

William Paley :

'[William Lovett] read William Paley and other theologians in [the library of "The Liberals"].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lovett Print: Book

: Evening Mail

'With little formal education, William Farish acquired basic literacy and political knowledge by reading newspapers to Newtown weavers. (Their favourite was the tri-weekly Evening Mail, a condensation of The Times).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Farish Print: Newspaper

Samuel Smiles : Self Help

'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford Print: Book

Samuel Smiles : Self Help

'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gregory only had a few school prizes - Jack and the Ostrich, a children's story; The Crucifixion of Philip Strong, a gripping tale of labor unrest; and the verses of Cornish poet, John Harries - and the family read a weekly serial, Strongdold the Gladiator. Having left school at twelve to work in the mines, Gregory had no access to serious reading matter until mid-adolescence, when a clerk introduced him to Self-Help. That book, he recalled in old age, "has lived with me, and in me, for more than sixty years... I was impressed by its quality for I had never touched a book of such high quality; and the impression deepened and became vivid as I took it home, read the stories of men who had helped themselves, struggled against enormous difficulties, suffered privations...but went on to rise phoenix-like from the ruins of their plans... I realised that my lack of education was not decisive of what I might become, so I commenced to reach out into the future".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gregory Print: Book

John Harries :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gregory Print: Book

: Jack and The Ostrich

'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gregory only had a few school prizes - Jack and the Ostrich, a children's story; The Crucifixion of Philip Strong, a gripping tale of labor unrest; and the verses of Cornish poet, John Harries - and the family read a weekly serial, Strongdold the Gladiator. Having left school at twelve to work in the mines, Gregory had no access to serious reading matter until mid-adolescence, when a clerk introduced him to Self-Help. That book, he recalled in old age, "has lived with me, and in me, for more than sixty years... I was impressed by its quality for I had never touched a book of such high quality; and the impression deepened and became vivid as I took it home, read the stories of men who had helped themselves, struggled against enormous difficulties, suffered privations...but went on to rise phoenix-like from the ruins of their plans... I realised that my lack of education was not decisive of what I might become, so I commenced to reach out into the future".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gregory Print: Book

Charles Monroe Sheldon : The Crucifixion of Philip Strong

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gregory Print: Book

: Strongdold the Gladiator

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gregory Print: Serial / periodical

Captain Charles Pasley : An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire

William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatience, and desired a Friend to send it down to me immediately on its appearance, which he neglected to do. On this account, I did not see it till a few days ago. I have read it through twice, with great care, and many parts three or four times over.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Philip Beaver : African Memoranda: relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Western Coast of Africa in the Year 1792

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 12 May 1811: 'We have had no leisure for reading. I have not opened a Book except on a Sunday, and when the rest of the family were in bed ... the only book which I have read through has been Beaver's account of the disastrous Expedition to Bulama. I suppose you have read his book as it concerns Africa and the Slave Trade.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Amory : The Life of John Buncle

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here and there and the Novel of John Bunkle - but I am going to set to and read - though I have still some sewing to do amongst mending the Bairns' cloaths.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

: ['a little poem upon the comet']

William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read in it to-day. Though with several defects ... it has great merit, and is far superior to the run not merely of newspaper but of modern poetry in general. I half suspect it to be Coleridge's ... I know of no other writer of the day who can write so well. It consists of five stanzas, in the measure of the Fairy Queen. It is to be found in last Saturday's paper, November 16th. If you don't see the Courier, we will transcribe it for you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

: Courier, The

William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read in it to-day. Though with several defects ... it has great merit, and is far superior to the run not merely of newspaper but of modern poetry in general. I half suspect it to be Coleridge's ... I know of no other writer of the day who can so so well. It consists of five stanzas, in the measure of the Fairy Queen. It is to be found in last Saturday's paper, November 16th. If you don't see the Courier, we will transcribe it for you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

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Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 27 December 1811: 'To diminish the evil [of smoking chimneys] we have a constant fire in Sara's room where we are now sitting at 7 o' clock in the evening. John is reading his lesson to Sara.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'John is certainly much quicker in reading than he was. He has read very hard and taken up the Book frequently himself - this with the hope of getting into his new history of England when he has finished Robinson Crusoe.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth Print: Book

Amelia Opie : Adeline Mowbray or Mother and Daughter

Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'We have not yet been sufficiently settled to read any thing but Novels. Adeline Mowbray made us quite sick before we got to the end of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

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Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'Our new Master reads prayers to the Boys every night - John says he does not read so well as Mr Johnson; but about like Mr Sewel, which Mr Sewel Sara reports to be the worst Reader in the world.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group:

: [travel books]

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... The only modern Books that I read are those of travels, or such as relate to Matters of fact; and the only modern books that I care for ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

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Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yesterday and John and A had a happy day of play and reading; for Algernon is very good in reading to John.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Montagu

: [a story book]

Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] is reading a Story Book of Algernon [Montagu]'s at home and you would be surprised to hear how well he reads it; yet when he is reading a Book that does not interest him he seems to read it just as ill as ever.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Letter

unknown : History of England

Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar. Today we proposed to him to take his History of England to School; but he blushed and said he could not read well enough - I tried him and find he can ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Letter

: [grammar]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth Print: Book

Robert Southey : Chronicle of the Cid, The

Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

: [nursery rhymes]

Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson, 1 February 1813: 'Willy [Wordsworth, the poet's son] is now beside me ... He has taken up a book, and there he reads fragments of a hundred little songs - about Cock Robin, pussy cat and all sorts of things. he is very entertaining; but one half of the heart is sad while the other laughs at his strange fancies.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Willy Wordsworth Print: Book

Miguel Cervantes : Don Quixote

Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu: 'The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant / Don Quixote of the Mancha / Written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes / Translated in to English / By Thomas Shelton / And now printed Verbatim from the 4to / Edit: of 1620 / With a curious set of new Cuts, from / the French of Coypel / London, printed for D. Midwinter &c. / M.DCCXL.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

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Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson [about 14 Sept. 1813]: 'We have had no time to read Newspapers [with decoration of Rydal Mount] but have been obliged to content ourselves with William's report even of the late most important battles in Germany and all other proceedings. Murders we do read and were horror struck with that of Mr and Mrs Brown and the confession of the murderer ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

Thomas Clarkson : Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'I was resolved not to write until I had read your Husband's Book, of which literally I have not even now read ten pages, from want of time to read anything.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Anne Grant : Memoirs of an American Lady

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to be speedily returned, and a dip or two in Southey's Nelson - with snatches at the Newspaper and Sunday's readings with the Bairns.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life of Nelson

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

: ['readings with the Bairns']

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Samuel Rogers : Poems

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received some time since, through the hands of Southey. I have read it with great pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Hazlitt : Review of The Excursion

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and did not think them nearly so well written as I should have expected from him ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

: Examiner, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Wordsworth : Yarrow Visted

Writing to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814, Dorothy Wordsworth gives transcription of version of William Wordsworth, "Yarrow Visited".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

William Wordsworth : ?Excursion, The

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up all night reading William's poem gave me as much pleasure as anything I have heard of the effect produced by it ... It speaks highly in favour of Tom's feeling and enthusiasm that he was so wrought upon.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom ?Clarkson Print: Book

R. P. Gillies : Egbert, or, The Suicide

William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I have to thank you ... for Egbert, which is pleasingly and vigorously written, and proves that with a due sacrifice of exertion, you will be capable of performing things that will have a strong claim on the regards of posterity. But keep, I pray you, to the great models; there is in some parts of this tale, particuarly page fourth, too much of a bad writer - Lord Byron ... towards the conclusion, the intervention of the peasant is not only unnecessary, but injurious to the tale ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

R. P. Gillies : Ruminator, The

William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I have peeped into the Ruminator, and turned to your first letter, which is well executed, and seizes the attention very agreeably. Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

R. P. Gillies : Childe Alarique, a poet's reverie with other poems

William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

James Hogg : Queen's Wake, The

William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I thank you for the Queen's Wake; since I saw you in Edinburgh I have read it. It does Mr. Hogg great credit. Of the tales, I liked best ... the Witch of Fife, the former part of Kilmenie, and the Abbot Mackinnon.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

R. P. Gillies : Exile, The

William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'When your Letter arrived I was in the act of reading to Mrs W[ordsworth] your Exile, which pleased me more, I think, than anything that I have read of yours ... I was particularly charmed with the seventeenth stanza, first part ... which I shall often repeat to myself ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

R. P. Gillies : The Ruminator

William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have read the Ruminator, and I fear that I do not like it quite as much as you would wish. It wants depth and strength, yet it is pleasingly and elegantly written, and contains everywhere the sentiments of a liberal spirit.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

J. H. : Hunting of Badlew, a Dramatic Tale, The

William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'Mr. Hogg's Badlew (I suppose it to be his) I could not get through. There are two pretty passages; the flight of the deer, and the falling of the child from the rock of Stirling, though both are a little outre. But the story is coarsely conceived, and in my judgement, as coarsely executed ... the versification harsh and uncouth.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

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William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have seen a book advertised under your name, which I suppose to be a novel.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Advertisement, Unknown

Lucien Bonaparte : Charlemagne, ou L'Eglise Sauvee, poeme epique en 24 chants

William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 14 February 1814, 'Have you read Lucien B[onaparte]' s Epic? I attempted it, but gave in at the 6th Canto, being pressed for time. I shall however recommence the Labor if an opportunity offers. But the three first Stanzas convinced me that L.B. was no poet.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

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Dorothy Wordsworth describes Wordsworth family's anxieties at hearing (false)rumour of death of Tom Clarkson, in letter to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'We anxiously examined the newspapers, and their silence [as well as letters] ... strengthened by degrees our hopes with a firm conviction that it was all false.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Newspaper

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Knott yesterday with the Ex[cursio]n in hand, William intending to read to the old Lady the history of the Grasmere Knight. She could not hear his loud voice; but understood the story very well when her Niece read it, and was greatly delighted. Today they have returned the Book, and poor Miss K has written a complimentary but alas! unintelligible note ... she concludes by saying ... that she had written to Kendal to order the Book. She says she had been told by Mrs Green and others that it was above their capacity, and of course above hers, but what she had read had given her infinite delight. I tell William that the family made a trading voyage of it. Certainly the Book would never have been bought by Miss K. if Willy and his Father and Mother had stayed quietly at home.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Knott Print: Book

Anna Maria Porter : Recluse of Norway, The

Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by Miss Porter - there is a wonderful cleverness in this book, and notwithstanding the badness of the style the 1st vol is very interesting. I began the 2nd last night but could do no more than skim it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book

Anna Maria Porter : Recluse of Norway, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Fairy Queen, The

Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen - he has laid aside his Book and Mary has set about putting her nightcap.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Christopher Wordsworth : sermons

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Christopher Wordsworth : sermons

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book

Christopher Wordsworth : sermons

Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s sermons were just arrived at Brathay, so William walked to B. with Miss A. and borrowed one volume - It is the second. William and Mary have read several of the sermons and are very much delighted with them - I have not yet had leisure when the book has been at liberty and have only snatched a look at the subjects and the mode of treating them which appear to me to be very interesting. Pleased I was to greet that discourse upon Paul and Festus which I heard my Brother preach at Binfield ... I have not read any part of the sermon on Paul and Festus; but on looking it over it seems to me as if it had been shortened ... The only sermon on which I can say I have read any part is that upon National Education and an excellent discourse it appears to be.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

: [information about the Corn Laws]

Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'Buonaparte seems quite to have put the Corn Laws out of our heads. William has however carefully read all that has been said about them, and his opinion is ... that 80 is too high a price for the standard ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : extracts from The Excursion

Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she had not seen the Book [The Excursion], had seen nothing but the extracts in the Edinbrough [sic] Review. She intends to buy it; but is waiting for a cheaper Edition.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah More Print: Serial / periodical

: Edinburgh Review

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah More Print: Serial / periodical

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Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815, on following progress of Napoleon in British press: 'Those villainous Sunday newspapers are my abhorrence - I read in one the other day the following sentiment "Surely it would be wise that the Allies should at length give Buonaparte time to show whether he is sincere or not!" In other words give him time to be quite prepared to fence himself in his wickedness.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

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Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815: 'I see by last night's paper (we take the evening Mail) that Murat stands against Buon[aparte].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 25 April 1815: 'You mentioned Guy Mannering in your last. I have read it. I cannot say that I was disappointed, for there is very considerable talent displayed ... But the adventures I think are not well chosen or well executed ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

John Scott : Visit to Paris in 1814

William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a short Residence in London - I have found leisure to peruse the volume [Scott's Visit to Paris (1815)] which you have presented to me ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

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Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815, on learning of abdication of Napoleon: '11 o'clock. Before I go to bed I must tell you that, saving grief for the lamentable loss of so many brave men, I have read the newspapers of to-night with unmingled triumph ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

: British Critic

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815: 'I have seen the British Critic which contains a Review by a Friend of the Coleridges' which between ourselves I think a very feeble composition.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Johann Joachim Winkelman : Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters'

William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman on the study of the Antique, in Painting and Sculpture ... His Works are unknown to me, except a short treatise entitled Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters. A translation of this is all I have read having met with it the other day upon a Stal[l] at Penrith ... This Book of mine was printed at Glasgow 1766.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Captain Luff : journal

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 23 December 1815: 'We have now nine sheets of the journal [by Captain Luff re time in Mauritius] - I do not intend to read it until we have the whole, yet I have looked at and been detained by many parts and carried away, until the lively recollection of our dear Friend ... became so painful that I stopped ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what a pang did I feel for our poor widowed Friend Mrs Luff when I came to these lines "Oh never let the Wretched, if a choice / Be left him, trust the freight of his distress / To a long voyage on the silent deep! ... "'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

John Scott : Paris Revisited in 1815 by way of Brussels

William Wordsworth to John Scott, 22 February 1816: 'Your Paris Revisited has been in constant use since I received it ... Nothing in your works has charmed us more than the lively manner in which the painting of everything that passes before your eyes is executed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Robert Southey : [Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The]

William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Waterloo in verse: 'Southey is a Fellow labourer. I have seen but little of his performance, but that little gave me great pleasure.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth : A sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the Consecration of the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, 1815

William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unite in thinking it excellently adapted to the occasion. For my own part, I liked it still better upon the second than the first reading.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth : A sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the Consecration of the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, 1815

William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: "We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unite in thinking it excellently adapted to the occasion."

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

R. P. Gillies : Illustrations of a Poetical Character, in six Tales, with other Poems

William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me yesterday ... I read the volume through immediately: and paid particular attention to the parts that were new to me.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: The Champion

William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

R. P. Gillies : Rinaldo, a desultory Poem

William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies: " ... your poem [Rinaldo] I have read with considerable attention."

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Catherine Clarkson :

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Halifax: 'I read her your last letter adding a few words for you, which were not there, of remembrance of her and her Daughter ... I hope my little trick ... was at the least an innocent one, and I flatter myself that, in the spirit ... what I made you say was just and true - indeed if I had not felt it to be so I should have been wounded instead of pleased by the pleasure which the dear good old lady expressed in hearing that she was remembered by you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

anon : [penny dreadfuls]

Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls: "Bill couldn't read a bit, but he knowed boys that could, and he used to hear 'em reading about Knights of the Road, and Claude Duval and Skeleton Crews, till I suppose his head got regler stuffed with it. He never had no money to buy a pen'orth when it came out, so he used to lay wait for me, carrying my younger sister over his shoulder, when I came out of school at dinner time, and gammon me over to come along with him to a shop on the corner of Rosamond street in Clerkenwell, where there used to be a whole lot of the penny numbers in the window. They was all of a row, Wildfire Jack, the Boy Highwayman, Dick Turpin, and ever so many others -just the first page, don't you know, and the picture. Well, I liked it too, and I used to go along o' Bill and read to him all the reading on the front page and look at the pictures until -'specially on Mondays when there was altogether a new lot -Bill would always get so worked up with the aggravatin' little bits, which always left off where you wanted to turn over and see what was on the next leaf..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charley Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful

: Tyburn Dick

Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls: Charley reads penny dreadfuls to his brother Bill from the shop window almost every week; one of the serials they read each week is "Tyburn Dick", which gets Bill particularly worked up; They went to the shop, but couldn't find out the conclusion to the serial without purchasing it; therefore they stole the penny number to read at home. Charley concludes to the society: "That was the commencement of it; and so it went on and growed bigger".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charley ? Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful

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Evidence to Parliamentary Committee from Rev. Thomas Spencer, a Church of England clergyman: "I was appealed to in the parish of which I was incumbent for 22 years, by the wife and children of a man who was coming home drunk very frequently and I went to speak to him and he said, 'I tell you, Sir, I never go to the public house for beer, I go for the news; I have no other way of getting it; I cannot afford to pay the five pence, but unfortunately I go on drinking till I have spent a shilling, and I might as well have bought the paper in the first instance; still, that is my reason, my only reason for going to the public house; I hear people read the paper and say what is going on in London, and it is the only place where I get the news.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper

G.W.M. Reynolds : The Mysteries of the Court of London

Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "This 'Court of London' I consider is a test of the taste of the readers generally; I think between this 'Court of London' and the others [other cheap publications] there is a very wide line of distinction; I have read some portion of it, and it draws scenes of profligacy as strongly as it is possible for any writer to do, and the feelings are excited to a very high pitch by it; indeed some look upon it as an indecent publication; but it is not in reality an indecent publication because I do not believe that any words appear that are vulgar; but certainly the language is of a more exciting kind and directed to excite the passions of its readers."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Abel Heywood Print: Serial / periodical

: Family Herald

Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, and it is read by every member of my family"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Abel Heywood Print: Serial / periodical

: Family Herald

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Heywood family Print: Serial / periodical

: The Examiner

Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "My experience is this: that what interested me most of all in newspaper reading, and what first formed the habit of reading with me, was reading the accidents and offences in the 'Examiner' newspaper. There were two volumes which my father had had bound up for the years 1808 and 1809; and when I was just beginning to read to got hold of them, and read through the accidents and offences in those two volumes. Now I should never look at those accidents and offences, but I read the leading articles. So that it really produced this effect: it was the means of developing my intellectual powers and I believe that a similar kind of reading would produce the same effect generally throughout the country."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edward Hickson Print: Newspaper

: Maidstone Gazette

Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take more interest in the 'Maidstone Gazette' than I do in the 'Times' paper though I read them both."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edward Hickson Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edward Hickson Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I formed in the village where I am now living, when I first went there, an evening class of adult labourers, and as I was then very much interested in some very able articles that were being published in the 'Times', I thought I would read them to them in the evening; but I found that we did not get on at all; and upon cross-examination of some of my auditors afterwards, I discovered, to my surprise, that I could not read 20 lines of the leading article of the 'Times' without finding that there were 20 words in it which none of my auditors understood. I remember one passage which not one of the agricultural labourers to whom I was reading understood at all. The editor was speaking of some operation of our fleet in the channel; the word 'operations' puzzled them, the word 'fleet' puzzled them; they did not know what a fleet was, and they had not the slightest idea of what the channel meant."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edward Hickson Print: Newspaper

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been twice in prison. I was only in Liverpool two days. I came from Manchester to the races; I had no work. I have been at all the theatres... I have robbed my parents to satisfy my desire to go to the theatres; ...I have seen 'Jack Sheppard' performed; I think it will be the means of inducing boys to copy his tricks. I have read his life; many boys have it."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: H.T. Print: Book, Serial / periodical, read as numbers or volume?

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been five times in prison. I have been as the Sanspareil and at all the theatres... I am sure had I never known the theatres I should have been quite a different character at this day. I have heard 'Jack Sheppard' performed; I was very fond of it; I had his life, but some boy took it from me; most boys have his life."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: T.A Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of a juvenile offender: "I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only been in Liverpool two days. I was taken up for attempting to pick pockets... Theatres are very exciting. I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed; I have read his history; I have seen many boys buy his history; I borrowed mine from another boy."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.G. Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been three times in prison and once discharged. I have been at the Sanspareil and Amphitheatre; I have also been at the penny hop... I am sure the theatres would bring any youngster to ruin: they don't care where they get their money, so that they do but get it to join their companions. I was very fond of seeing 'Jack Sheppard' performed. I have read his life; I bought it."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.M. Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of a juvenile offender: "I was never in prison before. I have been twice discharged, and am now waiting for trial... I have heard the 'Life of Jack Sheppard' read; it did not lead me to think of anything good, but I am sure it would lead young folks to do everything bad. The man I heard read it lived in a house in Gore-street, and sold penny-beer, asnd other things: it is a house where men and boys meet"

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

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been nine times in prison and once discharged, and am now waiting trial... I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed. I have read his life and heard a great deal about him. I think that those who read his life are not likely to reap any good, or those that see the play performed, I am sure will get no good."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: T.E. Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "I have been six times in prison and four times discharged, and am now waiting trial... I have been to all the theatres... I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed. I have often heard and read about him: they all seem to say he was a great man and a great prison breaker; and when he was at liberty like a gentleman."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: M.F. Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "I have been twice in prison and am now waiting trial... I have seen 'Jack Sheppard' performed; have read part of his life; I thought the play was very interesting; I am sure it did not create in me any bad thoughts, nor increase my desire to follow bad pratices..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: A.L. Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "I have been six times in prison, and four times discharged... Never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed; have read his life and often heard speak of him; he was very clever."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.F. Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "I have been four times in prison and twice discharged... I never saw Jack Sheppard performed; I have heard boys talk of him, and have heard my father read his life"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "I never was in prison before. I have been at the Sanspareil, and at all the other theatres, except the Queen's. I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed. I have heard the prisoners speak about it many times: some would speak well of the play, others would say it was most of it false. I have read his Life; I think myself it is mostly false; there may have been such a man, but I think he could not go through all the exploits that is spoken of."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.B. Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "I never was in prison before. I was taken into custody for attempting to rob my master... I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed; I have read part of his life; I think he was a clever man; I don't know that reading his life created any difference in my mind."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "I thought this 'Jack Sheppard' was a clever fellow for making his escape and robbing his master. If I could get out of gaol I think I should be as clever as him; but after all his exploits he got done at last. I have had the book out of a library at Dale Field. I paid 2d a book for three volumes. I also got 'Richard Turpin' in two volumes and paid the same."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.L. Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of juvenile offender: "When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportunities of reading then, voyages and such; read the Life of Jack Sheppard. I borrowed it from another boy... I read 'Jack Sheppard' about five months before I began the robberies."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book

[unknown] : [books about voyages]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book

: Life of Nelson

Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school three years (same time). Learned to read and write. Can read and write still. He has read much since he left school; read the 'Life of Nelson' and 'Gilderoy' -a playbook, which gives an account of robberies and escaping from prison; also some story books"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.S. Print: Book

: Gilderoy

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.S. Print: Book

: [story books]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.S. Print: Book

: Child's First Book

Report of prison chaplain on the progress of prisoner: "From his first arrival in gaol, he had been attended by the schoolmaster; and one day, when I examined his progress in learning to read, I was surprised and delighted to find that he had not only acquired the mechanical ability to spell and read words of one syllable, but, which was of much more consequence, that he was applying the simple lessons in the 'Child's First Book' to the very best purpose. The great truths contained in the little words of that book were finding their way into his mind..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.G. Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader that Cleopatra's story of the salt fish on Antony's hook was taken from North's Plutarch]: "Yes, but how happily introduced, and with what skill and spirit worked up by Shakespeare!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Absurd! Who knows anything about the usages of the Senate, and the privileges of the Tribunes, in Coriolanus's time?"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular Government]: "Well! but there had certainly been elective magistracies in Rome before the expulsion of the kings, and there might have been canvassing. Shakspeare [sic] cared so little about historical accuracy that an editor who notices expressions, which really are not grossly inaccurate, is unpardonable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, which suggests that Shakespeare had misread his authorities]: "This undoubtedly was a mistake, and what DOES it matter?"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had thumbed his translation of Plutarch to rags."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Hesiod :

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor, - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Athenaeus :

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Cato :

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Livy :

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Sallust :

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Tacitus :

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Aulus Gellius :

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Suetonius :

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Cicero : De Finibus

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Finibus, the Academic Questions, and the Tusculan Disputations."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Academic Questions

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Tusculan Disputations

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : De Finibus

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, luminous and full of interest; but the Epicurean theory of morals is hardly deserving of refutation."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : De Natura Deorum

[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : De Divinatione

[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument against the credibility of visions and prophecies.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Catiline

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am meant / Catiline: They had lost their science else.']: "The dialogue here is good and natural. but it is strange that so excellent a scholar as Ben Jonson should represent the Augurs as giving any encouragement to Lentulus's dreams. The Augurs were the first nobles of Rome. In this generation Pompey, Hortensius, Cicero, and other men of the same class, belonged to the College."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Cicero : Tusculan Disputations

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles in the Second Book]: "Cicero's best".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Letters

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse, et illos sui', translated as 'I triumph and rejoice that my action should have sustained your approval [...] for there is nothing which I so much covet as that I should be like myself, and they like themselves]: "Noble fellow!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Speeches

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each successive speech of Cicero form a continuous history of the great orator's public career, and a far from unsympathetic analysis of his mobile, and singularly interesting, character."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Letters to Atticus

Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "Poor fellow! He makes a pitiful figure. But it is impossible not to feel for him. Since I left England I have not despised Cicero and Ovid for their lamentations in exile as much as I did."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Second Philippic

[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all its fame."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Third Philippic

[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier speeches have a freedom and an air of sincerity about them which, in the interval between his Consulship and Caesar's death, I do not find. During that interval he was mixed up with the aristocratical party, and yet afraid of the Triumvirate. When all the great party-leaders were dead, he found himself at the head of the state, and spoke with a boldness and energy which he had not shown since his youthful days."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Last Philippic

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, except that I am more disgusted with his conduct after Caesar's death. I really think that he met with little more than his deserts from the Triumvirs. It is quite certain, as Livy says, that he suffered nothing more than he would have inflicted."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodorus and Euthydemus should have been mistaken for wisdom, even by the weakest of mankind. I can hardly help thinking that Plato has overcharged the portrait. But the humour of the dialogue is admirable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of this solemn ridicule as Plato."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverting than this dialogue. It is not only richly humorous. The characters are most happily sustained and discriminated. The contrast between the youthful petulance of Ctesippus and the sly, sarcastic mock humility of Socrates is admirable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine about the community of women and the exposure of children. But nobody, as far as I remember, has done justice to him on one important point. No ancient politician appears to have thought so highly of the capacity of women, and to have been inclined to make them so important."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, even when arguing against it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: "This passage does Plato great honour. Philhellenism is a step towards philanthropy. There is an enlargement of mind in this work which I do not remember to have found in any earlier composition, and in very few ancient works, either earlier or later."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "This is indeed a noble dream. Pity that it should come through the gate of ivory!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy superior to this in profundity, ingenuity, and eloquence."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scarcely anywhere so interesting a view of the interior of a Greek house in the most interesting age of Greece."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous patron of learning. What with sophists, what with pretty women, and what with sycophants, he came to the end of a noble fortune."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain that he wants only to get up a row among the sophists."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himself. Nothing can be more courteous and generous than his language. Socrates shows abundance of talent and acuteness in this dialogue; but the more I read of his conversation, the less I wonder at the fierce hatred he provoked. He evidently had an ill-natured pleasure in making men, - particularly men famed for wisdom and eloquence, - look like fools." [the comments continue at some length.]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not know whether I shall like it as well now. May 1, 1837."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages which his wonderful talents, and his command of temper, gave him."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the place of Polus, Socrates would hardly have had so easy a job of it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what terrible, though delicate, ridicule! A bitter fellow, too, with all his suavity."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Callicles says. He is wrong in not perceiving that the real happiness, not only of the weak many, but of the able few, is promoted by virtue. [...] When I read this dialogue as a lad at college, I wrote a trifling piece for Knight's Magazine, in which some Athenian characters were introduced, I made this Callicles the villain of the drama. I now see that he was merely a fair specimen of the public men of Athens in that age. Although his principles were those of aspiring and voluptuous men in unquiet times, his feelings seem to have been friendly and kind."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek literature. Plato is a real poet."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be more afraid of wronging than of being wronged, and that the prime business of every man is, not to seem good, but to be good, in all his private and public dealings" with three pencil lines, and writes]: "This just and noble conclusion atones for much fallacy in the reasoning by which Socrates arrived at it [...] it is impossible not to consider it [the Gorgias] as one of the greatest performances which have descended to us from that wonderful generation."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more than an untroubled and dreamless sleep]: "Milton thought otherwise" [Macaulay quotes the lines "Sad cure! For who would lose,/Though full of pain, this intellectual being;/ Those thoughts that wander through eternity?"] "I once thought with Milton; but every day brings me nearer and nearer the doctrine here laid down by Socrates."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

R. P. Gillies : Oswald, A Metrical Tale

'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: case of Stuart versus Lovell

Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of Stuart versus Lovell. What a miscreant - If I had been upon the Jury, and had found that man possessed property that would bear the damages I should have fixed upon ?700 the precise sum which he accused you of embezzling ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor : Coleridge

Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented myself with skimming parts of it ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Lord Lonsdale :

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 13 Feb 1818: 'I dined at the Wakefields yesterday. Mr John W. senior broke out on the dependent and enslaved State of the County etc. I said that I had accepted his Son's invitation, to testify my respect for his family, and my personal regard for his Son ... I begged to state that as to the fact of the county being represented by two of the Family of Lowther no person lamented it more than your Lordship. I then read part of that sentence in your Letter where you speak of it as a misfortune ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

:

Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]: 'If money I lack The shirt on my back Shall off - and go to the hammer; For though with bare skin By G- I'll be in, And raise up a radical clamour! Placard for a Poll bearing an old Shirt.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Handbill

: Kendal Chronicle

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press should be so grossly abused. This Paper as now conducted reminds me almost at every sentence of those which I used to read in France during the heat of the Revolution.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

: [French newspapers]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

Thomas Clarkson : letter to Mr Wakefield

Dorothy Wordsworth describing progress of electioneering in Kendal to Sara Hutchinson, 24 March 1818: 'This morning ... [William Crackenthorp] called ... just before he was setting off with [Henry] B[rougham] on his canvass [he] ran down to us in out-of-breath haste to read us a letter just received from Mr Clarkson to Mr Wakefield [refusing support to Lowthers in election] ... it was a beautiful, a delightful letter ... after he had read the letter he hurried off ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Crackenthorp

Thomas Clarkson :

William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]: 'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther tomorrow, did I not think that I may be more useful to the cause, by remaining at home for the purpose of preparing an answer to a Letter of Mr Clarkson to the Kendal Comm: of Brougham, which will appear in the Chronicle tomorrow; and which I am sure will injure your interests ... The original of the Letter I have seen, but could not procure a copy. - It was shewn me by Mr Crackenthorp [of opposing party interest] with the high-flying expression, "We reckon it as good as 50 votes!"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Clarkson :

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 30 March 1818: 'Mr Clarkson's letter [refusing support to Lowther interest in Westmorland elections] was published in yesterday's paper; and I have read it with delight, as an admirable letter and a faithful picture of his noble mind, but I feel assured that it will serve a cause which he would not wish to serve if he were acquainted with all its bearings.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

Thomas De Quincey : Close Comments on a Straggling Speech

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberforce, 1806] been published upon Mr B[rougham]'s first appearance in the Country, I think it might have done much service ... the sooner it sees the light the better. With Lord L[owther']'s approbation I have glanced at it, in a passage added to some able Comments on Mr B[rougham]'s first speech at Kendal, by a Friend of mine, which are about to appear.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Thomas De Quincey : Close Comments on a Straggling Speech

William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c. 14 April 1818]: 'The notes upon [Henry] Brougham's Speech, I have not seen, unless they be those from the pen of Mr De Quincey of Grasmere, which ... you may have forgotten that we read together at Kendal, - and that a passage was interwoven by me, at that time.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth, Viscount Lowther

Henry Brougham : A Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of Charities

William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Chronicle, have been duly received ... The Pamphlet I have carefully read ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Viscount Lowther :

William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished ... I read him a considerable part of your last Letter ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

William Wordsworth : letter to Revd. John Russell

William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: 'Mr Monkhouse will probably have shewn you the copy of Mr Russel's Letter [on Madras method of education], as I learn he has already done of mine to him ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

: dictionary

William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: ' ... he is so long in finding his words in his dictionary ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Human Life, A Poem

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2 months ago; but I have heard nothing of it since.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Rogers

: Blackwood's Magazine

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know less. I have seen in it articles so infamous that I do not chuse to let it enter my doors. The Publishers sent it to me some time ago, and I begged (civilly you will take for granted) not to be troubled with it any longer.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Wrangham : translation of Virgil, Eclogues

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have lately compared it line for line with the original, and think it very well done ... I think I mentioned to you that these Poems of Virgil have always delighted me much; there is frequently in them an elegance and a happiness that no translation can hope to equal. In point of fidelity your translation is very good indeed.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Virgil : Eclogues

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Nothing was ever written, or spoken, approaching in sober sublimity to the latter part of the Apology. It is impossible to read it without feeling one's mind elevated and strengthened."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: [List of Applicants for Enfranchisement]

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 7 April 1819: 'Having occasion to go to Sockbridge along with our Rector, Mr Jackson, I begged of Mr Lumb to meet us there. he did so - he shewed us a List of Applicants for Enfranchisement ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Plato : Crito

[Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socrates; but it is impossible not to admire the wisdom and virtue which it indicates. When we consider the moral state of Greece in his time, and the revolution which he produced in men's notions of good and evil, we must pronounce him one of the greatest men that ever lived."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: Quarterly Review

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in sending me (through the hands of Col: Lowther) the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]., till I could give it an attentive perusal. This I have now done, and been most gratified.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Juvenal :

I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to him my discovery of the magnificent verses in which Juvenal bids observe how the world's two mightiest orators [Cicero and Demosthenes] were brought by their genius and eloquence to a violent and tragic death.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book

: [list of new freeholders]

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'On looking over Mr Lumb's list of new freeholders in this neighbourhood, I was sorry to find that half a dozen whose names I expected to see were not there - owing, principally to delays at Kendal in executing the deeds ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

: Edinburgh Review

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charities Question] - it is as your Lordship describes, feeble and false ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Hans Busk : Vestriad, The

William Wordsworth to Hans Busk, 6 July 1819: 'Dear Sir, Your writings are not to be hurried over; this must plead my excuse for not having thanked you earlier for the "Vestriad"; which, though detained on the road, by a fault of some of Mr Longman's people ... reached me some time since ... I was particularly pleased with the descents into the submarine regions, and the infernal. These two Cantos I liked best ... The serious passages ... will excite a wish in many as they did in me, that you would favour the world with something in downright earnest ... I noticed in your Vestriad with particular pleasure, your flight in the Balloon.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

J. G. Crump :

Dorothy Wordsworth to Joanna Hutchinson, 5 September 1819: 'We have been very comfortable and without the least bustle until last night when before the Gentlemen had left the dining room our loquacious Friend Mr Myers arrived half tipsy. He produced a letter he had received from Mr Crump and his own answer to it, four sides of a folio sheet which he deputed Mr Monkhouse to read to the gentlemen, and his own comments upon it were loud and long, with stamping and gestures ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Monkhouse Manuscript: Letter, Sheet

: Guardian, The

William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded with advertizements, is not likely to suit the Country. It is dated Sunday, also; this would prove an objection to its circulation in many houses in the country, especially as I observe Quack medicines, etc. etc. - advertized.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

: advertisements

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

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Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchinson] is most eagerly and happily employed in knitting yarn stockings for Mr Clarkson. She knits and reads by the hour together.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson

[A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] Anon : unknown

William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searching for arms Bill ... I was requested to animadvert upon this Letter, which indeed I had felt some disposition to do when I first read it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

: Kendal Chronicle, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

: Times, The

William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the Times, which has brought us this Intelligence, has agitated my Family and myself much by containing, in a most conspicuous part of it, an advertisement declaratory of Mr Brougham's intention once more to disturb the County of West[morla]nd.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Newspaper

: [advertisement]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: prayers

Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: 'Tom and I went with [Mr Johnson] last Sunday but one to the opening of a handsome Chapel given by a Mr Watson to the National Society [for education of poor]. The B[isho]p of London preached, Mr Johnson read prayers, and Mr Wiliam Coleridge (who is appointed morning preacher) read the Communion Service. All the duty was admirably performed ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Johnson Print: Book

: Communion Service

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Coleridge Print: Book

: prayers

Dorothy Wordsworth describes daily routine during stay at her brother Christopher's London residence in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: ' ... he sits with me till tea is over - goes to his study with candles, and comes up again at 10 - reads prayers and we sit together till bed-time, and often do not part till twelve o'clock.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets, The

Lord Lonsdale to William Wordsworth, 1 May 1820: 'I have read the Sonnets on the Duddon, and the notes annexed to them with great Pleasure ... the perusal of them afforded me infinite satisfaction.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lonsdale Print: Book

Thomas Clarkson : sermon

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 3 September [1820]: 'How admirable and to me astonishing the ardour and industry of your good husband - to think of writing a sermon to be read to his Family on the same evening!'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Clarkson

Helen Maria Williams : The Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819

William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your letter yesterday Evening, together with the several copies of your tender and beautiful Verses ... Allow me this opportunity of expressing the pleasure I shall have in possessing this little tribute from yourself - as also, the gratification which the perusal of both the Poems [including 'The Charter'] has afforded me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

: [newspapers]

Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820: 'The news from Hayti [ie Haiti, where revolution had taken place] has grieved Mr Clarkson [friend of King Henri Christophe] very much ... He is anxiously expecting private accounts, having at present heard nothing but through the Newspapers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Clarkson Print: Newspaper

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Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet to have little or no satisfaction in reading alone. He draws and writes of himself but never takes up a Book except when I require it [of him]. I must say he always does it cheefully.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Richard Allestree : Ladies Calling, The

'On 2 May 1812 M[ary] W[ordsworth] wrote to her husband from Hindwell: "I have read the 'Ladies calling' - one of thy books - which pleased me much ... "

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book

: An unfortunate Mother to the infant at her Breast

"[Mark L.] Reed [in Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1975] judges that [S. T.] C[oleridge] copied this poem ['An unfortunate Mother to her infant at her Breast'] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book (D[ove]C[ottage] MS 26) during early 1804, before 25 March."

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Aristotle : unknown

Copied by Dorothy Wordsworth into Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to be easily terrified by the dread of things pertaining to death; to possess good confidence in things terrible, & presence of mind in dangers; rather to prefer to be put to death worthily, than to be preserved basely; & to be the cause of victory. Further, it is the property of fortitude to labour and endure, and to make valorous exertion an object of choice. But presence of mind, a well-disposed soul, confidence and boldness are the attendants on fortitude: - and besides these industry and patience".'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Aristotle : unknown

Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to be easily terrified by the dread of things pertaining to death; to possess good confidence in things terrible, & presence of mind in dangers; rather to prefer to be put to death worthily, than to be preserved basely; & to be the cause of victory. Further, it is the property of fortitude to labour and endure, and to make valorous exertion an object of choice. But presence of mind, a well-disposed soul, confidence and boldness are the attendants on fortitude: - and besides these industry and patience."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

John Barrow : Travels in China

'Extracts from [John] Barrow's Travels in China appear in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

John Barrow : Travels into the Interior of South Africa

'On 19 April 1809 S[ara] H[utchinson] wrote to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank, "The nicest model of a churn I ever saw was in 'Barrow's account of the interior of Africa.'"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson Print: Book

John Beaumont : An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont

'[Charles] Lamb copied ... [John Beaumont, Bart., the elder, "An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont"] into his copy of Beaumont and Fletcher's Fifty Comedies and Tragedies (1679).'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Print: Unknown

John Beaumont : [poems]

'[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor (sir Johns) Poems. the more I read them the more I am pleased, his mind was elevated, pious & pure."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir George Beaumont

William Bingley : North Wales: including its scenery, antiquities, customs, and some sketch of its natural history

'In her letter of 18 Oct. 1811 ... S[ara] H[utchinson] told Mary Monkhouse: "I have been dipping into Bingley's Tour of N. Wales." She goes on to copy out two quotations from vol.2 ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson Print: Book

William Blake : unknown

'[Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded on 24 May 1812 that "I read Wordsworth some of Blake's poems; he was pleased with some of them, and considered Blake as having the elements of poetry a thousand times more than either Byron or Scott."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson

Robert Bloomfield : Farmer's Boy, The

S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Bloomfield : Farmer's Boy, The

S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Vincent Bourne : Latin Poems

'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way which does not come every day. The Latin Poems of V. Bourne which were quite new to me."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb

Henry Brougham : review of Byron, Hours of Idleness

'[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was spending an evening at Charles Lamb's, when he saw the said critique, which had just appeared. He read it through, and remarked that 'though Byron's verses were probably poor enough, such an attack was abominable ... "'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Brougham : review of Byron, Hours of Idleness

Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting with Charles Lamb when Wordsworth came in, with fume on his countenance, and the Edinburgh Review in his hand. "I have no patience with these reviewers," he said, "here is a young man, a lord, and a minor ... and these fellows attack him, as if no one may write poetry unless he lives in a garret."'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Frederika Brun : Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange

'[In Germany] C[oleridge] read [Frederika] Brun's Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange, which provided the inspiration for his Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

George Buchanan : [poems]

'C[oleridge] read [George Buchanan] at Cambridge.'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Lanne Buchanan : Travels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790

'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... probably between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Burnet : unknown

'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Dr Currie : Life of Burns

'"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some of the letters, particularly of those composed in the latter part of the poet's life," W[ordsworth] wrote in the Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (1816) ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Robert Burns : letters

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

John Byrom : Epigram on the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini

'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherine Clarkson of 30 Dec. 1810.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey

John Byrom : Epigram on the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini

'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherine Clarkson of 30 Dec. 1810.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

George Gordon, Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

'De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] "some weeks - or perhaps months - ago: but it is so deplorably dull and silly that I never thought of mentioning it before.'''

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II

'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord Byron's new poem whch is not destitute of merit; though ill-planned, and often unpleasing in the sentiments, and almost always perplexed in the construction."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Beaumont Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara

'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a sneaking hope that I might hear something about the Excursion ... on the contrary, inquiry of the Bookseller what a poetical parcel he was then opening consisted of, he said that it was a new Poem, called Lara ... supposed to be written by Lord Byron ... I took the book in my hand, and saw Jacqueline in the same column with Lara ... "'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Jacqueline

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Exile of Erin, The

' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied and pasted by S[ara] H[utchinson] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson

George Carleton : Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, The

'C[oleridge] read ... [George Carleton, Memoirs] in April [1809] ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Gabriello Chiabrera : Delle Opere di Gabriello Chiabrera

'W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

John Clanvowe : Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale

'W[ordsworth] seems to have translated ... [John Clanvowe, Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale] on 7 and 8 Dec. 1801, and made a fair copy on 9 Dec.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The

'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in early Feb. 1808 ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: proof

William Cobbett : Weekly Political Register, The

'C[oleridge] consulted ... [the Weekly Political Register] while working on the Friend ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical

: [summary of Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ...]

' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

unknown : Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ...

" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth]. Aware of W[ordsworth]'s interest in the Convention of Cintra, [Daniel] Stuart offered him a copy of the pamphlet ... De Quincey sent one to Grasmere ... where it arrived on 1 April 1809 ... W[ordsworth] had read it by 26 April ... "

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Charles Cotton : Winter

Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb

William Cowper : On the Loss of the Royal George

'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['On the Loss of the Royal George'] in a letter to W[ordsworth] of 5 March ... On 31 March Lamb copied the same poem into C[oleridge]'s notebook.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Print: Book

Samuel Daniel : Hymen's Triumph

'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Daniel : Musophilus

'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... '

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sneyd Davies : Against Indolence. An Epistle

Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in Dr Enfield's Exercises of Elocution or Speaker, I forget which.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Enfield : Speaker, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by himself

'... in 1811 S[ara] H[utchinson] mentioned that Herbert Southey "can read Robinson Crusoe or any Book".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Southey Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by himself

'in 1804 [Robert] Southey noted that Hartley Coleridge "never has read, nor will read, beyond Robinson's departure from the island."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Book

Rene Descartes : unknown

'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Kenelm Digby : Two Treatises, in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule; is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable bodies

'Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (1645) borrowed from Carlisle Cathedral Library.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Michael Drayton : Elegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, Esq. of Poets and Poesy

'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the following lines: "That noble Chaucer, in those former times, That first enrich'd our English with his rhimes, And was the first of ours that ever brake Into the Muses' treasure, and first spake In weighty numbr, devlving in the mine Of perfect knowledge."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas : Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke

'C[oleridge]was ... reading ... [Dubartas his Second Weeke] in 1807.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas : Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke

'Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : unknown

'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : epitaph of Josias Franklin and wife

'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjamin Franklin's epitaph; and an "Epitaph taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York".'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

unknown : epitaph of Benjamin Franklin

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

unknown : epitaph "taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York"

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

: Gazette, The

De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsworth indeed was greatly mortified ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

William Godwin : Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton

Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815: 'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has just now looked into it and found these words "All modern poetry is nothing but the old, genuine poetry , new [vam]ped, and delivered to us at second, or twentieth hand." In great wrath he took a pencil and wrote in the margin "That is false, William Godwin. Signed William Wordsworth."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : Tale Imitated from Gower

'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Confessio Amantis ii 291-364 in D[orothy] W[ordsworth]'s hand, entitled "Tale Imitated from Gower - Friend and Contemporary of Chaucer" ... It was not apparently copied from a printed source.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

James Grahame : Sabbath, The

'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very good man in a truly christian spirit ... "'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

James Grahame : Birds of Scotland

'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, written at Coleorton, commending it as "exquisite".'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Fulke Greville : Treatie of Human Learning, A

'C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Fulke Greville : Inquisition upon Fame and Honour, An

'C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Fulke Greville : Treatie on Warres, A

'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Fulke Greville : Alaham

'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte Guyon : Life of Lady Guion, The

'[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 29 Sept 1800.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

George Herbert : [poems]

'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

George Herbert : Temple, The

'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Heron : Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland

'[Mark L.] Reed judges that a passage on pedlars from Heron was entered in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 5 April 1800 ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town

'On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: "Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'? Very, very rarely has any book so greatly delighted me."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book

Francis Jeffrey : review of Thalaba

'[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] Thelwall ... "That review of Thalaba I never read entirely, having only seen it in a Country Bookseller's shop, who would not permit me to cut open the Leaves, as he only had it upon trial."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Anne Lamb : Dialogue Between a Mother and Child

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Anne Lamb : Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Anne Lamb : Virgin and Child

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "Virgin and Child"] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Anne Lamb : On the Same (Virgin and Child)

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "On the Same" ("Virgin and Child")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Savage Landor : Simoneida

Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, in which the present hour is compared to the shade on the dial.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Harriet Lee : German's Tale, The

'De Quincey recalled the time ... when he persuaded W[ordsworth] to read [Harriet] Lee's The German's Tale: 'This most splendid tale I put into the hands of Wordsworth; and, for once, having, I suppose, nothing else to read, he condescended to run through it. I shall not report his opinion, which, in fact, was no opinion ... "'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, The

'On 19 Aug. 1810, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told W[ordsworth] that she was "reading Malkin's Gil Blas - and it is a beautiful Book as to printing etc but I think the Translation vulgar."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

M. G. Lewis : Felon, The

'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] is the most funny one I ever read ... "'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

: [newspapers]

Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not so much that he was dead but to think of the manner in which he had sent himself off before his time.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper

Willam Blake : [lyrics]

'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Willam Blake : [lyrics]

'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book

Thomas Malory : Morte D'Arthur

Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Robert Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population, An

'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Martin Martin : Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, A

'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]'s notebook ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson Print: Book

Andrew Marvell : On a Drop of Dew

'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Andrew Marvell : Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, An

'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Wiliam Gifford : Introduction to The Plays of Philip Massinger

'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Ferriar : [essay]

'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Michaelangelo : [sonnets]

'W[ordsworth] was reading Michaelangelo's sonnets with a view to translating them from Dec 1804; his work on them proceeded ... throughout 1805-06, and apparentlly less intensively in 1807.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

John Milton : [sonnets]

Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton. I had long been well acquainted with them, but I was particularly struck on that occasion with the dignified simplicity and majestic harmony that runs through most of them ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Paradise Lost - including Book I and Book VI, lines 767-84. Beaumont wrote to W[ordsworth] on 6 Nov., recalling "that sublime passage in Milton you read the other night ... where he describes ... the Messiah's ... coming as shining afar off ..."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Letters

'"In reading Lady Mary W Montagu's letters, whi[ch] we have had lately, I continually felt a want - I had not the least affection for her" D[orothy] W[ordsworth] to Lady Beaumont, 11 April 1805).'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

anon : Eclectic Review

Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's "Excursion" in the Eclectic Review. Wordsworth had seen it, and could not but be pleased with the sentiments expressed in it."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

Hannah More : Coelebs in Search of a Wife

'[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early July [1809], when "I read about 40 pages in the 1st. vol: such trash I really never did read."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey Print: Book

Hannah More : Coelebs in Search of a Wife

'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of common novels with the drawback of dull religion in it."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Print: Book

anon : [Recipe for croup medicine]

'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup medicine ... entered in the Commonplace Book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Newspaper

Lindley Murray : Introduction to the English Reader

'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, I was much surprised and more hurt to find it in a child's School-book which, having been compiled by Lindley Murray, had come into use at Grasmere School ... "'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Charles Lyell : Principles of Geology

'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, arithmetic, and mining engineering, where he won a prize book of world history and was introduced to Lyell's Principles of Geology. These two volumes taught him to think in evolutionary terms, and he began to read widely on the historicity of religion and the development of capitalism'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gregory Print: Book

: [book of world history]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gregory Print: Book

: [weekly paper]

'[Chester Armstrong's] political consciousness was awakened when his father, a self-help Radical, read aloud the weekly paper, which brought home the horrors of the Afghan and Zulu wars'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Daniel Defoe :

'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Verne.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Frederick Marryat :

'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Verne.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper :

'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Verne.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Verne.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Jules Verne :

'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Verne.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Robert Burns :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

John Keats :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Walt Whitman :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

William Wordsworth :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Robert Browning :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Charles Darwin :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Thomas Henry Huxley :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

: British Weekly

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Serial / periodical

Emile Zola :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Henrik Johan Ibsen :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

George Meredith :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Oscar Wilde :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Herbert George Wells :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Arnold Bennett :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

: [Marxist Economics]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Aldous Huxley : Brave New World

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson : 'Break, break, break'

'[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her own spiritual longings in Tennyson: Break, break, break on thy cold grey stones, oh sea, Oh would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Deborah Smith Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela

[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"... One could borrow Pamela and the Waverley novels from a neighbour, Christies Old Organ from the Sunday School library. Her uncle, a shoemaker, had once carted home from a country-house auction a large collection of books that no-one would buy: novels, poetry, sermons, histories, dictionaries. She read him Cranford while he worked in his shop... Later she could borrow from her employer (the village postmistress) Shakespeare and Byron's Don Juan, as well as Jane Austen, Dickens and Trollope from the Mechanics' Institute library.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora THompson Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley Novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora THompson Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Jane Austen :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Anthony Trollope :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Lewis Carroll : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

[Alice Foley's illiterate mother objected to silent reading but responded well to Alice's reading of Alice in Wonderland]: "To my surprise, mother entered quite briskly into the activities of the rabbit hole. From that time onwards, I became mother's official reader and almost every day when I returned from school she would say coaxingly, 'Let's have a chapthur'."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

Arthur Conan Doyle :

'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music...", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: "I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: The Family Reader

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Daily Chronicle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Lloyd's Weekly News

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Jules Verne : Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Burton Print: Book

: Chips

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Harry Burton Print: Book, Serial / periodical

: The Butterfly

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Harry Burton Print: Serial / periodical

: Cinderella

'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read and considered I possessed in these the chief learning and literature of the country".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: Jack and the Beanstalk

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

David Moir : The Life of Mansie Wauch

'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The Life of Mansie Wauch (1828): "I literally devoured it... A new world seemed to dawn upon me, and Mansie and the other characters in the book have always been historical characters with me, just as real as Caius Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell or Napoleon Bonaparte... So innocent, so unsophisticated - I may as well say, so green - was I, that I believed every word it contained".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: a Scottish joiner's son Print: Book

: [the story of Joseph]

'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever such a discovery made before! I actually found out for myself that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books, and from that moment reading became one of the most delightful of my amusements". Once Miller had learned to read Scripture as a story, he soon found similar and equally gripping tales in chapbooks of Jack the Giant Killer, Sinbad the Sailor, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. And then, he recalled, from fairy tales "I passed on, without being conscious of break or line of division, to books on which the learned are content to write commentaries and dissertations, but which I found to be quite as nice children's books as any of the others": Pope's Iliad and Odyssey. "With what power, and at how early an age, true genius impresses!"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

: Jack the Giant Killer

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

: Sinbad the Sailor

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

: Beauty and the Beast

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

: Aladdin

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

Homer : the Iliad

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. And from there it was a sort step to Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

Petrarch : De Vita Solitaria

' ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Ambrose Philips : Collection of Old Ballads, A

'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between 10 July 1807 and c.5 June 1808. The ballads were: Eighth Henry Ruling in this land; A Princely Song of the Six Queens that were married to Henry the 8th; Fitte of the Ballad of Lady Jane Grey and Lord Guilford Dudley; The Lady Arabella and Lord Seymour; The Suffolk Miracle; and the Lamentable Complaint of Queen Mary for the Unkind Departure of King Philip.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Pindar : Carmina

'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition (Wittenberg, 1616) now in the Wisbech Museum and Literary Institute ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Plato : Unknown

'... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Plato : Parmenides

'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Plato : Timaeus

'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth's first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Discourses

"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth]'s first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804. He had, of course, referred to the Discourses in the 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts

"On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont; "'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at a Friend's house, and glancing over them, read those written by Mrs Klopstock, he was exceedingly affected by them and said it was impossible to read them without loving the woman.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts

'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Richardson's correspondence I should think worse than anything of any celebrity that ever was published ... The few letters of Klopstock's Wife must be excepted from this censure: they are ... very affecting; indeed the notice of her death, coming ... after that sweet letter in which she dwells upon her hopes of happiness from that child whose birth destroyed her, came upon me like an electric shock."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book

William Roscoe : The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly interesting. The whole Book can scarcely be so interesting to me."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

William Roscoe : The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to Roscoe," he told Henry Herbert Southey, "whose book rises much in my estimation upon a second perusal."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller : The Death of Wallenstein

'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein under my roof at Grasmere from MSS ..."'

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Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The

'C[oleridge] was a reader of ... [The Lady of the Lake]: he read Southey's copy in Sept. 1810 ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Daniel Sennertus : unknown

'[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801. They appear to have been copied from C[oleridge]'s transcriptions ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Sotheby : I knew a gentle maid

'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch I had read with no little pleasure more than 30 years ago. "I knew a gentle Maid".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Sotheby : I knew a gentle maid

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Alaric Watts : Souvenir

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Sotheby : Saul, a Poem

'On 18 April 1807, C[oleridge] told Sotheby: "I read yesterday in a large company, where W. Wordsworth was present, about 150 lines of your Saul, respecting your country, Nelson, & the admirable transition to the main subject, which follows it - and it was delightful to me, to observe that the enthusiasm which had given animation & depth to my own tones, manifested itself with at least equal strength in the faces & voices of all the auditors."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Southey : Madoc

' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me about two years ago two books of this poem which I admired but thought deficient in dignity of sentiment and style."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Losh Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Southey : History of Brazil

'In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: "I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Joshua Sylvester : O Holy Peace

Entered by Coleridge in Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'O holy peace by thee are only found The passing joys that every where abound Sylvester'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: Unknown

Jeremy Taylor : Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, A

'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than the methodistic party on the bench of bishops, and read a beautiful passage from Jeremy Taylor on the progress of religious dissensions from his Dissuasive against Popery."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

anon : Courier

'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "advertized in the Courier yesterday". She refers to the advertisement on the front page of the Courier for 13 April [which also appeared on 5 April] ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown

Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney : Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785

Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Henry Kirke White : To the Herb Rosemary

Duncan Wu identifies poem transcribed in Wordsworth Commonplace Book and opening 'Sweet scented flow'r! who'rt wont to bloom / On January's front severe ... ' as Henry Kirke White, "To the herb Rosemary".

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Kirke White : ["literary remains"]

Southey describes arrival of 'literary remains' of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807): 'Mr. Coleridge was present when I opened them, and was, as well as myself, equally affected and astonished at the proofs of industry which they displayed ... There were papers upon law, upon electricity, upon chemistry, upon the Latin and Greek languages ... upon history, chronology, divinity, the fathers, &c ... His poems were numerous.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Kirke White : ["literary remains"]

Southey describes arrival of "literary remains" of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807): 'Mr. Coleridge was present when I opened them, and was, as well as myself, equally affected and astonished at the proofs of industry which they displayed ... There were papers upon law, upon electricity, upon chemistry, upon the Latin and Greek languages ... upon history, chronology, divinity, the fathers, &c ... His poems were numerous.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Wilkinson : [poems]

'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pulled on New-years Day, and sent to M. Wilson," copied onto a duodecimo double sheet, have been pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

Thomas Wilkinson : Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect, A

'... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own hand, was pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... after 19 Jan. 1801, the date of W[ordsworth]'s first known meeting with Wilkinson.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

Thomas Wilkinson : Tours to the British Mountains

'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired the Solitary Reaper [about a female reaper singing in Erse], alongside another related to The Excursion, into his Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26, ie "Wordsworth Commonplace Book"] ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Wilkinson : To My Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc.

'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Birds which gave us all very great pleasure."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

John Wilson : [MS poems]

'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle of Palms: "He said he had seen only a few". W[ordsworth] added that "Wilson's poems are an attenuation of mine ... "... his letter to M[ary] W[ordsworth] of 23 May ... mentions one of Wilson's poems; "which we had in Mss., to the sleeping Child and which is but an Attenuation of my ode to the Highland Girl."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown

William Withering : Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest Imrovements of the Linnean System and an Introduction to the Study of Botany

Wu notes marginalia of Dorothy Wordsworth in Wordsworth Library copy of William Withering, An Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest improvements of the Linnean System and an Introduction to the Study of Botany.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Francis Wrangham : [poem]

'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annual] Anthology."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Various : Annual Anthology

'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annual] Anthology."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Hutchinson : History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, The

'At some time between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied the epitaph of Sir George Vane at the parish church of Long Newton, Durham, as published in [William] Hutchinson, [History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 20.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

anon : [newspaper]

Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen sloop of war ... The manner I knew that Capt. Hanson was appointed Commander of the ship before mentioned was this[.] I saw it in the public paper.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

anon : Morning Post

Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Windsor], and that Ld. C[arlisle] was not present; I however saw his name in the Morning Post, as one of the Knights Companions....'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

William Cowper : Friendship

In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1803 edition of poem).

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Poems on Various Occasions

Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie) in praise of his Poems on Various Occasions: 'I am not personally acquainted with either of these Gentlemen ... their praise is voluntary, and transmitted through the Medium, of a Friend, at whose house, they read the productions.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Poems on Various Occasions

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Mackenzie Print: Book

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Witness statement in trial for libel; witness reads to the court the offending paragraphs published in newspaper. James Chetham: "...in that newspaper is the paragraph, which I will read, if you think proper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Chetham Print: Newspaper

Various : Monthly Literary Recreations

Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bardship is applauded far beyond my Deserts ... [the] critique pleases me particularly because it is of great great length, and a proper quantum of censure is administered ... though I have written a paper ... which appears in the same work, I am ignorant of every other person concerned in it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

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Mr Gurney cross-examines victim Thomas Metcalfe in trial of Ann Wright for theft. During examination, reads to Metcalfe and the court an advertisement put in the newspaper by Metcalfe and asks for a response: Q: "Do you know anything of this advertisement? 'The public are requested not to trust Ann Wright, she goes by the name of Metcalfe'. Look at it." A: "I cannot tell" Q: "Did you put it in that newspaper?" A: "I put an advertisement in, I cannot tell whether that is it or no"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

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During the trial of Jonathan Furlonger for theft, Mr Alley, in questioning witness Edward Pilcher, reads to the court a letter from Furlonger received by Pilcher.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Letter

anon : [morning newspaper]

Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long account of Robbery &c. &c. committed on the persons of sundry Majors, Colonels, & Esquires, passing from Lady Clare's to Limerick ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

: Daily Advertiser

Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods. Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard: Q: "Do you remember that there was a newspaper on the table at tea, and you read it?" A: "Yes, I believe it was the Daily Advertiser -it was the morning paper of the day before."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Picard Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a 'bogus' invoice to the court: Q: "Is the invoice in a business-like form?" A: "Certainly not; it ought to have the name to it. It only says (reads) '50 pieces, 534 yards, 2 pieces of handkerchiefs, 24 yards.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Deboos Manuscript: invoice

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Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a letter aloud to the court Deboos: "After reading it, he handed it to me -(reads) 'Mr Sherwin. In consequence of the hurry of business..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Deboos Manuscript: Letter

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Witness statements in trial for coining: John Shobel: "Freeman, the inspector, stood by the fire, reading the newspaper at the time..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joshua Freeman Print: Newspaper

Robert Charles Dallas : unknown

Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, I shall feel truly gratified in a personal acquaintance with one, whose mind has long been known to me in his Writings.'

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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Herodotus : unknown

Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department, so that few nations exist or have existed with whose records I am not in some degree acquainted from Herodotus down to Gibbon.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: The Times

Witness statements in trial for theft: George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitechapel church; I have kept it thirteen years -I know the prisoner [Albin] well; he used to come often to read the Times newspaper"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Nicholas Benigne Ablin Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for coining/forgery: John Limbrick: "I am an officer of Hatton Garden. I was with Read at the Lincoln's Inn coffee-house; we sat down and had a pint of beer, and saw the prisoner there, reading the newspaper, and leering under his hat at us"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clark Print: Newspaper

William Harness : unknown

Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositions....'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: The Times

Witness statements in trial for theft: Thomas Stevenson: "...next day he said they [stolen property] were advertised. I looked in The Times, and said it was not there..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Stevenson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for highway robbery: John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I read his examination in the newspaper and his sister told me of it"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Gavill Print: Newspaper

Henry Brougham : review of Byron, Hours of Idleness

' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the authority of a friend who has seen the proof and manuscript of the Critique ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: proofManuscript: Unknown

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Witness statements in trial for theft: Eliza Morris: "I went to live servant at the Bank tavern, John-street, and one day I was reading the newspaper; the first thing I saw was the robbery of the mail and a description of the parties..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Morris Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for theft: Robert Ireland: "On the 11th of July, in the afternoon, these stockings hung by the door, inside the shop -I was sitting by the counter, reading a newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Ireland Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for theft: John Mims: "I am servant to John Bird, who keeps a cook-shop in Golden Lane. I was reading the newspaper, I heard the weights jingle, turned around, and saw the prisoner going out..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mims Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a letter, and told Griffiths of it, he offered to write, and took pen and paper -I told him the persons name and my business, and he completed the letter and read it to me, it contained what I wanted, and answered my purpose very well, it was sent, and I received a very satisfactory answer. I have known him nine years -I have heard him read a story book, which was very entertaining, there was the names of fishes of the sea, and animals on the earth; I do not recollect the name of anything but the rattle snake." Q: "How long ago was this?" Fuller: "About nine years; it was at his house in Green parish -Ann Siders, his present wife was with him -I frequently called there, as I knew the people; it was one o'clock in the afternoon; he read an hour, or perhaps more, and told me the meanings of the things he read, about beasts, fishes and creeping things on earth..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Griffiths Print: Book

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Griffiths Manuscript: Letter

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Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I heard about this business, three weeks ago. I heard Mr Lasken, of Grove Ferry, read in the newspaper that he [George Griffiths] could neither read nor write, and I said I could contradict it; it was three weeks ago tomorrow, Mr Hawkers and Miss Arman were present."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: [newspapers]

Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, not political, for we have the papers up to May.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Henry Brougham : [speech]

Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... you remember he would not believe that I had written my pestilent Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers], now that was very cruel and unlike me, for the moment I read his speech, I believed it to be his entire from Exordium to Peroration.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Horace : Ode ("Exegi monumentum")

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi monumentum" into that language[.]'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: [newspapers]

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady of the Lake" advertised[;] of course it is in his old ballad style, and pretty, after all Scott is the best of them.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Anon : advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

John Galt : Fair Shepherdess, The

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... appears to be damned nonsense ... Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a "Spartan state paper" ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Sheet

Various : Edinburgh Review

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Evening. - I had a straggling number of the E[dinburgh] Review given me by a compassionate Capt. of a frigate lately, it contains the reply to the Oxonian pamphlet, on the Strabonic controversy, the reviewer seems to be in a perilous passion ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Horace : De Arte Poetica

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hints from Horace] ... The Horace I found in the convent where I have sojourned some months.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: [newspapers]

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon and his escape from Giant Despair encouraged "the exercise of my feeling and my imagination". Then The New Testament became "my story book and I read it all through and through, but more for the interest the marvellous passages excited, than from any religious impression which they created". At a bookshop he picked up stories about witches, Robin Hood, Jack the Giant Killer, St George and the Dragon and the History of the Seven Champions, all with the same deliciously garish woodcuts he had found in Bunyan. Since these stories followed the same narrative conventions, there was no reason to doubt them. "For my part I implicitly believed them all, and when told by my father or others that they were 'trash' or 'nonsense', and 'could not be true', I, innocently enough contrasted their probability with that of other wondrous things which I had read in books that 'it were a sin to disbelieve'."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

: [The New Testament]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think myself miserable, were it not for a kind of hysterical merriment ... I have tried reading & boxing, & swimming, & writing ... with a number of ineffectual remedies ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

: [tale of Robin Hood]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

: Jack the Giant Killer

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

: [Story of St George and the Dragon]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Richard Johnson : The History of The Seven Champions

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to regard miracles as nothing improbable". Consequently his response to Pilgrim's Progress was exactly the same: "My impression was, that the whole was literal and true"...Ghost stories, highwayman stories, fairy tales, Paradise Lost and Daniel Defoe were all equally credible. "I was naturally a firm believer in all that was gravely spoken or printed", he recalled. "I doubted nothing that was found in books... I had no idea at the time I read Robinson Crusoe, that there were such things as novels, works of fiction, in existence".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

: The Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

: [ghost stories]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

: [highwayman stories]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

: The Bible - Revelation, Kings, Chronicles, Gospels

[difficulty of uneducated readers grasping the idea that there could be two versions of a story]. 'Therefore [Thomas Carter]... not only read Revelations literally: he assumed that the books of Kings and Chronicles were "unconnected narratives of two distinct series of events; and also that the four gospels were consecutive portions of the history of Jesus Christ, so that I supposed there had been four crucifixions, four resurrections and the like".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

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Witness statement in trial for theft: William Dowlman: "I am a cheesemonger. The bacon is mine -I was reading the newspaper in the shop when it was taken."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Dowlman Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: John Spencer: "On the 6th of April, in consequence of what I saw in the newspaper, I went to Guildhall and saw my watch."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Spencer Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Canes: "I was reading in the newspaper at the public house that a man was taken about some pictures, and one of the people said that was Mulberry's name. George Dufflet was drinking with us."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Canes Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Witness statement in trial for conspiracy: Rev. Francis Lee: "In May last I saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper, in consequence of which, I went to no.3, Whitefriars. Goddard was in the stable there. I told him I came to see the horses which had been advertised in the Times..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev Francis Lee Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Stevenson: "I saw the prisoner at the Black Horse... where I lodge... I returned there at a quarter before two o'clock -he was in the house then, reading the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Clements Print: Newspaper

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Witness reads letter aloud to court as evidence in trial for assault: James Locke: "I have the letter. (reads) 'To Mr Reynolds, No.2 Little Peter Street...'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Locke Manuscript: Letter

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Witness statement in trial for forgery: Henry Palmer: "In the middle of March, in the evening, I was sitting at the Bay-tree tavern, St Swithin's Lane, kept by one Philpot; I had to meet a gentleman there on business. I was reading the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Palmer Print: Newspaper

: Bell's Weekly Messager

Prisoner's defence in trial for forgery: "On reading Bell's Weekly Messager of the 25th of January last, which fell into my hands, I found the following paragraph, which I shall read to you from the paper itself. (Here the prisoner read from the paper the paragraph, stating that oxalic acid, in small quantities, was good for punch.)"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Hill Wagstaff Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Cammell: "I heard the prisoner was in custody a few days after -I read it in the newspaper."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cammell Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft -shoplifting: Wilhelmina Clarke: "I am servant to Mr Birt... On the 12th of May I saw the two prisoners come into the shop with two others, about seven o'clock in the evening; my master was behind the counter, reading the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Birt Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for misdemeanour: Robert Coles: "I live at Southampton, and have been a cabinet maker. I saw in the newspaper an advertisement respecting advancing money..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Coles Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Joseph Ortega: "On the 16th of December about a quarter past six o'clock at night, I had been to a coffee house to see the newspaper, and as I was going home..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Ortega Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: Elizabeth Walter: "I read in the newspaper, when I had a pint of beer, what a burglary had been done on the 6th, and I was certain the young man was at home.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Walter Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Husband: "I have heard of his [Bowers] being in custody; I saw it in the newspaper."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Husband Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the Times newspaper, an account of this robbery, and that the men had said they were employed by me; I went to Mansion-house, and saw the prisoners -I had not employed them..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Gifford Banner Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for shoplifting: Mary Bennett: "I am the prosector's wife. I was in the shop ...I was sitting reading the newspaper, and the first thing I saw was the prisoner"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bennett Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements and prisoner's defence in trial for theft: Francis Barnwell: "...the prisoner was then sitting down, reading the newspaper..." Harriet Lindsey: "the prisoner was sitting, reading the newspaper..." Tanner: "I had not left my master three hours before -I went there to look at the paper"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Tanner Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: James Carty: "Mrs Rankin said the robbery was done on Friday, the 1st of February; I do not recollect her mentioning the hour -I learnt the hour by hearing a man at the Rose and Crown public house, Essex street, read the newspaper..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Carty Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Jobling: "I am the prosecutrix's mother. On the evening of the 28th of March, she went out; the prisoner and I were in the kitchen; after supper the prisoner read the newspaper, and then we both fell asleep."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Harriet Guy Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: Michael Thomas: "About a week afterwards I read something in the newspaper and went to the proscutors and communicated it to them the next day... I read that a robbery had been committed; there was nothing about a reward"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Thomas Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: John William Harrison: "he (William Heath) was up in a corner of the tap room of the Castle and Falcon, which is very dark -it was on Sunday, the 6th of July, between eleven and twelve o'clock; that part of the room is particularly dark -he was stooping down, reading the newspaper, which was the reason I could not see his face."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Heath Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the good fortune to read the newspaper that day"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Stephen Davies Print: Newspaper

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Witness statements in trial for murder: William Lee: "I am a prisoner in the New prison, Clerkenwell, charged with felony... On Saturday, there was a talk about clubbing for a newspaper; he said he would not be one; but we joined, and had a paper between us -I was present after chapel; the prisoner [Birmingham] was lying on the bed; Arundel came running up with the paper, and said, 'Birmingham, here is your case in the paper, I will read it to you'..." Samuel Arundel: "I come from the New Prison, Clerkenwell... on Sunday morning, the 17th, he [Birmingham] was lying on the bed, when the newspaper was brought it -having it in my hand, I offered to read the article respecting the Kensington murder; he seemed not at all willing, but rather rejected it -I began to read, and after reading a few lines a stranger entered the room; Birmingham at that moment became alarmed..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Arundel Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for forgery: Philip Miller: "On the 27th of April I was at the Horse and Groom public house with Green, a butcher -Pillin and the prisoner were there ...I saw him [Pillin] produce something to Green, but I was reading the newspaper and paid no attention to it... I think this was between three and four o'clock"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Miller Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for coining: John Leeming: "a few days afterwards I saw something in the newspaper, went to Lambeth-street, and saw him in the cells"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Leeming Print: Newspaper

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'the only fiction [Robert] Roberts read as a boy was an abridged Welsh-language Robinson Crusoe'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Roberts Print: Book

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Witness statement in trial for forgery: George Coombs: "I appointed to meet him [Conway] next evening at the coffee house in Pickett-street; I did so -while we were in there reading the newspaper over, Martelly was there, and got into conversation with us"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Coobs Print: Newspaper

Robert Burton : The Anatomy of Melancholy

'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, even acquiring a few Latin and Greek words from the notes. "Look it up in Burton, lad", became his inevitable response to any question. "Burton was Uncle Arthur's emancipation", wrote Pritchett, "it set him free from the tyranny of the Bible in chapel-going circles". Whenever his pious relatives quoted Scripture at each other, he could trump them with something from The Anatomy of Melancholy.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Print: Book

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Witness statement in trial for theft: William Taylor: "I did not know he [Crane] was committed [for trial] till I saw it in the newspaper"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Taylor Print: Newspaper

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fiction or of drama". When she read Tom Jones, "she believed every word of it and could not conceive how a man could sit down and invent the story of Squire Allworthy and Sophia and Tom out of his head".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: The Times

Witness statement in trial for theft: William Gilbert: "I saw the Times newspaper on the 22nd of March, and in consequence of an advertisement I came to London that night..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gilbert Print: Newspaper

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's Progress. So when a clergyman asked him why he read the Bible, he innocently replied "that I liked the battle scenes". That answer got him in serious trouble'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

: [Old Testament]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

: The Times

Witness statement in trial for theft: William Owens: "I saw him [Peacock] at our house on Saturday evening the 6th of March... I know it was the 6th of March from my subpoenae -the person who subpoenaed me mentioned the 6th of March and I know it by going to the Times newspaper, which I had."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Owens Print: Newspaper

: [tale of Robin Hood]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Jesse Adkins: "I am the landlord of the Laurel... My servant, Moore, came to me on the 20th of February -I went and missed a candlestick from the tap room; the prisoner was there reading the newspaper"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael McCrea Print: Newspaper

: [Old and New Testament]

'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at least in the earlier episodes. "I revelled in the same way in the bloodier scenes of the Old Testament while the moralities of the New made no contact in my mind".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Book

: [penny dreadfuls]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Book

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Witness statements in trial for theft: Lucy Tring: "In the parlour with me and my husband, who was reading the newspaper." John Howe: "On Thursday, the 2nd of September, about ten minutes after five o'clock in the afternoon, I went to Tring's in Lisle-street, and saw the prisoner and her husband there... they were in the parlour, Mrs Tring was in the shop... He [Tring] was sitting by the fireplace reading a pamphlet to them..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tring Print: Newspaper

: [Bible]

[reading the Bible], Robert Story, an early nineteenth century shepherd-poet, described the experience: "The unconsumed bush burned before me - the successive plagues that visited Egypt were present in all their horror and blood - I saw the Red Sea divide...".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book

: [Bible]

'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriler ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas"), but also Pilgrim's Progress: "There is a dark street yet in East London along which I have run with beating heart lest I should meet any of the evil things Bunyan so vividly described".'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Rogers Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas"), but also Pilgrim's Progress: "There is a dark street yet in East London along which I have run with beating heart lest I should meet any of the evil things Bunyan so vividly described".'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Rogers Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Rogers Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes, and his conflict with Giant Despair", enjoying it exactly as he enjoyed Roderick Random and Robinson Crusoe.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Heaton Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Heaton Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Heaton Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Barry Lyndon

'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbert Hodge. "All four were simply exciting stories".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

Emma Orczy : The Scarlet Pimpernel

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

Harry Blyth : [Sexton Blake stories]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pilgrim's Progress as a horror comic. Irresistibly drawn to the lurid colour illustration of the horned Apollyon, "and stretched out full length on the sofa with the book open before me I would proceed, week after week, to frighten the life out of myself".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Rignall Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious allegory, and still later - after his exposure to Freud and Jung - he came to "discover it as one of the greatest, most potent works on practical psychology extant".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry West Print: Book

Francis Hodgson : [translation of Juvenal]

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first time since my return.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Unknown

Francis Hodgson : Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first time since my return.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Sigmund Freud :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry West Print: Book

Carl Jung :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry West Print: Book

Richard Watson : Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq.

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, verging towards Spinoza ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When he was jailed during the first World War for refusing conscription, he reread it and discovered a very different book: "Lord Hategood could easily have been in the Government. I had talked with Mr Worldly Wiseman and had been in the Slough of Despond and knew all the jurymen who had been on the jury at the trial of Hopeful at Vanity Fair. And Vanity Fair would of course have been all for the War."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book

Sir William Drummond : Aedipus Judaicus

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published), entitled Oedipus Judaicus, in which he attempts to prove the greater part of the Old Testament an allegory, particularly Genesis and Joshua. He professes himself a theist in the preface, and handles the literal interpretation very roughly. I wish I could see it. Mr Ward has lent it me, and I confess it is worth fifty Watsons.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Sir William Drummond : Aedipus Judaicus

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Annabella Milbanke : [lines on Dermody]

Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the lines on Dermody so much that I wish they were in rhyme. - The lines in the cave at Seaham have a turn of thought which I cannot sufficiently commend ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Annabella Milbanke : [lines in the cave at Seaham]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Annabella Milbanke : [poems]

Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend of mine (fifty years old & an author but not Rogers) has just been here, as there is no name to the MSS I shewed them to him, & he was much more enthusiastic in his praises than I have been ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon Manuscript: Unknown

Bernard Barton : unknown

Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit which a further perusal of the printed volume has given me no reason to revoke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Bernard Barton : Metrical Effusions

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2)

Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old paths adorned by you so beautifully that they give me double delight. The part which pleases me best is the preface ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

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Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1812, including Granville Penn, "The Bioscope, or Dial of Life Explained": ;The "Bioscope" contained an M.S.S. copy of very excellent verses, from whom I know not, but evidently the composition of some one in the habit of writing & of writing well, I do not know if he be ye. author of the "Bioscope" which accompanied them, but whoevever he is if you can discover hiim, thank him from me most heartily.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

various : Morning Chronicle

Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and two of the Sunday ones.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

various : [Sunday papers]

Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and two of the Sunday ones.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

various : [newspapers]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... mauled (I see) in the newspapers ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Annabella Milbanke : [biography]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the specimen you send me is more favourable to her talents than her discernment, & much too indulgent to the subject she has chosen ... but you have not sent me the whole (I imagine) by the abruptness of both beginning & end ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

: [newspapers]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

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Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and Lady Oxford]; reading, laughing, & playing ... with ye. children; a month has slipped away in this & such like innocent recreations ... '

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

Lord Brooke : [untitled manuscript]

Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the friend of Sir Philip Sidney) (which I wish to submit to the inspection of Mr. Gifford with the following queries ... whether it has ever been published & secondly (if not) whether it is worth publication? - It is from Ld. Oxford's library & must have escaped or been overlooked amongst the M.SS. of the Harleian Miscellany. The writing is Ld. Brooke's except a different hand towards the close, it is ... in the six line stanza ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

: [epitaphs]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church and churchyard full of the most facetious Epitaphs I ever read - "Adue"! (a new orthography taken from one of them) I commend me to your orisons ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs

James and Horace Smith : Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace

Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I heartily concur. - I wish I had the pleasure of Mr. S[mith]'s acquaintance ... What I have read of this work seems admirably done ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Examiner, The

Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Lord Thurlow : "When Rogers ... "

In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke down with laughter.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

John Galt : Letters from the Levant

Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters from the Levant] ... I wish you had given us more ... no one has yet treated the subject in so pleasing a manner. - If there is any page where your readers may be inclined to think you have said too much - it will probably be that in which you have honoured me with a notice far too favourable ... I know nothing more attractive in poetry than your description of the Romaika [dance] ... thank you for a volume on Greece - which has not yet been equalled - & will with difficulty be surpassed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

anon : advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures...

Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem with "strictures on Ld. B. Mr. Southey and others" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

anon : advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

anon : Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others

Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in very fair couplets ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Various : Edinburgh Review

Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Moore : [poems]

Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your poems there ... '

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

Lucien Buonaparte : Charlemagne

Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien Buonaparte will beat us all. I have seen much of his poem in MS., and he really surpasses everything beneath Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

A. L. Castellan : Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire

Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des Ottomans," the best compendium of the kind I ever met with, in six small tomes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Grimm : unknown

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Grimm - I read it coming down - the French I should probably misspell so take it only in bad English - "Here lies the spoilt child of the/a world which he spoiled"'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

J. Thomson : unknown

Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure from ye. perusal of parts of the book - to the whole I have not yet had time to do justice by more than a slight inspection.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

:

September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly kept by my father was a bill, 'a first, second and third floor to be let unfurnished'. Saw a dirty, Ruffianly looking man in the Parlour in which there wa[s] an old mangle and great appearance of miserable poverty.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster

: Dillworths Spelling Book

I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woman's school it can scarcely be said that I learnt anything, all I knew, when I left it, was how to read in Dilworths Spelling Book and that too badly.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: British Review

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

: Bible

School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a column of spelling to learn by heart every morning He also wrote a copy every morning. In the afternoon he read in the Bible and did a sum, on Thursdays and Saturdays he was catechised, that is he was examined in the Church of England catechism.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Lucien Buonaparte : Charlemagne

Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite electrified me.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

: Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man

I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, with a number of badly drawn cuts in it explanatory of the mystery of generation. This I contrived to borrow and compared parts of it with the accounts of the Miraculous Conception in Matthew and Luke, and the result was that spite of every effort I could make I could not believe the story...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: Bible

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anything which appeared to me calculated to remove my doubts I read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and parts of other equally absurd books, but all would not do, reason was too strong for superstition and at length the fiend was completely vanquished.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: various religious titles

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : De l'Allemagne

In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - I am trying whether De L'Allemagne will act as an opiate - but I doubt it.-'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : [epigram on J. W. Ward]

Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seems very bad - and Mr. P[erry] has placed it over your puff - I only hope that Mr. W[ard] does not believe that I had any connection with either - '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

unknown : [epigram on J. W. Ward]

Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday... '

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

:

It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holidays, these were Thursdays and Saturdays. On these occasions he always took the boys into his study a small room on the second floor, he used to show the boys his books and encourage them to read and ask questions, his collection of books was small and they were mostly old books in bad condition. I remember his shewing me a book on Anatomy, which stron[g]ly excited me, and made me desirous of information on the subject, which he, as far as he understood it was willing to impart, I conclude however that he knew very little about it.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

:

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Older boys from the school of Francis Place Print: Book

Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : De L'Allemagne

Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publication without my perusal of many of its pages ... I should be sorry for my own sake to fix the period when I should not recur to it with pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Various : Christian Observer

Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perusal of an article in the "Christian Observer" on ye. "Giaour." - You perhaps are unacquainted with ye. writer ... I only wish you would have the goodness to thank him very sincerely on my part for ye. pleasure ... which the perusal of a very able and I believe just criticism has afforded me. ... this is ye. first notice I have for some years taken of any public criticism good or bad in the way of either thanks or defence ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Persian Tale

Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beautiful passages and an interesting story - and I cannot give a stonger proof that such is my opinion than by the date of the hour 2 o' clock. - till which it has kept me awake without a yawn ... the tale must be written by some one - who has been on the spot ... he deserves success. - Will you apologize to the author for the liberties I have taken with his M.S. ... '

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Friedrich Melchoir Grimm : Correspondance Litteraire

Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputation of being wicked, with whom we should be too happy to pass our lives." I need not add it is a woman's saying - a Mademoisele de Sommery's.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

: various

My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall when the owner became offended at my standing reading which I used to do until I was turned away, as often as I found a surgical book, I used to borrow books from a man who kept a small shop in Maiden Lane Covent Garden leaving a small sum as a deposit and paying a trifle for reading them, having only one at a time.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: various

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Francis Place : Autobiography

On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstances respecting some families in the Strand and its neighbourhood which were similar to those I have related.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Manuscript: unpublished memoirs

George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodgson, as he pays me in kind. It is a horrible thing to do too frequently ... '

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : unknown

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have read her books - like most of them, and delight in the last ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Robert Burns : unknown

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron

unknown : [books]

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up books, and fling them down again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

: unknown, histories of Greece and Rome

...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the means to procure books, useful books, not Novels. My reading was of course devoid of method, and very desultory. I had read in English the only language in which I could read, the histories of Greece and Rome, and some translated works of Greek and Roman writers. Hume, Smollett, Fieldings novels and Robertsons works, some of Humes Essays, some Translations from french writers, and much on geography -some books on Anatomy and Surgery, some relating to Science and the Arts, and many Magazines. I had worked all the Problems in the Introduction to Guthries Geography, and had made some small progress in Geometry.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman writers

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Lucretius : unknown

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of the original (which I like too); and when that booby Bus[by] sent his translating prospectus, she subscribed. But, the devil prompting him to add a specimen, she transmitted to him a subsequent answer, saying that, "after perusing it, her conscience would not permit her to remain on the list of subscribers."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Oxford Print: Book

Busby : [translation of Lucretius]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Oxford Print: Book

Various : Edinburgh Review

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh Review [containing negative review of his work] on me. I heard of it six weeks before, - read it the day of its denunciation, - dined and drank three bottles of claret ... was not easy, till I had vented my wrath and my rhyme, in the same pages aganst every thing and every body.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Tobias George Smollett :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Robertson : unknown [Robertson's works?]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

David Hume : [Hume's Essays]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: translations from French writers

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Sir Egerton Brydges : The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental Essays

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man (Sir E[gerton] B[rydges], and a half-wild young one, author of a Poem on the Highlands, called Childe Alarique. The word 'sensibility' (always my aversion) occurs a thousand times in these Essays ... This young man can know nothing of life ... "

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: unknown various

...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the means to procure books, useful books, not Novels. My reading was of course devoid of method, and very desultory. I had read in English the only language in which I could read, the histories of Greece and Rome, and some translated works of Greek and Roman writers. Hume, Smollett, Fieldings novels and Robertson's works, some of Humes Essays, some Translations from french writers, and much on geography -some books on Anatomy and Surgery, some relating to Science and the Arts, and many Magazines. I had worked all the Problems in the Introduction to Guthries Geography, and had made some small progress in Geometry.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: unknown various [anatomy and surgery]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: unknown [relating to the Arts]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: unknown [many magazines]

...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the means to procure books, useful books, not Novels. My reading was of course devoid of method, and very desultory. I had read in English the only language in which I could read, the histories of Greece and Rome, and some translated works of Greek and Roman writers. Hume, Smollett, Fieldings novels and Robertson's works, some of Humes Essays, some Translations from french writers, and much on geography -some books on Anatomy and Surgery, some relating to Science and the Arts, and many Magazines. I had worked all the Problems in the Introduction to Guthries Geography, and had made some small progress in Geometry.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Serial / periodical

Guthrie : unknown [Guthries Geography]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: unknown [Geometry]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster : letter with poem

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webster] ... **** [Lady Frances]'s contained also a very pretty lyric on 'concealed griefs' - of not her own, then very like her."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

Various : The Edinburgh Review

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with himself and other contemporary authors also discussed]."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

George Frederick Cooke : Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, of this kind, was from an extract, in Cooke the actor's life, from his journal, saying that in the reading-room of Albany, near Washington, he perused English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Frederick Cooke Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, by Lord Byron. It is well written, His Lordship is rather severe ... on Walter Scott ... "

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Frederick Cooke Print: Book

Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) : [letter on the punishment for adultery in Turkey]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened. He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Galt Manuscript: Letter

Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) : [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened. He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Fox, third Lord Holland Manuscript: Letter

Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) : [letter on punishment for adultery in Turkey]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Gregory Lewis Manuscript: Letter

Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) : [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore Manuscript: Letter

Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) : [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Rogers Manuscript: Letter

Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) : [letter on the punishment of adultery in Turkey]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Melbourne Manuscript: Letter

Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ... I cannot be mistaken (except in taste) in a book I read and lay down, and take up again ... '

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Lord Glenbervie : Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie,

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's, of a new Treatise on Timber. Now here is a man more useful than all the hiistorians and rhymers ever planted. For by oreserving our woods and forests, he furnishes material for all the history of Britain worth reading, and all the odes worth nothing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement

Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd that when I do read, I can only bear the chicken broth of - any thing but Novels. It is many a year since I looked into one, (though they are sometimes ordered, by way of experiment, but never taken) till I looked yesterday at the worst parts of the Monk. These descriptions .. are forced - the philtred ideas of a jaded voluptuary."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: [newspapers]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the papers and tea-ed and soda-watered ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to leave town to-morrow.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : [Italian]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** [Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster].'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: The Morning Post

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the battle of Buonaparte, the destruction of the Custom House, and a paragraph on me as long as my pedigree, and vituperative, as usual.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, and letters, and am alone ... '

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into the fire. Redde - but to little purpose.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Johann Christoph von Schiller : The Robbers

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : [poster advertising a debate on Byron and Scott]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some Debating Society (the Westminster Forum), in his way to dinner, he saw rubricked on the walls Scott's name and mine -"Which was the better poet?" being the question of the evening ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Sharp Print: Advertisement, Poster

unknown : Anti-Byron

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and told Murray to publish it if he liked. The object of the Author is to prove me an Atheist and a systematic conspirator against law and government. Some of the verse is good; the prose I don't quite understand.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Isaac Disraeli : Quarrels of Authors

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by that most entertaining and researching writer, Israeli [Isaac Disraeli].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Jean Chardin : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Matteo Bandello : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: The Edinburgh Review

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the beginning of the article on 'Edgeworth's Patronage,' I have gotten a high compliment, I perceive."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napoleon Buonaparte - copied it - eaten six biscuits - drunk four bottles of soda water - redde away the rest of my time ... '

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

John Herman Merivale : Orlando in Roncesvalles

Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written a very noble poem ... your measure is uncommonly well chosen & wielded [goes on to advise March publication].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage

Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lord Ellenborough!!! from which I infer near & dear relations at the bar ... the tone of her book is as vulgar as her father ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: The Morning Chronicle

Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Post - a wrathful letter about Mr. Moore - in which some Protestant Reader has made a sad confusion about India and Ireland.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: The Morning Post

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Leigh Hunt : The Feast of the Poets

Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the best "Session" we have ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : [ministerial gazettes]

Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampoons and other merry conceits on myself in the ministerial gazettes ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is one sentence I do not understand ... I will copy it ... "How may I have forsaken that - and under the influence of an ardent zeal for Sincerity - is an explanation that cannot benefit either of us - should any disadvantage arise from the original fault it must be only where it is deserved - Let this then suffice for I cannot by total silence acquiesce in that which if supported when it's [sic] delusion is known to myself would become deception." - - - This I believe is word for word from your letter now before me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

William Blackstone : Commentaries on the Laws of England

I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landlady.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Matthew Hale : History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England

I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landlady.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: various [Law books]

I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landlady.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: various [biographies]

I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landlady.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

David Hume : [Essays and Treatises]

The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy. Adam Smith and Locke and especially Humes Essays and Treatises, these latter I read two or three times over, this reading was of great service to me, it caused me to turn in upon myself and examine myself in a way which I should not otherwise have done. It was this which laid the solid foundation of my future prosperity, and completed the desire I had always had to acquire knowledge.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Adam Smith : Wealth of Nations

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

John Locke :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: various [history]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: various [voyages]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: various [politics and law]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: [geometry text]

I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Williamson : Euclid

I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason

In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I had read and cheap editions were in my possession; but here was one which I had not seen, namely, "the Age of Reason Part 1". I read it with delight.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

:

[Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society] The usual mode of proceeding at these weekly meetings was this. The chairman read from some book a chapter or part of a chapter, which as many as could read the chapter at their homes the book passing from one to the other had done and at the next meeting a portion of the chapter was again read and the persons present were invited to make remarks thereon, as many as chose did so, but without rising. Then another portion was read and a second invitation was given -then the remainder was read and a third invitation was given when they who had not before spoken were expected to say something.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the London Corresponding Society Print: Book

William Godwin : Inquiry Concerning Political Justice

I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'Enquiry concerning Political Justice'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: unknown [French grammar]

I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learning all I could after I left off working at night.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Helvetius :

I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and read for three hours and sometimes longer, the books I now read were french; Helvetius, Rousseau and Voltaire. I never wanted books and could generally borrow those I most desired to peruse.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Voltaire :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

:

I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the day was closed, which never happened till half past nine o'clock.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

: [Bible]

'Jailed for sufragette disruptions, millworker Annie Kenney rediscovered the Bible, "and I interpreted it quite differently in prison to the way I had interpreted it outside. It is a beautiful book, full of hope. The poetry of it is charming".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Annie Kenney Print: Book

: [Bible - Psalms]

'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... According to her unauthorized version, "the Lamb dumb before her shearers, represented the uncritical exploited working class"...And when she had studied the Psalms long enough, she somehow discerned there a materialist conception of history: "I saw the Psalmist David as a shepherd on the hills, making his poems from the material things surrounding him, such as 'the green pastures, the still waters'".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal of this book was now up in arms, new Crusoes and new islands of solitude was continually muttered over in my journeys to and from school".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

John Locke : unknown

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract of Locke's which you mention -- but I have redde it formerly though I fear to little purpose since it is forgotten.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: The Book of Job

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isaiah -- and the song of Deborah.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: The Book of Isaiah

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: The Book of Deborah

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : Anti-Byron

Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well written (both prose and verse) & ... containing nothing which you ought to hesitate publishing upon my account.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Burney : The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb's attempt to stab herself at a party) : 'I have turned over ye. book at least ye. part of it. -- & think the coincidence unlucky for many reasons ... '

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Francis Jeffrey : review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says -- "Scott and Campbell won't like" kind Soul!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

: advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814)

Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement

Stratford Canning : Bonaparte

Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at your Author but it is a noble poem ... I suppose I may keep this copy -- after reading it I really regret having written my own ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : [Roman History]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a foreboding -- and remember when quite a child reading the Roman History -- about a marriage I will tell you of when we me[et] -- asking ma mere -- why I should not marry +'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : unknown

Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure You that I perfectly coincide with your judges in their opinion of it's merits. -- Excuse my having detained it so long.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : [article]

Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends that I have every reason to be satisfied. -- You best know as Publisher how far the book may be injured or benefited by the critique in question.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Walter Scott : Waverley

Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know when -- I like it as much as I hate Patronage and Wanderer -- & O'donnel and all the feminine trash of the last four months ... '

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appears to me that I must have said something which makes you apprehend a misunderstanding on my part of your sentiments ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

John Murray : [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)]

Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to postpone publication till my return to town.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter

Robert Charles Dallas [?] : [poem]

Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The poem from which you have done me the honour to enlose some extracts --I saw in M.S. last year at the hands of Mr. Murray and expressed my wonder that he did not publish it ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : [history book]

Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met with by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in an old & not "very choice Italian" I forget the title -- but it was a history in some 30 tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Cataline's down to Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa -- and Braganza's in Lisbon -- I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal thought it perfection.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria

Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in Germany (Bavaria I think) which I saw last year -- that is perfectly magnificent ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to fish for lack of other argument ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Richard Porson : Letters to Archdeacon Travis

Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (alluded to by Milbanke in a previous letter) but notes that 'years have elapsed since I saw it.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : unknown

Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepted: 'Books I have but few here, and those I have read ten times over, till sick of them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara; Jacqueline

Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814: 'I believe I told you of Larry and Jacquy [ie Lara and Jacqueline, poems by Byron and Samuel Rogers respectively, published together]. A friend of mine was reading -- or at least a friend of his was reading -- said Larry and Jacquy in a Brighton coach. A passenger took up the book and queried as to the author. The proprietor said "there were two" -- to which the answer of the unknown was, "Ay, ay, a joint concern, I suppose, summot like Sternhold and Hopkins [publishers in 1547 of versified Psalms, which went into many editions]." 'Is not this excellent?'

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

Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sitting near me and grew frightened at the effect of it's contents -- which was even painful for a moment -- not a long one -- nor am I often so shaken.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

Annabella Milbanke : [letter to Byron]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said that to me (the decisive one ) [ie accepting his marriage proposal] was the best & prettiest she ever read ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh Manuscript: Letter

: The Morning Chronicle

Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the contradiction of a paragraph copied from the Durham paper announcing the intended marriage of Ld. B. with Miss M[ilbank]e. -- How the paragraph came into the Durham or the other papers I know not -- but as it is founded on fact -- I will be much obliged if you will inform me -- who instructed you to contradict this?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

: [newspaper]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, alluded to by her in letter to him] -- it is just to you -- & not very just to me ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me -- read it again ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

unknown : unknown

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter solitude of my situation with only my Maccaw to converse with -- would be sufficient ... I read -- but very desultorily ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: The Morning Chronicle

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in one of his amatory epistles compared himself to Childe Harold ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Thomas Moore : article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom

Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must not leave off reviewing. You shine in it ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

John Cam Hobhouse : [packet]

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

: The Annual Register

Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily papers ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

: [daily newspapers]

Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily papers ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: Byron family pedigree

Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I also wish to have the robe and sword sent up to my house -- and the Pedigree this last must be looked for immediately -- I recollect perfectly seeing it at your house -- and trust that it is not lost or mislaid -- as it is not only a document of importance but beautiful and valuable as a piece of work from the inlaid engravings upon it.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : unknown

Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced from the perusal, made me anxious for the immediate acquaintance and society of the Gentleman, who has so kindly favoured the world with the production of his leisure hours.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : The Story of Rimini (Canto 3)

Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in the Canto which I have just finished ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

: various unknown [histories]

for the most part reading histories, and such books of controversies as the tymes gave occastion for writing

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bramston Print: Book

: The Bible

After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bramston Print: Book

: various unknown [religious titles]

After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bramston Print: Book

:

That was carried by Tymothie Code,a scrivenor in Chelmsford, to the coffeehouse, and there read by on Mr. Johnson, curat at that tyme of the parish, in presence of Thomas Argall, esq., who advised the sending of it to Sir John Shaw

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group:

: Instructions

He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do. When I had perused it, I wayted on him again. . .

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bramston Manuscript: Sheet

Sir John Trevor : [untitled]

His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before did see.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Trevor Manuscript: Sheet

Sir Nicholas Hyde : [untitled]

as I find reported by Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Justice of the K.B., which I with my hand transcribed, and have by me

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bramston Manuscript: Sheet

John Bramston : [untitled]

he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it was not delivered to the house, for I find it engrossed in parchment,and signed by his councill, Henry Roll, John Hearne, Matthew Hale

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bramston

: Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. cap 5

In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the recept of the writreturnable the tearme following he read againe in the summer vacation one weeke, upon the stat. 13 Eliz. cap 5, concerning fraudulent conveiances.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bramston Manuscript: Codex

William Camden : Britannia

Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at the other side by Moles with its feathers allmost all rubbed off,which supposses the passage to be streight, but how they could force the Duck into so difficult a way or whither anything of this is more than Conjecture must be left to every ones liberty to judge.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Fiennes Print: Book

Thomas Dyche : The Spelling Dictionary

Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' I was now turned over [to another teacher and] learned to write.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Anderson Print: Book

: Reading Made Easy

Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another teacher and] learned to write.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Anderson Print: Book

: [A Primer]

Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another teacher and] learned to write.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Anderson Print: Book

Henry De Vere Stacpoole : The Blue Lagoon

When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that her father had read 'The Blue Lagoon' and thought it very beautiful. We were greatly impressed. It seemed the height of sophistication to get beyond the excitement of reading a description of sexual intercourse -this we knew was the point of the ban, though Betty Martin informed us that it only said 'locked in each other's arms' -and to be able to use the calm Olympian word 'beautiful'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Henry De Vere Stacpoole : The Blue Lagoon

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Betty Martin Print: Book

: Ursula's Last Term

girls' school stories came in for heavy and sustained attack, and at one stage in my life I painfully hankered after them. There was one in particular, 'Ursula's Last Term', which was in the school library and which I ordered almost every week on my library list and read in secret. It was an addiction...

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patricia Beer Print: Book

unknown : [paper on the Methodists]

Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly -- I redde it and agree with the writer on one point ... that an addiction to poetry is very generally the result of "an uneasy mind in an uneasy body" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Robert Maturin : Bertram

Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S[ub] Committee) & myself have read your tragedy: -- he agrees with me in thinking it a very extraordinary production ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

: Coming Through the Rye

Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in the meadow beyond the garden... The books she chose for these readings were, I now see, startingly bad. Two of her greatest favourites were 'Coming Through the Rye' and 'Freckles'. The first was a tale with a middle-class Victorian background showing true love thwarted by a designing woman... But there was a passage at the end of 'Freckles' which overcame her so that she could not continue...

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Beer Print: Book

Charles Robert Maturin : Bertram

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

Gene Stratton-Porter : Freckles

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Beer Print: Book

Lady Byron : [letter]

Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mrs. Leigh -- with much surprize and more sorrow.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

Baroness Emmuska Orczy : The Scarlet Pimpernel

in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' there was the key line, 'That demmed elusive Pimpernel'; and, of course, 'demmed' would never do, so Mother substituted 'awful'. I think she deliberately chose a word which did not scan and which obviously was not the original one... 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', incidentally, was another great favourite of Mother's...

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Beer Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

My recollection of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is a little clearer, as it was the impression of much physical activity and play, such as springing out at Sheila from dark corners pretending to be Apollyon

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patricia Beer Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : The Story of Rimini

Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... were in fixed perusal & delight with it ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh

Giambattista Casti : Novelle Amorose

Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart. I had read his "Animali Parlanti," but I think these "Novelle" much better ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Giambattista Casti : Animali Parlante

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise

Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am struck to a degree with the force and accuracy of hs descriptions ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: advertisement for publications

Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1816, on advertisement falsely ascribing authorship of various poems to him: 'I enclose you an advertisement -- which was copied by Dr. P[olidori] -- & which appears to be about the most impudent imposition that ever issued from Grub Street.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Polidori Print: Advertisement

Lady Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Benjamin Constant : Adolphe

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Edmund Ludlow : memoirs

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remember reading his memoirs in January 1815 (at Halnaby -- ) the first part of them very amusing -- the latter less so, -- I little thought at the time of their perusal by me of seeing his tomb --'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Margaret de Thomas : epitaph to Edmund Ludlow

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- long inscription -- Latin -- but simple -- particularly the latter part -- in which his wife (Margaret de Thomas) records her long -- her tried -- and unshaken affection ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: tombstone epitaph

: The European

Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally 'The European' was my Companion at the Tea-table. Topographical works, and Tours through England, were books which pleased my taste.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Serial / periodical, Magazine

:

Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally 'The European' was my Companion at the Tea-table. Topographical works, and Tours through England, were books which pleased my taste.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

:

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Johann Christoph von Schiller : unknown

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed ... women gabbling below -- read a French translation of Schiller ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: The Hull Advertiser

After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to be disposed of at Scarborough.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

anon : [inscription on rock]

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murdered the other ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: inscription

Salomon Gessner : The Death of Abel

My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphatically aloud. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

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George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III

'Murray had written to Byron on September 12 [1816] that he had carried the manuscript of the third canto of Childe Harold to [William] Gifford [his literary advisor]... Although Gifford was suffering from jaundice, he sat up until he had finished the whole of it ...'

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Alexander Pope : Homer

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Cicero : Letters

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: Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia

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anon : review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit

Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderburne Webster -- and Ilderim -- and the Pamphleteer. -- --'

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Samuel Johnson : Rasselas

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James Wedderburn Webster : Waterloo and Other Poems

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H. Gally Knight : Ilderim: A Syrian Tale

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: The Pamphleteer

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography and theatrical criticisms.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Lucretia de Borgia : [unknown]

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved in the Ambrosian library), of original love-letters and verses of Lucretia de Borgia & Cardinal Bembo ... the letters are so beautiful that I have done nothing but pore over them, & have made the librarian promise me a copy of them ... The verses are Spanish -- the letters Italian ... all in hr own hand-writing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia : letters

Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the correspondence ... of Lucretia Borgia wth Cardinal Bembo ... I ... wished sorely to get a copy of one or two of the letters, but is was prohibited ... so I only got some of them by heart. They are kept in the Ambrosian Library, which I often visited to look them over ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter, Unknown

Aaron Hill : Zara

During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography, and theatrical criticisms.

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John Home : Douglas: A Tragedy

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unknown : "book treating of the Rhine"

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Sister of Charlemagne -- as I read the other day in a book treating of the Rhine.'

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Duenna

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Lady Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon

Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to me to read from Copet last autumn. It seems to me that if the authoress had written the truth ... the romance would not only have been more romantic, but more entertaining.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George MacDonald : Alec Forbes of Howglen

"Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."

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: ["the Italian version of the French papers"]

Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the advertisements of Mr. Colburn tagged to the end of your Quarterly review for the year ago.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

George MacDonald : Alec Forbes of Howglen

"Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'".

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: Quarterly Review

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R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."

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R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."

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R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."

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R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind and taking all the sunshine. The willow bushes hung over the stream as if they were angling with tasseled floats of gold & silver, bursting like a bean-pod. Between them came the water laughing like a maid at her own dancing, and spread with that young blue which never lies beyond the April. And on either bank, the meadow ruffled as the breeze came by, opening (through new tufts of green) daisy-bud or celandine, or a shy glimpse now & then of a love-lorn primrose.'"

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James Wedderburn Webster : Waterloo and Other Poems

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was not a little astonished to find an epitaph upon myself -- the desert of which I would postpone for a few years at least ...'

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Leonardo Da Vinci : A Treatise of Painting

[Marginalia]: pp.31-61 are heavily annotated - the only clue to the identity of the annotator is in the ink - it is the colour used by Will. Baillie (see section 1.5). The annotations are in the form of underlinings and marginalia. The marginalia involve detailed comments on the text and and make references to ideas of Sir Joshua Reynolds, therefore dating the comments later in the eighteenth century than the publication date of the book.

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Walter Scott : Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other Poems

Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ... flatter myself that the writer ... will not regret that the perusal of this has given me as much gratification -- as any composition of that nature could give -- & more than any other ever has given ...'

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Anne Grant : Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition.

[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine). Vol. 2 has a number of sketches by her. Some of the lines are accompanied by comments or corrections. The end of vol. 3 is dated "My cottage Jany 19th 1809 Thursday night by ... fireside". Marginal comments are in general very brief.

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George Gordon Lord Byron : travel journal

Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.'

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George Gordon Lord Byron : travel journal

Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Murray Manuscript: Codex

Voltaire : Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 volumes -- whom I have been reading -- he is delightful but dreadfully inaccurate frequently.'

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St. Paul : Epistles to Corinthians

Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between St. Paul and the Corinthians, not to be found in our version, but the Armenian -- but which seems to me very orthodox, and I have done it into scriptural prose English.'

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R.M. Milnes :

One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almost as much as he likes yours. I keep a vol. of his always beside me, - & find some things there almost too beautiful. How wonderful, - almost miraculous is his sympathy, - his understanding of Evil in all its forms, - in combination with his robust cheerfulness of spirits & manners! I know it is the fashion among London people who despise speculative men to dislike Milnes. I cordially honour & like him.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: [newspaper]

Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th. March I perceive an article purporting to be translated from the literary Gazette of Jena, and referring to a recent publication of mine ...'

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Edward Bulwer Lytton : Zanoni

Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral of that book? Nothing wd. beforehand have persuaded me that such an allegory as that wd. be given us in our day, - though I had caught glimpses in Bulwer's mind of higher powers & better thoughts than he had been used to give out. But this book is such a spring above all his former efforts - such a soaring - as has surprised me: - & others, to judge by the pertinacity of some people in declaring that he cd. not have meant the allegory we hold between our hands; - a thing they might as well say of the maker of a clock, or a county map.

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Johan Christoph von Schiller : Geisterseher

Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palace, Venice: 'This was the thing that first struck my imagination in Venice ... more ... than Schiller's "Armenian" -- a novel which took great hold of me when a boy -- it is also called the "Ghost Seer" ..."

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: reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto III

Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glenarvon" ... the other a review of C[hilde] Har[ol]d in whiich it proclaims me the most rebellious and contumacious Admmirer of Buonaparte -- now surviving in Europe; -- both these Articles are translations from the literary Gazette of German Jena ... they are some weeks old ... I have conserved these papers as curiosities.'

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Lord Holland : Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for a book which I have not yet received -- but expect to reperuse with great pleasure on my return -- viz -- the 2d. Edition of Lope de Vega.'

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George Gordon Lord Byron : The Prisoner of Chillon

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Confessions

Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is pleased with it -- so my Sister writes. -- He said that he was with Rousseau at Chillon -- & that the description is perfectly correct -- but this is not all -- I recollected something of the name & find the following passage in "The Confessions" -- vol.3. page 247. Liv. 8th' [quotes passage mentioning "De Luc pere" and "ses deux fils" as companions on boat trip which took in scenery that inspired descriptions in Julie, and conjectures that this De Luc one of the "fils"]

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Voltaire : unknown

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extreme inaccuracy ...'

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Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord

Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...'

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Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh

Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extract I have seen please me very much indeed ...'

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Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh (extracts)

Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They are taken from some magazine, and contain a short outline and quotations from the two first Poems. I am very much delighted with what is before me, and very thirsty for the rest.'

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Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh (extracts)

Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes the last -- & is not much taken with the first of these performances.'

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Charles Robert Maturin : Manuel

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Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh

Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I ride about -- & lounge -- & ponder & -- two or three other things -- so that my reading is very desultory & not so attentive as it used to be.'

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Thomas Moore : [poems]

Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone over some of our Classics - particularly Pope ... I took Moore's poems & my own & some others - & went over them side by side with Pope's - and I was really astonished ... and mortified - at the ineffable distance in point of sense - harmony - effect - & even Imagination Passion - & Invention - between the little Queen Anne's Man - & us of the lower Empire ...'

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Alexander Pope : [poems]

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George Gordon Lord Byron : [poems]

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Biographia Literaria

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[ane] Theatre - for acting Bertram ... this is not very grateful nor graceful of the worthy auto-biographer [whom Byron had championed] ...'

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Summer ...'

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Aeschylus : Prometheus

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ...'

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Richard Belgrave Hoppner : Elegy

Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know whether you wished me to retain the copy, but I shall retain it till you tell me otherwise; and am very much obliged by the perusal.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Kenneth Grahame : The Wind in the Willows

For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and when I did meet the works of Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne, at the age of twelve or thirteen, I was past them to the extent that I read from a height, like a connoisseur, with no involvement, accepting with sophistication rather than naivety the clothing, the speecg and the human motives of the animals.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patricia Beer Print: Book

A.A. Milne : Winnie the Pooh

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Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Robinson Crusoe'. I suppose I enjoyed them; I certainly did not resent or avoid them. Very occasionally some incident would seem to connect with my own life: the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in 'Westward Ho!' for example, fitted in exactly with what I had heard about Roman Catholics. But on the whole the themes appeared completely abstract and impersonal, even when the author intended a message to strike home. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did not cause me a moment's concern for the plight of Negro slaves in America, and neither did 'The Water Babies' for the sufferings of the child chimney-sweeps, not because these situations had been done away with, but because no book stirred me in that way...

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Robert Louis Stevenson : Kidnapped

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Louisa May Alcott : Little Women

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Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

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Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

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Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

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Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!

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Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Charles Kingsley : The Water Babies

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: unknown [missionary book about China]

Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, or the evocation of the agony, like walking on a thousand knives, endured by the mermaid who was given human legs. The story of 'The Little Mermaid' was in fact one which did make me feel and understand. The hopelessness of a relationship between two people born in different elements was somehow an emotion which I could grasp to the point of distress and one which came back to me in adult life with a sense of complete continuity. But this understanding was almost an aberration.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patricia Beer Print: Book

Hans Christian Anderson : The Little Mermaid

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Hans Christian Anderson : The Ugly Duckling

In 'The Ugly Duckling' the meaning was something that in my own way I thought about much of the time: I was destined for a higher sphere and would be appreciated when I achieved it; and yet I did not see it in the story or make the connection at all. In fact I interpretted it in the most banal and inaccurate fashion as saying that the plain would become pretty.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patricia Beer Print: Book

: The Bible

Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obviously great, was not directly literary. I never thought of it as a book at all: as far as I was concerned, it might well have been called 'The Bible Designed NOT to be Read as Literature'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patricia Beer Print: Book

Hesba Stretton : Little Meg's Children

Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors on the Society's list were Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy Le Feuvre. I knew nearly all their books, but three of them stood out, and I remember them most vividly to this day: 'Little Meg's Children', 'Jessica's First Prayer', and Christie's Old Organ'. Most of the titles, incidentally, were phrased possessively.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patricia Beer Print: Book

Hesba Stretton : Jessica's First Prayer

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Mrs O.F. Walton : Christie's Old Organ; or, Home Sweet Home

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Amy Le Feuvre : [various, unknown]

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L.M. Montgomery : Anne of Green Gables

After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of decency. All the good characters in the 'Anne' and 'Emily' books of L.M. Montgomery were churchgoers, their religious beliefs clearly being basic to their mode of life...

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L.M. Montgomery : Emily of New Moon

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D.K. Broster : The Flight of the Heron

It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommended that we should all read 'The Flight of the Heron' by D.K. Broster, as it dealt with that part of the country at the time of the '45 rebellion. My mother bought it, and the most exciting period of my reading life began. I was possessed by a rapture, an ecstacy, for which nothing in all my experience, and certainly not religion, had prepared me. I remember the actual surroundings in which I sat reading the book, on a bench in Phear Park, for example, on a sunny Saturday morning.

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D.K. Broster : The Flight of the Heron

My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels, 'The Gleam in the North' and 'The Dark Mile', and mentioned casually one day that she had glanced at the last page of 'The Dark Mile' and seen that 'he was mashing someone called Olivia' -I recoiled. Mashing. My faithful Ewen, who had married Alison in the first book. But it was all right. It was his cousin Ian. Mother could not tell the difference.

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D.K. Broster : The Gleam in the North

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D.K. Broster : The Dark Mile

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D.K. Broster : The Dark Mile

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D.K. Broster : The Gleam in the North

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D.K. Broster : The Flight of the Heron

Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me about it.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sheila Beer Print: Book

Rev. William Beloe : The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life

Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading -- pray who may be the Sexagenarian -- whose gossip is very amusing ...'

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: [Reviews]

Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertained -- it requires to be as far from England as I am -- to relish a periodical paper properly ...'

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: [obituary]

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.'

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William Stewart Rose : The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti

Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...'

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: [Italian Gazettes]

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now Reform parliamentary candidate] has been well nigh slain by a potatoe -- so the Italian Gazettes have it ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --except Rob Roy.'

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John Cam Hobhouse : Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is perfect ...'

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: Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage

Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has attacked Shelley in an oblique and shabby manner.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Isaac Disraeli : The Literary Character

Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byron in first edition quoted): 'It was not fair in you to show him [Disraeli] my copy of his former one, with all the marginal notes and nonsense made in Greece when I was not two-and-twenty, and which certainly were not meant for his perusal ... I have a great respect for Israeli [sic] and his talents, and have read his works over and over repeatedly ... I don't know a living man's books I take up so often, or lay down so reluctantly, as Israeli's [sic] ...'

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Isaac Disraeli : The Literary Character

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: Galignani's newspaper

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailment of the reporter -- it was the best of the day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "The Vampire" with the addition of my name as that of the Author. -- I am not the author and never heard of the work in question until now. In a more recent paper I perceive a formal annunciation of "the Vampire" with the addition of an account of my "residence in the Island of Mitylene" ... which [island] I have occasionaly sailed by ... but where I have never yet resided.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Charles Robert Maturin : Bertram

Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words of Parson Adams to his Son -- "Lege Dick -- Lege" (on occasion of some interruption ... ) ... you replied ... "my name is not Richard -- my Lord" ... This was a hint to me to address you in future with all Aristocratical decorum ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird

Francis Hodgson : The Friends: a Poem

Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of his own.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, Orlando Furioso ending with the line "Mi serbo a farsi udie ne l'altro Canto" the follow[ing] autograph in pencil of Alfieri's "Vittorio Alfieri vide e venero" / 8 Giugno 1783. --'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Count Vittorio Alfieri : [marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, Orlando Furioso ending with the line "'Mi serbo a farsi udie ne l'altro Canto' "the follow[ing] autograph in pencil of Alfieri's 'Vittorio Alfieri vide e venero' / 8 Giugno 1783. --' 'The Librarian told me that Alfieri wrote this marginal note by permission of the Superiors -- and that he himself had seen Alfieri crying for hours over the M.S.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Count Vittorio Alfieri Manuscript: Unknown

n/a : n/a

Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rather two -- one was "Martini Luigi Implora pace." the other -- "Lucrezia Picini Implora eterna qiuete"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs

Benvenuto da Imola : Commentary on Dante, Commedia

Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's Inferno] -- but except her father Guido's tomb -- and the mere notice of the fact in the Latin commentary of Benvenuto da Imola in M.S. in the Library -- I could discover nothing for him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : Corinne

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I could not have read it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Zanoni

'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Zanoni

'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer, myself & others - while some excel in that particular art whom we do not at all envy in other respects.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lays of Ancient Rome

'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'. Castor & Pollux really took away my breath. How beautiful those Lays are!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Hymns in Prose for Children

'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns. I know no book influence (out of the bible) at all to be compared to the hallowing & ripening influence of that little book.[...] I know of no woman's intellect like Mrs. Barbauld's.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Caroline Clive : The Great Drought

["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Serial / periodical

Caroline Clive : The Queen's Ball: A Poem

'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by non-exercise it is certainly a faculty that deserts us, & you are too truly a poetess to be lost to literature even through great domestic happiness...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Henri Balzac : La Recherche de L'Absolu

'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Henri Balzac : Eugenie Grandet

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Henri Balzac : Modeste Mignon

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Dr Kitto : holy verses

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Duffy : Irish Songs and Ballads

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Mirabeau :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Lucas Montigny : Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'the book that featured most prominently in [Joseph Greenwood's] memoirs was a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe. "To me Daniel Defoe's book was a wonderful thing, it opened up a world of adventure, new countries and peoples, full of brightness and change; an unlimited expanse".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Greenwood Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe, and that book gave me all my spirit of adventure, which has made me strike new ideas before old ones became antiquated, and landed me in many troubles, travels, and difficulties".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ward Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'[Robinson Crusoe] was Thomas Jordan's favorite book, read through in one sitting at age eleven. The promise of "faraway places fired my imagination" and ultimately inspired him, the son of an iliterate miner, to leave the pits of his Durham mining village and join the Army'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jordan Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his school teacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until "I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [novels]

'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his schoolteacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until "I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Book

Robert Michael Ballantyne : [novels]

'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his schoolteacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until "I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Book

William Henry Giles Kingston : [novels]

'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his schoolteacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until "I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every winter and never palled on the audience. As Alison Uttley remembered, it was even more popular than Pilgrim's Progress: "Christian on his journey met giants and evil men, but Robinson Crusoe fought against the elements, the wind and rain, lightning and tempest, droughts and floods. He lived a life they could understand, catching the food he ate, sowing and reaping corn, making bread, taming beasts... The family shared the life of Robinson Crusoe, hoping and fearing with him, experiencing his sorrows..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alison Uttley Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alison Uttley Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents punished him when they learned he had wasted so much money on a book, but later he read it to them: "And how we all loved it, and eventually, when we got to 'Little Em'ly', how we all cried together at poor old Peggotty's distress. The tears united us, deep in misery as we were ourselves".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist

'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the fears of the London streets. There were big boys at school who could grow up to be the Artful Dodger; many of us could have been Oliver...". Pritchett read Thackeray for escape, "a taste of the gentler life of better-off people", but in Dickens "I saw myself and my life in London".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [novels]

'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeum that no one was reading Dickens anymore: he trudged from one public library to another, only to be told that every copy of his novels had been loaned out. His discovery of Dickens in shilling Harmsworth editions did more than erase the boundary between fiction and life: "It was scarcely a case of reading at all; it was almost an experience of a world more alive and dimensional than this world".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

: The Athenaeum

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, The Snow Queen, The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Old St Paul's, The Tower of London, Nicholas Nickleby, Mr Midshipman Easy, Bleak House, Robinson Crusoe, The Mill on the Floss, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. The seeds of her own novels were planted during these intensive, sometimes acted-out, reading sessions. The fascination with the sea, the importance of an historical sense of place, the theme of the dual personality, are all reflected in her reading during these formative years'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Hans Christian Anderson : The Snow Queen

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

: The Wreck of the Grosvenor

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Old St Paul's

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Bleak House

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : Mr Midshipman Easy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : The Picture of Dorian Gray

'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, The Snow Queen, The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Old St Paul's, The Tower of London, Nicholas Nickleby, Mr Midshipman Easy, Bleak House, Robinson Crusoe, The Mill on the Floss, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Grey(sic), Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. The seeds of her own novels were planted during these intensive, sometimes acted-out, reading sessions. The fascination with the sea, the importance of an historical sense of place, the theme of the dual personality, are all reflected in her reading during these formative years'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, The Snow Queen, The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Old St Paul's, The Tower of London, Nicholas Nickleby, Mr Midshipman Easy, Bleak House, Robinson Crusoe, The Mill on the Floss, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Grey(sic), Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. The seeds of her own novels were planted during these intensive, sometimes acted-out, reading sessions. The fascination with the sea, the importance of an historical sense of place, the theme of the dual personality, are all reflected in her reading during these formative years'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, The Snow Queen, The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Old St Paul's, The Tower of London, Nicholas Nickleby, Mr Midshipman Easy, Bleak House, Robinson Crusoe, The Mill on the Floss, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Grey(sic), Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. The seeds of her own novels were planted during these intensive, sometimes acted-out, reading sessions. The fascination with the sea, the importance of an historical sense of place, the theme of the dual personality, are all reflected in her reading during these formative years'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Daphne du Maurier Print: Book

[n/a] : Old Testament

When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes (said he) I have read the Old Testament twice through in the Hebrew, and the New Testament often through in the Greek; and if you please to examine me in any particular place, I shall endeavour to give you an account of it. Nay (said the Bishop) if it be so, I shall need to say no more to you; only some words of Commendation and encouragement he gave him, and so with other assistants, he Ordained him.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : Scriptures

For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise continually: so that his House was a little Church. Thrice a day he had the Scriptures read, and after that the Psalm, or Chapter were ended, he used to ask all his children and servants what they remembred, and whatsoever Sentences they rehearsed, he would speak something out of them that might tend to their edification.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

: [unknown]

From thence he was sent to Eaton, where he was educated other six years, during all which time he was more than ordinarily studious and industrious; for when other boyes upon play-dayes took liverty for their sports and pastimes, he would be at his book, wherein he took more delight than others could finde in their Recreations, whereby he profited beyond many his equals.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gouge Print: Book

: Scriptures

'He continued in the Colledge for the space of nine years, and in all that time (except he went forth a Town to his friends) he was never absent from morning Prayers in the Chappel, which used to be about half an hour after five a clock in the morning; yea, he used to rise so long before he went to the Chappel, as that he gained time for his secret devotions, and for reading his morning task of the Scriptures: For he tyed himself to read every day fifteen Chapters in English out of the Bible, five in the morning, five after dinner before he fell upon his other studies, and five before he went to bed; he hath been often heard to say, that when he could not sleep in the night time he used in his thoughts to run through divers Chapters of the Scripture in order, as if he had heard them read to him; and by this means he deceived the tediousness of his waking, and deprived himself also sometimes of the sweetness of his sleeping hours, though by that, which administred to him better rest, and greater sweetness; for he preferred the meditation upon the word before his necessary food with Job, and before sleep with David.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gouge Print: Book

: Scriptures

In the order and government of his Family, he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely constantly upon conscientious principles use morning and evening Prayer and reading the sacred Scriptures in his Family; but also he catechized his children, and servants, wherein God gave him a singular gift for their edification; for in teaching them he used not any set form, but so, as that he brought them whom he instructed, to express the principles taught them in their own words; so that his children (as Gregory Nazianzen saith of his Father) found him as well a spiritual as a natural Father.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gouge Print: Book

: Bible

For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in the expence of time, and improving it to the best advantage, that in case of intermission in the Assembly affairs, he used to apply himself to his private studies: For which end it was his constant practice to carry his Bible, and some other Books in his pocket, which upon every advantage? he drew forth, and read in them, as was observed by many.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gouge Print: Book

: [various]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gouge Print: Book

: [various]

In his Childe-hood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto, for the implanting in him the seeds of good Literature, that he rather needed a bridle, than a spur: For his love of learning (equal to that admirable capacity, wherewith the Father of Lights had furnished him) was so active in the acquiring of it, that his Father was fain often gently to chide him from his book.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Gataker Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Christmas Carol

'In the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, schoolboys were baffled by A Christmas Carol: "for one thing, we never could understand why it was considered that Bob Cratchit was hard done by - a good job, we all thought he had".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Welsh schoolboys Print: Book

: Scriptures

In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performed Family Duties for the instruction and edification of the whole houshold, expounding to them a portion of Scripture every morning, that the Sun of Righteousness might as constantly arise in their hearts, as the day brake in upon them. In this Exercise, whereby he laboured to profit both himself and others, he went over the Epistles of the Apostles, the Prophesie of Isaiah, and a good part of the Book of Job, rendring the Text out of the Original Languages, and then delivering cleer Explications, and also deducing usefull Observations.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Gataker Print: Book

Plutarch : [history]

'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Spectator and Rambler. She could borrow books by Burns, Robert Fergusson and other poets from neighbours, and at age eight she found "to my great joy, on the loom of an intellectual weaver", Paradise Lost and Allan Ramsay's poems'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Ancient History

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

: Ancient Universal History

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie : Chronicles of Scotland

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Spectator

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book

Samuel Johnson : The Rambler

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book

Robert Burns : [poetry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

Allan Ramsay : [poetry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

Robert Fergusson : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton Print: Book

St Augustine : St. Augustines Meditations

About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the reading of them.

Unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: James Usher

Sleidans : Book of the Four Empires

At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew forth an exact Series of the times wherein each eminent person lived;

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: James Usher Print: Book

: [various unknown]

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: James Usher Print: Book

Stapleton : Fortress of the Faith

Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he asserted Antiquity for the Popish Tenets, withall, branding our Church and Religion with novelty in what we dissented from them, he was much troubled at it, not knowing but that his quotations might be right; and he was convinced that the Ancientest must needs be best, as the nearer the Fountain the sweeter, and clearer are the streams; yet withall, he suspected that Stapleton might mis-report the Fathers, or wrest them to his own sense; and therefore he took up a setled resolution, that in due time, if God prolonged his life and health, he would trust onely his own eyes by reading over all the Fathers for his satisfaction herein;

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: James Usher Print: Book

Alexander Pope :

'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the herd-boy minted pastorals "delightfully free from everything connected with rural life".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel

'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pope may have been too refined, but this, Story insisted, was "uncontrolled barbarism", poetic anarchy, "harsh, puerile and fantastic".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stopped short at the Romantics. In 1873 he confessed that he could not stomach avant-garde poets like Tennyson. "As for our modern novel-writers - Dickens, Thackeray and others I do not care to read them, since Smollett, Fielding and Scott especially are all I desire".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

John Keats :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Tobias Smollett :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Joseph Addison :

'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the last century at a time when I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the authors of the present time". Growing up in Cromarty, Miller had access to the substantial personal libraries of a carpenter and a retired clerk, as well as his father (sixty volumes), his uncles (150 volumes) and a cabinet-maker poet (upwards of 100 volumes). These collections offered a broad selection of English essayists and poets - of the Queen Anne period.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Alexander Pope :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

Countess Teresa Guiccioli : [letter]

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of your note with all due attention ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

[probably William] Robertson :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book

:

And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them, &c.) The Doctrine of Conversion (as I preached it as now in my Treatise of Conversion) was received on her heart as the seal on the wax. Whereupon she presently fell to self-judging, and to frequent prayer, and reading, and serious thoughts of her present state, and her salvation.

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Charlton

Walter Scott : [novels]

Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even prefer them to his poetry, which ... I redde for the first time in my life in your rooms in Trinity College.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Walter Scott : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

: [unknown]

When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She would privately talk to the servants, and read good books to them.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Baxter Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hurried -- he forgets Ravenswood's name ... and he don't make enough of Montrose -- but Dalgetty is excellent ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Walter Scott : A Legend of Montrose

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: Bible

She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. The last words that she spake were, My God help me, Lord have mercy upon me.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Baxter Print: Book

: [newspapers]

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parliament.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: German periodicals

Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word nor letter. -- I have sent you the enclosed to beg you to translate to me some remarks -- which appear to be Goethe's upon Manfred -- & if I may judge by two notes of admiration ... and the word "hypocondrisch" are any thing but favourable ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis in 1816 at Coligny translated most of it to me viva voce ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Gregory Lewis Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Works

Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to order), and I am glad to see my old friends with a French face. I have been skimming and dipping, in and over them, like a swallow, and as pleased as one.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Poems of the Late Thomas Little

Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Poems of the Late Thomas Little

Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Marino Sanuto : "Italian history of the Doges of Venice"

Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : "Siege of Zara"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Pierre Antoine Daru : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Jean Charles Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed conversion" stories (Christie's Old Organ, 'The Little Match Girl', A Peep behind the Scenes), as well as everything by Dickens, old volumes of Punch and the Spectator and The Life of Ruskin. "My undigested reading made me look at the world with mid-Victorian eyes", she recalled'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Spectator

'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed conversion" stories (Christie's Old Organ, 'The Little Match Girl', A Peep behind the Scenes), as well as everything by Dickens, old volumes of Punch and the Spectator and The Life of Ruskin. "My undigested reading made me look at the world with mid-Victorian eyes", she recalled'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman Print: Book

: Punch

'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed conversion" stories (Christie's Old Organ, 'The Little Match Girl', A Peep behind the Scenes), as well as everything by Dickens,old volumes of Punch and the Spectator and The Life of Ruskin. "My undigested reading made me look at the world with mid-Victorian eyes", she recalled'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Matthews : Diary of an Invalid

Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes about "Serventismo" which no foreigner can understand ... without residing years in the country. -- I read that part (translated that is) to some of the Ladies in the way of knowing how far it was accurate and they laughed particularly at the part where he says that "they must not have children by their lover" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

W.G. Collingwood : The Life of Ruskin

'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed conversion" stories (Christie's Old Organ, 'The Little Match Girl', A Peep behind the Scenes), as well as everything by Dickens,old volumes of Punch and the Spectator and The Life of Ruskin. "My undigested reading made me look at the world with mid-Victorian eyes", she recalled'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman Print: Book

O.F. Walton : Christie's Old Organ

'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed conversion" stories (Christie's Old Organ, 'The Little Match Girl', A Peep behind the Scenes), as well as everything by Dickens, old volumes of Punch and the Spectator and The Life of Ruskin. "My undigested reading made me look at the world with mid-Victorian eyes", she recalled'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman Print: Book

O.F. Walton : A Peep Behind the Scenes

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman Print: Book

unknown : [books]

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometimes to read one book and sometimes another, a few pages at a time -- and change frequently ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Hans Christian Anderson : The Little Match Girl

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman Print: Book

: Gazette

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish lady of 37 who has run away with a young Englishman of 24 ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Count Giulio Perticari : Dell'amor patrio di Dante

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: Galignani's Newspaper

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 8 August 1820: 'Fletcher reads you in Galignani -- and comes grinning over your speeches to me -- he has already noted Seventeen ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Fletcher Print: Newspaper

Jonathan Swift :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richarson, Smollett, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Alexander Pope :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Samuel Richardson :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Tobias Smollett :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

John Keats :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] 'Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

: [Greek philosophy]

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Serial / periodical

Jane Waldie : Sketches Descriptive of Italy

Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to Marino Faliero] ... I perceive (horresco referens [Virgil, Aeneid II.204: "I shudder to recall"]) that it is written by a WOMAN!!!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

John Cam Hobhouse : [speeches]

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquence is better than his company.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: Quarterly Review

Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Jerome K. Jerome : Three Men in a Boat

'[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat: "I had thought that only Smollett and Dickens could make a reader laugh; and I was surprised to find that a man who was actually living could write in such a genuinely humorous way'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the House of Commons. In his youth he drew inspiration from the "strange truth" he found in Twelfth Night: "Be not afraid of greatness". ("What a creed! How it would upset the world if men lived up to it, I thought") Urged on by a Cooperative Society librarian, he worked through the plays and discovered they were about people who "had died for their beliefs. Wat Tyler and Jack Cade seemed heroes". Reading Julius Caesar, "the realisation came suddenly to me that it was a mighty political drama" about class struggle, "not just an entertainment"... Elected to Parliament in 1906, he read A Midsummer Night's Dream while awaiting the returns'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Robert Clynes Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Robert Clynes Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Robert Clynes Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson :

'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it had 'Poet Laureate' printed on the title page: the coloured words flashed out and entranced my fancy... my dormant imagination opened like a flower in the sun".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hillyer Print: Book

: Half Hours With Best Authors

'At a second-hand stall, [Richard Hillyer] bought a four volume Half Hours with Best Authors. One could dismiss it as a potted Anglocentric collection of snippets by dead writers, but as Hilyer explained: "The all important thing was that between the battered covers were bits and pieces from vast range of literature, people I had always wanted to read, and others I had never heard of, but standing in full tradition and waiting to be discovered. It is easy to talk of epochs in a life, events which are permanent, and far-reaching, enough to be called that are rare, but this was one. The dilapidated old book opened to me the sweep and grandeur of English literature better than most professional teachers would have done".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hillyer Print: Book

John Keats : [a minor poem]

'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousness of the epicure. I was hypnotised by the word Poet. A poem by Keats (some trifle never meant for print) was a poem by Keats. Pope, Cowper and Kirke White and Mrs Hemans and Samuel Rogers were Poets. That was enough."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Unknown

William Cowper :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Unknown

Kirke White :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Unknown

Felicia Hemans :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Unknown

Samuel Rogers :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Unknown

Aristotle : Ethics

'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one didn't want to read or gave up if one tried", Rolph recalled: "Aristotle's Ethics, The Koran, Xenophon's Memorabilia, The Nibelunglied, Schiller's William Tell; and it ended with 'Dickens's Pickwick and David Copperfield' (only) but 'Scott's novels' (apparently the lot). For the most part they were the books which it seemed, you should expect to find in every intelligent man's private library; with, in most such libraries, their leaves uncut'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorabilia

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Koran

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: The Niebelunglied

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : William Tell

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Scott : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Jane Austen : unknown

'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepys and the Navy, Frederick the Great, Wordsworth, Shelley, Napoleon, where the speaking was of high level and the debating power considerable."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book

Charles Lamb : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book

George Eliot : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book

Meredith : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book

William Wordsworth : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book

Amelia Hutchison Stirling : Monsieur le Comte

'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago and in which I thought there was great promise especially in one character.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Manuscript: Book in MS

Harriette Cheape : Tea at the Mains

'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name? ["Tea at the Mains", by Harriette Cheape] It was exceedingly good and true.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Louis Stevenson : Wrecker

'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Naulakha

'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Sarah Grand : Singularly Deluded

'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original, though the name of the story might have been better chosen.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: St James's

'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir Theodore Martin.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Graham Travers : Mona Maclean: Medical Student

'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regret having published it some years back. Marion Crawford's last novel is clever of course as are all his, but not pleasant and very long and dreary I think.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book, Serial / periodical

F Marion Crawford :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book, Serial / periodical

:

'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of early Scotch poetry such as Dunbar, Henryson, &c.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: Priest-Ridden Ireland

'Old Lady Cloncurry, who I suppose knows as much about Ireland as most people, was quite enthusiastic about that article on "Priest-ridden Ireland" in the last magazine"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Cloncurry Print: Serial / periodical

:

'[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the Athenaeum last Saturday with the greatest regret'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was startled by his mother a most acute old lady (who had picked up the sheets as he let them fall) exclaiming "Surely George the Germans never were in England"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [?George] Simpson Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Old Mrs Simpson Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of article

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of the Magazine. Nothing so good has appeared for years. In your place, I should print it as a pamphlet, and circulate it everywhere.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.C. Swayne Print: Serial / periodical

: papers

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: [poetry]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers mentioned use of copy of Richardson's Pamela by grocer as wrapping-paper: 'For my part, I have met with most poetry upon trunks [ie as lining]; so that I am apt to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat, till I write to tell you how deeply the article has impressed me, - I feel the picture will be with me day & night for a good while to come. The country owes you thanks: but we won't take warning, & may go down any day like Carthage & Venice. I presume the article is by Hamley. Compared with the momentousness of the theme & the noble spirit in which it is treated, I can hardly bring myself to speak of its exceeding excellence as a literary work, - but in truth, I don't think even De Foe could have beat it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.H. Patterson Print: Serial / periodical

Guiseppe Bossi : Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Rossi [ed. notes that this perhaps misreading of Bossi]...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night. Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was raving about the Battle of Dorking & never read anything in his life so good or like the reality...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Colonel Moncrieff Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord (3rd series)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times) of the third series of "Tales of my Landlord" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature

"Reading - finished Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature which had been my Night lecture."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not know which to admire most the review or the review of the reviewers. The reperusal [sic] had nearly put him into fits.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: "Old" Gleig Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of "Lothair"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: "Old" Gleig Print: Serial / periodical

Xenophon : Retreat of the Ten Thousand

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Xenophon : Retreat of the Ten Thousand

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the "Ten Thousand" again, and will go to bed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Brougham Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Bacon : "apophthegms"

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in which I have detected such blunders as a school-boy might detect rather than commit. Such are the sages! What must they be, when such as I can stumble on their mistakes or misstatements?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).

Metastasio : Betulia Liberata

" Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in print.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Doddridge Blackmore Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Bacon : "apophthegms"

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in whiich I have detected such blunders as a school-boy might detect rather than commit. Such are the sages! What must they be, when such as I can stumble on their mistakes or misstatements?'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Fletcher

Francis Bacon : "apophthegms"

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbers even scarcely up to mark."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Theodore Martin Print: Serial / periodical

Pierre Louis Ginguene : Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Lord Holland : Lope de Vega

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and read Mitford again, and played with my mastiff ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

'Gentlemen. I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound form a handsome library of themselves. I regret most sincerely that in consequence of the story called "The Private Secretary" I am compelled to give it up. I never read such disgusting filth before, and am very sorry that such a high class (formerly) Magazine should have admitted such garbage into its columns.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Philips Print: Serial / periodical

Ann Radcliffe : The Italian

Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard of. There is one scene in this volume which cannot be easily equalled. I mean the scene [...] in the passage when they are going to murder Helena the heroine of the story.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Italian

We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former production

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

William Roscoe : The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as it is; as Author, - if I had written it, - I am shy of writing anything in that style - I should have been very proud of it. The fact is, though risque it is devilish well done; & the merit & the objections to it are that it is so sensuously suggestive as to be [??] than far harder language.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alex Innes Shand Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord (2nd series)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: Lugano Gazette

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : [books]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned over and over half a score books for the passage in question, and can't find it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Laszowska Print: Serial / periodical

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had read Walter Scott's Rob Roy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had read Walter Scott's Rob Roy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : The Vanity of Human Wishes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: accounts

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. Dined ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. Dined ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- read. Corrected Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

various : Lives of poets

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Alexander Pope : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unless an occasional flight over the classical ones, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, Gray, and those who approach them nearest ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

John Dryden : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Thomas Gray : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: letters

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

: [Poets]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says that "no reader cares any more about the characteristic manners of his Eclogues than about the authenticity of the tale of Troy." 'Tis false ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Anon. : Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read "Homer Travestied" (the first twelve books), because [John Cam] Hobhouse and others bored me with their learned localities, and I love quizzing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition. There is a good deal of taffeta in some of Tom's prefatory phrases, but his work is good as a whole.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

John Milton : Sabrina Fair

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of the song of Milton, "Sabrina fair" has brought back upon me ... the happiest, perhaps, days of my life ... when living at Cambridge with Edward Noel Long ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Epistles, Odes and Other Poems

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821, on memories of Cambridge life with friend Edward Noel Long: 'I remember our buying, with vast alacrity, [Thomas] Moore's new quarto (in 1806) and reading it together in the evenings.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Edward Noel Young. Print: Book

Franz Grillparzer : Sappho

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guido Sorelli of the German Grillparzer ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know them through the medium of English, French, and Italian translations.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Schiller : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an intended tragedy of Sardanapalus ... read over a passage in the ninth vol. octavo of Mitford's Greece, where he rather vindicates the memory of this last of the Assyrians.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Seneca : tragedies

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Seneca : tragedies

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Diodorus Siculus : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's Greece -- wrote part of a scene of "Sardanapalus".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

n/a : Javanese newspaper

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Grey ... [John] Murray ... had just sent me a Java gazette ... Pulling it out, by way of curiosity, we found it to contain a dispute ... on Moore's merits and mine."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: Javanese newspaper

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: 'In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Grey ... [John] Murray ... had just sent me a Java gazette ... Pulling it out, by way of curiosity, we found it to contain a dispute ... on Moore's merits and mine.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- dined ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : [various books]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lombardy -- English, Italian, French, and Latin. Read till eight -- went out.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: letters

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Read letters ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth : Memoirs

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the Miss Edgeworth.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Correspondence. Dined ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remarked on an anecdote in Grimm's Correspondence ... [reproduces part of text of vol. VI]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lounged.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel : History of Literature

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I have been reading W[ilhelm]. F[riedrich]. S[chlegel] ... till now, and I can make out nothing ... [two paragraphs later] Continuing to read Mr. F[rederick] S[chlegel]. He is not such a fool as I took him for ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel : History of Literature

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Correspondence.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth : Memoirs

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the case of Sir F. B. Delaval ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

William Lisle Bowles : various

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with all the replies and rejoinders. Perceive that my name has been lugged into the controversy ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Louis Buonaparte : Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ... Read "Tales of my Landlord" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a song of Maupertuis to a female Laplander ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not written.'

Unknown

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: Roman history

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- read Roman History.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Martin Luther : Commentary on the Galations

'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece, if I did but turn it over... I found my condition in his experience, so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart... I do prefer this book of Mr "Luther" upon the 'Galathians' (excepting the Holy Bible) before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bunyan Print: Book

: Italian newspaper

Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c. &c ... I do reiterate -- and desire that every thing may be done to prevent it from coming out ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

William Turner : Journal of a Tour in the Levant

In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and in particular with regard to swimming the Hellespont, his own attempt being mentioned by Turner), recently sent by Murray.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Walter Scott : [various novels]

Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiquary -- It is five years since I have had a copy -- -- I have read all the others forty times.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

John Wilson Croker : review of John Keats, Endymion

Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so severe as many reviews in that and other journals upon others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Cenci

Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

unknown : Roman History

Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particularly taken with the battle near the Lake Regillus in the Roman History -- put into my hands the first.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Ruddiman : Latin Grammar

Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Grammar ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Francis Hodgson : Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive your compliments kindly and your censures temperately ...'

Unknown

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Francis Hodgson : Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Francis Hodgson : Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: The Bible

After breakfast the three maids were called in for prayers. Our uncle who was working his way chronologically through the Bible had got once more to Kings and intoned a chapter in a voice of deep, rebuking melancholy; then all knelt down and listened to a long prayer.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Bugg Print: Book

Douglas Kinnaird : letter (ie article?)

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

J. G. Lockhart : John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron

Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & full of fun and ferocity' [goes on to speculate as to who author might be.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: Home Magazine

I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Serial / periodical

G.E. Farrow : The Wallypug of Why

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Serial / periodical

: Children's Encyclopaedia

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

[N. N. A.] anon : [private letter]

Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply N. N. A. ... She simply says that she is dying, and that as I had contributed so highly to her existing pleasure, she thought that she might say so ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

: Hereward the Wake

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

: [comics -unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Serial / periodical

: Marriage on Two Hundred a Year

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan (Cantos I and II)

Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to continue Don Juan ... She had read the two first [cantos] in the French translation -- & never ceased beseeching me to write no more of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Countess Teresa Guiccioli Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Ford Madox Ford : English Review

Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of the time. We discussed Bridges and Masefield... For myself the suger-bag blue of the 'English Review' was decisive. One had thought literature was in books written by dead people who had been oppressively over-educated. Here was writing by people who were alive and probably writing at this moment...

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book, Serial / periodical

James Russell Lowell : The Vision of Sir Launfal

Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning by heart.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson :

Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning by heart.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

A. A. Watts : series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's works

Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in England some months ago. I only saw them, by Murray's bounty, the other day.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

John Wilson Croker : Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion

Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Richard Tully : Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli

Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of the furniture in Canto 3d. is taken from Tully's Tripoli ... and the rest from my own observation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Octavius Gilchrist : pamphlets

Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) relating to Bowles-Pope controversy.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

: Books of Old Testament

Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through before I was eight years old -- that is to say the Old Testament -- for the New struck me as a task -- but the other as a pleasure -- I speak as a boy -- from the recollected impression of that period at Aberdeen in 1796.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Monody on Garrick

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take up his own "Monody on Garrick". -- He lighted upon the dedication to the Dowager Lady Spencer -- on seeing it he flew into a rage -- exclaimed "that it must be a forgery -- that he had never dedicated anything of his to such a d-- --d canting b-- --h &c. &c. &c." and so went on for half an hour ...'

Unknown

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

unknown : Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he read to us the correspondence upon Moira's negotiation -- I sate next to the present Duke of Grafton -- when it was over -- I turned to him -- & said "What is to be done next?" -- "Wake the Duke of Norfolk["] (who was snoring away near us) replied he ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles 2nd Earl Grey Manuscript: Letter

unknown : Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wyndham Lord Grenville Manuscript: Letter

unknown : [reviews]

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Aeschylus : Prometheus Bound

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that is English as exercises) a translation of a Chorus from "the Prometheus" of Aeschylus -- were received by him but coolly ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Henry Fielding : unknown

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Thomas Moore : [letter]

Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of yours to him yesterday, and he begs me to write to you about his Poeshie.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs

Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ... Mr. Kinnaird & others had read them at Paris and noticed none such.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Kinnaird Manuscript: Unknown

John Cam Hobhouse :

Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding John Cam Hobhouse's offence at his MS Memoirs: "Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ... If there were any ... even that would not sanction the tone of his letter, which I showed to one or two English & Irish friends of mine here -- who were perfectly astonished ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: friends of Byron Manuscript: Letter

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -- I perceive that the "two greatest examples of human vanity -- in the present age" are firstly "the Ex-Emperor Napoleon" -- and secondly -- "his Lordship the noble poet &c." -- meaning your hunble servant ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

John Sheppard : [unknown]

Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 December 1821: "I have received yr. letter ... the Extract which it contains has affected me ... it would imply a want of all feeling to have read it with indifference ... for whomever it was meant [this apparently uncertain] -- I have read it with all the pleasure which can arise from so melancholy a topic."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

: advertisement for "Mirandola"

Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I saw it mentioned was in a newspaper ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Robert Southey : letter

Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey ... which he is pleased to entitle a reply to "a note relating to himself." appending to [Byron's ] the "two Foscari".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Oxoniensis [pseud.] : Remonstrance against Cain

Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical drama Cain] -- but I perceive one upon you in the papers which I confess that I did not expect.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822

Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have discovered that you and I are no poets.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

n/a : [English newspaper]

Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Parisian English) which I have seen for a long time -- and I was lost in admiration of it's size and volume."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

:

Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the door -- on the left as you enter -- there is a monument with a tablet containing these words: "When Sorrow weeps o'er Virtue's sacred dust, Our tears become us, and our Grief is just, Such were the tears she shed, who grateful pays This last sad tribute to her love, and praise." I recollect them (after seventeen years) not from any thing remarkable in them -- but because -- from my seat in the Gallery -- I had generally my eyes turned towards that monument -- as near it as convenient I would wish Allegra to be buried ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: epitaph

Francis Jeffrey : unknown

Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impartial Galignani.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron

Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron] ... nor have I any desire. The price is, as I saw in some advertisement, fourteen shillings, which is too much to pay for a libel on oneself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement

: Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds

Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subscriptions for the Irish poor from Florence, but not from Leghorn.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Jane Austen : First Impressions

'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Austen Manuscript: Book in Manuscript

Thompson : book of prescriptions

Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): 'At last I seized Thompson's book of prescriptions -- (a donation of yours) and physicked myself with the first dose I found in it ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Harriet Lee : The German's Tale

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in Sophia and Harriet Lee's Canterbury Tales] from which I took it [ha]d a strange effect upon me when I read it as a boy -- and it has haunted me ever since -- from some singular conformity between it & my ideas.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): '[Galignani] ... has forwarded a copy of at least one half of it -- in his indefatigable Catch-penny weekly compilation -- and ... I have looked through it...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Count D'Orsay : Journal

Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinary production ... I know or knew personally most of the personages and societies which he describes -- and after reading his remarks -- have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau : Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau

Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more welcome than the short work in which the actions of your Brother [General Marceau], whose memory I revere, are so well described. I have read this work with the greatest pleasure ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Benjamin Constant : Adolphe

Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... was at the desire of Madame de Stael ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

n/a : The Times

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Henri Beyle : Rome

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Henri Beyle : Life of Haydn

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Henri Beyle : Life of Mozart

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Henri Beyle : essay on Racine and Shakespeare

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Amadee Pichot : Essai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]t

Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me with your compositions ... As to the Essay, etc., I am obliged to you for the present, although I had already seen it joined to the last edition of the translation. I have nothing to object to it ... though naturally there are ... several errors ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : unknown

Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received at Leghorn: ' ... [I] arrived here ... this morning ... here ... I found your lines ... and I could not have had a more favourable Omen or more agreeable surprise than a word from Goethe written by his own hand.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

Maria Edgeworth : 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', Leila or the Island and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Ann Fraser Tytler : Leila: or, The Island

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Catherine Sinclair : Holiday House

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

: The Wave and the Battlefield

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V

'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Mary Louisa Molesworth : The Cuckoo Clock

'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Chaplet of Pearls

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Heir of Redclyffe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : The Settlers in Canada

'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Wilhelm Hey : Funfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig Fabeln

'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss

'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Jane Austen :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

George Meredith :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : The Three Musketeers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Charles Darwin : The Origin of Species

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : Masterman Ready

'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Talisman

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Robert Michael Ballantyne : Coral Island

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Prince and the Page

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Johann David Wyss : Swiss Family Robinson

'[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson :

'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... Shelley, too, she found "an intoxicant". A coplete works of Shelley joined her Tennyson a year later, starting a fascination with the poet which she remembers in a letter to Gilbert Murray in January 1945: "I, like you, read Shelley's Prometheus very young... I was entirely carried away by it; as I was, indeed, by all Shelley... Of course, I didn't understand all Prometheus; but enough to be fascinated".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound

'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... Shelley, too, she found "an intoxicant". A complete works of Shelley joined her Tennyson a year later, starting a fascination with the poet which she remembers in a letter to Gilbert Murray in January 1945: "I, like you, read Shelley's Prometheus very young... I was entirely carried away by it; as I was, indeed, by all Shelley... Of course, I didn't understand all Prometheus; but enough to be fascinated".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

George Sand : La Mare au Diable

'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have got Macaulay and Layard, and the "Monasteries of the Levant," and other big books, but I want some moderately moral French novel, or some very amusing two and sixpence or five-shilling English book to keep the thing going. Such a book as "La Mare au Diable", or "La Chasse au Roman," would be the thing, or Murray's "Life of Conde", or his "Memoirs of a Missionary." Can you kindly recommend some?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book

Jules Sandeau : La Chasse au Roman

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book

Lord Mahon : The Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the Great

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book

: Memoirs of a Missionary

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book

Elizabeth Harris : From Oxford to Rome

'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of a Dissenting Minister at Wallingford, & that she is still a Roman Catholic, in spite of her book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Lady Geraldine

'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book

Robert Browning : Bells and Pomegranates

[Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son

[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton :

[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book

Caroline Clive : Paul Ferroll

'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again... He puts Paul Ferroll very high indeed among modern novels, & the Poems, not only high but at the Top of modern poetry...Lord Lansdowne's opinion is of so much value, that I thought I ought to write...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lansdowne Print: Book

Caroline Clive : poems (unspecified)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lansdowne Print: Book

: [newspapers]

Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] is in a third Edition ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Thomas a Kempis : On The Imitation of Christ

Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Christ, which her godmother gave her when she was 13'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

John Cam Hobhouse : Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold

Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Italy -- some part of it the best he ever wrote ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : probably 'On Liberty'

'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful words of Mill, who argued for the sacredness of her larger duty to herself'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Ernest Renan : Life of Jesus

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

: Critical Review

Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or another, magazines & c. -- some very favourable, as the Critical, others severe but just enough, one in particular (the Eclectic) quits the work, to criticise the author ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

: The Eclectic Review

Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or another, magazines & c. -- some very favourable, as the Critical, others severe but just enough, one in particular (the Eclectic) quits the work, to criticise the author ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

William Harness : unknown

Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many of your compositions ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Alexander Pope :

'[T.A.] Jackson's tastes had been formed by the old books in his parents' home: "A fine set of Pope, an odd volume or two of the Spectator, a Robinson Crusoe, Pope's translation of Homer, and a copy of Paradise Lost".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Henry Gally Knight : Alashtar, an Arabian Tale

Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's Decline and Fall and Macaulay's History of England twice through over factory work, with such absorption she once injured a finger, leaving "an honourable scar".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kathleen Woodward Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kathleen Woodward Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) to Lady Caroline Lamb 'which [she] is not to look at till Mr. Lamb has first gone through it for there is one passage which I have doubts whether it would be proper for ladies to see': '... according to Caroline she had read a copy [of Childe Harold], loaned by [Samuel] Rogers, before she met Byron.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's Night Thoughts; but...did not read Shakespeare seriously until he was nearly thirty'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Malaby Dent Print: Book

John Milton :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Malaby Dent Print: Book

William Cowper :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Malaby Dent Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Malaby Dent Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Malaby Dent Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Malaby Dent Print: Book

William Morris :

'[J.M. Dent's] cultural contacts broadened when he became an apprentice bookbinder in London, discovering the work of William Morris, Cobden-Sanderson and the Arts and Crafts Movement'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Malaby Dent Print: Book

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "the Vampire" with the addition of my name as that of the Author. -- I am not the author ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld. Byron's works -- the name of an "Ode to the land of the Gaul" -- it is not my production ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Samuel Johnson : Rasselas

'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set of ideas to which I had previously been a stranger. I became familiar with the names and works of all the truly great authors and poets, and was now throughly convinced I had been misplaced in my life's work". His reading ranged from Rasselas to Looking Backward'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Book

: Everyman

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Bellamy : Looking Backward: 2000-1887

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Book

: review of Byron, The Age of Bronze

Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity to prosecute.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens :

'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I had read most of Dickens, much of Thackeray and some of Scott; but I had never read a line of Henry James, of Meredith or of Hardy".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Book

: [lives and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Book

: Hellenica Chronica

Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an article in the Chronica Greca [paper actually entitled the Hellenica Chronica] -- denouncing the Danish Baron Adam Friedel -- who is not here to respond. -- I do not know if this is just but it does not appear to me to be generous.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

Walter Pater :

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Book, Unknown

George Meredith :

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Book, Unknown

George Bernard Shaw :

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Richard Le Gallienne :

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Jonathan Swift : "Gulliver's Travels"

'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Spike Mays Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : "Robinson Crusoe"

'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Spike Mays Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Tales from Shakespeare

'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Spike Mays Print: Book

Walter Scott :

'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pay tribute to the man who made it possible... Scott, Thackeray, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Rudyard Kipling were but a few authors we had at our fingertips. How he made the people live again for us!".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

Matthew Arnold :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book

: Bible

'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a solid literary footing in the Bible, Shakespeare and Scott'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Rookwood

'"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun they had found, and thus... I was introduced to Mayne Reid, and again to Harrison Ainsworth, with "The Headless Horseman" and "Rookwood"".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book

Thomas Mayne Reid : "The Headless Horseman"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book

Anon : Arabian Nights

'[Edgar Wallace recalled] the teacher read aloud "The Arabian Nights". "The colour and beauty of the East stole through the foggy windows of Reddin's Road School. Here was a magic carpet indeed that transported forty none too cleanly little boys into the palace of the Caliphs, through the spicy bazaars of Bagdad, hand in hand with the king of kings".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Wallace Print: Book

James George Frazer : "The Golden Bough"

'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introduced him to Greek mythology, "which in time brought me to Frazer and the immensities and infinitudes of "The Golden Bough", and all that that implies".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

: [Greek myths]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

: [Freudian psychology]

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill, Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's "Essays in Scepticism", and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

: [industrial administration]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

[unknown] : [political history]

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's The Decline of the West'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

William Blake :

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill, Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

John Stuart Mill :

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche :

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

Beatrice and Sidney Webb :

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill, Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

Bertrand Russell : Essays in Scepticism

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's The Decline of the West'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler : The Decline of the West

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's The Decline of the West'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, "sometimes to the detriment of my weaving".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Blackburn Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to the West Wind

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Blackburn Print: Book

John Milton : Lycidas

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Blackburn Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Blackburn Print: Book

[unknown] : [Ancient Greek literature]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Blackburn Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : [plays]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Blackburn Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he had to read it several times before he even partially absorbed it'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he knows too much or does things like writing. Even reading Shakespeare and the Bible and my Cobbett's Grammar put me under suspicion."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lennox Kerr Print: Book

n/a : Bible

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lennox Kerr Print: Book

William Cobbett : A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lennox Kerr Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 17 May 1800: 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

William Shakespeare : Timon of Athens

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King John

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King John.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 1 June 1800: ' ... a sweet mild morning. Read Ballads; went to church.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

William Shakespeare : Richard the Second

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Second -- was not well after dinner ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 4 June 1800: 'I walked to the lake-side in the morning, took up plants, and sate upon a stone reading Ballads.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 6 June 1800: 'Sate out of doors reading the whole afternoon...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Richard Payne Knight : The Landscape: A Didactic Poem in Three Books

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : [poems]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 31 July 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] ... sailed down to Loughrigg. Read poems on the water ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : [poems]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] all went together to Mary Point [in Bainriggs wood], where we sate in the breeze and the shade, and read Wm's poems.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge

William Wordsworth : The Seven Sisters

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Friedrich von Schiller : Wallenstein (in translation by S. T. Coleridge)

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 20 August 1800: 'Read Wallenstein and sent it off ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : Peter Bell

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell. He read us the poem of Joanna, beside the Rothay by the roadside.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : To Joanna

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 31 August 1800: 'At 11 o'clock [pm] Coleridge came ... We sate and chatted till 1/2-past three, W[illiam]. in his dressing-gown. Coleridge read us a part of Christabel.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : To Joanna

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was delightful ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : The Firgrove

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was delightful ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Pride's Cure

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 4 October 1800: 'A ... rather showery and gusty, morning ... Read a part of Lamb's play.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 5 October 1800: 'Coleridge read a 2nd time Christabel; we had increasing pleasure. A delicious morning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : The Pedlar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 6 October 1800: 'After tea read The Pedlar.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Robert Southey : Letters from Spain

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 14 October 1800: 'Wm. lay down after dinner -- I read Southey's Spain.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Ruth

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christabel.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christabel.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : Point Rash Judgement

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from piles] -- read Point Rash Judgement.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

Henry Fielding : Amelia

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 December 1800: 'A fine morning. I read.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

Bishop Joseph Hall : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

?James Thomson : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson

Edmund Spenser : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 18 November 1801: 'We sate in the house in the morning reading Spenser.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'A rainy morning ... I read a little of Chaucer, prepared the goose for dinner, and then we all walked out.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Samuel Daniel : Musophilus, or a Defence of all Learning

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'Mary read a poem of Daniel upon Learning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'After tea Wm. read Spenser, now and then a little aloud to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 30 November 1801: '[after walk with William Wordsworth and Mary Hutchinson] We came home and read ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Maunciple's Tale

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 2 December 1801: 'I read the Tale of Phoebus and the Crow ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Queen.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene (Canto I)

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Queen.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson Print: Book

Michael Bruce : Lochleven

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

unknown : Life of Michael Bruce

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Knight's Tale

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'I read Palamon and Arcite.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Michael Bruce : Lochleven

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'Mary read Bruce.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 14 December 1801: 'Sate by the fire in the evening reading.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : The Pedlar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed at home and clapped the small linen. Wm. sate beside me, and read The Pedlar.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : The Pedlar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while he was reading The Pedlar.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter

Geoffrey Chaucer : Prologues from the Canterbury Tales

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy talked about the [drunken] Queen of Patterdale ... We sate snugly round the fire. I read to them the Tale of Custance and the Syrian monarch, also some of the Prologues. It is the Man of Lawe's tale.'

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Geoffrey Chaucer : The Man of Law's Tale

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Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, and read Chaucer.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Miller's Tale

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 26 December 1801: 'After tea we sate by the fire comfortably. I read aloud The Miller's Tale.'

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William Wordsworth : Descriptive Sketches

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, about how she spent Saturday, 23 January 1802: '[after walking in cold] O how comfortable and happy we felt ourselves, sitting by our own fire ... We talked about the Lake of Como, read in the Descriptive Sketches, looked about us, and felt that we were happy.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth

: [newspaper]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 26 January, 1802: 'A dull morning. I have employed myself in writing this journal and reading newspapers till now (1/2 past 10 o'clock).'

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: [magazines]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted his mind in the Magazines.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavour to make him sleep.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

John Milton : Paradise Lost (Book I)

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavour to make him sleep. Then I came into the other room and read the first book of Paradise Lost.'

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Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from London. I sate by his [William Wordsworth's] bedside, and read in The Pleasures of Hope to him, which came in the box.'

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John Milton : Paradise Lost (Book XI)

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise Lost. We were much impressed, and also melted into tears.'

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unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in bed till 1/2 past one.'

Unknown

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unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in bed till 1/2 past one.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Robert Anderson : Smollett's Life

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 February, 1802: 'Read Smollet's life.'

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unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 February, 1802: 'I read the story of [?] in Wanly [?].'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Fables

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 6 February, 1802: '... wrote ... after tea, and translated two or three of Lessing's Fables.'

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William Wordsworth : The Pedlar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 February, 1802: 'We sate by the fire, and ... read the Pedlar, thinking it done; but lo! though Wm. could find fault with no one part of it, it was uninteresting, and must be altered.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a little in Lessing and the grammar.'

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unknown : German grammar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a little in Lessing and the grammar.'

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Fable

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 February, 1802: 'We did a little of Lessing. I attempted a fable, but my head ached ...'

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William Wordsworth : The Prelude

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 February, 1802: '... we read the first part of the poem [ie The Prelude] and were delighted with it ...'

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unknown : Life of Ben Jonson

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep. I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Ben Jonson : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

John Fletcher : unknown

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Ben Jonson : To Penshurst

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'It is now 7 o'clock ... Wm. is still on his bed ... I continued to read to him. We were much delighted with the poem of Penshurst.'

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William Wordsworth : The Recluse

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.'

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Ben Jonson : To Penshurst

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. I ate a little bit of cold mutton ... and then sate over the fire, reading Ben Jonson's Penshurst, and other things.'

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unknown : [German text/s]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: '[after going on walk] I got tea when I reached home, and read German till about 9 o'clock.'

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unknown : [German text/s]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 February, 1802: 'I got tea when I reached home [after walk], and then set on to reading German.'

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William Wordsworth : Peter Bell

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 22 February, 1802: ' ... Mr. Simpson came in. Wm. began to read Peter Bell to him, so I carried my writing to the kitchen fire.'

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unknown : German Grammar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: '... after dinner read German Grammar.'

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Bishop Joseph Hall : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... William now reading in Bishop Hall ...'

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Essay

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 25 February, 1802: 'I reached home [from walk] just before dark ... got tea, and fell to work at German. I read a good deal of Lessing's Essay.'

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unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner Wm. also read.'

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unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner Wm. also read.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'I read German after my return [from walk] till tea time.'

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William Wordsworth : Lyrical Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'After Tea I worked and read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., enchanted with the Idiot Boy.'

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William Wordsworth : Lyrical Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrical]. B[allads]. '

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William Wordsworth : Lyrical Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrical]. B[allads]. '

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unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrical]. B[allads]. '

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unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 March 1802: 'Read a little German, got my dinner.'

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Ben Jonson : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'William was reading in Ben Jonson -- he read me a beautiful poem on Love.'

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William Wordsworth : The Pedlar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'We sate by the fire in the evening, and read The Pedlar over.'

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Ben Jonson : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a little German ...'

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unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a little German ...'

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 12 March 1802: ' ... I read the remainder of Lessing.'

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unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 March 1802: ' After tea I read to William that account of the little boy belonging to the tall woman ...'

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Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : The Butterfly (and other poems)

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 March 1802: 'Mr. Simpson came in just as [William Wordsworth] was finishing the Poem [The Butterfly]. After he was gone I wrote it down and the other poems, and I read them all over to him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : poems

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth

: German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.'

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Edmund Spenser : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 16 March 1802: 'After dinner I read him [William Wordsworth] to sleep. I read Spenser while he leaned upon my shoulder.'

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William Wordsworth : [poem]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'I went and sate with W. and walked backwards and forwards in the orchard till dinner time. He read me his poem.'

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unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'After dinner we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth] made a pillow of my shoulder -- I read to him and my Beloved slept.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : [poem]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: '... we sate a while ... [in the orchard]. I left ... [William Wordsworth], and he nearly finished the poem ... I went to bed before him -- he came down to me, and read the Poem to me in bed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : The Pedlar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.'

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unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'After dinner ... I read German ...'

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Ben Jonson : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... It is about 10 o'clock, a quiet night. The fire flutters, and the watch ticks. I hear nothing else save the breathing of my Beloved, and he now and then pushes his book forward, and turns over a leaf.'

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William Wordsworth : The Robin and the Butterfly

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 18 April 1802: 'I went to drink tea at Luff's ... William met me at Rydale ... We sate up late ... He met me with the conclusion of the poem of the Robin [ie "The Robin and the Butterfly"]. I read it to him in bed. We left out some lines.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

Adam Ferguson : Life of Ferguson

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again. Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two -- fell asleep for 5 minutes and awoke better.'

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unknown : poems

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: 'I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again. Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two -- fell asleep for 5 minutes and awoke better.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth

Edmund Spenser : Prothalamium

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 April 1802: We spent the morning in the orchard -- read the Prothalamium of Spenser.'

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William Wordsworth : verses

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and S. T. Coleridge] ... rested upon a moss-covered rock, rising out of the bed of the river. There we lay ... and stayed there till about 4 o'clock. William and C[oleridge]. repeated and read verses.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : verses

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: Sheet

William Shakespeare : A Lover's Complaint

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him composed.'

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unknown : Review

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 May 1802, 'When we came in [from evening walk to Tail End] we found a Magazine, and Review, and a letter from Coleridge with verses to Hartley [Coleridge], and Sara H[utchinson]. We read the Review, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Henry V

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry V. there.'

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unknown : Review

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'Read in the Review.'

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William Shakespeare : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 15 May 1802, 'It is now 1/2 past 10 ... A very cold and chearless morning ... I read in Shakespeare.'

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John Milton : sonnets

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milton's sonnets to him.'

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John Logan : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings of poor Logan since dinner.'

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unknown : Life of John Logan

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings of poor Logan since dinner.'

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John Milton : Il Penseroso

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H[utchinson]., while I was sitting in the window reading Milton's Penseroso to William.'

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: Mother Hubbard's Tale

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed."

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Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene (Canto I)

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 16 June 1802, 'I read the first Canto of the Fairy Queen to William.'

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Charles Churchill : The Rosciad

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 19 June 1802, 'I sate up a while after William ... I read Churchill's Rosciad.'

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William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'

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William Shakespeare : As You Like It

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'

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William Shakespeare : As You Like It

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning. I walked to the top of the hill and sate under a wall near John's Grove ... I read a scene or two in As You Like It.'

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William Shakespeare : As You Like It

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, and I read As You Like It.'

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Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, and I read As You Like It.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Winter's Tale

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...'

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: verse epitaph

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, describing how hours following William Wordsworth's marriage to Mary Hutchinson on 4 October 1802 spent: '... [at Kirby] we went to the Churchyard [Kirby Moorside Churchyard] after we had put a letter [announcing the marriage] into the Post-office for the York Herald. We sauntered about, and read the Grave-stones. There was one to the memory of five children ... There was another stone erected to the memory of an unfortunate woman ... The verses engraved upon it expressed that she had been neglected by her Relations, and counselled the readers of those words to look within, and recollect their own frailties. We left Kirby at about half-past two.'

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Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their arrival at four o'clock in the afternoon ... after tea S[toddart]. read in Chaucer to us.'

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Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.'

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John Milton : sonnets

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of a stocking, repeating some of his own sonnets to him, listening to his own repeating, reading some of Milton's, and the Allegro and Penseroso.'

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John Milton : L'Allegro

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John Milton : Il Penseroso

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Charlotte Smith : Elegiac Sonnets

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea ... My beloved William is turning over the leaves of Charlotte Smith's sonnets ...'

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Geoffrey Chaucer : Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.'

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Geoffrey Chaucer : The Knight's Tale

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour. Read part of The Knight's Tale with exquisite delight.'

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unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbread: 'The blind Man [Matthew Newton] and his Wife and Sister were sitting by the fire all dressed very clean in their Sunday clothes, the sister reading.'

Unknown

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Jean Jaques Rousseau : Confessions

'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides this is a singularly unique display of character.

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Jean Jaques Rousseau : Confessions

' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'

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Jean Jaques Rousseau : Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise

' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.'

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Jean Jaques Rousseau : Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise

' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'

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Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope

'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfortable.'

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Theodore Hook : Sayings and Doings

' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came up to bed at 9.35.'

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: Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire

'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several other books, Rhodes Peak Scenery, in 4, I think, thin 4 to vols, with plates. Read there the account of Bakewell Church, Haddow Hall etc.'

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Henry Moore : Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i

' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.'

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Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin : Amelie Mansfield

' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield. The story interesting. How poor the language after that of Rousseau.'

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Chateaubriand : Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi

' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi'. Read this as I walked along. Then paid a sol for the Journal Politique.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

: Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique

[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goes on to describe death of King reported in paper].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Richard Polwhele : Sermons: a new volume

Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele

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Lucian :

Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lucian, my mind was a little recovered and I construed Greek.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: [Greek Grammar]

before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Thomas Moore : The Loves of the Angels

[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too Anacreonic, too much that 'by the wildered senseis caught' ' [Quotes from 'The Second Angel's Tale' several times].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: Retrospective Review

[Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day. The style is to my mind beautiful, bearing rich impress of the hand of scholarship; and the writers ideas of women, whereoccasionally expressed, are free from the Mohamedanism of Moore, and breath rather the unaffected purity of chivalrous respect...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Serial / periodical

Jane Marcet : Conversations on Natural Philosophy

[Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting the system of pulleys she has not gone quite far enough. She has left us to ourselves rather too soon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

William Cowper : Retirement

[Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! "Well born- apart from vulgar minds- the polish of the manners clear" '[quotation from lines 728-733 of'Retirement' by Cowper].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Sophie Cottin : Amelie Mansfield

[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va toucher ce qu'ill y a deplus tendre dans le couer, reveile toutes les idees sensibles, et dispose au regret du bonheur et meme a' Celui de la peine." ... My leisure is passed in rummaging all over the French Novels the miserable public library here affords! I have just finishedAmelie Mansfield. My Aunt fancies I read for the sake of keeping up my French. I seem to be reading the language you are probably speaking.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham'

[Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read novels, do send for Eugene Aram. Miss Hobart and I have just read it, and thought it well done. ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

J. B. Bernard : Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract

[Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye. On electing monarchy and state religion he seems a visionary and a madman, but he is strong and clever against democracy. A person like Lady Stuart de Rothesay, or such as she has taught me to believe Lady Hardwicke [to be] might read this book, cull out the good, and be interested and instructed. ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and

What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me withsuch giant-powers of speech. Were ever lines more beautiful than the first five of the first night? Shakespeare might have written them. What a description of night! Less beautiful than Milton's so celebrated descrip- -tion of evening (book 4), but moresublime? [quotes from 'Night One'and 'Night two']... I wished I had marked all, or half, my favourite passages- they would shew you a mind fond of deep thought- a haughty spirit unyielding to the storms of time and circumstance - a heart when lulled in Friendship's lap. perhaps as warmly gentle as your own.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and

[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edition at home (got another directly), the very lines youmention. I have also marked the following, "Celestil happiness! Where e'er she stoops / To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds" [Night II, ll.516-17]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

John Gregory : A Father's Legacy to His Daughters

[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woman should never shew the full extent of her regard, even to her husband. Perhaps you are right. But neither right nor Dr. Gregory prescribes that words shoulkd never be employed ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Grecian History

The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the Greeks in general were.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Alexander Bower : An Account of the Life of James Beattie

My uncle has got the life of Doctor Beattie from the library [Halifax Subscription library?], I have not had time to read much of it yet, but I think he must have been a very clever man, and a great literary character.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Lister Print: Book

Alexander Hunter : Georgical Essays

My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with the Georgical Essays, I have read a little of the first and third volumes, they are sure to be interesting to me throughout for they are very improving and at the same time entertaining.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela

Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed most heartily at the Reading of it. I believ it is true, for I verely think I know the Gent. & Lady that occasioned it, indeed it is sweetly wrote & I hope will shew both sexes how right it is to marry upon a good foundation.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Cust Print: Book

John Bonnycastle : An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr

Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

Sophlocles : Electra

Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Joseph Hoole : sermons on several important practical subjects

Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: ['Medical Mss']

After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet

: The Bay of Biscay

Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

: Said Eve unto Adam

Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works

In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 January

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works

In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and poli

This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radical papers published. hen in Manchester I said to Dr Lyon, I should like to have one to see what it was like, but would be ashamed to ask for it.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper

Colonel Francis Hall : Travels in France in 1818

Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in politics + would perhaps, style himself a philosopher in religion. Consequently, his sentiments + mine on these subjects who as a limited monarchist + a ProtestantChristian according to the established Church of England, are opposite almost as the poles. However, there is some information useful to a tourist.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper

: Annals of philosophy

Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Serial / periodical

Sir Walter Scott : The Monastery. A romance

I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo stupid enough. Tea at 7:30.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

Richard Hakluyt : Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation

'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hakluyt to Addison... Her most cherished books were the twelve volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary inherited from her father. As the daughter of a don and a lover of words, she added her own marginal annotations to those pencilled in by George Macaulay'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [probably The Spectator]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume?

August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue : Leontine de Blondheim

from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ of which I thought had died for ever. I cried a good deal over the second + more over the third this morning, + as soon as I was alone during supper.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

n/a : Oxford English Dictionary

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown, poetry]

'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrence. Their mother's reading "would astonish the modern candidate for honours in English at any university", he claimed. "Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgeniev, Dumas, Hugo, Thackeray, Meredith, Scott, Dickens, all the classics, poetry etc., all these gave her immense joy".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [unknown, poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown, poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : [unknown, poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Victor-Marie Hugo : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

George Meredith : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Anthony Todd Thomson : A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e

'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Archibald Alison : Sermons

Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Desmosthenes : All the Orations of Demosthenes

Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not having got up in the morning as early as I thought.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

William Emerson : The principle of mechanics

Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and which I mean to attend.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh or 'Review'

Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beautiful.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

Dr Scudamore : Lectures on physiology

'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lectures on physiology Dr Scudamore lent me 10 days ago. The writing so bad we could not get on very fast. Both of us uninterested.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Leland : All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En

Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

William Emerson : Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics

had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Euclid : The Elements

before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Euclid : The Elements

between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may sometime attain a tolerable efficiency in mathematical studies[...] &

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: Bible

All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

William Spence : Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe

I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinted since 1806, or 1808, but the reasoning not out of date.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Little Dorrit

'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weeping copiously over Little Dorrit and Little Nell, and I knew by heart many of the passages in the Ingoldsby Legends, a volume that had been given me ... when I was ten years old! ... I lost myself in a magical world while reading the poems of Scott. I think I read them all one summer holiday, in a special spot in our garden ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson Print: Book

Rev. Richard H. Barham : The Ingoldsby Legends

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : poems

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson Print: Book

Henryk Sienkiewicz : Quo Vadis

'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the romantic stage. I read Quo Vadis ... Rider Haggard's She ... Robert Ellesmere ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson Print: Book

Rider Haggard : She

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson Print: Book

Mrs Meek : Ellesmere

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Four Georges

'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had sampled Wilde's Intentions (1891).'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Max Beerbohm Print: Book

Edward Lear : Book of Nonsense

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Max Beerbohm Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : Intentions

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Max Beerbohm Print: Book

unknown : unknown

' ... when stuck in '" dismal dirty inn at Halifax" in Yorkshire during his lecture tour in 1857, ... [Thackeray] made himself comfortable by reading and "pleasant talk about books" with people he met.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray

Charles Dickens : unknown

Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established custom [in 1880s-90s] ... by a very early age, Roy had listened to large parts of Dickens, Longfellow, and Tennyson, and to much of Thackeray, George Eliot, Carlyle, and Browning.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Book

George Eliot : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Book

Robert Browning : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

In Scaffolding in the Sky (1938), C[harles]. H. Reilly remembered Saturday evenings when 'we all assembled round the fire to hear him [his father] read Dickens, generally, so it seems to me, scenes from Pickwick papers ... We had our favourite scenes and would beg for them time after time.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles H. Reilly Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : unknown

'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfellow ...' [Nicoll's father a Scottish clergyman who amassed library of 17,000 volumes.]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Joseph Addison : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Richard Steele : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

James Russell Lowell : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Bronte : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

: newspapers

'... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library of 17,000 volumes and had own library of 25,000 volumes].'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Newspaper

Charles Darwin : [unknown]

'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the literary classics, as well as works on evolution by Darwin, Spencer, and Huxley ... after his day's work in the warehouse.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ben Tillett Print: Book

Herbert Spencer : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ben Tillett Print: Book

Thomas Huxley : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ben Tillett Print: Book

Hugh Conway : Called Back

'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fergus Hume's 'The Mystery of the Hansom Cab' (1887), and stories by Miss M. E. Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, and Ouida."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Tellar Print: Book

Fergus Hume : The Mystery of the Hansom Cab

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Tellar Print: Unknown

Mary Braddon : [stories]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Tellar Print: Unknown

Mrs Henry Wood : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Tellar Print: Unknown

Ouida [pseud] : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Tellar Print: Unknown

Hall Caine : The Manxman

George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead of 3."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book

Dr Langer : Roman History

'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his reading and, during the previous summer, had on hand Dr Langer's Roman History (in German) for morning reading, Virgil for afternoon, and a novel in the evening."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Virgil : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

: [novel]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and novels by Captain Marryat, the Brontes, and Miss M. E. Braddon."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Blatchford Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life of Nelson

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Blatchford Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Blatchford Print: Book

Captain Marryat : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Blatchford Print: Book

Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Blatchford Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Blatchford Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : unknown

"The son of a shipwright, [Hall] Caine had been largely dependent upon public sources [in particuarly the Free Library, Liverpool] to satisfy his appetite for knowledge ... in this way he encountered Coleridge, a formative influence."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Euripides : Medea

"It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket field, that [Neville] Cardus was noticed by the headmaster, C. A. Alington, who invited him to be his secretary after the start of the Great War."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Charles Mackay (ed) : A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry

"[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he had got posession of an old shattered copy of an anthology called A Thousand and One Gems', which he read aloud with her, sitting under nut trees at the bottom of the garden, in the 1890s."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Willie anon Print: Book

: Encyclopedia Britannica

Bruce Cummings [who later wrote as W. N. P. Barbellion]'s use of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "He would simply think of a word ... look it up, and read the 'learned articles till my eyes ached and my head swam. The sight of those huge tomes made me tremble with a lover's impatience ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bruce Cummings Print: Book

: Chambers's Encyclopedia

On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole volues of Chambers's Encyclopedia ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gilbert Keith Chesterton Print: Book

Karl Marx : Das Kapital

"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Bernard Shaw Print: Book

: T. P.'s Weekly

"In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... 'I discovered literature by picking up a copy of T. P.'s Weekly in a tea-shop ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : unknown

Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all my youthful enthusiasm for Shakespeare, Milton, Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy ... was a great source of supply now when I sat down to write aout great books ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gibbs Print: Book

John Milton : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gibbs Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gibbs Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gibbs Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gibbs Print: Book

George Eliot : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gibbs Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gibbs Print: Book

Herman Melville : Typee

"As a teenager ... [Holbrook Jackson] had been transported from Merseyside to the South Sea Islands. The vessel that bore him was imagination in the form of a 'musty copy' of Herman Melville's Typee (1846), bought for 3d. from a second-hand bookstall by the Liverpool docks."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Holbrook Jackson Print: Book

J. M. Robertson : unknown

Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M. Robertson, also once a poor boy who had made himself informed ... he was stimulating, and his books served as my encyclopedia ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Samuel Butler : Note Books

Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a copy of Samuel Butler's Note Books and read the following: 'Never try to learn anything until the not knowing it has become a nuisance to you for some time ...' ' "

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

: The British Weekly

On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Weekly as a newspaper boy, which 'gave me the taste for forming my own library ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [a Lancashire man] anon Print: Serial / periodical

: The Bookman

Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; after each issue I was looking impatiently for the next. It was my only peep-hole into ... the world where I was at home ... Its gossip, its reviews, its portraits ... its studies of the figures of English literature, and its publisher's advertisements, it was my Magic Lantern."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Serial / periodical

Sophocles : Philoctetes

Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwards from p.288 to 296, end of vol.2 Adams translation of the 7 remaining plays of Sophlocles...I feel myself improved & only hope to be going on prosperously [plans further improvement]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister

: The Leeds Mercury

Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a little while then went back to Northgate [...] Isabella had walked to the library newsroom and came to Northgate

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper

: '2 or 3 old papers'

Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper

James Boswell : The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Cicero : On/the book of old age

down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a translation of Cicero's treatise on old age. Went to the Saltmarshes at 3.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: Monthly Magazine

From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of the life + writings of the celestial German philosopher + professor, Kant, born , I think in 1723, died 1804. Turned to the article again. I must know more about this extraordinary man + his works by & by.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Joseph Spence : Polymetics Abridged

In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: 'Paris guide'

[9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: 'Old Maids'

The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs Norcliffe. 'Old Maids'. A sprightly writer expresses his opinions of old maids in the folowing manner:- I am inclined to believe that many of the satirical aspersions...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper

: European Magazine

In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get quit of her visit, he sent to say he was not quite dressed. She replied, it mattered not, genius is of no sex.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Serial / periodical

David Henry Urquhart : Commentaries on classical learning

I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against itself would wear out.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Confessions

"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Anne Lister : Journal

Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon

In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book I had bought for Miss Morritt from Miss Emily Cholmley...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

John Stewart : Collections and recollections

Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

: The art of employing time to the greatest advantage

At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more particularly pleased. There are several hints for journal keeping on which I shall think seriously. There is something highly novel in this work altogether + withal interesting

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

John Ash : Grammatical Institutes

Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Institute of English Grammar, trying to give M - some instruction + lent her the book.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton : Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair

Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle-Wm Blackwood, Edinburgh + London, 1822.[...]It is a singularly interesting pathetic story, doubly so because told as truth + not improbable [...] I read and roared over this thing till my head ached [...]

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Edward Young : The complaint, or night thoughts

From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

:

Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, after loitering that time, reading the gravestones in the churchyard.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: text printed on gravestones

George Gordon Byron : Childe Harold

At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold [...] she could not possibly stir out today [...] I walked slowly up Royston Rd [...] went up, found Miss Browne, not perhaps quite so unwell as I expected, sitting on the sopha reading the last canto of Childe Harold. Would not let her send for her mother till I had sat 40 minutes tete-a-tete with herself.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Browne Print: Book

: The Globe and Traveller

Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forever!' The greatest poet of the age! And I am sorry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper

Anne Lister : Journal

From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over attentively exclaiming to myself, 'oh women, women'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold

'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back. Set off down the old bank a little before 4. Staid at the library above an hour looking out a couple of books with proper prints for the children to copy at Pye Nest.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Anthony Todd Thomson : A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London

Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book

Violet Hunt : White Rose of Withered Leaf

Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays. I am reading yours, however ...'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Book

Karl Marx : unknown

'[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Saintsbury Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walt Whitman Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown

'"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest times I have read over his best stories."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Robertson Nicoll Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown

'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all of Scott, who influenced his own first writings.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over Jeanie's meeting with the Queen ..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

various : The Abbotsford Correspondence

'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or Scott's Journal (1890) ...'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

Walter Scott : Journal

'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or Scott's Journal (1890) ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

Walter Scott : Katherine Christian

'[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherine Christian (1941).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley Novels (12)

'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan cycles of Dumas, then Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame" and the immense "Les Miserables" ... ending up with half a dozen of Balzac ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Valois cycle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : D'Artagnan cycle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book

Victor-Marie Hugo : Notre-Dame de Paris

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book

Victor-Marie Hugo : Les Miserables

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : [novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book

Walter Scott : Wandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet)

'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Story of the World -- Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Saintsbury Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown

'... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Lang Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : Life of Scott

' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's "Life of Scott" to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quaker, he abhorred -- "and for many hours every day ... to all ten volumes ... he listened in the last winter of his life."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Edward Fry Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : Life of Scott

' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quaker, he abhorred -- "and for many hours every day ... to all ten volumes ... he listened in the last winter of his life."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mariabella Fry Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas and Florence Hardy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion

'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas and Florence Hardy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas and Florence Hardy Print: Book

Jane Austen : [novels]

E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth open and the mind closed.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Bleak House

'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral procession of Queen Victoria. He joined the crowd, and, to pass hours of waiting, stood reading "Bleak House". A stir eventually made him look up from his book; alas, the royal section of the cortege had gone.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Newman Flower Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favour of God, it was Pickwick Papers ... At some stage in the reading I knew with a happy breathless certainty that this was what I wanted to do with my life: to write books like this."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest Raymond Print: Book

: [French Grammar]

Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at, and I was decidedly told I could never learn without instruction. This was not to be had, and, disappointed and discouraged, I abandoned the pursuit.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

: ['novels']

As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I got novels, plays etc and read them privately... My parents remonstrated...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist

'... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alan Alexander Milne Print: Book

: ['Roman Classics']

Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language. I succeeded, read all the Roman classics, and fast as I finished one author, I found some friend willing to lend me another.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Virgil :

My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on books, but sufficiently easy to afford me plenty of leisure to read and study them when they were lent to me. At one time I longed to read Virgil but could not just then obtain it; night after night I dreamed of it, and when after many another book had been read and dismissed, I did procure it, I was exquisitely delighted with it.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

: ['Greek Grammar']

I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

: New Testament

I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leaving a word obscure; then part of the Odyssey, which was recalled before I could finish it.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Homer : The Iliad

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of Rome" for pleasure -- till ... I felt a "call", and underwent a process which may be described as the opposite of "conversion". The call came from Dickens. Pickwick was brought into the house ... I read "Pickwick" in convulsions of mirth. I dropped Pinnock's "Rome" for good.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Lang Print: Book

Pinnock : History of Rome

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Lang Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth :

My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were some of the old-school novels I could not give up.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

: [old-school novels]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book

John Adams : The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci

My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America', Goldsmith's 'History of England', Adams' 'Rome', Wesley's sermons and Fletcher's controversial volumes. All these had been read by me, either for my own amusement, or aloud to my father, whose sight had been lost for years.

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

William Robertson : The History of America

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown

'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of his life.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gordon Hewart Print: Book

J.J. Barthelemy : Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece,

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The History of England from the Earliest Times...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

John Wesley : Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons

My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America', Goldsmith's 'History of England', Adams''Rome', Wesley's sermons and Fletcher's controversial volumes. All these had been read by me, either for my own amusement, or aloud to my father, whose sight had been lost for years.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

: The Gentleman's Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and the first violinist of a visiting orchestra. He ... ended his formal education at 13 but, from this difficult childhood, he treasured one great moment: "I discovered Charles Dickens and went crazy. I borrowed Copperfield from the Municipal Library and the ordinary universe became unreal ... I read at meals, I read in the streets; at night I would read under the lamps ... I read in bed ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

William Lilly : Lilly's Latin Grammar

It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered from the use and abuse of schools... But I was desperate; nothing now could daunt me. I sewed, and pasted and repaired and covered the old book... and then conned and conjectured, and unweariedly considered its contents, that I might comprehend them. My father finding me resolved, gave me all the assistance in his power, but my reliance was on my own persevering and unconquerable determination to succeed.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Isaac Barrow : Euclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books Compend

Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics and by my usual persevering application for the Divine blessing, and untiring study, I got through the first three or four books, and derived advantage from the engagement.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown

'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Cynthia Asquith Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown

Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walter Raleigh] has just re-discovered Dickens -- having not touched him for years and approached him critically, he has now found himself caught up in a flame of love and admiration ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Print: Book

Hester Ann Rogers : Spiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the Experi

I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great blessing to me, also conversation with a person who enjoyed that blessing...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

Elinor Glyn : Halcyone

' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduously read the manuscript, corrected her spelling, and supplied Greek quotations.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Herbert Bradley Manuscript: Codex

: 'Scriptures'

My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts!

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book

: 'Scriptures'

My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts!

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : unknown

'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on learning that Cardinal Newman read his novels.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cardinal John Henry Newman Print: Book

: [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b

To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the resolutions over carefully, then most reverently uncovering his head, he took the offered pen, and when he had affixed his name, he said 'By God's grace I will keep them'... He became a diligent student of his Bible and theological works; preached the gospel locally for some years in his native land, and then emigrated to Canada...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: A Young Ploughman Manuscript: Sheet

Anthony Trollope : Autobiography

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature, for its density, blockishness and general thickness and soddenness.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : unknown

'... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he rediscovered after the First World War."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Matthew Barrie Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : unknown

'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, "I'm afraid it's no use anyone telling me that Thackeray is a better novelist than Trollope."'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Robert Browning : Sordello

'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it while convalescing, he entered a state of panic that his illness had destroyed his reason; then, having passed the book from his bedside to a visiting friend, who also exhibited utter incomprehension, he collapsed relieved on his pillow with a cry of "Thank God!"!'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Jerrold Print: Book

Marie Corelli : The Soul of Lilith

Annette R. Federico notes anecdote in Kent Carr's 1901 biography of Marie Corelli, in which it is reported that New Zealand and Australian soliders in South Africa during the Boer War 'came across a stray copy of The Soul of Lilith on the veld and tore out each page after it was read to pass along to the next man in the troop.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: New Zealand and Australian soldiers Print: Book

Marie Corelli : The Sorrows of Satan

'[Kent] Carr cites a letter [Marie] Corelli received from a colors sergeant in the Boer War in May 1900: "Now to tell you about your delightful books which were invaluable to the troops during the siege; one, 'The Sorrows of Satan,' was read and re-read by me, and then handed round. As many as three would be wanting to read it, so where literature was scarce, you can imagine what a blessing it was to have a book like it.'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Johann David Wyss : The Swiss Family Robinson

On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell) were 'reading every day with their Pa Swiss Family Robinson.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thompson Family Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57]. Their father, by reading "Jane Eyre" aloud to them (with omissions), had given them a fervent love for Charlotte Bronte ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown

'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57] ... guided by ... [their father] they were ranging ... through the works of Dickens, Scott, Trollope, and Jane Austen. Much of what they read was advanced fare for children of nine and ten ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thompson Family Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them from Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, and Tennyson.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Christiana Thompson Print: Book

William Wordsworth : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Christiana Thompson Print: Book

John Keats : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Christiana Thompson Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Christiana Thompson Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Baker Strettell Print: Book

John Keats : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Baker Strettell Print: Book

William Wordsworth : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Baker Strettell Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Baker Strettell Print: Book

Walter Scott : novels

June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

George Eliot : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

unknown : Fatima

Noted by 17-year-old Alice Thompson in her diary: 'I have been reading Fatima and I don't quite think I know what love is.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson

Aristotle : unknown

Aged 19, Alice Thompson '...engaged in ... earnest reading and note-taking ... from Lewis's Aristotle.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

William Wordsworth : unknown

Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : unknown

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson

John Keats : unknown

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson

Alice Thompson : unknown poems

How the young Alice Meynell gained her family's support for her writing: ' ... [in c. 1867 Alice Thompson] had shown ... [her poems] to an American friend of the family, who had read them to Mr Thompson [her father] ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Thompson Manuscript: Unknown

n/a : Chambers's Journal

'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from a rubbish bin: "It was dog-eared and pages were missing but never before had I seen and held such a volume of reading matter and it provided months of utmost delight and interest. It was my introduction to life through the written word. The sciences, philosophy, religions, politics, literature, poetry, much of it far beyond my understanding".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: 'a Manchester boy' Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled painter, age eighteen. Spends evenings painting, reading, working on model airplanes. Has attended art school....Patronizes Free Library. Has read The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Bulwer Lytton, Ballantyne, Henty, Robinson Crusoe, Quentin Dirward, Ivanhoe, Waverley, Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Two Years before the Mast, as well as the travels of David Livingstone, Fridtjof Nansen, Matthew Peary and Scott of the Antarctic'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Robert Michael Ballantyne : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Alfred Henty : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Walter Scott : Quentin Durward

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Kidnapped

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Richard Henry Dana : Two Years Before the Mast

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

David Livingstone : [Travels: perhaps, 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa']

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Fridtjof Nansen : [Travels - probably 'Farthest North']

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Matthew Peary : [Travels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Robert Falcon Scott : [Travels in the Antarctic]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

n/a : Bible

[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Wiliam Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Much Ado about Nothing

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

John Masefield : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Christmas Carol

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Reade : The Cloister and the Hearth

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Gilbert Keith Chesterton : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Major Barbara

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : John Bull's Other Island

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : The Doctor's Dilemma

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Man and Superman

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : The Devil's Disciple

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : You Never Can Tell

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Socialism and Superior Brains

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Fabian Essays

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : An Unsocial Socialist

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : The Irrational Knot

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

John Galsworthy : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Enoch Arnold Bennett : [unknown]

[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris,, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The OLd Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superor Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Sidney and Beatrice Webb : Industrial Democracy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Oliver Joseph Lodge : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Edward Carpenter : Towards Democracy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Edward Carpenter : The Intermediate Sex

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

John Atkinson Hobson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Alfred Marshall : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Plato : The Republic

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree : Poverty, A Study of Town Life

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics textbook, as well as "Little Women".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

[unknown] : [basic economics textbook]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Louisa May Alcott : Little Women

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Robert Burns : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

anon : The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Ella Wheeler Wilcox : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

[unknown] : [various history and biography]

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the Bible'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Mark Twain : The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Emmusska, Baroness Orczy : The Scarlet Pimpernel

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

n/a : Bible

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna Doone", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Richard Doddridge Blackmore : Lorna Doone

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Louisa May Alcott : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

David Livingstone : [Travels, probably 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa']

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Darwin : [probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle']

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : [unknown]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : [unknown]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

John Ruskin : [unknown]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

William Morris : [unknown]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Francis Turner Palgrave : Golden Treasury of English Song and Lyrics

'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in prison with Keats and Tennyson - regretted that that poetic heritage had been surrendered to the cinema and radio: "In the early days of the [socialist] movement it was common practice of speakers to recite poetry...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell, later Baron Shinwell Print: Book

[anon] : Aristotle's Masterpiece

'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At last we understood what was meant when, during Scripture lessons, reference was made to 'the mother's womb'".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stan Dickens Print: Book

[anon] : Aristotle's Masterpiece

'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's Masterpiece over general giggles: "It contained explicit pictures of the developent of a foetus; in turn we read out passages. This went on until our boss Abe interrupted us. We felt so ashamed and from then on kept even further away from the VD clinic and became very dubious about the male sex'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bertenshaw Print: Book

Helkiah Crooke : [medical folio]

'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James I) and was delighted by "certain parts of the work which treated on subjects whichare generally wrapt in mystery by people, and which my [Yorkshire Methodist] parents would have been least disposed for me to think about or understand." When he indiscreetly shared his knowledge with some friends, there was a general uproar and even death-threats. His angry parents confiscated the book then returned it "on condition that I would paste up two particular parts of it. But I soon took the liberty to break loose the sealed-up parts, and read them again".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Barker Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in secondhand schooltexts of Ovid, Juvenal and Catullus: though he knew no Latin beyond the Mass, the English notes offered plenty of background on the filthy loves of gods and goddesses".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Barclay Print: Book

Ovid : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Barclay Print: Book

Juvenal : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Barclay Print: Book

Catullus : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Barclay Print: Book

[unknown] : [physiology textbooks]

'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow Gargantua and Pantagruel, which was no more helpful: "the love passages in the tales were meaningless and boring and I skipped them".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clark Print: Book

Francois Rabelais : Gargantua and Pantagruel

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

George Moore : A Mummer's Wife

'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady who was undressed said to the man 'Bite me' and also got into bed with no clothes on. Mother always wore a nightdress in bed".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Dorrell Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the d'Urbervilles

'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: "Though we read books like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Hatter's Castle' both dealing with defloration of innocence and an ultimate baby, we drew no parallels and made no application to ourselves. I even read Radclyffe Hall's classic story of lesbianism, The Well of Loneliness, without having the faintest idea of what it was about'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

A.J. Cronin : Hatter's Castle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

Radclyffe Hall : The Well of Loneliness

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

[unknown] : [medical book]

'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edna Bold Print: Book

John Foxe : Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edna Bold Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown out of the flat print words of Treasure Island. Bartlett was a good painter in water-colour. When we read Kidnapped he made us paint the Scottish moors. We laughed over Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Kidnapped

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Walter Scott : Fortunes of Nigel

'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up a book, the "Fortunes of Nigel" and read on and on till it was three o'clock in the morning.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Washington Irving : Life of Columbus

That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was as awful as the dictionary because of the long words). I was caught by the passion for print as an alcoholic is caught by the bottle.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Nicholas Soyer : The Art of Paper Bag Cookery

I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leatherL it defeated me. Wordsworth and Milton at least wrote in short lines with wide margins. I moved on to a book by Hall Caine called 'The Bondman'. It appeared to be about a marriage and I noticed that the men and women talked in the dangerous adult language which I associated with 'The bad girl of the family'. 'The Bondman' also suggested a doom -the sort of doom my mother sang about which was connected with Trinity Church and owing the rent.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Marcus Aurelius : The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Wordsworth and Milton at least wrote in short lines with wide margins. I moved on to a book by Hall Caine called 'The Bondman'. It appeared to be about a marriage and I noticed that the men and women talked in the dangerous adult language which I associated with 'The bad girl of the family'. 'The Bondman' also suggested a doom -the sort of doom my mother sang about which was connected with Trinity Church and owing the rent.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Hall Caine : The Bondman

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Free Opinions

I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. The words were easy, rather contemptibly so. I read and then stopped in anger. Marie Corelli had insulted me. She was against popular education, against schools, against Public libraries and said that common people like us made the books dirty because we never washed, and that we infected them with disease.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book, Newspaper

Marie Corelli : Master Christain

I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning with the 'Rape of Lucrece' and the sonnets and continued slowly through the plays during the coming year. For relief I took up Marie Corelli's 'Master Christain' which I found more moving than Shakespeare and more intelligible than 'Thanatopsis'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Shakespeare's Complete Works

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

William Cullen Bryant : Thanatopsis

I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning with the 'Rape of Lucrece' and the sonnets and continued slowly through the plays during the coming year. For relief I took up Marie Corelli's 'Master Christian' which I found more moving than Shakespeare and more intelligible than 'Thanatopsis'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Trine : In Tune with the Infinite

I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning with the 'Rape of Lucrece' and the sonnets and continued slowly through the plays during the coming year. For relief I took up Marie Corelli's 'Master Christian' which I found more moving than Shakespeare and more intelligible than 'Thanatopsis'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Robert Browning : A Death in the Desert

In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "A Death in the Desert": 'Sixty years have passed since first I read it at Oxford, and then it seemed to me convincing and consoling ... To-day I find myself unable to discover any conclusion better fitted to satisfy Christian thought ...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hensley Henson

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam

'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm when someone ... shouted: '"Tennyson's dead!" And in my pocket was a volume of Tennyson's poems, for we had been doing In Memoriam that afternoon.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: school class at Weymouth College Print: Book

John Ruskin : Praeterita

'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 August 1889] that it was "an admirable specimen of its author's merits and defects ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grant Duff Print: Serial / periodical

John Ruskin : Unto This Last

'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshire acres -- began to realise that her luxuries were owed to the labour of the filthy, forlorn miners she occasionally caught sight of.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Markham Print: Book

Theodore Watts-Dunton : poems

'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to live after his health failed] was given to the poet Wilfrid Blunt by his cousin George Wyndham, whose visit in 1891 had "ended in Watts reading out his own poems instead of letting Swinburne read his." [recorded in Blunt's diary for 7 August 1891]'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Theodore Watts-Dunton

George Meredith : Novels

'... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed through her household in the 1890s: "The best I had in those years was a young Welshwoman, who read the novels of Meredith ... and enjoyed them ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : poems

"'..[Lady Cynthia Asquith's] diary records several occasions when, in the family circle or with a romantic companion, [Rupert] Brooke's poems were read aloud; 12 June and 19 Sept. 1915.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Asquith Family Print: Book

: Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'

'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's "Felix Holt"] and neither daring to say so, except in the most timid way - proves this conclusively.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

: Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

: Notice of Cyril Oliphant's 'De Musset'

'Only yesterday morning he [Cyril Oliphant] was well enough to read out to me [Francis Oliphant] a little notice of his De Musset which appeared in Willie Tulloch's little Glasgow paper; no one of us had any suspicion of what was at hand'.[Cyril Oliphant's death]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine

'Did you ever come across the "Illustrated Naval & Military Mag."? Genl. Sale-Hill, in the July no. of that periodical, controverts some statements made in "Broadfoot's Journal", published in 1888, and singles out especially the review of that book, in the "Athenaeum" of Feb.2, 1884, for attack.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.P. Oliver Print: Serial / periodical

Puigre : Journal

'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the French Astronomer Puigre's journal 1760-1761. It is still in MS. at the French Hydrographic department of the Marine, & has never been printed or published.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.P. Oliver Manuscript: Unknown

Jas (James) Hastie : Journal

'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie, the Civil Agent of Governor Farquhar at the court of Radama I. from 1817-1828. The authorities of the Record office have detained the copy a few days in order to authorize them. & I think the Journal would make (with editing) a good book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.P. Oliver Manuscript: Unknown

Andrew Lang : Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote

'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual treat for store this evening & subsequent nights'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.P. Oliver Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare reading] circle in Worcestershire in 1883.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) Print: Book

William Shakespeare : plays

Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cabinet in 1916: ' ... I spent some weeks alone in the country. During that time I read, or re-read, several of Shakespeare's plays.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Edward Grey Print: Book

unknown : Contemporary French novels

'In "Where Love and Friendship Dwelt" (1944), Marie Belloc remembered of her time as literary correspondent in late 1880s-early 1890s: "Even when I was in London, I read all the new French books I could get hold of..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Belloc Print: Book

Dilke : Article on Sir Stafford Northcote in the Athenaeum

'Have you read (Dilke's?) notice in the "Athenaeum", this day, on Sir Stafford Northcote? Andrew Lang had a most difficult task to fulfil. The judicious curtailment and necessary suppression of what people most want to know where unavoidable under the circumstances.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.P. Oliver Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Letters

'Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husband's poetry ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Blunt Print: Book

Voltaire : unknown

... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. G. Wells Print: Book

unknown : [Greek text/s]

Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began seriously to read Greek."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Humphrey Ward Print: Book

: The Times

'Dear Mr Blackwood, I see in "The Times" that you were present at the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Rudyard Kipling : McAndrew's Hymn

In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bourget having failed to translate Kipling's "McAndrew's Hymn" into French, Henry James 'straight away put it into "vigorous idiomatic French" ...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James

: 'The Two Blights in Ireland', Blackwood's Magazine, Nov 1890

'I have been reading with interest today the last article in the current number of "Blackwood", entitled "The Two Blights in Ireland". But may I be allowed to point out a small slip, on the writer's part, on page 722, which might possibly be laid hold of by the nationalists, as showing his ignorance of the topography of the land.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: P.L. Park Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : Red Cotton Nightcap Country

"In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he read there Red Cotton Nightcap Country (1873) -- 'at his own request'"

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together from Dickens, Lamb, Charles Reade and Thackeray."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

Charles Lamb : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

Charles Reade : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

Algernon Swinburne : Les Noyades

"In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His target was not his host, Richard Monckton Milnes ... Nor was Swinburne particularly showing off for Thackeray, a fellow guest ... His aim was directed more at the rest of the table: Thackeray's two daughters and the new Archbishop of York, William Thomson ... Swinburne read Les Noyades'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne

Algernon Swinburne : unknown

'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of the artist Simeon Solomon ... "For three hours he spouted his poetry to us, and it was of a power, beauty and originality unequalled."'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne

William Morris : The Haystack in the Floods (and other poems)

'When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris "read us out several of his poems ... including The Haystack in the Floods, but his reading is without the graces of elocution."'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Morris

Gardiner : Great Civil War

'Professor Gardiner, in the 2nd volume of his "Great Civil War", has given so much prominence to the character and actions of the Great Marquis of Montrose, that I think an article drawing attention to the Scottish hero as he appears in the pages of our latest Historian of that period, might interest many readers. I can at least write with a thorough knowledge of the subject, as I have not only carefully read Professor Gardiner's volumes, but have been for many years engaged in the study of Montrose's life and times.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jennet Pryce Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Cup

'In 1880 Tennyson attempted to interest Henry Irving in his play "The Cup" ... [he] "read in a monotone, rumbling on a low note" until, for the female parts, "he changed his voice suddenly and climbed up into a key he could not sustain". This was Ellen Terry's description: she was present with her 11-year-old daughter, who found the performance irresistibly comical, as apparently did Irving ...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : The Passing of Arthur

'In 1876 Aubrey de Vere aranged for Alice Thompson ... and her sister Elizabeth a visit to [Tennyson at] Aldworth ... Alice was ready with her selection when the offer to read was issued. It was "The Passing of Arthur", and it was a mistake. Tennyson "complied ... [but] was not pleased with her choice, which he thought should have fallen on his later work".'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

: A Collection of Fifty Old Plays

[Annotation]: Beside the printed words 'Just Publish'd', Peter Cunningham has added '(1744)' and [? - semi-legible - 'To Night 6' followed by [legible] '& Night-Thoughts'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Cunningham Print: Advertisement

Alfred Tennyson : Maud

' ... [over] a weekend at Aldworth ... [Margot Tennant] told Tennyson how very handsome he was, and, after his after-dinner nap, asked him to read "Maud" ... read it he did ...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Maud

'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Maud

'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Maud

'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Harold

' ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, "Harold" (1877) ... The marathon session began at 11.30 and continued for two and a half hours, during which Gladstone nodded off and other minds turned to "such earthly things as luncheon".'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Thomas Hardy : [unknown]

'...[Newman] Flower as a boy read and idolized Hardy ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Newman Flower Print: Unknown

George Gissing : New Grub Street

Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a writer: '... they spoke of the stress and anxiety of the literary life, and its dolours, and advised me to read Gissing's "New Grub Street" (which I did) ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burke Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

'When the Duke of Argyll ... visited Farringford, Tennyson read his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852) ...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Sir Edwin Arnold : The Light of Asia

'"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a very fine poem, to the dismay of his questioner, who had "read and re-read it with the greatest possible pleasure" ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

William Watson : Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems

'[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively that he had already read it while staying with Edward Clodd ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Book

: 'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of collected plays]

[Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' and [legible] '4. Of Young's Night Thoughts 1743'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Cunningham Print: Advertisement

William Watson : Poems

On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to him by R. H. Hutton, it was with a view to obtaining for him a Civil List pension, not the laureateship.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Peter Cunningham : Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonson

[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any note we can treat of': 'bio. Prin & Shepherd'.

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Anon Manuscript: Pamphlet

Christina Rossetti : poems

'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- three or four of her poems, like those of her brother, make a cheap fool of [Robert] Browning ... I think she is the best poet alive."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Raleigh Print: Book

: A Proposal

[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in pencil, 'Dodsley', underlined.

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Anon Print: Advertisement

Robert Bridges : Shorter Poems

'Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of language ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Benson Print: Book

Rabindranath Tagore : Poems from Gitanjali: Song Offerings

'[C. F.] Andrews was a missionary with the Cambridge Brotherhood and present at [William] Rothenstein's Hampstead home on 30 June 1912, when, before a select audience, including H. W. Nevinson, [Rabindranath] Tagore was introduced and Yeats gave readings from the "Gitanjali".'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Butler Yeats

Thomas Dunham Whitaker : Galt's Life of Cardinal Wolsey

'Sir, I have heard with great regret that you are the author of that gross personal libel which appeared in the Quarterly Review, in the form of criticism on my Life of Cardinal Wolsey. I say with regret because it has been my settled determination from the moment I read the article to make the author sensible that in accusing me of being activated by the most obnoxious principles, he had laid himself open to be suspected of obeying them himself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Galt Print: Serial / periodical

Herbert Spencer : Autobiography

'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disappointingly deficient in emotion".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Lady Grove : The Social Fetich

'... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assistant when he read the proofs of The Social Fetich (1907), her study of contemporary manners ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Book

various : A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent

'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in the 'Handbook' in compliance with the invitation there given, for it is a sort of public duty to assist in rendering so useful and creditable a work as free as possible from even the slightest errors.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone Print: Book

[unknown] : [reports on education in Prussia]

'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' and Shakespeare, and ... polish off seven love-stories at the same time ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Unknown

Thomas Huxley : Life

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Book

[unknown] : [romantic fiction]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Unknown

: Review of The Miser Married

'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed to take half the profits. "Now", said Mr Orme, "I will do you a favour which we seldom do in these cases, you shall see the opinion of our critic on your work." I read it and asked if I might copy it. He instantly put it into the hand of one of the clerks, and gave me the copy, from which I now transcribe the following words. "I am charmed with the Miser Married, which is in a style so wholly new, and to my taste, highly captivating. It will not, perhaps immediately attract popularity - it is so superior to all that is commonly found to please - no romance, no caricature, - no cant [cant underlined]. I must add, no humour - with that it would be a chef d'oeuvre.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Manuscript: Sheet

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [Marie Corelli's] Barabbas by turn.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent Duchess of Sutherland Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Barabbas

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent Duchess of Sutherland Print: Book

: Review of The Miser Married

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Manuscript: Sheet

George Meredith : Modern Love

'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond MacCarthy ... Wilfrid [Meynell] was requested to read George Meredith's Modern Love. This he did, with running commentary ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Meynell Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Diary of Wilfrid Blunt, 22 June 1894: ' ... gave a dinner at Mount Street to Lady Granby, Lucy Smith, [Constant] d'Estournelles, Alfred Lyall, and Godfrey Webb, all of us more or less poets. After dinner we read and recited poetry ...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Blunt and guests

Mrs Brooke :

'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, not daring to hope, that I might be something like Miss Austen; and, having finished her works, I took to my own, to see if I could find any resemblance. I am not certain that I have read any of mine since the time of their publication; if I have it is so long since that I have forgotten it, and I was surprised to find in the first leaf of The Miser Married the critic's opinion'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

: The Globe

'[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt], [Francis] Thompson ignored the scenery and was "wholly absorbed in the Globe newspaper". [recorded by Blunt in Diary for 12 October 1898]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Thompson Print: Newspaper

Catherine Hutton : The Welsh Mountaineer

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Catherine Hutton : Oakwood Hall

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

Catherine Hutton : The Miser Married

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Hutton Print: Book

George MacDonald : The Princess and the Goblin

'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elinor Glyn Print: Book

[unknown] : [American literature]

'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant Print: Unknown

Louisa May Alcott : Little Women

'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Smedley Print: Book

: International Express Train Co monthly guide

'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Express Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur St, issue a month's guide for the information of travellers which is circulated [two illegible words]. It contains a comparative table of the prices and [illegible, underlined, possibly "routes"] of Baedecker's and Murray's Guides, much to your disadvantage & certainly incorrect.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.E. Prothero

Ovid : Tristia IV

'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin literature. Strangely enough, I have come across it here. It is in Ovid ("Tristia" IX. 10.51)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.E. Prothero Print: Book

: Quarterly Review

'The last Quarterly contained a dishonest and offensive attack upon me by an American journalist, whom I dimly remember as an employe of Blorrity years ago when I refused to receive him in my house in Paris.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J.E.C. Bodley Print: Serial / periodical

George Sturt : The Bettesworth Book

It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a reader and adviser)- he suggests that he himself write a preface for it, and that it be published under the title 'Talks with my Gardener: a study of the English peasant.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

: Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Quarterly Review

'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Cecil Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

: Article on Stephen Phillips in the Quarterly Review

'As I am writing to you, it wd, I feel, be disingenuous in me if I did not tell you how fully I share the surprise and regret which some at least whose opinion you would, I know, respect, are feeling about the appearance in the "Quarterly" of the article on Mr Stephen Phillips.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J.C. Collins Print: Serial / periodical

: Article in the Morning Post entitled 'British Spy in the Kiel Canal'

'Dear Mr. Prothero, Did you see the Morning Post of last Wednesday or Thursday? The headlines ran: "British Spy in the Kiel Canal" and then they proceed to give my name and quotations.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J.M. de Beaufort Print: Newspaper

: Quarterly Review

'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and sane - don't you think so?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bailey Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review

'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle was a "Scot", not an Englishman, and protest in the strongest terms possible against any Scot being called by the infamous appellation of "Englishman". "Anglo-Saxon", "England", and "Englishman" are the most horrid and abominable appellations the tongue of man can utter.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald Brown Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: W.A. Pool Print: Serial / periodical

: Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in the Quarterly Review

'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I regret seeing in the July issue the article "India under Lord Hardinge." It is, I think, an extremely unfair attack upon him, but, as I am personally very much attached to him, I may not be impartial on that point.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Valentine Chirol Print: Serial / periodical

Curtin : The Times (series of articles)

'Dear Dr. Prothero, Are you reading Curtin's articles in the Times? I have followed every one of them very carefully, and I must admit I started reading them with some anxiety. Then I read about his letter of introduction to Mr. Drechsler, given to him by Prof. Muensterberg [...] I have read every one of his articles so far and I can now honestly assure you that all of my anxiety about seeing perhaps a great deal of similar material, as that which forms the MSS of my book, has entirely evaporated.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J.M. de Beaufort Print: Newspaper

Arnold Bennett : The Man from the North

Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Manuscript: Sheet, proofs

Edmund de Goncourt : Journals

He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into the right artistic mood.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Stephane-Felicite de Genlis :

Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, why I like her.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Stephane-Felicite de Genlis : unknown

Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both because I can entirely agree in the general principle of them - and because I can defend - or think I can defend, my favourite from the application of them. ... I would go farther than most people in requiring sincerity, whether in art or education, I have found it, in practical matters, so curiously difficult to determine what is, or is not, insincerity... let us go at once to the examples of all sincerity in Him who was the Truth... tell me what rule you have fixed upon as in all cases setting limits to dissimulation - I will try and apply your rule to Mme de Genlis - and then say what I can for her. I like her for her love of heroism - her unselfishness - her general grace of feeling - her love of nature, blooming out as it does through the fashions and the ignorance of her time as a girl's love of wild sweetbriar might be detected among the formalities of her court bouquet - and her exquisite expression of the truths she does perceive.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Helen

Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Political Economy of Art

Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next edition)'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford Print: Book

: Arabian Nights

Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the story is the last in the Arabian nights."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Lord John Russell :

Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her about Italy.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

: The Bible

Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to me than St Paul?s words about him [Hebrews, XI, v. 4] ? (which latter are rapid ? vague, and unless you know precisely what is meant by faith, inconclusive.) God?s own pleading with Cain is what I want to understand. Why art thou wroth ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? if not ? sin lieth at the door - &c. What is the ?Doing well? which God speaks of? What is the meaning of sin?s lying at the door ? and what is meant by the promise following. ?Unto thee shall be his desire?, &c? The passage is rendered still more difficult by an important variation in the Septuagint, (which I almost always find clearly more trustworthy than either the vulgate or English) ? namely in verse 7. ?Has not thou sinned, in that thou hast rightly brought, but not rightly divided.? The ordinary Evangelical gloss, that Cain was wrong in bringing fruit instead of flesh, seems at variance with this ?rightly brought?; and St Paul?s words leave us wholly in darkness as to the nature of the faithlessness, whether in substance or offering, or in manner.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of a critical sentence on painter's work: "that it was very well - and would have been better if the painter had taken more pains."

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Richard II

Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott :

Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walter's. - Do you see what the French call him now: - (so truly! - the epithet being one of praise or contempt according to the feeling of the speaker) - 'l'enfantin Sir Walter'!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Ruskin : Cestus of Aglaia

"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford, having read the beginning of Ruskin's Cestus of Aglaia (his papers on Art) commented to a friend."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford Print: Book

Horace Benedict de Saussure : Voyages dans les Alpes

Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valorsins'. Such a scramble as I've had after them today!"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint, and he does not help one to mend it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford Print: Book

John Ruskin : Crown of Wild Olives

"Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the sermon on to myself and be the better for it... Yours sincerely, L. Waterford."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford Print: Book

William Paley : Natural Theology

Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, Hume, and Mr. Leslie, because if you do, I think you may as well throw Paley's last work into the fire."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Letitia Barbauld Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Locksley Hall

'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Listen now, children" began to declaim "Locksley Hall". When she reached "I to herd with narroe foreheads" she burst out, flinging down the book, "What awful rubbish this is!"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Hughes Print: Book

anon : A Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show

The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nearly a yard of coloured pictures, displaying all the features of the Show. This was called 'A Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show', and the name pleased me so much that for days afterwards I would go about the house pretending to be a hawker, crying: "Buy my Pamorama, my penny Panorama, My penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: M.V, Hughes Print: Book

Davila : ? [ History of the French Civil Wars]

" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler

Davila : ? [ History of the French Civil Wars]

" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler

Henry David Thoreau : unknown

Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowell ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Smedley Print: Unknown

Ralph Waldo Emerson : unknown

Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowell ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Smedley Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Emmeline

" Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again undertake such a tiresome nonsensical piece of business."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

James Russell Lowell :

Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowell ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Smedley Print: Unknown

Jean Jacques Rousseau :

" reading Rousseau to my Sally."

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler

Jean Jacques Rousseau :

" From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life."

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler

Mrs Humphrey Ward : Canadian Born

"When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly boring' [as Venetia Stanley wrote to Violet Asquith, 12 October 1910]."

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Humphrey Ward

Jean Jacques Rousseau :

" From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler

Samuel Richardson : The Rambler

" I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Serial / periodical

Petrarch : Sonatto di Petrarca

" Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

: The Tatler

" Finished The Tatler"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Serial / periodical

: The Spectator

" began the Spectator"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Serial / periodical

Madame de Maintenon : Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon

" Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertinent reflections will permit me to read it."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

Madame de Maintenon : Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon

" Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

Swinburne : Travels through Spain

" finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

unknown : article

'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conversation over tea, which she felt included too intimate personal details ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: May Sinclair Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

A.R. Lesage : Gil Blas

Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

: Tab. de la Suisse

" From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse."

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler

: advertisements for Oscar Wilde's lectures

Robert Sherard on Oscar Wilde's work as a lecturer, in Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (1902; 1908) 87-9: 'It was a real penance to him, and I could understand this after I had seen how his lectures were advertised in the provincial papers.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sherard Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Madame de Metterniche : Memoires

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere :

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

Corneille : Theatro du Grand Corneilles

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

: Reise-Bilder

'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of the Reise-Bilder and a little pocket dictionary".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book

Racine : Theatro et oevres de Racine

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

Dante : La Divina Commedia

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

: Pocket German dictionary

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book

Pietro Metastasio : opera (16 Tom)

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

Gilpin : Northern Tour

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Works

Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book

: La Morte D'Abel

" Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Ponsonby Print: Book

Henry James : What Maisie Knew

' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my very limit ..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede

Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots' 'Adam Bede'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Penny Magazine

"went to church, came back, got parlour lunch, had my own dinner, sit by the fire and red (sic) the Penny magazine and opened the door when any visitors came."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Tayler Print: Serial / periodical

H. Rider Haggard : She

"'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... 'I am struck with the beastly bloodiness of it ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

unknown : Princess Novelette

'[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of these which she kept tied up in flat parcels, ready to exchange with other novelette readers".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

Julia Kavanagh : Natalie

'"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone Print: Book

Julia Kavanagh : Adele

'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone Print: Book

Julia Kavanagh : Natalie

'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her father, lately ejected from the premiership, to read it too.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Mrs Henry Wood : East Lynne

'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Cynthia Asquith Print: Book

Mrs Henry Wood : East Lynne

'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room for a whole day, abandoning everything. The mystery was explained by a copy of East Lynne, which had been brought surreptitiously into the [strictly Evangelical] house, and in which she became so engrossed that she ceased to care a han, as we expressed it, for anything or anybody".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Swan Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : unknown

"Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Elizabeth Inchbald : Nature and Art

Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Elizabeth Inchbald : Nature and Art

I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice & the hapiness of virtue.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : Lady Audley's Secret

'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took the first opportunity of stealing the novel in question [Lady Audley' s Secret]. I read it eagerly, passionately, vehemently," afterwards progressing to the rest of Braddon's fiction, including The Doctor's Wife, about "a lady who loved Shelley and Byron", which in turn led him to take up those poets ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : The Doctor's Wife

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

: The Story-Teller

' ... from a chance meeting in a railway carriage with Kipling, [Newman] Flower discovered that he had read ... [The Story-Teller] almost from the first.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rudyard Kipling Print: Serial / periodical

: cheap popular fiction

'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American westerns, and thrillers, though he would occasionally leaven the mixture by rereading Dickens and what he considered the erotic passages of Byron, Milton and Burns. He did latch on to some best-sellers, such as Jeffrey Farnol's The Amateur Gentleman (1913), which he read "over and over again" ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lloyd George Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lloyd George Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lloyd George Print: Book

John Milton : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lloyd George Print: Book

Robert Burns : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lloyd George Print: Book

Jeffrey Farnol : The Amateur Gentleman

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lloyd George Print: Book

Stephen Crane : Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie" ... I took it up ... and to my horror I discovered it was the story of a New York courtesan ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Garvice Print: Book

Stephen Crane : Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Garvice Print: Book

Florence L. Barclay : The Rosary

' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests after dinner by [mockingly] reading from The Rosary [by Florence L. Barclay] ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Cynthia Asquith Print: Book

: The Bible

'...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he could quote it in remarkable fashion.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Hall Caine : The Scapegoat

' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : The King's Tragedy

On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's Tragedy" ...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence "I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Matthew Gregory Lewis : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Elements of Drawing

Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had been published in June]. The appalling character of it is only to young ladies who think of drawing as mere recreation - assuredly no more work is asked than about half what they give to piano."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Blunden Print: Book

Aubrey Thomas de Vere :

Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's plenty of enthusiasm in them of the kind you like."

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Edmund Spencer : The Faerie Queen

Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Edmund Spencer : The Faerie Queen

Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Blunden Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browining : Aurora Leigh

Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browining : Aurora Leigh

Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Blunden Print: Book

John Burnet : [on composition]

Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Ruskin : Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds

Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the title, but I do not care about re-publishing the thing just now. We are on the eve of disturbances in the church which will supersede all such discussions by a general crash, out of which common sense will recover without getting its head broken."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Blunden

Robert Browning : Men and Women

Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in the Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in poetry; and that Men & Women is to me simply a set of 50 Conundrums, of the most amazing & tormenting kind."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture

From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; he found its author to be 'a great enthusiast and runs to extremes in his opinions... he seems to me to become preposterous and self-contradictory', but all was redeemed by his being 'very earnest throughout'."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Heaton Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : Fairy legends and Tales

Letter H53, January 1857 "But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he is in comparison. How unexpected also are most of his turns. The conceit of the different personages is nearly all that is amusing here" (referring to one of Miss Heaton's tales)"and you will find Anderson has worked that point thoroughly in the 'darning needle' and the hen and the can in the ugly duck &c."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Poems, including "Drama of Exile"

Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her poetry than ever - she is a noble creature."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno

Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Rossetti has thoroughly understood the passage throughout. You will see that in the first of the series it is really not Francesca's fault. She is nearly fainting and cannot help it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Death of Socrates

Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is not yet set - It is only on the mountains" But he drank the hemlock immediately."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Robert Browning : Men and Women

The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you their kind regards. What a glorious book "Men and Women" is!" (Letters written to Ellen Heaton; sold in 1969; whereabouts unknown.)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book

: The Athenaeum

Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in poetry; and that Men & Women is to me simply a set of 50 Conundrums, of the most amazing and tormenting kind."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

John Ruskin : Modern Painters I and II

From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Heaton Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Destruction of Sennacherib

Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burden of Nineveh" in No. 8 of Oxford & Cambridge."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley

Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : The Burden of Nineveh

Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burden of Nineveh" in No. 8 of Oxford & Cambridge - Pleasure of course - of a different kind but I am quite wild about it - That profound last stanza - the infinite power and ease of all!!!"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

Dante Alighieri :

Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and very beautiful. Cayley is sometimes closer to the original."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters IV

'2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description.' (Payne coll.)"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Heaton Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters III

Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volume of Modern Painters, published Jan 15, 1856] from the bookseller that I was ashamed to ask for more & so let you buy yours - ... I am truly glad you like it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Heaton Print: Book

Ellen Heaton : Tales

Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butterfly. "I am going to tell you." This is familiar - as if to a child. But half way down page, you becomes thee - with inverted heroic phrase "Despise not" as if it were some very grand person whom you were talking to; this is a dramatic flaw. ?Loveliest creatures that draw food? ? Why not ?feed?. Weak, because too long. If you mean to limit the phrase to proboscidian feeding ? your compliment to the butterflies is weak ? For it is not much to be fairer than Gnats & midges and such like ? who literally draw food. ?Heart of fairest cloud? is pretty. ?Through many of the daylight hours? ? Very long ? but I see it won?t contract.? ?Is it you have sent? ? ?Who have?, I think ? is necessary. I don?t see anything else to snap at for a long way. The fable is very pretty ? if only you will make your caterpillar dramatically correct - & not so much like one of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton?s best heroes. ?Make him full of caterpillar faults ? like a poor mortal ? cold blooded ? also ? as he is - & without a heart... The essence of a good fable is that every beast should have his own proper nature.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Unpublished short tales

Dutch Ambassador : [a speech]

"Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading the answer of the Dutch ambassador to our State, in which answer to the reasons of my lord's coming home which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

: [ballad]

"Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I borrowed, but the song proved silly and so I did not write it out."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

: Declaration of Breda

"This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of grave to all that will come in within 40 days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall hereafter except. .. The letter dated at Breda, April 4/14 1660, in the 212th year of his raigne. Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one of the messengers of the Council from Generall Monke, my Lord summoned a council of war, and in the meantime did dictate to me how he would have pass this council. Which done, the commanders all came on board, and the council set in the coach (the first council of war that hath been in my time), where I read the letter and the declaration; and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw up a vote; which being offered, the passed.?

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill

Thomas Hardy :

13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

: [an article on Shakespeare]

13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Arnold Bennett : Anna of the Five Towns

. . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an inventory of the furniture in Anna's kitchen', that his characters don't come alive . . .

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Sturt Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes :

"I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat together with Romer in the furthest corner enjoying literature mixed with 'light conversation' after your style."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: The Bible

'Before this walk we had service in chapel, in this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (also in Latin) of our benefactors & the Te Deum to wind up with.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: [a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law]

"Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (also in Latin) of our benefactors & the Te Deum to wind up with."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: [a list in Latin of benefactors]

'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (also in Latin) of our benefactors & the Te Deum to wind up with.'

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen

: the Te Deum

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen

:

"Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which produced the American war of 1812 - wh. would have destroyed your national existence in about 10 days more & ripped the bloated democracy in the bud? Don't you respect me now?"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: Christie's Faith

"I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it may wake me up - 5 PM. 5.45 I have done it! both pipe & article."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

W Hepworth Dixon : New America

"I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read is Dixon's New America. I should like to know what you think of it. It has been a great success here having already passed six editions & being undeniably amusing. My own opinion about it is perhaps coloured by my opinion of Dixon, wh. I further believe to be almost the universal opinion? I think him an offensive snob. ? I think that his book is flashy & written entirely for effect & would probably give to most people a highly incorrect notion. Especially I fancy that he absurdly exaggerates the numbers & importance of Shakers, Junkers, &c&c &c even of Mormons ? but most of all the Spiritualists. Also, though his facts may be right, I should guess the colouring to be wrong. You may tell me what you think if you take the trouble to read the book; but I believe it will give to most English readers the impression that nearly all Americans believe in Spirittrapping, that most of them are either disbelievers in matrimony & hell ? or practisers of polygamy and that a large number live in queer phalansteries or other Socialist contrivances.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: [Essays on Reform]

?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find there some remarks by one you know on American experiences. I always think impudent in any one (let alone Dixon) to talk about a big country on the strength of 3 months experience & I admit that the remarks of the other author are open to this objection. Still they are chiefly directed to the negative conclusion that an argument from the US to England is necessarily unsafe & often directly fallacious? There is a more positive article by Goldwyn Smith on America & one or two of the other essays are worth reading especially one by Cracroft (nominally & really as to the facts by Goschen) giving an analysis of the House of Commons, wh. I think you would find instructive.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: [Some French novels]

"You say you have been reading some French novels lately."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Print: Book

: Newspapers

"From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard that the lords [sic] have given in about the Irish church. I am far too sick of the whole subject to make any reflections upon it, and am chiefly longing to get beyond the reach of newspapers myself."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Newspaper

: [Some French novels]

"You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Musset - by the way. I don't quite agree with yr praise of them."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

George Eliot : Felix Holt the Radical

'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it. It leaves an impression on my mind as of "Hamlet" played by six sets of gravediggers. Of course it will be a successful book, but I think chiefly because "Adam Bede" and "Silas Marner" went before it. Now that I have read it, I have given up the idea of reviewing it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: [Advertisement of works by Lamartine]

'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offering, not even by a publisher in his own name a [italics] rabais [end italics] of so many francs on the price of his entire works to anyone who will buy them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: The Times

'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am alone in thinking so, of if the opinion is general, but it seems to me that the writing of the "Times" just now is wonderfully bad'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

: Bible

'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as I read. I don't suppose my powers are equal to hers - my work to myself looks perfectly pale and colourless beside hers - but yet I have had far more experience and, I think, a fuller conception of life'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Swinburne : Threnody

I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom, for us? I have read it over and over again, scarcely able to see the words for tears.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

: [Italian]

'[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'.

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant

Walter Scott : Journal

'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one watches everything he does. I have read over and over again what he says of his wife's death. It is so sober, so chastened, so true: "I wonder how I shall do with the thoughts which were hers for thirty years".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

R.T. Davison : Life of Archibald Campbell Tait

'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, but now brought down to the very dust, I turned to it with a sense of common suffering'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

John Addington Symonds : Life of Symonds

'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative, all about the facts of a life so simple as mine, and his elaborate self-discussions'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Robert Macpherson :

'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a story he had written, one of the stories flying about Rome of one of the great families, which he wanted me to polish up and get published for him.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Macpherson Manuscript: Sheet

:

'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, reading old books, smoking'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Wilson Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown

'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, reading old books, smoking'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Willie Wilson Print: Book

William Edmonstoune Ayton : The Execution of Montrose

'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeated the poem to us.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edmonstoune Ayton Print: Serial / periodical

:

'. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: [a cab driver] anon Print: Newspaper

George Barnett Smith : The Works of Thackeray

"I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

George Barnett Smith : The Works of Thackeray

"I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ann Thackeray Print: Serial / periodical

James Russell Lowell : Agassiz

"I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets his criticism get mixed up in his poetry, but it is thoroughly good solid work - 'solid' is not a happy epithet for poetry but I mean weighty & not finicking."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Louis Stevenson : Ordered South

"I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Frederick Denison Maurice :

"By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no complaints to make of it & no wish to carry on the controversy. But I do wish (for I value highly your good opinion on moral character & respect all your opinions) to acquit myself from one or two charges of unfairness to Mr Maurice."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Frederick Denison Maurice :

"Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as a boy; I studied his books carefully & I should be sorry that you think of my errors as caused by carelessness or undue superciliousness. They are at least the outcome of a good deal of as conscientious thinking as I can give."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Robert Browning :

?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of speculation or art imply some special excitement more than a radical difference in people themselves. I have even a belief that if Browning had lived 200 years ago he would have been a small Shakespeare & perhaps Tennyson a second rate Milton ? though I agree that poor old Alfred has not quite the stuff in him.?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

John Milton :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland

'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a copy and a too flattering letter [...] Nothing half so true or so touching (in the delineation of Scottish character) has appeared since Galt published his "Annals of the Parish" - and this is purer and deeper than Galt, and even more absolutely and simply true.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Night and Morning

'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Edward Caird : Sermons

'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this life - which one thinks the more of by a natural selfishness when one seems to have a double portion of them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Athenaeum

We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

unknown : Review of Adam Bede

We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Anthony Trollope :

'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the Rev. Amos Barton - but I will not ask you whether that guess edges upon the truth.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Oliphant Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine

'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton : St Stephen's

'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

A.B. Jameson : Legends of the Saints

'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our interior.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maggie Oliphant Print: Book

: The Daily Chronicle

John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular seaside place and observed that Mr Charles Garvice's love stories fairly dominated its shelves ... I have since read in the "Daily Chronicle" that Mr Garvice's novels have already found more than six million readers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Partridge Print: Newspaper

R.H. Story :

'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F.W. Robertson as leaders of the "Advance of Christian Thought"?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS

A.W. Kinglake : Invasion of the Crimea

'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial place? Such a concentration of suave hatred, malice, and uncharitableness surely never was. The narrative is perfectly delightful.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Lesson

'...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for authors killed in the war, at which Edmund Gosse read the lesson. Afterwards Deane invited a miscellany of authors attending the service, [Charles] Garvice among them, to take tea at his home ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Hall Caine : The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction)

Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to read ... [the introduction, signed by himself]. They were pages of adulation of the author and his beliefs. And I had not written nor seen a word of it!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Newman Flower Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Barabbas

'[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westminster Abbey by the Dean.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Marie Corelli : novels

'The editor of the British Weekly, [William] Robertson Nicoll, wrote to [Marie] Corelli on 3 November 1920: "I always think of you in connexion with my old friend Dr Parker [chairman of the Congregational Union, d.1902], who liked nothing so much as to lie on his sofa and hear your books read to him."'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Parker Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Holy Orders

'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he noticed the book which the major was reading. It was Corelli's Holy Orders (1908), whereupon, Bennett recorded, "I then gave up hope".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Ardath

G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G. H. Hardy Print: Book

Marie Corelli : The Sorrows of Satan

"Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work of humour in the English (?) language: but the effects it produces upon the unwary reader ...! I am now a positive wreck.'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Vendetta

"[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plot but rather rot otherwise'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry and Mary Drew Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Essays

'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wisdom and experience, sweetened by imagination'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Marie Corelli : A Romance of Two Worlds

"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he returned to it after two months, he was doing no more than skimming it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Ardath

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Marie Corelli : ? The Sorrows of Satan

Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity and the critics' contempt.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Marie Corelli : novels

"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had read all her books."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Prince of Wales Print: Book

David Wingate : My Little Wife

'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in "Maga" [Blackwood's Magazine]. And I like some of David Wingate's poems very much, other some I don't particularly care for; "My Little Wife" is delightful.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Marie Corelli : novels

"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had read all her books."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Duke of York Print: Book

Nat Gould : novels

" ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gilbert Frankau Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Nat Gould : The Double Event

"For [Nat] Gould, the highest commendation of his 'art' came ... when Walter Home, the Routledge's representative who snapped up The Double Event, told him that he nearly set fire to his house by turning up the reading lamp without looking at it, because he was so engrossed in the story and determined to read it through in one sitting."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Home Print: Book

Louis Vintras : The Silver Net

'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little "Harold Brown" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street] - I picked up a small collection of poems entitled "The Silver Net" by Louis Vintras - and I liked some of them immensely. The atmosphere is so intense' [intense underlined]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

"In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', with the death of Eva ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Lang Print: Book

:

'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp

'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and considered it as good ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria Print: Book

E.F. Benson : Sheaves

'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it is, in parts, Simpson Hayward incarnate.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Stendhal :

'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Stendhal :

'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Edna Lyall : Donovan: A Modern Englishman

'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Princess 'Beatrice has ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria Print: Book

Edna Lyall : We Two

'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter that Princess "Beatrice has ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Beatrice Print: Book

Edna Lyall : We Two

'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Baily Print: Book

Edna Lyall : Donovan: A Modern Englishman

'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Baily Print: Book

Edward Morike : Erinerung - an C.N.

'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir beide, arm in arme/ unter einem Schirm gebogen. --/ Alles war zum letzenmal'

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Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield

William Shakespeare : Venus and Adonis

'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Endymion

"'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play and gambling,' wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tait ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: A. C. Tait Print: Book

John Middleton Murry : The Loneliness of Leon Bloy

'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper

John Middleton Murry : The Loneliness of Leon Bloy

'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper

George Meredith : Lord Ormont and his Aminta

"[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could proceed only at 'the maximum rate of ten pages -- ten insufferable and unprofitable pages, a day'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Night and Day

'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this utter coldness and indifference'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

George Meredith : The Egoist

'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books which ... he read repeatedly -- four or five times in the case of "The Egoist", he declared in 1887.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Walter Scott : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : [novel]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Moliere [pseud] : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

: Bible

'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

George Meredith : Modern Love

"[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after its publication when Meredith sent him a copy in 1892, Blunt was accused of plagiarising it in his own Songs of Proteus (1884)."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Print: Book

Henry James : Confidence

'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages and pages of dull, turgid James for the sake of that sudden sweet shock, that violent throb of delight that he gives me at times. I don't doubt this is genius: only there is an extraordinary amount of pan and an amazingly raffine' flash - '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

George Meredith : The Egoist

"Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading 'Mamma [Countess Wemyss] two chapters of The Egoist after dinner: she fell asleep'."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Cynthia Asquith Print: Book

Nietzsche :

'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "human, all too human." Read until late. I felt wretched simply beyond words. Life was like sawdust and sand.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

George Meredith : poem

"... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle in 1915 was a Meredith poem, copied out for him by his mother, Lady Desborough."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Desborough

unknown : unknown

'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

:

'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

: [poetry]

'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

George Meredith : The Egoist

"At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so angry by their obscureness ... that I nearly left off ... but I possessed myself with patience & loved the rest....'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Asquith Print: Book

Colette : L'Entrave

'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Colette : L'Entrave

'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

William Temple : Miscellanea

' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asleep, and then the care is over" (Temple) That's the sort of strain - not for what it says and means, but for the "lilt" of it - that sets me writing.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Dorothy Wordsworth : Journal

' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" writes Dorothy'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My God! say I'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

:

'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

n/a : [sexual grafitti]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, Lloyd's Weekly News, Measure for Measure, the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's "In Darkest England", Tobias Smollett, Quain's Dictionary of Medicine, as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Manuscript: Graffito

Dostoevsky :

'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

n/a : [scandalous news stories in local press]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Newspaper

n/a : Lloyd's Weekly News

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

n/a : The Song of Solomon

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

Octave Mirbeau :

'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their corruption is so puante [stinking] - I'll never go near 'em again.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

[unknown] : [old plays]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

Octave Mirbeau :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Lloyd George :

'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fixed and fastened on, that sentence wherein he tells us that we have grasped our niblick and struck out for the open course.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper

E.M. Forster : Howard's End

'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But it's not good enough. E.M.Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

William Booth : In Darkest England and the Way Out

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

Anton Chekhov : Geneva

'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tchehov is quite right about women; yes, he is quite right.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : [unknown]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'"). There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

Anton Chekhov : Hamilton

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Richard Quain : Dictionary of Medicine

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'"). There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

n/a : Leviticus

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'"). There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

Ovid : [unknown]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'"). There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek Print: Book

Dostoevsky : The Idiot

Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Dostoevsky : The Possessed

Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Edward Bliss Foote : Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia

'"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until it was as black as coal and the batters torn".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Bell Print: Book

[unknown] : [home medical books]

'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular press. But when she approached the subject as a girl, she was far more fearful than informed: "At the board school all the girls were morbidly interested in parturition, menstruation, and procreation... We raked the Bible for information, and those of us who came from homes in which there were books made endless research, looking up in encyclopaedias and home medical works, such words as 'confinement', 'miscarriage', 'after-birth'... We were both fascinated and horrified. At the age of twelve I ploughed through a long and difficult book on embryology"... She copied passages from The Song of Songs into her commonplace book, but was disgusted when she came across the phrase, "Esau came forth from his mother's belly": "It seemed unspeakably dreadful, conjured up visions of sanguinary major operations. I was very miserable...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : [unknown-works]

'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular press. But when she approached the subject as a girl, she was far more fearful than informed: "At the board school all the girls were morbidly interested in parturition, menstruation, and procreation... We raked the Bible for information, and those of us who came from homes in which there were books made endless research, looking up in encyclopaedias and home medical works, such words as 'confinement', 'miscarriage', 'after-birth'... We were both fascinated and horrified. At the age of twelve I ploughed through a long and difficult book on embryology"... She copied passages from The Song of Songs into her commonplance book, but was disgusted when she came across the phrase, "Esau came forth from his mother's belly": "It seemed unspeakably dreadful, conjured up visions of sanguinary major operations. I was very miserable...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

n/a : [encyclopaedias]

'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular press. But when she approached the subject as a girl, she was far more fearful than informed: "At the board school all the girls were morbidly interested in parturition, menstruation, and procreation... We raked the Bible for information, and those of us who came from homes in which there were books made endless research, looking up in encyclopaedias and home medical works, such words as 'confinement', 'miscarriage', 'after-birth'... We were both fascinated and horrified. At the age of twelve I ploughed through a long and difficult book on embryology"... She copied passages from The Song of Songs into her commonplance book, but was disgusted when she came across the phrase, "Esau came forth from his mother's belly": "It seemed unspeakably dreadful, conjured up visions of sanguinary major operations. I was very miserable...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

n/a : Song of Solomon

'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular press. But when she approached the subject as a girl, she was far more fearful than informed: "At the board school all the girls were morbidly interested in parturition, menstruation, and procreation... We raked the Bible for information, and those of us who came from homes in which there were books made endless research, looking up in encyclopaedias and home medical works, such words as 'confinement', 'miscarriage', 'after-birth'... We were both fascinated and horrified. At the age of twelve I ploughed through a long and difficult book on embryology"... She copied passages from The Song of Songs into her commonplance book, but was disgusted when she came across the phrase, "Esau came forth from his mother's belly": "It seemed unspeakably dreadful, conjured up visions of sanguinary major operations. I was very miserable...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

n/a : Genesis (story of Jacob and Esau)

'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular press. But when she approached the subject as a girl, she was far more fearful than informed: "At the board school all the girls were morbidly interested in parturition, menstruation, and procreation... We raked the Bible for information, and those of us who came from homes in which there were books made endless research, looking up in encyclopaedias and home medical works, such words as 'confinement', 'miscarriage', 'after-birth'... We were both fascinated and horrified. At the age of twelve I ploughed through a long and difficult book on embryology"... She copied passages from The Song of Songs into her commonplance book, but was disgusted when she came across the phrase, "Esau came forth from his mother's belly": "It seemed unspeakably dreadful, conjured up visions of sanguinary major operations. I was very miserable...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

Charles Reade : The Cloister and the Hearth

'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class girlfriend, asked her how Margaret had become pregnant. (He assumed pregnancy followed automatically from marriage and cohabitation). She laughed, told him he was silly, and offered a "surprisingly accurate" explanation'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Edmonds Print: Book

Marie Stopes : [unknown]

'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the syllabus to read Ellis and Freud. While her collier father could not bring himself to discuss the subject, he was progressive enough to leave a book by Marie Stopes where she was likely to find it. All the same, Jennie was still capable of chatting with a prostitute on Princes Street without realizing what was going on. Stopes on sex "was all a bit remote and unattractive", she found'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jennie Lee Print: Book

Havelock Ellis : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jennie Lee Print: Book

Sigmund Freud :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jennie Lee Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Resurrection

'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow her own furrow: "I must be different, or the best in me will die!"... With an evangelical zeal freed from the moorings of dogma, Ruth plunged into the post-Victorian 'sex question'. She heard lectures on eugenics and women's diseases and read Auguste Forel's Sexual Ethics, though she could hardly bear to glance through The Great Scourge, where Christabel Pankhurst insisted that the vast majority of men were infected with venereal disease. She was intrigued when a woman argued in the avant-garde New Age that the temple prostitutes of the East were a much better arrangement than the "unsanitary" way of ordering these things in the West. She gravitated to Francoise Lafitte and the Freewoman magazine, which agitated for the sexual emancipation of women'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Slate Print: Book

Auguste Forel : Sexual Ethics

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Slate Print: Book

Christabel Pankhurst : The Great Scourge

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Slate Print: Book

: New Age

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Slate Print: Serial / periodical

: Freewoman

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Slate Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure

'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot all made Eva [Slawson] think furiously about free love.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Eva Slawson Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Edward Carpenter : Love's Coming of Age

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Eva Slawson Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : The New Machiavelli

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Eva Slawson Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : Ann Veronica

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Eva Slawson Print: Book

Marie Stopes : [book on birth control]

'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birth control , which she gratefully read'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gladys Teal Print: Book

Marie Stopes : [book on sex]

'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually, she was forced to conclude that the books went unread, or at least unheeded).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Powell Print: Book

Havelock Ellis : [book on sex]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Powell Print: Book

: Kama Sutra

'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually, she was forced to conclude that the books went unread, or at least unheeded).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Powell Print: Book

Havelock Ellis :

'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with these books only because her schoolteachers had her exchange them at the Finsbury Public Library'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ring Print: Book

Sigmund Freud :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ring Print: Book

Bertrand Russell :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ring Print: Book

Honore de Balzac :

[Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: The Times

'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and John Bull. That exercise drilled into him words like the Schlieffen Plan, Entente Cordiale, the Balkans... tariff reform, passive resistance... Yet they were all meaningless to him and to other boys his age (twelve) because they were scarcely mentioned or explained in school'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: C.H. Rolph Print: Newspaper

: The Daily Telegraph

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: C.H. Rolph Print: Newspaper

: Referee

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: C.H. Rolph Print: Newspaper

: John Bull Magazine

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: C.H. Rolph Print: Serial / periodical

Gaboriau : [detective fiction]

'. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledgements to him in the text itself, as well as in his journal.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh

Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama) ? but it is a noble drama too ? ?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh

From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Aurora Leigh ? by far the greatest work of its author surely, and almost beyond anything for exhaustless poetic resource.? (Heaton collection: letters written to Ellen Heaton; sold in 1969; whereabouts unknown.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Poems before Congress

Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860) ?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is spoiled for rhyme?s sake.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Poems before Congress

Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly offensive and ?band plays?) ? Finest moral poetry ever written.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Morris : The Defence of Guenevere

Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861) ?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (not to speak of the second Part of Faust).

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Johann von Goethe : Faust

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Rebecca Hey : The Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the Woods (1837)

Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846 ?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper of the city of Leeds was ?Mrs A.? ? as she lives in Leeds and write verses we call her our poetess! ? her ?Spirit of the Woods,? and of the ?Flowers? has been much admired I assure you.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Heaton Print: Book

: The Spectator

?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is intolerably wordy & pompous; the Spectator is Hutton; and the Pall Mall is Greenwood ? that is to say, a mere mass of petty rancour, always snarling in the attempt to be smart & as narrow-minded as if it was an ecclesiastical organ. My brother, I am thankful to say, does not write in it now & says he can?t read it. Really, it is hard to be without an organ; but even old Times, lying & trimming & idiotic as it is, is less offensive to me than these performances. The only paper wh. I am told has some go in it is The World & that is simply blackguard.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Newspaper

: The Pall Mall

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Newspaper

: The World

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Newspaper

William Wordsworth :

?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this nightmare is Wordsworth? I used not to care for him especially; but now I love him. He is so thoroughly manly & tender & honest as far as his lights go that he seems to me the only consoler. I despise most of your religious people, who cultivate their maudlin humours & despise even more your sentimentalist of the atheist kind; but old W. W. is a genuine human being, whom I respect.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Frederick Farrar : The Life of Christ

?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stomach turned ? at Farrar?s Life of Christ ? the gospels done into Daily Telegraphese & drowned in a torrent of flummery. Lord? what are we coming to? If I have time, I think I must give Farrar a rap over the knuckles; though he was an old college friend of mine & a clever fellow; but his damned nonsense is really sickening & gives matter for the sneers of the cynic. I could lay on the whip with pleasure, & I know the beggar feels it.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

William Ernest Henley : Miss Grant

"Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; but I thought the whole really well written & feel that you will be able to command a market for such wares & in better periodicals (if I may say so) than London."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

: [18th and 19th century sermons]

"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull, I guess, as 19th century ditto. Indeed they are possibly stupider in some respects, though not quite so full of lying."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

James Russell Lowell : Pictures from Appledore

"I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are such things as books to be written. I take 2 or 3 to read for alas I can't now quite reduce myself to the animal state as I used to in former days. I looked at something of Lowell's the other day & was amused to find that you have got a Saddleback and a great Haystack in America as well as in Cumberland."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Omar Khayyam :

"I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiritualised a little, strikes a right note at times but he needs to be a little spiritualised. Yet honestly, literature & religion are rather empty. The only thing is living affection & of that I have had most touching experience."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson :

'... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: King Kalakava Print: Unknown

Norman Angell : The Great Illusion

'[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alan Alexander Milne Print: Book

Heinrich Heine : lyric poetry

'[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, among his favourite reading, had influenced his own poetry.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Bridges Print: Unknown

anon : Land and Water

'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss sanatorium, requested his parents to take out a subscription to the paper for him.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Elroy Flecker Print: Serial / periodical

Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher : A School History of England

'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : The Light that Failed

'[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it through a second time.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant Print: Book

H. G. Wells : God the Invisible King

'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she read [H. G.] Wells's "God the Invisible King" in 1917 ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kathleen Bruce Print: Book

George Moore : Esther Waters

George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book

: Daily Chronicle

'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attended night school and read widely, and unlike most of his neighbours he took in a quality newspaper, the Daily Chronicle. Young Aubrey read it avidly... but in the midst of [sensational events such as the sinking of the Titanic and the Wright brothers' first flight] he had only the vaguest recollection of reading something about Sir Edward Grey's diplomacy'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aubrey Hicks Print: Newspaper

Rider Haggard : Eric Brighteyes

'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illustration" to start reading a chapter nearer the end than the beginning ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers

'... reading "Sons and Lovers", [W. H. Hudson] judged it "a very good book indeed except in that portion where he relapses into the old sty -- the neck-sucking and wallowing-in-sweating-flesh".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: W. H. Hudson Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Man of Property

'[John] Galsworthy sent [Thomas] Hardy a presentation copy of "The Man of Property" [1906] and, Hardy told Florence Henniker, "I began it, but found the people too materialistic and sordid to be interesting".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son ... who was looked after by an aged housekeeper ['an extra particular Baptist'] ... one wet afternoon Florence "took "David Copperfield" from the bookshelf and boldly began to read it aloud to her while she knitted. She disapproved of novels, but I represented it as Dickens' life ... the old lady was greatly interested and amused ..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Murray Print: Book

: The Bible

'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Guy Thorne : When it was Dark

'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in his life.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Law Montgomery Print: Book

St Paul : Epistles

'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Bernard Shaw Print: Book

: The Bible

'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Bernard Shaw Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Bernard Shaw Print: Book

Henry James : The Saloon

'"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1909.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Bernard Shaw

Stephen Phillips : Poems

Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully disappointed on reading his book'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Heir of Redclyffe

" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : Heartsease

" ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel I ever read ... I found myself wiping my eyes a dozen times before I got through it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kingsley Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Heir of Redclyffe

"The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- never failing to cry at the end' ..."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Asquith Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Loss and Gain

'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real issues of belief and unbelief, those which have to be fought out with materialism ..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Robert Elsmere

'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsmere "before it was published, was arrested by the novel's passages of "extraordinary power"...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Humphry Ward

J. Henry Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward

J. Henry Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of Barton, and for those six summer weeks of 1881 I lived in the book ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Courtney Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christian framework would lose its ethical bearings.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Unknown

Emile Zola :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Mrs Humphry Ward : The History of David Grieve

' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Edith Wharton : The House of Mirth

' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be read. Probably a somewhat superior Mrs Humphry Ward".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives

'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

John Morley : On Compromise

"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a sermon."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Milner : Ecclesiastical History

'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: Xenophon

'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Mrs Humphry Ward :

' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dislike writing straight after reading Mrs H. Ward! -- she is as great a menace to health of mind as influenza to the body".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

W E Gladstone : Ritualism and Ritual

"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle though it is, but for an article of Mat Arnold's wh. amuses me."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Homer : The Odyssey

In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Virgil :

'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: [Novel]

"I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Fenelon : Dialogues of the Dead

The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis :

'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two more of them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: Bible

[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley

"It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as described by the Brontes."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

:

'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any books for which I ask him, so that I am nearly as well off in this respect as at home'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Anne Bronte : Tenant of Wildfell Hall

"He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be patted & generally would easily become a tenant of Wild Fell Hall."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Boccacio : Decameron

'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Francois de La Rochefoucauld : Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser - not but that you will also heretically deny his influence in the matter. Man is ungrateful. If you doubt it read La Rochefoucauld & the other authors of reputation - I forget their names."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

:

'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Newspaper

Matthew Arnold : Literature and Dogma (possibly)

"Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be heterodox & I can't get it back till tomorrow night."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Manuscript: proofs of article

Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Poet at the Breakfast Table

We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley

"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration for Greek & Hebrew scholarship."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

George Eliot : Middlemarch

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

"But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as a critic that the less authors read of criticisms the better. You, e.g., have a perfectly fresh and original vein & I think, that the less you bother yourself about critical cannons, the less chance there is of your becoming self-conscious and cramped."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve :

"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Matthew Arnold :

"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Lowell :

"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

George Sand : Les maitres Sonneurs

"If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me perfect & have a certain affinity to yours. The last I read was the [Les] Maitres Sonneurs wh... I commend to you as wellnigh perfect. You could do something of the kind, though I won't flatter you by saying that I think you could equal her in her own line - I don't think anyone could. But the harmony & grace even if strictly inimitable are good to aim at."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

William Ernest Henley : Hospital Sonnets

"I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet I have heard them noticed since by more than one person in a way that would please you. A friend who called here two days ago appeared to have them by heart - at least he quoted the one about the two boys with great readiness of feeling."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

William Ernest Henley : Children: Private Ward

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

"It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prepared I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces...This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume here and a volume there. I completed The Merchant of Venice, read Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Much Ado about Nothing

" It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces... This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume here and a volume there. I completed The Merchant of Venice, read Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

: Bible

" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast. There was no selection and no exposition; where the last boy sat, there the day's reading ended, even if it were in the middle of a sentence, and there it began next morning."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : [poems]

" But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to buy with them editions of the poets. These were not in those days, as they are now, at the beck and call of every purse, and the attainment of each little masterpiece was a separate triumph. In particular I shall never forget the excitement of teaching at last the exorbitant price the bookseller asked for the only, although imperfect, edition of the poems of S.T.Coleridge. At last I could meet his demand, and my friend and I went down to consummate the solemn purchase. Comimg away with our treasure, we read aloud from the oranged-coloured volume, in turns, as we strolled along, until at last we sat down on the bulging foot of an elm-tree in a secluded lane. Here we stayed, in a sort of poetical nirvana, reading, forgetting the passage of time, until the hour of our neglected mid-day meal was! a long while past, and we had to hurry home to bread and chees and a scolding."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Ben Jonson :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Hero and Leander

" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the book-shop window a volume in which the poetical works of Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe were said to be combined.This I bought at length, and I carried it with me to devour as I trod the desolate road that brought me along the edge of the cliff on Saturday afternoons. Ben Jonson I could make nothing of, but when I turned to 'Hero and Leander' I was lifted to a heaven of passion and music. It was a marvellous revelation of romantic beauty to me, and as paced along that lonely and exquisite highway, with its immense command of the sea, and its peeps ever now and then, through slanting thickets, far down to the snow-white shingle, I lifted up my voice, singing the verses, as I strolled along..[quote]so it wenton, and I thought I had never read anything so lovely...[quote]it all seemed to my fancy intoxicating beyond anything I had ever even dreamed of, since I had not yet become aquainted with any of the modern romanticists."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Hero and Leander

" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It is remarkable to me now, and a disconcerting proof of my still almost infantile innocence, that, having induced her to settle to her knitting, I began, without hesitation, to read Marlowe's voluptuous poem aloud to that blameless Christian gentlewoman. We got on very well in the opening, but at the episode of Cupid's pining, my stepmother's needles began nervously to clash, and when we launched on the description of Leander's person, she interruptedme by saying, rather sharply, 'give me that book, please, I should like to read the rest to myself.' I resigned the reading in amazement, and was stupefied to see her take the volume, shut it with a snap and hide it under her needlework. Nor could I extract from her another word on the subject." [Gosse goes on to tell how his Father told him off, and burned the book]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more offensive to the eyesight than would in these days appear conceivable..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

John Keats :

" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely captivated me."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Queen Mab

"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of his ediface."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Wordsworth :

" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for the exercise of whose magic I was still far too young."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Lucile

"I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Robert Southey : Works (poetical?)

"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to penetrate, but my stepmother lent me 'The Golden Treasury' in which almost everything seemed exquisite."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

F.T Palgrave : The Golden Treasury

"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found it impossible to penetrate, but my stepmother lent me 'The Golden Treasury' in which almost everything seemed exquisite."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

: [biographies]

"I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Newmanite lives in particular. Some day I shall remark upon the extraordinary phenomenon that Mill and Newnham and Carlyle all lived in the same century."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Robert Browning :

"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its waste in some directions. I think him marvellously good, when at his best."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: Greek New Testament

" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco that the work shone only poor [on my] shelf of sixpenny poets like a duchess among dairy-maids. He extracted from me a written promise that I would translate and meditate upon a portion of the Greek text every morning before I started for business. This promise I presently failed to keep, my good intentions being undermined by an invincible ennui."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle :

"Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to me- and the increasing languor with which I took up Alford for my daily 'passage' [i.e.of Bible study]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

[a thief] : [comic poem]

"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poem by a thief, which seemed to amuse him greatly."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Newspaper

John Ruskin :

"Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to me -and the increasing languor with which I took up Alford formy daily 'passage' [i.e of Bible study]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

: ["The Bear Book"]

"The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met a wild beast in the wood."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: The Latterday Pamphlets

"I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I sometimes think that we are doing our best to exemplify the Latterday Pamphlets."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

"I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In the Valley of the Cauteretz

"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along the valley while I walked today / The two & thirty years were a mist that rolled away / All along the valley by rock & wood & tree / The voice of the dead was a living voice to me'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

John Ruskin : Fors [Clavigera]

"Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Yet nobody can write better than he does still at times. I wish I could discover his secret for saying stinging things; but I suppose the secret is in a morbid sensibility wh. one would scarcely take, even for the power wh. gives it. He is a terrible wasted force.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet :

"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Plato :

"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

:

"I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

M.G. Lewis : The Monk

"I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy work - just finishing up a small life. It rained steadily and as I had been at home all yesterday, I could not stand it any longer. So I took a cab to the London Library where I read Lewis's 'Monk' 3 vols in 25 minutes."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: Pall Mall Gazette

"I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read in about 3 minutes."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

E. E. Hale : James Russell Lowell and his friends

"Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

William James : The varieties of religious experience

"I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and envying) mastery in the art of putting things."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: Proceedings of the PBK

'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished person reading an "oration" & another a poem in the theatre.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Proceedings

Richard Watson Gilder : [poem]

'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the 'exercises' of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished person reading an 'oration' & another a poem in the theatre. After that there is a dinner - a 'cold collation' we should call it & a set of speeches intended to be witty & with no reporters present. The poet was a little man called Gilder, editor of the Century. His poem was good of its kind & he was a bright amiable little man with whom I talked about Magazine editing.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen

Richard Grant White : [on Copyright]

'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not formed upon the review but upon his just having sent me two books of his, one on Copyright & one called Washington Adams. As he was polite to me 20 years ago I ought to have acknowledged them; but after reading, I found it quite impossible to say anything civil. He seemed to me to be both silly & impertinent. But you need not tell me anything of him; for I guess I know the animal sufficiently.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Various : Saturday Review

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Grant White : Washington Adams

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Henry Sidgwick : Review of Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics

'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should have preferred it if you had been a convert & admitted that every word I said was true. But I am quite satisfied to have a candid & generous critic & that you could not cease to be without ceasing to be yourself. Most of the points between us would require a treatise instead of a letter. As, for example, I can never understand what is meant to aversion & desire [to] expect anticipation of pain & pleasure. Therefore to me it is the same thing to say that conduct is determined by one or the other. But this implies a psychological difference not to be bridged over in a letter.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Gosse : Life of Gray

'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I would gladly subscribe to nearly all your criticism, if I had not a feeling that in some points wh. you touch, I am too much of an outsider for any subscription to have much value. The only criticism wh. I might cavil a bit would concern the Bard. I never could feel that the old gentleman ought to derive so much satisfaction from the advent of the Tudor destiny; & Gray?s desire to administer that bit of consolation seems to me to miss the point & rather spoil his design. Still I am fond of the Bard as one is fond of what one has already known by heart.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

:

'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depressed state of mind to read'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Kate Perugini Print: Unknown

Chauncey Wright : Philosophical Discussions

'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like walking across a plough field, where one has to look very carefully at one?s footing & get every now & then stuck above the ankles. I admired & respected the man but found it hard to enjoy his work. This, however, can hardly be expected even from a professed metaphysician. He is strong & thoroughgoing; but one longs for a little liveliness & more capacity for bringing things to a focus. Perhaps I am a little spoilt by article-writing & inclined to value smartness of style too highly. The only point wh. struck me unpleasantly in the substance of the book was his rather contemptuous tone about Spence & Lewes. I don?t doubt that his criticisms of Spencer are tolerably correct; though I can see that Spencer really means to concede so much to the enemy as C. W. supposes; but I confess that Lewes seems to me to be a remarkably acute metaphysician & one who will really make his mark. C. W.?s criticism is unluckily so short that I could not quite catch the grounds of his antipathy. He seems to me to be too staunch a Millite & hardly to recognise the fact that we have got to go beyond the Mill school. But I can?t attempt a criticism here, if indeed, I were really capable of it. Anyhow Wright must be a great loss. Nobody can mistake the soundness & toughness of his intellect & his thorough honesty of purpose.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Various : Saturday Review, The

'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my friend, whom I expect to see again. The general effect was that some recent sceptic had argued that the city of Mexico was not so gorgacious (a Yankee phrase) as the Spanish represented; but rather a big specimen of a kind of architecture still to be found amongst semi savage tribes in that region. I had seem some references to this in (I think) one of the notices of American literature in the Saturday Review, within the last few months ? I can?t remember when; and I have a further impression ? that the authority there given was one of the volumes ? the last if there are only two ? of Bancroft?s large book on the native races of the Pacific.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

G. B. Smith : The Brontes

'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as you do. I see in it more violence than real strength & more rant than genuine passion. However all this is a matter of taste. I will remark, by the way, that I think there is some excuse for the charge of coarseness, as, e.g., the scene where Jane Eyre is half inclined to go to Rochester?s bedroom. I don?t mean coarseness in the sense of prurience; for I fully agree that Miss Bronte writes as a thoroughly pureminded woman; but she is more close to the physical side of passion than young ladies are expected to be?There is also some coarseness in the artistic sense in Jane Eyre. The mad wife is I fancy, unnecessarily bestial? I don?t think justice is generally done to C Bronte now & I shall be glad for that reason to insert your eloquent article.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Manuscript: article

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Villette

'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley

'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

John Henry Newman : An essay in aid of a grammar of assent

'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the morality of persuading yourself that a thing is absolutely certain when you really know that it is not certain at all? Why shouldn?t I say that such a creature is a liar & that I despise him? I do most heartily.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

J.F. Stephen : Pall Mall Gazette, articles

'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to pay his passage; and some of them were amongst the best things of his I have ever seen.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : [French novels]

'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criticism is correct. I do think they are as a rule prurient & indecent & that they treat love affairs a good deal too much from the point of view of the whore and the whoremonger. They are very clever and very artistic; but I don?t think delicate either in the sense of art or morals? The books are put together with great skill to produce a given effect; but the effect is apt to border on the nasty & they are too anxious to keep everything in due harmony to give proper contrasts & variety of real life.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

George Sand : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Edith Sitwell : poems

'. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell

William Thackeray :

?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in its various manifestations? Consequently within given limits & the limits are certainly too narrow, I consider the lovemaking of English novelists to be purer & more life-like. This touches certain theories or, if you like, crochets of mine, on wh. I could be voluminous.?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Shooting Niagara

?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but nonsense of a genius & not without a certain point. We have a lot of effete things in this blessed old country & a good rush over Niagara will do us all good in the world? Only it is melancholy to see him begging the aristocracy to come & help poor England out of the slough. If that is it, we shall have to stick there, I fear, till doomsday.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Henry VIII

"If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by Furnivall's society & to puzzle my head about 'stopt lines' as F. J. F. calls them & the share of Fletcher in Henry VIII and the Two Noble Kinsmen.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Thomas Aquinas :

?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would swamp me altogether. ? He is a kind of revelation to me ? but what interests one most is to find out how many things have been said over & over again for so many centuries.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

John Ruskin : Fors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers of Great Britain

?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say frankly that I think the sheepshearing rather long for the present purpose? The chapter on the ?Great Barn? & that called ?merry time? seem to me to be excellent & I would not omit or shorten them.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Manuscript: Unknown

Herbert Fisher : Studies in Napoleonic statesmanship: Germany

?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance of the subject was pretty exhaustive but I knew just enough to have some kind of pegs to which new knowledge might adhere.?

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

George Eliot : Romola

"Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I find it very hard to tell you the truth. I admire English country novels as much as I could wish; but later performances are not to my taste. Romola bores me and the 'poetry' - does not appear to be poetry."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

John Ruskin : Praeterita

"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

John Ruskin :

"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Dante Alighieri :

"Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Far from the madding crowd

?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I am always pleased to remember that ?Far from the madding crowd? came out under my command. I then admired the poetry which was diffused through the prose; and can recognize the same note in the versified form.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : The Wessex Poems

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Herbert Fisher : The Medieval Empire

?I have waited to thank you for your book till I had read it & write now ? before having quite finished ? because I can talk best with my pen & would rather anticipate tomorrow. I am, as you know, quite unable to criticize the substance. I am greatly ignorant of history & of that part of history beyond nearly all others. I can, however, see that you have got through an amount of work wh. amazes me? I thought well of you; but you have quite surpassed my expectations.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Benjamin Jowett : Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett

?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but seems to give one on the whole a good account of the man. I tried to learn from him in my time how to be a good Christian by giving up all the creeds & deciding that there is no absurdity in holding contradictory beliefs.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

F. W. Maitland : History of English Law

?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland? It is a wonderful piece of work as far as I can judge; & I should ask you to recommend it to some of your law professors, only that, as I take it, they will know about it already.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been Johnson?s brother? I cannot be simply eulogistic if the portrait is to be lifelike; but I find it very hard to speak of defects without either concealing my opinion that they were defects. Or on the other hand, taking a tone of superiority & condescension.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Lucy Clifford : Love letters of a worldly woman

'Then I called at Lucy Clifford?s. She showed me a short preface she has written to those stories of hers about "Worldly Women" wh. are coming out in a book. I found fault with a sentence about wh. we argued all the time I was there & consequently I had not time to speak about the book itself ? wh. was just as well. I am afraid that she will send it to me & that I will have to say something.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

: [a biography]

?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[iament] in 1644 and goes on to remark in the next sentence that he died in 1635. That seems to me about the average in point of accuracy.?

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen

James Russell Lowell : Democracy and other addresses

?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better than I should. But, though late, I will say thank you now. I admire your faculty of addressing but I should like an argument or two upon minor points.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Anne Isabella Ritchie : 'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB)

"I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what I really think should be omitted in a dictionary."

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen

James A. Froude : Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 1834-1881

?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & so forth; but there is something curiously complicated about the man wh. I have not yet found a name for. I think that he is rather a coward & likes snarling from behind Carlyle?s back. Luckily I have not to review him!?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Plato :

?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along slushy snow-paths we came home rather disgusted & bought some queer earthenware animals at a shop & then I sat down in the hall & puzzled out a bit of Plato. It is first rate reading to take on a journey; because a small volume would last one month; & there is the pleasure of guessing at each sentence before I make something out of it.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Plato : Protagorus

"I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bristol & I hope improved my Greek."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Sir Alfred Lyall : Eastern Studies, The

'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind that I have ever read. It explains from actual observation how gods are born in India at the present day; how they get promotion, if they have luck in the miraculous line of business & so forth.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Sir Alfred Lyall : Verses written in India

?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the poems ? Theology in Extremis ? at a sort of penny reading? I have never been the object of so many attentions before or since and gave my autograph to a dozen ladies. Independent of that, Lyall is a man worth knowing & unluckily so popular in society that I don?t often get a chance of seeing him.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Sir Alfred Lyall : Verses written in India

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

A. J. Balfour : Foundations of Belief

?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland?. The other book is A. J. Balfour?s Foundations of Belief, wh. are, I think about the very oddest foundations that any man ever tried to lay ? being chiefly reasons for believing nothing. I preached a kind of sermon about it to the Ethical Society here; taking his arguments & working out their proper result. It will, I believe, appear in the Fortnightly for June; but it is not worth taking the trouble to read.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

?Another book, by the way, worth a glance is a collection of old S. T. Coleridge?s letters. I have had to write the beggar?s life & have a rather morbid familiarity with his history wh. makes me appreciate better than some people his amazing wriggling & self-reproaches & astonishing pouring out of unctuous twaddlings. After all Carlyle?s portrait of him has done the thing unsurpassably well & it is impossible to add much to it. But there are some delicious bits in this.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

George Santayana : unknown

'I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to learn a new trade. I read a bit too; though books have become dull of late. However, they amuse me at times. You sent me one the other day by a certain Santayana; who seems to be a bright & fresh sort of person. He irritated me a little by a rather meaningless philosophy; "nothing", he said, I remember, "is objectively impressive." How the devil should it be?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : unknown

'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable speculations upon which I should have liked to ask your questions? I should have liked to know, to suggest only one question, what Dante himself really believed? That is, of course, unanswerable; but I should like to get a little nearer to an answer at all conceivable to me.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

F W Maitland : History of English Law

?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as were apparently on a level with my comprehension?I found a great deal that interested me very much. ?I could only read, as a rule, in all humility accompanied by constant admiration.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Swift : sermons

?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. There is a charming sermon on brotherly love; wh. he inculcates by showing that papists, dissenters, deists & all moderate members of the Church of England are a set of hateful & contemptible beings, who will be damned for not loving him & his friends.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

John Robert Seeley : Ecce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus Christ

?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetorically, but partly, it may be, from another cause. I cannot look upon theological dogmas with the same kind of indifference that you do. ? Now ?Ecce Homo? may be amiable & enthusiastic & all that; but in a theological point of view, it is to me hateful. It is a feeble attempt to make sentimental oratory do the work of logic, & to supersede all criticism by a sort of a priori gush of enthusiasm.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : article on Victor Hugo

?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan. I shall be happy to accept Hugo & if I have been rather long in answering you, it is only because I wished to give a second reading to the article? I think very highly of the promise shown in your writing & therefore think it worth while to write more fully than I often do to contributors.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Serial / periodical

Victor Hugo :

?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be admissible in drama. I am not able ? I fairly confess ? to define the dramatic element in Hugo or to say why it is absent from Fielding & Richardson. Yet surely Hugo?s own dramas are a sufficient proof that a drama may be romantic as well as a novel.?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Samuel Richardson :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : Letters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888

?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be a prophet, as indeed he was; but Mat Arnold, I should have thought, was too much of a critic even of himself to wear his robes so gravely.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Margaret Veley : Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems

"I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. She had a pleasant little talk with us & was pleased, I think, with his friendly admiration of her books... The poems, I think, showed a real talent but - well, not quite of the first order."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Elizabeth Inchbald : A Simple Story

"I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a critic, that I might write to Mrs Inchbald about it; but I was so carried away by it that I was totally incapable of thinking of Mrs Inchbald or anything but Miss Milner and Doriforth, who appeared as real persons... I think it the most pathetic and the most powerfully interesting tale I ever read."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : The Cottages of Glenburnie

"This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you will like as well as I do. I think it will do a vast deal of good to you, and besides it is extremely interesting, which all good books are not: it has great powers, both comic and tragic."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : Memoirs

"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present to your servant Richard."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Germaine De Stael : Corinne

"I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the taste and critical judgement of Italian literature displayed throughout the work. ... My father acknowledges he never read anything more pathetic."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Sir William Jones : Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from various publications consisting of translations, fugitive pieces

then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellany. the metaphysical poetry of India, however, it is not to my taste."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

John Sargent : The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (The vision of Stonehenge and Mary Queen of Scots)

"I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot live five minutes longer without it? ... Observe, I think the poem as a drama, tiresome in the extreme, and absurd, but I wish you to see the very letters from the man in the quick silver mine which you recommended to me have been seized upon by a poet of no inferior genius. Some of the strophes of the fairies are most beautifullly poetic."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire

'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much prejudiced against the whole by the first lines I opened upon about the 'paralytic muse' of the man who had been his guardian and is his relation and to whom he had dedicated his first poems, that I could not relish his wit. He may have great talents, but I am sure he has neither a great not good mind; and I feel dislike and disgust for his Lordship.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

John Wilkins : Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language

?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkins?s Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language. It is a scarce and very ingenious book; some of the phraseology is so much out of the present fashion, that it would make you smile; such as the synonym for a little man, a Dandiprat. Likewise, two prints, one of them a long sheet of men with their throats cut, so as to show the wind pipe whilst working out the different letters of the alphabet. The other print of all the birds and beasts packed ready to go to the ark?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s writings more injurious, because less shocking, to virtue than the sonnets of Rochester. Clarissa is less objectionable, though many of the scenes at Mrs Sinclair?s are such as are wholly unfit for modern readers.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a latitude unexampled and uncontrolled. His personages, forever listening to or repeating their own eulogy, forever covering their own selfishness with arrogant humility, preaching forever in a monotonous key of maudlin morality, bowing on hands, and asking the benison of aunts and grandmothers, are now as flat and faded as the figures in an ancient tapestry but, like them, compensate in some measure for the dullness of the design by the fidelity of the costume.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage

?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human life. Miss Caroline Percy, to the best of our recollection, makes one strong speech about love in Patronage, and that is the first and last we hear of it in her words.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Belinda

?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic Dramas. Where could she have heard this silly vulgarism??

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Comic Dramas

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Tales of Fashionable Life

?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxious bridesmaids and supported up the aisle, with the marked gallantry of true tenderness by her happy bridegroom Sir John Hunter.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Charlotte Lennox : The Female Quixote

?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, as indication of and connected with the state of manners, the few exceptions that occur to be our observations in the novels of Mrs Lennox, Mrs Sheridan and Cumberland. The Female Quixote of the former .. retains still a portion of its original interest.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Richard Cumberland : Arundel

?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside and listen to his long dull stories as we would to the tales of a garrulous, good tempered, prosing old man, pleased with him sometimes for occasional amusement, and pleased with ourselves for our patience and charity.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Clara Reeve : The Old English Baron

?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the best, but even she in vain beckoned authors to cross the magic threshold of Gothic romance. They paused on the verge, gazed with wistful romance, and forbore to enter its mysterious precincts.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Hannah More : Coelebs in search of a wife

??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pure and too profound to be ranked with novels, and too sprightly and entertaining to be wholly given up to philosophy, theology or dialectics. Mrs More?s works form a class of themselves; it is enough, perhaps, to say Coelebs is one of them.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Richard Lalor Sheil : The Apostate: a tragedy in five acts

?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, and processions with towers of the Inquisition in perspective and Moors who preach the Gospel to Christians just as they are going to be burnt for not believing it and half mad, half poisoned heroines who visit their lovers in dungeons with wreaths of flowers on their heads, may produce an effect on the stage ? but what effect will it produce in the closet??

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Fanny Burney : Evelina

?Amid these dark middle ages of novel literature, Miss Burney?s Evelina strikes us with the first gleam of ?rescued nature and reviving sense.? Her novels, all her novels, impress us with an indescribable sense of their nationality. They could not have been written by any but an Englishwoman. Her sense is English, her humour is English, her character is English, so inveterately, untranslatably English, as to be absolutely unintelligible to any but those who have deeply studied the English character.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fielding?s chief excellence appears to lie in the delineation of his characters that combine simplicity, ignorance and benevolence. His Parson Adams and his Partridge will still induce us to tolerate even Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. His mind appeared incapable of concocting a character of real virtue. His Allworthy is a prosing, self sufficient moral pedant; in Joseph Andrews virtue is ridiculous; in Tom Jones vice is honourable. Nobody now reads either but the school boy, and one of the earliest signs of an improved taste, and an advancement in Christian morality, is the rejection of both.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : The Old Manor House

?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty is so strong that it almost puzzles us to find a connecting link? Perhaps Charlotte Smith?s novels might have been the connecting link between these different species. ?The Old Manor House has really a great deal to answer for? Her heroines have all the requisites of persecuted innocence? The rage for lumbering ruins, for mildewed manuscripts.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho

??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an era in English romances. Her ignorance was nearly equal to her imagination and that is to say a great deal. Of the modest life on the continent (where scenes of all her romances ? are laid) she knew nothing. With all this, and more, her romances are irresistibly and dangerously delightful? The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk. The spirits raised by the Enchantress of Udolpho, compared to those evoked by Lewis, are like the attendants on Prospero in his enchanted island.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk

?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.?

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.? ?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal of any of his long poems. There is something in them excessively at variance with my notions of poetry. He is too fond of the obsolete? It is a sort of a mixed mode, neither old nor new, but incessantly hovering between both.? ?What do you think of Childe Harold?? ?I do not know what to think of it; nor can I give you definitely my reasons for disliking his poems generally.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Thomas Otway : Complete Plays

"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Thomas Southern : Complete Plays

"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably. I speak, perhaps, from an old feeling of attachment, but, nevertheless, from deep conviction? Southern was a sweet and natural poet; he was the Goldsmith of tragedy.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel and Other Poems

??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Remorse? had incited; and he had prepared a retaliation in the pages of ?Colburn?s Magazine? which I read in manuscript ? a review of ?Christabel?, but which I do not remember to have seen published.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

William Nicholson : The First Principles of Chemistry

?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; there is soap made, and making from a recipe in Nicholson?s Chemistry; there is excellent ink made, and to be made by the same book.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Charles-Louis Montesquieu : Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence

?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishes so much food for thought, it shows how history may be studied for the advantage of mankind, not for the mere purpose of remembering facts and reporting them.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Thomas More : Utopia

The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign language and he relentlessly satirised latinate prose: I ne'er used Accidence so much as now, Nor all these Latin words here interlaced I do not know if they with sense are placed, I in the book did find them".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Taylor Print: Book

Plato : Republic

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Taylor Print: Book

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne : Essays

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Taylor Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : probably Don Quixote

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Taylor Print: Book

William Paley : View of the Evidences of Christianity

In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Herbert Spencer's Sociology, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Shinwell's whole intellectual career was an exciting but laborious exercise in decoding. All his life he used a dictionary to correct his pronunciation'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Print: Book

Nathaniel Lee : The Rival Queens, or The Death of Alexander

?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, which he did by converting folding doors into a green curtain, the back apartment into a stage and the front into a pit, boxes and gallery for the accommodation of his imaginary or, at best, scanty audience. ? his favourite play was Alexander, in which he enacted the principal part himself. The mad poetry of that piece was his favourite recitation and it would have been difficult to discover an actor who could give greater force to the tempestuous passage of his Bucephalus than young Maturin.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel : Riddle of the Universe

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Print: Book

Herbert Spencer : The Study of Sociology

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Print: Book

Marcus Aurelius : Meditations

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Print: Book

James Sheridan Knowles : Virginius

?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s curiosity, and he was impatient to read it. ? When ?Virginius? was first published, a friend of Maturin?s purchased a copy, with which he was so pleased that it always lay on his table and he constantly devoted hours of relaxation to its perusal.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Nathaniel Lee :

"I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he had none."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : complete works to 1820

?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the greatest efforts of human genius, and often said that in the poetry of universal nature he considered him equal to Shakespeare. So sensibly imbued was he with the characteristics of those magic fictions, that he apprehended the publication of an intentional imitation of Ivanhoe. I believe the public however never perceived any imitation beyond that into which every novelist falls who happens to write after Sir Walter.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

George Crabbe : poetic works

??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence?? ?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp or parade and exhibits at times deep pathos and feelings. His characters are certainly homely and his scenes rather unpoethical; but then he invests his object with so much tenderness and sweetness that you care not who are the actors, or in what situations they are placed.??

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy :

The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student", but his parents provided an envionment of "constant ideological discussion at home, argument and disputation all the time... it was the common currency of day-to-day living that ideas were discussed around the table, and it was taken for granted that there were books in the house and that we would read". The books mostly had a leftward slant (Tolstoy, Gorky, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis) but Wesker soon reached out to Balzac, Maupassant and a broader range of literature'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Wesker Print: Book

Maxim Gorky :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Wesker Print: Book

Jack London :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Wesker Print: Book

Sinclair Lewis :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Wesker Print: Book

Honore de Balzac :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Wesker Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant :

The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student", but his parents provided an environment of "constant ideological discussion at home, argument and disputation all the time... it was the common currency of day-to-day living that ideas were discussed around the table, and it was taken for granted that there were books in the house and that we would read". The books mostly had a leftward slant (Tolstoy, Gorky, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis) but Wesker soon reached out to Balzac, Maupassant and a broader raange of literature'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Wesker Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Complete Poems and Songs

??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder than Moore. He is often a month working out the end of an epigram. Moore is a writer for whom I feel a strong affection, because he has done that which I would have done if I could; but after him it would be vain to try anything.??

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson :

'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English master at Davenant Foundation School: "When I was an East End boy searching for beauty, hardly knowing what I was searching for, fighting against all sorts of bad beginnings and unrewarding examples, he more than anyone taught me to love our tremndous heritage of English language and literature". And Finnn never doubted that it was HIS heritage: "My friends and companions Tennyson, Browning, Keats, Shakespeare, Francis Thompson, Donne, Housman, the Rosettis. All as alive to me as thought they had been members of my family". After all, as he was surprised and pleased to discover, F.T. Palgrave (whose Golden Treasury he knew thoroughly) was part-Jewish'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

Robert Browning :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

John Keats :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

Francis Thompson :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

John Donne :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

Alfred Edward Housman :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

Christina Rossetti :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

Francis Turner Palgrave : Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Finn Print: Book

James Hogg :

??And whom do you estimate after Crabbe?? ?I am disposed to say Hogg. His ?Queen?s wake? is splendid and impassioned work. I like it for its varieties and its utter simplicity? Take my word in what I say of Crabbe and Hogg. They have struck the cord of my taste, but they are not, perhaps, the first men of the day.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

John Locke :

[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Naughton recalled, "that they should deny one the right to use the English language". That hit both ethnic and class nerves: he had been born in County Mayo of peasant stock. At any rate, he was using the language to read Locke, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Schopenhauer, Marx and The Faerie Queene. They were not easy to decipher at first, but as he pieced together an understanding of what he was reading, he became more critical and less deferential...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Naughton Print: Book

Friedrich von Nietzsche :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Naughton Print: Book

Henry David Thoreau :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Naughton Print: Book

Arthur Schopenhauer :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Naughton Print: Book

Karl Marx :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Naughton Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Naughton Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The History of England from the Accession of James II

[D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

: Chorley Guardian

'Often I sat with her on Sunday afternoons before the fire blazing in an old-fashioned range which shone with black-leaded iron and gleaming steel. There was a home-made hearth-rug, but the rest of the floor was of stone flags, well washed and sprinkled with sand. She had had no schooling but had somehow learned to read in middle age. We would tackle the Chorley Guardian together, stumbling over the long words and improvising the pronunciation; Egypt was once read as "egg-pit".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Stephenson Print: Newspaper

Jean Racine : Andromache

?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in England as the Distressed Mother.) Madame Talma played Andromache and her husband Orestes. .. We read the play in the morning, an excellent precaution, otherwise the novelty of the French mode of declamation would have set my comprehension at defiance.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

: Bible

'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Hazlitt's Essays and Ruskin's The Crown of Wild Olives. Later... he joined the library committee of the Miners' Institute in Maesteg, made friends with the librarian, and advised him on acquisitions. Thus he could read all the books he wanted: Marx, Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Marshall, economic and trade union history, Fabian Essays, Thomas Hardy, Meredith, Kipling and Dickens'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

Charles Lamb :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

William Hazlitt :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

Karl Marx :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

Adam Smith :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

John Stuart Mill :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

James Granger : A Biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution

?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England, who drew a mill, a miller, a bridge, a man and a horse going over the bridge with a sack of corn, all visible, upon a surface that would just cover a sixpence.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

David Ricardo :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

Alfred Marshall :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Fabian Essays

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

: [trade union history]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

George Meredith :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book

John Gay : Trivia: or the art of walking the streets of London

?This evening my father has been reading out Gay?s Trivia to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt, that you and Sophy had been sitting round the fire with us. If you have Trivia, and if you have time, will you humour your niece so far as to look at it? I think there are many things in it which will please you, especially the ?Patten and the Shoeblack?, and the old woman hovering over her little fire in a hard winter. Pray tell me if you like it.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Edgeworth Print: Book

: [boys' magazines]

'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself' and pursued that goal by reading until 3a.m.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Serial / periodical

: [thrillers]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

: [Greek Philosophy]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

James Hogg : Bonny Kilmeny

"Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book

Barrow : [note on the qualities of tobacco]

I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle

: [Bolton?] Evening News

: 'Father and mother are sitting by the fire, the one reading the Evening News [Bolton?], the other mending stockings.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Lancashire Daily Post

Q: Did your father read? A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the book and tell him the plot. He would have the paper, of course. ... Q: Did you have a newspaper? A: Yes. We had the Post. Q: And presumably your mother read that to your father mostly? A: He read the Post. Q: He just wasn't a book reader. A: No.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Local newspaper

: News of the World

Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family? A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday. Q: Who read it? A: It was m'dad, he would read it from beginning to the end. Q: What about your mum? A: There used to be a paper called John Bull and we used to get that. I think it is called the Weekly News now. It went to Thomson's Weekly after that and then it went to the Weekly News. My dad had nowt else to do when he came home from work. I think we got the Post every night, ... Q: Did your mother ever read the newspaper or was it your dad mostly? A: It was my dad mostly. My mother used to like tuppeny novels.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: John Bull

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Charles Robert Dallas : History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone...

?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, and shall not produce it until it is finished. I found the first hint of it in the strangest place that anybody could invent, for it was in Dallas?s History of the Maroons, and you may read the book to find out, and ten to one you miss it. ? pray read the book, for it is extremely interesting and entertaining.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Maxmillian de Bethune Sully : Memoirs

?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or a palace, and I fancied it was somewhere in the middle of Paris. On the contrary, it is quite in the suburbs.?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories

?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) : Mademoiselle de Clermont

?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more interesting to us by having just read the beautiful tale by Madame de Genlis ?Mademoiselle de Clermont?; it would delight my dear Aunt Mary, it is to be had in the first volume of the Petits Romans??

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Breton : Voyage dans les Pays Bas

?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s Petits Romans. I never read a more pathetic and finely written tale.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Berquin : Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instruction and entertainment of children

?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame Gautier, gains upon our esteem every day.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Fanny Burney : Cecilia

?Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the third reading as it did at the first.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures which is never repeated in life.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere : Memoirs

'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying of a fit of the gout translated to his chest, you have done her injustice. We think some of her Memoirs beautifully written and like Rousseau; she was a great woman and died heroically. I think if I had been Mons Roland I should not have shot myself for her sake.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Kalidasa : Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama

'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive sphere. As his eyes are to be continually fixed upon the point of his nose, hers in duteous sympathy must squint in like manner; and if the perfection of his virtue be to sit so still that the birds (vide Sacontala) may unmolested build nests in his hair, his wife cannot better show her affection than by yielding her tresses to them with similar patient stupidity.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

:

'I heard, at that blessed City Mission meeting, which I attended the other evening, that our county is reckoned one of the worst for crime and ignorance. ? (note written summer 1850) Mrs Opie, latterly, took a somewhat morbid view of the existing state of things, supposing that instead if improving they would become worse. She read the daily papers, in which the same crime is repeatedly brought to notice, week after week, and became possessed with the idea that murders and horrors were multiplied in proportion to the publicity given them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Newspaper

Mary Dudley :

7/1/1827 ? ?Then read the first part of Mary Dudley?s Life; felt true unity with her experience when first called to the ministry. What a bright course was hers! ?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Hugh Twyford : The Grounds of Holy Life

7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profession. Read Paul?s fine address to Agrippa to the servants; hope they understood it; it explains the nature of grace, and clearly.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

M R Milford :

8/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Apostle Paul : Address to Agrippa

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

John Galt : The Life and administration of Cardinal Wolsey

14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

William Godwin : Mary Wollstonecraft

'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charming in it: ?Ida of Athens? ? I have not yet been able to read any of her novels. I am now reading Leo the X, by Rescoe. War, religion, laws and elevated mankind are my delight, for among them I increase my love for politics of the present day, and find that our great enemy is less wicked than most heroes and politicians have been, and at the same time a vast deal wiser than them all.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Inchbald Print: Book

Alexander Pope :

'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied his companion, "me and Pope do agree very well". Keating had himself been reading Pope, Fielding, Smollett, Goldsmith and Richardson in poorly printed paperbacks. Later he was reassigned to a less demanding job at a riverside colliery pumping station, which allowed him time to tackle Swift, Sheridan, Byron, Keats, Shelley and Thackeray'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Tobias Smollett :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Samuel Richardson :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Jonathan Swift :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Rescoe : The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Inchbald Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]

'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied his companion, "me and Pope do agree very well". Keating had himself been reading Pope, Fielding, Smollett, Goldsmith and Richarson in poorly printed paperbacks. Later he was reassigned to a less demanding job at a riverside colliery pumping station, which allowed him time to tackle Swift, Sheridan, Byron, Keats, Shelley and Thackeray'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

John Keats :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

unknown : Life of Sarah Martin

19/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior virtue, and my own inferiority. What an example she was?. W Allan?s admirable life I have read quite through, with delight, and I hope, instruction.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Louise Philippe Segur : Memoirs and Recollections

21/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in my own room the M?moirs of S?gur, and with a curious feeling lay down, knowing I should see Lafayette next day!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales

'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on my toolbox, half a mile from the surface, one mile from the nearest church and seemingly hundreds of miles from God, reading the Canterbury Tales, Lamb's Essays, Darwin's Origin of Species, Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, or anything that I could manage to get hold of". That could be hazardous: once, when he should have been minding a set of rail switches, he was so absorbed in Goldsmith's The Deserted Village that he allowed tubs full of coal to crash into empties'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Charles Lamb :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Charles Darwin : On the Origin of Species

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : Ballad of Reading Gaol

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Deserted Village

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Holcroft : Theatrical recorder

?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmontel?, and published by Mr Holcroft, with other entertaining things in his ?Theatrical Recorder? ? Mr Opie came down to read it to me??

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Opie Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Lord Tennyson : The Charge of the Light Brigade

'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message "crashed into my mind, mixing together the soldiers of the poem and the men of the pits, I was terribly excited. Why hadn't all the clever people found this out?".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Amelia Opie : Adelaide

'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you promis?d much. Remember! Keep your word. T. H.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Holcroft Manuscript: Play script

Edward Gibbon : presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards Print: Book

George Meredith :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards Print: Book

: Clarion (literary pages)

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards Print: Serial / periodical

Stephen Crisp : Sermons

'27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discouraged, though much enabled to pray during day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

John Newton : Cardiphonia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

John Carne : Letters from the East

'27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit them to go to bed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

William Hayley :

?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and here also hung many paintings by Hayley?s friend George Romney. In this quiet room Mr Hayley and Mrs Opie would spend some hours together reading aloud, sometimes from a manuscript of Hayley?s or sometimes from one of Amelia?s tales.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Plays

Herbert George Wells :

'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered a wonderful escape from a dull Welsh village: "I could view the future through the words of H.G. Wells, participate in the elucidation of mysteries with Sherlock Holmes,... or penetrate darkest Africa with Rider Haggard as my guide. I could laugh at the comic frustrations of coaster seaman or bargee at the call of W.A. Jacobs. What a gloriously rich age it was for the storyteller!... When the stories palled there was always the illustrated weeklies with their pictures of people and conditions remote from my personal experience... I could laugh with Punch or Truth, although some of the humour was much too subtle for my limited education. Above all I could study the Review of Reviews and learn therein the complexities of foreign affairs.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

: Bible

?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidget, while their mother read aloud to them long chapters from the Bible or from books of instruction.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book

Arthur Conan Doyle : [Sherlock Holmes Stories]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Henry Rider Haggard : [African stories]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

William Wymark Jacobs :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

: [illustrated weeklies]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

: Truth

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of Reviews

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

Amelia Opie : [her own works]

?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat there deep in his books or prints. He liked novels also: had the ? virtue of appreciating her own: when she read her latest work to him in the dramatic manner that made Martineaus weep over her pathos in manuscript and wonder at the lesser charm of the printed page, if her audience was so much smaller than at Norwich literary gatherings, it was an indulgent one.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Unknown

Amelia Opie : her own works as they are published

?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists too, that are not too ignorant or full of conceit to be capable of alarm tell me they have had the same feeling when about to receive judgement from the public. Besides, whatever I read appears to me so superior to my own productions, that I am in a state of most unenviable humility.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Various : Journal des Debats

'6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord Grey; but the bare possibility of war with France is insupportable ... Brougham does not mention such a possibility, and I think his opinion nearly as good as Lord Grey's'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Serial / periodical

Karl Marx :

'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic literature until he exhausted his South Shields library.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Brown Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Brown Print: Book

Friedrich Engels :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Brown Print: Book

Jack London : The Iron Heel

'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regulations of the Widnes Town Council. But principal Lionel Elvin "appreciated the profound dificulties facing working class students": "When I stumbled through the intricacies of the political theories of Marx, Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke and T.H. Green, he marked my work frankly yet gave encouragement... He was an excellent teacher, genuinely interested in discussing ideas and persuading students to express their own"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley Print: Book

: [council regulations]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley

Karl Marx :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley Print: Book

James Harris : Diaries

"4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I knew so many of the men he writes about, and lived on the spot where they acted."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley Print: Book

John Locke :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley Print: Book

Thomas Hill Green :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of the French Revolution

"4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can hardly lay it down."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

: Bible and other religious texts

"During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other religious books, and his views, on religious subjects, appear to have undergone an entire change. Mr J J Gurney was very frequently with them both."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Alfred Marshall :

'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventional curriculum. Assigned the orthodox economics texts of Alfred Marshall, he read them "with deep suspicion" and made a point of going beyond the set books to study J.A. Hobson, Henry George, Hugh Dalton, and John Maynard Keynes'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Allaway Print: Book

J.A. Hobson :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Allaway Print: Book

: [various books, fiction in particular]

"The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in converse ... reading with her books of amusement or instruction... Mr Opie entertained a partiality for works of fiction and not unfrequently indulged himself in reading a novel, even if it were not of the first class."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Opie Print: Book

Henry George :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Allaway Print: Book

John Maynard Keynes :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Allaway Print: Book

unknown : [moral tales]

'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the world - ? My own books (which friends never read, and know nothing about), are, in my belief, moral rules.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Hugh Dalton :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Allaway Print: Book

: Scriptures

'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious conversation with a view to instruction.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

William Hayley :

?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Mme de Genlis :

?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the d'Urbervilles

'[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant class as stupid and 'thick'...[Tess of the d'Urbervilles] was the first serious novel I had read up to this time in which the heroine had not been of gentle birth and the labouring classes as brainless automatons. This book made me feel human".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Hall Print: Book

Thomas Grey : Perigrinus Porteous

"Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket and read 'Perigrinus Porteous' to them... Towards evening the entire party walked to the village church where, by twilight, John Pitchford read Gray's 'Elegy' with great effect."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pitchford Print: Book

Thomas Grey : Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pitchford Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [novels]

'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had recently gained a certain measure of fame.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Walter Scott : [novels]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

George Borrow : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

Karl Marx : Das Kapital

'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the exploitation of labour and class conflict. To this The Descent of Man added "the great idea of human freedom... It brought out the idea that whether our children were with or without shoes was due to poverty arising from the administration of society".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clunie Print: Book

Adam Smith : Wealth of Nations

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clunie Print: Book

Charles Darwin : The Descent of Man

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clunie Print: Book

Henri-Louis Bergson :

'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out of work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far more than ideology. That experience plus his eclectic reading (Bergson, Nietzsche, William McDougall, Bertrand Russell, the new Testament, and Herbert Spencer as well as Marx) led him out of the [Communist] Party towards a socialism that would be brought about by individual volition...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

Friedrich Nietzsche :

'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far more than ideology. That experience plus his eclectic reading (Bergson, Nietzsche, William McDougall, Bertrand Russell, the new Testament, and Herbert Spencer as well as Marx) led him out of the [Communist] Party towards a socialism that would be brought about by individual volition...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

William McDougall :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

Bertrand Russell :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

: New Testament

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

Herbert Spencer :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

Karl Marx :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge Print: Book

: The Leeds Intelligencer

Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mercury "Whig ... We see the "Jhon [sic] Bull" it is a High Tory very violent Mr Driver Lends us it ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bronte Family Print: Newspaper

: The Leeds Mercury

Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mercury Whig" ... We see the "Jhon [sic] Bull" it is a High Tory very violent Mr Driver Lends us it ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bronte Family Print: Newspaper

: The John Bull

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bronte Family Print: Newspaper

: Justice

'[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour Party. But the former, he found, preached a "narrow stupid Marxism",while the latter printed page after grey page on the materialist conception of history. Even with A.P. Hazell's penny pamphlet, A Summary of Marx's 'Capital', it took him a full week to master the labour theory of value. Like most working-class readers he preferred Blatchford's Clarion, where an unideological socialism was leavened with breezy articles on literature, freethought and science'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry McShane Print: Serial / periodical

: The Socialist

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry McShane Print: Serial / periodical

A.P. Hazell : A Summary of Marx's 'Capital'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry McShane

Robert Blatchford (ed.) : The Clarion

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry McShane Print: Serial / periodical

:

Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit to Haworth Parsonage): 'In summer she spent part of the afternoon in reading aloud to Mr Bronte. In the winter evenings she must have enjoyed this; for she and Mr Bronte had often to finish their discussions on what she had read when we all met for tea.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell

Karl Marx : Das Kapital

'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hundred pages of close print to come to the crux of his argument in the classic illustration of a labourer looking for a job in a factory, and, as he said, expecting nothing but a hiding", Edwards remembered. "This little aside appealed to me very much, as I had had one or two hidings myself".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ifan Edwards Print: Book

Robert Southey : letter to Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret that I had ever ventured to trouble you [with request for advice on starting literary career] ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Karl Marx : Das Kapital

[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own dialectic was derived from Straight and Crooked Thinking, a guide to identifying faulty logic, but he "enjoyed it because it taught him how to twist truth to his own ends...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Print: Book

: Straight and Crooked Thinking

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Print: Book

Robert and Charlotte Southey and Bronte : letters

Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between herself and Robert Southey: 'I have now read them and feel that -- truly wise and kind as they are -- they ought to be published ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Robert Southey : Life and Correspondence

Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] "Life and Correspondence" arranged by yourself has much deepened the esteem and admiration with whch I previously regarded him.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : Eugene Aram

Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837 A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] working in Aunts room Branwell reading "Eugene Aram" to her ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Branwell Bronte Print: Book

Charles Darwin : [all works]

'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books were tools that could open a lock which would free people..." At age eight McColl received the works of Darwin. By fifteen he had read Gogol, Dostoevsky and the entire Human Comedy: "They were a refuge from the horrors of the life around us... Unemployment in the 1930s was unbelievable, you really felt you'd never escape... So books for me were a kind of fantasy life... For me to go at the age of fourteen, to drop into the library and discover a book like Kant's Critique of Pure Reason or The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided Figure... the titles alone produced a kind of happiness in me... When I discovered Gogol in that abominable translation of Constance Garnett with those light blue bindings... I can remember the marvellous sensation of sitting in the library and opening the volume and going into that world of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin in The Overcoat or in The Nose, or The Madman's Diary. I thought I'd never read anything so marvellous, and through books I was living in many worlds simultaneously. I was living in St Petersburg and in Paris with Balzac... And I knew all the characters, Lucien de Rubempre and Rastignac as though they were my own friends".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : The Human Comedy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : Critique of Pure Reason

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

: The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided Figure

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

David Pryce : letter

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 4 August 1839, about event following visit of David Pryce, a young Irish curate, to Haworth Parsonage: 'A few days after I got a letter the direction of which puzzled me it being in a hand I was not accustomed to see ... having opened & read it it proved to be a declaration of attachment -- & proposal of Matrimony -- expressed in the ardent language of the sapient young Irishman!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Nikolai Gogol : The Overcoat

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Nikolai Gogol : The Nose

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Nikolai Gogol : The Madman's Diary

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Friedrich Engels : The Peasant War in Germany

'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Friedrich Engels : The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ewan McColl Print: Book

Horace :

Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first of which I have presumed to send you ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Branwell Bronte Print: Book

: The Lady's Magazine

Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when the "Lady's magazine" was flourishing like a green bay tree ... You see Sir I have read the "Lady's Magazine" and know something of its contents ... I read them before I knew how to criticize or object -- they were old books belonging to my mother or my Aunt; they had crossed the Sea, had suffered ship-wreck and were discoloured with brine -- I read them as a treat on holiday afternoons or by stealth when I should have been minding my lessons ... One black day my father burnt them because they contained foolish love-stories.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Serial / periodical

Ellen Nussey : Note inviting Charlotte Bronte on visit

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 2 April 1841: 'If you think I'm going to refuse your invitation ... you're mistaken -- as soon as I read your shabby little note -- I gathered up my spirits -- walked on the impulse of the moment into Mrs White [her employer]'s presence -- popped the question ... will she refuse me [time off] when I work so hard for her? thought I. Ye-es-es, drawled Madam ... thank you Madam said I ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

: Blackwood's Magazine

Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- she has been reading "Blackwood's Magazine" to papa ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell Print: Serial / periodical

Emily Bronte : Life of the Emperor Julius (? Gondal story)

Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life She has read some of it and I want very much to hear the rest ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Bronte Manuscript: Unknown

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'Although mainly an outdoor boy Rider began to read several popular romances of the day...: "I loved those books that other boys love and I love them still. I well remember a little scene which took place when I was a child of eight or nine. Robinson Crusoe held me in its grasp and I was expected to go to church. I hid beneath a bed with Robinson Crusoe and was in due course discovered by an elder sister and governess, who, on my refusing to come out, resorted to force. Then followed a struggle that was quite Homeric. The two ladies tugged as best they might, but I clung to Crusoe and the legs of the bed, and kicked till, perfectly exhausted, they took their departure in no very Christian frame of mind, leaving me panting indeed, but triumphant".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book

Anon : The Arabian Nights

'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and The Coming Race, a fantasy novel by Bulwer Lytton (the uncle of Sir Henry Bulwer, a Norfolk neighbour and friend of Squire Haggard who was to play a decisive part in Rider's life).'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : The Three Musketeers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book

Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton : The Coming Race

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle :

'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's Sybil, Mary Barton, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tennyson's The Princess, Longfellow, Whitman, Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, George Sand, the Brontes, Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Herbert George Wells :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

John Galsworthy :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Arnold Bennett :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Unknown

Henrik Ibsen : Ghosts

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : A Doll's House

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Under the Greenwood Tree

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson : The Princess

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Walt Whitman :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Robert Burns :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

George Eliot :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte :

'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's Sybil, Mary Barton, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tennyson's The Princess, Longfellow, Whitman, Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, George SAnd, the Brontes, Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les Miserables

'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's Sybil, Mary Barton, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tennyson's The Princess, Longfellow, Whitman, Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, George SAnd, the Brontes, Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's Sybil, Mary Barton, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tennyson's The Princess, Longfellow, Whitman, Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, George SAnd, the Brontes, Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book

Emily Bronte : poems

Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting ... I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me, -- a deep conviction that these were not common effusions ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Unknown

: Letter from Smith, Elder & Co., publishers

Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'Currer Bell [ie Charlotte Bronte]'s book [The Professor] found acceptance nowhere ... he tried one publishing house more -- Messrs Smith and Elder. Ere long ...there came a letter ... he took out of the envelope a letter of two pages. He read it trembling. It declined ... to publish that tale ... but it discussed its merits and demerits so courteously, so considerately ... that this very refusal cheered the author better than a vulgarly-expressed acceptance could have done.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ... after breakfast on Sunday morning I took the MS. of "Jane Eyre" to my little study, and began to read it. The story quickly took me captive. Before twelve o'clock my horse came to the door, but I could not put the book down ... Presently the servant came to tell me that luncheon was ready; I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine, and still went on with "Jane Eyre" ... before I went to bed that night I had finsihed reading the manuscript.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ... after breakfast on Sunday morning I took the MS. of "Jane Eyre" to my little study, and began to read it. The story quickly took me captive. Before twelve o'clock my horse came to the door, but I could not put the book down ... Presently the servant came to tell me that luncheon was ready; I asked him to being me a sandwich and a glass of wine, and still went on with "Jane Eyre" ... before I went to bed that night I had finsihed reading the manuscript.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Murray Smith Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

W. M. Thackeray to William Smith Williams, 23 October 1847: 'I wish you had not sent me "Jane Eyre." It interested me so much that I have lost (or won if you like) a whole day in reading it ... Some of the love passages made me cry, to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals ... Give my respect and thanks to the author, whose novel is the first English one (and the French are only romances now) that I've been able to read for many a day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book

Wililam Makepeace Thackeray :

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 11 December 1847: 'Mr Thackeray is a keen, ruthless satirist -- I have never perused his writings but with blended feelings of admiration and indignation ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : The Professor

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 14 December 1847: 'A few days since I looked over "The Professor." I found the beginning very feeble, the whole narrative deficient in incident and in general attractiveness; yet the middle and latter portion of the work ... is as good as I can write ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Bronte :

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 18 December 1847: '"The Observer" has just reached me ... I always compel myself to read the Analysis [of her work] in every newspaper-notice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Newspaper

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgeworth were in their prime.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Gibson Lockhart Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 4 January 1848: '"Jane Eyre" has got down into Yorkshire; a copy has even penetrated into this neighbourhood: I saw an elderly clergyman reading it the other day, and had the satisfaction of hearing him exclaim "Why -- they have got ---- school, and Mr ---- here, I declare! and Miss ----" (naming the original of Lowood, Mr Brocklehurst and Miss Temple) ...'

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

George Henry Lewes : letter

Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley novels? I had not seen "Pride & Prejudice" till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book and studied it. And what did I find? An accurate daguerrotyped portrait of a common-place face ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Eliza Lynn Linton : story in New Monthly Magazine

Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 18 January 1848: 'I have not read "Azeth", but I did read or begin to read a tale in the "New Monthly" from the same pen, and ... must cordially avow that I thought it both turgid and feeble ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Serial / periodical

William Smith Williams : letter to Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that I have forgotten to answer a question you ask respecting my next work ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 24 July 1848: 'About a month since I received and read "Jane Eyre".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Taylor Print: Book

Emily Bronte : poems

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, September 1848: ' ... of ["Ellis Bell's" poetry's] merit I am deeply convinced, and have been from the moment the MS. fell into my hands. The pieces ... stirred my heart like the sound of a trumpet when I read them alone and in secret.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Unknown

William Smith Williams : letter

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopathic treatments] into Emily's hands as soon as I had myself perused it ... after reading your letter she said "Mr Williams' intention was kind and good, but he was under a delusion -- Homeopathy was only another form of Quackery."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

William Smith Williams : letter

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Bronte Manuscript: Letter

: The North American Review

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: '"The North American Review" [containing reviews of the Bronte sisters' works in which the authors are presumed to be men of "ferocious" temperaments] is worth reading ... To-day as Emily appeared a little easier, I thought the Review would amuse her so I read it aloud to her and Anne. As I sat between them at our quiet but now somewhat melancholy fireside, I studied the two ferocious authors. Ellis the "man of uncommon talents but dogged, brutal and morose," sat leaning back in his easy chair drawing his impeded breath as he best could ... but he smiled half-amused and half in scorn as he listened -- Acton was sewing ... he only smiled too, dropping at the same time a single word of calm amazement to hear his character so darkly portrayed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Serial / periodical

Ellen Nussey : note

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 29 March 1849: 'I read your kind note to Anne and she wishes me to thank you sincerely for your friendly proposal.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Anne Bronte : letter to Ellen Nussey

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 12 April 1849: 'I read Anne's letter [of 5 April] to you; it was touching enough ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

: The North British Review

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 16 August 1849: '"The North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about E. Wyndham, J. Eyre, and F. Hervey. Much of the article is clever -- and yet there are remarks which -- for me -- rob it of importance.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Serial / periodical

: The Daily News

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 1 November 1849: 'I have just received the "Daily News." [containing review of "Shirley"] ... when I read it my heart sickened over it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Elizabeth Gaskell, "Life of Charlotte Bronte" (1857): '[Charlotte Bronte's] hosts [in London] took pleasure in showing her the sights of London. On one of the days which had been set apart for some of these pleasant excursions, a severe review of "Shirley" was published in the "Times." She ... guessed that there was some particular reason for the care with which her hosts mislaid it on that particular morning ... Mrs Smith at once admitted that her conjecture was right, and said that they had wished her to go to the day's engagement before reading it. But she quietly persisted in her request to be allowed to have the paper. Mrs Smith ... tried not to observe the countenance, which the other tried to hide behind the large sheets; but she could not help becoming aware of tears stealing down the face and dropping on the lap. The first remark Miss Bronte made was to express her fear lest so severe a notice should check the sale of the book, and injurously affect her publishers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Newspaper

George Henry Lewes : Review of Charlotte Bronte, Shirley

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 10 January 1850: 'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" [containing negative review of "Shirley" by her friend G. H. Lewes] -- it is very brutal and savage. I am not angry with Lewes -- but I wish in future he would let me alone -- and not write again what makes me feel so cold and sick as I am feeling just now --'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Serial / periodical

Maria Branwell : letters and papers

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 16 February 1850: 'A few days since a little incident happened which curiously touched me. Papa put into my hands a little packet of letters and papers -- telling me that they were Mamma's and that I might read them -- I did read them in a frame of mind I cannot describe ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter, Unknown

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 19 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls having finished "Jane Eyre" is now crying out for the 'other book' [Shirley] ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Bell Nicholls Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone wrong in the head as she heard him giving vent to roars of laughter as he sat alone -- clapping his hands and stamping on the floor.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Bell Nicholls Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Bell Nicholls Print: Book

: Letter from sister

Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your description of an imaginary shipwreck, I was reading & feeling the effects of a real one, having then received a letter from my sister giving me an account of the vessel in which she had sent my box, being stranded on the coast of Devonshire ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Branwell Manuscript: Letter

Thornton Hunt : Note

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850: 'I return Mr Thornton Hunt's note after reading it carefully.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Robert Southey : Life

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with which it commences is deeply interesting and the letters which follow are scarcely less so ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure ... I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" -- read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensible or suitable -- anything like warmth or enthusiasm ... is utterly out of place in commending these works ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley (extracts)

Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, c.29 April 1850: 'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working.'

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Taylor

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley

Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began "Shirley" and continued in a curious confusion of mind till now ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Taylor Print: Book

Robert Knox : The Races of Men: A Fragment

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 18 September 1850: 'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to their readers" ... Dr Knox alone, with his "Race, a Fragment" (a book which I read with combined interest, amusement and edification) would deliver the voice of a Stentor if any other book ventured to call in question his favourite dogmas.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 28 September 1850, on preparing to write preface to new edition of "Wuthering Heights": 'I am ... compelling myself to read it [the novel] over -- for the first time of opening the book since my sister's death. Its power fills me with renewed admiration ...'

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte

Mrs Smith : Note to Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I was nursing a comfortable and complacent conviction that I had quite made up my mind not to go to London this year ... But Pride has its fall. I read your invitation and immediately felt a great wish to descend from my stilts.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

: Bronte family papers

Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 23 October 1850: ' .. my late occupation left a result for some days and indeed still, very painful. The reading over of papers, the renewal of remembrances brought back the pang of bereavement and occasioned a depression of spirits well nigh intolerable ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Unknown

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley : Life of Dr Arnold

Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when I wish -- in accordance with your request -- to express what I think of it -- I do not find the task very easy -- proper terms seem wanting ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Newby : letter

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850: 'On referring to Mr Newby's letters, I find in one of them, a boast that he is "advertising vigorously."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Letter

Harriet and H. G. Martineau and Atkinson : Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development

Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work "Letters on the Nature and Development of Man?" ... It is the first exposition of avowed Atheism and Materialism I have ever read ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Harriet Taylor : Article on women's emancipation

Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 20 September 1851: 'Of all the articles respecting which you question me -- I have seen none except that notable one in the "Westminister" on the Emancipation of Women ... When I first read the paper -- I thought it the work of a powerful-minded -- clear-headed woman ... who longed for power and had never felt affection.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Serial / periodical

William Makepeace Thackeray : The History of Henry Esmond (volume I)

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 February 1852, after having been lent the first volume of W. M. Thackeray, "Henry Esmond", in manuscript by her publishers: 'It has been a great delight to me to read Mr Thackeray's manuscript ... you must permit me ... to thank you for a pleasure so rare and special ... In the first half of the work what chiefly struck me was the wonderful manner in which the author throws himself into the spirit and letter of the times wherof he treats ... As usual -- he is unjust to women ...Many other things I noticed that -- for my part -- grieved and esxasperated me as I read -- but then again came passages so deeply thought -- so tenderly felt -- one could not help forgiving and admiring.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Gaskell : Ruth

Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new works: ' ... I had felt and expressed to Mr Smith -- reluctance to come in the way of "Ruth". Not that I think she -- (bless her very sweet face! I have already devoured vol.1st) would suffer from contact with "Villette" ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Lectures

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must be studied to be appreciated ... I was present at the Fielding lecture ... That Thackeray was wrong in his way of treating Fielding's character and vices -- my conscience told me. After reading that lecture -- I trebly feel that he was wrong ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : novels

Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard my Daughter say of you, and from the perusal of your literary works, I shall give you a most hearty welcome, whenever you may come --'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Bronte Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : note to Ellen Nussey

Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: "Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks I have written too freely ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Bell Nicholls Manuscript: Letter

: [unknown books]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: The People

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Lancashire Daily Post

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, local newspaper

: Blackwoods Magazine

They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine. It contains many slanderous insinuations against the Publisher's rivals - particularly a paper entitled 'translation of a Chaldee manuscript'...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

various : [histories]

'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend. Doubtless you are disposed to grumble that I have been so long in doing so; but I have an argument in store for you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: BookManuscript: Letter

William Wallace : 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica

It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps be surprised that I am even now no farther advanced than the 'circle of curvature'. I have found his demonstrations circuitous but generally rigorous.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

David Hume : History of England

I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : History of England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called, by Tobias Smollett MD and others was a much harder and more unprofitable task. Next I read Gibbon's decline and fall of the Roman empire - a work of immense research and splendid execution.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

David Hume : Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols

But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity. At any rate the Second volume is not finished yet - and I do not like what I have read of any thing so well as I did the first.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

: The Spectator

'[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favour of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler". His narrative of how he modeled his prose style directly upon theirs bespeaks the powerful appeal of cosmopolitan standards to the aspiring provincial ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Franklin Print: Serial / periodical

: The Tatler

'[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favor of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Franklin Print: Serial / periodical

: Cinderella

'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: Little Red Riding Hood

'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: Jack and the Beanstalk

'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

: New Testament

'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, and on sundays did sit reading [aloud] in lower end of church, and many would flock about them to hear their reading then I came among the said readers to hear them ..."'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Poor men of Chelmsford Print: Book

: New Testament

'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, and on sundays did sit reading [aloud] in lower end of church, and many would flock about them to hear their reading then I came among the said readers to hear them ..."'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Treatise on I. Corinthians II.27, 28

In Will of Robert Keayne of Boston: 'As my special gift to ... [his son] my little written book in my closet upon I Cor. II, 27, 28, which is a treatise on the sacrament of the Lord's Supper ... [It is] a little thin pocket book bound in leather, all written with my own hand, which I esteem more precious than gold, and which I have read over I think 100 and 100 times ...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Keayne Manuscript: Codex, Leather bound pocketbook

: Bible passages

Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I thought suitable, with passages put of Mr. Allein's "Alarm".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Osborn Print: Book

Joseph Alleine : Alarm for the Unconverted

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Osborn Print: Book

John Janeway : Life and Death

The mother of Carteret Rede remembered that when 'I came up into her Chamber, I found her reading Mr. John Janeway's "Life and Death"; she was all in Tears ...'

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Carteret Rede Print: Book

Mr. Erskine : [spiritual autobiography]

Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'"

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Croswell

Mr. Erskine :

Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'"

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Croswell

: Letters patent for governance of colony

As temporary President in Virginia, John Smith 'had the "letters patent" [for governing of the colony] read aloud "each week" in order to bolster his authority.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group:

Anon : Charter of Virginia Assembly

At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a veteran of the House of Commons, began the meeting by reading aloud "the great charter or commission of privileges" that sanctioned the convening of the assembly.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pory

: Quaker correspondence

'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed out passages he now deemed inappropriate ...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: George Fox Manuscript: Letter

:

"... [In the 1720s] William Byrd (1674-1744) of Westover, Virginia, was keeping up with the classics in his private reading."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Byrd Print: Book

: Code of Laws 1648

" ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' that is, read aloud to a gathering of the townspeople."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown

Henry Mackenzie : The Man of Feeling

I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a sad change in it, or myself ? which was worse; and the effect altogether failed. Nobody cried, and at some of the passages, the touches that I used to think so exquisite ? Oh Dear! They laughed.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Louisa Stuart Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie : The Man of Feeling

I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet versed in sentiment, I had a secret dread I should not cry enough to gain the credit of proper sensibility.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Louisa Stuart Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : [unknown]

'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, and raced through most of Dostoevsky in a month. He was guided by a librarian who, like a university tutor, demanded an intelligent critique of everything he read'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Jones Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : [most works]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Jones Print: Book

Maxim Gorky : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Jones Print: Book

Robert Burns : [poetry]

[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later memoirs] 'he confessed a liking for Burns, Scott, the Brontes, Mrs Gaskell, children's comics and Olivier's film of Hamlet... Of course he admired Dickens, and not only the obvious Oliver Twist: the communist MP was prepared to admit that he appreciated the satire of the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

[unknown] : [children's comics]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Little Dorrit

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

Frank Richards : [stories in the Gem]

'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards's stories in the Gem and Magnet] taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Board school: "We were great readers of school stories, from which we learnt that boys of the higher class boarding schools were courageous, honourable, and chivalrous, and steeped in the traditions of the school and loyalty to the country. We tried to mould our lives according to this formula. Needless to say, we fell very short... Nevertheless, the constant effort did us a lot of good".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]

'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards' stories in the Gem and Magnet] 'taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Board school: "We were great readers of school stories, from which we learnt that boys of the higher class boarding schools were courageous, honourable, and chivalrous, and steeped in the traditions of the school and loyalty to the country. We tried to mould our lives according to this formula. Needless to say, we fell very short... Nevertheless, the constant effort did us a lot of good".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]

'Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes associated with Greyfriars, Frank Richards's mythical school.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Ezard Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Gem]

Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes associated with Greyfriars, Frank Richards's mythical school.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Ezard Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]

'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "code of schoolboy honour". "Although I never realised it at the time, it proved to influence me more about right or wrong than any other book", he recalled, "And that includes the Bible". After all, the Greyfriars code "was as well defined as the scriptures [were] nebulous".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Paul Fletcher Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]

'A.J. Mills, a charlady's son, recalled that his teachers made a pathetic attempt to teach an honour system but "the nearest any of us got to knowing about the honour system was to read the Magnet to find out how the other half lived".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: A.J. Mills Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]

[Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humdrum existence, giving me an insight into the hitherto unknown life of upper-class children". Making sense of the school slang and rituals was not easy but Tom Merry and Harry Wharton "became my idols and I longed to be like them".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lionel Fraser Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Gem]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lionel Fraser Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Gem]

'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a world I never expected to join". As an adult he appreciated that they rehashed the same plot week after week, all to buttress "our indestructible class system" [but he resented George Orwell critiquing them]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bryan Forbes Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bryan Forbes Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]

'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school experience of any kind... "But I persevered and eventually familiarised myself with the conventions of the form... I continued to read the Gem and Magnet religiously until I was fourteen or fifteen, and from them I received what might be called the Schoolboy's Code"... [which] enabled him to get along with other children when he was sent to Heswall Hospital'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Louis Battye Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [stories in the Gem]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Louis Battye Print: Serial / periodical

Angela Brazil : [school stories]

'Angela Brazil inspired Kathleen Betterton (whose father operated a lift in the London Underground) to ascend the scholarship ladder to Christ's Hospital in Hertford and thence to Oxford University. The Brazil stories, she wrote "conjured up muddled visions of midnight picnics, sweet girl prefects, hockey, house matches and exploits that saved the honour of the school. It never occurred to me that Mother and Father might be hurt by my anxiety to leave home".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kathleen Betterton Print: Book

Frank Richards : [school stories in the Gem]

'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and slang. Pritchett's father eventually found them, burnt them in the fireplace and ordered the boy to read Ruskin, though there was no Ruskin in the house'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [school stories in the Magnet]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [school stories in the Magnet]

'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry and his chums, and that other band of derring-doers, Harry Wharton & Co. My excitement knew no bounds. My indiscretion was equally boundlesss". When she told her parents about the papers, they naturally burned them'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Amy Gomm Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [school stories in the Gem]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Amy Gomm Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [school stories in the Magnet]

'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking over the river and towards King's college. For my father, Lord Maulever (of Billy Bunter and the Magnet) might have walked that lawn; Tom Brown must have been there, and the Fifth Form from St Dominic's. He had read The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green at Oxford, and saw that I had a "gyp" (as Verdant Green had a "scout"). He imagined how my gyp would shake his head and say (as Verdant Green's scout always said), "College Gents will do anything". All I could say... couldn't convince my parents that that powerful Cambridge image of my father's schoolboy reading wasn't my Cambridge".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's School Days

'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking over the river and towards King's College. For my father, Lord Maulever (of Billy Bunter and the Magnet) might have walked that lawn; Tom Brown must have been there, and the Fifth Form from St Dominic's. He had read The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green at Oxford, and saw that I had a "gyp" (as Verdant Green had a "scout"). He imagined how my gyp would shakes his head and say (as Verdant Green's scout always said), "College Gents will do anything". All I could say... couldn't convince my parents that that powerful Cambridge image of my father's schoolboy reading wasn't my Cambridge".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Talbot Baines Reed : The Fifth Form at St Dominic's

'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking over the river and towards King's College. For my father, Lord Maulever (of Billy Bunter and the Magnet) might have walked that lawn; Tom Brown must have been there, and the Fifth Form from St Dominic's. He had read The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green at Oxford, and saw that I had a "gyp" (as Verdant Green had a "scout"). He imagined how my gyp would shakes his head and say (as Verdant Green's scout always said), "College Gents will do anything". All I could say... couldn't convince my parents that that powerful Cambridge image of my father's schoolboy reading wasn't my Cambridge".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse : [short school story]

'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me a thirst for good literature", eventually leading to the works of Karl Marx and his followers'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Citrine Print: Book

[unknown] : [school stories from The Captain]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Citrine Print: Book

Karl Marx : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Citrine Print: Book

[unknown] : [boys' weeklies]

'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his parents on the evils of capitalism'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott Print: Serial / periodical

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott Print: Book

John Rodrigo Dos Passos : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott Print: Book

John Steinbeck : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott Print: Book

Frank Richards : [school stories in The Magnet]

'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an athletics event because "It seemed to me, under the influence of the boys' books I had read, that it was dishonourable to run for money".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hymie Fagan Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Richards : [school stories in The Gem]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hymie Fagan Print: Serial / periodical

Talbot Baines Reed : [school stories]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hymie Fagan Print: Book

n/a : The Magnet

'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freethinker", "The Struggle of the Bulgarians for Independence" and "The Philippine Martyrs" for their politics, and did not allow one body of literature to affect the other'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Boy's Own Paper

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

George Alfred Henty : [novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

n/a : The Clarion

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Freethinker

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Serial / periodical

A.K. von Huhn : The Struggle of the Bulgarians for National Independence

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright) : The Filipino Martyrs

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Wall Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Works

Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : A Sentimental Journey

Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

: novels

'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including Homer (in Pope's translation) and various histories of the ancient and modern world, as well as the works of major modern poets.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Homer :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

: ancient history

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

:

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

:

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Unknown

Elizabeth and Richard Griffith : A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances

'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1766); and Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas" (1759).'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rasselas

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives

'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Letters; Hume's "History of England"; Hooke's "Roman History"; and Conyers Middleton's "Life of Cicero" ... She also ... studied music theory in Diderot's treatise ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Works

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Letters

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

David Hume : The History of England

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Nathaniel Hooke : Roman History

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Conyers Middleton : Life of Cicero

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Denis Diderot : treatise on music

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, not supposing she wd disgrace her parentage, but not having the least idea that without ... knowledge of the world, she cd write a book worth reading. The dedication to myself ... brought tears to my eyes, and [I] found so much good sense & good writing in the Letters of Mr. Villiers, that ... I hastn'd to tell her... that I had read part of the book with such pleasure, that instead of being angry, I congratulated her on being able to write so well ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney Print: Book

Frances Burney : The Witlings

'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Crisp, Crisp's sister Sophia Gast and the other Chessington ladies, and two of the Burney sisters [including Susanna].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Burney : The Witlings

Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: " 'Good' sd. Mr. Crisp ... the name of Codger occasion'd a general Grin ... [re the "Milliners Scene"] 'It's funny -- it's funny indeed' sd. Mr. C[risp] ... Charlotte laugh'd till she was almost black in the face at Codger's part, as I had done before her ... My Father's voice, sight, & lungs were tired ... & beng entirely unacquainted wth. what was coming ... he did not always give the Expression you meant to be given ... " ... the Serious part seem'd even to improve upon me by the 2d. hearing, & made me for to cry in 2 or 3 places ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney Manuscript: Unknown

: newspapers

Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781 in Pacific island-inspired costume: 'Lord, if you had seen how I smirked over the Account of your Dress in the News-papers!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Newspaper

Frances Burney : Cecilia

'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impressions before the whole novel had been read -- or finished.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Burney : Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress

'When he was writing ... "Things as They Are" (1794) ... [William] Godwin studied "Cecilia".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Hoole : Aurelia

Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783): 'I stood, a favouring muse, at Burey's side, To lash unfeeling Wealth and stubborn Pride, Soft Affectation, insolently vain, And wild Extravagance with all her sweeping train; ed her that mdern Hydra to engage, And point a Harrell to a mad'ning age: Then bade the moralist, admir'd and prais'd, Fly from the loud applause her talent raised.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney

Horace Walpole : The Mysterious Mother

' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horrified ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney and Leonard Smelt Print: Book

Virgil :

'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sister Sally till she had made herself through ... Dr. Collier's Assistance, a competent Scholar, & could construe the 6th. Book of Virgil ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Fielding Print: Book

William Falconer : The Shipwreck

'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: The Hon. Stephen Digby Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho

Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein :

'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instant of her liberation & safe arrival in England" ... [included] Extracts culled from the work of ... Mme. de Stael, Miss Talbot, Mrs. Chapone ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney

Catherine Talbot :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney

Hester Chapone :

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney

Alain Le Sage : Gil Blas

On Frances Burney d'Arblay's married life in France: 'With affection and friendship, the pleaseures of attending the theater and reading works of French literature such as "Gil Blas" aloud at home, life was more than bearable.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: D'Arblay family Print: Book

Charles Burney : Memoirs

'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When she read his Memoirs, she found them incomplete, and she was sadly dispoointed at the quality of what was there ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Manuscript: Unknown

Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho

'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Italian

'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Frances Burney : The Diary and Letters

'... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to become a diarist and novelist ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Thackeray Print: Book

n/a : The Magnet

'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his youth Aneurin Bevan enjoyed the Magnet and Gem surreptitiously (his father forbade them) and devoured H. Rider Haggard at the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library. But during the 'Phoney War' he lambasted the government's stupidly optimistic predictions in precisely the same terms: "Immediately on the outbreak of war, England was given over to the mental level of the Boys' Own Paper and the Magnet..." In 1944 Bevan freely admitted that "William le Queux, John Buchan and Phillips Oppenheim have always been favourites of ours in our off-moments. Part of their charm lies in their juvenile attitude".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin Bevan Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Gem

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin Bevan Print: Serial / periodical

H. Rider Haggard : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin Bevan Print: Book

William Le Queux : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin Bevan Print: Book

John Buchan : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin Bevan Print: Book

Phillips Oppenheim : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin Bevan Print: Book

n/a : The Beano

'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her stories were not so alien to him as one might imagine: somehow the animal characters reminded him of the Latvian village from which he had come. Chaim soon became a fan of the Beano's Lord Snooty, an aristocrat who inexplicably consorted with a gang of working class kids: the strip fulfilled every schoolboy's fantasy of finding himself among wealthy people in a noble setting"...[as] young Bermant... followed the progress of the Second World War on the Glasgow Herald and the Manchester Guardian [he felt a strong sense of British identity]. The war, the school, the boys' weeklies were all "building up new obsessions to replace the old and drawing reassurance and pride from the Empire".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Bermant Print: Serial / periodical

Beatrix Potter : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Bermant Print: Book

n/a : The Glasgow Herald

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Bermant Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Manchester Guardian

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Bermant Print: Newspaper

Thomas Paine : [unknown -Rights of Man?]

'[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the headmaster read aloud rosy dispatches from the Daily Chronicle, "It struck me that if ever the British had to go backwards they wouldn't say it was a retreat, it was a strategic withdrawal...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jim Flowers Print: Book

n/a : The Daily Chronicle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jim Flowers Print: Newspaper

John Keats : [unknown]

'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he spent in the public library, reading Shelley, Keats, Shaw and Galsworthy, represented a desperate breakout from the stultifying provincialism of his native Halifax.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles Print: Book

John Galsworthy : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles Print: Book

Mark Twain : [unknown]

'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But hardly anyone in their neighbourhood ever ventured outside it'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [travel books]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

n/a : Mercure de France

'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the work of Moliere, Hauptmann, Calderon, Sudermann, Ibsen, Lie and Strindberg until he grew quite cozy in his literary shell. His parents were appalled that he had no friends. But I've hundreds of friends he protested. "Bazarov and Rudin and Liza and Sancho Panza and Eugenie Grandet". His father countered with Squeers, Nickleby, Snodgrass and Little Nell: "And they're a healthy lot I might say, whereas all your friends have either got consumption, or are always in the dumps".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Serial / periodical

Moliere : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Gerhart Hauptmann : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Hermann Sudermann : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Jonas Lie : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

August Strindberg : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Eugenie Grandet

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev : Fathers and Sons

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hanley Print: Book

: Royal Reader

'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and the cakes and King Canute ordering the tide to retreat... her Royal Reader offered thrilling depictions of the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, the Amazon, Hudson's Bay and the South Pacific, as well as scenes from Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. She also remembered borrowing a decrepit copy of Belzoni's Travels and enjoying intensely the excursion through Egyptian archaeology. But she was an unusually self-motivated reader: her less-educated neighbours were only hazily aware of the existence of Oxford, just nineteen miles away.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

: [history reader]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Belzoni : Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, &c.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : Bel-Ami

'...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he said to himself, on re-reading "Bel-Ami" after ten years in 1903 - "People might easily say that in "A Man from the North" I had plagiarized from it..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Frederick W. Farrar : [St Winifred's School Stories]

[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children preferred Frank Richards to Empire Day, simply because the former was a more reliable guide to the reality he knew'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Burton Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie

'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Talbot Baines Reed : [School Stories]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Burton Print: Book

Frank Richards : [School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Burton Print: Serial / periodical

George Anson : A Voyage Round the World

'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anson's A Voyage Round the World performed that magic for Alexander Somerville and for the Scottish turnip hoers he read it to'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Joris Karl Huysmans : Les Soeurs Vatards

'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in Paris, which he read with great admiration in March 1907, and which he admired for its uncompromising realism . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Anson : A Voyage Round the World

'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Park'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: "Jacques", a flax dresser Print: Book

James Cook : [Accounts of three voyages round the world]

'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Park'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: "Jacques", a flax dresser Print: Book

James Bruce : Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769,1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773.

'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Park'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: "Jacques", a flax dresser Print: Book

Mungo Park : Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797

'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Park'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: "Jacques", a flax dresser Print: Book

Jules Claretie : L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871

'. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Claretie (though there is little doubt that he read it too). . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: Scriptures

"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to their several uses, as some that were fit subjects for her Meditations: Some for encouragement to prayer, and other duties: Promises suited to various conditions and wants: as her papers shew." And for other Books, she would meddle with none but the sound and practicall, and had no itch after the empty Books, which make ostentation of Novelty, and which Opinionists are now so taken with; nor did she like writing or preaching in envy and strife. And of good Books, she chose to read but few, and those very often over, that all might be well digested. Which is a course (for private Christians) that tends to avoid luxuriancy, and make them sincere, and solid, and established.

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Baker

Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest

... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to set her heart on God, and to seek salvation with her chiefest care: From that time forward she was a more constant, diligent, serious hearer of the ablest Ministers in London.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Baker Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : New Age

'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had begun in 1908, were widely read and admired . . . Ford Madox Ford, writing in 1918, described the readers of the "New Age" as "very numerous and from widely different classes . . . army officers . . . colonial governors . . . higher Civil Service officials, solicitors and members of the Bar. On the other hand, I have known it read regularly by board-school teachers, shop assistants, servants, artisans, and members of the poor generally. . . "'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Victoria History of the Potteries

'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sources'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : The Honeymoon

"He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it as a good test, to see if his lines could withstand a bad rendering."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

Pauline Smith : The Little Karoo

'. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered. Bennett must have felt a justified pride in writing an introduction for the collection, in 1925, describing himself as "the earliest wondering admirer of her strange, austere, tender and ruthless talent"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Ann Veronica

'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale, to Arnold B. with love from his nephew H.G.": he hadn't been over-impressed with it, surprisingly, perhaps.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

William Shaw : When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter

'. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice

"Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma combined with a pathological inability to swallow ... she was ordered total rest ... While she wished to be read Ruskin's Stones of Venice aloud, her sisters desisted after a couple of chapters, thinking that it was too heavy for the invalid."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Winnie Seerbohm Print: Book

: French novels

Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sugar to beguile their state with; the novels hanging together by the ends of string that had once stitched them, or adhering at the corners in densely bruised dog's ears, out of which the girls, wetting their fingers, occasionally extracted a gluey leaf.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Female American travelling-companions Print: Book

: stories

'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative to pubs, and described how the girls were fond of being read to, "listening quietly to a pathetic or comic story, either in prose or poetry."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: stories

'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afternoon to talking over wat they had read ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: M. C. Mondy Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan :

'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor there in the 1890s. L. V. Hodson notes that when reading Sheridan in his classes, they first had to take a pencil and cross out all the expletives ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: English class, Queen's College Print: Book

anon : Middle High German love-lyric

' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particularly charming ... but Dr. Breul turned the page ... and said, 'Er ist nicht erbaulich' (not edifying)' ..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: E. Terry Print: Book

anon : Middle High German love-lyric

' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particualrly charming ... but Dr. Breul turned the page ... and said, 'Er ist nicht erbaulich' (not edifying)" ..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

anon : The Times (extracts)

'... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's] practice of allowing them to read extracts [ie cuttings] from newspapers [The Times and the Observer] ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Female pupils at Surrey school Print: Newspaper

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full stop [on coming to episode unfit for children] ... skipped a little, and took up the story later on.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, was expelled for reading from unsuitable passages of "Cranford" in copy left in drawing-room used for music practice.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosie Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Essays

'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported her for reading Macaulay's "Essays" during preparation time ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole Print: Book

Algernon Swinburne : Poems and Ballads

'Annabel Huth Jackson recalls the impact of a copy of Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads" at Cheltenham Ladies' College: "half the house went mad over it and we copied out most of the book because we could not afford to buy it."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Cheltenham Ladies' College Print: Book

Walter Scott : Old Mortality

'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for the "Senior Cambridge" ... : "Old Mortality", "The Farringdons", "By Mutual Consent" (L. T. Meade), "To Call Her Mine", "Kathrine Regina", and "Self or Bearer" (Besant); "Christmas Carol", "The Cricket on the Hearth", "Hypatia", "Concerning Isabel Carnaby", "The Virginians", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Head of the House" (E. Everett-Green), "A Double Thread", "The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent", "Sesame and Lilies", "A Tale of Two Cities".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler : The Farringdons

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

L. T. Meade : By Mutual Consent

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Besant : To Call Her Mine

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Besant : Katherine Regina

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Besant : Self or Bearer

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Christmas Carol

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Cricket on the Hearth

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler : Concerning Isabel Carnaby

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Virginians

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Mark Twain : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Evelyn Everett-Green : The Head of the House

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: A Double Thread

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ewing :

Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our mother read aloud to us from Mrs Ewing or Miss Yonge, from "The Talisman" or "Quentin Durward".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charlotte Yonge :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Talisman

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Scott : Quentin Durward

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

:

Josephine Butler [nee Grey] remembered her mother's '[assembling] us daily for the reading aloud of some solid book ... by a kind of examination fllowing the reading aloud [she] assured herself that we had mastered the subject.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Grey Family Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : Fairy Tales

'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, children's books like "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "The Little Duke" [as well as Scott] ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Barclay Print: Book

Frances Hodgson Burnett : Little Lord Fauntleroy

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Barclay Print: Book

Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Little Duke

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Barclay Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Barclay Print: Book

:

'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-found ability was made ...she was "furnished with a Mavor's spelling book" ... and made to start ... letter by letter, rather than by recognising words -- "under my mother's personal superintendence".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler Print: Unknown

: Mavor's spelling book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Young Lady Aberdeen and mother Print: Book

Joshua Reynolds : Discourses on Art

'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant on reading Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses" together with her mother one morning. First they were interrupted by the housemaid ... then by a man servant ... then by the cook ... by the nursemaid ... by a maid ... by Emily's younger brother ... by the man servant announcing a visitor.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Shore and mother Print: Book

:

'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the room of a Government clerk who was out all day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Mary Buss

: story books

'Zoe Proctor (b.1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of the County Gaol at Bury St Edmunds, she "could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the only secure retreat --the long, narrow W.C."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Proctor Print: Book

: The Girl's Own Paper

'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-moralistic).'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Wetherell : The Old Helmet

'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughters books ... [including] a particular object of [Barlow's] derision, "The Old Helmet": "I had heard so much about this book that when it came my way when I was sixteen, I pounced on it eagerly ... [gives mocking summary of romantic, historical plot] ... A movng story, indeed, but wasted on us."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Amy Barlow Print: Book

George Anson : Voyage Round the World

Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'

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

William Lempriere : Tour to Morocco

'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'

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

: History of Montezuma

'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma"'.

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

William B Carpenter : Principles of Mental Physiology

'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of what was known as "solid reading". Carpenter's "Mental Physiology", H. T. Buckle's "History of Civilisation", and John Seeley's "Ecce Homo" remained in Faithfull's memory as beng among the books with which they battled together ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lillian Faithfull and mother Print: Book

H. T. Buckle : History of Civilisation

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lillian Faithfull and mother Print: Book

John Seeley : Ecce Homo

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lillian Faithfull and mother Print: Book

: books on hydraulics

'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: books on astronomy

'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: French fiction

Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned most frequently were those which described close family life and the deep instictive love of parents for their children.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Enid Starkie Print: Book

:

"Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit away cook Lily Knight's pies; bouncing on the trampoline in the circus tent set up on nearby Balsall Common and listening to bedtime stories from his much-loved nanny, Ellen Clifford, who was to be with the family for 53 years."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Clifford Print: Book

:

At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dyslexia] was finally diagnosed his mother read to him at home alone in his bedroom and he began to pick up, even though he would still struggle to write words such as 'necessary', labouring over where the Es and Ss should go.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edith Huggins Print: Unknown

: Concordance to Shakespeare

' ... [Dora Montefiore (b. 1851)] recalls her father's ... practice of looking up Shakespeare's views on any topic which came up in conversation in a Concordance ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Beryl Lee Booker Print: Book

Susan Coolidge : What Katy Did

In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Beryl Lee Booker Print: Book

Monier Williams : work/s on Eastern religions

'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme aloud to her.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Maynard Print: Book

William Law :

'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme aloud to her.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Maynard Print: Book

Jacob Boehme :

'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme aloud to her.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Maynard Print: Book

John Milton : Sonnets

' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milton's sonnets, Cowper, Irving's "Orations", and Tennyson ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Maynard Print: Book

William Cowper : poetry

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Maynard Print: Book

Washington Irving : Orations

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Maynard Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : poetry

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Maynard Print: Book

Joseph Butler : The Analogy of Religion

In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's influence that Mary read Butler's "Analogy".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone Print: Book

Joseph Butler : The Analogy of Religion

Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', which made her reticent for years about the comfort and strength this book had given her during adolescent depression.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Ethel Voynich : The Gadfly

' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he began to weep in [mock] sympathy.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Amy Barlow Print: Book

Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's Schooldays

Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ...

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Octavia Hill Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : The Three Musketeers

'["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she read "The Three Musketeers", which enabled her to step outside the bounds even of male, let alone female, notions of propriety.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Farjeon Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Puck of Pook's Hill

'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole and brothers Print: Serial / periodical

: Sexton Blake

'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and the "Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole and brothers Print: Unknown

: The Magnet

'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole and brothers Print: Serial / periodical

: boys' school stories

'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole and brothers Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Unknown

: miscellaneous novels

Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay with a friend in the country, who had by some means or other become possessed of a number of three-volume novels of a questionable character. These were stored away in a box in the garret ... I discovered them ... I used to go into the garret, sit on the ground, and read all day long books of all kinds ...' (pp.104-05)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Phyllis Browne Print: Book

Thomas Dick : Christian Philosopher

Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He handed to me Dr. Dick's "Christian Philosopher," which he had just read himself and enjoyed exceedingly ... I tried hard to read it, but it was beyond me ...' (pp.104-05)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Thomas Dick : Christian Philosopher

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Phyllis Browne Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

'... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: history

'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... '

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Beale and mother Print: Book

: general literature

'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... '

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Beale and mother Print: Unknown

: history

After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", and "Blackwoods"; and foreign literature. Pascal's "Life and Provincial Letters" inspired a spirit of emulation in her: she borrowed a Euclid and worked her own way through the first six books ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Beale Print: Book

: The Edinburgh Review

After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", and Blackwoods; and foreign literature. Pascal's "Life and Provincial Letters" inspired a spirit of emulation in her: she borrowed a Euclid and worked her own way through the first six books ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Beale Print: Serial / periodical

: The Quarterly Review

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Beale Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Beale Print: Serial / periodical

Sarah Lewis : Woman's Mission

In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d book and ... the most philosophical and masterly on the subject I ever read or glanced over' ...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Susan Warner : The Wide, Wide World

'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence White Print: Book

Susan Warner : Queechy

'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence White Print: Book

Maria Charlesworth : Ministering Children

'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence White Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!

'Lucy Lyttelton ... continued reading as avidly as ever after her marriage to Lord Frederick Cavendish, although she seems to have been happy that he should choose the books for their honeymoon: "Westward Ho!", Carlyle's "French Revolution", and Butler's "Analogy" ... A month after they left for their travels, they were still on "Westward Ho!".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Cavendish Print: Book

: gift books

'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. It ranges from gift books ... bowdlerized Shakespeare, Longfellow, and Scott when she was still in the schoolroom, to the combination of religious debate, historical studies, and modern novels which characterised the literary consumption of her adult life.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Lyttelton Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Lyttelton Print: Unknown

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Lyttelton Print: Unknown

Walter Scott :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Lyttelton Print: Unknown

: texts on religion

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Lyttelton Print: Unknown

: historical studies

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Lyttelton Print: Unknown

: modern novels

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Lyttelton Print: Unknown

George Eliot :

'Mrs Benson, wife of the Headmaster of Wellington College, [scandalized] his friends by letting her children read George Eliot ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Benson family Print: Book

: Home Chat

' ... Jean Curtis Brown and her friend Lucy [consumed] the forbidden magazine "Home Chat", borrowed from the kitchen on the cook's night out.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jean Curtis Brown and friend Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : poetry

Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-room, when I knew my parents were safe in London, open the [book]case, and take deep delicious draughts of verse. Tennyson and Matthew Arnold were all the sweeter for being read in secret' (p.17).'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : poetry

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book

: philosophical texts

'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary St Leger Harrison Print: Book

: poetry

'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary St Leger Harrison Print: Book

: The Arabian Nights

'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", Shakespeare, and, above all, Scott's novels ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Paley Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Paley Print: Book

Homer : The Iliad

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Paley Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Paley Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Paley Print: Book

Walter Scott : novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Paley Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfield" and then it had to be in secret' (p.7).'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Paley Marshall Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede

'[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when she was reading it aloud to her grandchildren ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede

' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter reading "Adam Bede" ... the local vicar was asked to call in order to explain the book's unsuitability.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Shaw Weaver Print: Book

George Moore : A Mummer's Wife

'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" as she went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Mitchell Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh

'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her morals had been injured by reading "Aurora Leigh" ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: poetry

'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Douglas Campbell

: poetry

'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower

: Latin texts

' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

: Italian texts

' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature cannot be denied, and of course I read it" ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Frances Balfour Print: Book

: science books

'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Book

: medical journals

'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Serial / periodical

: The Bible

'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :

"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick Print: Book

La Fontaine :

"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Gabriel Rosetti's poems by a friend, 'Jenny' ... came as a welcome antidote [to Dickens's and Scott's treatments of fallen women]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick Print: Unknown

Charles Dickens : Bleak House

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick Print: Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : poems including Jenny

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : poems including The Revenge

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Tiddy Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : poems including The Revenge

"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the poems read aloud by aunt included Tennyson, 'The Revenge', in her text of which the aunt covered the word 'womb' with a strip of paper]: 'My family still cherishes the tattered volume of Tennyson showing the marks from which the strip was surreptitiously removed by us to satify a curiosity very natural in the young.'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stocks and siblings Print: Book

Robert Browning :

"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's sonnets and 'Venus and Adonis', with the addition of novels, and ... Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Stopes Print: Book

Algernon Swinburne :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Stopes Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Stopes Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Venus and Adonis

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Stopes Print: Book

Edward Carpenter : Love's Coming of Age

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Stopes Print: Book

: popular novels

"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Medicine: 'the treatment of infectious diseases left me cold, but I was secretly excited at the prospect of menstruation; I also found the details of confinement quite enthralling.' She added the knowledge thus gained to other sources, recalling 'that intensive searching for obstetrical details through the Bible and such school-library novels as David Copperfield and Adam Bede which appears to have been customary almost everywhere among the adolescents of my generation.'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book

: Household Medicine

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book

: The Bible

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Juif Errant

"... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a dictionary, read it from cover to cover. The fact that 'it contained episodes which those in authority would probably consider unsuitable for juvenile reading' only adding [sic] to her enjoyment, for, in this educational context, 'there were only smiles of approval when I was seen with a French book in my hand.'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cicely Hammill Print: Book

: French dictionary

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cicely Hammill Print: Book

Edgar Allen Poe :

"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsby Legends, and the Boys' Own Paper, bought with her weekly penny for helping with the housework."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Laura Knight Print: Book

: The Ingoldsby Legends

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Laura Knight Print: Book

: The Boy's Own Paper

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Laura Knight Print: Serial / periodical

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs

"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Angela Brazil

H. G. Wells : New Machiavelli, The

'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : Milestones

'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Kauser but as they both read badly they didn't give it a fair hearing.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

Fyodor Dostoyevsky : unknown

'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

" ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad woman tearing the wedding veil' in Jane Eyre, although the incidence of this incident alone was doubtless insufficient to explain Jackson's mother's horror when she learnt her daughter had read the book."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Annabel Huth Jackson Print: Book

Walter Scott : Works including The Tapestry Chamber

"Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tapestry Chamber': 'was a disturber of my rest for years. So too was an illustrated version of The Ingoldsby Legends ...'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Cicely Hamilton Print: Book

: The Ingoldsby Legends

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Cicely Hamilton Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : Autobiography

Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, George Sand's Histoire de ma vie, and Wordsworth's Prelude ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Beatrice Webb Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Autobiography

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Beatrice Webb Print: Book

George Sand : Histoire de ma vie

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Beatrice Webb Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Prelude

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Beatrice Webb Print: Book

Susan Warner : The Wide, Wide World

"Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she had been especially impressed by the passage in which [the schoolgirl heroine follows some adults' French conversation and is able to supply the historical date that one of them forgets]. "

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Christine Longford Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aenied, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

John Milton : Complete poetry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Divina Commedia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Homer : The Iliad

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Virgil : The Aeneid

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Lucan : Pharsalia

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Aeschylus :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Sophocles :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Euripedes :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Ovid :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Tacitus :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Xenophon :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Herodotus :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Thucydides :

" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Anquetil du Perron : Zend Avesta

"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir William Jones's Institutes of Menu, and found out as much as she could about the Greek and Alexandrian philosophers from Diogenes Laertius and the old translators, as well as from a large Biographical Dictionary."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Sir William Jones : Institutes of Menu

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Diogenes Laertius :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

: translated ancient philosophical texts

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

: Biographical Dictionary

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

John Bunyan :

"When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan read aloud to her brothers."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Edward Gibbon :

"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Moralia, Xenophon's Memorabilia, and a little Plato."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

David Hume :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Tindal :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Collins :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Voltaire :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Marcus Aurelius :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Seneca :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Epictetus :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Plutarch : Moralia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorabilia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

Plato :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair

"... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading Byron's 'The Corsair') ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Jemima Clough Print: Book

: The Bible

"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her diary becomes full of references to this, and to articles in the Times on subjects as diverse as Fortification and The War in New Zealand. She read, and was charmed by, Symington on architecture, sculpture, and painting ... Further books which she read included Froude's History of England ... The Bible and Modern Thought, Butler's Analogy, Memorials of Fox, Bancroft's American Revolution, Rollin's Ancient History, Waddington's Church History, the Works of Paley, Locke on the Human Understanding, and Mrs Jameson's Characteristics of Women."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

: Fraser's Magazine

'At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her diary becomes full of references to this, and to articles in the Times on subjects as diverse as Fortification and The War in New Zealand. She read, and was charmed by, Symington on architecture, sculpture, and painting ... Further books which she read included Froude's "History of England" ... "The Bible and Modern Thought", Butler's "Analogy", "Memorials of Fox", Bancroft's "American Revolution", Rollin's "Ancient History", Waddington's "Church History", the Works of Paley, Locke on the Human Understanding, and Mrs Jameson's "Characteristics of Women".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Newspaper

Symington :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

J. A. Froude : History of England

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

: The Bible and Modern Thought

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

: Memorials of Fox

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

Bancroft : The American Revolution

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

Rollin : Ancient History

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

Waddington : Church History

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

Paley : Works

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

Mrs Jameson : Characteristics of Women

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

" .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had copied out and carried round with her ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Arnold Print: Book

: Texts in/on early Spanish

On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Arnold Print: Book

Salomon Reinach : Orpheus:A History of Religions

Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, and Frazer, The Golden Bough.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book

Jane Harrison : Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book

Farnell : Cults of the Greek States

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book

Sir James George Frazer : The Golden Bough

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book

Walter Scott :

" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to worry and 'hysteria' based on the feeling that it would be pleasant to have someone caring for her. She had not yet learnt, she claims, the joy that comes through caring for others."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

: poem on family Bible

"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The first was about a family Bible, the last line of each stanza being 'The old-fashioned Bible that lay on the stand'; the second was Felicia Hemans's 'The Better Land' [which almost caused her to faint with emotion] ..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Farningham Print: Serial / periodical

Felicia Hemans : The Better Land

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Farningham Print: Serial / periodical

: Sunday School Union magazines

"... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union's magazines, at the incessant stories of poor boys who had risen to be rich and great men: 'Every month I hoped to find the story of some poor ignorant girl who ... had yet been able by her own efforts and the blessing of God ... to live a life of usefulness, if not of greatness.'"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Farningham Print: Serial / periodical

William Cowper :

"The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines, ending 'My father made them all!' That was what I wanted above all to be able to say ...'"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Ridley Havergal Print: Unknown

Francis Thompson : The Hound of Heaven

"Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though she had been taken hold of and mastered, and determined that she should be a nun when she grew up."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Enid Starkie Print: Unknown

: The Bible

"Charlotte M. Yonge, apprehensive that mothers in the 1890s were paying insufficient attention to what their daughters got up to on Sundays, regretted that children were not encouraged to become as passionately fond of their Bibles as Lady Augustus Stanley had revealed herself to be, devoted to a great Bagster's Bible, almost as large as herself, running after her sister to read it with her, and especially delighting in the Gospel of St. John."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Young Lady Augustus Stanley and sister Print: Book

George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss

Jane Ellen Harrison, in Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925) 11-12: "'Until I met Aunt Glegg in the Mill on the Floss, I never knew myself. I am Aunt Glegg; with all reverence I say it.'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Ellen Harrison Print: Book

: life of Edward Bouverie Pusey

"A. Maude Royden, whilst at Lady Margaret Hall, became immersed in Tractarianism, and she read her way through the five volumes of the life of Edward Bouverie Pusey."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: A. Maude Royden Print: Book

J. A. Hobson : The Science of Wealth

'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The Science of Wealth" to the effect that a certain number of wageless unemployed was a necessary condition of capitalist industry ... "In this mood of altruistic indignation I picked up H. G. Wells's "New Worlds for Old" -- under the misapprehension that it was another scientific romance like "The First Men in the Moon", which had fascinated me years before -- and tumbled straight into Socialism overnight".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole Print: Book

H. G. Wells : New Worlds for Old

"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The Science of Wealth to the effect that a certain number of wageless unemployed was a necessary condition of capitalist industry ... 'In this mood of altruistic indignation I picked up H. G. Wells's New Worlds for Old -- under the misapprehension that it was another scientific romance like The First Men in the Moon, which had fascinated me years before -- and tumbled straight into Socialism overnight'."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The First Men in the Moon

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw :

"[in her autobiography Growing up Into Revolution (1949), Margaret Cole] conveys the combination of amusement and delight she and her companions experienced reading Shaw ..."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole and Girton contemporaries Print: Unknown

Ernst Haeckel :

"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was reading Haeckel, Huxley and Darwin with him."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Wilkinson and father Print: Book

T. H. Huxley :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Wilkinson and father Print: Book

Charles Darwin :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Wilkinson and father Print: Book

Charles Dickens : novels

"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and George Eliot'."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

George Eliot : novels

"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and George Eliot'."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

'[Alice] Foley continued her education by attending night school after going to work full-time in the mill when she was thirteen. She remembers choosing "Jane Eyre" as a prize, attracted by its strange name: "I read the book avidly for it was an enchanting experience in a new romantic world ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Foley Print: Book

: The Clarion

"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert Blatchford's publication of Merry England and God and My Neighbour'."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Alice Foley Print: Serial / periodical

: Merrry England

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Alice Foley Print: Unknown

: God and My Neighbour

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Alice Foley Print: Unknown

: weekly girls' paper

"The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild romance, centred round titles, wealth, Mayfair, dukes and factory girls. The one whose turn it was to pay had the first read'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Annie Kenney and co-workers Print: Serial / periodical

: theological works

"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled 'The Castle of Otranto', haunted my dreams for many a night'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

: early Methodist magazines

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Serial / periodical

: cookery books

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

: crime/horror fiction

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poems

"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitchell quickly answered in the affirmative ... The walker (whom years later Mitchell recognised as the model Manchester employer Hans Renold) left her his copy of Wordsworth's poems, which Mitchell read and memorized until her mother removed them since they 'wasted' her time."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

: local newspaper (including verse)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Newspaper

: library books

While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed on the way to work."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

: bookstall stock

While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed on the way to work."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Lyell : Vestiges of Creation

"In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist minister in whose family she worked as companion and help], [Mary Smith] had to sit up through the night whilst the family were asleep."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

: popular serial fiction

" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in weeekly episodes and which created a compulsive desire in her ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Layton Print: Serial / periodical

: travel writing

In one place in which she worked as a servant, where "Mrs Layton's" reading approved of: "she became particularly keen on reading travel literature ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Layton Print: Unknown

: The Englishwoman's Journal

"[Jessie] Boucherett (b. 1825) ... 'one day ... caught sight, on a railway bookstall, of a number of the Englishwoman's Journal. She bought it, attracted by the title, but expecting nothing better than the inanities usually considered fit for women. To her surprise and joy she found her own unspoken aspirations [regarding women's employment] reflected in its pages'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Jessie Boucherett Print: Serial / periodical

: The Bible

" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Arabian Nights and Swedenborg'."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Buchanan Print: Book

: The Arabian Nights

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Buchanan Print: Book

Emanuel Swedenborg :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Buchanan Print: Book

Walter Besant : Children of Gibeon

"'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which appealed directly to her combined desires for independence, purpose, and social usefulness: Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Book

: Life of Mazzini

" ... it was reading a Life of Mazzini, with its description of how he founded the 'Young Italy' Society, in which each member was pledged to work for the liberation of the country, which led ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] to consider how [the young women of the leisured classes] might be brought together to work for human solidarity within England."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Book

William Morris : poetry

"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitman's poetry."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Unknown

Carpenter : poetry

"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitman's poetry."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Unknown

Walt Whitman : poetry

"Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been conditioned by reading Morris, Carpenter, and Whitman's poetry."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Book

Walt Whitman : Leaves of Grass

"Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sundays as it wasn't a novel!'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Shaw Weaver Print: Book

: Votes for Women

"A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who sceptically bought a copy of Votes for Women around 1909, took it home, and read it straight through: ' ... When I had finished reading that paper I ... realized that I had been a Feminist all my life without knowing it'."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Smith Print: Serial / periodical

: The War Cry

"Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War Cry when she was thirteen ..."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Annabel Huth Jackson Print: Serial / periodical

Olive Schreiner : The Story of an African Farm

"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an African Farm and a strange expression came over her face as she said 'I read parts of it over and over.' 'What parts?' I asked, and her reply was 'About yon poor lass (Lyndall) ... I think there is a hundred of women what feels like that but can't speak it, but she could speak what we feel'."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: [a guidebook to the areas round London]

'Murray (of the Hand-Books) has lately put forward a work which I have found very full of entertaining reading: a couple of well-sized volumes treating of every place of the smallest individuality within circuit of twenty miles round London'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds, and subscriptions in her Manchester home to awaken first an admiration for fighting spirit and heroic sacrifice, and then an appreciation of a gentler, restorative spirit ... other favourite childhood books which remained a lifelong source of inspiration ... [were]: Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy War, the Odyssey, and Carlyle's French Revolution. Her interest in politics she traced to reading the paper aloud to her father."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pankhurst Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pankhurst Print: Book

: The Holy War

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pankhurst Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pankhurst Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pankhurst Print: Book

: newspapers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pankhurst Print: Newspaper

: feminist writings

" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, in order to understad and contextualise the position of women in society."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Unknown

: works on political science

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Unknown

: works on economics

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Unknown

: works on psychology

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Unknown

: works in anthropology

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Unknown

Havelock Ellis : The Psychology of Sex

' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop and buy the set of volumes for himself.' "'One had to produce some kind of signed certificate from the doctor or lawer to the effect that one was a suitable person to read it. To his surprise he could not at first obtain it. I still remember his amused indignation that he was refused a book which his own daughter had already read.' " ... the Viscountess had been able to obtain it from the Cavendish Bentinck Library, the membership of which was limited to women."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'Dora Montefiore, sent to Holloway [as suffragette] in October 1906, recalls the decor of her cell: "On the shelf were a Bible, a wooden spoon, a salt cellar, and one other book whose name I forget, but I remember glancing into it and thinking it would appeal to the intelligence of a child of eight".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dora Montefiore Print: Book

: A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It

"Florence Spong recounted in August 1909: 'As to breaking my [prison] cell window, I told them I only followed the advice given in the book, placed in my cell, entitled 'A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It.' In this book it stated that windows must be open both top and bottom, otherwise one laid oneself open to many dreadful diseases, including consumption'."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Spong Print: Book

Jane Porter : The Scottish Chiefs

"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: General Drummond Print: Book

Samuel Smiles : LIfe and Labour

"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: General Drummond Print: Book

: Lives of women reformers

"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Miss Broughton [had] read the lives of great women reformers like Florence Nightingale and Miss Weston ..."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Life of Joan of Arc

"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Mrs Reonold [had been] 'especially cheered and encouraged' by reading a life of Joan of Arc."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Reonold Print: Book

Edna Lyall : novels

"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted in preference to the Edna Lyall novels which she borrowed from the prison library ..."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Book

William Shakespeare : History plays

"Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Print: Book

Nicholson : Encyclopaedia

I have been principally engaged this day studying at an encyclopaedia by Nicholson, six octavo [volumes], a book sent by George Clark, bookseller, Aberdeen. Invoiced at six guineas.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

: Encyclopaedia Edinensis

am studying part of the Encyclopaedia Edinensis, brought by a bookman, George Anton

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

: History of Aberdeen

At home without company afternoon and evening, looking over a little of the history of Aberdeen, which I have got lately.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution

Afternoon and evening, reading Gifford's History[of the] French Revolution. The fate of Louis xvi soffiiently points oot the instability of human greatness. In his first speach to his parliament he says 'I am resolved to retain my authority in all its plentitude[..]'See him in 1790 accepting a new constitution that abolishes nobility and all hereditary offices and distinctions. In 1792, his authority is laid aside and royalty abolished. In 1793, he is taken to a scaffold and beheaded. Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution

Little doing this day...Have been reading at Gifford's History of the War and have followed Bonaparte into Egypt in July 1798. That summer I was at Rothie keeping Mr Hays cows and was ten years old.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution

In my shop doing little business there, and in the intervals reading Gifford's History of the War.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution

Have had no company this day with myself, and have gone on with my studies, tracing the courses of the French and British armies in Egypt in 1801.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The Roman History

Afternoon reading Rollin's History

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The Roman History

Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned. Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,although one could afford luxury, it should not be indulged. It enervates the whole mind and by imperceptible steps overcomes the whole frame.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The Roman History

Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The Roman History

Spent the evening reading Paulus Emillius's Campaign in Macedonia and the Overthrow of Perseus, the last king thereof.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The Roman History

At even reading from Rollin the defeat of the Romans under Crassus, 54 BC, the history of Hieron, the good king of Syracuse and the siege of Suracuse by the Romans under Marcellus, when it was reduced by them.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Evidences of the Christian Religion

At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives

Have amused myself this evening reading the Life of Christ.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives

At church [...] Had Dr Argo part of this evening, who was down seeing the boys head.[...] Filled up the rest of the time reading the Life of Christ, a work that suggests good ideas.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives

Was some little time up at my Father's this afternoon. Afterwards reading Fleetwood's Life of Christ, an engaging discourse although not handled in my opinion to the same advantage it might have been.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives

Spent the evening reading Fleetwood's Lives of the Apostles [NB part of life of Christ]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

: ' an Encyclopaedia'

Have employed this evening reading the history and theory of the gas lights from a number of the Encyclopaedia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Boston : Human Nature in its Fourfold State

Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

David Hume : History of England

have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the Norman Conquest.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

David Hume : History of England

Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

: [Astronomy]

Reading astromomy at even. [ I suspect this is Scott's Guy Mannering, the Astrologer]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer

Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] Mannering

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Walter Scott : Redgauntlet

I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of Redgauntlet

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Abbot

I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the manner of Queen Mary's imprisonment in the Castle of Loch Leven, with her escape from that imprisonment and from Scotland

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Pirate

I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord

Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in Charles 2nd's time. Scene of the story lies in the County of Lanark

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Archibald Constable : Miscellany

Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern Ocean

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Dr John Gregory : A Father's Legacy to his Daughters

"Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hurried Way which the Eve of Journey allowed of...I also think that the Publication of it, when one considers that the young Ladies to whom it is address'd are alive & unmarried, is liable to Objection..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Mackenzie Print: Book

William M. Thayer : From Log Cabin to White House

'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked second only in my estimation to Robert Burns and Walter Scott. One of his ...favourite books was a popular biography of James Garfield, From Log Cabin to White House.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Lauder Print: Book

[unknown] : [American History]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Lauder Print: Book

Robert Burns : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Lauder Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Lauder Print: Book

Louisa May Alcott : Little Women

'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book

Louisa May Alcott : Good Wives

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book

Susan M. Coolidge : What Katy Did

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book

Lucy Maud Montgomery : Anne of Avonlea

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book

Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book

Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book

n/a : Christian Science Monitor

'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with that unembarrassed seriousness about learning things which gives American life its tedium but also a moral charm".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Serial / periodical

Siegfried Sassoon : [war poems]

'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named the Prime Minister of the day..." The history and geography he was taught at school were never related to contemporary events. Remarkably, Scannell had read widely about the last war: the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden's "Undertones of War", and Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That". The Penguin edition of "A Farewell to Arms" so overwhelmed him that he tried to write his own Great War novel in a Hemingway style. But none of this translated into any awareness that another war might be on the way'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Scannell Print: Book

Wilfred Owen : [war poems]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Scannell Print: Book

Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Scannell Print: Book

Robert Graves : Goodbye to All That

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Scannell Print: Book

Edmund Blunden : Undertones of War

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Scannell Print: Book

n/a : [newspapers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Scannell's family Print: Newspaper

: ['A storybook']

One little book that my father had given me the last time he was at home, was for a long time afterwards my inseparable companion... My dear Papa's beautiful storybook.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

: [unknown]

The only gratification I ever sought was to be permitted to sit quietly in my brother's room, with a book. That room was more pleasant and retired than the one I slept in with my mother...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

: ['Psalms']

Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him. I assure thee truly, my dear brother, that often when my spirits have been low I have found more real pleasure in reading the Psalms and in Job and a few others of the inspired writings, than in any other kind of amusement I could enter into. Let not thy spirit sink within thee...

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Anne Louise Stael-Holstein : Corinna, or Italy

[review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

James Boswell : The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel

Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear so wonderfully simple, so surprisingly ingenuous, that I cannot but smile as I read his work...

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

: [books on carving]

I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining company in the parlour; and give directions to the servants. I am studying the art of carving, and learning, as far as books will teach me, as well as giving instructions. Mr P. has a most excellent library.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

: [unknown]

Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and writing letters, until I had brought on an almost perpetual headache... to enjoy a book I must be in perfect quiet.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope : Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Phili

'Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols. It has been said of these letters... The first and 2nd vols appear to me unexceptionable. Of the others, I cannot say so much, there is a degree of libertinism expressed...

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

: [songs and music]

[Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and the music belonging to them, which my brother had lent me. And as he could only spare them to the end of that week, I was engaged morning, noon, and night till I was really quite ill with sitting so much and so closely.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton

: [novels]

When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read so few, and that the greater part of those few should have been of the novel species...

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

John Corry : A Satirical View of London at the Commencement of

A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fashion, beaux, belles, London tradesmen, quack doctors, lawyers, parsons, &c &c &c

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

By the Editor of the Letters of Maria : Windermere. A Novel

Windermere: A Novel in 2 vols This is below Mediocrity; the title [title is underlined]induced me to read it; and with the title I am satisfied-and disappointed.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

R Morgan : Letters on Mythology

Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a light and easy style, to make it palatable to a lady's taste.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Stephanie de Genlis Brulart : Lessons of a Governess to Her Pupils

Lessons of a Governess to her Pupils by Madame de Silery- Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) 3 vols. For further remarks see page 11th.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Anna Maria Porter : Lake of Killarney

Lake of Killarney, by A.M. Porter. 3 vols. Rose de Blaguere, a foundling, is the heroine of the tale. Mr Clermont the hero. Mr O'Neil and his maiden sister bring up Rose, whom they found left at their door and who eventually proves to be the daughter of the haughty Countess Dunallen by a first and private marriage... [Editor has not reproduced the rest].

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Miss Elizabeth Hamilton : The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer

The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old customs merely because they have been habitual for many generations, particularlythe scottish tenacity, indolence, and want of cleanliness in their houses and about their farms. The tale is told in such a manner as scarcely to offend even a scotchman, and may very probably have some influence in effecting a reformation.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

John Corry : The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer

The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical View of London, that would induce me to waste my time again in perusal of any other of his works. This may probably be worth five guineas at the Minerva Press; the author may earn a little money; fame is out of the question in such caterpillar productions.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

W Hayley : A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids

An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols. Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion, I never heard - nor any opinion - but shall take the first opportunity to discover.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

David Brewster : The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. Brews

I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A. having never offered to lend me any books except an Encyclopaedia, which is not an every day kind of reading. [Editor notes that she records reading 'the whole' of No I of vol II 'at various intervals'].

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

anon : Robin Hood

'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (Actually he stole from an old widow's tuck shop). "Our real heroes were robbers like Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin, and Charles Peace, whose 'Penny dreadful' biographies we knew by heart". Yet in later life, even as a Calvinistic Methodist minister, he did not condemn that genre: "It introduced me to a romantic world when pennies were scarce and libraries seemed far beyond my reach. We read the badly printed booklets in all sorts of places, even in church; they gave us glimpses of freedom, abandon, and romance, heroism and defiance of fate... As a corrective to natural law-breaking propensities, the 'penny dreadful' always ended with the punishment of crime".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical

anon : Jack Sheppard

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical

anon : Dick Turpin

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical

anon : Charles Peace

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical

anon : Dick Turpin

'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen Richard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie Print: Book, Serial / periodical

anon : Three Fingered Jack

'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie Print: Book, Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie Print: Book

Robert Burns : [poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie Print: Book

: [penny dreadfuls]

'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the worse for reading them and in many cases they encouraged and developed a love of reading that led him onwards and upwards on the fascinating path of literature. It was the beloved 'bloods' that first stimulated my love of reading, and from them I set out on the road to Shaw and Wells, Thackeray and Dickens, Fielding, Shakespeare and Chaucer".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

Herbert George Wells :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

n/a : Union Jack

'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sensational titles, and the "Chatterbox Christmas Annual" for 1890 introduced him to Dr Johnson'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : [various works, abridged]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : Chatterbox Christmas Annual

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : Boys' Friend

'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, 'Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic'". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume "History of Rome" by age fourteen. "There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works," he conceded, "but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Serial / periodical

John Lothrop Motley : The Rise of the Dutch Republic

'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, 'Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic'". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume History of Rome by age fourteen. "There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works," he conceded, "but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Book

John Richard Green : [history]

'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source, Motley's 'Rise of the Dutch Republic'". He borrowed it from the public library and, with guidance from a helpful adult, also read J.R. Green, Macaulay, Prescott, Grote, and even Mommsen's multi-volume History of Rome by age fourteen. "There must have been, of course, enormous gaps in my understanding of what I poured into the rag bag that was my mind, particularly from the bigger works," he conceded, "but at least I sensed the important thing, the immense sweep and variety and the continuity of the historical process".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : [probably The History of England from the Accession of James II]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Book

William Hickling Prescott : [Spanish history]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Book

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen : History of Rome

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Paton Print: Book

: [penny dreadfuls about Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill]

'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would confiscate them", but he appreciated the generic similarities to "Robinson Crusoe", the Waverley novels and "The Last of the Mohicans".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Southgate Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Southgate Print: Book

Walter Scott : [Waverley Novels]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Southgate Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Southgate Print: Book

: ['Penny Bloods']

'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recognise the affinities of high and low literature. Thus he discerningly characterised "Treasure Island" as "the usual penny blood sort of story, with the halo of greatness about it".'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud] :

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle :

'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself German, memorized Schiller while working at the looms. But he did not limit himself to classics: "I read omnivorously, greedily, promiscuously", from dime novels and G.A. Henty to Hardy and Conrad. Holt disparaged popular authors such as Ethel M. Dell and Elinor Glyn for "peddling vulgar narcotics", yet he was closely attuned to the mass reading public. His own autobiography sold a quarter of a million copes and he once owned a fleet of bookmobiles. He reconciled taste with populism through this logic: though most readers consume a certain amount of junk, it does them no harm because they recognize it as junk'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

Francis Bacon :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

Francois Rabelais :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

Plato :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

: [dime novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

George Alfred Henty :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

Joseph Conrad :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Holt Print: Book

: [penny horror stories]

'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my soul did not feel much lifted by the only class of reading then within my reach. It was not until I joined the companionship of Burns and Byron that I felt 'the god within me'".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ben Brierley Print: Book

: [penny fairy stories]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ben Brierley Print: Book

Robert Burns :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ben Brierley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ben Brierley Print: Book

[unknown] : [novels]

'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly liked mathematics because it was slow reading: "A treatise on algebra or geometry, which cost but a very few shillings, afforded me matter for close study for a year".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [biblical criticism]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [treatises on algebra and geometry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read beyond the first chapter of St John. Therefore he later "read everythig I could lay hands on", which was precious little... He worked his way through most of the library at an independent Sunday school, and joined a mechanics' institute for 1 1/2d a week. His reading, though "very heterogenous" and undirected, could be quite intensive, as when he devoted almost a year to the six volumes of Rollin's Ancient History. That "left an impression on my mind which 40 years of wear and tear has not effaced".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wood Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Ancient History

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wood Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. The only ones in our house were the Bible, a few thin Sunday School prizes, which were mostly very pious publications, and a Post Office directory from 1867, whch volume I read from cover to cover".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

[unknown] : [Sunday School prize books]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

n/a : POst Office Directory, 1867

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, "A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

Edward George, Earl Bulwer Lytton : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

Ellen Wood : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

[anon] : The Holy War

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

[unknown] : [religious magazines]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes

anon : The Adventures of a Penny

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

anon : Cassell's History of England

'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, The Adventures of a Penny, and sundry similar classics". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, "A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book

anon : ['twopenny bloods']

'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wrong evening and he merely shouted at me... So I... started examining every book in the house, ransacking forgotten cupboards and the hole under the stairs. I read everything I could understand, and begged twopenny bloods quite shamelessly from the boys at school who were fortunate enough to enjoy such things. I absorbed an immense amount of useless information, but occasionally a treasure came my way and I would strain my eyes under the twenty-watt bulb which lighted our kitchen. A month-old copy of the 'Wizard' would be succeeded by a handbook for vegetarians, and this in turn would be followed by 'Jane Eyre'. 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir' was no sooner finished than I was deep in volumes three and four of a history of 'The Conquest of Peru' (the rest of the set was missing). I would go from that to 'Rip van Winkle' and straight on to a tattered copy of the Hotspur".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Book

anon : The Wizard

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Serial / periodical

anon : [a handbook for vegetarians]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Book

Edgar Rice Burroughs : Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Book

William Prescott : HIstory of the Conquest of Peru

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Book

Washington Irving : Rip van Winkle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Book

n/a : the Hotspur

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Stapleton Print: Serial / periodical

: The Gem

'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', or too 'young' for me". He consumed the Gem, Magnet and Sexton Blake as well as the standard boys' authors (Henty, Ballantyne, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Twain) but also Dickens, Scott, Trollope, the Brontes, George Eliot, even Prescott's "The Conquest of Peru" and "The Conquest of Mexico". He picked "The Canterbury Tales" out of an odd pile of used books for sale, gradually puzzled out the Middle English, and eventually adopted Chaucer as his favourite poet'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Serial / periodical, comic

: Magnet, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Serial / periodical, comic

: [Sexton Blake Stories]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Serial / periodical, comics

George Alfred Henty :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Robert Michael Ballantyne :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Frederick Marryat :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Mark Twain :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

George Eliot :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

William Prescott : Conquest of Peru, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

William Prescott : Conquest of Mexico, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Williams Print: Book

Henry Torrens [Sir] : Field exercises and evolutions of the army

And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursing my folly in having put no books into my portmanteau. The only book I have seen here, is one which lies upon the sofa. It is entitled ?Field Exercises and Evolutions of the Army by Sir Henry Torrens.? I have read it through so often, that I am sure I could drill a hundred recruits from memory.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book

Anne-Louise-Germaine de Stael : Considerations sur les Principaux Evenements de la

Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excerpt: '...the tendency of the last of her productions, which, as a posthumous work, connects itself most immedately with her memory, is for the most part as excellent as its execution is brilliant and masterly. To speak first of its style: we cannot refrain from noticing the rarer occurrence of that appearance of straining after eloquence and philosophy which defaced ....'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Scott Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage

I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which contains the Life of Savage. I have turned down the leaf. Now do read it attentively; if you do, I know from your excellent understanding you will be delighted. If you slur it, you will think it dry.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Cenci

'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are conveyed in the cries of Bedlam; and the outrage of a wretched old maniac, long passed the years of appetite, perpetrated on the person of his miserable child, under motives that are inconsistent with reason, and circumstances impossible in fact, is presented to us as a mirror in which we may contemplate a portion, of least, of our common nature! How far this disposition to rake in the lazar-house of humanity for examples of human life and action, is consistent with a spirit of for the real faults and infirmities of human nature, on which Mr Shelly [sic] lays so much stress, we may discover in one of his own absurd allusions.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Scott Print: Book

William Paley : Natural Theology

[The text is an open letter from Pearson to Paley, praising the latter's book, and suggesting its use as an academic textbook. The letter is dated 11/11/1802]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pearson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Black Veil

I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair the interest of the story by partially explaining its main feature.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Macrone Print: Unknown

William Paley : Natural Theology

'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrote as his exam answer] only this commencement of a sentence, 'If twelve men find a watch."'

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

: Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum

Susan Schibanoff, "Taking the Gold out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman": "In 1473, Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, came across a French version of the Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum and decided to translate it into English for the edification of his royal charge, the Prince of Wales. When he completed his edited version, entitled The Dictes and Sayengs of the Philosophers, Rivers asked ... William Caxton for a a professional opinion of his work."

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Century: 1450-1499 Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Woodville Earl Rivers

Walter Scott :

Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading Scott when aged seven.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Evans Print: Book

Louisa May Alcott : Jo's Boys

Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop Jo's Boys ... 'I read it countless times,' he remembered, 'and the pleasure I found in it ... enabled me to hurdle the terrible barrier presented by Little Women, which I sought out at the library on the hunt for anything else by Louisa May Alcott ... For Little Women, Miss Alcott announced, firmly, on the title page, was A Story for Girls. Yet I read it.'"

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Melvyn Bragg Print: Book

Louisa May Alcott : Little Women

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Melvyn Bragg Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poetry

David Bleich, "Gender Interests in Reading and Language": "I first 'understood' Wordsworth when I heard his poetry read by his descendent, Jonathan Wordsworth, some years ago."

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Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Jonathan Wordsworth

Adam Dickson : An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt

Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cross and the marginal comment then arguing a related point - e.g. P.5, in the printed sentence "But whether or not our lands, during the whole of this period, have produced much less than usual, requires very extensive knowledge to determine, more probably, than any private person has any opportunity of acquiring", there is a cross above "private person" and in the RH margin, the marginalia reads "It is not the opinion of a private person. It seems to be the general opinion that there have been seasons of the bad crops for 5 or 6 years." On p.6, in the printed sentence, "Now, when the price of provisions is raised by bad crops, land continues of the same value, and the farmer cannot afford a higher rent," "same" has a cross above it, and the marginalia beside reads "Land can't continue of the same value so long as the crops are bad and the price of provisions is raised thereby and both the value of the land and provisions hightened [sic] still more by the quantity of currency." Further marginalia throughout the text.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

: The Morning Herald

Recd from WM the Morning Herald of Friday, which pleased me to find him so attentive, to what he knows gives me satisfaction; I am now beforehand with the knowing ones I thinkfor my own part Mr Canning proposes the duty too high... [NB passes this text on to his brother the next day]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

: [newspaper]

I see Lord Liverpool has been taken very ill, some of the farmers were so devoted as to say that providence has interfered so far as to put a stop to any alteration to the Corn laws. This is not my opinion.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

Read the last Nos of Cobbett to the 24th Feb he has no compassion for Lord Liverpool; The Elegy on Bric is as ludicruous as can be well concieved. He still persuades his readers to keep Gold when they get it. I have not followed this advice...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

William Cobbett : Political Register

Cobbett tells a very plausible tale of being deceived by the man who was to have been his surety...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

: Rockingham and Hull Weekly Advertiser

Saw in the Rockingham that seven of the Ministers have sent in their resignation - Amongst the rest the Lord, Chancellor...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : The Political Register

I just peeped into Cobbett last night but had not time to read much I looked over the Dialogue between the King and the seven sages... It is a curious concern is this same Dialogue and managed with a good deal of humour...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times OR The Examiner

Newspaper from WM this morning... Also two Examiners the last week and this, so that I revel in news this day. The Old ministers seem very sore at losing or giving up their places...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

Cobbett thinks that Mr Canning would not have pressed on the Corn Bill in the manner it is, if he had not been threatened...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: The Hull Packet and Humber Gazette

Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: [a newspaper]

I see by the paper that Mr Canning is indeed very ill...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

: The Courier

'Recd the Courier this morning with an account of the Death of Mr Canning...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

: Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle

'A very small market this day... I saw Bells's life in London with a portrait of Mr Canning. It is a strange rough concern, the onlyconsolation is that it cannot be his likeness...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

'I see Cobbett has been calling the toll collectors to account...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

John Moore : A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerla

'"Blessings on his head said Sancho Panza who first invented sleep", But what shall we say of the character of the French which I lately saw in "Moor's France"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

: The Spectator

'Sent last night to WM a Basket... after that amused myself by reading in the Spectator the account of Sir Roger de Coverley, It really is an entertaining description of the old knight.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

'In the Times there is an Order from the Magisterial Gentlemen of Beverley at the last sessions...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

Oliver Goldsmith : The Deserted Village

'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.' [this is the first of a number of references to Goldsmith's poem]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

: The Times

'On the paper I received this morning was written near the seals "Billy's away" and a sketch of some kind of head... The prosecutors for libel have Reaped but little benefit lately...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

: The Literary Gazette

'I have read the "Literary Gazette"; the notice of the Life of Bonaparte is quite entertaining, some of the names of the French Revolutionists who were quite familiar about 30 years ago, are now almost forgotten or only remembered with horror.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Mills : The History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Tim

'I have read over the "History of Chivalry", it really is true to the title page as nothing but Chivalry can befound in it. I cannot say that it is very amusing or instructive, altho' one sees a little more of its folly than is to be found in Walter Scott.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Mr Sykes will not take any more of Cobbett's registers for the abuse heaped on Mr Canning and for the observations made on Mr Brougham's speech at Liverpool...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Sykes Print: Serial / periodical

: [book advertisements]

'I have seen some advertisements of Books from Ths. Hurst & Co in St Paul's Church yard...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Advertisement

: The Times

'It appears by the Times that there are several dreadful houses in the Neighbourhood of Bow Street, where the unthinking are robbed of their property...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

: The Hull Advertiser

'Isaac Wilson in his paper of the 16th inst said that the Poll was settled at Preston and Cobbett thrown out, but it appears the contest is still continued, but without any probability ofhis being returned...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Re[ceived] a parcel from WM this night by the carrier, containing two of Cobbett's & a court calendar, I am glad to hear he is well, I expected that Cobbett's conduct at Preston had been blackened to the utmost, I should have liked to have seen him in Parliament but that is over...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

'I see by the Times of Saturday last that Hunt retired from the contest'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

: The Imperial Magazine; or Compendium of Religious

'I see a review of Moxon's book in the Imperial Mag. For July, it is very fair I think.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

'I saw a piece in the times headed 'Poor old Cobbett' where it seems to be insinuated that he has not spent all the money which he has given an acccount of, I suppose he will be in a short time falling foul of the "Bloody old Times".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Recd this morning a small parcel from WM I think Cobbett's greatest antipathy at present...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

'I see by the Times this morning that a young man of the name of Dunn from Hull has been robbing his employers Sewell & Co... May this be a warning to all young men... [aimed at his son, the reader of the diary]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

: The Times

'There is a paragraph in the Times this morning on the subject of large farms, which is much to the purpose...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Recd a parcel from William... [Cobbett] seems to bear it admirably for he says it was a triumph...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

'I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides or Western Islands, I suppose it is an amusing Book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

David Hume : The History of England from the Invasion

'I know that Historians are very subject to give us their own views, instead of Facts. Hume is very partial to Royalty, and at every opportunity is ready to sneer at Religion, for which I do not admire him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

: Edinburgh Review

'I read in the Edinburgh Review the Remarks there made on the Hamiltonian System of acquiring languages. I think it merits being attended to from the specimens of the Italian with the English literal translation. It does not appear to be difficult to understand.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Times

'The Times recd this morning gives an account of the printing trade being in a very depressed state at present. I think Cobbett has commited himself dreadfully...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : [The Newspapers] OR [The Times]

'I see the account is contradicted that Walter Scott has been appointed the King's printer, the Newspapers contradict one day what they have confidently asserted the day before...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Times

'The Times called Cobbett a "comical miscreant", and the "vagabond" in an article on the "Poor Man's Friend", it appears there is another poor Man's friend published by H Stemman... the object of the Article is to reccomend [sic] the latter, and condemn Cobbett's work, but the Vagabond will not mind much what is said by Anna Brodie...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

anon : Report on the Corn Laws OR Address to the Two Houses

'I have lately read a report of the Corn Laws made in 1814 before the house of Commons, one witness says... It came out in evidence that most of the witnesses were land Valuers, appointed by the land Leviathans to value their estates...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

'Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately laid down, for the entertainment I anticipated, from hearing how Cobbett stood...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

n/a : [two newspapers] OR The Times

'Recd two Papers this morning, and was like the Ass between the bundles of Hay, not knowing which to begin to read first, however I even thought it was as well to begin in order so I read the oldest first.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Times

'I see by the Times this morning there is likely to be some stir with the supporters of the Bible society, it is no more than I have cooked for; I expect there is good pickings from the simpletons who give away their money...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Times

'The Times this morning seems to think that the corn question will meet with the same treatment as catholic emancipation'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Times

'two papers this morning, the one that missed yesterday came today [...] I see there is a great deficiency in the Quarter's Revenue - were an individual to go in the manner the government does he would soon be in a state of insolvency [...] but a change certainly must take place'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

Conradus Lagus : Methodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, perveniendi ad veram solidamque iurisprud. mirifice ad omnes libros iuris: & DD. recte intelligendos vtilis, ex ore doctissimi, clarissimique iusrisconsulti D. Conradi Lagi annotata. ?

Evidence of engagement with the text: (1) occasional marginal notes; (2) marginal symbols throughout the text, crosses (ex. pp. 1,5,12), underlines (pp. 16, 520-1), score throughs (ex. p. 77) and pointing hands (ex. pp. 340, 348, 520).

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Jo. Halkerston Print: Book

Simon-Pierre Laplace : Exposition du systeme du monde

'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am not one of the gifted half-dozen that can understand it - but the original of that book which Smeal once brought from Selkirk and lent to you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Simon-Pierre Laplace : Exposition du systeme du monde

'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Sir John Leslie : Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Plane Trigonometry

'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - & went thro' it, in search of two propositions, which when in your geometrical vein, you will find little difficulty in demonstrating'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Charles Bossut : Mecanique

'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forces. The text is often tediously explanatory - & in the notes, it is but a dim hallucination of the truth that I can obtain thro' the medium of integrals & differentials by which he communicates it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh

'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philosophy, for the airy nothings of these sweet singers: but I could not help it. Do not fear that I will spend some time in criticising the tulip-cheek.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold (Canto IV)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Dr Chalmers : Title unknown

This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call it) is disjointed and absurd - & his language a barbarous jargon - agre[e]able neither to Gods nor men.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Dugald Stewart : Philosophy of the Human Mind

'27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second time. The longer I study the works of this philosopher, the more I become convinced of two things. First, that in perspicacity & comprehensiveness of understanding he yields to several. But, secondly, that in taste, variety of acquirements, and, what is of more importance, in moral dignity of mind, he has no rival that I know of.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

George Eiiot : Adam Bede

Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading aloud Adam Bede ... it was 'duly bowdlerized for our young minds,' Lucy reported in her diary. She was eighteen at the time."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

" ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time: "'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intoxication from Mozart and Beethoven than any common mortal could from a bottle of brandy. I was as intoxicated that day far more completely than wine or whisky have ever made me, and intoxicated by literary art, as well as by the pageantry of its historical theme.'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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"Anthony Errington, a Tyneside wagonway wright, sat down in 1823 to write out his life history ... After brief accounts of his parents and his infancy, he turned to his education: "'I Closely attended school to read ... haveing bean one month at school, at diner time I went into the Church yard to read the grave stones.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Errington Print: tombstone epitaphs

: newspapers

"A young handloom weaver in Carlisle was able to develop both his literacy skills and his political consciousness as his workshop responded with keen interest to the mounting Reform Bill crisis: "'I well remember how the weavers at Newtown used to club their pennies together to obtain the London newspapers ... The Weekly Dispatch was a great favourite ... Bell's Life kept us fully informed of the doings of the 'Fancy'. Our great paper, however, was the tri-weekly Evening Mail ... At the height of the reform agitation it was common for the men in our shop to gather round the fire about nine, and with me in the middle as reader, go through the debates until long after midnight. Thus with corrections from one and another, I learned to read, and thus likewise, at fourteen, I became somewhat of an advanced politician, known among my playmates as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Farish Print: Newspaper

: newspapers

"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents of the local papers, and I derived much pleasure and knowledge from their perusal. Another means of learning that I made use of was the sign-board literature of public-houses and shops.'"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Gutteridge Print: Newspaper

: public house and shop signs

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Gutteridge Manuscript: Signboard

Anson : Voyage Round the World

"Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without leaving the fields in which he laboured: "'The next book which came in my way, and made an impression so strong as to be still unworn and unwearable, was Anson's Voyage Round the World ... I had read nothing of the kind before ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville Print: Book

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"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion, and all that befel her. When the afternoon work began, I related to the other workers what I had read; and even the grieve began to take an interest in the story. And this interest increased in him and in every one else until they all brought their dinners afield, so that they might remain under the shadow of the trees and hear me read. In the evenings at home I continued the reading, and next day at work put them in possession of the events which I knew in advance of them.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville Print: Book

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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville Print: Book

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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville Print: Book

: Cinderella

"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"

: Little Red Riding Hood

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"

: Jack and the Beanstalk

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"

: Zig Zag

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"

: Prince Cherry

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"

: notice of political meeting

"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first became acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Poster

: The Black Dwarf

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Members of Radical Reform group Print: Serial / periodical

: The Republican

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Members of Radical Reform group Print: Serial / periodical

: The Political Register

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Members of Radical Reform group Print: Serial / periodical

Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila : A general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on poisons, drawn from the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, considered as to their relations with physiology, pathology and medical jurisprudence by M.P. Orfila, translated from the French ?

3 pp of ms at the end of v.1 appear to be brief notes abstracted from details in the text. Each page is ruled and divided into 3 columns headed, 'Substance', 'Symptoms', 'Corrections' [ie remedy]. Example: 'Alkalies - Soda Ammonia Lime &-', 'Nearly the same [ie as the entry above for concentrated acids] -the ejected matter does not effervesse [?] with alkalies but with acids'. 'Vinegar or limejuice - a spoonful or two in a glass of water frequently - or simply warm [?] water'. There are 9 such entries.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Sibbald Print: Book

George Burder : Village sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short discourses on the principal doctrines of the gospel; intended for the use of families, Sunday schools, or companies assembled for religious instructions in country villages

A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: "E.F.I. [?] April 24th -1853/Nov. 13th ..53" [p. 158 Sermon title "The value of the soul"]; "V.G. F.I. [?] Sept. 15th 1850/ Feby 27th 1853/ July 8th 1855" [Sermon title "The Lord's Prayer"]; "V.G.F.I. Augt 20th [?] 1854 F...[?]" [Sermon title "The lamb of god beheld by faith"]. In addition, passages of text are sometimes deleted or marked up. Examples: p. 159 the quote is scored through; On the first page of "The Lord's prayer", the sentence in para 2 "Not that we are tied down ..." has half square brackets around it.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Fidelis, pseud. : Thirty short addresses for family prayers or cottage meetings by Fidelis author of 'Simple preparation for the Holy Communion' containng addresses by the late Canon Kingsley, Rev. G.H. Wilkinson and Dr. Vaughan

A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: [Sermon 1.] "SSC [?] 15 Jan 1922 & M.../ SSC 3/4/17/ Sunday morning". In addition, passages of text are sometimes deleted or marked up. Examples: [sermon 1, p.1] The title is ticked, the phrase "not interrupt him" is deleted from the 2nd para. and the word "see" is deleted from the 4th last line on the same page. On the following 2 pp of the same sermon, further single words, phrases and one complete paragraph are deleted.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Walker Harper Print: Book

William Cobbett : Political Register

'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where he says in about a year or perhaps rather more from this time wheat will be at 3s 6d or 4s pr Bushell; I told him that I had heard that Cobbett was a false prophet...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Secker : Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England

'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called Archbishop Secker's Lectures on the Church Catechism which he fired off to the confusion of the understanding of the children... If he be not tired, I know I am with hearing him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: 'The Parson' Print: Book

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Cobbett is quite entertaining in his Rural Rides, he indeed excels in rural descriptions; he sees as well as all may who do not shut their eyes, the poverty and degradation of what were once called the lower classes, then the peasantry...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Times

'I see by the Times this morning there is a project for two prices, paper & cash, viz paper one fourth of gold, it appears to be a wild scheme, however I cannot understand it. Cobbett has often said...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

Thomas Moore : Memoirs of the Life of the Rt Hon R B Sheridan

'I have read most of Moore's Life of Sheridan, I see Mr Canning first came into notice in 1794...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

n/a : Rockingham and Hull Weekly Advertiser

'The paper which should have been here yesterday arrived today, so that there were two this morning... I see by the Rockingham that the last voyage of the Steam Packets from Hull this season will be on the 11th Nov next...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

'I have read all the Rural Rides of Cobbett he is very excellent at description, he has just opened on the Greek Patriots. I expect he will give them no quarter...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Examiner

'There is one of the best satirical pieces in the last Examiner (alias Tom Tit) on the King's speech which I almost ever read on any subject,it is a real cutter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : [a newspaper, probably The Times]

'I see it is strongly reported that the difference between Spain and Portugal is made up. I hope it is, for I do not like to hear the sound of War.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

John Nicholl : [The Judgement Delivered December 11th 1809...]

'Recd by the Carrier last night from WM the Judgement of Sir John Nichols, on the burial of Persons baptized by Dissenters. I am glad to find that the survivors of such persons are not to beg as a favour to have their friends interred in the Parish Church Yard; it is their undoubted right...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Cobbett on the Corn laws is almost above himself it is the best exposition I ever saw of the frantic cry of the Agriculturalists that they bear exclusive burdens, just as if they were the sole consumers of all the fruits of the land.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Times

'I see by the paper this morning that the Corn question in Parliament is put off till the 26th inst this almost confirms the report that the ministers have no plan ready...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Times

'Very little news of importance in the Papers. I see Mr Hume is still strenuous for Economy, particulary in the Navy estimates...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Examiner

'Very little news of importance in the Papers. I see Mr Hume is still strenuous for Economy, particulary in the Navy estimates...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Examiner

'The Examiner for last week arrived yesterday... I hear that the corn question is put off till Thursday next...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Recd a parcel from WM last night, containing new cravats. Cobbett is most fierce on Mr Hume, but what good will he do? For my part I am sorry to see the mighty fallen so low...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : [a newspaper, probably The Times]

'Recd 2 papers from WM yesterday morning, the Examiner not come to hand all this week... I see Taylor, the orator, Philosopher and Fool has been obliged to find Bail for his good behaviour, on account of some of the nonsense he has been trying to promulgate...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Times

'By the paper I see there has been a great deal of crowding about St James's to see the laying in state of the Royal Duke...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Times

'A fine morning. Recd the Examiner this morning which is soon as can be expected. The times very copious on the approaching funeral of the Duke of York. All the honours paid to a nauseous carcase will not in the least procure any favour from a righteous judge.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : [a newspaper, probably The Times]

'Saw in the Paper this morning the official account of the Death of the Duke of York; the paper in mourning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : The Political Register

'Last night I sat down to read Cobbett, and very cold it was, but I was left by myself at the fire-side; I never have a great fire, I would rather have a little one and sit very close to it, which I always do when I have an opportunity - Cobbett does belabour Mr Canning and his furies.... He (Cobbett) still augurs evil from the Papersystem, how far he is right time will determine.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Mills : The History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Times

'I have begun to read Hill's history of Chivalry, the author seems to be delighted with his subject, and I have no doubt but he treats it in a proper manner; - This is a glorious day'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book

n/a : The Hull Packet and Humber Gazette

'I see by the Hull packet that the Brothers has sailed for London...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : [a newspaper]

'I recd two papers this morning packed up together, so that if news be like wine which improves in the keeping, I am very well off this day[.] It is all new to me. It is plain as a mathematical demonstration that the Duty on Corn is too high...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : ['Wrapper to a No of Hogarth's works' OR [cover to

'There is a fine cover on one of the Registers which I must preserve, it has been a Wrapper to a No of Hogarth's works, there are such droll figures on it as I can scarcely make out, but it is very fine... so these figures with monkey heads, must be something above the common vulgar.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Advertisement

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Cobbett has rubbed down Sir Francis pretty roughly, it appears that when self interest is contrasted with Patriotism the latter in general gives way...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Times

'I have read in the Times this day with great satisfaction the proceedings of a meeting in London to protect & defend the rights of the Welsh cottagers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

'While Cobbett has been at the Crown & Anchor amongst [the] Philistines they would not suffer him to speak...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Times

'I see by the Paper this morning that Mr Canning is going to allow all corn in bond before the first of July...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Morning Chronicle

'The following written by Dr Worthington appeared in the Morning Chronicle. Epistle from Tom Cribb to Big Ben concerning some foul play in a late transaction. [transcribes verse] "what, Ben, my big hero!..."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

John Hobhouse : The substance of some letters

'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of Wellington said to be written by B.Constant 'un heros froid et mediocre [...]' I am quite sick of Hobhouse's book his abuse of the Bourbons is not worth answering; if it were true its unaltered violence defeats its own malignity. The publication of the Bodleian and Ashmolean letters are very amusing in three volumes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

anon : Letters written by an eminent persons in the seventeenth century

'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of wellington said to be written by B.Constant "un heros froid et mediocre [...]" I am quite sick of Hobhouse's book his abuse of the Bourbons is not worth answering; if it were true its unaltered violence defeats its own malignity. The publication of the Bodleian and Ashmolean letters are very amusing in three volumes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Henry Kett : The flowers of wit, or a choice collection of bon

'Drove out to Ledbury with Commeline, Ann, C, and M.N Junior [...]Having read Kitt's [NB Kett's] Flowers of Wit I pronounce them to be mere daisies. Everywhere there are anachronisms and tales so silly that it is surprising a man of any literary repute would set his name to them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Samuel Shuckford : The sacred and profane history of the world

'Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Galt : [Life of West] the life and studies of Benjamin West

'Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that I ever met with of any sect, the speech of John Williamson delivered in a meeting house at Springfield in America [quotes at length]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A demonstration of the being and attributes of God

'Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answers to Lucretius, Hobbesand spinoza. what a difference times and place create, were I to treat my congregation with the productions of this great writer, in three Sundays I should scarce expect half a dozen hearers, not six swine to devour his pearls'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

John Tweddell : Edinburgh Review

'In the review of Tweddell's Remains where it is said that out of religious motives he refrained from animal food.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : Edinburgh Review

'The poorest review of any book that I have yet met in the Edinburgh is that of Goethe.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Serial / periodical

Ennio Visconti : A letter from the chevalier Antonio Canova

'Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the frieze and the metopes to be the work of Phillias not correct [...]'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. Benjamin Newton

Henry Ryder : A charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese

'Read bishop of Gloucester's Charge which I think excellent for its devotion, its liberality, its style and manner and think no harm would arrive to the church were all the bishops such Methodists as he appears in his charge.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. Benjamin Newton

William Bingley : Useful knowledge or a familiar and explanatory account

'Read Bingley's useful knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. Benjamin Newton

n/a : [newspapers?]

'An account in the papers of Mrs W. Long being married to Rich the Rope dancer, old Billy Long was a fine contrast to him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

Thomas Pyle : [sermons?]

'Read Bingley's Useful Knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton

n/a : [advertisement]

'Went hunting [...] saw Mr Claridge's advertisement for the sale of 11, 695 trees of which 5241 were oaks.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Advertisement

n/a : [Local newspaper]

'Saw today in the paper that Philip's Norton was given to Mr Warner'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

John Kidd : A Geological essay on the Imperfect Evidence

'Read Kidd's Geological Essay and an account of 10 years residence in Tripoli. Kidd's a very bad embarresed [sic] style. Account of Tripoli; amusing enough. [Lists other readings]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

George Woods : An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man

'I read Wood's Isle of Man because I knew nothing of it and he has said little from there being very little to say'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

James Dallaway : Of Statuary and Sculpture among the Antients

'Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what antecedent word he refers to. His book suggests two things [...] I will endeavour to make out a statuary tour and insert it in my journal.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

William Warden : Letters written on board [...]in which the conduct

'Read Warden's account of Buonuparte [sic]. Whether or not W wrote this account with a view to influence his readers in favour of Buonaparte I know not but I think there are few people who will not think rather better of napoleon after reading it than before.[continues on subject at length]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

: romance

"Writing about himself in the third person, Robert Boyle ... blamed his short attention span on poor reading habits: he complained that reading a romance as a boy had 'accustomed his thoughts to such a habitude of roving, that he has scarce ever been their quiet master since, but they would take all occasions to steal away, and go a-gadding to objects then unseasonable and impertinent.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Unknown

: books

" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by jotting down and completing all of the biblical citations ... As John Morrill summarizes, Dowsing 'frequently ... added to the title pages of books and sermons an index of items that were of particular interest to him; frequently he scored the margin with varying degrees of emphasis; and less usually he summarized a passage in the margin or engaged in argument with the author' ... Dowsing ... also wrote his name on his books' title pages ... along with the dates of purchase and reading ..."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Dowsing Print: Book

: sermons

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Dowsing Print: Unknown

Sir Philip Sidney : The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

"According to [James] Johnstoun, his supplement [to Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] grew out of his affection for Sidney's romance. Having read the Arcadia over and over, he became inspired by the two pairs of lovers ..."

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Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: James Johnstoun

Sir Philip Sidney : The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

"According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediately saw through his deception: she 'was so well versed in his author, as tacitely she traced him to the bottom of a leaf.'"

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Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon

William Shakespeare : The Rape of Lucrece

" ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, decided to compose his own 'Supplement.'"

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Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Suckling

R : Poems

"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Wotton Print: Book

John Milton : A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle

"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Wotton Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes

"One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C14a12) ... contains handwritten corrections of both the errata and Omissa."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Lucretius : De rerum natura

" ... provocative omissions survive in ... [early modern manuscripts including] Lucy Hutchinson's ... translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura ..."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Hutchinson

: literary advertisements

Peter J. Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829": "Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthcoming in 1829, scoffed: 'Wordsworth I see has a good many pieces announced in one of em ...'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Print: Unknown

William Wordsworth : poetry

Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the collections [of his poetry] published in his lifetime ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poetry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poetry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poetry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poetry

Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay from William Michael Rossetti. When the Wordsworths saw it ... they were outraged. Not only had Rossetti made some factual errors, he had presented the poet in an unflattering light ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

William Michael Rossetti : Biographical essay on Wordsworth

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Excursion

Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale White, 'Mark Rutherford,' reread The Excursion, book 1, and commented, 'Much of the religion by which Wordsworth lives is very indefinite. [...]' ... What he quotes in his journal is the conclusion of the Pedlar's 'natural wisdom' in its pre-1845 version."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Hale White Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled that, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, he scraped up 3 1/2d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents soundly thrashed him when they learned he had wasted so much money on a book, but later he read it to them: "'And how we all loved it ... how we all cried together at poor old Peggotty's distress!'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities

Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum known as 'the Jago,' was quite impressed by A Tale of Two Cities and Dombey and Son when he read them in prison ..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Harding Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Harding Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Christmas Carol

Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dickens's readers] found it difficult to share his anguish over the hardships of the clerkly classes. Growing up in the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, some poor schoolboys were a bit baffled when their teacher read them A Christmas Carol: ' ... we never could understand why it was considered why Bob Cratchit was hard done by -- a good job, we all thought he had.'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Mary Finlay Cross : story

Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her future sister-in-law Mary Findlay Cross that 'I read your touching story aloud yesterday ...'"

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Evans

George Eliot : [unknown]

Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George Eliot, George Meredith, Henry James, and William Dean Howells ..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ada Cambridge Print: Unknown

George Meredith : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ada Cambridge Print: Unknown

Henry James :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ada Cambridge Print: Unknown

William Dean Howells :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ada Cambridge Print: Unknown

: various texts

" ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometimes meditations not unfit to communicate to near friends' ..."

Unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Donne

George Eliot : [unknown]

'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or painted verbal scenery, a practice at which I became very dextrous".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciate Goethe, but because I was interested in the Devil". Moving on to Don Quixote, "I did not realise its greatness till long after; but its stories of adventure and its romance and humour appealed to me strongly enough".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Rogers Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Rogers Print: Book

: Bible, the

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books far beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress, The

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books farf beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

Walter Scott :

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books farf beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books farf beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson :

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books farf beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books farf beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

Charles Reade : Cloister and the Hearth, The

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books farf beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

Homer : Iliad, the

'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and Pope's translation of the "Iliad", though not in their entirety: "Extracts suitable to our ages were read and explained and, when we younger ones had been packed off to bed, more serious and inclusive reading would begin... We younger ones often dipped into books farf beyond our understanding. It did us no harm, I believe, for we skipped a lot and took what we could from the rest".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stella Davies Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan

'There were few books at home when [Harry Burton] was a boy, but one of them was "Don Juan". He read it before he was eleven - through a prepubescent frame, of course. "I saw nothing in it but comic adventures, sunny shores, storms, Arabian interiors and words, words, words. Many of these words I did not understand, but I did not therefore jump to the conclusion that they were indecent. All of them - or nearly all - jogged happily through my unreceptive brain leaving vaguely pleasing sensations in their wake.... Genius speaks to all hearts and to all ages".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Burton Print: Book

Henryk Sienkiewicz : Quo Vadis

'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and it was his grandparents who selected the books... "I shall never understand how this choice was made. Until I started reading to them they had no more knowledge of English literature than a Malay Aborigine... I suppose it was their very lack of knowledge that made the choice, from "Quo Vadis" at eight, Rider Haggard's "She" at nine. By the time I was twelve they had come to know, intimately, a list of authors ranging from Shakespeare to D.H. Lawrence. All was grist to the mill (including Elinor Glyn). The classics, poetry, essays, belles lettres. We took them all in MY stride. At times we stumbled on gems that guided us to further riches. I well remember the Saturday night they brought home "The Essays of Elia". For months afterwards we used it as our roadmap...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Wild Print: Book

Henry Rider Haggard : She

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Wild Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Wild Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Wild Print: Book

Elinor Glyn :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Wild Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Wild Print: Book

: News Chronicle

'It was agreed to purchase a second copy of the News Chronicle to meet the extra demand for examining the situations vacant adverts by unemployed.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Readers at Uxbridge Library Print: Newspaper

John Milton :

'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps there was a guidance, although indefinite and without distinctive aim". Howell groped his way through literature "on the principle that one poet's works suggested another, or the criticisms on one led to comparisons with another. Thus: Milton - Shakespeare; Pope-Dryden; Byron-Shelley; Burns-Scott; Coleridge-Wordsworth and Southey, and later on Spenser-Chaucer, Bryant-Longfellow, and so on". By following these intertextual links, autodidacts could reconstruct the literary canon on their own'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Alexander Pope :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

John Dryden :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Robert Burns :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

William Wordsworth :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Robert Southey :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Edmund Spenser :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

William Cullen Bryant :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Howell Print: Book

: [study of David Hume]

'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from his father, who made him return a study of "the Atheist" David Hume. And when his brother gave him 3d to spend, he was almost insulted to learn that the money had gone to purchase Penny Poets editions of "As You Like It", "The Earthly Paradise" and Matthew Arnold. At home there was nothing to read except [various items mentioned in a previous entry and], "Gulliver's Travels", an R.M. Ballantyne tale about Hudson's Bay...a large volume documenting a theological dispute between a Protestant clergyman and a Catholic priest, a novel that was probably "Sense and Sensibility" ("I could make nothing of it, but this did not keep me from reading it")... "I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at the time, called Sunday Stories", as well as a raft of temperance novels. Consequently, when he stumbled across Christopher Marlowe or George Crabbe in that literary junkyard, "it was like an addition to a secret treasure; for no one knew of my passion, and there was none to whom I could speak of it".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

George Crabbe :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

n/a : [boys' papers]

'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep in the authors who to this day I regard the best discovered in a lifetime" - Fielding, Browning, Hardy, Tolstoy, even Henry James. He found them all before he was twenty, with critical guidance from no one: "We must make our own soundings and chartings in the arts... so that we may all one day climb to our own peak, silent in Darien".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Mark Twain : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Robert Browning : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Henry James : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

n/a : John O' London's Weekly

'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the half-baked - books about books, the old 'John O' London's Weekly', chit-chat of one kind or another". Yet in a few years she had advanced to "Moby Dick", "Lord Jim", "Crime and Punishment", and "Wuthering Heights".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Serial / periodical

Herman Melville : Moby Dick

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Lord Jim

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

[unknown] : [detective thrillers]

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [Western novels]

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a coupe of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [local and sports papers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [local and sports papers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [Western novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book

[unknown] : [detective thrillers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book

[unknown] : [children's books]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book

[unknown] : [travel books, including some on Tibet]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book

[n/a] : The Wizard

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Hotspur

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical

[anon] : The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book

[n/a] : [books on model railways]

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book

T.E. Lawrence : The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book

[n/a] : [a Latin-English Dictionary]

'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"... Chaplin could be found in his dressing room studying a Latin-English dictionary, Robert Ingersoll's secularist propaganda, Emerson's "Self- Reliance" ("I felt I had been handed a golden birthright"), Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Hazlitt, all five volumes of Plutarch's Lives, Plato, Locke, Kant, Freud's "Psychoneurosis", Lafcadio Hearn's "Life and Literature", and Henri Bergson - his essay on laughter, of course... Chaplin also spent forty years reading (if not finishing) the three volumes of "The World as Will and Idea" by Schopenhauer, whose musings on suicide are echoed in Monsieur Verdoux'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

George Woods : An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man

'Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, so absurd as scarcely to be credible if they had not been inscribed in their statute book. Read Lord Chesterfields [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Robert Ingersoll : [speeches on agnosticism]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield : Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son

'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his lax morality is shocking to every serious thinking man.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Self Reliance

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Washington Irving : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A demonstration of the being attributes of God

'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture, one volume'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : [unknown]

'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"... Chaplin could be found in his dressing room studying a Latin-English dictionary, Robert Ingersoll's secularist propaganda, Emerson's "Self- Reliance" ("I felt I had been handed a golden birthright"), Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Hazlitt, all five volumes of Plutarch's Lives, Plato, Locke, Kant, Freud's "Psychoneurosis", Lafcadio "Hearn's Life and Literature", and Henri Bergson - his essay on laughter, of course... Chaplin also spent forty years reading (if not finishing) the three volumes of "The World as Will and Idea" by Schopenhauer, whose musings on suicide are echoed in Monsieur Verdoux'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Samuel Burder : Oriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacred

'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Walt Whitman : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Mark Twain : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

William Hazlitt : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

n/a : [newspaper]

'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

Plutarch : Lives

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

John Locke : [unknown]

'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"... Chaplin could be found in his dressing room studying a Latin-English dictionary, Robert Ingersoll's secularist propaganda, Emerson's "Self- Reliance" ("I felt I had been handed a golden birthright"), Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Hazlitt, all five volumes of Plutarch's Lives, Plato, Locke, Kant, Freud's "Psychoneurosis", Lafcadio Hearn's Life and Literature, and Henri Bergson - his essay on laughter, of course... Chaplin also spent forty years reading (if not finishing) the three volumes of "The World as Will and Idea" by Schopenhauer, whose musings on suicide are echoed in Monsieur Verdoux'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : Psychoneurosis

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

n/a : [newspaper]

'Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide all the property.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

Samuel Burder : Oriental Customs: or an illustration of the sacred

'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture, one volume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life

'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own character, which is not increased by his noble commentator. [John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life

'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by himself and confess myself greatly disappointed, not indeed in the style which is like himself in the history, but I am disappointed in not being able to discover one single amiable trait. [continues at length]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life

'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from one of Gibbons letters to Lord Sheffield in 1792 [quotes]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Benjamin Franklen : The private correspondence

'In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to be convinced that he did all in his power to prevent the rupture of Great Britain and the colonies, but I am astonished that the printer of it and the publisher have not been prosecuted for a libel.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : [unknown]

'Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Charles Montholon : Bonaparte's memorial in a letter

'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Thomas Gray : The Bard: A pindaric ode

'I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton

n/a : 'The newspapers'

'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his being indicted ex officio by the Atorney General for a libel on the Book of Common Prayer [Discusses parody] I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect to that fine ode.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

Lafcadio Hearn : Life and Literature

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

John Taylor : Junius identified or the identity of Junius

'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

n/a : [newspaper]

'After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a more disgraceful satin was never affixed to the character of any lawyer and the four worthies of the day ought to descend united in infamy to posterity.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

Henri Bergson : Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

Arthur Schopenhauer : The World as Will and Idea

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book

William Paley : Evidences of Christianity

'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Robert Walpole : Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey

'Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

: bible

'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one but Mr Monson and I supported the above mode but both universities print it so in last Bibles.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

William Hutton : The life of William Hutton

'Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of the kind though aware I have not his memory, industry or energy. It may gratify [...] those who love me, to peruse it as it will be true if nothing else.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

John Macleod : Narrative of a voyage in his majesty's late ship A

'Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton

Thomas Chalmers : A series of discourses on the Christian recelation

'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. Newton's modest and firm faith in christianity.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton

John Macleod : Voyage of the Alceste

'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I ever read of N.B. little or nothing is said of the females.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton

grandfather of Benjamin Newton : [sermon]

'Transcribed and altered a sermon of my grandfather's on the text "And if I be lifted up will draw all men to me" [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Manuscript: Sheet

Vasily Golovnin : Narrative of my captivity in Japan

'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy: By the author of Waverley

'Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Samuel Pegge : Anecdotes of the English language

'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite decided that [...]but Mr Colling [...] is not of that opinion. [NB Henry Cline - on the form of animals]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Sir John Sinclair : The Code of Agriculture

'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite decided that [...] but Mr Colling [...] is not of thatopinion. [NB Henry Cline - on the form of animals]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Bede : [The Ecclesiastical History]

'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite decided that [...] but Mr Colling [...]is not of that opinion [NB henry Cline - on the form of animals]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : [unknown]

'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His supposition [...] that the Soros in the Chamber of the Great Pyramid might contain the body of Joseph delighted me much.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

John Curwen : Observations on the State of Ireland

'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades the work tho' he fails more than most of the advocates for their abolition.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Thomas Gisborne : The Testimony of Natural Theology

'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Thomas Gisborne : The Testimony of Natural Theology

'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which an argument of so very popular a description should be pressed on the attention of common readers [... ] there is an imitation of Paley's manner of putting an argument but the manner very inferior [to]Paley.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

[Von Buch] : [a tour in Denmark]

'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor Jamieson [comments on contents]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Richard Watson : Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writ

'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused at the charterhouse. [...] Some of Watson's life which I brought from Bedale.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

[Erskine or T.E.] : Armata, a Fragment

'Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty nearly my opinions and I should therefore be more inclined to judge favourably. The allegory [...] is not well kept up, but degennerates into matter of fact [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

[Von Buch] : [A Tour in Denmark]

'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day without any rain voila Mr Buch once more. At Skey eagles are much dreaded [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

[Von Buch] : [A Tour in Denmark]

'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

William Derham : Physio Theology or a Demonstartion of the being

'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching, he seems to give two guesses at the meaning of the passage and tells his audience they may take which they like.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

n/a : n/a

'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs Price, Miss S.Hatton, Sep.1793'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Manuscript: Graffito

n/a : The Magnet

'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer woman film director'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Box Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Gem

'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer woman film director'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Box Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Boy's Own Paper

'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer woman film director'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Box Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Magnet

'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the point of mimicking the school uniform... This partly reflected their new found interest in the opposite sex. Dorothy identified especially with that subversive fellow the Bounder, who smoked, gambled, and even "split an infinitive or two".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Burnham Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have trembled with Jane Eyre as the first Mrs Rochester rent her bridal veil in maddened jealousy. I have been shipwrecked with Masterman Ready and on Pitcairn Island with Fletcher Christian. I have been a medieval page in Sir Nigel and Lorna Doone madly in love with 'girt Jan Ridd'".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

[unknown] : [account of Bounty mutiny]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

Arthur Conan Doyle : Sir Nigel

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

Richard Doddridge Blackmore : Lorna Doone

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book

: Uxbridge & HIllingdon Literary & Mechanics Institute Terms of Subscription

[Annotations] Written on Fol 1 recto, "Mechanics Institute Jan 1839" and on Fol 2 recto, in the same hand, "H.J.Batt Esq, Uxbridge"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: H.J. Batt Print: Advertisement

: The Attempt

"To the Editors of the Attempt, Gentlemen, If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication cannot be received after the twentieth of the month..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

: Uxbridge Gazette

"To the Editor, Dear Sir, I have just been looking through some Gazettes intending them for salvage, & came across a note about John Bedford Leno. I am sending to you this autobiography of him hoping it will be of some interest to you. It was given to my mother, Mrs Tucker, by Mrs Sophie Christian, who I think was his niece."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Mrs Trimmer : New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman HIstory

"Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman History (1818) has Nightingale's autograph in pencil on a flyleaf ... and pencilled marks -- an 'x' or an 'A' at the ends of chapters to show how far she had got with her reading."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Nightingale Print: Book

Jonathan Edwards : Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity

" ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigraph from Milton on the title page, right after the author's name: 'So spoke the Fiend, and with Necessity, / -- excused his dev'lish deeds.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

L. Margery Bazett : After-Death Communications

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychological experience with a signed note on the title page: of L. Margery Bazett's After-Death Communications (1918), for example, he says, 'A very useful little book with many good cases entirely beyond Criticism.'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Print: Book

Gerhard Voss : Poeticarum Institutionum, libri tres

" ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' this book with some attention, April 21, 1803 --, and seldom indeed have I read a more thoroughly worthless one.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

: Bible

"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to read had been awakened. Books, however, were very scarce. The Bible and Bunyan were the principle; he committed many chapters of the former to memory, and accepted all Bunyan's allegory as bona fide history. Afterwards, he obtained access to 'Robinson Crusoe', a few old Wesleyan magazines and some battle histories. These constituted his sole reading, until he came up to London, at the age of fifteen, as an errand boy."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

William Godwin : Abbas

" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a set of symbols for common problems, 'false or intolerable English' ... 'common-place book Language,' and 'bad metre.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: Unknown

: [Wesleyan magazines]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : Joan of Arc

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

: [battle histories]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

Philip Nichols : Sir Francis Drake Revived

" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 'very obscure' (p. 27) ... 'don't understand at all' (p. 41) ... These few notes register resistance and engagement as they register Ruskin's reactions."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Richard Watson : A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury

H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and close, argumentative marginal responses to text, made by contemporary reader of copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (1783).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Meditations

" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thanks, and love to you, excellent Antoninus. L. H. Feb. 7th 1853. His second regular perusal.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Henry Leigh Hunt Print: Book

Stewarton : Revolutionary Plutarch

" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'179 Murdering en masse at Toulon by Brutus Buonaparte Citizen Sans-culotte. "'Barras & his entourage [two further entries] "The first and second entries are taken verbatim from the text, the first from a footnote -- so Beckford was reading attentively."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Beckford Print: Book

William Beckford : Annotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement

"The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains a transcription, in ink, not necessarily made in Byron's lifetime, of Beckford's satirical but defensive annotations to the work."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: annotations in printed text

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard annotated (with 'reflective remarks') by owner, General James Wolfe, to whom it was given by his fiancee Katharine Lowther.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: General James Wolfe

Michel de Montaigne : essays

" ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the essays of Montaigne."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Pope Print: Book

John Wilmot Earl of Rochester : poems

"The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of the Earl of Rochester in which Pope filled in some of the concealed or deliberately omitted names."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Pope Print: Book

John Dennis : pamphlet attacking Pope's poetry

"Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in the occasional sarcastic comment in pamphlets by John Dennis: when Dennis complains ... of a dream temple suspended in air, that it is 'Contrary to Nature, and to the Eternal Laws of Gravitation,' Pope grumbles, 'wch no dream ought to be.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Pope

John Whitaker : History of Manchester

In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about the defects of the author's style and his overreliance on sentences beginning with the conjunctions 'and' or 'but' ... by underlining every single instance of a sentence beginning with 'and ' in the two volumes."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Douce Print: Book

Pierre Bayle : Pensees diverses vol 1

"Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotated. On the flyleaf she write a general impression, beginning [...] "I ask pardon for scribling in Y[ou]r La[dyshi]ps Book. The Author is so disingenuous & inconsistent yt no lover of Truth can read it without a just Indignation.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Astell Print: Book

Lady Bradshaigh : annotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela

"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of his last days to reading her comments and to making his own comments on them.'"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson

Lady Bradshaigh : annotations to Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: annotations in printed text

: religious work

"Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hill Boothby."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Unknown

William Mudford : Nubilia in Search of a Husband

H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of William Mudford, Nubilia in Search of a Husband (1809); annotations include subject headings, and remarks including "'The preceding observations on tuition are, I make no doubt, very just ...'" and "'Let a certain fair reader attend to this passage.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington

"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Countess Guiccioli would 'be cited as an instance of conjugal happiness,' by giving the counterevidence of a contemporary: 'yet Trelawney told me he was wearied to death by her fondness --'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Savage Landor Print: Book

: LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: annotations in Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen'

"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the 'Dedication'' ... but is also moved to register his views about the history of his country ...[ eg 'The Irish Aristocracy always opposed to the independence of Ireland ...'] ... (In fact the spirit of these annotations is so strongly engaged that a later owner found it necessary to censor them: on several pages words are scribbled through and rewritten ...)"

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: annotations in printed text

Jane Austen : novels

" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a very small number of typographical errors."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Marco Polo : The Travels of Marco Polo

'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Marco Polo : The Travels of Marco Polo

'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of the people bating his miracles [...] which was the fault of his age rather than himself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Richard Hurd : Sermons [sermons preached at Lincolns Inn]

'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching he seems to give two guesses at the meaning of the passage and tells his audience they may take which they like'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

n/a : St. James' Chronicle

'Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Courier

'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

William Derham : Physico Theology: or a Demonstration of the being

'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Archibald Campbell : A Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812

'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Juvenal : Satires

'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

John Chetwode Eustace : A [classical] tour through Italy

'Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such as have nothing extraordinary about them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Lloyd : Lloyd's Penny Times

"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Works

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

: French without a Master

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

: [English history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

: [Roman history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

: [Grecian history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

: [books]

"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, and in all possible places; up in bed till two or three in the morning, - nothing daunted by once setting the bed on fire. Greatly indebted was I also to the bookstalls, where I have read a great deal, often folding a leaf in a book, and returning the next day to continue the subject; but sometimes the book was gone, and then great was my grief! When out of a situation, I have often gone without a meal to purchase a book."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

: [books]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

Tom Paine : The Rights of Man

"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, the anomalies of our societary state, politics &tc., and the circle of my being rapidly out-surged. New power came to me with all that I saw and thought and read. I studied political works, - such as Paine, Volney, Howitt, Louis Blanc, &tc, which gave me another element to mould into my verse, though I am convinced that a poet must sacrifice much if he write party-political poetry."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

Volney :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

Howitt :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

Louis Blanc :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book

Gerald Massey : Lyrics of Love

"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles Print: Book

Gerald Massey : Songs of Progress

"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets

"After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of brickbats and an odd volume of Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets'. The poring over of that volume possibly helped to decide that I should turn versifier."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Book

Anti Corn Law League : [tracts]

"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the perusal of the tracts issued by the Anti-Corn-law League, and the 'Examiner' newspaper. Farrell lent me the former, the 'Star,' and the 'New Moral World,' and his opponent their antidotes."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno

: The Northern Star

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Newspaper

: New Moral World

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Newspaper

: The Examiner

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Newspaper

Edward Young : Night Thoughts

"It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out by watching, the landlady appealed to me to take a turn. I at once consented, and the widow, much pleased, set about mixing me grog for the night. I asked to be allowed to glance over her library, and, from its contents, I selected "Young's Night Thoughts." This I managed to finish before morning, and never was book read to greater advantage. The moans, occasional ravings and wanderings of my poor little friend and former schoolfellow enabled me to realise beauties that I had failed to see in a previous perusal."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

"How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by the circumstances described in RED ID 5432], and this fact was farther corroborated years after, when I read Scott's 'Lady of the Lake', during a walk from the Trosachs [sic] to Stirling."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Book

: [proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings]

"I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Poster

William Wordsworth : Sonnets

"I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, hugging the shore of the river Derwent, made for Matlock on the following morn. I had read the whole of Wordsworth's Sonnets and, penniless as I was, I enjoyed the journey."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Book

Falcon Harmonic Society : Notice of a Burns Supper

"It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, interested in all related to his gifted countryman [Burns], timidly asked if he would be allowed admission [to a Burns' Night supper organised by the Falcon Harmonic Society]."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: a Scotch physician Print: Poster

William Caxton : History of Jason

'In 1477 William Caxton presented his "History of Jason" to the 6-year-old future Edward V. Edward IV, the little prince's father, had instructed the child's governor that during dinner he should listen to "such noble stories as behoveth a prince to understand and know".'

Century: 1450-1499 Reader/Listener/Group: King Edward V Print: Book

: European, The

'Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally "The European" was my companion at the tea-table. Topographical works, and tours through England, were books which pleased my taste.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Serial / periodical

: [books of topography and travel]

"Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally 'The European' was my companion at the tea-table. Topographical works, and tours through England, were books which pleased my taste."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Robinson : Scripture Characters

"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

: Wonders of the vegetable kingdom, The

"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

James Hervey : Theron and Aspasio

'Read a portion of Harvey's Theron and Aspasio...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Bradley : Sermons

'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Bradley : Sacred Lyre, The

'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

J Smith : advertisement

'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Advertisement

Thomas Frognall Dibdin : Bibliographical Decameron

'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

David : Second tour round a Bibliomaniac's library

'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

: [poetry]

'...he wrote a poetical piece in my album in an almost unpremeditated manner; & finding it applicable to my History of Ecton, I have there printed it, entitled 'know thyself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Handwritten in Album

Williamson : A Journal of a naturalist

'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dry'.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

: [sermons]

'It was my practise on each Sunday of this summer to pray with him & read a sermon or portions of one to him, which gave him great satisfaction.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole

: [printed letter]

'On my return I found that the printed copy of a letter from the late Mr Hinderwell had been left at my shop.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Sheet

W Trimmer : Sacred History

'Read W Trimmer's Sacred History.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of...

'The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

John Horne Tooke : Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley

'Horne Tooke is a dirty dog - he gives the derivation of such words! - There sits Mr Wilbraham two hours every morning in the library, sniggering and shaking his fat sides over such grave nastiness as is enough to make a modest soul like me blush or turn sick: and he always puts a little paper mark into the worst passages to show them to me when I go down. Was ever anything so impertinent & insulting! As if I loved dirt.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

'I have been reading, and am enchanted with The Lady of the Lake. It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When I had finished it, I remained with such a relish for Walter Scott, that I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field

'I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly divested of sneakiness...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : Letters of Madame de Sevigne

'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired books) -Amongst others, two collections of letters, Sevigne's to her daughter, and Bussy Rabutin's to her and various others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy : Les Lettres de Messire Roger de Rabutin

'Rabutin de Bussy in his little way, is also delightful...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : Letters of Madame de Sevigne

'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Louis-Pierre Anquetil : Louis XIV, Sa Cour et le Regent

'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters and since then read Anquetil's "Louis XIV Sa Cour et le Regent" - A most admirably entertaining work in four moderate little volumes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

n/a : The Monthly Review

'I have opened no other book, save the "Monthly Review" and "Appendix" since I came home... A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is "Jouhaud's Paris dans le..."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Serial / periodical

Maria Edgeworth : Tales of Fashionable Life

'[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I said so, that it had struck her directly.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Adelaide Filleul, Countess de Flahaut : Eugenie et Mathilde

'I wanted to have sent you a translation of the epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [plays]

'I have been with a nice little party of college friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing but read Shakespear.' [Siddings was performing in Covent Garden between 12.05.1810 and 21.06.1810]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Mary Leadbetter and Maria Edgeworth : Cottage Dialogues Amongst the Irish Peasantry

'Have you seen the little book, 'Cottage Dialogues', by Mrs Leadbetter. Edgeworth's notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own I am tired a little of the receipts to make cheap dishes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law

H. J. Jackson discusses second annotator of 1791 copy of Rousseau, A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law; ownership inscription in same hand reads "'H. B. L. Webb / Brent House / Master Brace / 30th Dec. 1909. / (Bought at old Bennett's in Castle St.).'" Notes include reference to 1910 elections and comments such as "'very flimsy here'"; "'Pah!'" and (in response to Rousseau's assertion that comparisons between different nations' early religious beliefs "'an absurd part of erudition,'") "'And yet, Jean Jacques, comparitive mythology has told us a different tale about this 'absurd part of erudition'!'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: H. B. L. Webb Print: Book

Johann Lavater : Aphorisms

William Blake, on margin of his copy of Johann Lavater, Aphorisms: "'I hop no one will call what I have written cavilling ... For I write from the warmth of my heart, & cannot resist the impulse I fell to rectify what I think false in a book I love so much, & aprove so generally.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

F. W. J. von Schelling :

S. T. Coleridge, annotation to Schelling: "'A book, I value, I reason & quarrel with as with myself when I am reasoning.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Essays

William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

Joseph Priestley : Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit

H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777; gift from the author), in which Priestley addressed as "'you'" and mocking marginal notes added as interjections to arguments.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horne Tooke Print: Book

Joseph Milner : History of the Church of Christ

H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ; these include: "'You bolt every lie that the Fathers tell as glibly as your Creed'," and "'Here I give in. I have done my best -- But the monotonous absurdity dishonesty & malevolence of this man are beyond me. Nov 13'.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne :

"Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Print: Book

: annotations in copy of Algernon Swinburne, Laus Veneris

"Ezra Pound, having acquired a copy of Algernon Swinburne's Laus Veneris already annotated by somebody else, took pains to dissociate himself from the other's views [adding in book]: 'Some damn fool had this book before I bought it. I am not responsible for the notes in his handwriting'."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ezra Pound Manuscript: annotations in printed text

Edmund Burke : A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Locke on Human Understanding & Bacons Advancmt [sic] of Learning on Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions & on looking them over find that my Notes on Reynolds in this Book are exactly Similar. I felt the Same Comtempt & Abhorrence then; that I do now.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

Francis Bacon : The Advancement of Learning

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Works

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

H. J. Jackson notes pencilled marginalia by Harriet Martineau in her copy of Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857), which include "corrections and contradictions" to Gaskell's text.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Walter Scott : Quentin Durward

" ... [S. T. Coleridge's] copy of Quentin Durward includes a note that reveals his sense of public duty as an annotator [Coleridge takes issue with Scott's narrator's suggestion that traders miss their customers when they travel abroad]."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : Polemicall Discourses

"Coleridge's many notes to Jeremy Taylor's Polemicall Discourses include some addressed to the author directly ('A sophism, dearest Jeremy!'); some to the owner of the volume, Charles Lamb; and some to a hypothetical other reader ..."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Nathaniel Wraxall : Historical Memoirs of My Own Time

"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time (1815), the Johnson Anecdotes and Letters, and her own Observations and Retrospection."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Letters

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Observations

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

: The Bible

" ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] voluminously annotated a Bible for [William Augustus, Lord] Conway's mother."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rasselas

H. J. Jackson discusses extensive annotations by Hester Lynch Piozzi in 1818 copy of Rasselas in the Houghton Library, Harvard (her marginalia include anecdotes and remembered quotes from Johnson, as well as comments on the text).

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

Raymond Macdonald Alden : Introduction to Poetry for Students of English Literature

H. J. Jackson discusses Rupert Brooke's pencilled notes, "clearly made out on a single reading," in copy of Raymond Macdonald Alden, Introduction to Poetry for Students of English Literature (1909); notes that Brooke acquired the book when aged twenty-one.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Book

?John ?Webster :

H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make pencil notes on Webster, steadying the text against his knee,'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Book

: Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission

Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a hut by a waterfall on Dartmoor, a strange fat Johnian and I 'worked' for three weeks. He read -- oh! Aristotle, I think! And I read the Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission; and books on Metre (I'm a poet, you know!); and Shakespere! It was a great time.'"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Unknown

: books on metre

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Book

C. G. Jung : Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

H. J. Jackson discusses T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1923), and Alfred Adler, Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1924), conjecturing that White read these before 1932 (when aged 26).

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: T. H. White Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1923), and Alfred Adler, Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1924), conjecturing that White read these before 1932 (when aged 26).

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: T. H. White Print: Book

Alfred Adler : Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: T. H. White Print: Book

Thomas Frognall Dibdin : Bibliographical Decameron

'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black Lane, across Chapman's Common, & into the Scalby Road - a short way into the Whitby Road, & returned over the fields by the bleach yard on the Whitby Road - a delightful rural walk. Read in Dibdin's Decameron - Delany's Life of King David, & Gay's Choir.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Delany : Life of King David

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

John Gay : Choir, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Archdeacon Wranghan : Lines on the sea bathing infirmary at Scarborough

'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poetical description; these were of a good class, & abundantly bestowed. Archdeacon Wrangham wrote an original piece for the work 'Lines on the sea bathing infirmary at Scarborough'. The Mss of George Berret, the Younger, were freely offered to my use; & Hermione (Mrs Ballantyre, widow of the celebrated Publisher in Edinburgh) kindly controbuted. I also reprinted the celebrated pieces under the signature of Malvina, from The Scarborough Repository.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Unknown

George Berrett :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Unknown

Hermione Ballantyre :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Unknown

Malvina [pseud.] : [poetry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Unknown

Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, : La femme docteur ou la theologie tombee en quenouille comedie

[Marginalia]: A poem on the verso of the title page, though not entirely legible, appears to be related to the text. It takes the form of 8 lines, 4 rhyming couplets, begins 'Of wood & iron & strong ...' ends 'Never again shall thou my pillow cross/ Nor ... may you, doctor, bear the loss'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: B.B. Preston Print: Book

Somerset Maughan : Of Human Bondage

'I?m reading "Of Human Bondage" of Somerset Maugham & it?s terribly good ? some wonderful school stuff, & of course the whole thing, in his subtle way, is quite itching with queerness. Perhaps I?ll send you a copy to Chicago to read in bed.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Pears Print: Book

Gerard Manley Hopkins : [religious poems]

'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall on November 24th. I?ve done four so far ? fairly extended, all to religious words by Gerald [sic] Manley Hopkins - & there?ll probably be two more.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Book

John Keats : Hyperion

Letter 202 to Ralph Hodges, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug 15 1939: 'I?ve done lots of work ? finished this small piece for Toronto I mentioned to you ? "Young Apollo" (after Keats), Fanfare for Piano, Solo String quartet, & string orchestra.' Letter 227 to Wulff Scherchen,Amityville N.Y., December 8th 1939 'I?m playing my "Young Apollo? which I wrote for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. ? on Columbia on Dec. 20th, sometime in the middle of your night ? you know whom that?s written about ? founded on last lines of Keat?s "Hyperion?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Book

: [reviews]

'I was delighted to hear that the performance was so good, Sophie. I hear you have never sung better and I know what that means. It must have been a terrific show. I was delighted with several of the notices which I have seen, but I only saw the section of them which referred to the work itself and so I don?t know whether you got your due from those snarky old critics ? but anyhow, I hope you did.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Newspaper

: [reviews]

'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so much time & energy in learning it. I hope it wasn?t altogether a thankless task, but certainly judging by the rapturous notices you had from all the critics, people realised what a task you had & how marvellously you overcame all difficulties.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Newspaper

R J Yeatman : 1066 and all that

'- have you ever read a book called "1066 & all that" ?i t's very funny, & one of the authors is on board.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Book

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin : Boris Godonof

'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Book

Hans Christian Anderson :

?One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.?

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Book

Wulff Scherchen : [poem]

'I enjoyed the poem ? please send all the new ones ? I always carry ?madrigal? in my pocket!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Manuscript: Letter

: [concert review]

Referring to a concert in New York where one of his pieces was performed: 'The write-ups have been marvellous ? so I feel rather ?started? in New York now!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

Benvenuto Cellini : Autobiography

'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Shakespeare : Art of Singing, The

'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get stiff with nerves sometimes.' 'I am keeping your Shakespeare and Aiken very carefully here with me, as I thought it would be too risky and difficult sending them. However if you can't do without them I will send them.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Pears Print: BookManuscript: Letter

W A Aiken : The Voice: An Introduction to Practical Phonology

'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get stiff with nerves sometimes.' 'I am keeping your Shakespeare and Aiken very carefully here with me, as I thought it would be too risky and diffIcult sending them. However if you can't do without them I will send them.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Pears Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Germaine de Stael : De l'Allemagne

'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds with information, and shows great mental power. She was certainly the first woman of her age; Miss Edgeworth, I think, the second; and Miss Austen the third.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Macaulay Print: Book

Le Sage : Gil Blas

'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Robert Southey : Thalaba

?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Elizabeth Montague : [essay on Shakespeare]

'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

unknown : History of James I

'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies

'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was always habit in our family to read aloud every evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babbington Macaulay Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel

'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his delight in reading them, that he determined on writing himself a poem in six cantos which he called the "Battle of Cheviot"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Thucydides : unknown

'This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest historian that ever lived. Feb 27, 1835'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Macaulay Print: Book

Xenophon : Anabasis

[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Xenophon : Anabasis

[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Xenophon : Anabasis

[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plautus : unknown

'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Macaulay Print: Book

Plautus : unknown

'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the beginning of February 1835'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plautus : unknown

'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from the 24th of May to the 23rd of August 1835'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plautus : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

John Burke : A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire ?

[Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * in the text but some are for people not in the directory and are simply added at the appropriate alphabetical slot. Content varies from dates of death, marriage etc to more elaborate information e.g p.669 "Dowager - 84 rides every morning all seasons in Kings Ride Pimlico" [relates to the entry for James, seventh earl of Salisbury]; p.18 "Earl of Lichfield = Whig earl" [relates to entry for Viscount Anson];p.286 "Hop ... jump = 15 1/2 yds on the level = 46 1/2 feet. ... leaper cleared a few inches more at Innerleithen ... 1832" [relates to a new entry for Wilson]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Ker Print: Book

: [history]

'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head with knowledge?"'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

Helvetius : A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper

[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin e.g. p.13 Text =: "Is the difference in the minds of men the effect of their different organisations or education? *That is the object of my inquiry". ms note =: "*In part it is, in part it is not"; p. 101 Text = "As long as man * is sensible, he has soul", ms note = "has any feeling" (in ink). P. 30 has a lengthy comment on Milton.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Marriage

'In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: "Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married life than anybody has ever achieved before, I am rather annoyed as I am about to try and get the same intimacy in my Clayhanger-Hilda book, entitled These Twain.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown, proofs of book

Edmund Lodge : The peerage of the British Empire, as at present existing, arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility ? to which is added a view of the baronetage of the three kingdoms

[Marginalia]: copious annotations throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin but some are new entries inserted at the appropriate alphabetical slot. Contents vary from simple additions of dates of death, marriage etc to more detailed notes, mainly dated 1836-38. e.g. p. 534 "To Asia/ 8 yrs" [&] " Egypt - Arabia - Turkey - Archipelago" [refers to entry for Major Sir Grenville Temple]; "Ordered by Louis Philippe to quit Bayone in 24 hours for meeting the mercenary ... of the Whigs. Earliest .... = Constructive Treason Jany 37" [refers entry for Viscount Ranelagh]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Ker Print: Book

William Tennant : Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant

[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to show a rather crumpled East India Company employee, feet on table, flask and glass in front and smoking a hookah. (2) ms note follows the end of the dedication "... & guilty of / plagerising; but .../ of the unfortunate case of the/ author whose from this ... / and rather dull he is/ only doomed to oblivion".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

: The Works of the British Poets

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book

William Wordsworth : annotations on Shakespeare's sonnets in The Works of the British Poets

"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in which both he and Coleridge's brother-in-law Robert Southey had made manuscript notes. Taking up the Shakespeare volume and coming upon a pencilled note of Wordsworth's critical of the sonnets, Coleridge answered with a long note of his own, in ink [disagreeing with Wordsworth's judgements]."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuscript: annotations in printed text

Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population

"In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population by way of assistance to Southey, who had to review it."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

: Times, The

'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piece in "The Times Literary Supplement", which Bennett read, and which emphasized the passionate nature of Parnell's love . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

Thomas Browne :

"By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in copies of the works of Sir Thomas Browne destined for Sara Hutchinson, Wordsworth's sister-in-law, with whom he was hopelessly in love."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Samuel Daniel : The History of the Civil War

"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's Poetical Works], thought quite well of it, so he annotated it to try to win Lamb over ... [writing]: "'Dear Charles, I think more highly, far more, of the 'Civil Wars,' than you seemed to do (on Monday night, Feb. 9th 1808) -- the Verse does not Teize me; and all the while I am reading it, I cannot but fancy a plain England-loving English Country Gentleman, with only some dozen Books in his whole Library ...'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Samuel Daniel : The History of the Civil War

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : annotations to Samuel Daniel's poetry

Charles Lamb's response to reading marginal comments by S. T. Coleridge in his copy of Samuel Daniel's Poetical Works, in letter to Coleridge: "'I wish every book I have were so noted. They have thoroughly converted me to relish Daniel, or to say I relish him ... Your notes are excellent. Perhaps you've forgot them.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Manuscript: annotations in printed text

Richard Field : Of the Church

H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to his son Derwent in 1819.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Barry Cornwall : Dramatic Scenes

H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, and Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Charles Tennyson Turner : Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces

H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, and Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as well as critical remarks, to his copy of James Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Leigh Hunt Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

"Fulke Greville's copy of Boswell [Life of Johnson] stands out among individual copies annotated by readers who had known Boswell or Johnson or other members of their circle ... offering facts or interpretations of events that may be at odds with the text and that supplement it in useful ways."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fulke Greville Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader, referred to in annotations as "Mr L", known to be from Lichfield, twenty years Johnson's junior, and also a pupil at Lichfield Grammar School and student at Pembroke College, Oxford; annotations date from 1793 to 1800.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr L. Print: Book

Francis Gladwin : Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin

[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Contents are mainly comments on, or corrections to, the text, including detailed points of grammar e.g. Text = "It is a general rule that the Ghazel do not contain more than twelve distiche; * although some poets formerly made Ghazels of greater length", ms note = "or less than five"; p. 6 Text = "Mo-sum-mut", ms note = "Moosullis"; p. 70 Text = "This [mark] is a conjunction [underlined] occurring in the middle of an hemistich, * when it receives the accent of the preceding letter", [whole clause is underlined], ms note = "In summary it is removed & its accent is given to the preceding letter"; the note on p.19 is in Persian.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of text, in his copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Gibson Lockhart Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

"An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the Life of Johnson] ... goes to some pains to record a moment of agreement with Johnson's protest ' [...] What is climate to happiness? Place me in the heart of Asia, should I not be exiled?' This the reader confirms by his own example: '15th Novr on the Nile -- how often have I found this realised' (p.198)."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likely to take a small piece of meat as a large one, when presented wth both, recorded in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Boswell in the Life of Samuel Johnson: "A Cambridge University Library copy of the first edition annotated in at least four hands has in the margin at that point a list of words that would appear to refute Johnson's statement: 'Shepherd / Cowherd / Abhor / Behave / Uphold / Exhaust' (1: 166)."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

: Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Boswell in the Life of Samuel Johnson: "A Cambridge University Library copy of the first edition [1791] annotated in at least four hands has in the margin at that point a list of words that would appear to refute Johnson's statement: 'Shepherd / Cowherd / Abhor / Behave / Uphold / Exhaust' (1: 166). Then a note by a later reader remarks, 'N.B. All but one of these are compound words where h begins ye first syllable of ye simple word.'"

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: annotation in printed text

: The Bible

H. J. Jackson discusses Edmund Law's annotations to family Bible, which includes both original and copied commentary, as well as glosses.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Law Print: Book

Colley Cibber : An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian ... with an Historical View of the Stage During his Own Time

H. J. Jackson discusses Queen Charlotte's responsive "extra-illustration" of text of her copy of An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Charlotte Print: Book

Hafiz : The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings.

[Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a table with numbers [some form of ms index?], two long ms notes, possibly translations e.g. "In the morning I went to the garden to gather a rose when suddenly the voice of a nightingale struck my ears ...". Also has a printed leaf, possibly from an English periodical and referring to verses in Persian by Sir William Jones, bound in.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Mrs Henry Sandford : Thomas Poole and His Friends

H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His Friends (1888), with inserts including letters and "a flower taken from Wordsworth's garden in 1844."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S.

H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" by Philip Gosse of his grandfather, Edmund Gosse's Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S. (1890) with letters, drawings, photographs etc.

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse

: Illustrated Chatterton

Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and insertions, by readers: "'I almost ridiculed the idea of an ILLUSTRATED CHATTERTON, in this way, till I saw Mr. Haslewood's copy, in twenty-one volumes, which riveted me to my seat!' (pp.64-65)"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Frognall Dibdin Print: Book

Isabella Spence : How to be Rid of a Wife

H. J. Jackson discusses Richard Clark's annotations to Isabella Spence, How to be Rid of a Wife (1823), and his own pamphlet, Reminiscences of Handel (1836).

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Clark Print: Book

Richard Clark : Reminiscences of Handel, His Grace the Duke of Chandos, Powells the Harpers ... The Harmonious Blacksmith, and Others. With a List of the Anthems Composed at Commons, by Handel, for the Duke of Chandos. And an Appendix [containing wills]

H. J. Jackson discusses Richard Clark's annotations to Isabella Spence, How to be Rid of a Wife (1823), and his own pamphlet, Reminiscences of Handel (1836).

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Clark

: Times Literary Supplement, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

: Javahir at-talif fi navadir at-tasanif = The Asiatick miscellany: consisting of original productions, translations, fugitive pieces, imitations, and extracts from curious publications, Vol.2

[Marginalia]: a single item, within a miscellany, is annotated "The Monody on the death of Mr. Cleveland" pp.146-151. Has marginal marks ie corrections and comments e.g. "whilst" (line 18) is underlined and in the margin in ms is "but"; p. 149 Text = "Mild were his manners, and sincere his heart; Benevolence in every feature shone", ms notes = "his soul sincere" [&] "melancholy marked him for her own. Gray's El.", "*mild were his manners & his heart sincere Congreve ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Joanna Southcott : The Strange Effects of Faith

H. J. Jackson discusses William George Thompson's annotations to Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith (including glosses, and cross-references to the Bible), which Thompson signs and dates "'Easter Day, April 14th, 1811'".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William George Thompson

William Godwin : Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman

H. J. Jackson discusses John Horseman's annotations to, and insertions in, his first edition copy of William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) -- "For forty years or more, Horseman made this little volume an object of devoted attention and the repository of everything he considered relevant in his reading."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horseman Print: Book

: guide to Salisbury Cathedral

" ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contains notes made by an unidentified annotator who supplemented the guide by registering changes in the cathedral since the time of printing, such as 'Both are now (1810) in the Nave,' for instance, adding statements made by authorities who contradict assertions in the text; and providing neat little sketches of architectural details."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

William Charles Macready : [diary]

'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : Pretty Lady, The

'Bonar Law told him that "his sister had been a very great admirer", but that since this book she had "done with" him.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Law Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : article in the 'Daily News'

'...an article of his in the Daily News on 21 November, blaming Liberal leadership, produced from Asquith himself "a polite letter of self - justification"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Asquith Print: Newspaper

Robert Lowth : A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes

[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a french has/ very often more than/forty"; (2) "The English language/ has the the [sic] advantage/ of the French in ... /to personification"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Erskine Print: Book

Henry Blunt : Sermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea

[Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Sermon II. Forgiveness a present mercy", ms note = "GFI [?] Nov 28th 1847/ April 30th 1848/ April 15 1854/ Oct 19th 1856"; p. 42 - some text has been deleted.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: clergyman Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Castle of Otranto

'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well may the blood" says an expiring viscount to a peasant youth who has fallen in love with a countess and been recognised by a friar as his son, the friar thereupon proving himself a duke, and the detection of his son arising from a markt on the son's neck, which was being bared for execution, - "well may the blood which has so lately traced itself to its source boil over in the veins". (The boy had shown signs of annoyance.) I never saw anything like that before.The killing and stabbing and the wonderment produced as to why all the characters stay about the old castle, (most of them have no business there), when at least three quarters are searching for the blood of the other three quarters for monetary reasonsor for none! There are three discoveries, I think of long lost children and no end of supernaturalism; all produces a gorgeous effect.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Silvio Pellico : Prisons

'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

n/a : [newspaper]

'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Newspaper

James Martineau : Types of Ethical Theory

'I am reading Martineau ["Types of Ethical Theory"] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [unknown]

'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian associations Wordsworth's love for nature.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Arthur Helps : Realmah

'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on that book and am quite unprepared to ask a single question about it. The last generation of readers was so fond of what is elegant.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Walt Whitman : [unknown]

'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus establishing myself as a (qualified) Whitmaniac.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : The Black Arrow

'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last book which came out a few days ago, which I bought and read this afternoon (I had a meddlesome red pencil with which I slightly disfigured it) and which I think spendidly spirited.' [followed by a judgment on the book]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[unknown] : [Life of Scott]

'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Pleasures of Memory

'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Plato : Banquet

'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Plato : Phaedo

'On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the "Phaedo", the final pages of which never failed to move him to tears. To the end of her life Elinor never ceased to be surprised by the number of eminent men who chose to express their friendship and pleasure in her company by reading Plato and Aristotle aloud to her.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Alfred Milner Print: Unknown

Elinor Glyn : [novels]

'When her novels were finished, she would take them up herself to Gerald Duckworth at 3, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. She was by this time on extremely cordial terms with her publisher and he encouraged her to read her books, or large portions of them, aloud to him. Her books, she maintained, were intended to be read aloud and lost their proper effect if they were read in silence. She herself was extremely proud of her reading voice;* she would read slowly with long dramatic pauses and Duckworth would meekly put aside all other work and listen, while Margot often waited patiently in the hansom outside.' * It was the mark of a gentlewoman to be able to read aloud beautifully. All her heroines had it, or acquired it painfully, and practice it frequently.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elinor Glyn Manuscript: Unknown

S. Clarke Hook : [Jack, Sam and Pete stories]

'C.H. Rolph... picked up [a message that "well-trained impis could outwit upper-class English duffers"] from S. Clarke Hook's stories of Jack, Sam and Pete in the Boys' Friend Threepenny Library. Jack and Sam were white boys and their friend Pete was a black superhero, "who was not only stronger than Samson but richer than Croesus".'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: C.H. Rolph Print: Book

W.H.G. Kingston : Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians

'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's "Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians" could be hypnotic: "I was entranced. I no longer lived in Hindley. In imagination I turned native and lived among red men and hunters, tomahawks and scalps".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lax Print: Book

Hesba Stretton : Jessica's First Prayer

'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories with titles like "Little Meg's Children", "Jessica's First Prayer", "Christie's Old Organ", and "Froggy's Little Brother". In an Oxfordshire village in the 1880s, Flora Thompson recalled that children and mothers alike borrowed them from the Sunday School library and cried over them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: children and mothers Print: Book

Mrs O.F. Walton : Christie's Old Organ

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: children and mothers Print: Book

Brenda New : Froggy's Little Brother

'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories with titles like Little Meg's Children, Jessica's First Prayer, Christie's Old Organ, and Froggy's Little Brother. In an Oxfordshire village in the 1880s, Flora Thompson recalled that children and mothers alike borrowed them from the Sunday School library and cried over them".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: children and mothers Print: Book

Amy Le Feuvre : [pious fiction]

'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories with titles like Little Meg's Children, Jessica's First Prayer, Christie's Old Organ, and Froggy's Little Brother. In an Oxfordshire village in the 1880s, Flora Thompson recalled that children and mothers alike borrowed them from the Sunday School library and cried over them".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: children and mothers Print: Book

William Wollaston : The Religion of Nature Delineated

[Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom Print: Book

n/a : The Daily Courant

'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lupton [is too late] went to the [Royal]Society, Sir Isaac presiding. [Listens to several papers read by Dr Jurin].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

anon : [Verse on Lord Cateret]

'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses about Lord Cateret that were made in Ireland, pretty good.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom

Amy Le Feuvre : [pious novels]

'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid resignation of any of these books... yet I think that children, when their home life is secure and happy, can take a lot of that debilitating sentiment... We sharpened our teeth on this stuff and then went on to greater satisfaction elsewhere", including "Pride and Prejudice", "Jane Eyre", "Alice in Wonderland", Captain Marryat, Kenneth Grahame, and E. Nesbit'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Hesba Stretton : [pious novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Mrs O.F. Walton : [pious novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

John Bramhall : Castigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The Ca

'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Kenneth Grahame : [probably The Wind in the Willows etc]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

Edith Nesbit : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marjory Todd Print: Book

William Shakespereare : [various]

'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Henry Ott Print: Book

n/a : Tatler

'I read the 2 Vol of the Tatler'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Henry Ott Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Ingalese : History and Power of Mind, The

'Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's "The History and Power of Mind"; it seemed to fit in, in so many ways, with her own instinctive beliefs and disbeliefs, and provided an authoritative explanation for many of the points which troubled her.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elinor Glyn

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basic language made them easy to absorb and excellent training for a future clergyman:. "I think it was then I must have found the germ... of my lifelong instinct for the use of simple Saxon words and sentences which has been of some worth to me in the work I was finally called to do".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Collyer Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Collyer Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Collyer Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of Rome

'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basic language made them easy to absorb and excellent training for a future clergyman: "I think it was then I must have found the germ... of my lifelong instinct for the use of simple Saxon words and sentences which has been of some worth to me in the work I was finally called to do".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Collyer Print: Book

[anon] : [ballads]

'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his grandmother) and "The Imitation of Christ" (read to his mother on her deathbed). He then learned algebra by surreptitiously reading Fenning's textbook: his master's son owned the book and had deliberately hidden it from him'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Unknown

anon : Parismus and Parismenus

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Book

[unknown] : [magazines]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Book

Thomas a Kempis : The Imitation of Christ

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Book

Daniel Fenning : Algebra

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Waste Land

'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was horrifying... almost utterly invalid...almost entirely without feeling for others. Eliot showed people as ugly, stupid, shabby, vulgarian, squalid, somehow indecent...the 'broken fingernails of dirty hands'...Weren't these my father's and my mother's hands?". The experience of reading it plunged her into depression, but in the late 1920s it was difficult to express her real feelings about one of the greatest living poets...Instead, she channelled her scholarly energies toward the poetry of John Clare, whose work affirmed the literacy of working people'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Tibble Print: Unknown

John Clare : [poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Tibble Print: Unknown

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice

[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand against the orthodox economists, cast a spell over me which was irresistible... To read 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'The Stones of Venice', 'The Crown of Wild Olives', was a kind of aesthetic intoxication".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

John Clare : Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

H. J. Jackson discusses copy of John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) annotated by Eliza Louisa Emmerson for Lord Radstock.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Louisa Emmerson Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Crown of Wild Olives

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book

William Cowper : The Task

H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

George Eliot : Middlemarch

H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradually won over."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Alfred Russel Wallace : Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection

H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870) show development of Palgrave's response (including objections) to the argument of the text.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Palgrave Print: Book

T. J. Mathias : Pursuits of Literature

H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A contemptible heap of rant & twaddle'" and "'Noisome pedantry'."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Edward Coke : The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; or, A Commentary upon Littleton

H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of his own edition of Edward Coke's Commentary upon Littleton (1775).

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Hargrave Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond that level. He tried "The Idiot" and "The Brothers Karamazov", but found them too depressing, perhaps because his life was anything but Dostoevskian'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

Henry Rider Haggard : She

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

Jules Verne : Around the World in Eighty Days

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Idiot

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Brothers Karamazov

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

Charles Darwin : [unknown]

'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

Thomas Henry Huxley : [unknown]

'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : In Memoriam

'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book

William Godwin : Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

"Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] secondhand in 1860 and settled down to read it for the first time. His ownership inscription is dated 16 August 1860. He was a methodical reader who recorded on the first page the date at which he began reading (18 August) and on the last page ... the date of finishing (24 September) ... Dockray's routine [pencilled] annotation includes plentiful underlining, setting-off of passages with lines and exclamation marks, small stylistic corrections, and [internal and external] cross-references ... [discussion continues]"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Dockray Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world combined with the necessity of some belief in the vulgar mind. Gibbon. Roman Empire, Vol 2, Ch 15, pp. 205-6'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Davy Harrop Print: Book

Adam Smith : [unknown]

'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith, Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Huxley, Mill, Emerson, Dickens, Morris, Blatchford, Shaw and Wells, and of course John Ruskin..."Study always left me with a deep feeling that there was so much amiss with the world. It seemed that it had been started at the wrong end, and that it was everybody's business to put the matter right".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

Queen Victoria : More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands

H. J. Jackson discusses Max Beerbohm's "doctored copy of Queen Victoria's More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands", to which he added "playfully-intended forgeries of her handwriting in annotations, captions, and a dedicatory inscriptiom [to himself]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Max Beerbohm Print: Book

David Ricardo : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

Herbert Spencer : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

Thomas Henry Huxley : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Davy Harrop Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

William Morris : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

John Ruskin : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole Print: Book

John Morfitt : poems in poems including Lines on Hatton

H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a volume including poems by John Morfitt and Joseph Weston; Morfitt's poem "Lines on Hatton" includes a "verse portrait" of Parr, who was parson and schoolmaster of the village of Hatton.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Parr Print: Book

Joseph Weston : poems including Written on Returning from Lichfield

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Parr Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and critical commentary added.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats Print: Book

Edmund Burke : pamphlets including Observations on a late State of the Nation London: Dodsley, 1769)

H. J. Jackson notes Jeremy Bentham's annotations (including highlightings and marginal comments) to eight pamphlets by Edmund Burke.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jeremy Bentham

anon : [poem]

'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise book. Somehow it spoke to him and he began to read "ravenously". He brought "Sartor Resartus", "Sesame and Lilies" and Montaigne's essays to work. "Les Miserables" reduced him to tears, though he found "Das Kapital" less affecting. Each payday he set aside a few shillings to buy secondhand books, which after a month's use were almost illegible with rust, grease and dirt....[eventually he] went on to become a popular novelist.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick McGill Manuscript: Sheet, sheet from an exercise book

Herodotus : Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX

H. J. Jackson discusses expansive annotations made in ink by Edward Gibbon in copy of Herodotus, including corrections as well as lively critical commentary.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Gibbon Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus

'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise book. somehow it spoke to him and he began to read "ravenously". He brought "Sartor Resartus", "Sesame and Lilies" and Montaigne's essays to work. "Les Miserables" reduced him to tears, though he found "Das Kapital" less affecting. Each payday he set aside a few shillings to buy secondhand books, which after a month's use were almost illegible with rust, grease and dirt....[eventually he] went on to become a popular novelist.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick McGill Print: Book

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick McGill Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les Miserables

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick McGill Print: Book

Karl Marx : Das Kapital

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick McGill Print: Book

Samuel Estwick : Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called

H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous 1772 pro-slavery pamphlet (by "a West Indian plantation owner named Estwick").

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Granville Sharp

William Wycherley : Plays

H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations by Hunt and by Lamb.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Leigh Hunt Print: Book

William Wycherley : Plays

H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations by Hunt and by Lamb.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Diary of a Journey into North Wales

H. J. Jackson notes exception to William Beckford's usual practice of "only occasionally" adding comments to his books: "His copy of an 1816 edition of Samuel Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales follows the general pattern, but by the time he was through with it, Beckford was sufficiently annoyed to include a long summary note, signed with his initials."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Beckford Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick

H. J. Jackson notes Edmund Ferrars's annotations to his copy of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey: "A note on the title page indicates that Ferrars acquired this two-volume set in 1772. He annotated it very heavily, marking some passages, keeping an index on the flyleaves, introducing biographical and bibliographical information on the title page, and recording cross-references to works by Sterne and many other writers within the text."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Ferrars Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada"

H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome given to him in 1848, "when Raven was a schoolboy of fifteen."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John James Raven Print: Book

Helen Maria Williams : Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towrds the Close of the Eighteenth Century

"Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) ... has very little marking and only a few actual notes in it, but all his notes correct the author on matters of fact ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Horatio Nelson Print: Book

John Keble : The Christian Year

" ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 and proceeded to record readings and rereadings to the end of the century: the poem for the seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, for instance, he read at Hanfairfechan in 1894, at Lansdowne in 1898, and in Exmouth in 1899."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Shorthouse Print: Book

John Keble : The Christian Year

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Shorthouse Print: Book

John Keble : The Christian Year

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Shorthouse Print: Book

William Verral : A Complete System of Cookery

"Thomas Gray's copy of William Verral's Complete System of Cookery contains several marks and additions, allegedly in Gray's hand [including records of success or failure of recipes] ..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Gray Print: Book

B. L. Putnam Weale : Indiscreet Letters from Peking

H. J. Jackson notes handwritten insertion of names of persons identified only by initials in H. Giles's copy of B. L. Putnam Weale, Indiscreet Letters from Peking (an "alleged eyewitness account of the siege of Peking in 1900"); Giles also places question marks beside passages of "'doubtful historical value', as explained in another note by him in the text.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: H. Giles Print: Book

: The Imperial Family Bible

H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by its owner, Mrs Susanna Rudd.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

James Andrew Pettit : Anecdotes, &c Ancient and Modern

H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817), written by her onto separate sheets of paper, which were cut up and pasted into the relevant sections of the text by Mangin.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Piozzi Print: Book

James Sedgwick : Hints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching

H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a review" into a copy of James Sedgwick, Hints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching (1810).

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Paracelsus :

"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass ... without an asterisk or annotation.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Browne Print: Book

John Donne : Poems

H. J. Jackson notes Coleridge's 1811 annotation of Charles Lamb's copy of Donne's Poems, in which he wrote "'N.B. Spite of Appearances, this Copy is better for the Mss. Notes. The Annotator himself says so.' (1:221)"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Novalis : Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2)

H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, [Coleridge] says, '(Your short critique of which pencilled at the end of the IInd. Vol contains my full judgement & convictions thereon).'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Henry Green Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Letters for Literary Ladies

H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (1799).

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horseman Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Ben Jonson : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

John Milton : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Thomas Chatterton : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Robert Burns : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

John Fletcher : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book

anon : [Deadeye Dick stories]

'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At fourteen he was still enjoying "Deadeye Dick", by twenty he was reading Henry James...He secured a literary education at the Brighton Public Library, and as a professional runner he used prize money to buy Hardy's poems, Shakespeare, Mackail's translation of "The Odyssey", and William Morris's "The Earthly Paradise". In an undemanding job... he read on company time, though there was a row when his supervisor found "Jude the Obscure" on his desk'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: A.E. Coppard Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Book

William Morris : The Earthly Paradise

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [unknown]

'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Ernest Bates Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : [unknown]

'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Ernest Bates Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [unknown]

'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Ernest Bates Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : [unknown]

'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Ernest Bates Print: Book

John Galsworthy : [unknown]

'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Ernest Bates Print: Book

Edith Wharton : [unknown]

'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Ernest Bates Print: Book

Willa Cather : [unknown]

'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Ernest Bates Print: Book

anon : Dick Whittington and his Cat

'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; even "Dick Whittington and his Cat" was introduced. Tennyson's "The Dying Swan" was one of the boy's earliest delights; and, having been taught to read before his sixth birthday, he read and committed to memory copious amounts of Longfellow, especially Hiawatha and Evangeline'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : The Dying Swan

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Evangeline

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Hiawatha

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured by the possibility that such South Sea adventures might overtake him'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Thomas Malory : Morte d'Arthur

'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his first volume of Sir Thomas Malory's Morete d'Arthur; with this he began his career of serious reading as well as his devotion to pre-Renaissance English literature'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Parliament of Fowls

'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that evening, as he recalled, "I stretched myself on my bed, and began to read 'The Parliament of Fowls'; and with the first lines entered into a world of poetry until then unknown to me". As a result, Masefield's study of poetry deepened, and Chaucer, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats became his mentors. Shelley converted the impressionable youth to vegetarianism....Unfortunately [he] overdid vegetarianism by abjuring milk; and, weak from lack of protein, he finally gave up the regimen'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

John Milton : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Richard Watson : A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury

H. J. Jackson discusses highly "adversarial" annotations made by anonymous reader in copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, "A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury" (1783).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Samuel Saunders : A Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Philosophic Botany

H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Physical Botany (1792) by contemporary, possibly female reader.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Gerard Langbaine : An Account of the English Dramatic Poets

"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of annotated books in the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth, for it contains not only the notes of the current owner in 1813, John Haslemere, and those of his predecessor Richard Wright, but also notes transcribed from another copy that hd been annotated by George Steevens who had himself collected notes from yet another annotated by Thomas Percy and William Oldys."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Haslemere Print: Book

Gerard Langbaine : An Account of the English Dramatic Poets

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Wright Print: Book

Thomas Percy : annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)

"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of annotated books in the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth, for it contains not only the notes of the current owner in 1813, John Haslemere, and those of his predecessor Richard Wright, but also notes transcribed from another copy that had been annotated by George Steevens who had himself collected notes from yet another annotated by Thomas Percy and William Oldys."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Steevens

William Oldys : annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)

"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of annotated books in the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth, for it contains not only the notes of the current owner in 1813, John Haslemere, and those of his predecessor Richard Wright, but also notes transcribed from another copy that had been annotated by George Steevens who had himself collected notes from yet another annotated by Thomas Percy and William Oldys."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Steevens

Gerard Langbaine : An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)

"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of annotated books in the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth, for it contains not only the notes of the current owner in 1813, John Haslemere, and those of his predecessor Richard Wright, but also notes transcribed from another copy that had been annotated by George Steevens who had himself collected notes from yet another annotated by Thomas Percy and William Oldys."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Percy Print: Book

Gerard Langbaine : An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)

"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of annotated books in the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth, for it contains not only the notes of the current owner in 1813, John Haslemere, and those of his predecessor Richard Wright, but also notes transcribed from another copy that had been annotated by George Steevens who had himself collected notes from yet another annotated by Thomas Percy and William Oldys."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Oldys Print: Book

John Brand : Observations on Popular Antiquities

"When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revised edition, he drafted a paragraph of acknowledgements [on one of the interleaves of the same copy] with specific reference to [Francis] Douce, 'who had enriched an interleaved Copy of my former Book with many very pertinent notes & illustrations ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Douce Print: Book

James Granger : Biographical History

H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotation of James Granger, Biographical History (1779).

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Douce Print: Book

John Whitaker : The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed

H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed (1804) and The History of Manchester (1771; 1775), both bequeathed by him to the British Museum; quotes extensive note in which Douce attacks Whitaker's scholarship at point where Whitaker has attempted to correct one of his (Douce's) previous remarks on etymology.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Douce Print: Book

John Whitaker : The History of Manchester

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Douce Print: Book

: The New School of Love

H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of Love, "a tiny Scottish chapbook of the kind sold by itinerant peddlers to the poorest readers ... [a] closely printed little book of just twenty-four pages ... a guide to the arts of courtship, including the significance of marks on different parts of the body and the meaning of dreams ... [and including] model love letters, love songs ... [etc]."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Justinian : The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by Thomas Collett Sandars

"A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with an elaborate system of marking (underlining ... lines in the margin ... etc); heads for important terms and definitions; corrections to the translation; cross-references to other law books; and occasional comments on matters of history or interpretation. But a little more than halfway through this volume of 599 pages ... comes a personal note: 'Left off work at this pt to row head of the river 12th May 1864!'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson identifies as Fulke Greville), commenting: "[Scriblerus] evidently read the Life, or at least dipped into it, more than once: a summary note from the end of his first reading is dated November 1791, but other notes include dates in 1792 and 1797."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Fulke Greville Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Fulke Greville Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Fulke Greville Print: Book

Livy : Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia

Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae historiae principis, in Harvey's copy], the story of Hannibal, in one week in 1570-71 ... Harvey records that they read along with Livy the military authors Vegetius and Frontinus, and that they did so critically ..."

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. Print: Book

Vegetius : De Re Militari (Epitoma rei militaris)

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. Print: Book

Frontinus :

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. Print: Book

T. Livii Patavini : Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimidia

Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1576-77, just before Philip Sidney went on his mission to the Emperor Rudolph II in Prague, he and [Gabriel] Harvey read books 1-3 of the first decade [of Livy's Romanae historiae], which embrace the early history of Rome and its passage from monarchy to republic."

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney Print: Book

T. Livii Patavini : Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimidia

Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. They read Machiavelli's Discorsi at the same time ... They read several other up-to-date works on pragmatic politics as well, notably Jean Bodin's Methodus and Republic."

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Print: Book

Jean Bodin : Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Print: Book

Jean Bodin : Republic

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Print: Book

T. Livii Patavini : Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia

Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on it in St Augustine's De Civitate Dei; "Harvey read the City of God not on its own but together with its almost equally vast Renaissance companion, the commentary by Juan Luis Vives ..."

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

St Augustine : De Civitate Dei

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Juan Luis Vives : Commentary to St Augustine, De Civitate Dei

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

T. Livii Patavini : Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia

Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney went through books 1-3 [of Livy's Romanae historiae], they compared them to Frontinus's Stratagems (first century A.D.) [notes copiousness of annotations in Harvey's copy of Frontinus at the Houghton Librrary, Havard]."

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney Print: Book

Frontinus : Stratagems

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney Print: Book

Lambert Daneau : Politicorum aphorismorum silva

Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading of Lambert Daneau's Silva "of political aphorisms" (1583), "a now forgotten work by a Calvinist minister chiefly remembered for his unsuccesful attempts to impose a natural science based on the Bible on the Protestant curriculum, and a church order based on the 'Genevan Inquisition' on the liberal citizens and professors of Leiden." Continues: "Harvey's copy of Daneau has so far evaded discovery, but his references are so frequent and precise as to make it clear that thet were not conventional. He read the work as soon as it appeared, excitedly referring to its newness, and often praised it as a source of pungent and precise political axioms."

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : The Art of War

Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotation, of Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

T. S. Eliot : Criterion, The

'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "Criterion"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

D.H. Lawrence : Lost Girl, The

'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediately recognizes it as "the work of a genius", Lawrence as "far and away the best of the younger school"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

F. Sommer Merryweather : Lives and Anecdotes of Misers

'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old Southampton bookshop, T. James and Co., of 34 Bernard Street, of a curious old book called "Lives and Anecdotes of Misers", by F. Sommer Merryweather (1850). Bennett bought it in 1921 on one of his yachting expeditions, read it and used it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

unknown :

'...he read widely about working-class life in the district.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Mioddleton Murry : Adelphi, The

'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelphi". . . . doesn't like Murry's layout and advertising. . .criticized Middleton Murry's editorials about his late wife Katherine Mansfield. . . . Bennett's letters about this problem are a model of tact . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Arnold Bennett : Riceyman Steps

'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rugs in the deck house on a "wild grey day", and they made her weep.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Pauline Smith Print: Book, proofs

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Mary Wortley Montagu : Letters

'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Mary Wortley Montagu : Letters

'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [poems]

'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency" of the works of Peter Pindar because of "the amusement I derive from them".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Peter Pindar : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Unknown

Denis Diderot : Les bijous indiscrets

'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you the worse actions of my life, I send it to you, to show what a wicked book has engrossed your chaste wife these last two days. But is you, my dear, who have caused this vulgarity, for if I had not sought your amusement, I should not have amused myself with such an improper book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Boscawen Print: Book

Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo : Amadis de Gaule

'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impressions by an unemployed pensiveness" and accustomed his thoughts to such a habitude of roving, that he [had] scarce ever been their quiet master since.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : [plays]

'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confessing that far from being delighted by King John, she "never read the Kings".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Unknown

Dr Shuckford : Dr Shuckford's Connection

'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound learning" of "Dr Shuckford's Connection".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Hooker : Laws of ecclesiastical polity

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Teresia Constantia Phillips : An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constantia Phillips

'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandalous memoirs of Teresia Constantia Phillips.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a "strange mixture of Morality, History and Novels in my reading", but although she itemises some of the morality and history she is uninformative about the novels.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Faith Gray Print: Unknown

Thucydides : [unknown]

'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasised even in her private diary that she did not read "the original Greek... I think the precaution necessary!". '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting whatever, to the poet's great disgrace, has crept in that is improper for a woman's ear".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Cicero : [unknown]

'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, when Mr Steward entered the library, or hid under her gloves his "Life of Waller" when Johnson approached.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

William Paley : Natural Theology

'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comments on the following pages]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick Print: Book

William Paley : Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

[This section is a strong attack on the utilitarian principles explained in Paley's work.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : Essay on Population

[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick Print: Book

Xenophon : [unknown]

[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick

Tacitus : [unknown]

[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick

Virgil : [unknown]

[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick

Isaac Watts : Hymn 69: Christ Appearing to His Church

[Lloyd transcribed 16 lines from this 24 line Hymn onto the verso of a printed form with the title 'Duties Returned in Arrear Under Property Act ... 1815.'. The sheet is pinned into the end papers of a copy of John Kettlewell, A Companion for the Penitent (London: Knapton, 1700) held in the British Library.]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Lloyd

: [A history of Europe]

During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the kitchen fire, during the long winter nights. My favourite books were two folio volumes, with illustrations- one a history of Europe, the other a history of England. My interest in those books was intense, and many times have I thought whilst poring over them, 'shall I ever see any of the places here described?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Book

: [A history of England]

'During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the kitchen fire, during the long winter nights. My favourite books were two folio volumes, with illustrations- one a history of Europe, the other a history of England. My interest in those books was intense, and many times have I thought whilst poring over them, "shall I ever see any of the places here described?"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Book

n/a : [a 'bill' advertising a meeting].

'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passingalong Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court. Curiosity prompted me to go and hear what was going on. I found them reading Woller's Black Dwarf, Carlile's Republican, and Cobbett's Register. I remembered my mother being in the habit of reading Cobbett's Register, and saying she '"ondered people spoke so much against it; she saw nothing bad in it, but she saw a great many good things in it." After hearing it read in the the meeting room, I was of my mother's opinion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim : An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern

'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many other standard works- amongst others, Mosheims "Ecclesiastical History". The reading of that book would have made me a freethinker if I had not been one before.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hume's "History of England", and many other standard works- amongst others, Mosheims "Ecclesiastical History". The reading of that book would have made me a freethinker if I had not been one before.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Book

David Hume : The History of England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Book

William Cobbett : Political Register

'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court. Curiosity prompted me to go and hear what was going on. I found them reading Woller's Black Dwarf, Carlile's Republican, and Cobbett's Register. I remembered my mother being in the habit of reading Cobbett's Register, and saying she "wondered people spoke so much against it; she saw nothing bad in it, but she saw a great many good things in it." After hearing it read in the the meeting room, I was of my mother's opinion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : The Black Dwarf

'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first became acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court. Curiosity prompted me to go and hear what was going on. I found them reading Woller's Black Dwarf, Carlile's Republican, and Cobbett's Register. I remembered my mother being in the habit of reading Cobbett's Register, and saying she "wondered people spoke so much against it; she saw nothing bad in it, but she saw a great many good things in it." After hearing it read in the the meeting room, I was of my mother's opinion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Richard Carlile : Republican

'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court. Curiosity prompted me to go and hear what was going on. I found them reading Woller's Black Dwarf, Carlile's Republican, and Cobbett's Register. I remembered my mother being in the habit of reading Cobbett's Register, and saying she "wondered people spoke so much against it; she saw nothing bad in it, but she saw a great many good things in it." After hearing it read in the the meeting room, I was of my mother's opinion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Joseph Bouchette : The British Dominions in North America

'I read in Bourchette's "British Provinces Now" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the year 1820, monthly and yearly.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

David Thompson : History of the Late War Between Great Britain and

'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

n/a : New Testament

'I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

: Bible

'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [unknown]

'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [unknown]

'Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

n/a : [Newspaper]

Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Newspaper

n/a : Dublin Evening Post

'In Ireland from an extract from the Dublin Evening Post that I read yesterday, it appears, as far as I can remember, that the disease had killed upwards of 3,000 people ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Newspaper

William Dunlop : 'The Backwoodsman' or Statistical Sketches of Uppe

'I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing so [...] I am more than ever pleased with this country.' [Buys a copy of this text on Monday 10 Dec 1832].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Morning Chronicle

'I drove into town ... with Miss Greaves and read the English papers which came [by ship]. Oh! the injustice shown the Irish by the House of Lords ... Oh! the injustice ... of the English press; not only the "Courier" but "The Morning Chronicle" too...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Newspaper

James Granger : A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a

'Mr Dunn has Grainger's "Biographical History of England". A medallion of Cromwell is mentioned having Oliver's head engraved on one side, and on the reverse ... his head in Britannia's lap, his backside bare ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

James Granger : A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a

'All day I have been arranging prints for Grainger's Biography. There is a good story of Jerry White, Cromwell's Chaplain.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

James Granger : A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a

'Continuing the arrangement of Plates for Grainger and have met with several anecdotes worth noting [on Elizabeth I, CharlesII, Nell Gwynne, and Arabella Churchill].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

n/a : National Gazette (Philadelphia)

'there is no news of the New York ship in yesterday's National Gazette of Philadelphia'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Newspaper

n/a : ['The English Papers']

'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Monthly Review

'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived. I read Sir Jonah Barrington in the Monthly Review.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Serial / periodical

n/a : ['the papers']

'At the Athenaeum I read the papers and ... Advice to a Young Man and Padre.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Newspaper

Samuel Butler : Hudibras

'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame Print: Book

James Cook : Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". She makes little progress with Cook because of her fascination with Sevigne, a "siren" who "seduces me from all other reading"; she feels such an intense response to the letters that it is as if Sevigne "were alive and even now in my room and permitting me to run into her arms."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Marie de Sevigne : letters

Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She makes little progress with Cook because of her fascination with Sevigne, a 'siren' who 'seduces me from all other reading'; she feels such an intense response to the letters that it is as if Sevigne 'were alive and even now in my room and permitting me to run into her arms.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Life of Waller

'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, when Mr Seward entered the library, or hid under her gloves his "Life of Waller" when Johnson approached.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Unknown

Hannah More : Coelebs in search of a wife

[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah More's "Coelebs", which she found "monotonously without interest of ANY kind", despite her approval of its politics.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage

'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah More's "Coelebs", which she found "monotonously without interest of ANY kind", despite her approval of its politics.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Samuel James Arnold : The Creole

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Lady Morgan : The Missionary

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

: some new novels

'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

William Godwin : Caleb Williams

'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Lady Morgan : The Novice of Saint Dominick

'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's "The Novice of Saint Dominick", Agnes Maria Bennett's "The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors", Edgeworth's "Tales of Andrews", "Sir Charles Grandison" and "A Sentimental Journey"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Agnes Maria Bennett : The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Tales of a Fashionable Life

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Regina Maria Roche : The Children of the Abbey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Lawrence Sterne : A Sentimental Journey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book is "modern Philosophy", whose anti-heroine, "Miss Biddy Botherin", who made them "Laugh a good deal", is a devotee of radical Godwinian philosophy, a satirical portrait probably combining elements pf Mary Hays and Mary Wollstonecraft" [hence Grove is resisting her then-fiance Shelley's philosophy and aesthetics.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :

[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason") and radical sexual politics (Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and James Lawrence's anti-marriage utopia, "The Empire of the Nairs").'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook

Walter Scott :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook

Robert Southey :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook

Constantin Volney : Les ruines

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook Print: Book

Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook Print: Book

Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook Print: Book

James Lawrence : The Empire of the Nairs

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook Print: Book

George Gascoigne : The Posies

[MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but did marre all. Woomen loue men: & care not for pore harts, that cannot bestead them. Especially at the returne of his ritual, her Secretarie; it imported him to empooue himself more, then before; & not to languish like a milkstop, or to play the pore snake vpon himself. Ladie Elinor woold haue liked the man and woold haue maintained his possession by force of armes, & with braue encounters beat his enimie owt of the field.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The spectator

'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying her Stomach ach'd, or that something stuck between her teeth".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale Print: Serial / periodical

Lord Kames :

'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading Lord Kames ('like philosophers not Christians').'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Schaw Print: Book

John Dryden :

'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, instead of the expected punishment, her father gave her a shilling...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

'she read much Shakespeare.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book

William Mason : Caractacus

'[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the language charming! divine harmony, beams in every line such a love of virtue! such examples of piety, resignation and fortitude! raise the soul to an ecstatic height. Sweet Evelinda how my heart throbbed for her!'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Issac de Beasobre : Introduction to the reading of the Holy Scriptures

Letter from Sedgwick to William Ainger dated 22/5/1815 says the former is reading Beasobre, and 'the task is a confounded dry one'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick Print: Book

Mary Ann Hanway : Ellinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Volumes)

'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [editor does not reproduce all of Weeton's comments] [The story] cannot have the slightest tendency to injure the morals of any reader,whether they have common sense or not, when it is considered that there was a continued series of suffering for 20 years from first to last.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

John Agg : The Royal Sufferer; or, Intrigues at the close of

'The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: part of list of texts read]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old Mortal

'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculiar art of growing worse and worse yet preserving his popularity. One poem after another was worse than the former; just so his tales and every volume of every tale continues in a similar climax of deterioration.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

n/a : St James' Chronicle

'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in consequence of the loss of his wife.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

James Hingston Tuckey : Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Za

'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by sleeping too much in the open air, by the quantity of women eveywhere offered them and too great fatigue.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

n/a : St. James' Chronicle

'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops were storming a fort in the E Indies the thermometer was 145. There is a letter of J.Hobhouse's [...] to the editor which does him more credit than all his other writings.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

n/a : [newspapers]

'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

Daniel Defoe : History of the Devil or The Political History of t

'Afternoon reading some History of the Devil'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : The Political History of the Devil

'Spent the evening reading History of the Devil, a shallow subject.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book

Jean Francois Marmontel : Moral Tales

'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an attempt. For I hurried thro' them 'quite upon thorns' expecting every moment his return, - which prevented either pleasure or instruction to arise from it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'Seeing the Bible on the table, I took it up & by his desire, read the whole history of Joseph. In parts of it he pointed out several fine subjects for pictures.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

John Gregory : A Father's Legacy to His Daughters

'Abt 4 - I returned - and the time until 7 was taken up in reading "Gregory's Legacy"- He is one of my favorite authors- there is something so sincere & so pleasing withal in his "advice" that in myhumble opinion no one can help admiring him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'finished the day in reading a few chapters of the New Testament.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

George Gregory : The Life of T. Chatterton or The Works of T. Chatt

'The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I say, Chatterton.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

Matthew G. Lewis : The Monk

'The evening until one was [frittered?] away in reading the 'Monk' for the fourth time at least.... In the second volume are some beautiful lines that often delights one ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

James Hackman : Love and Madness; a Story Too True in a Series of...

'In the evening I read the whole of "Love and Madness"- not on account of the amorous epistles of Hackman, but with a view to make myself more acquainted with the fate of Poor Chatterton.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : The British Critic

'From 9 till 11 was idly spent in looking thro a Volume of the British Critic.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Serial / periodical

James Hackman : Love and Madness

'I took from my pocket the volume of "Love and Madness" which I had amused myself with a few evenings since- ...I read with great pleasure the whole of the History of Poor Chatterton to Mr H.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

Robert Southey : The Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing his Life

'[Returns after afternoon reading session] to renew the subject from a more enlarged account of this wonder of the 18th Century [Chatterton] lately published by Southey ... in 3 large volumes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'the rest of the evening when I returned home was devoted to the Bible.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'Before I arose- read 10 chapters of St. Matthew- still laboured at my new task [studying heraldry] but made less progress than on Thursday.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'Went to bed at 11- but previous to it, read 10 more chapters of St. Matthew.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'Previous to leaving my chamber, I read several Chapters of St. Mark.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : [volume on Heraldry]

'I took up my little volume of Heraldry- and already can take up a pep from a chevron.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'My time was occupied till 6 with the Bible.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

n/a : Bible

'I devoted the rest of the night to the Bible- so upon the whole I think, a sabbath has been more unprofitably spent...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

Tobias George Smollett : The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

'I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- a chapter at one hour - the volume thrown aside for perhaps two more- take it up make another attempt- ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life

'Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own memoirs- 185 pages.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life

'The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda. Every morning this week has been taken up in copying a Book for Mr Humphreys ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book

Herman Melville : The Green Hand

'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to using the book for his own development. He read other works by Melville, and enjoyed parts of "Moby Dick"'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

George du Maurier : Trilby

'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It was not so much the work itself - though John Masefield enjoyed it more than any book he had read until then - which played so prominent a part in forming his tastes, but the other works which George du Maurier put John Masefield on to... Whatever book "Trilby" mentions John Masefield bought... On the oblique recommendations in "Trilby" he read the "Three Musketeers"; Sterne's "Sentimental Journey"; Darwin's "Origin of the Species"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : The Three Musketeers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : A Sentimental Journey

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Charles Darwin : The Origin of Species

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

George du Maurier : Peter Ibbetson

'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned of the existence of Villon and of de Musset. He read these poets but "the time was not ripe for either".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Francois Villon :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an Opium Eater" he discovered Wordsworth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Richard Steele : [essays]

'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translation of the Odyssey found the young reader "by no means skilled enough to perceive the perfection of much of the verse" - "But I found the story worth the trouble", Masefield adds'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [essays]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Revolt of Islam

"'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known existed." Now it was the VERSE, not the argument, which had an effect upon Masefield which he describes as "electric and ecstatic", and he tells how excited he was by the CONSTRUCTION of "The Revolt of Islam"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Edward Fitzgerald :

''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers del'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

George Meredith :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Matthew Arnold :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Robert Browning :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert :

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam :

''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant :

''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Prosper Merimee :

''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Walter Pater :

''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive thinker is considerable. It may be that Morris has been the formative influence, in his limitations as well as his liberations, on Masefield's view of life'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

William Morris :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne : Chastelard

'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in a letter to me after my first meeting with him, "Swinburne meant much to my generation: he was literary, he adored the French masters, who were then our masters in all things: he was generous beyond most poets...:he was one of the real discoverers of Blake: he could write exquisite verse in an age of exquisite verse: he laid us all at his feet with half a dozen things which I cannot read without emotion now. he was one of the first romantic poets to be read by me: and Chastelard, to a boy, is all that the heart can desire and the lines on the death of Baudelaire all that genius and grief can utter".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne : [poem on the death of Baudelaire]

'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in a letter to me after my first meeting with him, "Swinburne meant much to my generation: he was literary, he adored the French masters, who were then our masters in all things: he was generous beyond most poets...:he was one of the real discoverers of Blake: he could write exquisite verse in an age of exquisite verse: he laid us all at his feet with half a dozen things which I cannot read without emotion now. He was one of the first romantic poets to be read by me: and Chastelard, to a boy, is all that the heart can desire and the lines on the death of Baudelaire all that genius and grief can utter".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

James Thomson : Edward and Elinora

[opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with virtuous sentiments.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent

Wiliam Butler Yeats : [unknown]

'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose disciple he became, and whom he shortly met'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book

John Locke : Essay on human understanding

'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition from such a dissipate scene [a party she has left] to the deep reflection of my study [...] was easier than I expected: how much more was I pleased with myself whilst thus exercising the faculties of a reasonable mind, in endeavouring to discover the sources of those faculties, to form them properly; to improve them, than when I was dipping a curtsey to one, forcing a smile for another, hearing nonsense from a 3rd or what is worse talking nonsense to a fourth.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe" and Charles Dickens'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

James Mackintosh : Vindiciae Galliciae

[note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well understood. The author is master on his subject & has the art of rendering others. HE is not scurrilous. He argues well, he seldom begs the question. He narrates what has passed in France, traces causes with precision - perhaps he speaks too strongly in the latter part. I gained much information from his work.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

[n/a] : Roget's Thesaurus

'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesaurus... When he chaired the Tredegar Library Committee, ?60 of its ?300 acquisitions budget was delegated to a colliery repairman to buy philosophy books. Bevan could quote Nietzsche, discuss F.H. Bradley's "Appearance and Reality", and deeply impress an Oxford tutor with his crique of Kant's "Categorical Imperative"... Bevan was... deeply influenced by "The Theory of the Leisure Class".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book

Friedrich Nietzsche : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book

F.H. Bradley : Appearance and Reality

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book

Lord Monboddo : Of the origin and progress of language

'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed from the singularity of the system, the many erroneous and yet plausible arguments on which it is founded, the infinite display of learning. A mind wedded to antiquity is the source together with a strong imagination easily biased from Credulity, of the principles offered in this work. I should apprehend the criticisms to be good in many parts... There is too much classical learning in it to allow me to form a Judgement of it, as a learned work. Indeed it is not to be supposed I understood it in a followed manner [.] Yet I never throw aside a book because it makes me feel an ignorance I am not ashamed of from its being one belonging to my Sphere as a female. I read on and often reap much information from the mere introduction to scholars.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book

Thorstein Veblen : The Theory of the Leisure Class

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book

: Les mille et une nuits

'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a conversation about imaginative literature with the Bishop of Llandaff. He "recommended the Reading these Arabian inventions as lively pictures of the government, religion, manners, prejudices of the eastern nations, & further talked on them as genuine translations from the Arabic. I own I was entertained with them in this light."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Henri Bergson :

[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as Bergson, Sorel, Havelock Ellis, Galsworthy, Conrad, E.M. Forster, Joyce and Lawrence, the last two being contributed by me, for I had seen them mentioned in the New Age by Ezra Pound".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

[probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Havelock Ellis :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

John Galsworthy :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Joseph Conrad :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Edward Morgan Forster :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

James Joyce :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Ezra Pound : article in The New Age

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

Friedrich Nietzsche : The Twilight of the Idols

[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they were tinged with madness... I adopted the watchword of 'intellectual honesty', and in its name committed every conceivable sin against honesty of feeling and honesty in the mere perception of the world... my Nietzscheanism was what psychologists call a 'compensation'. I ccould not face my life as it was, and so I took refuge in the fantasy of the Superman".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Friedrich Nietzsche : Ecce Homo

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

: [sermons]

'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading ... Anna's daily examination of the scriptures or of a religious work was a private act of self scrutiny intended to strengthen her moral resolve and Christian faith... It was not a subject for polite conversation, like so much other material... In the 1790s she was still reading the sermons that she had first encountered twenty years earlier. In short, she conformed to the model of the isolated, absorbed, individual reader, cut off from the world by her immersion in the text.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Tour through the whole island of Great Britain

'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit to Windsor Castle in 1792: "I did it", she wrote, "that they might have their observation raised when we carried them there. There is a great difference between showing and seeing - the one is merely Corporeal the other unites the mental to the bodily powers and lays in a stock of ideas". [reading aloud for didactic purposes].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Ramsay : a dialogue on taste

[We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive remarks on the progress of those arts that seem particularly to call forth the exertion to taste. I pointed out this, to carry on the pursuit in her mind though on a wholly different principle. Cozens forms beauties by mathematical Rules: reduces all to a regular, invariable System. Ramsay makes beauty the mere result of opinion in different persons, & consequently varying with the various persons he admits of no other standard for taste; the comparisons this difference of opinion drew and the observations that arose, the Books it led us to consult, gave us much amusing conversation.' [reading in turn with her pupil and sister Clara].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Rollin : Histoire ancienne

'At the house party where Anna met the Bishop of Llandaff, guests took it in turns to read to one another. On 1 July 1780, for instance, after hearing her sister Clara read Rollin's "Histoire ancienne"... Anna "spent two hours in the family circle reading and working". While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work - embroidering and making cushion covers - she read them a great favourite, the sentimental novel "Marienne" by Pierre Marivaux.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Clara Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Rights of man

'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she described it, '"n self examination", and then read two chapters of that blistering critique of the British constitution, Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", before sitting down to breakfast.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Joseph Priestley : On the origin of government

'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Joseph Priestley : On the origin of government

'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on The Origin of government 'rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Larpent Print: Book

Sarah Trimmer : Sacred history

'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history, a didactic anthology from the scriptures written by the best-selling pious evangelical.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Larpent Print: Book

Sarah Trimmer : Sacred history

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Sutherland : Tour of Constantinople

'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: stepson of Anna Larpent Print: Book

Sutherland : Tour of Constantinople

'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Pierre Marivaux : Marienne

'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental novel "Marienne" by Pierre Marivaux.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manners obsolete, & I felt fidgeted at the repetitions not being 15, yet surely it is wonderfully wrought."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : [unknown]

'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ectsasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money for volumes of Tennyson, Shelley and Ruskin. She found the "kindling glow" of words and ideas in Tolstoy, Shaw, Ibsen, Nietzsche, and Marx... Once she read Murger's novel and saw Puccini's opera, she could not turn back: "Ah, THERE was the life we craved. There was expression of and answer to all our fumbling desires and half-formed dreams"...At her first Bohemian party (it was actually in St John's Wood) she was dazzled and intimidated by the easy conversation, the poise, the confidence, the wit'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clare Cameron Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]

'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money for volumes of Tennyson, Shelley and Ruskin. She found the "kindling glow" of words and ideas in Tolstoy, Shaw, Ibsen, Nietzsche, and Marx... Once she read Murger's novel and saw Puccini's opera, she could not turn back: "Ah, THERE was the life we craved. There was expression of and answer to all our fumbling desires and half-formed dreams"...At her first Bohemian party (it was actually in St John's Wood) she was dazzled and intimidated by the easy conversation, the poise, the confidence, the wit'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clare Cameron Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clare Cameron Print: Book

Friedrich Nietzsche : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clare Cameron Print: Book

Karl Marx : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clare Cameron Print: Book

Henri Murger : Scenes de la Boheme

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clare Cameron Print: Book

James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read these giants of the future", wrote Thompson, who credited Lahr with introducing him to "writers of whom I should not otherwised have heard until years later". The difficulty was that "As soon as authors did become well known, Charlie had done with them. He felt, I suppose, that they had been bought over, or had taken to writing for the mob, else why were they popular with the wrong kind of readers?".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bonar Thompson Print: Book

Andre Gide : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bonar Thompson Print: Book

George Gissing : [unknown]

'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Clapham letter-sorter, he collected Nelson's Sevenpenny Classics, which she applauded as "a great boon to poor people"... By age fifteen she was quoting Wilde, Dr Johnson, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, Elizabeth Browning, Omar Khayyam, Anatole France, Emily Bronte, Shaw, Hazlitt, Stevenson, W.E. Henley, and Schopenhauer in her commonplace book...Except "Orlando", she read nothing of Virginia Woolf, whom she found "too intellectual, too subtle and complicated and remote from reality"...Mannin made sure to read "Ulysses" (or at least the final chapter) and she admired Gertrude Stein'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

Charles Reade : The Cloister and the Hearth

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Orlando

'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Clapham letter-sorter, he collected Nelson's Sevenpenny Classics, which she applauded as "a great boon to poor people"... By age fifteen she was quoting Wilde, Dr Johnson, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, Elizabeth Browning, Omar Khayyam, Anatole France, Emily Bronte, Shaw, Hazlitt, Stevenson, W.E. Henley, and Schopenhauer in her commonplace book...Except "Orlando", she read nothing of Virginia Woolf, whom she found "too intellectual, too subtle and complicated and remote from reality...Mannin made sure to read "Ulysses" (or at least the final chapter) and she admired Gertrude Stein'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

Gertrude Stein : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained

'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age twenty-one'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Prelude, The

'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age twenty-one'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

William Cowper :

'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age twenty-one'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :

'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age twenty-one'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many years older than I was when he wrote that book".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

George du Maurier : [unknown]

'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from third-raters like George du Maurier, W.J. Locke, and Hilaire Belloc'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

W.J. Locke : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Hilaire Belloc : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : Riceyman Steps

'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that it showed 'Bennett victorious'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book

Gertrude Stein : unknown

'...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

John Middleton Murry : Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet

'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote a very strong letter of protest, and rightly: Murry's piece, "Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet", had been a characteristically emotional and unbalanced attack . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Balzac :

'...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him "thin and tedious", says he will try "Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes" again, and "if that won't pass, I'll try 'Cousine Bette', which I think is the finest Balzac . . ."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

:

'. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Advertisement

J.B. Priestley : Mercury, The

'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" past customs. In "John O'London's" and "The Nation", in William MacDougall's Home University Library volume on "Psychology" and F.A. Servante's "Psychology of the Boy", he read up on Freud. In a few years he knew enough to ghost-write BBC lectures on modern psychology'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Waste Land

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : Lady Chatterley's Lover

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Book

[unknown] : John O' London's

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Nation

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Serial / periodical

William MacDougall : Psychology

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Book

F.A. Servante : Psychology of the Boy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he experienced all three. He grew up in the ferment of the Jewish East End... read "The Tempest" at school, and cried over "The Foresaken Merman". At fifteen he became a cook at a hotel, where the staff gave him Karl Marx, Henry Miller and "Ten Days that Shook the World". A neighbor presented him with the poems of Rupert Brooke, and "Grantchester" so resonated with the Jewish slum boy that he went to the library to find another volume from the same publisher, Faber and Faber. Thus he stumbled upon T.S. Eliot. "This book changed my life", he remembered. "It struck me straight in the eye like a bolt of lightning... I had no preconceived ideas about poetry and read 'The Waste Land' and 'Prufrock' as if they were the most acceptable and common forms in existence. The poems spoke to me directly, for they were bound up with the wasteland of the East End, and the desolation and lonelines of people and landscape. Accidentally I had entered the mainstream of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : The Forsaken Merman

'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he experienced all three. He grew up in the ferment of the Jewish East End... read "The Tempest" at school, and cried over "The Forsaken Merman". At fifteen he became a cook at a hotel, where the staff gave him Karl Marx, Henry Miller and "Ten Days that Shook the World". A neighbor presented him with the poems of Rupert Brooke, and "Grantchester" so resonated with the Jewish slum boy that he went to the library to find another volume from the same publisher, Faber and Faber. Thus he stumbled upon T.S. Eliot. "This book changed my life", he remembered. "It struck me straight in the eye like a bolt of lightning... I had no preconceived ideas about poetry and read 'The Waste Land' and 'Prufrock' as if they were the most acceptable and common forms in existence. The poems spoke to me directly, for they were bound up with the wasteland of the East End, and the desolation and lonelines of people and landscape. Accidentally I had entered the mainstream of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : Grantchester

'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he experienced all three. He grew up in the ferment of the Jewish East End... read "The Tempest" at school, and cried over "The Forsaken Merman". At fifteen he became a cook at a hotel, where the staff gave him Karl Marx, Henry Miller and "Ten Days that Shook the World". A neighbor presented him with the poems of Rupert Brooke, and "Grantchester" so resonated with the Jewish slum boy that he went to the library to find another volume from the same publisher, Faber and Faber. Thus he stumbled upon T.S. Eliot. "This book changed my life", he remembered. "It struck me straight in the eye like a bolt of lightning... I had no preconceived ideas about poetry and read 'The Waste Land' and 'Prufrock' as if they were the most acceptable and common forms in existence. The poems spoke to me directly, for they were bound up with the wasteland of the East End, and the desolation and lonelines of people and landscape. Accidentally I had entered the mainstream of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he experienced all three. He grew up in the ferment of the Jewish East End... read "The Tempest" at school, and cried over "The Forsaken Merman". At fifteen he became a cook at a hotel, where the staff gave him Karl Marx, Henry Miller and "Ten Days that Shook the World". A neighbor presented him with the poems of Rupert Brooke, and "Grantchester" so resonated with the Jewish slum boy that he went to the library to find another volume from the same publisher, Faber and Faber. Thus he stumbled upon T.S. Eliot. "This book changed my life", he remembered. "It struck me straight in the eye like a bolt of lightning... I had no preconceived ideas about poetry and read 'The Waste Land' and 'Prufrock' as if they were the most acceptable and common forms in existence. The poems spoke to me directly, for they were bound up with the wasteland of the East End, and the desolation and lonelines of people and landscape. Accidentally I had entered the mainstream of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : 'The Waste Land'

'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he experienced all three. He grew up in the ferment of the Jewish East End... read "The Tempest" at school, and cried over "The Forsaken Merman". At fifteen he became a cook at a hotel, where the staff gave him Karl Marx, Henry Miller and "Ten Days that Shook the World". A neighbor presented him with the poems of Rupert Brooke, and "Grantchester" so resonated with the Jewish slum boy that he went to the library to find another volume from the same publisher, Faber and Faber. Thus he stumbled upon T.S. Eliot. "This book changed my life", he remembered. "It struck me straight in the eye like a bolt of lightning... I had no preconceived ideas about poetry and read 'The Waste Land' and 'Prufrock' as if they were the most acceptable and common forms in existence. The poems spoke to me directly, for they were bound up with the wasteland of the East End, and the desolation and lonelines of people and landscape. Accidentally I had entered the mainstream of literature".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

[unknown] : [Russian literature]

'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

Walt Whitman : [unknown]

'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

Emily Dickinson : [unknown]

'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book

: Times Literary Supplement, The

'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do." And that same week, she is agonizing over "one slight snub" in "The Times Literary Supplement".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Arnold Bennett : Lord Raingo

'Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to his briefing and to Bennett's attention.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Beaverbrook Print: Book

Theodore Dreiser :

'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The World of William Clissold

'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : [review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clissold"]

'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, in a piece which Bennett says shows his "childish and spiteful disposition".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

George Sandys : A relation of a journey begun Anno Dom. 1610. Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish empire, of AEGYPT, [etc]

"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Government of the Turks. "'Rivers used to read to me in Montaigne's Plays [Essays] and Moll Neville in the Fairy Queen. "'I sat and read much in the Turkish History and Chaucer. "'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Glecko and hearing Moll Neville read the Arcadia.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essays

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Moll Neville Print: Book

George Sandys : A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Print: Book

Philip Sidney : The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Gecko and in hearing Moll Neville read the Arcadia.'"

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Moll Neville

Ovid : Metamorphoses

"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14th December Wat. Conniston began to read the book of Josephus.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Print: Book

Josephus :

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Wat Conniston Print: Book

Robert Parson : The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution

" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of the preparation to the sacrament.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Anne Clifford Print: Book

Thomas Sorocold : Supplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... Wherein are three most excellent prayers made by Queene Elizabeth

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: "lady's book of praise of a solitary life"

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: "book of the preaparation to the sarament"

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Richard Johnson : The Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction of Troy

Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction of Troy; I recollect reading Hero and Leander, Gesta Romanorum, and Seven wise masters; I recollect having read the Chinese tales; I recollect having read the romance called Parismos and Parismenes, and Don Belianis of Greece; another extravagant tale I recollect having read, the History of Captain Freney, a robber ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

: Hero and Leander

Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Seven champions of Christendom and Destruction of Troy; I recollect reading Hero and Leander, Gesta Romanorum, and Seven wise masters; I recollect having read the Chinese tales; I recollect having read the romance called Parismos and Parismenes, and Don Belianis of Greece; another extravagant tale I recollect having read, the History of Captain Freney, a robber ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

: Gesta Romanorum

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

: Seven wise masters

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

: Chinese tales

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

: Parismos and Parismenes

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

Richard Johnson : The honour or chivalry; or, the famous history of Don Belianis of Greece

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

: The History of Captain Freney

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cooke Print: Book

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas

"William Carleton got the perusal of Gil Blas from a 'pedlar, who carried books about for sale, with a variety of other goods'."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Carleton Print: Book

: Amoranda, or the reformed coquette

J. R. R. Adams quotes at length from William Carleton's account (in his autobiography) of first reading Amoranda, or the reformed coquette, when young, "'the first thing in the shape of a novel that ever came into my hands. It was published as a pamphlet, but how I came by it I don't recollect' [rest of account devoted to retelling plot of story] ... "Carleton actually shed tears when he had finished it, out of sheer disappointment that there was no more."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Carleton

: newspapers

"In Holywood at the time of the peninsular war 'several would join to buy a number of the Belfast News-letter or of the Commercial Chronicle; or, through the kindness of a richer neighbout, a sight of one of these papers would be obtained, and one would read while many would attentively listen.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: people of Holywood, Ulster Print: Newspaper

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; battering her way with pride and tenacity through "La Petite Fadette"... But with all her respect for education...learning was never her strong point'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maud du Puy Print: Unknown

Robert Browning :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maud du Puy Print: Unknown

Alfred Lord Tennyson :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maud du Puy Print: Unknown

George Sand : La Petite Fadette

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maud du Puy Print: Unknown

: popular chapbooks

J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and story chapbooks] on sale from bookstalls at country fairs, concluding " ... the young Jaimie managed, by persistently parking himself at the left-hand corner of the stand where the books were displayed, to get through the entire stock a little at a time, when the owner was not looking or was feeling indulgent."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Seamus MacManus Print: Book

:

'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Sturt was dead.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : [novels]

'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always excepting Scott's novels, which we loved.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Brothers Karamazov, The

'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

:

'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just before his departure for Sicily in April.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Advertisement, Poster

:

'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfactory.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her sister Aunt Polly, in order to improve Aunt Polly's mind. The poor old lady was terribly bored and was nearly asleep, when Aunt Cara woke her up, by saying sternly: "Listen now, Polly; it's Satan speaking".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: [unknown] Jebb Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in King Lear. For if bad Edmund was a Natural Son, presumably Good Edgar must have been an Un-natural son; and what on earth could that be?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which did not help me much; but for caul it gave fillet, and of course a fillet was a string bag. How very odd. Then someone gave me a present of Esmond; but my mother said I was not to read it, because parts of it were "not very nice". Of course I wanted to find out what was not nice about it; so, by a quibble, I decided that I might read all that I could manage without cutting the pages. With industry and perseverance this meant practically all of it, though the pages were not cut for many a long year. But I could never discover what was wrong with it'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Henry Esmond

'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which did not help me much; but for caul it gave fillet, and of course a fillet was a string bag. How very odd. Then someone gave me a present of Esmond; but my mother said I was not to read it, because parts of it were 'not very nice'. Of course I wanted to find out what was not nice about it; so, by a quibble, I decided that I might read all that I could manage without cutting the pages. With industry and perseverance this meant practically all of it, though the pages were not cut for many a long year. But I could never discover what was wrong with it'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so familiar and cousinly. Surely no-one, who had not Darwin or Wedgwood blood in their veins, could be as cross as Mr John Knightley... it is obvious, too, that there is some strain of the Woodhouses of Hartfield in us...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

John Ruskin :

'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends used to wait outside the bookshops in the early morning, when they heard that a new volume of Tennyson was to come out. He had read all Browning too, and all Wordsworth, and Carlyle, in fact nearly everything contemporary; and he constantly re-read the Classics in their own classic tongues... a triumph of timing occurred once when he was listening to the Thunderstorm in the Pastoral Symphony, and reading the thunderstorm in "Oedipus at Colonus", and a real thunderstorm took place!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

William Morris :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

Robert Browning :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

William Wordsworth :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

: [classics in original languages]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus at Colonus

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield Print: Book

Thomas Bewick :

'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying on the sofa between the dining-room windows with the peacock blue serge curtains, and wishing passionately that I could have been Mrs Bewick.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but one was never able to read more than two or three consecutive lines without stopping to discuss exactly what the words meant; or, alternatively, for her to give messages to Janet.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Jean Ingelow : Don John

'we first drew the curtains all round her four-post bed, so that it was quite dark inside; and then, having pulled them back again, we took off our shoes and all got into bed with her, while she read us a chapter of the current book... Aunt Etty was the best reader-aloud I have ever known. She could alter bits which she did not consider suitable, skip whole pages and episodes, and join the narrative up again with an invisible seam; or turn an unhappy ending into a happy one without anyone being able to guess at the liberties she had taken... After her death I found a book she had once read to us: "Don John" by Jean Ingelow. The story is about two changelings, a bad boy and a good one. By a series of accidents, nobody quite knows which boy belongs to which family. In the end it is proved that the good boy is the son of the bad parents, and vice versa. This was more than Aunt Etty's eugenic conscience could bear; and... she changed the entire sense of the book... none of us ever discovered the fraud... till, thirty years later, when I happened to find the book again'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

Susan Warner : The Wide Wide World

'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "Masterman Ready", with that ass Mr Seagrave mitigated, and dear old Ready not killed by the savages; "Settlers at Home", with the baby not allowed to die; "The Little Duke" with horrid little Carloman spared to grow more virtuous still; "The Children of the New Forest"; "The Runaway"; "The Princess and the Goblin", and many more'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : Masterman Ready

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Little Duke

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Settlers at Home

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : The Children of the New Forest

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

Elizabeth Anna Hart : The Runaway

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

George Macdonald : The Princess and the Goblin

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Litchfield Print: Book

Richard Steele : The Conscious Lovers

'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The Spectator

'This day made an end of instructing Miss Day. Read part of "The Spectator"; prodigiously admire the beauties pointed out in the eighth book of Milton's "Paradise Lost" by "The Spectator's" criticism wherein is beautifully expressed Adam's conference with the Almighty, and likewise his distress on losing sight of the phantom in his dream, and his joy in finding it a real creature when awake.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

James Hervey : Meditations among the tombs: in a letter to a lady

'I at home all day. Read part of Hervey's "Meditations".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture

'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chapters only fit to be in German.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mary Yonge Print: Book

: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure

'At home all day a-writing. In the even read "The Universal Magazine" for December; think the following observations worth notice: [lists several observations from the magazine -direct quote?]'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained

'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for the sublimity of style to "Paradise Lost".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Voyage into the Levant

'In the even began Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant". Read his "Life" and the "Eulogium" on it by M. Fountenelle. Memorandums on his life: [describes life of Tournefort in detail].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Voyage into the Levant

'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Cato, A Tragedy

'After supper finished "The Tragedy of Cato".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Voyage into the Levant

'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Rothenstein : Men and Memories

'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many encouraging and critical comments'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: typescript

W Somerset Maugham : Cakes and Ale

'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : Virgin and the Gipsy, The

'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

J.W. Dunne : Experiment with Time, An

'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols

'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words of the Auctioneer that it is "well worth any gentleman's perusal" - is the only thing almost that I recollect aught abo[ut.]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

anon : The West County Clothier

'In the even read part of a simple thing called "The West Country Clothier" and, notwithstanding the meanness of the language, I think the character of the midwife and gossips is in some measure painted in their true colours; and the thoughtlessness and extravagance of many women are in some respects justly exposed by its often terminating in the husband's ruin...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Unknown

anon : The History of England

'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England after the Saxon Heptarchy, anno 801.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

anon : The History of England

'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign, about the year 890...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Derham : Physico-Theology

'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Christopher Smart : On the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay

'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The Tatler

'Not at church all day, neither looked in any book all day except "The Tatler".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

: The Tatler

'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular one wherein a beautiful and virtuous young lady is ruined by a young debauchee and a sordid parent, his father.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

: The Tatler

'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", which I think the oftener I read the better I like it. I think I never found the vice of drinking so well exploded in my life as in one of the numbers.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

: The Tatler

'Came home about 7 o'clock; read several numbers in the 4th volume of "The Tatler".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

William Derham : Physico-Theology

'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensible perspiration as in 14 by stool.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The Guardian

'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which shows how indispensable a duty forgiveness is and the last how much mankind must be delighted with the prospect of the happiness of a future state.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives

'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

William Smellie : Philosophy of Natural History

[in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of sufficient value to transcribe extracts for her children.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

various : various

'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or works of sentimental fiction); twenty-two French works of fiction, including Rousseau, Marivaux, Marmontel and Voltaire; Italian imaginative literature, especially Goldoni and Netastasio; thirty-six French plays, notably those of Corneille; thirty-eight English plays, especially Shakespeare; more than sixty works on history, biography and social science, including Gibbon, Hume, Raynall, Rollin, Giucciardini, Adam Smith, Monboddo and Ferguson; sixteen books of natural philosophy, notably Fontenelle, Smellie, Goldsmith and the entire literature of the South Sea voyages; belles-lettres and criticism to the tune of forty-five volumes, among them Pope, Johnson, Boileau, Du Bos, Swift and Chesterfield; twenty-seven works of classics in translation, with Plutarch, Seneca, Virgil and Cicero as special favourites; a baker's dozen of advice books; forty-six collections of sermons and works of piety chiefly from latitudinarian divines but also from high churchmen and papists; the English poetic classics Spenser, Milton, Gay, Pope, Thomson, Young and Gray - as well as a smaller body of travel literature and miscellaneous work that is difficult to identify.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Hannah More : Percy

'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power of virtue on the mind is well contrasted with the mad way of passion, Elwina's is an almost perfect character... A pure love of virtue appearing throughout and filling the virtuous heart with glowing pleasure... the struggle in Elwina's mind between love and duty is fine, the triumph of the latter nobly painted. There is a charming delicacy, and elevation of sentiment.' [opinion of More's "Percy" entered in diary].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Desmond

'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work. She introduces in a prettily wrought novel the more early French troubles in consequence of the Revolution, she is a wild leveller. She defends the revolution, she writes with the enthusiasm of a woman and a poetess. Her story is hurried [,] has faults in the conduct and narrative, yet it interests. Her descriptions are very pleasing and her characteristic conversations are somewhat forced. She writes herself out. yet her genius predominates.' [opinion of "Desmond", entered in diary].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent Print: Book

Aristotle : Mechanicks

'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision].

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry More Print: Book

Thomas Gisborne : [conduct books]

[Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a less rigid plan of admonition, especially the volume dedicated to females.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even T Davy brought a p[ai]r Shoes for my nephew and stayed and Supp'd w[i]th us and I read him the 4th of Tillotson's Sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Clarissa Harlowe" to me.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Unknown

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Voyage into the Levant

'In the evening read Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant", where I find the Turks think the dead are relieved by prayer.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Book

William Derham : Physico-Theology

'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once ounce of gold a wire may be drawn 777,600 feet in length or 155 miles and a half. In the even Tho. Davy here and supped with us and stayed until 11 o'clock but drunk nothing, only 1 pint of mild beer. We read Smart's poems on immensity, omniscience and power.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Christopher Smart : On the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : Delphine

'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature years she viewed more critically (if still with enjoyment, although her husband was "disgusted" by it).'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Josepha Holroyd Print: Book

: plays

'Mary Delaney frequently discussed her reading of plays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Delany Print: Unknown

Charlotte Smith : Letters of a Solitary Wanderer

'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection of interlocking tales in which a number of suffering women relate their stories. It is the single occasion her comprehensive reading diary mentions this book, which she seems to choose at this point to express a resentful, self-pitying protest against her desertion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : An account of voyages...

'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies", who are afraid to own they have read the "Voyages"', arguing that accounts of the open sexual freedom of the "Demoiselles of Ottaheite" were less "dangerous" to young British women than the "secret" liaisons of their own society.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu Print: Book

James Bruce : Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773...

'as with history, women use their reading of travels to interrogate an androcentric concept of heroism. Elizabeth Montagu felt "surfeited" with what she thought the pointless explorations of Cook or Bruce: "of what use is this discovery of the source of the Nile?"'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu Print: Book

Aphra Benn : Delphine

'Mrs Keith of Ravelstone remembered, as a girl in London perhaps in the 1760s, hearing Aphra Behn's fiction "read aloud for the amusement of large circles of the first and most creditable in society"; in old age she tried to re-read it but, affected by the changing cultural climate, found it too embarrassing to continue.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs ? Keith (of Ravelstone) Print: Unknown

:

'. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are presumed to have been those of Captn Cooke & Capt. Clerke'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Newspaper

:

'. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. Clerke?s ship.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Newspaper

George Burder : Early piety: or, memoirs of children eminently serious. Interspersed with familiar dialogues, emblematical pictures, prayers, graces and hymns. Recommended by the Rev. Mr. Peckwell

[Marginalia]: 4 lines of ms notes on the binding page are now rubbed and difficult to decipher but appear to be notes of references to specific pages eg ;'joys 96, 95-6 to the end'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; translated out of the original tongues, ?

[Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a short note on content eg 'Exodus ... 14 ... bees'. The notes are now rubbed and difficult to decipher.

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

James Thomson : Seasons, The

[Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus some ms notes in ink on binding page. The ink notes read 'Envy-Love 78'; 'Hope - Grief 78'; 'The Deluge 79'; 'Effects of changing weather 80'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

[while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Harlowe' - "Oh: may the Supreme Being give me Grace to lead my life in such a manner as my Exit may in some respect be like that Divine Creature."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Book

: unknown sermon

'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner

: unknown sermon

'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

Homer : Odyssey

'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present times, Viz, "why cease ye then ye wreath of Heaven to stay; be humbled all and Lead ye great the way".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The Freeholder

'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Serial / periodical

John Tillotson : Sermons

'Mr Elles and I read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

:

Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's shop 'looking over the books a good while,' going into Innys's and 'read[ing] there all afternoon till after six' ..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom Print: Unknown

:

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom Print: Book

: books

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom Print: Book

:

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Byrom Print: Unknown

: seditious book

"... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying visible in Benjamin Harris's shop, and could be sure that they were all from the same book because he had been able freely to riffle through the sheets."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Tooke Print: unbound printed sheets

John Tillotson : Sermons

'Joseph Fuller Jun. And Tho. Durrant drank some Coffee with me... to whom I read One of Tillotson's Sermons.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Giles Widdowes : Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan

"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan as they were being printed. He reported that he had 'found the written Copie' there, 'so mangled, so interlined and razed by Mr Page, and others who perused it before its approbation, that there was scarce one page in all the Coppie, in which there were not severall written Errours, Absurdities and Impertinences quite expunged.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Prynne Print: Book

Giles Widdowes : Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Giles Widdowes : Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon ("others") Print: Book, proof copy

John Tillotson : Sermons

'Tho. Davy Spent the Even and Supp'd at our house and read 2 of Tillotsons sermons to us.'

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Tho Davy

: "useful Discourses"

Adrian Johns notes 17th-century bookseller Thomas Bennett (d. 1706)'s practice of reading "'Useful Discourses'" to his servants every Sunday.

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Bennett Print: Unknown

James Harrington : The Common-Wealth of Oceana

Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Oldenburg Print: Book

: books on laws and statutes

Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

: romances including Amadis de Gaulle

Adrian Johns notes how the school-aged Robert Boyle was advised to read romances [incuding "'the stale Adventures [of] Amadis de Gaule'"] as remedy for a "melancholic state" following a tertian ague: "Far from curing Boyle, he later testified, the stories 'prejudic'd him by unsettling his Thoughts ... accustom's his Thoughts to such a Habitude of Raving, that he hath scarce ever been their quiet Master since.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book

: Quintus Curtius

"What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Perusall of Quintus Curtius.' This ancient romance of Alexander the Great had 'conjur'd up in him that unsatisfy'd Curiosity of Knowledge, that is yet as greedy, as when it first was rays'd.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book

: French romances

"In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and would become fluent in French from doing so."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book

: Quintus Curtius

Adrian Johns notes how, long after enjoying the romance of Quintus Curtius when young, "[Robert] Boyle ... found himself suffering 'violent pains' in an inn; reading an opportunely found copy of Curtius took his mind off his condition until it had cured itself."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book

Rene Descartes :

Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read only the Passions ..."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book

Rene Descartes : Passions

Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read only the Passions ..."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book

Edmund Spenser :

" ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Child is made an Eunuch.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Abraham Cowley Print: Book

Clarendon :

" ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been 'disturbed' by reading Clarendon. The treatment proved unsuccessful, and Ellen died."

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Print: Book

: transcribed sermons

"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning and evening prayers 'out of a book, for I knew no better yet.' All this reading threw Rogers into despair over his prospects of salvation ... Distraught, he 'took the Bible,' turned to the relevant pages, and 'read them over and over and over again.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Rogers Manuscript: Unknown

: morning and evening prayers

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Rogers Print: Book

: The Bible

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Rogers Print: Book

: The Bible

"Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot, 'turned open the Bible' and read a passage enjoining him to trust in God; when he resolved to do so, he was freed."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Bishop Print: Book

: The Bible

"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought upon' by his wife, 'whom God made the first Instrument of my good; by her often reading of the Scriptures to me ...'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Aristotle : Mechanics

Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an old man with a long beard ... [who] made a number of gestures with his arm," and how More "[adduced] 'reasons out of Aristotles Mechanicks, which I had very lately read,' for the precise nature of the movements."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry More Print: Book

Ptolemy : Geographia

Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an old man with a long beard ... [who] made a number of gestures with his arm," also noting More's theory as to the origin of this figure: "He had been reading Ptolemy's Geographia the evening before, and seeing a particular iconographic figure on the engraved frontispiece, 'my fancy it seems having laid hold on his venerable beard, drew in thereby the whole scene of things that presented themselves to me in my sleep."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry More Print: Book

: bogus work on Etruscan antiquities

"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings so impressive that he had all but lost control of his body ... buying the volume, Casaubon began to read it as he embarked on a boat for Gravesend ... [finding that] Every line of the work was fraudulent."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Meric Casaubon Print: Book

: bogus work on Etruscan antiquities

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Meric Casaubon Print: Book

: letters

"[Robert] Hooke had been able to read letters in what would otherwise be reckoned darkness, thanks to one of his artificial organs contrived from 'an ordinary double Convex Spherical Lens.'"

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Hooke

William Shakespeare : The Merry Wives of Windsor

'Read "The Merry Wives of Windsor" wherein I think the genius of the author shows itself in a very conspicuous manner as to humour. But I cannot find in my heart to say I think there is one good moral character.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Voyage into the Levant

'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant" wherein I find the following remark: They breed (says he) the finest goats in the world in the Champaign of Angora. They are of a dazzling white, and their hair, which is fine as silk, naturally curled in locks of 8 or 9 inches long, is worked up into the finest stuffs, especially camlet. But they don't suffer these fleeces to be exported because the country people get their living thereby. Their young are degenerate if carried far.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

'In the even read 2 books of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Pope.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it must be allowed it is too prolix. I think the author keeps up the character of every person in all places; and as to the manner of its ending, I like it better than if it had terminated in more happy circumstances.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

'Came home about 8.10. Read part of Homer's "Odyssey".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

:

'In the even read the writings of a farm called Chillys in Mayfield, which was entailed to Mrs Virgoe's father and his heirs forever, but he cut the said entailment off and entailed it again to Mrs Virgoe and her heirs for ever after the death of her mother...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Manuscript: Unknown

Homer : Odyssey

'After supper read the 13th book of Homer's "Odyssey", wherein I think the soliloquy which Ulysses makes when he finds the Phaeacians have, in his sleep, left him on shore with all his treasure, and on his native shore of Ithaca (though not known to him), contains a very good lesson of morality.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Virgil : Works

[Marginalia]: ms note in Latin on inside front cover may or may not be connected with the text as the book has evidence of its young owner using the blank spaces to play around with versions of his name and dates. Chpt 7 has every fifth line numbered in pencil for ease of reference and is initialed and dated at the end.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Erskine Print: Book

Joseph Emin : The life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himself

[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the page is missing.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

: french romances

'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", in which Talbot finds a number of objectionable qualities including "irreligion" and "the pride and sauciness" of the heroine. Their "favourite" among women novelists was Sarah Fielding, many of whose works they read and discussed.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", in which Talbot funds a number of objectionable qualities including "irreligion" and "the pride and sauciness" of the heroine. Their "favourite" among women novelists was Sarah Fielding, many of whose works they read and discussed.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Eliza Haywood : various novels

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : various works

'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", in which Talbot funds a number of objectionable qualities including "irreligion" and "the pride and sauciness" of the heroine. Their "favourite" among women novelists was Sarah Fielding, many of whose works they read and discussed.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

: French romances

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Katherine Phillips : works

'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about an almost forgotten Katherine Phillips, "the matchless Orinda", impressed that her work is mentioned with "the highest respect, admiration and reverence by the writers of that time".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Elizabeth Rowe : works

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Emilie de Chatelet :

'[Carter] read "a system of false philosophy" by Madame de Chatelet "for no other reason than because it was wrote by a lady".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Helen Maria Williams : various books

'[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she finds "too democratical" but praises as "exprest with decency and moderation" and "very prettily written".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Charlotte Trotter Cockburn : works

'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] displayed great interest in this literary foremother, and when the 1751 edition of her work appeared, they were struck by her "most remarkable clear understanding and excellent heart".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Tacitus : Siege of Jerusalem, The

'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to Mainz he "read aloud to us Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Letters from Norway'."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to Mainz he "read to us Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Letters from Norway'."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ariosto :

'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan Bailey

[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdita' in the margin; p. 479 the text 'Quin etiam blandas movere per aera cauda' is asterixed with in the margin 'In the lioness this is the mark of anger'. The inside back cover has a note in Latin 'posterior .... supe ... mens ... priores' with a sketch of foliage above which may or may not be connected.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Patrick Gordon : Geography anatomized: or a compleat geographical grammar

'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Grammar", and in particular the religions of all nations.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The Monitor; or the British Freeholder

'In the even read several numbers of the "Freeholder" which I think is a proper book for anyone to look into at this critical juncture of affairs.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Homer : Odyssey

'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, when he is a-speaking of his war-like virtues in the 4th book, is very good.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal

'Saw in the Lewes newspaper of this day that on Saturday last there was several explosions heard in the bowels of the earth like an earthquake in the parishes of Waldron and Hellingly, as also by one person in this parish.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper

: The History of England

'Read some of "The History of England".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

James Hervey : Theron and Aspasio: or, a series of dialogues and letters upon the most important and interesting subjects

'Read part of Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: [newspaper]

'This afternoon very bad with tooth-ache. Read the newspaper wherein I find the nation is all in a ferment upon the account of losing dear Minorca.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the evening read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons and which I think a very good one.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

[Byng] : An appeal to the people: containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the Secr[etary] of the Ad[miralt]y

'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public on behalf of Admiral Byng wherein he is clearly proved to be no ways guilty of what has been laid to his charge, nay even so far from it that he behaved like a prudent and courageous commander in the Mediterranean; and his bad luck proceeded from an inferior fleet, and one which our treacherous or simple ministers, or the Lords of the Admiralty, or whoever the planners of the voyage were, could never expect to have success, having but few men, not one hospital, nor fireship...I also read Bally's poem...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

George Bally : The Wisdom of the Supreme Being

'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public in behalf of Admiral Byng ...I also read Bally's poem on the wisdom of the Supreme Being, which I think is a very sublime piece of poetry and almost too much so for my mean capacity. But as I find the author's views are good, I do, as I am bound in duty, like it very much.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Locke : An essay concerning human understanding

'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even read 4 of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even Tho. Davy sat with us about 3 hours and to whom and in the day I read 7 of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: Lewes Journal

'In the even in reading the "Lewes Journal" I found the following remarkable character, which I admire not for the diction, but for the justness of it and for imitation: "On Sunday the 9th Jan: died Suddenly the Rev. Mr Lyddell, Rector of Ardingly, Sussex, aged 59;..."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper

Richard Haworth : [Sermon]

'In the even read a sermon preached at this church on the 1st of August 1716 by the Rev. Mr Richard Haworth on the wonders of providence in the defence of the reformation, which in my opinion is an excellent discourse...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Unknown

William Burkitt : The poor man's help and the young man's guide

'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of the size.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure

'In perusing an abridgment of the "Life of Madame de Maintenon" in "The Universal Magazine" for March, I find the following, being the advice given her by her mother Madame d'Aubigne: to act in such a manner as fearing all things from men and hoping all from God.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

: The London Gazette

'This day read in the "Gazette" of the 20th instant that the King of Prussia had on the 6th instant gained a complete victory over the whole combined forces of Austria (near Prague) taking their whole camp and 250 pieces of cannon and 6 or 7,000 prisoners.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper

: The London Magazine

'Today in reading "The London Magazine" for May, I find the following description of a comet that is shortly expected to appear, viz., that it has appeared 6 times already, viz., in the years 1305, 1380, 1456, 1531, 1607, 1682, and that it revolves about the sun at the intervals of 75 and 76 years alternately...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure

'Read part of "The Universal Magazine" for June wherein I find the following receipt recommended (in an extract from Dr Lind's essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of the seamen in the Royal Navy) as a specific against all epidemical and bilious fevers and also against endemic disorders.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Flavius Josephus : The antiques of the Jews

'In reading Josephus's "Jewish Antiques" I find his opinion was (or at least it was a prevailing notion in his time) that the earth was the centre of the planetary system.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the evening read one of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

James Hervey : The time of danger, and the means of safety; to which is added, the way of holiness. Being the substance of three sermons preached on the late public fast days

'In the even Tho. Davy to our house, to whom I read a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr James Hervey, A.M., rector of Weston-Favell in Northamptonshire, being preached on some of the late fast days. I bought 3 of them today at Lewes, being lately published and stitched together.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: Bible, the

'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the "History of the World", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

: Godey's Lady's Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Little Katey and Jolly Jim

'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the History of the World, a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

: [novels for adults]

'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the "History of the World", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

: History of the World

'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the "History of the World", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

: [Christian books and missionary tracts]

'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the "History of the World", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book, religious tracts

: Bible

'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the "History of the World", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Macneill Print: Book

: [newspaper from Charlottetown]

'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the "History of the World", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Macneill Print: Newspaper, Daily

: Wide Awake magazine - serialised story

[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due when the magazines stopped coming. The boys thought this was a huge joke...(thirty years later she came across bound copies of "Wide Awake" and was finally able to finish reading that story). They told ghost stories. In school Well won the teacher's prize for being the best in arithmetic that winter, a copy of Hans Andersen's fairytales. Maud was enchanted by the book. Then she won a collection of fairytales for being top student most often and it had a story in it called "The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha" which "abounded in ghosts" and she liked it even better'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Serial / periodical

Hans Christian Andersen : Fairy Tales

[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due when the magazines stopped coming. The boys thought this was a huge joke...(thirty years later she came across bound copies of "Wide Awake" and was finally able to finish reading that story). They told ghost stories. In school Well won the teacher's prize for being the best in arithmetic that winter, a copy of Hans Andersen's fairytales. Maud was enchanted by the book. Then she won a collection of fairytales for being top student most often and it had a story in it called "The Honey Stew of the Countess" Bertha which "abounded in ghosts" and she liked it even better'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

unknown : The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

: A Bad Boy's Diry

'Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called "A Bad Boy's Diry" [sic], a story a teacher had left behind at the house after boarding there for a year. It was meant to be funny and it was written as though by "little Gorgie", a mischievous boy who couldn't spell'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

anon : Medical Essays and Observations, revised and published by a society in Edinburgh

'In the even read part of the 5th volume of "Medical Essays and Observations", published at Edinburgh by a society of physicians.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Alexander Macaulay : A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use

[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is reference to another medical work 'An Essay on The Action of Medicines in the system, or: on the Mode in which Therapeutic Agents introduced in the Stomack ... awarded ... Frederick William [Headland] ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'Tho. Davy at our house in the even, to whom, and in the day, I read 6 of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

unknown : The Memoir of Anzonetta Peters

[Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. She loved that book. It was called "The Memoir of Anzonetta Peters" and it was the story of a child who became ill at the age of five, turned to religion, and lived a saintly life until she died when she was twelve. Anzonetta talked only in hymns. For months Maud's life was taken over by this book. She tried valiantly to become as saintly as her idol'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

James Thomson : Seasons, The

[Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank verse. Maud was so enraptured by them that she had to sit down at once to write one of her own.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Zanoni

'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-read "Zanoni"... until she knew whole chunks of it by heart... She was so in love with its dark, masterful hero that she actually spent hours rewriting some of Lord Lytton's story so that the heroine's dialogue and behaviour would read more like dialogue and behaviour that would be hers if she were "Zanoni"'s heroine.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers, The

'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religious tracts, newspapers, the Godey's Lady's Book, Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers", Sir Walter Scott's novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables", Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book", and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Walter Scott : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : The House of the Seven Gables

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Washington Irving : The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : [Essays]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" to Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" and Thackeray's "Vanity Fair". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Beatrix Potter : Peter Rabbit

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

George Eliot :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Edith Wharton :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Olive Schreiner :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book

Nicholas Rowe : Tamerlane

'In the even read the play of "Tamerlane", wrote by Rowe, which I think a very good play; the character of Tamerlane is such as I think should be the character of all mankind.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Unknown

John Carter : [will]

'About 5.40 I set out to the house from which John Carter was this day buried in order to read the will of the deceased (by desire of Mr Burges) to his relations, they being all met to hear the same.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Manuscript: Sheet

: The London Gazette

'In reading "The Gazette" for the 22nd instant I find the King of Prussia, with about 20,000, has beat the combined forces of the empire and France, which were about 60,000; he having been totally routed by them and taken almost or quite all their cannon, baggage, etc., taking and killing in the field of battle and the pursuit 10,000 men.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper

: [almanacs]

'In the day read part of several new almanacs which came down today, and I doubt but few will be sold by reason of the additional duty of one penny on the sheets, and two pence on the stitched.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Broadsheet, almanac

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading of Tillotson's sermons over the second time, and so far as I am a judge I think them to be a complete body of divinity, they being wrote in a plain familiar style, but far from what may be deemed low.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Sherlock : A practical discourse concerning death

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Sherlock : A practical discourse concerning death

'...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Robert Lambe : An exact and circumstantial history of the battle of Floddon in verse written about the time of Queen Elizabeth. In which are related many particular facts not to be found in the English history[...]

[Marginalia]: ms note on binding page appears to refer both to the battle of Flodden and to poems about it: '... The battle of Flodden Field which was fought between the English under the Earl of Surrey ( in the absence of Henery 8th) and the Scots under their valiant King James IV who was slain on the field of battle in the year 1513. An ... poem ... collected from .... ms by Joseph Philamoth ... These three poems differ ... from each other. British Topography Chpt. [?] p. 61'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Joseph Price : Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; on the latter part of the late report of the Select Committee on the state of justice in Bengal. With some curious particulars and original anecdotes concerning the forgery committed by Maha Rajah Nundcomar Bahadar[...]

[Marginalia]: ms note at foot of p.8 of Appendix: 'J. Claver ...[ J. Clavering is the first signatory of the letter on this page] We condemn the political mistakes of the late administration'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: N.S. Cornith Print: Book

: Society minutes

"In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Inclosed minutes, which are as they were read before the Society, therefore I pray you to conceal any thing you shall not think proper to be publickly read, and to send them to me again in your next.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Royal Society Manuscript: Unknown

Reginald de Graaf :

" ... in the [Royal] Society ... date of publication could override date of registration. Walter Needham made this explicit in reporting his perusal [as part of Royal Society registration process] of a book by Reginald de Graaf that had provoked Swammerdam to contest de Graff's authorship of discoveries."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Needham Print: Book

Edmond Halley : paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge

" ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactions some thirty years after being read at the [Royal] Society ..."

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Royal Society

Henry Oldenburg : review of Robert Hooke, Description of Helioscopes

"[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they were printed. On 8 November [1675] he came to the review of Helioscopes. Hooke was livid. 'Saw the Lying Dog Oldenburg's Transactions,' he wrote in his diary. 'Resolved to quit all employments and seek my health.'"

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Hooke Print: Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets

Edmond Halley : Catalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum ...

Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Flamsteed Print: Book

Robert Hooke : Cometa

"Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [suggesting] that Hooke's prescriptions for astronomical practice rested on false [ie supposedly philosophical] grounds."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Flamsteed Print: Book

Isaac Newton : Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

"[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] something of the status of a demi-god. 'Does he eat and sleep? Is he like other men?' an awed nobleman had asked John Arbuthnot after scanning the work."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

John Flamsteed : astronomical calculations (lunar positions)

"When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar positions calculated at the observatory ... Newton asked permission to take copies of them."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Newton Manuscript: Unknown

John Flamsteed : sections of catalogue of stars

Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing without his authorisation, and much added to), apparently supplied to him by printing-house staff.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Flamsteed Print: sheets

John Flamsteed : catalogue of stars

Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] in Child's coffeehouse, and pointing out to his 'impious friends' there all Flamsteed's purported errors."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmond Halley

John Flamsteed : Atlas Coelestis

"As late as 1782 ... [Caroline Herschel] would employ a telescope to 'sweep' the sky for comets, with her brother William seated beside her. William helped her attain the vital skill of correlating in an instant what she observed in the sky with its representation in the Atlas [Coelestis] lying open beside her."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline and William Herschel Print: Book

Abraham Sharp : shorthand writings

" ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed correspondent, Abraham Sharp, [Francis] Baily turned to Charles Babbage ... Babbage agreed to assist, and eventually succeeded in decoding Sharp's text."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Babbage Manuscript: Unknown

Anon : Frederic le Grand

[Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by authors eg ' ...Esprit...,... La Fontaine...,... Rochefoucaut...'

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

Nicholas Culpeper : Pharmacopoeia Londinensis

[Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Take a reed ..orke[?], plurke him quirk then/ slitt him down throw & take out all his/entrall, cutt him in quarters & bruise/ him in a morter, put him in an ordinary/ still wth [sic] a botle [?] of sarke, & a quart of/ ... kow's milk ...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Greirson Print: Book

Stephen Weston : A specimen of the conformity of the European languages

[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text is annotated in Persian and another is marked * and in the margin is a ms note '*When the sun of the wine arises from east of the goblet a thousand tulips spring from the cheek of the cupbearer'; p.158 has the text 'The lion is a cat in catching a mouse; but the mouse is a tiger in battle' marked * and the ms annotation 'nonsense ', '*The cat is tiger in catching a mouse; but a mouse in the claws of a tiger'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

William Sherlock : A practical discourse concerning death

'This day completed the reading of Sherlock on death and which I esteem a very plain, good book, proper for every Christain to read; that is, rich and poor, men and women, young and old.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Frances Hodgson Burnett : Little Lord Fauntleroy

[Aunt Bessy] 'used to read "Little Lord Fauntleroy" over and over again to the old women [in the Cambridge workhouse], because they never wanted any other book'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Darwin Print: Book

: The Monitor; or the British Freeholder

'In the day read part of some "Monitors" lent me by Mr Calverley, but which paper the author endeavours to point out the only way to restore this nation to its former strength and dignity, which is by suppressing vice and immorality and encouraging virtue and merit.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave him the face of our own Blind Man' [seen regularly in Cambridge and looking "most evil"]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Jonathan Pereira : Treatise on food and diet, A

[Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is a component of part of all animals' marked by three horizontal lines; p.77 next to the text 'This arrangement is a very excellent one; but several reasons incude nme to adopt another...' is the ms note 'Saline aliment'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint: or night thoughts

'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian triumph against the fear of death, which must be allowed by all Christians a noble subject, it being the redemption of mankind by Jesus Christ, and I think the author has treated it in a very moving and pathetic manner.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Homer :

'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of each every day; and when he was late for dinner, it was always because he was "just finishing a paragraph". He was very shy about it, and would be caught hiding Homer under a pile of papers, and have to be gently coaxed out into the open to talk about him. "Fine fellow, old Homer", he would say; or "Fine fellow, old Go-eethe"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Darwin Print: Book

Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Darwin Print: Book

: [works in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Darwin Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint: or night thoughts

'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through, think it an extreme good book, the author having treated many parts of religion in a very noble and spiritual manner wherein I think every deist, free-thinker, as also every irreligious person may read himself a fool. For what is wit or wisdom (without religion) but foolishness?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Sherlock : A practical discourse concerning death

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [Histories]

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

Walter Scott : [novels]

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

(ed.) Thomas Percy : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

Anthony Horneck : The great law of consideration; or, a discourse, wherein the nature, usefulness and absolute necessity of consideration, in order to a truly serious and religious life is laid open

'In the even finished reading of Horneck's "Great Law of Consideration", which I think a very good subject, and I am thoroughly persuaded that the only motive the author had in writing it was the salvation of men's souls. But in my private opinion it is not written so well as many pieces of divinity which I have read, there being too great a redundancy of words to express one and the same thing.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Stendhal (pseud -Marie-Henri Beyle) : Le Rouge et le Noir

'[Gwen Raverat's father] was disgusted by Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" when I lent it to him; though I am still surprised that he did not appreciate the romantic fire which lies beneath Julien Sorel's somewhat unscrupulous methods of getting on in the world'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson :

'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to us, which was the height of modernity then'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Crofts Print: Book

Daniel Dobel : Primitive Christianity propounded; or an essay to revive the ancient mode or manner of preaching the gospel

'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the Ancient Mode or manner of Preaching the Gospel". This is a pamphlet which I imagine to be wrote by a Baptist preacher in favour of preaching without notes. I must in my own private opinion say that I can see no harm consequent on our method of reading, as the author is pleased to call it. ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

(probably) William Ernest Henley :

'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to us, which was the height of modernity then'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Crofts Print: Book

: The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

: The Journal of Inebriety

'Mildred was a fanatical teetotaller; and took in, believe it or not, a periodical called "The Journal of Inebriety"'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mildred Massingberd Print: Serial / periodical

: The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure

'We dined on the remains of Wednesday and yesterday's dinners with the addition of a cheap kind of soup, the receipt for making of which I took out of "The Universal Magazine" for December as recommended (by James Stonhouse MD at Northampton) to all poor families as a very cheap and nourishing food. The following is a receipt: [copies out recipe in diary]... This in my opinion is a very good, palatable, cheap and nourishing diet...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Allestree : The new whole duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain

'In the even read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Daisy Chain

'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story about Mohammedans or Chinese'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Susan Warner : The Wide Wide World

'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story about Mohammedans or Chinese'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Richard Burn : The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer

'In the day read part of Burn's "Justice".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Robert Browning : Saul

'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Charles Leadbetter : The royal gauger; or gauging made perfectly easy

'In the even read part of Leadbetter's "General Gauger".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: Bible, The

'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

Richard Allestree : The whole new duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain

'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Sherlock : A practical discourse concerning death

'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Edward Morgan Forster :

'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I very much hope he will turn to something else".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Darwin Print: Book

: The London Magazine

'Read part of "The London Magazine" for February.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Arthur Collins : The peerage of England

'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Arthur Collins : The peerage of England

'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Arthur Collins : The peerage of England

'Read part of "The Peerage of England".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Wake : The principles of the Christain religion explained in a brief commentary upon the church catechism

'In the even finished reading Wake's "Catechism", which I think is a very good book and proper for all families, there being good instructions in it and also something which is prodigious moving. It is wrote in a lively, brisk manner and not as if the author wrote more out of form than for the good of people's souls, and at the same time it is a very plain, familiar style, suitable I think to the meanest capacities that can read. And so far as I can judge there is everything contained in it necessary to a man's salvation.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my opinion it exceeds anything I ever read for sublimity of language and beauty of similes; and I think the depravity of human nature entailed upon us by our first parent is finely drawn.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal

'This day I saw in the "Lewes Journal", which was an extract from "The Gazette", that our troops under the command of the Duke of Marlborough had landed at St Malo in the province of Brittany (in France) and had burnt and otherwise destroyed 137 vessels of all denominations...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper

John Gay : Fables

'I completed the reading of Gay's "Fables", which I think contains a very good lesson of morality; and I think the language very healthy, being very natural.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Thomas Salmon : A critical essay concerning marriage

'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Thomas Salmon : A critical essay concerning marriage

'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appears to me to be a very bad logician.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : correspondence

Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's general correspondence with the close attention of a craftsman seeking to discover how a fellow-artist lived and worked. He had read critically all of Stevenson's letters ..."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : biographies

Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had criticized but read with lively interest."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Letters

Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He opposed truncation. 'One has the vague sense of omissions ... one smells the thing unprinted,' he remarked after reading [Sidney] Colvin's edition of Stevenson's letters."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : unknown

Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Prosper Merimee : unknown

Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I came here, but have not now the time ... I needn't be discouraged; I read the other day of a man with a good knowledge of Greek who didn't begin to study it till he was forty-six years of age'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

: magazines and newspapers

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The reading time that I have had has consisted in little odd disconnected moments, so I have read mostly little bits from Magazines, Newspapers, and 'the like.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

: Cornhill Magazine

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The reading time that I have had has consisted in little odd disconnected moments, so I have read mostly little bits from Magazines, Newspapers, and 'the like.' I suppose that 'down in Louisiana' you have not seen any numbers of the new 'Cornhill Magazine' edited by Thackeray. I have seen the three numbers that are out and find it very good ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

A. W. Kinglake : Eothen

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have just been reading it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: The British Chronicle

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room should be made ready for me to go in and set to work. I looked over an old volume of the 'British Chronicle,' a lot of bound weekly newspapers of the time of Byron, Shelley, Tom Moore and Walter Scott and which I had discovered in a corner the night before. Then I finished the Letters of Lady M. W. Montague which I had commenced a few days before from curiosity and had continued from interest."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

: bound weekly newspapers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Letters

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Friedrich von Schiller : Maria Stuart

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] We [himself and his brother William] ... commenced study, which simply consists in translating German into English. I am now working at Schiller's play of Maria Stuart, which I like exceedingly, though I do get on so slowly with it ... I worked on ploddingly till dinner-time which is one o'clock."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Camden : The history of the most renowned and victorious princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England

[Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numerical order); there are also a few marginal notes in the introduction (unnumbered) and on p. 41 e.g. the text line 'Queen Mary herself, (naturally* a mild and loving Princess ....)' has ms note in margin '*false'; Text line '.. before amply conferred on Henry the Eighth, and the Queen* herself ...' has ms note '* therefore has the Popes Promd, not his obliging temper that made him do this ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Fox Print: Book

Robert Browning : plays

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been reading them with deep interest."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Maurice de Guerin : Journals/Letters

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Letters of Maurice and Eugenie de Guerin -- (Paris, 1864, 2d Edition.) I should like to write a notice of the two books combined; or at least of Maurice alone ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Eugenie de Guerin : Journals and Letters

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Vaughan : English Revolutions in Religion

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolutions in Religion. Interesting subject but middling book."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Henry James : Review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism

Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (July 1865): "Arnold read this review and praised it to his friends unaware it was the work of a twenty-two-year-old novice."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Arnold Print: Serial / periodical

Harriet Beecher Stowe : [two or three works]

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with Mrs. Stowe, in the N[orth]. A[merican]. R[eview]. I have been re-reading two or three of her books and altho' I see them to be full of pleasant qualities, they lack those solid merits wh. an indistinct recollection of them had caused me to attribute to them ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here I expect to stay. You may imagine that existence has not been thrilling or exciting. I have seen no one and done nothing -- unless it be read; which I have done to some extent."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Hippolyte Taine : Notes sur Paris, Vie et opinions de M. Frederic-Thomas Graindorge

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak ... I enjoy Taine more almost than I do any one; but his philosophy of things strikes me as essentially superficial and as if subsisting in the most undignified subservience to his passion for description ... I have also read the last new Mondays of Ste.B, and always with increasing pleasure."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve : Nouveaux lundis

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak ... I enjoy Taine more almost than I do any one; but his philosoph of things strikes me as essentially superficial and as if subsisting in the most undignified subservience to his passion for description ... I have also read the last new Mondays of Ste.B, and always with increasing pleasure."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

George Sand : Memoirs

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [George Sand's] Memoirs a compact little work in ten volumes. It's all charming (if you are not too particular about the exact truth) but especially the two 1st volumes, containing a series of letters from her father, written during Napoleon's campaigns."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : New Poems

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "In English I have read nothing new, except M. Arnold's New Poems, which of course you will see or have seen."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William James : Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte

Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm's novel ... I liked your article very much ... It struck me as ... very readable. I copied it forthwith and sent it to the Nation."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Letter

unknown : French texts

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good deal of French, of which, at times, I get pretty sick."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : unknown

Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Stendhal : unknown

Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Charles de Brosses : unknown

Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : unknown

Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Morris : The Earthly Paradise

Henry James to Alice James, in letter begun 10 March 1869 (continued on 12 March), on evening spent at home of William Morris: "After dinner (we stayed to dinner, Miss Grace, Miss S. S. and I,) Morris read us one of his unpublished poems, from the second series of his 'un-Earthly Paradise,' and his wife having a bad toothache, lay on the sofa, with her handkerchief to her face."

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Morris

Francis Lord Bacon : essays

'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christianity not founded on argument, Randolph's answer to it... and some of David's Simple Life... an account of the Government of Venice, Montaigne's Essays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : David Simple

'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christianity not founded on argument, Randolph's answer to it... and some of David's Simple Life... an account of the Government of Venice, Montaigne's Essays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essays

'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christianity not founded on argument, Randolph's answer to it... and some of David's Simple Life... an account of the Government of Venice, Montaigne's Essays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : History of Florence

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book

: an account of the government in Venice

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book

Thomas Randolph : his answer to Christianity not founded on argument

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book

Elizabeth Rowe : works

'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about the almost forgotten Katherine Philips, the "matchless Orinda", impressed that her work is mentioned with "the highest respect, admiration and reverence by the writers of that time".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Katherine Philips : works

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Francois-Marie Voltaire : Candide

'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : works

'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I have determined never to look into any thing he should publish".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Tobias Smollet : Roderick Random

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Eliza Haywood : various novels

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Charlotte Lennox : Henrietta

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : many works

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

: French romances

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : An account of voyages undertaken... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook (from 1702 to 1771) drawn up from the Journals...

'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies, who are afraid to own they have read the Voyages", arguing that accounts of the open sexual freedom of the "Demoiselles of Ottaheite" were less "dangerous" to young British women than the "secret" liaisons of their own society.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of modern philosophers

'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book is "Modern Philosophy", whose anti-heroine, "Miss Biddy Botherin", who made them "laugh a good deal", is a devotee of radical Godwinian philosophy, a satirical portrait probably combining elements of Mary Hays and Mary Wollstonecraft.' [Grove is resisting her then-fiance Shelley's philosophy and aesthetics].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

W.L. Alden : article/review of "Anna of the Five Towns"

'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreciation of "Anna". He says it is the best novel of the sort since "Esther Waters". (It is.). . . I have sent my cutting to Chatto'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement

Samuel Richardson : Pamela

'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I had read them some part of the story, which I had begun without their knowing it, used to come in to my little closet every night with - "Have you any more of Pamela, Mr R...?"'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel

Alexander Pope : Dunciad

'Methinks, Sir, Mr Pope might employ his Time, and his admirable Genius better than in exposing Insects of a Day: For if these Authors would live longer, they should not be put down as Dunces.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Aaron Hill : Fanciad

'what a charming instance have you given me, good sir, of the Restoration of [your health], if I may be permitted to infer it from the noble strength and Vigor of your verses. It is impossible, Sir, not to be animated by the Subject and the Poem'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Unknown, Richardson is about to print the manuscript

William Whitehead : Essay on Ridicule

'[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much preferable to that of the Head alone'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

Alexander Pope : Dunciad

'I have bought Mr Pope over so often, and his "Dunciad" before his last new-vampt one, that I am tired of the Extravagance; and wonder every Body else is not. Especially, as now by this, he confesses that his Abuse of his first hero was for Abuse sake, having no better object for his Abuse. I admire Mr Pope's Genius, and his Versification: But forgive me, Sir, to say, I am scandaliz'd for human Nature, and such Talents, sunk so low'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement: Miss Cheyne, Daughter of my late dear Friend the Doctor; a young Lady of Taste and Reading. Mr Freke, the Surgeon, whom once I mentioned to you, and who read it with a Friend of his. Dr Young has seen a great Part of it; and Mr Cibber Senior, having heard of it, and liking "Pamela", was very desirous to see it; and I being put in hope, that he would not spare it, was desirous he should'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Heylin Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Heylin Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Cheyne Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Freke Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Young Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version

Sophia Westcomb : [letter]

'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you traverse the happy terrace...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Letter, Unknown

Lady Bradshaigh : [letter]

'There was no need to bespeak my Patience, nor anything but my Gratitude, on reading such a Letter as you have favoured me with. Indeed I admire it; and have reason to plume myself upon the Interest you take in my Story...from many passages in your Letters [I look upon you] as a Daughter of my own Mind'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Letter

Homer : Iliad

'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done infinite mischief for a series of ages; since to it, and its copy the "Eneid", is owing, in a great measure, the savage spirit that has actuated, from the earliest ages to this time, the fighting fellows that, worse than lions or tigers, have ravaged the earth, and made it a field of blood'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Pliny the Elder : [observations and transcriptions from work]

'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find time to read the book. What stores of knowledge do I lose, by my incapacity of reading, and by my having used myself to write, till I can do nothing else, nor hardly that'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore

Abraham Cowley :

'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashion in this age of taste. And yet I wonder he is so absolutely neglected, as he wants not point and turn, and wit, and fancy, and an imagination very brilliant: nor puts the reader to vast trouble to understand him

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Abraham Cowley :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Highmore Print: Book

Edmund Spenser :

'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! What colouring displayed throughout the works of that admirable author! and yet, for want of time, or opportunity, I have not read his "Fairy Queen" through in series, or at a heat, as I may call it'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Highmore Print: Book

Edmund Spenser :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

James Beattie : Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order

[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 after the end of the text is the ms note 'Scotch - Ever so many people/ Eng. a great many people';p. 63 after the text 'The offer is here supposed to be not mine, but made by another' is the ms note 'To look out of the window/ To look out at ---' p. 69 next to the text 'A prospect for the pocket.-A perspective' is the ms note 'a spy-glass'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

James Steuart : An inquiry into the principles of political oeconomy

[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proportion to the plenty of money ...' has a vertical marginal line; p.416 text line 'This reasoning is consistent with the principles we have examined, and humbly rejected in the preceding chapter ...' has the ms note 'Mr Hume's reasoning is correct'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

: a number of novelists

'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals", who provided "a very pleasing relaxation from her severer studies" (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, vol 1, p. 69). According to him, she disliked realist fiction, though she made an exception for Burney's which she read with "increasing approbation more than once": her favourite was "Evelina" (Memoirs, p. 299). She also enjoyed Jane West (who dedicated "A Tale of the Times" to her) and Ann Radcliffe, who impressed her, according to Pennington, by "the good tendency of all her works, the virtues of her principal characters... and her accurate, as well as vivid delineation of the beauties of nature" (Memoirs, p. 300). She thought "A Sicilian Romance" "elegant" and praised its "good" moral (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, Vol III, p. 323).'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Jane West : A Tale of the Times and other works

'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals", who provided "a very pleasing relaxation from her severer studies" (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, vol 1, p. 69). According to him, she disliked realist fiction, though she made an exception for Burney's which she read with "increasing approbation more than once": her favourite was "Evelina" (Memoirs, p. 299). She also enjoyed Jane West (who dedicated A Tale of the Times to her) and Ann Radcliffe, who impressed her, according to Pennington, by "the good tendency of all her works, the virtues of her principal characters... and her accurate, as well as vivid delineation of the beauties of nature" (Memoirs, p. 300). She thought A Sicilian Romance "elegant" and praised its "good" moral (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, Vol III, p. 323).'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : A Sicilian Romance [and other novels]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Emmeline

'[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "very defective" if not "positively bad" (Memoirs, p. 299). Carter's letters however show enthusiasm at least for "Emmeline", and deep sympathy for Smith's domestic situation: she tries hard to be fair even to the "democratic" Desmond, suggesting its critics are "perhaps prejudiced against it", while she has found the included poems "very beautiful" (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, vol III, 295-333)'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Desmond

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

: The Telegraph

Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, amiable lot -- addicted to reading the Telegraph and Standard -- by day and playing interminable rubbers by night. We have a number of Indian officers ... a high conservative and radically stupid fox-hunting clergyman -- a very gentlemanly and indifferent young squire ... and a great variety of other specimens of the British world."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: visitors staying at Great Malvern Print: Newspaper

: The Standard

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: visitors staying at Great Malvern Print: Newspaper

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Old Town Folks

Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, on walking in Switzerland and Italy: "[after crossing Bernadine pass] I ... pursued my way ... to the village of Splugen, where I was glad to halt and rest and where I diverted myself the rest of the day, as I lay, supine, with Mrs. Stowe's Old Town Folks, which I found kicking about, and which struck me under the circumstances as a work of singular and delicious perfection."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: The Times

Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, from Lake Como: "I read yesterday in the Times the news of the defeat of the Harvard crew on the Thames."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Stendhal : unknown

Henry James to Alice James, 8 November (letter begun 7 November) 1869: "I have of course no company but my own [in Rome], but in the intervals of sightseeing find a rare satisfaction in the long-denied perusal of a book. I have been reading Stendhal -- a capital observer and a good deal of a thinker. He really knows Italy."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henry James Sr : "reply to a 'Swedenborgian'"

Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): " ... I felt a most refreshing blast of paternity, the other day in reading Father's reply to a 'Swedenborgian,' in a number [of The Nation] that I saw at the bankers."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Flavius Josephus : The genuine works of Flavius Josephus

'In the even read part of Josephus's "Jewish Antiques".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Flavius Josephus : The genuine works of Flavius Josephus

'In the evening read part of the "Jewish Antiques".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The London Magazine

'After I came home, I read part of "The London Magazine" for October, as also a poor empty piece of tautology called "A Series Advice to the Public to Avoid the Danger of Inoculation", in which he says a physician can only know and be the proper person to perform the operation, and that a surgeon can know nothing about it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

anon : A Serious Address to the Public, concerning the most probable means of avoiding the dangers of innoculation

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

Richard Wiseman : Several Chirurgical Treatises

'In the even read part of Wiseman's "Chyrurgery".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The evidences of the Christian Religion

'In the even read part of Addison's "Evidences of the Christian Religion".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations".

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

James Hervey : Meditations among the tombs: in a letter to a lady

'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations".

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The London Gazette

'In the even read the extraordinary "Gazette" for Wednesday, which gives an account of our army in America, under the command of General Wolfe, beating the French army under General Montcalm (near the city of Quebec) wherein both generals were killed, as also two more of the French generals, and the English general Monckton, who took command after General Wolfe was killed, was shot through the body, but is like to do very well; as also the surrender of the city of Quebec, with the articles of capitulation. Oh, what a pleasure it is to every true Briton to see with what success it pleases Almighty God...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper

William Derham : Physico-Theology

'In the even read part of Derham's "Physico-Theology".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Thomas Sherlock : Sermons on various subjects, moral and theological, now first published

'In the even and the day read 6 of Bishop Sherlock's sermons, which I think extremely good, there being sound reasoning in them and seem wrote with an ardent spirit of piety, being mostly levelled against the deists.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Henry Bracken : The traveller's pocket-farrier: or a treatise upon the distempers and common incidents happening to horses upon a journey

'In the day read part of Bracken's "Pocket Farrier", which I look upon as a very complete thing of its kind.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Edmund Gibson : The evil and danger of lukewarmness in religion

'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy against fears of all kinds", both of which I look upon as extreme good things.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Edmund Gibson : Trust in God the best remedy against fears of all kinds

'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy against fears of all kinds", both of which I look upon as extreme good things.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'In the even Tho. Davy at our house, to whom I read three of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Edward Young : The complaint or night thoughts

'In the even read part of Young's "Night Thoughts".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermons

'...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Charles Drelincourt : The Christian's defence against the fears of death

'...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Henry Wharton : A defence of pluralities, or, holding two benefices with cure of souls

'In the morning read part of a book entitled "A Defence of Plurality of Church Benefices", but I cannot be persuaded by his reasons that it is always beneficial to promote our most holy religion.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

'In the even Mr Tipper read to me part of a -I know not what to call it but "Tristram Shandy".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tipper Print: Book

Edward Young : A vindication of providence; or, a true estimate of human life

'Read part of Young's "Estimate of Human Life".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The

'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther than those first five, till within these two or three days past. But I can go no further than the thirteenth, now before me, till I have acquainted you, that I am inexpressibly pleased with them. I remember not a thing in the Spectators, in those Spectators that I read, for I never found time... to read them all, that half so much struck me; and yet I think of them highly.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Serial / periodical

Joseph Addison : The Spectator

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Serial / periodical

Philip Skelton : Ophiomaches: or, Deism Revealed

'Have you seen two volumes called "Deism Revealed"? 'Tis a well written piece, and much approved here. I think it is not harsh against the religion of France; but scourges our infidels, sceptics, deists, &c. as well by name as by works.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Unknown, MS of work Richardson printed

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down to future Times with such crude and unworthy Notes.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Henry Fielding : Amelia (1st vol.)

'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with it; but I found the characters and situations so wretchedly low and dirty, that I imagined I could not be interested for any one of them; and to read and not to care what became of the hero and heroine, is a task that I thought I would leave to those who had more leisure than I am blessed with'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Lord Orrery : Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Swift

'I have read through Lord Orrery's History of Swift. I greatly like it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Henry James Sr : articles on Swedenborg

Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Swedenborgian letters, which I had already seen and I think mentioned. I read at the same time in an Atlantic borrowed from the Nortons, your article on the woman business ... your Atlantic article I decidedly liked ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James Sr : "Is Marriage Holy?"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Lowell : poem

Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

William Dean Howells : "A Pedestrian Tour"

Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : The Ring and the Book

Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delightful letters, Crabbe Robinson's memoirs and the new vol. of Ste Beuve."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Charles de Brosses : Lettres familieres ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henry Crabbe Robinson : Memoirs

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Charles-Augustin Saint-Beuve : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

: newspapers

Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870, regarding process of Italian unification: "[A] reflection I have ... ventured upon: to the purpose that the departure of the capitol from Florence may reconvert it in some degree into the Florence of old and arrest the rank modernization which we used to deplore. But I stand aghast at these crude ratiocinations on a Cambridge basis: especially as on coming to consult a couple of newspapers, I find that there was a goodly amount of shelling and shooting on the occupation of Rome."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

: newspapers

Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870: "[At home in Cambridge] I take so much satisfaction in reading the papers that I largely manage to forget that I am doing no work of consequence ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

F. Harrison : article on Bismarck

Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for December two articles by your two friends F. Harrison and J. Morley, on Bismark and Byron respectively."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

J. Morley : article on Byron

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : various works (dealing with Innsbruck)

Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so that I may at least spend a few summer hours with you in spirit."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Leslie Stephen : The Playgrounds of Europe

Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickened of late by the perusal of a little book by our friend Leslie Stephen called The Playgrounds of Europe."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

unknown : "lightish books"

Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I linger in a darkened room all the forenoon, reading lightish books in my shirt-sleeves ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: timetables

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 9 August 1871: "Every now and then I vaguely scheme to take up my valises and walk ... yet here I am still, taking it all out in reading the time-tables in the Advertiser and wondering which were the deeper joy -- Cape Cod or Mount Mansfield."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Francis Bret Harte : [unidentified story]

Henry James to Elizabeth Boott, 24 January 1872: "I heard read in MS. the other evening a new story by Bret Harte (for the next Atlantic) better than anything in his 'second manner' -- though not quite so good as his first."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Unknown

John Forster : Life of Charles Dickens

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Forster's Dickens. It interested, but disappointed me -- through having too many opinions and 'remarks' and not enough facts and documents."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Joseph Ernest Renan : unknown

" ... [Henry James] would [after 1872] be a close reader of Renan ... whom he later met."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: Le Figaro

Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): " ... I read the Figaro every day, religiously, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

William James : Review of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence"

Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though but imperfectly understood it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

: The Atlantic, including articles by Henry James and William Dean Howells

Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873: "Yesterday came an Atlantic with my Bethnal Green notice and its other rare treasures. The B.G.N. doesn't figure very solidly as a 'Lady-article'; it was meant as a notice. But it was as good as the rest, which, save Howells' two pieces, which his genius saves, read rather queerly in Rome."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent, and was very gracious, and being draped (for an evening call) in lavender satin lavishly decollete, reminded me strangely, in her talk and manner, of the time when as infants, in St. John's Wood, we heard her read the Midsummer Night's Dream."

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Anne Kemble

: Roman newspapers

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 26 January 1873: "I trust indeed [Edward S.] Stokes will be hanged [for murder of James Fisk]. I have just been reading in the Roman newspapers an account of the queer scene on the rendering of the verdict."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

unknown : Italian texts

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very easy."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Henry James Sr : anecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster")

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: "Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster. It is admirable material, and excellently presented: I have transcribed it in my notebook with religious care, and think that some day something will come of it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Sheet

William James : "criticism of Middlemarch"

Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Middlemarch was excellent and I have duly transcribed it into that note-book which it will be a relief to your mind to know I have at last set up."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Letter

John Tillotson : Sermons

'Sam. Jenner drank tea with me, and to whom in the evening I read two of Tillotson's sermons.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As you like it

'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I think good comedies.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The taming of the shrew

'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I think good comedies.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Works

'After the fatigue of the day was over, I read part of Shakespeare's "Works".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Works

'In the even read part of Shakespeare's "Works", which I think extreme good in their kind.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

William Beveridge : Private thoughts upon religion digested into twelve articles, with practical resolutions form'd thereupon

'In the even read part of Beveridge's "Thoughts".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

John Wilkes : The North Briton

'In the even read several political papers called "The North Briton", which are wrote by John Wilkes Esq., member for Aylesbury in Bucks, for the writing of which he has been committed to the Tower, and procured his release by a writ of habeas corpus. I really think they breathe forth such a spirit of liberty that it is an extreme good paper.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Marcus Tullius Cicero : [Letters]

'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned for the fame of Cicero; and that for fame and self-exaltation sake. In some of his orations, what is called his vehemence (but really is too often insult and ill manners) so transports him, that a modern pleader... would not be heard, if he were to take the like freedoms... Cicero's constitutional faults seem to be vanity and cowardice. Great geniuses seldom have small faults. You have seen, I presume, Dr Middleton's "Life of Cicero". It is a fine piece; but the Doctor, I humbly think, has played the panegyrist, in some places in it, rather than the historian. The present laureat's performance on the same subject, of which Dr Middleton's is the foundation, is a spirited and pretty piece... You greatly oblige me, Madam, whenever you give me your observations upon what you read'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group:

Marcus Tullius Cicero :

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Conyers Middleton : History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Colley Cibber : The Character and Conduct of Cicero Considered

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : [letters and poetical scraps]

'I remember once to have seen a little collection of letters and poetical scraps of Swift's, which passed between him and Mrs Van Homrigh, this same Vanessa, which the bookseller then told me were sent him to be published, from the originals, by this lady, in resentment of his perfidy'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Letter

Charlotte Lennox : The Female Quixote

'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do you not think, however her heroine over-acts her part, that Arabella is amiable and innocent? The writer has genius. She is hardly twenty four, and has been unhappy. She wrote a piece, called "Harriet Stuart''.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Charlotte Lennox : The Life of Harriet Stuart, Written by Herself

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Charlotte Lennox : The Female Quixote

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

n/a : Old and New Testament

'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which he dilated with a force and eloquence that would have done honour to a barrister. With the most plausible reasoning he united the most cutting sarcasm, and with a show of ... candour he would invite our replies to his propositions, or challenge us to produce the arguments for our faith, woe to the unfortunate who had the temerity to accept his challenge.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful and entertaining books. A child of his landlady read to him as he lay upon a sofa, while he endeavoured to fancy himself, as he said, a gentleman of fashion paying the penalty of a debouch.'

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

Tom Paine : Age of Reason

'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age of Reason" was among the first; and, in order that both sides of the question might be fairly presented to my mind, was immediately followed by Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible". I should have read neither. What mischief the infidel writer effected the Bishop failed to repair.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

Bishop Watson : Apology for the bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my thoughts were far away, and I knew not what I had read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

William Cobbett : [French Grammar]

'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [French pocket dictionary]

'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionnary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

[n/a] : Testament

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

[n/a] : Telemaque

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper advertisements]

'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without a hope of finding employment of some other kind, in case the printing should fail.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Moniteur

'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield

'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answering of such questions as he thought fit to put. Having made this arrangement he produced a copy of the "Vicar of Wakefield", and, commencing at the title-page, read it after me, looking to me for translation as he went along. In this way we got through four or five pages in the course of the first hour.'

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

Dr D of Prospect Villa : [letter]

"'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Patty picked it up - it was directed to my father, and my mother opened it... My mother put a half-sheet into my hand from Dr D of Prospect Villa, ... "There", said she, "is something which I hope will prevent your going to Caudon - read it". The note was an acknowledgement...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Manuscript: Letter

Dr D of Prospect Villa : [letter]

'One morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Patty picked it up - it was directed to my father, and my mother opened it... My mother put a half-sheet into my hand from Dr D of Prospect Villa, ... "There", said she, "is something which I hope will prevent your going to Caudon - read it". The note was an acknowledgement...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Smith Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [unknown]

[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with madam - sometimes I read aloud from some work of history of philosophy selected by the Doctor.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

Dr D : [manuscript of his book]

[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I had completed the first volume, amounting to above four hundred pages, of the Doctor's book. So far as I was capable of finding, it was an admirable work, profound in thought, simple in style, and full of matter, though somewhat disfigured by virulent remarks upon Methodism and Dissent in all forms.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Manuscript: manuscript of book

[n/a] : The Times

'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it came to my turn, they could never understand my "professional" mode of reading, and made me many humble requests for explanation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper

Torquato Tasso : unknown

Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 9 May 1873: "Some time since I began to read Tasso with Miss Bartlett and though he is very delicious I have let it become rather desultory."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James and Miss Bartlett Print: Book

: newspaper

Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 11 May 1873 (letter begun 9 May): "I have seen some newspaper mention of [Aimee Olympe] Desclee [actress]'s being about to appear with the French company in London."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

: comments on Henry James's April 1873 North American Review article on Theophile Gautier

Henry James, in letter to William James, 19 May 1873, mentions receiving and reading a "scrap from the Advertiser" (enclosed in letter from William) about his work on Gautier.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

William Dean Howells : A Chance Acquaintance (fifth part)

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having a sale -- bless it! I haven't yet seen the last part ... Your fifth part I extremely relished ... Kitty [character] is a creation. I have envied you greatly, as I read, the delight of feeling her grow so real and complete ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Thomas Bailey Aldrich : Marjory Daw

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I've just seen Aldrich's Marjory Daw in the Revue looking as natural as if begotten in the Gallic brain. It's a pretty compliment to have translated it ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

William Dean Howells : A Chance Acquaintance

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): "I had great pleasure in reading it over ... [goes on to praise in detail]"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henry James : Eugene Pickering

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in separate cover: "I have been reading it to my brother who pronounces it 'quite brilliant.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the mornings, walk about in the afternoons, and doze over a book in the evenings."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Thomas Bailey Aldrich : story

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 May 1874: "Of Aldrich's tale, I'm sorry to say I've lost the thread, through missing a number of the magazine ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

: wedding announcement

Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 29 July 1874: "I cut out of the Galignani the other day, to send you, a paragraph on Miss Lowe's marriage, at Venice, and have stupidly lost it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : unknown

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemble read Calderon for me tete a tete of a morning."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

unknown : "dullish books"

Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: " ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth your hearing of. I have seen a certain number of ordinary people and read some dullish books ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Dean Howells : review of Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ... If kindness could kill I should be safely out of the reach of ever challenging your ingenuity again."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : unknown

Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Queen Mary], were very modest ... I know him only as we all know him -- by desultory reading ..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Jean de La Bruyere : Les caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, avec des notes par M. Coste

[Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Louis the Fourteenth Pooh! P...! What a Prostitution of Talents [?] & Truth!' 'Is it that [?] can creep and pride that licks the dust' Two very brief notes on p. 342 and p. 182. Also has marginal marks | and * on various pages.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Robert Thomas : The modern practice of physic, exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognostic, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating, the diseases of all climates

[Marginalia]: pencil annotations on last binding page are in Latin and appear to be brief notes relating to 4 classes of disorders.

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Sinclair : Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair

[Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days into two parts only Morning and Evening - the Scotch divide it into four parts Morning, Forenoon, Afternoon, & Evening'; p. 28 at foot of page 'What like is such a Thing? What appearance has such a thing?'; p.25 at foot of page 'Almost nothing. Hardly anything Ex: His house was burnt down & almost nothing [underlined] was saved & hardly anything [underlined] was saved'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice of my good old dad, as he read deliberately the psalms and the prayer as in the days when I lay in my mother's lap while she soothed little Ned to silence in her arms.'

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

[unknown] : [prayer book]

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

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and enjoyed by millions, I am afraid I could never thoroughly master the contents of either of them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Tinsley Print: Book

: [letters]

'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often asked to read and write letters for neighbours who could not read or write for themselves.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Tinsley Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : The Weekly Dispatch

'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and days they were to have the paper read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: villagers of South Mimms Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [various titles]

'I was fond of reading when at home, but we had not an abundance of books; so as soon as I settled at Notting Hill, I often in the evening made my way to Oxford and other streets where I could find open bookshops, and in the course of a couple of years I had purchased and read a fair selection of our standard authors, and, as I shall mention in future pages, I became fairly well acquainted with the drama and the players. I am afraid I was rather more fond of the drama and works of fiction than of books of more general interest.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Tinsley Print: Book

Benjamin Franklin : The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These were the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Frederick Douglass : Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

'There is a novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which I should not omit to mention, since it made a great sensation when it appeared, and it was the only book of its class brought home by my father. "Uncle Tom" was read aloud in our little family circle, and it gave us many hours of happy, thrilling and not unwholesome excitement.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Burt Print: Book

Richard Hildreth : The white slave, or memoirs of a fugitive

'That would be in the year 1852, when I was fifteen. About the same time I read "The White Slave" and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. Thus began a keen, lasting interest in the anti-slavery agitation.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Horace Benedict Saussure : Voyage dans les Alpes

'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than powerful or philosophical narrative which Horace Benedict Saussure gives of his journeys in the Alps. I am in the third quarto-'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Biot : Traite de Physique

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

John Gay : Gay's Fables

'I always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: New Testament

'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could find in the way of commentary and elucidation, gladly working myself into an enthusiasm with the moral beauty and spiritual promises I found in the Sacred Writings.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: Old and New Testament

'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I could not account for the small number of cut and dry commands.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the door closed behind the other chapel-goers, I looked at the books on the table. The ugliest-looking of them was turned down open; and my turning it up was one of the leading incidents of my life. That plain, clumsy, calf-bound volume was "Paradise Lost";...there was something about Satan cleaving Chaos, which made me turn to the poetry; and my mental destiny was fixed for the next seven years.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Catherine Dodd : Farthing Spinster, The

'I am reading a sweet book, "The Farthing Spinster", by Catherine Dodd. Some of the passages about gardens are beautiful. Here are some of the most lovely [...] from the diary of an early 18C lady. I wish my diary could be as beautiful as that. Another of her gardens was of "sweet scents" [...]. "A houseful of books and a garden full of flowers" would be enchanting. In the same book is a delicious description of syllabub, a sweet then in fashion; [...] I love food. I wonder if it is greed or just because I love to see things served well and carefully with their proper etceteras. I think books, food, lovely pictures, good plays and nice clothes are the most interesting things in my life! I suppose the book has made me think of these things.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Cecil Roberts : And So to Bath

'I am reading a lovely book "And so to Bath" by Cecil Roberts. I must try to get it at home next hols.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Axel Munthe : Story of San Michele, The

'Another lovely book called "The Story of San Michele".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.P. Herbert : Secret Battle, The

'A very exciting book called "The Secret Battle" by APH. It is about the last war, and is rather pathetic in parts. I really oughtn't to be reading fiction these days but I really can't start revising yet'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Kenneth Bradley : Diary of a District Officer

[in the sick bay with measles, after a week not allowed to read] 'I was very bored, and started reading "Diary of a District Officer". Matron says that I must not read more than two hours a day!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Helen Waddell : Peter Abelard

'I am reading "Peter Abelard" ...[it's] a wonderful book and not at all hard to read. I have nearly finished it now. Wish I hadn't!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Mazo de la Roche : Two Saplings, The

'I tried to finish "The Three Saplings" [sic] by Mazo de la Roche but couldn't'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

T.H. White : Farewell Victoria

'I read a lot of "Farewell Victoria"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Francis Brett Young : My Brother Jonathon

'I am reading a very thick fiction book, although we have to give them in by Monday. Dangerous!... We had a super day doing nothing! I read the whole time "My Brother Jonathon"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur

'Read and read "Fame is the Spur" which is gorgeous.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

: [books on party games]

'I spent the morning in the Public Library and am reading some lovely books. I read all afternoon and tried to think up games for our next Xmas party. It's as well to be ready for it! There are lots of books of games in the library and I'm going to read them all!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Williamson : Dandelion Days

'Read most of day. I am reading "Dandelion Days", and love it. I must get some more of the Henry Williamson books.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : Surgeon's Log, The

'I have almost finished "The Surgeon's Log". The first fiction book of this term!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", as I always do when in the sick room.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Richmal Crompton : Old Man's Birthday, The

[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Old Man's Birthday".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

James Agate : Ego 5

[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Ego 5", which is super.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Kidnapped

[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Kidnapped". Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until Monday. Damn. Felt miserable. Read "Trail of the Sandhill Stag" and tidied out the book cupboard.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Ernest Seton Thompson : Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

'Am reading "Jane Eyre" and adore it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Eleanor Smith : Man in Grey, The

'I read "The Man in Grey" which is simply glorious. I must ry and get it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Mary Webb : House in Dormer Forest, The

'Am reading "The house in Dormer Forest" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I think it's the only one of Mary W's books I'll like, as I tried "Precious Bane" and hated it after the 2nd page.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Mary Webb : Precious Bane

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Richard Llewellyn : How Green Was My Valley

'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Buchan : Witch Wood

'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel

'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Lotos Eaters, The

'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]

'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]

'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Ian Fraser : Whereas I was Blind

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Hammond Innes : Attack Alarm

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Rode : Murders in Praed Street, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Eleanor Smith : Lover's Meeting

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Donald Ross : MD - Doctor of Murder

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

R.A.J. Walling : Murder at the Keyhole

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dora Olive Thompson : That Girl Ginger

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Anthony Armstrong : Ten Minute Alibi

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Edgar Rice Burroughs : Tarzan the Untamed

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Ian Hay : Pip

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Nevil Shute : Pied Piper

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Ngaio Marsh : Man Lay Dead, A

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

James Hilton : Random Harvest

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Eve Curie : Madame Curie

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Stalky and Co

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rafael Sabatini : Bellarion

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Beverley Nicholls : Down the Garden Path

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : The Three Musketeers

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Noel Streatfeild : House in Cornwall, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

"Bartimeus" : Tall Ship, A

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

H.A. Vachell : Quinneys

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Edward Woodward : House of Terror

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein : 'Considerations on the French Revolution'

'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Robert Jameson : Unknown

'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is Jameson with his most crude theories - his orders Mammalia, Digitala & fencibles of gli[illegible]rac & bruta with [chi[sel]-shaped foreteeth && grieves me every day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein : Considerations Sur La Revolution Francaise

'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject. Besides, it is not so easy to criticise the brilliant work of Madame de Stael-considerations sur quelques evenemen[t]s de la revolution - as to tell you, what I learnt from a small Genevese attending Jameson's class, that she was very ugly and very immoral- yet had fine eyes, and was very kind to the poor people of Coppet & the environs.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Horace Benedict Saussure : Voyages dans les Alpes

'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same authority [a small Genevese], I inform you that Horace Benedict Saussure (whose beautiful voyages I have not yet finished) died 20 years ago; but Theodore, his son, is still living.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jean Sylvain Bailly : Memoires D'un Temoin De La Revolution

'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grieved me to see the august historian of astronomy, the intimate of Kepler, Gallileo & Newton- "thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd," at the approbation or the blame of Parisian tradesmen - not to speak of the "pouvres ouvriers" [poor workers], as he fondly names the dogs, du faubourg St Antoine.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Edward Moore : The Gamester

'I heard the greatest part of the Gamester read by Mr Garrick, before it was brought upon the stage. On the whole, I much liked it. I thought it a very affecting performance. There are faults in it; but I think it a moral and seasonable piece'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: David Garrick

Thomas Edwards : [letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela']

'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life, I should have made a much more perfect Piece of my first Favourite.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Letter

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of it, I laboured under a real uneasiness for a whole week, from the strong desire I had to be master of such a one. I was a very sheepish boy, and thought I should make very happy use of it on a multitude of occasions.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Lady Bradshaigh : 'Determinta'

'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder that he had not made a Paper of it, as I thought it would have been a very good one. He remembered it not; and spoke handsomely of it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing

Lady Bradshaigh : 'Determinta'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing

William Shakespeare : [illustrated, edited version]

'I have nothing to say in favour or disfavour of the Shakespeare illustrated. Some pieces are not calculated for more than the present Age, or Time, I should rather say. But this, endeavouring to rob Shakespeare of his Invention, proposes possibly a more durable Existence. Yet, I would not wish to be the Author of so invidious a Piece.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Lady Bradshaigh : [comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]

'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet's frequent declarations of her love, she also censured; and honours you for both Opinions. Miss Mulso exulted, by clapping her wings, as I may say, on your Ladyship's Censure of the divided Love. She admires every word you say by way of Censure or Objection'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Letter

Lady Bradshaigh : [comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Mulso Manuscript: Letter

Lady Bradshaigh : [comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Donellan Manuscript: Letter

David Mallett : Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit

'You did not tell me before, that you had read "the Hermit" and "Alfrida". There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinion of the poetical capacity of both gentlemen. I was not disappointed. I forget the story of the Hermit, and its management: But in general I was pleased with it. Mr Mason has a fine genius... But I thought his piece was rather too poetical. - A strange censure of a fine piece of poetry. In other words, that he was too lavish, in other words. of his poetical talents...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

William Mason : Elfrida

'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinion of the poetical capacity of both gentlemen. I was not disappointed. I forget the story of the Hermit, and its management: But in general I was pleased with it. Mr Mason has a fine genius... But I thought his piece was rather too poetical. - A strange censure of a fine piece of poetry. In other words, that he was too lavish, in other words. of his poetical talents...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

William Mason : Elfrida

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Bradshaigh Print: Book

David Mallett : Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Bradshaigh Print: Book

Sarah Scott (attrib) : A Journey Thro' Every Stage of Life

'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intitled, "A Journey thro' Life." My wife and girls, and Miss Collier say it is not very interesting, but has some moral sentiments in it. It seems to me, by the Contents, to be a collection of tales or Stories.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Richardson's wife and daughters Print: Book

Sarah Scott (attrib) : A Journey Thro' Every Stage of Life

'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intituled, A Journey thro' Life. My wife and girls, and Miss Collier say it is not very interesting, but has some moral sentiments in it. It seems to me, by the Contents, to be a collection of tales or Stories.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Collier Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de Sevigne : Letters

'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion given of the French manner tho' written in the middle reign of Louis XIV. What are the Two volumes called the History of Man from the French also. There is a volume which is not chaste enough to be recommended to your Ladiship. It is truly French. Its language good. But for the knowledge of the hearts of people given up to what is called Gallantry, particularly French Gallantry, I have not seen its equal. It is called Letters of Ninon de Lenclos to the marquis of Sevigne. Son of the above-named Lady, and her contemporary. It will not offend the Ear. But I would not by any means recommend it to a very young Lady'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

: The History of Man

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Ninon de Lenclos : Letters of Ninon de Lenclos to the Marquis of Sevigne

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

David Hartley : Observations on Man

'Dr Young once told me, that Dr Hartley's Two Volumes on Man were the Most Original of any thing he had seen published of many years. He praised them; but owned, that one of them was abstruse'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr (Edward?) Young Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : Adventurer, The

'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose from the Character judicious Friends give of them, to make them part of my Reading Entertainment when I have Leisure'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Serial / periodical

Christopher Smart : On the omniscence of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Christopher Smart : On the power of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

unknown : Penguin Parade 4

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dorothy L Sayers : The Man Born to be King

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : Casterton Papers

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Harrison Ainsworth : Old Saint Paul's

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Steinbeck : The Moon is Down

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

W.C. Sellar : 1066 and All That

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.E.W. Mason : Ensign Knightley

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Paul de Kruif : Men Against Death

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Margaret Mitchell : Gone with the Wind

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Beverley Nichols : Mesmer

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

James Agate : First Nights

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : Hound of the Baskervilles, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

T.S. Eliot : Little Gidding

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

P.C. Wren : Beau Geste

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

P.C. Wren : Beau Sabreur

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

James Agate : Amazing Theatre, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : Pleasure of your Company, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

F Anstey : Humour and Fantasy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Sean O'Casey : Juno and the Paycock

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Williamson : Beautiful Years, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Williamson : Salar the Salmon

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Williamson : Dream of Fair Women, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Williamson : Star-born, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Unknown : Teach yourself to Think

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Cathedral, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Harry S. Keller : Mysterious Mr I, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Arthur Ransome : Picts and the Martyrs, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

H.G. Wells : Three Short Stories

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Beverley Nichols : Thatched Roof, A

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Sava : Healing Knife, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : Nine Ghosts

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Alexander Woolcot : While Rome Burns

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Beverley Nichols : Star Spangled Manner, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Anna Sligh Turnbull : Day Must Dawn, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Harrison Ainsworth : Tower of London, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Sarah Hodgson Burnett : Little Princess, A

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Ian Hay : Lighter Side of School Life, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Kay Ambrose : Ballet Lover's Notebook

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

J.M. Barrie : Plays of J.M. Barrie

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Noel Coward : I'll Leave it to You

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry the Fifth

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Palgrave : Longer Poems

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

S.P.B. Mais : Writing of English, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

E.F. Benson : Miss Mapp

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Franz Werfel : Song of Bernadette, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Laurence Housman : Happy and Glorious

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Sixty Poems

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

R Brimley Johnson : Birth of Romance, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

R Brimley Johnson : Comedy of Life, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

R Brimley Johnson : Some Little Tales

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Kenneth Grahame : Dream Days

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Margaret Irwin : Royal Flush

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

'Am reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which is glorious, but very sad. I cried buckets and buckets!"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Warwick Deeping : Roper's Row

'Whole afternoon and evening of prep in which I (most regrettably) finished "Roper's Row".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's Schooldays

'I am reading "Tom's Brown's Schooldays", which is awfully nice.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Guy Pierce Jones : Two Survived

'Read "Two Survived", the most amazing book, which is most exciting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Sister Black : King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse

'Am reading "King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse", which is really glorious.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Gielgud : Early Stages

'Am reading, at long last, "Early Stages" by John Gielgud.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Stella Gibbons : Cold Comfort Farm

'Read lovely book: "Cold Comfort Farm"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Eric Linklater : Great Ship, The

'Shopped and tried to find some books. Succeeded at last in getting "The Great Ship", the play by Linklater that JG was in last year on the wireless.' [NB "The Great Ship" appears on the list of 'Books read during this year' [1944] at end of diary]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Count of Monte Cristo, The

'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged) which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Killer and the Slain, The

'Didn't do much work as was reading "The Killer and the Slain", which I don't like much as it's very sordid and morbid.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Franz Werfel : Song of Bernadette

'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.' NB "Song of Bernadette" appears on the list of 'books read during this year' [1944].

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

H Rider Haggard : King Solomon's Mines

'Worked rather intermittantly [sic] as was dying to read the end of "King's Solomon's Mines" [sic]. However, when this was done, I settled down OK.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dorothy L Sayers : Have His Carcase

'Read "Have His Carcase". Will be the last fiction I'll read at weekends till after exams, worse luck. Am beginning revision to-morrow.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland

'Revised all day and was really sick of it. Got very stale & ended up by reading "Alice in Wonderland"! Much more refreshing than O.T.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

: [books]

'Read all afternoon and evening, to parent's [sic] disgust but my delight. Pub. Lib. books.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Enid Bagnold : Lottie Dundass

'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

E.M. Delafield : Provincial Lady in America

'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Helen Waddell : Peter Abelard

'Spent glorious morning doing book [i.e. sorting bookcase] & enjoying myself thoroughly. Bought "Balletomania" at long last, and am so thrilled as have wanted it for ages. Am re-reading "Peter Abelard" & again it is far and away the best book I have ever read. Have saved ?2 for next hol's book buying!' NB "Balletomania" does not appear on the list of books read during 1944 at the end of the diary.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Some Essays of Elia

'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fortnight I might manage to finish (by February) "The Age of Wordsworth"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Charles Lamb : The Best of Lamb

'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fortnight I might manage to finish (by February) "The Age of Wordsworth"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

'Today I finished "Wuthering Heights" and began "Villette". I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I can - they are most refreshing and not a bit old fashioned as they ought to be.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Villette

'Today I finished "Wuthering Heights" and began "Villette". I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I can - they are most refreshing and not a bit old fashioned as they ought to be.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Hazlitt : unknown

'English at the moment is super - we are doing the history of drama, and Hazlitt, both most interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Villette

'Finished "Villette", and went fast asleep on couch.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Complete Plays

'Read Shaw, which is wonderful, but I'm sure I don't understand half of it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Axel Munthe : Story of San Michele, The

'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Williamson : unknown

'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Beverley Nichols : unknown

'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Hiawatha

'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Walter de la Mare : Arabia

'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : The Specialist

[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of the Kingdom; Two Survived; Hamlet; King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse; The Snow Goose; Gerald; Early Stages; Cross Creek; Footnotes to the Ballet; The Great Ship; Hungry Hill; Hiawatha; Captain Blood; Scaramouche; Heartbreak House; Fortune's Fool; Fifth Form at St Dominic's; Cold Comfort Farm; The Lost King; The count of Monte Cristo; Diary of a Provincial Lady; Frenchman's Creek; Song of Bernadette; Romeo and Juliet; Rebecca; The Surgeon's Destiny; The Killer and the Slain; Anna; King Solomon's Mines; The Black Moth; Have His Carcase; Peacock Pie; Alice in Wonderland; The Citadel; Good Companions; Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; The Healing Knife; First Year Out; Saint Joan; Stars Look Down; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Rogue Herries; Caesar and Cleopatra; Xmas at Cold Comfort Farm; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; The Velvet Deer; Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book; A Christmas Carol; Craft of Comedy; As You Like It; Lottie Dundass; Plays of John Galsworthy; Provincial Lady in America; She Shanties; Peter Abelard; Actor, Soldier, Poet; The Best of Lamb; Some Essay of Elia; Poems, Plays etc; The White Cliffs; Three Men in a Boat; Confessions of an Opium Eater; In Search of England; Wuthering Heights; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Poems of Contemporary Women; Crime at the Club; Quality Street; Villette; Major Barbara; Pygmalion; You Never Can Tell; King John; Doctor's Dilemma'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rachel Field : All This and Heaven Too

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Lord Lytton : Antony: A Record of Youth

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Eleanor Smith : Life's a Circus

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.J. Cronin : Keys of the Kingdom, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Paul Gallico : Snow Goose, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Daphne Du Maurier : Gerald

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings : Cross Creek

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Caryl Brahms : Footnotes to the Ballet

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Daphne Du Maurier : Hungry Hill

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rafael Sabatini : Captain Blood

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rafael Sabatini : Scaramouche

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Heartbreak House

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rafael Sabatini : Fortune's Fool

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Talbot Baines Reed : Fifth Form at St Dominic's

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rafael Sabatini : Lost King, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

E.M. Delafield : Diary of a Provincial Lady

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Daphne Du Maurier : Frenchman's Creek

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Daphne Du Maurier : Rebecca

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Sava : Surgeon's Destiny, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Norman Collins : Anna

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Georgette Heyer : Black Moth, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Walter de la Mare : Peacock Pie

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.J. Cronin : Citadel, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

J.B. Priestley : Good Companions

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

C.O. Skinner : Our Hearts were Young and Gay

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Sava : Healing Knife, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : First Year Out

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Saint Joan

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.J. Cronin : Stars Look Down

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Thornton Wilder : Bridge of San Luis Rey

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Rogue Herries

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Caesar and Cleopatra

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Stella Gibbons : Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Dark Lady of the Sonnets

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : Velvet Deer, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

J Harpole : Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Christmas Carol, A

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A Seyler : Craft of Comedy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As You Like It

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Plays

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.P. Herbert : She Shanties

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : Actor, Soldier, Poet

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Alice Duer Miller : White Cliffs, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Jerome K. Jerome : Three Men in a Boat

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

H.V. Morton : In Search of England

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Pericles

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

M.M. Were : Poems of Contemporary Women

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Wilfred Massey : Crime at the Club

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

J.M. Barrie : Quality Street

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Major Barbara

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : You Never Can Tell

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Doctor's Dilemma

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King John

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'One of my aunts, living some two miles away, I discovered had a copy of Bunyan's immortal dream. The Bible and the pilgrim. Bunyan, for some reason, probably because of the great esteem in which it was held, was hidden away in a drawer, and my aunt was disinclined to let me take the book away with me, but she gladly gave me permission to read it at her house. As my visits were few, I had to read it by snatches. Ultimately I read it all, some portions many times over, with intense delight, though I fear with no great spiritual profit.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

John Milton : Aeropagitica

'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle market-place, to light upon some off volumes of Milton?s prose works, which I bought for a few shillings. I read them all ? politics, theology, travels, with touches of autobiography- nothing came amiss to my voracious appetite. Over and over again did I read the Areopagitica, ?that sublime treatise? which, Macaulay tells us, ?every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand and as frontlets between his eyes?.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Cowper : [poems]

?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence, being the first book I bought for myself. It emptied my pocket, but I walked home, as I had walked to Newcastle (a distance some eighteen miles to and fro) with a light head, now and then reading as I fared along. Longfellow, Pope, Milton, Wordsworth and other poets were soon afterwards added to my little collection. I read them all. Many passages have clung to my memory, a life-long possession, giving, with their music, sometimes inspiration, sometimes solace in the conflicts and sorrows of life.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : [poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

John Milton : [poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

[n/a] : British Controversionalist

?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educator", "Historical Educator" and "Educational Course"? Cassell?s publications, cheap and solid, were a great book to me. The "Popular Educator" was my chief handbook. Always fond of linguistics studies, I tackled lessons in English, in French and in Latin.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a : Popular Educator

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Educational Course

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

: Historical educator

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

Archibald Alison : History of Europe

?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s "History of Europe" and Humboldt?s "Cosmos".?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bailey Print: Book

Alexander van Humboldt : Cosmos

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bailey Print: Book

Phillip James Bailey : Festus: A poem

?[William Ritson] was a lover of books ? specially fond of poetry. He lent me about this time a paper-backed copy of Bailey?s "Festus", which I read with great admiration.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Othello" and "Lear". From no "edition de luxe" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Measure for measure

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Love's Labour's Lost

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Othello" and "Lear". From no "edition de luxe" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither the theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

[n/a] : The Cornhill Magazine

?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I knew it was on sale, I walked to Beddington and came home the proud possessor of the first number. Thackeray?s "Roundabout papers" and some of his stories I read with much gusto. Before the year was out there appeared in the Cornhill a series of remarkable papers by John Ruskin, "Unto this last". These I read with avidity from beginning to end. Long and deep did I ponder over them. The style ? so simple, so beautiful, so telling ? captivated me??

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Babbington Macaulay : History of England

?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Lucy Gray

?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Wordsworth : We are seven

?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Daffodils

?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some of the shorter poems ? "The Daffodils", "The Highland Girl", "The Solitary Reaper" and other gems ? and invited me to read them aloud, Joe?s quick ear soon detected that I read with the spirit as well as with the understanding, and, thus tutored, I quickly became a devoted Wordsworthian.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

[n/a] : Newcastle Chronicle

'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From beginning to end the letter was a fierce diatribe against the strikers, the Miner's Union, and the Secretary of the Union.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Newspaper

John Nicholl : The execrable practice of buying and selling livings commonly called Simony: in a sermon

'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar of Westham in this county, and part of three discourses written by James Walder, a Baptist preacher, the last of which I esteem the best performance, it being in my judgment written with a true spirit of piety and in a pretty modest style. And what may, I presume, be proper for to be read by any sect whatsoever, there being nothing more in it than what is the duty of all Christians both to practise and believe.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Unknown

James Walder : The ax laid to the root; or, a preservative against the erroneous doctrines of the Methodists; candidly offered to the consideration of all Christians

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure

'In the even, read some "Universal Magazines".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Gilbert Burnet : The history of the reformation of the Church of England

'In the afternoon and even read part of Burnet's "History of the Reformation" which I esteem a very impartial history, as the author has everywhere treated his subject with moderation and coolness, which is in my opinion always a sign of learning and virtue.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

: The London magazine; or, gentleman's monthly intelligencer

'In the even read part of the "London Magazine" for July, in which I find a great many excellent pieces, more than I ever remember to have seen in any one magazine. Perhaps I may be partial in my opinion, and only think them excellent as they agree with my own sentiments, for we are apt to be partial in our judgment of men and books as they agree and are similar to our own thoughts, few having so sound a judgment as to think and act impartial when their interests or sentiments are the topic.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Homer : Odyssey

'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being vastly good and the turn of thought and expression beautiful.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book

Louise-Florence d'Epinay : Memoirs

Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Her [Louise-Florence d'Epinay's] Memoirs I read years ago ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Countess Claire-Elisabeth de Remusat : Correspondence (vols 6 and 7)

Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] volumes of Mme de Remusat, just out -- her correspondence with her son -- and finding them interestng ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Autobiography

Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature, for its density, blockishness and general thickness and soddenness."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : Senilia

Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been reading them all in German ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : Sapho

19 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Francis Parkman : Montcalm and Wolfe

Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high appreciation and genuine gratitude I have been reading your Wolfe and Montcalm ... I have found the right time to read it only during the last fortnight, and it has fascinated me from the first page to the last."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

James Anthony Froude : Life of Carlyle (concluding instalments)

Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Carlyle ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Vernon Lee : Euphorion

Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it such a prodigious young performance ... that dedications should come to you not from you [Lee had dedicated her novel Miss Brown to James]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Grace Norton : [unidentified articles]

Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Louis Stevenson : article

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's in genial rejoinder to my article in the same periodical on Besant's lecture, and the result ... is a friendly desire to send you three words."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Humphry Ward : Miss Bretherton

Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henry James Sr and William James : The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James

Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... All I have had time to read as yet is the introduction ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book, Unknown

E. L. Godkin : review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James

Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: "You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the letter you wrote about the [unfavourable] review [in The Nation] of your book [The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James]. When I had read the article it was absolutely impossible for me not to write to him on my own account ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Vernon Lee : Miss Brown

Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of them over again."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Vernon Lee : Miss Brown

Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of them over again."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Emile Zola : Germinal

Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrous, and I must say in some ways admirable, Germinal."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : Bel-Ami

Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and delicate attention in sending me Maupassant's ineffable novel, which I fell upon and devoured, with the utmost relish and gratitude. It brightened me up, here, for a day or two, amazingly."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: newspapers

Henry James to William James, 24 July 1885: "I read in the papers here of long and intense heat in the US ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

H. Rider Haggard : King Solomon's Mines

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything so vulgarly brutal should be the thing that succeeds most with the English of today [goes on to complain further of violence and racism in this novel]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. Rider Haggard : She

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : The Early Letters of Carlyle

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial present of Carlyle ... I read the two volumes with exceeding interest ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Dean Howells : The Minister's Charge

Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half ago was to purchase 'Lemuel Barker' ... and though I laid him down twenty-four hours ago I am still full of the sense of how he beguiled and delighted and illumined my way. The beauties of nature passed unheeded and the St. Gotthard tunnel, where I had a reading lamp, was over in a shriek. The book is so awfully good that my perusal of it was one uninterrupted Bravo."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: Punch

Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen under my eye, that you have been at Brighton ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

William Dean Howells : article

Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 'tribute' in the September Harper, but I have just looked it up."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : Portrait of a Lady

Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear the Portrait of a Lady. I read it all, and I wept, too; but I can't stand your having written it, and I beg you will write no more of the like."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Unknown

Paul Bourget : Mensonges

23 February 1888: Henry James writes (in French) to Paul Bourget on having read and enjoyed Bourget's Mensonges.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: The Times

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other night to American literati to thank them for praying for international copyright ... I see by this morning's Times that the banqueted boon is further off than ever."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Edmund Gosse : Life of Congreve

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, just out, and I have read it ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : The Master of Ballantrae

Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballantrae, the new novel ... [R. L. Stevenson] is about to contribute to Scribner, and have been reading them with breathless admiration."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Sheet

William Mason : [items in Dodsley's Miscellanies]

'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as Mr Mason'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

David Mallett : [Life of Bacon]

'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as Mr Mason.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

David Hartley : [passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations.

'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser Parts'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

David Hartley : Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations.

'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser Parts.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Bradshaigh Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : The Adventurer

'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnson, the Author of the Rambler. The two Gentlemen have a high Opinion of each other. Mr Hawkesworth has written some very good things in Cave's Magazine...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Bradshaigh Print: Serial / periodical

John Hawkesworth : [items in Cave's Magazine]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Serial / periodical

various authors : correspondence and other papers

'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, when done, will amuse me by reading over again, a very ample Correspondence: & in comparing the Sentiments of my Correspondents, at the time, with their present; and improving from both'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Letter, letters and papers

Edward Young : The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Friend on The Life in Vogue

'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less of the Enthusiasm of Poetry in it; less of Imagination. But are there not very fine, very solemn, very noble Strokes in almost every Page of it? Is not the Author's good Design apparent in every Line?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS

Joseph Warton : An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope

'I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "Christian Morals", by Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, Author of Religio Medici, with his Life and Explanatory Notes, by S. Johnson, Author of the Rablers, will, I believe, amuse you. There is a third Book written by Mr G[reville], a Man of Fashion, intitled, "Maxims", "Characters" or some such Title. Among his Subjects, he takes to Task (to severe Task, some have thought) the Writings of your Humble Servt. Thus I wrote upon it to a Lady, who was unwilling I should see it, for fear it shd. vex me; a Fear several of my Friends had on the same Account; "I have read Mr G[reville's] Censure of the Writings of a certain Author. I sincerely think there may be Justice in the most unfavourable Part of it."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Thomas Browne : Christian Morals

I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "Christian Morals", by Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, Author of Religio Medici, with his Life and Explanatory Notes, by S. Johnson, Author of "the Rablers", will, I believe, amuse you. There is a third Book written by Mr G[reville], a Man of Fashion, intitled, "Maxims", "Characters" or some such Title. Among his Subjects, he takes to Task (to severe Task, some have thought) the Writings of your Humble Servt. Thus I wrote upon it to a Lady, who was unwilling I should see it, for fear it shd. vex me; a Fear several of my Friends had on the same Account; "I have read Mr G[reville's] Censure of the Writings of a [italics] certain Author[end italics]. I sincerely think there may be Justice in the most unfavourable Part of it."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Fulke Greville : Maxims, Characters and Reflections

I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "Christian Morals", by Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, Author of "Religio Medici", with his Life and Explanatory Notes, by S. Johnson, Author of the Rablers, will, I believe, amuse you. There is a third Book written by Mr G[reville], a Man of Fashion, intitled, "Maxims, Characters" or some such Title. Among his Subjects, he takes to Task (to severe Task, some have thought) the Writings of your Humble Servt. Thus I wrote upon it to a Lady, who was unwilling I should see it, for fear it shd. vex me; a Fear several of my Friends had on the same Account; "I have read Mr G[reville's] Censure of the Writings of a [italics] certain Author [ end italics]. I sincerely think there may be Justice in the most unfavourable Part of it."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple

'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them with great pleasure and found many new beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot but call them; for I am told that the third and fourth volumes are worse, if possible, than the two first; which, only, I have had the patience to run through. One extenuating circumstance attends his works, that they are too gross to be inflaming'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to choose from the library shelves. "I had the run of my father's library", Rosamond remembered. "I was allowed to read anything and did". There was a bookcase in the hall where he would put books sent to him for review, and from these Rosamond, graduating from her beloved Hans Andersen, E. Nesbit and Les Petites Filles Modeles, began to discover some of the more adult novelists'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rudolph Lehmann Print: Book

: ['great Victorians' - presumably novelists]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rudolph Lehmann Print: Book

Hans Andersen : [fairy tales]

'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to choose from the library shelves. "I had the run of my father's library", Rosamond remembered. "I was allowed to read anything and did". There was a bookcase in the hall where he would put books sent to him for review, and from these Rosamond, graduating from her beloved Hans Andersen, E. Nesbit and "Les Petites Filles Modeles", began to discover some of the more adult novelists'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Edith Nesbit :

'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to choose from the library shelves. "I had the run of my father's library", Rosamond remembered. "I was allowed to read anything and did". There was a bookcase in the hall where he would put books sent to him for review, and from these Rosamond, graduating from her beloved Hans Andersen, E. Nesbit and "Les Petites Filles Modeles", began to discover some of the more adult novelists'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Comtesse de Segur : Les Petites Filles Mod?les

'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to choose from the library shelves. "I had the run of my father's library", Rosamond remembered. "I was allowed to read anything and did". There was a bookcase in the hall where he would put books sent to him for review, and from these Rosamond, graduating from her beloved Hans Andersen, E. Nesbit and "Les Petites Filles Modeles", began to discover some of the more adult novelists'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

: [adult novels]

'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to choose from the library shelves. "I had the run of my father's library", Rosamond remembered. "I was allowed to read anything and did". There was a bookcase in the hall where he would put books sent to him for review, and from these Rosamond, graduating from her beloved Hans Andersen, E. Nesbit and "Les Petites Filles Modeles", began to discover some of the more adult novelists'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [poem in the London Mercury]

'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do", she urged him, "try to get hold of 'The London Mercury', a new periodical edited by J.C. Squire. The first number has just appeared and is quite excellent, - but I don't suppose it will keep it up. There are hitherto unpublished poems by Rupert Brooke and Thomas Hardy".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Serial / periodical

Rupert Brooke : [poem(s) in the London Mercury]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Serial / periodical

Aldous Huxley :

[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence :

[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

William Alexander Gerhardi(e) :

[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

William Alexander Gerhardi(e) :

[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Runcimann Print: Book

Aldous Huxley :

[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Runcimann Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence :

[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Runcimann Print: Book

: [nineteenth century fiction by women]

'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century", she admitted. "I thought of nineteenth century literary giants as my great ancestresses, revered, loved and somehow intimately known"), Rosamond saw herself continuing in the same tradition'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

May Sinclair : Life and Death of Harriet Frean

[Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of misguided self sacrifice, "Life and Death of Harriet Frean", which Rosamond read on its publication in 1922 and much admired'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Roger Fry: A Biography

[Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also revered - "To the Lighthouse" above all - even if some of the stylistic tricks were sometimes found to be irritating.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon :

'Through her old friendship with Stephen Tennant, Rosamond became devoted to his lover, Siegfried Sassoon, whose work she much admired'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot :

'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical interest in the works of other writers. She read avidly, modern poets such as T.S. Eliot, Roy Fuller, Auden and Cecil Day Lewis, and contemporary novelists, admiring in particular the work of Faulkner and Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Ivy Compton Burnett, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen. Jean Rhys's bleak, beautiful novel "Voyage in the Dark", published in the same month as [Lehmann's] "Invitation to the Waltz", had much impressed Rosamond, who invited its author to tea'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Roy Fuller :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Wystan Hugh Auden :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Cecil Day Lewis :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

William Faulkner :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Ivy Compton Burnett :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Sylvia Townsend Warner :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Elizabeth Bowen :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Jean Rhys : Voyage in the Dark

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Four Quartets

[Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, unhopeful, consoling cluster of poems; and discovered, or rather re-discovered, that everything was there - everything that I have been trying, and shall be trying, to say".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann Print: Book

William Jones : Grammar of the Persian Language, A

[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar or translation, mostly in English but at least one is in Persian (p. 132). Examples: title page "x While the nightingale, oh Hafiz, makes a boast [?] of his eloquence, do thou lessen [?] the value of his life, by singing thy Persian strains" [translation of Persian quote on title page, similarly marked ie 'x'?]; p.100/101 is bookmarked with a scrap of contemporary newspaper and the text line 'By the approach of Spring, and the return of December, the leaves of our life are continually folded' is annotated with underlines and alternative translations above words.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Francois Bernier : History of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol, The

[Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Rajah Rannah". Occasional marks in the margins, usually in the form of an italic N (examples on p. 58, 64, 65 etc) or vertical lines (p. 75 only).

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Patrick Gordon : Famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince, Robert sirnamed, the Bruce, King of Scotland, ... A history both pleasant and profitable, set forth and done in heroic verse, by Patrick Gordon, Gentleman, The

[Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and purchase of the book "Mr Heber certifies to me, that this is very/ faithfully reprinted from the rare Dort edit: ? [?]/ so rare that I know not of a perfect copy. / Nor have I seen more that 4 copies of it imperfect [?]"[2nd para deals with another Dort. publication]; "Bought from Blackwood's cat. Edinburgh 1796 [?] ..."; and a pen annotation on the inside back cover, a 8 line quote from a poem, by Walter Quin on Bernard Stuart, Lord d'Aubigni praising Bruce.

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

Adam Smith : Wealth of Nations

?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s "Political Economy". This was not a kind of literature to borrow from public libraries, but to have in one?s possessions.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : Political Economy

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede

?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of George Eliot?s novels. My appetite for Ruskin had been whetted by his "Unto this Last", which I had read with care and keen appreciation. Ruskin?s works were at the time beyond the reach of my slender purse. Now I read with delight his "Crown of Wild Olive", his "Sesame and Lilies", and other of his smaller books. These, together with his "Modern Painters", I soon afterwards added to my own little library, as well as a complete set of George Eliot?s works. Next to Wordsworth I do not think any writer has influenced me more deeply and more healthily than Ruskin.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

John Ruskin : Crown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traffic and war

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, Adam Bede, and other of George Eliot?s novels. My appetite for Ruskin had been whetted by his "Unto this Last", which I had read with care and keen appreciation. Ruskin?s works were at the time beyond the reach of my slender purse. Now I read with delight his "Crown of Wild Olive", his "Sesame and Lilies", and other of his smaller books. These, together with his "Modern Painters", I soon afterwards added to my own little library, as well as a complete set of George Eliot?s works. Next to Wordsworth I do not think any writer has influenced me more deeply and more healthily than Ruskin.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

: [reviews]

'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chronicle hadn?t read the book, & refrained from saying anything very definite'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

:

'And another early serial of mine, which he [Tillotson] bought, is just beginning in La Sera, of Milan. I had the advertisement today.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Advertisement

:

'I notice that Chatto is leaving "Hugo" out of his advertising list. . . . He has a permanent advertisement in today?s Tribune.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Advertisement, Book

:

'It ["Hugo"] was also left out of his [Andrew Chatto's] advt in the Times on Friday. Perhaps you can ascertain the reason.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

:

'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & I return them by parcel post. They are devilish good. But it is impossible to deny that they [italics] are [end italics] my book. There is not, I think, a single sentence in all the lessons that is not my ipsissima verba. And beyond the chapters on journalism, verse etc, there is nothing in my book which is not in these lessons. In a word, the twelve lessons are simply my book split up and typewritten.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Unknown

Agnes Farley : Ashdod

'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . I have read through the novel, and had it altered to suit my notions several times. So you can take my guarantee that it is sound, quiet, capable, library fiction, quite up to the standard.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: typescript

Joseph Conrad : Secret Agent, The

'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Frank Harris : Bomb, The

'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is a masterly thing) is published by Long (!) who gave him ?75 in advance.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Frank Harris :

'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetrating book on Shakespeare ever written.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

:

'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe are upon him at this crisis, and point out to him the recent remarkable reviews in the Daily News and the Graphic, as mines of quotation.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

W.L. George :

'[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : preface to The Old Wives' Tale

'I have just read in The Bookman your preface to the American edition of ?An Old Wives? Tale.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Pinker Print: Serial / periodical

Arnold Bennett : Regent, The

'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me that this book is all right. I have read nearly all of it aloud to friends, with enormous success.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?)

Arnold Bennett : Artist and the Public, The

'I have received your fourth and last article for Austin Harrison, and I have read it with a great deal of enjoyment.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Pinker

Arnold Bennett : Journal

'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I look at it it seems to me to be rather interesting, and some of my friends say that it is far more interesting than anything else I have written.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

Arnold Bennett : Price of Love, The

'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read since the War broke out.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

G. B. Shaw : Common Sense about the War

'I asked James if he had read Shaw?s Manifesto. He said "I have it here and have made several attempts, but his horrible flippancy revolts me".?

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Compton McKenzie : Sinister Street

'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the beginning & the end are the best.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: legal contract

'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights, and I should like you to consider this further. As regards clause 7, I think that an undertaking to produce in any first-class theatre in the United States is too vague.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: draft legal contract

: legal contract

The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish as to sign a contract entirely in favour of the other party.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: draft legal contract

Arnold Bennett : 'New Age' articles

'[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had asked for. He said it would be ridiculous not to reissue a selection from them as a book.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Serial / periodical

James Douglas :

'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition in seven volumes). Relative to my means, the price was rather stiff, but by getting one volume at a time, as I could afford to pay for it, this difficulty was surmounted. ? Vividly do I remember bringing the final volume home. With youthful glee I read till a late hour. I slept little that night; the book haunted my dreams. I awoke about four on the bright summer Sunday morning and went into the fields to read till breakfast-time. The stately, majestic march of Gibbon?s periods had some attraction for me even then; but the "Decline and Fall", it must be admitted, was hard reading for an unlettered collier lad. Yet I plodded on until I had finished the book which, besides its direct teachings, brought me many indirect advantages.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Todd : Student's Manual

?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found greatly helpful. Todd?s "Student?s Manual" and an odd volume on Channing?s works. The "Manual" was a handy little book, full of useful links and suggestions on reading, writing and study. Still more hopeful and inspiring was Channing. That such an author should be in my father?s possession in those days was in itself remarkable? This volume of Channing, which so profited and delighted me, contained essays on Milton, Napoleon and F?nelon. These I read with attention; more than once I read them ? that on Milton many times over. The style took my fancy. Compared, indeed, with the great masters of English prose, the critic would no doubt detect failings not a few in Channing. But I was not a critic; and the clear, easy, simple words, the rhythmic phrases, pleased my ear, while the sentiments always pure, generous, lofty ? impressed me heart and understanding.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Channing : [volume of essays eg. on Milton, Napoleon and Fenelon]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

[n/a] : London Journal

?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodical which I read with great gusto. It was full of adventures, of mild, romantic stories depicting duels and battles, deeds of daring, hairbreadth escapes by land and sea, the heroes being banditti, pirates, robbers and outlaws. This stirred my blood and excited the youthful imagination. When my father caught me reading it he gently chided me for wasting my time on such rubbishy stuff. Wretched garbage no doubt it was, yet, after all, perhaps the time given to it was not wholly wasted. No useful information, indeed, was gained, but I was acquiring facility in reading and laying hold of the golden key which would open to me the rich treasures of a great literature.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Psalms

?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them over again. In my own experience, the monotony of this proceeding had a most unhappy effect ? the Psalms became so uninteresting, not to say repetitive, that all through life I have failed to appreciate properly the beauty of those grand Eastern compositions.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Catling Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Bleak House

?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no such thing as a free library then, so enough money was scraped up for a subscription one, the first volume borrowed being Dickens?s newly published "Bleak House".?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Catling Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [works]

?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers and books bought for general reading were afterwards divided. In our little club the "Cornhill Magazine", from its start under Thackeray?s editorship, was read and discussed; also Dickens?s successive productions. I call to mind many serious books, as well as "Cassell?s Magazine" and the "London Journal", in which appeared Miss Braddon?s great story of "Henry Dunbar", then entitled "The Outcasts".?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Book, Serial / periodical, presumably Dickens's fiction and journals

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Cassell's Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : London Journal

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

?The first book which attracted my particular notice was "The Pilgrim?s Progress", with rude woodcuts; it excited my curiosity in an extraordinary degree. There was "Christian knocking at the strait gate", his "fight wit Appolyn", his "passing near the lions", his "escape from Giant Dispair [sic]", his perils at "Vanity Fair", his arrival in "the land of Beula", and his final passage to "Eternal Rest": all these were matters for the exercise of my feeling and my imagination. And then when it was explained to me ? as it was by my mother and sister...?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason

?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and his other theological works, but they made not the least alterations in his religious opinions.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Bamford Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament

??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the Revelations, and my father, not a little pleased, would at times sit down, and in his way explain the meaning of the strange things about which I read. After I had gone through the Revelations, I began with the Gospel of Saint Matthew, and was deeply interested by the miracles, sufferings and death of our Lord. The New Testament was now my shiny book, and I read it all through and through, but more for the interest the marvellous passages excited, than from any religious impression which they caused.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : The Roll Call

'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two half-titles one before the title and the other after it! I object more strongly to the illustrated cover being passed without reference to the author and still more strongly to the descriptive matter not being submitted to the author. The description of the book inside the jacket: "Can a man love two women is the theme of this book", is perfectly ridiculous and extremely misleading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : The Roll Call

'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two half-titles one before the title and the other after it! I object more strongly to the illustrated cover being passed without reference to the authorand still more strongly to the descriptive matter not being submitted to the author. The description of the book inside the jacket: 'Can a man love two women is the theme of this book,' is perfectly ridiculous and extremely misleading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: proofs

Madame de Genlis : Letters on Education

'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's Letters on Education, Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the Baroness de Montoliere's novel "Caroline de Litchfield". The first she pronounced "wonderfully clever", and it may well have proved helpful to her as a teacher; the last she described as "One of the prettiest things I have ever read", and it perhaps suggested that her own life could serve as the basis of a sentimental novel'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Louis Sebastien Mercier : Mon Bonnet de Nuit

'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the Baroness de Montoliere's novel "Caroline de Litchfield". The first she pronounced "wonderfully clever", and it may well have proved helpful to her as a teacher; the last she described as "One of the prettiest things I have ever read", and it perhaps suggested that her own life could serve as the basis of a sentimental novel'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Baroness de Montoliere : Caroline de Litchfield

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

William Cowper :

'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed in the volume of Cowper's poems and another of sermons by her friend John Hewlett which Johnson sent her. She told Everina at one point that she was reading "some philosophical lectures, and metaphysical sermons - for my own private improvement". These works could well have included the writings of Dr Price. The only writer in this field whom she singled out for comment, however, was the orthodox William Paley, whose "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy" she commended to Eliza for its definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

John Hewlett : [sermons]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

William Paley : Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Letters on Rhetoric

[Mary Wollstonecraft] 'told Everina that she had been reading Hugh Blair's "Letters on Rhetoric" and found them "an intellectual feast".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile

'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her; it was a treatise on education, a metaphysical essay - at times almost a sermon - and a sentimental novel, all in one'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Vernon Lee : Hauntings

In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stories, which he has read and enjoyed: "I possess the eminently psychical stories as well as the material volume."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

[various] : [various works]

[compiling the anthology "The Female Reader", Mary Wollstonecraft spent] 'long hours reading, for the extracts included came from widely scattered sources and might consist of only a few lines from a long work.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Unknown

John Hewlett : [sermons]

'I am sorry for poor Hewlett - Betty Delane read his sermons with great pleasure...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Betty Delane Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : How to Become an Author

'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him the book to read and he is enthusiastic about it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Swinnerton Print: Book

William Dean Howells : A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1

Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I read the first volume just before I left London -- and the second, which I began the instant I got into the train at Victoria, made me wish immensely that both it and the journey to Bale and thence were formed to last longer."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Dean Howells : A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile

'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however he rambles into a chimerical world into which I have too often [wand]ered - and draws the usual conclusion that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : Notre Coeur

Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

D.H. Lawrence : Lost Girl, The

'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real theme and some construction. This man is a genius, and is far and away the best of the younger school.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Richard Price : Sermons on the Christian Doctrine, as Received by the Different Denominations of Christians

'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the Dissertations are less entangled with controversial points, and contain useful truths - coming warm from the heart they find the direct road to it; but the sermons require more profound thinking, are not calculated to improve the generality'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Richard Price : Four Dissertations

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Paul Bourget : Coeur de Femme

In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel Coeur de Femme.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Jacques Necker : De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses

'M. Necker, the late Minister...has written a book entitled "De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses", it pleases me and I want to know the character of the man in domestic life and public estimation &c.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

[probably] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann : [probably] Moralisches Elementarbuch

'I am so fatigued with poring over a German book, I scarcely can collect my thoughts or even spell English words.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Ballads

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which has just reached me by your command. I have had time only to read the first few things ... As I turn the pages I seem to see that they are full of charm ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : The South Seas

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your prose volume (kindly vouchsafed me in the little copyright-catching red volume) and I loved 'em and blessed them quite."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with benevolent satisfaction - yet, I cannot help viewing them, I mean the first pair - as if they were my inferiors - inferiors because they could find happiness in a world like this.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Ballads

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... read the ballad book -- with the admiration that I always feel as a helplessly verseless creature ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Mr Barlow : [letters to his wife]

'Delighted with some of her husband's letters, [Mrs Barlow] has exultingly shewn them to me; and, though I took care not to let her see it, I was almost disgusted with the tender passages which afforded her so much satisfaction, because they were turned so prettily that they looked more like the cold ingenuity of the head than the warm overflowings of the heart.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Manuscript: Letter

unknown : Old Wives' Tale, The

'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet, typescript film scenario

William James : Principles of Psychology

Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshness ... to tackle -- more than dipping in here and there -- your mighty and magnificent book ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Mary Hays : Cursory Remarks

'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinating &c, all of the feminine gender, than I expected. Some of the sentiments, it is true, are rather obscurely expressed; but if you continue to write you will imperceptibly correct this fault...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Manuscript: Unknown, MS version of pamphlet

Edmund Gosse : Preface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, Works

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really ... more interesting than Ibsen himself ... I think you make him out a richer phenomenon than he is. The perusal of the dreary Rosmersholm and even the reperusal of Ghosts has been rather a shock to me -- they have let me down, down."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Jane West : A Gossip's Story

'I have sent you the "Gossip Story" to review, as you wish to read it, but I would thank you if you would do it immediately, because Johnson is in want of materials for the present month. The great merit of this work is, in my opinion, the display of the small causes which destroy matrimonial felicity and peace.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Henrik Ibsen : Rosmersholm

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Ghosts

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Mary Hays : Memoirs of Emma Courtney

'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. She thinks the death of Augustus the end of the story and that the husband should have been suffered to die a natural death.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Robinson Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Methuen Marshall Print: Book

Anne Radcliffe : Italian, The

' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Addington : [Letters]

' I send you Addington's Letters. I find the melancholy ones the most interesting - There is a grossness in the raptures from which I turn...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

:

'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a month.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Advertisement

'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes :

'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve : [unknown]

'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : [a bacchanalian poem]

'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and when we were seated in an elegant drawing room, opening into a large music salon, we had more reading from Hoffmann, and from the French artist who with a tremulous voice pitched in a minor key, read us some rather pretty sentimentalities of his own'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Manuscript: Unknown, own poem

[a french artist] : [his own poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : 'Kestner letters'

'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Unknown

Donagh McDonagh : Letters of People in Love

'Read "Letters of People in Love". Quite good.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them. They are really amazing things.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Walter de la Mare : Henry Brocken

'Read "Henry Brocken" all evening, as had finished prep. It's enchanting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Maurice Maeterlinck : Life of the Bee, The

'Spent evening dancing, and reading Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Arthur Quiller Couch : Art of Writing, The

'I'm reading Quiller Couch's "Art of Writing", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsorily. He hits the nail on the head. Also "Screwtape Letters", which should also be widely read, as are most revealing. Feel less like working seriously this term, than reading widely. Can't decide whether this is good or not, but shall not yield to impulses too greatly.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

C.S. Lewis : Screwtape Letters, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'We read "Paradise Lost" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton. He's so unreal and unalive. I must try to read a lot of him and get over this.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Angela Thirkell : Headmistress, The

'Finished all my prep so indulged in a little fiction reading - "The Headmistress" - very light & witty.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Angela Thirkell : Headmistress, The

'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : People's Government, The

'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : ["silly school stories"]

'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "The House of Prayer", which was very good & well-written.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Florence Converse : House of Prayer, The

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Franz Liszt : [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying Dutchman]

'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Unknown

Franz Liszt : [article on Meyerbeer]

'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Manuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Die Wahlverwandtschaften

'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

A.C. Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy

'I read Bradley on "Hamlet" all day, and am in a greater muddle over it than I am over "Antony and Cleo", if that is possible!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

James Elroy Flecker : [poetry]

'Spent half an hour reading Flecker - he's wonderful'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Denis Diderot : Le Nevue de Rameau

'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

James Elroy Flecker : [poetry]

'I felt incapable of doing any Zoo [zoology preparation for mid-school exams] so read Flecker's poetry all night! Felt immensely cheered up by it, but very wicked!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] : Egmont

'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Great Hoggarty Diamond

'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Dorothy Sayers : Hangman's Holiday

'I read "Hangman's Holiday" with great enjoyment.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Gross Cophta

'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Dorothy Sayers : Strong Poison

'I read "Strong Poison" all day and enjoyed it thoroughly.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan

'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Thomas Armstrong : Crowthers of Bankdam

[In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz : [if this Gotz, then poetry]

'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Der Burgergeneral

'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The

'I read quite a lot of the "Antiquary" and felt quite virtuous.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Ghosts

'Spent most of the morning in bed reading Ibsen's "Ghosts", which is a masterpiece, I think.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Margaret Irwin : Gay Galliard, The

'I stayed up late reading "The Gay Galliard" by Margaret Irwin, which is a lovely book.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Ovid : [poetry]

'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can understand it!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The

[Three days after V.E. day] 'I finished the "Antiquary" at last. It's pretty awful, though quite exciting in patches.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Knight's Tale, The

'I did "The Knightes Tale" all my prep. time and like it'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Knight's Tale, The

'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Robert Browning : Luria

'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

James Elroy Flecker : Old Ships, The

'Today I spent ages trying to find a poem for Elocution [Grade 6 exam] in my special choice part. At last I chose "The Old Ships" by Flecker, which I think is one of the most beautiful poems I have ever read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Summer Evening

'I have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Edwyn Robert Bevan : Jerusalem under the High Priests: five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament

[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I read "Jerusalem under the High Priests"! Arrived in at 6:30 totally soaked! Maccy [later the cookery writer Jane Grigson] has a tiny book of Shakespeare's Sonnets which I must try and get - they are most lovely and very interesting and soothing.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Benedictus de Spinoza : Ethics

'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Rivals, The

'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.C. Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy

'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Carl Eduard Vehse : Der Hof zu Weimar

'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Pericles

'I revised "Pericles" [for Elocution exam] and wrote notes on it. It's a horrid play, completely unlikely but quite fast moving.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Rivals, The

'I did a lot of "The Rivals", which I don't like a bit. It has momentary flashes of wit, but otherwise it's awful.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Heinrich Heine : "Donna Clara"

'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

James Elroy Flecker : [poetry]

'I read Flecker most of evening and am more and more convinced that his poetry is wonderful'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

C.E.M. Joad : Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World

'As it was very hot I decided to pretend I had finished HSC [Higher School Certificate], and read Joad's book on Post War World, while drying my hair in the garden.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dorothy Sayers : Nine Tailors, The

'I read "Nine Tailors" all pm although I'd promised myself I'd work at night. But it was a lovely evening and I lay in a secluded corner of the garden on my rug and although there was a high wind in the trees I was beautifully sheltered and warm. No doubt I shall regret not working.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dorothy Sayers : Nine Tailors, The

'"Nine Tailors" all evening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Naomi Michison : Conquered, The

'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : People and Places

'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich Heine : poems

'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

'Read Laocoon'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wilhelm Meister'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

: newspapers

'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wilhelm Meister'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is well adapted to rouse an interest both in the classics and in the study of art'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Helen Waddell : Peter Abelard

'Have begun "Peter Abelard" again. I do love it, & can never leave it once I've begun.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : Briefe Uber Spinoza

'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Lewis Carroll : Jabberwocky

[on bike, visiting friends] 'Learnt "Jabberwocky" on the way! Passers by must have thought me mad, book in one hand, bike handle in other, sailing down hill saying in loud voice "Beware the Jabberwock, my son"!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Nathan der Weise

'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Marguerite Steen : Sun is my Undoing, The

'I read "The Sun is My Undoing" - fast and very meaty. Intensely interesting - till 12 pm'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine style of this play and its vigorous moderation compared with Romeo and Juliet'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

John Lyly : Midas

'Spent a very sleepy afternoon nodding over "Midas"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm

''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Italianische Reise

'Began the Italianische Reise.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Fanny Lewald : Wandlungen

'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Italianische Reise

'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

A.G. Macdonell : England their England

'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV

'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Christopher Marlowe : Jew of Malta, The

'Reading "The Jew of Malta", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Johannes Scherr : Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'

'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Louis Goodrich : Jew of Malta, The

'Am reading "By Greta Bridge" instead of the Milton I ought to be reading! But it is lovely, & very cleverly written & interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Thomas More : Utopia

'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over the spelling), & he had some very advanced ideas.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Thomas More : Utopia

'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.G. Macdonell : England their England

'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

W.H. Auden : Dog Beneath the Skin, The

'Read "Dog Beneath the Skin", a most peculiar play.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Milton : unknown

'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to us, and he certainly can read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to us, and he certainly can read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Marcelin Marbot : Memoires

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, which should have gone to you sooner by my hand if I had sooner read them ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Across the Plains

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of some of your happiest lucubrations put forth by the care of dear [Sidney] Colvin."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Paul Bourget : La Terre promise

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: "Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels? If you haven't, don't ... Make an exception, however, for Terre Promise, which is to appear a few months hence, and which I have been reading in proof, here ... It is perhaps 'psychology' gone mad -- but it is an extraordinary production."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Sheet, proofs

Robert Louis Stevenson : Island Nights

Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day that I could put my hand on the Island Nights, which by your generosity ... I found awaiting me on my table ... I read them as fondly as an infant sucks a stick of candy."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

James Russell Lowell : Letters of James Russell Lowell

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 November 1893: "The two beautiful volumes of dear J[ames] R[ussell] L[owell] constitute a gift for the substantial grace of which I lose as little time as possible in affectionately thanking you ... I have read the whole thing with absorption and with a delightful illusion [of Lowell's being present]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: cutting from Venetian newspaper

Henry James, in 28 January 1894 letter to John Hay, explains how he learned of the manner of the death of Constance Fenimore Woolson in Venice: " ... coming in -- from Cook's office -- with my preparations made [for travel to Venice] -- I found on my table a note from Miss Fletcher (of Venice ...), enclosing a cutting from a Venetian newspaper which gave me the first shocking knowledge of what it was that had happened."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Alice James : The Diary of Alice James

Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discusses his reading of his copy of his sister Alice James's diary.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

George Meredith : Lord Ormont and His Aminta

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed with a furious bang the unspeakable Lord Ormont, which I have been reading at the maximum rate of ten pages -- ten insufferable and unprofitable pages, a day ... I have finished, at this rate, but the first volume ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : "paper on Pater"

Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's article on Pater.

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James

Horatio Brown : Memoir of John Addington Symonds

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- interest the two volumes on the extraordinary Symonds."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : Petite Paroisse

Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read (in each case for the third time) the same author's Sapho and L'Immortel.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : Sapho

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : L'Immortel

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: newspapers

Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I find the political situation here very interesting and devour the newspapers."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

: Debats

Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

: Temps

Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

anon : Review of Henry James, Roderick Hudson

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: "Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charming notice of Roderick Hudson in the last Atlantic, which I saw today at Galignani's?"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

George Eliot : Daniel Deronda

Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: "Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it a tenth as much as I. It was disappointing, and it brings out strongly the defects of later growth ... But ... I enjoyed it more than anything of hers ... I have ever read. Partly for reading it in this beastly Paris ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henry James : stories

Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "The other day I was at the house of a dreadful old lion huntress, Mme. Blaze de Bury -- an Englishwoman with a French husband and daughter. She invited me, unsolicited, from having read my threadbare tales in the Revue des Deux Mondes ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mme. Blaze de Bury Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Life

Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entertainment, and admiration of the intellectual robustness of the man."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

George Eliot : Daniel Deronda

Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing and the sapience -- to say nothing of the tortuosity of the style -- are overdone."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Henry James Sr., 13 February 1877: "I am writing this in the beautiful great library of the Athenaeum Club ... a little way off is the portly Archbishop of York with his nose in a little book ... It is 9:30 p.m. and I have been dining here ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Henry James : Roderick Hudson

Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to stop with him at Cambridge."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Sidgwick Print: Unknown

: magazines

Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: "It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of the Athenaeum Club where I have been reading all the magazines all the evening, since dinner, in a great deep armchair ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

Henry James to Mrs John Rollin Tilton, 3 April 1878: " ... even in Rome I could not have done more than piangere over the King [Victor Emmanuel II]'s death, and that I did here, every morning, at breakfast as I read the letters in the Times ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Henry James : The American

Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: "Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the editor of their magazine, who had just been reading The American ... 'with great delight.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Archibald Grove Print: Unknown

Henry James : "French essays"

Henry James to Henry James Sr., 29 May 1878: " ... Sir Charles Dilke ... appears to have found time ... to read and be 'struck' by my French essays."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Charles Dilke Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : Locksley Hall

Henry James to Elizabeth Boott 30 October 1878, on lunch that day with Tennyson at his home, : "He read out 'Locksley Hall' to me, in a kind of solemn, sonorous chant, and I thought the performance, and the occasion, sufficiently impressive."

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Jacob Burkhardt : The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: "I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling all that very strongly."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [a farce]

'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'.

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

Euripides : Iphigenia

'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of "Iphigenia"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Richard III

'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of Richard the 3rd and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of Iphigenia'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Priscilla Wakefield : Mental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield

[Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From Mental improvement Vol 1st ... Of artificial coral [page] 130, Of painting on glass [page] 156 ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV, Part II

'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Hermann and Dorothea

'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

various : The Leader

'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

various : Athenaeum

'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

Torquato Tasso : unknown

'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : As You Like It

'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Homer : [hymn to Aphrodite]

'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Gegenstuck to "Der Gott und die Bayadere". He has struck out 150 lines which he believes to be interpolated and the connection of the poem appears perfect'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [Professor] Gruppe Manuscript: Unknown

Silvio Pellico : Prisons

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[unknown] : [French novel]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre

'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich Heine : Die Gotter im Exil

'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich Heine : [poems]

'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : King Lear

'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [discourse on Shakespeare]

'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [on Spinoza]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : [draft of Life of Goethe]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book

William Shakespeare : The Taming of the Shrew

'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich Heine : De l'Allemagne

'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Dichtung und Wahrheit

'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich Heine : Der Salon

'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Thomas [?] Knight : [studies of Shakespeare]

'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud Heine's "Salon". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Adolf Stahr : Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten

'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich Heine : [on German philosophy]

'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel

'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespear's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

[Dr] Fischer : [a pamphlet]

'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

John Wheatley : Remarks on currency and commerce

[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of specie, at any given moment [underlined and with the word always in ms above], constitutes the capital, or a portion of the capital of many individuals *...' has ms annotation '*& hence certainly of the nation; a conclusion directly contrary to his position p.3. The function of currency is neither more nor less than the barter of one commodity for another'; p. 20 The first 2 complete paras are marked with vertical lines and have the ms annotation 'extremely inaccurate to calculate our resources from this particular branch of trade'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

[Prof.] Gruppe : [poem in MS]

'We went in the evening to Gruppe's. He read to us parts ofa poem "Ferdusi" still in M.S. which is to be read to the King.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [Prof] Gruppe Manuscript: Sheet

George Henry Lewes : book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe

'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, book M.S.

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure

'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : Hamburgische Briefe

'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : West-Ostliche Divan

'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's "Ein Jahr in Italien". The description of Florence excellent'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Adolf Stahr : Ein Jahr in Italien

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Georg Gottfried Gervinus : [on Shakespeare]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Romische Elegien

'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Venetian Epigrams

'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : A Winter's Tale

'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads

'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Karl Eduard Vehse : probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Reformation

'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [dramatists' works]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[Prof] Gruppe : Ferdusi

'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'.

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Manuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : unknown

'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Richard III

'G. read Richard III'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : part of the MS of his Life of Goethe

'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book

[unknown] : [Roman History]

'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Emily Bronte : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

Anne Bronte : [Unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Book

Nathaniel Wraxall : Historical Memoirs

'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : MS of his Life of Goethe

'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [M.] Dessoir Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Venus and Adonis

'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare (and others) : The Passionate Pilgrim

'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G. who has written in his Goethe that Shakspeare has left no line in praise of a contemporary. [inserted later: (G. writes that this sonnet is Barnwell's)]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Two Gentlemen of Verona

'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging pardon where he has no longer any hope of gaining his ends, says: "All that was mine in Silvia I give the"! - Silvia standing by'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

[various] : The Leader

'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

'Read "Macbeth".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

anon : Nibelungen Lied

'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : The Athenaeum

'Read "Athenaeum"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : The Contemporary Literature

'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?]

'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

Johannes Scherr : [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur?

'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe : Reineke Fuchs

'Began "Reineke Fuchs"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Eberhard Schrader : [German Mythology]

'Began Schrader's German Mythology'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Jones : Poeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo Jones

[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight points or sections of interest - usually points of translation - with ms notes, usually in English but some in Persian (ex. p. 436/7) in the margins: eg. p. 301 text = 'Alii in collibus congregati sunt, alii in vallibus', has ms note = 'incorrect in the original as well as in the translation'; p. 381 a line of Persian is marked and in the margin is the translation 'In battle he is a lion-fighting dragon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Herbert Spencer : The Genesis of Science

'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Henry V

'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Henry VIII

'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3

'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Richard II

'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Cumming : unknown

'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Sydney Smith : [Letters]

'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began the second Book of the Iliad in Greek this morning'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

James Boswell : probably Life of Johnson

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Whewell : History of the Inductive Sciences

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Homer : Odyssey

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich Heine : Reisebilder

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Horace : Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana

[Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These may or may not be related to the text. On various pages there are ink marks within the text, all of the same format, ex. p. 84 '- - |-vv-|-vv-|vv/--|-vv-|vv [with the numbers]123/4 [to the right]'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Homer : Iliad, book II

'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the Odyssey" and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder". I began the second Book of "the Iliad" in Greek this morning'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

: Visitors' books

Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, appears sooner or later to have staid at Fryston (I saw this in looking over the 'visitors books' of the house.)"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Unknown

: American newspaper telegrams

Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back to you -- as I see nasty hints of it in the American newspaper telegrams."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

William James : article on "Brute and Human Intellect"

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ... I perused them with great interest, sufficient comprehension, and extreme profit."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

William James : article

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : Daisy Miller

Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says 'I say' rather too many times is very probable (I thought so, quite, myself, in reading over the thing as a book): but that strikes me as a rather venial flaw."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Dean Howells : The Lady of the Aroostook

Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my last) Nation, makes me feel that I must no longer delay to ... tell you with what high relish and extreme appreciation I have read it. (I wish you had sent it to me ... I have had to go and buy it -- for eight terrible shillings ...)"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henry James Sr : [book]

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it I must lay it aside till the summer. I have however dipped into it and found it a great fascination."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Jules Valles : Jacques Vingtras

Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jules Valles, the Communist) because Turgenieff has highly recommended it; but on coming to look into it afterwards I found it so disagreeable that if I had done so before, I shouldn't have sent it."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Henry James : review of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-Beuve

Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they shocked me very much when I saw it in print, and they would never have stayed had I seen it in proof."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Wiliam Dean Howells : The Undiscovered Country

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the subject fruitful, and I suspect that much of the public will agree with me."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

unknown : [extracted texts]

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but you must thank him none the less ... for the glowing speeches ... of his of the 1st July, which enclosed the two extracts for Mrs Orr. These I have read with much interest."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

William Dean Howells : The Undiscovered Country

Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered, which I immediately read with greater comfort and consequence than in the magazine."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Robert Browning : poems

Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems ... He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces."

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning

: The Times

Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Charles Eliot Norton : Historical Studies of Church Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florence

Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two to thank him for his own beautiful volume which I have waited to do, only to read it. I am just terminating this pleasure, and he shall hear from me.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Grant Allen : article (?in response to work by William James)

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think it seems prettily enough argued."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Wiliam Dean Howells : Dr. Breen's Practice

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the pleasure of letting you know ... what satisfaction the history of your Doctress gives me. I came back last night from a month in Scotland, and found the October Atlantic on my table; whereupon, though weary with travel I waked early this morning on purpose to read your contribution in bed -- in my little London-dusky back-bedroom, where I can never read at such hours without a pair of candles."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : Daisy Miller

Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before sailing read it to Mrs. [Isabella Stewart]Gardner."

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James

: The Academy

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "I see in the last Academy that you have never seen the magazine [containing Howells's praise of Henry James; not clear whether Academy or just previously-mentioned Century is meant] and of which I should long since have sent you a copy did I not suppose that the publishers had the civility to do so."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

: The Saturday Review

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "Of the articles in the Saturday Review and Punam's Monthly [apparently concerning James and Howells's controversial, published praises of each other] I have seen only the former."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

William James : letter to Henry James Sr

Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late for Henry James Sr to see it before he died: "I went out yesterday (Sunday) morning, to the Cambridge cemetary ... and stood beside his grave a long time and read him your letter of farewell -- which I am sure he heard somewhere out of the depths of the still, bright winter air."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Letter

G. W. Smalley : article on American novels

Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in which you devote a few lines to the silly article in the Quarterly on American Novels, etc [goes on to correct points in this]."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

George Pellew : dissertation on Jane Austen's novels

Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in late last night. I read it this morning before I left my pillow -- read it with much entertainment and profit.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Andrew Birnie of Saline : A compend or abreviat of the most important ordinary securities of, and concerning. [sic] rights personal and real, redeemable and irredeemable; of common use in Scotland. Containing above an hundred different securities. Collected from the stiles of seve

[Marginalia]: two ms notes, one opp. to: "Joannes Marshall scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecimo die Aprilis 1729. Finivi librum nonodecimo die Junij 1729"; opp. p. 88: "David Marshall ... libro Gulielmus D... scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum Quinto die Februarij 1725/ ... John Halkerston ... [ie between two paras.]/ Ego Joannes Marshall Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecimo die Martii 1729 et finivi librum nondecimo die Junij 1729" ["John Marshall transcribed this book. I began to transcribe this book on 12th April 1729. I finished the book on 19th June 1729", "David Marshall... book...William D... transcribed this book. I began to transcribe this book on the 5th Feb 1725.... John Halkerston... I John Marshall began to transcribe this book on 12 March 1729 and I finished the book on 19th June 1729."; marginal marks in text p. 112-3.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: David Marshall Print: Book

Baron Jacob Berzelius : Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities

'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor of that science in Stockholm - which was to be published in April:- would I translate it? I answered in the affirmative; and next day went over to get the paper in question. It consists of six long sheets, written in a cramp hand, & in a very diffuse [s]tile. I have it more than half done. The labour of writing it down is the principal one. In other respects there is no difficulty.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Sheet

anon : Histories of Jack the Giant Killer

'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous songs, ballads, tales, and other publications, with horrid and awful-looking woodcuts at the head; which publications, with their cuts, had a strong command of my attention. Every farthing I could scrape together was now spent in purchasing "Histories of Jack the Giant Killer", "Saint George and the Dragon", "Tom Hickathrift", "Jack and the Bean Stalk", "History of the Seven Champions", tale of "Fair Rosamond", "History of Friar Bacon", "Account of the Lancashire Witches", "The Witches of the Woodlands", and such like romances; whilst my ? collections embraced but few pieces besides "Robin Hood?s Songs", and "The Ballad of Chevy Chase". Of all these tales and ballads I was soon to master, and they formed the subjects of many a long study to me, and of many a wonder-creating story for my acquaintance both at the workhouse and elsewhere. For my part I implicitly believed them all, and when told by my father or others that they were "trash" and "nonsense", and "could not be true", I innocently enough, contrasted their probability with that of other wondrous things which I read in books that "it were a sin to disbelieve".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : Saint George and the Dragon

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : Tom Hickathrift

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : Jack and the Bean Stalk

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : History of the Seven Champions

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : Fair Rosamond

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : History of Friar Bacon

'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous songs, ballads, tales, and other publications, with horrid and awful-looking woodcuts at the head; which publications, with their cuts, had a strong command of my attention. Every farthing I could scrape together was now spent in purchasing "Histories of Jack the Giant Killer", "Saint George and the Dragon", ?Tom Hickathrift?, "Jack and the Bean Stalk", "History of the Seven Champions", tale of "Fair Rosamond", "History of Friar Bacon", "Account of the Lancashire Witches", "The Witches of the Woodlands", and such like romances; whilst my ? collections embraced but few pieces besides "Robin Hood?s Songs", and "The Ballad of Chevy Chase". Of all these tales and ballads I was soon to master, and they formed the subjects of many a long study to me, and of many a wonder-creating story for my acquaintance both at the workhouse and elsewhere. For my part I implicitly believed them all, and when told by my father or others that they were "trash" and "nonsense", and "could not be true", I innocently enough, contrasted their probability with that of other wondrous things which I read in books that "it were a sin to disbelieve".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : Account of the Lancashire witches

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : The witches of the woodlands

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : Robin Hood's Songs

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book, Broadsheet

anon : The Ballad of Chevy Chase

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book, Broadsheet

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

?At length, "Robinson Crusoe" ? that ever-exciting day dream of boys ? fell in our way. I read it to him, as I had done the others, and for a long time both Sam?s ideas and mine were owned and fascinated by the descriptions of sea-dangers, shipwrecks, and lone islands with savages, and far-off countries teeming with riches and plenty.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

John Wesley : Journals

'...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maudrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

[n/a] : The Armenian Magazine

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maudrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging through an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Serial / periodical

anon : An account of the Inquisition in Spain

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

anon : The Drummer of Tedworth

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Unknown

anon : Some account of the disturbances at Glenluce

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's five, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Unknown

anon : An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Unknown

[unknown] : The History of England

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery"; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown to me. One was the second volume of Homer?s "Iliad", translated by Alexander Pope, with notes by Madame Dacier; and the other was a small volume of miscellaneous poems, by John Milton. Homer I read with an absorbed attention which soon enabled me to commit nearly every line to memory.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

John Milton : [miscellaneous poems]

?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown to me. One was the second volume of Homer?s "Iliad", translated by Alexander Pope, with notes by Madame Dacier; and the other was a small volume of Miscellaneous Poems, by John Milton. Homer I read with an absorbed attention which soon enabled me to commit nearly every line to memory.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complete "Iliad" in English. Some of Shakespeare?s works having fallen in my way, I read them with avidity, as I did almost every other book, and though deeply interested by his historical characters and passages, I never either then or since relished his blank verse, or that of any other poet.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

John Milton : [miscellaneous works]

?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt in their repetition, and in the appropriation ? so to speak ? of the ideas, but also as a means for improvement of my handwriting, which had continued to be very indifferent. The "Odyssey" and "Aeniad", which I also procured and read about this time, seemed tame and languid, whilst the stirring call of the old Iliadic battle trumpet was ringing in my ears, and vibrating within my heart. In short, I read or attentively conned [sic] over, every book I could buy or borrow, and as I retained a pretty clear idea of what I read, I became rather more than commonly proficient in book knowledge considering that I was only a better sort of porter in a warehouse.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Baron Jacob Berzelius : Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities

'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printed - I was this day correcting the proof-sheet-. The translation looks not very ill in print. I wish I had plenty more of a similar [sor]t to translate and good pay for doing it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Proof-sheet

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue : Unknown

'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving. I will make an affu' struggle to read a good deal of it & of the Italian in Summer - when at home.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

: Book of Job

'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job; and I hope to do better in time to come. I entreat you to believe that I am sincerely desirous of being a good man; and tho' we may differ in some few unimportant particulars: yet I firmly trust that the same Power who created us with imperfect faculties, will pardon the errors of every one (and none are without them) who seeks truth and righteousness, with a simple heart.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Jean le Rond D'Alembert : Unknown

'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect; and at any rate, my hopes have never yet failed me. A French Author (D'Alembert, one of the few persons who deserve the honourable epithet of honest man) whom I was lately reading, remarks that one who devotes his life to learning ought to carry for his motto-Liberty, Truth, Poverty; for her that fears the latter can never have the former.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown

William Robertson : History of Scotland

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book on my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of England

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book of my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Ancient history

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book of my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

David Hume : Decline and fall of the Roman empire

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book of my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Anachaises : Travels in Greece

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book of my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the poets

'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Ossain", whilst it gave me a glimpse of our most ancient love, interested my feelings and absorbed my attention. I also bent my thoughts on more practical studies, and at one time had nearly the whole of Lindsey Murray's Grammar stored in my memory, although I never so far benefited by it as to become ready at pausing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

James Macpherson : Ossian

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Lindley Murray : Murray's Grammar

'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Ossain", whilst it gave me a glimpse of our most ancient love, interested my feelings and absorbed my attention. I also bent my thoughts on more practical studies, and at one time had nearly the whole of Lindley Murray's "Grammar" stored in my memory, although I never so far benefited by it as to become ready at pausing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

William Cobbett : Cobbett's Weekly Register

?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at the beginning of the week, I at length read it, and found within its pages far more matter for reflection than, from its unattractive title and appearance, I had expected to find there. The nervous and unmistakeable English of that work there was so withstanding. I thenceforth became as constant a reader of Cobbett?s writings as was my master himself, and was soon, probably, a more ardent admirer of his doctrines than was my employer.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

William Cobbett : Weekly Register

??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured discussion, half serious, half joking, was prompted on both sides. I and Mitchell had with us, and it was entirely accidental, a few of Cobbett?s "Registers" and Hone?s Political Pamphlets, to which we sometimes appealed, and read extracts from. The soldiers were delighted; they burst into fits of laughter; and all the copies we had, being given to them, one of them read the "Political Litany" through, to the further great amusement of himself and the company. Thus we passed a most agreeable evening and parted only at the last hour.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Newspaper

William Hone : [political pamphlets]

??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured discussion, half serious, half joking, was prompted on both sides. I and Mitchell had with us, and it was entirely accidental, a few of Cobbett?s "Registers" and Hone?s "Political Pamphlets", to which we sometimes appealed, and read extracts from. The soldiers were delighted; they burst into fits of laughter; and all the copies we had, being given to them, one of them read the "Political Litany" through, to the further great amusement of himself and the company. Thus we passed a most agreeable evening and parted only at the last hour.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford

[n/a] : The Testament

?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford's wife and child Print: Book

Mostyn John Armstrong : Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ...

[Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex. from the Perth entry 'At a small village calld [sic] Pitcaithly within a mile of Dumbarny, 25 miles from Perth, is a well whose water is remarkable for curing sore eyes. Near Loch Dochart in Breadalbane, is Ben More, among the highest hills in Scotland.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Wemyss Print: Book

[n/a] : Weekly Dispatch

[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time replaced with The Examiner.] ?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Examiner

[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time replaced with 'The Examiner'.] ?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Chambers's Journal

?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Knight : Penny Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Family Herald

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical

G.W.M. Reynolds : Reynolds's Miscellany

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the first, the satirical meaning of the second, and the doubtful meaning of the third were, of course, not understood. The story was the great thing ? the travels of Christian, the troubles of Gulliver, the adventures of Aladdin??

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

anon : Arabian Nights

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [plays]

?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of this kind arrived when a firm of printers in London brought out a penny Shakespeare ? a play of Shakespeare?s for a penny! Well do I remember this cheap treasure. It was my first introduction to the great bard. Gracious! How I devoured play after play as they came out. I was a poor errand boy at the time. When on my errands I used to steal odd moments to read my penny Shakespeare.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

Eliot Warburton : Crescent and the Cross

?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and brasses, and then carry books and magazines to the houses of the gentry who were subscribers to the library. The occupation was not uncongenial? for I was able to steal a peep at literature which would not otherwise have come within my reach. The book that was then in greatest demand, as I gathered from so often carrying it from one house to another, was Eliot Warburton?s "Crescent and the Cross", and next to it, I think, came Tennyson?s poems.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint: or night thoughts

?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their old companion was not going to join them. I heard from an upper room, not without a certain amount of tremour, their exclamations of surprise. They wandered off into the fields in one direction; I, with a new companion, wandered off into the fields in another. My new companion was Young?s "Night Thoughts". The old companions were never joined again.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

John Cobbett : Cobbett's Grammar

?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator" offered some insight into Latin; French was studied from the same pages in conjunction with another youth; and arrangements were made with an enthusiastic disciple of Isaac Pitman to plunge the depths of phonography when a change of circumstances cast these and all other educational projects to the winds.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

John Cassell : Popular Educator

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper

Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man

?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with excitement and enthusiasm. I had previously read the "Rights of Man" and other political works of Thomas Paine, which had seduced me from bed at five o?clock for many mornings in succession.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book

[n/a] : Northern Star

?Another Sunday recollection is that of a Sunday morning gathering in a humble kitchen. Larry [a crippled shoemaker] made his appearance every Sunday morning, as regular as clockwork, with a copy of the "Northern Star", damp from the press, for the purpose of having some member of our household read out to him and others "Fergus?s Letter". The paper was first to be dried before the fire, and then carefully and evenly cut, so as not to damage a single line of the almost sacred publication. This done, Larry, placidly smoking his ? pipe, ? settled himself to listen with all the rapture of a devotee in a tabernacle to the message of the great Fergus, watching and now and again turning the little joint as it hung and twirled before the kitchen fire, and interjecting occasional chuckles of approval as some particularly emphatic sentiment was read aloud.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". James himself was apprenticed to the clergyman to "learn field labour" but his indentures, owing to the reverend gentleman leaving Yorkshire for another part of the country, were cancelled before he had finished his time. Thereupon the youth set out for Leeds in search for friends and employment. While working in a warehouse, he too began to read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". Besides Cobbett?s writings, he early made the acquaintance of the Radical literature of the day ? Wooler?s "Black Dwarf" and Carlile?s "Republican".?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Jonathan Wooler : Black Dwarf

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Carlile : Republican

?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". James himself was apprenticed to the clergyman to "learn field labour" but his indentures, owing to the reverend gentleman leaving Yorkshire for another part of the country, were cancelled before he had finished his time. Thereupon the youth set out for Leeds in search for friends and employment. While working in a warehouse, he too began to read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". Besides Cobbett?s writings, he early made the acquaintance of the Radical literature of the day ? Wooler?s "Black Dwarf" and Carlile?s "Republican".?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

William Cobbett : Political Register

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Watson Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Morning Star

?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It was my custom every morning (Sundays excepted, of course) to buy a copy at a news stall near the Horns Tavern at Kennington. My business was in Fleet Street. ? So orderly was the traffic throughout that route that I could, by keeping to the right, read my paper the whole way. And I had nothing left to read in it ? at least, nothing that I wanted to read ? when I reached Fleet Street, nearly an hour?s walk from Kennington.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper

William Thackeray : Virginians

?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the members. Thackeray?s "Virginians" and Dickens?s "Little Dorrit" were, I recollect, among the serials for which we subscribed.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : Little Dorritt

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Reading made easy in a variety of useful lessons

'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me with a new book it was the reading made easy it had/many pictures in it which I remember I was much delighted with 'this takeing [sic] my atention [sic] there was nothing Suited so well as my book and I was sone [sic] able to read it without Spelling.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews Gospel I began the second and read it through as well as she could teach me and then I began it again and Read through the 4 gospels and by this time I begun to enquire into the meaning of that which I Read and my mother taught me something of the meaning thereof as far as she knew and I was somehow affected with the sufferings of Christ because I thought it was great Cruelty but I knew nothing of Christ thereof after this book I took a fancy to Read the Bible and began the first Chapter of Genesis but I did not those Chapters with hard names but when I Came to the history of Joseph and his Breathern [sic] I was very much affected with their Cruelty towards him.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor Watts hymns for me and told me the meaning of them as well as she Could which kept me from going back but I Could not advance because I had no one to teach me.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Dr Watts : Hymns

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[unknown] : [religious books]

?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read himself and make all as Could in the family on a Sabath [sic] evening and sometimes we were permitted to read Books of a religious nature as we sat by the fire side in the week day evenings but not always?.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglected learning yet I had not lost my taste for it nor forgot the importance of it?.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

John Rippon : A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors Including a Great Number of Originals: Intended to be an Appendix to Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymns

?on the Thursday evening following I went to my fathers to the meeting with an intention to stay out all night with a person that was not of very good Character so I went to the meeting to pass away the time untill [sic] it Should be convenient to put my design into practice but after the sermon the minister gave out the 355 hymn in Rippon's Selection and when he Came to the 6th verse ? I Can but Perish if I go. I am Resol'd to try for if I stay away I know. I must for ever die. these words painfully arrested me and wrought so upon my mind that instead of prosecuting my design I went home'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I laid hold of some of the promises of the gospel and applied them to myself'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a man whose name was Samuel winwright a man of the other company in the Room with me and he was a good Scholar and he undertook to learn me to Read in a better tone of voice than I had attained too and to keep my points and stops for I had never learned them before?.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible

?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and I thought I would be revenged on her I had been reading in St mathews gospel where the jews said he Casteth out devils and Belzebub the prince of devils I thought this was the sin against the holy ghost and thinking to be a made for my mother I said to myself God is the devil for I Remember I thought I would not go to heaven to spite her'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing source of amusement in scanning the gortesque figures and scenes delineated upon the Dutch tiles with which the chimney corners were decorated. I believe that these pictures, rude as they were, helped me a little better to understand what I read to her out of the Bible and other religious books. I believe that these readings were rather useful to me otherwise; but this perhaps arose partly from the pains she took to indulge my fancy in other matters, and partly also from the motherly way in which she endeavoured to make me understand what I read.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", and an illustrated Bible. This last work was crowded with engravings which were called embellishments.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Hervey : Meditations among the tombs; in a letter to a lady

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : [stories]

'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books...I had even then a taste for reading which was here qualified by me being permitted to read all the little stories which she kept on sale. They were, in truth, childish trifles, but I still think of them with pleasure because they were associated in my case with many pleasant recollections.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to read "Robinson Crusoe" and a brief "History of England", with some other books whose titles I do not now remember. The books that first fell in my way, besides those that belonged to my parents, were few and of little worth.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : History of England

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Divine and Moral Songs

'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", which I read with so much interest as to impress them indelibly upon the memory.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'Among these books was a brief abstract of that amusing story "Robinson Crusoe", which I read with much eagerness and satisfaction. I only regretted its brevity, for I became so deeply interested in the fortunes of its hero and of his Man Friday, that I would fain have read a full account of their adventures.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Anna Letitia Barbauld : Hymns in Prose for Children

'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly suited both to my taste and my capacity. Here I met with descriptions of rural scenery, life and manners which delighted and instructed me...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious notes, probably a copy of Bishop Newton's edition of that noble poem. I found it, however, little better than "a sealed book". Its versification puzzled me, while the loftiness of its subjects confused my understanding.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament

Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters: 'it was required of the applicants for admission that they should be able to read in the New Testament to the satisfaction of the managing committee...I obeyed this dread mandate with much trepidation, but was enabled to do it so as to escape censure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Anne Taylor : Original Poems for Infant Minds

'A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's "Original Poems for Children", one of which, "The Truant Boys", had particularly gained my attention, and I had partly committed it to memory.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : The Assembly's Catechism

'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for a time gave me some trouble, which put me upon making several experiments in order to see whether I could not lessen it. After a failure or two, I hit upon a plan which fully answered my purpose: the time for repeating this lesson was Saturday morning...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : Arminian Magazine

'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's Magazine"; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many things than I had previously been able to command.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Gentleman's Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

Daniel Fenning : The Universal Spelling Book

'Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical exercises contained in the "Universal Spelling Book", but as the Master gave no explanation of these, either as to their nature or use, they were nearly, if not quite, unintelligible to his pupils.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

William Enfield : The Speaker

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free acess to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Sir Richard Phillips : Geography

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free acess to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : History of England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : History of Rome

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Citizen of the World, The

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield, The

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Thomson : Seasons, The

'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wanted. It commended itself to my warmest approbation, immediately on my perceiving its character and design...'[continues to describe impact of the book at length]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : Spectator, The

'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator" deserves particular notice. Where it came from or to whom it belonged, I never knew: I discovered it in my Master's kitchen. On opening it I was struck by the seeming oddity of its contents. As the book promised to give me a little amusement, I forthwith set about reading it. I was at first a good deal mystified about its author, character and design, yet I was much gratified with it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Lloyd's Evening Post

'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's Evening Post", and at this I sometimes got a hasty peep. At first, as was natural, I was chiefly interested with the domestic news: I took care to read about "The moving accidents by fire or flood", with an account of which a newspaper commonly abounds. But my curiosity was not long confined to these "little things". It soon led me to look at the articles of foreign intelligence...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

David Simpson : A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings

'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings" - concerning which I have heard it said that it ought rather to have been called "A Plea for Infidelity" because of its dwelling so much upon the corruptions of Christianity and the inconsistent deportment of some among its ministers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Rev. Thomas Scott : [various essays]

'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were given me by my master. I do not remember their exact titles, nor can I recollect much of more than one of them. This was, if I err not, a kind of exposition on the tenth commandment...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

George Sand : Lucrezia Floriani

'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Gilbert White : The Natural History of Selborne

'Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Theodor (?) Schwann : unknown

'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

S.T. Coleridge : Wallenstein

'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Franz Joseph Gall : Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau

'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

William Benjamin Carpenter : Principles of General and Comparative Physiology

'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Newcomes

'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Hiawatha

'We have been reading Longfellow's Hiawatha'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Sophocles : Antigone

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

P. von Bohlen : Genesis

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Emanuel Swedenborg : unknown

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

George Meredith : The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment

'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : The Greek Heroes

'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis : [history of German Protestantism - title unclear]

'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

William Heinrich (?) Riehl : unknown

'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

David Masson : [essay on the Life of Chatterton]

'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Unknown

David Masson : 'The Three Devils'

'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856

Richard Chenevix Trench : An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world

'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Pierre Beaumarchais : M?moires contre Goezman

'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Henri Milne-Edwards : [work on Zoology]

'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

John Cary : Cary's New itinerary: or an accurate delineation of the great roads

[Marginalia]|: 7pp (6 ink, 1 pencil) of ms notes of journeys (all in south of England or Wales) in the blank pages following the end of the text, in a standard format eg: 'To Millbourn Port [heading]/ Hounslow - George - 12/ Staines - Bush 7/ Bagshot - Kings Arms - 9/ Hartford Bridge - White Lion -9/ Basingstoke - Crown - 11/ Overton Red Lion 8/ Andover - Star Garter 11/ Salisbury - White Hart 1? [deleted and replaced by] 13/ Fovent - Pembroke Arms./ Shaftesbury Red Lion.'

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

Henri Milne-Edwards : [work on Zoology]

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : [article on Missions in the Westminster Review]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Serial / periodical

various : [articles in the National]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Serial / periodical

W.H. Harvey : The Sea-side Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

unknown : The Lover's Seat

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau : [zoology]

'have now taken up Quatrefages again.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Sophocles : Ajax

'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854

'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Edmund Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France

'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Sara Hennell : Christianity and Infidelity

'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

'we spent the evening pleasantly, in spite of ailing bodies, reading Mrs Gaskell's pretty "Cranford".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford - 'Poor Peter' section

'Reading, in the evening, "Poor Peter".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter

'Began "The Scarlet Letter".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Agnes Catlow : Popular Field Botany

'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Cromwell

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus Rex

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [Poems]

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

John William Draper : Human Physiology

'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'read "Emma" in the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

George Eliot (pseud) : Janet's Repentance

'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Manuscript: MS of own work

n/a : Courier

'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This journal was in the form of a pamphlet. It was chiefly filled with the letters of correspondence and the political disquisitions of the proprietor. The only news it contained was that which related to the naval and military operations of the British forces. The "Political Register" was soon thought to be deficient in matters of general interest. It was therefore exchanged for the "Courier", which in a short time gave place to the "Independent Whig". From this time the men were warm politicians - not indeed very well conversant with public affairs, but what they lacked in knowledge they made up by a rather large amount of zealous partisanship. When they were too busy to look over the newspaper, they employed me as their reader - an office whose duties I found to be very pleasant.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

Aeschlyus : Agamemnon

'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Henry Thomas Buckle : History of Civilization in England

'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : The history of the British Empire in India

'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive and Hastings. We have lately read H.M.'s Introduction to the "History of the Peace" and have begun the "History of the Thirty Years Peace".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Essays on Lord Clive And Warren Hastings

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : The history of England during the thirty years' peace : 1816-1846

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Horae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind

'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's "Lyric Poems" which then came first into my hands.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Wreath

'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was "The Grave", which soon commended itself to my hearty and unqualified approbation...Besides this poem the volume contained "The Minstrel", of which I venture to say that I consider it to be of almost unequalled beauty and interest... There was here yet another poem which arrested my attention as fully as much as did "The Grave" or "The Minstrel". This was entitled "Death" - a prize winning poem written by that eminently good man Dr Porteus...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possible, I rose early: if the mornings were at all fine, I walked in the adjacent fields where I found ample amusement in either reading the book of nature or some humbler volume, without which I took care never [last word underlined] to go out on these excursions.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Spectator

'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his "Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque "pastorals". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called "The Village Curate", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Rambler

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

Bernard de Montfaucon : Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys,

[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from the 1st volume of Voyages et Recherches dans la Grece par le Chev.er P.O. Brondsted de l'Ile de Ceos'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

Bernard de Montfaucon : Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys

[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into inside back cover with some notes eg "'ong gloves 2-16'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Erskine Print: Book

[n/a] : The Tatler

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [volumes by the British Essayists]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book, Serial / periodical

John Milton : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Wilkie Collins : Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners"

'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Serial / periodical

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Die Familie

'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Land Und Volk

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

George Eliot (pseud.) : Adam Bede

'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History of Thirty Years' Peace" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Manuscript: MS of own novel

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a very amusing and very instructive piece of biography.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Aeschlyus : Choephorae

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Pierre Jean de Beranger :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

anon. : [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]

'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunted Man".'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Newspaper

Charles Dickens : The Haunted Man

'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunted Man".'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Unknown, could have been book or serial

Aeschlyus : Eumenides

'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

William Wordsworth :

'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: Book

James Cook : [narratives of voyages]

'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chiefly remember those of Bruce, Le Vaillant and Weld. Mr. Weld's narrative so deeply interested me, as to have well nigh been the occasion of my emigrating to the United States or Canada. The desire of seeing those countries which was excited thereby remained with me for some years: it was the cause of my reading several works descriptive of North America and the condition of its inhabitants.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Jean Fran?ois de Galaup La P?rouse : [narratives of voyages]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de Pompadour : Suite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de Pompadour d'apres les pierre gravees de Guay graveur du Roy

[Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist of an introduction praising those who protect and encourage the arts, including Madame la Pompadour, 'who brought fame to this series of etchings', followed by a description of each etching. There is also a single sheet, in a different hand, containing more notes related to the item.

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Louis Antoine de Bougainville : [narratives of voyages]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Bruce : [narratives of travels]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Anon : General treatise of naval trade and commerce, as founded on the laws and statutes of the realm: in which those relating to His Majesty's customs, merchants, matters of ships &c. are particularly considered and treated with due care ?

[Marginalia]: a page of ms notes on the first binding page gives nautical instructions 'The course by the Compass From Buchaness to Fair Isle is NNE or .... Dist. 32 leagues. From Fair Isle to Si[?]mbrough Head .is NE ... This is from Alexr Buchan Mr of the Shotland[?] Paket ... '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ferguson Print: Book

Fran?ois Le Vaillant : [narratives of travels]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Isaac Weld : [narratives of travels]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Christoph Christian Sturm : Reflections on the Works of God and of His Providence

'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tree, and read, with no small pleasure, several of the papers contained in that highly entertaining book, "Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God". As I read these, surrounded by many of the objects upon which they so pleasingly descant, I was enabled to look "through nature up to nature's God"; to hold, as it were, converse with that glorious and beneficient Being, and to recognise Him as a father and a friend.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Anon : Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipment of a frigate to be employed in sailing between London and Calcutta; touching at the Cape of Good Hope; for the conveyance of passengers only

[Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbers of crew, dates and costings. There are also copious marginal notes, connected to deleted lines of text: eg. p.25 has lines 2-9 deleted and in the margin 'It is proposed to obtain by contribution the sum of ?32000 the sum required for building & equipping the vessel; and x[ie continue with the text]'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : History of the Thirty Years Peace

'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fatiguing and not instructive. But her history of the Reform Movement is very interesting'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: Book

Aeschlyus [?] : Prometheus

'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Horace : The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos

'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Frederick the Great

'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

J.G. Lockhart (probably) : Life of Scott

'We are reading Scott's Life in the evenings with much enjoyment.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

unknown : Hunger and Thirst

'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Erasmus Wilson Print: Book

unknown : [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"]

'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Newspaper

unknown : review of Barrett Wendell's critical study of Shakespeare

'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed. Besides being critically very thin and even common, it is surely not written as the Prof. of "English" at Harvard should write.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Barrett Wendell : critical study of Shakespeare

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

: The Times

Henry James to Francis Boott, 11 October 1895: 'This is but a p.s. of three lines to the letter I posted to you yesterday; after doing which I became aware that I hadn't alluded to poor W. W. Story's death, the news of which I had just seen in The Times.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Edward Holton James : two stories

Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratefully indebted to you. I have read them with a searching of spirit (to begin with) inevitable to one who has in a manner set an example and who sees it (in his afternoon of life) inexorably and fatally followed.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Pierre Louys : Aphrodite: moeurs antiques

Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel "Aphrodite: moeurs antiques", which he has read in a copy apparently borrowed from Gosse.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Emile Zola : Rome

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at the rate of ten pages a day -- under which even my little rock-built terrace groans.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : article on death of Edmond de Goncourt

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August] was that I dined one night at the Savoy with F. Ortmans and the P. Bourgets [...] The only other thing I did was to read in the "Revue de Paris" of the 15th August the wonderful article of A. Daudet on Goncourt's death [...]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Maurice Barres : Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort

Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which had been sent to him, 7 September 1896.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Edward Fitzgerald : Letters

In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afternoon', in which, after having been 'reading the delightful letters of [...] Edward Fitzgerald ("Omar Khayyam") and, just finishing a story in one of them about his relations with a boatman of Saxmundham,' he went for a walk along the Bournemouth coast where he met, and got into conversation with, a 'sea-faring man' who turned out to have come from Saxmundham, and whose brother had been the boatman Fitzgerald had written of (he goes on to mention the further coincidence of coming home to find a letter from Hunter dated from Saxmundham).

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Arthur Christopher Benson : Diary

Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897: 'I have read, of course, every word -- and I think I have had real inspirations in the way of making you out.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James

James Duncan : Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, The

Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on specific local journeys e.g. Cupar to Perth, dated '10 Dec 1816' or in an area 'Southside of the Tay'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Halkerston Print: Book

: The Times

Henry James to William James, 20 April 1898: 'I scarcely know what the newpapers say [about the Spanish-American war] -- beyond the "Times", which I look at all for [George W.] Smalley's cables'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Antonio de Navarro : MS story

Henry James to Antonio de Navarro, 15 June 1898: 'Well, my dear Tony, I have read your ms. [...] It is Hans Andersenesque -- but no editor of an actual London magazine would look at a Hans Andersen tale to-day.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Unknown

n/a : Courier

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Weekly Political Register

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

n/a : The Independent Whig

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop Print: Newspaper

n/a : The Independent Whig

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Weekly Political Register

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Joseph Planta : History of the Helvetic Confederacy

'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said Planta being (under favour) little better than a conceited dolt, and his "history" a Gazette in 1000 pages - of quarto letter-press- '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : Messiah

'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over the inflated work of 'Squire Bristed on "America and her resources". "Vivacity", therefore, on my part, is quite out of the question-'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

John Bristed : America and her Resources

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Confessions

'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands a volume of Rousseau's confessions. It is perhaps the most remarkable tome, I ever read. Except for its occassional obscenity, I might wish to see the remainder of the book: to try if possible to connect the character of Jean Jacques with my previous ideas of human nature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Lady Sidney Owenson Morgan : France

'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be left destitute - But if there be, she certainly looks on with an approving smile - when in a supine posture, I lie for hours with my eyes fixed upon the pages of Lady Morgan's France or the travels of Faujas St Fond - my mind seldon taking the pains even to execrate the imbecile materialism, the tawdry gossiping of the former, or to pity the infirm speculations and the already antiquated mineralogy of the latter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-Frond : Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrides...

'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be left destitute - But if there be, she certainly looks on with an approving smile - when in a supine posture, I lie for hours with my eyes fixed upon the pages of Lady Morgan's France or the travels of Faujas St Fond - my mind seldom taking the pains even to execrate the imbecile materialism, the tawdry gossipping of the former, or to pity the infirm speculations and the already antiquated mineralogy of the latter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Lady Sidney Morgan : Roderick, the Last of the Goths

'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be left destitute - But if there be, she certainly looks on with an approving smile - when in a supine posture, I lie for hours with my eyes fixed upon the pages of Lady Morgan's France or the travels of Faujas St Fond ... What shall I say to the woebegone Roderick last of the Goths; and others of a similar stamp? They go through my brain as light goes thro' an achromatic telescope.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

unknown : [Penny Dreadfuls]

'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from "The Lady of the Lake" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: "The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

Walter Scott : [from 'The Lady of the Lake']

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

unknown : 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [extracts in school textbook]

'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passages from "The Lady of the Lake" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: "The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

unknown : [didactic poems]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown to all the boys and girls in the chapel's schoolroom... While we were playing kiss in the ring, singing and laughing... Dave would lean his figure... against a pillar, biting his lips and frowning at our merrymaking"... His friend soon tired of this Byronic posing, but Davies marks the occasion as the first time he was really attracted to poetry with enjoyment and serious purpose. He went on to read Shelley, Marlowe's plays, and some further Shakespeare. Wordsworth failed to attract him, though he later studied him very diligently'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works not reproduced in schoolbooks]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

William Wordsworth :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon Print: Book

unknown : Freddie's Friend

[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's Button", "Sally's Sacrifice".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

unknown : Little Billie's Button

[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's Button", "Sally's Sacrifice".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

unknown : Sally's Sacrifice

[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's Button", "Sally's Sacrifice".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book

Flouren : [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]

'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Pierre Louys : La Femme et le Pantin

Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of reading Pierre Louys' novel "La Femme et le Pantin", at Bourget's recommendation.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Matilda Serao : [unidentified novel]

Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Matilda Serao, in a copy apparently sent to him by Bourget's wife.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

E.M. De Vogüé : Jean d'Agreve

Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading "Jean d'Agreve" with a mixture of recognitions and reserves'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

J. W. Mackail : The Life of William Morris

Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you have read Mackail's Morris [...] I felt much moved, after reading the book, to try to write [...] something positively vivid about it; but we are in a moment of such excruciating vulgarity that nothing worth doing about anything or anyone seems to be wanted or welcomed anywhere.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Mrs Everard Cotes : His Honour and a Lady

Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is extraordinarily keen and delicate and able [...] One or two things my acute critical intelligence murmured to me as I read. I think your drama lacks a little, [italics] line [end italics] [...] on which to string the pearls of detail.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The Time Machine

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 29 January 1900: 'It was very graceful of you to send me your book -- I mean the particular masterpiece entitled "The Time Machine", after I had so ungracefully sought it at your hands [...] You are very magnificent [...] I re-write you, much, as I read -- which is the highest tribute my damned impertinence can pay an author.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Katherine Prescott Wormeley : MS notes to Balzac's Letters

Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accompanying MS notes: 'I deeply appreciate the admirable and generous labour that prepared for me the ms. notes to Balzac's Letters and that accompanied the Preface to your translation. [...] I have read with care every word of your preface and notes -- as I had already read the "Roman d'Amour", and bought and read much of the "Lettres a l'Etrangere".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Unknown

Katherine Prescott Wormeley : Preface [on Balzac]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: proof

Honore de Balzac : Un Roman d'Amour

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Lettres a l'Etrangere

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Paul Bourget : Drames de Famille

Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have read the whole thing with the intensity [italics] que je mets toujours a vous lire [end italics]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

George Santayana : Interpretations of Poetry and Religion

Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which has come and which I find of an irresistible distraction.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Ford Madox Hueffer : Poems for Pictures

Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think your doubt about the verses misplaced and unjustified -- all those I have yet read seeming to me to hold their own very firmly indeed. Those I have read -- and re-read -- are the little rustic lays -- several of which I think admirable'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Dean Howells : Ragged Lady

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver Journey", the "Pursuit of the Piano" and two or three other things (none wrested from your inexorable hand, but paid for from scant earnings) has been, ever so many times over, an impulse of reaction, of an intensely cordial sort'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Dean Howells : Their Silver Wedding Journey

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William Dean Howells : 'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story)

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

W. Morton Fullerton : article

Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your "Cornhill" article as one always speaks and feels about one's potboilers; but that doesn't prevent me from having felt as I read it as if I were seated with you before that little [italics] cafe-glacier [end italics] that has the summer shade [...] and you were telling me, happily passive, things out of your abundance, and I could put my hand on your shoulder and wish the occasion would last.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

William Dean Howells : A Pair of Patient Lovers

Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short tales ["A Pair of Patient Lovers"]-- the arrival of which from you was affecting and delightful to me -- I've meant to write to you [...] I read your book with joy [...] The thing that most took me was that entitled "A Difficult Case"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Sarah Orne Jewett : The Tory Lover

Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous present of "The Tory Lover" [her historical novel]. He has been but three or four days in the house, yet I have given him an earnest, a pensive, a liberal -- yes, a benevolent attention [goes on to offer detailed criticisms]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Kim

Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I overflow, I beg you to believe, with "Kim", and I rejoice in such a saturation, such a splendid dose of you.[goes on to praise novel further]'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Graham Balfour : Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, so that it is only this evening that I have, after delayed acquisition, finished with emotion, your two admirable volumes [a biography of R. L. Stevenson].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Owen Wister : The Virginian

Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading "The Virginian" and I am moved to write to you. You didn't send him to me -- you never send me anything; as to which, heaven knows, you're not obliged [...] I mention the matter only from the sense of my having felt, as I read, how the sentiment of the thing would have deepened for me if I [italics] had [end italics] had it from your hands.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Edith Wharton : The Valley of Decision

Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decision", read it with such high appreciation and received so deep an impression from it that I can scarce tell you why, all these weeks, I have waited for any other pretext to write.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

unknown : article on Zola

Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediately read the Zola in it [sic] [...] because I promised the ingenuous "Atlantic" to write a paper on him.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [various]

'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in my pocket, that it might be at hand in case I should find a few spare minutes. In general, I managed to read a few pages while going to and from the workshop. This, however, was a somewhat difficult affair, as my path led me through some of the busiest streets and places in the city: and I hardly need say that these are not the most favourable localities for a thoughtful reader, especially if what he chooses to read demands any thing like close attention. It was while standing at a bookstall that I read with the most advantage. I took care to avail myself of this as often, and for as long a time as possible; and from these out-of-door libraries picked up a few - perhaps a good many - scraps of useful or amusing information.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard : The Morgesons

Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) when they originally appeared [...] I seem to remember even having "noticed" the second (probably in the "Nation" and very badly).'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard : Two Men

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Urbain Mengin : Italie des Romantiques

Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie des Romantiques" came to me safely more months ago than I have the courage to confess to in round numbers [...] I have in any case attentively and appreciatively read it; finding in it much entertaining matter very succinctly and agreeably presented'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Howard Sturgis : Belchamber

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: In proof

Howard Sturgis : A Sketch from Memory

Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"] with many thanks and with no marks or comments at all [goes on to offer criticisms] [...] I send you back also "Temple Bar", in which I have found your paper a moving and charming thing'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

David Ramsay : History of the American Revolution, The

'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous word, in the tailor's posture, and thus had no need of either chair or table... The books I read at this time related chiefly to North America. Among the chief of them were Ramsay's "History of the American Revolution", Smith's "Travels in Canada and the United States", and Parkinson's "Travels in North America".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Smith : Travels in Canada and the United States

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Edward Parkinson : Travels in North America

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : [morning newspaper]

'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, that I might have an opportunity of looking at the morning newspaper; and further, that I might have the comfort of sitting by a good fire... I felt a considerable degree of interest in regard to the course of public affairs, and therefore was the more anxious to see a newspaper everyday. I also hoped that some one of the numerous advertisements might be made available in the way of getting employment other than that of tailoring. In this hope I was disappointed; yet the time I thus spent was not quite thrown away, as I hereby contracted a habit of carefully reading advertisements, which I have found to be useful...[etc.]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot

'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "Tom Brown's School Days" with much disappointment. It is an unpleasant, unveracious book'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's School Days

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Auguste Comte : Catechism Of Positive Religion, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ, The (?)

'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Francois Huber : New Observations on the Natural History of Bees

'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

Charles Darwin : Origin of Species, The

'We began Darwin's work on "The Origin of Species" tonight. It seems not to be well written: though full of interesting matter, it is not impressive, for want of luminous and orderly presentation.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

anon. : Arabian Nights, The

'music, "Arabian Nights", and Darwin.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book

John Bunyan : unknown

'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

Robert Bloomfield : [Poems]

'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my biddings. I read Bloomfield with much interest, as I also did a copy of Montgomery's "Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems". Being at the time in poor health of body, at which times my imaginative faculty has always been morbibly active, I was unwise to read poetry of this class, which, under the circumstances, was more likely to excite uneasy feelings than to invigorate the mind. And thus it fell out; for while I read of rural scenes and also of the comparative quietude and the superior happiness of country life, I grew uneasy and heartsick of the noisy and restless town...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

unknown : [Life of Francois de Sales]

'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

James Montgomery : Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Viscount Garnet Wolseley : The Story of a Soldier's Life

Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last evenings in your so interesting and vivid society without thanking you almost as much as if you had personally given me the delightful hours or held me there with your voice. I have read your two volumes [The Story of a Soldier's Life] from covers to covers and parted from you with a positive pang.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson : [book on Greek history]

Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to James], I don't know [...] But I've read a charming little Greek history-book from his hand'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Mankind in the Making

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted to quite intensely from the day I read your two munificently-conferred books [...] "M[ankind] in the M[aking]" thrills and transports me [...] it becomes, as one reads, inordinately obective, heroic, sympathetic, D'Artagnanesque. Of the little Tales in t'other book ["Twelve Stories and a Dream"] I read one every night regularly, after going to bed -- they had only the defect of hurrying me prematurely to my couch.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Twelve Stories and a Dream

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted to quite intensely from the day I read your two munificently-conferred books [...] "M[ankind] in the M[aking]" thrills and transports me [...] it becomes, as one reads, inordinately obective, heroic, sympathetic, D'Artagnanesque. 'Of the little Tales in t'other book ["Twelve Stories and a Dream"] I read one every night regularly, after going to bed -- they had only the defect of hurrying me prematurely to my couch.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Edith Wharton : The House of Mirth (second instalment)

Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to you [...] For I have read the February morsel of "The House of Mirth", with such a sense of its compact fulness, vivid picture and "sustained interest" as to make me really wish to celebrate the emotion.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Edith Wharton : The House of Mirth (final instalment)

Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago, or less, I laid down the November "Scribner" [...] Let me tell you at once that I very much admire that fiction'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

H. G. Wells : A Modern Utopia

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munificence here on returning [from tour of USA] [...] toward the end of July [...] I recognized [...] that the Utopia ["A Modern Utopia" was a book I should desire to read only in the right conditions of [italics] coming [end italics] to it [...] I "came to it" only a short time since [...] and achieved a complete saturation; after which [...] I found Kipps [...] awaiting me -- and from his so different but still so utterly coercive embrace I have just emerged.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Kipps

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William James : [Unidentified recently published writings]

Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three weeks ago spent three or four days with Manton Marble at Brighton and found in his hands ever so many of your recent papers and discourses, which having margins of mornings in my room, through both breakfasting and lunching there [...] I found time to read several of'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Paul Bourget : Les Deux Soeurs

Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of "Les Deux Soeurs": 'This volume I read with immediate attention and with the highest appreciation'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Ralph Gordon Noel King, second Earl of Lovelace : Astarte

Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906: 'I left home at Christmas for a few weeks' stay, which became a fortnight's absence, and, on my return a week ago, found the very handsome, remarkable and interesting volume ["Astarte", Lovelace's account of his grandmother's marriage to Byron] which you had been so good as to send me. I wished to take real possession of it before having the pleasure of thanking you, and have now done so by a very attentive, and in fact fascinated perusal.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

various : Byron family papers

Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906, thanking him for a copy of "Astarte", Lovelace's account of his grandparents Lord and Lady Byron's marriage: 'I am greatly touched by your friendly remembrance of my possible feeling for the whole matter, and of your own good act, perhaps, of a few years ago -- the to me ever memorable evening when, at Wentworth House, you allowed me to look at some of the documents you have made use of in "Astarte."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Unknown

Joseph Conrad : The Mirror of the Sea

Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The Future in America

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generously-given "America," and I have done nothing today but thrill and squirm with it and vibrate to it almost feverishly and weep over it almost profusely'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

[n/a] : The News

'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with myself in subscribing for a weekly newspaper. We would gladly have taken a daily journal, but our pockets would not allow of so costly an indulgence. The paper we took was called "The News". Its arrival was looked for with very considerable interest, so anxious were we to see some bulletin of the Great Napoleon respecting his military operations, with the other articles of foreign news, and the commentaries of the newspaper editor. The perusal of the paper, with the conversation ensuing thereon, made the day of its coming a "white day" in our estimation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop Print: Newspaper

Francisco de Quevedo : The Visions of Don Quevedo

'I found a good deal of amusement in looking over the engravings in a Spanish volume, called, I think, "The Visions of Don Quevedo". It was, of course, a book from which I could get but little information in the way of reading. The plates, however, told a tolerably clear story, and my host, who had learned something of the Spanish language, gave me such explanations as were necessary to my fully comprehending the meaning of the illustrations.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Jerusalem Delivered

'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these matters, I usually remained at home and read in such books as I found at hand. Among these was a copy of Mr. Hoole's translation of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered", which poem I now read for the first time, and with much interest.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Richard Price : [volume of sermons]

'At the request of our landlady, I looked over a volume of Sermons by the eminent Unitarian minister, Dr. Price. I did this, however, out of mere courtesy: for although I have no objection to read any regular treatise on theological subjects, I have never been much disposed to read sermons. I ventured to report so favourably concerning these discourses, that the good woman was quite satisfied that she would do well to read them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : British Press

'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the "British Press", the "Morning Chronicle", and the "Statesman". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's "Political Register", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Morning Chronicle

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Statesman

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

William Cobbett : Political Register

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Charles Rollin : The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians

'At home I acquired increased facilities for reading, by means of a small book-club, consisting of my landlord and a few of his friends. Of this I became a member; and thus had the means of becoming a little acquainted with works which I had not before seen. Among these was Rollin's "Ancient History", which greatly pleased me, although I was at a loss to account for his seemingly intimate knowledge of what was done or said in the private cabinet of monarchs and warriors two or three thousand years before he wrote.'

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

Paul Bourget : Etudes et portraits

Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his "Etudes et Portraits", in an inscribed copy sent to him a few weeks beforehand by Bourget.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Paul Bourget : article on Ferdinand Brunetiere

Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinand Brunetiere in "Temps"a few days beforehand.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward : The Whole Family (chapter)

Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907: 'you sent me Mrs. Phelps Ward's contribution to the "Whole Family" -- which I began to read the other day, but which immediately affeted me as subjected to so pitiless an ordeal in the searching artistic light and amid the intellectual and literary associations of Paris that I [...] laid it away to await resuscitation of it in a medium in which I shall be able to surround my perusal of it with more precautions.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James

various : [unidentified book of fairy stories]

Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a child (part of research for her 1907 book on the favourite fairy stories of "Representative Men and Women"): 'I [...] thrilled over the nursery fire, over a fat little Boys' -- or perhaps Children's Own Book which contained all the "regular" fairy tales [...] amid which I recall "Hop o' my Thumb"'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Clare Benedict : "Roderick Eaton's Children"

Henry James to Clare Benedict, 13 September 1907: 'Returning to this place [Lamb House, Rye] early in July after a long absence abroad [...] I found the March "Atlantic" in a great heap of waiting postal matter on my table [...] I addressed myself to your delicate discreet little story [goes on to praise it]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : "Covering End"

Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson read H[enry]J[ames]'s story "Covering End" in "The Two Magics" (1898) and proposed that the novelist turn it into a play for him.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Johnston Forbes-Robertson Print: Book

William James : Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

William James : journal articles on psychology

Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the spell itself (of interest and enthralment) that the book cast upon me [...] I have been absorbing a number more of your followings-up of the matter in the American (Journal of Psychology[?]) which your devouring devotee Manton Marble of Brighton [...] plied'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Edith Wharton : The Fruit of the Tree

Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] with acute appreciation -- the liveliest admiration and sympathy.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

unknown : Byron family papers

Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52: 'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], who was the widow of Byron's grandson, asked Henry James and myself to examine her archives in order to reach some conclusion on the merits of the quarrel between Byron and his wife [...] during a summer week-end, Henry James and I waded through masses of ancient indecency, and duly wrote an opinion [signed by Buchan on 4 April 1910 and by James on 7 April]. The things nearly made me sick, but my colleague never turned a hair.' Edel adds that 'Byron's intimate letters to Lady Melbourne [copied by Lord Lovelace] [...] written during the three years preceding [his] marriage, were the ones read by James and Buchan.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James and John Buchan

George Gordon, Lord Byron : letters to Lady Melbourne (copies)

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James and John Buchan Manuscript: Letter

Hugh Walpole : Maradick at Forty

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and love of life -- but seems to me very nearly as irreflectively juvenile as the Trojans [ie "The Trojan Horse" (1909), Walpole's previous (and first) novel] [...] Also the whole thing is a monument to the abuse of voluminous dialogue [...] And yet it's all so loveable'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book represents a very marked advance upon its predecessors [...] To appreciate is to appropriate, and it is only by criticism that I can make a thing in which I find myself interested at all [italics]my own[end italics]. [...] I really and very charmedly made your book very [italics]much[end italics] my own.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Josiah Royce : Phi Beta address on the work and influence of William James

Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreciation of your so generous and luminous treatment of my dear Brother's work and influence in your Phi Beta address yesterday -- read by me in last night's "Transcript".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Hugh Walpole : review of Henry James, The Outcry

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of James's "The Outcry"] at breakfast, and I am touched, I am [italics]melted[end italics], by the charming gallantry and magnanimity of it'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

unknown : "the Green Book"

Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in which I [italics]can[end italics] read (or at least disread) the contemporary novel'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Mrs W. K. Clifford : The Getting Well of Dorothy

Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but I [italics]have[end italics] to take it in pieces, and so have only reached the middle.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : articles

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]American[end italics] papers of his in "Harper", of an inordinate platitude of journalistic cheapness, have in truth rather curtailed me in such a disposition.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Gosse : life of Swinburne

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinburne [biographical essay by Gosse, originally intended for the DNB] [...] the perusal of which lubricated yesterday two or three rough hours.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

George Meredith : Letters

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912: 'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Letters"; and, though I haven't been able yet very much to go into them, I catch their emanation of something so admirable, and, on the whole, so baffled and so tragic. We must have some more talk of them -- and also of Wells's book ["Marriage"], with which I am however having much difficulty. I am not so much struck with its hardness as with its weakness and looseness, the utter going by the board of any real self respect of composition and expression.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Marriage

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Marriage

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 18 October 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'you may not have forgotten that you kindly sent me "Marriage" [...] which I've been able to give myself to at my less ravaged and afflicted hours. I have read you, as I always read you [...] with a complete abdication of all those "principles of criticism" [...] which I roam, which I totter, through the pages of others attended in some dim degree by the fond yet feeble theory of, but which I shake off, as I advance under your spell, with the most cynical inconsistency.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : Portraits and Sketches

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for your so-vividly interesting volume of literary "Portraits" [...] I read your book, with lively "reactions," within the first week of its arrival [goes on to praise it in detail]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Andrew Lang : The Maid of France, being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Andrew Lang : compendium of English literature

Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of France, and turned over his just-published (I think posthumous) compendium of "English Literature" [...] The extraordinary inexpensiveness and childishness and impertinence of this latter gave to my sense the measure of a whole side of Lang [goes on to attack Lang's "Scotch provincialism"]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Edith Wharton : The Reef: A Novel

Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Novel"] has been my portion these several days [...] it has been a real lift to read you and taste you and ponder you: the experience has literally worked [...] in a medicating sense that neither my local nor my London Doctor [...] shall have come within miles and miles of'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Mungo Park : Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr. Park's "Travels in Africa". I also read Mr. Colquhoun's large treatise on the "Police of the Metropolis" from which I gleaned much information and amusement.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Quintus Horace : [poems]

'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found the old "Roman poet" to be a very lively and shrewd companion. I also ventured to spend a guinea in the purchase of "Kirke White's Remains": a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books; yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Henry Kirk White : Remains

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines. 'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Monthly Review

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[n/a] : Edinburgh Magazine

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[n/a] : European Magazine

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[n/a] : Monthly Magazine

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[n/a] : Examiner

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Black Dwarf

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope

'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfavourable accounts of it given by critics, resolved upon reading Thomson's "Liberty". This resolution I carried into effect, to my very considerable amusement, if not instruction. As to its poetical merits, I did not venture to sit in judgement upon them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

William Cowper : [Poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Thomson : Liberty, a Poem

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Beattie : The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius

[On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I remember to have passed one afternoon in a very pleasant way. I sat in a quiet, well-shaded spot, where I had the benefit of a cool atmosphere, and read once more Dr Beattie's "Minstrel" - a poem which pleases me now quite as much as it did then. It is one of the poems of which I am never weary; from which circumstance alone, were there no other evidence, I should be led to infer that it is true poetry - the poetry of the heart no less than the imagination.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

William Giles : Guide to Domestic Happiness, The

'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels, and encouragements being based on upon the supposition of the reader's being a person of substance and education. the only publication I met with which at all came up to my wishes was one called "Letters on the Marriage State"; but even this bore only in a distant way upon the case in question.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : Letters on the Marriage State

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [poems]

'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and Aspasia", but with no great pleasure, because of its chiefly dwelling upon controverted points of theology. I was induced to read it by a sense of what was due to the request of a valued friend. As to Mr. Pope's works and translations, I read them with much satisfaction. In passing, I must observe that of Homer's poems I greatly preferred the "Odyssey"; for the "Iliad" was too full of warlike descriptions for one of my pacific temper. I still retain this preference. My reading times were at my meals, and after I had left work in the evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

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Homer : Odyssey

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James Hervey : Theron and Aspasia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Human Life, a Poem

'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that I read Mr. Rogers's very beautiful poem called "Human Life" and also a history of the recent wars.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : [History of the recent wars]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie : Man of Feeling and other tales

'I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's "Man of Feeling" and other tales. I thought them a little too highly coloured to be of any great use, considered as pictures of men and manners.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Washington Irving : Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his fine imaginative powers beyond "this visible diurnal sphere". By the way, I must observe a similar defect exists in Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination"; a poem which in every other respect gives me very great satisfaction. I also read some volumes of the "London Magazine", which I thought to be a very cleverly conducted publication.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Mark Akenside : Pleasures of the Imagination, The

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[n/a] : London Magazine

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[n/a] : New Monthly Magazine

'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles in which I was especially pleased with the "Letters from Algiers", written by Mr. Thomas Campbell, the eminent poet'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Anti-Jacobin Review

'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met with some views respecting the conduct of Judas Iscariot towards his Divine Master which to me were quite new. I, however, thought them both reasonable and probable. I also read Mr. O'Meara's "Voice from St Helena", Dr. Henderson's "Travels in Iceland", and Captain Parry's "Narrative" of his Arctic Voyage. I must here beg the reader to remember that henceforth when I say that I have read any book it will only mean that I gave it a hasty perusal, for I had no time for close reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

Barry Edward O'Meara : Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St Helena

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Ebenezer Henderson : Iceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Island during the years 1814 and 1815

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

William Edward Parry : Journal of a Voyage to discover a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Josiah Conder : The Modern Traveller, a Description of the Various Countries of the Globe

'It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this was "The Modern Traveller", edited by Mr. Conder. I read the parts consecutively and was so much pleased with them that I looked for their publication with great interest.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Gray : Letters

'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining "Letters" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's "History of the Literature of the South of Europe".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi : Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary's translation of Dante and Mr. Jowell's 'Christian Researches'.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Thomas Reid : Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

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William Jowett : Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX

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Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu : Letters

?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Beattie : [Essays]

?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Beattie : Essay on truth

?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Arminius : [works on theology and account of his life]

?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, James Arminius, with which I was well satisfied, but especially so with the prefixed memoir of his life. I had also, for a few days, the loan of Mr. Montgomery?s ?Lectures on poetry?, a book which I should have been glad to read thoroughly.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Montgomery : Lectures on poetry

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John Wesley : Journal

?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was the ?Journal? of that great and good man, the Rev. J. Wesley. I have long regarded it as being equal in interest to Mr Boswell?s ?Life of Dr Johnson? although its contents are, of course, very dissimilar. I also read many of his other works in the course of the two years during which our lodgers remained with us. I may just observe that Mr Wesley?s style of writing is eminently concise and clear; well adapted to the capacity of the uneducated reader.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Wesley : [works]

?Of him [lodger ? Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was the ?Journal? of that great and good man, the Rev. J. Wesley. I have long regarded it as being equal in interest to Mr Boswell?s ?Life of Dr Johnson? although its contents are, of course, very dissimilar. I also read many of his other works in the course of the two years during which our lodgers remained with us. I may just observe that Mr Wesley?s style of writing is eminently concise and clear; well adapted to the capacity of the uneducated reader.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [plays]

?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Sharon Turner : Sacred history of the creation

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Samuel Drew : Memoirs of Mr Samuel Drew

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Jung Stilling : Theory of pneumatology

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[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

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[n/a] : Quarterly Review

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Gilbert Cannan : Round the Corner

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 11 April 1913: 'I have [...] read -- with difficulty -- another Young Fiction of the day [...] Gilbert Cannan's "Round the Corner".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable "Peace and War" [sic] and am struck by the fact that I now protest as much as I admire.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The Passionate Friends

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 21 September 1913, thanking him for a copy of his new novel, "The Passionate Friends": 'I am too impatient to let you know [italics]how[end italics] wonderful I find this last [...] I bare my head before [...] the high immensity [...] which has made me absorb the so full-bodied thing in deep and prolonged gustatory draughts.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Aubrey Beardsley : The Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley

Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsley's letters, by which I have been greatly touched [...] the personal spirit in him, the beauty in nature, is disclosed to me by your letters as wonderful and [...] deeply pathetic and interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Compton Mackenzie : Sinister Street (vol.1)

Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[treet]"., but I have now taken "Carnival" in persistent short draughts -- which is how I took "S[inister].S[treet]". and is how I take anything I take at all'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Compton Mackenzie : Carnival

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William Roughead : chronicle of trial of Mary Blandy

Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chronicles of murder trials] in a single feast [...] You tell the story with excellent art and animation'.

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James

Joseph Conrad : Chance

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack it as soon as I finish Conrad's "Chance". I have so nearly done this that I shall probably proceed tonight, in bed, to Walpole's Certainty ["The Duchess of Wrexe"].''

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Rhoda Broughton : unknown

Henry James to Rhoda Broughton, 10 August 1914: 'we walked, this strange Sunday afternoon (9th), my niece Peggy, her youngest brother and I [...] to see and have tea with a genial and garrulous old Irish friend (Lady Mathew, who has a house here for the summer), and came away an hour later bearing with us a substantial green volume, by an admitrable eminent hand [ie Broughton's], which our hostess had just read with such a glow of satisfaction that she overflowed into easy lending.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Mathew Print: Book

Gabriele D'Annunzio : unknown

Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has apparently read and admired.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Compton Mackenzie : Sinister Street (vol 2)

Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton Mackenzie's "Sinister Street": 'I don't know what it means [...] the thing affects me on the whole as a mere wide waste.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Sir Isaac Harman's Wife

Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 November 1914: '[H. G.] Wells has published a mere flat tiresomeness ("Sir Isaac Harman's Wife"); at least I had, for the first time with anything of Wells's, simply to let it slide.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

H. G. Wells : critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War

Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, though I do myself deprecate everywhere the laying on of any rose-colour too thick), and of Wells's admirable scarification, as I hold it, of G[eorge].B[ernard].S[haw]. -- in which I find myself ready to back himn up to the hilt.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

Arnold Bennett : critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The Times" and "The Morning Post"; the latter for its comparative avoidance of cheap optimisms; whch I hate to be too much fed with.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

: The Morning Post

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Newspaper

Rupert Brooke : sonnets

Henry James to Edward Marsh, 28 March 1915: 'I take it very kindly indeed of you to have found thought and time to send me the publication with the five brave sonnets [by Rupert Brooke]. The circumstances that have conduced to them [...] have caused me to read them with an emotion that somehow precludes the critical measure [...] and makes me just want [...] to be moved by them and to "like" and admire them [...] this evening, alone by my lamp, I have been reading them over and over to myself aloud'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown

Margot Asquith : Diary

Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I have absorbed every word of every page with the liveliest appreciation [...] I have read the thing intimately, and I take off my hat to you as the Balzac of diarists.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Codex

Margot Asquith : Diaries

Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquith: An Autobiography (1922), 70-73: 'Out of all my diaries I have hardly been able to quote fifty pages, for on re-reading them I find they are not only full of Cabinet secrets but jerky, disjointed and dangerously frank.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margot Asquith Manuscript: Codex

H. G. Wells : Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump

Henry James to H. G. Wells, 6 July 1915: 'I was given yesterday at a club your volume "Boon, etc.", from a loose leaf in which I learn that you kindly sent it me [...] I have just been reading, to acknowledge it intelligently, a considerable number of its pages -- though not all; for, to be perfectly frank, I have been in that respect beaten for the first time -- or rather for the first time but one -- by a book of yours'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

anon : Arabian Nights

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Tinsley Print: Book

John Middleton : The laws and acts of the first Parliament

[Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be payed from imported commodities ...'; p. 49 against XXVIII is the note 'This act [word deleted] reshinded [sic]'.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Johannes [ie John] Chrystie Print: Book

Molly V Hughes : London Child of the Seventies, A

'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experience had taught me that the roots of life were there but it was never certain, and that was the adventure, how they would emerge. It was partly because of this belief and partly because of a poem with that title by Robert Browning that I called my first book Development. The two volumes I now discovered were linked to this interest and not only gave me great pleasure but won me lasting friendships. They were A London Child of the Seventies (and its sequels) by Molly V. Hughes and Within the City Wall by Margaret Phillips.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

Margaret Phillips : Within the City Wall

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

Molly V Hughes : A London Child of the Seventies

'If I enjoy a book I often write to its author. It seems to me a matter of politeness between one artist and another. Having read A London Child I wrote to Molly [Hughes] at once. I had been born thirty years later but the Victorians disliked change and our memories touched at many points.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Molly V Hughes : London Child of the Seventies, A

'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our roots how many can exist merely on air? Yet if people want to know what life was like for a poor scholar in one of the most opulent centuries England has known, they cannot do better than to study Molly?s [Hughes, A London Child of the Seventies] books. They are a record of an almost hopeless fight against prejudice when there was little chance for a woman, however brilliant her intellect, to get even a reasonably paid job. Today people find the Victorian age picturesque and amusing without understanding its cruelty. If they want a true photograph of part of it, they should consider what Molly had recorded.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan : Anonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of Buchan

[Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to Lord Buchan" has been inserted after p.196 and has the ms annotation 'This message is the last (as is believed) that his Majesty was capable of dictating in his right mind' . This appears to be in the same hand as the ms note at the end of the preface 'To Edwards [? deleted] Constable Esq. as a mark of my regard, Buchan: Edr. October 25th 1816' as does the ms poem pasted in facing the Contents page. Part Latin, part English, it begins 'Quanti est ostimanda [?] Virtus ...'. Page 195 has the line 'On literary envy ..' marked * and the ms note '*In honour of the unfortunate ... George III'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

Thomas Babbington Macaulay : [essays]

?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Unknown

Abbe Raynal : Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, A

'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, which (according to Gibbon) the author, by a happy audacity, names philosophical as well as political. The abbe's researches embrace almost the whole habitable globe; his narrative, too much chequered by boisterous speculations, is generally conducted in a distinct, easy manner...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Eliza Draper : Inscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. Indies'

'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, which (according to Gibbon) the author, by a happy audacity, names philosophical as well as political... Opposite the title-page, beneath the picture of a sullen, thoughtful countenance, Sterne's Eliza Draper has written: William Thomas Raynal, defender of truth, humanity and liberty. An enlightened admirer of those sacred qualities...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Various : Edinburgh Review

'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucubrations. the unhappy carrier is not come.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

John Millar : Historical View of the English Government, An

'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyance of Mr Duncan.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

John Millar : Historical View of the English Government, An

'I have read Millar on the English government &c-'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[unknown] : The lives of the Stoics

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Catling Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown various titles]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Catling Print: Book

[author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anon : History of a Flirt, The

'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by the author of "The Manoeuvring Mother"] The name may alarm you ? but the writer "leans to Miss Austen?s side," ? as I remember dear Dr. Mitford and yourself do - & there is some power and much truth to nature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village

'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in her degree! ? only I wdnt have one of your dear hands "cut off" that you shd "write one page like her?s with the other", - because, really & earnestly, your Village and Belford Regis are more charming to me than her pages in congregation. She wants (admit it honestly, because you know she wants it) she wants a little touch of poetry. Her "neighbours" walk about & gossip, all unconscious of the sunshine & the trees & the running waters ? to say nothing of the God of nature & providence. "Persuasion" (ah! You are cunning to bring "Persuasion" to me!) is the highest & most touching of her works ? and I agree with you gladly that it is perfect in its kind, & with touches of a higher impulse in it than we look generally to receive from her genius.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Belford Regis

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay

'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of the Edinburgh Review, a notice of Madme d?Arblay, very admirable in all ways, but chiefly interesting to you for the sake of the high estimate of your Miss Austen, who is called second to Shakespeare in the nice delineation of character.' [the review was in the January 1843 issue].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical

Maria Edgeworth : unknown

'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both those excellent writers appears to me (if indeed that can be a fault which is so closely allied to the peculiarity of their excellencies) a defect in passion altogether, through their habit of considering life & humanity on the cold conventional side. "Persuasion", to be sure, has touching passages ? and Miss Edgeworth permits you to see, not unfrequently, that she can feel as well as teach, though she chooses to teach. I hope I do not ungratefully misprize the writings of Miss Edgeworth ? it wd be rank ingratitude if I did. They are excellent & admirable ? but I cannot say, poetical & passionate. The depths of the heart & the heights of Heaven have no part or lot in them ? and pastoral Nature is as utterly shut out. Still, after their kind, they are excellent; and I too shd be one-sided if I could not honor them aright [?] Woe be to me, if I pretended to misprize Miss Edgeworth!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Elizabeth Inchbald : Simple Story, A

'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Mary Howitt : Home, The

'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Austen?s, but I shd be afraid to tell you exactly how I wd modify the comparison. [The Athenaeum of 13 May 1843 said of the Bremer books: 'We have had nothing so simply life-like since Galt?s "Annals of the Parish" ? no pictures of female nature so finely touched, since Miss Austen.']

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

various : Athenaeum

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressions do grow stronger & stronger in their old places. She is perfect after her kind ? true to the nature she SAW - & with a sufficient sense of the Beautiful, for grace. Like Mrs Hemans, she is too obviously a lady. I have put it in the shape of blame - & many might remark the same thing for praise: I mean however, that her ladyhood is always stronger in her than her humanity. Not that she is defective in strength as Mrs Hemans sometimes is ? she can "always do the thing she would" better than anybody else. Surely, surely I am not a niggard in my praise of Jane Austen! To call her a great writer & learned in the secrets, heights & depths of our nature, or a poet in anywise, is all that I refuse to call her ? and indeed I have not breath & articulation for such an opinion: & it astonishes me that you shd be so exorbitant my dearest Miss Mitford, in your claim for her!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just below. Sense & Sensibility is inferior, by my impression, to every one of them?& I am inclined to call that weak and commonplace occasionally.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. Mr Kenyon came yesterday - & he had just been reading, he said, "Pride & Prejudice", ?driven into making an acquaintance with Miss Austen in despite of his anti-novelism, by the buzz of admiration which beset him from Mr Harness, and others. Mind, he was quite unaware of your & my ever quarrelling on the subject: he spoke to me of his impressions therefore quite innocently & freely, not knowing but that I might be wearing out the knees of my soul before her statue.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Kenyon Print: Book

[Miss] Pickering : [novels]

'As to Miss Pickering, if there shd be anybody in the world who makes a Miss Austen of her, or a Scott of her, that body cannot be famous for his or her literary judgement. Miss Pickering was a good & pure novelist of the circulating libraries - & could tell a story to an end without letting it fall. But her very appreciators would not think of anticipating the continuance of her reputation much beyond the burning of the candle they read her by. Did she ever dream of such a claim herself?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Psalm of Life

'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer?s Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds seems to refresh me.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales

'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds seems to refresh me.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Frances Burney : Memoirs

'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley, who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. He had not read it before, and I had not read it since it first came out.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Morte d'Arthur

'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson; Hunt and Rossetti and one or two whose names I did not gather. Lear was there also and sang a great many of his compositions to Tennyson's words. They are mostly very pretty things but he has no voice, and, on the whole, it is rather painful to listen to him. When they were all gone Tennyson read us his own Morte d'Arthur, and that really was a pleasure. It is a poem I have always been fond of.'

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Horace Walpole : unknown

[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Journal

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Humphry Clinker

November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble, he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like so well.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey, A

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie : Madame de Sevigne

November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne. Apropos of books, I received two days ago a letter from an American publisher, telling me that M. Lanier had thrown my Mabinogion into a popular form for children and had just completed the work before he died [?] This is very interesting to me. My first number came out in 1839, forty-three years ago.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present. C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Barnaby Rudge

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Old Curiosity Shop, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book

Mariano Vasi : Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ?

[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376-7 against the text line 'L'Eglise de St. Francois' is the ms note 'Jan 30 again'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Erskine Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man

?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and his other theological works, but they made not the least alterations in his religious opinions.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Bamford Print: Book

[unknown] : [theological works]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Bamford Print: Unknown

Mariano Vasi : Itineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou description generale ? de cette ville celebre et de ses environs, antiquaire Romain

[Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest example is p. 83 at the end of the section 'Tombeau de Virgile' is the ms note 'little doubt but that the Poet was buried on the other side of the bay'.

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

[unknown] : [works on travel and antiquities]

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book of my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Venerable Bede : Ecclesiastical history of the English Nation, from the coming of Julius Caesar, into this island, in the 60th year before the incarnation of Christ, till the year of our Lord 731. Written in Latin by Venerable Bede, and now translated into English fro

[Marginalia]: occasional marginal marks, numbers and comments throughout text, with further brief notes referring to text on 5 binding pages. Combination of ink and faded pencil. Comments in the text are elaborations eg.: p. 226 text reads '... a castle, which in the English language is call'd Cnobheresburg [?] ...' has ms note 'Burgh Castle in Suffolk'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: H. Wansey Print: Book

Andrew Fuller : An apology for the late Christian missions to India

[Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleric and titled 'Brother Carey' [ie William Carey orientalist and missionary?] and with the inscription 'Had much enjoyment today wrestling with G..d! [deleted]'. A further inscription is illegible.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

John Caird : Sermons

[Marginalia]: Each sermon has a ms date (or dates), possibly indicating use of material: e.g. p. 40 sermon on "Self-ignorance" has ms note 'Ex. F.G. [?] August 8th 1858/ Jany 27th 1861/ Feby 14th 1864/ Apr. 29th 1866; only p.133 has any comment ie "29th /Decr 1867 - very beautiful'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Richardson : Grammar of the Arabick language in which the rules are illustrated by authorities from the best writers; principally adapted for the service of the Honourable East India Company

[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points of grammar or translation: e.g p.8 the text 'eight dentals ....[arabic text]; and six linguals, ....[Arabic text]' is underlined and marked +. There is a ms note '++Solar [?] letter before which ...[arabic letter] in the article[?] loses its sound and the .... is ....'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book

[n/a] : [penny bloods]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical

Patrick Colquhon : Treatise on the Police of the metropolis

'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr Park's "Travels in Africa". I also read Mr Colquhoun's large treatise on the "Police of the Metropolis" from which I gleaned much information and amusement.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Charles Lamb : [works]

'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : The life of Thomas Holcroft

'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : Life of General Washington

'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [works]

'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr Stilling's Autobiography; with some of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Dr Southey, and Miss Martineau.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

William Hutton : Memoirs

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Jung Stilling : Autobiography

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Walter Scott : [works]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Robert Southey : [works]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : [works]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin : [plays]

'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English, which I afterwards used to construe with Mr Suine. As the English translation (tho' by no means a good one) afforded as much amusement in reading out of school time, we at length took it in our heads to act one of them amongst ourselves of which we selected "The forced marriage".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

John Campbell : The Universal History

?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) and the 1st of Rapin?s "History of England", to begin with, an each of which in turn, I bestowed an hour in reading on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Friday mornings, allotting the other two mornings to a more amusing kind of reading such as Dryden?s "Virgil", "Telamachus", "Charles 12th". etc. I also began a translation of "Diable Boiteaux" & a prose one of Virgil?s "Eneid".?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Rapin de Thoyras : History of England

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

John Dryden : Virgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the Georgics

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Voltaire : Histoire de Charles XII

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Francois Fenelan : Les Aventures de Telemaque

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Alain Rene le Sage : Diable Boiteaux

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Virgil : Eneid

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

William Blackstone : Commentaries on the laws of England

?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in the evening danced out the year at the Assembly.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Richard Graves : The spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose

?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?th which I was much entertain?d) & other books of the kind, which I got from the circulating library.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. : Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made easie

?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing a longer peal, for w?ch purpose I wrote the changes out in figures with the rules & got a little old book called "Campanologia, or the Art of Change Ringing", w?ch within the insight I had now got into the mystery, I began to understand very well.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to be reading) but having sat about 10 minutes without turning over a leaf, suddenly clos?d the book & went off to bed.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Thomas Burnett : Theory of the Earth

'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon became so interested that I devoted the whole of every evening to it, 'till I had finish'd it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Alexander Carlyle : Letter (date unknown)

'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow! you would pity his cold and rejoice that he could sleep at all.' [A large number of Carlyle's reading experiences were letters. We have not included them all, but this is included as a sample of the type of response].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Letter

Hume : unknown

'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John A. Carlyle Print: Book

John Milton : [various]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bailey Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Highland Girl

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Solitary Reaper

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Book

[unknown] : [theological magazines]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [playbill]

'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along the way to read, admire and compare the playbills of the different theatres. One afternoon in the latter end of the month of October we were going home, when our attention was forcibly arrested by a bill of an unusually attracive character. It was a very large, very highly coloured and very profusely illustrated bill...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

[n/a] : [playbill]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tommy Davies Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

Richard Walter : Anson's Voyage round the World

'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused and interested.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[n/a] : The Lounger

'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & Miss White and I began reading the diff't numbers of it of an evening.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Star, The

'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflecting on the Dean for refusing the cathedral for the music meeting intended lately, a copy of w'ch I took to shew Mrs M little thinking at the time that this paragraph, of w'ch the Dean seems determin'd to suppose me the author, wo'd occasion a break between us.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man

'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and on Monday the 25th. I began reading it, but was much disgusted with the author's treason, impudence and scurrility.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

James Ferguson : His Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles

'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a stand which I completed in the following week.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

John Bonnycastle : An introduction to astronomy

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Celestina

'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very small. We however at the library (consisting of about 400 volumes) got Mrs Smiths [sic] novel of "Celestina" & "Humphrey Clinker" to amuse us.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : The expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, the melancholic details of which we read in the next morning's newspapers.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper

Miss Pilkington : Rosina

'In the afternoon, Mrs M & I walked to the quay hotel etc. where we met Mrs Hening of Chichester who was staying in lodgings at Littlehampton. We however found it so cold & blustery, that we were soon glad to return to our inn, where Mrs M amused herself with the novel of "Rosina".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio)

Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her having to give up her career and personal wealth if she should marry: 'I took up Dante, and read about the devils boiled in pitch, which refreshed my imagination and cheered my spirits very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : The Divine Comedy

Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German fable without much trouble, read a canto in Dante, ending with a valuation of fame.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

unknown : German fable

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

anon : theatre reviews

Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudatory. One was sent to me from a paper called the Mirror, which pleased me very much [...] it was written with great taste and feeling, and was evidently not the produce of a common press hack'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

anon : theatre review in The Mirror

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Newspaper

Grahame : History of America

Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties. Fanny is a delightful Chracter! and Aunt Norris is a great favourite of mine. The Characters are natural & well supported, & many of the Dialogues excellent. - You need not fear the publication being considered as discreditable to it's [sic] author'.

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene.' - Mr K.

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

Benjamin Disraeli : Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased with Henry C. - Edmund objected to, as cold & formal. - Henry C.'s going off with Mrs R. - at such a time, when so much in love with Fanny, thought unnatural by Edward.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Knight Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Contarini Fleming (second volume)

Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie down, a lady said to me, "Let me look at one of those books," and without further word of question or acknowledgement, took it from my hand, and began reading [...] Arrived at the Delaware, we took boat again; and, as I was sitting very quietly reading "Contarini Fleming", with the second volume lying on the stool by my feet, the same unceremonious lady who had [italics]borrowed[end italics] it before, snatched it up without addressing a single syllable to me, read as long as she pleased, and threw it down again in the same style before she went to dinner.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Knight Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - wanting more Love between her & Edmund - & could not think it natural that Edmd. shd. be so much attached to a woman without Principle like Mary C. - or promote Fanny's marrying Henry'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Knight Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselves into our coach, ourselves, our namesake, and a pretty quiet lady [...] The roads were unspeakable [...] I attempted to read, but found it utterly impossible to do so.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the scene at Portsmouth, & all the humourous [sic] parts.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Lefroy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs James Austen, very much pleased. Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth. Thought Henry Crawford's going off with Mrs Rushworth, very natural.'

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

Benjamin Disraeli : Contarini Fleming

Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after coach and steamboat journey]. Installed myself in a room, and while they brought in the packages, finished "Contarini Fleming". It reminded me of Combe's [George Combe, Scottish phrenologist] book'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Miss Clewes's objections [to Mansfield Park] much the same as Fanny's [Fanny Knight]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Clewes Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Miss Lloyd preferred it altogether to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility]. - Delighted with Fanny. - Hated Mrs Norris'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Lloyd Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on board boat travelling up 'valley of the Mohawk']: he reads very peculiarly; slowly, and with very marked emphasis.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Trelawny Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rushworth's stupidity.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'My Eldest Brother - a warm admirer of it in general. - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Edward Austen-Leigh Print: Book

Alfieri : Life

Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "Life", by himself, a curious and interesting work; Washington Irving's last book, "A Tour on the Prairies", rather an ordinary book, upon a not ordinary subject, but not without sufficiently interesting matter in it too; Dr. Combe's "Principles of Physiology"; and a volume of Marlowe's plays, containing "Dr. Faustus". I have just finished Hayward's Translation of Goethe's "Faust", and wanted to see the old English treatment of the subject. I have read Marlowe's play with more curiosity than pleasure. This is, after all, but a small sample of what I read, but if you remember the complexion of my studies when I was a girl at Heath Farm and read Jeremy Taylor and Byron together, I can only say that they are still apt to be of the same heterogenous quality. But my brain is kept in a certain state of activity by them, and that, I suppose, is one of the desirable results of reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Washington Irving : A Tour on the Prairies

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mr B.L. - Highly pleased with Fanny Price - & a warm admirer of the Portsmouth Scene. - Angry with Edmund for not being in love with her, & hating Mrs Norris for teazing her'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Lefroy Print: Book

Dr Combe : Principles of Physiology

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Miss Burdett - Did not like it so well as P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Burdett Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it [Mansfield Park] better than P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs James] Tilson Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Fanny Cage - did not much like it - not to be compared to P. & P. - nothing interesting in the Characters - Language poor. - Characters natural & well supported - Improved as it went on.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Cage Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke called it "the most sensible Novel he had ever read." - Mrs Cooke wished for a good Matronly character.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Cooke Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Cooke Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mary Cooke - quite as much pleased with it, as her Father & Mother; seemed to enter into Lady B.'s character, & enjoyed Mr Rushworth's folly. Admired Fanny in general, but thought she ought to have been more determined on overcoming her own feelings, when she saw Edmund's attachment to Miss Crawford.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Cooke Print: Book

: The Bible

Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Miss Burrel - admired it very much - particularly Mrs Norris & Dr Grant.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Burrel Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Bramstone - much pleased with it; particularly with the character of Fanny, as being so very natural. Thought Lady Bertram like herself. Preferred it to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility] - but imagined that might be her want of Taste - as she does not understand Wit'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Bramstone Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. better, & having finished the 1st vol. - flattered herself that she had got through the worst.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Bramstone Print: Book

Fanny Kemble : English Tragedy

Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, letter composed between 29 October-3 November 1838: 'I have just finished the play of which you read the beginning in England -- my "English Tragedy" [Kemble's third play]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet St. Leger Manuscript: Unknown

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'The families at Deane - all pleased with it. Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Harwood Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it; - preferred it to either of the others.'

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

unknown : German text/s

Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my German, in which I am making some progress.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Unknown

Erasmus Darwin : Zoonomia

'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mr Egerton the Publisher - praised it for it's [sic] Morality, & for being so equal a Composition. - No weak parts.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Egerton Print: Book

Anon : [Sicilian song]

Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free translation. The pathetic and graceful idea is, however, a thousand times more appropriately clothed in the soft dialect from which I have transferred it [transcribes eight-line verse]'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan : A View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among the Alps

'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Society we were now finish'd with as many books as we co'd get thro'.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - "You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it than my humble pen can express. The excellent delineation of Character, sound sense, Elegant Language & the pure morality with which it abounds, makes it a most desirable as well as useful work, & reflects the highest honour &c. &c. Universally admired in Edinburgh, by all the [italics] wise ones [end italics]. - Indeed, I have not heard a single fault given to it."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Robert Kerr Print: Book

C B E Naubert : Hermann of Unna

'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover where I amused myself with reading "Herman of Unna" (a then popular novel) which I got at Canterbury...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Miss Sharpe - "I think it is excellent - & of it's [sic] good sense & moral Tendency there can be no doubt. - Your Characters are drawn to the Life - so [italics] very very [end italics] natural & just - but as you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess I prefer P. & P."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Sharpe Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Carrick. - "All who think deeply and feel much will give the Preference to Mansfield Park."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Carrick Print: Book

James Hall : Travels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides: containing hints and improvements in agriculture and commerce...

[Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after the text 'His wit seemed to be incorporated with his very turn of thinking and manner of viewing arguments and objects' is followed by the ms note 'This I can aver; which dis...[?] one often. I love instantaneous wit! not wit, like forced asparagus at Christmas!'; p. 167 after the text 'A person, it seems, was carrying, from the east coast of Fife, an hundred rabbits, to occupy a warren in the West Highlands' is the ms note 'a very drole adventure'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Pitts Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : A Sicilian Romance

'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latter (w'ch John was now reading) & Mrs M being reading the other, I got Mrs Radcliffe's novel of the "Sicilian Romance" from the Library there, which I this day began reading & was much pleased with.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mr J. Plumptre. - "I never read a novel which interested me so very much throughout, the characters are all so remarkably well kept up & so well drawn, & the plot is so well contrived that I had not an idea till the end which of the two wd marry Fanny, H.C. or Edmd. Mrs Norris amused me particularly, & Sir Thos. is very clever, & his conduct proves admirably the defects of the modern system of Education." Mr J.P. made two objections, but only one of them was remembered, the want of some character more striking & interesting to the generality of Readers, than Fanny was likely to be.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J. Plumptre Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike it, but were very soon extremely pleased with it - & I beleive [sic], did not think it at all inferior.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir James Langham Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Sanford Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Alethea Bigg. - "I have read M.P. & heard it very much talked of, very much praised. I like it myself & think it very good indeed, but as I never say what I do not think, I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinion to the other two Works [Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice], I think it has not the Spirit of P & P., except perhaps the Price family at Portsmouth, & they are delightful in their way.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alethea Bigg Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'

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

William Jackson : Thirty letters on various subjects

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marsh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M.P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Dickson Print: Book

Carl Philipp Moritz : Travels of a German through England in 1782

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Lefroy Print: Book

Carl Philipp Moritz : Travels of a German through England in 1782

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Portal Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Lady Gordon wrote "In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afterwards or whom you in the least expect to meet in common life, whereas in Miss A-s works, & especially in M.P. you actually [italics] live [end italics] with them, you fancy yourself one of the family; & the scenes are so exactly descriptive, so perfectly natural, that there is scarcely an Incident or conversation, or a person that you are not inclined to imagine you have at one time or other in your Life been a witness to, born a part in, & been acquainted with."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Gordon Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Pole wrote, "There is a particular satisfaction in reading all Miss A-s works - they are so evidently written by a Gentlewoman - most Novellists [sic] fail & betray themselves in attempting to describe familiar scenes in high Life, some little vulgarism escapes & shews that they are not experimentally acquainted with what they describe, but here it is quite different. Everything is natural, & the situations & incidents are told in a manner which clearly evinces the Writer to [italics] belong [end italics] to the Society whose Manners she so ably delineates." Mrs Pole also said that no Books had ever occasioned so much canvassing & doubt, & that everybody was desirous to attribute them to some of their own friends, or to some person of whom they thought highly.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Pole Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Admiral] Foote Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S. and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Creed Print: Book

[n/a] : [Weekly Screamer]

'[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous and illogical leading article, when the paper was suddenly snatched from my hands by my landlady, who sternly asked me if I thought reading a newspaper on a Sunday morning was proper behaviour in the house of a God-fearing couple.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright Print: Newspaper

Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (eds) : Domestic papers of the Rose family

[Marginalia]: there are two annotators, one using blue ink and one red. All ms notes take the form of additional genealogical information ie pp. 4-7 added dates and people, p. 79 a family tree for William Cumming of Craigmill, and the beginning of an index on the inside back cover and facing page.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : Life of Pope Sixtus V

'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this (who had before seldom evinced much taste for reading) I told him that as the book was borrow'd by Miss Poole he must get thro' it much faster than he did books in general, of w'ch a very few pages at a time... used to satisfy him. This book however, seem'd to catch his attention & he soon got through it, since w'ch time tho' he has never become a thorough reader, he has continued much more of one than he ever was before.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[unknown] : Life of Pope Sixtus V

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also for some time after dinner & supper, by w'ch means we each read about 2 hours or make everyday our young men likewise taking their books at the same time, ... except after supper on days when we had been visiting, or at the Concert, the talking over which afterwards generally furnish'd amusement for the remainder of the evening.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marsh Print: Book

anon : [superstitious doctoring book]

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery"; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Edward Cocker : Cocker's Arithmetic, being a Plain and Easy Method of 1678

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery"; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

Voltaire : Candide

'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part of Voltaire's "Candide", w'ch having read a great many years ago at Salisbury & almost forgot, I bought the day before in duodecimo. Having dined at the King's Head I went out & got "Caleb Williams" of w'ch I had heard much & of w'ch I read great part of the 1st vol. in the evening at the King's Head (where I also supp'd & slept) leaving the 2d. vol of "Candide" to read on my return to London.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams

'...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Caleb Williams".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Richard Cumberland : Henry

'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach Maidstone in good time on the follow'g day I ordered the chaise to be ready at 4 in the morning, at w'ch time I sat off & breakfasted at Uckfield the end of my 2d stage, by w'ch time I [had] become much interested in my travelling companion "Henry".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Benvenuto Cellini : The life of Benvenuto Cellini

'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. as we travelled.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho

'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chichester) & afterw'ds Keate's "Sketches of Nature", from the library.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

George Keate : Sketches from nature, taken and coloured on a journey to Margate

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Matthew Lewis : The Monk

'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent the evening & slept, in the course of which evening I began reading the popular novel of the "Monk".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Agnes Maria Bennett : The beggar girl and her benefactors

'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking with me to amuse myself in the coach etc. the new popular novel of the "Beggar Girl".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[unknown] : [a novel]

'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my novel, with going on with some of the draught or rough sketch of this history...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Alain-Rene Le Sage : The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merry Bachelor

'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room with a stranger. For my amusement during this journey I took the novel of "Vanillo Gonzales".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[anon] : Maria or The Vicarage

'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red Lion, taking with me for my amusement there & in the coach the little novel of "Maria or The Vicarage", w'ch I had seen well spoken of in a review.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[unknown] : [various titles]

'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use... I bought books, and read as much as possible, and reflected upon what I read while engaged in my daily avocations.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for sixpence a week each, with an additional three-halfpence in winter time for firing, we had an imperfect, it is true, but still an efficient means of improvement at our command. Here we met nearly three hundred nights in the year, and talked, read, disputed and wrote "de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis" until the clock struck eleven.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

'"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice or system.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Thom Print: Book

Isaac d'Israeli : Varien; or Sketches of the Times

'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 others to London where I quarter'd as usual (now my son had left it) at the Bolt and Tun (or Sussex Hotel, Bonverie Street, as Mr Carter now entitled it) taking with me for my usual travelling reading the novel of "Vaurien".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : The Young Philosopher

'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finished the novel of the "Young Philosopher" & in the evening began that of "Ned Evans" which I sat and read at the Bolt and Tunn, where I found the principal topic of conversation in the coffee room was Sheridan's new play of Pizarro, w'ch came out that evening at Drury Lane.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Jane West : The History of Ned Evans

'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finished the novel of the "Young Philosopher" & in the evening began that of "Ned Evans" which I sat and read at the Bolt and Tun, where I found the principal topic of conversation in the coffee room was Sheridan's new play of Pizarro, w'ch came out that evening at Drury Lane.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Colley Cibber : Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian

'. . . let me recommend to You, to borrow or get from the Circulating Library, "An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber"?This book has Chance thrown in my Way since I spoke last to You . . .?My book is of the 2d Edition in 1740?Page 284 whatever may be the Page of the Book you procure.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Crisp Print: Book

: [newspaper]

'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers had alarmed me very much.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Newspaper

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : The Outcasts or Henry Dunbar

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical

Homer : Odyssey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

William Cobbett : [writings]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Unknown

William Hone : Political Litany

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group:

Jane Austen : Emma

'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality in M P - yet altogether, on account of it's [sic] peculiar air of Nature throughout, he preferred it to either.'

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs Francis] Austen Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs J.] Bridges Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Sharp - better than M.P. - but not so well as P. & P. - pleased with the Heroine for her Originality, delighted with Mr K - & called Mrs Elton beyond praise. - dissatisfied with Jane Fairfax.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Sharp Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.'

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like J.F. - if she knew more of her.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Knight Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easily read.'

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easily read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs James] Austen Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only. - Mr. K liked by every body.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Edward Austen-Leigh Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Bigg - not equal to either P & P. - or M.P. - objected to the sameness of the subject (Match-making) all through. - Too much of Mr Elton & H. Smith. Language superior to the others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Bigg Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to Ly Catherine & Mr Collins.'

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Lloyd - thought it as [italics] clever [end italics] as either of the others, but did not receive so much pleasure from it as from P. & P - & MP.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Lloyd Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Craven Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Craven Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Cage Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr Sherer - did not think it equal to either M P - (which he liked the best of all) or P & P. - Displeased with my pictures of Clergymen.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Sherer Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Bigg - on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, & expressed herself as liking all the people of Highbury in general, except Harriet Smith - but could not help still thinking [italics] her [close italics] too silly in her Loves.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Bigg Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'The family at Upton Gray - all very amused with it. - Miss Bates a great favourite with Mrs Beaufoy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Beaufoy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else. - Mr. K. however, an excellent character; Emma better luck than a Matchmaker often has. - Pitied Jane Fairfax - thought Frank Churchill better treated than he deserved.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Leigh-Perrot Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Leigh-Perrot Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Countess] Craven Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs Guiton - thought it too natural to be interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Guiton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs Digweed - did not like it so well as the others, in fact if she had not known the Author, could hardly have got through it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Digweed Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Terry - admired it very much, particularly Mrs Elton.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Terry Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character in the Book. - Mansfield Park however, still his favourite.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Sanford Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr Haden - [italics] quite [end italics] delighted with it. Admired the Character of Emma.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Haden Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Isabella Herries - did not like it - objected to my exposing the sex in the character of the Heroine - convinced I had meant Mrs & Miss Bates for some acquaintance of theirs - People whom I never heard of before.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Isabella Herries Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Moore Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Countess Morley - delighted with it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Countess] Morley Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr Cockerelle - liked it so little, that Fanny would not send me his opinion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Cockerelle Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, from there being a Mr & Mrs Dixon in it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Dickson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Brandreth Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters quite as well drawn & supported as in any, & from being more everyday ones, the more entertaining. - Did not like the Heroine so well as any of the others. Miss Bates excellent, but rather too much of her. Mr & Mrs Elton admirable & John Knightley a sensible Man.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Lefroy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Lefroy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr Fowle - read only the first & last Chapters, because he had heard it was not interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Fowle Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had "brought it all about very cleverly in the last volume."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Lutley Sclater Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - "A great many thanks for the loan of "Emma," which I am delighted with. I like it better than any. Every character is thoroughly kept up. I must enjoy reading it again with Charles. Miss Bates is incomparable, but I was nearly killed with those precious treasures! They are Unique, & really more fun than I can express. I am at Highbury all day, & I can't help feeling I have just got into a new set of acquaintance. No one writes such good sense. & so very comfortable."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs C.] Cage Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such Clergymen as Mr Collins & Mr Elton.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Wroughton Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir J. Langham Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Murden Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Capt C. Austen wrote - "Emma arrived in time to a moment. I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my favourite Pride & Prejudice, & have read it three times in the Passage."'

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs D] Dundas Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most excellent of the works of our female novelists. Its merits lie in the characters, and in the perfectly colloquial style of the dialogue. Mrs. Bennet, the foolish mother, who cannot conceal her projects to get rid of her daughters, is capitally drawn. There is a thick-headed servile parson, also a masterly sketch. His stupid letters and her ridiculous speeches are as delightful as wit. The two daughters are well contrasted - the gentle and candid Jane and the lively but prejudiced Elizabeth, are both portraits, and the development of the passion between Elizabeth and the proud Darcy, who at first hate each other, is executed with skill and effect.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human life, but it is not interesting. One cares little for Harriet, the kind-hearted girl who falls in love with three men in a year, and yet hers is the best conceived character after all. Emma, the heroine, is little more than a clever woman who does foolish things - makes mistakes for others, and is at last caught unawares herself. We hear rather too much about fools: the kind-hearted but weak father, the silly chattering Miss Bates, who gabbles in the style of polite conversation, and the vulgar impertinence of the Eltons.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Deerbrook

'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of preaching. It is inferior in execution to Miss Austen's novels in the development of common characters, but is suprior in the higher parts.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume greatly improves on the first, but I still think it one of the poorest of Miss Austen's novels - that is inferior to "Mansfield Park" and "Pride and Prejudice", which is all I have read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion

'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They are little more than galleries of disagreeables and the would-be heroes and heroines are scarcely out of the class of insignificants. Yet I ought to be suspicious perhaps of my own declining judgement.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson Print: Book

Jane Austen : [novels]

'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in ordinary and middle life to be sure but valuable from its strong resemblance and correct drawing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Scott Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". That young lady had a talent for describing the involvement and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Scott Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [novels]

'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Scott Print: Book

Susan Ferrier : [novels]

'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Scott Print: Book

Jane Austen : unknown

'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel to Jane Austen. She did not need the common materials for a novel - strong passion, or strong incident.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir James Mackintosh Print: Book

Jane Austen : unknown

'You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling than any others of this age.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'You surprise me greatly by what you say of "Emma" and the other books. They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own, for my part, I was delighted with them. I fear they must have been badly read aloud to you. At all events, they are generally much admired, and I was quite serious in my praise of them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Bulwer Lytton Print: Book

Jane Austen : unknown

'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, but Mr. Wordsworth used to say that though he admitted that her novels were an admirable copy of life, he could not be interested in productions of that kind; unless the truth of nature were presented to him clarified, as it were, by the pervading light of imagination, it had scarce any attractions in his eyes...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Jane Austen : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of [italics] body [close italics] to the story. The action is frittered away in over-little things. There are some beautiful things in it. Emma herself is the most interesting to me of all her heroines. I feel kind to her whenever I think of her. But Miss Austen has no romance - none at all. What vile creatures her parsons are! she has not a dream of the high Catholic ethos. That other woman, Fairfax is a dolt - but I like Emma.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Henry Newman Print: Book

Jane Austen : [novels]

'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture of real life, with all the little wheels and machinery laid bare like a patent clock. But she explains and fills out too much. Those who have not power to fill up gaps and bridge over chasms as they read, must therefore take particular delight in such minuteness of detail. It is a kind of Bowditch's Laplace in the romantic astronomy. But readers of lively imagination naturally prefer the original with its unexplained steps, which they so readily supply.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book

Laplace : Mecanique Celeste

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing and sustaining character, though not satisfying me always with the end and aim of her labours. She is successful in painting the ridiculous to the life, and while she makes demands on our patience for the almost intolerable absurdities and tediousness of her well-meaning gossips, she does not recompense us for what we suffer from her conceited and arrogant nuisances by making their vices their punishments. We are not much better, but perhaps a little more prudent for her writing. She does not probe the vices, but lays bare the weaknesses of character; the blemish on the skin, and not the corruption at the heart, is what she examines. Mrs. Brunton's books have a far higher aim; they try to make us better, and it is an addition to previous faults if they do not. The necessity, the comfort, and the elevating influence of piety is continually inculcated throughout her works - which never appear in Miss Austen's.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Charles Macready Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on one topic.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Charles Macready Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the pleasant authoress's books; it deals too much in descriptions of the various states of mind, into which her characters are thrown, and amplifies into a page a search for motives which a stroke of the pen might give with greater power and interest. Is Richardson her model? She is an excellent portrait painter, she catches a man near to the life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Charles Macready Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, leaving some opportunities for most interesting and beautiful scenes particularly the detailed expression of the "how and the when" Edward's love was turned from Miss Crawford to Fanny Price. The great merit of Miss Austen is in the finishing of her characters; the action and conduct of her stories I think frequently defective.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Charles Macready Print: Book

unknown : [sermons]

'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of our own chusing.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones", than any of the Waverley Novels? I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice" till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk.' [Bronte goes on to compare Austen and George Sand]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

George Sand : Consuelo

'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that I have read, appears to me to couple strange extravagance with wondrous excellence), yet she has a grasp of mind which, if I cannot fully comprehend, I can very deeply respect: she is sagacious and profound; Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensible and suitable - anything like warmth or enthusiasm; anything energetic, poignant, heartfelt, is utterly out of place in commending these works: all demonstration the authoress would have met with a well-bred sneer, would have calmly scorned as outre and extravagant... she ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound: the Passions are perfectly unknown to her; she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy Sisterhood...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

John Moore : View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters

'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. Seward . . .'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read "Pride and Prejudice" I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Langhorne Clemens Print: Book

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges : Arthur Fitz-Albani

'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our former neighbours in East Kent, pointed at in Mr E Bridges then late popular novel of "Arthur Fitzalbini" w'ch we on that account had lately read.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of modern philosophers

'Having heard much of Miss Hamilton's celebrated novel of the "Modern Philosopher" we on Wed'y the 14th got it from Humphrey's Library w'ch Edw'd & I afterw'ds read out on even'gs [...] to Mrs M & were all much entertained with it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Marsh family Print: Book

[Anon] : The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you

'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended to us...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[n/a] : [local newspaper]

'... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very little inclination to unpack or dress myself, but seeing a very tempting bill of fare in the papers at the Sussex Hotel, I was induced to set about it, the bustle of which, with a dish of coffee, nearly carried off my complaint.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when reading, farther from my eyes & finding some difficulties in seeing to read anything of a small print, or to write on the first bringing in of candles of an evening. Having made this observation on taking up a paper at the Bolt & Tun the evening before we went into Kent, Mr Drew (...) desired me to try his spectacles, which I at first scouted, but having at his desire placed them before my eyes, I found the confusion I had just complain'd done away, & that I co'd see the smallest type perfectly well, on which I determin'd on procuring a pair...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's progress

'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33 Chap of job and the 15th and 16th verses In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed Then he openeth the ears of men and Sealeth their instruction.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

John Bunyan : Two covenants

'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this book the unpardonable Sin was explained this part I soon found and read it over with eagerness for I thought Mr Bunyan Could not be deceived such a man as he was but I found no satisfaction for all seemed to be against me I read it again several times over for I Could not give it up...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[unknown] : [religious books]

'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing things So that I began to be taken with his devices but by his books I found some things that did not Correspond with the Bible and also that it was a trick to get money so I declined his religeon and bid him adue.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Isaiah

'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a glorious insight of the promises therein Contained and although I Could not apply one of them to myself yet I saw that God was gracious and so mercyfull as to forgive the sins of the worst sinners.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord enabled me to bear the burden at this time.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Hannah More : Shepherd of Salisbury Plain

'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the dispensations of providence for we had not so much punishment as our sins deserved and in fact there was but little else to be heard from the pulpit or the press and those kind of books were often put into my hands in a dictatorial way in order to Convince me of my errors. for instance there was the Sheperd of Salsbury Plain ... the Farmers fireside and discontented Pendulum and many others which drove me almost into despair for I Could see their design.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book, chapbooks

Hannah More : Farmer's fireside

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book, chapbook

Hannah More : Discontented pendulum

'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the dispensations of providence for we had not so much punishment as our sins deserved and in fact there was but little else to be heard from the pulpit or the press and those kind of books were often put into my hands in a dictatorial way in order to convince me of my errors. for instance there was the Sheperd of Salsbury Plain ... the Farmers fireside and discontented Pendulum and many others which drove me almost into despair for I Could see their design.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book, chapbook

William Cobbett : [various titles]

'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were written by Cobbet woler and Carlisle against all revealed religion and these men often put them into my hands and I at this time thought myself a sufficient Judge to read them without any danger of being drawn aside by them...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Thomas Wooler : [various titles]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Richard Carlisle : [various titles]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us but this we did not mind for we gave up ourselves up to the constant practice of reading and Studying the Scripture and we made it our practice to meet every night in the week except Saturday night at one private house or other.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K.

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Knight Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Knight Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.'

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

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny'

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

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Lloyd Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Lloyd Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Burdett Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs James] Tilson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Cage Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Miss Sharpe - "I think it "Mansfield Park"] excellent... but since you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess I prefer P & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Sharpe Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'I have read M P["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to the other two Works, I think it has not the Spirit of P & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alethea Bigg Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'I have read M P ["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to the other two Works, I think it has not the Spirit of P & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alethea Bigg Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Dickson Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Creed Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Sherer Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Sherer Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Leigh Perrot Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Leigh Perrot Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Countess] Craven Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Digweed Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Digweed Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Digweed Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Moore Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Brandreth Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Brandreth Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Brandreth Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it ["Emma"] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Lefroy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it ["Emma"] very much, better than M.P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Lutley Sclater Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Wroughton Print: Book

Daphne du Maurier : unknown

[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of Heaven Writers: Shaw. Galsworthy'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.J. Cronin : Keys of the Kingdom, The

[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of Heaven Writers: Shaw. Galsworthy'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

J.B. Priestley : Good Companions, The

[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of Heaven Writers: Shaw. Galsworthy'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Francis Thompson : Hound of Heaven, The

[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of Heaven Writers: Shaw. Galsworthy'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

unknown : Squinency Wort

[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of Heaven Writers: Shaw. Galsworthy'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Ernest Hemingway : For Whom the Bell Tolls

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Dr Faustus

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Various : Modern Short Stories

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Robert Browning : Men and Women

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Wilton Cole : Speech and Sound

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Unknown : Background to the Life of Christ

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Winifred Darch : Eleanor in the Fifth

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

J. Patterson Milne : Adventures of Jig and Co

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Norbert Davis : Rendezvous with Fear

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

James Elroy Flecker : Poetry of James Elroy Flecker

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Escape

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Cecil Freeman Gregg : Body behind the Bar, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Critic, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Lady Eleanor Smith : Magic Lantern

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

D.E. Stevenson : Listening Valley

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Pearl Buck : Dragon Seed

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Noel Coward : Rat Trap, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Noel Coward : Vortex, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Noel Coward : Fallen Angels

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Lady Eleanor Smith : Spanish House, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

D.A. Smith : O the Brave Music

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Light that Failed, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Hazlitt : Best of Hazlitt

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Rivals, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Professor, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Guy Pocock : Then They Pulled Down the Blind

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dorothy L Sayers : Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.A. Milne : Winne-the-Pooh

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A.A. Milne : House at Pooh Corner, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Louis Bromfield : Mrs Parkinson

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dornford Yates : Adele and Co

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

E.M. Almedingen : Frossia

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Margery Sharp : Cluny Brown

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Margery Sharp : Four Gardens

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Hermione Gingold : World is Square, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Vaughan Wilkins : Being Met Together

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Various : Best Sporting Stories

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

A. Quiller-Couch : Selected Stories by Q

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Dornford Yates : And Five were Foolish

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Lyly : Campaspe

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Lyly : Endimion

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Mrs Warren's Profession

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Thomas Kyd : Spanish Tragedy

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Lyly : Galathea

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Tambourlaine

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Aristotle : Art of Poetry

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

George Peele : Old Wives Tale

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Carter Dickson : Reader is Warned, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Alexander Woolcott : Long, Long Ago

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

R. Greene : Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

R. Greene : James IV of Scotland

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Neil Bell : Handsome Langleys, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Willa Cather : Death Comes for the Archbishop

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Don Byrne : Island of Youth, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Peter Cheyney : I'll Say She Does

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Man of Property, The

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Galsworthy : In Chancery

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Galsworthy : To Let

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Denton Welch : In Youth is Pleasure

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

John Galsworthy : On Forsyte Change

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Anon : Book of Genesis

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Nehemiah : Book of Nehemiah

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was the first one selected, and had to choose my chapter; I read, in a somewhat tremulous voice, the first chapter of the gospel according to St John. The master applauded my execution of the task. On the following Sunday, two or three others were named to read, but each one demured, and I had again to read the lesson. This circumstance, being new in the school, was sufficient to bring down upon me the ridicule of my fellow apprentices.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels, and other such books as our school library contained.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Peter Longueville : The hermit Philip Quarll

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Boyle's Travels

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

[unknown] : [religious tracts]

'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pleasure of being my father's instructor in reading and writing, and this kind offer to procure me books was a high reward for so doing - previously, I had great difficulty in getting books to read, except the tracks and magazines supplied by the chapel libraries and Sunday school teachers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book, Broadsheet, tracts

[unknown] : [religious magazines]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Skinner : Splendid misery

'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed keeper told us, that his invariable rule was, before boys [underlined] were entrusted with his books, to have some one as surety for the payment - he accepted my father as such, and registered my name. The old man now asked what book I would like, but being unacquainted with works of fiction, I could not tell him; he handed to us a catalogue which only made the choice more bewildering. I at length selected one, which from its title I thought would be very mysterious - it was "Splendid Misery". This I took home; it was on a Saturday evening. With the first broad light of morning, I arose and greedily devoured several chapters of the first volume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Matthew Lewis : The Monk

'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's "Monk". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and stole up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

John Milton : [various titles]

'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's "Monk". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [various titles]

'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's "Monk". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

[Samuel?] Johnson : [unknown]

'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's "Monk". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : [unknown]

'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's "Monk". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

William Cobbett : Cobbett's political register

'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett's Register" and "Wooler's Black Dwarf" were the first works I purchased and studied on political economy. It was my custom every Saturday evening, after my work was over, to go to the Market Place, and from a stall there, to purchase the breathings of those men of mind.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Jonathan Wooler : Black Dwarf

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Knight : Penny Magazine

'The "Penny Magazine" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself with the second; accordingly, with January 1833, I determined to discontinue the use of sugar in my tea, hoping that my family would not then feel the sacrifice necessary to buy the book. Since that period, I have expended large sums in books, some of them very costly ones, but I never had one so truly valuable, as was the second volume of the "Penny Magazine"; and I look as anxiously for the issue of the monthly part, as I did for the means of getting a living. I continued to be a subscriber to this periodical up to the publication of the last number...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, "his honour" also promising to read it after he received it. Shortly afterwards the curate was passing the cottage-door, and observed the old man employed with the book. The curate accosting him, said, "Well, Isaac, I am glad to see you reading your Bible." "Oh yes", replied Isaac, in a gruff tone of voice, - gruff, but not intentionally uncivil. "Will you tell me what you are reading about?" said the clergyman. "O, to be sure I will", was the answer, "I am reading all the wars of rascally Jews, and all that sort of thing; why, what a blood-thirsty race of men they were, Sir".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'] 'This accomplished, my next duties were to sweep the floor and dust the counter and desks in the front shop, in the course of which an occasional brief pause on my work was made that I might take a peep at the contents of some book, the title of which took my fancy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

[unknown] : [various English periodicals]

'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies of "Blackwood"; and at the contents of some of those I often contrived to get a surreptitious "read".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

G H Girle : [memoirs]

'Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in "Tait", and one day, at his request, I carried the MS to the warehouse, but it did not appear in the magazine. He read it, however, to the boys of "George Heriot's Hospital", of which great institution he was one of the "Governors" and it was printed for private circulation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G H Girle Manuscript: Sheet, Unpublished memoirs

William Cobbett : Advice to young men

'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were "Cobbett's advice to young men", and Charles Knight's "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties"; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read "Tait's Magazine" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the "Waverley novels" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, "Guy Mannering", "The Heart of Midlothian", "The Bride of Lammermoor" and "St Ronan's Well". "Waverley", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

George L. Craik : Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

William Tait : Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Walter Scott : St Ronan's Well

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Monastery

'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fortunes of Nigel", and several others, much to the delight of my mother, who never could understand how so voracious a reader as myself did not take to them; but so it was, and now my children express the same surprise, and unsuccessfully recommend me to try once more.'

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

Walter Scott : The Fortunes of Nigel

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

John Galt : Lives of the players

'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of the players", and once every year I peruse "Sir Andrew Wyllie"; also that most realistic production, the "Annals of the Parish": both books undeserving of the neglect which has befallen them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

John Galt : Sir Andrew Wyllie

'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of players", and once every year I peruse "Sir Andrew Wyllie"; also that most realistic production, the "Annals of the Parish": both books undeserving of the neglect which has befallen them.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

John Galt : Annals of the Parish

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Samuel Smiles : [biographies of men]

'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tastes lying largely in the direction of biography ... series of books of Mr Smiles, is still worth the attention of young men in search of wholesome reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

James Lackington : [autobiography]

'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and instructive work I still possess and read occasionally.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Mary, a fiction

Journals of Mary Shelley "We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Augustin Barruel : Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism

Journals of Mary Shelley "We read part of l'Abbe Barruels histoire de Jacobinism"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Augustin Barruel : Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism

Journals of Mary Shelley "We read Abbe Barruel"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Histories Book V

Journals of Mary Shelley "M. & S. walk to the shore of the lake & read the description of the seige of Jerusalem in Tacitus"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'"I had often read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", recalled [...] William Brown, "and considered myself like the apostate in the iron cage, and drew my own conclusions".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Brown Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Memoir of Thomas Hardy, Founder of, and Secretary to, the London Corresponding Society ... From its Establishment in Jan. 1792 until his arrest on a False Charge of High Treason On the 12th of May 1794. Written by Himself

'Long sections of [Thomas] Hardy's "Memoir" had been read out to two of the [radical society (?London Corresponding Society)] meetings to commemorate the acquittal of the defendants of 1794 which were held annually for at least forty years'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: The Spectator

Stephen Duck's habits in reading whilst working, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Stephen Duck' (1731): '"his method was to labour harder than any Body else, that he might get Half an Hour to read a Spectator without Injuring his Master. By this means he used to sit down all over Sweat and Heat, and has several times caught colds by it.'" (p.11).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Stephen Duck Print: Serial / periodical

: mathematical texts

Stephen Duck's self-education by mutual improvement, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Stephen Duck' (1731): "'He had one Dear Friend [...] They used to Talk and Read together [...] they sometimes studied their Arithmetick together. This Friend had been at Service at [italics]London[end italics] for two or three Years'" (pp.7-8).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Stephen Duck and friend Print: Unknown

Stephen Duck : poems

Queen Caroline's discovery of the poetry of Stephen Duck, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Stephen Duck' (1731): '"the QUEEN [...] upon seeing his Pieces, and the Genius that appear'd through them [...] resolv'd immediately to take him out of his Obscurity, and the Difficulties he had labour'd under"' (p.14).

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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Caroline

: book

'As a child [...] [Charles Shaw] [...] accepted without much complaint that at the age of seven he should abandon his games and go to work. Then, about a year later, while enjoying a brief moment of leisure [...] he came across another boy reading a book: "[...] the sight of this youth reading at his own free will, forced upon my mind a sense of painful contrast between his position and mine [...] I went back to my mould-running and hot stove with my first anguish in my heart."'

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

: storybooks

Thomas Carter on childhood reading: '"I gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeats and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books [...] I had even then a taste for reading, which was here gratified by my being permitted to read all the little stories which she kept on sale."'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

: books

Thomas Carter on reading enabled at the dame-school run by his mother: '"I [...] gained some profit as well as pleasure by there coming under my mother's care, being thereby enabled to peruse several small books belonging to the children, which otherwise would not have come in my way."'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

: The Arminian

Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's" Magazines; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many more things than I had previously been able to command. I perused themvery much in the way of those undiscriminating readers who devour "The total grist unsifted, husks and all".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

: The Gentleman's Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

: newspapers

While living in London, the tailor Thomas Carter 'made a habit of taking his breakfast at one of the coffee shops [...] on his way to work, where he would read the previous day's newspapers, the contents of which he would relay to his fellow workmen.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories such as "Robinson Crusoe" and the imitative "Philip Quarll", books of travel, such as Boyle's "Travels", some un-named religious tracts, a number of "classics" including Milton and Shakespeare, some radical newspapers, particularly Cobbett's "Register" and Wooller's "Black Dwarf", mechanics' magazines, and some occasional items of contemporary literature, including the novels of Scott and the poetry of Byron.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

: Philip Quarll

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Boyle : Travels

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

: religious tracts

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Unknown

John Milton :

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

: Cobbett's Political Register

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Newspaper

: The Black Dwarf

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Newspaper

: mechanics' magazines

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : novels

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : poetry

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe" and a few other favourite boys' books [...] After these the most readable I could find was Rollin's "Ancient History". His narratives opened a new world [...] [which] I regarded as remote from Tunstall and England as those other worlds I read of in Dick's "Christian Philosopher," which book I found in the library too ... Then I read Milton's "Paradise Lost", Klopstock's "Messiah", and later on, Pollock's "Course of Time", and Gilfillan's "Bards of the Bible".These books may look a strange assortment for a boy of fourteen or fifteen to read, but [...] they just happened to fall into my hands"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

Rollin : Ancient History

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

: "boys' books"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

Dick : Christian Philosopher

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : The Messiah

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

Pollock : The Course of Time

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

George Gifillan : The Bards of the Bible

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book

: books on theology

'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, belle lettres, and science. I even read the celebrated Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire three times from beginning to end".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: books on metaphysics

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: history books

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: books on belle lettres

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: books on science

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

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'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d candle, which I used to save to read with in bed. I have read perhaps scores of times till 12.00 or 1 o'clock."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wood Print: Unknown

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'Samuel Bamford, warehouseman to a cloth printer in Manchester at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century, was able to make use of seasonal fluctuations in business to greatly increase the range of his reading: '"As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally, during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such book at my desk, in the little recess of the packing room."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

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'The anonymous Stonemason [author of "Reminiscences of a Stonemason, By a Working Man" (London, 1848)] [...] employed as a roundsman, taught his horse the route and thereafter read as he travelled.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: books on history

The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

: foreign language grammar

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Serial / periodical

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Serial / periodical

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Serial / periodical

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Serial / periodical

James Hogg : Shepherd's Calendar

'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many opportunities of hearing much about him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : George and Sarah Green

'When I had made a few visits to him, Mr De Quincey was so kind as to take some particular notice of me; and afterwards when he wrote his Grasmere article about "George and Sarah Green" (1839), he spoke to me of the subject, and read me a passage from the proof before it appeared in "Tait".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas de Quincey Print: Serial / periodical, proofs

Walter Scott : Heart of Midlothian

'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of "The Heart of Midlothian" and "Rob Roy", one of the men reading the book aloud to his comrades.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: workmen Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: workmen Print: Book

[n/a] : Bentley's Miscellany

'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Chambers : Chambers's Journal

'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavouring as I walked over the grass to read a story in one of the volumes of "Chambers's Journal", then of a somewhat unwielding size, I was stopped by two gentlemen, one of whom asked what I was reading...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Johnstone : The Schoolmaster

'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened a little. I then obtained access to a greater variety, and, as I well remember, greatly enjoyed reading some numbers of a periodical called "The Schoolmaster", edited by Mr Johnstone, or, to speak more correctly, by Mrs Johnstone.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

Walkingham : arithmetic textbook

David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a slate and pencil at my side ... used to con over the problems as I worked the treadles"'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Farish Print: Book

: Harris's Hermes

'J. A. Leatherland clubbed together with some like-minded velvet weavers to purchase, "'Harris's Hermes', from which we gained some knowledge of the principles, elements and philosophy of language generally and of the English tongue in particular"'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Kettering velvet-weavers Print: Book

Henry : Life of Wallace

'"Blind Henry's Life of Wallace was the first book that stirred my mind, and set me on a career of reading and thinking that will only terminate with my life, or the complete prostration of my faculties," wrote the Dundee Factory Boy'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: texts on Christian religion

The nineteenth-century cabinet maker William Lovett on the development of his literary and intellectual interests after joining 'The Liberals', a literary and debating association, during a period of residence in London: '"I [...] became seized with an enthusiastic desire to read and treasure up all I could meet with on the subject of Christianity [...] often have I sat up till morning dawned reading and preparing myself with arguments [for use at Liberals meetings] in support of its principles."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lovett Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Divine Songs for Children

'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secret rapture"'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story Print: Book

Chevalier Ramsay : Life of Cyrus

James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of 1826, a friend made me a present of an old edition of Chevalier Ramsay's "Life of Cyrus". This little volume opened up to my enquiring mind a rich field of useful knowledge. The apendix to the work contained the [italics]heathen mythology[end italics]: this part of the work completely fascinated me, and for a considerable time became my constant companion."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Dawson Burn Print: Book

Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White

'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he said, "a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books: yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Harris Print: Book

Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book

Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley (whose jobs included winding bobbins and working as a 'piecer' in a textile factory) first experienced the sense of the transcendent and uplifting inspiration that had been missing from school Bible study.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Brierley Print: Unknown

Robert Burns :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Brierley Print: Unknown

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'William Dodd [...] exposed to the full impact of the [eighteenth/nineteenth-century] factory system, found that once he had begun to read books on "several branches of natural and experimental philosophy", much else began to become clear: "in proportion as the truths of science were unfolded to my wondering sight, and the mists of ignorance chased from my mind, so the horrors of my situation became daily more and more apparent"'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Dodd Print: Book

Voltaire : Dictionary of Philosophy

'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Paine's "Age of Reason", but remained unconvinced [by radicalism and religious scepticism] until a prolonged period of family poverty and ill-health finally destroyed what was left of his faith'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Gutteridge Print: Book

Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Gutteridge Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thoughts

David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associates and walking-companions after discovering Young's "Night Thoughts".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Adams Print: Book

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David Vincent notes the former agricultural labourer (and later trades union leader and M.P.) Joseph Arch's recollection in his memoir that, after work, '"I would stick like a limpet to my books of an evening"'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arch Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Brierley Print: Book

Robert Burns :

The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Brierley Print: Book

Robert Burns : volume containing life and writings of Burns

'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst working as a porter and warehouseman in Manchester'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book

: The Bible

'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other book so attentively and regularly. Its beautiful descriptions of nature were delightful to my imagination, while its fine moral reflections [...] were, as I believe, greatly instrumental in promoting my best interests"'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

: 'Spelling Book' (grammar)

John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English: '"Borrowing a school book of a companion having some entertaining things in it both in prose and verse, with an introduction by the compiler [...] in this introduction was rules both for writing as well as reading [...] stumbling on a remark that a person who knew nothing of grammar was not capable of writing a letter nor even a bill of parcels, I was quite in the suds, seeing that I had gone on thus far without learning the first rudiments of doing it properly [...] I determined to try grammar, and [...] by the advice of a friend, bought the "Spelling Book" as the most easy assistant for my starting out. But finding a jumble of words classed under this name, and that name and this such-a-figure of speech and that another-hard-worded figure, I turned from further notice of it in instant disgust. For, as I knew I could talk to be understood, I thought by the same method my writing might be made out as easy and as proper".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Lindley Murray : Grammar

'When William Lovett arrived in London [from Newlyn, in the 1820s] he possessed a Cornish accent but no useful knowledge, and immediately set about remedying these twin defects with the aid of "Lindley Murray's Grammar".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lovett Print: Book

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse : "Vier Neue Novellen"

'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Unknown

Henri Marc-Bonnet : "Histoire des Ordres Religieux"

'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

T.A. Trollope : La Beata

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Franco Sachetti : Novelle

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino

'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

W.G. Tenneman : Manual of the History of Philosophy

'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : Le Moyen Age Illustre

'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : [article in the Athenaeum]

'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the "Monks of the West".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Montalambert : The Monks of the West

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Audin de Rians : [Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]

'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Spectator

'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Athenaeum

'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

Auguste Comte : [on the Middle Ages]

'Read Comte on the Middle Ages'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

Anthony Trollope : Orley Farm

'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Ernest Renan : ?tudes d?histoire religieuse

'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Virgil : Eclogues

'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Johann Buhle : Textbook on the History of Philosophy

'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [MS article on Mad Dogs]

'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article

Henry Hallam : [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages]

'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Edward Gibbon : [on revival of Greek learning]

'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermons]

'Savonarola's Sermons'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Girolamo Savonarola : Discourse on Government

'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermon on the Epistle of John]

'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus]

'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino

'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Anton Francesco Doni : I Marmi

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Giovanni Boccaccio : [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

anon : Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Jacopo Nardi (probably) : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Rienzi

'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Francesco Sachetti : [stories]

'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Burlamacchi : Life of Savonarola

'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

[probably] Luigi Pulci : [if this Pulci, poetry]

'began Pulci'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Giovanni (?) Villani : Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]

'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] : Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secolo

'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art

'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Marullus : unknown

'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Joseph Pettigrew : Medical Superstitions

'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Girolamo Tiraboschi : [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana

'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Girolamo Tiraboschi : [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana

'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Daniel Rock : Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Manni : [Life of Burchiello]

'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art

'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : [article in the National]

'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical

Daniel Rock : Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass

'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Anna Jameson : Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts

'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Marchese : Storia di San Marco

'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : [article on Mormons in Westminster Review]

'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Archivo Storico

'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Unknown

Vespasiano da Bisticci : [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV,

'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Pierre Louis Ginguene : unknown

'Read Ginguene in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Charles Lewes : [compositions]

'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, compositions

unknown : Nerli

'Read Nerli'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot : [probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789

'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : The Prince (probably)

'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Pasquale Villari : unknown

'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Ludovico Antonio Muratori : unknown

'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Poliziano : Letters

'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Donato Giannotti : Della repubblica fiorentina

'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Newspaper

Cicero : De Officiis

'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Francesco Petrarch : [Letters]

'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

John Selden : Titles of Honour

'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Amans-Alexis Monteil : [presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation]

'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger : La Tancia

'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Pierre Louis Ginguene : [possibly] Histoire litteraire d'Italie

'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Lillie Craik : History of English Literature and the English Language

'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Juvenal : [a satire]

'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Epictetus : Enchiridion

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Luigi Pulci : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : Canti Carnascialeschi

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Manni : Veglie Piacevole

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Theocritus : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Juvenal : [Sixth Satire]

'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Marco Lastri : Osservatore Fiorentino

'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Goldwin Smith : [answer to Mansel]

'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Bekker (or Becker?) : Charikles

''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Benedetto Varchi : [History of Florence]

'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Humphrey Hody : De Graecis Illustribus

'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Scipioni Ammirato : Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini

'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Ludovico Antonio Muratori : [unknown, on the Confraternita]

'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Franco Sachetti : [probably] Novelle

'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Francesco Filelfo : [Letters]

'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Benedetto Varchi : [History of Florence]

'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Girolamo Savonarola : De Veritate Profetica

'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Conyers Middleton : Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism

'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Girolamo Savonarola : Compendium Revelationum

'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren : [on the XVth Century]

'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Poliziano : Lamia

'Read Politian's Lamia'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Malmantile : [unknown]

'Read the Malmantile'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Luigi Pulci : [unknown -novel]

'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) : [possibly a story from Le Cene]

'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Emile Du Bois Reymond : [book on Johannes Mueler]

'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : Istorie fiorentine

'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

: The Bible

'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the nursery a pile of Christmas numbers, and thence forward walked with us, for a week or two, in a world of pure romance."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Goodman Print: Book

: Ally Sloper's Weekly

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Goodman Print: Serial / periodical

: Christmas numbers of magazines

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children Print: Serial / periodical

: Line Upon Line

'Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from "Line Upon Line", a book which re-tells the Bible stories [for children]'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Charlotte Mew : 'The Changeling'

'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reasons for its own existence] aloud [...] to children of her acquaintance, giving no explanation, because she believed [...] that none would be needed. They understood her at once.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare :

"As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest and lifted highest -- Shakespeare, Dante in Cary's translation, Blake, Wordsworth, and [...] [Miss Harrison's] own favourites, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, the Brownings, Coventry Patmore [...] A reading which all [...] [Miss Harrison's] pupils heard often, and never forgot, was from Alice Meynell's "Preludes" of 1875 -- the sonnet "To a Daisy"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Dante Alighieri :

'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest and lifted highest -- Shakespeare, Dante in Cary's translation, Blake, Wordsworth, and [...] [Miss Harrison's] own favourites, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, the Brownings, Coventry Patmore [...] A reading which all [...] [Miss Harrison's] pupils heard often, and never forgot, was from Alice Meynell's "Preludes" of 1875 -- the sonnet "To a Daisy"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

William Blake :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

William Wordsworth :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Emily Bronte :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Christina Rossetti :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Robert Browning :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Coventry Patmore :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Alice Meynell : Preludes

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Alice Meynell : "To A Daisy"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Catarina to Camoens

'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Caterina to Camoens" [...] It must have been painful for Miss Greener to read these words [about a dying woman's reconciling herself to the idea that her lover might love again] aloud in the whitewashed bedroom, among the plain oak furniture which her friend had knocked together.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Amy Greener Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus

'From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's "Everlasting No" from "Sartor Resartus".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Harrison Print: Book

Richard Jeffries : Field and Hedgerow

'In 1889 [...] [Charlotte Mew] had been reading [Richard] Jeffries' "Field and Hedgerow", his last essays, a book published after his death [which supplied the epigram for Mew's story "The Minnow Fishers"].'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :

'Charlotte [Mew] [...] was a passionate reader of Thomas Hardy'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Unknown

Charlotte Mew : "Requiescat"

Charlotte Mew to Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, 12 May 1914: '"Looking through some of Ella [D'Arcy]'s old letters [...] I find she wrote to me 3 about the Requiescat ... she had seen it in "The Nation"and wrote [...] Thanking me for sending it to her [...] and adding "it goes into my private anthology".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ella D'Arcy Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Noyes : "The Old Sceptic"

'In 1910, when Alfred Noyes's "Collected Poems" came out [...] [Charlotte Mew] read his "The Old Sceptic" and reflected that as far as sentiment went, she might have written the poem herself.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert :

'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Anton Chekhov :

'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Joseph Conrad :

'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Unknown

Paul Verlaine :

'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality"were available.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: May Sinclair Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : Three Essays on Sexuality

'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality" were available.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: May Sinclair Print: Book

May Sinclair : The Combined Maze

Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, '"it has completely got and kept hold of me"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Charlotte Mew : "The Farmer's Bride"

'In the early spring of 1913 Sappho [i.e. Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, nicknamed after a poem she had authored] wrote in her diary: '"When Charlotte [Mew] came [to Mrs Dawson Scott's house] I persuaded her to read to us "The Farmer's Bride", and May [Sinclair] was so won over that she deserted me and they went away together."'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew : "The Forest Road"

'[Charlotte Mew's poem] "The Forest Road" is almost impossible to follow; Dr Scott [husband of Mew's friend Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] read it and said it was so deeply realized that he felt the author must be mad'.

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Scott

John Davidson : unknown

'[Alida Klementaski] and Harold Monro first met at a poets' club dinner at the Cafe Monico on 14 March 1913. The subject was the nineties poet John Davidson [...] Alida, in a borrowed Liberty dress, was the reader, and Harold Monro realized, when he heard her, that there were women, as well as men, for whom poetry was life.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alida Klementaski

Charlotte Mew : "The Farmer's Bride"

'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alida Klementaski Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Mew : "The Farmer's Bride"

'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Dawson Scott Print: Serial / periodical

: Exchange and Mart

'Alida [Klementaski] bought for thirty shillings a West Highland terrier which she had seen advertised in "Exchange and Mart".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alida Klementaski Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Mew : The Farmer's Bride

'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff little note from Charlotte [Mew] [...] No worry [...] about his reading it; he always read everything, and he fell in love immediately with "The Farmer's Bride".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Cockerell Print: Book

Charlotte Mew : The Farmer's Bride

'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their "sexual sincerity". Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always. A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Scawen Blunt Print: Book

Charlotte Mew : The Farmer's Bride

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon Print: Book

Charlotte Mew : The Farmer's Bride

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: A. E. Housman Print: Book

Charlotte Mew : The Farmer's Bride

'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate, to the old great man whom she so carefully tended. It was difficult to know what he would and wouldn't like [...] but he took to "The Farmer's Bride"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Hardy Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : poems

Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something which pleased him very much, "Saturday Market".'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy

Charlotte Mew : "Saturday Market"

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew

Cicero : Second Philippic

'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had nothing to put down: but last two days, read a little of Cicero's Second Philippic, Voltaire's Siecle de Louis XVI, Coleridge's Journey to the West Indies; bought some books...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Book

: Globe

'...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, and whom I left not a fortnight ago in his usual health and likely to live many years ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper

: Morning Chronicle

'...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmerston himself (as I have no doubt it was) most violent, declamatory and insulting to France...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper

Samuel Warren : Diary of a late physician

'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of "Ten Thousand a Year". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without it being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Warren : Ten thousand a year

'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of "Ten Thousand a Year". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but, having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without its being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

Rudyard Kipling : Only a subaltern

'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes of my first pipe of shag tobacco... My first book had just been published. I was going courting. My book had earned ten pounds. I desired to be a subaltern in H. B. M's army. The story was Mr Kipling's "Only a subaltern". The next station would be Winchelsea, where I was to descend.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book

: [newspaper]

?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child. The father was fifteen or sixteen years old, the mother a year or two less, and the Grandmother of the child ? the girl?s mother ? appeared, who was twenty-nine years old and had fourteen children. This seems to me to be curious enough to be worth recording?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper

: [newspapers]

?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, and resolved to write a letter which was published in The Times the day before yesterday and signed ?Carolus???

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper

Charlotte Mew : "Sea Love"

'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s "Sea Love", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Mew : "Sea Love"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Cockerell Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Mew : "Sea Love"

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Mew : "Madeleine in Church"

'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'.

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon

William Shakespeare : Plays including Richard III and King Lear

'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Bronte : letters

'Over the New Year [1922] [...] [Charlotte Mew] went down to Cambridge and, as a particular treat, Sydney [Cockerell, Mew's friend, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum] showed her the Bronte letters in the Fitzwilliam, and let her hold one of them in her hand.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Manuscript: Letter

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

'Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Mary, a fiction

'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

'We read Shakespeare'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'Talk and read the newspapers'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Newspaper

William Wordsworth : The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a poem

'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [romance]

'Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

[Shelley] 'Reads the ancient mariner to us'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a poem

'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as they are: or, the adventures of Caleb Williams

'He [Shelley] reads part of "Caleb Williams" to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : [chronicle of conquest of the Morea]

'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Finlay : A History of Greece

'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : La Mandragola

'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena : La Calandra

'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola

'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

Anthony Trollope : Orley Farm

This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of "Orley Farm", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main path of the story - the fortunes of Lady Mason'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lewes Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

Luigi Pulci : [probably] Morgante

'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

John Stuart Mill : Conquest in America, The

'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Heinrich von Sybel : History and Literature of the Crusades

'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Casa Guidi Windows

'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to be the true relation of the religious mind to the Past.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : The Count of Monte Cristo

[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [books on medieval Greece]

'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been running through Wordsworth's "Greece" and studying the geography'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Christopher Wordsworth : Greece

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard : Poetes Latins de la Decadence

'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Juvenal : [unknown]

'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Meiner : [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola]

'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". They are excellent. They have German industry and are succinctly and clearly written'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Girolamo Savonarola : Processi

'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron

'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Niccolo Machiavelli : Il Principe

'Began "Il Principe".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Poliziano : Stanze

'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion of Tennyson's "Palace of Art" in many points'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Poliziano : Orfeo

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Girolamo Savonarola : Compendium Revelationum

'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola

'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

George Henry Lewes : Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science

'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864

Theodor Mommsen : [one of his Roman history works]

'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

William Wetmore Story : Roba di Roma

'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Henry George Liddell : A History of Rome

'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] : [unknown]

'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler : [unknown]

'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Eliot (pseud.) : The Spanish Gipsy

'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourages me'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of own work

[probably] William Prescott : [unknown]

'I read Prescott again and made notes'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Aeschlyus : [unknown]

'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Philip Wentworth Buckham : Theatre of the Greeks

'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Julius Leopold Klein : Geschichte des Dramas

'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Samuel Bamford : Passages in the Life of a Radical

'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

John Stuart Mill : Principles of Political Economy

'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Auguste Comte : The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Annual Register, The

'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

[possibly] William Blackstone : [Commentaries on the laws of England?]

'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [English history in reign of George III]

'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : King John

'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Rivals

'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr and Mrs Wigan Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Alfred Lord Tennyson : unknown

'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr and Mrs Wigan Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Aeschylus : unknown

'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : [article on Grote's Plato]

'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article

Aeschylus : Agamemnon

'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu : Contes populaires des anciens Bretons

'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Anita Loos : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Anita Loos : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Frances Anne Mew Print: Book

David Garnett : Go She Must

While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came every day with novels to read aloud and amuse them both, starting with David Garnett's [italics]Go She Must[end italics].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book

Otto Weinginer : ?ber die letzten Dinge

Er kehrt zum Vater wenn er die Erbs?nde verneint [...] Der Raum enth?lt in Nebeneinader was nur in zeitlicher Nacheinander erlebt werden kann [...] Gravitation, Symbol des Gnadelosen

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Joyce Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Memoirs

After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read aloud to him, chapter by chapter, the manuscript of Hardy's memoirs. This occupied most evenings'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Hardy Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Mew : "Fin de Fete"

After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which Hardy had copied out "Fin de Fete" [by Charlotte Mew]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Serial / periodical

Felicia Dorothea Browne : War and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fifteen

'[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Heber

Friedrich von Schiller : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Johann Gottfried von Herder : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Johan Wolfgang Goethe : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Karl Theodor Korner : unknown

From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

John Chetwode Eustace : A Classical Tour of Italy, An. MDCCCII (vol.1)

'In the 4th ed. [of [italics]A Tour through Italy[end italics], [italics]A Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII[end italics], 4 vols. (London, 1817) [...] [John Chetwode Eustace] relates the legends of the Unterberg (1.76-77), some of which F[elicia]H[emans] copied into her commonplace book, 20-22 (Houghton Library MS Eng 767).'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Johann Gottfried von Herder : Volkslieder

Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading of Herder's ballad collection "Volkslieder".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Catherine Maria Sedgwick : Hope Leslie

In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, "The American Forest-Girl": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie" [...] a novel published in 1827 about the Pequod War in 17th-c. New England.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

unknown : Memoir of the Queen of Prussia

'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Unknown

Mary Tighe : early poems

'After reading some of [...] [Mary Tighe's] early poems in manuscript, F[elicia]H[emans] wrote a sonnet, "On Records of Immature Genius"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Manuscript: Unknown

: newspapers

Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'You have, I know, perused the papers (as I have done,) with anxiety [...] The noble Spaniards! surely, surely, they will be crowned with success'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne Print: Newspaper

Stephanie Felicite de Crest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis : Le Siege de la Rochelle

Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'I have been reading a most delightful French romance, by Madame de Genlis, "Le Siege de la Rochelle".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne Print: Book

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Memoirs

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne Print: Book

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Discourses

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne Print: Book

Jane Porter : The Scottish Chiefs

Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal [...] I have also [underlined]been guilty[end underlined] of reading a [underlined]Romance[end underlined] [...] It is "The Scottish Chiefs," by Miss Porter, & though I am by no means an Advocate for [underlined]Historical[end underlined] Novels as they bewilder our ideas, by confounding truth with fiction, yet this animated Authoress has painted her Hero [...] in such glowing colours, that you cannot avoid catching a spark of her own enthusiasm".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne Print: Book

: advertisement for poetry translation competition

Felicity Browne, mother of Felicia Browne, to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812: 'I saw in the paper some time ago, that two thousand pounds would be given for the best translation of Lucian Bonaparte's poem of Charlemagne -- Could you enquire where information respecting this could be had? -- it is a work for which Felicia's perfect knowledge of the French tongue & poetical genius make her quite competent -- I read in the paper, of the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo [...] thank GOD the names of my sons are not in the fatal list'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicity Browne Print: Newspaper

: newspaper (reporting progress of Peninsular Campaign)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicity Browne Print: Newspaper

: advertisements for books on the arts

Felicia Hemans to John Murray, 26 February 1817, having just sent to him the MS of "Modern Greece": 'Had I been aware of the very limited taste for the Arts which you inform me is displayed by the Public, I should certainly have applied myself to some other subject; but having seen so many works advertised on Sculpture, painting, &c. I was naturally led to imagine the contrary'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Advertisement

John Milton : Samson Agonistes

'The first scene is the Lamentation of Sampson [sic] which possesses much pathos of sublimity ... I think this is beautiful... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : Falklands

'I have been seeking 'Falkland' here for a long time without success. Those beautiful extracts of it which you showed me at Tealby haunted me incessantly.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Henry Taylor : Philip van Artevelde

'By a quaint coincidence I received your letter directed (I suppose) by Phillip van Artevelde with Philip himself (not the man but the book) and I wish to tell you that I think him a noble fellow. I close with him in most that he says of modern poetry... etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Dr Alexander Brunton : Memoir of Mary Brunton

Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs Brunton, and her beautiful though unfinished tale of "Emmeline."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Mary Brunton : Emmeline: With Some Other Pieces

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Caroline Bowles : Solitary Hours

Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived great pleasure. The little work called "Solitary hours" interested me particularly: some of the pieces it contains had before struck me in your Magazine'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Caroline Bowles : poetical/prose "pieces"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Serial / periodical

Johann Heinrich Voss : poem ("nuptial benediction")

Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of German Literature, but there is a poem in that Language, a beautiful nuptial benediction pronounced by a Father over his child [...] which some parts of your letter [about his daughter's forthcoming marriage] recalled to my mind. I have copied Madame de Stael's translation of it, and take the liberty of including it for you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : De L'Allemagne

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

: Reports on Mary Russell Mitford's play, Rienzi

Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and cordial congratulations on the brilliant success of "Rienzi," of which I have read with unfeigned gratification [...] I have yet only read of Rienzi a few noble passages given by the Newspapers and Magazines, but in a few days I hope to be acquainted with the whole'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Newspaper

Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi (excerpts)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron

Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's "Life of Byron", 'which dismayed her.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays

'I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates him highly. He has great thoughts and imaginations, but he sometimes misleads himself by his own facility of talking brilliantly. However, I have not perhaps studied him sufficiently.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The white doe of Rylstone

'This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other day by some half-remembrance of a note to one of Wordsworth's poems which told with me (to speak the truth) more than the poem itself: said Wordsworth having stated ... that everything which the eyes of man could desire in a lordship was to be found at and about the Abbey aforesaid.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Miss Martineau on Mesmerism

'Ps. Have you read Miss Martineau on Mesmerism in the Athenaeum (two of them). I have got them and if you like I will send them to you. They are very wonderful [underlined]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Serial / periodical

Ferdinand Freiligrath : Englische Gedichte als Neurer Zeit

'... therefore was my satisfaction great to receive (as I did this morning) a copy of your works with your own friendly autograph. I need not say how much I feel the honour you have done me in translating some of my poems... I have not yet had time and leisure sifficient to read your translations from myself carefully; but from what I have seen, ... they are not dry bones, but seem full of a living warmth in fact a Poet's [underlined] translation of poetry.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

F W Schneidewin : Delectus Presis Graeconim elegiacae, iambinis, melicae

'Lovely lines - but I knew them before ... the two last, two years ago in ... Schneidemn's Greek fragments - a book Frank Lushington had and which I ever since intended to get.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Philip James Bailey : Festus

'I have just got Festus - order it and read. You will most likely find it a great bore, but there are really very grand [both words underlined] things in festus... I have these last two days been reading 'Festus'... This sublimity is Michael-Angelic.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Mary Hewitt : Ballads and other poems

'I got your beautiful book of Ballads the other day at Moxon's. It contains (as far as I have seen it) much that is sweet and good and reminds me of you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Aubrey de Vere : English Misdeeds and Irish Misrule

'His Irish book seems to me from the little I have read very clever.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Sophocles (?) : Oedipus Coloneus [sic]

'Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [title underlined].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Ferdinand Count Fathom

'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton

'I think my introduction to the authoress of that fine book Mary Barton must be postponed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Coventry Patmore : The aesthetics of gothic architecture

'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Jean Ingelow : Rhyming chronicle of incidents and feelings

'I have only just returned to town, and found the Rhyming Chronicle [title underlined]. Your cousin must be worth knowing: there are some very charming things in her book... I really have only skimmed a few pages.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

John Moultrie : The Black Fence

'Mr Moultrie's poem seems spirited but I have had no time to study it well.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book

Stephen Crane : The Red badge of courage

'That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolate that, for myself, I had been reading, actually, "The Red Badge of Courage" by the light of a candle stuck onto a bully-beef case at my camp-bed head.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book

Plato : On the immortality of the soul

'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made a very deep and lasting impression in my mind. By reading them [Plato's On the Immortality of the soul and Plutarch's Morals and Confucio's texts] I was taught to bear the unavoidable evils attending humanity, and to supply all my wants by contracting or restraining my desires.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Plutarch : Morals

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Confucius : various

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

anon : various scraps of writing

'My master said to me one day, he was surprized that I did not learn to write my own letters, and added, that he was sure that I could learn to do it in a very short time. ... Without any delay I set about it, by taking up pieces of paper that had any writing on them, and initiating the letters as well as I could. I employed my leisure hours in this way for near two months, after which time I wrote my own letters, in a bad hand, you may be sure; but it was plain and easy to read, which was all I cared for.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Amory : The life of John Buncle

'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my friend to imagine with what eagerness and pleasure I read through the whole four volumes of this sensible pleasing work; it was wrote by the late Mr Amory of Wakefield, and I know not of any work more proper to be put into the hands of a poor ignorant bigotted superstititous methodist... In short I saw that true religion was no way incompatible with or an enemy to rational pleasures of any kind. ... I now also began to read with great pleasure the rational and moderate divines of all denominations.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

anon : various on divinity and moral philosophy

'As to the little knowledge of literature I possess, I acquired that by dint of application. In the beginning I attached myself very closely to the study of divinity and moral philosophy; so that I became tolerably acquainted with all the points controverted between the Divines.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Hesbert : unknown

?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, Bolingbroke, Williams, Voltaire, and many other Free-thinkers.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Tindall : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Chubb : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Morgan : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Collins : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Woolston : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Annet : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Mandeville : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Sheftesbury : [?] Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Bolingbroke : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Williams : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Voltaire : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

unknown : [English poets]

?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural History, Biography, etc.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

unknown : Various

?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural History, Biography, etc.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

unknown : various English plays

?I have also read most of our best plays.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote (probably)

Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Voltaire, Sterne, Le Sage, Goldsmith and others).?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Henry Fielding : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Tobias Smollet : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Frances Burney : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Voltaire : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Lawrence Sterne : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Le Sage : Gil Blas (probably)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

?Pray, said Mr Thrale, do you read much?? ?When I can meet with large Print,? answered the old Gentleman. ?Did you ever, said my Master, read Evelina?? ? I almost jumped; little expecting such a frolic from Mr Thrale,?who however, avoided looking at me. ?No, Sir, never, answered Mr. Legh, but I have heard of it,?I have heard a good deal of it.? ?Well, Sir, added Mr Thrale, I would advise you to read it.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Thrale Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, hardened, painted, snuft, leering & impudent! Just such a face as I should Draw for Mrs. Sinclear ? Her Dress, too, was of the same cast, a thin muslin short sacque & Coat lined throughout with Pink, ? a [ital] modesty bit [close ital.] [xxxxx 2 words] ? & something of a [ital.] very [ital.] short cloak half concealed about half of her old wrinkled Neck? the rest was visible to disgust the beholders, ? red Bows and Ribbons in abundance, a Gauze Bonnet tipt on to the top of her Head, & a pair of Mittens! ? We were all curious to see this Queen of Bath, as she is called, on account of the expensive Entertainments she makes, & therefore we got very near to her. . . . a Wretch notorious for all manner of evil: a wretch who, Miss Bowdler has told me, endeavours as much , by dispersing obscene Books, to corrupt youth, as to assist already corrupted maturity in the prosecution of vice!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Shakespeare : unknown

'When I come here we play at battlecock and shuttledore and mama reads Shakespear in the evening[.] When she goes with [Ann?] up stairs to sleep John Fred Will and I generally raill [sic] out a song with a machine that would frighten you in the great hall while the Men drink in the dining room'.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Frances Ponsonby

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but it's silly wit'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

: Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Song. Tune, Black Joke.

'. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put that mortifying paragraph into the Morning Post about the "lovely Grecian" merely for her refusing to visit her!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Newspaper

unknown : various

'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me think that they know many matters of which I was totally ignorant. This created in me a desire for knowledge, that I might know who was right and who was wrong. But to my great mortification, I could not read. I knew most of the letters, and a few easy words, and I set about learning with all my might. My mistress would sometimes instruct me; and having three-halfpence per week allowed me by my mother, this money I gave to John (my master's youngest son) and for every three-halfpence he taught me to spell one hour. And this was done in the dark, as we were not allowed a candle, after we were sent upstairs to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington

: Bible

?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answered one valuable purpose; as it caused me to embrace every opportunity to learn to read; so that I could soon read the easy parts of the Bible, Mr Wesley?s Hymns etc and every leisure minute was so employed.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Wesley : Hymns

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Whalley : Edwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five Parts

'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whaley, ? & [ital.] unreadably [ital.] soft & tender & senseless is it!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Wesley : Tracts and Sermons

?? for a long time I read ten chapters in the Bible every day, I also read and learned many hymns, and as soon as I could procure some of Mr Wesley?s Tracts, Sermons etc. I read them also; many of them I perused in ?Cloacina?s? Temple, (the place where my Lord Chesterfield advised his son to read the classics.) But I did not apply them after reading to the farther use that his Lordship hints at.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

'He [Dr Johnson] says Dr. Barnard, the Provost of Eaton, has been singing the praises of my Book . . .'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Barnard Print: Book

unknown : various

?I had such good eyes, that I often read by the light of the moon, as my master would never permit me to take a candle into my room.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

'. . . & that old Dr. Lawrence has read it ["Evelina"] through 3 Times within this last Month!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Lawrence Print: Book

Epictetus : Morals

?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer was a great poet, but unfortunately I had never heard of Pope?s translation of him, so we eagerly purchased that by Hobbes. At this stall I also purchased Walker?s Poetical paraphrase of Epictetus?s Morals; and home we went, perfectly well pleased with our bargains. We that evening began with Hobbes's Homer; but found it very difficult for us to read, owing to the obscurity of the translation, which together with the indifferent language, and the want of poetical merit in the translator somewhat disappointed us; however we had from time to time many a hard puzzling hour with him. But as Walker's Epictetus, although it had not much poetical merit, yet it was very easy to be read, and as easily understood; and the principles of the Stoic [underlined] charmed me so much, that I made the book my companion wherever I went, and read it over and over...?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Homer : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Hannah Cowley : The Maid of Arragon

'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it aloud, ? & the first thing was a [ital]poetical address [ital] to her Father!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale Print: Book

Frances Burney : [letters]

?"She has heard a great deal of you, ? & has seen some of your Letters" . . . I am [ital] very [ital] much concerned, nay & [ital] hurt & half angry [ital] that this lady, whose name it seems is Lee, should have seen any of my Letters . . .'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Leigh Manuscript: Letter

unknown : various

'We all worked very hard, particularly Mr John Jones and me, in order to get money to purchase books; But what we wanted in judgement in choosing our library, we made up in application; and so anxious we were to read a great deal, that we allowed ourselves but about three hours sleep in twenty-four, and for some months together we never were all in bed at the same time, (Sunday nights excepted). But lest we should oversleep the time allowed, one of us sat up to work until the time appointed for the others to rise, and when we all were up, my friend John, and your humble servant, took it by turns to read aloud to the rest, while they were at their work.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

: Morning Post

'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in Yesterdays?(Monday?s) Paper??it seems as if meant for you, but I cannot understand it. I want to know what this A.B.C. Dario Musico is,? the news paper calls it a Musical Rosciad & says it contains the Characters of all the celebrated Musicians.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Newspaper

Thomas Newton : Dissertations of the Prophecies with the Bible

'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Thomas Sherlock : Sermons

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

David Hume : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

unknown : [a Greek play]

'He [William Lamb] grew so out of spirits that he quite cried--as women do & has just recovered his spirites--however they are returned as usual for he is reading a Greek play out loud & making such noise I scarcely know what I am writing'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lamb

Lady Georgiana Morpeth : unknown

'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

Faustina Maratti Zappi : Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti

'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ridente Tuo labbro ed ora i saggi detti onesti'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

William Robertson : History of Scotland

'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I had always read the other side except in Hume, & was surpised at the conviction Robertson seems to carry in every line of her guilt. His must be a very immoral book for in spight [sic] of that one always feels so very much interested for her.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like extremely. Julia's character is beautiful & tho' Harriet Orwell gives one rather too much the idea of a blushing maid with a workbag, & I cannot fancy anything very romantic in the way of love--with an apothecary, yet her character is, I think, extremely well drawn & I like Bridgetina very much.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Stephanie de Genlis : Le Siege de la Rochelle, ou le malheur et la conscience

'We have all been reading le Siege de la Rochelle. As I leave others to make their own remarks, I shall only tell you my own opinion, which is, that though I think it almost more interesting than any book I ever read, I think the methodistical stile [sic] it is written in & the whole of her reflections very dull.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : unknown

Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own "Laodamia," my favourite "Tintern Abbey," and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Laodamia

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : Lines. Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, 13th July 1798

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth : sonnets

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

John Gibson Lockhart : Review of Thomas Moore's Life of Byron

Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some "Quarterly Reviews" have lately been sent to me, one of which contains an article on Byron, by which I have been deeply and sorrowfully impressed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Serial / periodical

Felicia Hemans : "The Graves of a Household"

Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr Henry Tighe, the widower of the poetess [Mary Tighe]. He had just been exercising, I found, one of his accomplishments in the translation into Latin of a little poem of mine [identified by source editor as "The Graves of a Household"]; and I am told that his version is very elegant.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Tighe

Felicia Browne [later Hemans] : Poems

Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscribed by Felicia Browne [...] Her juvenile productions, remarkable certainly for her age [14] [...] made a powerful impression on Shelley'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : American edition comprising two collections of poetical works

Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, and dipping into it here & there without cutting the leaves, I see that it is full of Poetic beauty of the highest value, and that I have a rich feast abiding me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joanna Baillie Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : uncollected poems

William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in my way before they were collected; and had given me more or less pleasure [...] the pleasure is yet to come of perusing your Pieces in succession. I can only say that whenever I have peeped into the volume -- I have been well recompensed. This morning I glanced my eye over the Pilgrim Song to the evening Star with great pleasure.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

Felicia Hemans : National Lyrics and Songs for Music

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : "Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : Scenes and Hymns of Life &c

William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanzas upon "Elysium" with great pleasure. You have admirably expanded the thought of Chateaubriand.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : "Elysium"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

William Shakespeare : plays

Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'She [Felicia Hemans, nee Browne] was early a reader of Shakespeare; and, by way of securing shade and freedom from interruption, used to climb an apple tree, and there study his plays'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Stanzas ("My Sister -- my sweet Sister")

Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'after having heard those beautiful stanzas addressed to his sister [composed August 1816] by Lord Byron -- which afterwards appeared in print -- read aloud twice in manuscript, she [Felicia Hemans] repeated them to us, and even wrote them down with a surprising accuracy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Manuscript: Unknown

Sir John Moore : A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain

'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there seems to have been at first setting out. I cannot also conceive how with such letters & opinions daily coming forth such a general infatuation about the Spaniards could prevail [...] [I]n Sir J Mo[o]res letter to Mr. Frere where one can see he is in a tiff at his appointment he agrees with you about titles wrongly bestowed [...] my blood curdled with the quantity of black bile Freres' pompous insignificant impudent letter brought forth.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year discreetly & quietly in the Country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb (nee Ponsonby) Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appellation I give them out of Contrast to myself & other more liberal minded women who like Mary Wollstonecraft stand up for the rights of the Sex & wear our shackles with dignity.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament

'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did it but agree with my head to apply'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not think she behaved quite handsomely that I can prate no more nonsense [...] I have been 3 years & 7 months reading "Clarissa" and have now half another volume to finish'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

'Childe Harold I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with & whose opinions are far more worth having--think it beautiful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

'"perchance my dog will whine in vain "Till fed my stranger hands-- "But long e'er I come back again "he'd tear me where he stands'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Jacques Cazotte : Le diable amoreux

'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & have livd [sic] and died happy'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage [probably]

'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of Genius she has not one single spark of it which time or opportunity could kindle--but in its place I think she has a very reasoning head much Humour, & great discrimination--she paints like the Dutch school true to the life--I only quarrel with her choice--she introduces us to the society of those who are disagreeable & she delineates characters we regret ever to meet with--like Crabbe she delights in drawing mediocrity vulgarity & meanness--this can never please--in her present production--there is more than an ordinary share of it--& no great humour to make up--no interest to carry us through--I for one cannot finish it but those more persevering will'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Crabbe : Poems

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Bride of Abydos

'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of these lesser faults but the Corsair is quite beautiful--indeed he [Byron] has a very splendid Genius--& I cannot but feel a deep & lasting anxiety that he should be himself [underlined] in all things it is all I ask--you owe his quotations from Dante and the beginning of the Bride to me--& not to Mad. De Staal--for I sent him Dante last year so that you see I was not useless even to his Genius.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book, Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lines to a Lady Weeping

'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very angry "Weep daughter" was cut out of the other editions--is it not true that he stood firm to what he had done & took blame wholly upon himself--this I trust is true'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : unknown

'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister. They talk of you in a manner I cannot bear to hear [...] I read to them in your voice & they nearly cried & kissed me till I was suffocated all for love of you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Unknown

Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Tristram Shandy might say requires a Chapter in itself'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Choderlos de Laclos : Les Liaisons Dangereuses

'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke of Orleans--for you are a little like them all'..

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Robert Southey : Madoc

'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never mean it to be what I will make it--but as nuns & those who die--as Madoc said it to Llewellyn--so will I to you'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : unknown

'Sometimes I try if I can talk in that Jargon I us'd to hear but I cannot endure it & the remembrance of what you said puts all they say out--so that men hate me--today at Murrays I heard one read--& it made me sick so did the poem-it is Rogers's. I wish I thought it pretty it affects to [simplicite villagoise?] & the lines about thrushes & love love love--or the manner in which it was read vex'd me--because I wish to admire it'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Giaour

'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pistol at Mantons & stand before the Giaour [Lord Byron] & his legal wife & shoot myself'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half you would have admired it excessively--I judge by myself who never can get over ten pages of any Book[--]yesterday--I finished it--I liked it better than I did Waverly [sic] --the story is better told the Hero more interesting the Gypsies delightful the Characters very well drawn indeed--all good in short except the love & the Ladies which are flippant & vulgar as is the Fashion now'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverly

'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half you would have admired it excessively--I judge by myself who never can get over ten pages of any Book[--]yesterday--I finished it--I liked it better than I did Waverly [sic]--the story is better told the Hero more interesting the Gypsies delightful the Characters very well drawn indeed--all good in short except the love & the Ladies which are flippant & vulgar as is the Fashion now'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies

'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did not send them me--they are not worthy of him--trust one who can appreciate his Genius they are very common place lowly performances'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"

'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can only weep to see how little just judgement there is on earth, for I make no doubt the name of Byron will give even these lines a grace. I who read his loftier lay with transport will not admire his flaws and nonsense. You will say it is only a song, yet a song should have sense'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Stanzas to Augusta

'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murrays shewing me some beautiful verses of yours--I do implore you for God sake not to publish these could I have seen you one moment I would explain why--I have only time to add that however those who surround you may make you disbelieve it you will draw ruin on your own head and hers [Augusta Leigh's] if at this moment you shew these lines'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third

'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Homer : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Dante Alighieri : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Virgil : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

John Milton : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

John Dryden : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Thomas Gray : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Toquato Tasso : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Beppo

'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himself [Byron], & in his very best wit as good as any thing Swift ever wrote a flatterer would say better. I read it having taken an Emetic for that head ache which troubled me so much the night I sat beside you & I must own it did delight me so that the Emetic faild [sic] in affecting me--now though this is not a pretty illustration of what should be felt in reading Poetry--believe me it is emphatic & expresses much more than fairer words--after all it would be kind in you to tell me if it is his'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Beppo

'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have written any thing like it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her a [illegible] among the Robbers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

: The Statesman

'I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--but I am sure that neither you nor Sir Frances Burdett can see without disgust what is now handed about and sent here & every where and must be sanctioned by some of the people in your Committee [...] I know you are too clever & far too much of a Gentleman to have any thing to do with the common placards sent about in the way this is--but as I read part of it in the Statesman I think you could at all events stop its being inserted and ask yourself what your feelings would be if your found the grossest insults & imputations sanctioned by any of our Party against yr Birth or yr relations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Serial / periodical

Amelia Opie : unknown

'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a delightful reflection for a Person who has written for others to feel that they have done good instead of harm.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Mathew (Monk) Lewis : The Monk

'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather terrific & in Monk Lewis's style--all the people whether the Daemons or the angels male or female act from determination'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Lady Caroline Lamb : Ada Reis

'I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lamb Manuscript: Unknown, William Lamb would have read either fair copies or proofs from the printer.

Silas Hocking : unknown

'... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels calculated to please "the taste of the Methodist million, who was unheard of in Knightsbridge but wildly popular in the dissenting provinces". Apart from any other interest, this essay throws light on Bennett's own reading background; he discusses the debate between Puritanism and the arts, describes the deep suspicion with which all fiction was regarded in Hocking circles and says: "How often have I heard the impatient words: 'This is too exciting for me; if I went on I shouldn't be able to leave it'." It must have been up in Burslem, where reading had recently been regarded as a wicked sin, that he heard such remarks.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Lady Caroline Lamb : Graham Hamilton

'Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Godwin Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improvised theatricals and constant talk of art. It was also informal. Bennett used to read at meals.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

unknown : Shadows in the Water

'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about Too and Twan--it is called the "Shadows in the Water" two people kept separate fall in love thus by seeing each others shadows'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

unknown : [chinese story]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Wallenstein

'[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my opinion perfectly beautiful'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh

'[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passing beautiful read it too with your heart and not with rules of criticism--I think many parts of Lalla Rookh perfectly beautiful & the idea and often the poetry but he has heaped such a mass of affection about it & affects such discord to make his harmony more sudden & conspicuous that it requires much good humour to admire'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

J.G. Lockhart : Some Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam Blair

'[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and like Adam Blair cannot say my prayers'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Karl Baedeker : [guidebook on Florence]

'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful efforts to see and understand all, through his Baedeker...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: [French newspapers]

'They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

Richard Bentley : A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II Book III of Horace.

'"drudge like Selden days & nights And in the Endless labour die"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

William Godwin : unknown

'[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Women to whom I endeavoured to read them did not chuse to attend'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : [Memoirs]

'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Unknown

Lady Caroline Lamb : [letters and verses]

'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh Manuscript: Unknown

Lady Caroline Lamb : [letters and verses]

'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) Manuscript: Unknown

William Wordsworth : The Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a poem

'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown

Robert Southey : Madoc: a poem

'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown

Robert Southey : Madoc: a poem

'M Read Madoc all morning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown

Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama

'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Unknown

Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama

'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Rasselas

'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown

Veit Weber : Die Teufelsbeschworung / The Sorcerer

'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown

William Godwin : An enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on general virtue and happiness

'Mary reads Political Justice all the morning'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

: Girl's Own

'From fine I turned to applied art, diverted by a periodical called The Girl's Own Paper. For a long period this monthly, which I now regard as quaint, but which I shall never despise, was my principal instrument of culture. It alone blew upon the spark of artistic feeling and kept it alive. It derived from it my first ideals of aesthetic and of etiquette. Under its influence my brother and myself started on a revolutionary campaign against all the accepted canons of house decoration.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : Thalaba the Destroyer

'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Unknown

Anon : Ugly Duckling

[reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at last flew away on his strong pinions, and when he met the swans and was accepted as an equal, then I felt sorrowful, agreeably sorrowful. It seemed to me nothing could undo, atone for, the grief and humiliations of the false duckling's early youth.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

William Shaw : When I was a child, recollections from an old potter

'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workhouse, are not drawn from Enoch's own past, but largely from a book by William Shaw published in 1903, called When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter [title in italics]. But Arnold Bennett's knowledge of such matters cannot have been gleaned wholly from books. It must have been in the air.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

unknown : various

[Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the features of the house in Waterloo Road was its "Book Room". Arnold recalls: "His library was the largest in my youthful experience. [We]? estimate it at one thousand volumes - mostly dull and worthless, but all dignified. He had a passion for filling his offspring with information, at small trouble to himself. When any point of dispute arose he would say "look it up". We looked it up!"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Ouida : unknown

'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart from work for his law examinations; though he admits to Ouida and Vizetelly's translation of Zola.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Emile Zola : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Grant Allen : What's bred in the bone

'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous condensation" of a sensational serial which the paper had been running. The serial was called What's bred in the bone [title in italics], and it was by Grant Allen, a scientist-turned novelist like Wells...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : unknown

'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by H. G. Wells that the two men first became friends, Bennett taking the initiative and writing to Wells in September 1897 to say how much he liked his work, and to ask him how well he knew the Potteries, which Wells had mentioned in several of his stories.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Paston : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H G Wells : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Sturt : letter

'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Letter

George Moore : A Mummer's Wife

'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics]; he wrote to Moore on 24 December 1920, "I wish also to tell you that it was the first chapters of A Mummer's wife [title in italics] which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Moore : A Mummer's Wife

'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: The Globe

'When I left my home for the first time, I suddenly passed out of the excitements of my Windsor life into the school-boy's ordinary abstraction from the outer world. I heard nothing of the stir of the great Babel, though I was within seven miles of Hyde Park Corner. The newspaper I now very rarely saw, instead of regularly reading our "Globe" aloud; for of that evening journal my father was then a shareholder.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Knight Print: Newspaper

: Psalms and chapters

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Addison and Steele (ed.) : The Spectator

Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every morning; but, as neither explanation nor comment was made upon them, nor their history followed up in any way, I hated the duty and escaped it when I could. The same consequence took place by the same dear parent making me read every Sunday to her a Saturday paper in the "Spectator," which, till the middle of life, prevented my ever looking at those exquisite essays, or being aware of the beauties of the volumes they were in.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Sonnets on the Passion of Christ

Mary Berry, Journal, Friday 9 April [Good Friday] 1784: 'In the evening [...] To the Academy of Arcadians, which was a great crowd of abbati in a room much too samll for the company. The subject for that evening was the Passion of our Saviour. I heard a number of sonnets read: one treated the subject in a ludicrous style, and the whole room went into repeated roars of laughter.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Madame Roland : (passages from) Reverie du Bois de Vincennes

Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces passages from posthumously-published writings of the 23-year-old Madame Roland, transcribed by Mary Berry when aged 22, 'as parallel to her own reflections [which also written in French]'.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Fawcett : Economic Condition of the Working Classes

'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : On Liberty

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

David Friedrich Strauss : Life of Jesus [second version]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown Neale : History of the Puritans

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell Print: Unknown

: Bible

'Reading the Bible'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Henry Hallam : The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : [perhaps] History of England [?]

'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : A System of Logic

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Theocritus : unknown

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : [English History and Law]

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

George Eliot (pseud.) : Felix Holt

'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel

Friedrich Bouterwek : Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : [unknown - on Spain]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Georges Bernard Depping : [unknown - on Spain]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Juan Antonio Llorente : [Spanish history]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Georges Depping : Juifs au Moyen Age

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Geoffrey Chaucer : [unknown]

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [works on music and acoustics]

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Ernest Renan : Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiques

'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Ticknor : History of Spanish Literature

'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Cornewall Lewis : Astronomy of the Ancients

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Simon Ockley : History of the Saracens

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [books on Astronomical Geography]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : Los Judios en Espana

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Thomas Percy (ed.) : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : Isis

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Homer : Iliad

'Reading the Iliad, book III'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William Henry Prescott : History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The

'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Ernest Renan : Averroes et l'Averroisme

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Eliakim Carmoly : Histoire des M?decins Juifs

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : First Principles

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : [letter]

'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Letter

Salomon Munk : Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe

'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown Guillemin : [presumably astronomy text]

'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

John Lubbock : Prehistoric Times

'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Lucretius : De Rerum Natura

'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

John Milton : Samson Agonistes

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Thomas Warton : History of English Poetry, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

George Grote : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Marcus Aurelius : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Auguste Comte : Syst?me de politique positive

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Edwin Guest : History of English Rhythms, A

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Frederick Denison Maurice : Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : [philology books]

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

[Mrs] Grey : [Etruscan subjects]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

George Dennis : Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Alchemist, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Volpone

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

John Bright : [Speeches]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

John Bright : [4th speech on India]

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : [Italian story]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

unknown : Spectator, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical

W Thomson : [essay in Revue des Cours]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Theodor Mommsen : History of Rome

'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : [poems]

'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the later'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

John Bright : [speech on Ireland and Church Establishment]

'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country unless the Church Establishment be annulled: after the lapse of 20 years the measure is going to be adopted. Then I read aloud a bit of the "Promessi Sposi", and afterwards the "Spectator", in which there is a deservedly high appreciation of Lowell's Poems'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[n/a] : Spectator, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Seraphime

'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: Unknown

Hermann von Helmholtz : [book on music]

'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on plants]

'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Lucretius : De Rerum Natura

'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Victor Hugo : L'Homme Qui Rit

'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Willhelmine von Hillern : Ein Arzt der Seele

'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard : Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise

'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Comines, Villon'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : Ancient Geography

'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Smith : Universal History

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : Vegetable World, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Michael Drayton : Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Michael Drayton : Polyolbion

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Grote : [probably] History of Greece

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Louis Reybaud : Etudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes modernes

'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : [on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists]

'I read about Fourier and Owen'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Plato : Republic

'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Emile Littre : [on Comte]

'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Theocritus : 22nd Idyll

'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve : [unknown]

'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Samuel Dickson : Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine

'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Pierre Victor Renouard : History of Medicine

'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

unknown : [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges]

'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

unknown : [Life of or by William Cullen]

'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Rutherford Russell : History and Heroes of Medicine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Aristophanes : Ecclesiazusae

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Bekker : Charikles

'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

John Mandeville (pseud.) : Travels

'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Max Muller : History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature

'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot Print: Book

William Lecky : History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne

'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Herbert Spencer : [probably] Principles of Psychology, The

'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : Edwin Drood

'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical

[probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti : [poems]

'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

: The Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon

John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I waited with much impatience for the "Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon," and if I have not been quite so much delighted as I supposed, I have yet been highly gratified by becoming more intimately acquainted with the person and character of a great man whom I had before only admired at an immense distance [goes on to criticise Lord Sheffield's editorship of the work].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Playfair Print: Book

Condorcet : [unidentified posthumously-published work]

John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I have lately seen a posthumous work of Condorcet's; it is a very curious book, full of false views and unsound principles, mingled with truth and philosophy in a manner extremely ingenious and artful.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Playfair Print: Book

Horace Walpole, Lord Orford : Letters to Lady Ossory

'Mr Brand' to Mary Berry, January 1798: 'Lady Ossory, to alleviate my confinement with a very bad cold, has treated me to Lord Orford's letters to her, tho' in a very mutilated transcript, and desired my opinion about their publication.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Brand Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : Classical Greek texts

Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, aged 93): 'She possessed an extraordinary force of mind, clearness of understading, and remarkable powers of thought and combination. She retained these faculties unimpaired to the great age of eighty-five, by exercising them daily, both in the practice of mathematics and in reading the two dead languages, of which late in life she had made herself mistress.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Honourable Caroline Howe Print: Book

unknown : Latin texts

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Honourable Caroline Howe Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamlet" to us one evening, in N. Audley-street, which was to me a great treat.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Siddons Print: Book

Isocrates : oration

Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as you could possibly desire? The parson who I mentioned in my last, stayed till yesterday. He is a very good scholar, and much in the habit of teaching. He corrected a piece of Isocrates which I had done by myself, and then read on with me in the same oration, and whilst he was here I translated above two pages more, writing them down, I mean, and all the verbs and their parts in the opposite page'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Isocrates : oration

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry and parson Print: Book

August von Kotzebue : Lovers' Vows

Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers' Vows;" it is the entire and literal translation of the play which is now acting with such success at Covent Garden, but [italics]not[end italics] as it is acted; you can get it at Todd's [bookseller's], where I did, to read in the chaise. I think it quite charming, and it affected me much [...] You must allow for German manners and for the (at all times) sad disguise of a translation.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Robert Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population

Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers' Vows;" it is the entire and literal translation of the play which is now acting with such success at Covent Garden, but [italics]not[end italics] as it is acted; you can get it at Todd's [bookseller's], where I did, to read in the chaise [...] Another book which I purchased at Todd's and read in my chaise was the "Essay on Population" which Mr. Wrangham left with you. It is uncommonly clearly thought and written, and contains much curious and uncontrovertible reasoning on the subject in question.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Wraxhall : work on period of Henry III (second volume)

Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and better the farther I go. I have consulted, too, one of his authorities for many things in the age of Henry the Third, Montaigne's Essays, a very curious and an [italics]astonishing[end italics] book, considering the times in which it was written, and which one never consults without entertainment. I have re-read, too, Condorcet's book, and compared his ideas and arguments on the subject of population with those of the Essay [by Malthus] we have been reading, and certainly the Essay has not only the best of the argument [...] but is absolute [italics]conviction[end italics]on the subject of the different ratios in which population, and the means of subsisting that population, increase'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Wraxhall : work on period of Henry III (second volume)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essays

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Condorcet : [book including discussion on population]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Robert Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Luigi Tansillo : "The Nurse"

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 11 December 1798: '[William] Roscoe has just sent us a poem of his translation from an Italian poet whose very name was unknown to my shadowy Italian erudition. It is called "The Nurse," from "La Babia" of Luigi Tansillo. I have read it over, tho' not yet with sufficient attention; but I am disappointed in it, because I expect nothing but what is excellent from his pen. The subject, which is reprobating hired nurses and exhorting all women to suckle their own children, does not do in English verse, tho' the [italics]Ariosto-like[end italics] familiarity and simplicity of the original, makes it pretty in the inimitable beauty of the Italian language [...] The poem is published, beautifully printed, with the Italian on the opposite page; it is not long, and you can no doubt get it at York.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Mary Berry, in reflections on reading (1798): 'When I read "Paradise Lost," I am no more able to conceive the powers of imagination and genius exerted by Milton in the composition of that poem, than I am able to conceive the intellect of Sir Isaac Newton in the demonstration of the phenomena of the universe. Both seem to me beings more exalted above myself in the scale of intellectual perfection, than I am above the brute creation.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Somerville : History of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen Anne; with a Dissertation concerning the Danger of the Protestant Succession

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 12 January 1799: 'Somerville's "Anne" is, I think, more dry than his "William," but clear, distinct, impartial, and wonderfully informing; his chapters on the Union of Scotland are particularly so [goes on to note aspects of Scottish situation during Queen Anne's reign, including rebellious elements ('of none of which circumstances I had before any just idea') and to compare this with current situation in Ireland]'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Colonel Mathew : letter

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will have found in them much abuse, little eloquence, and very little argument [...] I myself was shown a letter by Mathew (Col. Mathew), which, from its handwriting, and the office manner in which it was drawn up, I am sure must have come from a clerk of the Parliament'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

: Cease your Funning

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will have found in them much abuse, little eloquence, and very little argument [...] The famous Irish pamphlet in favor of the Union, called, "Cease your Funning", which after much trouble I got to read, disappointed me; it is sharp and well-kept-up irony from beginning to end, on a pamphlet on the other side, by the Ld Lieut.'s secretary; but it is not very entertaining, and not at all instructive.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Wilberforce : ?Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am reading with much attention Mr. Wilberforce's book, and likewise strictures on it, in a series of letters by Mr. Belsham'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Belsham : A Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown

William Sotheby : "The Battle of the Nile"

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 19 February 1799: 'Mr. Sotheby sent me his "Battle of the Nile." [...] There seems to be a number of good lines in the poem, but the conduct of it is not to me clear'.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Hannah More : Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though by very little bits at a time, to go entirely through Hannah More [whose "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education" she writes of receiving on 21 March 1799], and Mrs. Woolstonecroft [sic] immediately after her.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Charles James Fox : letter to Uvedale Price on series of plays

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 17 May 1799: 'I was much entertained by some letters which [Uvedale] Price showed me from Sr George Beaumont, Fox, and Knight, containing criticisms on the series of plays which he (Price) had set them all reading. They were excellent, the ideas of three very superior understandings and tastes'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

Homer : The Iliad

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, Thursday 23 May 1799: 'I began Homer's Iliad on Wednesday last, to my no small delight, and felt no particular difficulty in the comprehension of the first doz. lines'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

William Mason : Poems (third volume)

The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: 'Have you ever seen the 3d vol. of Mason's Poems, published two years ago? I never did till I came here; and I have found some sweet things in them, which I have been reading this morning in the flower-garden facing the cinerary urn Lord Harcourt has erected to his memory [goes on to transcribe final six lines of sonnet written by Mason 'in his 70th year'].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: G., Dowager Lady Spencer Print: Book

Madame de Sevigne : Letters

Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 5 October 1799: 'Mentioning [...] [Madame de Coigny] puts me in mind of a book which I am now [italics]devouring[end italics] with delight, though no new one, and I am now reading it for the third time. I mean Madme de Sevigne's Letters.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Bartholomew Mercier : Le Nouveau Paris

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Bartholomew Mercier : Tableau de Paris

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Mackintosh : [unidentified "accounts of hs proposed lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations"]

Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his former "Tableau de Paris". This last, in six vols. is one of the most stupid, unclearly thought, ridiculous books I ever saw, and yet I read it, not without entertainment and instruction [...] Of a very different nature is a little book I have lately read over again for the third or fourth time, -- I mean, Mackintosh's accounts of his proposed lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations. Such a compendious syllabus of all the leading principles of truth and virtue I never met with! I mentioned it to you last year, I think, when I first got it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

William Godwin : St Leon

Mary Berry, in letter of 2 January 1800: 'I have been reading [...] a new novel of Godwin's, in four vols., called "The Travels of St. Leon." it is an odd work, like all his, and, like all his, interesting, tho' hardly ever pleasantly so; and while one's head often agrees with his observations, and sometimes with his reasoning, never does one's heart thoroughly agree with his sentiments on any subject or in any character [...] I should tell you, which I know from Edwards, that it was written for bread, agreed for by the booksellers beforehand, and actually composed and written as the printers wanted it. I think you will see many marks of this throughout the work if you read it, which I should recommend to you, if, like me, you have not seen a [italics]readable[end italics] novel this age.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

unknown : [Greek]

'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk: a romance

'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Anacreon : [odes]

'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Diogenes Laertius : unknown

'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Perct Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

'Shelley reads the Ancient Mariner aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Queen Mab: a philosophical poem with notes

'Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Manuscript: Unknown, owned by author

Edward du Bois : St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Count Reginald St. Leon

'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, translated from the oiginl Latin MS. under the immediate inspection of the prince by John Brown, Esq.

'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown

'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]

'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete set of Dickens which had belonged to a recently expired tea-planter. Durrell claimed later that he never got beyond the Pickwick Papers (sometimes he said that he got through about ten of them), but Dickens gave him a vision of merrie England... supplemented later by reading Thackeray and R.S. Surtees. In Surtees' convivial tales of the hunting, shooting, sporting Mr Jorrocks and his pursuitful adventures, there was something ruddy, jolly and rumbustious, which appealed to the perky youngster'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Robert Smith Surtees : [probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Kim

'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young colonial'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

George Alfred Henty : [unknown]

'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young colonial'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Robert Michael Ballantyne : [unknown]

'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young colonial'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Henry Rider Haggard : [unknown]

'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young colonial'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

John Buchan : [unknown]

'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young colonial'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

[n/a] : Le Figaro

[a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le Figaro. From then on Durrell became hooked on French Literature'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Serial / periodical

Aldous Huxley : [unknown]

'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially "Death of a Hero") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide "to swim against the current".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

H.G. Wells : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] : Death of a Hero

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] : [poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Edith Sitwell : [poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

unknown Nichols : [poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : [poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Robert Graves : [poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : [poetry]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : [unknown]

'The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially "Death of a Hero") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide "to swim against the current".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Francois Rabelais : [unknown]

'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Francois Villon : [unknown]

'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Charles Pierre Baudelaire : [unknown]

'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Arthur Rimbaud : [unknown]

'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : [unknown]

'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Havelock Ellis and Norman Haire, who had taken their cue from Freud's liberating initiative'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Havelock Ellis : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Norman Haire : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Philip Sidney : [unknown]

'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : [unknown]

'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Thomas Nashe : [unknown]

'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Robert Greene : [unknown]

'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Cyril Tourneur : [unknown]

'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Peel : [unknown]

'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespeare'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown]

'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

William Butler Yeats : [unknown]

'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Edward Fitzgerald : [unknown]

'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : [unknown]

'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's "Sea and Sardinia" and Norman Douglas's "South Wind"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Percy Wyndham Lewis : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Remy de Gourmont : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Donatien Alphonse-Fran?ois de Sade : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing : [probably] Psychopathia Sexualis

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : Sea and Sardinia

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

George Norman Douglas : South Wind

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer

'Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Press, a publisher specializing mainly in pornography in English for visiting tourists, and in books banned elsewhere. The novel Hudson lent him was the recently published "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller. The impact was immediate, and he read it straight through twice..."There isn't a good word to express its excellence", he wrote. "Of course, like all works of genius it's strong fruit and you'd have to be careful about getting it into England".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria

'Read the wrongs of woman.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Print: Book

Abbe Barruel : History of the Illuminati

'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the rights of woman

'Read Posthumous works.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Zastrozzi

'Read Zastrozzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Abbe Barruel : Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism

'Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Marcus Tullius Cicero :

'Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Wiiliam Godwin : St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century

'Finish St Leon.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Wiiliam Godwin : Things as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Williams

'Read Caleb Williams.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

John Milton : Comus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)

'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aesop : Fables

'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

anon : The Annual Register

'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father's health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson's Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke's History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin's Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne's translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett's History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Philip Beaver : African memoranda relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama, on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1792. With a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facil

'He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcoming them: of such works I remember Beaver's African Memoranda, and Collins's account of the first settlement of New South Wales.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of my Own Time

'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Collins : [account of the first settlement of New South Wales]

'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcoming them: of such works I remember Beaver?s African Memoranda, and Collins?s account of the first settlement of New South Wales.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill

Diogenes Laertius : Lives of the Philosophers

'At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Robert Watson : History of the Reign of Philip II

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Robert Watson : History of Philip III

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

William Robertson : Histories

'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father's health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson's histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was [Robert] Watson's Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke's History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin's Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne's translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett's History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

David Hume : The History of England (presumably)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Nathaniel Hooke : Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Ancient History

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Herodotus : Histories

'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Isocrates : Ad Nicoclem

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Isocrates : Ad Demonicum

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Lucian :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Xenophon : Cyropaedia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorials of Socrates

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Xenophon : The Anabasis

'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Plato : Euthyphro

'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to think, would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossible I should understand it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Plato : Theaetetus

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Plato : dialogues

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

John Millar : Historical View of the English Government

'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar?s Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim?s Ecclesiastical History, McCrie?s Life of John Knox, and even Sewell?s and Rutty?s Histories of the Quakers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

John Rutty : History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

William Sewell : The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim : An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Thomas McCrie : Life of John Knox

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book

Tymms : Family Topographer

'About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topographer to which I added several paragraphs and corrected others.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Proof

anon : newspaper

'... I took up a London paper, and the first object in it which struck my eye, was the death of Charles Lamb. I felt it as a friend of the deceased for, although I had never seen Mr Lamb, yet from our correspondence , I know the kindness of his heart the same as if I had been personally acquainted with him; and this paragraph drew forth peculiar reminiscences; and upon it I ruminated during the remainder of this day, and of many succeeding ones.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Newspaper

Ralph Waldo Emerson : unknown

'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Pierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Grieve Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Grieve Print: Book

Ambrose Bierce : unknown

'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Grieve Print: Book

Sidney Lanier : unknown

'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Grieve Print: Book

Mark Twain : unknown

'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emerson, Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain. Day after day... he carried a large washing basket up the stairs to fill it with books, choosing from upwards of twelve thousand volumes, then downstairs to sit for hours in corners absorbed in mental worlds beyond the narrow limits of Langholm.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Grieve Print: Book

R Garvey : letter

'Read letter from Rev R Garvey of Lincoln (?) reps. Lecture'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Letter

William R. Grove : On the Correlation of Physical Forces

'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

James Anthony Froude : History of England

'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Auguste Comte : [correspondence with Valat]

'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Friedrich August Wolf : Prolegomena ad Homerum

'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Jean Paul (pseud.) : Leben des Quintus Fixlein

'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Grote : [on Sicilian History]

'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Aristotle : Poetics

'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : "Principles of Success in Literature

'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [Social Function...]

'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : Physical Basis of Mind, The

'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

: [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes]

'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, journal

George Henry Lewes : [journal, 1874]

'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, journal

George Henry Lewes : [various works Eliot was revising]

'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : Spanish Drama, The

'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : [first article on Goethe]

'Read my darling's first article on Goethe'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism

'Reading Problem III'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : Times, The

'unable to read anything except "Times".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown

W. Kingdom Clifford : First and Last Castrophe, The

'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

John Stuart Mill : [on socialism]

'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Herbert Spencer : Principles of Psychology

'Read Spencer's Psychology'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [on colour sense]

'read on the colour-sense'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Hugo Magnus : Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes

'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Allen Grant : Colour Sense: its Origin and Development, The

'[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : [on language]

'read my darling's M.S. on Language'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

Alexander Bain : [on nervous mechanism]

'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Foster : [on nervous mechanism]

'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

unknown : letter

'Craster letter received'..

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Letter

unknown : unknown

'Day wet - read'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole

: Bible

'Scriptures and Natural history readings'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Thomson : The Seasons [probably]

'Mary, William and Emma commenced their readings of Thomson.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, William and Emma Cole Print: Book

unknown : [poems]

'In this month read Poems by one of the authors and Poems for youth. By a family circle.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Honitt : Book of the seasons

'Read the month in Honitt's "Book of the seasons".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [article on Philosophy in France]

'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps) : [perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the Systematization of Mathematics

'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Alexander Herzen : La Condizione fisica della Coscienza

'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Homer : Iliad

[Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [essay on Dwarfs and Giants]

'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Alexander Bain (?) : unknown

'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve : unknown

'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Homer : [book IV - of Iliad?]

'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Michael Foster : Textbook of Physiology

'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Grote : [probably] History of Greece

'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Biographical History of Philosophy, A

'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe, The

'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Frederick Pollock : [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]

'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Edward Caird : [probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, The

'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : The Grave

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[unknown] : The Minstrel

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Dr Porteus : Death

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Thomas Gray : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

[John] Collins : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

William Falconer : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Pomfret : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Mark Akenside : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Elizabeth Rowe : [poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Gay : Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Gay : [burlesque 'pastorals']

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

John Gay : The Village Curate

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Germaine De Stael : Delphine (three volumes)

Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly three volumes of Madame de Stael's Delphine [...] It is certainly interesting [...] It is well written, too'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Madame De Sevigne : Letters

Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Madame de Sevigne. They always improve on me, and are [italics]here[end italics] particularly interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

: Theatrum Cometicum

John Playfair to Mary Berry, from Cambridge, 28 September 1804: 'In going into a great library, it often occurs to me to take up some remarkable book, open it by chance, and observe what comes up, as the truths that are thus casually suggested to the mind often live long in the memory. To-day, in the University library, I took up a book on the history of astronomy, called "Theatrum Cometicum," that is very scarce and very famous, and opened it to try the above experiment. The chapter that turned up was "De Causis Cometarum," and the first sentence was, "Causa cometarum maxime universalis est Deus." This truism was all I had for my pains, and is the only piece of instruction that I am likely to carry away from Cambridge. Some have perhaps gone away with less.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Playfair Print: Book

Catherine Fanshawe : "Ode, by Mary Berry."

Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces 1805 letter from Mary Berry (writing as Catherine Fanshawe) to Catherine Fanshawe, in response to poem written by Fanshawe as Berry, and lent to her in manuscript; having praised the piece and offered some specific criticisms, she closes with an injunction that Fanshawe 'show it sparingly to the few who may be worthy, and on no account distribute any copies without [her] [...] licence and authority'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Greathead : "Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation after Boccaccio)

Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807 (re 20 August): 'After tea, Mr. Greathead, at my request, read to us his translation in verse of Boccaccio's "Lisabetta and her Brothers." I had heard it once before, eleven years ago, at their house in Brayanstone Street'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Greathead

Greathead : "Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation after Boccaccio)

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Francesco Baldovini : 'Lamento di Cecco'

Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807: 'Read a little of the "Lamento di Cecco," which, having often heard of, I had never seen before. It is a beautiful, simple, but not vulgar pastoral, in the Tuscan patois; but after the first three or four stanzas, not very difficult to understand. If it were, there are notes, which swell a poem of forty stanzas into a tolerable-sized quarto volume!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Mr Greathead : Journals

Mary Berry, Journal, 23 August 1807: 'I remained in my room the whole morning reading Mr. Greathead [her host]'s Journals, which let me more into their every-day life, where they went, and what they did while abroad, than a month's conversation could do.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

: The Scotch Review

Mary Berry, Journal, 29 August 1807: 'In the evening read a good deal of the last Scotch Review [...] What they say of Mr. Hope [author of "Household Furniture and Internal Decorations executed from Designs"], though he lays himself open to ridicule, is ill-natured and often in bad taste. An excellent criticism upon Cobbett's weekly journal, exposing, in the clearest manner, his shameful inconsistencies [...] and holding up upon true Whig principles our real defects and real misconduct [...] only wishing them to be considered as they are, and not confounded with preposterous exaggeration in the minds of the people. But alas! the people read Cobbett, and will never read the Scotch Review.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Serial / periodical

Lister : Life of Clarendon

Mary Berry, Journal, 30 October 1807: 'In the evening began reading the "Life of Clarendon".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Lister : Life of Clarendon

Mary Berry, Journal, 11 November 1807: 'In the evening I read aloud "Clarendon's Life".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Lister : Life of Clarendon

Mary Berry, Journal, 16 November 1807: 'Read "Clarendon's Life" aloud in the evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Madame du Deffand : Letters

Mary Berry, Journal, 19 November 1807: 'After dinner read aloud some of Madame du Deffand's letters.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Madame Neckar : Remains

Mary Berry, Journal, 23 November 1807: 'In Madame Neckar's ridiculous Remains, published by her husband, are some of the very best rules and advice for the manners and conduct of a woman no longer young in society. I will read them again. They always strike me as most justly conceived.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Roscoe : [unidentified pamphlet]

Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

William Spence : England Independent of Commerce

Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Marmion

Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1808: 'I went in the evening to Mrs. D[?amer]. Read "Marmion," just come out, to her.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion

Mary Berry, Journal, 10 March 1808: 'Read some more of "Marmion".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey

Mary Berry, Journal, 14 March 1808: 'Began reading the "Odyssey" of Homer in Pope's translation. Delighted with it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Caroline Matilda Warren : Conrade, or the Gamesters

Mary Berry, Journal, 20 April 1808: 'At night finished Miss Warren's novel ["Conrade, or the Gamesters" by galloping over half the pages; human patience could not regularly wade through a series of adventures without "ensemble", of violent situations without interest or probability, and of characters equally pious or equally profligate.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Ashe : Travels in America

Mary Berry, Journal, 21 April 1808: 'In the evening began reading Ashe's "Travels in America", in the north-western settlements, behind the United States.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Ashe : Travels in America

Mary Berry, Journal, 22 April 1808: 'In the evening Ashe's Travels [in America] again. They are, I think, very entertaining in spite of an abominable style, which aims at being [italics]fine writing[end italics], without being grammar and without being English. But the wonderful country he describes makes every account of it which one sees and feels is written on the spot, very interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Ashe : Travels in America

Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the letters of Mme du Deffand], and finished the evening with Ashe's Travels, which are very entertaining.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Mary Berry : Draft preface to edition of letters of Mme du Deffand

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Ashe : Travels in America

Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1808: 'In the evening Mrs. D[?amer], and [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Ashe : Travels in America

Mary Berry, Journal, 1 May 1808: 'In the evening, [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America] as usual.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Ashe : Travels in America

Mary Berry, Journal, 6 May 1808: 'Mrs D[?amer] and I finished [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry and [?Anne Damer] Print: Book

William Gell : The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca

Mary Berry, Journal, 10 May 1808: 'I began reading aloud Gell's "Ithaca".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

William Gell : The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca

Mary Berry, Journal, 11 May 1808: 'In the evening, Gell's "Ithaca".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

: The Times

Mary Berry, Journal, 17 May 1808: 'Read in the "Times" the confirmation of the wreck and positive loss of Lord Royston."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper

Charles James Fox : Historical Work

Mary Berry, Journal, 2 June 1808: 'I began reading aloud Mr. Fox's historical work, in the beautiful large-paper copy which Robert Ferguson has given me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Charles James Fox : Historical Work

Mary Berry, Journal, 3 June 1808: 'I continued reading Fox's work. It is very well to read it once out; but it suggests so much thought, and so many new views of things, that I shall read it over more than once to myself in a very different manner to what I am now doing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Moore : 'Corruption'

Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner. I praised highly the two poems ("Corruption" and "Intolerance") that I had been reading in the morning, before the author (little Moore), without knowing it. After dinner he owned the fact, and was much pleased with my unsuspicious praise.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Moore : 'Intolerance'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Moore : 'Intolerance'

Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Thomas Moore : 'Corruption'

Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe

'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Sully : [article on G.H. Lewes]

'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: proof of article

Voltaire (pseud.) : Candide

'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Plato : Republic,The

'Reading Plato - Republic'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Merritt (Mrs) : [recollections of her husband]

'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]

unknown : Hebrew texts

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

unknown : [Algebra]

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

[Read] 'Purgatorio'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Grote : History of Greece

'Read Grote on the Sophists'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [letters to George Eliot]

'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Letter

Albrecht Weber : History of Indian Literature, The

'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Monier Monier Williams : [presumably work on Sanskrit]

'Finished Monier Williams'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George John Romanes : Candid Examination of Theism, A

[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Cornelis Petrus Tiele : Outlines of the History of Religion

[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, The

[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

John Hill Burton : history of the reign of Queen Anne, A

[Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Frances Anne Kemble : Records of a Girlhood

'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

unknown : [Jewish chronicles]

'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

anon. : Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The

'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical with Mount Hor'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

anon. : Prose Edda, The

'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : unknown

'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Ruy Blas

'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[probably] Archibald Henry Sayce : [if this Sayce then work of Assyriology]

[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert : Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die

'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Auguste Comte : [unknown]

'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Hermann and Dorothea

'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Herbert Spencer : Principles of Sociology

'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max MUller's Lectures on the Science of Language'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and John Cross Print: Book

Friedrich Max Muller : Lectures on the Science of Language

'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max Muller's Lectures on the Science of Language'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and John Cross Print: Book

[n/a] : [daily newspapers]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper

Alfred Lord Tennyson : [poems including 'The First Quarrel']

'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : My faithful Johnny

'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Frederic William Henry Myers : Wordsworth

'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

David Friedrich Strauss : Das Leben Jesu

'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to me, the most tremendous breach of confidence ever committed; - particularly the giving an account of the "most sublime passage" of Wordsworth's great posthumous work. I wonder what you think of Chorley's "Lion". I don't think it can live, but that there is good enough in it to make one hope he may do something that will'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Thomas De Quincey : 'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the English Opium-Eater', in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Campbell : Letters from Algiers

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Fothergill Chorley : Lion: A Tale of the Coteries, The

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne :

'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of Moliere with the boys, now and then, and I Promessi Sposi with Fanny discovering thereby that I can read Italian almost like French or English, which I was not aware of'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Moliere (pseud.) : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Alfred de Vigny : Cinq Mars

'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : [an article]

'we read one of Carlyle's articles, at the T. Sedgwicks'.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Matineau and Mary Appleton Print: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : Chartism

'"Chartism" gave me more pleasure and less pain than I expected: but the more I think it over the worse it looks. There is a fine sympathy with the many at the bottom; but it is stuck all thro' with prejudices and bits of injustice, as thick as a tipsy cake with almonds; and the excessive conceit, connected with want of knowledge, will do him harm. I think it will do no other harm, and a great deal of good...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

unknown : Athenaeum [review of Carlyle's Chartism]

'I liked the Athenaeum on Chartism much. Thank you for sending it. One has great pleasure in reading the Athenaeum - the spirit is so good'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

George Grey : Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia, 1837-1839

' I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Grey's discoveries in Australlia. There is an anecdote there which shows how little some people are in the habit of regarding savages as men...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays

'Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of health'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

various authors : Edinburgh Review

'The Lambtons sent me the last Edinburgh, prematurely brought out for the Eastern article. That art: was bad enough; but North did me good, like a canter over a Scotch moor: and Mrs Austin's "Social Lfe in Germany" has some interest: and that on Manufacturing Folk is delightful'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present

'"Past and Present", very bad, insolent, bitter, one-sided and full of weary repetitions. I found it weary and irritating reading, except abbot Samson and some few passages.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "Clarissa Harlowe" which I have borrowed from Lambton. What a very bad book it is! - and I expected quite the contrary, tho' hating Grandison. Clarissa herself is odious, - with her rash actions suiting so ill with her passionless, reasoning, self-possessed character...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

various : Edinburgh Review

'I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I like, except the sad party stuff in the last 3pp.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley) : Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann

'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreeably disappointed: but now my pain and disgust are growing fast. What a horrid spirit it is!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Barillon : Letters

Mary Berry, Journal, 30 June 1808: 'In the evening I read "Barillon's Letters" in Mr. Fox's Appendix.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Mrs Warburton : Letters to the Duchess of Argyll

Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to her grandmother, the Duchess of Argyll, from [italics]her[end italics] mother, Mrs Warburton, and to Lady Greenwich from the Duchess of Queensberry and several other persons. Remarkable form and expressions of respect in the letters of Mrs Warburton to her duchess daughter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

Duchess of Queensbury : Letters to Lady Greenwich

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

: Letters to Lady Greenwich

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

Philip Massinger : The Duke of Milan

Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of Milan").'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John B. S. Morritt Print: Book

Philip Massinger : The Duke of Milan

Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads very well, and Massinger is not easy to read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John B. S. Morritt Print: Book

Philip Massinger : The Fatal Dowry

Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having finished "The Duke of Milan"], the "Fatal Dowry," from which Rowe has taken the story of "The Fair Penitent." The characters of the father and the husband in "The Fatal Dowry" are more interesting than in "The Fair Penitent;" but the events and catastrophes are badly drawn, and the wife detestable.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John B. S. Morritt Print: Book

Captain Adam : Letter to father

Mary Berry, Journal, 10 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Lord and Lady Rosslyn arrived at four o'clock [...] Lord Rosslyn gave me a letter to read from Captain Adam to his father, praising the conduct of Ronald at Vimeira in the most satisfactory manner. I went away to read it, which I did not do without tears.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

Mary Berry : Draft preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand

Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas my sketch of a preface for the Letters [of Madame du Deffand], with which she seemed well pleased. Finished reading "The Tale of the Times," a novel, which, like most other novels, begins better than it finishes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : The Tale of the Times

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

unknown : [C14th-C15th manuscripts]

Mary Berry, Journal, 21 February 1809: 'This morning I went to the [Middle] Temple to Mr. Lysons', to see some very ancient MSS. of the time of Henry IV., Edward IV., and Richard III., &c. &c., of which he is the depositary, as "Keeper of the Records in the Tower."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Berry : "Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life"

Mary Berry, Journal, 28 April 1809: 'In the morning I saw Joanna [Baillie]. She stayed nearly an hour with me. I read to her my "Notice upon Madame du D----'s Life," with which she was so pleased that I could not but feel very much flattered.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Berry : "Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life"

Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours. I read to him my preface and my "Notice on the Life [of Madame du Deffand], &c., &c.," with which he was well pleased, saying it was impossible to give a more faithful picture of the person whom he had known during the latter years of his life in great intimacy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Berry : Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Joanna Baillie : The Family Legend (acts 1, 2, 3, 5)

Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpole and Lady Louisa Stuart, and Sir W. Pepys and F. Cholmley. Somebody was to read Joanna Baillie's tragedy, "The Family Legend;" this somebody was obliged to be me, as nobody else knew her hand, or had ever seen the play. I read the first three acts, Cholmley the fourth, and I again the fifth. It had a vast effect upon Walter Scott, and one that was very pleasing, from the evident feeling of one poet from another.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Joanna Baillie : The Family Legend (act 4)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: F. Cholmley Manuscript: Unknown

John Playfair : Peerage

Lord Webb Seymour to Mary Berry, 16 July 1809: 'I hope you will congratulate [John] Playfair for me and for yourself, upon his late publication -- "a Peerage" in five volumes, at ten guineas a volume. Lord Galloway [...] makes it a rule never to subscribe to any book, but an application some time ago from a person of the name of Playfair [...] induced him to relax his rule [...] At length the work appeared, and I found Lord Galloway grievously disappointed by the trifling stuff and fulsome flattery with which the production of this profound man abounded.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Galloway Print: Book

Joel Barlow : The Columbiad

Mary Berry, Journal, August 1809: 'I have been reading a strange poem -- the "Columbiad" of Poet [Joel] Barlow. Who or what he is I know not, except that he is an American, deeply imbued with all the bad taste and all the prejudices which belong to his nation, in its present state of society [makes various negative criticisms] [...] Yet I have been amused at this first American attempt at an epic, with all its faults, all its vulgarisms [...] and all its false reasoning. It is full of ideas, embraces an endless variety of subjects [...] Sets one a thinking, sometimes justly, but oftener to detect and wonder at its commonplace mistakes, and the conceit with which so many false and romantic doctrines are brought forward and dwelt upon [goes on to reflect further].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

unknown : account of military campaign in Spain

Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1809: 'In the evening read aloud the account of General Moore's campaign in Spain [makes various enthusiastic exclamations on this].'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Mary Berry : Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand

Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] and Life [of Madame du Deffand]. Much mended by his observations, upon which I am to work, and I set to it as soon as he was gone.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Rev. Sydney Smith Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Berry : Life of Madame du Deffand

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Rev. Sydney Smith Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : [books of engravings]

Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very lively, though the company was certainly not very amusing for her. She remained long at table, then walked and sat in the garden, and afterwards looked at some books of engravings; and was sufficiently amused to remain till twelve o'clock'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales Print: Book

Mary Berry : Preface and notes to Letters of Madame du Deffand

John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, received three days previously: 'The preface is excellent, very well written and very judicious. The notes bespeak that great familiarity with the characters and persons who figure in the book, whch cannot be acquired by reading [...] I find a great deal of amusement and interest in the few letters I have yet read'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Playfair Print: Book

Madame du Deffand : Letters

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Playfair Print: Book

Mary Berry : Life of Madame du Deffand

'Mr Cambridge' to Mary Berry: 'I was about to take up my pen to you to express the pleasure and satisfaction we have just experienced in the perusal of your "Life of Madame du Deffand," which does great credit to your judgement and feeling [goes on to make more detailed comments].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Cambridge Print: Book

Mary Berry : Preface and Notes to Letters of Madame du Deffand

'Mr Hope' to Mary Berry: 'Your preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] I devoured the moment I got it. I have since not [italics]despatched[end italics], but finished your life [of Madame du Deffand], with the highest relish for its ease of style [...] I now feast upon your notes, and a delightful treat they are [...] No matter what, I read all out to Louisa, who owes you the whole of the few moments of enjoyment she feels at this period of anxious expectation'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hope Print: Book

Mary Berry : Life of Madame du Deffand

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hope Print: Book

Madame du Deffand : Letters

'Mr Roscoe' to Mary Berry: 'I may almost be said to have past the last ten or twelve days in your society; for having been confined to the house by indisposition, my chief pleasure has been the perusal of Madame du Deffand's Letters with the notes, together with Lord Orford's corespondence, which, of all the books in our language, is the best calculated for the study of a convalescent [...] On the table before me lay the beginning of a letter intended to thank you for the four elegant volumes whch I some time since received, although I have scarcely since this interval of leisure, had time to look into them [goes on to discuss the work in detail].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Roscoe Print: Book

Clarke : Travels

Mary Berry, Journal, Sunday 14 October 1810, on stay in Greathead household at Guy's Cliff: '[After church attendance] The blind Miss Williams played much of Handel's music, and afterwards Greathead read Clarke's travels to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Greathead Print: Book

anon : Review of Mary Berry, ed., Letters of Madame du Deffand

Mary Berry, Journal, 16 March 1811: 'I had heard from Lord Stafford, at Lady Spencer's the night before, that the "Scotch Review," with the criticism upon "Madame du Deffand's Letters [edited by Berry]," was out; and this morning before I got my own, Lady Donegall sent me a copy she had got early. I ought to be much content, and I am [...] Blame, or notice of faults, there is none'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Serial / periodical

Madame du Deffand : Letters (2 vols)

M. G. Lewis to Lady Charlotte Bury, 9 December 1810: 'I have galloped through two volumes of Madame du Deffand's Letters, and with much amusement, though the anecdotes are in themselves of no great value'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: M. G. Lewis Print: Book

Mary Berry : The Two Martius

Mary Berry, Journal, Saturday 18 May 1811: 'I went with Joanna Baillie to Hampstead, to remain till Monday. Dined before four, and went out upon the Heath. Sat for above two hours in a delicious fine evening; afterwards read over together "The Two Martius," and criticised them, and likewise some of my other scraps, which I think Joanna liked less than I expected.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry and Joanna Baillie Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Berry : ["scraps" of writings]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry and Joanna Baillie Manuscript: Unknown

Joanna Baillie : Hope

Mary Berry, Journal, 19 May 1811, on stay with Joanna Baillie at Hampstead: 'Sat by the fire the whole day. Joanna Baillie gave us her drama upon Hope to read; it is only two acts, and I was soon through it. Very poetical, and much fancy, as all her things have; but this did not equal my expectation [...] It is certainly a dramatic story, but not dramatically managed.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

John Milton : 'Invocation to Light'

Mary Berry, Journal, 8 June 1811: 'Went to Lady Cork's. A curious party, where, by way of something to do, she had [John] Thelwall reading Milton's "Invocation to Light," so abominably as to amuse or shock all the company.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Thelwall Print: Book

James Esdaile : Mesmerism in India and its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine [probably]

'you must see Esdaile's book. If there are any sane persons who still doubt "the truth of Mesmerism", that book must cure them, or show them incurable. But you ought to know that it is terribly surgical'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

'Can you tell me about "Jane Eyre", - who wrote it? I am told I wrote the 1st vol: and I don't know how to disbelieve it myself, - though I am wholly ignorant of the authorship. I cannot help feeling that the author must know not only my books but myself very well. My own family suppose me in the secret, till I deny it. With much improbability of incident, it is surely a very able book (outside of what I could have done of it) and the way in which the heroine comes out without conceit or egotism is, to me, perfectly wonderful'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Heny Esmond

'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot now read "Vanity Fair". But the publisher sent me "Esmond"; and I expect to read it as long as I live. "Villette". I suppose you feel with the rest of us ; - that it is marvellously powerful, but grievously morbid and not a little coarse.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Villette

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Ruth

'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjective slough as she is doing. - "Ruth" won't help us. All strewn with beauties as it is, it is sadly feeble and wrong, I think. Amidst much wrong, I think making Mr Benson such a nicompoop is fatal. What a beautiful "Cranford" Mrs Gaskell has given us again!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : [possibly the story, 'Stopped Payment, at Cranford' in Household Words, April 1853]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

John William Kaye : Life and Correspondence of... Sir John Malcolm, The

'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Robert Southey : Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey

'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Sam Brown : Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scientific and Literary

'[Henry Buckle's "History of the Civilisation in England"] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read well) as soon as I have finished dear Sam Brown's volumes - which are very interesting, but less strong and clear than I had fancied'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Henry Buckle : History of the Civilisation in England

'Tell Eras: that Buckle has been an immense treat...Of course I agree about the grave inconsistencies, serious disproportions &c; and I doubt whether he understands Condillac and that sort of men: but it is truly a great work, suggestive and productive.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great [extracts of]

'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has no great appetite'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Darwin : On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking him for the book itself, one might say "thank you" all one's life without giving any idea of one's sense of obligation. It has been an immense pleasure to Maria and me...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams

'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire : Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself

'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire : Zadigi ou la destinee

'Read Zadig.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Victor Alfieri : Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself

'Read the life of Alfieri.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Victor Alfieri : Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself

'Finish the life of Alfieri'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793

'Read Louvets memoires'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'Read aloud to Jane.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'Read all evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'Read I don't know what.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown

Sara Sophia Hennell : Thoughts in Aid of Faith

'[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for beauty; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O dear! so unsound in the latter part! - so weak in its lapse into metaphysics, after an apparent abjuring of them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Heny Thomas Buckle : History of Civilization in England

'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed. My best thanks to you for it, dear friend. I am in the thick of a very different sort of book now, - "Elsie Venner", which I did not mean to read; but a look at the first page carried me on: How immensely clever some of these Americans are! and their style of tale so new! I dislike all the part connected with Elsie: but I enjoy the New England atmosphere of the thing, and the wonderful power of deep and incessant observation'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Elsie Venner

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

John Lothrop Motley : Causes of the Civil War in America [probably]

'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its Carlylisms &c.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Augusta Llanover (ed.) : Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granvile (Mrs Delany)

'I'm afraid you would give me up if you knew how I am longing for the second series of "Mrs Delany". The first was an enormous treat, - perhaps the greatest in the book way for these seven years: and I reckon on the rest accordingly. I don't mean Ly Llanover's preachings and prosings, which are as bad as can be: but one can miss them'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

David Hume : [Essays]

?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Samuel Lucas : Secularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History

'Have you read [Mr Lucas's book]? "Secularia; Surveys on the Main Stream of History"... It altogether changes my impressions about the man I correspond with almost every week, and with whom I had lot of conversation here 2 years ago. I have always found him gentlemanly and agreeable, cultivated and liberal &c. &c: but this volume shows him to be (it seems to me) so much more that I am perplexed at not having found it out sooner. It is so fresh, so suggestive, so exceedingly pleasant! and I wanted, as soon as I had done, to begin it again, and read every word twice'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Charles Knight : Passages of a Working Life

'I have just been remonstrating with Mr Knight about a couple of sentences in his charming new volume "Some Passages in a Working Life &c.". He quotes an early and witless sneer of Macaulay's against the Americans, and himself applies and points it in a most offensive way. As he asked for my opinion of the book, I tacked this one bit of remonstrance on the thanks I could honestly give. I must mention (as I did to him) that there is a story about me in it which has not a word of truth in it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Theresa Lewis : Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852

'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that trio, or cares about their times as I do. I have not finished it even yet, I am glad to say. I read it as you do; and moreover, a big book has come in which must be read at once, - Mr Grote's "Plato". That too is an immense enjoyment in its way. At first, it was pure delight; but as I go on I am rather dismayed at the amount of repetition in it...'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

George Grote : Plato, and the other Companions of Socrates

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Mary Grote : A Lady's Walks in the South of France in 1863

'I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's ("Mary Eyre" of the Times) "A Lady's Walks in the South of France". What a disgusting book it is, - a begging book, avowedly written to get money, and disclosing the family poverty, and bemoaning herself all the way through, and preaching and censuring, right and left, and with such adulation of Brougham, as the patron!'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : 'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill)

'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that I hope it may do more good than harm; but that it will do harm, - to himself at all events'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold]

'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the "Times" did it yesterday'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Daily News (comment on Matthew Arnold)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : The Times (comment on Matthew Arnold)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Charles Babbage : Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

'I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's "Passages in the Life &c". I dare say you read it, and half forgot it, months or years ago. I did not like the look of it in the notices I saw: but I let it come in the Mudie box; and I have been almost terribly interested in it... His face and voice come back with a painful vividness while I read... Some tremendous glimpses in this book are like inspiration...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

James Anthony Froude : History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada [presumably part of]

'As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's "Elizabeth". I did not mean to read it, - being disgusted by his dishonest treatment of evidence in his "Henry": but the review notices tempted me at last; and I find "Elizabeth" extremely entertaining, - however provoking'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette, The

'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It is a very instructive and interesting paper - so unlike any other!'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Barry Cornwall : Charles Lamb: A Memoir

'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though half-ashamed to own it. Mrs Grote sends me her vol: of "Collected Papers", and some unpublished records of our time, - very interesting. They and I seemed to have rushed into a more vigorous intercourse than ever, as by a sort of accident'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Charles Ross : The Correspondence of Charles, 1st Marquis of Cornwallis

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Grote : Collected Papers in Prose and Verse. 1842-1862

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

[n/a] : Spectator, The

'Fan Arnold lends me the "Spectator", and at first I thought it a treat in its way: but I am getting as tired of it as some other people are. Its smartness is degenerating into impertinence very fast; and its insolence is so absurd in partnership with its incredible ignorance of the world and of social matters'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Frances Edgeworth ? : [possibly] A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth, with a Selection from her Letters by the late Mrs Edgeworth

'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and Wm 4th (Lady Elgin's copy). I must not begin on either of them, or I shall write myself dead. I could not have supposed that any book could stir me as the Edgeworth correspondence does...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Henry, Earl Grey : The reform act, 1832; the correspondence of the late Earl Grey with His Majesty King William IV. and with Sir Herbert Taylor, from Nov. 1830 to June 1832

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : Lost Tales of Miletus, The

'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the worst: - that I am intensely enjoying, this day or two, "The Lost Tales of Miletus".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Epistle to Mr Gay

'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was simultaneously complemented and embarrassed by Pope's tribute in "Epistle to Mr Gay". She sent a copy of the verses to her sister in Paris, but she explained she had "stiffle'd" them in England... Lady Mary characteristically felt the impropriety as much as the flattery of Pope's admiration'.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu : [Letters]

'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irritation with Lady Mary's avowed contempt for Pope' [see letter to Mrs Childers, 1804]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the divine Eumaeus is so worthy a man, that I overlook the unlucky circumstance of his being a hogherd' [Letter to Elizabeth Carter, October 1746]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with a poem in my life".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [volume of poems]

'An example of vivid, if not particularly fair, criticism occurs in a letter from Lady Hertford to the countess of Pomfret in 1739. "Mr Pope has seen fit to publish a new volume of poems. It contains his 'Sober Advice', 'Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-Eight', his 'Epistle to Augustus', and several things which he had sold singly... I presume [the poem "Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness"] is to prove that he can descend into Bathos, with the same alacrity that he has formerly soared to the summit of Parnassus'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Hertford Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be writ with a malice more than human, and has surely something infernal in it. It is surprising, that a man can divest himself of the tender sentiments of nature so far, as deliberately to give anguish and confusion to beings of his own kind".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Singer Rowe Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : [poetry]

'Mary Lepel Hervey, although Pope's friend before her marriage,disparaged the poet in her mature correspondence. Attributing his polished style to Lord Bolingbroke's influence, she declared in 1748 that Pope "would certainly never have wrote so elegantly, but that, as he bragged, envy must own he lived among the great".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lepel Hervey Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : Letters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons

'[Mary] Jones particularly admired Pope's letters. In August 1735, not long after the publication of "Letters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons", she wrote Martha Lovelace that "I've at last had the inexpressible Pleasure of reading Mr Pope's Letters; and am so well satisfied with 'em, that I shall read all future Letters (Except Miss Lovelace's) with a great deal less Pleasure for their sake. In his other Productions I have always admir'd the Author, but now I love the Man".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Jones Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]

'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studied poetry. "If Shakespeare's talents were miracles of uncultured intuition, we feel, that neither Milton's, Pope's, Akenside's, Gray's or Darwin's were such, but that poetic investigation, and long familiarity with the best writers in that line, cooperated to produce their excellence".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

John Milton : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Mark Akenside : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Erasmus Darwin : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Thomas Gray : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Satires

[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethic Epistles', the glorious 'Dunciad', and even several parts of the 'Essay on Man', frequently present passages in a plain, unornamented style".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [Ethic Epistles]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Dunciad

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on Man

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Rape of the Lock, The

'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "poetry that is merely imaginative and picturesque may not. If we find few abstract terms in the 'Rape of the Lock', we find a profusion of them in the sublimer 'Essay on Man'".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward Print: Book

Erasmus Darwin : The Botanic Garden (part 1)

Horace Walpole (as 'Thelyphthorus') to Mary Berry, 28 April 1789: 'I send you the most delicious poem upon earth [Erasmus Darwin, "The Botanic Garden"] [...] This is only the Second Part; for like my king's eldest daughter in the Hieroglyphic Tales, the First part is not yet born yet. No matter, I can read this over and over again for ever'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Unknown

Erasmus Darwin : The Botanic Garden (first thirty lines)

Mary Berry to Horace Walpole [1789]: 'A thousand thanks for the "Botanic Garden." the first thirty lines, which I have just read, are delicious, and make me quite anxious to go on'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown

Hannah More : [verses on opening of walk by Bishop of London]

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 10 July 1789: 'I enclose a most beautiful copy of verses which Miss H[annah]. More wrote very lately when she was with [the Bishop of London] ...] at Fulham, on his opening a walk to a bench called Bonner's. Mrs. Boscawen showed them to me, and I insisted on printing them. Only 200 copies are taken off, half for her and half for the printer, and you have one of the first.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Manuscript: Unknown

: The Times

In letter to Mary Berry and family of July 10 1790, Horace Walpole transcribes two passages from the Times of 8 July, concerning political developments in Italy.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

anon : bills advertising houses for sale/to let

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I have most seriously been house-hunting for you. I saw two bills on doors in Montpellier-row, but neither are furnished.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Advertisement, Poster

: newspaper report on political developments in Italy

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I do hope you will be staggered about a longer journey [in Italy] for some time. But two days ago I saw a new paragraph of Tuscan disturbances.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

John le Neve : Monumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments of Eminent Persons deceased from 1700 to 1715

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," and has found that [italics]nine[end italics] aldermen of London died in one year. I concluded that it must have been in one of the years of the Plague. No, it was in 1711.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Lysons Print: Book

: newspaper report of shipwreck

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 16 October 1790, on concerns for her and her family's safety on return from travels in Europe: 'I saw in yesterday's newspaper that two hoys had been lost off Plymouth on Tuesday night. You, I believe, know how affection's imagination travels on such an occasion!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

Matthew Prior : The Turtle and the Sparrow: A Tale

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cousin, Miss Seton that day: 'As she was going she desired me to read to her Prior's "Turtle and Sparrow," and his "Apollo and Daphne," with which you were so delighted, and which, tho' scarce known, are two of his wittiest and genteelest poems.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Book

Matthew Prior : Apollo and Daphne

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Book

Calonne : Lettre sur l'Etat de la France, present et a venir

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 31 October 1790: 'Burke's pamphlet is to appear tomorrow, and Calonne has published a thumping one of 440 pages [Lettre sur l'Etat de la France, present et a venir]. I have but begun it, for there is such a quantity of calculations, and one is forced to bate so often to boil milliards of livres down to a rob of pds [sic] sterling, that my head is only filled with figures instead of arguments, and I understand arithmetic less than logic.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole

Edmund Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to bankruptcy [...] the fatal blow has been at last given by Mr. Burke. His pamphlet ["Reflections on the Revolution in France"] came out this day se'ennight, and is far superior to what was expected even by his warmest admirers. I have redde it twice, and tho' of 350 pages, I wish I could repeat every page by heart. It is sublime, profound, and gay. The wit and satire are equally brilliant, and the whole is wise, tho' in some points he goes too far, yet in general there is far less want of judgement than could be expected from [italics]him[end italics].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole

: newspaper report of death of wife of Margrave of Anspach

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 11 March 1791: 'I saw in today's newspaper, that the wife of the Margrave of Anspach is dead.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

unknown : reminiscences

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 12 July 1791: ' Mr. Batt [...] dined with me yesterday, and stayed till after breakfast today [...] Last night I redde to him certain reminiscences'.

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole

: newspaper reports of Birmingham riots

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 20 July 1791: 'I inclose the best printed account, I have seen, of the riots at Birmingham from yesterday's paper.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

anon : 'Attitudes -- A Sketch'

In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent to him by General Conway, on Sir W. Hamilton's mistress Emma Harte ('Attitudes -- A Sketch').

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole

Virgil : Works

Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of the fourth century, which they call the oldest existing; it is very fairly written, but less easy to read than the one in the Vatican. We saw, too, the Horace that belonged to Petrarch, with some notes in it by his own hand. It is in large quarto, and not a beautiful manuscript from the number of notes and scoliastes interrupting and confusing the text.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Horace : Works

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Francesco Petrarch : annotations to manuscript copy of works of Horace

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

de Broc : A L'Orateur Fox

Anne Damer, travelling in France, to Mary Berry, 24 April 1791, on encounter with de Broc, the mayor of Bayonne, 'the most ridiculous [italics]personage[end italics] that can be imagined [...] round, fat, with the tightest silk dress, not a tooth [...] and the voice of a frog [...] Before the visit was over we were such friends that he gave me some of his [italics]verses[end italics] on [italics]C. Fox[end italics], and if there is a corner in this letter, I must send them to you, for I was [italics]delighted[end italics] and desired to have them [four-line French verse, "A L'Orateur Fox," follows as postscript].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Damer Manuscript: Unknown

Tobias Smollett : Complete History of England

'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There seem to have been more weak kings than wise ones".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : [poetry]

'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boothby (met during the London season) as a visitor with whom to read the last, but not the other two. For he did not admire Campbell or Ossian; and indeed seems to have been a person of delicate discriminations, though not advanced in thought. They were reading "Paradise Lost"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Ossian (pseud.) : [poetry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke and Captain Boothby Print: Book

John Milton : Comus

'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole party joined in, Annabella and her guests taking the various parts. They did the Trial-Scene from the Merchant of Venice too, and she "never heard anyone read with more discriminating judgment than Mr Darnell".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guests Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guests Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

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

Homer : Iliad

'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to "Evelina". In "Evelina" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through "Madoc". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high "among the ancient poets".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Robert Southey : Madoc

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [unknown]

'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's sensation-making "Vathek", in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, Lord Byron's "Childe Harold". "Childe Harold's" only rival in her poetic reading was "The Faerie Queene". That was a reckless undertaking for the height of the London season; she may not, like so many of us, have quite finished "The Faerie Queene".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

William Beckford : Vathek

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable novel. It is written by a sister of Charlotte Smith's and contains more strength of character than other productions of this kind".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

John Locke : Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity

[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract of Locke's which you mention - but I have redde it formerly, though I fear to little purpose since it is forgotten. - & have always understod that and Butler's Analogy to be the best treatises of the kind... Of the Scriptures themselves I have ever been a reader and admirer as compositions, particularly the Arab-Job - and parts of Isaiah - and the Song of Deborah'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

J.C. de Sismondi : history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A

'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Republics". And she had read "Lara". Shakespeare alone possessed the same power as Byron had there displayed'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book

J.C. de Sismondi : history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A

[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but writes not history but romance). The best thing of that kind I met by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in old and not "very choice Italian". I forget the title - but it was a history in some thirty tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Catiline's down to Count Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa and Braganza's in Lisbon. I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal, thought it perfection'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Jean Charles de Sismondi : Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Watson : [book on Philip of Spain]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

William Coxe : History of the House of Austria

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

William Coxe : Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Rene Aubert de Vertot : [book(s) on Revolutions]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

[unknown] : [30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Robert Southey : Roderick

[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can be - which considering how I dislike that school I wonder at. However, so it is. If he had never written anything else, he might safely stake his fame on the last of the Goths'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

John Dryden : Don Sebastian

'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angrily: "Where did you hear that?". "I looked up and saw that he was holding over me a dagger which he usually wore. I replied, "Oh, only from this book". I was not afraid - I as persuaded he only did it to terrify me".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles

'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, "with a miserable smile", the description of the wayward bridegroom'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown Darwin : [article on 'Diseased Volition']

'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Unknown

Leigh Hunt : Rimini

'she was reading Leigh Hunt's "Rimini", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently because it was to her as a portrait of another difficult husband: "He kept no reckoning with his sweets and sours / He'd hold a sullen countenance for hours, / And then if pleased to cheer himself a space, / Look for immediate rapture in your face..."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Unknown

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to know better)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion

'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to know better)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan

'Early in July appeared the first part of "Don Juan". "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected", wrote Annabella. "In the first place I am very much relieved to find that there is not anything which I can be expected to notice... I do not feel inclined to continue the perusal. It is always a task to me now to read his works, in which, through all the levity, I discern enough to awake very painful feelings".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Giaour

'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first she was highly pleased, from its efusion-of-feeling character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Fare Thee Well

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [a Satire - on Annabella?]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment

'[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chiefly directed against Romance, and therefore not necessary for Ada".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

George Macdonald : Within and Without

'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years earlier), that their acquaintance began. She wrote to him of her admiration, and soon afterwards they met'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Print: Book

[anon.] : Thousand Nights and One Night, The

'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Lewis Carroll (pseud.) : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Lewis Carroll (pseud.) : Alice Through the Looking Glass

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Walter Scott : [Waverley novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Somerset Maugham Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : [works]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Somerset Maugham Print: Book

?Duchesse ?de Bouillon : Letters on developments in Revolutionary France

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 15 October 1793: 'I called on the Princesse d'Hennin, who has been in town a week [...] She showed me several pieces of letters, I think from the Duchess de Bouillon; one says, the poor Duchesse de Biron is again arrested and at the Jacobins, and with her [...] our pretty little wicked Duchess de Fleury!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Manuscript: Unknown

: Newspapers

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 14 November 1793: 'I was grieved this morning to read in the papers that poor Jardin and his family have been taken by a French privateer, as they were going to Corunna.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

Edward Jerningham : Prologue to The Siege of Berwick

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 23 November 1793, on meeting Edward Jerningham ('the Charming Man') at a gathering at the home of their friend Anne Damer the previous evening: 'I congratulated the Charming highly on the success of his tragedy ["The Siege of Berwick", which opened 13 November at Covent Garden], and on his prologue, which I had seen in the papers and like'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

anon : poem on recovery of Horace Walpole [apparently from illness]

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 21 April 1794: 'I have found on my table a rhapsody in verse on my recovery, so extravagant that, coupled with the post-mark [italics]Isleworth[end italics], it can come from no mortal but our neighbour whose Cupid from the top of his gazebo was drowned [goes on to provide synopsis and to transcribe various lines].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Manuscript: Unknown

: newspaper

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 24 September 1794, 'near one [pm]': 'The Churchills are here in the room while I write [...] just as I was going to begin my letter, the newspaper came in, and he and I have been reading it aloud to us paragraph by paragraph, half of which are full of bad news, of retreats of our army, of the capture of our Mediterranean fleet by the French, and [...] of the King of Prussia having been forced to raise the siege of Warsaw.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole and Mr Churchill Print: Newspaper

: The True Briton

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 September 1794: 'I was diverted a few days ago by a paragraph in the "True Briton", which, supposing that the Prince [of Wales] is to reside at Hampton Court, said that, as there is a theatre and tennis court in the Palace, Twickenham will not want a succession of company, even when the [italics]venerable[end italics] Earl of Orford [i.e. Walpole] shall be no more. I little thought I was as attractive as a theatre or a tennis court, or served in lieu of them.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Newspaper

: The Times

Mary Berry to Horace Walpole, 28 September 1794, regarding remark in the newspapers that the move of the Prince of Wales to Hampton Court would ensure continued social diversion in the area even after death of the elderly Walpole: 'I did not suppose that the Prince of Wales was likely to become your [italics]successor[end italics] in anything, till the newpapers told us so. The enclosed paragraph, which we cut out of the "Times" the other day, amused us all not a little.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper

[probably] James Murphy : [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Murphy's "Portugal," and which you will like to possess: -- '"From whose splendid virtues, the great men, who delight to sport in the atoms which float in the beams of light issuing from the beauty of the leaf of the sleepy Ketahee of the diadem of the goddess Saraskatee, went to adorn the females of the eight points."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Book

[probably] James Murphy : [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

: The Globe (Newspaper)

"My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,".."and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily"..."our newspaper was the Globe,"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

: Life of Robert Walpole

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 November 1795, 'half after noon': 'Mr. Coxe, whom I could not dismiss, has sat reading to me till this instant, till I can scarce save the post [in letter of 24 November mentions expecting Coxe, for reading of chapters of life of 'my father', i.e. Robert Walpole].'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Coxe

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson

Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [...] I am more delighted with Mrs. Hutchinson [i.e. Lucy Hutchinson's "Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson"] than with any book I have read for an age. She was a really superior woman, both as to head and heart. Her description and account of her husband's attachment to her is the truest, the most elevated and admirable picture of love and true affection from and to a superior mind that can be imagined.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

: The Monthly Repository

'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository, in which I made my first appearance in print, a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about this time making his first attempts at authorship. [...] it was rather too luscious for my taste,[...] but it served to mislead me about Malthus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Alfieri : unknown

Mary Berry, Journal, 4 November 1811: 'In the evening Mrs. Damer and I read Alfieri in Italian -- but what Italian! so stuffed with Tuscanisms, so fraught with words immediately derived from the Latin, that it is hardly to be recognised as the language of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and other Italian classics.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry and Anne Damer Print: Book

unknown : books

Mary Berry, Journal, 26 February 1812: 'The morning at Devonshire House, where I found the Duke in his library with the Marquis Douglas and George Neville, who were looking over his beautiful books.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Duke of Devonshire, Marquis Douglas, and George Neville Print: Book

Madame de Cottin : Amelie de Mansfeldt

Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales

Madame de Cottin : Amelie de Mansfeldt

Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wales] then continued reading "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales

Mary Berry : The Two Martius

Mary Berry, Journal, 15 June 1812: 'Called by appointment on Sir G. Beaumont to meet [George] Colman [manager of Haymarket Theatre], and read with him 'The Two Martius.' As Sir George had told him that it was written by a woman, I owned myself to be that woman [...] I read the piece: he stopped me each time where he thought something piquant could be added'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Campbell : First discourse upon Poetry

Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay, Lady C. Campbell, Mr. Lewis, Sir H. and Lady Davy, Sir J. Mackintosh, Sir H. Englefield, Mrs. and Miss Pole, Lord Glenbervie and Campbell the poet, who was to read his first discourse upon Poetry, which he had delivered at the Institution; he did so during that evening with very good effect [...] Poor Lewis was in a very bad humour, and did not know where to hide his head during the reading, so he pretended to be sleeping.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell

Lord Cathcart : account of Battle of Borodino

Mary Berry, Journal, 9 October 1812: 'Read the newspapers, which contained the extraordinary letter of Lord Cathcart announcing the great defeat of the French, and their nineteenth bulletin dated Moscow!!!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper

Uvedale Price : Draft ode on French retreat from Moscow

Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 19 January 1813, accompanying his ode on the burning of Moscow by French forces: 'I sent an early copy to Fitzpatrick, and Rogers happening to come in [...] he could not resist showing it to him: I have since altered it a good deal, and as Rogers had seen the first sketch, I have sent him this new, and I hope improved, edition.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read all evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]

'Read in the greek grammar'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read and work in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read in the morning and work'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]

'Read in the Greek grammar'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]

'Read a little in the Greek grammar'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

William Godwin : St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century

'Read a part of St Leon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Work and read in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Petronius : Satyricon

'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793

'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793

'Read Louvet's memoirs all day'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793

'Finish Louvet's memoirs'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Write and read'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

John Adolphus : Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution

'S reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's "Lives"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Charles Brockden Brown : Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker

'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francois de La Rochefoucauld : Maximes

'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse de Cleves" (which inspired his play "Caesar's Wife"), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" and "La Chartreuse de Parme", Balzac's "Pere Goriot", Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

anon. : La Princesse de Cleves

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Jean anon. : [tragedies]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Voltaire (pseud.) : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Stendhal (pseud.) : Le Rouge et le Noir

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Stendhal (pseud.) : La Chartreuse de Parme

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Pere Goriot

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Anatole France (pseud.) : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Pierre Loti (pseud.) : [exotic tales]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : [tales: short stories]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book

John Henry, Cardinal Newman : [theological works]

'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal Newman, the witty novels of George Meredith, the "Imaginary Portraits" of Pater, the rapturous poetry of Swinburne and Fitzgerald's sensual translation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

George Meredith : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

Walter Pater : Imaginary Portraits

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) : Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]

'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring our own feelings throw upon the liveliest delineations of other minds'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Mary, A Fiction

'We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Curse of Kehama, The

'Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rasselas

'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

James Henry Lawrence : Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women, The

'read Political Justice & the empire of the Nairs'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'read Alexy Haimatoff - study a little greek - read Political Justice'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Fitzpatrick : [metaphysical] poem

Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813, discussing the importance of association and the physical senses in aesthetics: 'Fitzpatrick, in that exquisite poem I once read to you, has settled the matter most judiciously, and one might almost think he had these metaphysicians [i.e. eighteenth-century aestheticians Richard Payne Knight, Dugald Stewart and Archibald Alison] in view when he makes the Soul say to the Body, '"Yet trust me, I'm willing to waive all dispute; For though certain grave doctors, by few understood, Think they flatter me much when they call you a brute, Those who wish to divide us can mean us no good."'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Uvedale Price

Mary Wollstonecraft : Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria

'We walk out - when we return Shelley talks with Jane and I read Wrongs of woman'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

: newspapers

Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813: 'Upon reading a few days ago in the papers an account of the Queen of Naples' magnificent reception at the Ottoman court, it occurred to me that the Grand Signior might have taken a fancy for her.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Uvedale Price Print: Newspaper

Thomas Campbell : discourse on English poetry and poets

Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own daughter [...] After dinner, Campbell read to us a discourse of his upon English poetry and upon some of the great poets. There are always signs of a poet critic and of genius in all he does, often encumbered by too ornate a style.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell

Cicero : Cato Maior de Senectute

'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begin Julius Florus and finish the little Vol of Cicero'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Cicero : Paradoxa Stoicorum

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Julius (Or Lucus Annaeus) Florus : [possibly] Epitome bellorum omnium annorum

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : L'Allemagne (vol.3)

Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas, par le commencement[end italics]. My neighbour Peploe, who has read it, called upon me just as I had received it. He told me the first volume was highly entertaining; the second less so [...] the third very abstruse [...] He liked, however, particular parts [...] He told me, at the same time, that the subject of the third volume was distinct from those of the other two, being entirely on German philosophy. Upon this information, Lady Caroline [Carpenter] and my daughter having eagerly seized on the first volume, I began with the third, in which I found so many new and striking thoughts and reflections that, in order to recollect and dwell upon them again, I marked them as I went on'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Uvedale Price Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : L'Allemagne

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

Germaine de Stael : L'Allemagne (vols 1-3)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Uvedale Price Print: Book

William Godwin : Essay on Sepulchres

'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire (pseud.) : [shorter tales]

'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Schlegel : work on drama

The Hon.J. W. Ward to Mary Berry, 11 May 1814: 'I have bought Mr Schlegel's book about the drama, which they have translated and printed here [Paris], but I have not had time to read much of it [goes on to remark upon difficulty of comprehending current German thought].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Hon. J. W. Ward Print: Book

Queen of England : Letters to the Princess of Wales

Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me at three o'clock. She made Lady Charlotte read to me the letters that had passed between the Queen and her on the subject of the drawing-rooms [i.e. two gatherings, to take place in June 1814, from which the Prince of Wales wished his wife to be excluded]. They were good, but too long, and sometime marked by Whitbread's lack of taste, who dictated them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Manuscript: Letter

Princess of Wales : Letters to the Queen of England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Manuscript: Letter

Princess of Wales : Letter to the Speaker [?Parliamentary]

Mary Berry, Journal, 5 July 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me to read a letter that she had sent to the Speaker [re proposed increase to her allowance].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara

Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his manner of thinking and writing. It is a sort of continuation of the "Corsair."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn Print: Book

?Walter ?Scott : Life of Jonathan Swift

Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1814: 'I read "Swift's Life" in the new edition of his works by Walter Scott. It does not appear to me that there is much that is new.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

: Gazette

Mary Berry, Journal, 22 June 1815: 'All the details that one hears of the victory of the 18th [June, at Waterloo] show that it was one of the most sanguinary battles that ever took place [...] I went to Lord Palmerston's, where I saw the "Gazette," and examined the large map of the country with Fanny Temple [Palmerston's sister].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown

: Newspapers

Mary Berry, Journal, 26 July 1815: 'I only went out for a short time to read the papers, in which is Captain Maitland's letter, announcing the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte upon his vessel at Torbay.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper

Mary Berry : Draft Life of Lady Russell

Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of the beginning for "The Life of Lady Russell," which he much approved of [...] then during the evening he read to us the list of the MSS. of poor Horner, and some pieces of a journal of Lord Byron's in Switzerland, put down [italics]au coin de son etrange esprit[end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Wishaw Manuscript: Unknown

: List of MSS of Horner

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Wishaw

George Gordon, Lord Byron : journal of travels in Switzerland (extracts)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Wishaw Manuscript: Unknown

Magalotti : Travels of Cosmo III in England

Mary Berry, Journal, 27 March 1818: 'I went with the Comte Bardi to the Laurentian Library. Saw the travels (MSS.) of Cosmo III. in England in the year 167-, accompanied by Magalotti, who gives the description of the travels, and by an artist who made drawings of all the small towns where they stopped, and of all the country houses they saw. I remarked Wilton, Billingbear, Audley Inn, &c.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : MS papers relating to Peace of Utrecht

Mary Berry, Journal, 27 July 1818: 'Went with Lord Hardwick to see the MSS. which have been offered for sale to Sir Charles Stuart; they are all the papers and corespondence of Ministers relative to the Peace of Utrecht. We remained some time turning over and reading them. There ought to be among them some curious facts, and I found some that were amusing, but much less than I should have expected.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry and Lord Hardwicke Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Berry : Memoir of Lady Russell

Mary Berry, Journal, 12 December 1818: 'I worked all the morning; before dinner I read in my own room to Lady Hardwicke, Lady Charlotte Lindsay, and my sister, what I had written of Lady Russell's Memoir, with which they expressed themselves much pleased.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Berry : Memoir of Lady Russell

Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and commenting on my "Memoir of Lady Russell," spoke frankly, seemed pleased, and satisfied me very tolerably with his opinion [...] In the evening he read some of Milton's "Paradise Regained" to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

John Milton : Paradise Regained

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir James Mackintosh Print: Book

Mary Berry : Life of Lady Russell

Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 July 1819: 'Your "Life of Lady Russell," as far as my acquaintance extends, gives general satisfaction [...] I must thank you again for your copy so kindly bestowed upon your unworthy servant [...] I have, indeed, read it with great interest'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joanna Baillie Print: Book

Mary Berry : Life of Lady Russell

'Mr Wishaw' to Mary Berry, 14 July 1819: 'On returning from the country I find your kind and acceptable present [Berry's Life of Lady Russell] [...] I have read over the whole with great interest and satisfaction'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Wishaw Print: Book

Coxe : Life of Marlborough

The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in spite of the dulness and want of capacity in the writer, renders it most truly interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Hon. James Abercrombie Print: Book

Martial : unknown

Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have been excessively amused in reading Martial, Livy, Suetonius, &c. &c. with him on the spot where they were written, and comparing the descriptions with the actual state of the scenes described.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Livy : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Suetonius : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

?Anastatius : work on travels in East

Mary Berry, in letter of August 1820: 'I have been reading after dinner, when it is too hot to write, "Anastatius." It is, as I had supposed, the substance of the MS. travels in the East which he long ago gave me to read. But in this new form so arranged! in such a pert style -- such an evident copy of Lord Byron's prose'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Oswald : Letters to ministers and 'distinguished persons', 1742-67

Mary Berry, Journal, October 23 1821: 'Went on a visit to Sir John and Lady Oswald. Sir John had given me a collection of his grandfather's letters to Ministers and several distinguished persons of his day, since the years 1742 and 1767 [...] The reading of these letters, which make two large MS. books, occupied me very agreeably all the morning.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

William Shakespeare : Othello

Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read "Othello," the two parts of Iago and Othello quite [italics]a merveille[end italics].'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Siddons Print: Book

Hon Mrs C. Scott : MS

Mary Berry, Journal, 28 August 1823: 'Loitered in the garden with Car. [Hon. Mrs Scott, novelist], and read the MS. which she gave me.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown

Irving : Discourses

Mary Berry, Journal, 5 November 1823, from Guy's Cliff: 'In the evening, Greathead read a portion of Irving's "Dscourses:" very bombastic and high-flown; strong in words and weak in argument.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Greathead Print: Book

unknown : MS letters

Mary Berry, Journal, 23 September 1824, from Edinburgh: 'Went with Mr. and Mrs. Davenport to [...] the Advocate's Library and Stamp Office, where Mr. Thompson, the Deputy Registrar, showed us very curious MS. letters.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter

Mary Berry : Introduction to The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England

Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England" (vol.1): 'I have had no opportunity of reading it, part of the introduction excepted, which I liked much. It reads well, being clear and sensible, and happily expressed'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joanna Baillie Print: Book

Mary Berry : The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol. 1)

Lady Charlotte Lindsay to Mary Berry, 25 April 1828, on vol.1 of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France and England": 'Your book is [italics]quite new[end italics] and perfectly delightful to me [...] I had no idea that I should have derived so much amusement from it [...] it exactly suits the extent of my reading and reasoning powers'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Lindsay Print: Book

Mary Berry : The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol.1)

Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your "View of the Social Life, &c.," twice; and it has lost nothing, but rather gained, on the second perusal. The style is clear and scholar-like [...] it is written in a good spirit of liberality and rectitude, and it abounds in excellent observations concisely and cleverly expressed' [goes on to express reservations, among these being that Berry's account of Voltaire's mistress Madame du Chatelet "rather offends as to that delicacy which is expected in the writings of a woman"].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joanna Baillie Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Elements of Morality, for the use of children

'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Berry : The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1)

Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] quite succeeded with me, giving me a great deal of information that was very entertaining, and that had not reached me before [...] I still observe in it some long sentences, which it would have been very easy for you, I should have thought, to have broken up [...] You have not always remembered that you are writing for an English, not a French public -- where not only men, but men, women, and children, read, when a book is considered worth reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Professor W. Smythe Print: Book

Lazare N.M. Carnot : Memoir adresse au Roi en juillet 1814

'I read Carnot's memorial - he is a common place man'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

unknown : [greek grammar]

'read in the greek grammar'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Petronius : Satyricon

'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Berry : The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1)

Charles Poulett Thomson to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'I return you your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England" with many thanks for the instruction and amusement which it has afforded me [...] I hope you have not abandoned your intention of following it up by a second volume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Poulett Thomson Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai : M?moires de Louvet de Couvrai

'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Berry : The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 2)

Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] [goes on to express pleasure at Berry's mentions of herself (Baillie) in the work)]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joanna Baillie Print: In proof

John Adolphus : Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution

'S. reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's lives'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Charles Brockden-Brown : Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker

'Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mrs Somerville : [work on astronomy]

Mary Berry to 'Mrs Somerville', from Bellevue, September 1834: 'I have just finished reading your book [apparently on astronomy], which has [italics]entertained[end italics] me extremely, and at the same time, I hope, improved my moral character in the Christian virtue of humility [...] Humbled I must be, by finding my own intellect unequal to following, beyond a first step, the explanations by which you seek to make easy to comprehension the marvellous phenomena of the universe'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Victor Jaquemont : Letters describing a journey in India

Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books "Victor Jaquemont's Letters?" they are perfectly original [...] I never knew before half so much of the life of our countrymen in India; and the author himself is so natural and unaffected a character, that I had well-night cried at his death, as if it had not been true.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

: The Times

Mary Berry to Earl Granville, Monday 18 November 1834, on recent dissolution of Government: 'On Saturday, Lady Lansdowne read the paragraph in the "Times" to her lord at breakfast; they both smiled at it, and thought no more of the matter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Lansdowne Print: Newspaper

unknown : Notice on life of M. Gouthier

Mary Berry to 'a friend at Paris,' October, 1835: 'I have read with much attention the "notice" on the life of M. Gouthier that you lent me at Paris, and on which you asked my opinion. 'It is impossible to imagine a more perfect character as a Christian priest'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown

: The Bible

Mary Berry , Journal, 18 September 1836: 'I have been unequal this day to anything but reading my Bible for amusement; for I cannot say that I am capable of any reasonings on it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Princess Dashkoff : Life and Writings

Mary Berry on the Life and writings (including memoirs) of the Princess Dashkoff, published 1840: 'The whole work -- of which I saw only the first part, which comes down to 1783, when she returned to Russia after her tour through Italy -- is the picture, not only of a human mind and character placed in most extraordinary circumstances, and acting a most extraordinary part, but endowed by nature with those extraordinary powers, and that energy, which I have ever thought [...] always accompanied by [...] warm, pure, and ardent affections of the heart.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Madame du Deffand : Letters

The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. Sydney Smith Print: Book

Mazzini : unknown

Mary Berry to a friend, [1841]: 'I have read every word of Mazzini, and agree entirely with him in his views of what civil liberty ought to be, and with most of his statements on the absence of it in Italy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

unknown : Catalogue of Strawberry Hill collections

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the Strawberry Hill collections, and, as you may suppose, have had you often enough in my mind as I went through names and little anecdotes which must be pregnant to you with so many touching reflections.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey Print: Book, catalogue

Mary Berry : Letter to Lord Francis Jeffrey

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable letter for a third time, and, after nourishing the meditations to which it led by gazing for half-an-hour on the long waves which come glittering in the moonlight to the beach below my windows [...] find that I cannot lay myself down with a quiet conscience till I have thanked you for the pleasure it has given, [italics]and the good it has done me[end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey Manuscript: Letter

: The Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Review," and have been charmed more than ever, I think, with that splendid paper of Macaulay's on Frederic of Prussia. I have read it twice over already, with thrillings of admiration whcih make my very weak heart leap rather too strongly; but it is delightful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Babington Macaulay : article on Frederick of Prussia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey Print: Serial / periodical

: Church appointment notice

Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1843]: 'I saw a piece of news the other day, in which a gentleman made his good fortune known to the world in the public papers: -- "Last week the Rev. Elias Johnson was made examining chaplain to the Bishop of Jerusalem!"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Rev. Sydney Smith Print: Newspaper

Anne Grant : Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807

Mary Berry to Joanna Baillie, 24 October 1844: 'I have been reading "Mrs. Grant's Letters" with considerable amusement. She often writes very well, and [italics]thinks[end italics] well, within her horizon; but her horizon is a narrow one, and her mistakes of character often laughable.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Mr Everett : Inaugural discourse given at Harvard College

Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces letter from Mary Berry to 'Mr. Everett' of Harvard College, of 25 August 1846, in which she praises, and discusses in detail, the 'inaugural discourse at Harvard College' (on educational issues) of which he had sent her a copy within the past year.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The History of England from the Accession of James the Second

Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [italics]very[end italics] most entertaining reading I ever met with ... The first edition of 3,000 copies was sold in the first week; another, of 3,000 more, is to come out on Thursday next.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Works

Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was once in existence a copy of Speght's edition of Chaucer, 1598, with manuscript notes by Gabriel Harvey, one of those notes being in the following terms: -- "The younger sort take much delight in Shakespear's Venus and Adonis, but his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark have it in them to please the wiser sort."'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

: Roman texts

'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron Walden, assiduously studying not only the greatest of the old Roman writers, but renaissance writers such as Sturm, Manutius, Osorius, Sigonius and Buchanan. He had given more time to Cicero than to all the rest put together, yet sometimes he had dropped Cicero on Friendship to take up Osorius on Glory'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sturm : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Manutius : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Osorius : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sigonius : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Buchanan : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : Works including On Friendship

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Osorius : Works including On Glory

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sambucus : Ciceronianus

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus" of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Ramus : Ciceronianus

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Caesar : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Varro : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sallust : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Pliny : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Columella : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Desiderius Erasmus : Parabolae

'[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's sister Mercy, c. Christmas 1574] in mind when in his copy of Erasmus' "Parabolae" to the words "stultus magnifica fortuna iniucunda", he adds the notes, "you knowe, who vsed to write: 'Vnhappy Philip'."'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

anon : Howleglas

'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "Howleglas" now in the Bodleian, in which he wrote the following note, now partly obliterated: '"This Howletglasse, with Skoggin, Skelton, and L[a]zarillo, giuen me at London, of Mr. Spensar xx Decembris [15]78 on condition [that I] shoold bestowe ye reading of them oue[r] before ye first of January [imme]diatly ensuing: otherwise to forfeit unto him my Lucian jn fower uolumes. Whereupon I was ye rather jnduced to trifle away so many howers, as were jdely ouerpassed in running thorowgh ye [foresai]d foolish bookes: wherein methoug[ht] not all fower togither seemed comparable for s[utt]le and crafty feates with Jon Miller, whose witty shiftes, & practises ar reported amongst Skeltons Tales.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Skoggin : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Skelton : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Lazarillo : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

: Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe

Gabriel Harvey's Commonplace Book (Add.Ms., 32, 494 British Museum) contains transcribed quotations from "Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe" (1579).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Richard Mant : unknown

'Palm Sunday Appropriate readings this week from Mant (?) [sic] &c.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Dr Sanford : lecture on Good Friday

'Read Dr Sandford's lecture on Good Friday.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole

Butcher : Sermon 'He is risen'

'Read Butcher's Sermon "He is risen" &&'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole

: various

'Inspected Mr Dash's large collection of books.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

unknown : ['suitable readings']

'Evening - suitable readings'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown

unknown : [Inscription over entrance gate]

'Observing a new entrance gate, inscribed Jesus' Hospital [underlined], we were invited to enter the gate, and discovered that new wings had been recently added.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Incription on gate

John Cole : letters

'Letters were at home awaiting me, intimating that John was about to leave Leamington.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Jr Manuscript: Letter

Cicero : Topica

In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the first book of the [italics]Institutes[end italics].'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Hegendorff : Writings on law

In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's "Topica", of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the first book of the "Institutes".'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Evans : Tourist

'We are now reading at the tea table, Evan's Tourist.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

unknown : Institutes

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Evans : Tourist

'Read in Evan's Tourist. The vulgar pronunciation of Brumidgham is nearer the true derivation than the modern name of Birmingham. "It is said that it was formerly called Birmicham, from a family of that name, who were benefactors to it".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

S. Stefano Guazzo : Civil Conversation

'[Gabriel Harvey] bought and studied Guazzo's [italics]Civil Conversation[end italics] in the early 1580s.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Baldassare Castiglione : The Book of the Courtier

'[Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia show that he studied Castiglione [...] with considerable care [...] In 1572 he acquired [Thomas] Hoby's translation of Castiglione's [italics]Courtier[end italics] and annotated it copiously.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Belfrage : The Rainbow

'In the evening a change came on, a slight thunderstorm, during which a beautiful rain-bow appeared, when we read Dr Belfrage's Essay on "The Rainbow" [underlined].' [followed by quote from essay]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Aristotle : Organon

'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rhetoric". Both Greek texts were copiously annotated and thus indicate that they were carefully studied.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Aristotle : Rhetoric

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Boswell : Life of Johnson

'Have you Tom Davis's Life of David Garrick? I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, and should like to peruse the life of his (Johnson's) contemporary. Mrs Hannah More's life has just come out.'

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

Audomarus Talaeus : Academia

'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close associate and disciple of [Peter] Ramus in his programme of teaching reform.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Desiderius Erasmus : Parabolae

'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Desiderius Erasmus : Parabolae

'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

: [Scripture]

'After the service we inspected the monument of Thomas Robinson... The Saviour appearing in the clouds with an open book in his hands on which is written these words [sic]: "Feed my sheep" which he is in the act of presenting to the Pastor of St Mary's.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Monument of Thomas Robinson, St Mary's Church, Leicester (Sculptor, Bacon)

Clarke : Lake of Tiberias

'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too were our companion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

King : Hymns

'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too were our companion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

unknown : Italian grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

unknown : Spanish grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

unknown : French grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton : A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies

'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"] are underlinings and comments [on the necessity of patience, Howard's work having contained attacks on Harvey's astrologer brother]'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Jacob Hugkel : Semeiotice

'In 1584 [Gabriel Harvey] had acquired [...] Hugkel's "Semeiotice", 1560, a medical text which bases its diagnoses on Galenic theory and the four humours [...] The inscription on the title-page [...] suggests Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in medicine. He writes in Latin that the volume has not yet been (adequately) read, for its contents are not yet at his fingertips.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

anon : Broadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmaceuticals) of John Hester

'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broadsheet with his signature dated "1588", some manuscript underlinings of various items, and brief comments. The broadsheet lists the pharmaceuticals and chemicals which can be obtained at the shop of John Hester, "practitioner in the art of Distillation"'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet

Desiderius Erasmus : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus] is a large inscription which reads: "Relegi mense Septembri. 1577: Gabriel Harveius".'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Frontinus : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Frontinus : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Frontinus : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Thomas Wilson : The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence

'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567), the text recounts God's granting the gift of eloquence [to men] [...] Next to this passage Harvey inscribes his symbol for eloquence, the planetary sign of Mercury.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Thomas Blundevill : The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship

'[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summarize a fairly lengthy textual discussion, e.g., in Thomas Blundevill's "The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship" (1580) [...] On fol.5r Harvey inscribes at the top "How the Rider ought to sitt in his Saddle" [...] and on fol.51v he summarizes with the inscription, "[italics]The parts of the bit[end italics]: as they ar termed by their [italics]proper names[end italics]. Italics indicate Harvey's underlinings.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

A. P. Gasser : Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome

'In A. P. Gasser's "Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome" (1538) purchased by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1576, are brief manuscript characterizations [by Harvey] of some of the historical figures mentioned.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

George North : Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland

'In George North's "Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland" (1561), on sig.G2r next to a textual discussion of the "Swecian Language" and a copy of "The Lordes Prayer" in Swedish, Harvey adds: "The same radical of owre Inglish, & Scottish, notwithstanding sundrie dialects, or idioms, even amongst owrselves".'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Lodovico Domenichi : Facetie, motti, et burle

'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and anecdotes] [...] stimulated Harvey to jot down [in its wide margins] a variety of musings and random philosophical reflections.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Hart : An Orthographie

'An annotated copy of John Hart's "Orthographie" which undoubtedly belonged to [Gabriel] Harvey [...] is replete with his comments on spellings and punctuations [...] On sig. Diiir where the text states "a writing is corrupted when any worde or sillable hath more letters, than are used of voyces in the pronunciation" Harvey cites as examples: "Comptroller, Bloudde, Adde, Speake".'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Battista Guarini : Il Pastor Fido

'In Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido" (1591) [Gabriel] Harvey sometimes places a tiny letter symbol above a textual passage and an explanatory note or translation in the margin text to a notation of the same tiny letter.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sacchi de Platina : Hystoria de Vitis pontificum

'At the end of Sacchi de Platina's "Hystoria de Vitis pontificum" (c.1505) [Gabriel] Harvey adds his index of Popes and page references.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

G. Breule : Praxis Medicinae Theorica

'In [Gabriel Harvey's copy of] G. Breule's "Praxis Medicinae Theorica" (1585) on the front flyleaf is a manuscript index of various medical problems, together with page references.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Joannis Foorth : Synopsis Politica

Virginia F. Stern notes annotations made by Gabriel Harvey in his copy of Joannis Foorth, "Synopsis Politica"(1582).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Florio : Florio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tongues

'The date "1580" is inscribed by [Gabriel] Harvey on sig.Ss3v of the Florio volume ["First Fruites" (1578)] at the "Finis" of the major portion of the text.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : Discorsi ("First Decade")

'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade" of Machiavelli's "Discorsi"'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Francois Rabelais : unknown

'Although he read Rabelais and several other French authors in the original, it is unlikely that [Gabriel] Harvey's mastery of this language approached that of Italian'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Antonio de Corro : Spanish Grammer

'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and Richard Perceval's "Bibliotheca Hispanica"(1591), an English, Spanish, Latin dictionary printed as an adjunct to Corro's grammar.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Richard Perceval : Bibliotheca Hispanica

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Astley : The Art of Riding

'On sig. AIv of [John] Blundevill, ["The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship"], [Gabriel] Harvey inscribes: "I use Mr Astley [John Astley's "The Art of Riding"(1584)], for the compendious, & fine Art: and Mr Blundevill for the larger & fuller Discourses upon the Art"'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : The Arte of Warre

'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...] Machiavelli (Peter Whitehorne's 1573 translation of the "Arte of Warre"), and Whitehorne's "Certaine wayes for the ordering of Soldiours" (1574).'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Peter Whitehorne : Certain wayes for the ordering of Soldiours

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Vegetius : unknown

Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading, & long consideration: [...] For the Art, Vegetius, Machiavel & Sutcliff: for Stratagems, Gandino, & Ranzovius: for Fortification, Pyrotechnie, & engins, Tetti, & Digges [Stratioticos]: for the old Roman most worthie Discipline & Action, Caesar: for the new Spanish, & Inglish excellent Discipline & Action, Sir Ro[ger]: Williams.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sutcliff : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Heinrich Rantzau : Commentarius Bellicus ... praecepta, consilia et stratagemata

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Marco Antonio Gandino : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Carlo Theti : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Digges Stratioticos : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sir Roger Williams : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Joannis de Sacrobosco : Textus de Sphaera

'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera", Bonetus's "Annuli ... super astrologiam" [...] and Euclid's first book of geometry translated into Latin by Boethius. On the title-page is Harvey's signature and the date "1580", which seems to have been the period for many of his annotations in this volume.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Bonetus de Lates : Annuli ... super astrologiam

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Euclid : First book of geometry

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Blagrave : The Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called ... The use of which Jewel ... leadeth ... through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes ...

'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence", [Gabriel] Harvey comments: "An Youth, & no University-man. The more shame for sum Doctors of Universities, that may learn of him".'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Luca Gaurico : Tractatus Astrologicus

'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of city-states and towns, each being illustrated by an astrological diagram. [Gabriel] Harvey read and annotated this volume in 1580'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Eunapius : unknown

'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapelus's [i.e Gabriel Harvey's] reading: '"What kinds of unique authors does Eutrapelus read daily? Eunapius, with Tacitus, Philostratus with Julian, Zwinger's "Theatre" with Gandino, Bartas with Rabelais, Theocritus's "Idyll I" with the epitaphs of Bion and Adonis. Three heroic shields (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil) with the "seventh day" of Bartas, Solomon's "Song of Songs" with the Behemoth of Job and the Leviathan"' (translated from Latin).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Tacitus : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Philostratus : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Julian : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Theodore Zwinger : Theatrum

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Theocritus : "Idyll I"

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Bion : epitaphs

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Adonis : epitaphs

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Homer : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Hesiod : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Virgil : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Solomon : The Song of Songs

''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapelus's [i.e Gabriel Harvey's] reading: '"What kinds of unique authors does Eutrapelus read daily? Eunapius, with Tacitus, Philostratus with Julian, Zwinger's "Theatre" with Gandino, Bartas with Rabelais, Theocritus's "Idyll I" with the epitaphs of Bion and Adonis. Three heroic shields (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil) with the "seventh day" of Bartas, Solomon's "Song of Songs" with the Behemoth of Job and the Leviathan"' (translated from Latin).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Barnabe Barnes : Parthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals, elegies and odes.

'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and Parthenophe" as one of the recently-read books received from [John] Wolfe [publisher for whom Harvey acted as reader].'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Joannes Boccatius : Compendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintum, & jam primum in lucem editum

Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium Romanae historiae" (1535).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

William Bourne : A Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men and travailers; whereunto is added an Hydrographicall discourse touching the five severall passages to Cattay

Virginia F. Stern notes that, in Gabriel Harvey's copy of William Bourne, "A Regiment for the Sea" (1592; inscribed 1594 by Harvey), 'brown crayon-like horizontal markings emphasize various topics'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

George Buchanan : Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie M.G.B. ... accordyng to the Scottish copie Printed at Strivilyng by Robert Lekpreuik

Virginia F. Stern notes 'Many underlinings and MS. notes' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of George Buchanan, "Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie" (1571), as well as comment '"A fine Discourse of Buchanan, but bitter in his Invective veine"'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum

Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum

Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quinctum Fratrem, Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii

Virginia F. Stern notes that in Gabriel Harvey's 1563 copy of Cicero, "Epistolae ad Atticum" 'The glossary is divided [by Harvey, using characteristic shorthand symbols as well as Latin] into eight portions for daily reading [...] A number of Harvey's signatures and copious annotations throughout the volume.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Evans : The Telegraph

'Read "The Telegraph" in Evans.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole

G Danes : letter

'Read a letter of interest from G Danes Esq.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Letter

Mary Roberts : Annals of my Village

'Read "Annals of my village" - the month.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Sir R Phillips : Personal Tour

'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips' Personal tour.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

anon : Wonders of the human body

'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the eye [underlined]. Looked over Pulley's "Etymological compendium".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Pulley : Etymological compendium

'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the eye [underlined]. Looked over Pulley's "Etymological compendium".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Rhind : Natural history of the Rabbit

'Read Natural History of Rabbit. On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston])

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

James [?] Edmeston : The penny magazine

'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Serial / periodical

Phillips : Tour

'Read in Phillips' Tour. He writes "Bedford presents 'objects of exhaustless eulogy' when referring to the different chantres".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Watson : Intimations and evidences of a future state

'Continued "Wonders of the human body" and began again Watson's "Intimations and evidences of a future state. Studied lecture.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Dr. Walcot went into the shop of Mr Wright, where Mr. Giffard was seated reading a newspaper; he asked him if his name was not Giffard? He replied in the affirmative. Upon which the Doctor aimed a blow at his brother poet with a cane ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Giffard Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [playbill]

'The boy was reading a play bill, when the prisoner went up to him and struck him, knocking out one of his teeth.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement, Poster, playbill

: Latin grammar

Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Mr Perry's school Print: Book

Cicero :

Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Mr Perry's school Print: Book

Virgil :

Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Mr Perry's school Print: Book

Horace :

Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Mr Perry's school Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shakspere by firelight in winter in the drawing-room. My mother was kind enough to allow this breach of good family manners; and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily [...] Our newspaper was the Globe'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Thomas Noon Talfourd : "On the System of Malthus"

'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository [...] a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about this time [1816] making [...] first attempts at authorship. Among his earliest papers [...] was one "On the System of Malthus" [...] It was prodigiously admired by [...] some of my family, who read it, and lived on it for awhile, but it served to mislead me about Malthus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martineau family Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : [Books on logic]

Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

unknown : [Books on rhetoric]

Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

unknown : [History books]

Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

John Milton : Il Penseroso

'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in the nursery, one day; and straightway went into a transport, as if I had discovered myself in possession of a new sense.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Perry Print: Book

John Milton : L'Allegro

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Perry Print: Book

John Milton : L'Allegro

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

John Milton : Il Penseroso

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

unknown : [Italian prose texts]

Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his profession in Norwich, used to read Italian with Rachel [her sister] and me [...] before breakfast. We made some considerable progress, through the usual course of prose authors and poets; and out of this grew a fit which Rachel and I at one time took, in concert with our companions and neighbours, the C.'s, to translate Petrarch [sonnets] [...] I believe we really succeeded pretty well'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) Print: Book

unknown : [Italian poetry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) Print: Book

Petrarch : sonnets

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and "C" family Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Rhetoric

'At the same time [as undertaking studies in Italian], I went on studying Blair's Rhetoric [...] and inclining mightily to every kind of book or process which could improve my literary skill'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: The Bible

Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily reading of chapters [...] and by getting hold of all commentaries and works of elucidation that I could lay my hands on. A work of Dr. Carpenter's, begun but never finished, called "Notes and Observations on the Gospel History" [...] first put me on this track of study [...] It was while reading Mr. Kenrick's translation from the German of "Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem," with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived [...] the audacious idea of giving a somewhat resembling account of the Jews and their country, under the immediate expectation of the Messiah, and even in his presence'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Dr Carpenter : Notes and Observations on the Gospel History

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Mr Kenrick : Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

David Hartley : unknown

Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's [...] That book I studied with a fervour and perseverance which made it perhaps the most important book in the world to me, except the bible'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : unknown

Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'I surrendered myself [...] to the charm of Dugald Stewart's writings'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : article on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity"

Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea he said "[...] I will read you something"; and he held out his hand for the new "[Monthly] Repository." After glancing at it, he exclaimed, "They have got a new hand here. Listen." After a paragraph, he repeated, "Ah! this is a new hand; they have had nothing so good as this for a long while." [...] I was silent, of course.'

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

Harriet Martineau : Devotional Exercises

Harriet Martineau on her early writings: 'I immediately after [the publication of her first periodical essay] began to write my first work, -- "Devotional Exercises," [...] I remember my brother's anxious doubting looks, as he read the M.S.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : unknown

Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud for many hours of each day [...] Before breakfast, and while he [the brother] enjoyed his classical reading on the sofa, I rambled about the neighbourhood of Torquay, -- sometimes sketching, sometimes reading'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

unknown : [Classical texts]

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

: The Globe

'Houlston [Harriet Martineau's publisher] wrote to ask for another story of somewhat more substance and bulk [than the first two he had taken from her]. My "Globe" newspaper readings suggested to me the subject of Machine-breaking as a good one'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Harriet Martineau : My Servant Rachel

Harriet Martineau on one of her early publications: 'A most excellent young servant of ours [...] went out to Madeira with my brother and his family [...] Her history was a rather remarkable, and a very interesting one; and I wrote it in the form of four of Houlston's penny tracts. He threw together, and made a little book of them; and the heroine, who would never have heard of them as tracts, was speedily put in possession of her Memoirs in the form of the little book called "My Servant Rachel." An aunt of mine, calling on her one day, found her standing in the middle of the floor, and her husband reading the book over her shoulder.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martineau family servant, and husband Print: Book

Mrs Marcet : Conversations on Political Economy

'It was in the autumn of 1827, I think, that a neighbour lent my [Harriet Martineau's] sister Mrs. Marcet's "Conversations on Political Economy." I took up the book, chiefly to see what Political Economy precisely was; and great was my surprise to find that I had been teaching it unawares, in my stories about Machinery and Wages.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: The Koran

Harriet Martineau mentions using 'Sale's Koran', borrowed from a public library, in preparation for entering a Central Unitarian Assocation competition for the best essay explaining Unitarianism to 'Mohammedans'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

Harriet Martineau on German studies continued during stay in Kent: 'There I refreshed myself among pretty scenery, fresh air, and pleasant drives [...] and with the study of Faust at night'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

unknown : [Texts on American geography and politics]

'During the period of the writing of the three Series, -- the Political Economy, Taxation, and Poor-laws -- I never remember but once sitting down to read whatever I pleased. That was a summer evening [...] I sat down to study the geography and relations of the States of the American Union; and extremely interesting I found it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Lichtenstein : "South Africa"

Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by books of travel obtained from the Public Library [...] The books of travel were Lichtenstein's South Africa for "Life in the Wilds:" Edwards's (and others') "West Indies" for "Demerara;" and McCulloch's "Highlands and Islands of Scotland" for the two Garveloch stories.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Edwards : "West Indies"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

McCulloch : "Highlands and Islands of Scotland"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : "Weal and Woe in Garveloch"

Harriet Martineau on her concerns about the acceptability of some of her writings: 'While writing "Weal and Woe in Garveloch," the perspiration many a time streamed down my face, though I knew there was not a line in it which might not be read aloud in any family. The misery arose from my seeing how the simplest statements and reasonings might and probably would be perverted [...] when the number was finished, I read it aloud to my mother and aunt [...] they were as complacent and easy as they had been interested and attentive.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

unknown : [Article attacking Harriet Martineau]

Harriet Martineau describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the "Quarterly Review" containing a negative review of her work, lent to her by a clergyman the day previous to its publication, and at his request '[marking] all the lies in the margin'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Harriet Martineau : volume containing "Garveloch" stories

Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman lent the 'Garveloch' stories by one of Martineau's friends: 'A few days after, [she] brought back the book, saying [...] it was so harmless that her husband had read it aloud to the young people in the evening [having been offered another] [...] The lady and her husband read the whole series through in this way, and never could find out the "improper book."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Series of Tales

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon woman and husband Print: Book

: [Blue-book on Ireland]

Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtained facts from Blue-books on Ireland and Colonization which were among the many by this time sent to me by people who had "hobbies."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

unknown : [Blue-book on "Colonization"]

Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtained facts from Blue-books on Ireland and Colonization which were amongthe many by this time sent to me by people who had "hobbies."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Stewarton : Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The

'Shelley reads aloud out of the "Female Revolutionary Plutarch"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Stewarton : Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The

'Rise very late. Read in the "female revolutionary Plutarch"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Christopher Wieland : Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus

'read "P. Proteus" in the even'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man; being an answer to Burke's attack on the French Revolution

'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she reads the Italian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The

'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The

'Read the Italian & talk all day'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Fairie Queene, The

'Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Charles Brockden Brown : Philip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of Love

'read Philip Stanley - very stupid'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Louis-Marie Prudhomme : [unknown, possibly one of his French revolutionary works]

'S. reads Prud'homme aloud to us'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Moore : A Journal during a residence in France from August to December 1792

'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : [plays]

'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Christopher Martin Wirland : Geschichte des Agathon

'read Agathon part of which I like but it [is] not so good as Peregrine'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Christopher Martin Wirland : Geschichte des Agathon

'finish Agathon - I do not like it. Wieland displays some most detestable opinions - he is one of those men who alter all their opinions when they are about 40 and then thinking that it will be the same with every one think themselves the only proper monitors of youth'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mungo Park : Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797

'Shelley reads Mungo Parks travels loud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Drummond : Academical Questions

'Read Drummond'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : Outlines of the Globe (Vol I. The View of Hindostan)

'read Pennants view of Hindostan'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Lord Macartney : Journal of an Embassy to China

'read Embassy to China. finish it in the evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mungo Park : Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797

'Read and finish Mungo Parks travels - they are very interesting & if the man was not so prejudiced they would be a thousand times more so. but those Institutions must always have Christians'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Suetonius : Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797

'Walk out with Shelley. he reads Suetonius all day'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib

'in the evening Miltons letter to Mr Hartlib on educations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [poems]

'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "Ancient History", Josephur, Hervey's "Meditations", Hervey's letters, Edwards on the religions, Affections, Pope, Kirke White, Cowper, Milton, Henry + Scott's Commentary, Sherlock on a Future state, etc, etc. Of these made some use of Blair, Rollin, Hervey, Sherlock on Death, Dr Johnson's poems, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Hugh Blair : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The ancient history of the Egyptians

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

James Hervey : Meditations and contemplations

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

William Sherlock : Meditations and A practical discourse concerning death

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[n/a] : [notice]

'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic dinner was to take place at the Swan Hotel, July 1st, to commemmorate the cessation of the toll on the Bedford Bridge.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window

John Bunyan : [Pitcher and writings]

'Called one morning on the Rev S Hilliard & saw Bunyan's "Pitcher" and several pages of his writings in some documents there preserved.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Sir Richard Phillips : Personal Tour

'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Anon : Curios of natural history

'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Hugh Blair : A sermon on the death of Christ

'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[unknown] : [descriptions of the West Indies]

'Read some descriptions of West Indies.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

E Butcher : [sermon]

'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[Anon] : [suitable readings]

'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Richard Phillips : Tour

'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips "Tour".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[unknown] : [Account of the Tailor Bird]

'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Richard Phillips : Tour

'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Richard Phillips : Journal

'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Stories including "Cousin Marshall"

'[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had become convinced by reading "Cousin Marshall" and others of my tales that they had been for a long course of years doing mischief where they meant to do good; that they were now convinced that the true way of benefiting the poor was to reform the Poor-law system'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J. J. Gurney Print: Unknown

Harriet Martineau : Stories including "Cousin Marshall"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Family of Elizabeth Fry Print: Unknown

Richard Phillips : Tour

'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his early youth. He owned that he had never read it since. He promised to read the four Gospels carefeully, if I would read "Hamlet" with a running commentary of Necessarian doctrine in my own mind [...] I fulfilled the engagement'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Sir William Temple : [work on Holland]

Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thought Holland on the whole the more convenient of the two; so I dipped into some book about that country (Sir William Temple, I believe it was), picked out the two ugliest Dutch names I could find, made them into a firm, and boldly advertised them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Richard Phillips : Tour

'Read an acct of the walkers of Rotherham in Sir Rich'd's book. I knew them well at Scarborough i.e. the descendents of the original where, in the season, they were constant visitors ... [quote form book] ... Sir Rd's character of the Yorkshire people is very good and correct: it is the character of praise.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Maria Graham : unknown

Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illustrative scene for want of the commonest facts concerning the social life of the Cingalese. I found scarcely anything even in Maria Graham and Heber. At this precise time, a friend happened to bring to my lodging [...] Sir Alexander Johnstone, who had just returned from governing Ceylon [...] Before we had known one another half an hour, I confided to him my difficulty. He started off [...] and was soon at the door again, with his carriage full of books, prints and other illustrations [...] Among the volumes he left with me was a Columbo almanack, which furnished me with names, notices of customs, and other valuable matters.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Heber : unknown

Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illustrative scene for want of the commonest facts concerning the social life of the Cingalese. I found scarcely anything even in Maria Graham and Heber. At this precise time, a friend happened to bring to my lodging [...] Sir Alexander Johnstone, who had just returned from governing Ceylon [...] Before we had known one another half an hour, I confided to him my difficulty. He started of [...] and was soon at the door again, with his carriage full of books, prints and other illustrations [...] Among the volumes he left with me was a Columbo almanack, which furnished me with names, notices of customs, and other valuable matters.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: Columbo almanack

Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illustrative scene for want of the commonest facts concerning the social life of the Cingalese. I found scarcely anything even in Maria Graham and Heber. At this precise time, a friend happened to bring to my lodging [...] Sir Alexander Johnstone, who had just returned from governing Ceylon [...] Before we had known one another half an hour, I confided to him my difficulty. He started of [...] and was soon at the door again, with his carriage full of books, prints and other illustrations [...] Among the volumes he left with me was a Columbo almanack, which furnished me with names, notices of customs, and other valuable matters.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixotte

To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794 'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on at least with Spanish, for I have been able to meet with only one book since I read Don Quixotte, which was the "History of the Incas" by Garcillaso de la Vega. I was very pleased with it, though it is very long and in some parts tedious.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

: newspapers

'In "Briery Creek," I [Harriet Martineau] indulged my life-long sentiment of admiration and love fo Dr. Priestley, by making him, under a thin disguise, the hero of my tale. I was staying at Lambton Castle when that number appeared; and I was extremely surprised by being asked by Lady Durham who Dr. Priestley was [...] She had seen in the newspapers that my hero was the Doctor; and I found that she, the daughter of the Prime Minister, had never heard of the Birmingham riots!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Durham Print: Newspaper

Garcilaso de la Vega : History of the Incas

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

: The Times

'I [Harriet Martineau] sent the first copy I could get [of her two "Excise" stories, "The Jerseymen Meeting" and "The Jerseymen Parting"] to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a day and a half before he brought out his Budget. When I opened the "Times," the morning after, I was highly amused at seeing that he had made a curious alteration in his intentions about the saddle-horse duty'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Feyjoo : Theatro critico universale

To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794 'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyjoo, a very clever work in 14 volumes; and I am now reading post-haste [italics] Mariana's "History of Spain", of which I have only read half, but am determined to finish it before I go. It is not so interesting as some other histories, but one must know it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Stories including "Cousin Marshall"

'Since reading "Cousin Marshall" and others of my Numbers, [Lord Henley] had dropped his subscriptions to some hurtful charities, and had devoted his funds to Education, Benefit Societies and Emigration.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Henley Print: Unknown

Juan de Mariana : History of Spain

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life and Correspondence

'After reading Southey's Life and Correspondence, the maintenance of that friendship [between the conservative Southey and the more radical William Taylor] appears to me [Harriet Martineau] more singular than when we young people used to catch a glimpse in the street [at Norwich] of the author of "Thalaba" and "Kehama."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Thomas James Mathias : The Pursuits of Literature

To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798 'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I dislike satire in general, but this appears to me one of the cleverest books I ever met with, and indeed this is the general opinion respecting it... I have read Robinson on the "Illuminati". It is said by people wel-informed on the subject to be a true representation.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

John Robinson : Illuminati

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

: The Monthly Repository

Harriet Martineau, recalling acquaintances of her youth: 'Mr. Hallam one day called, when, as it was the first day of the month, my table was spread with new periodicals, sent me by publishers. I was not in the room when Mr. Hallam entered; and I found him with the "Monthly Repository" in his hands, turning over the pages. He pointed to the Editor's name (Mr. Fox) on the cover, and asked me some questions about him. After turning over, and remarking upon a few others, he sat down for a chat.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hallam Print: Serial / periodical

Marcus Tullius Cicero : Tuscular Disputations

To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you have not yet met with it, only read, as a sample, the first book of his "Tuscular disputations", "de contemrenda morte", and I think you will agree with me, that with the addition of Christianity to confirm his supposition, and rectify a few mistakes in them, and the knowledge of the true state of the universe, no doctrine can be more perfect than his; and that half the modern books on the subject might have been spared, had the writers of them, before they began, read this dialogue.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Edward Hyde Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and civil wars in England

To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I have just finished Clarendon's "History of the rebellion", which Miss Bowdler long ago desired me to read. It is extremely interesting and instructive.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

anon : "ribald" song about Harriet Martineau

'One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the "Times" a ribald song addressed to me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Martineau Print: Newspaper

Thomas Gisbourne : An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great Britain

To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'We have read Mr Gisborne's book aloud ["On the duties of Man"] and all the party was extremely pleased with it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'[The eldest Hallam daughter] died [...] while her mother was reading to her. She exclaimed "Stop!" and was dead within five minutes'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group:

R. Monckton Milnes : poems

'My [Harriet Martineau's] pleasure in [R. Monckton Milnes's poems] was greatest when I read them in my Tynemouth solitude. My copy is marked all over with hieroglyhics involving the emotions with which I read them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : Plays on the Passions

'Miss Berry [...] told me [Harriet Martineau] how she found on her table, on her return from a ball, a volume of plays [Joanna Baillie's "Plays on the Passions"]; and how she kneeled on a chair to look at it, and how she read on till the servant opened the shutters, and let in the daylight of a winter morning.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book

Fanny Kemble : Journal

'I [Harriet Martineau] saw much of Fanny [Kemble] in America [...] She showed me the proof-sheets of her clever "Journal," and, as she chose to require my opinion of it, obtained a less flattering one than from most people [...] I was sufficiently shocked at certain passages to induce her to cancel some thirty pages.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Manuscript: proofs

Mrs Marsh : The Admiral's Daughter

'I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read to me "one or two little stories" which she had written. From her way of speaking of them, and from her devotion to her children [...] I concluded these to be children's stories. She ordered a fire in her room, and there we shut ourselves up for the reading. What she read was no child's story, but "The Admiral's Daughter." My amazement may be conceived. We were going to dine at the Wedgwoods': and a strange figure we must have cut there; for we had been crying so desperately that there was no concealing the marks of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Marsh Manuscript: Unknown

Mrs Marsh : Two Old Men's Tales (including The Admiral's Daughter)

'Mrs. Marsh asked me what I thought of getting her tales published. I offered to try if, on reading the manuscript at home, I thought as well of it ["The Admiral's Daughter"] as after her own most moving delivery of it. A second reading left no doubt in my mind; and I had the pleasure of introducing the "Two Old Men's Tales" to the world through Messrs. Saunders and Otley'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Manuscript: Unknown

Harriet Martineau : Tales

'[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as they came out on the first of the month'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical

William Godwin : Caleb Williams

'[Wiliam Godwin] told me [Harriet Martineau] [...] that he wrote the first half of "Caleb William" in three months, and then stopped for six, -- finishing it in three more. This pause in the middle of a work so intense seems to me a remarkable incident. I have often intended to read "Caleb Williams" again, to try whether I could find the stopping place: but it has never fallen in my way, and I have not seen the book since my youth.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Robert Browning : Paracelsus

Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Paracelsus" into my hand, when I was staying at his house, and I read a canto before going to bed. For the first time in my life, I passed a whole night without sleeping a wink.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Robert Browning : Sordello

'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" came out. I was so wholly unable to understand it that I supposed myself ill.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Miss Kelty : The Favourite of Nature

'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I have never seen, [is] [...] Miss Kelty, the author of the first successful "religious novel," "the Favourite of Nature," which I remember reading with much pleasure in my youth.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Miss Kelty : Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling

'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I have never seen, [is] [...] Miss Kelty [...] I have lately received from her her autobiography, published under the title of "Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling." It is a painfully impressive biography; but [...] Systems of religion and philosophy are evidently something very different to her from what they are to me [...] But I am glad to have read the Memoir, and glad that it exists [...] for it is a striking emanation of the spirit of the time'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Frederika Bremer : Brothers and Sisters

'A neighbour lent me [Miss Bremer's] novel, "Brothers and Sisters," the first volume of which we thought admirable: but the latter part about Socialism, Mesmerism, and all manner of [italics]isms[end italics] which she did not understand, made us blush as we read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau and neighbour Print: Book

Conyeds Middleton : History of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero

To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792 'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was not tired with its length because the chief of its contents were new to me. I have lately undertaken Smollet's "History of England", but must leave it in the middle.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Tobias George Smolett : History of England

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh

The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared. I cannot read new novels [...] while I can read with more pleasure than ever the old favourites, -- Miss Austen's and Scott's. My pleasure in Voyages and Travels is almost an insanity'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Walter Scott : novels

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Jane Austen : novels

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Ossian : [poems]

To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I support him against all other poets. You may easily guess who will say all I can for Ossian, for I really love [italics] his poems beyond all others. Milton must stand alone; but surely Ossian is in some respects [italics] superior to Homer.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

unknown : travel writing

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Homer : [poetry]

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John Milton : [poems]

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Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes: A Tale

'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which she read in a most overpowering way. When they saw it in print, they could scarcely believe it was the same story.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Unknown

Ossian : hymns

To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'Can you find anything equal to his [Ossian's] descriptions of nature; his address to the Sun in Carthos, that to the Moon in Darthula, and the last hymn? Surely in the joy of grief and in night scenes there is nothing equal to him. I would rather read the description of one of his ghosts than of all Homer's gods. One of my greatest reasons for admiring him is that his heroes are so good [italics].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes: A Tale

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Martineau and daughter Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with great attention the whole of the New Testament, Secker's lectures on the Catechism and several other books on the same important subjects.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

John Milton : [poems]

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[various English poets] : [poems]

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Thomas Secker : Lectures on Catechism

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[n/a] : New Testament

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[unknown] : Den golden spiegel

To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793 'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since you left me, except two books of Dr Randolph's "Den Golden Spiegel", which is an imitation of an Eastern tale, by way of making dissertations upon government. It is entertaining and there is an account of a happy valley, that makes one long to live in it. The other book is Wiessen's Poems (Lyrische Gedischte) some of which are very pretty.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Wiessen : Lyrische Gedischte

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Kliest : [unknown]

To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I have got your friend "Kliest", which I think delightful; Hallen's poems; and Zimmerman's "Einsamkert", which pleases me more that [sic] almost any book I ever read... There are some ideas in Zimmerman's upon a future state very like your book [Essay on the happiness of the life to come].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Hallen : [poems]

To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I have got your friend Kliest, which I think delightful; Hallen's poems; and Zimmerman's "Einsamkert", which pleases me more that [sic] almost any book I ever read... There are some ideas in Zimmerman's upon a future state very like your book [Essay on the happiness of the life to come].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Zimmerman : Einsamkert

To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I have got your friend Kliest, which I think delightful; Hallen's poems; and Zimmerman's "Einsamkert", which pleases me more that [sic] almost any book I ever read... There are some ideas in Zimmerman's upon a future state very like your book [Essay on the happiness of the life to come].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

Hunt : Essay on the happiness of the life to come

To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I have got your friend Kliest, which I think delightful; Hallen's poems; and Zimmerman's "Einsamkert", which pleases me more that [sic] almost any book I ever read... There are some ideas in Zimmerman's upon a future state very like your book [Essay on the happiness of the life to come].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book

unknown : [Article on St. Domingo]

'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) which I lighted upon, one day at this time [c.1837], while looking for the noted article on the Grecian philosophy in the same volume. I pursued the study of Toussaint L'Ouverture's character in the Biographie Universelle; and though it is badly done [...] the real man shone into my mind'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

: Biographie Universelle

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Harriet Martineau : work on Toussaint L'Ouverture

Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a sheetful of notes, and a heartful of longings to draw that glorious character [...] But my friend could not see the subject as I did [...] I gave it up; but a few years after, when ill at Tynemouth, I reverted to my scheme and fulfilled it; and my kind adviser, while never liking the subject in an artistic sense, graciously told me that the book had kept her up, over her dressing-room fire, till three in the morning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

unknown : [Police report]

Harriet Martineau, on inspiration for an ultimately abandoned novel: 'There was a police report, during that winter [?1837], -- very brief, -- only one short paragraph, -- which moved me profoundly, and which I was sure I could work out into a novel of the deepest interest.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Harriet Martineau : Stories including "Ella of Garveloch"

'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) the Duchess of Kent sent Sir John Conroy to me [Harriet Martineau] with a message of acknowledgement of the usefulness of my books to the Princess [Victoria]: and I afterwards heard more particulars of the eagerness with which the little lady read the stories on the first day of the month [...] Her "favourite" of my stories is "Ella of Garveloch."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Victoria Print: Serial / periodical

: [Order of coronation service]

From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'On reaching the gallery, I found that a back seat was so far better than a middle one that I should have a pillar to lean against [...] Two lady-like girls, prettily dressed, sat beside me, and were glad of the use of my copy of the service and programme.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau and two other females

unknown : unknown

From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into the abbey [...] The brightness, vastness, and dreamy magnificence of the scene produced a strange effect of exhaustion and sleepiness [...] I determined to withdraw my senses from the scene, in order to reserve my strength [...] for the ceremonial to come. I had carried a book; and I read and ate a sandwich, leaning against my friendly pillar, till I felt refreshed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: Order of Queen Victoria's coronation service

From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'I remember remarking to my mother on the impiety of the service, when a copy of it was kindly sent to me the evening before'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Thomas De Quincey : [article]

Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-storms for a story: -- then it occurred to me that floods were less hackneyed [...] Floods suggested Lincolnshire for the scene, and Lauder's book (Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's "Floods in Morayshire," read many years before) for the material. For Lincolnshire I looked into the Penny Cyclopedia, and there found references to other articles'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder : Floods in Morayshire

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: Penny Cyclopedia

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Harriet Martineau : Retrospect of Western Travel

'[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospect of Western Travel." I gave him the MS. at night; and in the morning he produced it, covered with pencil marks.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Unknown

Laing : [work on Norway]

Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I procured Inglis's Travels and every thing that I could get hold of about the state of Norway while connected with Denmark; and hence arose "Feats on the Fjord."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Inglis : Travels

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Heeren : unknown

Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading again Heeren and Warburton [...] I cannot but dissent from their inferences [...] For instance, Warburton declares that rulers have ever strenuously taught the people the doctrines of a future life, and reward and punishment, without believing them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Warburton : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : articles on Household Education

Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day, when in talking about education, I said we had yet to see what could be done by a direct appeal to human nature. She, liberal as she is, thinks we have such active bad tendencies [...] that we can do nothing without [...] Help. Yet she, and Mrs. ---- too, devours my Household education papers, as if she had never met with anything true before on that subject.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown

Harriet Martineau : Deerbrook

Charlotte Bronte (writing as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, 7 November 1849: 'When C.B. first read "Deerbrook" he tasted a new and keen pleasure [...] "Deerbrook" ranks with the writings that have really done him good, added to his stock of ideas, and rectified his views of life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

'When I [Harriet Martineau] read ["Jane Eyre"], I was convinced that it was by some friend of my own, who had portions of my childish experience in his or her mind.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Household Education

'"Currer Bell" [Charlotte Bronte] told me [Harriet Martineau] that she had read with astonishment those parts of "Household Education" which relate my own experience. It was like meeting her own [?]fetch'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Letter to Assistant poor-law Commissioner

'I [Harriet Martineau] wrote a letter [...] to an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, who was earnest in his endeavours to get workhouses supplied with milk and vegetables, by the labour of the inmates on the land. To my amazement, I found my letter in the "Times," one day while I was at Bolton.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Harriet Martineau : Letter

Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers: 'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to me that he declared himself dying [of consumption] [...] she immediately wrote to suggest to me that a letter from me would gratify him. There was scarcely anything I would rather have done [Martineau having abandoned her Christian faith]: but it was impossible to refuse. I wrote at once [...] There was not a word about the future, or God, or even Christ. It was a letter of sympathy in his benevolent and happy life, and also, of course, in his present weakness. It reached him on the last day of his life. It was read to him. When he a little revived, he asked for it, and read it himself; and then desired his wife to tell all who loved him of "ths last flush on his darkness."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Letter

Harriet Martineau : Letter

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Letter

Mr Atkinson : Letter on "distribution of the brain"

'When "Currer" [Charlotte Bronte] and I [Harriet Martineau] came home, there were proof-sheets [of Martineau's correspondence with Atkinson] lying; and I read her Mr. Atkinson's three letters about the distribution of the brain.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: In proof

Harriet Martineau and H.G. Atkinson : Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development

Charlotte Bronte to Harriet Martineau, on Martineau's published correspondence with Atkinson: 'Having read your book, I cannot now think it will create any outcry. You are tender of others: -- you are serious, reverent and gentle.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book

Auguste Comte : unknown

Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear preparatory view, at second-hand, from a friend [...] What I learned then [...] impelled me to study the great book for myself; and in the spring of 1851 [...] I got the book, and set to work. I had meantime looked at Lewes's chapter on Comte in Mr. Knight's Weekly Volume, and at Littre's epitome'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

G.H. Lewes : Chapter on Auguste Comte

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Littre : "epitome" (relating to Auguste Comte)

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Auguste Comte : unknown

'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myself there was cordial affection, though they were Swedenborgians [Martineau had renounced her Christian religion] [...] [The host's wife] came to my writing-table, to beg the loan of the first volume [of Auguste Comte, which Martineau was translating], when I was going out for a walk. When her daughter and I returned from our walk [...] the whole affair was settled. She [...] had decided that Comte knew nothing. I inquired in amazement the grounds for this decision. She had glanced over the first chapter, and could venture to say that she now "knew all about it."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Irish Sketch-Book by M. A. Titmarsh

'My [Harriet Martineau's] first real interest in [Thackeray] arose from reading M. A. Titmarsh in Ireland, during my Tynemouth illness.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The History of Henry Esmond Esq

'"Esmond" appears to me [Harriet Martineau] [italics]the [end italics] book of the century, in its department. I have read it three times; and each time with new wonder at its rich ripe wisdom, and at the singular charm of Esmond's own character.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The History of Pendennis

'While at Cromer [...] I read "Pendennis" with such intense enjoyment [...] that the notion of trying my hand once more at a novel seized upon me'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: New Testament

In "Memorials of Harriet Martineau", Maria Weston Chapman gives extract from letter from a schoolmate of Martineau's, who remembers reading with her 'parts of the New Testament [...] at night together in our bedroom.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau and friend Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Mary and her Grandmother

Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end italics] of a Paris friend, and stood reading on the spot where I took it up, without the least idea of its authorship. It seemed like a Sunday-school book, but how different from its class in general!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Weston Chapman Print: Book

: "scraps of antique English"

Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Harriet Martineau : article

Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Durham

: Bible

Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family prayer and always came in most punctually with her favourite Bible, the Porteusian edition, which she reads more than any other book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: hymns

Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'Dining out frequently [...] as soon as she came home at night, and had read at my request a devotional hymn in her own sweet and primitive manner, she would take Caroline on one side and me on the other, and [...] would enchain and enchant us until long after midnight'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Norton : Work "in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines"

Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and some of the chapters [...] Read some of Palfrey's Sermons [...] Read Reports of Blind Institution at Philadelphia: of House of Refuge, interesting [...] and of Penitentiary, interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Palfrey : Sermons

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: [Institutional reports]

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Thomas Carlyle : Article on Burns

Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burns. Was mightily cheered and lifted up by it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon. It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, so vain and blind, as ths great man grew to be!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : correspondence

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence. Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost all I ever read of.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: Penny Magazine

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 8 September 1837: 'Looked over frescoes from the Niebelungen Lied, in Penny Magazine.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Retrospect

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of "Retrospect." She says the book will do.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Charles Lamb : Letters

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: 'Revelled in Lamb's letters. What an exquisite specimen is that man of our noble, wonderful, frail humanity!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : article on Sedgwick

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics] Read [...] to my mother [...] my Sedgwick article, which she likes.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

: Anti-slavery documents

Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: 'This morning I read the anti-slavery documents.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Pascal : Pensees

Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read some of Pascal's "Pensees". They show great knowledge of men [...] they are very gloomy; but I do love these speculative writers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Felkin : Report on working classes of Nottingham

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 October 1837: 'I read Felkin's excellent report on the working-classes of Nottingham, showing clearly that there are resources enough for all necessary comfort [...] but that fathers spend nearly all their resources, almost, on themselves.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Channing : Texas

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's "Texas."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Beaumont : Marie

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's "Marie." Sentimental and un-American'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Richard Hildreth : Archy Moore

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 19 October 1837: 'At night, read some of "Archy Moore." A terrible story, which stirred me deeply [...] It is truer than any slave-story I ever read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Whateley : Review of Jane Austen

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 23 October 1837: 'I read Whateley's review of Miss Austen. Good, but not particularly striking.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Ralph Waldo Emerson : oration

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 November 1837: 'Read Waldo Emerson's oration. Though fanciful, it has much truth and beauty. It moved, roused, soothed and consoled me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Lord Brougham : speech on education

Harriet Martineau, Journal, late November 1837: 'Read some of Brougham's education speech, but not all; so have no judgement to give.'

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: newspaper

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 5 December 1837: 'Read the newspaper aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Hall :

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Robert Southey : article on British [?Monarchism]

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '"Evening".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on British Monachism [sic]. Entertaining, but with a vain attempt to prop up Lady Isabella King's institution.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Harriet Martineau : Loom and Lugger

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Morning, read one of my own stories, -- "Loom and Lugger." Was quite disappointed in it. It has capital material, but is obscure, and not simple enough.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how completely I remembered it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: Pictorial Bible

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 20 December 1837: '[italics]Afternoon[end italics] Read in the Pictorial Bible, which is to me very interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : A Journal of the Plague Year

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 28 December 1837: 'Read Defoe's "Plague." Was somewhat disappointed [...] The best part is where he describes the reception of the news of the decrease in the bills of mortality.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: article on "Mademoiselle Gautier"

Harriet Martineau, Journal, [?6] January 1838: 'Read, in Blackwood, article on Mademoiselle Gautier, a devotee, -- much like other devotees, whose tales are, however, very instructive.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

? J. G. ?Lockhart : Life of Scott (vol. 6)

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 January 1838: 'Read Life of Scott, Vol. VI. It is far more interesting than the former ones'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Read "Pride and Prejudice" again last night. I think it as clever as before.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finished "Pride and Prejudice." It is wonderfully clever, and Miss Austen seems much afraid of pathos.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: (Book of) Judges

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Moliere : Les Precieuses Ridicules

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read "Les Precieuses Ridicules," which did not amuse me very much; though acted I can fancy it capital.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 January 1838: 'Read "Northanger Abbey." Capital: found two touches of pathos.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Channing : Texas

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read aloud Southey's article in the Quarterly on Cemeteries; much learning, but little interest.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Robert Southey : Article on cemeteries

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

: Article on Grecian philosophy

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 15 January 1838: 'Probably the greatest day of my year. While I was reading one article in the twenty-first volume of the Quarterly, on Greek philosophy, there being an article in the same number on Hayti, it flashed across me that my novel must be on the Haytian revolution, and Toussaint my hero.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

: [Work on/by Smedley]

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 January 1838: 'Wrote notes and letters, and then sat down to read Smedley. What a tale of privation and suffering! total deafness first, -- then gradual incapacity of every sort [...] He was a hack writer and small poet.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Jane Austen : Emma

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 January 1838: 'Read much of "Emma" this evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : unknown

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 February 1838: '[At Captain Beaufort's] Met [...] C. Darwin, Mr. F. Edgeworth, and Mr. Hamilton, brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, who had been reading my book up to dinner-time, and took a good gaze at me.'

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

: Speeches to Boston meeting (anti-slavery?)

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 February 1838: 'Read beautiful speeches at the Lovejoy meeting in Boston, in the "Liberator."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

: Gospel of John

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 30 June 1838: 'Read the Gospel of John in Porteusian Bible.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: American newspapers

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 26 August 1838: 'Very happy in reading American newspapers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

Harriet Martineau : Deerbrook

Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Arthur Helps Print: Book

[n/a] : The Derbyshire Patriot

'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Derbyshire Patriot

'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hollingsworth Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Derbyshire Patriot

'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Dobb Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Derbyshire Patriot

'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ward Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Bells Weekly Messenger

'Went with E. Allen to the Swan to see a London paper, saw one and learnt from it that Col. Evans was return'd to Westminster ... a sad shock to the Ministry- Bells - in noticing this says [quotes from paper]...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

Ebeneezer Elliot : Corn Law Rhymes

'Work'd all day. In the evening was visited by Wm Camm and Geo Seston to the latter of whom I lent Watts "Improvement of the Mind". Read part of "Corn Law Rhymes" to my friends. G. Ward was then added to the number- staid up till 11 o'clock.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Calvin Colton : Manual for Emigrants to America

'Still unwell ... had in the course of the day read a good deal of "Colton's Work" with which I was very well satisfied. Concluded it after I went to bed- very well satisfied.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

[n/a] : The Morning Chronicle

'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliamentary Review" on the state of the public mind and the conduct of the Whigs, Neithyer of which hesitate to say that the time is almost arriv'd for a change and both intimate that the most likely way to affect it is by force.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Parliamentary Review

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [advertisement / poster for next week's preacher]

'Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (health and circumstances permitting) to hear him. [Berry was a Methodist preacher from Bolton].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Advertisement, Poster

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wrote this paragraph.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Morning Chronicle

'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "Morning Chronicle"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Had three pints of beer at the Harrow then came home, I afterwards read my opportioned [sic] quantity of "Watts Logic", smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire.' [On Friday 13 Jenkinson had laid out a 'systematic' plan to read 'Watts Logic' at the rate of 20 pages per day, which was to be followed by a second reading including notemaking. p.54.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Read until near dinner [goes to chapel] came home, had a glass of gin and water read my quantum of "Watts Logic" smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Tokk a little supper and afterwards read 28 pages of "Watts Logic". Now feel weary and am on the point of retiring with the hope that my evenings improvement will be a little set off for the cares of the day. [criticises government for unemployment]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking refuge in France.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Came home about half past 10 p.m. Read my stinted quantity of "Watts".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Read my usual quantity, and retired quite fatigued.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stated quantity. Friday 20: came into the sitting room and read for an hour)'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry

'Commenced reading at 7 p.m. and continued till half past 9. Made up for the last nights neglect and am now going to bed nearly 10 p.m.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book

[n/a] : The Morning Chronicle

'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very justly bewails his death.' [NB Brougham had not in fact died]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'Noticed at dinner time the improper conduct of Mr Slyfield he having taken the paper and not reading aloud. I kindly requested him to read the city article and sat 1/4 of an hour thinking he would look at it in a while, he however continued reading to himself and deigned not to answer me or to comply with my request or to give up the paper but sat as if he were the only person who had a right to know any of its contents, and also as if he were a being superior to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Slyfield Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'The account of the money market rather more favourable.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'Read the paper and smoked a pipe.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

Patrick Murphy : The Weather Almanack, 1838-39

'Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book, almanac

Frederick Reynolds : Notoriety: A Comedy [Five Acts in Prose]

'My Grandmother and Miss Haynes dined at our house. Read Reynolds' "Comedy of Notoriety"; I think it is fully equal to the dramatist.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Encyclopedia Britanica

'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Samuel Jackson Pratt : Gleanings in England

'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the [D.S?] library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Gentleman's Magazine

'Brought back [from the subscription? library] the Gents Mag for Feby 4 March. They have not yet done with the controversy with respect to the commencement of the century. There is both letters and epigrams upon it in this no.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [The Sheffield Iris]

'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscription for which is one guinea.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very careful of what he says about the riots; a burnt child dreads the fire.' [Report on church charities noted from this issue of the 'Iris' appears on F 3 of the journal in the margin.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

George Gregory : The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated

[account of attending the lectures on metals advertised in the "Iris"] ...all this I had read before ... in the "Sup. Ency." [supplement to the "Encyclopedia Britanica"] and Gregory's "Economy of Nature".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Aikin : A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester

'I took [books] to the library and brought Aikin's "Description of the Country between 30 and 40 miles around Manchester", nevertheless he has Sheffield which is 42 miles of. There are some excellent maps & beautiful prints. It says that the pastoral in the spectator of Colin and Phoebe was written by a Mr Byrom ... Mr E says it is a very valuable book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Aikin : A Description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester

'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened

'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Aikin : A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester

'We got the "Monthly Magazine" from Miss Haynes who takes it in. Mr E. says it is the best published. I drew a copy of Stanley Hall near Bolton le Moor out of Aikin.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : [Greek or Great?] Testament

'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Jones Print: Book

Samuel Rosewell : The Arraignment and Tryal of T. Rosewell, for High Treason

'Read over Rosewell's "Life 7 Tryal" 8vo 17[18]'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Hammond Print: Book

John Dawson : John Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40.

[Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, the Stags herein must be the Present Bell & Dragon. Francis Cain.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Cain Manuscript: Sheet

Rev. George Butt : Timoleon

'One thing, however, yet remains to us & dares to baffle all the wickedness of the Ministry, the tyranny of the Crown, & the various horrours of these ruinous times, ?Manuscript tragedies are yet Handed about to be read & Country Parsons are yet left to Write them. One of these we had last Night the happiness of hearing,? the Author is Tutor to a Nephew of Sir Philip Clerke, ?I shall not pretend either to praise or to censure his Piece, but content myself with giving You a specimen of his ingenuousness ? "If", says he, "any one asserts that my Play is barren of incident,?it is no more than I know already,?but I can?t help it,?for I could find none in The History from which I took it". It is called, from its Hero, Timoleon.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about books?as I never read any Books, but men & Cards"?But let any Body read [ital] her [close ital] Book; & then tell me, if she did not draw Characters with as masterly a hand as Sr Joshua Reynolds. "Go thou and do likewise."'

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Churchill Print: Book

Leigh Hunt (ed) : The Examiner

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 1 January 1840: 'Read Examiner [...] but could not write at all. Made a cap, therefore.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical

Wilberforce : unknown

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. Crowther's book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Dr Crowther : unknown

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. Crowther's book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Thom : account of "Oxford Movement"

Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writings: good [...] Have been reading Wilberforce: grows twaddling in his old age, through want of cultivation of mind. Very noble, however, -- his keeping back Brougham's pledge about the Queen, and silently suffering universal censure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

William Wilberforce : unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Harriet Martineau : The Hour and the Man (vol. I)

Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man"], and give in my adhesion to her Black Prince [Toussaint L'Ouverture] with all my heart and soul. The book is really not only beautiful and touching, but [italics]noble[end italics]; and I do not recollect when I have been more charmed, whether by very sweet and eloquent writing and glowing description, or by elevated as well as tender sentiments. I do not believe that the worthy people ever spoke or acted as she has so gracefully presented them, and must confess that in all the striking scenes I entirely forgot their complexion, and drove the notion of it from me as often as it occurred. But this does not at all diminish, but rather increases the merit of her creations.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey Print: Book

: Right and Wrong among the Abolitionists of the United States

Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease, 27 February 1841: 'I have read the statements in "Right and Wrong among the Abolitionists of the United States", with respect to the differences between the two antislavery societies in America, with a strong and painful interest [...] I am not more firmly persuaded of anything, than that those who [...] listen to one side only, or refuse to hear either, are doing the deepest injury in their power to the antislavery cause'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam A. H. H.

Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's "In Memoriam": 'Like most other people (whom I have met with, at least), I shrank from a whole volume of published griefs; and the more, because I knew Arthur Hallam [...] I began to cut and read last night; and I stopped at last, by a virtuous effort, from the feeling that I ought not to be able to take in so much at once, -- that I ought to spread it out [...] I cannot honestly say that I had anything like so much pleasure from "The Princess." There are bits of wisdom and beauty [...] but the impression of the whole is more than odd; -- it is very disagreeable, to my feeling. It does not follow that I am not glad to know it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Princess

Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's [italics]In Memoriam[end italics]: 'Like most other people (whom I have met with, at least), I shrank from a whole volume of published griefs; and the more, because I knew Arthur Hallam [...] I began to cut and read last night; and I stopped at last, by a virtuous effort, from the feeling that I ought not to be able to take in so much at once, -- that I ought to spread it out [...] I cannot honestly say that I had anything like so much pleasure from "The Princess." There are bits of wisdom and beauty [...] but the impression of the whole is more than odd; -- it is very disagreeable, to my feeling. It does not follow that I am not glad to know it'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Louisa May Alcott : Transcendental Wild Oats (article)

From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article of Miss Alcott's, she [Martineau] says, "Transcendental Wild Oats"! -- what a capital title! It has genius in it."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown

Lucas : Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History

Harriet Martineau, in letter of 8 July 1862: 'If Mr. Lucas's book should come in your way ("Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History") do look at the chapter last but one, -- "Absolutism in Extremis," -- for his revelations of the conditions and perplexity of French politics. To my taste this book is charming, though he and I differ about American politics. Nearly all the rest is a very great treat to me.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

John Forster : The Life of Charles Dickens

Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal relations with Forster [...] Yet it has an interest, and is worth reading. In the second volume I am much struck by Dickens's hysterical restlessness [...] To how great an extent the women of his family are ignored in the book! The whole impression left by it is very melancholy.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Curtis : Eulogy on Charles Sumner

Harriet Martineau to Mrs F. G. Shaw, 17 July 1874: 'I wish to send you my thanks [...] for sending me what I so much wished to see as Mr. Curtis's "Eulogy" on his friend [Charles Sumner]. It is very beautiful, and in ways which are not interfered with by differences of opinion in regard to its subject.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I am in a state of amazement at a discovery just made; I have read (after half a lifetime) Scott's "Bride of Lammermoor," and am utterly disappointed in it. The change in my taste is beyond accounting for, -- almost beyond belief.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

: Local newspaper

W. Matthews, father of Harriet Martineau's maid Marianne Matthews, to Martineau's sister Susan: 'A short time before the receipt of your kind letter of yesterday I was startled to read of the death of our dear Mrs. Martineau [sic], in our local paper'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W. Matthews Print: Newspaper

Harriet Martineau : The Hour and the Man

Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historical romance in any language. You would wonder if you knew how often I have read it over and over again, even in the last two years.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Nightingale Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Life in the Sickroom

From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to be destroyed. I had so large a boxful that it took some time to read and burn them [...] on reading that most charming of all her publications, "Life in the Sick-Room" [...] I said, "Oh, but I have read it all before! -- this is only my burnt letters!"'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth B. Ker Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey

'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Tristram Shandy", of which I never could get through three volumes. In these there is great good nature and strokes of delicacy.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Book

[unknown] : [old-fashioned theological works]

'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown] : [early Methodist magazines]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [cookery books]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown] : [tales of murder and robbery]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Unknown

Horace Walpole : The Castle of Ontranto

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown] : History of England

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Kenilworth

'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious one entitled "Adam's First Wife". This was a sort of history of the Garden of Eden which rather discounted the "rib theory" and raised some doubt in my mind as to Adam's innocence in the pre-apple days.' [continuation of discussion of Adam etc]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown] : Adam's First Wife

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : Bring flowers

[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ To wreathe the cup ere the wine is poured;/ Bring flowers! they are springing in wood and vale,/ Their breath floats out on the southern gale; ...' [total = 6 x 6 lines verses]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anonymous : The season of death

[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath/And stars to set - but all/ Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh Death ...' (total - 5 x 4 line verses)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Richard Steele : An Account of the State of the Roman Catholic Religion

'Read Sir Richard Steele's Dedication of his Account of the state of the Roman Catholic Religion to the Pope'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dudley Ryder Print: Book

unknown : unknown ["solid reading"]

'Well, I think Civil Defence is a marvellous racket. It's given me the spare time I've been wanting for years?I've done more solid reading, for instance, than I've done since I was twenty-one.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: [M35B] Anon

William Wordsworth : [Poems]

'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all the more simple poems, thinking myself like his Lucy: "A maid whom there was none to praise, And very few to love." But I spent so much time, which my mother called "wasted", over the book that she took it away, threatening to burn it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament

'One wet Sunday morning we were all sitting round the table, reading in turn from the New Testament, this being my mother's substitute for Sunday school when she happened to be in a good temper.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown-probably various contributors] : [poems in newspaper]

'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant reading matter, so I said quickly: "Yes, we like it."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Newspaper

Mary Humphrey Ward : The History of David Grieve

'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbourhood hoping to include the dale in her next book. Many years afterwards I read "The History of David Grieve" and at once remembered our visitor. Comparing dates I realised it was Mrs. Humphry Ward, seeking the atmosphere of the wild valley she described so well.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

John Gerard : The Herball or General Historie of Plants

'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names and figures of some of the plants with which he had formed an imperfect acquaintance; and he carried it back with him to school.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Amboinensis

'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who has a very good figure of the tree in his Herb. Amboin. [v. iii. tab. 71, 72]'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

George Shelvocke : A Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea

'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that Shelvoke mentions in his "Voyage Round the World" p. 60), and A. frustrum, Ulva intestinalis, and Corallina officinalis.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Charles De Brosses : Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jour

'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we can say is, that it was the southernmost land we saw, and does not answer badly to the description of Cape Horn given by the French, who place it upon an island, and say that it is two bluff headlands (vide Histoire des Navigat. aux terres australes, tom i. p. 356).'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

[uknown-ship's cook?] : [recipe]

'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our palates at least, and fully as green and pleasing to the eye as if it were bought fresh every morning at Covent Garden Market. Our steward has given me the receipt, which I shall copy exactly - false spelling excepted.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.

Hulme : [book with medical directions]

'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to become ulcers; I flew to the lemon juice, which had been put up for me according to Dr. Hulme's method, described in his book, and in his letter, which is inserted here.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Patrick Browne : The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica

'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is very nearly allied to our nono, that it is used by the inhabitants of the East Indian Islands as a fixing drug for the colour of red, with which he says it particularly agrees.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Amboinensis

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Charles de Brosse : Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes

'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) it appears clearly that the languages given there as those of the Isles of Solomon and the Isle of Cocos are radically the identical language we met with, most words differing in little, but the greater number of consonants.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville : A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade & navigation ...

'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, supposing the author who speaks of ten numbers and gives only nine to have lost the fifth, their similarity is beyond dispute.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Alexander Dalrymple : An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764

'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dalrymple's book, p. 63; his hair was also tied in a knot on the top of his head, but there was no feather stuck in it; his complexion brown but not very dark.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Abel Jansen Tasman : [unknown]

'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the cloth they wore were passed over their shoulders and fastened to the rest of it just below their breasts; but few or none had feathers in their hair.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Amedee Francois Frezier : Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du Chili, et du Peron, fair pendent les annees, 1712, 1713, et 1714

'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo" or "poisson coq" which, though coarse, we made shift to eat, and several species of skate or sting-rays, which were abominably coarse.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Mrs. Henry Wood : [novels]

'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most of Sir Walter Scott's works along with a good deal of poetry and history, as well as a good deal of rubbish I daresay. But as I have forgotten it it did me no harm.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : [works]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown] : [poetry]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Robert Blatchford : Nunquam

'When I was living in Sallie's home one of the male boarders who called himself a Socialist showed me some articles in a Sunday paper written by Robert Blatchford, "Nunquam", dealing with slums and sweated industries. These articles excited much interest, and many were the arguments in Mrs. J's house as to the rights or wrongs of the matter.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Clarion

'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist weekly "The Clarion", I began to read it and became deeply interested in the theories put forward.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Emmeline Pankhurst : My Own Story

'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand on the part of women for the franchise'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Helena Swanwick : I have been Young

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Joseph Macabe : The Religion of Women

'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women" and "Women in Political Evolution", which I still think are the finest ever written on the subject. They are like a film showing women's life throughout the ages, our faults and our virtues, and the economic reasons for our inferiority before the law.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

Joseph Macabe : Women in Political Evolution

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown] : [To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell]

'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." This document would hardly find favour with the advocates of Basic English - there are no stops or commas in it. It begins with "Greeting. Know ye that we have assigned you and every one of you jointly and severally Our Justices to keep the peace in and throughout our city of Manchester in our County Palatine of Lancaster and to keep and cause to be kept all Ordinaces and Statues made for the good of our peace and for the Conservation of the same." Then followed the instructions - "to chastise and punish all persons that offend against the form of these ordinaces. To cause to come before you or any of you all those who to anyone or more of Our People concerning their bodies or the firing of their houses have used threats to find sufficient security for the Peace if they shall refuse to find such Securtiy then them in our prisons until they shall find such security to cause to be safely kept." The scroll ends with the command - "that you diligently apply yourselves to the keeping Our Peace Ordinance Statutes and all and signular other the premises and perform and fulfil the same in form aforesaid being therein what to Justice appertaineth according to the Laws and Customs of England."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Manuscript: Sheet

James Edward Austen-Leigh : A Memoir of Jane Austen

"Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two more of unrivalled intimate friends of the whole public, was compelled by the feelings of her family to cover up her manuscripts with a large piece of muslin work."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : The voice of spring

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me long;/ I come o'er the mountains with light and song!/ Ye may trace my steps o'er the wakening earth,/ By the winds which tell of the violet's birth ...' (total = 7 x 6 line verses)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : When coldness wraps this suffering clay

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay/ Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?/ It cannot die, it cannot stay/ But leaves its darken'd dust behind ...' [total = 4 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Epitaph on an Idiot

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heaven/ And God but little asks, where little's given/The wise Creator has for thee in store/ Great joys!-what wise man can ask more?'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

Sunday, Feb 4 (1940) 'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading, writing, etc. Thank goodness snow seems to be thawing.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

unknown : [light readings]

'I'm getting on in age, I want light reading. You understand that, don't you? I don't want heavy reading. I don't want to study anything at my time of life. Perhaps I come in here two or three times a week. I'm a great reader.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [life of Joan of Arc]

'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of that girl.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

J G Brandon : Death in Downing Street

'Well, it's written snappy, you see. . . . Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-they're quick reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[Thomas] [Moore] : [The Blue Stocking]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know why/ To sport an hour with Beauty's chain/ Then throw it idly be ... ' [total = 2 x 10 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[George Gordon, Lord] [Byron] : [Don Juan - Canto the Third]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time/ Is sharpen'ed from its high celestial flavour/ Down to a very homely household savour'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[James?] Beresford : [On vaccination]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart writing on the Cowpax talks/ gravely of a most horrible case of vaccination/ viz, of a child who in consepquence of it, ran upon/ all fours, bellowing like a cow and butting/ like a bull thus reallizing (says the author/ who quotes the above) the apprehensions of/ the author of Vaccine Phantasmogoria and who exclaims/ O Mosely thy books mighty phantasies rousing/ Full oft make me quake for my heart's dearest treasures/ ...' [total = 2 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[James?] Montgomery : Night

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors close/ To gather round an aching breast/ The curtain of repose ...'[total= 6x 6line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingilby "For reducing or repealing the malt tax' ...this was hailed throughout the country as something being done for the people...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the "Iris" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct of ministers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Print: Newspaper

Eusebius : De Praeparatio Evangelica

'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Jones Print: Book

William Paley : A View of the Evidences of Christianity

'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner, and I am convinced I could have written out the whole of the "Evidences" with perfect correctness...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin Print: Book

William Paley : Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner....'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin Print: Book

William Paley : Natural Theology

'The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insist either on the scope or the utility of the argument so powerfully and at te sane time so beautifullyenforced in that work.' [p.1] [The lecture also contains various other summaries, comments and references to paley's work.]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Kidd Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arrival Indicator, woman says "Trains not a bit late yet, the organization's wonderful!" People generally not talking about the Coronation but about trains, food, drinks, relatives, etc.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [advertisement]

'Advert. S. side of Euston Road reading "Morris Commercial Vehicles-a Body for every Trade" heavily draped with decorations. Diversion round Euston Square. Extraordinary diversion at Albany Street: "Straight on all colours" says notice on road going due North.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement, Poster

[n/a] : Daily Mirror

'Girl sitting on soiled newspaper is reading Daily Mirror. The caption reads "Three women wait 25 hours; lead line up for the big parade".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [crime novel]

'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looking twins who are speaking a language like Danish and are learning English words from a Pitman's book.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : Pitman's book

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [pamphlet]

'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chair reading aloud slowly from the leaflet I had been distributing: "Speed-up in Industry: 5 men now do the work that it took 6 men to do in 1932".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Observer a sweet but by mistake holds out bird's peanut tin.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph Supplement

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Very few people appeared to be out, in fact it seemed like Sunday in the High Road, I called in a snack bar, ordered a cup of tea and a packet of cigarettes, I was the only customer at the time, and the waiter seemed reluctant to put down the newspaper he was reading to serve, I remarked it was a bad day, he agreed and said that some people would lose a lot of money as a result of it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Voltaire : Candide

'After that I read Voltaire's "Candide", and at 12 o'clock adjourned for a pint to the local pub. Switched on the wireless again at 2.0 for the same reason as before, and off at 2.30. Reading Pat Sloan's "Soviet Democracy" all the afternoon.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Pat Sloan : Soviet Democracy

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Emil Lucka : Evolution of love, The

'After tea I completed my notes on this subject and then finished a book I was reading, "The Evolution of Love", by Emil Lucka. He treats the subject in a sort of historical-philosophical manner.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ethel Mannin : Green Willow

'Followed by the thought that, had I not been reading Ethel Mannin's "Green Willow", which gives a vivid description of this development, perhaps I would not have taken sides.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : A Guide to philosophy

'About 10.30 p.m. I took her for some refreshment, we talked of books, she said she was reading "A Guide to Philosophy", I made some laudatory remarks about "Eyeless in Gaza".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times

'Suddenly, he gave a sort of cry, and read out the opening sentences from the "Times" announcing a battle in the valley of the Alma...both he and my mother seemed deeply excited. He broke off his reading when the fact of the decisive victory was assured, and he and my mother sank simultaneously on their knees...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [sensational novel]

'...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of course a fragment, but I read it, kneeling on the bare floor, with indescribable rapture.' [and more for a paragraph..]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge : The Penny Cyclopaedia

'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a book of incommunicable dreariness, called Newton's "Thoughts onthe Apocalypse".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Benjamin Wills Newton : Thoughts on the Apocalypse

'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a book of incommunicable dreariness, called Newton's "Thoughts on the Apocalypse".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

James Hyslop : The Cameronian's Dream

'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream" and it had been written by a certain James Hyslop...' [ more for 2 paras]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Andrew John Jukes : The law of the offerings in Leviticus

'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, and I was early set to read Jukes aloud to them. I did it glibly , like a machine, but the sight of Jukes's volumes became an abomination to me, and I never formed the outline of a notion what they were about.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge : The Penny Cyclopaedia

'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Anon : Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe walketh on ye earthe glyttering lyke golde/ The yerthe goeth to ye yerthe sooner than it wolde/ The yerthe buildeth upon the yerthe castelles & towers/ the yerthe sayeth to the yerthe, all things are ours'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [Translation of an Arabic Ode]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace destroy/ Or strive to ease thy woes/ Will thou to man impute the joy/ To man ascribe the cause ...'[total = 3 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Thomas Medwin : Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron

'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though she had told [John Cam] Hobhouse that it would have been better to publish Byron's journal rather than burn it, for Medwin's book [Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron] was "full of vulgarity & erros--even as to dates"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Thomas Medwin : Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron

'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is executed, and after the momentary pain in part which it excites in many a bosom, will live in despight [sic] of censure and be gratefully accepted by the Public as long as Lord Byron's name is remembered--yet as you have left to one who adored him a little legacy and as I feel secure the lines "remember thee-thou false to him then friend time"--were his--and as I have been very ill I am not likely to trouble any one much longer--you will I am sure grant me one favour--let me to you at least confide the truth of the past--you owe it to me--you will not I know refuse me [...] Still I love him [Byron]--witness the agony I experienced at his death & the tears your book has cost me. Yet, Sir, allow me to say, although you have unitentionally given me pain I had rather have experienced it than not have read your book. Parts of it are beautiful, and I can vouch for the truth of much as I read his own memoirs before Murray burnt them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [Memoirs]

'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Thomas Medwin : ournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron

'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do however [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on Man

'"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Anon : [The Ton]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's face, a Pulteney's dower/ I ask not wit nor even sense/ I scorn content and innocence/The gift I ask can these forestall/ It aids, improves, implies them all/Then good or bad, or right or wrong/ Grant me ye Gods! - to be the Ton! ...' [Total = 30 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Robert] [Burns] : [Lady Mary Anne]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the troubles in the reign of Charles 1st, a/ country girl came up to London in search of a place as/ servant maid ... Lady Mary Anne was a flower in the dew/ Sweet was its smell and bonnie was its hue ...' [total = 1p. of prose and 2x 4 line verses)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [unknown]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh farewell; I shall see him nae mair/ Lang lang was he mine, lang lang but nae mair/ I ?. ?. , but my heart it is sair ...'[total = 10 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Ode to the closing year

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/The knell of Time in sorrowing tone / Or sadly tune my lyre to sing/ A requiem to the year that's gone? ...' [total = 24 lines of verse followed by 1.5 pp of related prose]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Serial / periodical

Lowth : Lowth's Prelections in Latin

"Now it was meeting James at seven in the morning to read Lowth's Prelections in the Latin,"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Tacitus : Agricola

"Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I went into such an enthusiasm over the original, and especially over the celebrated concluding passage, that I thought I would translate it, and correct it by Dr Aitkins, which I could procure from our public library".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Dr Aitkin : Translation of the Agricola of Tacitus

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

unknown : Licensed houses and their management

'This landlord was new to the game and took me to see how he was studying to be master of it. He was busy reading three volumes- "Licensed Houses and Their Management".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'A man is playing the piano briskly; on music stand is a newspaper, open at the sports page, which he is reading. A hunchback, brown suit, bow tie, sings songs about love.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Charles Darwin : Origin of species

'The conversation went on about Darwin's "Origin of species", and F. said to S. "tha doesn't favour a monkey, but tha acts like one." R. said "I think he's bloody crackers". S. went on to say their house was full of books, so F. said "Don't you think it's about time you started reading them". Eventually between them they got S. that tied up in argument he had to retire, and shook hands with us all and went home.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : Carpentier's life

'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thing 'e never trained. Battling Siki knocked everything out of 'im.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature Forward not permanent ? sweet not lasting The perfume and suppliance of a minute No more ?.. [Lamb?s own ellipses] Rest not perturb?d spirit? [writing in another direction on the other half of the sheet she continues] ?O dear Ophelia wherefore doubt me --I have not art to win thee but this I know I love thee best O most best ? believe it adieu. Hamlet?

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Bronislaw Malinowski? : [unknown]

'Our own attitude and our feeling of amateur enterprise have been summed up by Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, who in our first year's "Report" (Lindsay Drummond, 1938) describes how he first met one of us reading a paper to the Institute of Sociology.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Sheet, Academic paper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Tries to read sports page, but ends up reading news. One girl does bad piece of work in mill. Immense black-out purchasing in town.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'While an old working-class lady of 68 in Worktown, reading a newspaper, summed up her opinion of the war as follows.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Thomas Brown : Paradise of Coquettes

'[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

[unknown] : [pamphlet]

'When one has finished reading through this pamphlet one comes to the inevit- able conclusion that there is absolutely no hope for Germany.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Sir Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly cannot be called a bad novel it is written by a clever man ? a man who knows human nature & has looked as closely as Claude Lauraine on views of skies & water & rocks ? but there is not much genius there as there was in Waverly'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Waverley

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [copy books]

?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in reading them at present I cannot even guess what they are or why you sent them to me. I should have conceived basing[?] a few hard words that it was one of the stories I wrote some fifteen years ago ? as it bears all the marks of that work of premature genius which some romantic children have - & which seldom I think does them any other service than to lead them headlong into love & folly before the usual time I should say it was the production of what Sir Moore properly defines a Girl of Genius unless perchance it is the school effusion of some boy of that sort ? it is very clever, very original in parts ? very imitative in others and tho the whole thing occasioned by having either read some poetry or seen some play that has filled the Authors[sic] head ? with mystery ? wildness & extravagance ? if it is to be published it must of course be reread & rewritten - & if you knew how sick I was of ?Moments of Gloom? mysterious personages ??care worn brows" marble hearts - & the whole of that which deceived me & many others, you would never send me any think of the sort I think however seriously this that if the person who wrote this be young & inexperienced, they will soon write very well & must be very clever. if they be at their best ? I donot [sic] much admire them?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Copy Books

[unknown] : Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan Review

'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it because it takes[?] the thing [Glenarvon] fairly & not as real characters[.] have you ever heard what he [presumably Lord Byron] said to Glenarvon ? I burn to know?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [poem]

'Dear Lord Byron? I must thank you for yr. Poem you have sent me I [this word is illegible] not say how good I think it is [?]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Sarah Jersey Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Bride of Abydos

'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Canning Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Charles Dickens : A tale of two cities

'The only social event she goes to is the Sunday afternoon tea run by her chapel. Again she has not made many friends here, but she seems to enjoy going. Apart from that, she spends her evenings writing letters, sewing, and reading. Molly reads far more than most of the girls-she always brings a book to read in the canteen. She does not just read idly for pleasure, but has a real thought-out attitude toward it, and regards it as a worthwhile occupation. At the time of writing she is reading "A Tale of Two Cities", and intends to have read the whole of Dickens by the end of the summer.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Molly Print: Book

[unknown] : Sketch

'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smothered by small coal and slack. Miss V. is sitting over it, reading. Mr. T. comes in, dressed in Home Guard uniform, and rubbing his hands together.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning. "I suppose Eden thought they'd go on their knees to get him not to resign. If there were many like him, there'd soon be a war".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: letter

'Actually Hotspur is reading from a letter and the quotation goes on: "'The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so great an opposition".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading the "Telegraph" I worked out that it would be August at least before I was de-reserved, and that I should be out of work by then, for I cannot see us lasting another seven months.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Anon : Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction'; [Text] 'Reviewing June's perennial flight/ We mark some lovely hours/ Like stars amidst a stormy night/ Or winter blooming flowers ...; 1st In happier hours my pleasure all day/ Was to rove with the thoughtless and dance with the gay/ Through life as I sported no clouds could I see/ And the hearts that were gayest were dearest to me/ But now in affliction how chang'd is the view/ Tho' gay hearts are many sincere ones are few. 2nd Tho' some come around us to laugh and to jest/ In sickness or sorrow they shrink from the test/ ... 3rd But thou in my sorrow still faithfully came/ And tho' I am alter'd, I find you the same...' [total = 2 x 4 line verses followed by 3 x 6 lines verses labelled '1st', '2nd', '3rd']

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] : The grave of a poetess

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; [text] 'I stood beside thy lowly grave;/ Spring-odours breath'd around/ And music, in the river-wave/ pass'd with a lulling sound ...' [total = 13 x 4 lines verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]? : [Adieu]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisant pays de France/ O ma patrie/ La plus cherie/ Qui a nourri ma jeune enfance ......' [total = 13 x 4 lines verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Dr Clark : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes his/ native country in the last volume of his travels & few/ men have seen more of the world'. 'Oh England! decent abode of comfort and /cleanliness, & decorum! Oh blessed assylum of all/ that is worth having upon earth ? Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see/ My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee' [total =15 lines of extract with 3 lines of introduction. The final two lines are from 'The traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith. It is uinclear whether they are in Clark's text or are added]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : The record

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His soldier's cloak a shroud/ His churchyard is the open field/ Three times it has been ploughed... L.E.L.' [total =9 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

George Crabbe : Tale II, 'The Parting Hour'

[transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear And then though some may in that life be strange, Yet there appears no vast nor sudden change: The links that bind those various deeds are seen, And no mysterious void is left between [?] Yet none who saw the rapid current flow, Could the first instant of that danger know. [line drawn across 12 recto] 'All things prepar[e]d, on he expected day Was seen the vessel anchor'd in the bay. From her would seamen in the evening come, To take the adventurous Allen from his home [...]'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Whereas Kay was always trying to read or knit when she sat down, Louise is doing nothing at all, and so can be quite undisturbed by the constant clawing of sticky hands round her knees.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kay

[unknown] : [English novel]

'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very much annoyed at hearing that the idea had been put forward in England, and said that it was a great mistake to give the enemy warning.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [news running on electric signboard]

'The steps around Eros statue are filled with an excited crowd, coster's barrows stand around selling fruit, chocolate, etc. Hot chestnuts, roasted potatoes and peanuts are selling fast. It is 1 a.m. and most of the roadway is filled with people who read aloud the slowly spelled news reports on the running electric signboard over the end of Glasshouse Street.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: people gathered near the Eros statue Print: electric signboard with scrolling text

[unknown] : Low Company

'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread and Wine".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ignazio Silone : Bread and wine

'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread and Wine".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello

'I did not move from my chair but reached for a book. Picked up a Shakespeare and read the closing scene, "Othello".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : Introductory Lectures

'I read Freud's "Introductory Lectures".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and read until 12 o'clock.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Edgar Wallace : Sanders of the River

'On the dressing table were three books, my own, "Sanders of the River", Snowden's "Wages and Prices", a relic of my student days, and "The Book of Mormon" which had been given me by a Mormon missionary. I picked up "Sanders" and got back into bed. I didn't read much of it. I could not concentrate, so continued to smoke and gaze around the room.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was the name of a row of houses, Amble Tonia.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Reporter. On May 12 I slept till ten. From ten to eleven I read the paper with interest until I came to a half column of news giving the time schedule of the Queen's dressing arrangements on that morning.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper?]

'On one of the side streets, a young couple parked their perambulator in the middle of the sidewalk and stopped to read the results of the Coronation procession in London.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: a young couple Print: Unknown, perhaps front page of newspaper displayed?

[n/a] : [tomb inscriptions]

'I walked through the park for a few minutes and not finding anything of interest to see or hear, I turned into a lane nearby that led to the cemetery. Here I read the inscriptions on several tombs and thought how different Italian burial places were. Night was approaching, I was chilly, I turned and walked home.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: epitaphs on tombs at cemetery

Alexander Pope : An Essay on Man, Epistle I

[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] reason would he skip & play Pleas?d to the last he cropp?s the flowery food And licks the hand upraised to shed his blood["] What you always repeated! 1812?

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Maria Tighe : The lily

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you obscure unsightly root/Yet from the blight of wintry storm/ It hides secure the precious fruit/ ... (Mrs Tighe)' [total = 40 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

George Croly : Evening's daughter

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose/ Is drooping for thy sigh of dew/ The Hyacinth woos thy kiss to close/ In slumber sweet its eye of blue ... (Croly)' [total = 3 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : The Troubadour [extract]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a picture by Howard/ the subject - fairies on the sea shore./ First fairy/ My home & haunt are in every leaf/ Whose life is a summer day , bright & brief/ I live in the depths of the tulip's bower/ I drink the dew of the citrus flower/ ...'[total = 4 verses of 10,10,8,12 lines with chorus]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Inchbald : Nature and Art

[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful in its import than all the rest?if poverty if bodily pain if disgrace even if flighted love be your unhappy fate kneel & bless heaven for its beneficent influence [...] William was gone ? her lover her Friend was gone & with him gone all that excels of happiness which is presence had bestow?d [?] She wished it had been kinder even for his sake who wrote it yes said she after a pause ? he has only the fault of inconstancy and that has been caused by my change of conduct ? had I been virtuous still he had still been affectionate?Bitter thought & true! ??

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Anon : [On Friendship]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation and/ different avenues to our gratitude and favour - A man/may lend his countenance who will not part/ with his money...' [total = 43 lines of prose followed by three related quotes, one French, two are anonymous, the third is by "THe judicious Hooker" ie Richard Hooker?]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : 'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz'

[transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the well matched couple now advance / His hand held hers. The other grasped her hip[...]'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

H. Smith : Country and Town

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shades to dwell!/ One positively might as well/ be buried in the quarries/ No earthly object to be seen/ but cows and geese upon the green/ As sung by Captain Morris...' [total = 6 x 6 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

William Robert Spencer : Urania

[transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'If guardian Powers preside above Who still extend to virtuous Love A tutelary care The Virgins bosom?s earliest dole The first born Passion of the soul Must find protection there. Never can noon's maturer ray That charm of orient light display, Which morning suns impart So can no later passion prove That glow which gilds the dawn of Love The day spring of the hearts?

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Thomas Moore : 'Gazel'

[transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Edmund Burke : [unknown]

[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine : [L'Homme]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde encore ignore le vrai nom/ Esprit mysterieux, mortel ou demon/...' [total = 58 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Lines on Home

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear the busy hours away/That is not home where lonely night/ Prepares me for the toils of light/ ...' [total = 36 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Henry Neele : The comet

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He treads [?], as treads a monarch towards his throne/ Darkness her leaden sceptre lifts, in vain,/ Crushed and consumed beneath his fiery ?/ [by] Henry Neele' [total = 26 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ and its pleasures in all their new lustre begin/ When we live in a bright beaming world of our own/ And the light that surrounds us is all from within/ ... [by] Moore' [total = 3 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : The illuminated city

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festive light/ For the Royal city rejoiced by night/ ... [by] Mrs Hemans' [total = 5 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : The forest sanctuary

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might/ Which hath lain bedded in the silent soul/ A treasure all undreamed of ; - as the night/ ... [by] Mrs Hemans' [total = 8 x 9 line verses, probably not a continuous extract]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec moi meme;/ Ah prends garde un peril extreme/ De causes avec un flatteur'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Poesie di Ossian

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e rotundo/ ...'; [total = 37 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Mary] [Tighe] : The old Maid's prayer to Diana

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars, my dear goddess decree/ That Old Maid as I am, an Old Maid I must be;/ O, hear the petition I offer to thee/ For to hear it must be my endeavour/ ...'; [total = 5 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Robert] [Pollock] : The Course of Time [extract]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast river of unfailing source/ Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his number flowed/ And op'ed new fountains in the human heart...'; [total = 86 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : The Dead and the Living [extract]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou bright emanation of the/ Divinity, thou brilliant struggler from another/ world! - daily daily doth thou present to us a striking/ exemplification that man was created in the image / of His Maker ?'; [total = 37 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

William Wordsworth : [The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for relief/ But slowly did her succour come/ And a patience to her grief? Wordsworth'; [8 lines ie last 2 verses only]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : My Birthday

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how each time the day comes round/ Less and less white[?] the ? appears/ ?'; [total = 28 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'My friend didn't want to shave, although he was no longer clean-shaven, so we had a brief wrangle about washing. Then he read to me out of the newspaper, still in his pyjamas, while I told him to get dressed.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace

'I sat in a seat in the square, my neighbours were mainly old men wrapped in dowdy overcoats and growling spasmodically to each other. I continued to read "War and Peace" which I had started at breakfast time.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'At 9.50 I went into the general office in order to await any cases of infectious diseases or nuisances which may arise during the day (inspector on duty) and chatted with the clerk on duty. He had a Coronation souvenir paper and read aloud the heading "Smiles that charm all subjects" and added in a disappointed tone "they have failed to charm me".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Light and Dark

'9.15-12.0. Dressed. Wrote a poem. Annoyed by patriotic and religious activities at Church opposite. Read a magazine, "Light and Dark", to which I had contributed. Began to rewrite a criticism of Edgar Poe.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coronation ceremony. When this had finished I read a book till seven o'clock when my father came home.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [morning newspaper]

'Had extra hour in bed and read morning paper. Spent most of morning in garden making enclosure for tortoise as decide simple things are satisfying, but wireless sets are giving off loud cheers and wish secretly I was seeing procession.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Emile Burns : Handbook of Marxism

' I am disappointed that it is not raining, but bethought myself that it might rain at the time of the procession. I washed, dressed and shaved in an even more leisurely manner than usual; for I dislike hurrying over this operation, since I often feel worried at the beginning of the day, and I feel the need of time to brood on my worries. I prepared and ate my breakfast, over which I read part of the Communist Manifesto from Emile Burns' "Handbook of Marxism".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

' I laid in bed till 6.15 a.m. and got up, washed and shaved. I ate my breakfast and read the paper.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

George Orwell : Road to Wigan Pier

'Started to read George Orwell's "Road to Wigan Pier" -Left Book Club choice for March. Arrived at Liverpool St. punctually at 9.30.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Glasgow Herald

'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and "Ayrshire Post" (Report of Ayrshire Film Society, Dr. M'Rae's report of Glengall Mental Hospital, letter about- people-writer of letter doesn't like them- comments on Ayr's poor support of a resident repertory company "Pelican Players").'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ayrshire Post

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Daily Worker

'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

E. M. Forster : A Passage to India

'I gave her E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". She- "I'm not sure, but I believe I've read it. I don't really remember." Rest of conversation not recorded, above remarks noted an hour later.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Thomas Moore : To my mother

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its boughs to wander free/ And shoot and blossom wide and high?'; [total = 12 lines plus a 2 line quote]. [Quote Titled] 'Comfort for the loss of Friends'; [Text] 'My gems are fast falling away, but I do hope & trust/ it is because "God is making up his jewels"/ Charles Wolfe'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Resignation

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ Of endless woe complains/ Be mine in patient hope alone/To hear what Heaven ordains...'; [total = 12 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Joseph Addison : [Spare Time]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employment for those retired hours/ in which we are altogether left to ourselves, and/ destitute of company & conversation... Addison'; [total = 20 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Journal of an Annuyee

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our experience = it is/ sorrow which teaches us to feel properly for ourselves/ and others - We must feel deeply before we can/ think rightly. It is not in the storms and tempests/ of passion, we can reflect - but afterwards ...'; [total = 10 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light and warmth once liv'd below/ Where have ye ta'en your flight above/ Leaving life's vale in wintry woe/ ...'; [total = 2 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Fredrik Hasselquist : Iter Palestinum

'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not exactly the same species as "Cynips sycomori", Linn., described by Hasselquist in his Iter Palestinum, a strong proof of the fact that figs must be impregnated by means of insects, though indeed that fact wanted not any additional proofs.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Sir Hans Sloane : History of Jamaica

'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the branches of them and other trees were large ants' nests, made of clay, as big as a bushel, something like those described in Sir Hans Sloane's "History of Jamaica", vol. II. pp. 221 to 258, but not so smooth.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere

'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unlike that remarkable one which De Buffon has described by the name of "Phalanger" as an American animal. It was, however, not the same. M. de Buffon is certainly wrong in asserting that this tribe is peculiar to America, and in all probability, as Pallas has said in his "Zoologia" the "Phalanger" itself is a native of the East Indies, as my animals and that agree in the extraordinary conformation of their feet, in which particular they differ from all the others.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Peter Simon Pallas : Miscellanea Zoologia

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

William Dampier : "Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland"

'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westward, so that to-morrow we intend to steer more to the northwards in order to make the south coast of New Guinea, it seems high time to take leave of New Holland, which I shall do by summing up the few observations I have been able to make on the country and people. I much wished, observing the people, as they differ so much from the account that Dampier (the only man I know of who has seen them besides us) has given of them: he indeed saw them on a part of the coast very distant from where we were, and consequently the people might be different; but I should rather conclude them to be the same, chiefly from having observed an universal confomity in such of their customs as came under my observation in the several places we landed upon during the run along the coast. Dampier in general seems to be a faithful relater; but in the voyage in which he touched on the coast of New Holland he was in a ship of pirates; possibly himself not a little tainted by their idle examples, he might have kept no written journal of anything more than the navigation of the ship, and when upon coming home he was solicited to publish an account of his voyage, may have referred to his memory for many particulars relating to the people, etc. These Indians, when covered with their filth, which I believe they never wash off, are, if not coal black, very near it. As negroes, then, he might well esteem them, and add the woolly hair and want of two front teeth in consequence of the similitude in complexion between these and the natives of Africa; but from whatever cause it might arise, certain it is that Dampier either was very much mistaken in his account, or else saw a very different race of people from those we have seen.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

William Dampier : "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"

'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman saw upon Van Diemen's Land, where he says he saw gum on the trees, and gum lac on the ground.' (See his voyage in a collection published at London in 1694, p. 133)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Abel Janszoon Tasman : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere

'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took only one individual of each. Bats here were many: one small one was much if not identically the same as that described by De Buffon under the name of "Fer de cheval". Another sort was as large as, or larger than, a partridge; but of this species we were not fortunate enough to take one. We supposed it, however, to be the "Rousette" or "Rougette" of the same author.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Aboinense

'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly covered with legions of these small animals, who stung most intolerably; experience, however, taught us to be more careful for the future. Rhumphius mentions a similar instance to this in his "Herbarium Amboinense", vol. ii. p. 257; his tree, however, does not at all resemble ours.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Aboinense

'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of many holes, and running over the hand tickle so as to be scarcely endurable. Rhumphius has an account of this very bulb and its ants in vol. vi. p.120, where he describes also another sort, the ants of which are black.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

William Dampier : "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"

'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profusion of large shell-fish (Chama gigas) such as Dampier describes, vol. iii. p. 191.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : Sorrows of Young Werther

'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon. I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was "The Sorrows of Werter". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him? He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love. I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but "The Sorrows of Werter"? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got "The Adventures of a Louse", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides "The Recess", and "Valentine and Orson", and "Roslin Castle", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked "The Adventures of a Louse" the best of any of them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

William Dampier : "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"

'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, where it was taken, and proved exactly the same bird as Dampier has described, and given a rude figure of, under the name of a noddy from New Holland (see his Voyages, vol. iii. p. 98, table of birds, Fig. 5).'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Amedee Francois Frezier : Relation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili et du Perou

'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the book on board. Frezier, in his voyage to the South Sea, describes a contrivance of the Peruvian Indians upon the same principles, plate 31, p. 273, but his drawing and plan are difficult to understand, if not actually very faulty, and his description is nothing; the drawing may serve, however, to give an idea to a man who has never seen a thing of the kind.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Francois Valentijn : Oudt en Nieuw Oost-Indie

'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not look nearly so large as it seems to be when you walk about it. Valentijn, who wrote about and before the year 1726, says that in his time there wre within the walls 1242 Dutch houses, and 1200 Chinese; without 1066 Dutch and 1240 Chinese, besides twelve arrack houses. This number, however, appeared to me to be very highly exaggerated, those within the walls especially.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbrium Aboinensis

'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable to it. Rumphius says that they are sometimes so large that a man cannot easily lift one of them: the Malays told me that at Madura they were so large that two men could but carry one of them; at Batavia, however, they never exceed the size of a large melon, which in shape they resemble, but are coated over with angular spines like the shootings of some crystals: they are, however, soft, and do not at all prick any one who handles them.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that have already been published, as every one has been written by people who had much better opportunities of seeing them, and more time to examine them than I have had. Indeed, a man need go no farther to study them than the China paper, the better sorts of which represent their persons, and such of their customs, dresses, etc., as I have seen, most strikingly like, though a little in the "caricatura" style. Indeed, some of the plants which are common to China and Java, as bamboo, are better figured there than in the best botanical authors that I have seen.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Unknown

Sir Walter Scott : Quentin Durward

'In 1823 I read in Scott?s novel of ?Quentin Durward? the prophetic words of Martivalle, ?Can I look forward without wonder and astonishment to the lot of a succeeding generation, on whom knowledge shall descend like the first and second rain, uninterrupted, unabated, unbounded.? The Printing Press had produced the first rain; the Printing Machine was the ?little cloud no bigger than a man?s hand? which promised the second rain.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Knight Print: Book

[unknown] : [news bulletin]

'"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somewhere that they're going to move London to Canada, and I can well believe it."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

: information leaflets

'Thus under one-third had, on their own showing, attempted to read all the nformation leaflets. But further questioning indicated that many who said they had read all, did not know how many there really were, and many thought there were only two or three of the leaflets. As a man said, "Yes, I read them. I read them all. The one issued by the Government, another by the Borough Council. Very good."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

: [information leaflets]

'I have read the P.I.L. I read them with contemptuous and cynical amusement. Some people, I suppose, will darken their windows and lay in stores of food, but I am completely unmoved by the leaflets.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : [information leaflets]

'Have not read the P.I.L., neither has anyone in the house or anyone else I know. Will be read only if war breaks out. They are being carefully kept.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an hour or more in a dark, gloomy carriage, so's you can't read; can't even look at the girls sitting opposite you; can't see your station. That's not going to keep us cheerful and "bring us victory," is it?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: Littlewood's Sports Log

'To the Poolites each week comes a packet containing two Pool coupons (one to pass on to a friend) and the current issue of "Littlewood's Sports Log", which is very interesting, and it's the first thing I read when I open the envelope'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

Ernest Raymond : [various titles]

' "Well, because I do like Ernest Raymond's books and I read all of them as far as I can." '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [thrillers]

'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Buchan : [unknown]

'Well, I've read John Buchan's books before. That's the reason.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

G B Stern : [unknown]

'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't it?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Archibald Joseph Cronin : Hatter's Castle

'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't it?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Archibald Joseph Cronin : The stars look down

'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't it?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Bishop of London : [speech]

'But when we read the long speech of the Bishop of London, addressed to his first Diocesan Conference, we were, we confess, filled with disappointment at its lack of definite vision and of spiritual force. The Church must do better than this.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made a new car so's it's easier to drive, more profit for them isn't it, like Lord Nuffield. Wireless is all right though.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, they talk about what we should eat, why don't they see we get it. . . . Vitamins-bread and bloody jam is what we get. . . . They think about more ways of making bloody money for the capitalists. . . . It's all right if they'd keep men in their bloody jobs.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

H G Wells : [unknown]

'I've read a book of H. G. Wells, he's good, I saw that film about "Things to Come", it's good, never read about science, they do some silly things, they're always talking about what should be, nobody takes any notice. My brother works in an electric works, he says they're always making new things. Gosh, I wouldn't like to go back to them old days . . . no buses or that . . . they only do it to make money.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [newspaper?]

'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, wars and all that, get sick of it. . . . Pictures you get used to, they're all the same. . . . You can get about easier. . . . I don't blame them as finds things out, it's them as is let use the things wot they find out. . . . I read a bit about that new car, don't know what it means though. They're always finding things out now. All right if we knew how to use them, first thing they do is to put men on the shelf before they're grown up. . . . Sometimes think if they had a rest from thinking how they can make more money out of us-that's what they do it for.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : People

'I read where there's going to be a war soon, it said so in the "People", they tell you what's going to be, there's more than something in it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [horoscopes]

'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthday they said I should get a surprise. I got one. It was a good 'un, mister. No, I'm not telling you what it was, that's my business.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'I read all the papers on it. I don't understand the politics of it, but they are all different. That's why people have less faith in the papers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Ann Temple : [unknown]

'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and Ann Temple. Anyhow-if there's a war I shall be in it, so it doesn't make any difference.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Marceline d'Alroy : The d'Alroy Diary

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[Robert] Southey : [The curse of Kehama, canto X]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other passions fly/ All others are but vanity/ Earthly these passions, as of earth/ They perish where they have their birth/ ?' [total = 20 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Walter] [Scott] : [The monastery]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come in storm and tempest, there are those/ whom it has summoned amid scenes of vanity/ there are those too who have heard "its still small voice"/ Amid rural leisure & placid contentment ?' [total = 10 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] : [Kindred hearts]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy below/ For are the hearts whence one same touch/ Bids the sweet fountains flow/ ?' [total = 16 lines but not a continuous extract]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

John Malcolm : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee away and be at rest/ So prayed the Psalmist to be free/ From mortal bond and earthly thrall/ And such, or soon, or late, shall be/ Full oft the heart breathed [?] prayer of all/ ?' [total = 4 x 8 lines verses follow the 2 line quote]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : Matilde a novel

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ than the majority of her daughters. Like many of/ them she has not a single good feature in her face,/but unlike them she does not even do her best ??' [total = 18 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with those we love/ Like stars amid a stormy night/ Alas! how few they prove ?' [total = 2 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ He hath a deep, though voiceless eloquence, /To which I leave my ? His solemn veil/ ... Mrs Hemans' [total = 12 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

G.I. C..... : The Eve of the Battle

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels the gloomy night/ The din of war will have begun/ The horrors of the fight ?G.I.C.' [total = 24 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : A Highland Salute to the Queen

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! Ieroe!'; [Text] 'Long life to our Queen who in beauty advances/ To the refuge of freedom, the home of the fair/ Each true Highland bosom with loyalty dances/ From Drummond to Taymouth - from ? to Blair/ ...' [total = 5 x 10 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Long ago!

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words recall past years?/ And scarcely knowing why they flow/ Bring to the eye unbidden tears?/ ...' [total = 4 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Daily Herald

'I read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath if any wished to assist. It appealed to me immensely. I think it is true to say I am naturally observant. I had frequently noticed various things that passed other people's notice.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : News Chronicle

'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her day. Mass-Observation, it was something new, something to talk about; the things I do in the house are monotonous, but on the 12th, they are different somehow, letting the dog out, getting up, making the dinner, it makes them important when they have to be remembered and recorded.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper

'When I read about Mass-Observation in "Reynolds", I wrote straight away to join in. In fact, if there was a joining-fee I would have joined just the same.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[Anon] : The Star of Missions

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gladdening ray/ Which o'er the nations sheds a beam of day;/ While glad salvation speeds her life fraught ?/ Borne by the Gospel's herald wheels afar;/ ... " [Total = 7 x 6 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : unknown

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre vie? C'est notre caractere, c'est la/ maniere ? nous voyons les choses, /? " [Total = 17 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Innes[?] : Lines on Mountghaine [?]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text] "Hail beauteous spot of Nature's earth/ Arrayed in robes of richest dress/ In gorgeous splendour showing forth/ Preeminence in loveliness/... " [Total = 9 x 6 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Luis Baylon : Farewell to the Year

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lockhart'; [Text] 'Hark friends! It strikes -the year's last hour/ a solemn sound to hear/Come fill the cup and let us pour/ Our blessing on the parting year/ ...'; [Total = 5 x 10 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Maria] Abdy : Worsted work

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of scornful mirth/ It brings to me glad visions of the calm and quiet hearth/ Of seasons of retirement from the world's obtrusive eyes/ Of freedom from absorbing toils - of dear domestic ties/ ... Mrs Abdy'; [Total = 9 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

M. Vicary : Lines

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen [?] in which we glide/ Above the billows of life's stormy sea/ As bouyant as the sea-bird on the tide/ Though dangers thicken round from ... as free/ ... [?]'; [Total = 6 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : The dead friend

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul/ Descend to contemplate/ The form that once was dear!/ ?not on thoughts so loathly horrible/ ...'; [Total = 40 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

John Mackintosh : Adieu

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to God what words can else express/ The parting, and the prayer that soars to heaven/ When two fond hearts, long link'd in ternderness/ By the decree of fate at length are riven/ ...'; [Total = 12 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles] : To one at rest

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And needest thou our prayers no more, Safe folded mid the blest/ How changed are thou since last we met, To keep the day of rest/ Young with the youth of angels; Wise with the growth of years/ For we have passed since thou has gone, A week of many tears/ ...24th Sept 1871'; [Total = 11 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anonymous : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the storm may be gathering round/ There is one ! who can shield from the hurricane's wrath/ and that one! may for ever be found;/ ... (Anonymous)'; [Total = 3 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book

Michelangelo Buonarrotti : [unknown]

Letter 255 April 7th 1940 'I?ve got this sudden craze for the Michael Angelo Sonnetts & have set about half a dozen of them (in Italian ? pretty brave, but there are people who speak good Italian, and after Rimbaud in French, I feel I can attack anything!)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Book

Somerset Maughan : [unknown]

Letter 271 4 July 1940 'Please forgive me not having written eight and a half days ago or more to thank you for your lovely birthday present. The thin mints went of course in twenty four hours, and I curled up on a sofa with Somerset Maugham until I had finished him. It was a new one to me and marvellously disagreeable and exciting! So acid it nearly burnt!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Pears Print: Book

[n/a] : New York Times

Letter 292 7 October 1940 Referring to the Blitz on London: 'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a night of respite yesterday ? let?s hope you have lots more.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Newspaper

Blair : Sermons

'Afternoon: read one of Blair's Sermons.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[unknown] : Royal Academy Catalogue

'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in the portrait of Mr Champley himself; and looked over the Royal Academy Catalogue and there found several of his productions enumerated; one I copied; this is it 235 Bridge of Sighs' [catalogue entry follows, approx 120 words].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[unknown] : [album]

'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called away, I noted the following excellent morsels of literature: "It is a good rule that our conversation should rather be of things than of persons: for thus obvious reason, that things have not a character to lose." "To take sunshine pleasure in the blessings and excellencies of others is a much surer mask of benevolence than pity their calamities".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Perceval : Account of Ceylon

'The evening before I left, walked to Falsgrave and on making a call looked over Perceval's "Account of Ceylon".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Thomas Cape : [private writing]

'To tea at my friend Cape's and looked over his mss.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Sheet, mss

John Edwards : Recollections of Filey

'On looking over the Articles of a General Factor in the village, where I was transacting some business, a little book of very tasteful and inviting appearance presented itself to me in a glazed puce coloured cover, with its title, concisely expressed, as a label, in the centre within a border of beautiful design, printed in gold "Recollections of Filey by John Edwards". I said to myself, John Edwards. I know; a very pleasant unassuming man he is. I eagerly opened the Book and, on turning the pages over was charmed with its style of topography; and pleased to notice a reference to the [?] in History of Filey ... Indeed, it is a Poem which deserves to be known at Filey, at Scarbro' and everywhere.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'At this later place [Lincoln] we arrived at about 10 in the evening. Tea and bed were then in request, with a small portion of newspaper literature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Newspaper

[unknown authors] : [various titles]

'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts as they suited, and took down titles of several to recommend them to other booksellers etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Bridges : History of Northamptonshire

'Procured the loan of Bridge's [sic] "History of Northamptonshire" from Birdsall's Library in order to consult it for my "History of Wellingborough".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermons]

'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon reading and prayers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Job

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

James Hogg : [poems]

'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many opportunities of hearing much about him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of "Ten Thousand a Year". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but, having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without its being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

' ... he [ie George III] paid attention when books were read to him, and asked for excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: King George III Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [Political works]

'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and particularly his political papers'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Prince George Print: Book

[unknown] : [explanation of the principles of the Christian religion]

'Every Sunday after breakfast the Bishop of Norwich reads to their Royal Highnesses a practical explanation of the principles of the Christian religion'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Prince George Print: Book

Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man

'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, he "continued reading for half an hour", the bookseller's son remembered'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: King George III Print: Book

[n/a] : Psalm

14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Sunday newspapers]

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : John Bull

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Sports Illustrated

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [magazines]

'I don't read books at all, chiefly magazines that I can pick up and put down without losing the thread of the story ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [thrillers]

'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but nothing else ... As I've tried to explain I can't find the time. When I've come home from work, helped the wife, and had a smoke, you look round, and it's time to go to bed.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Well, yes, but not good reading. I only read to pass the time away, - any old thing; any time when I happen to be stuck for an hour or so.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : News of the World

'Sunday evening is the only time I do read, - I spend over an hour reading the "News of the World".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times

'I read the "Times", which takes a time, - I suppose about an hour a day.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Telegraph

'I read the "Telegraph" reviews ... in trains and in the evening, lunch-time etc.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, as I'm a racing man.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'I spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours each day ... I expect I'm too tired of an evening to settle down to books, - I like the newspaper better, there's bite of everything in it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Woman

'I don't read newspapers, but I get the magazine "Woman", and I spend about 2 hours reading that.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : New Statesman

'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [magazines]

'Three hours magazines, - scientific and travel'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [magazines]

'I read a lot of magazines ... They're bright and easy reading, and you can find out lots of useful things in them.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Engineer

'I read one magazine, the "Engineer", which I peruse at odd times over a week or so. It would take sometimes as much as five hours to read straight off. No one ever does though with that type of magazine.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

Dorothy Sayers : Man born to be king

'F 25 C is holding a slim book (looks new), approximate size 81/2" x 51/2", yellow jacket cover, title "Man Born to be King" by Dorothy Sayers. She does not open the book while the train is stationary, but once it starts she opens it at the first page and begins to read. Time take to read page 3, just under the minute. At Wood Lane she looks up for the first time, and her gaze rests on F 35 C, knitting, but she soon resumes reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'25 C was reading a book, waiting to be served, and reading with concentration, both elbows on table, head between hands. When served with pot of tea and a bun, continued to read, eating and drinking absently. At 5 o'c looked up, gazed round cafe for two minutes, lit a cigarette, asked for bill. Started to read again, but more casually, glancing round cafe from time to time. Left at 5.5. p.m'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Homer : The Iliad

'On the penult of the year 1819 I reached the last line of the "Iliad". To speak of the merits of the Maeonian Bard from one perusal only may be deemed presumption - yet I may be allowed to say that my Enjoyment fell far short of Expectation. I found, & I am ashamed to say it, little to please and much to offend- The Morals of his Divinities are those of St Giles- their language that of Billingsgate or Wapping- His Nestors are garrulous beyond endurance...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Mitchell Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Professor Hansteen : Inquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth

'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the former alternative is better: and then (as our man of Law concludes in a few days) I am my own master to go whithersoever I list.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: BookManuscript: Letter

[Brothers] Grimm : [Fairy Tales]

'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Joan O'Neill : The Daisy Chain

'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

M.L. Molesworth : Cuckoo Clock

'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

M.L. Molesworth : Carrots

'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

[n/a] : Bow Bells

'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from school, happened to overtake her, she enlivened the rest of the journey with the synopsis of a serial she was reading, called "His Ice Queen"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Family Herald

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : His Ice Queen

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Serial / periodical

Giovanni Battista Belzoni : Travels

'Laura's greatest find was a battered old copy of Belzoni's "Travels" propping open somebody's pantry window. When she asked for the loan of it, it was generously given to her, and she had the intense pleasure of exploring the burial chambers of the pyramids with her author.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

[unknown] : [books]

'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's conditions ("Murder in the Home Guard" and similar titles) to figure in my novels..... In the greater part of my reading I have just the opposite taste; I read mostly books dealing with the questions of today and tomorrow. But I can't stand any of it in fiction. Funny isn't it?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [detective novels]

'Detective stories and thrillers are by far the most numerous, in fact at the moment are all the fiction I seem to read... After reading them I always wonder why I read them and if I once pause and examine the profusion of adjectives I am almost compelled to stop.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : Sunday Times

'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite often I get interested in a book and this leads me on to reading more about the subject. For instance, I read the "Guide to Edinburgh" and that introduced me to James IV period, and then I read all about that. Other times I just glance at the title and open the book, and by reading a few lines at random I get some idea of the book, and if it interests me I'll take it out.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Times Literary Supplement

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Guide to Edinburgh

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on James IV]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [novels]

'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish to read the same book a second time, as my choice is usually very light. When I find a novel which appeals strongly. I buy it because I know I shall find pleasure in re-reading it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Bible

'His lesson consisted of Bible reading, turn and turn round the class, of reciting from memory the names of the kings of Israel and repeating the Church Catechism.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Old St Paul's

'Laura, who by this time was reading "Old St Paul's" at home, simply romped through this Little-Go'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Laura Thompson Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Ancient Mariner

'Once he gave out to Laura's class two verses of "The Ancient Mariner", reading them through first, then dictating them very slowly'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Queen Victoria : Leaves from Her Majesty's Life in the Highlands

'Laura was lucky enough to be given a bound volume of "Good Words" - or was it "Home Words"? - in which the Queen's own journal, "Leaves From Her Majesty's Life in the Highlands", ran as a serial. She galloped through all these instalements immediately to pick out the places mentioned by her dear Sir Walter Scott. Afterwards the journal was re-read many times, as everything was re-read in that home of few books.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Serial / periodical

Sir Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

'"The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of the first books that Laura read with absorbed interest. She adored the Master of Ravenswood, his dark haughty beauty, his flowing cloak and his sword, his ruined castle, set high on its crag by the sea, and his faithful servant Caleb and the amusing shifts he made to conceal his master's poverty. She read and re-read "The Bride"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

''A grand old book, "The Pilgrim's Progress"! But I've something here you'll like better. "Cranford". Ever heard of it Laura? No, I thought not. Well you've got a treat in store.' They sampled "Cranford" that afternoon.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Maria Charlesworth : Ministering Children

'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Elizabeth Wetherell : Queechy

'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Elizabeth Wetherell : The Wide, Wide World

'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide, Wide World".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan

'She was shocked by some of the hero's adventures but more often thrilled. Laura learned quite a lot by reading "Don Juan".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

'"Yes," bolted out Mrs. Bowdler, "Harriet is one of the greatest admirers of 'Evelina'." These sort of abrupt speeches from people one hardly knows are amazingly distressing: & Fanny Bowdler & Miss Leigh looked almost as awkward as myself.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Maria (Harriet) Bowdler Print: Book

Jerningham : 'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical Pieces' or poems separately published.

'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [close italics] they may be called, for he never writes 3 lines following of which one is not borrowed,-he has not a thought, a phrase, an [italics] epithet [close italics] that is not palpably stolen!- He seems a mighty delicate Gentleman, - he looks to be [italics] painted, [close italics] & is all daintification, in manner, speech and Dress.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

[n/a] : Daily Herald

'I read the first page of the newspaper first, then turn to the back page, then fold the outside in. A chance headline may set me reading page 3 first, but usually it is page 2.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Daily Herald

'I read the headlines and the adverts. If any particular headline strikes me I follow it up. Particularly comment on parliamentary debates. I don't read racing or Sports - save for occasional boxing matches (i.e. big matches). Keep off divorce and sensational twaddle.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Daily Herald

'First of all I read the main headlines, then the various news paragraphs in order of importance on the front page, then the back page. I then turn to the inside news page, then the leader, readers' letters. Hannes Swaffer's column, other articles, then a general run over the smaller news items.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Daily Herald

'I have always adopted the principle of working the newspaper fairly carefully from beginning to end. There may be an occasional glance at principal headlines over breakfast, but after that the real reading consists of starting at the front page, first column, and going steadily through. I rarely read advertisements, but not much else is omitted. The degree of concentration of course varies with the subject matter. Articles have preference over everything, especially those of current interest, Personal stuffy, like the "Wonder of the War" anecdotes, tend to get skipped somewhat. I suppose I am more interested in ideas than individuals.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading the "Telegraph". I worked out t[h]at it would be August at least before I was de-reserved, and that I should be out of work by then, for I cannot see us lasting another seven months.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Jeffrey : Article IX

'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the "Quarterly review".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Jeffrey : Article X

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : Article ix

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : Article iv

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read and could not, as he said, think of anything likely, not if his life depended upon it. She chose the scene from "The Heart of Midlothian" in which Jeanie Deans is granted an audience by Queen Caroline and the chapter about the Battle of Waterloo from "Vanity Fair"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

William Thackery : Vanity Fair

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book

[n/a] : Jack O' London

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [books]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [novels]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Fanny Burney : Camilla

'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case of Fanny Burney's third novel, Camilla. "I've got leave!' Princess Elizabeth told the author in great excitement, 'and Mamma says she won't wait to read it first!"'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Elizabeth Print: Book

Charles Burney : 'Present State of Music in France and Italy' or 'General History of Music' vol 1

'"Do you know Dr. Burney, Ma'am?" said Mr Thrale. "No Sir, but I know his Book. I think it's vastly pretty;"'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Victoria Kynaston Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

'Lord, Ma'am, I was so entertained & I was quite ill, too, Ma'am, quite ill when I read it! - but for all that, Lord, Ma'am, why I was as eager, -& I wanted sadly to see the author.-'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Victoria Kynaston Print: Book

Henry Harrington : Nugae Antiquae

'... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains of his Ancestor under the Title "Nugae Antiquae", which my Father & all of us were formerly so fond of.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Have breakfast (next real interval is tea time, so breakfast includes prayers, reading and any urgent letters - this morning one short letter); listen to 7 a.m. news summary.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I was reading the other day the story of an air flight. They had a long and dangerous journey to undertake, and before they set out, they made a list of the things they needed. But when they were ready to go, the plane was too heavy. They jettisioned much, but still they could not take off. They had to whittle down to a bare minimum. But they did not throw out a single pint of patrol.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'I have been reading the papers lately and I am astonished read what Mr. Heathcot-Amery has done. His people are highly respected in the neighbourhood. His people have served this county ...educated at Eton and Christ Church, he didn't waste any time from what I can see. He must have been quite a speaker, too. He was the private secretary to Lord Leigh, while he was on the Palestine Commission. He has been out in East Africa, he is now living at Tiverton.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'Well, see Miss. Christmas Day my father was reading his paper. His glass of beer was at his side. He feel asleep and when he woke up his glass was empty. That's how I had a drink.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'"Oh here they are again! I'll be glad when the bloody election's over. Why don't they make their minds up, what they are going to call it - sometimes it's Labour and sometimes it's socialism" (Goes back to reading murder story in paper)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

'The newspaper today took my breath away. Such a landslide I had not expected. Yesterday morning, reading the "Telegraph" I felt a stalemate possible, or a small Tory Labour majority, with the Liberals holding the balance. Thank God that at any rate is destroyed. Liberals will now have to line up with one or other of the two main parties, and we'll have a clear-cut position.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [periodical]

'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 18. They were talking and laughing excitedly. The elder one took a newspaper cutting from her hand and handed it to the younger, and they were quiet while she read it. At the next table sat a middle aged man reading a periodical, and next to him sat two girls who neither moved nor spoke to each other. The man who was reading took out a cigarette and lit it without taking his eyes off the paper.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [newspaper cutting]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunch. Continued this after lunch - this comes of refusing to write letters except on Sundays.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Alphonse Daudet : Tartarin sur les Alpes

'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. Full of buck. "Tartarin sur les Alpes". Friday afternoon. Wanted soothing. "Letters from a Silent Study". Saturday morning. Very depressed. "Pickwick Papers". Saturday afternoon. A little better. "Esmond". Sunday morning. Quite well thank you! "Butler's Analogy". Sunday afternoon. Quite well thank you! "Esmond and Stonewall Jackson". As a guide I may point out that "Pickwick" cheers me up when I am most depressed, while "Butler's Analogy" taxes all my strength.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie : Letters from a Silent Study

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The History of Henry Esmond

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Thomas Jonathan Jackson : [Military History]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Dimitri Merejkowski : The Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da Vinci

'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about Leonardo da Vinci, and though there is a lot of bosh in it, I think there is a fine idea running through it - half formed, and somewhat elusive, but nevertheless to a certain extent true.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Brooke Foss Westcott : Introduction to the Study of the Gospels

'As regards books, such a lot depends on what sort of life you are leading. I always relish Ingram's terse epigrammatic style, but more especially when I am actively busy in mind and body - as during a company course. At such times I have no use for Westcott and his Euclid-like problems and theorems and theses and antitheses. At the present moment, however, my brain is in tune with Westcott. I have a fair amount of spare time, my work is not much brain-work, and I feel I need an exercise of the reason such as I find his books give. I am reading his "Introduction to the Study of the Gospels" at present, and I like it better than any other book of his I have read. He has such a splendidly broad view of everything, and while he observes the minutest details of his subject, he never seems to lose his sense of the whole. That is what is so rare among religionists. They either seem to concentrate all their powers on one little details, or else get such a very general view that, not understanding the composition, they do not understand the full importance or significance of their subject.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Sir William Francis Patrick Napier : History of the War in the Peninsular

'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to say nothing of Napier's "Peninsular War", and a "Life of Napolean"! [sic] So when my major made a surprise descent yesterday afternoon from Curepipe, he found me immersed in an essay on Rifling, and was rather pleased!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found the following passage, which reminded me of a resolve made some time ago, but forgotten.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Dom Lorenzo Scupoli : The Spiritual Combat

'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of many of the chapters might be written: "Attack all your faults. Smite them by the virtue of the Holy Cross. You know your own weakness, you are full of distrust in yourself. Very well. Now is the time to put your trust in God, and where your own weakness has failed, God's strength will prevail." 'It is a magnificent doctrine. I am trying to attach all my carelessness, and unpractical habits, and am endeavouring to perform most carefully those duties which are most irksome to me. 'I am trying to earn my pay as a soldier. 'I hope you will have no more livery letters. To the author of "The Spiritual Combat", a liver is a Heaven-sent opportunity for conquering one's lower nature.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I have a "liver" my letters will be particularly cheerful!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown - on Higher criticism]

'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) Christianity to a comprehensible, logical system of ethics, rather than trying to realize that wonderful communion with God which must always be its source of faith, hope, love, and strength. 'Religion would cease to be divine if it were capable of being compressed into the narrow limits of human comprehension; isn't that right? 'I am afraid I greatly prefer Dr Dale's book to Bishop Westcott's. It is so much easier to understand. Westcott is very well for Sundays, but rather exacting for a tired week-day brain! 'The Bishop has returned from the Seychelles and is acting as our chaplin. He is a peculiar man, but I believe he is a very good one. 'I am, your affectionate son. P.S. I find I have got a copy of Gore's Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, with your name in it. May I stick to it? I like it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Unknown, cuttings

Dr Robert William Dale : The Doctrine of Atonement

'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) Christianity to a comprehensible, logical system of ethics, rather than trying to realize that wonderful communion with God which must always be its source of faith, hope, love, and strength. 'Religion would cease to be divine if it were capable of being compressed into the narrow limits of human comprehension; isn't that right? 'I am afraid I greatly prefer Dr Dale's book to Bishop Westcott's. It is so much easier to understand. Westcott is very well for Sundays, but rather exacting for a tired week-day brain! 'The Bishop has returned from the Seychelles and is acting as our chaplin. He is a peculiar man, but I believe he is a very good one. 'I am, your affectionate son. 'P.S. I find I have got a copy of Gore's Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, with your name in it. May I stick to it? I like it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Charles Gore : Prayer and the Lord's Prayer

'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) Christianity to a comprehensible, logical system of ethics, rather than trying to realize that wonderful communion with God which must always be its source of faith, hope, love, and strength. 'Religion would cease to be divine if it were capable of being compressed into the narrow limits of human comprehension; isn't that right? 'I am afraid I greatly prefer Dr Dale's book to Bishop Westcott's. It is so much easier to understand. Westcott is very well for Sundays, but rather exacting for a tired week-day brain! 'The Bishop has returned from the Seychelles and is acting as our chaplin. He is a peculiar man, but I believe he is a very good one. 'I am, your affectionate son. 'P.S. I find I have got a copy of Gore's Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, with your name in it. May I stick to it? I like it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

Brooke Foss Westcott : [unknown]

'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) Christianity to a comprehensible, logical system of ethics, rather than trying to realize that wonderful communion with God which must always be its source of faith, hope, love, and strength. 'Religion would cease to be divine if it were capable of being compressed into the narrow limits of human comprehension; isn't that right? 'I am afraid I greatly prefer Dr Dale's book to Bishop Westcott's. It is so much easier to understand. Westcott is very well for Sundays, but rather exacting for a tired week-day brain! 'The Bishop has returned from the Seychelles and is acting as our chaplin. He is a peculiar man, but I believe he is a very good one. 'I am, your affectionate son. 'P.S. I find I have got a copy of Gore's Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, with your name in it. May I stick to it? I like it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

[unknown] : [essay on rifling]

'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to say nothing of Napier's "Peninsular War", and a "Life of Napolean"![sic] So when my major made a surprise descent yesterday afternoon from Curepipe, he found me immersed in an essay on Rifling, and was rather pleased!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

[unknown] : The adventures of a louse

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

Henry Watson : Valentine and Orson

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

[unknown] : Roslin Castle

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

[unknown] : [book of prayers]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the leader writers in the press, I read them, Garvin and all, for they make light reading and are often entertaining, sometimes even instructive.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Left-wing newspapers]

'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers sometimes, and trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Manchester Guardian

'"Manchester Guardian". English news once a day. Lord Haw-Haw, conversations with as may people as possible, reading on international questions. From these sources I sort out things as well as I can.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

C E M Joad : [unknown]

'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read in them from the point of view of their opinions on the war, and what shall be done after it. I get far more satisfaction from reading articles or books by authors such as C.E.M. Joad, H.G.Wells and Huxley.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

H G Wells : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

A Huxley : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and triplicate to accomodate the crowds." After all they said about running no extra trains at Christmas! My god! England is the place to live in.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, we sat down for a modest and simple meal of a little bit of cold meat, some lettuce and cheese, and spent the rest of the evening peacefully around the fire, reading, and talking about nothing in particular."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Arise to conquer

'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with the fighting and can come forward to do some of the thinking, shaping and building again, will they then be able (or willing) to contemplate more than the conquest of Jean.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Dick Sheppard : [article in News Chronicle]

'When I realised that war made people around me feel hatred for their kinsmen (by which I mean mankind). People say they wish for peace, but are quite prepared to put a man against a wall and murder him in cold blood, which I cannot believe to be Christian or human. I signed a Peace Pledge after reading an article by Dick Sheppard in the "News Chronicle", and called the meeting which formed the local PPU group, but had nothing more to do with it than that.' "I was brought up in a Quaker atmosphere; my parents were not Quakers, but were inclined towards Quakerism and had many Quaker friends. I first gave vent to Pacifist views at 14. I signed a Peace Pledge after reading an article by Dick Sheppard in the "News Chronicle", and called the meeting which formed the local PPU group, but had nothing more to do with it than that."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Winston Churchill : [speech]

'Another lovely day: almost too hot to do anything. I've been depressed all day after reading Churchill's speech. It's a grim thought that in the event of an invasion the powers that be will continue the war from somewhere in the Empire. Then we shall have the joy of an enemy in our midst, and the RAF bombing us overhead.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Ministry of Information : [invasion leaflet]

'The leaflet makes a special point of common sense but the way it urges people to use it is unconsciously the upper class talking to the stupid mass. This unconscious attitude, so noticeable on the red Government posters at the beginning of the war, underlies the leaflet as a whole-see below, on Little Squash borough and Great Midtown. The lack of emotional or layout appeal is reflected in many comments. Thus, after reading it carefully, a barmaid sums up: "It's plain enough. I should have to read it again."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

Ministry of Information : invasion leaflet

'And a housewife, after reading it, says she is satisfied the she has done everything and knows everything that can be done in civil defence: "We've got enough, I mean, we've got a pail of water handy. That's all you can do and bandages and that."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : [Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death]

'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fighting for, if that's the way the Anti-Fascists behave. I was just reading in the paper that they hung them up in the most lewd, indecent positions, and spat at them, and threw stones. And laughed. The Italian people don't seem to feel any horror at this either. I think it's just too ghastly for words.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Daily Worker: Article on Mussolini's death]

'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain spattered out, and he looked awful, but his mistress was hanged beside him in a new white blouse and looked lovely.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had not long finished dinner, the table was still set, my father was reading in the armchair, my stepmother was busy about the house, I was in the garden, mending a puncture on my bicycle. The end of the programmes came to an end on the wireless, the announcer gave the news that tomorrow, Tuesday, May the 8th, would be V-Day, and the day following a holiday. Quietly, my father said, "It's over."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Kennedy : [unknown]

'(after reading story): " I see what he (Kennedy) means. The government's all Labour at the moment except Mr. Churchill. What he means to say is that the Premier will be a Labour man too. There'll only be the one party. That's what he means. It's not the end of democracy though. That's not what he means.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]

'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than to anxiety or worry. I do not consciously worry about the eventuality of war, but I do feel very deeply concerned about the suffering which has already been caused.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Mary Border : Passport for a girl

'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read in Page 201 describing the Austrian Anschluss, how old men and pregnant women were kept marching round till they dripped from exhaustion.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [a thriller]

'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thriller along such lines and had partaken of a somewhat heavy supper).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [books]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : [daily newspapers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Friedrich Mohs : Crystalography

'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and translated, from the German, the first half of "Mohs";'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Du Contrat Social

'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider. Rousseau's "Contrat Social" - in spite of the frightful notoriety which circumstances gave it - seems little calculated for a remote posterity.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider... With respect to Goethe's "Faust" - if I were at your side you should hear of nothing else for many hours; and sorry am I that your brows will suddenly contract - if I give free scope to my notions even by this imperfect vehicle.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic] I shall not.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Jane Austen : First Impressions

'I would not let Martha [Lloyd] read First Impressions [later published as "Pride and Prejudice"] again upon any account, & am very glad that I did not leave it in your power. - She is very cunning, but I see through her design; she means to publish it from Memory, & one more perusal must enable her to do it."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Lloyd Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn found them out & recommended them, & if the judgement of a Yahoo can ever be depended on, I suppose it may now, for I beleive [sic] Mr Evelyn has all his life thought more of Horses than of anything else.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : les Veillees du Chateau

'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter to you while my mind is stored with Ideas worth transmitting.'

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

Leigh Hunt : The Examiner

'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sentimentalist.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Henry : History of Great Britain

'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, disultary [sic], unconnected strain, or dividing my recital as the Historian divides it himself, into seven parts...'

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

Dr Edward Jenner : pamphlet on the cow pox

'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Lucy made love, Mat: Robinson fell asleep, James and Mrs Augusta alternately read Dr Jenner's pamphlet on the cow pox, & I bestowed my company by turns on all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Austen

Dr Edward Jenner : pamphlet on the cow pox

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Bramston

Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : unknown history

'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which necessarily intervenes between the end of this and the beginning of a fresh employment, than in returning you my thanks for the kind and good-humoured letter which I received last Saturday.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

: [newspaper reports]

'Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent into Line-of-Battle ships, were to be promoted to the rank of Commander.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza de Feuillide Print: Newspaper

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.'

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

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was so much reprobated.'

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

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once quiet and happy. - He can read, & I must get him some books. Unfortunately he has read the 1st vol. of Robinson Crusoe. We have the Pinckards Newspaper however, which I shall take care to lend him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James anon Print: Book

: newspaper

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

: newspaper

'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.'

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

Thomas Gisborne : An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex

'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.'

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

Madame de Genlis : Alphonsine, or Maternal Affection

'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we changed it for the "Female Quixotte", which now makes our evening amusement; to me a very high one, as I find the work quite equal to what I remembered it. Mrs F.A., to whom it is new, enjoys it as one could wish; the other Mary, I believe, has little pleasure from that or any other book.'

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

Charlotte Lennox : The Female Quixote, or, the Adventures of Arabella

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

William Cowper : The Task

'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.'

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

Frances Burney : Evelina

'What a Contretems [sic]! in the language of France; What an unluckiness! in that of Mde Duval.'

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

Sarah Harriet Burney : Clarentine, A Novel

'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading than at the 1st & it does not bear a 3d at all. It is full of unnatural conduct & forced difficulties, without striking merit of any kind.'

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

Samuel Johnson : Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774

'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear Dr Johnson I beleive [sic] I have dealt more in Notions than Facts.'

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

Joseph Baretti : Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy

'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.'

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

Revd T. Jefferson : Request for subscribers for "Two Sermons"

'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wife's for another; but does not with for more than one copy of the work.'

Unknown

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

Walter Scott : Marmion, or A Tale of Flodden Field

'Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? - As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng - beginning at about 10, & broken by supper.'

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

: [newspaper]

'This is a sad story about Mrs Powlett. I should not have suspected her of such a thing. - She staid the Sacrament I remember, the last time that you & I did. - A hint of it, with Intitials, was in yesterday's Courier; & Mr Moore guessed it to be Ld Sackville, beleiving [sic] there was no other Viscount S. in the peerage, & so it proved.'

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

unknown : unknown

'It is now half past twelve, & having heard Lizzy [JA's niece] read, I am moved down into the Library for the sake of a fire...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lizzy Knight Print: Unknown

Anna Maria Porter : Lake of Killarney

'While I write now, George is most industriously making and naming paper ships, at which he afterwards shoots with horse-chestnuts, brought from Steventon on purpose; and Edward equally intent over the "Lake of Killarney", twisting himself about in one of our great chairs'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Knight Print: Book

: newspaper

'On the subject of matrimony, I must notice a wedding in the Salisbury paper, which has amused me very much, Dr Phillot to Lady Frances St Lawrence.'

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

Anne Grant of Laggan : Memoirs of an American Lady

'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & like it very well indeed. - We are just going to set off for Northumberland to be shut up in Widdrington Tower, where there must be two or three sets of Victims already immured under a very fine Villain.'

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

Mrs S. Sykes : Margiana, or Widdrington Tower

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

: newspaper

'Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being almost frozen to death in the late weather - her little Child quite so? - I hope this sister is not our friend Miss Woodd - & I rather think her Brotherinlaw had moved into Lincolnshire, but their name & station accord too well...'

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

Sydney Owenson : Woman, or Ida of Athens

'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, because it was written as the Authoress says, in three months. - We have only read the Preface yet; but her Irish Girl does not make me expect much. - If the warmth of her Language could affect the Body, it might be worth reading in this weather.'

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

Sydney Owenson : The Wild Irish Girl

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

Jane Austen : unidentified work in MS

'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning Criticism, may not hurt my stile [sic], by inducing too great a solicitude...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Knight Manuscript: novel in MS

: Hampshire Telegraph

'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & Daughter of the Name of Payne lived at Ashford in Kent. Do You own them?'

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

: Newspaper report on Parliamentary Sessions

'I congratulate Edward [JA's brother] on the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill being put off till another Session, as I have just had the pleasure of reading. There is always something to be hoped from Delay.'

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

: Newspaper report

'You certainly must have heard, before I can tell you, that Col. Orde has married our cousin, Margt Beckford, the Marchss of Douglas's sister. The Papers say that her father disinherits her, but I think too well of an Orde, to suppose that she has not a handsome Independence of her own.'

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

Hannah More : Practical Piety

'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & they are all reaidng with delight Mrs H. More's recent publication.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriot Webb Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'

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

Rachel Hunter : Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy

In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be conveyed to Mrs Hunter of Norwich [...] Miss Jane Austen's tears have flowed over each sweet sketch in such a way as would do Mrs Hunter's heart good to see; if Mrs Hunter could understand all Miss Jane Austen's interest in the subject she would certainly have the kindness to publish at least 4 vols more about the Flint family...'

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

: Blackwood's Magazine

'On the 28th September I was reading "Blackwood", when the magazines of our metropolis were just getting on their outer garments; while their northern brethren were quietly reposing, in well arranged heaps, in our southern warehouses, perfectly sleek and dry, after a happy voyage of sixty hours. This new condition upon which competition was to be carried on made the London publishers more solicitous for the excellence, rather than the cheap cost, of their periodical offerings to a public that had begun to be solicitous for the excellence, rather than the cheap cost, of their periodical offerings to a public that had begun to be clamorous for novelties, and somewhat more critical than a previous generation.'

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Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh

'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The process through which public opinion gradually turns from an ephemeral popularity, permanently to repose upon works of imagination that are not extravagent stimulants, is admirably illustrated by his own experience. I remember distinctly, when "Lalla Rookh" first came out, I read it through at one sitting. To say I was delighted with it is a poor word for my feelings; I was transported out of myself-entranced or what you will.'

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Jonathan Swift : The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick

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Charles James Blomfield : A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese

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Joseph Blanco White : Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholics

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Joseph Blanco White : Letters from Spain

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Joseph Blanco White : A letter to Charles Butler, Esq

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Richard Payne Knight : An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste

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John Hookham Frere : Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National

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Joseph Blanco White : The Poor Man's Preservative against Popery

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Francis Beaumont : The Dramatic Works

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August Heinrich Matthiae : A Copious Greek Grammar

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Robert Southey : The Doctor

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Philip Skelton : The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton

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Sir Henry George Grey : Corrected Report of the Speech of Viscount Howick

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William Nicholson : A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry

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David Lyndsay [pseud] : Dramas of the Ancient World

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Johann Gottfried Herder : Kalligone

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Georg August Goldfuss : Handbuch der Zoologie

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Lorenz Oken : Erste Ideen zur Theorie des Lichts, der Finsternis

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Das System der Sittenlehre nach den Principien

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Grundiss des Eigenthumlichen der Wissenschaftslehr

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre als Han

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William Camden : Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria

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Moses Mendelssohn : Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungun uber das Daseyn Got

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Ernst Platner : Ernst Platners Philosophische Aphorismen nebst ein

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Heinrich Steffens : Ueber die Idee der Universitaten

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Emanuel Swedenborg : Prodomus Philosophiae

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Friedrich Spee : Trutz Nachtigal ein geistlich poetisches Lustwaldl

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Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus : Das Leben Jesu

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Aristophanes : The Birds

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Nehemiah Grew : Cosmologica Sacra OR A Discourse of the Universe

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Johann Gebbard Ehrenreich Maass : Versuch uber die Einbildungskraft

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Hermann Boerhaave : A New Method of Chemistry

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Petrarch : Il Petrarca di nuova ristampato, & c diligentement

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Einleitung in das Neue Testament

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Benjamin Wheeler : The Theological Lectures of the Late Rev. Benjamin Wheeler

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Robert Robinson : Miscellaneous Works of Robert Robinson

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Hugh James Rose : Prolusio in Curia Cantabrigiensi recitata

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Joseph Ritson : A Select Collection of English Songs

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William Charles Wells : Two essays: one upon single vision with two eyes

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Ferdinand Friedrich Runge : Neveste phytochemische Entdeckingen zur Begrundung

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John Webster : The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft

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Joseph Ritson : Ancient songs, from the time of King Henry the Third

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[n/a] : Book of Common Prayer [unknown edition]

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William Hayley : The Life of Milton

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Samuel Daniel : The Poetical Works of Mr Samuel Daniel

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Alighieri Dante : The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

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Alighieri Dante : The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Wissenschaft der Logik

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Alexander Charles Louis D'Arblay : The Vanity of All Earthly Greatness

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Johann Gottfried Herder : Briefe das studium der Theologie betreffend

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Samuel Hearne : A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort, in Hudson's Bay

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John Spottiswoode : The History of the Church of Scotland

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James Foster : The Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Christian Revelation

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John Galt : Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk

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Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon : A Select Collection of Hymns

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Thomas Harwood : Annotations, Ecclesiastical and Devotional

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Mariana Starke : Travels on the continent

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Dugald Stewart : Dissertation First

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Emanuel Swedenborg : The Nature of the Intercourse between the Soul and the body

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Thomas Thomson : A System of Chemistry

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Isaac Taylor : Elements of Thought

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Moses Mendelssohn : Philosophische Schriften

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[unknown] : Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society

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Nicola Francesco Haym : Notizia de' libri rari viella lingua italiana

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Robert Anderson [Editor] : The Works of the British Poets

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Francis Bond Head : Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an old man

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Johann Christian Heinroth : Lehrbuch der Anthropologie

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George Bull : Defensio Fidei Nicaenae

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Thomas Abbti : Vermischte Werke

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Royal Society : The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

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Henry Nelson Coleridge : "Life and Writings of Hesiod" Quarterly Review

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[unknown] : The Conduct of the British Government towards the Church of England in the West India Colonies

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[n/a] : The Quarterly Review

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[n/a] : The Quarterly Review

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Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville Illon : Les ages de la nature et histoire de l'espece human

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John Scott : The Christian Life

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Thomas Jefferson : Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers

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Mary Lamb : Mrs Leicester's School: or, the history of several young ladies, related by themselves

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William Fitzwilliam Owen : Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa

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[unknown] : Eikon Basilike

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Jeremy Taylor : A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Year

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Jeremy Taylor : A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Year

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Jeremy Taylor : A collection of polemical discourses

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[n/a] : Encyclopaedia Londinensis

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: Encyclopaedia Londinensis

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Edward Williams : Poems, Lyric and Pastoral

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Philosophische Schrifte[n]

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Philosophische Schrifte[n]

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James Sedgwick : Hints to the Public and the Legislature on the nature and effect of evangelical preaching

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Walter Wilson : Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe

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Johann Christoph Wolf : Curae philologicae et criticae, ...

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William Sedgwick : Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance

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John Selden : Table-Talk

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John Selden : Table-Talk

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Karl Christian Wolfart : Jahrbucher Fur den Lebens-Magnetismus oder Neues

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[unknown] : Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of England

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William Shakespeare : Works

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William Shakespeare : Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare

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Christopher Wordsworth : Six Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq

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William Shakespeare : Dramatic Works

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Christopher Wordsworth : "Who Wrote Eikon Basilike?" considered and answered

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William Shakespeare : Dramatic Works

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William Wordsworth : The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse,

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : System des transcendentalen Idealismus

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : System des transcendentalen Idealismus

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling : Ueber die Gottheiten von Samothrace

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Francis Wrangham : The Life of Dr. Richard Bentley

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Christian Wolff : Logic, or rational thoughts on the powers of the human understanding

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August Wilhelm Schlegel : Gedichte

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August Wilhelm Schlegel : Ueber dramatische Kunst und Litteratur

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Francis Wrangham : Scraps

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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher : A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St Luke

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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher : Ueber den sogenannten ersten Brief des Paulos

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John Davison : Discourses on Prophecy

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James Abraham Hillhouse : Hadad

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Daniel Defoe : The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan

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Richard Hooker : Works

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anonymous : A Dialogue on Parliamentary Reform

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Hugh of Saint Victor : De Sacramentis

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George Darley : Sylvia or the May Queen

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Rene Descartes : Opera Philosophica

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Antoine Desmoulins : Histoire naturelle des races humaines

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Homer : Whole Works

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[unknown] : Homeri Hymni et epigrammata

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Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette : Theodor

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John Howie : Biographia Scoticana

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Joseph Hughes : The Believer's Prospect and Preparation

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John Donne : Poems

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Jean Antoine Dubois : Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India, and of their Institutions, religious and civil

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John and Michael Banim : Tales by the O'Hara Family

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Francesco Baldovini : Lamento di cecco da Varlungo

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Peter Augustine Baines : Faith, Hope, and Charity

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Karl Friedrich Bahrdt : Glaubens-Bekanntniss

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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John Asgill : A Collection of Tracts

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John Asgill : A Collection of Tracts

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M Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

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Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens : Kabbalistische Briefe

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John Anster : Poems

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[n/a] : The Annual Anthology

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[unknown] : Analysis of the Report of a Committee

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[unknown] : The Age. A Poem. In eight books.

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Aeschylus : Prometheus Vinctus

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Aeschylus : Agamemnon

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Johann Christoph Adelung : Deutsche Sprachlehre fur Schulen

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[unknown] : Acta Seminarii Regii et Societatis Philologicae Li

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Thomas Adam : Private Thoughts on Religion

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Patrick Colquhoun : A Treatise on Indigence

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William Collins : Poetical Works

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Henry Nelson Coleridge : Six Months in the West Indies in 1825

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[n/a] : Athenaeum

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Henry Nelson Coleridge : Notes on the Reform Bill

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William Ellery Channing : A Discourse

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Sir George Colebrooke : Six Letters on Intolerance

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Gabriello Chiabrera : Delle Opere

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Robert Chambre : Some Animadversions upon the Declaration

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Hartley Coleridge : The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire

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Alexander Chalmers : The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper

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Alexander Chalmers : The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper

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Alexander Chalmers : The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper

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William Cave : Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria

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Claudius Claudianus : Quae exstant opera

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Johann Conrad Barchusen : Elementa Chemiae

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[unknown] : Carmina Illustrium Poetarum Italorum

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Richard Byfield : The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated

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Joseph Butler : The Anatomy of Religion

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Charles Butler : Vindication of "The Book of the Roman Catholic Church"

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Charles Butler : The Book of the Roman Catholic Church

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Thomas Burnet : De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium Liber

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Gilbert Burnet : The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton

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Gilbert Burnet : The Life of William Bedell

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Gottfried August Burger : Gedichte

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John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

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John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

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Sir Thomas Browne : Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths

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Sir Thomas Browne : Religio Medici

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Sir Thomas Browne : Religio Medici

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Henry Brooke : The Fool of Quality OR The History of Henry Earl of Moreland

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Edward Brerewood : A Second Treatise of the Sabbath

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Hendrik Brenkmann : Historia Pandectarum

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William Lisle Bowles : Sonnets, and other poems

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[n/a] : The Book of Common Prayer

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Claude Alexandre, Comte de Bonneval : Memoirs of the Bashaw Count Bonneval

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Gottfried Christian Bohn : Wohlerfahrner Kaufmann

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Jakob Bohme : Works

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William Blake : The Ladies Charity School-House Roll of Highgate

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[unknown] : A Harmonie upon the Three Evangelists

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[n/a] : The Holy Bible

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[n/a] : The Holy Bible

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[n/a] : The Holy Bible

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[n/a] : The Holy Bible

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Francis Beaumont : Fifty Comedies and Tragedies

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Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxterianae & c

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Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxterianae & c

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Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxterianae & c

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Richard Baxter : Catholick Theologie

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William Bartram : Travels Through North & South Carolina

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John Barclay : Argenis

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John Barclay : Argenis

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George Lavington : The Moravians compared and detected

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St Francis of Sales : Il Teotima osia il trattato dell'amor di Dio

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anon [A Labour MP] : article

'I was reading an article by a Labour M.P. who wants to harbour refugees. He's all wrong. Good job we haven't got dictators here.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: Fuel economy leaflet 15

'Well you know I think I'd read number 15 first. I did read it the other day as a matter of fact. It's got a bit of a kick to it, you want to see what they say after the bit at the beginning. The other is too dull; it doesn't get one's attention and I think one would forget it straight away.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

: Information leaflet

'Oh I did see that (15). I read it - actually it makes you read it because you have to go through to the end to find out want it's all about. I did read it, but only because it caught my eye - something about five games to one or something.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

: newspaper

'Army officer: The first I heard of the invasion was when I was reading the papers in the mess after breakfast, when someone stuck his head round the door and said in a matter of fact voice - "well, they ve landed." People were interested, wanted more details? But didn't seem excited.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : [book]

'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sitting. Noone seems very interested in the soldiers. Two kids, girls, crawl on the grass near one end of the rank, but they appear to be as much interested in their own game as in the soldiers. Two prams. Mothers gossiping - about five. Young girl, reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

anon : Internees Leaflet

'Looks at cartoon first. "Oh, quite right, you know. It is these people who - I love those two. Yes". Turns to Priestley quotation, "He's come out lately, this Priestley, hasn't he? He's a bit of a radical on the lay, isn't he?" Starts to read printed matter, but gets no farther than than first paragraph. "I expect they've got to intern them, to be on the safe side. But I think they should have some sort of a tribunal, don't you."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

anon : Internees Leaflet

'Reads the front page, turns to the back, looks at the cartoon intently as if trying to understand it; then opens it and says, "What's all this?" "Have I got to read it all?" He is told it is just as he likes, so he reads about two paragraphs and then gives it up. "I quite agree with it, it's wrong to lock all these people up like that. They're useful to us I suppose."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

anon : Internees Leaflet

'Reads part. "This is very interesting". Reads carefully. "Of course it was ridiculous jamming all foreigners into concentration camps. I call that a good leaflet -very interesting."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

Adolf Hitler : Speeches

'was reading Hitler's speech (oddly enough I read Hitler's speeches but very seldom read Churchill's I feel there is much truth in what he says. This statement, is, I suppose, more or less treasonable. While I was reading the speech, Vi. said "Our Manager was reading aloud bits of Hitler's speech. "What did you all think of it?" I asked. "Well, Mr. B., (the Manager) said it was all bluster, but I thought that Hitler is a very clever man cos he's done everything he said he was going to do in "Mein Kampf". I dont hate him at all now, somehow, because he hates all the aristocracy and is for our class, and that's what I like".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: Gas mask poster

'Let me see. (Then, after reading it all through very carefully) - But we know all about this. They sent round leaflets telling me about it. They only thing is they didn't have the pictures on. But there's no need for them.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Poster

William Laud : The Second Volume of the Remains of the Most Reverend father in God, and blessed martyr, William Laud

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Duncan Forbes : The Whole Works

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William Laud : The History of the Troubles and Tryal of The Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud

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Carl Friedrich Flogel : Geschichte der Komischen Litteratur

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Claude Fleury : Ecclesiastical History

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John Fitzgibbon : The speech of the Right Honourable John Lord Baron

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Henry Fielding : The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Henry Fielding : The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews

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Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge : Versuch einer Darstellung des animalischen Magneti

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Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge : Versuch einer Darstellung des animalischen Magneti

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John Kenyon : Rhymed Plea for Tolerance

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Henry Fielding : The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

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Richard Field : Of the Church

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Richard Field : Of the Church

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Richard Field : Of the Church

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Marsilio Ficino : Platonica theologia de imortalitate animorum

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Immanuel Kant : Sammlung einiger bisher unbekannt gebliebener klei

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung

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Immanuel Kant : Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Ver

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Veber den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehne

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Immanuel Kant : Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde der Naturwissenschaft

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Immanuel Kant : Die Metaphysik der Sitten

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Immanuel Kant : Critik der reinen Vernunft

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Immanuel Kant : Critik der reinen Vernunft

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Immanuel Kant : Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

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Immanuel Kant : Immanuel Kants Logik ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen

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Immanuel Kant : Critik der Urtheilskraft

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Die Bestimmung des Menschen

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Immanuel Kant : Anthropologie

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Die Anweisung zum seeligen leben

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Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus; or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

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"Junius" : The Letters of Junius

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Immanuel Kant : Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst

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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Fantasiestucke in Calloti Manier

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Pierre Jurieu : The History of the Council of Trent

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Johann Heinrich Hoffbauer : Der Mensch in allen Zonen der Erde

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Hyman Hurwitz : The Elements of the Hebrew Language

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Edwin Atherstone : The Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Panthea

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Philippe de la Clyle, sire de Commines : The History of Philip de Commines

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Samuel Johnson : The Works of the Late Reverend Mr Samuel Johnson

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Joannes Scotus Erigena : De divisione naturae libri quinque

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Joannes Scotus Erigena : De divisione naturae libri quinque

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Einleitung in die apokryphischen Schriften

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Einleitung in die apokryphischen Schriften

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Einleitung ins Alte Testament

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr Moses Mendelssohn

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr Moses Mendelssohn

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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn : Allgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen Litteratur

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Thomas W Dymock : England's Dust and Ashes Raked up

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James Hutton : An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen

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William Law : A serious call to a devout and holy life

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Immanuel Kant : Vermischte Schriften

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David Friedlander : Sendschreiben an seine Hochwurden Herrn Oberconsistorialrath und Probst Teller zu Berlin

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Andrew Fuller : The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined and Compared as to their Moral Tendency

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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz : Theodicee, das ist, Versuch von der Gute Gottes

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Robert Leighton : The Expository Works and Other Remains of Archbishop Leighton

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Thomas Fuller : The Church-History of Britain

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Thomas Fuller : The Church-History of Britain

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Thomas Fuller : The Holy State and Profane State

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Thomas Fuller : Life Out of Death

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Thomas Fuller : A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, With The History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Leben, nebst seinem noch ubrigen litterarischen Nachlasse

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Gotthold Ephraim Lessings samm Hiche Schriften

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Thomas Fuller : A Triple Reconciler

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Moses Mendelssohn : Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judenthum

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John Lightfoot : The Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot

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Benedetto Menzini : Poesie di Benedetto Menzini Fiorentino divise in due tomi

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Fulke Greville : Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes

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John Milton : Poems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin

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John Milton : A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton

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John Hacket : Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial Offer'd to the Great Deservings of John Williams, DD

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Henry More : The Theological Works of the most pious and learned Henry More, DD Sometime Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge

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John Hacket : A Century of Sermons

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Henry More : Philosophical Poems, etc

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Henry More : Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica, and Anima Magica abscondita

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John Hall : An Humble Motion to the Parliament of England

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Nemesius of Emesa : Nemesii Philosophi Clarissimi de Natura Hominis Liber Utilissimus

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David Hartley : Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations

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Joseph Nicolson : The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland

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Martin Luther : Colloquia mensalia

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Joseph Nicolson : The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland

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George Lyttelton : The History of the Life of King Henry the Second

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Cotton Mather : Magnalia Christi Americana

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Bernard de Mandeville : The Fable of the Bees: or, private vices, publick benefits

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Friedrich Von Matthisson : Gedichte

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Friedrich Von Matthisson : Gedichte

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Edward Stillingfleet : Origines Sacrae, or a rational account of the grounds of natural and revealed religion

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William Steele : Mr Recorder's Speech to the Lord Protector

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Thomas Stanley : The History of Philosophy

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Robert Southey : Joan of Arc, an epic poem

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John Smith : Select Discourses

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William Sherlock : A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever

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Algernon Sidney : The Works of Algernon Sidney

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Sir Philip Sidney : Arcadia der Graffin von Pembrock

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Henry More : The Second Lash of Alazonomastix

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Thomas Fuller : The Appeal of Inivred Innocence

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Hugo de Groot : De jure belli et pacis

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Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann : De emendenda ratione graecae grammaticae pars prim

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Johann Heinrich Jung : Theorie der Geister-Kunde

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling : Jahrbucher der Medicin als Wissenschaft

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Johann Jahn : Appendix hermeneuticae seu exercitationes exegetic

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : Werke (Vol I-III [of 6])

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Friedrich Anton Mesmer : Mesmerismus

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Cesare Mussolini : Italian Exercises

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Friedrich Ludwig Von Hardenberg : Novalis Schriften (Vol I of 2)

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Napoleon Bonaparte : Codice di Napoleone il Grande pel Regno d'Italia

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[unknown] : Notice des tableaux exposes au Musee d'Anvers

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[n/a] : The Law Magazine OR Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence

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Robert Leighton : The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow

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Robert Leighton : The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The History of the Worthies of England

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne : Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Benjamin Pitts Capper : A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Thomas Robert Malthus : An Essay on the Principle of Population

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

John Macdiarmid : Lives of British Statesmen, & c

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Samuel Noble : An Appeal in behalf of the views of the Eternal World And State And The Doctrines Of Faith And Life

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Nathan Hale : The American System OR The effects of high duties

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

John Miller : Sermons Intended to Show a Sober Application Of Scriptural Principles To The Realities Of Life

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Thomas Gray : The Works of Thomas Gray

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

William Godwin : Thoughts Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Parr's Spital Sermon

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

M Loewe : A Treatise on the Phenomena of Animal Magnetism

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Charles Lloyd : Nugae Canorae

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

John Galt : The Provost OR Memoirs of His Own Times

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Leighton : The Whole Works of Robert Leighton, D.D.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Thomas Robert Malthus : The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the importation of foreign corn

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Charles Smith : Seven Letters on National Religion

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Philip Massinger : The Plays of Philip Massinger... with notes critic

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Southey : History of Brazil

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Southey : History of Brazil

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Southey : History of Brazil

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Southey : The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Southey : Lives of the British Admirals

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Robert Southey : Omniana, or horae otiosiores

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

S. Maxwell [potential pseudonym] : The Battle of the Bridge; or Pisa Defended

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Benedictus de Spinoza : Benedicti de Spinoza opera quae supersunt omnia

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Samuel O'Sullivan : The Agency of Divine Providence Manifested in the

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

William Parnell : An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

John James Park : The Dogmas of the Constitution

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Sir William Stewart : Outlines of a Plan for the General Reform of the British Land Forces

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

John Sterling : Arthur Coningsby

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Johann Friedrich Meckel : System des vergleichenden Anatomie

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger : Philosophische Gesprache

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

John James Park : Conservative Reform

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

John Oxlee : The Christian Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Der Geschlossne Handelsstaat

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Heinrich Steffens : Grundzuge der philosophischen Naturwissenschaft

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Heinrich Steffens : Grundzuge der philosophischen Naturwissenschaft

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Heinrich Steffens : Anthropologie

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Lorenz Oken : Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Heinrich Steffens : Caricaturen des Heiligsten

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Heinrich Steffens : Caricaturen des Heiligsten

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Lorenz Oken : Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Heinrich Steffens : Die gegenwartige zeit und wie sie geworden mit besonderer R?cksicht auf Deutschland

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Heinrich Steffens : Beytrage zur innern Naturgeschichte der Erde

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Malcolm Laing : The History of Scotland, from the Union of the Crowns on the accession of James VI to the throne of England to the Union of the Kingdoms in the reign of Queen Anne

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Manuel Lacunza Y Diaz : The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

William Falconer : The Shipwreck

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

George Stanley Faber : A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or the Great Gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy and Crete

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

George Stanley Faber : A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or the Great Gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy and Crete

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

A member of the Church of England : Eternal Punishment Proved to Be Not Suffering, But Privation

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Adolph Carl August Eschenmayer : Psychologie in drei Theilen

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Ben Jonson : The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Thomas Swinburne : A Letter to the Right Honourable Robert Peel

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Johann Jahn : The History of the Hebrew Commonwealth

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Edward Irving : Sermons, Lectures and Occasional Discourses

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

[n/a] : The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Irving : For Missionaries after the Apostolical School

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

[n/a] : The Eclectic Review

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Rollin : Ancient History

'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to advise me to a course of reading, so I pitched on Rollin. Next I obtained a number of Wiley and Putnam's "Library of Choice Reading", and there I found essay, and biography, and history; but for the lack of a system, my reading was desultory. My time was soon fully occupied in speaking, day and night, in school-houses, vestries, and halls, so that the opportunities for intellectual culture were limited. Still, I read a great deal to small profit, owing to the lack of advantages, such as I might have obtained, by the training which an education would have imparted.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John B. Gough Print: Book

Wiley and Putnam (eds) : Library of Choice Reading

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John B. Gough Print: Book

[n/a] : The Morning Chronicle

'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper

Hannah More : Practical Piety

'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which Fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more than ever convince me what a worthless wretch I am without giving me the virtue and courage to become better. But last night, wanting to compose my wayward spirit, I ventured to open it, and read the first chapter on Internal Christianity- And was agreeably suprised to find myself much pleased with it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah H. Burney Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lay of the Last Minstrel

'You ask me (pertly enough- pardon the expression) whether I have read "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"- Alas only twice- And have, in addition, only the following catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah H. Burney Print: Book

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'We got the Iris this morning I copied out of it the petition of the G [?] dispersed thro Germany and Hartman's Soliloquy in imitation of Hamlet.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Cambridge Inteligencer

'Mr Fisher who came up to alter Mr E a gown &c against our journay bought in a "Cambridge Inteligencer" to look at; it is a very free paper & conducted by Mr Flower.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

[William] [Tooke] : Varieties of Literature From Foreign Literary Jour

'[Brought from the library] "Varieties of English Literature" vol 1st which being unintelligible stuff for the most part I don't intend to have the second vol.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Francis Burgerdiscius [Burgersdijk] : Institutionum Logicarum

'I was deeply engag'd in Homer & Burgesdicius, otherwise should have answer'd it [letter from John Potter] sooner. I hope you don't think I preferr'd the old musty Greek, or the trifling Logician to a correspondence with a valuable friend: no; twas neccesity not choice that restrained my pen.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hurd Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out of, in a place where they were difficultly come at and desiring that none of you might be allowed to spoil my books with your dirty Thumbs while I was abroad. He read them in a few daies [sic] and has continued to be fond of reading ever since.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Monro Print: Book

John Tomkins : Piety Promoted in Brief Memorials ... Society of F

'In the 9th mo. [1800] died Thos Rutter, of Bristol ... His amiable character is so ably pourtrayed [sic] in 142 & c of the 1oth part of "Piety Promoted", 43 that it is needless for me to attempt any farther delineation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Jenkins Print: Book

Anon : The Minstrel; or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye fifteenth century

'I took "Varieties & c" to the Library. I brought the 2nd Volume of the "Minstrel or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye 15 Century". ... I think it one of the Prettyest [sic] novels I have ever read. The first volume being lost at our Library. I got it at Lindley's Library in Church Lane. There is a vey long list of books lost. I bought 26 songs for 0 1/2.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

James White : The Adventures of King Richard Couer de Lion

'I went to see my Grandmother, she lent me 2 romances "Richard Couer de Lion" by Mr White author of "Earl Strongbow" & "John Of Gaunt". It begins with his escape out of prison & is very romantic. The other is called "Leon a Spartan Story" but I have not began to read it yet. They belong to Miss Sarah Shore who collects almost all the books of the king.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

James Lackington : Memoirs of the First Forty Five Years of the Life

'I went to Mr Gales to order two book which I saw at Birmingham [...] I brought the "Life of Lackington" from the Library who begun trade with #5 & now sells 100,000 volumes annually.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : Account of London

'I brought from the Library "Pennant's [Views?] of London", out of which I drew a view of the Savoy Hospital'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : Account of London

'I drew out of Pennant a View of the Ruins of Clerkenwell Church'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : Trifles

'bought Dodsley's "Trifles", a very entertaining book [in margin] Price 1s which Mr E. gave me to buy it with & has likewise given me the book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Daniel Lyons : The Environs of London, Being an Historical Account

'I took the 2nd Vol. & brought the 3d of Lyons &c. They are very entertaining books.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'We got "The Iris" this morning; it contained an Advertisement from Mr [Sorby?], saying that he intended to resign the school at Midsummer & begged leave to reccomend [sic] Messrs Bolton & Hayward as his successors.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[unknown] : [Catalogue of the Sheffield Subscription Library]

'We got the new catalogue from Library, The number of subscribers 118, there are near 2400 Books. [In Margin] Printed by Pierson'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'We learn from the "Iris" of this morning that the "Wisperer" is just published by J.M.Gomery [James Montgomery].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

Humphrey Prideaux : The Old and New Testament Connected

'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto

'Within these few days I could not have a book from the library because Mr E. had lent the "Castle of Otranto" to Miss Lowe [Love?], who happened to be there the afternoon when I was reading it; it was against the rules.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Mrs Harley : The Castle of Mowbray

'Fetched the "Castle of Mowbray" from Lindley's Library; a very silly Love tale. Took the "Castle of Otranto" to the Library. It is one of the most entertaining novels I ever read.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Posthumos Works, Vol IV: Letters and Miscellaneous

'Brought from the library for Miss Haynes the 4 [th] vol. of Mrs Godwin's Posthumous Works. It contains Letters, one on the Management of Infants, Several to Mr Johnson the Book-seller, one on the character of the French Nation, [?]of Fancy, & on Poetry & Hints. Finished it that night!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : European Magazine

'Brought [...] the European Magazine for April 1798; it contains an essay on provincial Half-pennies by Joseph M[orer], author of Turkish Tales ... to be continued in the succeeding numbers.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Ann Radcliffe : A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794

'I took Radcliffe's "Tour" to the Library; I was not so much entertained with it, as I expected tho her descriptions are very fine.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Robert Cotton : Cotoni Postuma: Divers Choice Pieces of the Renown

'Returned from S. Read as I came along a considerable part of "Cotoni Posthuma" which Mr M[anley] lent me.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Edmund Lodge : Illustrations of British History

'Began to copy out of Lodge's "Illustrations", the lives of the 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th Earls of Shrewsbury; the book contains chiefly letters to and from the 4 great characters.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Edmund Lodge : Illustrations of British History

'Finished the account of the Earls of Shrewsbury.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Edmund Lodge : Illustrations of British History

'Began to draw out of Lodge, the monument of George 4th Earl of Shrewsbury.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Anon : Fragments in the Manner of Sterne

'Mr E. brought "Fragments in the Manner of Sterne" 1797 from the library. The "Monthly Review" says it is the best imitation of Sterne that has ever appeared. I finished it that night & was very pleased with it; I think I will read "Tristram Shandy".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Anon : Fragments in the Manner of Sterne

'Wrote out of "Fragments" the piece upon war.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Gifford : A Short Address to the Members of the Loyal Association

'Brought from the Library Gifford's "Address to the loyal Association". [In margin:"A Pamphlet"] he says that he has received from Paris an account of the design of the French to divide this country into 3 distinct Republics ... The English directors are said to be Paine, Hooke, Thelwall, Sharpe & Lansdown ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden

'Took "Letters from Norway & c" back to the Vestry Library. I did not read them, but Mr E. said they were very entertaining & instructive; brought Mrs Wollstonecraft "View of the French Revolution".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution

'Finished Wollstoncraft's "View of the French Revolution" Vol I. It appears to rather a panegyric upon the actions of the national assembly than a just history. She thinks the Duke of Orleans was the cause of that Riot, when the women went to Versailles.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : Gentleman's Magazine

'I begun to write in my Common-place book, the account of the King of Patterdale [from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', borrowed on July 2 from 'the Library']'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Sir Frederick Morton Eden : The State of the Poor; or an History of the Labour

'Took the "Gent. Mag." to the Library, & brought Frederick Morton Eden's "State of the Poor"; he gives an account of the state of the poor in most of the large parishes in England, & amongst the rest Sheffield.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Samuel Ireland : Picturesque Views of the River Thames

'Took Percy's "Reliques" to the Library [no evidence of reading this text], & brought Ireland's "Picturesque Views on the River Thames". Began to draw out of Ireland the view of Strawberry Hill.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Iris

'We got the "Iris"; it contains an exceedingly humourous account of the first campaign of our Loyal Independant Sheffield Volunteers to Workshop, which I wrote out amongst the anecdotes.' [NB Entry for July 10: Mr Evans joins with Miss Haynes and Mr Manly to subscribe to 'The Iris'. Previously they had each bought it.]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

George Smith : A Sermon Delivered in the Parish Church of Sheffield

'Bought Mr Smith's "Sermon to the Odd Fellows", Professor Robinson's "Proof of a Conspiracy" seems to have made a deep impression on his mind. Price 6d. Bought also the "Oeconomist" for July; they have raised the price to 2d.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter

[n/a] : The Monthly Magazine

'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with the account of Mr Lambton in the "Monthly Mag". the "Walpoliana" is also very entertaining.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Donald Campbell : A Journey Over Land to India

'Brought Donald Campbell's "Journey Over Land to India" [from the Library]. We had a very high character given of it & the little I have read has not disapointed us.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Donald Campbell : A Journey Over Land to India

'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who was shipwrecked and imprisoned with him is very affecting.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Lawrence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [in 2 vols]

'Finished Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"; [borrowed from Mr Manley on visit to Stammington, July 7 1798] It has of late become the fashion to cry down Sterne as the greatest plagarist... [discusses the 'principal characters']. The parts which please me best are the story of le Fever, Uncle Toby's campaigns, Toby's apology, The Sermon and the conversation upon it, & the Death of Yorick.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

James Montgomery : The Whisperer; or Tales & Speculations

'Finished the "Whisperer or Tales & Speculations" by Gabriel Silvertongue. It was written by J. Montgomery and part of it appeared in "The Iris" in the year 1795. All the pieces are very entertaining, in so much that I do not know which I prefer above the rest. Mr Evans gave it me [bought on July 15] together with "Prison Amusements & his Trial" [by Montgomery].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : Encyclopaedia

'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. From 7 to 8 drew part of a landscape, wrote my diary. 8 to 9. Read a little in my Encyclopedia ... 2 to 5 at Warehouse. From 6 to 7 read a little in the Encyclopedia ...8 to 9 got my supper, read a little in the ency. 9 to 10 read in the ency.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Iris

'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. [...9-12 at the warehouse] 12 to 1 came to my dinner, read part of the "Iris". Mr H. Hall dined with us.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho

'Brought Mrs Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho"; I wish I had not read it before, for upon a second reading it loses half its intrest'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : Outlines of the Globe: the View of Hindoostan

'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are some beautiful plates in it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book

[n/a] : Monthly Magazine

'Wrote out of the "Monthly Mag." an example of English hexameter. [Borrowed 'the first 12 no.s' from Miss Haynes on 17 August 1798] Sir Philip Sidney had an idea of the same kind for he composed a poem in such verse.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Iris

'"The Iris" this week contains an advertisement from the Cutler's Company [annual ball] White Bear Inn. Price 10s 6d.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Johann Georg Zimmermann : Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement

'Wrote out of Zimmerman on "Solitude" the introduction to it. [Notes that it is a 1797 edn when borrowed on 26 Aug. 1798].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Johann Georg Zimmermann : Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement

'Took Zimmermann to the library [In margin: 'vestry']. It consists for the most part of declamation, tho' it is very instructive; I have not finishe'd it but it was time to return it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

De La Roche : New Memoirs of Literature

'Saw at Book John's [In margin: A person who stands in the Market Place & sells books & of whom I have sometimes bought books] "New Memoirs of Literature for the Year 1725" by [?] Roche. It is a review of books published that year in England...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Robert Townson : Travels in Hungary with a Short Account of Vienna

'I have read part of Townson but I think I shall read no more as it consists of nothing [else?] but mineralogical & botanical remarks.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Sir George Leonard Staunton : An Authentic Account from the King of Great Britain

'Took the 1st vol of Staunton to the library [borrowed on 7 Sept], & brought Townson's "Travels" ... The 1st part of Staunton brings the embassador into the Yellow Sea, so it is the second, which we must expect the most entertainment as it gives a very particular account of the Chinese custom &c.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons

'Began to read Thomson's "Seasons".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797

'Took [the] "Answer to Wilberforce" to the Chapel Library & brought "The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797, Being an Impartial Selection ... Essays & Jeaux d'Espirits ... [from] the Newspapers & Other Publications ...".They are for the most part political. Some of the articles are copied from larger works than magazines & newspapers [eg.3 selections from] Lewis's "Monk". ...The Ode by Sr Will Jones ... has appeared many years ago & in many publications. ... There appears to be nevertheless a deal of choice matter in this publication.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'Wrote out of the "Spirit of the Public Journals" "Washing Day", a poem in blank verse; originally printed in the "Monthly Magazine".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'When I brought the "Spirit of the Journals", I did not think that it would have contributed anything towards the account of Sheffield but I have extracted from it an account of a letter supposed to have been sent from "Yorke, General of the armed citizens of Sheffield", to the British National Convention, & the debate upon it from "The Times".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'Wrote also out of the "Spirit of the Journals" "a hymn for the fast day" by Captain Norrice on Foxe's Birthday.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'Took the "Spirit of the Journals" to the Chapel Library [...] there are no less than 101 Epigrams on Messrs Pitt & Dundas going drunk to the House of Commons on the night of his majesty's message [of] war with France ...Many of which are very poor. These epigrams, Marat, an Epilogue ... & the Orgies of Bachus may be reckoned amongst the least happy articles in this volume.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[Anon] : Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution

'Took Staunton's "Embassy to China" to the Library & brought "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution...". "about one-third of the anecdotes" says the editor ... "have appeared in the 'Monthly Magazine' but the rest are original".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[Anon] : Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution

'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appeared in the "Monthly Magazine" than they acknowledge. The second volume is probably more original.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Monthly Magazine

'The "Monthly Magazine" contains an account of the publication of that long expected work by Mr Conder of Ipswich, "an arrangement of provincial coins ... Price 7/6 boards". I intend to get this proposed at the Surry Street Library.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

William Gilpin : The Analytical Review; or History of Literature

'Wrote out of the "Analytical Review" an account of the Abbey of Glastonbury which they have extracted from Gilpin's Observations.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Iris

'"The Iris" in mentioning the Sessions at Sheffield says ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

Samuel Jackson Pratt : Gleanings Through Wales, Holland and Westphalia

'Read a beautiful story in Pratt [borrowed on 11 Oct] concerning a decayed merchant & his daughter who had retired into Wales & were unexpectedly relieved by the Great John Howard.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Anon : Long Faces; Amusement for Starving Mechanics

'Procured a paper in form of an advertisement called "Long Faces" published Feb. 28th 1794 on the fast which was held that day. It is a very keen satire on fast days in general. I think it has been declared a libel.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement

[n/a] : The Gentleman's Magazine

'brought also the "Gent Mag" for Sepr 1798. [It] speaks very severly of Mr Smith's Sermon to the Odd-fellows; they say that if he had intended to promote the intrests of Republicanism he could not have done it in a more effective manner ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Helen Maria Williams : A Tour in Switzerland

'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is a spirit in that class, in all countries more favourable to inquiry & consequently more hostile to unconditional submission" Vol 2 p.227.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Hannah More : Sacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young Persons

'Brought Wolstonecraft's "View of the French Revolution", from the Chapel Library, for Miss Haynes to read. Read in Miss Hannah More's "Sacred Drama", David & Goliath, I was much pleased with it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Spy

'Saw ... in the possession of one of our men the "Spy", a periodical printed by Crome in the year 1795, in which were some veery keen things against the Ministry.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Henry William Bunbury : An Academy for Grown Horsemen

'Brought from the Library as a pamphlet Bunbury's "Academy for Grown Horsemen"; in some parts he is exceedingly humurous.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter

[n/a] : The Iris

'It has been stated in some of the London papers that when the news [of Nelson's victory] arrived there was no appearance of rejoicing at Sheffield. [He cites lack of coverage in the "Iris"]. He remarks however in the "Iris" of the 25th of this month that [Sheffield did celebrate].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Anti-Jacobin Review

'Brought the 2d number of the "Anti-Jacobin Review & Magazine", which is got into the Surry Street library instead of the "Analytical" which they have turned out. It is a most virulent attack upon all the friends of liberty or - Jacobins-, as they are pleased to stile them; it is -ornamented- with caricature prints.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Spy

'Borrowed the "Spy" of one of our men; it is peculiarly calculated for the lower class of people. Mr Harrison a schoolmaster in Pond Lane, was one of the Principle writers in it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Helen Maria Williams : A Tour in Switzerland

'Miss Williams "Tour" is very entertaining; besides describing the scenery (which she does in a masterly manner) she gives short sketches of the government of the different cantons & compares the state of Switzerland to Paris.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : 'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers

"Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB" [He has also starred * the offending phrase in the body of the text.]

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

Samuel Rogers : 'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers

'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB' [He has also starred * the offending phrase in the body of the text.] 'Gray uses the same epithat in his church-yard Elegy:"Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust"'. [Title page signed] 'Charlotte Susannah Fry From Mr R.Bowyer 1815.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sussannah Fry Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard

'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school abotch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB' [He has also starred * the offending phrase in the body of the text.] 'Gray uses the same epithat in his church-yard Elegy:"Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust"'. [Title page signed]'Charlotte Susannah Fry From Mr R.Bowyer 1815.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sussannah Fry Print: Book

George Benson : The History of the Life of Jesus Christ

'Began to read as my Sunday Reading Benson's "Life of Christ".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

'Oh! Woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please...'[6 lines] 'Marmion'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Campbell : Lines Inscribed on the Monument Lately... Erected

'Lines written to the Memory of Sir G Campbell' 'To Him whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

[Thomas] [Moore?] : 'When Love was a Child' OR ['Loves Wreath']

'Love's Wreath!' 'When Love was a Child and went rolling along/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : 'She is Far From the Land' [Irish Melodies]

'Lines written by Moore on Miss [Curria]' 'She is far from the Land, where her young Hero sleeps/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Alaric Alexander Watts : Remember the Past

'Remember the Past!' '"Remember the Past" Oh since Fate has bereft me/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Susanna Blamire : 'When The Soft Tear Steals Silently'

'The Tear' 'When the soft tear steals silently from the eye/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Joseph Cottle : 'The Affectionate Heart'

'The Affectionate Heart' 'Let the great man, his treasures possessing/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly : 'The Forsaken to her Father'

'To Fanny' 'Oh! Name him not unless it be/...' 'T Haynes Bayly'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : 'Remember Thee' [from Irish Melodies]

'Remember thee yes while there's life in this heart/...'[Thomas Moore, 'Remember Thee': first 8 lines of 12-line text. Very little punctuation in transcript. Perhaps from song?]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken

'On a Gold Heart Which Was broken' 'Ill fated heart and can it be/...' [transcript changes the gender of the speaker]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Alaric Alexander Watts : A Woman's Farewell. Adapted to an Air by Mozart

'Farewell to...' 'Fare thee well! Tis meet we part, /...' 'July 6th 1835/Julia'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Print: Unknown

Mary Tighe : Sonnet Addressed To My Mother

'To My Mother' 'Oh! Thou whose tender smile most partially/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Destruction of Sennacherib

'On the Destruction of Semnacherib/ By Byron'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Print: Unknown

Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama OR 'Love'

'They sin who tell us Love candie/...' [16 lines] 'Southey'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Print: Unknown

James Montgomery : A Riddle

'A Riddle/which every reader may solve for herself/but none to another' 'I know not who these lines may see/I know not what these lines will be' [ll. 1-2]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Bride of Abydos OR 'Modern Greece'

'Modern Greece/ From the Bride of Abydos' 'Know ye the land where the cypress & myrtle/...' [canto one, stanza one (only) of Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'To A Lady Weeping'

'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George or Edward Carey Print: Unknown

Thomas Campbell : 'Hohenlinden' OR [The Pleasures of Hope]

'Battle of Hohenlinden' 'On Linden when the Sun was low/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Haynes Bayly : I Have Known Thee in the Sunshine

'To Selina' 'I have known thee in the sunshine/of thy beauty and thy bloom/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : Oh Thou Who Dry'st the Mourner's Tear

'Oh thou who driest the mourner's tear/...' 'Moore' [epigraph from Psalms not transcribed]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Haynes Bayly : The Bridesmaid

'The Bridesmaid' 'The bridal is o'er the guests are all gone/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : From the Turkish [The Chain I Gave]

'From Byron' 'The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View.../'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : Epitaph XI:Intended for Sir Isaac Newton

'Nature and Nature's Laws lay hidin night/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lines Written Beneath A Picture

'Written Beneath a Picture' 'Dear object of defeated care!/...' 'R.G.C. 1835'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: 'R.G.C.' Print: Unknown

Thomas Haynes Bayly : Deck Not With Gems

'"Deck not with Gems"' 'Deck not with gems that lovely form forme/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Print: Unknown

Edward Young : Night Thoughts OR 'Night Two'

'We waste, not use, ourtime; we breathe, not live' [single line] 'Young'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : On Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"

'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [minor differences from the original]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward or George Carey Print: Unknown

Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly : The Last Green Leaf

'The Last Green Leaf' 'The last green leaf hangs lonely now/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : The Love of the Angels

'Extract from Moore's Love of the Angels' [The Second Angels Story, ll. 1043-1066]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

[P.D.] [Stanhope] : Advice to a Lady in Autumn

'The dews of the evening most carefully shun Being tears of the sky for the loss of the sun! Chesterfield'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : A Fragment

'A Fragment' 'When to their airy hall... [printed first line 'When, to their...] 'Byron'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : 'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother'

'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Maingay [?] Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : To [George, Earl Delawarr]

'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' - Byron's original text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Maingay [?] Print: Unknown

Laetitia Landon : Change

'The Change' 'And this is what is left of youth/...' [in 'Fragments' section of 1831 text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer

'Farewell' 'Farewell! If ever fondest prayer/...' [Some differences in punctuation from Byron's text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Tear

'The Tear' 'When Friendship or Love' [Epigraph from Gray, not transcribed]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope

'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some changes in punctuation]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

James Montgomery : [The West Indies] OR 'Home'

'Lines written by Montgomery on Home' 'There is a spot of earth...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Mary Tighe : On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon

'Ah ['Oh!' in original] do not quite your friend forget/...' [4 lines: last 4 lines of 48-line text]'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Bernard Barton : To A Dilatory Correspondent

'To A Dilatory Correspondent' 'Much as thy Silence I admire/...' [4, 6 line stanzas]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh

'There's a bliss beyond all the Minstrel has told/...' ['Light of the Haram' ll. 648-655]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

Josiah Conder : Home

'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Maingay [probably] Print: Unknown

Susan Ferrier : Marriage. A Novel in Three Volumes

'Oh There are moments in life, keen,blissful, never to be forgotten!!!'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

William Godwin : Memoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Women

'Brought Mrs Wolstonecraft's "Letters from Norway" [etc.] Mr Godwin in his "Life of Mrs W." speaks very highly of it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Gentleman's Magazine

'Brought the "Gents Mag" for May. It contains an advertisement for a new edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" with supplemental plates at 15/15'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : 'Printed Description' accompanying a comemorative medal

'Mr Scholfield gave me a medal struck to commemorate the presentation of the colours to the Birmingham association of cavalry & infantry. On one side is "Public virtue seated on ..." [in margin] "From the printed description which accompanies it".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Handbill

Lambe Robert : The History of Chess

'Learnt to play those Games which are wrote down in the abbreviations in the "History of Chess".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Isaac D'Israeli : Curiosities of Literature

'Took the "Curiosities of Literature" to the Library. It contains many curious things; a great part of it consists of extracts from the different [Mags?]. Brought back Vol 3 of Beckmann's "Hist. of Inventions & discoveries".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : [The Annual] Register

'Wrote out of the Register's "Mary Queen of Scotts a Monody; Written near the Ruins of Sheffield Manor". It is one of the pretttiest pieces of poetry in the Registers. It was published by Peacock in his poems, but it was not of his composition.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Philip Doddridge : The Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase and Version

'Finished the 3rd Vol of Dodderidge's "Family Expositor".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Johann Beckmann : A History of Inventions and Discoveries

'Took Beckman's "History of Inventions" to the Library; I have been very much entertained with it. Brought the "Gent. Mag" for 1793.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

: The European Magazine and London Review

'Took the 1st vol of Lodges' "Illustrations of British History" to the Library; I brought the 2nd volume; the 5th volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" not beeing yet come in. Brought also the "European Mag" for Jan 1798. It contains proposals from Dr Gleig (the editor of the last 6 vols of the Encyclopedia Britannica). For publishing 2 supplementary volumes at 25 s a volume, in which will be particularly contained the new theory of chemistry.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Monthly Magazine

'On 25.7.1799, I have seen a month or two ago, in the "Mon Mag" an account of the publication of the first part of the 1st vol [of the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Monthly Review

'Brought the "Monthly Review" from Miss Haynes; this month they review Conder's "Arrangement of Provincial Coins", but they do it in a very slight manner.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Leman Thomas Rede : Anecdotes and Biography, including many modern characters

'I have had it before, but have brought it now for the sake of copying a story or two out of it, of which there are very many entertaining ones'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

David Rivers : Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain

'Brought vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library [...] The author says Andrew Mackay [...] wrote the articles [...] in the Encyclopedia Britannica.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

David Rivers : Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain

'"The Memoirs of Living Authors" appears to be quite a catch-penny job. The author gives a list of their works & sometimes his opinion on them. A book of this kind is very easily compiled from the Reviews. The account of Mr Sheridan appears to me the best drawn up.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

David Rivers : Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain

'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Robert Southey : Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem

'I have not yet finished "Joan of Arc". Near 500 lines at the beginning of the 2d book were supplied by S.T. Coleridge. These appear to me to be the worst I have ever read. Who would suppose that the following sentence is in blank verse. Fancy - Peopling air by absence [to] teach my self-control & c. In contrast to the above I will transcribe one of the most beautiful passages speaking of the death of a common soldier of unrecorded name.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Robert Southey : Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem

'[...] Gaze on - then heart-sick [...] It is in the first edition of this poem, that I am reading, which Southey composed in 6 weeks & corrected it, while it was proceeding thro' the press. A second edition has since been published, which the reviews state to be much more perfect than the first.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Robert Southey : Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem

'took "Joan of Arc" to the library. I think the 4 first books, are much superior to any which follow, if we except the 9th [in margin: & the vision of the Maid] but even that [Book 9] contains something rather disgusting towards the beginning. His descriptions of battles are sometimes confused.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : Analytical Review

'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to read a masterly critique on the "Castle Spectre", which I saw performed last winter; they allow Mr Lewis no praise at all, indeed plagiarisms (chiefly from Mrs Radcliffe's Publications) are visible on every page.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

David Rivers : Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain

'Brought Vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library. It is a book on very great call.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Monthly Magazine

'Brought the "Mon Mag" from Miss Haynes. It contains an account of the death of Dr Towers.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Rene Vertot : Histoire des Revolutions de Portugal

'For the sake of improving myself in the French language, began to translate Vertot's "Revolutions of Portugal".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems

'Finished the "Epistle to a Friend". I do not so much admire it as I did the "Pleasures of Memory".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Nichols : Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of W Bowyer

'The anecdotes of Bowyer is to me a very entertaining book, I intend to read it through. I was much pleased with the following epigram by Sr Mr Brown "The king to Oxford sent a [?] horse/for Tories own no argument but force [13 lines of verse] [...]" The following anecdote is related of David Papillon [...] [page long extract].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Nichols : Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of W Bowyer

'The following story is taken from p 248 of the anecdotes of Bowyer. Among the innumerable stories that are told of him [Dr Brown Willis] [...] [1 1/2 page story].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Gentleman's Magazine

'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & c.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Dodsley (editor) : A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & c.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Took Gibbon to the library. I have not had time to read more than one chapter being engaged with Bowyers. I can procure it another time.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Peter Pindar : Tales of the Hoy, interspersed with song

'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have seen. Corinna's "Epitaph", which I have transcribed is however one of his prettiest productions. Brought the 1st vol of "Remains of Living Authors".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Unknown

John Nichols : A Select Collection of Poems; with notes (Vol IV)

'Went to the library. Saw in Volume 4th of Nichol's "Select Collections of Poems" a poetical account of the monuments in Westminster Abbey, written with a considerable degree of humour.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Iris

'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state of London; he says there are no less than 200, 000 persons, who when they get up in the morning do not know where they shall lay their head at night. That very miserable story, which I have cut out of an old "Iris" & is amongst the rest of the newspaper scraps, & entitled "On the Police of Paris" Mr Col[...] says was related to him by a Foreign Ambassador, who was at Paris at the time.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

Patrick Colquhoun : Treatise of the police of the metrpolis

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book

[n/a] : The Iris

'Dr Marwick advertises again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

John Home : Douglas: A Tragedy

'Read Home's "tragedy of Douglas", I was much pleased with it. I have seen it remarked, I believe in the "Memoirs of Living Authors", that Home [...] has never been able to please an English audience with any but Douglas.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Samuel Jackson Pratt : Gleanings in England

'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me;'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Samuel Foote : The Minor, A Comedy

'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Elizabeth Robinson Montagu : An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare

'I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues of the dead at the end of her essay, are I think very good ones.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

David Garrick : Catharine and Petruchio. A Comedy Altered from Shakespeare

'Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of "Catherine and Petruchio"; abridged from Shakespeare's play of "Taming of the Shrew".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Thomas Mathias : A Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, French and Italian in the Pursuits of Literature

'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I had rather felt the want of in pursuing the work... I began with this preface but it was so dull that I gave it up after reading about a dozen pages of it. [The Pursuits] needs no apologist. It will stand with posterity on the same shelf as Juvenal, Boileau and Pope.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : Monthly Review

'It was when I was very ill that the article in the "Monthly Rev." was read to me.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

James Thomas Kirkman : Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin Esq

'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly, the "Life of Macklin" without having finished the volume. I have found what I have read more entertaining than I expected from the account given in the "Monthly Review" some months past.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Iris

'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Strictures of Female Education"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Thomas James Mathias : The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem

'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the commentators upon Shakespeare [transcribes note on Montagu's essay]. I shall perhaps be accused of want of taste in sending Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope" home unread & indeed I can give no good reason why I did so.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Thomas James Mathias : The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem

'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who will not allow that the author has either wit or learning, or is capable of writing good poetry. I think that wit & learning may be found in every page & that in some parts the poetry is excellent. I will give an example. Page 19. [Two pages of commentary and extracts]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : A Series of Plays In Which It is Attempted to Deli

'Read the last play in the Series on the passions. The subject of it is Hatred. It is a tragedy & the title is De Montfort. There is one rather curious mistake in this play. In act I sc. 2 De Montfort says [...quotes several lines of text]. In act 3 sc. I De Montfort says again [...again quotes] [De Montfort forgets name of a character twice]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Dryden : The Spanish Fryar

'Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

John Walker : Copper-Plate Magazine

'There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the "Copper Plate Magazine", in which is given a list of the plates that have already been published in it amongst which I observe views of Norton Hall & of Sheffield.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

Johann Beckmann : A History of Inventions and Discoveries

'Finished the last vol of Beckmann's "History of Inventions"; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety of information mixed with so much amusement, than these 3 volumes.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : Monthly Review

'From paper in "Monthly Review" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing former reasonings [...] found much enjoyment in it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Marmion

'Read with Cecilia a good deal of "marmion" the new poem of Sir Walter Scott, which I like.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Thucydides : [Two orations]

'Have read, since I have been here, about 30 pages in the Bipont edition of "Thucydides", the part, the latter part of the second book, containing the funeral oration by Pericles [comments on text].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Adventurer

'In the [?] read principally the papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formally, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after beginning "Spanish Grammar".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Gazette

'"Gazette" with details of victory over Dupont, +c'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'Breakfasted below. Read "Edinburgh Review" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, viz Plut. "Phocian"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

Humphrey Prideaux : Connections or The Old and New Testament Connected

'I looked also one evening into Prideaux's "Connections" [...]But my chief employment was [...]the renewed attempt at solving the problem which I met with in the work of M Agnesi'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Pleasures of Memory

'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formerly, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after begining "Spanish grammar".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Thucydides : [unknown]

'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Spanish Grammar

'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasure of Memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formally, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after beginning "Spanish Grammar".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Unknown

Oliver Goldsmith : The History of England

'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

William Blackstone : Commentaries on the laws of England [?]

'Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more talked of'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Henry Saint John, Viscount Bolingbroke : Letter on the Study and Use of History

'Up by nine. Read a little this morning in Lord Bolingbroke's "Study of History". What extreme foppery! Yet what can one point out as proofs?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Nearly the whole time from breakfast till Mr Legge's coming down, employed in reading Cobbett. More thoroughly wicked and mischievous than almost any that has appeared yet.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

'Looked into "Philosophical Transactions" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon paper, page 663, i think vol.V or VI. among papers miscellaneous or omitted, where there were some calculations respecting probability'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Thucydides : [History of Peloponessian War?]

'Read a little in Thucydides.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Plutarch : Phocian or Lives

'Read "Edinburgh Review"; afterwards, for first time, after I know not what interval, a little Greek, viz. Plut. "Phocian" the same [...] as reccomended so many years ago by Fox and which put me first on reading "Plutarch's Lives"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

John Milton : [poetry]

'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. a little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Unknown

William Cobbett : Political Register

'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

John Stow : The survey of London

'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". by wisdom, truth and heed was he/ Advanced an alderman to be./ First chapter also of that most absurd dogmatical and offensive book, the "Divine"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

William Warburton : The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated

'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it but heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally are. Mem.: to read it again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

William Warburton : The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated

'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". By wisdom, truth and heed was he/ advanced an aldermanto be./ First chapter also of that most absurd dogmatical and offensive book, the "Divine Legation Demonstrated".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : ['Ode to Athenian Society']

'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it bit heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally are. Mem.: to read it again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Gazette

'Day of "Gazette" arriving, with news of Wellesley's victory [Battle of Talavera] of 28th July.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

Aristotle : [Politics?] or Ethics and Politics

'Read a little in Arist. "Polit" before I went to bed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Thucydides : Oration of Lysias

'Went up for a short time into library, and read in "Oration of Lysias". [quotes Greek text]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Mary Wortley Montagu : Letters of the Right Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

'Afterwards, when upstairs, Mrs Montagu's "Letters" which I think very highly of.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Basil Montagu : ['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and observations

'Found printed paper from Basil Montagu and sat up writing notes to detect its sophistry.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham

Basil Montagu : ['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and observations

'Went on with Basil Montagu, a most shallow reasoner'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham

John Wilson Croker : The Battles of Talevera, a poem

'In the evening read poem of "Talevera" ascribed to Croker.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham

William Vincent : The Origination of the Greek Verb

'Dr Ferris [...] has lent me a treatise of Dr Vincent's on the origin of the Greek verb, which seems to be ingenious. As far as I can collect from the little I have read [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

Catherine Galindo : Mrs Galadano's letter to Mrs Siddons

'Dr Ferris, since I have been here, has lent me [...] at the same time Mrs Galando's "Letters", a foolish slander, as it seems, against Mrs Siddons'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Life of Goethe

Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have done it I shall write to Marian - I don't see the self-development theory you see in him'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Bessie Raynor Parkes Print: Book

James Anthony Froude : Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1

'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book

Horatio Forbes Brown : John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled from

'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative,all about the facts of a life so simple, and his elaborate self- discussions.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

[n/a] : Athenaum

Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chatting meanwhile. There was something unusual in his manner,something softer than usual in his tone and eye, but I not what it proceeded from, and chattted gaily, leading the conversation - on Goethe, on women's dresses'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Robinson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : New Monthly Magazine

[Transcript of essay, under the heading 'Today'] 'Today. New Monthly Magazine for January 1823'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Holte Bracebridge Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!

'Louis and I have begun reading "Westward Ho!" together [...] He reads to me every day out of "Westward Ho!" which I think very beautiful and interesting'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Maud Mary or "Princess Alice" Print: Book

[n/a] : The Antiquarian Repertory [Vol II of 4 vols]

[3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it I wished to draw. [4 July 1797] I drew out of the "Antiquarian Repertory" a view of Little Saxham Church.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

: Newspaper

'When I arrived home for tea that evening she asked as if I felt hungry. I replied, yes, and went on reading the paper, "Here is a piece of bread and butter for you to go on with" she said. A most unusual thing for her to say as we had not yet sat down to tea. I did not take much notice and went on reading, but she again reminded me of it and I thought "Ah ! she wants me to try a new kind of bread, or butter", so I ate it critically.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Advertisement for margarine

'Some time ago I was convinced (I think through reading advertisements) that it was almost as rich in vitamins as butter. Then a friend whose opinion are usually sound told me this was not so.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement

: Chronicle

'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.", and a Times reader likes reading the Women's page. Another Chronicle reader aged 64 likes "talks and articles on Home gadgets".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

: Times

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Chronicle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

: Newspapers

'First you read the papers, and then you form your own opinion after reading them and thinking about them. There's always something you don't agree with.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : Insanity Bir

'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the every page that shows so plainly how Napoleon first won Europe and then set about Britain. Just as Hitler would like to do now. So nicely put. These two books suddenly show me how we stand in this war and how we must fight for our very existence. . . .Yes, I see all at once what we are up against -- How British would fight against any invasion here.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ramsey Muir : A Short History of the British Commonwealth

'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the every page that shows so plainly how Napoleon first won Europe and then set about Britain. Just as Hitler would like to do now. So nicely put. These two books suddenly show me how we stand in this war and how we must fight for out very existence. . . .Yes, I see all at once what we are up against -- How British would fight against any invasion here.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Impromptu, In Reply

'Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend' 'When from the heart where sorrow sits/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'On A Cornelian Heart' OR Childe Harold's Pilgrima

'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Written Beneath...'

'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

George Huddersford : Song: Mutual Love

'Mutual Love Our Mutual Flame, inspires our bliss/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

William Cowper : An Epistle to Joseph Hill Esq.

'Change will befall, and friend may part But distance only cannot change the heart'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

James Montgomery : Hannah

'"Mary" At fond sixteen my roving Heart Was pierced by love's delightful Dart, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Charlotte Smith : Evening

'Evening by Charlotte Smith Oh soothing hour, when glowing Day, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

John Byrom : The Three Black Crows

'The Three Black Crows Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

'From the Portuguese' 'In moments to delight devoted/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

William Coombe : Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

'That Man, I trow, is doubly curs't, Who of the best doth make the worst, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Samuel Wesley ('the Younger') : On the Setting up of Mr Butler's Monument

'On WM Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey Whilst Butler needy wretch! was yet alive, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Edward Nares : Thinks-I-To-Myself: A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comic

'Lines on the Death of a Beloved Wife' 'How without rule are the decrees of God/... Thinks I To Myself'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Mary Robinson : Lines To Him Who Will Understand Them

'Lines - To him that will understand them' 'Thou art no more my bosom's Friend;/...' 'Mrs Robinson'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Nathaniel Cotton (The Elder) : Lines under a Sun-Dial in the Churchyard at Thornb

'Mark well my shack and seriously attend/...' [6 lines]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

William Cowper : Ode to Peace

'Ode to Peace' 'Come; Peace of Mind, delightful quest/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

William Combe : The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

'The Morning lark ascends on high And with its music greets the Sky... [6 lines]'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

John Milton : Paradise Lost, Book VIII

'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Alexander Pope : An Essay on Man, Epistle IV

'Oh Happiness! Our beings end and aim,...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Samuel Rogers : On A Tear

'A Tear' 'Oh! That the chemist's magic art/ Could crystalise [sic] this sacred treasure/... ['Chloe' of Rogers's text changed to 'Anna' in manuscript]'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Amelia Opie : Song of A Hindustani Girl [The Poor Hindoo]

'Tis thy will and I must leave thee, oh! Thou best beloved farewell/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Peter Pindar : Lines to Lord Nelson

'written by Peter Pindar, at Merton, the seat of the late Lord Nelson, onhis catching a nightcap on fire, which his lordship had lent him'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Edward Moore : The Lover and the Friend

'O Thou for whom my lyre Istring/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'On Parting'

'On Parting' 'The kiss, dear maid! Thy lip has left, /...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Amelia Opie : The Mourner: Another on the same subject

'The Mourner' 'The following [erased] pensive lines will accord with the sympathies of the feeling heart: the parent sinks under the loss of a beloved husband and is after times inconsolable.' 'Hence! Cruel Life!/...' 'Mrs Opie'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

James Montgomery : Verses to the Memory of the Late Joseph Brown

'The Dying Christian' 'Christianity rears its trophies on the tomb, treasure up then these best of stanzas in the heart' 'Spirit--leave thine house of clay!/...' [ll. 11-16, 49-56]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Thomas Fitzgerald : A Song [The Charms Which Blooming Beauty Shows]

'Real Beauty' 'The Charms which [erased] blooming beauty shares/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

James Beattie : Epitaph OR [Poems on Several Occasions]

'Epitaph' 'Part of an inscription for amonument to be erected/by a gentleman to the memory of his lady' 'Farewell my best beloved! Whose heavenly mind...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

William Robert Spencer : Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound

'Poetry Composed by Llewelyn on the Death of his Greyhound' 'The Spearman [spearmen in original] heard the bugle sound/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Samuel Rogers : The Pleasures of Memory Part II

'"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest Thy meek submission to they God express'd/..."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Samuel Rogers : The Pleasures of Memory Part II

'"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest, Thy meek submission to thy God express'd/..."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

John Doncombe : An Evening Contemplation in a College

'An Evening contemplation in a College; in imitation of Greys Elegy in a country Churchyard "The curfew tolls the hour of closing gates;/ With jarring sound the porter turns the key..."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

George Gordon, Lord Byron : On Being Asked What Was The "Origin of Love"

'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love!" - Ah Why That Cruel question ask of Me.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton : The Child of Earth

'"The Child of Earth" by the Hon. Mrs Norton Fainter Her Slow Step falls from day to day... Otley - February 15th 1831. Benj. Beanlands'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Beanlands

Thomas Moore : The Minstrel Boy

'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Beanlands

[n/a] : Fraser's Magazine For Town and Country

'1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Beanlands Print: Serial / periodical

Reginald Heber : 'On Heavenly and Earthly Hope' OR ['Hope']

'Hope' 'Heber' 'Reflected in the lakes of love, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Beanlands group

George Canning : Epitaph: George Charles Canning

'Lines on the Death of the Hon. G.C. Canning' 'Though short thy span of Heaven's unimpeached decrees...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Beanlands group

James Thomson : The Castle of Otranto OR To Fortune

'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Beanlands group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Sonnet on Chillon

'Sonnet on Chillon "Eternal spirit of the Chainless Mind!, ..."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Robert Hartley Cromek [editor of vol] : 'My Ain Fireside' OR Remains of Nithsdale and Gall

'My Ain Fire Side' 'O, I hae seen great ones...' >From the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

William Beattie : Journal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825

'From the caverns dark recesses...' 'A natural Aeolian Harp discovered in one of the caves in Germany - Beattie's Tour'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

[n/a] : Foreign Quarterly Review

'Once more amongst the old gigantic hills/...' 'Foreign Literary Review Janury 1832.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group Print: Serial / periodical

Anne Home : 'Elegy' OR Poems by Mrs John Hunter

'Elegy by Mr J. Hunter Sigh not ye winds as passing oer, The Chambers of the dead ye fly... J.H.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Croly : The Late Queen of Russia on Seeing Her Bust in the King's chamber in 1812

'The Late Queen of Russia on seeing Her Bust in the King's Chamber in 1812' 'Thour't gone from us, to weep no more...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles

'Stranger! If e'er thine ardent... Lord of the Isles 4th canto'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Walter Scott : The Lay of the Last Minstrel

'Call it not vain - they do not err, To murmur dirges round the grave.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Walter Scott : The Heart of Mid-Lothian

'Arthur's seat like a couchant lion of immense size - Salisbury crags, like a huge [belt or] girdle of granite, were dimly visible. Sir Walter Scott'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Thomas Campbell : Life of Mrs Siddons

'Lines by Mrs Siddons Say what's the brightest wreath of fame, ... >From Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons Dec 1834'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Richard Lander : Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition

'"Sometimes although neither of us was gifted with a voice of much power..." (Captain Clapperton). Landar's Expedition - Captain Clapperton died of a fever at Soccatoo 13th April 1827.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

William Beattie : Journal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825

'Bonn July 10th 1822. The [Harper?] crossed himself... adapted a popular Rhinish air... Dr Beattie's Tour in 1822'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Anne Maria Sargent : The Isle of Wight

'Isle of Wight by Anne Maria Sargeant A light so varied bursts upon my view, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Lucien Bonaparte : Charlemagne... Poeme Epique

'From Charlemagne a poem by Lucien Bonaparte.' [followed by English translation, 'copied']

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Walter Scott : The Lay of the Last Minstrel

'"Call it not vain: - they do not err ... To murmur dirges round his grave". Scott.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Devereux Bowly

[n/a] : The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Advertiser

'From the Cheltenham Chronicle of 11 Oct. 1832 on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' 'Harp of the North! The Mighty Hand, ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Devereux Bowly Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Annual Biography and Obituary

'Sir Walter Scott was buried at Dryburgh... Annual Obituary for 1833.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Devereux Bowly Print: Serial / periodical

Anna Maria Porter : A Vision

'A Vision The Night-Mare came to my silent bed... Miss Porter'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

James Montgomery : 'In Bereavement' AND 'Forget-Me-Not'

'Lift up thine eyes afflicted soul, ... James Montgomery'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon, Lord Byron : L'Amitie Est L'Amour Sans Ailes

'Why should my anxious heart repine, ... Byron-1807' [three stanzas first published in Moore's 'Life', 1830]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Charles Swain : Song of the Bells

'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain "Soft upon the summer air,..."'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Richard Lander : Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition

'Song of the wives of the King of Cariba... Landar's expedition'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Richard Lander : Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition

'The following imperfect translation of a song to the Sovereign of Khiama may serve as a specimen of the poetry of the Africans - Landor'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Elegy on Newstead Abbey

'It is the voice of the years that are gone! They roll before me with all their deeds. Ossian! Newstead! Fast falling, once resplendent dome!/...' 'Elegy on Newstead Abbey, Early Poems 1803'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Josiah Conder : Home

'Home - by J Conder' 'That is not home, where day by day, /...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Thomas Haynes Bayly : The Bridesmaid

'The Bride Maid The bridal is over, the guests are all gone... Jany 18 1829'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Felicia Dorothea Hemans : The Graves of a Household

'Graves of a Household' 'They grew in beauty side by side, ...' 'Mrs Hemans'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'If That High World' OR Hebrew Melodies

'If that high World If that high World which has beyond...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

'Harp of the North! that mouldering long hath hung, ..'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Caroline Anne Bowles : Autumn Flowers

'On seeing some Autumn Flowers' 'Those few pale autumn flowers, How beautiful they are!...' 'L.G. Feb 1831'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: 'L.G.'

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Elegy on Newstead

'On leaving Newstead Abbey ... >From Newstead Sept 9th 1830'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Stanzas

'I would I were a careless child, ...' 'Early Poems'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Mary Ann Browne : 'Relics' OR Winter's Wreath

'Relics' 'Oh! Wherefore, Lady dost thou price, ... M.A. Browne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Oh! Snatched Away In Beauty's Bloom

'Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's bloom...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R.B. Sheridan

Extract from Byron's Monody on the Death of Sheridan

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

William Beattie : Journal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825

'The Bugle song...' 'Beattie's Tour'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Thomas Moore : As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow

'As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Thomas Moore : Oh had we some bright little isle

'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: 'S.W.'

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Manfred: A Dramatic Poem

'Voice of the Second Spirit' 'Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains, ...' 'Manfred'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Sun of the Sleepless

'Sun of the Sleepless' 'Sun of the Sleepless! Melancholy Star!...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles (Canto One)

'Autumn departs - but still his mantles fold...' 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

James Montgomery : The West Indies OR 'Thy Chains Are Broken'

'Thy chains are broken, Africa, be free!...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

William Sotheby : To His Majesty's Ship Barham

'To His Majesty's Ship Barham, appointed by the King to convey Sir Walter Scott to Naples. By William Sotheby Esq.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies

'When coldness wraps this suffering clay ... Hebrew Melodies'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

Walter Scott : The Lay of the Last Minstrel

'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, ... On a foreign strand! O Caledonia! Stern and wild, ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold, Canto IV

'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! ... And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. 4th canto'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

[n/a] : The Cheltenham Chronicle

'To the Great Pyramid' Mountain of Art! Sublime Mysterious Pile!, ... From the Cheltenham Chronicle Feb 7 1833'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group Print: Newspaper

William Beattie : Journal of A Residence in Germany...in 1822, 1825

'Lake of Constance "What beauty flashes from the brow of night, ..." Beattie's Tour'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

John Milton : Sonnet OR When I consider how my light is spent

'Milton's sonnet on his Blindness "When I consider howmy light is spent"'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group

William Shakespeare : The Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volumes

'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes, and with plates, which, being so execrably bad, serve as maps, or modest remembrancers, to the text; and without pretending to any supposable emulation with it, are so much better than the Shakespeare gallery engravings, which did. [...] Winter evenings-the world shut out-with less of ceremony the gentle Shakespeare. At such a season, the Tempest, or his own Winter's Tale- These two poets [Shakespeare and Milton] youcannot avoid reading aloud-to your-self or (as it chances) to some single person listening. More than one-and it degenerates into an audience.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Print: Book

John Milton : [poetry]

'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears.[...] you cannot avoid reading [him] aloud-to your-self or (as it chances) to some single person listening. More than one-and it degenerates into an audience.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the beginning of a Rule, & then wrought by my book &c, and in a while got forward in arethmatic &c'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Shaw Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible ['the scriptures']

'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced all the day long, & saw everything in a new light ... I now read the Scriptures with great delight, & recomended them to my wife , & my father, who was my constant companion &c ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Shaw Print: Book

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is expected to have materially inguered [injured] the Harvest ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Shaw Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Bible ['the Scriptures']

'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favourite Virse of hers, Arise my Soul arise, Shake off thy guilty fears, The bleeding Sacrifice in my behalf appears, Before thy throne my surety stands, my name is written on his hands'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Shaw Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible ['her Testament']

'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Betty Shaw Print: Book

[Wesley?] : [hymn book]

'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Betty Shaw Print: Book

Charles Wesley : [Hymn] Come on my Partners in Distress

'April 20 1828 / on Betty Shaw wife of Benj. Shaw / ... this washer favourite verse Who suffer with our master here We shall before his face appear And by his side sit down To patient faith the prize is sure And all who to the end endure The Cross shall wear the Crown.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Betty Shaw Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a misquotation of 'restraint she will not brook', Book IX, l.1184].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Shaw Print: Book

: Newspapers

'I think I really read newspapers from a sense of duty to keep in touch with the news of the world. Under certain conditions I am vitally interested in the news, and I am only too eager to read the papers when there is a crisis or something touching me personally to some extent. Some news such as the Spanish war now, I read to keep up with conversations etc, but find no interest there. Cricket and sports I read for conversations too, personally I have never been able to steer [?stir] up any lasting feelings for sport, but one must be keen on the Test. Sometimes I feel bored and enjoy reading all the petty scandals in the smaller columns of the news. In Sunday papers I read the articles (medical, political, and social) from sheer interest, they are very good. Advertisements always attract me, and the comic strips are perhaps the biggest attraction of all more than even news!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspapers

'Why? Largely to find out so far as possible, what is happening. Sometimes I am so much in despair about the possibility to [of] finding out this from papers, that I can't bear to read them for a few days. I find though that [if] I am out of papers for a short time, I get very worried and jumpy. I feel very much that I am a part of the world and I must know about it. Yet I am almost always disappointed in my reading and finish it in discomfort.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspapers

'I read newspapers because of an intense desire to get in touch with the world. A day missed in reading gives one a sense of isolation. When I have had a weekend away, say, in the Lakes, although I delight in the wildness and loveliness of the hills, yet as soon as I near home in the industrial area, I feel the need to stretch out and see what everybody else had been and is doing.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspapers

'On the surface I should say- because I want to know what is on in the world, but looking deeper into it I think I do so to feel the excitement that comes from reading not only what is sensational but that which, despite corruptions, is mainly true.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Express

'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short stories. Reads big news items, but prefers to get them from the wireless. Reads sports page for important matches, etc. for conversation at the pub.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: News of the World

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Evening News

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Herald

'Reads Daily Herald. Likes best and spends most time on the racing and sports page. Considers the other stuff a lot of tripe.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Herald

'I read the Daily Herald. I don't read much of the general news. The pages I prefer are the items on sport, horse racing and football, and I spend most time on these pages.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Sunday Chronicle

'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article that's exposing anything, and sport. Reason:' tickles me, I suppose.' Spends most time on sport.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Evening News

'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article that's exposing anything, and sport. Reason:' tickles me, I suppose.' Spends most time on sport.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Times

'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.' Reason:' Well, I'm like that'. Spends most time on sport.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Yorkshire Post

'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.' Reason:' Well, I'm like that'. Spends most time on sport.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Sunday Chronicle

'Dad, who is usually very anxious for his dinner, is often late on Sunday, when he is busy studying the sports pages in the Sunday Chronicle'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Sunday Graphic

'I read the Daily Herald because it gives full account of the news, It is rather inclined to be "partly" and sometimes rather dull. The Sunday Graphic is an excellent paper, containing interesting articles and something of everything, I like the Daily Sketch because of its wonderful photographs and its good news accounts.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Sketch

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Telegraph

'"I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspaper print. I like my news presented to me without emotional 'colouring'. It is observed facts that I want presented to me, not 'chatty' news or editorial rhetoric."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Mirror

'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I find amusing though rather like a novelette but I prefer the general outlook to the latter which I dislike in every way.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Mail

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Times

'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, the Mirror at odd moments and the People on Sunday mornings. I always read hurriedly at breakfast and usually leave things of importance until the evening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Mirror

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: People

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspapers

'I glance through the papers at breakfast time, and give them careful attention before and after lunch. I glance through the evening papers when I get home at night.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspapers

'Sometimes I read the paper in the morning train, after a casual glance at breakfast time. More usually I read it lunchtime and in the train home at night. The morning paper lasts me all day and I get a good general idea of the news in this way and can usually say I have heard of most items which different people mention. When I read the news in the morning train I read casually and finish with the paper in the twenty odd minutes. When reading lunchtime and evening I read more thoroughly, also at week-ends.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspapers

'Breakfast time - that is 8 to 8.30. I rarely pick up the newspaper again during the day, unless there happens to be a feature article I haven't managed to glance through in the morning. I might then pick it up after lunch or after tea.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily sketch

'Let me describe my reading of the Daily Sketch. I first look and read beneath the front page pictures. The chief news feature on page 3 is read carefully and any other bits with attractive (usually unusual ) headings. Then through the rest of the paper in order, reading all the cartoons and beneath most of the pictures. On a normal day I should not bother to read any more except perhaps a glance at the sports page and a look at the share movements.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Telegraph

'I first glance at the personal columns, probably because they are on the front of the paper. Then I turn to the middle pages where the leading articles appear. Otherwise I have no special order in which I read the paper, - except that during Wimbledon I turn first to the tennis results.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

John Keynes : article in The Times

'On reading an article by Lord (then Mr) Keynes in The Times on working-class saving, I wrote to him about our survey. As well as a letter of encouragement, he sent me a copy of The General Theory of Employment.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspapers

'I keep reading and reading the news, and I can't make out why I'm not more excited. I mean, it's so marvelous, really, isn't it? But I kind of feel I can't believe in it any more - after all these years I can't believe it can ever really finish. I think the other girls feel the same; they all say: Wouldn't it be lovely, but it can't be true.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Newspaper

'Well, I'm a great admirer of her when she sings serious songs though I don't like her in films. There may be something in what the papers are saying about her, but I'm not sure. She's done a lot in the past to half [?help] the country. I was reading only the other day how she entertained the troops when she was ill.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : The case for federal union

'Reading The Case for Federal Union, one of the excellent Penguin Series. The prospect of Union seems to be remoter every day. Oh, if only one could wake up one morning and find it practical politics and war banished. It would be worth sacrificing a good many British Empires.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Robert Vansittart : Black Record

'I have been reading Sir. Robert Vansittart's little book "Black Record". I have found it very interesting. He certainly has no use for the Germans, and I am wondering whether a place can be found for him at the Peace conference. He warns up that after defeat Germany will be full of self pity and will try to organize sympathy, and says that as usual there will be fools among us willing to listen. Indeed as proof of this attitude I notice there has already been a protest against this book in Parliament, and a request for its banning. When this war is over the Battle of Words will begin and the world be fill[ed] with the sound of clamouring tongues.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold: A Romaunt, Canto IV

'Sometime about the twenty first year of my age I perceived the great advantage possessed by those who received a classical education. I had read Byron's "Childe Harold" and the passage "Alas for Tully's voice" and Virgil's Lay And Troy's pictured page &c inspired me with a desire to dive deeper into Latin Literature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

[unknown] : 'a penny history'

'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mother on going to a neighbouring town, always bought me a penny history or a halfpenny collection of songs ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White

[unknown] : 'poetry and border ballads'

'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours I read all the books and especially those consisting of poetry and Border-ballads that came within my reach. Some few I bought when I had money, some I borrowed, but the latter were limited as to number ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

anon : [English Grammar]

'I rose at 5 O'clock, and going to a small plantation that overlooked the Jed I learned all I ever knew of English Grammar. At that time grammar was not taught in such of the country schools as I had attended. Of course I had to go back and open up the shop at 6 O' clock.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Nathaniel Marshall : A defence of our constitution in church and state

'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Fortescue Aland

Thomas Chatterton : The Rowley poems

'We had much talk among us of Chatterton, &, as he was best known in this part of the world, I attended particularly to the opinion of Dr. Harrington concerning him; & the more paricularly because he is uncommonly well versed in the knowledge of English Antiquities,- therefore was I much surprised to find it [italics] his [close italics] opinion that Chatterton was no Imposter, & that the Poems were authentic & Rowley's. Much, indeed, he said they had been modernised in his Copies, not by design, but from the difficulty of reading the old manuscript.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Harington Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

'. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came out,-. . .'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Maria Lawes Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

'. . . Mrs Kynaston, good humouredly ,called out -"I'm sure, Ladies, I am very glad to see you so merry, - ah - one of you young ladies, - I don't say which, has given me a deal of entertainment! - I'm sure I could never leave off reading,- & when Miss Owen came into my Room, says I, don't speak a Word to me, for I'm so engaged! - Lord, I could not bear to be stopt!. . ."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Victoria Kynaston Print: Book

Livy (Titus Livius) : History of Rome Book XIII

'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Flaminus - completely hid in the morning fog...So that I can truly say that I have seen precisely what the Roman army saw on that day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : [Unknown - Poetry]

'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tennyson in the grounds of the rectory.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma Gifford

Samuel Johnson : The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

James Beresford : The Miseries of Human Life

'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : The London Magazine: Review of Walladmor by Scott

'Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages long I wish De Quincey had better subjects for his genius'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

John Banton : Excursions of Fancy

'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find them' [lists vols by other local poets]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

William Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Poets

'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

William Hazlitt : A View of the English Stage

'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : The London Magazine

'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the article on Byron carrys ignorance in the face of it [.]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

William Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Comic Writers

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Thomas Erskine : Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth

'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of religion" the gift of Lord Radstock [...] a very sensible book this passage struck me which I first opend - "to walk without God in the world is to walk in sin & sin is the way of danger..."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Poems on Various Subjects

'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not happy ones they seem to be a labour after exelence which he did not reach [.] some of those by his friend Lloyd are exelent [...] "Craig Millar Castle" and "To November" are the best [...] Lambs best poetry is in "Elia"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream

'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without reading them'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Essays

'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays these are.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Vicesimus Knox : Essays Moral and Literary

'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry The Fifth

'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an odd vol which I got for 6d [...] I can never lay it down till I see the end of it'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Thomas Erskine : Remarks on the Internal Evidence

'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of its object I have ever read...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

William Hazlitt : Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

James Maddock : The Florist's Directory

'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever written - if I live I will write one on the same plan'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Elizabeth Kent : Flora Domestica

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Solomon's Song

'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my judgement above the ridiculous [...] the more I read the scriptures the more I feel astonishment at the sublime images'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : The London Magazine

'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather entertaining the pretendery letter of James Thompson is a bold lye [letter is actually by Thompson].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : The life of Wesley

'read in Southeys "Wesley"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Robert Tannahill : Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertion taken from the "Stamford Mercury" [quotes advert]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laughing at' [quotes 2 stories from the 'Stamford Mercury']

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" better [...] I cannot help smiling at my young fancys in those days of happy ignorance'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons (Winter)

'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute descriptions are great favourites of mine [...] [he misquotes ll 104-5, 130-31]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Literary Gazette

'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful attempt to reach Repulse Bay [...] by Captain Lyon from which the following curious incident is extracted'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : The Iris

'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and flattering compliment past upon it'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

Elizabeth Kent : Sylvan Sketches or a Companion to the Park

'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sketches" she seems to be a thorough bookmaker'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

[quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago in Yorkshire" - "Stamford Mercury"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the "Stamford Mercury" has long been one at the head of the list of extravagance - in an article relating an accident at Drury Lane Theatre is the following'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

Thomas Tusser : Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for inclosures and Mavor that busy notemaker and book compiler [...] has added an impertinent note [...] as an echo of feint praise'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great age of 105 years - she has lately cut new teeth to the great surprise of the family" "Stamford Mercury"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

Robert Tannahill : Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : London Magazine

'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine is very dull.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes results published in 'Stamford Mercury']

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : [unknown]

'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Anonymous : Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish

'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly written they are in my mind much superior to Blairs popular sermons'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

John Curtis : British Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Britain

'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they feed on by Curtis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have lately dug up several foundation stones of the Abby [...] for the purpose of repairing the parish roads!!" "Stamford Mercury"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old

'I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds "Lessons for Childern" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to read them I find by this that they are particularly suited to the tastes of childern as she is never desirous of hearing anything read a second time but them'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Richard Watson : An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters

'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Maxims", Burnets "Life of God in the Soul of Man" - "A New Manual of Prayer" and Watsons "Answer to Paine" - a quiet unaffected defence of the Bible [...] I have not read Tom Paine but I have always [...] a low blackguard'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

William Hone : Prospectus for 'The Every-Day Book'

'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of an "Every day book" by W. Hone. If such a thing was well got up it woud make one of the finest things ever published [...] there is a fine quotation from Herrick for a motto how delightful is the freshness of these old poets it is meeting with green spots in deserts'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement

[n/a] : The Scientific Receptacle

'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my poems and have been lavish with branding every corner with "J. Clares" how absurd are the serious meant images or attempts at fine writing in these young writers'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for whole of report]" "Stamford Mercury"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "Nugents Travels" [1768][Clare quotes list of relics quoted from Nugents by Stamford Mercury]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Observer

'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Highness the Duke of York in the house of Lords the 25 April 1825 Printed by J Whittaker [...] in letters of gold [...] 10s/6 sold by Septimus Prowett 23 Old Bond Street Well done Septimus Prowet"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

unknown : The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler

'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler"] the rest are moderates among the middlings'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Ayton : Essays and Sketches of Character

'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was killed in the bud these essays are excelent and contain a deal More of the Human Heart than an affectedly written book with that title'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculiarly fine" "Stamford Mercury"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

G Gilleade : Allworth Abbey; or Christianity Triumphant

'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldings "Alworth Abbey" & I neve[r] saw such a heap of unnatural absurditys & ridiculous attempts at wit & satire strung together in my reading existance'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the jagonel kind in his possession which was taken [...] 49 years ago and is now as sound as the first moment it was gathered[...]" - it must have been a wooden one'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

William Hone : The Every-Day Book

'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Stamford Mercury

'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations [...] then the celebrated Mr Irving [.] 211 stage coaches pass weekly through Daventry Northamptonshire" "Stamford Mercury"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention and vigilance, but the exercise in narration is a subsequent and separate one, it is in the lucidity, completeness and honesty of statement."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigrations of Indur, the Discontented Squirrel, the Travelled Aunt, the Cat and her Children, and Little Fido.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error respecting manufacture and industry ads rivalsto Art and Genius, are concentrated in "Evenings at Home", and Harry and Lucy S...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

[Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent "Evenings at Home" amongst books of mere entertainment. Upon a close examination, it appears to be the best book for young people from seven to ten years old, that has yet appeared. We shall not pretend to enter into a minute examination of it; because, from what we have already said, parents can infer sentiments, and we wish to avoid tedious, unnecessary detail.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathetic passages, and natural dialogues in "Evenings at Home" in a manner which would have made even Sterne's critic forget his stop-watch.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'Several children, who were reading "Evenings at Home", observed that in the story of Juliet and the fairy order...' [ the children comment on the story].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [ a group of children known to Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'S----was reading in "Evenings at Home" the story of "A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed" ...[when he commented on the word choice in a certain sentence].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'There is a slight attempt at the kind of composition we mean, in a little trial in "Evenings at Home"; and we have seen children read it with great avidity.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [children known to Maria Edgeworth] Print: Book

Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) : Early Lessons for Children

'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far the best books of the kind that have ever appeared.' (p406), [ the following pages discuss specific problematic passages]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the 'College of Dublin' and 'he has just finished a poem called the "Transmigrations of Indur" - the plan taken from your tale in Evenings at Home.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: C.S. Edgeworth Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the "Evenings at Home", or "Juvenile Budget", all this appears to be effected in it's utmost extent...' [more praise follows].

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book

Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine : Histoire des Girondins

'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I desired my friend Madame Belloc to use her own discretion in reporting my criticisms on his Histoire des Girondins, but requested that she would convey to him the thanks and admiration of our family for the manner in which he mentioned the Abbe Edgeworth, and our admiration of the beauty of the writing of that whole passage in the work... I feel, and I am sure so will you and Mr. Butler, "What an egotist and what a puppy it is!" But ovation has turned his head.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Matthew Habershon : [unknown]

'It was the explanation, the perfectly prosaic and positive explanation, of all these wonders which drew them to study the Habershons and the Newtons whose books they so much enjoyed.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip and Emily Gosse Print: Book

Bishop Edward Elliott : Horae Apocalypticae

'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Jukes, the "Horae Apocalypticae" of a Mr. Elliott. This was written, I think in a less disagreeable style, and certainly it was less opaquely obscure to me...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge : The Penny Cyclopaedia

'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading successive articles on such subjects as Parrots, Parthians, Passion-flowers, Passover and Pastry, without any invidious preferences, all information being equally welcome, and equally fugitive.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'This summer, as my eighth year advanced, we read the "Epistle to the Hebrews", with very great deliberation, stopping every moment, that my Father might expound it, verse by verse.' [ an dmore for a para]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'In our lighter moods, we turned to the "Book of Revelation", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous pages.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son

'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my excellent past governess.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

[unknown] : [Latin Grammar]

'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught. It consisted of strings of works, and of grim arrangements of conjunction and declension, presented in a manner appallingly unattractive. I used to be set down in the study, under my Father's eye, to learn a solid page of this compilation, while he wrote or painted...It was almost more than human nature could bear to have to sit holding up to my face the dreary little Latin book, with its sheep-skin cover that smelt of mildewed paste.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Virgil : [unknown]

'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his Virgil had been an inestimable solace to him...The book was a Delphin edition of 1798, which had followed him in all his wanderings; ther was a great scratch on the sheep-skin cover that a thorn had made in a forest of Alabama.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book

Virgil : Eclogues

'One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at last, oblivious of my presence, he began to murmur and to chant the adorable verses by memory...I stopped my play, and listened as if to a nightingale ... My prosodical instinct was awakened, quite suddenly that dim evening, as my father and I sat alone in the breakfast-room after tea, serenely accepting the hour, for once, with no idea of exhortation or profit ... I persuaded my Father, who was a little astonished at my insistance, to repeat the lines over and over again. At last my brain caught them."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book

Michael Scott : Tom Cringle's Log

'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about the Antilles there", he said, and left me with "Tom Cringle's Log" in my possession. [explains mother's attitude to fiction and why he'd never read any till now] So little did I understand what was allowable in the way of literary invention that I had began the story without a doubt that it was true, and I think it was my Father himself who, in answer to an inquiry, explained to me that it was "all made up". He advised me to read the descriptions of the sea, and of the mountains of Jamaica, and "skip" the pages which gave imaginary adventures and conversations. But I did not take his counsel; these latter were the flower of the book to me.' [more account on pp.143-4]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice

'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following afternoon we began "The Merchant of Venice". There was one large volume, and it was handed about the class; I was permitted to read the part of Bassanio, and I set forth, with ecstatic pipe ... I was in the seventh heaven of delight, but alas! We had only reached the second act of the play, when the readings mysteriously stopped. I never knew the cause, but I suspect it was at my Father's desire. He prided himself on never having read a page of Shakespeare...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

'Prominent among these was a set of the poems of Walter Scott, and in his unwonted geniality and provisional spirit of compromise, my Father must do no less than read these works aloud to my stepmother in the quiet spring evenings. This was a sort of aftermath of courtship, a tribute of song, to his bride, very sentimental and pretty. She would sit, sedately, at her work-box, while he, facing her, poured forth the verses at her like a blackbird ... My Father read the verse admirably, with full, - some people ( but not I) might say with a too full - perception of the metre as well as of rhythm, rolling out the rhymes, and glorying in the proper names. He began, and it was a happy choice, with "The Lady of the Lake"...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers

'...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laughing at the richer passages were almost scandalous, and led to my being reproved for disturbing my Father while engaged, in an upper room, in the study of God's Word. I must have expended months on the perusal of "Pickwick", for I used to rush through a chapter, and then read it over again very slowly, word for word, and then shut my eyes to realise the figures and the action...[more..]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Dr. Edward Young : The Last Day

'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date as are the cross-bones an druffled cherubim on the gravestones in a country churchyard. The four - and in this order, as I never shall forget - were "The Last Day" of a Dr. Young, "Blair's Grave", "Death" by Bishop Beilby Porteus, and "The Deity" of Samuel Boyse ... How I came to open this solemn volume is explained by the oppressive exclusiveness of our Sundays ... [explains how this reading matter was approved, and how it was taken into the garden] Thither then I escaped with my grave-yard poets, and who shall explain the rapture with which I followed their austere morality?' Later, 'I think that the rhetoric and vigorous advance of Young's verse were pleasant to me.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Robert Blair : The Grave

'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date as are the cross-bones an druffled cherubim on the gravestones in a country churchyard. The four - and in this order, as I never shall forget - were "The Last Day" of a Dr. Young, "Blair's Grave", "Death" by Bishop Beilby Porteus, and "The Deity" of Samuel Boyse ... How I came to open this solemn volume is explained by the oppressive exclusiveness of our Sundays ... [explains how this reading matter was approved, and how it was taken into the garden] Thither then I escaped with my grave-yard poets, and who shall explain the rapture with which I followed their austere morality?' Later, 'It was Blair's "Grave" that really delighted me, and I frightened myself with its melodious doleful images in earnest.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Bishop Beilby Porteus : Death

'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date as are the cross-bones an druffled cherubim on the gravestones in a country churchyard. The four - and in this order, as I never shall forget - were "The Last Day" of a Dr. Young, "Blair's Grave", "Death" by Bishop Beilby Porteus, and "The Deity" of Samuel Boyse ... How I came to open this solemn volume is explained by the oppressive exclusiveness of our Sundays ... [explains how this reading matter was approved, and how it was taken into the garden] Thither then I escaped with my grave-yard poets, and who shall explain the rapture with which I followed their austere morality?' Later, 'Beilby Porteus I discarded from the first as impenetrable.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Samuel Boyse : The Deity

'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date as are the cross-bones an druffled cherubim on the gravestones in a country churchyard. The four - and in this order, as I never shall forget - were "The Last Day" of a Dr. Young, "Blair's Grave", "Death" by Bishop Beilby Porteus, and "The Deity" of Samuel Boyse ... How I came to open this solemn volume is explained by the oppressive exclusiveness of our Sundays ... [explains how this reading matter was approved, and how it was taken into the garden] Thither then I escaped with my grave-yard poets, and who shall explain the rapture with which I followed their austere morality?' Later, 'In the "Deity" I took a kind of persistant penitential pleasure.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Thomas Day : The History of Sandford and Merton

'In this caprice, if I may call it so, I think that my Father had before him the fine republican example of "Sandford and Merton", some parts of which book he admired extremely.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book

[unknown] : [volume of engravings]

'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, containing a few steel engravings of statues. These attracted me violently, and here for the first time I gazed upon Apollo with his proud gesture, Venus in her undulations, the kirtled shape of Diana, and Jupiter voluminously bearded...In private I returned to examine my steel engravings of the statues, and I reflected that they were too beautiful to be so wicked as my Father thought they were."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Samuel Boyse : The Deity

'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the Funeral Poets, I made a dash for the garden...Then I opened my book for consolation, and read a great block of pompous verse out of "The Deity", in the midst of which exercise, yielding to the softness of the hot and aromatic air, I fell fast asleep.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

Bailey (ed.) : Etymological Dictionary

'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. Over this I would pore for hours, playing with the words in a fashion which I can no longer reconstruct, and delighting in the savour of the rich, old-fashioned country phrases. My Father finding me thus employed, fell to wondering at the nature of my persuit, and I could offer him, indeed, no very intelligible explanation of it. He urged me to give up such idleness, and to make practical use of language.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces. This I read through and through, not disdaining the help of the notes, and revelling in the glossary. I studied "The Tempest" as I had hitherto studied no classic work, and it filled my whole being with music and romance. This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces...This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume here and there. I completed "The Merchant of Venice", read "Cymbeline", "Julius Caesar", and "Much Ado"; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline

'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces...This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume there. I completed "The Merchant of Venice", read "Cymbeline", "Julius Caesar", and "Much Ado"; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book

William Paley : Natural Theology

'The acute and learned Paley sums up in the following beautiful and energetic language the results of the minute and elegant investigations persued in his invaluable volume on NaturalTheology...'[there follows an extended quote from Paley].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Buckland Print: Book

William Paley : Natural Theology

'The logic of this book [Paley's Evidences] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Euclid.' [Darwin's Autobiography]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

[An account of the boy's secret reading, and how his parents only found out when he asked a question about his reading].

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [a boy known to Elizabeth Hamilton] Print: Book

Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon : Histoire Naturelle

Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the work

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Aikin Print: Book

Dr. Withering : Botanical description of British Plants

'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired with a taste for this delightful study...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Aikin Print: Book

Knox : [on education]

Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of the ends of education, which must be as various as situations and characters in life are. Does he not breed them all for clergymen and schoolmasters?'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Aikin

[n/a] : The Weekly Dispatch

James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Weekly Dispatch], and then made some capital out of having done so, by repeating the news from his favourite corner in one or more of the old inns, always to a number of interested listeners and village politicians.' he delivered the papers. same time.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Harvey Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Harvey Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Cassell's National Library (first 23 vols)

Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of good even in my own neighbourhood, for several of my own friends have given up drinking for the sake of taking and reading your beautiful little books".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: several Lancashire workman Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [unknown]

Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave it proved to me! Addison, Goldsmith, Bacon, Steele, DeQuincey ..., Charles Lamb. Macaulay and many scores of others whom old Professor Morley introduced to me -- what a joy of life I obtained from these, and how greatly they made lifeworth living!"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Hammerton Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Hammerton Print: Book

Francis Bacon : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Hammerton Print: Book

Richard Steele : [unknown]

Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it proved to me! Addison, Goldsmith, Bacon, Steele, DeQuincey ..., Charles Lamb. Macaulay and many scores of others whom old Professor Morley introduced to me -- what a joy of life I obtained from these, and how greatly they made lifeworth living!"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Hammerton Print: Book

Thomas De Quincey : [unknown]

Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it proved to me! Addison, Goldsmith, Bacon, Steele, DeQuincey ..., Charles Lamb. Macaulay and many scores of others whom old Professor Morley introduced to me -- what a joy of life I obtained from these, and how greatly they made lifeworth living!"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Hammerton Print: Book

Charles Lamb : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Hammerton Print: Book

[unknown] : The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest relig

BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when read to. Earliest date 5th August 1871 lesson 1, Lesson 19 21 Aug 1871 lesson 29 by 26 Sept 1871, Lesson 1 'The Body' prayer to prevent body from getting hurt also dated 6 May 1872, 14 Sept 1878 lesson VI 'Of the Wicked Angels' dated 3 Jan 1879

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Victoria of Prussia Print: Book

Charles Babbage : Ninth Bridgewater Treatise

[Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Whewell Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Natural and Revealed eligion to the Con

Letter from Whewell to Rose, dated 24/6/1818, discusses Butler's argument.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Whewell Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at home

'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boy's books was one which taught me [to use my eyes]...It's name was Evenings at Home, and in it was a story called "Eyes and no Eyes", a regular old-fashioned, prim, sententious story.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kingsley Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at home

'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, under the title of "Eyes and No Eyes", which some of my older hearers may remember, and which I should myself be sorry to forget."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament, and that with active attention, as she frequently made any thing which had struck her in reading it, the subject of remark when she came down'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Book

Hannah More : Memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and o

'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Book

[n/a] : The Rambler

'We might mention the Rambler, theGuardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved....

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Guardian

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical

John Locke : Essays

5 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, with the assistance of my good and intelligent governess [companion Lilie] to help me, looked for it in my two volumes of Locke's Essays, but our eyes have not hit on it yet'...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Birch Print: Book

George Dodd : Curiosities of Industry

In the BL copy: Written in margin of "Paper: Its Applications and its Novelties" p16 'In 1853 the sum of #4000 was at last paid to Mr Archer for his process -- and stamps are now supplied in that manner both Postage & Receipts -- 1854' Also in margin of "Glass and its manufacture" annotation to first line of page 9 'Thames Plate Glass comp - founded 1835-36' Also in margin of 'The Chemistry of manufactures" p.2 "#25 per ton" relating to output of copper from Swansea.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Alexander von Humboldt : Personal Narrative of Travels

Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt struggling with the encombrance of all the sciences. Did ever mortal man study so many ologies, or travel with so many ometers!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Aikin Print: Book

Sir J. Mackintosh : [a text on ethical philosophy]

Letter from Lucy Aikin to her niece Sue, dated Nov.17, 18..?: Aikin has been reading Mackintosh, and comments on the suitability of philosophical reading for women.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Aikin Print: Book

Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth : Practical Education

Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been studying with great diligence for the benefit of George's little boy, who was brought to us last Tuesday.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Aikin Print: Book

Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth : Practical Education

Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been studying with great diligence for the benefit of George's little boy, who was brought to us last Tuesday.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Aikin Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this day will thus be better than the beginning.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle

Eaton Stannard Barrett : Six Weeks at Long's

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jeans-Jaques Rousseau : Emile

'...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely, since...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [poems]

'for each there had been no poet later than Byron...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip and Emily Gosse Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Waverley Novels

'neither had read a romance since, in childhood, they had dipped into the "Waverley Novels" as they appeared in succession.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip and Emily Gosse Print: Book

Rev. George Croly : Salathiel

'As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by "Salathiel", a pious prose romance of that then popular writer, the Rev. George Croly."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book

R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester) : The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes

'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased

The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the death of Mr Garrick. A Ballad. Subject Love [underlined] for the Bath Easton Villa. Louisa a tale. Envy: a fragment. On the New Year. 'Essays. On Sensibility. On the Character of Latitia. On Politeness. On the Character of Casio. On Candour. '2nd Vol. Third Edition. On Fortitude. On the Advantages of Application [?]. On the Pleasures of Religion. On Gratitude. On Happiness. On Christian Perfection. On Resignation.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu : Spirit of Laws

Two very long quotations: 1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescretion and malice...' 2. 'Mythology. The promiscuous assemblage of truth and fiction would long since have been universally exploded...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

John Mead : [Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham]

Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension will rarely be sought...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : A Letter to Earl Stanhope

content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader had read the letter)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton

Aeschylus : The Tragedies of Aeschylus

'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. 'Vol 2 Agamemnon. N.B. A Speech of Cassandra. This is the state of man: in prosperous fortune. a shadow passing light, throws to the ground joys baseless. fabrie. in a [?] come malice with a sponge moistened in gall, and wipes each beauteous character away. More than the first, this melts me soul to pity. The Choephora. bringing libations for the tomb; from whence the play received its name. The Furies. The Persians. [Quotes part of a speech by Aeossa (?)] "Who ever my friends, in the rough stream of life hath struggled with affliction... that gale shall allways breath."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

Rev William Smith : Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime

24 Oct 1788: 'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to the author and reflects lustre on Longinus himself. [Long quotation]: "to the unlearned also it may be of use ... an inclination to literature"'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

Rev William Smith : Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime

13 Dec 1788 Another long quotation from Smith's translation: 'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from these three particulars joined together.' Also listed Longinus's five sources of the sublime.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

Rev J Granger : Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2

Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby. 'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for contemplation, but he was thought to be so well qualified for action, that in 1628 he was appointed commander of a Squadron ... made repris also on the Algerians [?] and set at liberty a great number of English slaves... His book "bodies" and that of "The Nature of Man's Soul" are reckoned among the best of his works. Abdiah Cole, a Physician of Note, flourished in this reign. There is a portrait of him in a Dr of Physic's Gown by / Crofts.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great

Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too enterprizing, presuming too much upon his own opinions... I know also that he has no malignity in his heart, that he is indefatigable in business... I find no-one so capable as he is of consoling me... That he may daily unify his heart and his manners.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs

'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend); and sent it off, with a letter introduced by Tait the Review-bookseller, to Longman and Co London.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

John Scott : 'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The London Magazine'

'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (see Blackwood's Magazine); and to-night, I am alone in this cold city - alone to cut my way into the heart of its benefices by the weapons of my own small quiver.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Kenilworth

'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his stomach-complaints, and wishes me better fortune, sometimes the dog even pities me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [unknown student] anon Print: BookManuscript: Letter

: Blackwood's magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [unknown student] anon Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

[n/a] : The Christian World

'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained nothing but accounts of meetings and conferences, announcements of appointments to ministries, and obituary notices; yet I read them from beginning to end.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [volume about theological debate]

'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant divine and a Roman Catholic priest some time about the middle of last century, with a long argument on transubstantiation and many references to the Douai Bible which greatly puzzled me, for I did not know what the Douai Bible was.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing of it, but this did not keep me from reading it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

John Howie : The Scots Worthies

'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in hopeless confusion, I went over carefully, arranging and repairing them until the book assumed consecutive form. My father was so touched by this act of piety - for he regarded the book as almost a sacred one - that he had it handsomely bound in leather for me: a big tome of a thousand pages. All this passed through my mind; it was poor stuff without a vestige of nourishment, and it did not leave a trace behind.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume

[unknown] : [school books]

''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at that time called "Sunday Stories". I read novels illustrating the dangers of intemperance and the values of thrift. I read a new periodical called "The Penny Magazine" which my brother Willie got: it was modelled on "Tit-bits", and contained all sorts of useless information. But I had no children's books and no fairy-tales: my father's witch stories made up for that.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

[n/a] : The People's Journal

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The People's Friend

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Christian Herald

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Sunday Stories

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

[n/a] : The Penny Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [story]

'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrived at a cottage carrying a heavy sack, which he left in a corner while he went, as he said, to the barn to get some sleep. The woman of the house, who lived by herself, happened to touch the sack, felt it moving, and knew at once that there was a man in it who had come to murder her... When I read "Treasure Island" a few years later the horrible figure of the blind seaman Pew brought back again the terrors of that dream.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

[n/a] : The Police News

'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Sutherland sometimes had sent to him by a cousin in Leith a weekly paper called, I think, "The Police News", a record of brutal crimes. He left it lying in the kitchen one day, and with my usual hypnotised interest I went across to take it up. On the cover was a picture of a powerful man standing in his shirt sleeves with an axe raised above his head... My father snatched up the paper as soon as I put my hand out for it, crammed it into his pocket, and said sternly, "That's no for thee!"'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Boy's Own Paper

'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of "The Boy's Own Paper", which I did not see until years later, when it bored me with its stories of public-school life, filled with incomprehensible snobbery. The line of "Chums" was adventure stories in savage lands.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Chums

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [School history book]

'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were "as silent as the dead". I had had, of course, to learn "Casabianca" and "Lord Ullin's Daughter" and "Excelsior" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Felicia Dorothea Hemans : Casabianca

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Lord Ullin's Daughter

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Excelsior

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Excursion

'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "Adonais", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", and Mathew Arnold's "Tristram and Iseult". We were given "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "The Pied Piper" to learn by heart in consecutive years. I never liked "The Pied Piper", which, being written consciously as a child's poem, made me feel conscious, and most of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" seemed unreal to me... The poems in the book which I liked best were "The Eve of Saint Agnes" and "Tristram and Iseult"...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

John Keats : The Eve of Saint Agnes

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonais: An elegy on the death of John Keats

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Robert Browning : The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : Tristram and Iseult

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : [selection of poems]

'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penny Poets" and bought "As You Like It", "The Earthly Paradise", and a selection of Matthew Arnold's poems. ...I did not get much out of the selection of Arnold's poems... "As You Like It" delighted me, but it was "The Earthly Paradise" that I read over and over again.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As You Like It

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

William Morris : The Earthly Paradise

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

[unknown] : [book on Wallace and Bruce]

'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but I found it was a shilling and threepence and I had to return dejectedly with a book on Wallace and Bruce instead. It was not a good book, and all I remember of it is a few lines quoted from Burns...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Notre Dame de Paris

'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A sense of overpowering gloom is connected in my mind with Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris", which I read in English, and an impression of a livid brightness with "The Scarlet Letter"; but that is all. Of Carlyle's "French Revolution" all that remains is a sentence like a radiant hillside caught through a rift in a black cloud: the passage where he describes the high-shouldered ladies dancing with the gentlemen of the French Court on a bright summer evening, while outside the yellow cornfields stretched from end to end of France'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : French Revolution

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

[unknown] : [story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands]

'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by "The Orkney Herald". It was an account of the origin of the Orkney and Shetland Islands...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical, almanac

[n/a] : The Bible

'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Robert Michael Ballantyne : Hudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America

'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les Miserables

'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

Edward L. Wheeler : Deadwood Dick

'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwood Dick" -a cowboy who was always bumping off people in Deadman's Gulch or Gallow's Ravine, The reformers told me that my mind would become brutalised by reading Penny Dreadfuls... Besides "Deadwood Dick" in the shop window there was "Bronco Bill", with stories of a similar type. And there was "Jack Wright".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Bronco Bill

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Jack Wright

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Hiawatha

'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty or seventy pages. And W.T. Stead brought out the Penny Poets. The covers of these were pimply surface-paper, a bright orange colour, and they contained selections from Longfellow, Tennyson, Keats, and many others. I first read "Hiawatha" and "Evangeline" in the Penny Poets and thought them marvellous; so marvellous that I began to write 'poetry' myself. Stead also brought out another penny book; this had a pink cover and contained selections from the ancient classics: stories from Homer, the writings of Pliny the younger, Aesop's "Fables". I took a strong fancy to Aesop, he was a Greek slave from Samos, in the sixth century BC, and workpeople were only just beginning to be called "wage slaves". I read all these; non-selective and Catholic my reading...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Evangeline

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Homer : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Pliny the Younger : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Aesop : Fables

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

John Ruskin : King of the Golden River

'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Golden River", and I most certainly read that. It is, in fact, the first book I can actually remember having read at all and John Ruskin, of all people, is the first author to have written his name on my mind.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[unknown] : History of the World War

'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the shop. The time was late afternoon, just before tea, and I was standing near the window, looking through one of the volumes of a garish and expensive "History of the World War" which my father had bought from a door-to-door salesman who had persuaded him that "it would be very useful for the little boy's education". Some illustration in the book -a photograph or drawing of a battleship or aeroplane or shell-burst or trench warfare - must have caught my fancy, and, as I noticed that John Slater was looking out from his window on the opposite side of the street, I held up my picture against the glass so that he might see it. The street was narrow enough for anyone with good eyesight even to read the caption if it were printed in large enough letters. John nodded and promptly held up a picture in a book he was reading. I turned over a page or two and then held up another picture. John responded. And soon we found ourselves caught up in a competition...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Slater Print: Book

H.G. Wells : Kipps

'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it very funny, but I recognised its authenticity. Shakespeare knew what he was talking about: he had met people like my Uncle Tom.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very few of the children's classics had come my way. I had read no Kipling nor "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Alice".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little school editions, were enough to sour a boy against the novels for the rest of his life.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Chimes

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

'Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment and the trushery behind him, and started straight off with "Pickwick Papers". "Pickwick" is not a very mature Dickens and not very mature humour, but it semmed to us quite the funniest book we had ever met.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Wilson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Great Expectations

'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of a succession of Dickens volumes on Indian paper, in stiff blue covers, with the original Phiz and Seymour illustrations. In 1926, at the Secondary School, I received "Barnaby Rudge"; in 1927, "Dombey and Son"; in 1928, "Nicholas Nickleby". "Great Expectations, which followed "Pickwick" in Mr Wilson's scheme, I acquired in the red, cardboard-backed Nelson's Classics, price One Shilling and Sixpence, a series which became my regular source of Christmas and birthday presents from uncles and friends... These books were my winter reading between the ages of ten and fourteen... [continues]'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Wilson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Barnaby Rudge

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Great Expectations

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les Miserables

'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickwick". Mr Wilson must have abridged it ruthlessly, but he made everything in nineteenth-century France sound as if it were happening in the England of our own day...The reading of "Les Miserables" bound us together in one common experience.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Wilson Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : Lady Chatterley's Lover

'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frankness of manhood: I felt that I was returning to baby-talk'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[n/a] : The Sketch

'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the Public Library, did not immediately strike me as being what might lie beneath a gymslip.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Tatler

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "Love" was something I had learned about from "David Copperfield" and "Under the Greenwood Tree" and from the stories in "The Woman's Weekly", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. "Come into the garden, Maud" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Under the Greenwood Tree

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[n/a] : The Woman's Weekly

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical

John Keats : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Maud [and other poems?]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : [Tales]

'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[unknown] : [detective stories]

'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

H.G. Wells : [early novels]

'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

H.G. Wells : Kipps

'After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just nothing that we wanted to do. There were no lessons, and we spent most of the time reading whatever we liked. It happened that my father had picked up at the stationer's a sixpenny copy of Wells's "Kipps" and I began to chuckle over this, as we sat in class.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[n/a] : Daily Mail

'[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic strip. "That jackass", my father would umph, half-teasingly, as he read the latest outrageous saying in the "Daily Mail".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Kenneth Grahame : The Wind in the Willows

'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[n/a] : The Encyclopedia Britannica

'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and dusty from the half-mouldering, out-of-date sets of "The Encyclopedia Britannica" and the "Dictionary of National Biography". We took down pages and pages of what, in the end, proved to be quite useless notes on the lives of Gustavus Adolphus and Richelieu...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[n/a] : Dictionary of National Biography

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [plays]

'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mortality" and the first book of "The Golden Treasury", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

John Milton : [unknown works]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown works]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Geoffery Chaucer : [unknown works]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : [unknown works]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Charles Lamb : [unknown works]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Old Mortality

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[n/a] : The Golden Treasury

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : [poems extracts]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [poems extracts]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [poems extracts]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [poems extracts]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [nature and the countryside]

'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Hudson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Jefferies : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Gilbert White : [natural history]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : [unknown]

'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric Linklater and Geoffrey Farnol, Edgar Wallace, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Arnold Bennett, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, and a host of others, good, bad and awful, and we read the lot, some of them over and over.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Eric Linklater : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

John Jeffrey Farnol : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Jane Austen : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Mark Twain : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

John Buchan : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble Print: Book

Robert Blatchford : Merrie England

'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie England" of which he had sold a large quantity "round the frames", its matter was so very different from what its title had led me to expect that I put it aside unread. Years later circumstances caused me to hunt out this copy of "Merrie England" and give it serious consideration. I read it with avidity from end to end. In less than an hour it had done my business completely. Why I would hardly so much as look at a book which, later on, had so enduring an effect on me is worth puzzling out.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

[n/a] : The Bible

'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. It was always safe to leave me with this Bible lying on my belly on the hearthrug before the fire -while my mother went out somewhere with my sisters. They would find me even three hours later just where and as I had been left. That Bible with its illustrations by Gustave Dore and Felix Philipotteaux, was a joy and a solace for years. Especially the battle-pictures and those of storm and wreck. There was one of Joshua's army storming a hill fortress -with the great iron-studded door crashing down before the onrush of mighty men with huge-headed axes -that never failed to thrill...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

[n/a] : Cassells Illustrated History of England

'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of England, which my father got bound up from a set of weekly parts. They carried the story down to the accession of George III; but even so they were a mine of treasure it took years to ramsack. I read first all the battles... After the battles I read the murders; then the executions; and then, at last, as much as I could stomach of the connecting bits in between.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes

Charles Dickens : [novels]

'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a "Robinson Crusoe", and lent me volumes containing four "Waverley Novels" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens "fan" who rather despised Scott as a "romantic" and a "Tory". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the "Waverley Novels" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me "Vanity Fair" as an antidote to "David Copperfield" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of "paperback" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes

Charles Dickens : [novels]

'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a "Robinson Crusoe", and lent me volumes containing four "Waverley Novels" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens "fan" who rather despised Scott as a "romantic" and a "Tory". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the "Waverley Novels" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me "Vanity Fair" as an antidote to "David Copperfield" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of "paperback" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected and bound into four volumes

Walter Scott : Waverley Novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Spectator

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Serial / periodical

Homer : Illiad

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley Novels

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [plays]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Fennimore Cooper : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Captain Marryatt : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops and the Relief of Derry -and it was therefore natural that I should pounce with my penny at the sight of a copy of his essay on "Warren Hastings", which hit my eye on almost my first visit to the Row... I read it, I remember, on the Embankment -lying in the sun on my belly on the flat top of the ornamental arch, near Cleopatra's needle, up which a boy could climb... The series which included this edition of "Warren Hastings" gave an obvious first step along this road. It was one of Cassells National Library, a series of literary classics edited by Henry Morley, Professor of English Literature at London University, sold for 3d. paper and 6d. cloth. New or secondhand they opened an enticing field for adventurous exploration. So did a parallel series of shilling volumes the Universal Library issued by Routledge, batches of which used to be dumped upon the secondhand market and sold for 4d a copy.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Warren Hastings

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

George Grote : History of Greece

'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it was only after many years that I could happen upon and acquire, secondhand, Grote's "History of Greece". But as I found them, so, doggedly, I set myself to read them, and to puzzle out, as well as I could, why they had acquired the repute in which they stood. It was, at times, hard going; I got little pleasure or profit from Keble's "Christian Year", and, though his gorgeous word tapestry impressed me greatly, little of either from Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living" and "Holy Dying".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

John Keble : The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days throughout the Year

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : Holy Living

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : Holy Dying

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faery Queene

'This preoccupation with the sensuous form I experienced most obviously and acutely when I read with mounting excitement Spenser's "Faery Queen".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Biographical History of Philosophy

'But by a lucky chance I happened upon a book included in Lubbock's "hundred" -George Henry Lewes's "Biographical History of Philosophy". It came just when I needed it and to my extreme delight and mounting excitement opened before me an entirely new world of adventure.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Samuel Daniel : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

[probably] Isaac Hawkins Browne : [poems complete works]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Giles Fletcher : [poems complete works]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Phineas Fletcher : [poems complete works]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Ben Jonson : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

William Drummond : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

John Donne : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Abraham Cowley : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

John Milton : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Samuel Butler : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

[n/a] : Girls' Own Paper

'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Chips

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Comic Cuts

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Lot o' Fun

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Butterfly

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [comic paper]

'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie and Tired Tim, or Dreamy Daniel, or Casey Court, or the Mulberry Flatites, I found that the captions under suddenly began to read themselves out to me.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

[Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got when I actually read the thing, right through, cover to cover, as if it was "Chips" or "Herewald the Wake"... Here on a wet Sunday morning was this handsome volume, leather-bound, of clear bold type and frequent illustrations -I'd look at the pictures. They were gawdy and full of action, quite a lot of them. Look at the priests of Dagon with their blood-splashed knives; Jael creeping into the tent of Sisera; Egyptian chariots overwhelmed by the Red Sea; Judas gloating over his pieces of silver like a carroty-headed Quilp...You simply had to read of these matters; and if the narrative didn't always come up to the quality of the illustrations, when it did you had a story which stayed in your imangination and gave it something to glow with. I read on, session after session, past all the boring bits and finished it at last.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Book

Jean Aubuisson : Traite de geognoise

'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first edition I am to have 60 guineas - the same sum for every succeeding edition. Brewster was very diligent in forwarding it; and tho' I neither like the book or the terms excessively, I feel much o[blige]d to him for his conduct.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Daniel Fenning : The universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy guide to the English Language. Containing I Tables of Words [...] V Chronological Tables of the Succession of the Kings of England [...]

'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a companion, having some entertaining things in it both in prose and Verse with an introduction by the compiler, who doubtless like myself knew little about either [...] in this introduction was rules both for writing as well as reading Compositions in prose and verse, were, stumbling on a remark that a person who knew nothing of grammer was not capable of writing a letter nor even a bill of parcels, I was quite in the suds, seeing that I had gone on thus far without learing the first rudiments of doing it properly for I had hardly h[e]ard the name of grammer, while at school ? but as I had an itch for trying at every thing I got hold of I determ[i]ned to try grammer, and for that purpose, by the advice of a friend, bought the "Universal Spelling Book" as the most easy assistant for my starting out, but finding a jumble of words classd under this name and that name and this such a figure of speech and that another hard worded figure I turned from further notice of it in disgust for as I knew I could talk to be understood I thought by the same method my writing might be made out as easy and as proper, so in the teeth of grammer I pursued my literary journey' [In the suds = In the dumps]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : Wallenstein

'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I have closed Schiller for a night; and what can I do better than chat for one short hour with my old, earliest friend?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters

'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so certain of as the magistrate pretends to be, but shall attempt notwithstanding. It is poetry, by Joanna Baillie, about Wallace and Columbus and patient Griseld, and so forth. I am to begin forthwith; should have begun indeed already, but Schiller and others stand in the way.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein : De l'Allemagne

'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and then quite absurd. Do not mind it much.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Life of Pascal

'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encyclopaedia, and perfectly correct.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text

John Carr : Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the year 1809

'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining. I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Bucahanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city. The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'

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

Sir Charles William Pasley : Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire

'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining. I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city. The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'

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

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining. I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city. The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'

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

Claudius Buchanan : Christian Researches in Asia

'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining. I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city. The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'

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

James and Horatio Smith : Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum

'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amused her. Her answer was, "Oh! dear, yes, very much; - very droll indeed; - the opening of the House! - & the striking up of the Fiddles!" What she meant, poor woman, who shall say? - I sought no farther.'

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

James and Horatio Smith : Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Digweed Print: Book

James and Horatio Smith : Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum

'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] She [end italics] looks like a rejected Addresser.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Papillon Family Print: Book

James and Horatio Smith : Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Papillon Print: Book

John Bigland : System of Geography and History

'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'

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

John Barrow (ed.) : Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to China

'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'

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

Sir George Steuart Mackenzie : Travels in Iceland

'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'

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

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'Read a little of "Paradise lost"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Leonhard Schmitz : A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146

'Worked for an hour to day at French and read some Grecian History, The latter is certainly rather dry.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Leonhard Schmitz : A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146

'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the time.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

George Sand : La Petite Fadette

'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the time.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Leonhard Schmitz : A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146

'Have been working at French & reading "History of Greece"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Leonhard Schmitz : A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146

'I cannot work this weather it is too hot, I have read a chapter of the "History of Greece" to day and that is all.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Thackeray : The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family

'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton & "Coningsby" by Disraeli'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton : Stuart of Dunleath. A story of the present time

'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton & "Coningsby" by Disraeli'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Coningsby; or, The new generation

'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton & "Coningsby" by Disraeli'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Thackeray : The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

'I am reading the "English humourists" by Thackeray'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Thomas Moore : The Epicurean. A Tale

'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able to stay up till late - learning by heart "Paradise & the Peri"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Paradise and the Peri

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

[n/a] : Holy Scriptures

'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte", "shiftless rabble", "dregs of humanity", "ignorant masses". I wondered where all these worthless people lived. I could only think it must be London or some such place outside my ken. Then one day it dawned on me, these scornful and superior writers were writing about me, and the people who lived in our street. It knocked me sideways for a little time, till the temperament I had inherited from my mother pulled me straight again... The latest I have come across is Richard Church, for whom, as a poet and novelist, I have full respect...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : Penny Dreadfuls

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Church : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Unknown

[unknown] : How to make friends and influence people

'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Friends and Influence People". I read the book, but it did me no good; so I must be a hopeless case.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]

'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

[unknown] : Pneumatics

'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : [novels]

'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My father got her "East Lynne" through a pub Literary Society, she read it over and over again. I read it when I was about nine. Heavens, the tears I gulped back over the death of Little Willie!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Book

Mrs Henry Wood : [novels]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Book

Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood : East Lynne

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Book

[n/a] : The Family Storyteller

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood : East Lynne

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [notice]

'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual labour then. The auctioneer's man had taken the two halves of the sash window out. On the wall by the window was written in chalk: "Owing to Arrears of Rent and by Order of the Landlord. Sale this day at 2.30".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Manuscript: Graffito

[n/a] : Bible

'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read it, too, when I learned to read; it is a bit old fashioned but very interesting when you get used to its archaic English. In the forty-first chapter of Genesis another Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [notice]

'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I could read enough. It said "Haircut: Men 3d., Boys 2d., Shaving, 1d." That was in 1893, near enough. Prices have gone up a little since then.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Advertisement, Poster

Charles Henry Ross : Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday

'None of the periodicals shown there are alive today. There was "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", my favourite comic. When Father had a spot of overtime in, he used to buy a copy on Saturday, coming home from work with his wages and give it to me. Ally Sloper was always front page and full page. He was a comical man with a great bulbous nose, a wide grin, and he wore a tall hat that had a definite waist. He had a ma-in-law, and other relatives who were always making difficulties for him, but he always scored off them in the end. R.I.P. Ally.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Police News

'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in depicting crime in pictures, and also the manly arts of boxing and wrestling. The most sensational crime of the previous week was always given on the front page; and if it was murder by knife or gunshot, there was always oceans of blood sloshed about the picture, and the dying man's face was horrific with his agony. These journals were printed on pink newsprint.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Police Budget

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Sketchy Bits

'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute minimum of clothing... These two "Bits" journals - that I sometimes bought for a halfpenny each at the second-hand periodical stall in the market -catered to some extent to masochists. There were pages of letters supposed to be written by readers to the editor -though it would not surprise me if they had all been written by the same journalist -that I did not quite understand as a boy. I read everything I came across, from the Bible to "Deadwood Dick", so I read these letters also.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Photo Bits

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

Edward L. Wheeler : Deadwood Dick

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Heartsease Library

'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a novelette; the "Heartsease Library" was one, a penny per week. She was in the public library, too. I read "The Channings" by Mrs Henry Wood, and "Lady Audley's Secret" by Miss Braddon, and others by these two who were my mother's favourite authors.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Heartsease Library

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood : The Channings

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : Lady Audley's Secret

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : Lady Audley's Secret

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Book

Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood : The Channings

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Book

Henry Cockton : The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist

'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymns, usually a couple of singers who gave "sacred" songs; and to which was attached a Book Club. By paying a few pence a week Father got all the books he could read; he was a slow reader, too. He got "Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist", "Sylvestre Sound", "Somnambulist"; "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and many others. Dolly has some of them at this date, sixty years later.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : Sylvestre Sound

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : Somnambulist

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefacing that having intelligence from Henry that such a work wd soon appear we had desired him to send it whenever it came out - & I beleive [sic] it passed with her unsuspected. She was amused, poor soul! [italics] that [end italics] she cd not help you know, with two such people to lead the way; but she really does seem to admire Elizabeth. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print...'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to my Mother's too rapid way of getting on - & tho' she perfectly understands the Characters herself, she cannot speak as they ought. - Upon the whole however I am quite vain enough & well satisfied enough...'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were tolerably strong of [italics] her [end italics], but nothing like a certainty. Her liking Darcy & Elizth is enough. She might hate all the others if she would. I have her opinion under her own hand this morning, but your Transcript of it which I read first, was not & is not the less acceptable. - To [italics] me [end italics] it is of course all praise - but the more exact truth which she sends [italics] you [end italics] is good enough.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Knight Print: Book

Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel : published letter about the status of her marriage to the Prince of Wales

'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman, & because I hate her husband - but I can hardly forgive her for calling herself 'attached & affectionate' to a Man whom she must detest - & the intimacy said to subsist between her & Lady Oxford is bad...'

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

: Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths section

'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did. He was married at Clifton to a Miss Lewis, whose Father had been late of Antigua.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who wrote it - for, of course, she knows now.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Robert Kerr Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him the Books after his return from Daylesford.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Warren Hastings Print: Book

John Bigland : Letters on the Modern History and Political Aspect of Europe

'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has always happened to delay or curtail the reading hour.'

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

William Cowper : Verses supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk

'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it, without offence to anybody.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

: Acts 27:44

'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in safety.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Mary Brunton : Self Control

'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it. I declare I do not know whether Laura's passage down the American River is not the most natural, possible, every-day thing she ever does.-'

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

George Crabbe : preface to The Borough

'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves and found just the book I wanted: a scientific work that gave full details of African trees. I sat studying it and making notes...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : Young People's First Book of Trees

'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came through the room I slipped the African book on to my knees under the table and was intently studying the Young People's book...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[n/a] : The Racing Specialist

'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: iron moulders Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Football Edition

'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: iron moulders Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Strand Magazine

'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room when displaced by a new monthly issue: the "Strand Magazine", "Windsor", "Pearson's", and others...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Windsor

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Pearson's

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas More : Utopia

'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", closely followed by the prose works of William Morris, "The Story of the Unknown Church", and the like. There was quite a spate of novels with this ideology, but the only one that has come down to the present day is Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

William Morris : [prose works]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

William Morris : The Story of the Unknown Church

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Edward Bellamy : Looking Backwards

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

[unknown] : [book on pneumatics]

'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would succeed, and I have great doubts of my ever attempting it'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Francis Liardet : Professional Recollections on points of Seamanship, Discipline, etc.

'In the forenoon read Liardets book on Seamanship, so as to prepare myself for the duties of 1st Lieut which I expect will only come too soon.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

John MacNeill Boyd : [unknown]

'Reading Capn Boyds book on seamanship, there is a great deal to be picked up from it, but of course some things there are, in which a variety of opinions exist, especially as regarding discipline and the management of large bodies of men.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

[unknown] : History of Rome

'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

About Edmond : Le roi des Montagnes

'Reading "Le Roi des Montagnes" by Ed About'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The history of England from the accession of James the Second

'Reading Macauleys "history of England" for the 2nd time'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The history of England from the accession of James the Second

'I have been reading Macauleys "history of England", and have got thro 5 volumes, it is very interesting'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The history of England from the accession of James the Second

'I am reading Macauleys "history of England", it is so interesting that it keeps me up at night, later than I ought to remain, it is a book, that when once a person has commenced it, he finds it impossible to leave off, until he has finished it -'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The history of England from the accession of James the Second

'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Speeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. corrected by himself ..

'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Mathilde ou les Memoires d'une jeune femme

'I have been reading some French books lately viz, "Mathilde" par Eugene Sue and "Les mariages de paris" par Edmond About -'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Edmond About : Les mariages de Paris

'I have been reading some French books lately viz, "Mathilde" par Eugene Sue and "Les mariages de paris" par Edmond About '-

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Eug?ne Scribe : Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds: com?die en 1 acte, m?l?e de vaudevilles

'I have been reading lately "Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds" and "La petite Soeur" two little vaudevilles by Mr Scribe -'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Eug?ne Scribe : La Petite soeur, com?die vaudeville en 1 acte

'I have been reading lately "Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds" and "La petite Soeur" two little vaudevilles by Mr Scribe -'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure

"Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Much Ado About Nothing

'Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Frances Trollope : The Lottery of Marriage. A novel.

'I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called "the Lottery of Marriage" a very nice book for little girls to read, but hardly fit for a grown up man'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Antonine

'Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called "Antonine", a stupid book in my opinion.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

[n/a] : Monthly Review

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[anon] : Guy's Expositor

'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand bookstall in the market. ...he handed me a book that was dropping to pieces. It was thin, with a dark green back. There were about fifty pages; there had been a lot more but the others must have dropped out. All the pages were loose. It was called "Guy's Expositor". It was just lists of words, but it told you where they had come from, and how their meaning had varied through the ages so that some words, eventually, came to mean just the opposite from what they had meant long ago. I was thrilled to the marrow with it...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[n/a] : [Penny Poets]

'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a poet myself...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : Quain's Anatomy

'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" in two volumes. The first volume was anatomy and physiology. I read all about bones, muscles, lungs, liver, kidneys, ductless glands, all the whole issue. The second volume was on reproduction and embryology. I was completely fascinated...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [Astronomy and spectrum analysis]

'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One book I got was on spectrum analysis, as applied to astronomy. I was fascinated by this too. I could not put the book down. One evening Mother had not a penny for the gas, and there was no paraffin in the lamp she still had. I crouched on the fender, reading by the red glow of the fire, so close that my hair was singed.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [Astronomy and spectrum analysis]

'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks we had were box-type, there was a lid to lift and you could keep books inside. I had my book in there. We were doing composition. I had my head under the lid and inside the desk, reading more of the library book.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

Edward Hamley : Lady Lee's Widowhood

'Lady Lee's Widowhood by Captain Hamley R.A. it is not so good a book as I expected, it has been praised too much; so that I do not think so much of it, as if I had never heard it spoken of.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

Xavier Aymon de, Count Montepin : Les Filles de platre. Les trois debuts

'Reading the "Les filles des platre" by M. Xavier de Montepin it is like the generality of French Novels, and does not give a very exalted notions of French morals; the more I read French books, the more I am struck at the immense difference there is between the two nations that are only seperated [sic] by a narrow channel, twenty miles across; Customs manners & morals are entirely different; there is no nation in the world so much in love with domestic happiness & domestic comfort as the English, and none less so, than the French; that which affords great pleasure to our neighbours, excites only disgust in an Englishman; this I gather not only from the Books I read, but also from what I saw myself during my stay in France, and the older I get, the more thankful I am that I was not born a Frenchman.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Kelly : Life in Victoria, or, Victoria in 1853 and Victoria in 1858 : showing the march of improvement made by the colony within those periods, in town and country, cities and diggings

'Finished "Kelly"s book on Victoria; it is very interesting tho rather coarse'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Douglas Hamilton : Outlines of the History of England

'I am now reading a history of England by Douglas Hamilton, it seems to be very well written'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

William Douglas Hamilton : Outlines of the History of England

'As I expect a heap of books from England, I am having two book shelves put up in my cabin. I am afraid it will darken it a little, mais n'importe I am reading the constitutional history of England by Mr Hamilton it is very interesting. as soon as my books arrive I shall set to work in good earnest and try and improve myself, I think I have the brains, what I want is the application; my duties too interfere very much with any regular study.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

'reading "Cornhill Magazine" &c'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Commenced work again to day in earnest - read some of the [following page missing]'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Paymaster went ashore to inquire about coals &, he returned at 8 PM telling us to steam alongside a brig to morrow morning: he brought out some newspapers - I read in one of them that my old shipmate Lieut W. Kerr has been wounded, he is up off Lucknow with Capn Peel of the "Shannon"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I am going to try & commence work again, having done nothing since entering the sick list, except read a few novels and that class of books'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read a good deal during the day, and worked a Couple of hours at French.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book

A.E. Housman : unknown

'Hobbies. Mentioned 10 times. Twice as normal, three times increased (walking, stamp collecting, reading). One "war outlook; making of aeroplanes, etc", one "Juniors play 'Germans and English' and 'Shoot the Dictator'". One "reading now of Houseman [sic], Eliot, and Owen", one "extra keenness in inter-school conferences", one "debates on hobbies".'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

: Synopsis

'Marsh came across a "Synopsis" and started reading an article on Bacon. At last he flung it aside and said, "It seems this bloke Bacon wrote a book and signed it William Shakespeare. I don't know, It's a fuckin' mess up !"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

: Mirror

"If the foreman and checker were on good terms, then the checker could leave early. If not, he had to stay, biting his nails or reading the Mirror." [this was a repeated occurrence]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

John Pepys : [speech]

'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposition'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

John Pepys : [speech]

'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that, we went to read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings; but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading the answer of the Dutch Embassador to our state, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's coming home which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : The humble address and hearty desires of the gentlemen, ministers and free-holders of the county of Northampton, presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, at his arrival at Northampton January, 24, 1659

'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of Northamptonshire - which came out this afternoon.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys

Martin le Roy de Gomberville : Polexandre

'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Tobit

'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole book of the story of Tobit.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de Roma

'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'...and back to Pauls churchyard, where I stayed reading in Fullers history of the Church of England an hour or two...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Roger L'Estrange [? probably] : A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established in this nation, before the late war. In a humble address to his Excellency, General Monck

'...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and directed to Generall Monke in praise of the form of Monarchy which was settled here before the Warrs.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

Paul Scarron : The Fruitless Precaution

'In the afternoon upon the Quarter-deck, the Doctor told Mr North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitlesse Precaution": an exceeding pretty story and worth my getting without book when I can get the book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[Playford] : Select ayres and dialogues

'My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came last night to me from London in lieu of that that my Lord had of me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[King] [Charles II] : A proclamation against debauched and profane persons, who, on pretence of regard to the King, revile and threaten others, or spend their time in taverns and tipping houses, drinking his health

'This morning the King's proclamacion against drinking, swearing and debauchery was read to our ships' companies in the fleet; and indeed it gave great satisfaction to all.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet

[n/a] : Bible

'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Common Prayer Book

'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

unknown : report on miners' conditions

'I've been reading about miners' food difficulties. Isn't it disgusting-we starve the men who do one of the most important jobs of the war-well it's more important than the Army because they've taken men out of the Army to go back to their old jobs in the mines.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : horoscope

'I don't really believe in any superstitions. Sitting down 13 at a table would never worry me in the slightest. However I enjoy having my fortune told and reading my horoscope just for fun.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Robert Vansittart : Black Record

'I suppose I retained this view for about nine months. My thoughts have now radically changed, and this is due in a marked degree to the reading of Sir Robert Vansittart's "Black Record" that I really woke up, and eliminated from my system all the ridiculous ideas I had about the German man and woman being "a decent person just like you and me". There was a saying in the last war which should never have been forgotten "once a German always a German". This is [an] almost eternal truism, for I am convinced now that the average German revels in brutality and perfidiousness, taking the view that ends justify the means.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Wayneman Birch Print: Unknown

John Speed : A prospect of the most famous parts of the world

'In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Paul Scarron : The Fruitlesse Precaution

'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed till I had made an end of it and do find it the best-writ tale that ever I read in my life.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Paul Scarron : The Fruitlesse Precaution

'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like so well as that.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Dauncey : The history of the thrice illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England

'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ that we did nothing but laugh at it: among other things, it is dedicated to that Paragon of virtue and beauty, the Duchesse of Albermarle.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Masse Book

'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s. And when I came home, sat up late and read in it - with great pleasure to my wife to hear that that she long ago was so well acquainted with.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [law book?]

'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which I took great pleasure.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides

'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfaccion in reading thereof.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides

'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[John] [Phillips?] : Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 1661

'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that and the Comedy of "The Rump", which is also very silly, I went to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: almanac

John Tatham : The Rump, or The mirror of the late times

'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that and the Comedy of "The Rump", which is also very silly, I went to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's "Church History" and read over Henry the 8ths life - in it. And so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Randolph : Cornelianum Dolium

'After he was gone, I fell a-reading "Cornelianum Dolium" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after that to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Madeleine de Scuderi : Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus

'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Unknown

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers "History", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 at night; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'At home I fell a-reading of Fullers "Church History" till it was late, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

unknown : letter about the post-war world

'(I am reading from her reply): "I hope I shall remember to go Church and thank God for our victory and our safety. I expect I shall talk of the future and its prospects with my friends. One thing I shall not do is to celebrate with the idea that everything henceforth is rosy".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Letter

Hannen Swaffer : unknown

'It's funny isn't it. Looks as if they want to get him out of the way. He's a bit too forward looking for them I think. And he's been giving one or two straight talks with the Archbishop too. I was reading Hannen Swaffer on Sunday and he said it seemed that Churchill's the stumbling block to any planning ahead.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Peace News

'About twenty people gathered and sat on chairs - some in meditation, others obviously praying. At first I thought this to be a preliminary ritual to the meeting, and so in my ignorance started reading my Peace News.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: newspaper

'I was just reading how he was going to attack Ireland in the next five days. I don't like the sound of that., . . . Ireland isn't ready yet.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Unknown : Captain Aero Comic

'He works from 2 to 10,and about 9 .he always goes to the lavatory. He was sitting there reading "Aero" when the sirens went, so he dashed down to the shelter, but before he got there the All Clear went. (Webb appears to work in or near Birmingham).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : unknown

'Every night when I go home I swear there are not more than three English people on the bus. The rudeness of them. A woman said the other night "If there was a gentleman present they wouldn't let a lady stand". A girl sitting in the bus reading just glanced at her and said "If you're a lady, I've never seen one". Everyone was amused.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'A fortnight in London in June-July 1940, recuperating from Oxford Univ. Finals, I most clearly remember summer evening as yet undisturbed by bombs, spent reading and chatting with friends sprawled in deckchairs in Kensington Gardens.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Lindoe : astrology books / articles

'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and study him regularly, and I find it's a great help......... things don't seem to go wrong anywhere near so much as before I started reading him. I really have great faith in him. I certainly think it's the only way of getting near the truth - it's thousands of years old and people have trusted, so I don't see why I shouldn't now.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Serial / periodical

: clothes rationing questionnaire

'In reading the whole thing, I get a slight feeling of "leaning about" from question to question of the questionnaire. Maybe this is largely a subjective feeling, and anyone not so painfully familiar with the actual order of the question would not feel it at all.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: questionnaire

unknown : article about Oswald Mosley

'Anyhow, their wives are being sent away. Mosley and his wife shouldn't be allowed to live together, but I suppose they've got plenty of money. And income Tax- I was reading an article the other day that said some of them were quite glad to be where they are because they don't have to pay income tax: Saves them a lot!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is even equal to my wishes; he says it is very different from the other two, ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"] but does not seem to think it at all inferior...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Austen Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets

Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina

'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'

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

Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina

'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'

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

Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third volume

'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is a delightful burlesque, particularly on the Radcliffe style.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Austen Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets

Francis Osborne : [works]

'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Emanuel Tesauro : Patriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traducta

'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purpose

''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for the murther of the late King.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Handbill

[unknown] : [French Romances]

'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Good books]

'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and reading some good books.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [book]

'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [book]

'Then home - I to read.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [book]

'Then to reading and at night to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Smith : The sea-man's grammar

'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedingly well.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : The Kingdomes Intelligencer

'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And then I up to my chamber to read.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Cross : Sternhold and Hopkins Psalms

'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now busy about); and had good sport about the long marks that are made there for sentences in Divinity, which he is never like to make use of.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Coventry Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Faber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitae

'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Middleton : The Spanish Gypsy

'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended much.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Pepys : The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton

'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I am glad to see that he hath done so well for us all - and well to the rest of his kindred.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Robert Pepys : The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton

'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find more and more trouble like to attend it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter that is lately come out of Ireland. I stayed at home at my book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Richard Hooker : Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie

'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and love for his sake.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Ian Bridges : History of Northamptonshire

'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Wellingbro' Church, which I added [...] I looked over Parry's Woburn.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

J.D. Parry : History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey

'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Wellingbro' Church, which I added [...] I looked over Parry's Woburn.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Lancelot Andrewes : Devotions

'Read B[ishop]. Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagues of Egypt' [...] In the Evening read Archp. Tellotison's Sermon 'On the happiness of heaven', which I found interesting & in simple language... Read sev.l Poetical pieces suitable to this sacred day among others Edmaston's delightful sonnet.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Sermons

'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagues of Egypt' [...] In the Evening read Archp. Tellotison's Sermon 'On the happiness of heaven', which I found interesting & in simple language... Read sev.l Poetical pieces suitable to this sacred day among others Edmaston's delightful sonnet.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Jacob Bryant : On the plagues of Egypt

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

John Tillotson : Sermon

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Edmaston : Sonnet

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Mary Roberts : Annals of my Village

'Read November in "Annals of my Village".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

J.S. Piercy : History of Retford

'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nature. Examined the plan of Hornsey's Eng Gram.r.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Thomas Benick : History of British Birds

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

John Hornsey : English Exercises, orthographical and grammatical in two parts

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

unknown : [Account of the Games in the Colosseum at Rome]

'Read an Acct of the celebration of the Games in the Colloseum at Rome.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown

Hugh Blair : Sermon

'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

unknown : Sermon

'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

unknown : St Limerick's Bells

'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown

unknown : The word we have not seen

'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown

William Pulleyn : Etymological Compendium for Maps

'Looked into Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium for Maps &c.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Lancelot Andrewes : Prayers

'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown

Hugh Blair : Sermons

'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown

Bishop Moore : Sermons

'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'Except sometimes when my wife sits on the arm of my chair when I am reading, and proceeds to perform on my own nails, mine would always be fairly described as dirty (Wife's term is filthy).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Negley Farson : Bombers Moon

'He is about to go when he sees a copy of Bombers Moon by Negley Farson (8/6?). He picks it up to look at it. It interests him and he stands reading this completely oblivious.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: New Stateman

'... only paper I read is the New Statesman once a week, this gives me condensed news of the week, is worth reading because it is well written and gives some food for thought.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : [light books]

'I read more-not so much of the paper as light books and escapist stuff. I listen to the radio about the same.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : [light books]

'I read more as I spend more time at home. Also I read fewer political works and more fiction.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : [light reading]

'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography to escape the present day. With the loss of "US" cling desperately to "The New Statesman" & "Nation" in the hopes of gleaning a few facts which newspapers and radio studiously avoid.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: The New Statesman

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Nation

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown

'I now very rarely go out in the evening, mainly on account of wife and family; spend more time reading and playing indoor games.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'In common with thousands of other people I have been doing knitting during the raids. In normal times I never have time to knit as all my spare time is spend in reading or playing the piano, both pastimes which cannot be indulged in when there are a lot of people in the room.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Phyllis Bottome : The Mortal Storm

'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I also try to keep up with political reading but find it rather difficult- for example to follow the communist line- but still read the Daily worker, Tribune, New Statesman, each week to try and get a composite picture but get depressed as the papers differ so from the daily papers such as the Telegraph, Mail and Express.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

G.E.R. Gedye : Fallen Bastions

'Yes , I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I also try to keep up with political reading but find it rather difficult- for example to follow the communist line- but still read the Daily worker, Tribune, New Statesman, week to try and get a composite picture but get depressed as the papers differ so from the daily papers such as the Telegraph, Mail and Express.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Daily Worker

'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I also try to keep up with political reading but find it rather difficult- for example to follow the communist line- but still read the Daily worker, Tribune, New Statesman, week to try and get a composite picture but get depressed as the papers differ so from the daily papers such as the Telegraph, Mail and Express.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Tribune

'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I also try to keep up with political reading but find it rather difficult- for example to follow the communist line- but still read the Daily worker, Tribune, New Statesman, week to try and get a composite picture but get depressed as the papers differ so from the daily papers such as the Telegraph, Mail and Express.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: The New Statesman

'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I also try to keep up with political reading but find it rather difficult- for example to follow the communist line- but still read the Daily worker, Tribune, New Statesman, week to try and get a composite picture but get depressed as the papers differ so from the daily papers such as the Telegraph, Mail and Express.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Francis Osborne : Advice to a son

'...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The historie of the holy warr

'and all the day, as I was at leisure, I did read in Fuller's "Holy Warr" (which I have of late bought) and did try to make a Song...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [chancery Bill drawn against Trice]

'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T. Trice; which I read, and like it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Hobbes : Of libertie and necessitie

'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown- little but shrewd piece]

'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Unknown

William Camden : Britannia

'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Cambdens "Brittannia", which I intended to buy of him and so took it away with me and left it at St Pauls churchyard to be bound'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

T Trice : [answer to Pepys's bill]

'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am glad to see, though afeared it will do me hurt.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors, to that purpose.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Hugo Grotius : Mare Liberum

'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors, to that purpose.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Selden : Mare Clausum

'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Corsair

'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have nothing else to do.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park (3rd volume)

'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [sic] now he has changed his mind as to foreseeing the end; - he said yesterday at least, that he defied anybody to say whether H.C. would be reformed, or would forget Fanny in a fortnight.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Austen Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park (last half of last volume)

'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [italics] extremely interesting [end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Austen Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'In addition to their [Mr and Mrs Cooke's] standing claims on me, they admire Mansfield Park exceedingly. Mr Cooke says "It is the most sensible Novel he ever read" - and the manner in which I treat the Clergy delights them very much.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr and Mrs Cooke Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Price [the heroine of JA's novel, "Mansfield Park"], she & her younest sister together, who is named Fanny.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Dusautoy Print: Book

Anna Austen : [unpublished story]

'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished and has never been published] It has entertained me extremely, all of us indeed. I read it aloud to your G[rand] M[other] & A[un]t C[assandra]. - and we were all very much pleased...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Anna Austen : [unpublished story]

'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are all very much amused, & like the work quite as well as ever. - I depend on getting through another book before dinner, but there is really a great deal of respectable reading in your 48 pages. I was an hour about it. - I have no doubt that 6 will make a very good sized volume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Anna Austen : [unpublished story]

'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to those who are acquainted with P. & P it will seem an imitation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Anna Austen : [unpublished story]

'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Anna Austen : [unpublished story]

'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does not please us quite so well, we do not thoroughly like the Play; perhaps from having had too much of Plays in that way lately.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Anna Austen : [unpublished story]

'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [extensive criticism of the MS follows]... You are now collecting your People delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life; - 3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.' [further comment and criticism follows]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Anna Austen : [unpublished story]

'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may hear it - for it has not been possible yet to have any public reading. I have read it to your Aunt Cassandra however - in our own room at night, while we undressed - and with a great deal of pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Walter Scott : [Poetry]

'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough as a Poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, & do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must[...] I have made up my mind to like no Novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, Yours & my own.'

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

Thomas Sherlock : Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church

'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Anna Lefroy : unpublished story

'My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great pleasure. I think you are going very well.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Caroline Austen : unpublished story

'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the good for nothing Father, who was the real author of all her Faults & Sufferings, should not escape unpunished.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins : Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost

'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects. There are some very delightful conversations and reflections on religion: but on lighter topics I think she falls into many absurdities; and, as to love, her heroine has very comical feelings. There are a thousand improbabilities in the story. Do you remember the two Miss Ormesdens, introduced just at last? Very flat and unnatural. - Mlle Cossart is rather my passion.'

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

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins : Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Lefroy Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'Your official opinion of the Merits of "Emma", is very valuable & satisfactory.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Murray Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its energy and powers of discrimination. The Regent has read & admired all your publications'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Prince Regent Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Prince Regent Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Prince Regent Print: Book

Jane Austen : [novels]

'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write & say so.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Stanier Clarke Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have read only a few Pages which I very much admired - there is so much nature - and excellent description of Character in every thing you describe.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Stanier Clarke Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma

'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of her acquaintance some days sooner than I shd otherwise have had it. - I am already become intimate in the Woodhouse family, & feel that they will not amuse & interest me less than the Bennetts, Bertrams, Norriss & all their admirable predecessors - I [italics] can [end italics] give them no higher praise.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Countess of Morley Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Countess of Morley Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Countess of Morley Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Countess of Morley Print: Book

Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis : Olympe et Theophile

'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to be quite my own Neice [sic] in your feelings towards Mde de Genlis. I do not think I could even now, at my sedate time of Life, read "Olimpe et Theophile" without being in a rage. It really is too bad! Not allowing them to be happy together, when they are married. Don't talk of it, pray. I have just let your Aunt Frank the 1st vol. of Les Veilles du Chateau, for Mary Jane to read.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Walter Scott [anon] : review of Emma

'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain of her treatment in it - except in the total omission of Mansfield Park. - I cannot but be sorry that so clever a Man as the Reveiwer [sic] of "Emma" should consider it as unworthy of being noticed.'

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

Caroline Austen : unpublished story

'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any topic of such absurdity, as the usual description of a Heroine's father.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

James Edward Austen : unpublished story

'Edward is writing a Novel - we have all heard what he has written - it is extremely clever; written with great ease & spirit; - if he can carry it on in the same way, it will be a firstrate work, & in a style, I think, to be popular.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet

John Seldon : Mare Clausum

'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of K. James and K. Charles

'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up so late.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : History of the worthies of England

'Then to Pauls churchyard, and there I met with Dr: Fullers "Englands worthys" - the first time that I ever saw it; and so I sat down reading in it, till it was 2 a-clock before I thought of the time's going.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : History of the worthies of England

'My cold being increased, I stayed home all day, pleasing myself with my dining-room, now graced with pictures, and reading of Dr Fullers "Worthys".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : The Kingdomes Intelligencer

'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in, upon examinacion, to a Justice of the peace.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Graunt : Natural and political observations... made upon the bills of mortality

'went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which appear to me, upon first sight, to be very pretty.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Fields : [petition]

'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bitter petition to the King against our office, for not doing Justice upon his complaint to us of embezzlement of the King's stores by one Turpin. I took Sir Wm to Sir W. Pens (who was newly come from Walthamstowe), and there we read it and discoursed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Fields : [petition]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Penn Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Bayly : Herba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out of the stone chamber belonging to Newgate, being a history which is partly true, partly romantick, morally devine, whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by divinity

'...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" with great pleasure.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Cicero : [unknown]

'Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Holland : [discourse on Naval administration]

'At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased with them, they hitting the very diseases of the Navy which we are troubled with nowadays. I shall bestow writing of them over and much reading thereof.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [letter]

'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

Tobias Gentleman : Englands way to win wealth... with a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of His Majesties seas by the Hollanders

'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely bound up - a treatise concerning the benefit the Hollanders make of our fishing; but whereas I expected great matters from it, I find it a very impertinent book; and though some things good, yet so full of tautologys that we were weary of it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas : Divine weekes and workes

'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas : Divine weekes and workes

'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

George Chapman : Bussy D'Ambois

'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Playford : Dancing Master OR English Dancing Master

'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time went; and so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Holland : [discourse on Naval administration]

'and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Holland : [second discourse on Naval administration]

'and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I am much contented'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Fletcher : A wife for a month

'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein no great wit or language.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[anon] : A treatise of taxes and contributions

'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there reading in Sir W Pettys book, and so home - and to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Heydon : Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus

'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote against Osborne; but in all my life I never did nor can expect to see so much nonsense in print.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Heydon : Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Creed Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11 at night; and so home to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

unknown : Announcements of Lectures on Geology

'In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaweed. Returned. Took shelter under the Museum cornice, & examined the Old Effigy, of which I had a plate engraved during my residence at Scarbro'. On looking at Posters on the walls, I discovered the announcements of Lectures on Geology on the Tuesday of the next week. This, thought I, is against me; and the weather unfavourable; & no lodgings at my old resort, made me regret my excursion; but subsequent success in obtaining subscribers for my lectures re-invigorated my spirit.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Poster

Dovaston : [article on Thomas Bewick]

'On turning to "The Magazine of Natural History" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that Miscellany, that early June 1827, he was at Buxton, whither he was hurried by his medical friends for the gout in his stomach, accompanied by his daughters Jane and Isabella.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Benick : letter

'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of 'The Scarborough Souvenir', he writes "this would have been done sooner by my late lamented father had he been able to have visited Scarborough, as he once intended to have done last summer".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Letter

Rhind : Studies in Natural History

'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Mary Roberts : Annals of my Village

'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Rhind : Natural History of the Stickleback

'Read Natural History of the Stickleback, which is a very interesting, though common fish.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

unknown : [Account of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V]

'Read the extraordinary Acct of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Dr Tottie : Sermon 'On the resurrection'

'Read one of Dr Tottie's Sermons "On the resurrection".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Hervey : The Minstry of Reconciliation

'Eve. We read one of Hervey's "The minstry of reconciliation" - again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Parker : [Collection of Carols]

'Christmas Day. Read several Carols this day from the collection pub. by Parker.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

: News Chronicle

'I hardly read at all - I read the News Chronicle, it's all I have time for.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Wizard

'I never buy books, I only read the "Wizard".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: The Woman

'I only read weekly magazines, like the "Woman". I prefer sewing and knitting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

: ration books

'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: points books

'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

E S Stevens : Ishtar

'I started to read a book called "Ishtar". It's not very good but I was very vague as to who Ishtar was - apparently the Babylonian goddess of love, war and fertility. Persepone, Artemis and Freya all in one. Normally Iwould not have bothered with it but a remark in Durrell's "Black Book" had set me wondering about Ishtar, vis - "From music we demand our whole life if it is to move us; every modulation of dream, despair, love, yearning. It is the past and the future going down into the tomb; the descent of Ishtar among the soiled roses; the entry into the chamber of the Cosmos; the first kicking in the womb and the last elegant spasm of cessation, lull, status". "Ishtar" by E.S. Stevens is badly written and rater trite, but quite interesting. I like stories about "digs" and I am rather interested in Baghdad though I know very little about that part of the world.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Douglas Reed : Disgrace Abounding

'Started to read "Disgrace Abounding" by Douglas Reed. He has got a bee in his bonnet about the Jews. Very insidious because when he gives chapter and verse one immediately recalls cases of which one has personal knowledge.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Louis MacNeice : Autumm Journal

'Reading, MacNeice "Autumm Journal". I enjoyed it very much and think it good. A. Werth, "Moscow '41". Very good - clear - interesting. One of these books which fill out the mind a bit.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

H V Morton : I James Blunt

'Reading H.V. Morton, "I James Blunt". I read it in half an hour. It is propaganda but first-class propaganda and interesting and very readable and horribly convincing. It should shake up the complacent. If invasion succeeded it would be like that here. The weak point was the suggestion that all the dominions had been overthrown too - at least New Zealand had.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Peter Quennell : Byron in Italy

'My library book now is "Byron in Italy" by Peter Quennell. I have not read much of Byron's poetry for many, many years. You probably remember the large volume of his work in C.V. with its voluptuous illustrations. I had that, but it has vanished with all my other books which were taken to Marten by my family. The book I am now looking at does not impress me with the bits of verse it quotes. I suppose that Byron could rhyme "beautiful" and "full" and "annul" and get away with it, but they don't seem to be right to me. I expect that he wrote "Don Juan" from his own experiences.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Adolf Hitler : Mein Kampf

'I prefer to go as soon as I can to the fountainhead, and to read, say, "Mein Kampf," to reading about Hitler. Such books I buy and read through without skipping or skimming, - marking, annotating and "grangerising". Other books dealing with the subject can then be got from the library and read quickly.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : [cheap editions of books]

'On the whole in these casual ventures I go no further than about 2/6 a book, and most of my reading comes from such editions as Penguin, Pelican, Evergreen, Everyman etc., all of which, note, have attractive covers and fair print for cheap books ... I am afraid I have left the impression that the look of the thing is all that worries me.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Brandon : Night club Murder

'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, one by Scott, and "Night club Murder" by Brandon, and then this ("Shabby summer," by Deeping) that's to spend Sunday afternoon with.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Deeping : Shabby Summer

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ruby M Ayres : unknown

'"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I want. Something light to take my mind off the war - a straight romantic tale.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Anne Duffield : unknown

'"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I want. Something light to take my mind off the war - a straight romantic tale.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : [light reading]

'I like light reading - something to occupy my mind so that I can knit and read at the same time - something that I can pick up and put down again without a feeling of being jolted.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : [western stories]

'I don't mind any author, so long as it's a genuine western story. I always read purely western, because they're more or less full of action, and I can get into it in the first chapter. No war books for me, I can read all that boasting and piffle in the papers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ian Hay : Night on Wheels

'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without war interest. For that reason I try and get books of the humourous kind, such as "Night on Wheels" by Ian Hay, and "The Diary of a Provincial Lady" by E.M. Delafield. Books that provoke a laugh. During the winter months reading's been my main hobby. As I'm a quick reader, naturally I choose fairly thick books of average size with medium print. Never the large type. I like a substantial book, not one that I can finish quickly. On the other hand I don't like books of the size of "Gone with the Wind" or "Anthony Adverse", some 900 pages. Either of these books should have been issued in two volumes.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

E M Delafield : The Diary of a Provincial Lady

'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without war interest. For that reason I try and get books of the humourous kind, such as "Night on Wheels" by Ian Hay, and "The Diary of a Provincial Lady" by E.M. Delafield. Books that provoke a laugh. During the winter months reading's been my main hobby. As I'm a quick reader, naturally I choose a fairly thick books of average size with medium print. Never the large type. I like a substantial book, not one that I can finish quickly. On the other hand I don't like books of the size of "Gone with the Wind" or "Anthony Adverse", some 900 pages. Either of these books should have been issued in two volumes.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : [detective fiction]

'My husband usually buys the penguin books. They're cheap and easy to carry about and afterwards he gives them away to the Forces. He's working very hard and seems to derive a lot of pleasure form reading detective and crime stories.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : ["love" stories]

'The girl has joined the library. She's a big reader. Reads about 2 books a week. She's begun to start bringing home "love" books now. The boy isn't a bit keen on reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [Sea Manuscript]

'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great pleasure - my wife sitting working by me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...

'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Unknown

[unknown] : The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...

'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Unknown

George Bate : Elenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secunda

'This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's "Elenchus", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for which I am sorry.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

King Charles II : His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, February the 18th, 1662

'This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only telling them his desire to have a power of indulging tender consciences, not that he will yield to have any mixture in the uniformity of Church discipline.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [Writ]

'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Comission of Rebellion, and tells me that I am his prisoner - in Fields business.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [playbill]

'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted mayde".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Brown : The use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or square

'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the Lyne of Numbers, in which I find much pleasure.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Spanish books]

'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed. Read Shakespeare in the morning. I feel I cannot bear this silence to-day. I am haunted by thoughts.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown

[I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, and that's nearly 30 years now.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown

[I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, and that's nearly 30 years now.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Evelyn Waugh : Decline and Fall

'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall", and so I bought "Vile Bodies" only to find it not so good.'

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Evelyn Waugh : Vile Bodies

'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall", and so I bought "Vile Bodies" only to find it not so good.'

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John Keats : Letters

'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be...The world is too brutal for me." [Keats to Fanny Brawne, August 1820]'

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Gerald Samson : Warning Light of Asia

'Just now I'm reading books [of] what I call Geography plus books that give great insight in [to] different places. I'm reading now the causes and conditions that brought about this war. (Warning Light of Asia, Samson)'.

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Arthur Findlay : The Unfolding Universe

'Lately I've got interested in Spiritualism. I've read one book about it, I thought it was a lot of rubbish. That was written by a Minister; this one is just by an ordinary man - and I thought I'd hear the other point of view. (The Unfolding Universe: Findlay)'.

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Sigmund Freud : War and death

[I am reading] 'An endeavour to see whether or not war can sort of be got under control for the future. (Freud; War & Death)'

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Pat Sloan : Russia, Friend or Foe

'I'm interested in Russia and want to know all about socialism. (Russia, Friend or Foe: Sloan)'

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Hover : Salesmanship

'I thought it would be interesting to me in my work (Salesmanship - Hover)'

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Michael McLaverty : Lost Fields

'It appealed to me - I like books about the country and farms and country life in general. (Lost Fields: McLaverty)'

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Allen : Practical Psychology

[I am reading this] 'Because I've got a ten week's old baby. (Practical Psychology: Allen)'

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Doreen Swinburne : Hospital Nurse

'I'm taking up nursing, and I thought I would get a good inside knowledge from a book of this kind. (Hospital Nurse: Swinburne)'

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William Shakespeare : All's Well that Ends Well

'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

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William Shakespeare : The Tempest

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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

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William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

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William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

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W.J.D. : Poems

'January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.'

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Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive, we have his arrival at length, and it's excellent and exceeds our expectations. This is rare; it is also my very weakest point. Easy to see why...'

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unknown : synopsis of book

'Most of the books I choose from the free library are for the wife. I cast my eye over the books vaguely searching for likely looking binding. If one catches my eye, such as a new looking book, I glance at the title and author. If that looks promising, I take the book out and scan the synopsis, if there is one, and then scan the first page, before flicking over the pages and reading snatches of the dialogue. If there seems to be plenty of action, I choose the book. I avoid books about the present or last war.'

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William Shakespeare : The Tempest

'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems to me astonishing this time. When one reads the same play again, it is never the same play.'

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: [newspapers]

'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems to me astonishing this tiem. When one reads the same play again, it is never the same play.'

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unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinate me. Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To get a glimpse of the relation of things - to follow that relation and find it remains true through the ages enlarges my little mind as nothing else does. It's only a greater view of psychology....Read Shakespeare.'

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William Shakespeare : unknown

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unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.'

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Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as he appears? It seems too good to be true.'

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Sinclair Lewis : World's End

'I've nearly finished "World's End" by Sinclair Lewis. It's a grand book. I started it because I enjoyed 'Between Two Worlds' so much. I enjoy a good novel.'

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unknown : Time is the Spur

'I am reading now "Time is the Spur". No, I don't know whom it is by. I was recommended to it by a friend, It's very good.'

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William Shakespeare : unknown

'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'

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unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'

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various : The Oxford English Dictionary

'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'

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Bessie Myers : Escape

'I read various types of novels. Some books give long involved descriptions. I don't mind a little of that, but in addition the story has to have a certain amount of faction....I've just finished "Escape" by Bessie Myers. I rather liked it. I admired the efficiency of the girls, as well as the incidents they experienced as a result of their flight. Part of it is in Diary Form, it gave you a certain sense of intimacy, and it didn't seem a bit fantastic.'

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unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'

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William Shakespeare : unknown

'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'

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: The story of Jonah and the Whale

'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'

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Phillip Gibbs : Nettle Danger

'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Ethel M. Dell or Ruby M. Ayres, kin...I liked books by Phillip Gibbs: "The Nettle Danger", "The Sons and Others": "The Amazing summer", and now his newest "Through the Dark Night", which brings war events almost up to date. It isn't anything new, but at the same time, I enjoyed reading them.....'

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Phillip Gibbs : The Sons and Others

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Phillip Gibbs : The Amazing Summer

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Phillip Gibbs : Through the Dark Night

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Pearl Buck : The Home Divided

'I can't be bothered reading heavy stuff. I don't seem able to concentrate for long. I like books of the romantic and family kind. Just now I've got at home the "Home Divided" by Pearl Buck - it's the simple love-story kind of book, but it holds your interest.'

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P.G. Wodehouse : unknown

'I like thrillers and mysteries and oriental tales. Anything mystery which has nothing whatever to do with the war. I can read all I want about war in the newspapers. I like something bright, such as Wodehouse - he acts as a kind of tonic on me. I can read a book of this type in a couple of hours.'

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Ernest Hemingway : For whom the Bell Tolls

'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was very good).'

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Francis Osborne : Advice to his son

'Up and spent the morning till the Barber came in reading in my chamber part of Osborne's "Advice to his Son" (which I shall not ever enough admire for sense and language)'

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Thorne Smith : unknown

'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was very good).'

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Leslie Charteris : Saint stories

'My children like to get hold of Charteris, the Saint Stories, you know. But it's a funny thing we can't get any of his books in this library now. I don't know where they've all gone....'

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[unknown] : [vowes]

'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'

Unknown

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Naomi Jacobs : [early works]

'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read 'props' three times - I do like well written books. I hate anything in the first person....I won't read war books...I like 'How Green was My Valley"...and 'Conflict' by Faith Baldwin - it was really interesting: I read it about the time China came in the war with us.'

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[unknown] : Navy precedents

'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'

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Richard Llewellyn : How Green was My Valley

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Faith Baldwin : Conflict

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Dorothy Conyer : unknown

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[unknown] : [Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618]

'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comissioners of the Navy who begun to act in the year 1618 and continued six years; wherein is fine observations and precedents, out of which I do purpose to make a good collection.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Richard Llewellyn : How Green was My Valley

'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read novels when I'm all upset. Now what have I read lately? Oh, I loved "Portrait of a Village", Brett Young: it was enchanting - "Royal Escape", "Spanish Bride", Georgette Heyer; Frankau's "Royal Regiment', oh and "Elizabeth of Bohemia". I loved that.'

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Rachel Field : All this and Heaven Too

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Brett Young : Portrait of a Village

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Georgette Heyer : Royal Escape

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Georgette Heyer : Spanish Bride

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Frankau : Royal Regiment

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unknown : Elizabeth of Bohemia

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John Brown : Description and use of the carpenter's rule

'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought home this morning, with great pleasure.'

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John Monk Saunders : A Yank at Oxford

'I've read one book since the war "A Yank At Oxford". I liked that.....'

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Daphne Du Maurier : Rebecca

'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".'

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Margaret Mitchell : Gone with the Wind

'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".'

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Stephen Leacock : unknown

'I like autobiography and I love a good thriller - I can't bear funny books other than Stephen Leacock. I don't like a man who sets out to be funny.'

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Margaret Mitchell : Gone with the wind

'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'

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Archibald Joseph Cronin : The Stars Looked Down

'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'

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Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur

'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'

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unknown : [books about China and Russia]

'Lately I've been reading books about China and Russia. I figure it out this way: I read the newspapers and meet different kinds of people, and they all have to say something different. It makes me want to read and know more myself. I don't think the ordinary person knows much about the people in other countries except what we hear now. If we can get some idea of the way they live and work, go a long way towards understanding them."

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John Selden : Mare Clausum

'Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English "Mare clausum"; which, with the new Orthodox title, makes it now very handsome.'

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: The Times

'I despise all these novels and so on. I'm a retired Civil Servant and I chiefly read the Times, politics and things of that sort. I don't read many books at all, but when I do they are on travel or places abroad I've worked in. Mostly I read papers.'

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H. Rathbone : What Next in Germany

[I read] 'Oh, anything political - I'm mad about politics -you know, India today and all that sort of thing and all those red books that aren't allowed, I get all those... one of the best books I've read is 'What Next Germany' or some such title - I can't remember. It was wonderfully interesting.'

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[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'

Unknown

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James Ussher : A body of divinitie

'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discourse of the Scripture; which is as much, I believe, as is anywhere said by any man, but yet there is room to cavill, if a man would use no faith to the tradition of the Church in which he is born; which I think to be as good as any argument as most is brought for many things, and it may be for that, among others.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Kingdom Intelligence

'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the other day the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the churches of the whole kingdom conforms.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of quality

'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be writ by a person of Quality concerning English Gentry to be preferred before Titular honours; but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that I ever saw in all my life, that from beginning to end you meet not with one entire and regular sentence.'

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unknown : [biography and travel]

'For light reading I like biography and travel - I see there are one or two out about the South Seas that should be interesting - I've only read two American books that I thought any good: I can't stand this Park Avenue stuff...there's nothing worth reading these days - nothing - in fact I'm turning more and more to the old books.'

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Negley Farson : Travels

'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring it - I love detective stories too - I read the "Forsyte Saga" again - it's wonderful, isn't it...Do you know for the first year of the war I hardly read anything "Take Courage": there they were wanting a dictator and when they got him, well he wasn't the hero they thought - I do think Civil War is awful - then of course, I loved all those "Heavenly Trouser" ones.'

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W.M. Thackeray : The History of Pendennis

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John Galsworthy : Forsyte Saga

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unknown : Heavenly Trouser

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unknown : My Son Absalom

'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, that one there was so famous .!.. "Something in Tartary", extremely nice". (Fleming).'

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Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur

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Peter Fleming : News from Tartary

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unknown : [Travel books]

'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I liked "Rebecca" and "Gone with the Wind".'

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John Blunt : unkown

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Adolf Hitler : Mein Kampf

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Daphne Du Maurier : Rebecca

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Margaret Mitchell : Gone with the Wind

'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - 'Mein Kampf'. Oh, I liked 'Rebecca' and 'Gone with the Wind'.'

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unknown : Happy World

'"Happy World" is a very charming description of the best bits of the old landed way of life. The race as a whole seems to me to emphasise only its bad characteristics, so that to me, who remembers those days so well, it is a pleasure to read, so true an account of the mutual happiness that existed between all members of such a household. We must go forward, possibly to better ways of of the beauty of a very simple existence.'

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H Williamson : Norfolk Farm

'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.'

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Eric Knight : This Above All

'"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of bombing and Dunkirk conveys and putrid dressings and various limbs blown off and men coming out of other and talking and men talking their heads off to ease the strain. If I could write a book on what I went through, seeing, smelling and hearing those days it would sound very similar. I just lived that book in parts.'

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James Joyce : Dubliners

'Dubliners, James Joyce. First time I read it I was not much impressed, but on reading them again I found much that I had missed. They are immensely real and intimate sketches. Whenever I feel fed up I read one of these sketches and find myself in another world - Dublin, 20 years ago. Dublin saloon bars, street children, catholic priests, and inconspicuous clerks - all ordinary people but real. The stories are slightly tinged with melancholy. That soothes me.'

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unknown : [political and social books]

'Since the war began I have read less because my working hours have been lengthened and ARP duties and various social activities leave me less leisure. My reading howver is much more purposeful (as I have no time to waste). I read little fiction now, but much political and social books. This is, I think a natural development, but much hastened by the war and the conditions which caused it.'

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unknown : unknown

'I read less now than before the war, owing to pressure of work - of a mental nature - and consequently prefer to spend most of my leisure in exercise. Thus what I read now is more carefully chosen, and read over several times. I squeeze more of the innards from my reading. I copy out passages here and there and make my own anthology.'

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unknown : [lighter literature]

'Since the war began I have read less, chiefly because I am more tired and have less time. I never read until bed-time nowadays and I generally fall asleep before I've read much I have tended to read lighter literature, as an opiate probably. On the other hand my older children and I have had far more discussions and spend hours discussing vital problems personal and national.'

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Jane Austen : Emma

'I can no longer settle to fiction to anything like the extent I did before the war. Could read nothing but Jane Austen's Emma when war broke out. I read about the same amount of non-fiction, but far more biographies and autobiographies.'

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: newspaper

'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning.'

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D H Lawrence : Lady Chatterley's Lover

'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea strikes me as being one of the most brilliant that I have met in my small experience. Poetry equally good in places.'

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D H Lawrence : The Man Who Died

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D H Lawrence : Red Trousers

'His novels rather date, but his essays are vivid and stimulating. Red Trousers comes to the mind as being real hot stuff.'

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Aldous Huxley : Ends and Means

'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.'

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Aldous Huxley : Brave new world

'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.'

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Aesop : Aesop's Fables

'So home and read to my wife a Fable or two in Ogleby's "Aesop"; and so to supper and then to prayers and to bed'

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Samuel Fortrey : Englands interest and improvement consisting in the increase of...trade [or] Short notes and observations drawn from the present decaying condition of this kingdom in point of trade

'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many things useful in it.'

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Sir Balth. Gerbier : Counsel and advise to all builders; for the choice of their surveyours... Together with several epistles to eminent persons, who may be concerned in building

'At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; it is dedicated almost to all the men of any great condition in England, so that the epistles are more than the book itself; and both it and them not worth a turd, that I am ashamed that I bought it.'

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Samuel Tuck : The Adventures of five houres

'And after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five houres adventures"; which though I have seen it twice, yet I never did admire or understand it enough - it being a play of the greatest plot that I ever expect to see, and of great vigour quite through the whole play, from beginning to the end.'

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Samuel Tuck : The Adventures of five houres

'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excellent play.'

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[unknown] : [Statute book]

'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerned.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Up and to read a little;'

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[Samuel] [Newman] : A concordance to the Holy Scriptures

'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogether as copious as that and something larger, though the order in some respects not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when it is only put in another place.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little pains in it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'

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William Lily : A short introduction of grammar... of the Latine tongue

'Up betimes and fell to reading my Latin grammer, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my calling Will to the reading of a Chapter in Latin and I am resolved to get through it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

Cicero : [unknown]

'At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and other books and in good discourse, and then he went away'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on timber measuring and tides]

'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes, and encreased them by a vow against all strong drink till November next, of any sort of Quantity... Then I fell to read over a silly play, writ by a person of Honour (which is, I find, as much to say a coxcombe) called "Love a la mode".'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[Thomas] [Southland] : Love a la mode

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Faber Fortune

'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more I admire.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

Ben Johnson : Devil is an Asse

'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Alexander Green : The Politician cheated

'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician cheated".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir John Birkenhead : Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design

'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the Presbyters called "Cabbala", extraordinary witty.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir John Birkenhead : Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Moore Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[n/a] : [Greek Bible]

'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pepys Print: Book

: newspaper

'We took our deck chairs into the garden and from 3 o' clock until 3.20 I read the paper whilst my wife knitted. At 3.20 I tired of reading and fetched out the mower and cut the lawn. At 3.40 the first bath-water was taken up - my wife's. 20 stairs and much perspiration.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Charles Dickens : unknown

'Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-they're quick reading." (Man 45, borrowing Death in Downing Street, by J. G. Brandon.)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: newspapers

'I read a newspaper chiefly from a sense of shame, because I dislike being ill-informed, and I am a social creature, and like to be able to hold my own fin conversation.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: newspapers

'I look through a newspaper very much in the mood in which I go out for a stroll or light a cigarette by the front door late on a summer evening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Express

'I read the Daily Express because I like its human interest, the Telegraph because of its fairly accurate reporting... I do not like the way the Express gives undue publicity to undesirables, e.g. the "Mayfair Playboys" and the "hot coals father". The Telegraph lacks snap.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Telegraph

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Telegraph

'I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspapers print. I like my news presented to me without emotional 'colouring'. It is observed facts that I want presented to me, not 'chatty' news or editorial rhetoric.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: News Chronicle

'I consider the News Chronicle as unbiassed as any of the dailies, and, having the habit of reading that paper, do not feel sure that I appreciate the relative importance of the news until I have seen it in its appropriate setting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Sunday Express

'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and father likes the 'Plan with the Planets' astrological forecasts. The People always strikes me as being rather low and common in style and none of us really like it although we have it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: People

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

: Daily Mail

'I begin at the back page of the Daily Mail, and read straight through till I come to the front. I don't know why I do this. I don't remember when I began to do so.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Evening Standard

'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris". But in the Star the same evening was a summary of an article by Pertinax, who said Hitler was bluffing and would not march. The opinion I formed form this was that in future I could place no reliance upon news from Paris.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Star

'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris" But in the Star the same evening was a summary of an article by Pertinax, who said Hitler was bluffing and would not march. The opinion I formed form this was that in future I could place no reliance upon news from paris.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings with fine cuts, and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes and arrows, of which he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Will Hewer : [piece of Latin, practice translation probably]

'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown - recipes]

'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge and I carried them on board the King's pleasure-boat - all the way reading in a book of Receipts of making fine meats and sweetmeats; among others, one "To make my own sweet water" - which made us good sport.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Robert] [Wild] : Iter boreale

'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty well but not so as it was cried up.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Robert] [L'Estrange] : The Intelligencer

'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink but a simple beginning.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [proclamation]

'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

John Day : [Will]

'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over and advised upon it, and his wife's after him.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Beatrice Day : [Will]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [vowes]

'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]

'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a patent for curing of smoking chimnys. I wish they may do good thereof - but fear it will prove but a poor project.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Handbill

Thomas Fuller : Church-History

'At night fell to reading in the "Church History" of Fullers, and perticularly Cranmers letter to Queen Elizabeth, which pleases me mightly for his zeal, obedience and boldness in a cause of reilgion.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [anatomy of the body]

'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand anything that I was weary of him.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do not. And so to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hastened to supper and to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

Thomas Fuller : Church History

'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper to prayers and to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Barclay : Argenis

'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper to prayers and to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'After a good supper with my wife, and hearing on the maids read in the Bible, we to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: maids of Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Butler : Hudibras

'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", which I buy not but borrow to read, to see if it be as good as the first, which the world cries so mightily up; though it hath not a good liking in me, though I had tried by twice or three times reading to bring myself to think it witty.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Rushworth : Historical Collections

'After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and Scobells "collecions" - I shall make the King pay for them. The first I spent at my office some time to read and it is an excellent book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Arithmetic books]

'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Rushworth : Historical Collections

'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Rushworth : Historical Collections

'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Rushworth : Historical Collections

'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Rushworth : Historical Collections

'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine; and then to do a little business against tomorrow and so home to supper to my wife'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

John Rushworth : Historical Collections

'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in Rushworth; and so home to supper to my wife'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Adam Olearius : The voyages and travels of the ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia

'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Angelo Corraro : Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses

'And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday; being a discourse of the state of Rome under the present Pope, Alexander the 7th - it being a very excellent piece.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Angelo Corraro : Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses

'At night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : [bill advertising cockfight]

'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, did go to Shoe lane to see a Cocke-fighting at a new pit there - a sport I was never at in my life...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [on the globes]

'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand those things.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Rushworth : Historical Collection

'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom. And so home to supper and to bed with good content of mind.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Rusthworth : Historical Collection

'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a book the best worth reading for a man of my condition in the world, that I do know.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very prettily, and with great pleasure to her and me to teach her.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Spanish books]

'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I thought of my oath when I was going to agree for them and so with much ado got myself out of the shop, glad at my heart and so away)'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, reading all the way a good book;'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [lecture on the globes]

'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Love a Cheate

'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among others, a Romance which (under the title of "Love a Cheate") I began ten year ago at Cambridge; and at this time, reading it over tonight, I liked it very well and wondered a little at myself at my vein at that time when I wrote it, doubting that I cannot do so well now if I would try.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

J Blaeu : Theatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipuarum mundi theatrum quintum

'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Antonius Sanderus : Flandria Illustrata

'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Faber Fortunae

'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too often.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Davenant : The first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by declamations and music, after the manner of the ancients

'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to the other, and so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Charles Cotton : Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty

'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty" - extraordinary good.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

: Daily Herald

'Man, 35, Jew. Entered at 6.10. Walked towards Daily Herald. A Cockney was reading it, Jew held one side of paper and read for 5 secs. The Cockney said, "Wait a bit, I shall soon have finished, you don't own the bloody paper."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Lewis Goldings : Jewish Problem

'But, and it is a big but, I am aware that this opinion has been formed only by reading such books as Louis Goldings' "Jewish Problem", and by making a conscious effort to be fair.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Geoffrey Gorer Print: Book

: letter from his mother

'Siegfried Line with Two French soldiers. The chief is reading a letter from his mother: "How are you getting on?" Air raid shelter at end with notice: "Keep out of the shelter, no one is allowed to go into the air raid shelter, only the ones that are allowed." Two German planes, and three bombs dropped, "no damage was done". The sun is shining because it is a nice day. The German sign (swastika) is on the corner.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Letter

Lodge : unknown

'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to my own satisfaction that death is a mere passing on to a continued existence. This is no Christian "Heaven".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Crookes : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

J A Findlay : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Black Veil

?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but practised eyes will observe them. I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair the interest of the story by partially explaining its main feature.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book

: The Morning Chronicle

?I forward you a Chronicle with Hogarth?s beautiful notice.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Newspaper

: Fraser's Magazine

?I see honorable mention of myself, and Mr. Pickwick?s politics, in Fraser this month. They consider Mr. P a decided Whig.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : submissions to Bentley's Miscellany

?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one man has sent about as much as would fill half a dozen numbers; and nearly all have forwarded the most appalling nonsense I ever had the ill fortune to peruse.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

Richard Bentley : Prospectus for Bentley?s Miscellany

?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

John Gideon Millingen : The Portrait Gallery

?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make nothing of it. I think very little of the gentleman who writes so complacently from Northampton with his first of a Series; but I suppose he?s a great man in a small way.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Lloyd's Weekly London News

'Abraham Austin, carpenter and joiner, examined. I saw James... on Sunday morning again at my house, when he read the newspaper aloud about the murder and other things...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hocker Print: Newspaper

Henry Fielding : The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and was immediately ordered as much medicine as would confine an ordinary-sized horse to his stall for a week. Whether it arises from the ?influentials?, or from close application, or from worry, or from the wind cholic, to quote King Arthur, I know not; but this I know-that surely against my will, much to my disappointment, here I am, and in a gloomy and miserable state, here I must remain.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown

: Poor Law Bill

?I send you herewith, the forthcoming Miscellany, with my glance at the new poor Law Bill.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown

G.P. Payne : Uncle Sam's Peculiarities

?My dear Sir, I have looked over Uncle Sam, and am still of the opinion I originally formed, that we could not use it for the Miscellany without great injury to the Author. It contains a great deal of matter; and if I took a few pages here and there, occasionally, it would neither, I am convinced, serve his purpose nor ours. I therefore think it better to return the MS to you without further delay, wishing it to be distinctly understood that in so doing, I wish by no means to be considered as expressing any unfavorable opinion of the MS itself.?

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

Zschokke : Blue Wonder

?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself the trouble of reading the first. It seems to me, in the old Sailor?s very best style.?

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown

Matthew Barker : Nights at Sea

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown

Major Pryse Lockhart Gordon : [articles]

?I have read the several articles by Major Pryse Gordon, which I herewith return. Although they would possess considerable interest for military or naval gentlemen, I fear that to the public generally ? our public at all events ? they would present few attractions. Perhaps you will do me the favor to present my best compliments and thanks to Major Gordon and to suggest that the United Service Journal would be the best medium he could select for the publication of his papers. Beg him to understand distinctly that in returning them, I by no means question their merit, but merely express my opinion that they are not adapted to the pages of the Miscellany.?

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown

: The Examiner

?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from that dismal extremity of qualmishness into which I am accustomed to sink when I have ?the blue above and the blue below?. I have always thought that the ?silence wheresoe?er I go? is a beautiful touch of Barry Cornwall?s (otherwise Procter) descriptive of the depression produced by sea-voyaging. I know it?s remarkably silent wherever I go, when I?m on the briny.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Newspaper, Unknown

B.W. Proctor : 'The Sea'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book, Unknown

William Shakespeare : unknown

'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book

Anton Chekhov : unknown

'February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to me nothing. But read aloud it was a masterpiece. How was that?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J. Middleton Murry Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands. Literature was limited to the "Daily Telegraph". To read in secret I escaped to the washhouse, and I well remember during my early apprentice days at Spitalfields, my grandfather, catching a sight of me reading there a copy of Dicks's shilling edition of Shakespeare - the whole, a marvellous feat of cheap publishing -sternly reproachful, exclaimed: "Ah, Tom, that'll never bring you bread and cheese!"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Book

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Okey family, parents and grandparents of Thomas Okey Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Bible

'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding-places on Sunday evenings at Spitalfields to amuse the child with pictures, for both were illustrated - the "Book of Martyrs" with realistic engravings of the horrible tortures inflicted on the faithful Protestant. "Bel and the Dragon" in the Bible, too, was a favourite picture.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Waverley

'Readers of my generation owe a great debt of gratitude to the enterprise of Messrs. Dicks. My first introduction to great fiction dates from the publication by them of Scott's novels in threepenny paper-covered volumes, easily pocketable, when my apprenticeship, in its early days, consisted of sorting and picking - wearisome, dull, mechanical, solitary work. The appearance of "Waverley" marked an epoch. I read it and its succeeding volumes with absorbing interest, stealing at times scraps of hours which should have been devoted to my work.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus

'Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny copy of Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus". Arriving at the Palace I sat down in a quiet corner to look through its pages. Fascinated, I read and read; hour succeeded hour; swings and roundabouts passed into oblivion.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Book

[Thomas Peckett] [Prest] : Sweeney Todd the Barber

'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barber". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the "Boys of England" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, "Alone in the Pirates' Lair" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Dick Turpin

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Spring-heeled Jack

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Claude Duval

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Edith the Captive

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Edith Heron

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Boys of England

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

Bracebridge Hemyng : Jack Harkaway

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Pink 'Un

'I remember being called to Cambridge to act as a judge at an exhibition of basket-work at the local institute. My office concluded, I strolled about, admiring the beauty of the architecture of the colleges and the charm of the riverside. Passing by the back of King's College, I caught site of a punt lying along the river bank wherein lounged two reading undergraduates. Now, thought I, will be evident the ennobling standard of reading which public school and university teaching develop in the upper classes. I drew near and looked. They were reading the "Pink 'Un"!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: university undergraduates Print: Serial / periodical

: The Bible

"I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely;both by daily reading of chapters,after the approved but mischievous method, and by getting hold of all commentries and works of elucidation that I could lay my hands on."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Dr Carpenter : Notes and Observations on the Gospel History

"A work of Dr Carpenter's,begun but never finished,called "Notes and Observations on the Gospel history", which his catechuments used in class, first put me on this track of study.-the results of which appeared some years afterwards in my "Traditions of Palestine".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Dr Carpenter : Articles: Mental and Moral Philosophy & Systemic Education

"Dr Carpenter was inclined also to the study of philosophy,and wrote on it,-on mental and moral philosophy;and this was enough,putting all predisposition out of the question,to determine me to the study. He was of the Locke and Hartley school altogether, as his articles on 'Mental and Moral Philosophy' in Ree's Encyclopedia,and his work on 'Systemic Education' show."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

Mr Kendrick : Translation of 'Helons Pilgrimage from Jerusalem'

"It was while reading Mr Kendrick's translation from the German of 'Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem',with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived, and communicated to James, the audacious idea of giving a somewhat resembling account of the Jews and their country, under the immediate expectation of the Messiah, and even in his presence, while abstaining from permitting more than his shadow to pass over the scene.""I regard that little volume witha a stronger affection than any other of my works but one;-that one being"Eastern Life".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book

John Wells : [manuscript on ship building]

'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of building a ship; which pleases me mightily. I was at it tonight but durst not stay long at it, I being come to have a great pain and water in my eyes after candle-light.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Fuller : [unknown]

'We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family of the cliffords and Kingsmils)'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Spencer : A discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated

'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spencer's book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously writ, both for matter and style.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [books about the Navy]

'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cookes by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that now is; wherein the order that was observed in the Navy then, above what it is now, is very observable, and fine things we did observe in our reading.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

Charles Ross : The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge

'My dear Ross, Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency that I was particularly anxious to see in a well-digested form. Reciprocating all your kind wishes most cordially, I rest Most sincerely yours, Charles Dickens.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens

[unknown] : [plays]

'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Rookwood

'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Preface to Rookwood; if the weather had been finer I intended riding out to tell you how warmly I felt it, and how much sincere delight your friendship affords me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book

Wilks : Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

'I also return the Grimaldi MS. I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is so redolent of twaddle that I fear I can not take it up on any conditions to which you would be disposed to accede. I should require to be ensured three hundred pounds in the first instance without any reference to the Sale-and as I should be bound to stipulate in addition that the work should never be published in Numbers, I think it would scarcely serve your purpose.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

Daniel Defoe : The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern

'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for a couple of shillings yesterday morning, and have been quite absorbed in it ever since.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Cox : [MS verses]

'I have many things to acknowledge, but let me take them in turn. Firstly, I have to thank you for your verses. Need I say that however much of truth there may be in them, I should be guilty of very bad taste if I placed them before the public eye; or that the reference to myself and the feelings upon which it is founded are better kept within my own heart?' Lastly, I beg you to accept my best thanks for your novel; I hope to read it with much pleasure.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

Miss Reynolds : unknown

'Madam, I have read the paper you were kind enough to forward to me, and very much regret that I cannot avail myself of it. It is not in a style of composition which would be serviceable to the Miscellany of which I am the Editor, neither is it in my power to commence any new series of papers just now. I trust you will not feel hurt by this communication; be assured that I am perfectly sensible both of the kind womanly feeling which pervades your little tale, and of the excellence of the motive which prompted you to write it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Gaspey : The Grand Juror

'My Dear Sir, As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my not having been able to find room in the next No. for that same paper. If you will leave it in my good keeping until the 28th. (February is a short month) we will astonish the Grand Jurors with it. I have laughed very heartily over it, and although I have never served (for I always pay my taxes when they won?t call any longer, in order to get a bad name in the parish and so escape all honors) I can see it is true to the life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown

Grantley Berkely : Chariot versus coach

'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I had previously read and returned, and consequently suppose has been sent back to me by mistake.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Sheet

Edward Oliver : unknown

'Sir I very much regret that your note has so long remained unanswered. It was put aside among some answered letters, and so escaped me. I recollect very shortly after I received your two papers, writing you a note in which I ventured to say that I did not think the idea of a Surgeon?s Diary at all a promising one after the Physician?s; and that I did not consider your articles adapted to the Miscellany. I therefore declined these with many thanks for your preference.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Sheet, Unknown

John Forster : [works]

'Dr. Sir. Poets tell us that love is blind ? I fear indifference is more so. It is many months since I sent you a slight gage d?amour; it is many years (do not be alarmed, I am still very young) since I first became acquainted with your worth and excellence. I have seen you ? met you ? read your works ? heard you speak ? listened, in a breathless state, to your eloquent and manly expression of the sentiments which you do honor; and still by no word or sign have I discovered that you recognized in me the giver of the simple worthless riding whip which I have often seen in your hand, and once (when you [ ] it) nearly touched.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: BookManuscript: Sheet

Samuel Pepys : [contract]

'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we had of Tanger; where I read over my rough draft of the contract for Tanger Victualling and acquainted them with the death of Mr Alsopp...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Samuel Pepys : [contract]

'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Samuel Pepys : [contract]

'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Andrews Manuscript: Sheet

Henry Power : Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical

'Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Microscope, to enable me a little how to use and what to expect from my glasse.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Henry Power : Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical

'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Henry Power : Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical

'and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscopes, and so home to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir John Sucklings : Aglaura

'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings "Aglaura", which methinks is but a mean play - nothing of design in it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Davenant : The Siege of Rhodes

'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Fletcher : The Custome of the Country

'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methinks.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Fletcher : The mad lover

'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Captain] [Fisher?] : [papers]

'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain Fisher's ship, which we hire to carry goods to Tanger - all the way coming and going, I reading and discoursing over some papers of his'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [probably]

'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and that being done, in the book upon the statutes of Charitable uses, mightily to my satisfaction.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Herne : The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Herne : The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute

'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all the way, but read as long as I could see my book again.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to supper, prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Cateline

'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

'Arthur recalls that he could not read "properly" until he began school at the age of 9; he preferred his sister Anna to read to him. On one occasion, when she read "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Arthur, who believed that "a boy must never show any emotion", burst into tears, then flew into a rage over revealing his deepest feelings and attacked her with his fists'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Symons Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever seen". When he refused to give it up, the warder said he might keep it... "Don Quixote" awakened in Arthur a "passion for reading", and before long, he had read Scott, then Byron, who, he had been told was" a very, very great poet, and a very, very wicked man, an atheist, a writer whom it was dangerous to read".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British Dramatists" he thought Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" "the best by head and shoulders"; Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero Worship" he admired "exceedingly" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's "Henry Esmond" he told Osborne that he thought it a "great book", though he disliked its "overelaboration": "perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Henry Esmond

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

George Borrow : Lavengro

'Arthur became interested in "humanity" when he discovered George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel "Lavengro" (1851), which contains the author's adventures among gypsies; as a result Arthur began studying Romany. For the remainder of his life he was absorbed by both the gypsies and their language, perhaps because of their rootlessness and wanderings'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

Lindley Murray : Power of Religion

'Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Cole Print: Book

Macdiarmid : Sketches of Nature

'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book

Dick : Christian philosopher

'Reader, how is our family circle this evening? I will tell you. We are seated around a circular table. On my right is WLC copying some matter for me out of Dr Dick's works. Next to him is Tho_s drawing on a slate one of the mountains on the highlands of Scotland... Next is rank sits Mary, putting some reparation to a white cotton stocking, and then follows Emma [...] The scenery of the table consists of Wakefield's Family tour - Dr Dick's Christian philosopher, a vol or two of the Children's Friend - slate - inkstand - cotton-box lined with pink, knife and scissors.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: WL Cole Print: Book

: The Royal Mandate

'The Royal Mandate deserves to be printed in letters of gold - how sweetly descriptive it is, the help to private devotion too, I think very spiritual, for a small work. I have not met with any thing equal [underlined] to it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marshall Print: Unknown

Isaac Ambrose : Looking into Jesus

'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion when you have read it. "Looking into Jesus" is the title, written by Isaac Ambrose [sic] The original was a large book, the one I speak of is about the size of a New Testament having been abridged by Rev Robert Cox-Hackney to render it a more saleable work.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marshall Print: Book

Hannah More : Practical piety

'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [underlined] you wish me to read my dear Susan please to name them [...] I am much favor'd with books which the kindness of friends supply, but while drinking with pleasure of some streams, I find the water of life only [underlined] in the Fountain [underlined]! I need not say I mean the Bible.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marshall Print: Book

: Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marshall Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Doge of Venice

'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Montgomery Print: Book

unknown : Lectures on the Bible and liturgy

'Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of "Lectures on the Bible and liturgy" being her principal vade mecum [sic] - this looked well, as though she bore in mind - the end - "that bourne whence no traveller returns!"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Kemble Print: Book

: newspaper article

'Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Albans arrived at Scarborough this day, and in the afternoon paid me a visit, accompanied by Lord Amelius, and the Ladies Beauclerk. The Duchess entered her name in my library subscription book. A newspaper of the day was placed in her Grace's hands, who seated herself and read aloud a paragraph - the great gaiety and spirit in a silver toned voice, to her Grace's party.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : [report on trial]

'I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cape Print: Newspaper

Henry Austin Dobson : Fanny Burney

On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903 L A W' in pencil manuscript. In addition, a bookplate on inside front cover: 'Laurence A. Waldron.' with a coat of arm above, that carries the legend 'Spectemur Agendo'.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Laurence A Waldron Print: Book

Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'Holbach : Le Systeme de la nature

'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they would soon discover, by reasoning the most correct & conclusive that man has hitherto been taught nothing but the most pernicious [underlined] errors - the consequence of which is his present moral [underlined] degradation & deplorable wretchedness [underlined], alas! that the bandage cannot be torn from his eyes but by slow degrees - ~"bit-by-bit" reforms. It would seem that his prejudices [underlined] were his only sores [underlined] - & that he is willing to endure all that sensation can endure rather than have these sores touched'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Doyle Wheeler Print: Book

Emile Zola : Pot-Bouille

'Read "Pot-Bouille"; "Pot-Bouille" made me laugh, there is one good character'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

: The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible]

Heere is the well where waters flow, To quench our heat of sinne, Heere is the tree where truth doth grow To lead our liues therein. Heere is the iudge that stintes all striffe When mens devices faile, Heere is the bread that feedes the life that death cannot assaile The tidinges of saluation deere Comes to our eares from hence The fortress of our faith is here And sheilde of our defence. Then bee not like the hogg that hath A pearle at his desire, And takes more pleasure in the trough and wallowinge in the mire Reade not this booke in any case But with a singles eye Reade not, but first desire Gods grace To vnderstande thereby. Pray still in faith, with this respect to mortifie thy sinne that knowledge may bringe god effect to frutifie therein. Then happie thou in all thy life What soe to the befall Yea double happie shalt thou bee When God by death thee calles

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Beckwith Print: Book

Bruce Barton : The Man Nobody Knows

' . . . as sentence follows sentence I marvel, and wonder, indeed, if the writer [Bruce Barton] is not himself an inspired seer and whether the spirit of the man he writes about [subject of the biography, "The Man Nobody Knows"] has not entered into him . . . '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dora Seimons Print: Book

Lew Wallace : Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ

'My dear General Wallace, -- I sat up the night before last to finish your beautiful book, and I assure you I find it difficult to express my admiration of it. It is wonderful how you have interwoven the sacred elements of the story with the human interest.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Earl Dufferin Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

St John's Antigua, July 19 1827 Your letter my Dear Fanny which appears to have been written in May I received yesterday..... I have sometimes thought perhaps I might do something in the Auction line , but then on looking over the newspapers it appears almost impossible from the immense number there are in that line. (etc) Believe moreover, affectionately yours, Jn Page

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Page Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: [letters]

St John's Antigua, Jany 17 1828 My Dear Fanny I have been amusing myself almost all morning in perusing several of your old letters in many of which you accuse me of not answering various questions put to me in former ones (etc). Sincerely and affectionately yours Jn Page

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Page Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : [newspaper]

St John's Antigua, Augst 2 1829 My Dear Fanny .... I suppose by this you are all reconsiled to the Catholicks. I see by the newspapers that there has been some serious disturbance in Ireland, and think it possible that more will take place. (etc) Yrs affectionately Jn Page

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Page Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : White Hall Evening Post

Extract from The Whitehall Evening Post, April 1808 recording the marriage of Mary of Buttermere

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lydia Haskoll Print: Newspaper

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : 'Sister Helen'

'Before leaving BIdeford, he told Osborne, he had read Rossetti's poems "rapturously": "I am mad about Rossetti ever since and I solemnly declare that of all poems that I have read "Sister Helen" is the finest. Never in my life, not in Shakespeare, not even in Browning have I read such superbly passionate, such agonizingly intense accents of unfaltering revenge and implacable hate, creating, surely, a new shudder!"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Unknown

Herbert J C Grierson : Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth century

Marginalia Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction. Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday" Herbert, The Collar "surrender to the will of God"; Aaron "old things are passed away"; Discipline "Consecration"; etc

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Robert Longworth-Dames Print: Book

Leith Derwent [pseud.] : Circe's Lovers

'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitch), a friend of Osborne. Interested in this novelist principally because Osborne knew him, Arthur wrote a lengthy letter to his friend praising the novel as "a very clever book... powerfully and thrillingly written" but "too sensational" for his taste.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

William Dean Howells : A Modern Instance

'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterly unidealised realism, not by any means the ideal 'imaginative realism', but still, in its lower sphere, what mastery!"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

Theophile Gautier : Emaux et Camees

'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "translated several of them, and read a good many. Scarcely since I first came across Rossetti have I received so new, so fresh, so powerful an impression from any work or style of verse. I have added a new string to my bow".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

anon : Poetical description of song birds

Inscribed in the book on the front free endpaper: This book belonged to my father William youngest son of John and Catherine Williams of Scorrier House in the year of our lord 1800. It was his favourite playbook when a boy, and he was particularly fond of the story of the starling, which he often quoted to me. It was given me by my mother in 1862 and was rebound in 1877. M.W. 20. Oct. 1877.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Williams Print: Book

George Meredith : Evan Harrington

'In discussing Meredith's "Evan Harrington" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated interst in the autobiographical element in novels: "... there is really a wonderful sympathy & tenderness towards the suffering Lady Dunstane. Does it not seem as if she may be, at least in some points, his wife? I should like to think so."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

anon : History of Little Goody Two-shoes

Letter to her daughter-in-law Ann, dated 4th June 1818: "Little Madge (Margaret Elizabeth Haskoll) told me that she had a little brother now and she prayed for him. I told her she must pray for all our enemies. She replied that a little girl in Goody Two Shoes would not pray for her enemies.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lydia Haskoll Print: Book

anon : Preliminary lessons on the history of England

The book seems to have been used in an educational context, probably at home. Pencilled crosses, dates and slash marks in the margins and within the text at regular intervals, suggesting that Olive was learning by rote. No evidence of usage after p.35 (Reign of Henry VIII)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Olive Heath Print: Book

Robert Persons (or Parsons) : [unknown]

'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Daughter being surprized, let it fall into the Bed, and denied that she was Reading, or had any Book, but upon search, it was found to be a Book wrote by Parsons the Jesuit; which so startled the Mother, that upon Searching the Daughter's Closet afterwards, she found other Popish Books ...

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Ann Ketelbey Print: Book

unknown : [spiritual books]

She read saints' lives and was 'as it were enflamed with a desire of imitating them'. Her needlework was always accompanied by the 'reading of some spiritual book' (presumably by a servant, or possibly friend or family member). She carefully scrutinised her children's reading and did not allow them to read anything 'contradictory to faith, or destructive to modesty'.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Print: Book

: Bible

Eve Cohan is taken to church by her Christian music master to hear the organ; a New Testament is 'secretly conveyed to her' and 'she took great delight in reading in it', being 'mightily affected' with the story of the passion of Christ. She is converted and moves to England, pursued by fanatical Jews who seek her blood.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Eve Cohan Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places that were difficult', and for this reading expertise the student promises the Devil his soul. He later regrets this, but disappears, presumably carried off by the Devil.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [a boy] Print: Book

: Bible

'Even while she spelled words and syllables, she spelled out Christ; for if she met with a free promise, or some good sentence, holding out Gods love to man, she would say, Mother, this is a sweet sentence, and usually read it over again ... her mother being exercised with long weakness, she would read by her out of such good books as there were in the house; and her mother observed she read with much affection ... she is also very diligent in reading and prayer ..'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Hatfeild Print: Book

: Bible

'il resolut de lire encore l'Evangile' (he resolved to read the Gospel again): is converted to Christianity and baptised in London.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: 'Le Juif baptise' (The Baptised Jew) Print: Book

: Bible (New Testament)

When 8 or 9, 'my Father seeing I took Pleasure in learning my Book, he bestowed a Tutor on me ...' Reads Talmud etc. -- 'in all those Books, I made such Progress, that I became the Darling of my Father's Heart'. But 'I then read the New Testament, and compared it with the Old, I found many Prophecies ... fulfilled'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Moses Marcus Print: Book

: Bible

'She spent much time in reading the Scripture, and a Book called The best friend in the worst of times ... Another Book that she was much delighted with, was Mr Swinnock's Christian Mans Calling ... The Spiritual Bee was a great companion of hers...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Howley Print: Book

: Bible

She 'alledged many Scriptures, which she had never read, but only tumbling and tossing over the Bible ... Shee had a custome in tumbling over of the Bible, to put her finger suddenly upon some one verse as it hit; saying, now whatsoever my finger is upon, is just my case, whatsoever it bee.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Drake Print: Book

: Gospel

'a Bible lying near her, she took it up, and opened it in the presence of the Company, who observing what place it was openend at, they found it to be the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew: this chapter she seemed to read over to her self with a buzzing Noise, pointing to every Verse and Line with her Finger.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Bower Print: Book

David Urquhart : The Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travel

'On reading the subjoined chapters on the Turkish Bath, in Mr Urquhart's "Pillars of Hercules", I was electrified; and resolved, if possible, to add that institution to my Establishment.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Richard Barter Print: Book

Keir Hardie : Labour Leader

In a notebook entry for 12 July 1896, Mattison expresses regret over the death of oscialist activist Caroline Martyn, mentioning that he has read of her illness in the Labour Leader and the Clarion.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alf Mattison Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper

Sir Henry Cole : The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book

From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, which my Grannie cut open and inside there were piles and piles of the most beautiful delightful wonderful fairy tale books all painted with pictures ? I thought they would never come to an end but alas! in a week we had read them all. They were called the Felix Summerly series'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray Print: Book

Sir Henry Cole : The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Thackeray Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost [?]

'. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander (Rex) Ewing Print: Book

Kingslake : [unknown]

J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interesting.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander (Rex) Ewing Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Last Chronicle of Barset

J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Prayers and Meditations [?]

J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing Print: Book

Edward Meyrick Goulburn : An Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Holy Scriptures

J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing Print: Book

Drew : [unknown]

J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing

[n/a] : Good Words

J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing Print: Serial / periodical

Rowland Elliott [?] : Tracts for the Times

J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing Print: Book

[n/a] : Kelso Mail

From his diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox, James and David Herriots and me twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Hastie Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Kelso Mail

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Knox Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Kelso Mail

From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edrom], James [James Herriot, farmer, Allanbank Mains, Stuartslaw and Kelloe Mains] and David Herriots [David Herriot, son of above James] and me twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Herriot Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Kelso Mail

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: David Herriot Print: Newspaper

Frances Burney : Evelina

'Soon after, the old mamma hobbled to me,? and began a furious panegyric upon my Book,? saying at the same Time "I wonder, miss, how you could get at them low characters! ? as to the Lords and Ladies that?s no wonder at all, ? why as to t?other, ?why I have not stirred night nor morning while I?ve been reading it,? if I don?t wonder how you could be so clever! ? ... . . . you?ve writ the best and prettiest book? that Lord there, I forget his Name, that marries her at last, what a fine Gentleman he is! You deserve everything for Drawing such a Character, ? & then Miss Elena there? Miss Belmont as she is at last, ?what a Noble Couple of ?em you have put together! As to the t?other Lord, I was glad he had not her, for I see he had nothing but a bad design."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lawes Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but indeed it?s very much above a Novel.?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Maria Lawes Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina

?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wished to see you very much; ? it?s a charming book indeed, ? the Characters are vastly well supported,??

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Dobson Print: Book

John Rushworth : Historical Collections

'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and understand the discourse anon before the King, about the suffering the Turkey merchants to send out their fleet at this dangerous time'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Hooke : Micrographia [?]

'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Dr Henry King : A sermon preached the 30th of January...1664

'I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up but methinks a mean sermon.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir William Coventry : [letter]

'and by and by comes a letter from Mr Coventry's own hand to him; which he never opened (which was a strange thing) but did give it me to open and read, and consider what was fit for our offce to do in it and leave the letter with Sir W. Clarke... I copied out the letter...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : The Newes

'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the late victory.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : The Intelligencer

'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, that whoever did spread that report that instead of the plague, his servant was killed by him, it was forgery;...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [copy of verses]

'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, her husband in company with her. We fell into talk, and I read a copy of verses which her husband showed me, and he discommended but the lady commended; and I read them so as to make the husband turn to commend them.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Unknown

Abraham Cowley : [poems]

'At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with business today, I to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[King] [Charles I] : The workes of Charles I

'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Porter : The Villaine

'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [a play]

'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Bill of Mortality

'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

[n/a] : Bill of Mortality

'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dreadfull Number - and shows reason to fear that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet continue among us.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

Sir William Davenant : The Seige of Rhodes

'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir William Davenant : The Seige of Rhodes

'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [parliamentary bill]

'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but it is a foolish Act and will do no great matter'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[unknown] : [book about painting]

'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Evelyn : Elysium Britannicum

'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet

John Evelyn : Thersander [probably]

'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet

John Evelyn : [poems]

'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet

John Evelyn : Hortus Hyemalis

'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

John Evelyn : Celia afraid of an eagle

'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet

[n/a] : Bill of Mortality

'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city and suburbs, which makes us all sad.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

Edward Stillingfleete : Origines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grounds of Christian faith, as to the truth and divine authority of the scriptures

'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day, reading and discoursing over part of Mr Stillingfleete's "Origines Saacrae", wherein many things are very good - and some frivolous.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Antoine Furetiere : Nouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers troubles arrivez au royaume d'eloquence

'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife between Rhetorique and its enemies - very pleasant.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Henry Lawes : Ayres and dialogues

'Up, and after being trimmed, I alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song-book singing of Mr Laws's long recitative Song in the beginning of his book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Joseph Williamson : Oxford Gazette

'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote by Williamson.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

Jeremy Taylor : A collection of polemical discourses, wherein the Church of England in its worst as well as more flourishing condition, is defended

'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Hernan Cortes : Cartas de relacion [??]

'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

William Beckford : Vathek

'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Unknown

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis : L'amour maternelle

'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Unknown

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis : Zelie

'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the best of all the pieces by that author.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Unknown

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, well wrote and where there are some very good characters'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis : Olympe et Theophile

'This evening we read "Olympe and Theophile" (by Mde. de G.) We all cried so much there was not one of us that was capable of reading. [Eugenia says: 'Mesdames de Bombelles and de Regis, Mde. de B, Lou Bitche and Betsi all wept there wass but me that was firm']' [square bracketed text added by editor]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: the Wynne family and friends, including Betsey, Eugenia and several women Print: Unknown

[unknown] : L'Ami des Enfants

'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Serial / periodical

Moliere [pseud.] : Les Femmes Savantes

'[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. I thought I should die from laughing in hearing the latter piece which is as amusing as it is possible to be. [Eugenia Wynne] Mr de Regis read to us and made all the possible faces for Mascarille. I find that France has made a great loss when Moliere died. It is said that he died during an acting of "Le Malade Imaginaire", one of his own pieces for in straining to make himself appear the more natural he burst a vein in his chest and died a few hours after. It is wearying that such a superior talent as that which was possessed by Moliere should not be immortal. Excellent author! better poet! Who has more glorified the amiable Thalia? What more can one desire?'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Moliere [pseud.] : Les Precieuses Ridicules

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Moliere [pseud.] : Le Tartuffe

[Betsey Wynne]'Our reading today was of Moliere, Mr de Regis read "Le Tartufe" which is his finest piece'. [Eugenia comments the next day, 'Le vilain homme que ced Tartufe! cependant je crois qu'il y a bien des caracteres aussi ambominables et aussie hypocrites que cela'.]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Marguerite de Valois : Memoires de la Reyne Marguerite

'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry of Mademoisell de Tournon, is soe sad that when I had read it I was able to goe noe further, and was faine to take up something else to divert my self withall'.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: Book

Robert Ashley : Almansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conquered Spaine, His Life and Death

'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare agon since. . . . I made his Story such a one to mee, as I cryed an hower together for him, and was so angry with Alcidiana that for my life I could never love her after it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: Book

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle : (?) Poems and Fancies

'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer People in Bedlam, i'le swear her friends are much to blame to let her goe abroade.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: Book

William Temple : [letter]

'As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't the last time, I could not read my owne confession soe offten. Love is a Terrible word, and I should blush to death if any thing but a letter accused mee on't . . .'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Manuscript: Letter

Madeleine de Scudery : Artamene; ou, Le Grand Cyrus

'I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read it first though shee were an imaginary person, and sure if any thing of that kinde can deserve it her misfortunes may.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thought they were the perfectest Characters of a con[ten]ted marriage . . .'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Roger Boyle : Parthenissa

'Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would know it to bee writt by a person of good Quality though you were not tolde it, but in the whole I am not very much taken with it, all the Story's have too neer a resemblance with those of Other Romances there is nothing of new or surprenant in them . . . '

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Fernao Mendes Pinto : Peregrinacao

'have you read the Story of China written by a Portuguese, Fernando Mendez Pinto I think his name is . . . tis as diverting a book of the kinde as ever I read, and is handsomly written.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: BookManuscript: Letter

various : various

'I read about one book per day.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John H.S. Craig Print: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown

Madame du Noyer : Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon

'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very extraordinary, but I know not whether she has not added a few [italics] agremens [italics] of invention to them: however, there is some truth. I have been told, in particular, that the history of the fair unfortunate Madame de Barbesierre is so, by people who could not be suspected of romancing. Don't you think that the court of England would furnish stories as entertaining? Say nothing of my malice; but I cannot help wishing that Madame de Noyer would turn her thoughts a little that way. I fancy she would succeed better than the authoress of the "New Atalantis". I am sure I like her method much better, which has, I think, hit that difficult path between the gay and the severe, and is neither too loose, nor affected by pride.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Delarivier Manley : Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

unknown : [dictionaries]

'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will better direct you. My study at present is nothing but dictionaries and grammars...I find the study so diverting, I am not only easy, but pleased with the solitude that indulges it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Maurice Barres : Le Jardin de Berenice

'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former. I can?t boast that I discovered what purports to be the "central idea" of the novel for myself. I first heard of Barr?s in an article bY Edward Delille in the "Fortnightly." Next I read a criticism of this very book in the latest volume issued of Anatole France?s "La Vie Litteraire". Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent "Scribner" on new ideas in French Literature generally in which the name of Barr?s was prominent. So when I actually bought the book I knew just what to expect. As I understand the thing, the author is at direct variance with Flaubert, Zola & Guy de Maupassant, who at all costs aim at an impartial, impersonal presentment of life. He prefers to take a character & describe events and men solely in relation to their effect on that character. In a word his novel is all hero. He cares nothing for absolute perspective. He interests himself in nothing but what affects his hero. Everything is described through the hero?s eyes, & consequently everything is intentionally coloured & distorted. He utterly despises the "one-eyed apathetic insight of the camera". You mention his symbolism. I believe that the presence of numerous symbols & analogies in the actual writing is only a minor & unimportant manifestation of the symbolist theory. The whole book in its main outlines is a congeries of symbols. . . '

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Edward Delille : [article on Maurice Barres]

'I first heard of Barr?s in an article by Edward Delille in the Fortnightly.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Anatole France : La Vie Litteraire

'. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very book in the latest volume issued of Anatole France?s La Vie Litteraire.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: 'Scribner'

'Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent Scribner on new ideas in French Literature generally in which the name of Barr?s was prominent.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Guy de Maupassant : Bel-Ami

'. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking, disgusting, attractive, overwhelmingly-powerful novels I have ever read. It would be a good antidote to Le Jardin de Berenice. Would you like it?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Moliere [pseud.] : L'Ecole des Maris

'we came back in the dark and read "L'Ecole des Maris" and after we played at 21'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [Gazettes / newspapers from paris]

[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper was called'. [Eugenia]:'In the evening the Paris papers were read I did not give them any attention then we began to reread for Madame de Bombelles "Les Precieuses Ridicules" which was interrupted by supper'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Newspaper

Moliere [pseud.] : Les Precieuses Ridicules

[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper was called'. [Eugenia]: 'In the evening the Paris papers were read I did not give them any attention then we began to reread for Madame de Bombelles "Les Precieuses Ridicules" which was interrupted by supper'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

Moliere [pseud.] : Le Medecin Malgre Lui

'As Mr de Regis was gone to St Gall today, M. l'Abbe read to us "Le Medecin Malgre lui" of Moliere a charming comedy that diverted me greatly'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: M. l'Abbe Print: Unknown

Lord Chesterfield : Modern Europe

'We began to read with Mr Jeagle[sic] instead of the modern history of the abbe Milliot "The Modern Europe" made I think by Lord Chesterfield'.

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Thomas a Kempis : The Imitation of Jesus Christ

'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos in German

[27th December]'I took my lessons and learnt part of a superb tragedy in german called "Don Carlos" with Mr Jaegle.' ... [28th December]'We finished the lecture of "Don Carlos" that interested me extremely it really is the finest trajedy I have ever read. How much do I hate the memory of the abominable Philip whilst I respected and admired that of the Marquis de Poso that faithful and tender friend who lets himself be thought a traitor in order to save the life of Don Carlos his friend to whom he was under a small obligation, who takes his own life in order to save his and what was my sorrow to see that charming man end his life in vain. The wicked Philip stabbed his son the same day through jealousy! Another thing that annoyed me was not to have the pleasure of seeing the abominable tyrant punished yet I think that he is and that certainly and already.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Pierre Corneille : Cinna

'This evening we read a fine trajedy by Corneille where there are many noble characters Emily has such strength and such nobleness'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

J.W. Marriott : One Act Plays of Today

'Friday, 1st January, Completed my paper on Mazzini. Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap) ?Autocrat of the Breakfast table? (O.W.Holmes).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales from the Hills

'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : History of Florence

'Thursday, 7th January, Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture. Smith does not expect to leave for the Coast until about October. He expects to go with Adams. Read: ?History of Florence? ( Machiavelli)'

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Belfort Bax : Essays on Socialism

'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking with Mother re Cambridge Economics. Advertising is not now purely a competitive weapon but is used mainly by the Monopolists to keep people reminded of their particular line of goods. Otherwise they might discover how much there is that they could very well do without. Read: ?Essays on Socialism? (Belfort Bax)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

J. Ramsay Macdonald : Socialism: Critical and Constructive

'Saturday, 16th January, Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer. Also re donation from Club and Mr. Milligan?s date on syllabus. Read ? ?Socialism: Critical and Constructive? (J.R. McDonald)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt

'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bursary to Oxford or Cambridge. We talked of the difficulty which the universities are said to find in filling up these studentships. Smith ascribed it mainly to economic reasons, family demands, the insufficiency of the allowances etc? Why is it a constant of history that the older generation must fail to make provision for the changed requirements of the younger. Read - ?Peer Gynt? (Ibsen)'

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Leonard Merrick : A Chair on the Boulevard

'Thursday,28th January, ?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I suppose it has been done too often. In any case Bensham have done it and Beechcroft must set the pace, not follow the lead. Read ? ?A chair on the Boulevard? (L. Merrick)'.

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Henrik Ibsen : Brand

'Friday, 29th January, I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. And, after all I think that religion was made for man, and not man made for religion. Christ is dead, and infinitely more use as a tradition than in life. Christ was not like Brand ? he pitied humanity. Brand is inclined, if not to sneer, at least, to treat with impatience the odd ways of man. Read - ?Brand? (Ibsen)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

unknown : [humorous poetry]

'Sunday, 31st January, Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry. A rubber of whist.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Isaac Walton : The Compleat Angler

'Wednesday, 3rd February, Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint and so nice in these shallow times that it is one long delight.'

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Robert Herrick : unknown

'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exciting.'

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E. Phillips Oppenheim : The Great Impersonation

'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exciting.'

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Herman Melville : Omoo

'Wednesday, 10th February, Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates. Read ?Omoo? (Melville)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Matthew Prior : Shorter Poems

'Thursday, 11th February, Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound interesting in a few years ? when the fashion has passed. Elections in both Warbreck and Walton ? busy at Committee rooms. Read ? ?Shorter Poems? (Matthew Prior) I like the light epigrammatic stuff in this book, but I could not get wildly excited over it like Pat [George Eric Paterson, friend of Moore's] ? but then no one can emulate the wild abandon of Pat?s enthusiasms. In any case he certainly understands Matt. and his contemporaries better than I do.' [Matthew Prior, 1664-1721 - Poet, politician and diplomat. As ambassador to Paris negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht 1713, popularly known as 'Matt's peace'. Subsequently impeached and imprisoned. On release, his poems were published in 1717].

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Guy de Maupassant : Notre Coeur

'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)'

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William Makepeace Thackeray : Barry Lindon

'Monday, 15th February, Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnificent. I would like to give a paper on this aspect of Thackeray?s writing, or, indeed, on this book. Wrote to Eric Barber re Scarborough Camp. Read - ?Barry Lindon? (W. M. Thackeray)'

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Hilaire Belloc : Path to Rome

'Friday, 19th February, Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immense amount of talking, and were theatrical than they ever manage to be on stage. Milligan and Mother stuck their tongues in their cheeks and waited ? until a plan was formulated which while presenting some outward appearance of novelty will leave essentials much as they were. Read ? ?Path to Rome? (H. Belloc)'.

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Henry James : The American

'Sunday, 21st February, Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with the help of a pin and a newspaper they lost or won pennies. Whisper it not in Gath ? I joined in and ? extreme of immorality ? lost ! Read ? ?The American? (Henry James)'.

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J.J. Bell : Thread o' Scarlet

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'.

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Dunsany : A Night in the Sun

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W.W. Jacobs : The Monkey's Paw

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Lady Gregory : The Rising of the Moon

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Four Georges

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Villehardouin : Memoirs of the Crusades

'Tuesday, 2nd March, Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeting, except the Committee which met to discuss entertaining activities. B. Lear and Will Evans are taking over the dramatics leaving Vin Roper and I to organise the Concert Party. Read ? ?Memories of the Crusades? (Villehardouin et Joinville)'.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

'Friday, 5th March, I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the classic books of criticism, as apart from their literary value. It was my opinion that in nearly all cases, as the minds of readers has evolved with the changing times so the light in which the classic must be viewed has altered and therefore old criticism must, in nearly every case be superseded. At least, as regards the ?human? as distinct from the literary element in the book. I feel that we cannot ever completely reconstruct the life of a past age or enter into the minds of people who lived in other times. Pat remarked that he was constantly struck by the little progress made in thought and the things of the mind. Read ? ?The Autocrat of the breakfast table? (O. W. Holmes).'

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Rupert Brooke : Poems

'Monday, 8th March, Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan president?s reply. I think that such generalisations as that Nation is unsporting are merely vulgar exhibitions of sloppy thinking. Read ? ?Poems? (Rupert Brook)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Journal to Stella

'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Robinson gave an introductory explanation of money and credit, and then discussed the most important of the modern schools of Financial and Economist thought. His view, and the point of the lecture, was that a managed currency could be used alleviate, and perhaps cure, the present state of affairs ? the internal trade crisis and the principle problem ? unemployment. Smith off work today. Read ? ?Journal to Stella? (Swift)'

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half our members. Reading ?Hamlet" ? the first time I have read it with any attempt at real comprehension.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Journal to Stella

'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O. K. though the humour is hardly my line ? ?De Heiny and his Piccadilly Orchestra?, for example, as the Mayor?s name ? Mr. Bill Sticker? (a hit at R. P. Fletcher). The use of the stage trap as a tunnel entrance is an idea. Read ? ?Journal to Stella? (Swift).'

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Hilaire Belloc : The Eye-Witness

'Monday, 22nd March, Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'

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Joseph Conrad : Almayer's Folly

'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up in these periodical excitements. I neither know anything or care anything about horse-racing, yet I was looking for a news-boy to know the winner within five minutes of it?s being run. Power of the Press. ?King of Clubs? 100 ? 1, with Donoghue ???? Preparing this evening for Club annual meeting. Read ? ?Almayer?s Folly? (J. Conrad) - Smith?s book. A dismal soul ? Conrad.'

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Alphonse Daudet : Tartarin sur les Alpes

'Sunday, 28th March, Discussion Group ? annual meeting. Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).'

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Edmond Holmes : The Tragedy of Education

'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do. Bought Ira ?Far from the Madding Crowd?. Wrote Adana people re printing press. Have decided on a course for the Club next year ? ?The English Historical Novel??a study of English history, manners and institutions. A lot can be done with this if the books are carefully chosen. Read -- ?the Tragedy of Education (Edmond Holmes)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : La Peau de Chagrin

'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players are taking up all his time. Bal. Lear takes his place. I look forward to a record year. We have adopted the course on the ?English Historical Novel? for our programme and intend to vary this on alternate weeks with single lectures, debates etc ? Read -- ?La Peau de Chagrin? etc, (Balzac)'

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Robert Southey : Life of Nelson

'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find myself hoping that someday the grass will grow again over the site of so much ugliness. Talking of ugliness, nothing adds so much to its horror as monotony. Here are embryo slums, unless trees and gardens save them. Read ? ?The life of Nelson? (Southey)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As you Like it

'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but nice. ?Under the Greenwood Tree? and ?Blow, blow thou Winter Wind? are my songs. I shall enjoy it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year

'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-health. Read ? ?Journal of the Plague Year? (Defoe)'.

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J.B. Priestley : Figures in Modern Literature

'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging Dad. Clean forgets to send the wagon over the weighing machine. He was stopped before he had sold anything. Hard lines on the good old family name. The joke would have been complete if mother had been on the bench. Read ? ?Figures in Modern Literature? (J. B. Priestley)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

'Tuesday, 13th April, Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehearsal fell through however owing to the Settlement being crowded. Postponed to Friday. I walked down to the Ferry with Bal Lear, talking about the merits of the ?Observer? and Garvin?s leaders. The beautiful weather which has lasted, unbroken, for three weeks came to an end today. It looks as though summer had set in. Read ? ?English Humourists? (W. M. Thackeray)'

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unknown : unknown

'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on Friday. I might get an idea from the London highbrows. At home reading'.

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: Manchester Guardian

'Thursday, 20th May The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaustible treasury of lore and anecdote on the subject. He talks of Noble, Clem Hill, Mc Claren, W.G.Lockwood? as I would talk of Holls and Tate. We all read ?Cricketer? (Neville Cardus) in the ?Manchester Guardian?.'

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: Manchester Guardian

'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has come out on top. The ?Guardian? ?. ?New Statesman? etc. are with him and seem to consider Asquith?s letter was prompted by personal antipathy. The trouble has arisen over George?s critical attitude towards the Government during the General Strike and his contributions to the American Press on the subject.'

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: New Statesman

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Sinclair Lewis : Our Mr Wrenn

'Thursday 3rd June ?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis) I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on hand but life is nothing without the fight. I feel I am slipping too much into cricket, and taking life too easily. Mr Milligan has asked me again to organise a Peace Week meeting on the 19th !!!' [Sinclair Lewis, the son of a doctor, was born in Minnesota in 1885. He entered Yale University in 1903 but left three years later to join Englewood, the socialist colony founded by the writer Upton Sinclair. In 1908 Lewis moved to New York where he became a freelance writer. His first novel, Hike and the Aeroplane was published in 1912 ? He died in Rome in 1951].

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Sinclair Lewis : Martin Arrowsmith

'Friday 4th June ?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis). How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hungerings are illustrated in this book. It has given me one of the worst fits of depression I ever suffered from. With the certainty I feel of being equal to big things, my inability to fight the circumstances that prevent me studying and preparing myself, makes me ache. Economics, literature, drama, social reform are only so many words to me, and yet I know that I could, with courage, make myself both an educated man and a social teacher. Well, I will try again.'

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H.G. Wells : Short History of the World

'Sunday 20th June ? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'.

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Bret Harte : Jack Hamlin's Mediation

'Tuesday 22nd June ?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte) Wednesday 23rd June A quiet day today and then last thing, neurotic attack. Went and joined the Library today. They are hopelessly deficient in good stuff, either old or new, but still they carry lots of books otherwise inaccessible to me.'

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R.H. Mottram : The Spanish Farm

'Thursday 24th June. ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram). Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite right too.'

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: Daily Post

'Thursday 24th June ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram) Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite right too.'

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Percy Wyndham Lewis : At the Sign of the Black Moon

'Saturday 26th June ?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'.

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Rose Macaulay : Orphan Island

'Wednesday 30th June. ?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay). Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. Then a walk in the evening and bringing my arrears of writing up to date. We must look Dad up tomorrow, he will be lonely and depressed.'

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Rose Macaulay : Orphan Island

'Thursday 1st July This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use of the shortened day. We should have gone to see Dad but left it too late. However, I have finished ?Orphan Island? and so added a rich recollection to my sum of experience. It is a great book. Really Great. The whole idea is inimitably that of the author of ?Told by an Idiot?. Rose Macauley?s chief charm is the delightful sustained humour of her prose. Every word is charmingly quiet and sweet, and yet how devastating the satire and the irony. What a pity. I have to admit to being so hopelessly ?orphan? since she finds so little in them but noise and sentiment.'

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Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'Friday 2nd July Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed the supper dishes and I am waiting for breakfast reading Bennett?s ? Mr Prohack?. We got over to see Dad. He was not in but he left a note for me and we found him at the big Gilmore house cutting down the timber. There being no coal he has managed to purchase some of the timber in the garden as the house has been bought by the corporation as a housing site. He has to cut his wood down roots and all ? haul it to the yard, saw it and load it before it is ready for sale.'

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Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'Monday 5th July I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett?s views on the feminine. I do not quarrel with them. I am not qualified to do so, knowing little of women, but if his representations are correct ? well, I hate the thought, it makes me a gloomy pessimist. Therefore I don?t think them correct.'

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May Sinclair : Mr Waddington of Wyck

'Tuesday 6th July. ?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair). Back to the office today and find that young Reid has done pretty well. Kept my work fairly up-to-date. He has also kept quiet re-meeting my family last week. Smith is back too, after a quiet fortnight and he recommends Louis Golding to me. He (Smith) is reading ?Sicilian Noon?. I must try also that thing I have heard so much about ?Lolly Willowes? by Sylvia Townsend Warner. '

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J.B. Priestley : The English Comic Character

'Wednesday 7th July. ?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'.

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St Francis of Assissi : Little Flowers of St Francis

'Thursday 8th July I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very lovely if at times a little amusing. Cannot however stomach the bodily uncleanness of the ?out and out? Franciscans. It does not read well. The miracles are often very beautiful and often rather funny.'

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William Shakespeare : Henry IV

'Saturday 10th July ?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Sylvia Townsend Warner : Lolly Willowes

'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that they have something to tell which one is too stupid to discover. I am not stupid, and if a writer deliberately sets out either to obscure or to deliberately draw red-herrings across the track of analysis, then it is the author?s fault if the reader?s ideas do not coincide with the writer?s intentions. I do not know what ?Lolly Willowes? ?means?. If it is about witchcraft or the witch temperament or a peculiar eccentricity of outlook which may be termed the witch mind, well and good, But the fantastic flickering style of the prose, whilst delightful to read as poetic word sequences, annoys me when I desire to know how far the author desires to be taken simply and literally, and know the reader is expected to gather the point of the book or to exercise his own fancy on it. I can however understand the queer blurred effect of the world as seen by the reader through the heroine?s eyes. I have felt the world about me in similarly usual fashion, but what has this to do with witchcraft: Indigestion possibly.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'I read a little of "Robinson Crusoe" that is how I spent my evening'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

Jean Racine : Andromaque

'This evening the fine trajedy of Racine "Andromaque" was read I did not hear all the play but I have read it before'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Voltaire [pseud.] : Semiramis

'Mr de Regis read us "Semiramis" a fine trajedy of Voltaire what gave me great pleasure'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] de Regis Print: Unknown

Jean Racine : Les Plaideurs

'In the evening I wrote to Mary Montalban and to her husband, and we read "Les Plaideurs" which made us laugh like fools'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wynne and others Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Gazettes

'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [sermon]

'I stayed in bed till 4 oclock this afternoon the sermon was read after dinner. It was fine but a little too strong'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [sermon]

'Mamma suffers much and was obliged to go to bed after dinner so Mr de Regis read the sermon which was on the small number of elect and one of the finest that we have read. It seems there is much difficulty in saving oneself the way to heaven is narrow they say and that to damnation is wide. What I learnt from this sermon was that one must not be content with what one says, "I do, as others do", for it is just then that we say "I damn myself". Happily in Wartegg we have not many occasions to sin...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] de Regis Print: Unknown

William Pett Ridge : Story Teller in London

'Monday 19th July ?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge) This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading is the mood. To make almost personal acquaintance with famous personages, bohemians, politicians, writers, bon viveurs through the medium of the pen of an acquaintance. I like Ridge. I think he is undoubtedly the great Cockney of his generation and his description of office and suburban life are what I myself dream of as the pinnacle of literary perfection, which I would like to rise to. It appears he is quite a public man in South London and a Philanthropist.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]

'I did not hear much of the sermon today, it was on Apathy for whilst it was being read the children made such a noise and Made. de B. whilst embroidering her waistcoat never stopped talking to the Abbe and giving him good advice all the time that I was distracted and could not pay the least attention to the sermon'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [sermon]

'The Sermon was read this evening: very fine but the praises of the king are too strong'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Reg Berkeley : Unparliamentary papers

'Thursday 22nd July. ?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley). I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it difficult to escape boredom. I am as fond of conversation, provided it is not merely aimless, that to have to confine myself solely to reading and lonely observation is rather tiresome. I have had a rather jolly trip round the book-stalls today, though, and had I been other than broke, might have picked up one or two bargains.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Rebecca West : Return of the Soldier

'Sunday 25th July. ?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West). A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as interpreted by the woman character who tells the story.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]

'The sermon that we read was on the Passion and even finer than the last'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne and others Print: Unknown

Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil

'Thursday 29th July ?Sybil? ? (Disraeli) [...] I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft for my syllabus on the Historical novel.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

unknown : [Economics textbook]

'Friday 30th July. Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systematically this time. I hope I shall be able to keep it up as I know I shall find it interesting once I break through the crust of introductory chapters. When I have done a little of this groundwork it will make me able to understand and appreciate more exactly the work modern economists ? Keynes, Marshall, Webb, etc? This is an old ambition of mine. I hope to stagger through Marx some day.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

[n/a] : [French newspapers]

'We read the French papers where there was a letter of a soldier written to the King of France which is of the grossest insolence and horrifies one. We hear that Jourdain (the famous brigand) and his companions have been set free for their infinte merits and their patriotism. This monster is unworthy even to sully his life with new crimes. He has been led in triomph [sic] to Arles.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wynne and others Print: Newspaper, Unknown

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

'Saturday 31st July. ?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Walter Jerrold : A Book of Famous Wits

'Sunday 1 August. ?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold). To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend and seems quite normal and comfortable. I took some books with me and recommended the ?Stickit Minister? to him.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'Monday 2nd August. We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some music, some reading, talk and smokes. Very satisfactory. There is a story in the book I am reading at present which I found interesting as seeming to point to Waterloo Bridge having been, before, a subject of just such controversy as rages round it at present. Story goes as follows ? It being remarked that some people were opposed to the building of Waterloo Bridge because it would spoil the river. Luttrell (a social figure of the late XVIIIth century) exclaimed, ?By Gad Sir, if a few very sensible people had been attended to, we should still be champing acorns. What amuses me is that people are now opposing the alteration and enlargement of the present structure on the grounds that its destruction will spoil the river!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Hilaire Belloc : Pongo and the Bull

'Tuesday 3rd August. ?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

George Moore : The Untilled Field

'Saturday 7th August ?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

[Mr] de Salis : L'Ecole aux Maris Malhonnetes

'I played the harpsichord most part of the evening. Then we began to read a play of Mr de Salis (made by him) entitled "L'Ecole aux Maris Malhonnetes". It is very badly wrote, in a very bad style, and not pretty at all it is so very ridiculous that we could not help laughing at hearing it read. I only heard two acts, we shall finish it tomorrow'. [the next day] 'We finished the play of Mr de Salis the end is worse than the beginning and it is very stupid'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wynne and others Print: Unknown

H.W. Nevinson : Between the Acts

'Monday 9th August. ?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson). Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I have got a batch of my syllabus correspondence away, thank goodness. I still cannot find a good book dealing with the period of the VII and VIII Henries. It is curious since it was a period of great change and development, much active and intellectual life and considerable alteration in the manner of life of our people. No good novelist seems to have treated of it, however.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil

'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

unknown : Le Philanthrope

'After supper Mde. de Bombelles read 'Le Philanthrope' which is as amusing as possible'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [Madame] de Bombelles Print: Book

Walter Besant : For Faith and Freedom

'Thursday 19th August ?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Edna Lyall : To Right the Wrong

'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor game out of five! A result due to our refusal to play them out. ?To Right the Wrong? ( Edna Lyall)' .

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

: Daily Mail

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

: Courier

'Tuesday 24 August The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, since he has become a tool whereby the press can reduce such a bulk of the public into maundering, talk-fed imbeciles.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Poster

Alexander Pope : The Dunciad

'Thursday 26th August Pope?s ?Dunciad? This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nature as this must remain to some extent neglected. One easily fills the spaces of course. But there is not the energy for choosing the peculiarity of the day?s happenings on thought, that will make the entry worth while.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Esmond

'Friday 27th August I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former. Why is Thackeray suffering from a decline? He is the best of them, easily. What novelist is there to rival him in the nineteenth century? Dickens, perhaps, in greatness, but there is no comparison between their writings, they are so completely different from each other. There is no standard, and no need for one. I picked up for 6 cent. a little ?Selected works of Pope. With the ?Dunciad? ?The Rape of the Lock?, ?Essay on Critism?? Fine!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Fortunes of Nigel

'Thursday 2nd September ?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'Tuesday 7th September ?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : The Heroes

'Friday 10th September Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then it goes away, to be out on her shelf, which I am planning with some thought, and, I hope, taste for childish requirements. It would make a nice subject for an essay. Teddie and I already have following for our childrens? bookshelf ? Kinsgley?s ?Heroes?, ?Alice in Wonderland? and ?Through the Looking Glass?. A complete ?Hans Andersen? also a selection, beautifully illustrated by Dulac Lamb?s ?Tales from Shakespeare? and Hope-Moncrieff?s ?Classic Myth and Legend?. It is a fairly good beginning.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

James Branch Cabell : Jurgen

'Sunday 12th September ?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

C.E.M. Joad : Thrasymachus

'Monday 13th September ?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Xenophon/Plato : Socratic Discourses

'Saturday 18th September ?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman) I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues on Poetic Inspiration? for a long time and was glad to spot this'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Ashley Thorndike (ed.) : Minor Elizabethan Drama

'Monday 20th September ?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

"Bartimeus" : The Long Trick

Sunday 26th September ?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus? A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. Had an hour or two at the piano and showed form. I like ?Bartimeus? ? in the mood. He is delightfully humorous in a somewhat lugubrious manner.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Thursday 30th September ?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott) Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusion and chaos. My life at present is a tale of mugging away at my desk. I read a book on my way down town. Have a little brisk conversation with Smith in the luncheon hour ? if he is in town, or a walk round the book shops if he is not. Another little talk with Pat over our evening coffee. A few laughs during the day at Blowers? profanity or Lauson?s buffoonery. Then home to a meal, a short read, a little writing and bed. I seldom see the children except on Sundays.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

unknown : The Golden Glory

'Monday 4th October ?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!

'Monday 11th October ?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli

'Friday 15th October. Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new uniform edition of Wells. The latter are easily the most beautiful cheap editions I have seen and I intend to get the pick of them. ?Kipps? next and ?Mr Polly?. Monday 18th October. ?The New Machiavelli? (H.G. Wells).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'From this time [7pm] till nine o'clock, the prisoners are allowed to read such books as they may have obtained from the library. To show us that the men were generally so occupied, the officer who had attended us throughout the day now led us from cell to cell, and drew aside the small metal screen that hung down before the little peep hole in each door, when, on looking through it, we found almost every prisoner whom we peeped in upon seated close to the gas-light, and busily engaged in persuing either some book or periodical that was spread out before him.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Pentonville prison Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [letter]

'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their cells during tea-time, and the clerk, placing her mouth close against the door, called the name of the prisoner located within. "Yes, mum", was the answer that came from the cell. "Here's a letter for you", added the clerk, as she stooped down and threw the document under the door. In a moment there was a postive scream of delight from within, followed by a cry of "Oh! how glad I am". Then we could hear the poor creature tear open the sheet, and begin mumbling the contents to herself in half hysteric tones.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [letter]

'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it into her bosom. "Can you read it?" inquired the letter-carrier, who seemed almost as delighted as the prisoner herself. "Oh yes, mum, thank you" replied the woman; and she hurried to the other end of the wash-house, to enjoy its contents quietly be herself.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [unknown]

Inspection of the cells of the women in separate confinement: 'we found some working, and others reading, but none, strange to say, idling'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners in separate confinement at Brixton Prison Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

Inspection of the East Wing between 8:30pm and time of retirement: 'with their little wooden seats [they] placed themselves just within their doors, where they began reading.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners in East Wing at Brixton Prison Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

'The first business of the morning being over [rolling up hammocks], the men break into groups or read. Many a one, to our astonishment, took his Bible and began reading it with no little earnestness.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners on board the 'Defence' hulk Print: Book

Rev Lewis Tomlinson : Recreations in Astronomy

'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreations in Astronomy".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Thomas Pearson : Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies

'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies"; another the "Home Friend - a weekly miscellany"; a third, the "Saturday Magazine"; a fourth, the "History of Redemption"; and a fifth, the "Family Quarrel - an humble story".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Home Friend - a weekly miscellany

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Saturday Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

Jonathan Edwards [?] : History of Redemption

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : Family Quarrel - an humble story

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

The infirmary: 'Some of the men were in bed and sitting up reading, and others were lying down, looking very ill.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners in the infirmary at Millbank Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [French and German language books]

Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we were told, found special consolation in the study of languages, and on the table of his cell was a high pyramid of books, consisting of French and German exercises, with others of a religious character.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'A few of the men were reading, and never raised their eyes'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Coldbath Fields Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which was especially striking from the generality of prisoners being mere youths. He no sooner saw us enter, than hastily put on his spectacles, he commenced reading, bending his face down as if to hide it from shame... he had once held a high command in the army. He was there for a nameless offence.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spoken as the copy-book was handed in. The prison-tutor pointed in silence to a mistake, the pupil nodded, and, on another signal, began to read aloud what he had written, "Give to every man that asketh, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask him not again".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blots and errors. This man, when repeating his lessons, stumbled over the sentence "There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth", calling it "genashing" instead.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and could not pronounce his "r's", so that he read out: "Whatsoever is wight that shall ye weceive". "Do try and pronounce your 'r's' better", said the master, kindly; and there upon there was a shuffling of feet from the other pupils, as if the only method of laughing under the silent system was with the shoes.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Sheet

[n/a] : The Penny Sunday Reader

Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time: 'Those who are left behind are not, however, allowed to remain without religious instruction. Three men in each yard have been appointed by the chaplain to read aloud to their fellow prisoners, and each relieves the other every half hour. The book for Sunday's reading is issued by the chaplain. It is of a purely religious character, and is usually "The Penny Sunday Reader", containing short sermons. Tracts are also distributed in the different yards, so that those who prefer reading to themselves, instead of listening to what is being read aloud, may do so.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Coldbath Fields Print: Book

[unknown] : [Religious Tracts]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Coldbath Fields Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields: 'At the time of our entry, the warder schoolmaster was hearing the boys read aloud from the Bible, the class standing in a line near the wall, each with a book in his hand. Some of the lads read quickly, and others boggled sadly over the words, as, for instance - "And into whatsoever 'ouse ye enter" - ("Look at it, boy! don't you see there's an h to the word?" cries the warder) - "And into whatsoever house ye enter fust" - ("How often am I to tell you that there's no such word as fust? Spell it") - "f-i-r-s-t", proceeds the lad, "say ye peace be unto this 'ouse" - (What! 'ouse again?") - "house", quickly adds the youngster. The next verse was read off rapidly and glibly enough, by one who seemed but half the age of the other...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: boys in prison Print: Book

[n/a] : [school textbook]

Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields: 'At the other end of the room the lads were making even greater havoc with the words; and though the lesson consisted of simple monosyllables, such as "The old man must be led by the hand, or he may fall into the deep pit", one half of the big boys, even those of sixteen, were unable to accomplish the task.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: boys in prison Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields: 'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade one of them read a passage from the Bible, that each held in her hand. The woman, however, made such a bungle of the verse, that the teacher had again to assure us that the reader had learned her letters in the jail.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. He appeared to be absorbed reading. The labour machine stood beside him, with the handle pointing upwards, as if he were exhausted, and was recruiting his strength, by taking a glance at some book which interested him.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [lesson: either Bible or school textbook]

Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison: 'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hearted teacher... One boy had copied from a Bible, which lay before him, a verse of the 26th chapter of Proverbs: "As snow in summer, as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool!" He was a sharp-eyed lad of fourteen, with a finely formed countenance.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Adult (male) school at Wandsworth held in the prison chapel, 43 in the class, engaged in a Bible lesson: 'Others he commended in a kind spirit for the manner in which they read their lesson. They generally read in a quiet tone; some with great stumbling and hestitation, and others very fluently.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: male prisoners at Wandsworth Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth: 'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the little girl was confined, whom we had seen in the punishment cell. She was clad in another prison dress, and was reading a book, and appeared to be quiet and subdued in her manner. She had been subjected to a punishment of bread and water for two days. From her card we found she was under confinement for picking pockets; there was nothing remarkable in her appearance.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Juvenile schoolroom at Holloway Prison: 'Mr Barre, the teacher, [was] busy with a class of boys, who were reading their primers. The lessons consisted of monosyllables, such as "They walk by faith and not by sight"... The teacher was seated in his uniform by a table, with a class of half a dozen boys ranged on a form before him. Some were writing on their slates, while others were reading. Sometimes they read together, and at other times one boy read by himself... After hearing them read for some time, the teacher exercised them in simple questions of mental arithmetic...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: juvenile male prisoners at Holloway Print: Book

[n/a] : [Bible]

School for female prisoners at Holloway: 'On a subsequent day we visited the class with the matron, which was then engaged with the Bible lesson. Most of the prisoners read very fluently and correctly, and conducted themselves with great propriety of demeanour.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: female prisoners at Holloway Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw a pleasant looking, dark-complexioned man of about 30 years of age, sitting with one knee over the other reading a book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [manuscripts]

Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his table with his head leaning on his hand, and copious manuscripts spread before him. On seeing us approach, he appeared to be a little sensitive. He was dressed in a fine black coat and vest, and light trousers. He was charged with obtaining goods to the enormous amount of ?12,000, and represented himself to be a merchant.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells: 'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servitude, engaged reading by his table, having just finished his dinner. He was born in Canada, and came to this country with his father in early life, to secure certain property left by an uncle. He was a good looking man, a costermonger, and complained he had been hunted by the police from pillar to post, and driven into misfortune.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli

'Wednesday 20th October. Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening and read ?Machiavelli?. Some day I must put my thoughts on this book on to paper. I feel at present as though it might help me very materially in some respects, on my own path in life. I think in the sex problem the hero is somewhat similar in make-up to myself. Whilst his intellectual activities are but my own magnified. This, I will qualify and explain to myself when I finish the book.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Henry N. Brailsford : War of Steel and Gold

'Wednesday 3rd November. ?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

May Sinclair : The Tree of Heaven

'Saturday 6th November. ?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair). Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Mother is ill and expect to have to go to hospital. We yarned about the Aldermania elections. If the Labour Party in Birkenhead watch their step they will have a majority after the Alderman elections.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

J. Maynard Keynes : The End of Laissez Faire

Monday 6th November. ?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is very interesting; it is quite a declaration of belief and gives some typically tentative and nervous signs of Keynes position. I think he realises that his attitude requires considerable modification. He has found and knows the truth, but is afraid to realise it. He tries to cover it up from himself by ineffectual qualifications.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'Thursday 11th November. ?Opium-eater? again.'

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: New Leader

'Saturday 20th November. I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless propagandist rag. It is a shame, when under Brailsford it was one of the finest political reviews in the country.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Sunday 28th November ?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).'

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Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Tuesday 7th December. "Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'.

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W.W. Jacob : The Castaways

'Thursday 9th December. ?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'.

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Victor MacClure : The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London

'Monday 13th December ?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.

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Sabine Baring-Gould : Cheap Jack Zita

'Tuesday 14th December. ?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'.

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Eugene Labiche : Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon

'Friday 17th December. French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s class. Only 3 present. Rather jolly. I think I could teach French if I did a little preliminary grinding at grammar. They are doing Themoin?s method and reading ?Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon?. I?d like to do this on the stage. I don?t know of anything quite so funny in English drama.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne : The Rev. Captain Kettle

'Saturday 18th December. ?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'.

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Romain Rolland : Au dessus de la m?l

'Monday 20th December ?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland). This is the first time I have managed to get hold of this book. Mother was very friendly with Madeleine Rolland, the author?s sister, during our stay in Paris, during the war. I find it interesting, but only as a good sketch of fine pacifist thought, but even more as a vivid reproduction of that almost forgotten period ? the war ? and the extraordinary chaos in which mind and intellect were swallowed up over three quarters of Europe.'

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Romain Rolland : Au dessus de la m?l

'Wednesday 22 December. I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous laziness of those who experienced the war, in failing to preach the gospel of ?never? again. Why, why do we let the governments go on? Secret diplomacy, concession hunting, financial wrangling. Calculated ?inspiring? of the press. It is horrible. I used to believe the Press to be sincere, if misguided. But I have been reading the ?Mail? lately, and the easily recognizable note of sincerity is absolutely lacking.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Edward Whymper : Scrambles among the Alps

'Saturday 25th December. ?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper) Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Christmas. Certainly, if any book could give it, it is this one. Today has been rather a bore. The usual heavyweight dinner made everybody too somnolent to allow of any attempt at enjoyment. So we slept and read and ate and ? finally ? slept.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Mary Johnston : By Order of the Company

'Monday 27th December. ?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'.

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Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales from the Hills

[List of books read in 1926] '"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes), "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling), "History of Florence" (Machiavelli), "Essays in Socialism" (Belfort Bax), "Socialism: Critical and Constructive" (J.R. Macdonald), "Trimblerigg" (L. Houseman), "Peer Gynt" (Ibsen), "A Chair on the Boulevard" (L. Merrick), "Brand" (Ibsen), "The Long Roll" (M. Johnston), "Compleat Angler" (I. Walton), "Omoo" (H. Melville), "Shorter Poems" (M. Prior), "Notre Coeur" (G. de Maupassant), "Barry Lindon" (Thackeray), "Path to Rome" (Belloc), "The Americans" (Henry James), "Four Georges" (Thackeray), "Memoirs of the Crusades" (Villehardouin & de Joinville), "Journal to Stella" (Swift), "Hamlet" (Temple Shakespeare), "The Eye Witness" (Belloc), "Almayer's Folly" (Conrad), "Tartarin sur les Alpes" (Daudet), "The Tragedy of Education" (Edmond Holmes), "La Peur de Chagrin" etc (Balzac), "Life of Nelson" (Southey), "Les Fr?quentations de Maurice" (Sidney Place), "Journal of the Plague Year" (Defoe), "Figures in Modern Literature" (J.B. Priestley), "English Humourists" (Thackeray), "Frank Mildmay" (Marryat), "Polar Exploration" (Buck), "Cricket and Cricketers" (Philip [illegible]), "The Sowers" ([illegible]), "Our Mr Wrenn" (Sinclair Lewis), "Martin Arrowsmith" (ditto), "Short History of the World" (H.G. Wells), "Jack Hamlin's Mediation" etc (Bret Harte), "At the Sign of the Blue Boar" (Wyndham Lewis), "Orphan Island" (Rose Macaulay), "The Spanish Farm" (R.H. Mottram), "Mr Prohack" (Arnold Bennett), "Told by an Idiot" (Rose Macaulay), "Mr Waddington of Wyck" (May Sinclair), "English Comic Characters" (J.B. Priestley), "Henry IV" (Temple Shakespeare), "Lolly Willowes" ( ? ) [Sylvia Townsend Warner]'

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H.G. Wells : A Modern Utopia

'1st January- Saturday I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep. This might, thus, be an exemplary year for me, from my contrarily carrying-out all the resolutions I have not formed. ?A modern utopia? ( H.G. Wells ).'

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Harold Brighouse : Captain Shapely

'4th January ? Tuesday. ?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse. A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, and in a style I like. No superfluous verbiage.'

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Gerald Moore : [list of books read in 1926]

'5th January ? Wednesday. I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, considering that I always read the books I start on.'

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J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how he seems to take war in China for granted, as merely inevitable and spends his time appealing to the Powers ?not to gather in a spirit of spoliation?, after the conflict! Already! And this, from a leading Pacifist, and League of Nations speaker. How can it be thought surprising, that the ordinary people, spending too much time earning their bread and butter to allow of deep thought, should succumb easily to waves of jingoism, when the prophet and leaders themselves, the most steady of the press, the most earnest of clerics are already braying compromise, within ten years of the World War.'

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: Liverpool Post

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J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'13th January, Thursday. ?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse). I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the most wonderful books I have come across, but because the wonderful earnestness of it, and the vision of life it gives me, inspire me in my own small concerns. I wonder if I myself, am doing a measurable good in my activities?'

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Sidney and Beatrice Webb : The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation

'18th January, Tuesday. ?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb) I was up till late last night finishing my paper for Wednesday.'

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George Eric Paterson : poems [unspecified]

'20th January, Thursday. Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Moore was the editor] I had to smile at finding again the classic influence which inspires his every thought. He writes in the style of a man whose reading lies in the works of Shakespeare, Milton and the Golden Age.'

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H.G. Wells : The Dream

'30th January, Sunday. I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to rights. ?The Dream? (H.G. Wells).'

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Israel Zangwill : King of the Schnorres

'2nd February, Wednesday. I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is a most ingenious, and a most humorous writer. He is another of those authors who make me wonder why the ordinary reader wastes time on cheap rubbish. Here is a book, one of hundreds, which is as entertaining, as quick moving, and dramatic as any one can desire, and yet I doubt if it can hold place with B.M. Bower, Ethel M. Dell, Elinor Glyn, Zane Grey and the other tripe-mongers.'

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: Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First World War

'6th February, Sunday. We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken little notice of it, and never been inside it. It is of course a very old foundation, but the present fabric is quite modern. Considering its appearance of size from the outside, mainly due I think to the very tall, square tower, it is a remarkably small church. Extremely simple, in fact quite plain, apart from some carved woodwork. The one feature which we found noteworthy was the two rolls of honour, commemorative of those who fell in the great war. The one, an ornate brass reserved for commissioned officers, the other of plain wood badly carved with the names of privates and non-coms. Oh, the Lessons of the Great War!'

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: Advertisements in French

'18th February, Thursday. The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through the Customs Shed ? pas d?emb?tements ? and, having found and bagged our sets, we had a twenty minutes stroll on the platform. And oh, the fun of it! Listening to the talking and shouting in French, reading the notices and advertisements, noticing again the queer lowness of the platforms and the two or three steps up to the train. Then away to Paris through the flats of the Pas de Calais.'

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: menu in French

'19th February, Saturday. The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had the afternoon to myself. I luncheoned with Uhlig and Frorup at the restaurant Marre, rue d?Hauteville, and began my re-education in menu reading. Took to ?vin rouge? again very naturally!'

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H.G. Wells : The Invisible Man

'23rd February, Wednesday. This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-coldness of the little Hotel Cronstadt in the Quartier Convention. Wrote to Teddie and Mother. In bed I read a French translation of Well?s ?Invisible Men?. Which is about all the literature Muggridge possesses, and then went to sleep very willingly, being horribly homesick. I am so alone in this vast city.'

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: Le Sourire

'26th February, Saturday. Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read till dinner time. Muggridge having lent me a few numbers of ?Le Sourire?, I went steadily through the lot, with, I?m sure, typically British enjoyment of Gallic humour. I suppose I shall shake off this feeling of ?surreptitiousness? of ?shamefacedness?. I hope so, it?s so damnably idiotic and smug'.

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Claude Farr?re : Les Civilis

'17th March, Thursday. The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have almost given it up since I came to France. Now, to bed. I will start with ?Les Civilis?s? by Claude Farr?re, it looks light and bright enough to start on.'

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Anatole France : Jocaste et le Chat Maigre

'19th March, Saturday. Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.'

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V. Marguerite : La Gar?onne

'29th March, Tuesday. ?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite. 30th March, Wednesday. These last few days I have been reading Marguerite?s ?La Gar?onne?. I am disappointed. Instead of an exciting chronicle of debauchery, full of hints on sex-relationship, I find it simply a rather vigorous, but incurably sentimental treatise on Malthusianism. One or two of its scenes are realistic in the strictest sense, but for the rest, his heroine is a most romantic young lad who finishes up by falling in love properly and setting up in matrimony. But then I have always found the French sentimental.'

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Frances Kingsley : Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life

'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that book, collated by his wife, one can read how, just as the family was sitting down to a well provided breakfast table, a poor vagrant woman called at Evesleigh Rectory for help. She had been out all night and, as Kingsley himself admits, was utterly wretched. Tired, hungry and in rags she appealed to this "very perfect Christian knight" for a little food! Did she get it? No! the "very perfect knight" sent her empty away to walk some miles to the nearest workhouse!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood Print: Book

Emile Zola : Une Page d'Amour

'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and somehow weaker than ?La Terre?, but also one of the Rougon Macquard series. It seems to be only a sort of sketched-in incident, a bit of relief to the greater volumes. A great book, none the less, and a little less strained in the stressing of the hastily obvious. Zola is too inclined to describe to his readers certain habits of mankind, which they know quite as well as he. He does not seem to understand that it is just this fact that causes the less ?realist? author to leave them out.'

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Cecil Chesterton : History of the United States

'16th September 1928 I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to acquire the habit of taking notes when reading a book, even such a student?s book as this really is, but I think I will try and do so for once. The book is, of course, to a great extent the expression of a personal view, but much of the thought it contains as I think extremely true and valuable. I like it generally speaking.' I find it agrees with my own conception of American racial temperament and American institutions, while the descriptive history is vivid and exciting. A very jolly book. I do not think Cecil Chesterton a great writer, but he is a hard and coherent thinker, and has a flair for infusing movement and life into his book.

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: Le Journal

'17th September 1928. The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhineland evacuation question may now be discussed. Good God. What have they been doing all these years? The session of the league has been so overshadowed by this vicious and farcical conference that it has hardly appeared in the press, and not at all in the paper I have been buying the last few days ? ?Le Journal?. The end is not far off. I suppose the League will exist until the next war breaks it, but its power is ebbing fast. In fact, from a diplomatic viewpoint it is dead. What a chance has been lost, and how culpable are those statesmen who by this attitude and their actions have willed it so.'

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W.W. Jacobs : The Castaways

'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about Prince Louis-Napol?on who was killed in the Zulu war. I always remember him as the very fat man in one of mother?s picture books. When I was very young he afforded me much amusement. I have been reading Jacobs between chapters of American history. ?Deep Waters? and ?The Castaways? ?.. (W. W. Jacobs)'

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W.W. Jacobs : Deep Waters

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Cecil Chesterton : The History of the United States

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Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment

'19th September 1928 (Wednesday) I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bringing them in two?s and threes, but I have had enough of lugging suitcases full of books. Nothing in the papers today except ?last words? on the ?6? power conference. ?Le Crime et le Chatiment? - (Dostoivesky); translated Victor D?r?ly'

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: Le Journal

'20th September 1928 (Thursday). I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of ?mentals?, this brings a long discussed question on to the tapis (carpet), and perhaps we shall now have a proper expression of opinion from the experts as to the practicality of such a measure. An article by a doctor in the ?Journal? states that the medical opinion is ?against? it being a doctor?s duty not to accept the defeat that such a measure implies but to work for a destruction of the evil by purely curative means. And meantime, humanity?'

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Rudyard Kipling : Letters of Travel

'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this book although the slabs of jaunty, impatient, imperialism become rather monotonous. Still, the splendid descriptive power that the book betokens, make it excellent reading. The ?sentiments? are too well known, and too familiar to jar now to any appreciable degree. It is a curious contrast that in a book very slight in itself, with little thread or cohesion, the phrasing should be so powerful. I suppose Kipling?s long experience in ballad-mongering stands him in good stead.'

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: The New York American

'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst papers, ?The New York American? has got hold of a letter from the Quai d?Orsay to the Embassies in which it appears quite clearly that the pact is merely an agreement between France and England to terms regarding limitation, ruling out further discussion of the different view point held by the States. Naturally, the States regard this as a hostile move, particularly in view of the stupid secrecy of it. Their cruiser programme suspended a year ago at the beginning of the discussion is now to be proceeded with, and the ?Big Navy Group? will be crowing.'

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Thomas Vladesco : [article on Henrik Ibsen]

'28th September 1928 (Friday). I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France?. The writer sets out to prove Ibsen a bon bourgeois, a person with a wholesome respect for human institutions who merely created ?characters? and balanced individualisms. Whilst to my mind, thus denuding Ibsen of all the greatness, which the world has attributed to him, the writer claims rather to be clearing him of false and foul charges of anarchism, so heightening his renown by a purification of his ideas and intentions. The article is a rank failure. The writer proves nothing, ?clears? Ibsen of all sorts of ?charges? which no thinking reader makes against him, and gives him a philosophy, small, and shallow, which a most superficial acquaintance with his work would show to be untrue of the dramatist. Even the oft repeated claim that he belauds individualism is unsound. What Ibsen does do is to show in ?Peer Gynt? and in ?Brand? that both by individualistic and by self-effacing methods of life man fails to attain the goal. Man?s end is failure (though perhaps a great failure). He sets the question and there leaves it. Ibsen is a questioner. In that, Shaw goes beyond him, for Shaw has always an answer though it is Shaw?s answer.'

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Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'30th September 1928 (Sunday) We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at the Express du Havre and finally parted for home at 11.45. A good day. I brought away the 1st book of Romain Rolland?s ?Jean Christophe? and devoured half of it before going to sleep.'

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Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'1st October 1928 (Monday). Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this great book. I hope the other volumes are as good as ?L?Aube? though Mme. Bisseux thinks not. ?Jean Christophe? (1st ?L?Aube?) Romain Rolland'.

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Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought to light by the revelations regarding the Anglo-French naval pact. Even the old ?Observer? admits that England has only just missed dealing the foulest blow at the cause of international peace since the war. America is wholly on the qui vive now especially as the Presidential elections are in full swing and the pact is getting the fullest possible publicity. It is curious that their note on the subject should be so restrained. Either they are in earnest in their pacifist pretensions or they are so sure of the failure of any negotiation that they are willing to risk a big bluff. England has not come off very well out of either the League session or the Pact fiasco so let?s hope that Chamberlain?s diplomacy has suffered a final setback. [...] Finished Rolland?s book.'

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: The Observer

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Rudyard Kipling : Letters of Travel

'3rd October 1928 (Wednesday). Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned home hungry as a hunter. Finished ?Letters of Travel? which has been hanging fire. To bed early.'

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Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol : Taras Boulba

'6th October 1928 (Saturday). So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading ?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - translated by A. Potogky- Stchekotikhina. Scripta Manent Edition.'

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Leo Tolstoy : unknown

'Saturday 13th October 1928. After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. [...] Queerly enough, though Pioch himself is a Tolstoyan and though his speech showed the bias, it seemed to strengthen the instinctive dislike, which I feel for Tolstoy the man. I can admire and be troubled by his theories. I can find his works wonderful, and yet I dislike Tolstoy. His personal arrogance, his obvious sense of superiority to all the individuals with whom he comes in contact does not square with his humility in face of that which are abstractions ? the People. Again, he is too much the propagandist. He squares the circle too perfectly. He seems drunk with logic in his propagandist books. These things always make me suspicious. I do not believe that life can be simplified like that, that it can be governed by half a dozen rules of conduct. I believe that life is essentially a thing of endless complication, endless contradiction, a machinery of compromises, a picture composed of endlessly varied halftones. It is probable that I do not properly appreciate the Tolstoyan argument, but so far as my comprehension permits and my own knowledge, I am no Tolstoyan.'

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Romain Rolland : Vie de Tolstoy

'Monday, 15th October 1928 ?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'.

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H. Barbusse : La Clart

'24th October 1928. Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt?raire? (Cours Moyen). The publishers are Alcyde Picard, and mother gave me his address as 18, rue Soufflot. On my going there, however, I found that his address is actually rue Hautefeuille. [...] I got the books and posted them off although the money was only sufficient for seven and I could not supplement it being ?a sec?. ?La Clart?? (H. Barbusse)'

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Claude Anet : La Rive d?Asie

'27th October 1928 (Saturday) ?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)'

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: Birkenhead Advertiser

'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New Leader?. How funny the Advertiser seems to me reading it in the atmosphere of this great city. These columns of local gossip, and the accounts of football matches between such teams as the Cement Works and the Municipal employees. How do we manage to take ourselves so seriously.'

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: New Leader

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George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah

'1st January 1929 (Tuesday) In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Methuselah?. ?Back to Methuselah? (George Bernard Shaw)'.

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George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah

'4th January 1929. ?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw'

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W.J. Locke : [?] The Usurper

'6th January 1929. After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by W. J. Locke, the title of which slips my mind (a fair index to the books worth), but I think it was ?The outcast?.'

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John Galsworthy : Beyond

'7th January 1929 Monday. This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie. ?Beyond? Galsworthy.'

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John Galsworthy : Beyond

'8th January 1929 ?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most delightful reading, and a most beautiful argument. It is a story of love and marriage, that has but few bright spots in the actual events of the narrative, and yet would make anyone long to love in the heroic, ?int?grale? manner of its heroine. To be either the subject or the object of such a passion would make a full life, with reference to the years of its duration.'

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Henry Bordeaux : Robe de Laine

'12th January 1929. During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not care for Bordeaux though I do not know why.'

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: Excelsior

'13th February 1929 I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses allied to the French Royal house have arrived at the Palais d?Orl?ans in Palermo for the marriage of the Princesse Fran?oise. What a game. It must be far more amusing to be a wealthy exile than a crowned king. This is the one-time home of Louis ? Philippe. Much in the papers today about the agreement between Mussolini and the Pope. The ?Era Nouvelle? sees in it a recognition by the Pope of Fascism. A deadly alliance. '

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Arthur W. Pollitt : The Enjoyment of Music

'16th February 1929. ?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)'

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Romain Rolland : Les Amis

'17th February 1929 (Sunday). After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my having to climb the great gate as B. had forgotten his key. Stayed in a little caf? until 11.35, and then home very tired. I brought away (Jean Christophe)? ?Les Amis?. This is the second of this series which I have read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Romain Rolland : Les Amis

'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? writer I know and this book is as good as his best. I would like to have all his works and to read the whole of this ?Jean Christophe? series. After luncheon I read ?Dorian Gray? for a while, then a light tea, and off to Levallois. Stopped at Gare St. Lazare for my papers, ?Le Temps?, ?Observer? and ?Monde?.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

: Le Temps

'25th February 1929 (Monday). Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow. A quiet day, reading the papers, and writing a little. The ?Temps? has an editorial on the ?expos?? of Bulgarian foreign policy made by Mr Burcof to the Sobrani?. The main text is, of course, the Serbo-Bulgar rapprochement. It is amusing to note how the ?Temps? applauds the movement for Balkan solidarity as a check on the dividing intrigues of certain foreign influence. Said influences probably Italy, Germany and perhaps Russia. No mention of France?s intensive campaign to establish a preponderating ?influence? in furtherance of her encirclement policy against Germany, and the creation of a counter-balance to the growing force of Italy.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

: Le Journal

'26th February 1929. No paper today owing to state of finances. From Friday?s ?Journal? I note that the historic Tacna and Arica dispute has been settled. Peru takes Tacna and Chili Arica. Why couldn?t they have thought of that in 1883? Each wanted all, presumably, and hang on in hopes of getting it. Alsace Loraine, Schlewig, Upper Silesia ? all the same old story.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

: Le Matin

'27th February 1929. Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty. Yesterday, Coty came out with a four column poster the size of a house triumphing over a verdict in the courts. Today the ?Matin? replies in kind. I love this French poster warfare. The ?Matin?s? claim that Coty must subsidise his paper in order to sell at 10c sounds rather more than reasonable, but for the ?Matin? to complain about subsidised newspapers is rather cheek if certain generally accepted rumours are to be believed. Still he has a neck to demand that the rest of the press come down to his price. Every one has not a huge private fund from which to stand the losses of a big newspaper. The ?Matin? says that the English National Citizens Union have passed a resolution asking the Government to legislate for the sterilisation of ?mentals? and incurables. So it has got as far as popular politics. Something will be done yet.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

: [Road sign]

'3rd March 1929. At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arrived. Foreigners are always in a hurry to see Montmartre. So today we went up to the Place Pigalle and examined the boulevard exteriors from the ?Abbaie? to Weppler?s. Afterwards up the rue Lepic, where I related what I know of the street?s gruesome past, by the Moulin de la Galette to the Place du Tertre. From the front of the Sacr? Coeur we endeavoured to see something of the famous view but there was too much mist. We laughed at the notice to motorists ?Ralentissez; attention aux Petits Poulbots?. (Slow down, watch out for the Petit Poulbots). [Francisque Poulbot is one of the most famous French illustrators, especially illustrators of children. Poulbot is particularly known for his drawings of Paris street urchins. Poulbot loved to draw these children as shameless, and often malicious jokesters. Most of his work was published in the 1900s-30s]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Road sign

Pierre Benoit : Atlandide

'5th March 1929. Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine building. Photo of mother as one of the council notables. Finished ?Atlandide? (Pierre B?noit). It is a good story, excellently told, and an immense improvement on Rider Haggard.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Maxime : La M?re

'7th March 1929. Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'12th March 1929 Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

Maxime Gorki : La M?re

'14th March 1929 ?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our souls?. (Gorki ? ?La M?re?) Just what have our Woodbine Willis meant in the face of this? [...] Gorki?s book would make most wonderful propaganda. Its simple beauty, idealistic appeal, and homely actuality would make it another ?Pilgrims Progress? or ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? with the worker in England. Why not a cheap library of such books run by the I.L.P. [Independent Labour Party]? A Socialist Everyman? ?Pelagn?e knew people who had freed themselves from hate and rapacity; she understood that if the number of these people increased, the black and terrible face of life would become more kindly and simple, finer and brighter?.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Walt Whitman : Song of the Open Road

'14th March 1929. I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, and talked of ?Wander-thirst?, of Stevenson, of gardens, of tobacco, and (with E.V.L. in our minds) of ?Punch?. I recommended some of the glorious days I have passed in the country beyond St. Cloud with this book for company, and recited Stevenson?s ?Requiem? which Miss M?ndel liked and copied. The Websters gave me three numbers of ?Punch? for my week-end reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Brooks : unknown

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Artemus Ward : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Sketches by Boz

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

: Punch, or the London Charivari

'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Serial / periodical

Maxime Gorki : La M?re

'20th March 1929. Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Anatole France : Le Petit Pierre

'21st March 1929. ?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Edmond Goncourt : La Faustin

'23rd March 1929 (Saturday). Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afternoon reading. ? La Faustin? (Edmond Goncourt)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

: [newspapers]

'24th March 1929 (Sunday). Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire upstairs to study the Epistle to the Romans. Melle M?ndel and I stayed outside, she reading ?La Faustin?, and I studying the week?s papers. I have had no English papers for two weeks, nor any news of mother.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

Virgil : Aeneid

'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian court], and I do not know but it might make as good a figure as the prize-shooting in the Eneid, if I could write as well as Virgil.'

Unknown

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau : odes

'I made acquaintance yesterday with the famous poet Rousseau, who lives here [Vienna] under the peculiar protection of Prince Eugene, by whose liberality he subsists. He passes here for a free-thinker, and, what is still worse in my esteem, for a man whose heart does not feel the encomiums he gives to virtue and honour in his poems. I like his odes mightily, they are much superior to the lyrick productions of our English poets, few of whom have made any figure in that kind of poetry.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

unknown : [history]

'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part of my travels. It was not an affectation of shewing my reading, that has made me tell you some little scraps of the history of the towns I have passed through.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown

'Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is) in calling the sect [italics] muterin [italics].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Theocritus :

'I no longer look upon Theocritus as a romantic writer; he has only given a plain image of the way of life amongst the peasants of his country; who, before oppression had reduced them to want, were, I suppose, all employed as the better sort of them are now. I don't doubt, had he been born a Briton, his [italics] Idylliums [italics] had been filled with descriptions of threshing and churning, both which are unknown here, the corn being all trod out by oxen; and butter (I speak it with sorrow) unheard of.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Homer : Iliad

'I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not before entirely comprehend the beauty of...It would be too tedious to you to point out all the passages that relate to present customs.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

: Bible

'I should have told you, in the first place, that the Eastern manners give us a great light into many Scripture passages, that appear odd to us, their phrases being commonly what we should call Scripture language.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Ibrahim Pasha : Turkish Verses

'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact Scripture style. I believe you would be pleased to see a genuine example of this; and I am very glad I have it in my power to satisfy our curiosity, by sending you a faithful copy of the verses that Ibrahim Pasha, the reigning favourite, had made for the young princess, his contracted wife...Thus the verses may be looked upon as a sample of their finest poetry...I have taken abundance of pains to get these verses in a literal translation'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Manuscript: Sheet

: Song of Songs (Old Testament)

'It is most wonderfully resembling [italics] The Song of Solomon [italics], which was also addressed to a royal bride.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [works]

'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when sales dwindled to vanishing point... I was attracted to him in the first place by his amazing knowledge of Dickens. He spent every moment of leisure reading Dickens and had, in the course of a dozen or more years in prison, read little else. There was no single scrap of Dickens' work that he hadn't read, not once, or twice, but many times. Mention any character you liked and little B- would give you a verbal picture of him and his setting in the story in which he appeared. More than once at exercise he has walked behind me spouting whole pages dealing with his favourite characters, accompanying his copious quotations with a running commentary on their virtues and failings in a vein so humorous that I have more than once had to fall out to avoid startling the whole exercise by going off into peals of laughter.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

George Sturt : Fruit Blossom Time

'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & then your nameless novel.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Letter, Sheet

George Sturt : [unnamed novel]

'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & then your nameless novel. ...I am in a fever to finish the novel. Ken made me turn it up when I was at part ten. I shall, Sturto volente, animadvert at length upon it at a future date, Now, I will only say that I like it very much. Its calm, unabashed realism charms me. You find fault with Maupassant for his wealth of irrelevant ... detail. Frankly, I think you would do well to follow him some way in this. I don't think all his detail is irrelevant. . . . No, I believe in detail.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Letter, Sheet

'Par Un Initie' : Mysteres des Sciences Occultes

'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I had a lot of material for them in hand I was a little surprised to see him jump at the suggestion, & offer to buy the serial rights of eight stories at once. So, deeming eight stories sold in advance to be better than a novel perhaps on my hands, I have shelved the latter for a time, & am to be seen daily reading a vast tome "Myst?res des Sciences Occultes". I tremble to consider the bad art which will be compressed into those stories!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Sturt : A Courting Umbrella

'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little paper", but which I should like, for the good of literature & the credit of Woman, to have in the paper, I should prefer to throw the responsibility for the acceptance on my Editor?s shoulders.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

unknown : Novels

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or no education, her knowledge of books, and her memory for poetry and apt quotations, were quite remarkable. She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels, and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards Print: Book

unknown : [Texts on history]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards Print: Unknown

Bayley : Dictionary

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards Print: Book

Anson : Voyages

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us [italics]Anson's Voyages[end italics], or [italics]Lemprier's Tour to Morocco[end italics], or the [italics]History of Montezuma[end italics]. When she had finished, we all, kneeling round her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'

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

Lemprier : Tour to Morocco

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

unknown : History of Montezuma

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

William Pinnock : 'Catechisms of History and Geography"

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs. Trimmer's "Selections"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Print: Book

Sarah Trimmer : 'Selections [from the Bible]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Print: Book

: Old Testament (extracts)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Print: Book

: Gospels (extracts)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Print: Book

: Acts of the Apostles (extracts)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Print: Book

unknown : [Story]

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home: 'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In the nursery my great pleasure was to sit by myself in a dark closet, opening into a room, with a little lanthorn by my side, and read a story, while my sisters played about. I enjoyed hearing them, but I did not wish to join them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Unknown

unknown : French idioms

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight: 'When my regular lessons for the day were over, I used to sit until bed-time with my back to a long table, on which two candles were placed, and learn by heart columns of French idioms'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell

: The Spectator

'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Rambler[end italics],Mason's plays, Addison's [italics]Cato[end italics], etc. This we were often called to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke [reader's great-aunt, to whom "Lyddy," Sewell's father's unmarried sister, a companion].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : The Rambler

'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Rambler[end italics], Mason's plays, Addison's [italics]Cato[end italics], etc. This we were often called to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke [reader's great-aunt, to whom "Lyddy," Sewell's father's unmarried sister, a companion].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

Mason : Plays

'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Rambler[end italics], Mason's plays, Addison's [italics]Cato[end italics], etc. This we were often called to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke [reader's great-aunt, to whom "Lyddy," Sewell's father's unmarried sister, a companion].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Cato

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Burger : Lenore

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister)'s library in his home at Binstead: 'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a beautiful copy of Burger's [italics]Lenore[end italics], illustrated by striking line engravings, and having the German on one page and the English translation on the other.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

anon : Arabian Nights' Entertainments

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on books lent to herself and her siblings, when children, during visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister): 'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain books to us, when as children we stayed with him at Binstead, on condition of our never touching any others. My brothers had Glanvill's [italics]History of the Witches[end italics], and we four [Sewell girls] had a handsome edition of the [italics]Arabian Nights' Entertainments[end italics], which, being unexpurgated, was not the wisest choice that could have been made, though it gave me hours of entrancing delight at the time, and taught me to understand allusions to tales which have become part of general literature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

: Biblical story of Jephthah

'I was always given to strange scrupulous fancies, and not long before [leaving her first boarding school when aged almost thirteen] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephthah's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of making a vow came into my head I had actually made it, and was bound to keep it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on reading at her Bath boarding school: 'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large portions of "The Lady of the Lake".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

William Russell : History of Modern Europe

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was woefully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr. Turnbull [...] I taught myself besides to read Spanish -- for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the books which I knew so well by name. The elements of botany on the Linnean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, beside the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too was a great favourite.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

William Robertson : History of Charles the Fifth

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Improvement of the Mind

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

unknown : [Italian history of the Venetian Doges]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

unknown : Spanish grammar

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

unknown : Spanish dictionary

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

unknown : [Texts on botany]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : novels

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Walter Scott : [poetry and novels]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : poetry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Walter Scott : Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk

'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the living, and Ellen [reader's sister] and I were sent to Hursley [...] whilst Lucy [reader's friend] was ill. We were at the old vicarage [...] [Mr. Heathcote's books] were very kindly left for our use, and I made an acquaintance with Sir Walter Scott's "Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk", and read Shakespeare to Ellen, and led a quiet life, seeing no one.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

William Shakespeare : works

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins : The Countess and Gertrude

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on a stay at her aunt Mrs Hanbury's London house during late 1835: 'The house and the situation [John Street, Bedford Row] were alike dreary [...] The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place was derived from the fact that the large bare house reminded me of a description of one like it in an old novel by Miss Hawkins --"The Countess and Gertrude".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion

'[By c. late 1830s] My mind had [...] become much quietened and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration,and which I stumbled upon, as it seemed accidentally (though doubtless it was a Providential help sent me) [...] I took it up first for curiosity, and read it through nearly, but not quite to the end; feeling very much afraid all the time that some one would inquire into my studies, and being greatly humiliated by an observation made by William [reader's brother, a clergyman], who one day found me with it in my hand. His surprised tone, as he exclaimed, "You can't understand that," made me shrink into my shell of reserve, and for years I never owned to anyone that Butler's "Analogy" had been to me, as it has been to hundreds, the stay of a troubled intellect and a weak faith.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Mrs. Mary Sherwood : Tales

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, which struck me as having pretty descriptions, and I fancied I could write something of the same kind; and as a matter of curiosity I determined to make the attempt. I read both the few chapters of the intended tract ["Stories on the Lord's Prayer"], and the beginning of "Amy Herbert"to my sisters, and they liked them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Amy Herbert

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, which struck me as having pretty descriptions, and I fancied I could write something of the same kind; and as a matter of curiosity I determined to make the attempt. I read both the few chapters of the intended tract ["Stories on the Lord's Prayer"], and the beginning of "Amy Herbert"to my sisters, and they liked them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor" in 1840): 'I did not give my name, and no one knew anything about it, except my mother and sisters. I have often vexed myself since -- thinking that I did not tell my father -- but I had a dread of any person talking to me about my writing, and I knew that if he was pleased he would not be able to keep himself from telling me so. I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on the sofa half asleep, as I thought; but he listened, and I think was interested, for he asked me what I was reading. I forget exactly what answer I made, but it certainly was not that I was reading anything of my own, and so I lost the opportunity of giving him pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Amy Herbert

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen to, was "Amy Herbert"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell Print: Unknown

: The Bible

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen to, was "Amy Herbert".'

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

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Amy Herbert

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her family's encouragement of her writing: 'William [Sewell's brother] had arranged to have the "Stories from the Lord's Prayer" published as a little book [...] This made Ellen [Sewell's sister] speak to him about "Amy Herbert". He looked at the first chapters, and liked them, and begged me to finish the story.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Hood : 'We watched her breathing through the night --'

Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas from Thomas Hood, 'We watched her breathing through the night --'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

[n/a] : Daily Chronicle

'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed young man named L. F. H. S. was charged before the Lord Mayor with having stolen postal orders, the property of the Postmaster-General, and was committed for trial at the Old Bailey"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : 'little history of the early Church'

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on support received in the face of criticisms of her novel [italics]Margaret Percival[end italics] for its supposedly Roman Catholic sympathies: 'My one consolation, when criticised, was, and is, that the statement of the historical grounds on which the English Church rests were [sic] privately approved by [...] the Rev. Samuel Rickards, rector of Stowlangtoft, Essex [...] Mr. Rickards also advised me to write a little history of the early Church, which I afterwards did. He saw part of it, and liked it.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Rickards

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : The Earl's Daughter

'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. [italics]Margaret Percival[end italics] I read to her entirely, and also a portion of [italics]Laneton Parsonage[end italics], and I remember being obliged to assure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story -- which was only completed after her death.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Margaret Percival

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Laneton Parsonage

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

[Abbe] Barthelemy : Les Voyages du Jeune Anacharsis

'I took my two lessons with Mr Jaegle, we began to read "Les Voyages du Jeune Anarchasis". The little that I heard today pleased me enormously and the style is very fine'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

Bernardin de St Pierre : Paul et Virginie

'I began to read "Paul and Virginia" book that Mrs Braun brought here it is very pretty'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

Bernardin de St Pierre : Paul et Virginie

'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but though I was told I would weep many tears in reading it I did not shed a single one. I reread it thinking perhaps to have read it too fast the first time, but although the second time it did not interest me less than the first, it did not make me weep. It is of no use to say this is a sign of insensibility. If they will teach me to cry when I will and then everything will melt me and make me cry, for after all I am a woman as they are'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

Stephanie Felicite de Genlis : Veilees du Chateua ou Cours Morale a l'usage des Enfants

'We read today in the "Veilees du Chateau" I think that book very good for the young people'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

William Russell : History of Modern Europe

'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] manner'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

James Thomson : [a tragedy]

'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Racine (pseud.) : Andromaque

'Mr de Bombelles read to us this evening a French Tragedy of Racine "Andromaque" that lecture gave me pleasure'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] de Bombelles Print: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the second volume much amuses me I have begun to read also in English Robertsons history of America and Blairs lectures on Rhetoric and belles lettres - We have bought these books at Basle where they are well printed and cheap'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

William Robertson : The History of America

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

[Mr] de Bressac : [account of French Rebellion]

'This evening I heard a lecture of a work made by Mr de Bressac which is the description of all the murders and horrors committed in France during the Rebellion. It is easily supposed that such a lecture is not at all agreeable especially to young folks. Indeed I found it well wrote but it was cruel to oblige to hear all them massacres'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

[unknown] : Rudolph of Wertenberg

'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me remember on all that has happen in former times in this part of Switzerland, of which I have been well informed by that book; which I read with the greatst Satisfaction - and that I shall not forget So Soon'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

John Lodge Cowley : ?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid]

"amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pasteboard Paper & cut so that you may lift them up & see the solid forms &c &c I suppose a profound scholar might despise all this - but I think it a pretty work for Ladys or young beginners."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hamilton Print: Book

Mrs. Humphry Ward : The Story of Bessie Cottrell

'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded works, but from casual glances into one or two of them & the perusal of copious reviews, I have felt instinctively that she was No Good. A new book of hers, a short one, The Story of Bessie Costrell, will appear in three months time & I have been promising myself the pleasure of scalping the woman. The tale runs through Cornhill in three instalments & in order that my onslaught might appear immediately after publication of the book, contemporaneously with the fulsome flatteries which the daily press is certain to shake out, I determined to read the thing carefully in serial form, and prepare a reasoned expos?. I have just returned from the Free Library. The mischief is, I find the first instalment damn well done. It is beautifully arranged and selected. The writing, without being great, is dignified and decent; and it is perfectly clear that she knows what she is talking about, to wit, village life.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

C.E. Francis : Every Day's News

"'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the author of this book evidently knows his character intimately; & as he makes him do something decent in the writing line, I am more happy still. I shall give the book a damn good notice."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Arnold Bennett : reviews

'My book reviews find considerable favour. The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads no criticism which he likes better.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederic Chapman Print: Serial / periodical

Ivan Sergevich Turgenev : On the Eve

'(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its subtlety and restraint prevent it from ever being really popular.)'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Elizabeth Wynne : [diaries]

'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to continue them but as I hope that I shall soon have great many fine things to describe I will still write them and endeavour to make them less stupid'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Manuscript: diary

John Shore : [elegies on deaths of wife and child]

'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natural fashion, and though you greatly admire the poet yet you must yield to the soft and sympathising composition of the widowed Husband and childless father. It is not so when you read Lord Littleton's complaint on his Lady's death, the poetry is beautiful but less natural, less moving. He boasts with his grief, and indulges himself some digressions which show his extended knowledge but are not natural, I think, to a mind wholly occupied with despair'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

William Henry Lyttelton : [probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

William Robertson : The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England

'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's behaviour and though Mary's is very shameful yet I cannot help feeling a sort of partiality for her, a partiality which is a tribute that I pay to her endless misfortunes and which prompts me to think that if Elizabeth had sought protection in Mary's arms she would have found a sure azylum and a hasty succour there. Robertson in giving Mary's character, perfectly expressed what you must feel in reading her history. "You throw a veil over her frailties and faults, and approve of your tears as if they were shed for an object who drew much nearer to protection".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

[n/a] : [English newspapers]

'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince was retiring from the armee of Conde... [the full story is then summarised, with no reaction]'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Newspaper

Christoph Martin Wieland : Agathon

'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is very interesting and expressed with equal grace, elegance and nature. One thing which shows that no man is free of a vanity in which he seeks to hide is that the Author takes every opportunity to mention himself and appears afraid that "Agathon" should make you forget Weiland'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges - Tuesday, reading English - Wednesday, studying the Turkish language (in which, by the way, I am already very learned - Thursday, classical authors.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Jean Dumont : A New Voyage to the Levant

'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ignorance and confidentiality. 'Tis a particular pleasure to me here, to read the voyages to the Levant, which are generally so far removed from truth, and so full of absurdities, I am very well diverted with them. They never fail giving you an account of the women, whom 'tis certain they never saw, and talking very wisely of the genius of the men, into whose company they are never admitted; and very often describe mosques, which they dare not peep into.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the traveller Ulysses, who was an observer of men and manners, when he travels in your harmonious numbers.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Homer had chosen a hero somewhat less pettish and less fantastic: a perfect hero is chimerical and unnatural, and consequently uninstructive; but it is also true that while the epic hero ought to be drawn with the infirmities that are the lot of humanity, he ought never to be represented as extremely absurd.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

unknown : Arabian Tales

'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! - You forget, dear sister, those very tales were written by an author of this country and (excepting the enchantments) are a real representation of the manners here.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain of the Smyrniote to deliver it to you with this letter. The translation of it is as literally as follows: The first piece you should pull out of the purse is a little pearl, which is in Turkish called [italics] Ingi [italics]...You see this letter is all verses, and I can assure you there is as much fancy shewn in the choice of them, as in the most studied expressions of our letters; there being, I believe, a million of verses designed for this use.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Manuscript: Letter

Richard Knolles : The Turkish History

'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown

'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Mr Hill : unknown

'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what you find in authors; as, for example, in the admirable Mr. Hill, who so gravely asserts, that he saw in Sancta Sophia a sweating pillar, very balsamic for disordered heads...'Tis also very pleasant to observe how tenderly he and all his brethren voyage-writers lament the miserable confinement of the Turkish ladies, who are perhaps freer than any ladies in the universe.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Theocritus : Idyll 18

'Tis true they have no public places but the bagnios...I was three days ago at one of the finest in the town, and had the opportunity of seeing a Turksih bride recieved there, and all the ceremonies used on that occasion, which made me recollect the epithalamium of Helen, by Theocritus.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown

'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which account I am apt to believe was designed to compliment our court in 1679).'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown

'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the viziers, the [italics] beglerbeys [italics], the civil and spiritual government, the officers of the seraglio, &c., things that 'tis very easy to procure lists of, and therefore may be depended on; though other stories, God knows - I say no more - every body is at liberty to write their own remarks; the manners of people may change, or some of them escape the observation of travellers, but 'tis not the same of the government; and for that reason, since I can tell you nothing new, I will tell nothing of it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Gemelli : unknown

'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than any other voyage-writer): he says that there are no remains of Calcedon; this is certainly a mistake.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

: Qu'ran

'I begin with telling you, that you have a true notion of the Alcoran, concerning which, the Greek priests (who are the greatest scoundrels in the universe) have invented out of their own heads a thousand ridiculous stories, in order to decry the law of Mahomet.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Mr Sandys : Unknown

'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking of these ruins, supposes them to have been the foundation of a city begun by Constantine, before his building Byzantium.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Strabo : Geographica

'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : Ballad of Reading Gaol or De Profundis

'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest sense of the term, the agonising process of revaluation of regeneration, which it portrays, took place in the grim prison where my own initiation into the way of the transgressor first began.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : The Bible

Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time: 'That completed the furniture in the cell. But wait! I forgot the Bible! A humane Prison Commission had provided the cell with a Bible. I remember how, to stave off the hysteria I felt rising within me, I took it down and scanned it casually, noting passages in fine English which set forth the fate of those who rebel against the Lord of Hosts. Turning the leaves reapidly, I came to the New Testament, the Gospel of Love. Finally I laid it down and looked around my cell, stray passages of what I had read running through my mind - "All ye are God's children...bear ye one another's burdens...Verily I say unto you, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself...Father forgive them, for they know not what they do..." The Bible! And mind and heart cried out, "What utter rot!"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly or clamorously, but silently and with an intensity of misery that wasted my strength and filled my brain with hideous thoughts. The first library book issued to me was "David Copperfield"; and with the incipient ego-centrism of the budding criminal I imagined I could detect similarities between Dickens's early experiences and my own. For many nights I cried myself to sleep with "David Copperfield" hugged close, as if in him I had found a fellow sufferer.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Koran

'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I bought or borrowed books on subjects not usually studied by privates, and began to co-ordinate my reading. Soldiers who did much reading were then objects of suspicion and I began to find myself a marked man.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was taken to the Guildhall for trial'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Description of first month spent in Winchester Prison after sentence: 'Nearly twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four were spent in strict cellular confinement, with no outlet for any form of activity other than the monotony of stitching coalsacks, or reading the Bible for a few minutes at meal times'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Protestant manual called the "Narrow Way", and by forcing myself to concentrate on the structure of sentences as well as to try to comprehend the meaning of what I was reading. Since that time I have twice read the Bible from cover to cover in similar circumstances and for similar reasons. I was then too young and too fundamentally ignorant to understand and appreciate the Bible for what it is - that came later - but even then I was concious of its tremendous interest as a record of the strivings and sufferings of men in their efforts to pierce the veil and solve the ultimate mysteries of life and death... My early Bible reading under duress has not perhaps influenced my life for good in the objective sense of the word,... I know that the main reason I had for devoting so much time to such reading was with the idea of overcoming my moods of brooding and depression, and later to supress the vile thoughts and obscene imaginings which assailed me with evergrowing intensity in the silence and maddening loneliness of my cell.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'At Winchester I was able to get the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall", but had no time to finish it. On another occasion at another prison I read the whole work through from beginning to end.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [book on China]

'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the present time, is passing through the most momentous transformation in history'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown- various titles]

'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had noticed that I chose books not usually read by stokers and had commented on it. During our trips from place to place I used to sit or lie on the fo'c'sle when not on watch reading biography, criticism, history and philosophy, or indeed any book of more than ephemeral interest.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Who's Who

Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Burke : Peerage

Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Crockford's Clerical Dictionary

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Army List

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Navy List

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : University Registers

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : University Year Books

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, the introvert, the dreamer!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermons]

'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons, Bampton and Gifford lectures, lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy, and also speeches by the acknowledged masters of oratory... For what? Nothing!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : Bampton lectures

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : Gifford lectures

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [speeches]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Emily Bronte : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Anne Bronte : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Jane Austen [?] : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

George Eliot : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

George Meredith : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Edward Lytton : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Charles Reade : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Thomas [?] Hughes : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [Henry VIII]

'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed it very much and, if I had another similar book, he would like to read it. As he did not strike me as being the type of man to take so keen an interest in history as his praise of the book seemed to imply, I asked him what aspects of Henry the Eight had aroused his interest. He replied that it was Henry's penchant for women that had intrigued him. Only he didn't put it quite like that. What he really said was something like this: "Gor blimey! Wasn't 'e a b- (son of a bachelor) for wimmin! Tork abaht us blokes bein' 'at stuff, why the b- had a bleedin' 'Arem! Them kings, and blokes like 'im, were the dirtiest lot of b-'s I've ever read abaht. Tork abaht Marie Monk! Why there ain't a bloke in this nick, or Dartmoor, or Pankhurst, as is a quarter as bad as these blokes yer reads abaht in 'istory!"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate sewing or knitting. I joined the public library and so got plenty of good literature.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edwards [Sewell's brother] there was no doubt that Newman is going over to Rome, which agrees but little with an observation made by Dr. Pusey to G. F. a short time since that no one could know how devoted a servant of the Church Newman was till after his death. The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church, and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling notion, but a sermon of Newman's I was reading to-night would be a great safeguard against being led into mischief by it. "Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

: Lives of the English Saints

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 16 September 1845, at 3 Park Villas, Richmond ('Visit to a friend, Miss Hooper.'): 'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in [italics]The Lives of the English Saints[end italics] [...] It is well written and interesting, but I cannot go with it. Thomas a Becket is no saint to my mind, and I dislike the uncalled-for hits at the Reformation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell and other guests and household members at 3 Park Villas, Richmond Print: Book

unknown : Article on the Jesuits

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked to me a little about William [Sewell]'s novel [italics]Hawkstone[end italics], doubting the fact told me about the Jesuits, and wishing they could be tried in a court of justice; and afterwards he gave me an article about them in the [italics]Oxford and Cambridge Review[end italics], most laudatory of them, and of Ignatius Loyola, and very condemnatory of Luther. It had no effect upon me however. There is too much of the partisan style about it, and it is too bombastic, and contains few facts....'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

: The Oxford and Cambridge Review

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

Cecilia Tilley : Chollerton

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846: 'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop decidedly. You see the same books time after time [...] It is an inconvenient shop too. No place to sit down at, and the books crowded too close to the door. I took up [italics]Chollerton[end italics] (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed strained and the fasting was brought forward prominently, and there seemed too much womanish humility.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Tales on the Game Laws

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics]Tales on the Game Laws[end italics] I began, but they are so dull to me that I have scarcely patience to finish. The thing I like about them is their fairness. The rich people are not all wretches, though Miss Martineau's sympathies are evidently with the poor.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

Alison : accounts of Napoleon's battles

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846: 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history are so dreadfully dry, after one has been writing and working all day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Katherine Ashton

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on the model for the domineering husband Colonel Forbes, in her novel [italics]Katherine Ashton[end italics]: 'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the character is in the main true was shown to me strangely by the fact that the gentleman who gave me the idea of it came to me after he had read [italics]Katherine Ashton[end italics] and owned that Colonel Forbes resembled himself, though no one else ever suggested the likeness.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown - various titles]

'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [lives of the Fathers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [biographies of Christ]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [biographies of St Paul]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [studies on the Apostles]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown - various titles]

Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue; but I covered a fairly wide range in drama, fiction, poetry, biography, history, science, philosophy, theology, besides miscellaneous reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Thomas Babbington Macaulay : [uknown]

Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked punishment by getting up to my window to finish an essay by Macaulay, whose style charmed me, or one of those vibrant, pulpitating lectures on hero-worship by Carlyle!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : [uknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : [uknown]

'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Joseph Henry Shorthouse : John Inglesant

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

George Eliot : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Heinrich Heine : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Pierre Loti : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Friedrich Nietzsche : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek Philosophy]

'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

John Locke : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

David Hume : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

George Berkeley : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Johann Gottlieb Fichte : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Arthur Schopenhauer : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Gustav Fechner : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Rudolph Hermann Lotze : [unknown]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

unknown : ["black-letter poems"]

'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little against all these infringements of its rights and privileges.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Histoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes, des Perses, des Macedoniens, et des Grecs (6 vols)

'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if possible like it, in some degree to the progress of your classical studies.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John A. Carlyle Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise

'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my gratitude to the amiable Jean Jacques for the pleasure he has afforded me, is to do what in me lies to extend the circle of his admirers - I shall begin with you - Do read this book -'

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

Unknown : [Tragedies]

'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I thank you. It has fewer faults and greater merits than its Author led me to expect - '

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

Thomas Carlyle : Criticism on Faust (working title)

'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I think you. It has fewer faults and greater merits than its Author led me to expect -'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Bailie Welsh Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf and reading Boswell's "Life of Dr Johnson", I heard a shuffling of feet outside and my cell-door was thrown open by the patrol'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise

'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'

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

[n/a] : United Irishman

'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. The sixteenth and the last [italics] number. Read all the articles. Good Martin! Brave Reilly! but you will be swallowed, my fine fellows. "Government" has adopted the vigorous policy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Merry Wives of Windsor

'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Thank God for Shakespeare at any rate. Baron Lefroy cannot sentence Shakespeare to death, nor so much as mulct him for damages, though I am told he deserves it for defamation of character, in the case of Sir John Falstaff.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Richard Henry Dana : Two years before the mast

'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I must have been sleepily pouring over Dana's "Two Years before the Mast": a pleasant, rough kind of book, but with something too much hauling of ropes and "handing" of sails it in. ...I have been reading also "The Amber Witch", a most beautiful German story, translated into English, by Lady Duff Gordon.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Mary Schweidler : The Amber Witch

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Essays

'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, indeed, a type-reviewer - an authentic specimen-page of nineteenth century "literature". He has the right, omniscent tone, and air, and the true knac; of administering reverential flattery to British civilisation, British prowess, honour, enlightenment, and all that, especially to the great nineteenth century and its astounding civilisation, that is, to his readers. It is altogether a new thing in the history of mankind, this triumphant glorification of a current century upon being the century it is...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Essays [on Bacon]

'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and began to read Macaulay's essay on Bacon - "the great English teacher", as the reviewer calls him. And to do the reviewer justice, he understands Bacon, knows what Bacon did, and what he did not; and therefore sets small store by that illustrious Chimera's new "method" of investigating truth...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

[n/a] : Morning Post

Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June: 'Our second lieutenant instantly boarded her as officer on guard, and brought back two or three papers; and as I had seen none later than the 26th of May, I was glad to get a glance even at the "Morning Post". The leading article is about "the convict Mitchel", who is pronounced by that authority to be not only a convict but a scoundrel...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

Livy : [unknown]

'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the "Tenedos" - for I have been ten days on board - when Dr Hall entered my cabin in a violent hurry, accompanied by a negro boatman.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

[unknown] : [Abyssinia]

'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with some Portuguese missionary, and the remainder of it with Salt, or somebody else: you are never sure of your travelling companion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Russell (ed.) : [Palestine]

'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and find them to be of the same indigestible material.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Frazer (ed.) : [Persia]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Dean Swift : [Captain Crichton's autobiography]

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. Crichton was an old cavalry officer, an Irishman, who had served in Scotland under the bloodhound Dalzell, against the Covenanters: and as he could not tell his story decently himself, the Dean, while he was staying at Markethill, took down the facts from the old man and set them forth in his own words, but using the first person - Crichton loquente. The product is highly amusing: in every page you see a Dean of St Patrick's riding down the Whigamores, or a Sergeant Bothwell in canonicals thundering against Wood's Copper. But the best thing is that our admirable Dean makes Crichton (who did not care a button about the matter) deliver with bitter venom some of his, the Dean's, own Jonathan-Swiftean opinions about church government, and contradict and vituperate Bishop Burnet with an odium almost theological, and he a mere dragoon.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

William Gifford : [autobiography]

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... William Gifford's account of himself is somewhat conceited and pragmatical, yet natural and manful. I have a deep and secret sympathy with Gifford.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Thomas Elwood : [autobiography]

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... Elwood's, however, is by far the best of the three, and is indeed one of the most downright straightforward productions I have ever met with. What a book of books an autobiography might be made, if a man were found who would and could tell the whole truth and no more than the truth!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Homer : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Three Mousequetaires

'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's "Marquis de Letoriere", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called "Windsor Castle", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled "St Giles and St James".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Marquis de Letoriere

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Windsor Castle

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Douglas Jerrold : St Giles and St James

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

[n/a] : [London newspaper]

'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown from the door of my cell, and lighted at my feet. Picking up the object, I found it to be a London paper. The Halifax mail has arrived - I long for the hour when my cell is to be locked, and carefully hide my treasure till then. At last the chief mate has locked and bolted me up for the night. I light a candle, and with shaking hands spread forth my paper. Smith O'Brien has been found guilty, and sentenced to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and hanged. The other trials pending.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Freeman's Journal

'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indicium. The "Freeman's Journal", one number of which I have seen, ventures as a piece of incredible daring, to print some words used by Whiteside in his speech for the prisoners - words deprecatory of the packing of juries, or something of that sort. The editor ventures no remarks of his own, and carefully quotes Whiteside's words as "used by counsel".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Madame Pichler : [Siege of Vienna]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

[George] [Allan?] : [biography of Walter Scott]

'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, wherein the said advocate takes superior ground, looking down, as it were, ex cathedra, upon his subject, searching out the genesis, and tracing the development of this or the other power or faculty in that popular writer; and thus by philosophic histoire raisonnee, informing us how it fell out, to the best of his, the advocate's, knowledge that Walter Scott came to write the books he did, and at the times of his life, after the fashion he did... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid;...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Dr Memes [pseud?] : [Life of William Cowper]

'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, ... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid; yet it is far excelled in both these respects by another I am reading now, a life of Cowper, by Dr Memes (bookseller's hack literator of that name). Not that the writer is without genius; for he has succeeded in making a book as repulsive as it is possible for a book giving anything like a narrative of Cowper's life to be.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Francois Rabelais : [unknown]

'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Crampton, of Dame Street - and has kept me in good wholesome laughter for a fortnight - laughter of the sort that agitates the shoulders, and shakes the diaphragm, and makes the blood tingle; than which no medicine can be more cordial to me - I have read the cause of his effects in Galen.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Claudius Galen : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [various titles]

'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a junior sophister. The "Politeia", indeed, as a gentle exercise of my mind, I am writing out in literal bald English; which I do chiefly with a view to compel myself to read Greek accurately, and not to gobble it, bones and all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Plato : Dialogues

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Aristotle? : Politeia

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Sir Alexander Burnes : [Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus]

'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus". And, not to speak of the intrinsic merits of the work as a narrative of travel, which merits are moderate, it has become remarkable on account of events which have befallen since its publication. This Burnes was sent to those countries (in plain English) as a spy, to make observations and get intelligence which should be available to the Anglo-Indian government, in the project they had of invading, civilising, plundering, clothing in cotton, and finally subduing Lahore and Cabool.' [diary entry includes extracts from the book]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the "Blackwood's" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Aristotle? : Politeia

'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and strength to go through with it. On some days I have hardly strength to mend my pen, or strength of will to do so much as determine upon that important measure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Thomas Keightley : History of the War of Independence in Greece

'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full enough of incident certainly; for the author seems to give different versions of the same event as so many different transactions, and he ruthlessly kills more Greeks in the course of this war than there have been in all Greece at one time since the days of Philopoemen not to speak of incredible multitudes of Turks, whom he generally slays at least thrice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

[n/a] : Saturday Magazine

'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the worthy chaplain has lent me. There are six double volumes of this astounding rubbish; or more properly six strata - a huge deposit of pudding-stone, rubble, detritus and scoriae in six thick stratifications; containing great veins of fossil balderdash, and whole regions of what the Germans call "loss" and "trass"; amongst which, however, sometimes glances up a fragment of pure ore that has no business there, or a gleaming splinter of diamond illuminating the foul opacity. After an hour's digging and shovelling, I meet perhaps with an authentic piece of "noster" Thomas himself - there are two of those in the whole six beds - and once I turned up what made my heart leap - "The Forging of the Anchor" - which I straight away rolled forth till the tweak timbers rang. There are a great many not intolerable wood engravings in the volumes, and some readable topographical description: but on the whole the thing is of very base material - "Amusements in Science" - "Recreations in Religion" - no, but "Easy Lessons on Christian Evidences" - much apocryphol anecdotage of history, but, above all, abundant illustrations of British generosity, valour, humanity...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about the fifth time) "Ivanhoe" and "The Heart of the Mid-Lothian". My blessing on the memory of Walter Scott!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of the Mid-Lothian

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[uknown] : Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's History of England]

'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a "History of England". "Tait" gives copious extracts from which I easily perceive that the book is a piece of authentic Edinburgh Reviewing, declamatory in style, meagre in narrative, thoroughly corrupt in principle, as from all this man's essays on subjects of British history must have been expected.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a "History of England".' 'NB: Bothwell, V.D.L. 4 August 1851 - I have read the book itself here; for, having become one of the most popular books in the world, it is even in the village library of Bothwell. Mem. - It is a clever, base, ingenious, able and shallow political pamphlet in two volumes. This writer has the rare art of colouring a whole narrative by an apparently unstudied adjective or two, and telling stories of frightful falsehoods by one of the most graceful of adverbs. What is worse, the fellow believes in no human virtue - proves Penn a pimping parasite, because he hated penal laws; and makes a sort of Bromwicham hero out of the dull Dutch Deliverer'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other things, a signal defeat of the enemy in the Punjab, at the hands of the gallant Sikhs.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Daily News

'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its contents - political]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Freeman's Journal

'27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most reverentially, gave me some fine language, and very probably took notes of me. NB: So they did. I have just read in the Dublin "Freeman's Journal", the account which these worthy skippers gave of their interview. Bothwell, V.D.L., 12 August 1850.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying to some inquiries about me on the 3rd of April, spoke as follows...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-convict associations within that time.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

: Life of Southey

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubington: 'I have been reading [italics]Southey's Life[end italics]; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book [...] [has] helped me more than any sermon. Southey's hard work and pecuniary anxieties come home to me. His plodding on, longing to be free; and yet his perfect contentment.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

John Ruskin : Lectures on Architecture and Painting

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end italics] which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exaggerated tirades against Romanism, but they are full of wonderful thought, and an intense feeling for truth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

unknown : An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume)

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good deal, -- the second volume of [italics]Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life[end italics], which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and [italics]Hypatia[end italics] and two sermons of Dr. Pusey's against Germanism, and part of [italics]Hero Worship[end italics], to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of [italics]The Times[end italics] every evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Pusey : two sermons

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero-Worship

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

: pamphlets

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

: magazines

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

St Paul : Epistle to the Hebrews

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews. I have taken this epistle for a particular study this Lent. It is a great favourite of mine. In so many ways it comes home to one's everyday trials and needs. Thinking of my birthday [19 February] threw me back into the past, and the description of our Lord having been made perfect through suffering seemed to harmonise with the great lesson which I suppose we all learn as we go on in life, that whatever we have done, or said, or thought, which may be in any way of value [...] is the fruit of suffering.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [italics]Life of Miss Bronte[end italics]. Years ago, when [italics]Jane Eyre[end italics] came out I read it. People said it was coarse, and I felt it was, but I felt also that the person who wrote it was not necessarily coarse-minded, that the moral of the story was intended to be good; but that it failed in detail. The life is intensely, painfully interesting. A purer, more high-minded person it seems there could scarcely be, wonderfully gifted, and with a man's energy and power of will and passionate impulse; and yet gentle and womanly in all her ways [goes on to reflect upon Bronte's depressive temperament, and to characterise her religious feeling as 'abstract belief not personal love']'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Charles de Remusat : 'French Essays on Literature'

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]: 'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end italics] [sic] -- so clever they are! Charles de Remusat describes the French of the eighteenth century as "Des gens qui ne lisaient qu'afin de pouvoir parler". Could anything be more apt?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11th August. [describes political news in great detail]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire : Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868: 'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end italics]. He starts with premises open to much discussion, and all his arguments fall to the ground unless one can accept the premises.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : Quarterly Review

'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously, in American Art, and "Progress", and so forth - but is mainly solicitous that the Americans should - for their own sake, fo course - stay at peace. "For", says the generous reviewer, "As the future of America, to be a glorious future, must be a future of peace, so we would hope that it may be fruitful in all which embellishes and occupies and glorifies peace." - Most balmy language!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

[Duffy] : Nation

'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter loathing" of those who will say now that Ireland can win her rights by force. I thought so. The "Times" praises the new "Nation", and calls its first article "a symptom of returning sense in Ireland".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

anon : slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia]

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach: 'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is actually declared. We heard the news this morning as we were at breakfast in the [italics]Salle[end italics]. Some one (I think it was the master of the hotel) came up and laid before me a printed slip of paper. I had just been talking about railway trains, and thought this had something to do with them. When I read it you can understand the surprise.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: loose slip of paper

[n/a] : The Times

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[Barry] : Southern Reporter

'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels with Mr Duffy for keeping the independence of Ireland before men's eyes even as an ultimate and far-distant object; he is for "putting it in abeyance", that is, dropping it altogether... These poor creatures will soon have few readers among the country people.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

Joseph Brennan (ed) : Irishman

'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the editor is Joseph Brennan. This appears to be the true representative of the old "Nation"; but they have not a proper staff of competent writers for it. The "Irishman" professes to preach the doctrines of me, J.M. If I am their prophet and guide, I am like to lead my votaries and catechumens on a cruise to the Southern Ocean...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Rowe : Episodes in an Obscure Life

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire: 'I have been reading [italics]Episodes of an Obscure Life[end italics] [sic], and have made up my mind that I know as little of the life of the East End of London, or rather of the lives of the people, as I do of those of the angels. Write, or think, or work, as one may, there are thousands one could never reach, simply because one could not understand them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

: The Gentlewoman

From letter to Eleanor M. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written by 'M.H.', a former pupil of Elizabeth Sewell's, school, St Boniface (Ventnor), from North Adelaide, October 1906: 'I have just seen by the [italics]Gentlewoman[end italics], that my dear friend Miss Elizabeth Sewell has passed to her rest [goes on to reminisce about encounters with Sewell whilst living in London] [...]'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: M. H. Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Laneton Parsonage

From letter to Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written in 1889 by the Rev. J. J. Lias, to accompany a copy of one of his own published writings: 'I am sending this book in recognition of invaluable help rendered by you to me nearly half a century ago [...] When I first fell in with [italics]Laneton Parsonage[end italics] I was in a stage of sentimental evangelicalism in which the reading of good works and thinking of (perhaps) good thoughts was to me the whole of religion. When my tutor gave me [italics]Laneton Parsonage[end italics], its doctrine of baptismal grace and privileges at once inspired me [...] I never became an advanced High Churchman, but my sympathies have been with the common-sense practical Churchmanship you have taught in your books -- a Catholic Christianity which holds fast the Word of God and the Creeds, and honours the Sacraments.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J. J. Lias Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Preparation for the Holy Communion

From letter to Eleanor L. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written on 15 December 1906 by Miss [E.] Wordsworth , in response to appeal for thoughts and reminiscences regarding Sewell and her works: 'We are all apt to forget how much good there was in England before "Tractarianism" had become a potent influence in the Church. There is one little book [of Sewell's] that I should like to name [...] [italics]Preparation for the Holy Communion[end italics] by the author of [italics]Amy Herbert[end italics] [sic]. It was given me years ago, and I have found it very helpful. There is an earnestness and sobriety [...] in its tone, which makes it very suitable for many who would shrink from making use of the less restrained phraseology of more modern manuals.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wordsworth Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : works

Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'I think I had read all her books when at the age of fifteen [...] I was drifted under her [personal] influence.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor L. Sewell Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : works

Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Among many casual instances [of Elizabeth Missing Sewell's influence] is that of a girl who was detained at the foot of the Lollards' Tower, Lambeth, and showing her impatience of delay, was addressed by a little lady, who was also waiting her turn with a party, and asked to spend the time in learning more about the Lollards and the locality. The girl afterwards saw the lady's name in the visitors' book, was led to read her works and learnt for life the love of study, though she never met Miss Sewell again.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: Visitors' book, Lollards' Tower, Lambeth

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: The Times

Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Miss Sewell's arduous life-work came to an end [...] in 1890, and from that year to 1897 she kept up many outside activities [...] keenly interested in events of the day, reading the [italics]Times[end italics] aloud in the evening or some book of note.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Newspaper

unknown : ['books of note']

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Commercial Advertiser

'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation thereupon, formed part of the business of the [Anti-Convict] Association at its last meeting.' [copy of letters]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, and MacManus, in the "Swift", and Martin and O'Doherty in the "Elphinstone", all arrived at Hobart Town about the same time - that they have been allowed to live at large, but each within a limited district, [italics] and no two of them nearer than thirty or forty miles [close italics].'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

Lord Grey : [Dispatch from the Government respecting fate of convicts on ship]

'Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded his papers the burliest burglar held his breath for a time. Neptune to proceed firthwith to Van Diemen's Land; on arrival there prisoners to receive (in compensation for the hardships of their long voyage and detention) her Gracious Majesty's "conditional pardon" - except "the prisoner Mitchel", whose case, Lord Grey says, being entirely different from all the others, is reserved for separate consideration, but special instructions respecting it are to be forwarded to the governor of Van Diemen's Land. When the reader came to the exception of "the prisoner Mitchel", he raised his voice, and spoke with impressive solemnity. In a moment all eyes, of officers, sailors, prisoners, soldiers, were fastened on my face; if they read anything but scorn [in italics], then my face belied my heart.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Captain Bance Manuscript: Sheet

[n/a] : The Times [and other English newspapers]

'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - not to speak of the savage inhumanity of refusing victuals to the public services and to the poor sea-beaten convicts... I can find in these papers hardly anything relating to Ireland...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South African press...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate territory, about twelve miles in length... By the advertisements I see there at present no fewer than five ships at present laid on for California from the two ports, Hobart Town, south, and Launceston, north. There is now a brisk trade between Van Diemen's Land and San Francisco...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

Patrick O'Donohue (editor) : Irish Exile

'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a newspaper called the "Irish Exile", enclosing me a copy of the last number, and proposing that [italics] I should join him [close italics] in the concern. ...The thing is a hideous absurdity altogether: but I am glad to learn that none of my friends takes anything to do with it; though I suppose it assumes to be a sort of "organ" for them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [Irish newspapers]

'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with many wry faces, and sometimes tells me part of the news.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Martin Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Colonial Times

'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "Colonial Times", a well-conducted Hobart Town paper, which warmly urged that meetings should be held, and petitions adopted by all the colonists, both of Van Diemen's Land and Australia, praying for the "pardon" of all those gentlemen known as the "Irish State Prisoners". When I saw the article this morning, I immediately wrote a short letter to the "Times", commencing thus - I suppose - it will be accounted another act of "contempt"...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the "Government" for their indulgence and clemency to the Irish prisoners. Now, the truth is, the exceptions which are made in our case to the ordinary treatment of real convicts, are all exceptions against [italics] us.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

Marie Corelli : Sorrows of Satan

'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? contempt.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Some technical elements of style in literatue

'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly Review of 1881, on ?some technical elements of style in literature.? You must read it when you come up; it is profoundly interesting to a craftsman. . . . I read the thing last night in bed?after an evening at Chapman?s?& was made to think thereby.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Dr Peter Mark Roget : Thesaurus

'. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at words that you know but can?t think of at the moment, that I have encountered. . . I bought it about a year ago, & wonder how I ever did without it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Ivan Sergevich Turgenev : On the Eve

'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you must read). 2. de Maupassant. 3. de Goncourts. 4. George Moore?the great author who can neither write nor spell! Stevenson only helps me in minute details of style.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Edmund and Jules de Goncourt : Renee Mauperin

'. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the principles of its construction is both 'entertaining & instructive.' My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you must read). 2. de Maupassant. 3. de Goncourts. 4. George Moore?the great author who can neither write nor spell! Stevenson only helps me in minute details of style.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Moore : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure

'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little actual criticism, I imagine it to give a sort of impression of the book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Paston : A Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study in Prejudices

'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) whose 3 books I have consistently belauded wants to behold me in the flesh, & she is going to; I like her work much.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Moore : A Modern Lover

'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

[unknown] : [trial of Governor Wale]

'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he is condemned to be hanged for flogging a man to death when Governor of the Island of Goree about 20 years ago. He seems to deserve his fate but it is a horrible thing for his wife and family'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Betsey and Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

[possibly] Eusebius : [possibly] The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

'Spent a very agreeable day at home; had a delightful lesson of Cramer; wrote a long letter to Angelo, and amused myself in reading the "History of the Church". Was particularly struck with the character of Pulcheria Theodosius's sister'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Wynne Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Wynne Print: Book

Paschal - or perhaps this is the title of a work : Frere Paschal - or perhaps Paschal is the author

'I began to work myself a Chemisette - read "Frere Paschal" and laughed most violently as well as Eugenia'..

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Wynne Print: Book

[unknown] : Sermons

'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suffering for a time'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Unknown

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : [Letters]

'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Wynne Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : [Letters]

'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Wynne Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed reading the bible' [according to Harriet Wynne]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Justina Wynne Print: Book

Ivan Sergevich Turgenev : Smoke

'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other soul. He is simply unspeakable. I will ram this statement down your throat when I see you, with the book in front of us.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Sarah Stickney Ellis : Family Secrets

'I am occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called "Family Secrets", it is a compound of unnatural occurrences but being embarked on it I am dommed to wade through five volumes', it belongs to the Purser's Steward'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Book

Ivan Sergevich Turgenev : On the Eve

"'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set it down as the greatest within my knowledge."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho

'I read in the evening the "Mysteries of Udolpho" which Lucy sent me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Wynne Print: Book

Edmond and Jules de Goncourt : Germinie Lacerteux

'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

A.C. Swinburne : review of 'The Golden Age'

'What a lift for 'The Golden Age' in today?s Chronicle.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

George Sturt : A Year's Exile

'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I have, however, snatched 20 minutes for the first two chapters. The first, to me, at first reading, is somewhat shadowy, but the second, my pippin, is positively masterly.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Unknown

George Sturt : A Year's Exile

'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not be refused by John Lane for reasons artistic. ? It is one of the most genuinely original novels that I have ever read; I don?t mean original in design, but in the outlook of the author.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

John Buchan : Reader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Bennett

'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, & quite free from fault finding except as to one trifling & quite inessential point. There was a rider that in John Buchan?s opinion it would not be popular. Lane said, I will publish your novel.?

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

William Watson : Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII

`My dear Watson: Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Ode, in such circumstances as the present. If the Coronation should never come off, future generations will add a footnote to the verses - then no longer copywright! - to remind readers of their remarkable history; which though it will not increase the value of what is intrinsially so fine, will lend a curious secondary intersst to them. However, as the Coronation will probably happen after all, it is useless to speculate in this way. I will not attempt to criticise. All I can say is that the Ode struck me on a first reading & still impresses me, as being a piece of your very highest work; & to reach the level of your former productions is no mean achievement. Ideas & execution are singularly sustained throughout. I cannot find any place where they dip or falter: & my regret at coming to the last page was that there was no more of the poem. Believe me Sincerely yours Thomas Hardy`

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book

Ivan Sergevich Turgenev : A Sportsman's Sketches

'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next time you come to London. These sketches are obviously records of things seen & heard by the author during his sporting tours, records devoid of literary artfulness, but chocked full of the art of observation, I know that you will be both delighted & edified by them, I read some of them a few years ago, & thought they were tame and lacked form. Now I know better.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: Bible and Prayer Book

'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The service was scarcely finished when a clannish row commenced. Sine tribes from a neighbouring fort who have a blood feud with the chiefs with us came against the fort: a few juzails were fired; there was a great talking and noise; and then it was all over.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Florentia Sale Print: Book

Edith Wharton : A Son at the Front

'I'm reading "A Son at the Front" in book form. The wife reads serials in magazines which I don't.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rudyard Kipling Print: Book

Stendhal : De l'amour

'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & full of common-sense. I think he must be a great man. It was Miss Symonds mentioned the book to me, though she hadn?t read it herself.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

William Forbes-Mitchell : Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9

'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the table, and the reader had to suspend operations, choking upon sobs. They were tears of pride and sympathy. I beg to offer you this family anecdote as a testimony to the success of your reminiscences. Of making books there is said to be no end, and I have made many. But if I could only think once, before I died, that I had given so much and such noble pleasure to a reader, I should be more than rewarded. You have made me proud and glad to be a Scotsman.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Lawrence L. Lynch : Shadowed by Three: A Detective Story

One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook and on cuffs. There was a bewildered air among them as they glanced at each other. They were all of the intelligentsia and considered themselves well up in modern literature, yet here was a name they had never heard. Louis was being perfectly truthful. He had been reading 'Shadowed by Three' and 'Dashing Kate, the Female Detective', shilling shockers that amused him so much he had noted the author's name and was looking for more of his works.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

: Dashing Kate, the Female Detective

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Robert Browning :

Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bending forward, his hands clasped, he gazed expectant, while Louis read over the poem. Alas, for the hero worshipper! This is what the Master said: 'I'm damned if I know what it means. It reads like cat's meat to me.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu

Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table he stood before us with a manuscript in his hand...then in his deep voice vibrant with emotion, with heightened colour and blazing eyes he read aloud the 'Father Damien Letter.' Never in my life have I heard anything so dramatic, so magnificent. There was deep feeling in every sentence - scorn, indignation, biting irony, infinite pity - and invective that fairly scorched and sizzled. The tears were in his eyes when he finished. Throwing the manuscript on the table he turned to his wife. She who had never failed him, rose to his feet, and holding out both hands to him in a gesture of enthusiasm, cried: 'Print it! Publish it!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson : Weir of Hermiston

After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, and when he had finished he welcomed suggestions and we were free to say whatever we liked. Usually we were unanimously enthusiastic, especially over chapters of 'Weir of Hermiston'...once, however, he read a story called 'The Witch Woman' that none of us cared for very much. My mother said it showed the influence of a Swedish author Louis had been reading, and was not in his own clear, individual style. She made no comment when he sent it to his publisher, and nothing more was heard of 'The Witch Woman'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson : The Witch Woman

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

: Bible

'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of St James, such passages as say that a man is not justified by faith alone, but by faith and works, which often embarrassed me not a little. However, I comforted myself with the conceit of having more texts of Scripture on my side of the question than she had on her side. As to St James, I was almost ready to conclude, that he was not quite orthodox, and so at last I did not much mind what he said.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

: Bible

'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

[n/a] : [Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books]

Sunday 18 October: 'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was bibles and prayer books and hyme books so it was opened and we had the books it begins at 11 Oclock i think of you when 2 Oclock comes, and them we go to Dinner and spend the rest of the day how we can reading and singing'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Steley Print: Book

[n/a] : [funeral service]

Monday 26 October 'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't care how soon, we get ther A child died today it is a verry serrous thing they sowe the body up in a rug then they get a plank and let the body go down the shool master Reed the furnell sevice'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Tate Wilkinson : The memoirs of Mr Tate Wilkinson

'Since the publication of the first edition of these memoirs, I have read "The Memoirs of Mr. Tate Wilkinson" patentee of the Theatres Royal of York and Hull, and was much surprized to learn that the famous Ned Shuter was a gracious soul.' [Lackington goes on to quote a long passage from this work, vol iii, page 27; and pages 5 & 6].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

[unknown] : Death Notch the Avenging Rancher

Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging Rancher" Made very little headway.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Newton Barton Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [Bulletin]

13 Mar 'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the accordeon. Luce is reading a bulletin 2 years old. Nosey is at the wheel and the others are on deck.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Luce

Sophie Cottin : Mathilde

'I read a French novel, "Matilde", which interested me much and is extremely well written - by Mde Cottin'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Fremantle Print: Book

Thomas Skinner Surr : A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion

'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a very good Novel - Some of the characters such as the Duchess of Devonshire, Duchess of Girdon, and Sir Walter Farquhar are admirably delineated in it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

[n/a] : Gibraltar Chronicle

'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to do with such a shocking murder'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure

'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Henry VI

'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Unknown

: Daily Mail

'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're still a bit poor. Yes, I should like to see more sports news. It'd be a bit of a diversion from all our troubles, wouldn't it?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: News of the world

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Dick Shepherd : unknown

'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined the Under Thirty movement where I heard a debate on Pacifism. I read a book by Dick Shepherd about the PPU, but did not think of joining it. Also a book called "Why War?" and parts of Aldous Huxley's "Encyclopaedia of Pacifism." At first books were the main influence and then debates developed it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Aldous Huxley : Encyclopaedia of pacifism

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Adolf Hitler : [a speech]

'I read it three times, and I can't make head or tail of it. Doesn't seem nothing in it somehow.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scarf on her head. With her she brought two blankets, two cushions, some sweets and a book. She came with a man of 35, presumably her husband, and another of 50. At first she lay on the bench in the position marked 6 in the diagram with her head against a case; later she lay on the floor. At first she read, but by 10 o'clock she put the book away. Until one o'clock she lay doing nothing, twice falling asleep for a few minutes but both times waking up again soon.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book, Unknown

unknown : prayer

'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there was only a low degree of interest, and in Westminster Abbey at 11 a.m. there were 7 civilians, one soldier and 4 poppy-sellers outside ; 30 women and 5 men at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, where a priest read a prayer, and there were five wreaths. The level of reaction generally was exceedingly low, even when compared with Nov. 11th, 1939.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: [a priest] anon Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible

'Then I became seized with a desire to know something about religion, and I read the commandments over and over again, as well as those portions of the Bible which I could understand. I was particularly struck with the words: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work", etc. "It is not right for me to work on Sundays," I said to myself, and communicated my impression to the supervisor.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Jeffrey Print: Book

Homer : Illiad

'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of rascaldom which has educated so many criminal characters in this country; then graduated in the "School", and ultimately became a noted burglar. His reading in prison had been pretty extensive, while his intelligence would have insured him a position in society above that of a labouring man... I could not help looking upon it as a very novel experience, for even this grotesque world, to have to listen to a man who could delight in a literary discussion, quote all the choice parts of Pope's "Illiad", and boast of having read Pascal and Lafontaine in the original, maintain, in sober argument, that "thieving was an honourable pursuit", and that religion, law, patriotism and bodily disease were the real and only enemies of humanity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Blaise Pascal : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Jean de La Fontaine : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [pestilent literature of rascaldom]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Charles Bossut : Essai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiques

'It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathematics, at this time, where perhaps there may be something new to you'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

John Leyden : 'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye'

[Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am not much deceived you will thank me, for transcribing you the following poem of his, composed on (Wellington, then) Wellesl[e]y's victory at Assaye, while Leyden was in India. -I met with it in "the Spy" a kind of periodical thing published the other year in Edinr.' Shout, Britons, for the battle of Assaye; For that was a day, When we stood in our array, Like the Lion's might at bay; And our battle-word was CONQUER OR DIE Rouse, rouse the cruel leopard from his lair, With his yell the mountain rings; And his red eye round he flings, As arrow-like he springs, And spreads his clutching paw to rend and tear. Then first array'd in battle front we saw, Far as the eye could glance, The Mahratta banners dance, O'er the desolate expanse And their standard was the leopard of Malwa. But when we first encounter'd man to m[an] Such odds came never on, Against Greece or Macedon, When they shook the Persian throne, Mid the old barbaric pomp of Ispahan. No number'd might of living could tam[e] Our gallant band that broke Through the bursting clouds of smoke, When the vollied thunder spoke From a thousand mouldering mouths of lurid fla[me] Hail, Wellesl[e]y who led the mortal fray Amid the locust swarm, Dark fate was in thy arm; And thy shadow shall alarm The Mahratta at thy name, from this day. Ah! Mark these British corses on the plain, Each vanish'd like a star, 'Mid the dreadful ranks of war, While the women stood afar, And gaz'd in silent terror at the slain. Shout, Britons, for the battle of Assaye; Ye who perish'd in your prime, Your hallow'd names sublime, Shall live to ceaseless time; Your heroic worth and fame shall never die. Can any thing be grander? - what fire! what energy! -if there is any thing in existence that surpasses this, it must be Hoenli[nden]?but what is like Hoenlinden? -Tell me in your next, what you think of this piece - Is not, think you, "From a thousand mouldering mouths of lurid flame" misprinted somehow? would "smouldering" do any better?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : [Works]

'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -which is his masterpiece. He is always excellent'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Thomas Murray : [critique of William Nicholson's works in 'The Courier']

'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition to the error in the signature. 'Tis a matter of no consequence - only it [italics]ruffles[end italics] in the mean-time. Our Bard has at length compelled them to print his poetry - and prose too, for, was not that same [italics]Blattum-Bulgium[end italics] disquisition his? And had not he a letter last week "on Burns"? - What a flo[w] of language - what a strength of epithet he pos[s]esses!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

W. Scott Irving : [poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

W. Scott Irving : [essays on Burns and monuments]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Maclaurin : [writings quoted in a letter from Thomas Murray to Carlyle]

'I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense of the word, the melody of his native mountains; - and who can doubt, that, in a short time he will chaunt right pleasantly, with Celtic sweetness the praises and perfections of this [underscored twice]lamb of his heart[end underscoring]!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Letter

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spite of all one's efforts to the contrary - and to entertain Miss M., I took up a Tristram Shandy; and read her one of the very best jokes within the boards of the book - Ah-h-h-h! sighed Miss M. and put on a look of right tend[er] melancholy!! - Now. - Did the smallest glimmering of reason appea[r]? Never.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas Murray : [article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence']

'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting representation of the Calamities of Literary men, in the last Courier;- replying in the negative, she handed me the paper: - and judge of my surprise when, looking at the bottom, I recognised the signature of Mr. Murray - You will readily conceive, I read it with additional interest on this account - but allow me to remark (and this is all the Critique I design to pass on it) that it needed no such adventitious circumstance to recommend it. The melancholy truth which it contains, and the elegant sympathysing manner in which it is told, speak for themselves. - In sober sadness, now, did you really see that same melancholy old author, at Merchiston? - or is he not a creature of Mr. Murray's brain? Tell me whether I am right in being inclined to adopt the latter opinion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Jeffrey : Edinburgh Review

'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so much of his time on Politics; and I rejoice in the prospect [(for] this is one of the advantages of Peace!) that in a short [time] he will not have this in his power. He must be an extra-ordinary man. No subject however hackneyed, but he has the art of extracting some new thought out of it. The introduction to the Critiq[ue] on Byron is in my opinion admirable?so acute so philosophical: - None but a man of keen penetration, and deep research could have written such a thing - Even the present state of Europe is interesting in his hands.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Sophie Cottin : Elisabeth, ou les exiles de Siberie

'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Siberia", "Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem", "Oberon" translated from the German by Southeby, "Beatties Minstrel", Savage's poems, Fenelons "lives of ancient Philosophers" and "the Miseries of Human life" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

James Beattie : The Minstrel

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown

Christoph Wieland : Oberon. Ein Gedicht in 14 Gesangen

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown

John Hoole : Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown

Richard Savage : [Poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown

Francois Fenelon : Abrege des vies des anciens philosophes

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

James Beresford : Miseries of Human Life

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Robert Mitchell : [a mathematical paper]

'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moffat) were sunk in politics, post-horses, farming &c &c. I took out my friend's theorem, and leaving the base clod-hoppers to welter on among drains and dunghills and bullocks and balances of power -I entered Dumfries wholly disengaged from sublunary things; and well nigh perswaded that an angle [underscored twice]might [end underscore] be trisected'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : [Poems]

'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. Byron's and Scott's "Poems" I have read and must admire - tho' you recollect, we used to give Campbell a de[cided] preference - and I still think, with justice. Have you ever seen Hoole's "Tas[so?]" I have among many others read, it, "Leonidas", "The Epigoniad", "Oberon", "Savage[e's] Poems" &.c. Miss Porter's "Scottish Chiefs" and "Waverl[e]y" have been the principal of my Novels - With regard to "Waverl[e]y" I cannot help remarking t[hat] in my opinion it is the best novel that has been published these thirty years. The characters of Ebenezer Cru[i]ckshank[s] mine host of the garter, the Reverend Mr. Gowk - thrapple and Squire Bradwardian display a Cervantic vein of humour which has seldom been surpassed - whilst the descriptions of the gloomy caverns of the Highlands, and the delineations of the apathic Callum Beg and enterprising Vich Ian Vohr show a richness of [italics]Scottean[end italics] colouring which few have equalled. Give me your opinion of it if you have read it; - and if not - endeavour by all means to procure it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Walter Scott : [Poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Richard Glover : Leonidas, A Poem

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

William Wilkie : The Epigoniad

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jane Porter : The Scottish Chiefs, A Romance

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley

'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these thirty years - at least, that I know of. Eben. Cruickshanks, mine host of The Seven Golden Candlesticks, and Mr. Gifted Gilfillan, are described in the spirit of Smollett or Cervantes. Who does not shed a tear for the ardent Vich Ian Vohr, and the unshaken Evan Dhu, when perishing amid the shouts of an English mob, they refuse to swerve from their principles? And who will refuse to pity the marble Callum Beg, when, hushed in the strife of death, he finishes his earthly career on Clifton Moor, far from the blue mountains of the North, without one friend to close his eyes? 'Tis an admirable performance. Is Scott still the reputed author?' Editor's addition: [In this letter Carlyle mentions reading Euler's ?Algebra,? 1 Addison's ?Freeholder,? 2 Cuvier's ?Theory of the Earth,? 3 Moli?re's ?Comedies,? the monthly reviews, critical journals, etc.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Leonhard Euler : Elements of Algebra

'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these thirty years - at least, that I know of. Eben. Cruickshanks, mine host of The Seven Golden Candlesticks, and Mr. Gifted Gilfillan, are described in the spirit of Smollett or Cervantes. Who does not shed a tear for the ardent Vich Ian Vohr, and the unshaken Evan Dhu, when perishing amid the shouts of an English mob, they refuse to swerve from their principles? And who will refuse to pity the marble Callum Beg, when, hushed in the strife of death, he finishes his earthly career on Clifton Moor, far from the blue mountains of the North, without one friend to close his eyes? 'Tis an admirable performance. Is Scott still the reputed author?' Editor's addition: [In this letter Carlyle mentions reading Euler's ?Algebra,?1 Addison's ?Freeholder,?2 Cuvier's ?Theory of the Earth,?3 Moli?re's ?Comedies,? the monthly reviews, critical journals, etc.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Free-holder, I-LV

'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these thirty years - at least, that I know of. Eben. Cruickshanks, mine host of The Seven Golden Candlesticks, and Mr. Gifted Gilfillan, are described in the spirit of Smollett or Cervantes. Who does not shed a tear for the ardent Vich Ian Vohr, and the unshaken Evan Dhu, when perishing amid the shouts of an English mob, they refuse to swerve from their principles? And who will refuse to pity the marble Callum Beg, when, hushed in the strife of death, he finishes his earthly career on Clifton Moor, far from the blue mountains of the North, without one friend to close his eyes? 'Tis an admirable performance. Is Scott still the reputed author?' Editor's addition: [In this letter Carlyle mentions reading Euler's ?Algebra,?1 Addison's ?Freeholder,?2 Cuvier's ?Theory of the Earth,?3 Moli?re's ?Comedies,? the monthly reviews, critical journals, etc.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Georges Cuvier : 'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles des quadrupedes

'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these thirty years - at least, that I know of. Eben. Cruickshanks, mine host of The Seven Golden Candlesticks, and Mr. Gifted Gilfillan, are described in the spirit of Smollett or Cervantes. Who does not shed a tear for the ardent Vich Ian Vohr, and the unshaken Evan Dhu, when perishing amid the shouts of an English mob, they refuse to swerve from their principles? And who will refuse to pity the marble Callum Beg, when, hushed in the strife of death, he finishes his earthly career on Clifton Moor, far from the blue mountains of the North, without one friend to close his eyes? 'Tis an admirable performance. Is Scott still the reputed author?' Editor's addition: [In this letter Carlyle mentions reading Euler's ?Algebra,?1 Addison's ?Freeholder,?2 Cuvier's ?Theory of the Earth,?3 Moli?re's ?Comedies,? the monthly reviews, critical journals, etc.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Moliere [pseud.] : [Comedies]

'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these thirty years - at least, that I know of. Eben. Cruickshanks, mine host of The Seven Golden Candlesticks, and Mr. Gifted Gilfillan, are described in the spirit of Smollett or Cervantes. Who does not shed a tear for the ardent Vich Ian Vohr, and the unshaken Evan Dhu, when perishing amid the shouts of an English mob, they refuse to swerve from their principles? And who will refuse to pity the marble Callum Beg, when, hushed in the strife of death, he finishes his earthly career on Clifton Moor, far from the blue mountains of the North, without one friend to close his eyes? 'Tis an admirable performance. Is Scott still the reputed author?' Editor's addition: [In this letter Carlyle mentions reading Euler's ?Algebra,?1 Addison's ?Freeholder,?2 Cuvier's ?Theory of the Earth,?3 Moli?re's ?Comedies,? the monthly reviews, critical journals, etc.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Henry Coventry : Philemon to Hydaspes: or the history of false religion in the earlier pagan world related in a series of coversations

'I also received great benefits from reading Coventry's Philemon to Hydaspes; it consists of dialogues on false religion, extravagant devotion, etc. in which are many very curious remarks on visionaries of various ages and sects. This work is complete in five parts octavo. There has also been a decent Scotch edition, published in twelves, both editions are now rather scarce.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Stewart Lewis : [Poems]

[Carlyle apologises for not having written sooner, saying he has been waiting until he has procured a copy of Stewart Lewis' poems which he now has] 'It is imperfect, but I believe wants only two pages at each end?and at any rate it [is] the best, indeed only one, I could get hold of.' Upon reperusing the volume, I feel more and more confident, that it contains poems, which if properly selected and given to the world along with the other productions of its Author, would secure him both honour and emoluments: - I am not going to enter into any critical detail of their merits; but I cannot help [ob]serving, that had Lewis never written any thing else, than [the] ?verses on the death of an only son? - and the song ?Wandering Ma[ry?-] his title to the name of poet would have been undisputed. The volume indeed abounds with a strain of original thought and fee[ling] which is not always to be met with in books of the kind. [And] for the want of which, a thousand ban-dogs and dun-[de]er and donjon-keeps and Ladyes fair can never compensate'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?] : review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilites

'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on Hume's doctrine - "The Christian Instructor" attacks him with considerable asperity - and, I think, success. Hume's essays, I have not read - and therefore cannot condemn - The evidence of testimony, too, no doubt has its limits - But as far as I can judge, all that is urged either by La Place or His reviewer - does not at all affect Christianity.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Pierre Simon Laplace : Essai philosophique sur les probabilites

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown novel]

[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you will not wonder that I took up the first book that came in my way - and tho' it was the dullest of all dull books, yet by a fatality attendant on those things, I could not give it up. It purported to be a "history of a lover" - showing how Cecilia (somebody) being poor but honest went to Paris, with some Brandy Irish Dowager (of Tipperary) and was much astounded at their goings on - yet very much liked by the beaux. Shewing how after divers trials and temptations she married with a lord (something) who had been a very great rascal in his early days but was now become a most delectable personage; how the[y] lived in great harmony of souls till the honest man one day riding on som[e] wold and happening to fall from his beast in the presence of this notable lady, she fell into hystericks or convulsions and was taken home in a wo[e]ful plight - where she loitered on till she was "brought to bed", when she took her leave of the good man and all the world - Would you believe me, I read & read this horrid story & might have been reading yet had not a most dolorous ode to Matrimonial - no "Monody on the Death of a beloved" &c compelled me to throw past the book; and set to writing you a letter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jane Porter : Thaddeus of Warsaw

'Great and manifold are the books I have read since I saw you. You recommended "Thaddeus of Warsaw" long ago you may remember - and the work in my judgement fully deserves it. Miss Porter has no wit - she invariably bungles a picture of the conversatio[n] of ordinary persons, whenever she attempts it - why does she delight in unfolding the forward weaknesses of the female heart, and making even Mary Beaufort love first? - Yet with all her deficiencies she is interesting; - never failing to excite our sympathy, tho she cannot rank with our Fielding or Smollett?she infinitely surpasses the insipid froth of "The mob of Gentlemen, who write with ease".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Cicero : De Officiis

'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot think your time mis[s]pent. It consists of letters addressed to his son - and if we compare the steady, affectionate, unbending precepts of the venerable Roman - with the only work of a similar kind in our own times - Chesterfield's advice - we shall blush for the eighteenth century!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

John Biggs : [conversion narrative]

'I was one day called aside, and a hand-bill was given me; and thinking it to be a quack doctor's bill for a certain disease, I expressed my suprise at its being given to me in such a particular manner; but on reading it, I found it contained a particular account of the wonderful conversion of a John Biggs, when he was twenty-one years of age. Mr Biggs says, that ever since that time he has had communion with God his Father every hour. He publishes this bill (he says) for the glory of God; but that the public might have an opportunity of dealing with this wonderful saint and perfectly holy man, he put his address in capitals, John Biggs, No. 98 Strand. I keep this bill as a curiosity.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Handbill

: Telegraph

'Well, I've only read the Telegraph, and I don't like it. Everything is contradicted later.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Voltaire [pseud.] : La Pucelle d'Orleans

'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Voltaire. This Mock-Heroic illustrates several things -First that the French held Voltaire a sort of demigod - secondly (and consequently) that they were wrong in so doing - and thirdly that the said Voltaire is the most impudent, blaspheming, libidinous blackgaurd [sic] that ever lived.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Ministry of Information : public information leaflets

'I have read the four PIL which we have had . They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, but sometimes they have tried to put things too clearly, almost childishly, and seem to underrate the intelligence of the public.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

Cicero : De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum

'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is such a charm connected with attending to the feelings and principles of a man over whom "the tide of years has rolled". We are entertained even with a common sentiment; and when we meet with a truth which we ourselves had previously discovered, we are delighted with the idea that our minds are similar to that of the venerable Roman'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of their northern neighbours: and notwithstanding the high admiration they pay to Stewarts talents, the[y] differ from him in almost all his results - because they disbelieve his principles - the "first principles" of Dr. Reid. Their opinion (and they give no reasons), on a point of this nature, is of little consequence. All the prejudices natural to Englishmen, they entertain in their full extent - and always modify their decisions accordingly[.] For my part, tho' far be it from me to attempt to disparage or vilipend this great man - I cannot help thinking, that, the perusal of his book has done me hurt. Perpetually talking about analysing perceptions, & retiring within ones self, & mighty improvements that we are to make?no one knows how, - I believe, he will generally leave the mind of his reader?crowded with disjointed notions & nondescript ideas - which the sooner he gets rid of, the better. I know you think differently; but de gustibus non est disputandum [concerning taste it is needless to dispute, ed. note]; and very probably, the fault is not with the Author - but his subject'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

William Rowe Lyall : [review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

anon : [review in the Quarterly Review of Scott's Guy Mannering]

'"Guy Mannering" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question their competency here - you will probably admit that "the Dutch boors of Mannering tho' never so well painted, must cause a different class of sensations from those excited by the Salvator banditti of Waverl[e]y." - Yet the only extract they give (the departure of the gypsies, and Meg Merrilies' address to Ellangowan) is very much in the Salvator stile.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

anon. : [review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara]

'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some time ago.' [there follow Carlyle's observations on Mitchell's account of the plot; apparently Carlyle has not yet read the poem]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

David Hume : Essays Moral, Political and Literary

'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has prejudices, he does maintain errors - but he defends his positions, with so much ingenuity, that one would be almost sorry to see him dislodged. His Essays on "Superstition & Enthusiasm", on "the Dignity & meanness of Human Nature" and several others, are in my opinion admirable both in matter & manner: - particularly the first where his conclusions might be verified by instances, with which we are all acquainted. The manner, indeed, of all is excellent: - the highest & most difficult effect of art - the appearance of its absence - appears throughout. But many of his opinions are not to be adopted - How odd does it look for instance to refer all the modifications of "National character", to the influence of moral causes. Might it not be asserted with some plausibility, that even those which he denominates moral causes, originate from physical circumstances? Whence but from the perpetual contemplation of his dreary glaciers & rugged glens - from his dismal broodings in his long & almost solitary nights, has the Scandinavian conceived his ferocious Odin, & his horrid "spectres of the deep"? Compare this with the copper-castles and celestial gardens of the Arabian - and we must admit that physical causes have an influence on man. I read "the Epicurean," "the Stoic," "the Platonist" & "the Sceptic" under some disadvantage. They are perhaps rather clumsily executed - and the idea of David Hume declaiming, nay of David Hum[e] making love appears not less grotesque than would that of ad ? -oc [covered by seal: d]ancing a French cotillon. As a whole however [I am de]lig[hted w]ith the book, and if you can want it, I shall mo[reover] give it a second perusal.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Russell Thorndyke : Dr Syn

'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my eyes off the pages, nor my mind from unfolding the plot at express speed. Otherwise, apart from plays which I have to read straight off preferably after a large dinner in order to get full advantage of dramatic technicalities such as Irony, I like to read at leisure. I have said I read fairly slowly taking in each word. I dislike reading by snippets - just as I dislike reading with the wireless on - but I find it hard to read more than one half of a heavy book at one time, for slow reading makes it a long job and also gives you a lot to chew. Two hours is my optimum stretch, this does not apply to light reading or reading when ill in bed.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Russell Thorndyke : The return of Dr. Syn

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri, (of which a most delectable account is given in the Quarterly), Joanna Southcott, &c &c. I have been revising Akenside, since I saw you. - He pos[s]esses a warm imagination & great strength & beauty of diction. His poem, you know, does not like Campbell's "Hope" consist of a number of little incidents told in an interesting manner - & selected to illustrate his positions - it is little else than a moral declamation. Nevertheless I like it. Akenside was an enthusiastic admirer of the ancient republics and of the ancient philosophers - He thought highly of Lord Shaftesbury's principles & had a bad opinion of Scotsmen. For this last peculiarity, he has been severely caricatured by Smollet[t] in his Peregrine Pickle - under the character of the fantastic English Doctor in Franc[e] - When we mention Shaftesbury - is his book in your pos[s]ession, and can you let me have a reading of it?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : [essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke's Travels]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Mark Akenside : Night Thoughts

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Peregrine Pickle

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

David Hume : Essays Moral, Political and Literary

'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenious production - characterised by acuteness and originality, in all its parts. I have not room to tell you where I agree with its Author, and where I differ; nor how highly I admire his reasoning powers. What pity that he is a Deist! How much might his strong talents have accomplished in the cause of truth, when they did so much in that of error! It is indeed melancholy to behold so many men of talent, in our times all leaning to the same side - but I am much inclined to believe, that the reign of infidelity is past its height.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Lectures on Rhetoric

'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: I was in no particular want of it & you ought certainly to have done with the money whatever your situation required. - One is apt to be put about, when obliged to equip for such an expedition as yours. - The Italian grammar is hardly calculated for me - but answers in the mean time. The Novelle morale is an excellent book for the purpose'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[unknown] : [an Italian Grammar]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Francesco Soave : Novelle Morali

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

Davitt meets with a fellow prisoner released on ticket-of-leave: '"I promised you", he exclaimed upon meeting me, "that I would live 'on the square' in future, and here is evidence of a commencement," showing me at the same time a copy of the "Daily Telegraph" with an advertisement as follows: - "Wanted, two hundred barmaids." "That", remarked "Jerry", "is simply to arrest the attention of the fair sex, and case them to read what follows. 'Extraordinary triumph of science! Marvellous results to health and complexion from the use of Fitzjerry's skin purifier. Freckles and disfiguring marks removed by one phial. To be had only of respectable druggists."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Davitt Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Dugald Stewart : The Life and Writings of William Robertson

'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of book - unworthy, however, of Stewart. Dr Smith is a man of much research, & appears to understand completely all the bearings of his complicated subject. I have read his first and second volumes with much pleasure. He always writes like a philosopher. With regard to Lord Kames - his works are generally all an awkward compound of ingenuity and absurdity and in this volume the latter quality it appears to me, considerably preponderates. It is Metaphysical; upon Belief, identity, Necessity &c &c and I devoutly wish that no friend of mine may ever come to study it - unless he wish to learn - To weave fine cobwebs fit for scull That's empty when the moon is full. - and in that case he cannot study under a more proper master.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Adam Smith : The Wealth of Nations

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Benjamin Thomson Count Rumford : Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical

'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it would be proper to study Rumfords essays, Mackenzies travels, Humboldts New Spain, Berkeley's principles of knowledge, Stewarts essays, Simson's fluxions &c &c &c - It was some great man's advice, to every person in a hurry - never to do more than one thing at a time. Judge what progress I must have made - when I engaged in half-a-dozen. - Manufacturing theses - wrestling with lexicons, Chemical experiments, Scotch philosophy and Berkeleian Metaphysics - I have scarcely sufficient strength left, to write you even now. Upon consideration, therefore, of these egregious labours - I hope, you cannot refuse to forgive me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

George Stewart Mackenzie : Travels in the Island of Iceland during the summer of 1810

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Thoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous Editor

'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published by Debrett, Vol.i. page 11. Bayle (says he) has acutely proved that Fanaticism is more pernicious than Atheism. This is incontestable. What he has been very careful, however, not to mention, and, what is not less true is, that Fanaticism, although sanguinary and cruel, is still an exalted passion, which elevates the heart of man, raises him above the fear of death, multiplies his resources exceedingly, and which only wants to be better directed, to be productive of the most sublime virtues. (He adds) The argumentative spirit of controversy and philosophy, on the contrary, attaches us to life, enervates and debases the soul, concentrates all passions in the baseness of self-interest, and thus gradually saps the real foundation of all society.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Friedrich von Humboldt : Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

George Berkeley : Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : Philosophical Essays

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Edmond de Goncourt : Madame Gervaisais

'Certain events (which I will relate when I see you?may it be soon) at the office have given me an idea for another novel; a study of religious mania?? la 'Madame Gervaisais', which you should read if you don?t know it already.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Thomas Simpson : A Treatise of Fluxions

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Charles Bossut : Essai sur l'histoire generale ds mathematiques

'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" and Newton's "principia" constitute my [stock] of this sort - I got Lucans "Pharsalia" also, and some little extracts of Fenelons "dialogues des morts". If there are any of these (except Newton for which you would be [obliged] to wait awhile) that you wish to see - they are ready for you. I had read Bossut before - and have not done much at him of late. Neither have I read any quantity of Wood yet, having been nibbling at the "Principia" (which with all my struggling, I come but ill at understanding - indeed in some places I don't understand it at all) ever since I came home. Of Lucan I have not read above seven lines.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

James Wood : The Elements of Optics

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Isaac Newton : Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

George Sturt : voyage diary

'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

Lucan : Pharsalia

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer

'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already - that I have nothing to add to the Newspaper puns, &c with which it has been assailed. The[re] are (as Gray said of the "castle of Indolence") some good lines in it I have far too little room for speaking of Mannerings beauties and defects at present - I will discuss it next time I write, if I can find nothing better.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Field of Waterloo, A Poem

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas Mortimer : The British Plutarch

'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to speak plainly; & you will easily conceive, that I passed my time very heavily. I endeavoured to read several things: I tried a book of modern Biography "The British Plutarch"; but soon finding it to be a very miserable book, I shut it for good and all. I next opened the "Spectator" - and tho' his ja[u]nty manner but ill accorded with my sulky humours, I toiled thro' a volume & a half, with exemplary patience. Lastly, I had recourse to Lord Chesterfield's "advice to his son"; and I think I never before so distinctly saw the pitiful disposition of this Lord. His directions concerning washing the face & paring the nails are indeed very praiseworthy: and I should be content to see them printed in a large type, and placed in frames above the chimneypieces of boarding-schools - for the purpose of enforcing the duties of cleanliness, upon the rising generation. But the flattery, the dissimulation & paltry cunning that he is perpetually recommending, leave one little room to regret that Chesterfield was not his father. Such was the result of my studies, in my sickness: - a result highly unfavourable to those feelings of prostration before high birth & weight of purse, which (many tell us) it is so eminently the duty of all men to cultivate. Indeed this is not the first time that I have noticed in my mind, a considerable tendency to undervalue the great ones of this world'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Spectator

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to His Son

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

J.M. Barrie : Sentimental Tommy

"I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a little too merely facetious, Seems as if the beggar didn?t know when he was being humorous & when merely funny ? la Jerome. Having instinctive doubts of the book, I shouldn?t have started it only for Miss Symonds? urgent recommendation."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer

'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a single book of the original - & that several years ago. Indeed I know very little of the Greek at any rate. I have several times begun to read Xenophon's anabasis completely: but always gave it up in favour of something else - You complain that nothing that you do leaves a vestige behind it: - what do you make of Homer?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Homer : The Iliad / Odyssey

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Xenophon : Anabasis

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

George Crabe : Poems

'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only to mention Crabbes Poems as worthy of being read. In addition to great powers of correct description, he pos[s]esses all the sagacity of an anatomist in searching into the stormy passions of the human heart - and all the apathy of an anatomist in describing them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Isaac Newton : Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica

'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered that I had too little knowledge of Astronomy, to understand his reasoning rightly. And I forthwith sent to Edinr for De Lambre's "abr?g? d'Astronomie"; and in the mean time, betook myself to reading Wood's "optics". I cannot say much about this book. Its author intermeddles not with the abstruse parts of the science - such as the causes of reflection & refraction?the reason why transparent bodies, at given angles of incidence, reflect their light almost entirely (concerning which, I meet with many learned details, in the Encyclopedia Britan) - but contents himself with demonstrating, in a plain enough manner, the ordinary effects of plane & spherical mirrors - and of lenses of various kinds - applying his doctrines, to the explanation of various optical instruments & remarkable phenomena. But in truth, I know little about it, I read it with too great velocity. - I also read Keil's "introductio ad veram Physicam"; but I shall let it pass till next time I write. In fine De Lambre arrived; & I have read into his fourth Le?on -and like it greatly.I intended to have told you some of his observations - but I would not overwhelm you with ennui all at once - and therefore, I shall be silent at present. - [italics]ne quid nimis[end italics] [moderation in all things - editor's note] ? as the proverb saith'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

James Wood : The Elements of Optics

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre : Abrege d'astronomie

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

John Keill : Introductio ad veram physicam

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas or William Belsham : [either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essays in Philosophical Morality]

'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics?to behold again the fair face of truth. When will there arise a man who shall do for the science of mind - what Newton did for that of matter - establish its fundamental laws on the firm basis of induction - and discard forever those absurd theories - that so many dreamers have devised? - I believe this is a foolish question - for its answer is - never. - I am led to talk in this manner - by having lately read M[r.] Sweart's [Stewart's] "History of Philosophy" in the supplement to the "Encyclopedia Britannica"[.] I doubt I am going to displease you - but I must say - that I do not recollect of ever having bestowed as much attention with so little effect - upon any author as upon Profr Stewart. Let me study his writings as I like - my mind seems only to turn on its axis - but without progressive or retrograde motion at all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : [Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Voltaire : (possibly) The Philosophical Dictionary for the pocket, Written in French by a society of men of letters and translated into English

'A much greater man than Rousseau says, "The only remedy for the infectious disease of Fanaticism, is a philosophical temper, which spreading through society, at length softens manners, and obviates the excesses of the distemper; for whenever it get ground, the best way is to fly from it and stay till the air is purified. The laws and religion are no preservative against this mental pestilence; religion so far from being a salutary aliment in these cases, in infected brains becomes poison" (Lackington continues to quote 2 further paragraphs).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

John Playfair : Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science

'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I doubt, I have not made the best use. Have you seen Playfairs introductory essay in the Encyclopedia? I am sure you will like it. It is distinguished for its elegance & perspicuity. I perused it some weeks ago, and thought it greatly preferable to Stewarts. Indeed I have often told you, that I am somewhat displeased with myself because I cannot admire this great philosopher, half as much as many critics do. He is so very stately - so transcendental - and withal so unintelligible, that I cannot look upon him with the needful veneration. I was reading the second volume of his "Philosophy of the human mind", lately. It is principally devoted to the consideration of Reason. The greater part of the book is taken up with statements of the opinions of others; and it often required all my penetration to discover what the Author's own views of the matter were. He talks much about Analysis & Mathematics, and disports him very pleasantly upon geometrical reasoning; but leaves what is to me the principal difficulty, untouched. Tell me if you have read it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord

'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not - Dr M'Crie's strictures are a little too severe, on some occassions - and his love of the Cameronians too violent. The Worthy Doctor's humour is as heavy as lead'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas M'Crie : Vindication of the Covenanters

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Scotsman

'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I have seen them all - a little violent in their Whiggism; but well enough written in some places. Pillans & Jeffrey & Moncrieff and many others have been respectively named as the Editor. There is also a weekly essay "The Sale Room" begun about six weeks ago - by whom, I know not. The writers are not without abilities; but the last numbers seemed to indicate that the work was about to give up the ghost.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : The Sale Room

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Johann Spurzheim : [work on phrenology]

[Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is worse. Certainly, it is not true, that, our intellectual & moral & physical powers are jumbled in such huge disorder - surely it will be marvellous if these powers can be defined and estimated with such Mathematical precision, from the size & figure of the scull; but it is very silly to say that Spurzhiem has demonstrated all this - Spurzhiem has demonstrated nothing; -for any thing he knows to the contrary, the faculties of the soul are to be ascertained from the figure & size of the abdomen - if the venerable science of palmistry is not to be revived - It is in vain to rail against the opposition shewn to novelties?the doctrine is not to be rejected for its novelty, but for its want of truth'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal of foul & nauseating stuff, I was happy to see that due credit is at length given to Mr Duncan for his valuable institution.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Blaise Pascal : Les Provinciales, ou les lettres

'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the character of [italics]naivet?[end italics]which he has assumed - and with infinite dexterity, hunts the jesuits thro' all their doublings and subterfuges, till he has triumphantly exposed the wretched baseness of their conduct. It is pity that the Salvation of Europe required the reestablishment of this vile order of men.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Christian Leopold, Baron von Buch : Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland

'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of which I am very ignorant, and his movements are sometimes not a little mysterious, from the want of a proper map of the country. Nevertheless he communicates some valuable information respecting the natural productions - & the wandering inhabitants of those dreary regions. His manner is as clumsy & ponderous as that of German philosophers generally is - and no where is this [more ap]parent than when he attempts to be striking, or tries his powers in the pathetic lin[e].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Jean Sylvain Bailly : Histoire de l'astronomie moderne

'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to write with great eloquence & perspicuity; but I have read little of him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[n/a] : Dumfries Courier

'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmid] is become sole Editor; - it is not the opinion of the readers here, that the paper has been a gainer by the change. The Ranger seems (under favour) to be but a silly kind of person - and his friend Mr Bright is a very vapid gentleman. It is a pity that Spoudastes his labours have been curtailed, before he has completed his investigations. But we must make a shift to live without knowing who wrote Mary's dream.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Newspaper

Jean Sylvain Bailly : Histoire de l'astronomie moderne

'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems to have been more extensive than profound; his stile is elegant - perhaps somewhat too florid, and interspersed with metaphors which an English critic might be tempted sometimes to call conceited - I wish I were an Astronomer - Is it not an interesting reflection to consider, that a little creature such as man-tho' his eye can see the heaven but as it were for a moment - is able to delineate the aspects which it presented long ages before he came into being - and to predict the aspects which it will present when ages shall have gone by. The past the present & the future are before him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas Chalmers : A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with Modern Astronomy

'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from Christianity and has written a volume of discourses to prove that the insignificance of our planet in the universe is no argument against the truth of religion. Orthodox men declare, of course, that he has completely discomfited his opponents - I read it sometime ago - It abounds in that fiery thoroughgoing stile of writing for which the Author is so remarkable: nevertheless his best argument seems to be, that as it is in the scriptures, we have no business to think about it [at] all - an argument which was well enough known to be a panacea in cases of that nature - before his volume saw the light. '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas Chalmers : [article on paperism in Edinburgh Review]

'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerable length on the evils of pauperism, he proposes as a remedy to increase the number of clergymen. They who know the general habits of Scottish ministers will easily see how sovereign a specific this is. The remainder of the review is good reading; but as you will have seen it before this time, I will not trouble you farther on the matter - I have seen the last Number of the "Quarterly review". It seems to be getting into a very rotten frothy vein. Mr Southey is a most unblushing character; & his political lucubrations are very notable. He has been sorely galled by "the Caledonian Oracle" poor man - I know nothing about Mr Duncan's controversy except thro the "Scotsman"; and they assign him the victory'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : [article in Quarterly Review]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Scotsman

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Newspaper

William Wallace : [article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica]

'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very diligently this winter. Heaven grant it be so! for without increasing in knowledge what profits it to live? Yet the commencement has been inauspicious. Three weeks ago I began to read Wallace's "Fluxions" in the Encyclopaedia, and had proceeded a little way, when the "Quarterly Review", some problems in a very silly Literary and Statistical Magazine of which the the schoolmasters are supporters, Madm de Sta?l's "Germany", etc. etc., have suspended my operations these ten days. After all I am afraid that this winter will pass as others have done before it - unmarked by improvement; and what is to hinder the next, & its followers till the end of the short season allotted me to do so likewise?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[n/a] : Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael : De l'Allemagne

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since I ceased to be one of its admirers. The writers pos[s]ess no inconsiderable share of dogmatism; and their learning, which they are, to an unpleasant degree, fond of displaying[,] is of that minute & scholastic nature which is eminently distinguished from knowledge. Moreover their zeal for the "Social order" seems to eat them up[,] and their horror of revolution is violent as a hydrophobia. These qualities are prominent in the last number - and accordingly it contains much disgusting matter; but I like it better as a whole, than some of its predecessors. There is in it a distant and respectful but severe criticism on Dugald Stewart's writings, which comes much nearer my views of his character, than any of the panegyrics which the Edinr Reviewers have so lavishly bestowed upon him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Matthew Lewis : The Monk

'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel that I have read for a great while. Considerable portions of it are grossly indecent[,] not to say brutish - one does not care a straw about one of the characters - and tho' "little Mat" has legions of ghosts & devils at his bidding - one views their movements with profound indifference.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Magazine

'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a slight variation in the title. There is also another periodical publication published once a fortnight (I forget its name), begun under the auspices of Peter Hill. I perused only one article and can give no account of it. I cannot pretend to say what this influx of magazines indicates or portends.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Edinburgh Monthly Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Edinburgh observer or Town and Country Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

: Monthly Review

"The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present subject, that I hope my introducing the passage will not be deemed improper." Quotes "Such doctrine no doubt must be comfortable to poor wretches so circumstanced as those were to whom this pious preacher had the goodness to adedress his discourse; but some (and those not men of shallow reflection) have questioned whether it is altogether right, thus to free the most flagitious outcasts of society from the terrors of an after-reckoning; since it is too well known, that most of them make little account of their punishment in this world. Instead of the 'fearful looking for of (future) judgement;' they are enraptured witht the priospect of a joyful flight 'to the expanded arms of a loving Saviour__ longing to embrace his long lost children' Surely this is not the way (humanly speaking) to check the alarming progress of moral depravity; to which, one would think no kind of encouragement ought to be given."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Serial / periodical

David Hume : The History of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I

'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing of Gibbon (of whom I have only read a volume) - nor of the Watsons the Russel[l]s the Voltaires &c &c known to me only by name. Alas! thou seest how I am beset. - It would be of little avail to criticise Bacons "Essays": it is enough to say, that Stewarts opinion of them is higher than I can attain. For style, they are rich & venerable - for thinking, incorrect & fanciful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : History of England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Essays

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld : Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the supposition of selflove being the motive of all our actions. It rather seems, as if he had laid down no system at all. Regarding man as a wretched, mischievous thing, little better than a kind of vermin, he represents him as the sport of his passions, above all of vanity, and exposes the secret springs of his conduct always with some wit, and (?bating the usual sacrifices of accuracy to smartness), in general, with great truth & sagacity'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The greater part of it is full of gall: but the most venomous article is the "translation of a Chaldee manuscript" said to be found in the library of Paris - It is written in the phrase of the Scriptures - [and gives] an allegorical account of the origin & end of the late "Edinr magazine" - greatly to the [dis]paragement of Constable & the Editors - Most of the Authors of "Edinr" are characterised with great acrimony - under the likeness of birds & beasts & creeping things - "Blackwood" is like to be beleaguered with prosecutions for it - two are already raised against him. Replies in the shape of "explanations", "letters to Drs M'Crie and Thomson" have been put forth - more are promised - and doubtless, rejoinders are in a state of preparation. Whatever may become of "Blackwood" or his antagonists - the "reading" or rather the talking "public" is greatly beholden to the Author. He has kept its jaws moving these four weeks - and the sport is not finished yet'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

William Coxe : Travels in Switzerland

'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man, and communicates in a very popular manner considerable information concerning the countries thro' which he passed - Hume you know to be distinct & impartial: but he has less sympathy than might be expected with the heroic patriots - the Hampdens & the Sidneys that glorify the pages of English history. I fear Smollett is going to be a confused creature. I have read but a volume of Gibbon - and I do not like him - his style is flowery - his sarcasms wicked - his notes oppressive, often beastly.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

William Coxe : Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

David Hume : The History of England During the Reigns of James I and Charles I

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

J.M. Barrie : Margaret Ogilvy/by her son

'Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that immediately you have finished it you begin again, No fear of his reputation deliquescing just yet, with that to solidify it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Frederic Jessup Stimson : King Noanett:A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay

'Dear Mr Lane, I must apologise for not returning 'King Noanett'. But I have been so awfully busy lately that I have not had time to finish it. I propose to take it into the country with me & let you have it next week certain.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Harold Frederic : Illumination, or, The damnation of Theron Ware

'I wait only for one little incident to shape itself and then I can march on up to, & right through, my great revival scene in the Wesleyan Methodist chapel, which is to beat Harold Frederic in his own chosen field.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : The Long Trail

'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his poetry I am convinced that the extraordinarily vivid images & similes that he gets hold of (?the thresh of the deep sea rain?, for instance,) are used in the rough just as they come to him. . . . I fancy he would rather scorn mere artistry, & when it was mentioned begin to talk about fighting or famine or fakirs.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Ernest Dupuy : Les Grand Maitres de la litterature russe

'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical; also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Marie Eugene Melchior de Vogue : Le Roman russe

'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical; also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

G. S. Street : reader's report on "Bettesworth"

'I saw Lane for a few brief moments last night. He showed me a second report on Bettesworth, by G.S. Street. It was distinctly favourable & appreciative. '

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

Alexandre Dumas : unknown

'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Mrs H. H. Penrose : The Unequal Yoke

'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitten by it, & so asked him to supper & whiskey just in order to finish the matter up. Unfortunately some other men took it into their heads also to call that night & we couldn?t say a word together. . . . Touching Toddles: A Nuisance I have read this with great pleasure, & if Toddles is Claude, I want to know him instantly, forthwith, and immediately. . . . This book will sell all right: Constables; Hutchinsons; A.D. Innes? A. & C. Black ; J.M. Dent & Co; might be tried.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

Mrs H. H. Penrose : Chubby, A Nuisance, A Study of Child-life

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

H.G. Wells : The Time Machine

'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Burslem ( where I come from) is mentioned at the beginning of 'The Time Machine', & one of your short stories runs over the entire pottery district? I forget the title of it .' I enclose my review of your last book.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others'

'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Burslem ( where I come from) is mentioned at the beginning of 'The Time Machine', & one of your short stories runs over the entire pottery district? I forget the title of it . I enclose my review of your last book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The Invisible Man

'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burselem & the potteries, Burslem ( where I come from) is mentioned at the beginning of 'The Time Machine', & one of your short stories runs over the entire pottery district? I forget the title of it . I enclose my review of your last book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

William Edwards Tirebuck : Miss Grace of All Souls

'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, & which has been absolutely missed by all novelists up to date. Tirebuck in 'Miss Grace of All Souls' was too much interested in his individual characters to note synthetically the general aspect, & Nevinson in 'Valley of Tophet' also let it escape him...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Henry Woodd Nevinson : In the Valley of Tophet

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Captains Courageous

'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Sturt : A Note on Fiction

'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There is scarcely a single statement in that article to which I do not take violent exception. . . . Webster was intensely pleased with it, dreamed of it I believe, & only his modesty stopped him from addressing you thereon a note of congratulation. Marriott read it with awe; possibly it opened his eye to the strange fact that other arts than painting have their absorbing mysteries of technique.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Joseph Conrad : The Nigger of the Narcissus

'That Conrad book is magnificent.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : The Nigger of the Narcissus

'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly, to review with a batch of others from Unwin, & feeling at the time rather bored (you know the feeling?I get through 50 or 60 novels a month for two papers) I simply didn?t read it at all?wrote a vague & discreet par. & left it.' I have just read his new book 'The Nigger of the Narcissus', which has moved me to enthusiasm. Where did the man pick up that style, & that synthetic way of gathering up a general impression & flinging it at you? Not only his style, but his attitude, affected me deeply. He is so consciously an artist.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : 'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing'

From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life": 'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and no Eyes." It was written, I think, by Mrs. Barbauld. I read it when I was a child. It went to show that two persons going for a walk through the same fields might return home with totally different impressions made upon them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Fanny Kemble : Autobiography

From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble motives acting can be undertaken as a profession, we have all learnt lately by the publication of Mrs. Fanny Kemble's autobiography [...] certainly after reading it I do not think any one can say that acting is incompatible with the highest womanly dignity, and most sincere religious purpose.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Trench : sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident'

In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident / It is the very place God meant for thee,' with the remark that this poem 'has often been a help to me when I have felt inclined to wish my position other than it is.'

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Guy de Maupassant : Etude sur Gustave Flaubert

'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? It is a most illuminating business, & one of the best bits of general literary criticism that I know of.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Eden Phillpotts : Lying Prophets

'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got rather chummy with Phillpotts & he is a grand chap, though suffering from a total ignorance of French literature.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Moore : unknown

'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The business has given me vague flitting shapes of ideas for a book on modern fiction.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

?Maria ?Edgeworth : 'To-morrow'

In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morrow", in which the procrastinator gives the history of the misfortunes that his habit has involved him in, and breaks off abruptly, leaving it to his editor to say that the story was to be finished [italics]to-morrow[end italics]. I don't know that the tale actually prevented me from procrastinating when I was a child, but it imprinted firmly in my mind that procrastination was a dangerous fault, and the impression has remained with me and been very useful ever since.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop

'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, & of all the rotten vulgar un-literary writing. . .! Worse than George Eliot?s. If a novelist can?t write where is the beggar?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : unknown

'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the details. But it is too new to work at tonight.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Jane Taylor : The Contributions of Q.Q.

In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' was 'an impossibility': 'I can recollect the book which first brought to me the conviction that such mental control was a duty. It was a volume of short essays and stories, called [italics]The Contributions of Q.Q.[end italics], by Jane Taylor, the well-known author of [italics]Hymns for Infant Minds[end italics]. It brought me a new idea just at the time when I most needed the help [...] I am glad to be able to acknowledge thankfully the aid that this old-fashioned, book, with its quaint title, afforded me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

George Sturt : A Year's Exile

'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank to review in Woman. As for me, I shall review it in Hearth & Home. I have now read it twice, and come to a definite conclusion about it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Henry Havelock Ellis : Affirmations

'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans that I have found very inspiring indeed.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Allan Noble Monkhouse : A Deliverance

'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally that I was much impressed by your remarkable novel.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Eden Phillpotts : Children of the Mist

'Have you read Phillpotts? Children of the Mist? It is a great book.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

W.B. Yeats : The Celtic Twilight

'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equal to anything going round. I have been fascinated by The Celtic Twilight, a little volume of essays about fairies & spirits. I wrote down to Frank, full of enthusiasm & advised him to get the thing, He writes back: ?I bought Celtic Twilight when it came out, & have admired it for six years now.? Today I gave Young carte blanche to get me Yeats? complete works. It dawns upon me that he is one of the men of the century, so intensely spiritual, & with a style which is the last word of simplicity & natural refinement.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H.G. Wells : A Story of the Days to Come

'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to improve as they go on , & which certainly strike me as being fine & in a very special sense original work. . . . Do you not consider yourself fortunate, this time, in your illustrator?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

A. E. Housman : A Shropshire Lad

'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: newspapers

'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesman and Nation, the Times Literary Supplement (which had come on the Thursday but which I had not read) and the delightful Miss Rebecca West in the Daily Telegraph as usual every Friday.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James Print: Newspaper

Antoine-Joseph Pernety : The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bouganville in order to form a Settlement there; and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with An Account of the Patagonians.

'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious with those of Mr Wesley, you will meet with ample satisfaction by turning to "Dom Pernety's Voyage to the Falkland Islands", page 153 to 162 quarto edition.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Basil Hall : Travels in North America 1827-8

'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so much between the first and third volume of a book'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Basil Hall : Travels in North America 1827-8

'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and unfair. It will make his fortune at the Admiralty. Then he temporizes about the Slave Trade; with which no man should ever hold parley, but speak of it with abhorrence, as the greatest of all human abominations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

T.H. Lister : Epicharis

'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. I am not the less obliged to you for sending it. You will hate me for giving you my true opinion, but you have asked me to do so and in such matters I never deceive'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

William Francis Patrick Napier : History of the Peninsular War

'I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a book; it gave me a high idea of his understanding, and makes me very anxious about his [italics]caractere[end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

John Galt : Laurie Todd or the Settlers in the Woods

'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward in a tenour of probable circumstances. Read Raffles's Life. A virtuous, active, high-minded man; placed at last where he ought to be: a round man, in a round hole'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Lady Raffles : [memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron

'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it only yesterday) has dedicated a stanza or two to me in Don Juan'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

James Justinian Morier : Zohrab the Hostage

'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with it that I could not help writing a letter of congratulation and collaudation to Morier, the author, who, by the bye, is an excellent man'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

(ed.) Lady Dacre : Recollections of a Chaperon

'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph for Brains. I have had very great pleasure in reading the stories; it is very difficult to say what they are made of, but they are very agreeable, and I beg for more. There is only one I dislike, it is too inocent for me - and yet I consider myself a very innocent person. I never read any stories which had so much the manners and conversation of real life; all aim at it, none have ever succeeded so well. I always write to everybody who publishes a book that gives me pleasure - so excuse me and believe me, dear Lady Dacre, ever sincerely yours...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Thomas Hamilton : Men and Manners in America

'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Robert James Mackintosh : Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh

'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I derived from it the greatest pleasure. He makes most honourable mention of your mother, whom I only know by one of her productions, - enough to secure my admiration'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Antoine Beauvilliers : L'Art de Cuisiner

'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despotic shape but exercised with the geatest discretion'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Frances Milton Trollope : Tremordyn Cliff

'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleasure. She must be an amorous Old Dame; all these matters she describes with the most juvenile warmth and impetuosity'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Washington Irving : Astoria

'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [italics]very[end italics] well written - account of savage life, on a most extensive scale'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : [writings on Indian Courts and Education]

'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and their honesty. We see why he was hated in India, and how honourable to him that hatred is'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Harpur Spry : Modern India

'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Cannibals living in trees. It is an amusing Book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

William, Baron Stowell Scott : [reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]

'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court. It was a fine business to make a public law for all nations, or to confirm one; and it is rather singular that so sly a rogue should have done it so honestly'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

(ed.) Mary Berry : [letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole]

'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the poor woman was with Horace Walpole!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

M. Guizot : 'Washington: par M. Guizot'

'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; but I think I have done with reviewing'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[Mrs] Crowe : Susan Hopley

'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Philip Doddridge : The Family Expositor

I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[anon] : The Scholar Armed

I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

[unknown] : The Dissenter Tripped Up

I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

Mountstuart Elphinstone : History of India

'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombarding all the exclusive Asiatics who shut up the Earth and will not let me walk civilly and quietly through it, doing no harm, and paying for all I want'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Charles Napier : An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel

'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plutarch; and moreover a long-headed, clever hero, who takes good aim before he fires'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

unknown : A Life in the Forest

'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lays of Ancient Rome

'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Pere Goriot

'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : La Messe de l'Athee

'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Martin Chuzzlewit

'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am pleased with the first number of your new work. Pecksniff and his daughters, and Pinch, are admirable, - quite first rate painting, such as no-one but yourself can execute. I did not like your genealogy of the Chuzzlewits, and I must wait a little to see how Martin turns out; I am impatient for the next number'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Leonard Horner : Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.

'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but there is great order, great love of knowledge, high principle and feelings, which ought to grow and trive in superior minds'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Theobald Mathew : Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin

'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin", - very witty and humorous. It is given away - not sold, but I have in vain endeavoured to get a copy'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Life in the Sick Room

'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequently cannot guess at her meaning; all that I can find out is that in long chronical illnesses, a patient finds sources of amusement that do not at first occurr, but which have a tendency to engage the mind, and alleviate pain; all this however I could have conjectured without the assistance of an Octavo book'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

William Ellery Channing : [sermon on War]

'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as his Sermon on War is, I have the Vanity to think my own equally good quite as sensible quite as eloquent as full of good parables and of fine Language, and you will be more inclined to agree with me in this Comparison when I tell you that I preached in St Paul's the identical Sermon which Ld Grey so much admires. - I thought I could not write anything half so good so I preached Channing'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; I thnk this latter very entertaining, but it was hardly worth while to crucify Barrere - Macauley might as well have selected Turpin'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Arthur Stanley : Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold

'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Horace Twiss : Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon

'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Horace Twiss : Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon

'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it would very much amuse Ld Grey as it is the history almost of his times. He seems (Lord Eldon) to have been a cunning canting old Rogue whose object was to make all the money he [could] by office at any expence of the public happiness'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

(ed.) Richard Bourke : Correspondence of Burke

'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details which do not interest me and there are no signs yet of that beautiful and fruitful imagination which is the great charm of Burke; and with the politics of so remote a period I do not concern myself'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Alexander William Kinglake : Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the East

'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in a very lively manner; they will amuse Lord Grey who I presume is regularly read to every day'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] : Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829

'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you though you call yourself solitary live much more in the world than I do while I am in the Country'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times

'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and grief to me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Newspaper

Frederick Marryat : The Settlers in Canada

'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Extract from the journal of Adam Dodd: 'When I first came on board the A-, I was as thoughtless as anyone on board; but being soon afterwards made a teacher of a class, I felt myself compelled to attend the evening services. [comes to see himself as a sinner and need of repentence] ...I then sate down in the greatest mental distress. Taking my Bible, I calculated on the opposition I should meet with... I kept continually and anxiously searching my Bible... In this state I remained some time, praying and reading, and fearlessly yet meekly meeting with every opposition.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Dodd Print: Book

[unknown] : [the barren fig tree]

Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise on the "barren fig tree" had produced upon his mind - the insight it had given him into his character, and then alludes to some of the great and precious promises of the gospel; especially to those contained in Matt xi the chapter we had read in our usual course the proceeding evening. He makes also grateful reference to the first chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Colin Arrott Browning Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Confession of invalid convict George Day: 'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing on our attention the words of God, contained in the third chapter of John, verse thirty-six, and the fifth chapter, verse twenty fourth. I could scarcely believe it to be true at the time, for it seemed as though a voice spoke to me "He that believeth in the son have everlasting life". I was astonished!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Colin Arrott Browning Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'

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

[n/a] : [devotional texts]

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

[n/a] : Bible

Conversion of F.M., while greatly affected by death of fellow convict, John Williams: 'My feelings I cannot describe. I never felt the like before. But I remembered what Dr Browning had often told us, and which I was reading in my Testament everyday, "that Jesus died to save sinners".'

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

[n/a] : Bible

Conversion of hardened convict, as a result of a storm which brought terror to his mind: 'It was then I thought of Jesus Christ, of whom I had heard, but almost entirely forgotten; and to the Lord Jesus Christ I was directed to uplift my soul by my messmate, who lay by my side, and exhorted me to search the Bible, that I might there read of His great love to the worst of sinners. I read the first, third and fifteenth chapters of St John's gospel; and I thank and praise the Lord, I have found, to my soul's comfort and peace...'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'One berth was occupied by George Day... He appeared to be always humble, always contented and resigned, always grateful to God for the abundance of His mercies, frequently praying, or reading, or listening to his Bible.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Day Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deeply engrossed in a book. When Louis spoke to him, he made no answer but went on reading. Impatient, Louis plucked the book out of the boy's hand. It was 'Treasure Island'. Returning it instantly, he said: 'Go right on reading, my little man. Don't let anyone disturb you.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : The Master of Ballantrae

On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in his way. 'What in heaven's name is it?' I asked. 'This, my friend. For years a certain critic has practically damned my works - said there was nothing really in them - and now this person, whose ability I have always admired despite the fact that I have suffered, has declared: "Stevenson has at last produced one of the best books of the season, and the claim of his friends seems fully justified, for the work is full of genius."' His face was all aglow with feverish excitement. 'Who is this wonderful critic, Stevenson, whose praise you so enjoy? And what bitter things has he said of you before?' 'We will drop the severe things, Moors. You would never guess, if I gave you all morning, who it is who has at last admitted me to be in the front rank of my profession. It is Mrs Oliphant, my dear sir - Mrs Oliphant!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Margaret Oliphant : Review of The Master of Ballantrae

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up to that moment he had sat content, huddled in his ignorance, but he left that farm another man. There were day-dreams, it appeared, divine day-dreams, written and printed and bound, and to be bought for money and enjoyed at pleasure. Down he sat that day, painfully learning to read Welsh, and returned to borrow the book. It had been lost, nor could he find another copy but one that was in English. Down he sat once more, learned English, and at length, and with entire delight, read 'Robinson'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Sir William Temple : Essays

'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully traced....' [Green usually gives extensive summary comments about books, interspersed with his reactions.]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Roscoe : The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant

'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medici"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Julius Caesar : Commentaries

'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : History of Florence

'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : Life of Swift [in Works of Swift?]

'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas Sheridan : Life of Swift

'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Jortin : Life of Erasmus

'Finished Jortin's "Life of Erasmus"....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome

'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Watson : Apology for the Bible

'Read Bp. Watson's "Apology for the Bible", in reply to Paine....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edmund Burke : Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace

'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Hurd : Life of Warburton [in Warburton, Works]

'Read with interest and curiosity, Hurd's "Life of Warburton"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works

'Looked into Gibbon's "Miscellaneous Works"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Robertson : History of Scotland

'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Robertson : History of Charles V.

'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : Discourses on Livy

'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Robertson : History of America

'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

James Beattie : An essay on the nature and immutability of truth

'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto

'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edmond Malone : An inquiry into the authenticity of certain papers

'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece of criticism...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : The Italian

'Finished the "Italian"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Memoirs

'Finished Gibbon's "Memoirs of himself"--an exquisite morceau of literature...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : The history of the four last years of the Queen

'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edmund Burke : A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful

'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Adam Smith : Essays on philosophical subjects

'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

James Beattie : Elements of moral science

'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Steele : The Tatler

'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Hurd : Discourse concerning Imitation

'Read Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation": a critical disquisition of considerable depth and skill...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Horace : Epistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard Hurd

'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hurd's Commentary...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Horace : Art of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd,

'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Horace Walpole : The Mysterious Mother

'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas James Mathias : Pursuits of Literature

'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Longinus : On the Sublime

'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Quintilian : Institutes

'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Gay : Beggar's Opera

'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Brown : An essay on satire

'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is happily portrayed...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Anonymous : Arabian Nights Entertainments

'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I am quite ductile...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Wollaston : Religion of Nature delineated

'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Gifford : The Baviad

'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of poetry...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Daines Barrington : Observations on the Ancient Statutes

'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Joseph Warton : Life of Pope, in Works,

'Finished Warton's "Life of Pope" prefixed to his edition of Pope's "Works"; and compared Wakefield's "Preface" to his "Observations on Pope". These two critics differ essentially in their judgment of Pope...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Works

'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Dryden : Works

'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "Astraea Redux on the Restoration", the two first poems in the collection, has a curious effect...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefield

'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Samuel Garth : The Dispensary

'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fame by the "Dunciad"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus

'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot, are sometimes very distinguishable...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Robert Macfarlane : History of George III

'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded into a specious and shewy mass, by a morbid vigour of intellect...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : London

'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, which constitute the essential charm of Pope's...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

George Campbell : The Philosophy of Rhetoric

'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts

'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Anthony Hamilton : Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont

'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of the voluptuousness, intrigues, and abandoned profligacy, of the Court of Charles II...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Colley Cibber : Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber

'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who figured previously to the Revolution...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Hurd : Moral and political dialogues

'Read Hurd's "Dialogue" between Cowley and Sprat, on Retirement...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William King : De origine mali

'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Russell : The History of Modern Europe

'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Locke : Essay concerning Human Understanding

'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principles...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan : The History of Nourjahad

'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, than the plan of this little romance...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Bertrand de Moleville : Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire

'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curious, and I presume, authentic information relative to the crisis of the Revolution...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Sir John Dalrymple : Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland

'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a masterly review of our political affairs...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Haslam : Observations on Insanity

'Read Haslam on Insanity....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Godwin : Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'Looked over Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Woolstonecraft"; which strikingly evince that love, even in a modern philosopher, "emollit mores, nec sinet esse feros"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Anthony Ashley Cooper : Inquiry concerning Virtue

'Read Shaftesbury's "Enquiry concerning Virtue". His ideas are not very distinctly state; but he seems, to place Virtue in a proper management of the affections...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Joshua Reynolds : Seven Discourses

'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through the whole, and is manifestly a particular favourite with the author...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees

'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue

'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare

'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain, the Unities of Time and Place in his Dramas...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Essays

'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touched, that I cannot select what pleases me most...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Brown : An estimate of the manners and principles of the times

'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on the 1st; and in that, after allowing us a spirit of liberty, of humanity, and of equity, he maintains, that a vain luxurious and selfish effeminacy, introduced by exorbitant trade and wealth, has sapped our principles of religion, honour, and pubilc spirit...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Augustus Henry Fitzroy : The serious reflections of a rational Christian

'Looked over "Serious Reflections by a rational Christian", from 1788 to 1798 written by the Duke of G-...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope : Characters of eminent personages of his own time

'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Dubos : Critical reflections on poetry, painting and music

'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edmund Burke : Vindication of Natural Society

'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that this piece has much of Bolingbroke's style and manner...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets

'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Spectator

'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with the omission of the 410th, ending with the 421st. In the first and preparatory paper, he defines Taste...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edmund Burke : A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful

'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Montesquieu : De l?esprit des loix

'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Mitford : History of Greece

'Looked into Mitford's "History of Greece". The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of government...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas Reid : An inquiry into the human mind

'Read the first five chapters of Reid's "Enquiry into the Human Mind": in which he examines the senses of Smell, Taste, Hearing, and Touch...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

George Berkeley : A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge

'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in earnest...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Voltaire : Essay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIV

'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Philip Yorke : Athenian Letters

'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

J. J. Barth?lemy : Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece

'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still leaves us, as we must ever be left, extremely ignorant of the political constitutions, religious worship, and private manners of the Greeks...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third

'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measure transfused into my mind...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Works

'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained

'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and suspicious legend...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Milton : Samson Agonistes

'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Sir James Mackintosh : A discourse on the study of the law of nature, and nations

'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Jerusalem Delivered

'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's version...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vign : Lettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de Main

'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas Burnet : The theory of the earth

'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his reasoning...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

James Ussher : An introduction to the theory of the human mind

'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J. Usher, author of Clio....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Sir James Mackintosh : Vindiciae Gallicae

'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, and occasionally coarse...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Soame Jenyns : A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil

'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been prevented, by Omnipotence, without the loss of some superior good...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Essai sur l??tude de la litt?rature

'Read Gibbon's "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature": an ostentatious performance...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Letters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Francis Bacon

'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passages fully sensible of his vast powers and attainments, and impressed with a just confidence of the weight he would have with posterity, eternally cringing...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edward Hooker : Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie

'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Hurd : An introduction to the study of the prophecies

'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Jonathan Shipley : The works of the Right Reverend Jonathan Shipley

'Finished Bishop Shipley's Works; to the reading of which I had been powerfully recommended by M-h. A vein of good sense, expressed in an original, unaffected, and frequently energetic and impressive manner, runs through the whole of these compositions....'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Hurd : Sermons preached at Lincoln?s-Inn

'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Unknown

Cicero : De Senectute

'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas May : The history of the Parliament of England

'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its assembling...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Dryden : The satires of Juvenalis, translated into English

'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Richardson : A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's characters

'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the whole, ingeniously executed...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Owen Cambridge : The scribleriad: an heroic poem in six books

'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad humour...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres

'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, and a taste for the most part timidly correct, I can readily allow him; but to no higher order of merit in a critic...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Jackson of Exeter : The four ages; together with essays on various subjects

'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement of every art and every science, in the golden age to which we are rapidly advancing...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Warburton : The divine legation of Moses demonstrated

'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius steadily, through the mazy curves along which he wheels his airy flight...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas Balguy : Discourses on various subjects

'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellence...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Pierre Mathurin : The memoirs of the Duke of Sully

'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly romantic...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logic, or the right use of reason

'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Archibald Alison : Essays on the nature and principles of taste

'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is sublime and beautiful...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Henry Pemberton : A view of Sir Isaac Newton?s philosophy

'Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's "View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy". He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is the gratification of our taste, which is the source of our desire of knowledge...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Moore : Zeluco. Various views of human nature

'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibiting the hideous effect of their unrestricted indulgence...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Moral Epistles

'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to my taste...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Moore : Edward. Various views of human nature

'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Whitehurst : An inquiry into the original state and formation of the earth

'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of all the elements; That from gravitation and elective attraction, these elements gradually subsided into concentric layers...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Uvedale Price : An essay on the picturesque

'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Gilpin : Three Essays

'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

August von Kotzebue : Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens

'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetching up my arrears in books, which everybody (who reads at all) has read; among others, I stumbled upon the Life of Kotzebue, or rather his year of exile, and read it with the geatest interest. It is a rapid succession of very striking events, told with great force and simplicity. His display of sentiment seems very natural to the man, foolish as it sometimes is.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de Staal : Memoires

'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she has nothing to tell and does not tell it very well. She is neither important, nor admirable for talents or virtues. Her life was not worth recording.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Archibald Constable [ed.] : Encyclopaedia Britannica

'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written: I shall always read anything which you write. The travels of the Gallo-American gentleman alluded to by Mr Constable are I suppose those of Mr Simon. He is a very sensible man, and I should be curious to see the light in which this country appeared to him. I should think he would be too severe'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : [Letters]

'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr Thomas Grenville says he has made seven vigorous attacks on Madame de Sevigne and been as often repulsed'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

William Jacob : Travels in the South of Spain

'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; also, by all means, the first volume of Franklin's Letters. I will disinherit you if you do not admire everything written by Franklin. In addition to all other good qualities, he was thoroughly honest'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Benjamin Franklin : The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : [Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica]

'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his defects. No insane dread of misrepresentation; no discussion put off until another time, just at the moment it was expected, and would have been interesting; no unmanly timidity; less formality of style and cathedral pomp of sentence. The good, it would be trite to enumerate: - the love of human happiness and virtue, the ardour for the extension of knowledge, the command of fine language, happiness of allusion, varied and pleasing literature, tact, wisdom and moderation! Without these high qualities, we all know Stewart cannot write. I suspect he has misrepresented Horne Took, and his silence regarding Hartley is very censurable. I was amazingly pleased with his comparison of the universities to enormous hulks confined with mooring chains, everything flowing and progressing around them. Nothing can be more happy'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]

'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the preceding day, and therefore must pardon the staleness of my subjects. I read yesterday the evidence of the Elgin Marble Committee. Lord Elgin has done a very useful thing in taking them away from the Turks. Do not throw pearls to swine; and take them away from swine when they are so thrown. They would have been destroyed there, or the French would have had them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

George Canning : [Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him]

'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proof of the kind it would be sufficient to create a general distrust of his sense, prudence and capacity for action... What does a politician know of his trade, when twenty years have not made him pamphlet-proof?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Newspaper

Jean Francois Georgel : M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10

'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he had seen and observed himself is well enough, but the last three volumes are no more than a mere newspaper collection of the proceedings of the Convention, trite lamentations on the wickedness of the revolution, and common parsonic notions of the rights of kings. Does the book strike you in any other point of view? Such as it is, I shall write a review of it, and I should be obliged to you, to tell me if you think my opinion just. Is his explanation of the Story of the Necklace to be credited? Could a man of the Cardinal's rank, who had filled the situation of Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, be the dupe of such a woman as Madame La Motte. Or was he the rogue? or was he the dupe? and La Motte the agent of the Queen? If this is not the true version, where is the true version to be found? Is there any new information respecting the French Revolution in Georgel? there seems none such to me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Jean Francois Georgel : M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10

'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advice, that there is something improper in the third and fourth: but, to spare you the trouble of beginning with them, I assure you I only exclude them from my recommendation because they are dull. You will see, in the second volume, a detailed account of the celebrated Necklace Story, which regaled your mama and papa before you were born'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppose my opinion to such an assay or proof-house; but it made me cry and laugh very often and I was very sorry when it was over, and so I cannot in justice call it dull'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his novels excepting that in which Claverhouse is introduced, and of which I forget the name. It made me laugh, and cry fifty times, and I read it with the liveliest interest. He repeats his characters but it seems that they will bear repetition'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Henry Brougham : A Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHAM, Esq. MPFRS upon the Abuse of Charities

'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute necessity for its being so. Wit and declamation would be misplaced, but a clever man may be bright and flowing while he is argumentative and prudent. He makes out a great case in general: and nobody would accuse Lord Lonsdale and the Bishop of undue precipitation if they were to make some sort of reply to the charge of particular delinquencies levelled against them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

Henry Fearon : Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America

'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity with which they are spreading themselves over that vast continent'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

John Bradbury : Travels in the Interior of America in the years 1809, 1810 and -1811

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

John Palmer : Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &c

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Francis Hall : Journal of Travels in the United States of North America

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Morris Birkbeck : Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois

'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up to my neck in mud, fight bears, swim in rivers, and combat with backwoodsmen that I may ultimately gain an independence for myself and my children, this is plain, and intelligible: but by Birkbeck's account it is much like settling at Putney or Kew, only the people are more liberal and enlightened'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Morris Birkbeck : Letters from Illinois

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in the 2d. Book, is transcendantly sublime...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews

'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at the conclusion of this Novel...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than in Joseph Andrews...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Hey : Lectures in divinity

'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: but this wears off, as I advance...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Robert Bloomfield : The farmer?s boy

'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edward Pearson : Remarks on the Theory of Morals

'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Virgil : Aenied

'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sublime imagination, but in the exquitie art and consummate taste with which he turn, and polishes, and refines into perfection...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Godwin : St Leon, a tale of the sixteenth century

'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections, which he had inculcated in his Political Justice...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

James Gregory : Philosophical and literary essays

'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Johann David Michaelis : Introduction to the New Testament

'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

William Frend : Animadversions on the elements of Christian theology

'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Porson : Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis

'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Joseph Warton : Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope

'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Herbert Marsh : The history of the politicks of Great Britain and France

'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Richard Hurd : Discourse concerning Imitation

'Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Charles Gildon : "An Essay" in Works of Shakespeare

'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Cicero : Brutus

'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

George Pretyman : Elements of Christian theology

'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Edmond Malone : Critical and Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden

'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, wills, genealogies, registers, and recods of all sorts, Malone has discovered some new facts, and detected a few mistakes, respecting Dryden and his Famly, of very little consequence...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Daines Barrington : The history of singing birds

'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope

'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

James Thomas Kirkman : Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin

'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Dryden : Prose Works, ed. Malone

'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : A journey made in the summer of 1794

'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description, exerted on so congenial a theme...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Soame Jenyns : The works of Soame Jenyns, Esq

'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

James Boswell : The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Johann Goffried Herder : Outlines of a philosophy of the history of man

'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon obliged to desist. He appears to write like a great child, eager to communicate its late acquirements, however trivial..'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Henry James Pye : A Commentary illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle

'Glanced over Pye's "Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Samuel Darby : A letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late edition of Milton's Juvenile Poems

'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?s "Juvenile" Poems...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Reuben BURROW : Unknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary'

Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - which I shall have conscience enough not to trouble you with at present.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Cicero : De Finibus

But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is such a charm connected with attending to the feelings and principles of a man over whom the 'tide of years has rolled.' We are entertained even with a common sentiment; and when we meet with a truth which we ourselves had previously discovered, we are delighted with the idea that our minds are similar to that of the venerable Roman.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

William Hazlitt : 'Standard Novels'

"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri (of which a most delectable account in the Quarterly), Joanne Southcott, &c &c".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Lewis & Clarke : Travels up the Missouri

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical

Sir Isaac Newton : Institutes

'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes of knowledge, Rumfords Essays, Newton ['s] Institutes, Simpson's Fluxions &c &c - If to these overpowering engagements you add the numberless fits of indolence - and the perpetual visitations of spleen, to which one is subjected in this dirty little uncomfortable planet of ours - I presume you will have a sufficient excuse for my silence; and will rather wonder indeed that you have heard from me at all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

anon : Belfast Town & County Almanack

'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and from all quartrs, I collect - that the moon will be full about one of the clock on the morning of Thursday the 9th inst.-'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown

Sir John Leslie : Elements of Geometry

'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at least if M. Gauss is right - who (Leslie tells us) has demonstrated that a polygon can be inscribed in a circle - directly - by means of circles and straight lines - only - when the number of its sides is a prime number and can be denoted by 2n + 1.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Thomas Irving : Introductory Address

'I attended the first meeting of the Philathelic Society - There were many new members, but the society seemed to have undergone no improvement. Jamie Thompson still speaks with his former pertinacity. Andrew made a harangue as vapid as ever, Thomas Irving read an introductory address, and the rest were all in readiness to 'nod assent and smile'[.] I left them with little regret.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: BookManuscript: Sheet

William Thomson : The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vols

'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both of writing & thinking displayed in those parts which I have looked at, is dull & sluggish as the clay itself. He brags of having altered the expressions of the old translation - every body I suppose will readily admit this - and be ready to wish him joy of all the honour than [that] can arise from such alterations...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

William Wallace : 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica

'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great vehemence, every night - and the two hours at noon, which I have to dispose of, I would devote to the reading of history and other lighter matters - But alas! two hours I found to be insufficien[t] - by degrees poor Wallace was encroached upon - and is now all but finally discarded. His introduction, it must be confessed, is ponderous & repulsive. His horror of the binomial theorem leads him into strange bye-paths. But he demonstartes [sic] with great rigour.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Robert Mitchell : 'theorems'

'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is a small gentleman, whom it would be no honour to demolish.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Manuscript: Unknown

Tobias Smollett : History of England [probably]

'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man, and communicates in a very popular manner considerable information concerning the countries thro which he passed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

n/a] : [newspaper]

'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of notice, till on my arrival in Moffatt, I discovered among my fellow travellers, along with three Lancashire cotton men, a pure species of popinjay - of whom all I can now say, is that he was much shocked at seeing [no] "roasbeef fo suppa" and expressed his grief and surprise by several nondescript interjections; that he was unable to determine whether the fowl on the table was a tame duck or wild, and thereupon "did patiently incline" to the reasonings of an ancient Scottish gourmand who at length succeeded in settling his mind upon this important subject; and that upon my inquiriing after the news of the paper which he was reading, he informed me that the Aachodoocs had returned to England, and that (this he preluded by three nods of satisfaction) the Prince Regent was gone to Brighton.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' Print: Newspaper

Samuel Rogers : Human Life

'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 800 lines. Fazackerly thinks it poor meagre stuff; Luttrell approves it; I have not seen it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Holland Print: Unknown

Samuel Rogers : Human Life

'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 800 lines. Fazackerly thinks it poor meagre stuff; Luttrell approves it; I have not seen it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Nicholas Fazackerly Print: Unknown

Samuel Rogers : Human Life

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

Samuel Rogers : Human Life

'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are some good descriptions - the Mother and Child, Mr Fox at St Annes and a few more. The beginning of the verses at Paestum are good, but there are many lines and couplets all over the poem quite unintelligible; particularly I recommend your attention to those verses on a sleeping boy on the 2d or 3d page - what is meant by the emmets and the wrens?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

Henry Grey Bennet : Letter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the Transportation Laws, the State of the Hulks and of the Colonies in New South Wales

'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a very affecting letter from the Botany Bay Chaplain'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

Jonas Dennis : Convocatio Cleri

'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book of about 150 pages. He is the first parson who has caught scent of the Roman Catholic Bill passed at the end of the last Parliament, and no she-bear robbed of her whelps can be more furious'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

James McIntosh : [Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom]

'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford much read; but bullion is not I think a favourite dish at Howick'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Copleston : [Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency and Prinsep on Money]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Arthur Hallam : History Of Europe During The Middle Ages

'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it a good style. He is a bold man and great names do not deter him from finding fault; he began with Pindar, and who has any right to complain after that? The characteristic excellencies of the work seem to be fidelity, accuracy, good sense, a love of Virtue and a zeal for Liberty'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

William Heude : A Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overland from India to England

'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

unknown : [article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay]

'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham is too long for the distressing brevity of human life'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : [article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Ferdinando Galiani : [Letters]

'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a style and feel ashamed of my Simplicity and innocence'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Ferdinando Galiani : [Letters]

'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them than that they are not worth speaking about. I scarcely ever read a more insignificant collection of letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him Mr Walter Scott. I should as soon say Mr Shakespeare or Mr Fielding. Sir William and Lady Ashton are excellent, and highly dramatic. Drumthwackett is very well done; parts of Caleb are excellent. Some of the dialogues between Bucklaw and Craigengelt are as good as can be, and both these characters very well imagined. [italics] As the Author has left off writing [end italics], I shall not again be disturbed so much in my ordinary occupations. When I get hold of one of these novels, turnips, sermons and justice business are all forgotten'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetitions of himself. Caleb is overdone. Sir W. and Lady Ashton are very good characters, and the meeting of the two coaches and six the best scene in the book. The catastophe is shocking and disgusting'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is nothing very powerful and striking in it; but it is uniformly agreeable, lively and interesting, and the least dull, and most easily read of any novels I remember. Pray make the author go on; I am sure he has five or six more such novels in him, therefore five or six holidays for the whole kingdom'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are many more powerful. The subject, in novels, poems, and pictures, is half the battle. The representation of our ancient manners is a fortunate one, and ample enough for three or four more novels'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[Captain] Gollownin : Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country

'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I think it may do very well for reading out, which I believe is your practice - a practice which I approve rather than follow: - and neglect it from mere want of virtue. I think also you may read De Foe's Life of Colonel Jack, - entertaining enough when his heroe is a scoundrel, but waxing dull as it gets moral. I never set you any difficult tasks in reading, but am as indulgent to you as I am to myself'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Colonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[Captain] Gollownin : Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country

'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertaining books I have read for a long time.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Mary Berry : Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell; followed by a Series of Letters from Lady Russell to her Husband

'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marry such a woman as Lady Rachel; it would have been too awful. There are pieces of china very fine and beautiful, but never intended for daily use'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Monastery

'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less than any of the others - much less. Such I think you will find the judgement of the public to be. The idea of painting ancient manners in a fictitious story and in well-known scenery is admirable, and the writer has admirable talents for it; but nothing is done without pains, and I doubt whether pains have been taken in The Monastery, - if they have, they have failed. It is quite childish to introduce supernatural agency; as much of the terrors and follies of supersition as you please, but no actual ghosts and hobgoblins. I recommend one novel every year, and more pains. So much money is worth getting; so much deserved fame is worth keeping, so much amusement we ought all to strive to continue for the public good. You will excuse my candour - you know I am your wellwisher. I was the first to praise Ivanhoe, as I shall be to praise the next, if I can do so conscientiously'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Abbot

'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly worth reading. He has exhausted the subject of Scotland, and worn out the few characters that the early periods of Scotch history ould supply him with. Meg Merrilies appears afresh in every novel'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Horace Walpole : [Letters]

'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published in the shape of letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Robert Southey : The Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John Wesley

'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so that I follow your advice and abandon it to any one who may undertake it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Pirate

'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but even that has its limits and is exhaustible. I am afraid this novel will depend upon the former reputation of the author, and will add nothing to it [...] I do not blame him for writing himself out, if he knows he is doing so, and has done his [italics] best [end italics] and his [italics] all [end italics]. If the native land of Scotland will supply no more scenes and characters, for he is always best in Scotland [...] pray (wherever the scene is laid) no more [italics] Meg Merrilies and Dominie Sampson [end italics] - very good the first and second times, but now quite worn out, and always recurring. All human themes have an end (except Taxation); but I shall heartily regret my annual amusement if I am to lose it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : The Beacon

'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosions, where the conspirators and conspired against must be guests at the same board, and sleep under the same roof. The articles upon Madame de Stael and upon Wilks's Protestants appear to me to be very good. The article upon Scotch juries is surely too long'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Giovanni Perrone : Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica

In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, "Catechismi intorno al Protestanteismo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica" (1861), following remark: 'An Italian catechism, published some years ago, has lately been reprinted, in which the people are warned against the insidious heresies of Protestantism generally, and of the English in particular. The lies it contains send one into fits of laughter.' [Discussion of text continued after examples].

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lay of the Battle of Lake Regillus

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]: 'The seats of this Theatre are quite perfect [...] We sat down there, and L -- read out Macaulay's Lay of the Battle of Lake Regillus.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangelica] which has been lent me, giving an account of its formation, plainly owns that it does not pretend to be a regular church.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

: 'Italian play'

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind; but we can't quite make out where we are, only it is half-way between Spezzia and Sestri, and on the road to Genoa.': 'At this moment we are occupying a dirty room, in a dirty house, in a dirty street, in a dirty village, amongst the mountains [...] M __ __ places an Italian grammar on her lap for show, and reads an Italian play for amusement.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind; but we can't quite make out where we are, only it is half-way between Spezzia and Sestri, and on the road to Genoa.': 'We started after six [am], M and myself on the outside seat [?of coach]. What with pleasant conversation, the reading of "Rienzi" and the newspaper, and occasional little naps, I managed to spend an agreeable day.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

: newspaper

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Newspaper

anon : [novel]

'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a friend of Cavour and acquaintance of Garibaldi, previously encountered by Sewell in a railway carriage], who had promised to call upon us, came [...] to bring us tickets of admission for Monday [...] He was as voluble and excited as before, and produced a novel which he had lately written, and which he begged us to accept. A most remarkable production it was, as I found when I read it! ___ the Pope, Antonelli, and Lamorciere, being brought in by name, and made to take part in a plot of atrocious and not very readable wickedness.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Cockburn : [pamphlet]

'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

Walter Scott : The Fortunes of Nigel

'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is the first novel in which there is no Meg Merrilies. There is, however, a Dominie Sampson in the horologer. The first volume is admirable. Nothing can be better than the apprentices, the shop of old Heriot, the state of the city. James is quite excellent wherever he appears. I do not dislike Alsatia. The miser?s daughter is very good; so is the murder. The story execrable; the gentlemanlike, light, witty conversation always (as in all his novels) very bad. Horrors on humour are his forte. He must avoid running into length?great part of the second volume very long and tiresome; but upon the whole the novel will do?keeps up the reputation of the author; and does not impair the very noble and honourable estate which he has in his brains'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle

'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you had been silent upon the subject, or even if you had denied it, you would have done yourself very little good with me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : Peveril of the Peak

'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be better or it will be the last. There is I see Flibbertigibbet over again. Bridgenorth is not new, Charles is the best done. My opinion is worth but little but I am always sincere. There is one comfort, however, in reading Scott?s novels, that his worst are better than what are called the successful productions of other persons'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : Peveril of the Peak

'You have read Peveril, a middling production between his best and worst - rather agreeable than not'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Lady] Grey Print: Book

Joseph Blanco White : Doblado's Letters from Spain

'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious piece of good luck, but it may damage the Catholic question'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Walter Scott : St Ronan's Well

'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and therefore, of course, better than all others. Every now and then there is some mistaken and over-charged humour?but much excellent delineation of character,?the story very well told, and the whole very interesting. Lady Binks, the old landlady, and Touchwood are all very good. Mrs Blower particularly so. So are MacTurk and Lady Penelope. I wish he would give his people better names: Sir Bingo Binks is quite ridiculous. I was very glad to find Dryasdust and Meg Merrilies excluded; one was never good, and the other too often good. The curtain should have dropped on finding Clara?s glove. Some of the serious scenes with Clara and her brother are very fine,?the Knife scene masterly. In her light and gay moments Clara is very vulgar; but Sir Walter always fails in well bred men and women,?and yet, who has seen more of both? and who in the ordinary intercourse of Society is better bred? Upon the whole, I call this a very successful exhibition'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Basil Hall : Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico

'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it ws too witty and brilliant. He then wrote it over again, and I told him it would do very well indeed; and it [italics] has [end italics] done very well. He is a very painstaking person'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Jacques Peuchet : Memoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie-Antoinette

'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby : Matilda

'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I mentioned to Lord Normanby, that it was the book selected as a victim for the next No of the Edinburgh Review, and that my brethren had complimented me with the Knife?Lady Normanby gave a loud shriek.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

George Combe : [probably] A System of Phrenology

'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to state what are original propensities, and to trace out the family or genealogy of each, is a task requiring great length, patience and metaphysical acuteness; and Combe's book is too respectably done to be taken by storm.' Instead of this I will send you as you seem to be prest the review of [italics] Granby [end italics], a novel of very great merit'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

George Agar-Ellis, Lord Dover : The true history of the state prisoner, Commonly called the Iron Mask

'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curiosity, as to remark the horrible atrocities perpetrated under absolute monarchies; and to justify and extol Lord Grey, and, at the humblest distance, Sydney Smith and other men, who, according to their station in life and the different talents given them, have defended liberty.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

William Pitt Scargill [anon.] : Elizabeth Evanshaw

'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my account, yet I was flattered by this mark of respect and good-will from gentlemen to whom I am personally unknown. I am quite sure, however, that you overlooked the purpose and tendency of a work called Elizabeth Evanshaw, or that you would not have sent it to a clergyman of the Established Church, or indeed to a clergyman of any church. [Smith then rebukes the publishers at length for producing irreligious books, including a translation of Voltaire, before going on to say that, nevertheless] I shall read all the works and tell you my opinion of them from time to time. I was very much pleased with the "Two Months in Ireland", but did not read the poetical part; the prosaic division of the work is very good'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

[anon.] : Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Henry Gally Knight : Foreign and Domestic View of the Catholic Question

'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary : The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo

'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Buonaparte'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Clery : Journal

'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> obliterated by water]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Clery : Journal

'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making another, and advise you to buy Count Rumford's Essays, and to read that in particular which treats of the food of the poor. The amazingly small expence at which they can be fed is really surprising'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Beach Print: Book

Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford : Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Thomas Rennel [ed.] : [Sermons]

'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of fine animated declamation. The Bishop of London's have a very high character'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la Perouse : Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde

'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end italics] i vol. 4to I believe. It is written conjointly by Father and daughter, and is the result of 20 years reflection and Experiment. I have heard some extracts from it which delighted me very much'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

George Vancouver : A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean And Round The World In Which The Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined And Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Richard Lovell AND Maria Edgeworth : Practical Education

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Samuel Parr : 'Spital Sermon'

'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are very entertaining. You will find in them a great compliment to my brother'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith

Joshua Reynolds : Lectures

'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, Petit Careme de Massillon. Select Sermons of Dr Barrow. Burke's Settlement of the English Colonies in America. Alison on Taste. The first book, though written on painting, full of all wisdom. The second, a good history. The third, highly entertaining, fourth ditto. The fifth, a splendid example of sound eloquence. The sixth, piety, pure language, fine style. The seventh, lofty eloquence. The eighth, neat and philosophical. The ninth, feeling and eloquence. Here I think is is much wisdom as you can get for eight guineas. But remember to consult your family physician, your mother. I only know the general powers of these medicines; but she will determine their adaptation to your particular constitution'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

William Mitford : History of Greece

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Robert Orme : History of Hindustan

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Rene Aubert Vertot : Revolutions of Portugal, The

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Rene Aubert Vertot : History of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned by the change of religion, and alteration of the government in that kingdom

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Jacques Benigne Bossuet : Oraisons Funebres

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Massillon : 'Petite Careme'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Isaac Barrow : [Select Sermons]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Edmund [??] Barrow : [??] Speech on conciliation with the American colonies

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

Archibald Alison : Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

William Godwin : Political Justice

"I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them. I have not read your writings slightly, I have daily occasion to recur to them, but it has been twenty years since 'Political Justice' was written, and have men ceased to fight, has vice and misery wasted away? No, therefore modification is required."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to read it because a few copies only had arrived in London. I like very much the review of Davy, think the review of Espriela much too severe and am extremely vexed by the review of Hoyle's Exodus. The levities it contains will I am sure give very great offence'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Berry (ed.) : [Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and to Voltaire]

'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be right perhaps in calling her preface dull and stupid but I doubt it is hypocritical - because I do not think there is any hypocrisy in her'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Edmund Burke : [unknown]

'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As I have scarcely looked at a book for five years, I am rather hungry'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Homer : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Suetonius : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Adam Smith : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

William Godwin : The Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

John Allen : [article in the Annual Register, 1806]

'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style; but it is really quite shameful that a good stout answer has not been written to your calumniators'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [The Budget]

'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ruin it in spite of all Brougham can say - and Perceval can do'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

John Locke : [Works]

'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long winded'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

John Ferriar : Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions

'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is impossible to take any notice of it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Robert Ker Porter : Account of the Last Russian Campaign

'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidity, that nothing could be said of it but what was grossly abusive. I have read the controversy about the Auxiliary Bible Society, and will speedily send you an article upon it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Isaac Milner : [Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Eunice

'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish characters. Everything else I have read of hers I thought very indifferent, even her tale called [italics] Eunice [end italics]. If she has put in her novels people who fed her and her odious father she is not trustworthy'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book

Suetonius : [unknown]

'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy and Mary Shelley Print: Book

I. Casaubon (ed.) : Historia Augustana

'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Emilia Galotti

'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : [Plays]

'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : Ethwald

'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the view of the French Revolution for a short time'. [text as far as Ethwald in PBS' hand, thereafter MG]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution

'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the View of the French Revolution for a short time'. [text as far as Ethwald in PBS' hand, thereafter MG]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution

'Read view of the French Revolution'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : [Plays]

'In the afternoon read Miss Bailie's plays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Joanna Baillie : De Montfort

'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution

'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Robert Southey : The Remains of Henry Kirke White. With an account of his life

'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

'Read Bryan Edwards's account of the West Indies'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St aubin, Marquise de Silley, Comtesse de Genlis : Les Veilles du Chateau

'read Tales of the castle'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Bryan Edwards : he history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

'read Bryan Edwards all evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Robert Southey : Roderick; the last of the Goths

'look over Roderick - very unwell'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 'France: An Ode' [from] Fears in Solitude

'S reads Ode to France aloud and repeats the poem to tranquility'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Locke : unknown

[John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges".

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost, vii, 29-30

"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his Song when Morn purples the East', & being also in the predicament of that Prophet who says: I cannot go beyond the command of the Lord, to speak good or bad."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

: Numbers 24:13

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

: Bible

"I name Moses, Solomon, Esop, Homer, Plato". [Blake is referring to a selection of influential authors/characters from the Bible and classical literature]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book, Unknown

Homer : unknown

"What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, & but mediately to the understanding or Reason?"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book, Unknown

Francis Bacon : Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47

"Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47 of first Edition".

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'In the evening S[helley] C[lary] and H[ogg] sleep - read Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Livy : [unknown]

'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained

'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Shelley reads Gibbon alloud to me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : [unknown]

'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.) : Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself

'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.) : Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself

'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield : Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself

'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Euripides : [unknown]

[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aeschylus : [unknown]

[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sophocles : [unknown]

[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome

[italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome

[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Seneca : [unknown]

[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics

[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the finest of Lord B's poems. S. reads Lara aloud in the evening. [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara: a tale

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara: a tale

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome

[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Emperor Julian in private life he would have appeared a very ordinary man The fables of Aesop in Greek. - Boethius consolation of philosophy - how in the reign of Theodoric [underlined] a Christian? [end underlining] gr - Lord Bacon's works - Gibbon likes Boethius - [end italics] Mary reads Gibbon (100).' [italic text is by PBS, non-italic by MG]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aesop : Fables

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Boethius : De Consolatione Philosophiae

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Bacon : [Works]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome

[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael : Corinne, ou d'Italie

'read Corinne (42)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael : Corinne, ou d'Italie

'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Godwin : Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, including memoirs of John of Gaunt

'read talk and nurse - S reads the life of Chauser'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, including memoirs of John of Gaunt

'S finishes the life of Chauser'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Isaac D' Israeli : Despotism; or the fall of the Jesuits

'find my baby dead- Send for Hogg - talk - a miserable day - in the evening read fall of the Jesuits'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

unknown : Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper

'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our own.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch

'.. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch

'And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell you about'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

R M Ballantyne : Martin Rattler or a Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil

'I have got the book from Mrs Bell it is Martin Rattler.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Ovid : unknown

'I am getting on very well with Ovid.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Traditional Ballad : Shan Van Voght

'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Benjamin Disraeil : Alroy: a Romance

'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy].

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Le Vicomte de Bragelonne

'I have read Bragelonne'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

: Good Words

'There is a nice little bit of poetry about that in an old number of Good Words.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

.'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

: Broadway

'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

?Robert ?Wodrow : [MSS in the Advocates' Library]

'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Kingsley : Mademoiselle Mathilde

'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

Algernon Charles Swinburne : Poems and Ballads [first series]

'I suppose Poems and Ballads will stand in the way of a Laureateship.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : '1865-1866'

'... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : The Lotus Eaters/St Simeon Stylites

'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'St Simeon Stylites' et caetera.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Horace : Book II Ode III

'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : The History of England

'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text is Macaulay's History of England. RLS has been referring to pages 530-535, and 616-630 in his research for the play he is writing entitled Monmouth.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : The Golden Legend

"Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' and so on. 'Since God put him there, he is God's minister for some good end.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : unknown

'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Wodrow : The History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution

'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

George Herbert : The Temple: The Church Porch xxii

'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ... "Carve or discourse; do not famine fear, Who carves is kind to two, who talks to all."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Wilkie Collins : The Moonstone

The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical

Humbert Wolf : The Uncelestial City

'A lady I know well was sitting by the fire one evening. She wanted something to read so she reached out a hand to the bookcase by her side and took out a book at random. It was Humbert Wolf's "The Uncelestial City". She read the entire book. Then she had finished she lay back in the chair thinking, and it seemed to her that Wolf came into the room and sat down opposite her.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Chronicle

'Well, I think I really didn't think they were going too well really. I read the leading article in the Chronicle... they try to make things look as bright as possible, I think, but by the trend of it, I didn't think it was very bright. We don't hear a lot about it and of course it makes people sometimes wonder what is happening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Daily Mirror

'Yes, I read the article too. It shocked me. I think if it all had to be printed - I mean the advertisement - it was quite enough to do it in the way it was done. I don't see that all this so-called freedom of the sexes and all this calling a spade a spade, has increased morality. I am sure the women of my day at any rate were pure and modest in a way girls aren't now.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : To sing with the Angels

'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impressed rue, and within the last year I have read three books concenring Czechoslovakia, the most enlightening one being a fictional one "To sing with the Angels". I should say that the Czechs are one of the most progressive European people, and that after the war they will probably be the most powerful people in Central Europe. It is only to be hoped that their most useful people are not just liquidated by the Nazis.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is sufficient proof of the stubborn resistance put up by the inhabitants, I should imagine they attempt to trip the Germans up at every step, and unfortunately many of them pay with their lives for this. The news coming out of Cz. is fairly comprehensive, and this suggests that their underground movement is well organised. Cz. has been many times under the Conqueror's heel, and it is therefore hardly to be expected that they would tamely submit without a struggle.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: newspaper

"The 'Straight from the Beach at Dunkirk' you mean? I ask you....To be quite candid I've never seen anything so ridiculous in all my life. Yesterday I read it in the paper about two fusiliers. I don't think it's popular publicity. Fancy two fellows having been through what they've been through. I think it's an insult to the average intelligence to put things like that in the paper."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

William and Martha Dodd : Ambassador Dodd's Diary

'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read since have brought me out and shown me that I would have done my duty and my country much better that many. "Ambassador Dodd's Diary" helped me a lot. He was sincere and true. I've seen how the few good souls in all countries who warned us re Germany and Japan were ignored and fools went on their way rejoicing in their power luxuries and parties - and ignorance...I see that privilege got these fools into power...Books have helped a lot... this newest is fine, "your M.P." by Tiberius G......And I who know nothing am not satisfied with my education...know I'd have used the chances...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Tiberius G : Your M.P

'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read since have brought me out and shown mw that I would have done my duty and my country much better that many. "Ambassador Dodd's Diary" helped me a lot. He was sincere and true. I've seen how the few good souls in all countries who warned us re Germany and Japan were ignored and fools went on their way rejoicing in their power luxuries and parties - and ignorance...I see that privilege got these fools into power...Books have helped a lot... this newest is fine, "your M.P." by Tiberius G......And I who know nothing am not satisfied with my education...know I'd have used the chances...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Bible

"Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.' [....] 'Where wast though when I laid the foundations of the earth? ... Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?' And so on to the end:'Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty answer him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read any book but the Bible and Night Thoughts*; even the Odyssey was to be rejected'. *'The Night Thoughts, and the Odyssey, were favourite studies among these friends, to which they were wont to make many serious and playful allusions' [footnote, p. 9] from Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773. eg. p.25 'Though my sorrows should be multiplied, as very likely they may, I shall have consolations peculiarly my own, that, like Milton?s sweet music, ?will breathe above, about, and underneath?. How literal this truth is ?. A little dress, a little Odyssey, a little breakfast, and then ? I shall behold the faces of my kindred' from Letter III To Miss Reid.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Edward Young : Night thoughts

Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read any book but the Bible and Night Thoughts*; even the Odyssey was to be rejected'. *'The Night Thoughts, and the Odyssey, were favourite studies among these friends, to which they were wont to make many serious and playful allusions' [footnote, p. 9] from Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773. eg. p.19 '"how populous, how vital is the grave;? says your favourite Young : ?how populous, how vital are the glens!? I should be tempted to say here' from same letter.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

: Bible

Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read any book but the Bible and Night Thoughts*; even the Odyssey was to be rejected'. *The Night Thoughts, and the Odyssey, were favourite studies among these friends, to which they were wont to make many serious and playful allusions? [footnote, p. 9].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Eden Phillpotts : unknown

'I have perused his [Eden Philpott's] agreeable verse in February Pall Mall Mag. I think that while Halkett has done very well with the illustrations he has gone very much off in his fiction department.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

: Woman

'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

G. B. Shaw : The Quintessence of Ibsenism

". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'The Quintessence of Ibsenism'".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Arnold Bennett :

'. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet entitled the "Golden Penny". To read the instalments each week does me good, they are so exactly what they should be (& good English thrown in gratis).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Havergall Bates : The Believing Bishop

'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend it to you as a fine disturbing book'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone : [article]

'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most impersonal thing I ever came across. The second (spiders) was much better. And this third surprises me by its force & vitality.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

H. G. Wells : Anticipations

'I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the "Fortnightly"! This third article is the best yet. I have never seen so good an illustration of the scientific use of imagination.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck in "David Copperfield" & the same in "Pickwick". I am forced to admit that I am out of sympathy with those big Victorians. . . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Michael'

'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfect simplicity & power. I have read it about ten times lately.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H. G. Wells : unknown

'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is to pick up a decent magazine without You in it. I took in the "Fortnightly" and the "Strand" in order to run even with you. And now damned if you haven?t let me in for "Pearson?s"! And I hear rumour of a "Dream of Armageddon" in something else. You make your readers work.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

H. G. Wells : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Lloyd Humberstone : Coventry

'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right . . . . As it stands, I think little of the chances of "Coventry" . . . People don?t want to know about their own country. If Coventry was in Italy, it would be different. As the article is not finished it would not be proper for me to criticise it finally. . .'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Lloyd Humberstone : article on Sir John Gorst

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

H. G. Wells : The First Men on the Moon

'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instalments are among the very best things you have done. I have read Anticipations in Fortnightly, & hasten to say that I have been absolutely overwhelmed by the breadth & the sheer intellectual vigour of them, not to mention the imaginative power. These articles really have made me a little afraid of you.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Review of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the Moon

'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most interesting part of the book. For this reason I should like the book. I had meant to buy it (sinning against my principle of never buying new books), but if I can get it for nothing I can put the price into the missionary box.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Fr Graz : in Die Zeit

'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902) : The House with the Green Shutters

'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glorious after Barrie, Maclaren, Crockett & Co. You see Scotland in it for the first time in your life.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: The Literary Year Book

'. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are a mistake in a Year Book. You want nothing but serious informative or practically speculative stuff, all of it strictly topical & expert. In the Literary Year Book the Editor has made a grave error by introducing miscellaneous articles which are not informative & have nothing to do with the year. '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it is the most agreeable & diverting thing in non-imaginative literature in English.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

George Sturt : Some Peasant Women

''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : various

Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Letter XIII to Miss Reid, Fort William May 24 1773 '?He was like Brutus among conspirators, whom you used to admire in the play: "The rest did what they did in envy of the great Caesar/ He only, in general honest thought," ?'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

John Milton : [Works]

Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasgow, Fort William, May 17 1773 V.1 p.90 'If Fort Augustus be such a place, I will certainly become a votary of the ?Pensive nun, devout and pure,/ Sober, stedfast [sic], and demure? whom we used to admire so much. Expect to see me when we meet ?With sable stole of cypress lawn/ O?er my decent shoulders drawn."'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey

Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every thing, that I burst out a laughing, and said we were certainly haunted by the ghost of Smelfungus, of whom Sterne give [sic] such an amusing account. By the bye, we had just that morning passed, ?with reverence due?, the monument of the original Smelfungus, which rises near his native spot, beside his favourite lake, which he delights to describe in Humphrey Clinker.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]

Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am describing ?. '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Isaac D'Israeli : Despotism; or, the Fall of the Jesuits

'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Christian August Vulpius : Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Rauberhauptmann

'Finish Renaldini - talk with Shelley- in very bad spirits but get better'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Christian August Vulpius : Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Rauberhauptmann

'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Bernard le Bouyer de Fontinelle : Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes

'Read and talk - still think about my little baby - 'tis hard indeed for a mother to loose a child - Hogg and C.[harles] C.[lairmont] come in the evening - CC goes at 11. Hogg stays all night - read Fontinelle Plurality of Worlds'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

John Black (trans.) : Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramatist) written by himself

'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book

Thomas Browne : Religio Medici

'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book

William Godwin : Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet

'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Simon Ockley : The Conquest of Syria, Persia and Aegypt, by the Saracens

'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine de (Madame de) Stael : De la Litterature consideree dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales

'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : Ad Urbe Condita [probably]

'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish 4 volume)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book

Livy : Ad Urbe Condita

'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley Print: Book

Livy : Ad Urbe Condita

Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Talk and read the papers'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Newspaper

Robert Bage : Hermsprong: Or Man as he is not. A novel. By the Author of Man as he is

'After dinner read Hermsprong'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Alain Rene Lesage : Le Diable boiteux

'read le diable boiteux [...] in the evening read le diable boiteux and play at chess'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - S finishes Livy (p920 vol 3.) & 1/2 past 12 at night'.[end italics] [& a mistake for at??]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Livy : Ad Urbe Condita

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Bage : Man as He Is. A Novel

'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rokeby; a poem

'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rokeby; a poem

'go to the British Museum - see all the fine things - ores, fossils, statues, divine &c &c. - return - read Rokeby - go upstairs to talk with S. - read and finish Rokeby'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book

[unknown] : [work in Italian]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Unknown

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbon (vol 12 - 364) and the story of Myrrha in Ovid'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Guarini : Il Pastor Fido; tragicomedio pastorale

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

John Milton : unknown

"Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Prophet, but Shakespeare in riper/ years gave me his hand;/ Paracelsus & Behmen appear'd to me," Poem in letter to John Flaxman Letter 19 12th Sept 1800 explaining Blake's most influential reading.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake

Giordano Bruno : unknown

"I shall not be able to avail myself of the assistance of Bruno's fairies." [Reference to writings of Giordano Bruno 1548-1600. Italian Heretic philosopher - according to editorial footnote]. Letter 21 to William Hayley

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake

Ovid : Metamorphoses - story of Myrrha

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses (3rd fable)

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end italics]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Guiarini : Il pastor fido; tragicomedio pastorale

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end italics]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end italics]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses (4th and 5th fables)

'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Shelley and Clara begin Orlando Furioso'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As You Like It

'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads Voltaire p. 126.'[end italics]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses (vii)

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'read over the Ovid to Jefferson'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles: a poem

'read 3 Canto's of the Lord of the Isles'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [Poems]

'After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations (203)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Queene?]

'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Seneca : [unknown]

'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Seneca : [unknown]

'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Queene?]

'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

"Blake and I read every Evening that copy of the Iliad which your namesake of St Paul's was so good as to send me, comparing it with the 1st edition and with the Greek as we proceed - we shall be glad to see the odyssey also, as soon as it is visible - & with it the pages of the Iliad that were not dispatched from the press, when our copy arrived". Letter from William Hayley to John Johnson Letter 37

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

: newspaper

'Arrived 8.45 am, left 5.45. Left early with Mac's permission, though Bailey said he wouldn't risk it. Did 10 minutes work all through the day. One lorry arrived four times. This meant that I gave the driver four tickets and one day-work ticket, and stated on a form that three loads of firewood and one of bricks had been taken to Hardington St and Hyde Park respectively. The rest of the time I lounged or sat about and chatted with the others, and had the usual snacks and cups of tea. I am checking for one site only. At one time I read a paper, but felt it met with disfavour. Apparently the firm doesn't mind you wasting time, but doesn't like you filling in such time in your own interests. After 4.45 the lorry had gone for the last time and there was nothing more I could possibly do, yet if I had gone then I would have lost 11/4 hours' pay. By staying to nearly six I will be paid full time, although I did nothing.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Lyndoe : unknown texts on Astrology

'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and study him regularly, and I find it's a great help.....things don't seem to go wrong anywhere near so much as before I started reading him. I really have great faith in him.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: information on clothes rationing

'When I first read about it I thought to myself; "I don't think that's going to affect me at all; 66 coupons! Why, I shall need half of it!" But then I began to buy things for my boy - a pair of trousers, a couple of pairs of socks, and two summer shirts - then I began to think to myself: "Well, what am I going to do for his winter things?"' coupons doesn't go far, when you start to spend it.' I think a lot of people didn't realise that at the start."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown, could be news or pamphlets

: [newspaper]

'"I just went down the Post an' when I come back it was as flat as this 'ere wharfside - there was just my 'ouse like-well, part of my 'ouse. My sissus were just making me a cup of tea for when I come 'ome. She were in the passage between the kitchen and the wash-'ouse, where it blowed 'er. She were burnt right up to 'er waist. 'Er legs were just two cinders. And 'er face... The only thing I could recognize 'er by was one of 'er boots... I'd 'ave lost 15 'omes if I could 'ave kept my missus. We used to read together. I can't read mesen. She used to read to me like. We'd 'ave our arm-chairs one either side o' the fire,. And she read me bits out o' the paper. We 'ad a paper every evening. Every evening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Quene?]

'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Quene?]

'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Seneca : [unknown]

'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Queene?]

'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Norway, Sweden and Denmark

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given separate database entries from this source] 'Mary. Those marked x. S. has read also xLetters from Norway x Mary, A Fiction. x Wordsworth's Excursion. x. Madoc. by Southey. 2 vol x Curse of Kehama. x Sorcerer. a novel. x Political Justice. 2 x The Monk - by Lewis - 4 x Thaliba 2 x The Empire of the Nairs 4 x Queen Mab x St Godwin x Wrongs of Women 2 x Caleb Williams 3 x Zadig x Life of Alfieri, by himself 2 x Essay on Sepulchres x Louvet's Memoirs Carnot's Memorial x Lives of the Revolutionists by Adolphus 2 x Edgar Huntley. x Peregrine Proteus. x The Italian. x Prince Alexy Haimatoff. Philip Stanley. by Brown x Miss Bailly's plays x Moores Journal x Agathon x Mungo Park's Travels in Africa. 1st part x Barrow's Embassy to China Milton's letter to Mr Hartlib Emilia Galotti. x Bryan Edwards hist. of the W. Indies x View of the French Revolution by M.W.G. x Candide x Kirke White. 62 volumes'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Mary: a Fiction

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given separate database entries from this source] 'Mary. Those marked x. S. [Percy Bysshe Shelley] has read also xLetters from Norway x Mary, A Fiction. x Wordsworth's Excursion. x. Madoc. by Southey. 2 vol x Curse of Kehama. x Sorcerer. a novel. x Political Justice. 2 x The Monk - by Lewis - 4 x Thaliba 2 x The Empire of the Nairs 4 x Queen Mab x St Godwin x Wrongs of Women 2 x Caleb Williams 3 x Zadig x Life of Alfieri, by himself 2 x Essay on Sepulchres x Louvet's Memoirs Carnot's Memorial x Lives of the Revolutionists by Adolphus 2 x Edgar Huntley. x Peregrine Proteus. x The Italian. x Prince Alexy Haimatoff. Philip Stanley. by Brown x Miss Bailly's plays x Moores Journal x Agathon x Mungo Park's Travels in Africa. 1st part x Barrow's Embassy to China Milton's letter to Mr Hartlib Emilia Galotti. x Bryan Edwards hist. of the W. Indies x View of the French Revolution by M.W.G. x Candide x Kirke White. 62 volumes'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Petronius : unknown

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1814: all the titles have database entries based on journal entries about reading them] Diogenes Laertius Cicero - Colectanea. Petronius Suetonius Barrow's Embassy to China Mungo Park's travels. 60 vol'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Don Roderick

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Die Lieden des jungen Werthers

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Denis Chavis : Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments . . . Newly translated from the original Arabic into French by Dom Chaves and M. Cazotte

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Godwin : The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Charles James, Lord Holland Fox : A history of the early part of the reign of James the Second

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

James Leigh Hunt (ed.) : The Reflector

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Brockden Brown : Wieland; or, the transformation

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Godwin : Fleetwood; or, the New Man of Feeling

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller : Don Carlos

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Robert Paltock : The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de Reveries du promeneur solitaire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Robert Southey : Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Gottfried August Burger : Lenore

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile; ou de l'education

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

John Milton : Paradise Lost

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

[anon.] : Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael : De l'Allemagne

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Augustine, l'abbe Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinism

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

William Beckford : Vathek

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

August von Kotzebue : Das merkwurdigste Jahr meines Lebens

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Walter Scott : Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

: newspaper

'I was glad to hear Mr. Remond's history from you, though the newspapers had given it to me [italics] en gros [italics].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Newspaper

William Robertson : History of America

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Virgil : unknown

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Jonathan Swift : Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

John Milton : Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire (pseud.) : Le Bible enfin explique

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Joseph Berington : The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa . . . from 1079 to 1163. With their genuine letters, from the collection of Amboise

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

: New Testament

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Poems

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d' Holbach : Systeme de la nature ou des loix du monde physique et du monde moral

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

James Thomson : Castle of Indolence, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Thomas Chatterton : Poems

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

John Milton : Lycidas

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Edmund Burke : A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Alexander Pope : The Iliad of Homer

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Sallust :

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Epictetus : unknown

'Here is the work of one week of my solitude - by the many faults in it your Lordship will easily believe I spend no more time upon it; it was hardly finished when I was obliged to begin my journey, and I had not leisure to write it over again. You have it here without any corrections, with all its blots and errors: as I endeavoured at no beauty of style, but to keep as literally as I could to the sense of the author. My only intention in presenting it, is to ask your lordship whether I have understood Epictetus?'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Francoise de Graffigny : Lettres d'une Peruvienne

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Richard Walter : Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, by George Anson Esq . . . Compiled from papers . . . of . . . Lord Anson . . . by Richard Walter (and Benjamin Robins)

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Charles Brockden Brown : Ormond; or, The Secret Witness

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Thomas Holcroft : Adventures of Hugh Trevor, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Eugene Labaume : Relation circonstanciee de la campagne de Russie

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Matthew Lewis : Tales of Terror

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Voltaire (pseud.) : Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin

Alexander Pope : unknown

'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name of Sappho, because there is nothing I ever heard in our characters or circumstances to make a parallel, but as the town (except you, who know better) generally suppose Pope means me, whenever he mentions that name, which appears to be irritated by supposing her writer of the verses to the Imitator of Horace.'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Henry William Weber (ed.) : Tales of the East: Comprising the most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin and the Best Imitations by European Authors

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Francis Bacon :

"Bacon & Newton would prescribe ways of making the world heavier to me, & Pitt would prescribe distress for a Medical potion;" in same letter he talks about Mr Hayley's library being nearly finished. Letter to Thomas Butts. Letter 31. 11th September 1801.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake

[n/a] : [Gazettes / newspapers from paris]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Newspaper

Moliere [pseud.] : Les Precieuses Ridicules

[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper was called'. [Eugenia]: 'In the evening the Paris papers were read I did not give them any attention then we began to reread for Madame de Bombelles "Les Precieuses Ridicules" which was interrupted by supper'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [Poems]

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - again, only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Charles James Fox, Lord Holland : A history of the early part of the reign of James the Second

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Paltock : Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey [anon.] : Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[anon.] : Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Beckford : Vathek

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

August von Kotzebue : Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Tale of a Tub, A. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise x The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : [Poems]

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - again, only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament x Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

James Thomson : Castle of Indolence, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Lycidas

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [Plays]

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon x Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser [sic] Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Burke [anon.] : A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sallust :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Eugene Labaume : Relation circonstanci?e de la campagne de Russie

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Aminta

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Hesiod : Works and Days

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plutarch :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Novum Organum

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : [Tragedies]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Theocritus : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

James MacPherson : The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language by James MacPherson

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Herodotus : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Thucydides : [probably History of the Peloponnesian War]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Homer : [Iliad / Odyssey]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Locke : Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean Antoine de Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Louis Maimbourg : Histoire de l'arianisme depuis sa naissance, jusqu'a sa fin, avec l'origine et le progres de l'heresie des sociniens

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

: [the works listed above]

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Carl Philipp Moritz : Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Pierre Jean Baptiste Legrand d' Aussy : Fabliaux ou contes du XII et du XIII si?cle

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Basil Montagu (ed.) : The Opinions of different authors upon the punishment of Death, selected by Basil Montagu

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Thomas, First Baron Erskine : [Collection of Speeches, perhaps Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press, and Against Constructive Treason]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Johann Friedrich von Schiller : Der Geisterseher

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Elizabeth, Lady Craven : A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Nicholas Rowe : The Fair Penitent: A tragedy

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Carl Philipp Moritz : Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, La Nouvelle Heloise

[italics to indicate PB Shelley's hand] 'In the evening I walk alone a long way by the lake. Read Julie all day [end italics]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire (pseud.) : [possibly] Romans et contes

'Shelley goes alone to the Glacier of Boison - I stay at home - read several tales of Voltaire'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mme de Genlis : Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques

'We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Voltaire (pseud.) : [possibly] Romans et contes

'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Lucretius : de Rerum Natura

'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lucretius : de Rerum Natura

'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Pliny : [letters]

'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Pliny : [letters]

'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [letters]

'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire

'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire

'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Pliny : [Letters]

'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire

'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation

'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation

'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Madame du Deffand : [life included in] Correspondence in?dite de Mme du Deffand

'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Virgil : [unknown]

'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

August H.J. Lafontaine : Carl Engelmann's Tagebuch

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Pliny : [Letters]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Gaius Plinius Secundus : Panegyricus

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Gaius Plinius Secundus : Panegyricus

'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation

'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation

'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Gilpin : 3 Essays on Picturesque Beauty

"Perhaps Picturesque is somewhat synonymous to the word Taste, which we should think improperly applied to Homer & Milton, but very well to Prior or Pope. I suspect that the application of these words are the Excellencies of an inferior order, & which are incompatible with the Grand style... So says Sir Joshua, & so say I;" quotes Sir Joshua Reynolds to William Gilpin in '3 essays on Picturesque Beauty' by William Gilpin in letter to Thomas Butts

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

Jill Adams : News Chronicle

'I think newspapers do a lot towards it, because one of the first things I do is to look at the women's page in the News Chronicle. I read her - Jill Adams, I think her name is, and sure enough you see something crop up. I may be out, see something on somebody that I like, and try and copy it. I make my own a lot, since I have been married, necessity started it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: Monitor

'You mean the Monitor? I read it because I think it's better than any English papers. It doesn't mix its news and views up together, like Beaverbrook's dirty rags do.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

: [Report into Insurance Companies' finances]

'...Naturally the Insurance Companies are feeling a bit sick and when the report is delved into, this is hardly to be wondered at. I have only read a wee bit of the report so far, but one thing has struck me. It does not seem right, as Sir William points out, that Insurance Companies should make money, and so much of it too, on human life and suffering.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: The New Testament

"I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find it very Easy; am now learning my Hebrew [ABC]. I read Greek as fluently as an Oxford scholar & the Testament is my chief master: astonishing indeed is the English Translation, it is almost word for word & if the Hebrew Bible is as well translated... we need not doubt of its having been translated as well as written by the Holy Ghost." Letter 43 to James Blake 30th Jan 1803

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book

: news

'I have very little feeling about them, especially in war-time. I used to admire what I read about them and their tidiness and efficiency and agriculture in peace time. since the war I have not met any of them, though like everyone I read about their fine fighting in the East Indies and about their fleet.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Cordell Hull : unknown

'Unconditional surrender. I don't think America will allow us to do anything different. I read the other day where Cordell Hull said there would be no peace talks, it would be settled on the battlefield; and we have to do what America says now, I think.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

: [a letter]

'He now referred to two sheets of paper, which he had with him, saying that he was late (no apologies) because he had just been on the telephone with London and he'd taken down a letter now being posted to him ("I shall have it in the morning written on House of Commons note-paper" he said) written and signed by eleven M.P's, recognising him as the official Conservative Candidate and wishing him good luck for the election. He read the letter from his own handwriting taken down from the telephone, stammering over the word "conscientiously" and over the names of M.P. 's which came at the end.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Letter

: news

'I have read how delayed demobilisation after the last war led to disaffection and mutiny among the troops: but it seems that part of the reason there was that the troops concerned, back in camps and depots from the fighting fronts, found themselves condemned to day after weary day of "soldering" -spit and polish run mad-as the only occupation the officers of those days could think of as an alternative to fighting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Marcel Proust : unknown

'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except when I read Ellis's Sunlight on Parnassus" to B. while she was ironing".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Ellis : Sunlight on Parnassus

'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except when I read Ellis's "Sunlight on Parnassus" to B. while she was ironing'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: newspaper

'a friend of mine read in the paper that some people had recently left Italy for America. She says they are the Italian Royal Family and that they are getting out of Italy whilst they can.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Mary Border : Passport for a girl

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Sigmund Freud :

'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I couldn't help but look upon this as a warning and for weeks afterwards I was alarmingly apprehensive of disaster, though nothing did happen to justify this terrifying experience.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Dunne : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: questionnaire about margarine

'My personal opinion of margarine has quite changed owing to the arrival of this questionnaire. My mother opened it by mistake, but finding it was not of a private nature, read the questions. When I arrived home for tea that evening she asked as if I felt hungry. I replied, yes, and went on reading the paper, 'Here is a piece of bread and butter for you to go on with' she said.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Broadsheet, Questionnaire / survey sheet

: advertisements about margarine

'She goes on: "I read the advertisements stating margarine's superiority to butter with a quiet smile, and a mental thought of 'I don't think!' I think my sales-resistance to these advertisements is, as the Americans say, 100%".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement

: leaflets

'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement

: newspapers

'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

James Thomson : The seasons

Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but when we set out, Eolus did not perform the task Thomson assigns him in the opening of spring'; p.64 'I am reformed, and amended, but cannot fatigue myself or you with the description of this day; you will find it in Thomson ?Deceitful, vain, and void, passes the day.?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : The expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless you live among them, and learn their language. Smollet, in Humphrey Clinker, is the only writer that has given a genuine sketch of Scotch manners ?.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked out by the name of Captain Gawky.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Thomas Gray : [Poems]

Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fatal sisters),; v.3 p. 59 (On a distant prospect of Eton college). Eg. p.73 'I always delight in Gray?s Ode to Adversity; read it once again and compare its ennobling tenors with my ideas.'; p. 91 'I feel the spark of fancy kindling at the torch of memory; but as Gray says of Jove?s eagle, "the thunder of whose beak, and lightening of whose eye were to be quenched? &c &c I too will quench my mental light in ?dark clouds of slumber"'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons

Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, during these tepid gleams that Thomson speaks of so feelingly, have almost made us this autumn ?Taste the rural life in all its joy,? and elegance'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] Print: Book

William Shenstone : [An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset]

Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that thousands are not born to taste! "O! blind to truth, to virtue blind,/ Who slight the sweetly pensive mind,/ On whose birth the graces mild,/ Ands every Muse prophetic smil?d." ... ?There are the spirits born to know and prove,/ All nature?s charms immense, and heavens unbounded love."' [ie two separate quotations from the same verse]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

William Shenstone : [Elegy 15]

Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, and met her death with the same well-grounded heroism. "Surely to blissful realms those souls are flown That never flatter?d, censur?d, envied, strove" My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc has been lately made in the little circle of those I loved!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Walter Scott : [Elegy 1]

Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc has been lately made in the little circle of those I loved!' "Yes, even here, amidst these secret shades/The simple scenes of unreproved delight/Affliction?s iron hand my breast invades/And death?s dread dart is ever in my sight?"'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : [The traveller]

Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where ?Winter lingering chills the lap of May? if I could help it.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

unknown : [Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and of Oliver Cromwell]

Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite engrossed by heroes and legislatures' [and later in same letter] 'You bid me read biography, to teach me to think; I have thought and here is the result [ie re Peter the Great]. If I have not made you very angry, I will next give my thought of this rival hero.'[and in the following two letters to same recipient May 30 and June 20 1773] 'The poor dear Odyssey is quite neglected; I have forsaken it for biography; I can speak of nobody less than a king or a general, and shall take the first opportunity of introducing you to prince Mazeppa. Tweed and Clyde are not worth a farthing now, I can think of nothing but Dneiper and the Boristhenes. I have some toleration too for the Wolga [sic]. "Oh voman [sic], voman!" as Win Jenkins says, " If you knew but the plesur [sic] we scullers have when we censter the crabbit werds." ?'; [and] ... 'To quit the flowery paths of ingenious fiction [ie the Vicar of Wakefield] for the thorny maze in which I am slowly advancing, [ie a biography of Cromwell] is no pleasing transition to female fancy?.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales) : Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, traduite de l'arabe par l'auteur de la Philosophie de la nature

'I translate in the evening and read le vieux de la Montagne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales) : Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, traduite de l'arabe par l'auteur de la Philosophie de la nature

'read le vieux de la montagne and write'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales) : Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, traduite de l'arabe par l'auteur de la Philosophie de la nature

'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347

'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347

'read Walther and some of Rienzi'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

August H.J. Lafontaine : Walther oder das Kind vom Schlachtfeld

'read Walther and some of Rienzi'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

August H.J. Lafontaine : Walther oder das Kind vom Schlachtfeld

'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : [possibly one of] Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques

'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Butler : Hudibras

Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to compare me to Hudibras, "Who could not ope/ His mouth but out there flew a trope"?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The vicar of Wakefield

Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell through all his crooked paths. I have gone but a short way, my attention having been completely engrossed by a book that has bewitched me for the time; ?tis the Vicar of Wakefield, which you must certainly read. Goldsmith puts one in mind of Shakespear [sic]; his narrative is improbable and absurd in many instances, yet all his characters do and say exactly what might be supposed of them ?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Harvey : unknown

Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust me when I assure you, I don?t borrow from Harvey. The reverence I have for his character and intentions has made me often try to like his flowery style, but I never could succeed.' Letter to Miss Ewing May 1777

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

William Collins : Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson

Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my window ?But now the fairy vallies fade/Dun night has veil?d the solemn view;/Yet once again, dear parted maid/Meek Nature?s child, again adieu.' Letter to Miss Ewing May 1777

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Dunciad

Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall be, that every one of my subjects, who is incapable of being amused in a rational and elegant manner, shall work hard from morning to night. And in this regulation I will consult the happiness of my said subjects ?Nor let their everlasting yawn express/The pain and penalties of idleness?'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

James Beattie : The minstrel; or , the progress of genius

Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the purest of mirrors, exhibiting a prospect awfully solemn and wildly magnificent; while the mountain tops seem sleeping on its surface. ?In truth, I am a strange and wayward wight/ Fond of each dreadful, and each gentle scene"' .

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Marcus Tullius Cicero : Fortieth oration

Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make this clear by a learned quotation from M.T. Cicero?s fortieth oration.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Clarissa, and your new acquaintance Mr. Monteith. I observe you frequently preferred the company of the former to the latter, and am pleased to find you so partial to my favourite heroine. Never, sure, were characters so well drawn, discriminated and supported as those in ?Clarissa?. ...' [comment continues]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

[Edward?] [Young?] : [Satire VI?]

Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom Pope says ?Great souls there are, who touch?d with warmth divine/ Give gold a price, and teach its beams to shine"

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on man

Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almost similar character [ie to one in fiction], Lord Bolingbroke, whom Pope distinguishes by the epithet of all-accomplished St. John. He addressed his Essay on Man to him, and speaks of him on all occasions with the most enthusiastic admiration. Swift does almost the same; and Chesterfield, who only saw him in extreme old age, when he might be thought to have outlived his talents and his graces, was yet dazzled with his person and address ?. ?. Thus, without heart, without truth or morals, this man [ie Lord Bolingbroke] was enabled to captivate and do mischief, not only all his life, but even after death. The deistical writings he left behind were not the result of self-conviction, or a desire to convince others, but the mere vanity of exploring the trackless wastes of speculation, of overthrowing established opinions, and thus creating a region in which to rule. It was like Satan?s expedition in search of some domain, where he might exercise power and produce misery'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

James Beattie : Poems

Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have placed those pretty pictures in regular succession; with Miss Ourry?s, and Mrs Sprot?s; cousin Jean?s letters, which I value much for the vein of original humour that runs through them, are there too: so are some of Beattie?s poems. You can?t think how diligently I peruse this good book. Watts on the Passions is not dearer to you; for, warm as he is in your workbag, do you think your paper bag of epistles can ever lift its head in competition to my great book?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Eliosa

Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the most affecting and heroic instance of true friendship I have met with in real life. One can?t help comparing it with the lively and impressive portrait Rousseau draws of Clara and Eloisa.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

[Edward?] [Young?] : [?Night Thoughts]

Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, are all your own and, tho? well assured that there is indeed ?No pang like that of bosom torn/ From bosom, bleeding o?er the sacred dead? yet I trust those truths ?.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

William Collins : Address to simplicity

Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on paper, where your diffidence does not stand in your way. He admires my application of Collin?s Address to Simplicity to you and says you really are, ?By nature taught/To breathe her genuine thought/ In language warmly lure and sweetly strong"'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Rochefoucault : [Maxims and moral reflections?]

Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people always find consolation very easily for the misfortunes of their friends. Painful experience assures me of the contrary.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werter

Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazzled my good man. He desires me to keep the letter for my girls, to moderate the poignant affliction they will feel, some time hence, in weeping over Werter. He considers this pathetic hero as a weak though amiable enthusiast, and looks upon Charlotte as first cousin to a coquette. Albert is his hero. ?.' [continues to refer to Werter for several pages]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

John Gregory : A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world

Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last section on the influence of religion; that on taste; and the strictures of taste on refinement. I long to have you share the entertainment they afforded to my happier hours.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : unknown

Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are not mob, an animal which Smollet most emphatically says he detests in its head, midriff, and members; and, in this point, I do not greatly differ with him. You would wonder how many of the genteeler class live here. They are not rich to be sure; so much the better for us; For "Where no contiguous palace rears its head/To shame the meanness of the humble shed" people do very well, and keep each other in countenance."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The traveller

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Robert Burns : To ruin

Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with composure that excited my own wonder. Perhaps like Burns, "With firm, resolv?d, despairing eye/ I view each aimed dart/ Since one has cut my dearest tie/ And quivers in my heart."'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on man

Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many other instances ?What happier nature shrinks at with affright,/ The hard inhabitants contend is right.? '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecroft : unknown

Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here, that there is no keeping it long enough to read it leisurely, though one had leisure. It has produced no other convictions in my mind, but that of the authors possessing considerable abilities, and greatly misapplying them. To refute her arguments would be to write another and a larger book; for there is more pains and skill required to refute ill-founded assertions, than to make them. [and again on p. 272] 'Where a woman had those superior powers of mind to which we give the name genius, she will exert them under all disadvantages: Jean Jacques says truly, genius will educate itself, and, like flame, burst through all obstructions ?.' [p. 268-277 is a criticism of Mary Wollstonecroft's work]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : [?Emile]

Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here, that there is no keeping it long enough to read it leisurely, though one had leisure. It has produced no other convictions in my mind, but that of the authors possessing considerable abilities, and greatly misapplying them. To refute her arguments would be to write another and a larger book; for there is more pains and skill required to refute ill-founded assertions, than to make them. [and again on p. 272] 'Where a woman had those superior powers of mind to which we give the name genius, she will exert them under all disadvantages: Jean Jacques says truly, genius will educate itself, and, like flame, burst through all obstructions ?. [p. 268-277 is a criticism of Mary Wollstonecroft's work ]'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

: Bible

Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of handwriting practice. However, the three boys also identify themselves and demonstrate some interaction with the text of the book: 1. Frontispiece and page facing frontispiece: Richard Solly signs his name and writes 'Richard Solly his Book'. Elsewhere, he writes 'Richard Solly his Book, God give him grace' and 'Richard Solly, Born the 12 Day...' 2. Frontispiece: Brother Michael Solly writes 'Michael Solly, not his Book' and proceeds to puncture the pages to form the shape of his initials. 3. Page facing preface: Stephen (spelt also Stiven) Solly signs his name and writes 'Stephen Solly was born the 15 day of June and was Baptised the 19 day in the year 1706'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Solly Print: Book

: Bible

Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of handwriting practice. However, the three boys also identify themselves and demonstrate some interaction with the text of the book: 1. Frontispiece and page facing frontispiece: Richard Solly signs his name and writes 'Richard Solly his Book' 2. Frontispiece: Brother Michael Solly writes 'Michael Solly, not his Book' and proceeds to puncture the pages to form the shape of his initials 3. Page facing preface: Stephen (spelt also Stiven) Solly signs his name and writes 'Stephen Solly was born the 15 day of June and was Baptised the 19 day in the year 1706'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Solly Print: Book

: Bible

Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of handwriting practice. However, the three boys also identify themselves and demonstrate some interaction with the text of the book: 1. Frontispiece and page facing frontispiece: Richard Solly signs his name and writes 'Richard Solly his Book' 2. Frontispiece: Brother Michael Solly writes 'Michael Solly, not his Book' and proceeds to puncture the pages to form the shape of his initials 3. Page facing preface: Stephen (spelt also Stiven) Solly signs his name and writes 'Stephen Solly was born the 15 day of June and was Baptised the 19 day in the year 1706'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Stephen Solly Print: Book

Helen Maria Williams : unknown

Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the Rights of Man, and abominate those of Woman. Think then how I am prepared to receive your friend H.M.W.?s* new publication; though I admire her style, and confess that nobody embellishes absurdity more ingeniously. I am greatly inclined too to respect the purity of religious principles. Yet when I think of the associates with whom her political bigotry has connected her, I think I hear the Syrian leper entreating the prophet?s permission to bow a little occasionally in the house of their god Rimmon. [footnote] *Helen Maria Williams before she forsook her country and her principles'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

John Dryden : [Tales from Chaucer]

Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of Diana which seemed to protect me. I thought of Dryden?s description: "The graceful goddess was array?d in green,/ About her feet were little beagles seen,/ That watch?d with upward eyes the motions of their queen."'

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Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone : [Sketches?]

Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe they are? It is very much the kind of reading that you like. I never met with one who thought exactly as I do of Shakspear, of David Hume, and of Queen Mary, but he. In politics we should never agree, I am &c., &c.? '

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Jonathan Swift : unknown

Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they prayed for; but he is rather delicate in his constitution. The circle is never complete. I think Swift and Co. or some of those old friends of ours, remark, that they have seldom met with superior powers on understanding joined to amiable qualities in a woman, but that there was a balance of bad health to be set on the opposite side of the account?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

James Macpherson : The poems of Ossian

Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation, ?Tha solas an thireadh le sith, Ach claoidhidh fad thuirs soil doruin,?*. As I cannot cure the evil habit of quotation, you see I have changed ground, and taken shelter in another language ? This whimsical parody is not unmeaning, for the original is stronger, and softer than the sense can be given in our language? [footnote]*This quotation from Ossian has been elegantly, and not unfaithfully, translated by James Macpherson. It runs literally thus??There is enjoyment in mourning with peace; yet long mourning wastes the children of calamity?'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Robert Burns : [Poems]

Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy is the most finished, and excels in simple elegance. ?The De?il himsel? in humour, exquisite, peculiar humour. I confess, if decorous people could be reconciled to blackguardism, John Hornbook is the very emperor of blackguards ?.' [ continues comments on Burns]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Peter Pindar : [Poems]

Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, and most original in this respect, that I know not that ever any other object at once excited my contempt and admiration. His humour is most peculiar, most unaffected, most irresistible. Yet, for what end Providence entrusted a weapon so dangerous in the hands of one who avows his disregard to everything sacred and venerable, is very difficult for us to conjecture ?[continues comments] [footnote]*Peter Pindar, a witty, but low, and mischievous writer of verses.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Eloisa to Abelard

Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who enjoys, in a higher degree that "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" which Pope gives to his vestals.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]

Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am describing ?. '

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

William Hayley : [Life and letters of William Cowper]

Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in return must give me yours of Dr. Cowper?s Malachi. I did not tell you how very ill I have been of the Cowper mania. I do not mean the doctor, but the delightful author of The Task. Read his letters by Hayley, and his life, as I did, and you will find them "Of power to take the captive soul/ And lap it in Elysium."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

William Cowper : The task

Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in return must give me yours of Dr. Cowper?s Malachi. I did not tell you how very ill I have been of the Cowper mania. I do not mean the doctor, but the delightful author of The task. Read his letters by Hayley, and his life, as I did, and you will find them "Of power to take the captive soul/ And lap it in Elysium."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Pleasures of hope

Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charmed and elevated beyond measure ?'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock : unknown

Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas of the cordial satisfaction I derived from reading Mrs Rose?s* elegant criticism. I insist upon it, that it betrays hardihood, insolence, and indeed some hypocrisy, to affect indifference about public opinion, when one has left the safe and peaceful shades of privacy' [footnote]*Mrs Rose of Kilravock, whose taste and talents are universally known and respected in her own country.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure pleasures of taste and beneficence, at a period of life when a parcel of wretched Struldbruggs* become contemptible and wearisome to all about them ? [footnote] *See Swift?s description of them in Gulliver?s Travels to the Island of Laputa.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

unknown : [penny dreadfuls]

'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it was heartrending to think of George and Alfred [reader's brothers] playing Scouts and Indians in the park there whilst I sat hidden away in a musty corner behind the cash desk, in semi darkness near the hot irons, crouched on a small stool for days on end in the ?dead season? with nothing to do. Outside the rue Castiglione flamed in broiling sun. I spent the time reading so called ?penny dreadfuls?: Deadwood Dick, Buffalo Bill and others. In my murky corner I lived many perilous adventures and many hair-raising escapes. I was the hero and so forgot to grow lachrymal. This was the beginning of my literary education and my first taste for books. My crowning moment was when I succeeded in winning a Sunday school first prize, R. L. Stevenson?s ?Treasure Island?'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

William Hayley : Life and letters of William Cowper

Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with Hayley for expiating so minutely on Cowper?s praise whose life and works praise him beyond all that he can say...' [continues for a further page]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

'My brothers and I have lived the book ["Treasure Island"] many times and the Bois de Boulogne is full of places that we re-christened with Treasure Island names such as Skeleton Island ? Treasure Island itself is that inaccessible island in the fairly large lake at the back of the Jardin d?Acclimatation. I gave it that name because there are no boats on the lake and we were never able to get anywhere near it. We were only little boys. I peopled the Bois de Boulogne with many strange tribes. We used to wonder if there was a ?Ben Gunn? marooned on the Treasure Island and for many hours we have gazed at it lying in the grass hoping for a signal of distress. You have no idea how the B de B is full of imaginary perils, adventures, Indians, Pirates, Cannibals, Outlaws and all of the hundred and one things that come into a boy?s life through books of adventure. What virgin forests we have explored in this way. Some day I must show you the Grand Canyon of Colorado at St. Cloud. How many times was the coach held up here and the passengers taken captive, to be rescued after fierce fights with Outlaws, Redskins and Renegades. Our coach was a Swiss condensed milk packing case, two broomsticks for shaft, and two old pram wheels; all of it painted a gorgeous but rather horrible brown. My youngest sister, Ethel, was usually the fair lady passenger. To young boys the spot really seemed fraught with danger and romance because very few people ever pass that way. There is an old bridge over this canyon, and steep banks barely scalable in places. ?. I was always planning some new affair, getting up some wild scheme. It was a good life for us. We were very, very poor boys but few were as rich as we were in imagination and few rich boys ever got as much spice out of life as we did. It was a healthy life too, always trotting about in the open. I really love the B de B and St Cloud woods; B de B as a little kid up to 12 or 13, then St Cloud, which grew dearer still in all my strenuous cross country days. I can remember many a pleasurable thrill in cross country when the trail led us over old familiar spots where our camp fires had burned (not really) and where we had seen stirring scenes of ?daring do?'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

Pierre de Coulerain : Au Coeur de la Vie

'I try to read always with a very open mind, wide away [awake?] to assimilate all the author's knowledge. I have such a great admiration for authorship. After just finishing Pierre de Coulerain's book, "Au coeur de la Vie" I can't help exclaiming "wonderful woman". I have enjoyed her book so much because nearly all her ideas are mine, the thoughts that she has been able to so well express have often been mine, but mine were inarticulate. That I take it is the whole art of authorship, to be able to put on paper one's thoughts. The question of the quality of the "thought" remains entire so I take it a poor thinker can never be a writer. It is logical therefore to try to learn to think aright.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

["Parisian philosophers"] : unknown

Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasing associations; yet it is better to love forty or fifty people warmly and exclusively on absurd grounds, than to love nobody at all; and then pretend to love all the world (which does not care a straw for you, as the Parisian philosophers do, on whom the demons of scepticism and discord will soon visit all the mischiefs they are doing, and far greater mischiefs they occasion). My poor dear Odyssey tells a fine story of Aeolus having the winds in a bag, and what havoc followed when they were unskilfully let out. Now, I think popular writers possess bags, in which those winds are contained that blow the embers of discontent into flames of destruction ?.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

George Meredith : The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quite on another plane to what you have read so far. I shall never forget my first Meredith. It was "Richard Feverel". It was quite a revelation to me as to what a book might be. Every other Meredith I have supremely enjoyed. As far as I can remember I have read "Evan Harrington", "Vittoria", "Rhoda Fleming", "Harry Richmans","The Egoist", "Diana of the Crossways". I do not know which I like the best, I found every one absolutely finer that any other books. His style is exceedingly difficult, in fact it is bad because it is obscure, but do not doubt his greatness. He is great, very great, in spite of his style. He is not a novelist for the general public. You have to be a man of letters, even although only in embryo, to enjoy him. I think I have nearly all his works but I must some day get his biography of Professor Seccombe. I like Seccombe's style so much. you will meet articles of his in the "Bookman."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

George Meredith : Evan Harrington

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

George Meredith : Vittoria

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

George Meredith : Rhoda Fleming

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

George Meredith : Harry Richmans

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

George Meredith : The Egoist

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

George Meredith : Diana of the Crossways

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Book

Professor Seccombe : [articles in the "Bookman"]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson Print: Serial / periodical

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth

'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told you before how I want you to read ?Dodsworth?, and now you will be able to as I am sending it to you ? I daren?t get too enthusiastic about it in case you don?t like it. ???. I have been reading ?Mutiny on the Bounty?, but it seems tame after the film. ?? . I now have two books to read out of the library, ?Daughter to Philip? by Beatrice Kean Seymour, and ?Jake?, by Naomi Royde-Smith, which I have heard about somewhere, and is I think the story of a musician.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lesley Edna Moore Print: Book

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth

'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a youthful way of talking about Europe which makes the book read rather like a first novel. The American touch, of course. It is rather painful to read, though. Fran is altogether too infuriating, too cold-bloodedly dishonoured. For she doesn?t believe her own talk however Lewis may be eager at odd moments to think her rather a poor little thing. It is great reading, though. Why does he not put in a little more about the contrasting women, the real, honest, dignified, courageous person that some women do manage to be ? ???.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth

'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs. She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is something of a dunderhead though he is so honest and well meaning. If she were more honest with herself, and had more of his normal sort of simplicity she would do better for herself and perhaps get more out of him. She has him scared stiff.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

[unknown] : [a novel]

'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Plutarch : [unknown]

'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Les Voeux t?m?raires; ou l'enthousiasme

'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Antoine de Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347

'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert : Hermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten der Vehmgerichte

'read Hermann d'Unna'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert : Hermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten der Vehmgerichte

'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347

'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

[John] Milton : [unknown]

'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[John] Milton : [unknown]

'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques

'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques

'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Francois Marmontel : Contes moraux

'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Tacitus : Germania

'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean Francois Marmontel : Contes Moreaux

'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347

'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Tacitus : Germania

'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Honore Jean, Baron de Riouffe : Memoires d'un detenu pour servir a l'histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre

'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Germania

'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others Coleridges Christabel which Shelley reads aloud to me before we go to bed'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 'Christabel'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Elizabeth jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu : Caroline de Lichtfield

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu : Caroline de Lichtfield

'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Francois Marmontel : Contes moraux

'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Charles R. Maturin : Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand, a tragedy

'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 'Christabel'

'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review, The

'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical

John Milton : Paradise lost

Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gradually acquired me the place in her favour which I ever continued to possess. She [ie Aunt Schuyler] saw me reading Paradise Lost with delighted attention; she was astonished to see a child take pleasure in such a book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book

: [Newspapers]

Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream of Captain Ourry?s accompanying them; and I examined every newspaper in hopes of finding his name changed, or sold out.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Newspaper

Charles Baudelaire : unknown

'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Charles Baudelaire.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

P.J. Rabaut Saint-Etienne : Precis histoire de la Revolution francaise redige par P.J. Rabaut

'Shelley reads "histoire de la Revolution par Rabault".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : Le Criminel Secret

'[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le crimenel secret" which is a very curious and striking book'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown

Mary Robinson : Vancenza; or the Dangers of Credulity

'read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The

'read the first vol. of the antiquary and work'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The

'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Carey : Chrononhotonthologos; the most tragical tragedy that ever was tragedized etc.

'read Chrononhotonthologus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : Fazio: a tragedy

'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Herbert Croft : Love and Madness. A story too true. In a series of letters between parties, whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less known, or less lamented

'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Antoine Du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347

'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The

'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Letters of a Solitary Wanderer

'in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Margrave de Barieth : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main

'Write and read the memoirs of the princess of Bareith'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Margrave de Barieth : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main

'Read the Memoirs aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education

'In the evening read the letters of Emile'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education

'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady

'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady

'read Vol VI of Clarissa'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady

'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education

'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The

'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book, Serial / periodical, could have been original periodicals or later collected volumes

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Margrave de Bareith : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main

'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Peter Pindar [pseud.] : Works

'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Charles Jean Dominque de Lacretelle : Precis historique de la Revolution Francaise

'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lucian : [satirical / philosophical dialogues]

'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: 'the only unpleasant incident of my whole stay in Bonchurch was connected with the evening readings. The book in question was "Cranford," and we were all electrified when Aunt Elizabeth [the pupils' name for Sewell] came to a full stop in the beginning of the part where the nephew plays a practical joke -- something connected with a baby -- on the old ladies. "I will leave this out," said Miss Sewell, looking quite stern. The she turned the page and took up the story further on. [goes on to relate how a new girl who was caught looking for the offending passage in the book was subsequently expelled]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, after Elizabeth Sewell had omitted a passage of Gaskell's Cranford as unsuitable to be read aloud to her pupils: '"Cranford" was left on the table in the drawing room [...] Alas, poor Rosie [a new girl from what Fraser describes as a 'a family in business'] could not resist the temptation. When I came into the room the next morning I found her devouring the forbidden page [goes on to report how the girl had to leave the school, and how Sewell and her sisters acknowledged themselves as having been to blame for admitting a child who, 'with her bar sinister of trade, had had no opportunity of knowing what honour meant.']'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: 'Rosie' Print: Book

unknown : [Light French novels]

Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst en poste with him in China (1874-78): 'Outside of his work Sir Robert Hart, on principle, provided for his mind the very lightest literature, amusing French novels being his favourite reading. He told me that he found in these trifles the only complete relaxation from business worries; he could read them through without a single effort of thought and forget all about them directly afterwards.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Robert Hart Print: Book

Mrs. Mary Beeton : [cookery book]

Mrs Hugh Fraser on her son (having just described his Chinese nursemaid's indulgent treatment of him): 'He retained his fine appetite till he was five or six years old. Then I found him one night slipping "Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book" under his pillow. On my asking the motive of his selection he replied, "It is nice to read about the plum puddings even if you can't always get them."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing : Laetus Sorte Mea or The Story of a Short Life

"Laetus cost me 2s. 6d. My wife bet me 2s. 6d. I couldn't read it aloud without crying. I thought I could. But after a page or two - I put my hand in my pocket. I said there! take your half-crown and let me cry comfortably when I want to!"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Revd. Going Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Elegy written in a country churchyard

Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not give my share of the endearing charities of life, my bustles and struggles to procure ease and comfort to those I love, my faithful friendships, and, ?My humble toils and destiny obscure? for all that wealth and fashion can bestow.? [slight misquotation of Gray's "Elegy written in a country churchyard"]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] Print: Book

David Hume : Essay concerning human understanding

Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off the monster ?What pains have been taken to promulgate that profound discovery, ?that bigotry and religious zeal have done more hurt in society, than scepticism and all the mere speculative, evils of philosophy?.? [it seems likely that this is a paraphrase of Hume's philosophical "Essay concerning human understanding"]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] Print: Book

Henry Fielding : unknown

'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Margrave de Barieth : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main

'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft

'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft

'Shelley reads the life of Holcroft aloud all day'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft

'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Caroline Lamb (anon.) : Glenarvon

'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Caroline Lamb (anon.) : Glenarvon

'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : [unknwon]

'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Magrave de Bareith : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main

'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage

'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Charles R. Maturin : The Milesian Chief

'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself

'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself

'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage

'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Charles Maturin : Milesian Chief, The

'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Travels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland and the Netherlands, to Paris

'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Alphonsine; ou la tendresse maternelle

'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'S. reads Montaigne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sydney Owenson : O'Donnel: a national tale

'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lucian : [unknown]

'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage before night.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Humphrey Davy : Elements of Chemical Philosophy

'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage before night.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Richard Walter : A Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, by George Anson Esq . . . Compiled from papers . . . of . . . Lord Anson . . .

'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage before night.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Humphrey Davy : Elements of Chemical Philosophy

'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy shelley Print: Book

E. Ysbrants Ides : Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides

'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : Bill of mortality

'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in all; which is the least Bill hath been known these twenty years in the City - though the want of people in London is it that make it so low, below the ordinary number for Bills.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

[unknown] : [Discourse on the River Thames]

'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse about the River of Thames the reason of its being choked up in several places'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked and read till dark - with great pleasure'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

King Charles II : His Majesties declaration against the French

'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and [the] Dutch to come over hither, with promise of their protection, that everybody wonders at it.' Editorial note: The passage Pepys remarks on runs 'We do declare, That if any of the French or Low-Country Subjects, out of affection to Us or our Government, or because of the oppression they meet with at home, shall come into Our Kingdomes, they shall be by Us protected in Their Persons and Estates, and especially those of the Reformed Religion...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet

Francis Potter : An interpretation of the number 666

'Thence by coach, and falling by the way at my bookseller's for a book, writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of this year coming on, 1666, explaining it to be the mark of the beast. I home and there fell to reading, and then to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Evelyn : [proposition about public infirmaries]

'Up, and to the office - where, among other businesses, Mr Evelyn's proposition about public Infirmarys was read and agreed on, he being there.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

James Humphrey : [MS Collections]

'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about 100 years since, which he did lend us to read and deliver him back again.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[boys in the upper forms at Eaton] : De pests [Bacchus verses]

'To the hall, and there find the boy's verses "De peste"; it being their custom to make verses at Shrovetide. I read several, and very good they were, and better I think then ever I made when I was a boy - and in rolls as long and longer than the whole hall by much.' Editor's note: 'The "Bacchus verses": compositions by the upper forms, hung up from the hooks which may still be seen on either side of the hall.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [epitaph on memorial stone]

'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primus hujus Sententiae Author. Disputandi pruritus fit ecclesiae scabies." But unfortunately, the word "Author" was wrong writ, and now so basely altered, that it disgraces the stone.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Graffito

[unknown] : Bill of mortality

'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in the City - though my Lord Brouncker says that these 6 are most of them in new parishes, where they were not the last week.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

: [vowes]

'I was at it till past 2 a-clock on Monday morning, and then read my vows and to bed'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

Francis Bacon : Faber Fortunae

'Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber Fortunae" of my Lord Bacon's'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown

'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

various : Miscellany of verse

A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engagement with text in the form of various marginal annotations and an index of first lines on the endleaf. The name John, John M. or John Nutting is signed at a number of points in the manuscript, alongside poems and in the endpapers, and John Susan appears on the back flyleaf. The two signatures are different, may refer to different owners of the MS, may not be contemporaneous with the entries themselves; it is also possible that John Susan is an earlier signature.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Nutting Manuscript: Codex

Susan Glaspell : Road to the Temple

'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading. I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?. For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class. The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?. The author lives in Birkenhead.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

C.E. Montague : Right off the Map

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Rose Macauley : Keeping Up Appearances

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Olwen Ward Campbell : Shelley and the Unromantics

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Hermann Sudermann : The Song of Songs

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Carl Van Vechten : Nigger Heaven

'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be very precious I understand as a first edition. Will Wood left me a Tauchnitz edition of ?Nigger Heaven? by a coloured writer Carl Van Vechten. ?Nigger Heaven? is Haarlem ? a New York district mostly inhabited by coloured people. One does not like American ?last living? any the better for being black rather than white ? and there is very little else to it, except one or two less mentionable points of biological interest whose significance, if grasped, might shake the complacency of the more stupid whites.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Rebecca West : The Strange Necessity

'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even Robert Lynd considers it difficult. I?ve just finished my second reading ? and will go through it again to copy out definitions. She has really a first class mind.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Oswald Spengler : Decline of the West

'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Decline of the West. Have just finished ? Du cot? de chez Swann?. By the way let me know a list of good modern French novels ? especially novels of ideas ? the Catholic movement, the socialists, etc?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Du Cote de Chez Swann

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Erich Maria Remarque : All Quiet on the Western Front

'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Row ? and rowed about it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Julian Benda : Belphegor

'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Bergson, R?guy, Claudel, crowd ? and I?m with him all the time. You should try to get his ?La trahison des clercs? ? it has a great vogue here. It?s a book I should like to have myself, in French.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

: [French newspapers]

'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and keeps me more than abreast of current thought ? for England is always behind chronologically in Philosophy though she is alright when she starts.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Newspaper

unknown : Mahatma Gandhi

'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at the moment, but someone yesterday lent me Katherine Mayo?s ?Mother India?, and all my thoughts are boulevers?es [upset] by the horrors she pictures.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Katherine Mayo : Mother India

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Oakroyd

'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterpiece.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

: [French newspapers]

'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to complete ?Le Blois Vert?, in this rush. But I must tell you that my little collection of French books is my most cherished possession.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Newspaper

Theodore de Banville : Gringoire

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Le Blois Vert

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Margaret Steen : Matador

'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is quite a document on Spain to day and apparently written on the spot. I believe Margaret Steen is a Liverpool woman and she is credited as a careful writer. I must try for ?Stallion? which made a big noise last year. But ?Tu viens? [Are you coming] seems to be the kind of thing I turn to best ? observation of life without the painted veil of fiction.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Oliver Onions : The Open Secret

'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was a great favourite of mine once. He was a past master of the topical novel.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

John Maynard Keynes : The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear that Cambridge and London were a bit archaic as to the fundamentals of their economics. I stood for an hour arguing the main thesis (of course not worked out) with Harold one night at Euston. He had to walk home to Battersea Park in consequence. A year or so before I had covered reams with letters of vituperation against Prof: Pigou, till Stanley became furious ? also on the point. I don?t think it should need so large a book to get it over, I am also going to read Dodsworth when Gerry isn?t looking.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Arthur Cecil Pigou : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Montague : D?senchantement

'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me it was wonderful to see in print for the first time ? all the wretched facts that were ordinary knowledge to you and me when we returned from the war.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Gabouis : Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial

'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac. Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English). At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Francois Mauriac : Les Anges Noirs

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Alexander Werth : Before Munich

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Deladier : [collection of speeches]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Paul Maraud : Rond Point des Champs Elys?es

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Philip Carr : The French at Home

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Life of Turgot

'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. At present I am going through a life of Turgot ? the latest, and a book on ?French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages? by Albert Guerard.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Albert Guerard : French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Life of Orage

'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him personally during the last phase ? the ?New English Weekly? time. But it was competent and pleased me well, because it left out all the chit-chat about women etc, which was always superfluous when Orage was in question. He seemed to me a man, one of the few, (your father was really another) who could quite well have dispensed with women altogether, except in the most obvious way, and of course women like me, like men of that type, as we also can stand alone (yes, really, I can ? but I am not the better for it ? it arouses in me my old sense of arrogant detachment which I am inclined to think is sinful).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Provence

'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provence?. He died this year ? how sad he must have been in poor old London. But all you loved best in Provence comes out in that book ? and in the end the author says we must come back to it, learn to plant our cabbages ? and to cook them ? or we are doomed. How I regret that I could not send you that book ? but alas !! By the way I sent a ?Pied Piper? for Shirley. I hope it arrives.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

A.L. Bacharach : The Musical Companion

'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ever? Perhaps not. He was one of the ?New Age? crowd I met in the wonderful Easter Week of 1917 ? just before we went to France. He is at the London Schl of Econ: now, but then he seemed to be just doing journalism and a bit of W.E.A. work. This book is jolly for me. Its just a straightforward manual of music ? and fills in all the gaps of one?s knowledge that get in the way when trying to listen intelligently.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Leon Daudet : Clemenceau

'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (Clemenceau) that I find thoroughly repugnant. I suppose I ought to read Ren? Benjamin?s ?life?, as I heard him lecture on it at Bordeaux, but certainly I do not find the ?Tiger? a pleasant person in any way at all. But I find Daudet rather attractive, and indeed surprisingly reasonable in his criticism of people whose politics must have been the opposite of his own. The exception is Briand, but I cannot imagine any human being so disgusting as the person described by Daudet under that name ? it is impossible. Malvy and Caillaux also get it hot. But there are descriptions of the Goncourt group which I liked very much, and altogether I enjoyed the ?Frenchness? of the writer.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Havelock Ellis : From Rousseau to Proust

'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? writers of the period between the two named. It was excellent ? you know I am a classic ? so I naturally admire a critic who makes all the ?back to nature? people abnormals, and their genius merely Peter Parishness to the nth: I think you have heard me say that many times in one form or another. The best thing in the book however, was an appreciation of ?The Grand Meaulnes?. The essay appeared originally as an introduction to the English translation of the book, and really is a fine bit of work. I am going to try and find the book if possible. It is called ?The Wanderer?.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

D.W. Brogan : The Development of Modern France

'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1870 ? 1939) by D W Brogan, Fellow of Peterhouse and professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge. It is a great book, and I am learning about many people who were formerly just streets to me. Remember rue Albert de Mun, I now find Albert to have been quite a sizeable person. You remember I expressed in my last letter my dislike of Clemenceau as biographed by L?on Daudet. Such mention as I find of him in this book up to the moment, (?L?Affaire?) still seem to make him pretty dingy, as Harold would say I shall have to read it several times, (the book I mean). For light relief I have Edna Ferber?s autobiography ?A Peculiar Treasure?. It is specially worth while, a plain straight record of a real hard worker, thrilled with her job, and wanting nothing else. She has written the book stressing always that she is a Jew and this gives of course, an added interest to the work. If it comes your way, its worth reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Edna Ferber : A Peculiar Treasure

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

various : Miscellany of verse

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Susan Manuscript: Codex

Revisky : Hafiz

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : unknown

'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Fletcher : unknown

'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Webster : unknown

'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Timur : Institutes

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mounstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

unknown : The Proceedings of the Secret Committee

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of the Secret Committee..'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Lindley Murray : English grammar

'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules of punctuation, I applied myself to the study of Lindley Murray's grammar -- then the one accepted authority for English people. He gave seventeen rules for the right placing of the comma, and I thought it my duty to endeavour to master them. But my patience did not hold out [...] I threw aside the seventeen rules of punctuation, and in their stead placed on one mental page the simple definitions of the respective values of periods, colons, semi-colons, and commas which I had learnt as a child, and then took which ever common sense and observation pointed out as suitable to my purpose; and in the end I found that I had escaped any special criticism.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Orme : Hindustan

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a second time) ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Excursion (excerpts)

'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set forth in prose or verse, merely as the material for grammatical analysis, appears to my prejudiced mind to be a kind of intellectual vivisection. The life is destroyed in the act of discovering and distinguishing the elements of which its body os composed. A young friend of mine said to me that she had 'done' the story of Margaret, in the Excursion, with notes, for a correspondence class [...] All that she had retained from this 'doing' was, as far as I can gather, nothing but the fact that she had 'done' it. Feeling, admiration, there was none. The poetry had been a lesson to be "got through."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Henry Strachey : A narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the army in Bengal in ... 1766

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative History of Persia" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

William Pinnock : Catechism

Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely perfectly the chief events in the reigns of the English kings given in Pinnock's Catechism, and could go through the dates without a mistake.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

: New Testament Gospels

Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lord's Prayer and the Catechism; almost too familiar, indeed, for I read them day after day as a lesson, and thus in a certain degree lost the sense of their meaning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

George Sale : Preliminary discourse to the Koran

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary Discourse to the Koran" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

St Matthew : Matthew 2:1

'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmaster living in a back street in our native town to give my eldest sister and myself lessons when we were about ten and eight years of age [...] But the lessons did not last long. The tears I shed over the difficulties of the first verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew, which was the material for our first Latin lesson, were so bitter that they were too much for my mother's tender heart, and I was allowed to give up the study [...] The failure of this attempt, which was never renewed, has been a regret to me all my life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mangall : Questions

Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises in grammar -- lessons in mythology and upon the English Constitution learnt by heart from Mangall's Questions, the outlines of the rise of nations, with Roman, Grecian, and French history (the latter read in French), Mrs. Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry and Political Economy, and Joyce's Scientific Dialogues.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

unknown : [texts on French history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mrs Marcet : Conversations on Chemistry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mrs Marcet : Conversations on Political Economy

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Joyce : Scientific Dialogues

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[William?] Jones : Commentarii

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Gilchrist : Grammar

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's "Grammar" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Sa'adi : Bostan

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sa'adi's "Gulistan" to p.38 in Harrington's edition, and a great deal more of his "Bostan" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Petrus de Palude [?] : Sermones thesauri novi de tempore

Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin shorthand, underlinings, numbers marking particular passages and sketches of pointing hands. There is an obvious engagement with the text, and certainly evidence of a very intensive reading experience. There appear to be several different hands marking the book, indicating it was read and used by more than one person, as well as different types of ink.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

E. Ysbrants Ides : Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides

'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Humphrey Davy : Elements of Chemical Philosophy

'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Francois Marmontel : Les Incas

'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jean Francois Marmontel : Les Incas

'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel

'Draw and read Bryan Perdue'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel

'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : History of Sir Charles Grandison, The

'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accents how to raise and fall my voice, where lay the Emphasis of the expressions.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Woolley Print: Book

unknown : unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Woolley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : History of Sir Charles Grandison, The

'read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Robert Parsons : Bunny's Resolution

'A poor day-labourer in the town ... had an old torn book which he lent my father, which was called "Bunny's Resolution"... And in the reading of this book (when I was about fifteen years of age) it pleased God to awaken my soul... And about that time it pleased God that a poor pedlar came to the door that had ballads and some good books; and my father bought of him Dr. Sib's "Bruised Reed". This I also read."

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Baxter Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth (anon.) : Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale

'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Dr Sibbes : Bruised Reed

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Baxter Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth (anon.) : Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale

'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver

'S. reads Gullivers Travels aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lucian : unknown

'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : History of Sir Charles Grandison, The

'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver

'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lucian : [unknown]

'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'Shelley reads Locke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver

'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plutarch : [unknown]

'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [old voyages]

'write - read old voyages.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'Finish 1st book of Locke - read Curt - & work - Shelley reads Locke, Plutarch, & Paradise Lost aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded

'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late new plays.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded

'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded

'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded

'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plutarch : [unknown]

'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sir Thomas Ridley : A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law

'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden till he came from church, with great pleasure reading Ridlys discourse all my way going and coming, upon the Civill and Ecclesiastical Law.... Thence walked back again, reading; and so took water and home'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean Francois Marmontel : Les Incas

'work in the evening - & read Les Incas'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy : L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules

'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules", being a pretty Libell against the amours of the French court.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Plutarch : [Life of Alexander]

'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sir Thomas Ridley : A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law

'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Godwin : Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice

'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita

'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Horace : [odes]

'read two odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Horace : [odes]

'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Sir Thomas Ridley : A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law

'I walked both going and coming, spending my time in reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical law-book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical

Hafiz : Odes

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... Of Hafiz, I read 143 Odes in succession, and about as many more here and there; many of them I read many times.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]

'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Faber Fortunae

'and so to Deptford to enquire after a little business there; and thence by water back again, all the way coming and going reading my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae", which I can never read too often.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Francis Walsingham : Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites

'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Middleton : The Mayor of Quinborough

'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborough", a simple play.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Corneille : Pompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was acted by the servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Translated out of French by certain Persons of Honour

'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading "Pompey the Great" (a play translated from French by several notable persons; among other my Lord Buckehurst); but to me is a mean play, and the words and sense not very extraordinary.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

E.C. Davila : Storia delle guerre civile di Francia

'This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Dryden : The Rival Ladies

'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Declaration of the proceedings of the victualling action

'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling action this year, and desired his Royal Highness to give me the satisfaction of knowing whether his Royal Highness was pleased therewith. He told me he was...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

John Creed : The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle

'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as endeed it is, and speaks most slightingly of that whole matter.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

John Dryden : The Rival Ladys

'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Creed : The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle

'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron coming home, if we had done our parts.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

John Creed : The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Penn

Sir William Davenant : The Seige of Rhodes

'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second part of "The Seige of Rhodes" with great delight.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Faber Fortunae

'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Samuel Tuke : The Adventures of the five houres

'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Samuel Tuke : The Adventures of the five houres

'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end of "The Adventures of five houres", - which when all is done, is the best play that ever I read in my life.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello

'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play; but having so lately read "The Adventures of five houres", it seems a mean thing.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Jalaluddin : Masnavi

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the "Masnavi" of Jalaluddin ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

unknown : Port Royal Greek Grammar

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. I read a good deal of the "Port Royal Greek Grammar" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... an "Odyssey" or two ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Herodotus : unknown

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... a few chapters of Herodotus ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

unknown : Eton Selecta

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; as much of Hesiod as in the "Eton Selecta"; the first, seventh, and eighth "Idylls" of Theocritus, and his Epithalamium of Helen"; all of Sappho, Theognis, Callistratus, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus as are in that collectiuon - (they are most of them scraps); ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Phaedrus : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; all Phaedrus; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; the Georgics; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Horace : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; all Horace once over and many parts repeatedly; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Petronius : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; and a good deal of Petronius; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Torquato] Tasso : unknown

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; read the preface and seventy or eighty pages of Tasso; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

unknown : [Italian Grammar]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... . I looked into the Italian Grammar; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Niccolo] Machiavelli : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ;one book of Machiavelli's "History"; a novel and play of his ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Francis] Bacon : Essays

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; I also read all Bacon's "Essays" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[David] Hume : Dialogue on natural religion

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India. ...;[but includes] Hume's "Dialogue on Natural Religion"; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[George] Berkeley : The principles of human knowledge

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India. ...;[but includes] Berkeley's essay on "The Principles of Human Knowledge" ; ..'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [manuscript on naval expenses]

'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in charge created by a war - with good content.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Paul Rycault : The present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Rycault, Esq. secretary to his Excellency the Earl of Winchilsea, Embassadour Extraordinary for His Majesty Charles the Second etc. to Sultan Mahomet Han the Fourth, Emperour of the Turks

'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my Lord Winchelsea, of the policy and customs of the Turkes, which is it seems much cried up - but I could not stay'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Edward Stillingfleet : A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion

'And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Purgatory, a point I had never considered before what was said for it or against it. And though I do believe we are in the right, yet I do not see any great matter in this book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Faber Fortunae

'So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae" which I gave him to do; and he hath done it but meanly, I am not pleased with it at all - having done it only literally, but without any life at all.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pepys Print: Book

Philip Massinger : The Bondman

'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good play.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Webster : The Duchesse of Malfy

'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good play.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Potter : An interpretation of the number 666

'and so home, and there begun to read Potters discourse upon 666, which peases me mightily; and then broke off, and to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfy

'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Potter : An interpretation of the Number 666

'and then home and read an hour, to make an end of Potters discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his close is most excellent; and whether it be right or wrong, is mighty ingenious.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Joseph Glanvill : Some philosophical considerations touching the being of witches

'and then home to supper and then to read the late printed discourse of Witches by a member of Gresham College, and then to bed - the discourse being well writ in good style, but methinks not very convincing.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : London Gazette

'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[Conyers] Middleton : A free enquiry

'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[n/a] : London Gazette

'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambridge Knight of the Guarter.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[Conyers] Middleton : A letter from Rome

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" . his Letter from Rome ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[n/a] : London Gazette

'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should never be remembered by anybody) which tells how several persons were then tried for their lives, and were found guilty of a design of killing the King and destroying the government; and as a means to it, to burn the City; and that the day entended for the plot was the 3rd of last September. And that fire did endeed break out on the 2nd of September - which is very strange me-thinks - and I shall remember it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[Conyers] Middleton : [Dissertations in Latin and English]

'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" . his Letter from Rome, several dissertations of his Latin and English ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Conyers] Middleton : [Cicero]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" . his Letter from Rome, several dissertations of his Latin and English , one volume and a half of his "Cicero"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de] Condorcet : The Human Understanding

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] a good deal of Condorcet on "The Human Understanding" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[William] Warburton : Tracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian'

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Tracts by Warburton and "A Warburtonian" ...;'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Virgil : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Warburton on the Sixth Book, from Warton's Virgil ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Virgil : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Warburton on the Sixth Book, from Warton's Virgil; some essays of Heyne, at the end of the sixth volume; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Carlo] Denina : Revolutions of Literature

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Denina's "Revolutions of Literature; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Samuel] Johnson : Lives [of the most eminent English poets]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Johnson's "Lives" (I had read them before)...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[James] Boswell : Life of [Samuel] Johnson

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Boswell's "Life of Johnson; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Voltaire : Louis XIV

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Voltaire's "Louis XIV", in English; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

John Locke : Essay concerning Humane Understanding

'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Lucian : [unknown]

'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Horace : Odes

'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Horace : Odes

'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lucian : [unknown]

'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'read rights of women'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Cicero : [Opuscula - Minor Works]

'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Cicero : De Senectute

'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Fanny Burney : Wanderer, The

'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Fanny Burney : Wanderer, The

'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Cicero : de Senectute

'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon

'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Bred et de Montesquieu : Lettres persanes

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : Fazio

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

James Leigh Hunt : Story of Rimini

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

James Leigh Hunt : Story of Rimini

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : Fazio

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu : Lettres persanes

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Theocritus :

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list.] 'Works of Theocritus Moschus &c - Greek Prometheus of Eschylus - Greek Works of Lucian - Greek x Telemacho La Nouvelle Heloise x Blackwell's His. of the Court of August De Natura Lucretius Epistolae Plinii Annals by Tacitus Several of Plutarchs Lives - Greek Germania of Tacitus Memoires d'un Detenu Histoire de la Revolution par Rabault and Lacretelle Montaignes Essays Tasso Life of Cromwell Lockes Essay Political Justice Lorenzo de Medicis Coleridges Lay Sermon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Moschus :

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon : Les Adventures de Telemaque

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Blackwell : Memoirs of the Court of Augustus

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plato : Symposium

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate entries based on this list] 'Symposium of Plato Plays of Aeschlyus Plays of Sophocles Illiad of Homer Arrian's Historia Indicae Homer's Hymns [the above texts are bracketed to show they were all read in Greek] Histoire de la Revolution Francaise Apuleius Metamorphoses - Latin Coleridges Biographica Literaria Political Justice Rights of Man Elphinstone's Embassy to Caubul Severals [sic] vols of Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lord Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too] 'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters. xColeridges Lay Sermon Memoirs of Count Gramont Somnium Scipionis Roderick Random Comus Knights of the Swan Cumberlands memoirs de se Junius' letters Journey to the World Underground D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney Round Table by W. Hazlitt Cupids Revenge Martial Maid Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher] x Tales of my Landlord Rambler Waverley Amadis de Gaul Epistolae Plinii Secundi x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius Anna St Ives Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius x Defoe on the Plague x Wilsons City of the Plague Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Quarterly Review x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore x Davis' travels in America x Godwin's Mecellanies x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Manuscrit venu de St Helene Buffon's theorie du terre Beaumont and Fletchers Plays x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist. Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy La Nouvelle Heloise Lettres Persiennes Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond Arthur Mervyn x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry. Miseries of human life x Moores odes & epistles Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau x Lamb's Specimens Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde x Mandeville x Laon and Cynthia x Lady Morgan's "France". The three brothers First vol of Humes Essays Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon

'finish the lay sermon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Home : Douglas: A Tragedy

'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

James Shirley : Gamester, The

'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : Spectator

'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical

Anthony Hamilton : M?moires de la vie du Comte de Grammont

'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon . . . written by himself

'read Life of Clarendon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Cicero : De Republica

'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Adventures of Roderick Random

'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Adventures of Roderick Random

'finish Roderick Random'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Comus

'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Les Chevaliers du cygne; ou la cour de Charlemagne

'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Citizen of the World, The

'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Lady Barker : Letters from New Zealand

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Lady Barker's Letters from New Zealand almost everyone knows. They are lively and graphic. I suspect, from what I have heard from my New Zealand friends, that they are rather highly coloured, but they give a very vivid impression of the pleasures and toils of life in the Antipodes, and are good for reading aloud.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

George Kennan : Tent Life in Siberia

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Tent Life in Siberia. -- Not a very new book, but interesting from its account of northern scenery and civilization.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

J. A. Froude : Short Essays on Great Subjects

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Froude's Short Essays on Great Subjects. -- I mention this book with a certain reservation, because, with all my admiration of Mr. Froude's talents, I certainly do not agree with him in principle [...] "Calvinism" appears to me to be about anything but Calvinism. It is rather an exposition of Mr. Froude's Protestant view of Christianity; but it is interesting and suggestive. Several of the other essays are on the colonial policy of England, and will be chiefly attractive to those who have colonial sympathies; but they are very clever.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Count Beugnot : Memoirs

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Count Beugnot's Memoirs I have been reading in the original, and I have come to the conclusion that the book is likely to be more agreeable to an English reader in the English dress which Miss Yonge has given it. So much of it refers to individuals and politics exclusively French; but in any form it must be interesting at this time, when France is, as it was then, undergoing a process of re-construction.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Frederick William Robinson : Christie's Faith

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself. The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way antagonistic to it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

J. G. Sharp : Culture and Religion

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Culture and Religion, by J. G. Sharp, is a delightful little book, which should be read and thought over till it is fully mastered.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[John?] Aikin : Essay on the use of natural history

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Aitkin's "Essay on the Use of Natural History" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" ...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Waller : [Poems]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... all Waller again and again ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Cowley : [Poems]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Butler : [Poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Denham : [Poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Pope : [Poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Dryden : [Poems]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[William] [Gifford] : The Baviad and the Maeviad

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... the Baviad and the Maeviad ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Erasmus] Darwin : Botanic Garden

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... Darwin's "Botanic Garden"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[William] [Mason] : Caractacus

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... "Caractacus" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

John Milton : [Latin poems]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... ; many of Milton's Latin poems ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Jean de La Fontaine : [Poems]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... a great deal of Fontaine ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Friedrich] Schiller : The robbers [and two other plays]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... ; "The Robbers" and two other plays of Schiller; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Gesner : Idylls

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... some "Idylls" of Gesner ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux] : Satires [and other works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; all Boileau's "Satires", and a good number of his "Epistles", and "Mithridate". ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Horace Walpole : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; I forgot to mention a good deal of Horace Walpole ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[Thomas] Jefferson : Virginia [Notes on state of]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... Jefferson on Virginia ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

[David] Ramsay : Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; Ramsay's "Revolution of South Carolina " ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Letter dated 13 February 1822

'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, received. I verily believe there is not a word of it, that could offend the nicest tastem or most musical ear - All is harmony, from beginning to end - and the Metaphor and Antithesis in which it abounds render the style surprisingly rich & striking.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Manuscript: Letter

John Milton : Prose works

'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

George Fox : Historical Account of the Life, Travels,...of George Fox

'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : Mary Stewart

'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stewart" after breakfast but Dr Fiffe interrupted me, and teazed me to play at shuttlecock till I consented-'

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

: [vowes]

'And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

[Samuel and John] Pepys : [Catalogue of his books]

'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Henry More : An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a God

'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Andrew Marvell : Third Advice to a paynter

'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discourse; to White-hall towards night, and there he did lend me the "Third Advice to a paynter", a bitter Satyr upon the service of the Duke of Albemarle the last year. I took it home with me and will copy it, having the former - being also mightily pleased with it. So after reading it, I to Sir W. Penn to discourse a little'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Desiderius Erasmus : De conscribendis epistolis

'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a very good book; especially, one letter of advice to a Courtier most true and good - which made me once resolve to tear out the two leaves that it was writ in - but I forebore it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the crown of my head, I to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [Catalogue of books]

'At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he reads to me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

John Dryden : Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an historical poem

'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Driden's upon the present war - a very good poem.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Unknown

Dr George Hakewill : An apologie or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the world

'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world doth not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was as to Nature. I continued reading this book with great pleasure till supper'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [petty-warrants]

'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this - but mightily pleased at this falling out.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Ben Jonson : Every Man in his Humour

'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech that ever I read in my life); and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Lloyd : The late apology in behalf of the papists, reprinted and answered in behalf of the royallists

'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever I read in my life, and glad I am that I read it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Speed : The history of Great Britaine

'and then home to read the lives of Henry the 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : History of the worthies of England

'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Birchensha : Templum Musicum

'This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his "Templum"; but the most ridiculous book, as he hath translated it, that I ever saw in my life; I declaring that I understood not three lines together, from one end of the book to the other.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Morely : A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke

'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very good but inmethodical book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Playford : A brief introduction to the skill of musick

'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Musique", wherein are some things very pretty.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Paul Rycault : The present state of the Ottoman empire

'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; and so owned by Dr Clerke yesterday to me, commending it mightily to me for my reading as the only book of that subject that ever was writ, yet so designedly.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

George Mackenzie : Religio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the phanaticks of all sects and sorts

'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opinions; wherein in some places he speaks well, but generally is but a sorry man.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a small printed book the other day after it was dark'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Paul Rycault : The present state of the Ottoman empire

'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Paul Rycault : The present state of the Ottoman empire

''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Richard Hooker : Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity

'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Thence I to my new bookseller's and there bought Hookers "Policy", the new edition, and Dugdale's history of the Inn's of Court, of which there was but a few saved out of the Fire - and Playford's new sketch-book, that hath a great many new fooleries in it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Dugdale : The Origines Juridiciales

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Playford : Catch that catch can, or The musical companion

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Dugdale : Origines Juridiciales

'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Dugdale : Origines Juridiciales

'Up, and to read more in the Origines'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Paul Rycault : The present state of the Ottoman empire

'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Experiments and considerations touching colours

'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Colours) as high as Barne Elmes'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Experiments and considerations touching colours

'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with my reading Boyles book of Colours today; only, troubled that some part of it, endeed the greatest part, I am not able to understand for want of study.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : London Gazette

'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[Samuel] [Parr] : Bellendenus [preface to]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; the preface to "Bellendenus" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Japher : Farriery

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; Japher's "Farriery" ..'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

unknown : Life of Major Geshpill

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; a Life of Major Geshpill; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Etudes de la Nature [abstract of]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; an abstract of St. Pierre's "Etudes de la Nature"; ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

: The Nation

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; the "Nation" ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

unknown : [Novels innumerable]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; and novels innumerable ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book

Richard Cumberland : Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself.

'Read Cumberlands memoirs'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Richard Cumberland : Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself.

'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The

'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical

Junius [pseud.] : Letters of Junius

'Read Junius - Rain all day - work'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Junius [pseud.] : Letters of Junius

'work and read Junius read Amadis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Amadis of Gaul

'work and read Junius read Amadis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Amadis of Gaul

'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Cicero : De Republica

'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Cicero : De Republica

'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Amadis of Gaul

'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Philip Sidney : The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

'Read the arcadia and Amadis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ludwig Holberg : Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum

'Read journey to the World Underground'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers : The Restoration; or Right will take place

'Read the Restoration'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers : Rehearsal, The

'Read the Rehearsal'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Philip Sidney : Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, THe

'read the Arcadia'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Examiner, The

'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical

Ludwig Holberg : Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum

'read the arcadia & the world underground'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality)

'Read Tales of my Landlord'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality)

'Finish Tales of my Landlord'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Salmasis and Hermaphroditus

'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Philip Sidney : Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, The

'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Fletcher : Cupid's Revenge

'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Philip Sidney : Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, The

'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Paul Rycault : The present state of the Ottoman empire

'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [table-book]

'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice that were found in the dead man's pockets, and but 18d in money - and a table-book, wherein were entered the names of several places where he was to go'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: table-book

Samuel Pepys : [report on the case of Mr Carcasse]

'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcasse] over with all the many papers relating to the business; which they do wonder at, and the trouble that I have taken about it, and like the report, so as that they do unanimously resolve to sign it and stand by it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [report on the case of Mr Carcasse]

'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [report on the case of Mr Carcasse]

'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Batten Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [report on the case of Mr Carcasse]

'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Penn Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [report on the case of Mr Carcasse]

'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Minnes Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [report on the case of Mr Carcasse]

'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duke of York was for punishing him, not only with turning him out of the office but what other punishment he could'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Isaak Walton : Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works

'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as anything I have read in a great while'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Isaak Walton : Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works

'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Madeleine de Scuderi : Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus

'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid

'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Wild-goose Chase, The

'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Hazlitt : Round Table, The: A Collection of Essays

'Read the Round Table'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord [First Series - The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality]

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plato : [several works]

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Euripides : Alcestes

'S. reads Alcestes'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [Poems]

'S. reads Wordsworths Poems aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : [unknown]

'After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'S. reads the bible'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read Pliny.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Enquiry Concerning... Political Justice, An

'Read Political Justice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : [History of the French Revolution]

'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : MacBeth

'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

'read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

'S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Apuleius : Metamorphoses; or, The Golden Ass

'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Mary Shelley : Frankenstein

'S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Manuscript: Unknown, Mary Shelley's MS

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Apuleius : Metamorphoses; or, the Golden Ass

'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives: a novel

'Read Anna St Ives'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives: a novel

'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Suetonius : [unknown]

'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the last Great Visitation in 1665

'Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the last Great Visitation in 1665

'Finish Defoe'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Wilson : City of the Plague, and other poems

'read and fin. City of the Plague'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Comic dramas, in three acts

'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Frances Holcroft : Fortitude and Frailty: a novel

'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

'Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to me? One evening after returning from Diodati. It was in our little room at Chapuis - the lake was before us and the mighty Jura. That time is past and this will also pass when I may weep to read this words and again moralize on the flight of time. Dear Lake! I shall ever love thee. How a powerful mind can sanctify past scenes and recollections - His is a powerful mind. one that fills me with melancholy yet mixed with pleasure as is always the case when intellectual energy is displayed. I think of our excursions on the lake. how we saw him when he came down to us or welcomed our arrival with a goodhumoured smile - How very vividly does each verse of his poem recall some scene of this kind to my memory - This time will soon also be a recollection - We may see him again & again - enjoy his society but the time will also arrive when that which is now an anticipation will be only in the memory - death will at length come and in the last moment all will be a dream. Am I not very melancholy? Godwin is out and I shall finish the canto although I fear it will not raise my spirits.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Frances Holcroft : Fortitude and Frailty: a novel'

'Finish F[anny] H.[olcroft]'s novel - read Suetonius'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'Read the Quarterly Review'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh: an Oriental Romance

'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Homer : [unknown]

'S. reads Homer and writes'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

J. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux : Manuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnue

'S. reads St Helena Manuscript'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Read Tacitus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

J. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux : Manuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnue

'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Davis : Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America

'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Cursory Strictures on the charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre; A Reply to an answer to Cursory Strictures

'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon

'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Johann Gottlieb Buhle : Geschichte der neuern Philosophie

'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere

'Read Buffon in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere

'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : [trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason]

'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown

Arrian : Anabasis

'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Arrian : Historia Indica

'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Fletcher : Faithfull Shepheardesse, The

'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Arrian : Historia Indica

'Shelley reads Arrian's Historia Indicae [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

[n/a] : Arabian Nights, The

'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise

'Read Tacitus and Julie'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise

'Read Julie - S reads Homer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

'Read Julie - S reads Homer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Fletcher : Faithfull Shepheardesse, The

'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu : Lettres persanes

'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere

'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Homer : Illiad

'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plutarch : [unknown]

'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plutarch : Hymns

'S. reads Homer's Hymns'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aeschlyus : Prometheus Bound

'S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aeschlyus : [several plays]

'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Harrington, a tale, and Ormond, a tale

'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Charles Brockden Brown : Arthur Mervyn

'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Aeschylus : Agamemnon

'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aeschylus : [unknown]

'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mountstuart Elphinstone : Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India

'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mountstuart Elphinstone : Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India

'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aeschylus : [Plays]

'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plato : Convivium

'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : [Plays, with Fletcher]

'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : The Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or, Cynthia's Revels

'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus Rex

'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Volpone, or the Foxe

'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Alchymist, The

'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]

'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance

'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Hyde (1st Earl of Clarendon) : The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

'I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a good deal'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Henry George Bohn : unknown

'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with a reed upon the well-prepared tablets'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Contes Drolatiques

'... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our master Balzac]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Mankind in the Making

"Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven."

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details

'When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: "Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details." It was a London newspaper. Soon afterwards I learnt about the "crusade" of the Honourable and Reverend Leonard Tyrwhitt.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: newspaper placard

H. G. Wells : The Food of the Gods

'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barring a few minime verbal infelicities. It cost me 2 francs to buy the number, but I couldn?t resist it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Joseph Conrad : Romance

'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Punishment? English translation damnable; but it is a novel. I?m just reading it again.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Crime and Punishment

'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and Punishment"? English translation damnable; but it is a novel. I?m just reading it again.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The Country of the Blind

'And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable. A little faint towards the end I thought, but fundamentally damn good. '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

H. G. Wells : Scepticism of the Instrument

'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

L G Silbergleit : Robert Burns' Lieder und Balladen [etc]

'Today, I got rather a curiosity - Lieder und Balladen von Robert Burns, translated by one Silbergleit, and not so ill done either.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Scepticism of the Instrument

"I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new."

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

H. G. Wells : A Modern Utopia

'Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t, I don?t know that I can. The latter half of it is much more convincing & suggestive than the first half, & is also better done, but all of it is better than "Mankind in the Making".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Kipps

'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince me. . . . After agreeing with myself that I read the thing all through with eagerness & joy, and after telling myself that I must not expect in your "human interest" novels those aspects of life which you either can?t see or disdain to see, I find myself asking what this book "proves" & not getting any answer.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H. G. Wells : 'The Schoolmaster and the Empire

'. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

H. G. Wells :

'. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

H. G. Wells : unknown

'Your Chicago article was very good.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Arnold Bennett : Whom God Hath Joined

'. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember objecting to the daughter in the book, giving her father away . . . and having a heated argument with the author in consequence.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: or published book?

Bart Kennedy : America Revisited

'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Maud; A Monodrama

?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all the limitations without a grudge.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

unknown : [Roman law]

'I have been reading Roman Law...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

John Calvin : unknown

'I have been reading...Calvin.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Roberts : unknown

'The other day I read an article by Lady Roberts, quite a good one- but it does not help to demand that everybody should his share in the war. You have got to tell people exactly what to do, anything also is more or less rubbish. Therefore I was very pleased when Commander King-Hall gave a Fuel Target; perhaps it is no ideal solution, maybe, but it certainly is hundred times better than telling people to save fuel.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown

'Had a nice night last night. Tommy Bloody Handley on the wireless again, read every book in the house. Too dark to walk to the library, bus every 45 minutes, next one too late for the pictures. Freedom is in peril they're telling ME!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no idea what we're up against, but I think the Germans are still powerful, and there's plenty hard jobs ahead of us before we get them to crack.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown

'There are things going on in the village, but no one would ever say "could I stay with your kiddies while you go". I am quite happy I read decent books, and the wireless is quite a friend to me, but being a mother seems to cut one from contact with other people.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

: Reader's Digest

'I have two children, 2? years and 1 year old. Though in some respects I would not object to increasing my family, quite frankly I do not feel that my nerves will stand the pain of another childbirth for a good long while. ....I read in a "Readers Digest" some months past of a painless childbirth, which had been successfully introduced in America. An injection into the spine, I believe. Why cannot something of the kind be brought to this country and within the scope of all mothers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

Tacitus : Annales

'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : [Plays, with Fletcher]

'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Sophocles : [Plays]

'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello

'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Sejanus his Fall

'Read the fall of Sejanus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[anon.] : Rhoda

'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Jane Porter : Pastor's Fireside, The

'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Lady Morgan : The Missionary: An Indian Tale

'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Lady Morgan : Wild Irish Girl, The

'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

M.G. Lewis : Anaconda, The

'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon

'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Percy : Northern Antiquities; or a description of the manners, customs, reliogion and laws of the ancient Danes

'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Catiline his Conspiracy

'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Alicia Lefanu : Strathallan

'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The

'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Intercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-Bag

'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century

'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Davis : Travels in America

'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

James Beresford : Miseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy

'Read and finish miseries of human life'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Madame de Graffigny : Lettres d'une Peruvienne

'Read Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Apuleius : Cupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass]

'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire

'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Baruch de Spinoza : Tractatus Theologico-politicus

'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Apuleius : Golden Ass, The

'Translate Apuleius'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : [Letters]

'Read Rousseau's letters.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : [Letters]

'Finish Rousseau's letters'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [probably] Inferno

'Read Dante'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes

'Read Lambs specimens.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes

'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [probably] Inferno

'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Address to the people on the death of the Princess Charlotte

'read Shelley's pamphlet.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Moliere (pseud.) : George Dandin; ou le mari confondu

'read George Dandin'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Zapolya: a Christmas tale in two parts

''read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Madame de Souza : Eug?nie et Mathilde, ou les m?moires de la famille du Comte de Revel

'Read Mathilde et Eugenie'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Charles R. Maturin : Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio

'read Family of Montorio'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Charles R. Maturin : Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio

'Finish the Family of Montorio'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

August H. J. Lafontaine : Das Testament

read Tacitus and le Testament'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : Essays and Treatises on Several subjects

'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Benjamin Thompson [trans.] : German Theatre

'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice

'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Laon and Cythna

'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Manuscript: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Laon and Cythna

'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Manuscript: Unknown

Benjamin Thompson (trans.) : German Theatre

'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England

'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Enquiry Concerning... Political Justice

'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England

'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England

'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

H. G. Wells : In the Days of the Comet

'And you never will persuade the people who don?t matter that the close of the 'Comet' is not profoundly immoral.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Unknown

Benjamin Constant : Adolphe

'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Unknown

: New Age

'Many thanks for your letter & the 2 numbers. I think the paper is very interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : review of 'The Real India'

'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be practical. I think it is a devilish good paper. Read the review of Rees book on India in this week?s. '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Nevile Foster : The Universal Machine

'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of my articles.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

: Depeche de Toulouse

'. . . for a month past I have been travelling in the South and have read no paper, almost, except the "D?peche de Toulouse".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

unknown : [Roman law]

'...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

John Knox : unknown

'...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Fables in Song

'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Thomas Love Peacock : Rhododaphne; or, the Thessalian Spell

'Transcribe Peacocks poem'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man, The

'S. reads Rights of man.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Biographia Literaria; or Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions

'Shelley reads & finishes Coleridge's Liteerary [sic] life'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : Essays and treatises on several subjects

'S. reads Hume'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

George Berkeley : Works

'Shelley reads Berkeley'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

George Berkeley : Works

'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Much Ado about Nothing

'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lady Morgan : France

'S reads Lady Morgans "France".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Lady Morgan : France

'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : The Night Walker, [or, the little Thiefe]

'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : [unknown]

'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Lady Morgan : France

'Read "France"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics

'Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Read Tacitus and Hume. S reads Gibbon - read G[e]orgics - 194'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Joshua Pickersgill : Three Brothers, The

'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Joshua Pickersgill : Three Brothers, The

'Finish the three brothers'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost

'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : ['Miscellanies']

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

: Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Epistles, Odes and Other Poems

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Apuleius : Metamorphoses

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1818. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries] Clarke's travels Aeneid Terence Hume's dissertation on the passsions Sterne's Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey. & letters 2 Vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the Drama Rhododaphne Aminta of Tasso Auvres de Moliere 2 books of the odes of Horace Aristippe & Les Abderites de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Monti's trajedies Orlando Furioso

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

'Read S. the 6th & 1st book of the Aeneid'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Homer : Hymns

'S finishes Homer's Hymns'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer

'Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer

'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Terence : [Plays]

'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Tacitus : Annales

'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Terence : Andria

'finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Terence : Eunuchus

'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : Four Dissertations

'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Terence : Heautontimorumenos

'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'S reads Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : [probably] Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

'Read Tristram Shandy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

H. G. Wells : First and Last Things

'I am reading "1st & Last" which arrived a few days ago. As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it. However, when I have digested it I shall give you my ideas. There is not doubt whatever that it is a great deal too short, a very great deal.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Frank Harris : The Bomb

'Orage has sent me your communication as to Frank Harris. Naturally I was the reviewer. Harris was much moved by the review, & came down to see me. He is certainly one of the most extraordinary men I ever met.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H.G. Wells : Tono Bungay

'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the hang of the last part.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book, proofs of novel

Edward Garnett : review of 'The Old Wives' Tale'

'Dear Edward Garnett, (For I suppose it is you who have written the very masterly review of my novel in the Nation.)...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Laurence Binyon : Nineteenth Century Prose

'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose (Methuens, 1907).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Edward Garnett : introductions to novels by Turgenev

'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Frank Harris : Shakespeare and his Love

'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play again. I cannot expertly criticize the critical book because I don?t know enough. . . . What of Coleridge I have ever had the patience to read is not to be compared to it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

Frank Harris : The Man Shakespeare

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Unknown

S.T. Coleridge : Shakesperian Criticism (?)

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Frank Harris : Unpath'd Waters

'I got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday. To my regret I have already swallowed the book, & as we go to Switzerland tomorrow . . . I write at once. I think the book in the main wonderful, & I read it greedily.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Anatole France : The Procurator of Judaea

'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France had possessed in any degree the gift of construction?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

El?mir Bourges : La Nef

'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read the 'Nef' all through.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere child, I would spend my half-holidays over "Ivanhoe" and "the Lay of the Last Minstrel", seated in rapt silence on a hassock in my father's library, in our old house at Bristol. I can well remember, too, how I would carry fragments of these enthralling stories to my fellows at school, resolved, with all the enthusiasm of boyhood, to make them willing or unwilling partakers of my pleasure. The men and women of whom I read and told were real figures to us then; and in the organization of our little school we lived out a kind of chivalrous life, even emulating, to the no small alarm of our elders, the scenes on sherwood forest, and the achievements at ashby-de-la-Zouche.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A

'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire : Zadig, ou la destinee

'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

'Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

'Finish Rob. Roy'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Alicia Lefanu : Helen Monteagle

'read H. Monteagle.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Giaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish tale

'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Corsair, The: a tale

'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara: a tale

'Read Lara'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [critique of Rhododaphne]

'Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown

[anon (ed)] : Ancient English Drama

'read 2 plays in the ancient drama'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Richard Brome : Jovial Crew, A; or the Merry Beggars

'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

George Digby : Elvira; or, the worst not always true

'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : [Italian operas]

'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais

'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Terence : [plays]

'Read Montaigne and Terence'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Basil Hall : Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix... and a vocabulary of the Loo Choo language by H.I. Clifford

'Read voyage to Corea'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

August W. von Schlegel : Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur

'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud [to] us - We sleep at Rheims.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

August W. von Schlegel : Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur

'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud and we travel on in a pleasant country among nice people - We sleep at Dijon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Pietro Antonio Serassi : La vita di Torquato Tasso

'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Aminta

'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley Print: Book

Moliere [pseud.] : [Plays]

'Read Moliere's Plays'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela

'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela

'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Pietro Antonio Serassi : La vita di Torquato Tasso

'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [unknown]

'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'S reads Hamlet'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : Mandeville

'Read Mandeville'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Paradiso

'S. unwell - he reads the Paradiso'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francoise Clarisse Manson : M?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa conduite dans le proc?s de l'assassinat de M. Fuald

'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Aristppe und einige seiner Zeitgenossen

'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Walter Scott : Roby Roy

'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley Print: Book

John Evelyn : Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude

'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not find much excess of good matter, though it be pretty for a by-discourse.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Evelyn : Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude

'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy [of] observation.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Experiments and considerations touching colours

'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy [of] observation.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After supper, I to read and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Experiments and considerations touching colours

'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then back again, all the way reading and finishing Mr Boyle's book of Colours, which is so Chymicall that I can understand but little of it, but understand enough to see that he is a most excellent man.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

George Cavendish : The life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ... written by one of his own servants, being his gentleman usher

'And there finding them all at church, and thinking they dined as usual at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book in my hand (the Life of Cardinal Wolsey, wrote by his own servant), and to Ratcliffe'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : [gravestones]

'and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company would come'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Graffito

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Hydrostatical Paradoxes

'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vexed that I would not hear her'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Christian Majesty

'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders; which is a very fine discourse, and the turth is, hath so much of the Civil Law in it that I am not a fit judge of it; but as it appears to me, he hath a good pretence to it by right of his Queene. So to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Roger L'Estrange [translator] : The visions of Don Francisco de Quevedo

'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The Visions", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wherein there are many pretty things, but the translation is, as to the rendering it in English expression, the best that I ever saw, it being impossible almost to conceive that it should be a translation.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Hydrostatical Paradoxes

'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ever I read; and I will take much pains to understand him through if I can, the doctrine being very useful.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

William Lilly : Merlini Anglici Ephemeris

'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book, almanac

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Edward Coke : The third part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: concerning High Treason, and other pleas of the Crown

'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble reading.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [order of council]

'Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's revenue to make no payments but such as shall be approved by the present Lord Commissioners; which will, I think, spoil the credit of his Majesty's service, when people cannot depend upon payment anywhere.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Unknown

Andrew Marvell : The second and third advice to a painter, for drawing the history of our navall actions, the last two years

'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra

'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he hath of late read in the printed "Cabbala", which is very fine style at this day and fit to be imitated.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Creed Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life; we find a shepheard and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him. So I made the boy read to me, which he did with the forced Tone that children do usually read, that was mighty pretty; and then I did give him something and went to the father and talked with him; and I find he had been a servant in my Cosen Pepy's house, and told me what was become of their old servants.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Hydrostatical Paradoxes

'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostatickes", which the more I read and understand, the more I admire as a most excellent piece of philosophy.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Speed : The history of Great Britaine

'and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at the King's House.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home and to my chamber to read'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Hydrostatical Paradoxes

'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite delight.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Aristipp und einige Zeitgenossen

'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Horace : [1st Ode]

'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen

'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Geschichte der Abderiten

'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Lucian : [unknown]

'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Lucian : [unknown]

'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Euripides : [unknown]

'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Manso : La vita di Torquato Tasso

'Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Antoine Galland : Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G.

'Read Mille et un nuits'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Carlo Gozzi : La Zobeide

'Read and finish Gozzi's play of Zobeide'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Euripides : Hippolitus

'S. reads the Hippolitus of Euripides'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Carlo Gozzi : L'amore delle tre melerance

'Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Vincenzo Monti : Aristodemo

'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley Print: Book

Terence : Adelphi

'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Terence : Adelphi

'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Vincenzo Monti : Aristodemo

'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Roma il di 11 Maggio 1599

'Finish copying the Cenci'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Terence : Phormio

'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Antoine Galland : Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G.

'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Frank Harris : The Man Shakespeare

'He [Frank Harris] has written a book drawing the character of Shakespeare from the plays. Part of it has been privately printed, & it seems to me the most remarkable exegetical work of the kind ever done.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Country House

'I have also been making a study of "The Country House". You are one of the most cruel writers that ever wrote English. This statement I will die for. I don't know what made me read the book again . . . I need not inform you that I tinglingly admire your stuff and it enormously "intrigues" me. But I do seriously object to your attitude towards your leading characters.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Cedric Sharpe : Song

'The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure. I cannot criticize it. In fact it took me all my time to read it, as I cannot easily decipher musical MS.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Sheet

Sophocles : Philoctetes

'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mile et une nuits'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Terence : Phormio

'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Zaire

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Alzire

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Sophocles : Electra

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sophocles : Ajax

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Sophocles : Ajax

'Read 9th Canto of Ariosto - Finish Phormio - S reads Ajax'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Mahomet

'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : La Merope

'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : La Tragedie de Semiramis

'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Tancrede

'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : L'Orphelin de Chine

'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Pierre Corneille : Le Cid

'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Pierre Corneille : Horace

'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Pierre Corneille : Cinna

'Read 14th Canto of Ariosto and Cinna of Corneille'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Pierre Corneille : Polyeucte

'Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Euripides : Alceste

'S reads the alcestis [sic] of Euripides.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorabilia Socratis

'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorabilia socratis

'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Shepheardes Calendar, The

'S. reads aloud 6 eclogues from the Shepherds Calender[sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Shepheardes Calendar, The

'S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aristophanes : Clouds, The

'S. reads Gibbon and the Clouds of Aristophanes'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aristophanes : Clouds, The

'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688

'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Horace : [3rd Ode]

'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Aristophanes : Plutus

'S. reads the Plutus of Aristophanes & Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Aristophanes : Lysistratae

'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688

'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Horace : [Odes 6 and 7]

'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

J-J Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire

'S. reads Aristophanes - & Anarcharsis [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

J-J Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire

'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita

'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Every Man in his Humour

'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Epicoene, or the Silent Woman

'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures

'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she doth very well; and was Mr Boyle's discourse upon the Style of the Scripture, which is a very fine piece.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Katherine Phillips : Poems

'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Andrew Marvell : Directions to a painter for describing our naval business ... by an unknown author

'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sharp and so true.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence as were deposed before the Committee of Parliament etc, with the insolences of the Popish party

'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the plots of the papists therein; which it seems hath been ordered and hath been burnt by the hands of the hangman in Westminster Palace - I will try to get one of them.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures

'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Richard Rhodes : Flora's Vagaries

'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted today' [She = Nell Gwyn]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Speed : The history of Great Britaine

'and then to my chamber to read the true story in Speed of the Black Prince; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : Helen with the High Hand

'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.) It ought to be Helen with the High Hand. I really want this "with". I cannot imagine how the mistake arose. I shall put headings to the chapters, as I think these make a book more readable.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Codex

Ren Ghil : unknown

'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Emile Verhaeren : unknown

'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: Westminster Gazette

'And when you produced your really adorable notice of "What the Public Wants", I more than ever wanted to fall on your neck.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Rostand : unknown

'There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

Richard Garnet : The book of oaths ... very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracy or publique employment

'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Edward Coke : Institutes of the laws of England

'By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth inform me in many things; and for aught I see, it is useful to know what these crimes are.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Moore Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'Then home and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's "Church History"'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain

'and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came and spent the evening talking to us'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : Books containing the abstracts of orders

'all morning at my office shut up with Mr Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the beginning of the Warr, for preventing the Parliament's having them in their hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can be said against us from any of our orders'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Gibson Manuscript: Unknown

Sir Robert Cotton : An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace

'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, showing how the Kings of England have raised money heretofore upon the people, and how they have played upon the kings also.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [letter to Sir Robert Brookes]

'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, when I came home to dinner, I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger, and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon some alteration and caused it to be new writ'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

David Lloyd : Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... personages

'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how people may be surprized'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[n/a] : [office letters]

'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : [office letters]

'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Manuscript: Letter

Sir Robert Cotton : An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace

'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about the little profit of honour this Kingdom ever gained in its greatest of its conquests abroad in France.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Sir Robert Cotton : An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace

'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine book. So to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and when came home there, I got my wife to read'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

John Davies [transl] : The history of Algiers and its slavery

'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

John Davies [transl] : The history of Algiers and its slavery

'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent most of the afternoon and night reading and talking to bear her company, and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Sir Fulke Greville : Life of the renowned Sir Phillip Sidney

'Here was mighty good discourse, as there is alway; and among other things, my Lord Crew did turn to a place in the "Life of Sir Ph. Sidny", wrote by Sir Fulke Grevill, which doth fortell the present condition of this nation in relation to the Dutch, to the degree of prophecy; and is so remarkable that I am resolved to buy one of them, it being quite through a good discourse.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Crew Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Michel Millot : L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues

'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle de Filles", but when I came to look into it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that I ever saw, rather worse than "putana errante" - so that I was ashamed of reading in it'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Michel Millot : L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues

'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Filles", which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.' The previous day Pepys bought the book, writing in his diary: 'which I have bought in plain binding (avoiding the buying of it better bound) because I resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand in the list of books, nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Michel Millot : L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues

'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what doth me no wrong to read for information sake (but it did hazer my prick para stand all the while, and una vez to decharger); and after I had done it, I burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame; and so at night to supper and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Memorandums and Conclusions of the Navy Board

'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that I am not likely to be troubled for anything of that kind but what I shall either be able beforehand to prevent, or if discovered, be able to justify myself in.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Duchess of Newcastle : The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wife

'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer [her] to write what she writes to him and of him. Betty Turner sent my wife the book to read; and it being a fair print, to ease my eyes, which would be reading, I read that.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Duchess of Newcastle : The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wife

'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Balthasar St Michael Print: Book

[unknown] : [street ballads]

'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obrian taking out some ballets from his pocket, which I read and the rest came about me to hear; and there very merry we were all, they being new ballets.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill

John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language

'and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr Wilkins's new book of the " Character", and so to bed.' (Book purchased 15 May)

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Samuel de Sorbiere : voyage into England

'and there got Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's observations in his voyage into England; and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Balthasar St Michael Print: Book

John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language

'and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr Wilkins his "Real Character", and perticularly about Noah's arke, wherein he doth give a very good account thereof, showing how few the number of the several species of beasts and fowls were that were to be in the arke, and that there was room enough for them and their food and dung; which doth please me mightily - and is much beyond whatever I heard of that subject.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : Mustapha

'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Madame de Scud?ri : Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa

'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Madame de Scud?ri : Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa

'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as "The Maiden Queen" or "The Indian Imperour", of his making, that I was troubled at it; and my wife tells me is wholly (which he confesses a little in the epilogue) taken out of the "Illustr. Bassa".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language

'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence walked to Barne elmes; and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being nowadays unable to read myself anything for above two lines together but my eyes grow weary.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [Report]

'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [Report]

'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Principal Officer's instructions

'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of church history of his time) till Mr Wren comes by'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Wren Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: James, Duke of York Manuscript: Unknown

James, Duke of York : [letter]

'Up, and all morning at the office << where the Duke of York's long letter was read, to their great trouble and their suspecting me to have been the writer of it>>'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

Samuel Pepys : [letter]

'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive to put great value upon me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

Samuel Pepys : [letter]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Coventry Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Penn Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Brouncker Manuscript: Unknown

Abraham Wright : Five sermons in five several styles

'Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several Styles"; worth comparing one with another, but I do think when all is done, that contrary to the design of the book, the Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best of the five for sermons to be preached in; this I do by the best of my present judgement think.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]

'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another-gate's business than this that the world so much adores - and I am glad for my own sake to find it so.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'My boy was with me, and read to me all day'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group:

a fellow student of Robert Louis Stevenson : letter

'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter very ill, and seems to be but little better even now. He seems very pleased with "Ordered South". "A month ago," he says, "I could scarcely have ventured to read it -- today I felt on reading it as I did on the first day that I was able to sun myself in the open air" And much more to the like effect. It is very gratifying.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Fables in Song

'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at all our libraries, bought it for me. I like the book; that is, some of it; and I'll try to lick up four or five pages for the "Fortnightly."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Sidney Colvin : unknown

'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end italics] put in an extract. Please explain...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin : letter

'Jenkin wrote to say he would second me in such a nice little notelet. I shall go in for it (the Savile I mean) whether "V.H." is accepted or not, being now a man of means.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'and then he to read to me the "Life of Archbishopp Laud", wrote by D. Heylin; which is a shrowd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishop in general no great good, but hurt - it pleads for so much Popish.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Gibson Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

John Dryden : A defence of an essay

'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about his "Essay of Poesy" - and a letter in answer to that, the last whereof is mighty silly in behalf of Howard.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Richard Flecknoe [?] : A letter from a gentleman to the Hon. Ed. Howard, Esq.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me a while, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home to supper, and the boy to read to me; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

William Penn : Truth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony against those religions, faiths and worships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy

'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to read in it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and did get my wife to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence with W. Penn home, and there to get my people to read and to supper and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

William Habington : The Queene of Arragon

'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

William Habington : The Queene of Arragon

'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Batelier Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [paper on naval business]

'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the Officers of this office to the Duke of York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke of York when he comes to town upon it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [paper on naval business]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Wren Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so made the boy read to me'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [note]

'Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern herself ... The girl read, and as I bid her, returned me the note, flinging it to me in passing by.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Deborah Willet Manuscript: Letter

Samuel Pepys : [letter with corrections by Matthew Wren]

'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the board; which I like mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some hard terms which I had thought fit to put in.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language

'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language

'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a great while ago and doth please me infinitely, and endeed is a most worthy labour - and I think mighty easy, though my eyes makes me unable to attempt anything in it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

L.G. de Cordemoy : A philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conformable to the Cartesian principles ... Englished out of French

'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul in man and all the ways and secrets by which Nature teaches speech in man - which doth please me most infinitely to read.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Hewer Print: Book

William Davenant : The siege of Rhodes

'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

unknown : [unknown]

'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Clement Edmonds : 'Life' prefaced to 'The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar'

'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ it, though a most learned man.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Renatus Descartes : Compendium: Renatus DesCartes excellent compendium of musick: By a Person of Honour

'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ it, though a most learned man.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home and to supper and read'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and to supper and read'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and home, my wife to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : The origin of formes and qualities

'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : The origin of formes and qualities

'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to have over; and then fell to read a French discourse which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the people of France to apply themselfs to Navigacion; which it doth do very well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy and encrease it and his trade, as he hath begun.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Robert Boyle : The origin of formes and qualities

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Battelier Print: Book

[unknown] : Le commerce honourable ou Considerations Politiques OR Relation de l'establissement de la Compagnie Fran?oise pour le commerce des Indes Orientales

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Battelier Print: Book

Edward Chamberlayne : Angliae Notitia; or The present state of England: together with divers reflections upon the ancient state thereof

'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of England", which promises well and is worth reading; and so after a while to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

William Penn : The sandy foundation shaken: or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines, of one God, subsisting in three distinct and separate persons, the impossibility of God's pardoning sinners, without a plenary satisfaction, ...

'and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I find it so well writ, as I think it too good for him ever to have writ it - and it is a serious sort of book, and not fit for everybody to read.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Middleton : [Middleton's memorandum]

'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hand to read; but Lord, it is a poor silly thing ever to think to bring it in practice in the King's Navy; it is to have the Captain's to endent for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds to my thinking, and ignorance of the present instructions of Officers, that I am ashamed to hear it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Sir William Coventry : [record of discourse upon business of Lord Clarendon]

'But by this discourse he was pleased to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his discourse and the King's answers to him upon the great business of my Lord Clarendon'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Coventry Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Report of the reforming commission of 1618]

'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, which I did read a good part of before church'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards

[unknown] : [Report of the reforming commission of 1618]

'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, they being excellently writ and much to the purpose, and yet so as I think I shall make good use of in defence of our present constitution.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards [?]

[unknown] : [documents on the history of the Navy]

'and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk to read to me about twelve or more several rolls which I did call for'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Roll

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [work on naval history]

'Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, my collections out of the Duke of York's old manuscript of the Navy, which I have bound up and doth please me mightily.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [work on naval history]

'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : [work on naval history]

'and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory sake, my late collections of the history of the Navy, that I might represent the same by and by to the Duke of York'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Hewer Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : [defence of the existing constitution of the Navy Board]

'and there, by and by being called in, Mr Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound up in a book with the Duke of York's book of Instructions. He read it well; and after read we were bid to withdraw, nothing being at all said to it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Gregorio Leti : Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A.

'and then home and got my wife to read to me again in "The Nepotisme", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Gregorio Leti : Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A.

'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Gregorio Leti : Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A.

'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards Print: Book

La Calpren?de : Cassandra

'and then to her, and she read to me the "Epistle of Cassandra", which is very good endeed, and the better to her because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, and I to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

Silas Taylor : The Serenade, or Disappointment

'But I will find time to get it read to me - and I did get my wife to begin a little tonight in the garden, but not so much as I could make any judgement on it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Wild : Upon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor and the noble company of bachelors dining with him, May 5th, 1669

'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back again, neither staying, going nor coming; but talking and singing, and reading a foolish copy of verses up[on] my Lord Mayors entertaining of all the Bachelors, designed in praise to my Lord Mayor.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Unknown

: Manchester Guardian

'I must say the various editions of the M.G. are a deep mystery. Yesterday in the "London" edition, not a word (except the picture) about "Elektra"! And today not a word about "Justice". Perhaps it was the Timbuctoo edition that they sent me. But it is rather trying to the faithful.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

Hermann Sudermann : The Song of Songs

'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell you at once what I think. It is a bad translation . . . '

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The New Machiavelli

'The New M is a magnificent work.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

William Dean Howells : 'Easy Chair' column

'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s Harper?s.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

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Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '4370. Has been here 4 times, and is sentenced to seven years' transportation. Knew how to write a little before he came in. Is now learning by heart in the New Testament. "I do not know the meaning of what I repeat." This man repeated five verses perfectly, but when asked the meaning of a simple word, was unable to answer.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '4429. Has been here 7 times. "I have learnt all the Galatians through by heart, and am now upon the Ephesians. I cannot say I understand it. I know the Commandments." This man repeated his last lesson perfectly, but was ignorant of the meaning of what he had acquired.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '142. Government prisoner. 7 years' transportation, without work, received from Newgate, July 19th, 1850. No work allowed to prisoners for one month after reception. This prisoner said "I endeavour to understand what I learn, but find difficulty. The marginal references are useful."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '129. Prussian Jew. Attends chapel. "I was asked to learn passages in the New Testament".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '116. Did not know his letters. Has learnt by heart: began at John, and has now got to the ninth chapter of Romans.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: 'Committed June 1st, 1849, sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment; coal-heaver by profession; says "I do not understand what I have learnt; I have been all through St John and am now in Matthew.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: 'Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment; was in Newbury union; says, "I like this better than the union, the food is better here; there is not much odds in the labour - I pick oakum there, and knit stockings here. I like the stockings best. I have learnt by heart from Matthew to the Romans; I do not understand what I have learnt." This man reads very fluently.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.L.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 17th, 18th and 20th verses of the 19th chapter of the Acts'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.L. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.A.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 19th verse, 6th chapter, and the 7th and 12th verses of the 8th chapter of St Matthew.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.A. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.N.: 'Repeat the 22nd verse of the 6th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.N. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 34th verse of the 11th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). S.D.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 139th Psalm, also 1st and 2nd chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.D. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.H.: 'Repeat the Collect and 4th, 5th and 6th chapters of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). R.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 6th, 7th and 8th chapters of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.T. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 1st and 2nd chapters of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.T. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 15th and 32nd verses of the 16th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.T. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). T.S.: 'Repeat the Collect and 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Psalms'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: T.S. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.M.:'Repeat the Collect and 13th, 14th, and 16th verses of the 15th chapter of St John'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.M. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). D.Y.: 'Repeat the Collect and 51st and 139th Psalm; also 38th verse of 1st chapter of St John'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: D.Y. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). H.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 5th and 6th chapters of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 51st and 139th Psalms'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.K.: 'Repeat the Collect and 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th chapters of St John'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.K. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.D.: 'Repeat the Collect and 27th and 28th chapters of St Matthew, as well as 1st chapter of St Mark'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.D. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 27th and 28th chapters of St Matthew; and 20th verse of 1st chapter of St Mark'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.R. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 14th verse of 6th, and 7th and 20th verses of 8th chpter of St Matthew'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). T.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 20th verses of 12th, also 18th verse of 13th chapter of St Matthew.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: T.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). T.C.: 'Repeat 27th verse of 8th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: T.C. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.G.: 'Repeat the Collect and 15th and 16th, also 14th verse of 17th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.G. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.S.: 'Repeat the Collect and 6th verse of 3rd, also 32nd verse of 4th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.S. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.W.: 'Repeat the Collect and 23rd and 27th verse of 24th chapter of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.W. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 19th verse of 9th, the 10th, and 10th verse of 11th chapter of Acts.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th chapters of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.D.: 'Repeat the Collect and 13th and 14th chapters of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.D. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). H.J.: 'Repeat the Collect and 53rd verse of 1st chapter of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.J. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). S.K.: 'Repeat the Collect and 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th chapters of !st, and 1st chapter of 2nd Thessalonians.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.K. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). H.J.T: 'Repeat the Collect and 2nd, 3rd and 22nd verses of 4th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.J.T. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 10th verse of 139th Psalm, also the 1st chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th chapters of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.T. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.P.: 'Repeat the Collect and 139th Psalm, also 1st and 2nd chapters of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.P. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). H.S. al D.: 'Repeat the Collect and 1st, 2nd and 3rd chapters of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.S. al D. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). F.J.N.: 'Repeat the Collect and 47th verse of 5th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.J.N. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). R.L.: 'Repeat the Collect and 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th chapters of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.S. al E.: 'Repeat the Collect and 6th chapter of Galatians, also the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chapters of Ephesians.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.S. al E. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). E.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 41st verse of 24th chapter of St Matthew.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: E.B. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). E.M.: 'Repeat the Collect and 20th, 21st, and 22nd chapters of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: E.M. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.M.: 'Repeat the Collect, the Epistles of Titus and Philemon, and 3rd chapter of Hebrews.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.M. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 12th verse of 1st chapter of 2nd Epistle of Corinthians.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.R. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 22nd verse of the 1st, also the 2nd and 3rd chapters of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.R. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.S.: 'Repeat the Collect and 18th chapter, also 12th verse of 19th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.S. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.G.: 'Repeat the Collect and 2nd, 3rd and 4th chapters of St Matthew.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.G. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.P.: 'Repeat the Collect and 32nd verse of 8th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.P. Print: Book

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The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.H.: 'Repeat the Collect and 16th verse of 8th, and 50th verse of 9th chapters of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 25th and 26th chapters, also 12th verse of 27th chapter of Acts.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.R. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). J.M.: 'Repeat the Collect and 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, 106th, 107th, 108th, and 109th Psalms.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.M. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.C.: 'Repeat the Collect and 15th chapter, also 14th verse of 16th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.C. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). R.F.: 'Repeat the Collect and 13th verse of 1stm and 8th verse of 2nd chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.F. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). B.C.: 'Repeat the Collect and 139th Psalm, also 24th verse of 1st chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: B.C. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.J.: 'Repeat the Collect and 16th Discourse; also 51st and 139th Psalms.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.J. Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

R.A., alias J.F.: 'He [uncle] sent me to an excellent school where I stayed two years. After leaving school I perused a vast number of novels and romances. I hardly ever went out of doors. I lived in a land of dreams. I was put to various occupations but nothing could please my fancy; at last I was bound to a surgeon, and while in his service I got entangled with bad associates.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: R.A. Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Tom Paine : [unknown]

William McCarty, convicted for burglary, sentenced to seven years' transportation: 'As regards my religious character, before I came to this place I used to boast of my infidelity. I read nearly all Tom Paine's works and used to sport at religion; but ever since I heard you preach, I have thought very differently about myself and of God, and I hope to lead a very reverse course of life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William McCarty Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

J.M., convict sentenced to transportation, writing to Rev. Joseph: 'I am at present amongst sin and wickedness of the worst description; but thanks be to Almighty God, I am kept from it by his grace, which I have found to be all sufficient in every time of trouble. I have made the Word of God my chief companion, and when I come from my work, I take the Bible in hand, and read a chapter or two; and I do assure you I derive much comfort from the same.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.M. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

P.C., transport convict, writing to Rev Joseph from Dartmoor prison, Devon: 'When I read over the Book of Joshua, I often think of the lectures we received from your lips, and particularly when I come to the seventh chapter where we find poor Achan had an evil eye; he coveted that cursed thing that caused the destruction of all that was with him.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: P.C. Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfortable ... Mr Kingsmill was particularly kind in lending me some excellent books, in which I took great delight.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.G. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

W.B., transport convict writing to Rev Joseph from Portland Prison: 'by the blessing of God, after coming to this place, and receiving instruction from my dear chaplains here, and by prayer and reading the Bible, the Lord has been pleased to hear and pour his spirit upon me ... I take great delight in reading the Scripture and praying.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.B. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Case study, E.E.S., a Jew, young man of respectable German family, at first confined in a common prison where associated with other prisoners, before moved to Pentonville: 'For months after he came to Pentonville the poor man could speak of nothing but the injustice and cruelty of the English. At last he became quiet, and even cheerful, under different treatment; studied most assidiously the New and Old Testaments, in reference to the claims of Christianity upon his belief; withdrew himself from the teaching of his Rabbi, who could not satisfy his inquiring mind; and before he left, professed an entire acquiescence in the truths of our Divine religion.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.S. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: Wed 29 October: 'I was interrogated by several prisoners this evening on passages of Scripture, in the reading of which most of the prisoners spend some time before going to bed.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Pentonville Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: Kingsmill visits man convicted for forgery on Austrian Government Bank; 'He had never read a page of Holy Scripture until he entered this prison and was taught to read in the English tongue.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his friends in the same room. I permitted the visit to take place in my office, and hearing the poor man tell his friends of his great progress in reading, I gave him a book to read for them. They were quite surprised. It was extremely hard, certainly, to teach him; but he was very persevering, and now is enjoying the comfort of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Visit from cell to cell: '2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life, and some bad falls on his head, very odd - approaching to derrangement. He has made great progress in books, and has imbibed religious knowledge almost too rapidly, - he is very exciteable on this subject.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Visit from cell to cell: '9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he alleged, of that crime; however, has done bad, and worse, many times. Was, at the time of his apprehension, in a bad house, with thieves and loose characters, spending 5s. he had gotten from a clergyman in Derby, he attending his lecture and making a pitiful tale. He took it all now as a judgement from God, for that and other sins. He had escaped justice in a case of manslaughter - having killed a man in a prizefight and fled. The preaching of God's word seems to have come home to this man's heart. He delights in reading the Holy Scriptures, which he has been taught here to do; and has become gentle, docile and obedient.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [book on the Protestant martyrs]

Visit from cell to cell: '15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art of reading, had from the library an account of our Protestant martyrs, and being much interested in the subject, asked me several questions in relation to them; one was, whether I knew Master Ridley?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Visit from cell to cell: '25. A letter-carrier, for a post-office felony. A man of dissolute and drunken habits; a professed infidel; never read the Bible until he was shut up in this prison. Since his incarceration two of his little children have died. He was very fond of them, with all his faults; and their death seemed to make an impression. He studied Holy Scripture, and professed, at least, belief in revelation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[unknown] : [novels]

Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard for Sunday than I had been accustomed to. By degrees, I went once, instead of twice, to chapel; then I got fond of theatres - going, perhaps, once or twice a week; then came public houses, a distaste for religion, novel reading, Sunday newspapers, and an ardent desire to see what is termed "London Life", - that is, scenes of profligacy and vice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [Sunday newspapers]

Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard for Sunday than I had been accustomed to. Be degrees, I went once, instead of twice, to chapel; then I got fond of theatres - going, perhaps, once or twice a week; then came public houses, a distaste for religion, novel reading, Sunday newspapers, and an ardent desire to see what is termed "London Life", - that is, scenes of profligacy and vice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [novels and romances]

Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading novels, romances, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Andre Gide : Nouveaux Pr?textes

'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I have known a number of your friends, and of course I have been reading your books for a long time; so that I feel that somehow we ought to have been acquainted before this. What pleases me particularly in a book like "The New Pretexts" (I had already read a great deal of it in reviews etc.) is the proof it offers that an artist is interesting himself in the daily guerrilla of literature.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Upton Sinclair : Love's Pilgrimage

'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in England. It deals candidly, here and there, with sundry aspects of life which are not usually dealt with in English fiction, but which are dealt with quite as a matter of course in the fiction of all other countries except the United States.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

: Spectator

'I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the editorial conduct of the "English Review"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Hortulus Anime

'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen it is an admirable piece of work & I congratulate you on it. I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly roughly. Please bind it how you like, bearing this rough & constant usage in mind.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Dr Peter Mark Roget : Thesaurus

'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly roughly. Please bind it how you like, bearing this rough & constant usage in mind.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Volpone

'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita

'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : The Magnetick Lady, or Humours reconciled

'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688

'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

J.-J. Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu quatrieme siecle avant le vulgaire

'Read Anacharsis'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus

'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid

'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

J.-J. Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire

'We read Anacharsis'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley Print: Book

J.-J. Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire

'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plato : Symposium

'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plato : Symposium

'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus

'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Horace : [Odes]

'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : The Maides Tragedy

'S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Philaster; or Love lyes a-bleeding

'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : A King and No King

'S. translates the Symposium - & reads a king and no king'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plato : Symposium

'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Laws of Candy, The

'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Fletcher : Wife for a Month, A

'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

David Hume : History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688

'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Herodotus : Histories

'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita

'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Herodotus : Histories

'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plato : Symposium

'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown

Torquato Tasso : Aminta

'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

J.-J. Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire

'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita

'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Aminta

'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Aminta

'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam, The

'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Bartholomew Fayre

'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Sophie Garschine : letter

'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter

Margery Kempe : The Book of Margery Kempe

'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is considered to be an early copy [of The Book of Margery Kempe] of the original written by Margery's second amanuensis; it was owned and extensively annotated by the Carthusians at Mount Grace Priory in Yorkshire. The most prolific of these annotators, using red ink and in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century hand, has inscribed both in the margins and between the lines, a lively, fascinating and fully-engaged reading of the Book.'

Century: 1450-1499 / 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory Manuscript: Unknown

Margery Kempe : The Book of Margery Kempe

Century: 1450-1499 / 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Unknown

various : lecture on 'The Influence of Government on the Character of the People'

'Even eight-year-old Willy [Godwin] went once in a while to hear his Papa [William Godwin]'s friend [S. T. Coleridge] speak [in London Philosophical Society lectures, 18 November 1811-27 January 1812], and by February he was giving weekly lectures a la Coleridge, reading from the little pulpit specially built for him a lecture written by one of the girls [Fanny Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Claire Clairmont]. [Aaron] Burr was much amused at one he heard on "The Influence of Governments on the Character of the People."' (From Marion Kingston Stocking's Introduction to Claire Clairmont's first journal).

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Godwin jr Manuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : As You Like It

'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] & climbed some wild rocks -- & sat there reading till the sun laid down to rest -- I read As you like it [&] found the wild & romantic touches of this Play very accordant with the scene befor[e] me & my feeling'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

unknown : unknown

&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat there reading till the sun laid down to rest -- I read As you like it [&] found the wild & romantic touches of this Play very accordant with the scene befor[e] me & my feeling'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley

unknown : unknown

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.] Shelley -- Remove [to] the house on the hill [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my feelings for [th]e moment -- when Cornwall tears [ou]t the eyes of the Duke of Gloster -- This Play is the most melancholy & produces almost stupendous despair on the reader -- Such refinement in wickedness & cruelty'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Richard III

'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my feelings for [th]e moment -- when Cornwall tears [ou]t the eyes of the Duke of Gloster -- This Play is the most melancholy & produces almost stupendous despair on the reader -- Such refinement in wickedness & cruelty'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: 'Tuesday August 30th. [...] About four o'clock we [la]nded at Brissac a town in Baden -- [The] Watermen said they could not proceed with so strong a wind against us [...] but in about an hour they came with the news that the wind was changed & we hastened on Board -- Shelley reads aloud the Letters from Norway -- This is one of my very favorite Books -- The language is so [...] very flowing & Eloquent & it is altogether a beautiful Poem'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: 'Wednesday August 31st. [...] Shelley reads aloud Letters from Norway -- Read King Lear a second time -- Reach Strasburg about eleven [pm]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Thursday September 1st. Rise at 3 -- Proceed to a little town and change boats again [...] Shelley finishes the Letter[s] from Norway aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education

From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Friday September 9th. [...] Read Sophie [i.e. Rousseau's Emile; goes on to quote and discuss passage from this].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education

From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Saturday Sept. 10th. [...] Breakfast with our Companions -- Write -- Read Emile -- Write a story'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

: newspapers

'Wednesday Sept. 14th. Get up late -- Write my journal [...] Read the Papers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Newspaper

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education

'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret very beautiful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem

'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret very beautiful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret very beautiful.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Samuel Johnson : The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommes

'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Notes to Queen Mab

'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes' [...] Voisey at tea [...] Departs about 1/2 past ten -- Mary retires Shelley is writing to Papa & I am readin[g] the notes to Queen Mab when we hear Stones at the Window -- Look out & there is Charles.'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara

'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama. They [i.e. P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go to Bed at ten. Sit up till [...] one writing [...] Read the Lara of Lord Byron.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education

'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education

'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Veit Weber : The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German

'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Veit Weber : The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German

'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama

'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama

'Saturday Sept. 17th. [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Thalaba the Destroyer

'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education

'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

: (classical) Greek texts

'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.'

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Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk

'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.'

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Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk

'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four tenses of the Verb to strike'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

: (classical) Greek texts

'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four tenses of the Verb to strike'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Robert Southey : Thalaba the Destroyer

'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four tenses of the Verb to strike'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Thalaba the Destroyer

'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Robert Southey : Thalaba the Destroyer

'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Matthew Gregory Lewis : Tales of Wonder

'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.'

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William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.'

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William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to Pancrass. Read Smellie in the Evening.'

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William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to Pancrass. Read Smellie in the Evening.'

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William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.'

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William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History

'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.'

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Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...] In the Evening read Political Justice -- Sit up till twelve.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...] In the Evening read Political Justice -- Sit up till twelve.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'The Mad Mother'

''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.'

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William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Read some of Mary Wollstonecraft's letters in the Evening.'

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Mary Wollstonecraft : letters

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Edward du Bois : St Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Friday Oct. 6th. [...] Read Political Justice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Sunday Oct-- 9th [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Sunday Oct. 9th. [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi -- by Shelley.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Zastrozzi

'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi -- by Shelley.'

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William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel. To bed at ten.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'A prisoner on his admission could read but very imperfectly; his Bible he almost had never read before, and indeed knew little or nothing concerning it. At first he made rapid progress in reading, and after a short time he commenced the Scriptures, the great and all-important truths of which took such a hold upon his mind, that in the seculsion of his cell he very soon had read them through twice, and opposite the prophecies of the Old Testament, he had marked with a pencil on the margin of his Bible, which had no references, and without the aid of anyone, the parallel passages of their fulfillment in the New Testament, a list of which we now have before us. They are chiefly from the Psalms, and the prophecies of Isaiah and Zechariah...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Thursday -- 13th [October]. Read Political Justice.'

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[n/a] : Bible

Extract from schoolmaster's journal: G.B., aged 30: 'on his admission, began by repeating several of the Psalms; he then commenced the gospel of St John, and repeated a chapter everyday till it was finished, when he was taken off to do some prison work, but subsequently resumed, and continuously repeating a chapter, sometimes two, of other portions daily. The schoolmaster thinks this man will have committed to memory the whole of the New Testament before the termination of his imprisonment, and there are, at present in the gaol, he asserts, five others who have nearly accomplished the same task.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book

William Godwin : St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

'Friday Oct.14 [...] Read St Leon -- go to bed at [...] nine'.

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[n/a] : Bible

Extract from the Governor's [Edward Hackett] Journal, 16 March 1845: 'I went through the male prison at 7:30pm, and looked in upon every prisoner through the inspection slides, 97 in number, and found them all reading but 12, ten of whom were walking about, and two warming their hands over the gas light ... have made numerous similar inspections of the prisoners at all hours, and have invariably found about the same number in proportion reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners Print: Book

Voltaire : Memoirs

'Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Voltaire : Memoirs

'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Tom Paine : Age of Reason

Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 18 Jul 1844: 'Found that a prisoner committed yesterday was an avowed infidel who had read attentively Paine's "Age of Reason". Conversed with him for some time, and then lent him Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible". I felt thankful that under the present system of discipline such characters can no longer spread their pernicious opinions amongst the other prisoners.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: H.C. Print: Book

Voltaire : Memoirs

'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Voltaire : Memoirs

'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfieri -- He seems to have possessed much genius & enthusiasm -- but certainly he was never very far from raving Mad -- the anecdotes of his infancy are delightful'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 23 Feb 1845: 'The prisoner (H.C.) who avowed his infidelity when first committed (July 18) was discharged this morning. I don't presume to question but that the punishment of this criminal was proportioned to his offence, yet I very much regret that his imprisonment was for so short a time. In the last conversation I had with him he acknowledged that many of his doubts had been removed; that although he could not understand parts of the Old Testament, yet he was convinced of the truth of the New Testament, and his conviction was attended with such a sense of his own guilt, and such apparent sorrow, that I wish his confinement had been long enough for the good feelings he expressed to ripen into stedfast resolutions of amendment.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: H.C. Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Victor Alfieri : Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri: Written by Himself

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Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer

'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at eleven -- I stay at home & read Political Justice'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at eleven -- I stay at home & read Political Justice'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: 'I.N., 21, Reg. no. 491. - Convicted of a felony. - I found this criminal entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible when committed, his former life having been most dissolute. Shortly after his committal he shewed much penitence. and the earnest attention with which during almost every hour of the day he was studying the sacred Scriptures attracted especial notice. He was but three months in prison yet he learnt the four Gospels, and several chapters of the Old Testament.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.N. Print: Book

John Milton : Comus

'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.'

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John Milton : Comus

'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: 'W.H., 35, Reg. no. 637 - Convicted of a felony about five months since, and had been three times previously convicted. His mental improvement has been surprising, and his general conduct such as to encourage the hope of reformation.' Evidence of intensive reading of the Scriptures provided in copy of his completed exam included by Field in the book.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: W.H. Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.

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John Milton : Comus

'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: 'G.B., 30, Reg. no 388. - A convicted felon, who had been in another prison for a similar offence. When committed appeared hardened and very unpromising, but now shews decided improvement of disposition and character. Has been in prison nine months, and has committed to memory the whole of the New Testament, as far as the Epistle to the Hebrews.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Queen Mab

'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: 'The writer of the following exercise was entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible, and could not repeat the Lord's Prayer, when committed, on a second charage of felony. He had been in prison about six months before the date of this.' Examination provided as proof of his intensive reading of the Bible.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: H.W., 26, Reg. no. 530. - Committed six months since for obtaining money under false pretences, having been three times previously in gaol, and of a character so base as to have been discharged by his own relations. During the last three months he has been the subject of intense sorrow, and I discover many pleasing signs of reptenance.' Examination provided as proof of his intensive reading of the Bible.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley : Queen Mab

'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's Memoirs. I am much interested in Louvet -- but like all French men he is so intolerably full of himself & never lets the reader find out the merit he may possess [goes on to discuss this text further, before recording activities later in day] [...] Sit up till eleven reading Louvet's Memoirs. I never remember be more interested in any book [sic]. So many fine instances of individual republican spirits displayed -- so many generous Women -- such constancy in misfortune.'

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Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : memoirs

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Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : memoirs

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: 'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exercises appeared when committed. He had been a most depraved and abandoned profligate; of a temper so violent and savage, that for some time I visited his cell with reluctance ... To such a criminal the seculsion of his cell was a punishment most severely felt, but most corrective...' Examination provided as proof of his intensive reading of the Bible.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : memoirs

'Tuesday Nov. 1st. [...] Breakfast. Read Louvet's Memoirs.'

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William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Wednesday Nov. 2nd. [...] Read Political Justice. Chapter on Necessity.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: W.W., Reg no. 279: 'This criminal has been nearly twelve months in prison. He has given much evidence of sincere reptenance. His conduct has been so satisfactory as to induce me to admit him to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. He has learnt to read and write, and can now repeat the Gospels of St Matthew and St John, besides several chapters of the Old Testament.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: W.W. Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

unknown : plays

'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice [...] Dine at four -- Read after dinner some Plays.'

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: T.N., Reg no. 311. 'A boy 17 years of age, whose father had been several times in prison ... before his trial this boy gave evidence of contrition; he then expressed his thankfulness for having been kept alone, giving as his reason - that he had read and learnt much of his Bible, which he could not have done if in bad company ... He could read but imperfectly when committed, ten months' since, but has now learnt to write and can repeat every chapter of the New Testament, as far as the Epistle of St James.'

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: T.S., aged 17, Reg no. 312. 'conduct most satisfactory. Committed to memory several chapters of the Old Testament, and the whole of the New Testament as far as the Epistle to the Ephesians.'

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Mary-Anne Radcliffe : Manfrone; or, the One-handed Monk

'Friday Nov. 4th. Rise at nine. Finish a novel called Manfrone or the one handed monk by Mrs. Radcliffe.'

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: J.A., aged 31, Reg. no. 325. 'This criminal when committed could not repeat the Lord's Prayer, although he could read and was intelligent. He learnt several portions of Holy Scripture, and incorrigible as he at first appeared, yet showed some proper feeling before his trial, when his was acquitted.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.A. Print: Book

Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at four.'

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William Shakespeare : Richard III

'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at four.'

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: J.A., aged 21, Reg. no. 132. 'This prisoner was confined five months before his trial and one month after conviction. During his time his conduct was good, and he committed to memory the four Gospels, the Epistle to the Romans, and several chapters of the Old Testament.'

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William Shakespeare : Richard III

'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at one & goes to Shelley. Read King Richard the Third -- Dine by myself at four. Mary returns at six -- Talk with her. & read some miscellaneous poetry.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: G.B., 30, Reg. no. 388: 'This prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. His conduct has been very pleasing. He continues to speak with much thankfulness of the provision made for his mental and moral improvement. He has repeated portions of the Old Testament and nearly the whole of the New Testament.'

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: R.W., 31, Reg. no. 404. 'Charged with a felony - An habitual drunkard, and most vicious character ... This man was convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. His general conduct has been good. He could read and write when committed. Has learnt considerable portions of Holy Scripture.'

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[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: F.W., 20, Reg. no. 461: 'This prisoner could read and write when committed, and was generally intelligent, yet ignorant of religious truths and could not repeat the Lord's Prayer. During a short imprisonment he committed to memory two of the gospels, and other portions of Holy Scripture and shewed much proper feeling.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Print: Book

William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at two & goes to meet Shelley [...] Read Political Justice [...] Read Paul & Virginia -- in the Evening. I admire the descriptions [...] The Story is [...] in itself trifling & uninteresting -- the speeches and Characters are inflated and unnatural.'

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Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Paul and Virginia

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: Italian dialogue

'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy Man.'

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William Cobbett : Cobbett's Weekly Political Register

'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy Man.'

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: Edinburgh Review

'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad. I cannot but think there exists an intimate & close connection between Madness & Brutality.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Latin text/s

'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad [...] Read some Latin & Anarcharsis. Curious syllogism of Ebulis of Megara.'

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: 'Anarcharsis'

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: 'Anarcharsis'

'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'

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Thomas Moore : Odes of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse

'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great

'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'

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: 'Anarcharsis'

'Wednesday Jany. 28. [...] Read Anarcharsis.'

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Walter Scott : Rob Roy

'Friday. Feb 6th. Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.'

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Walter Scott : Rob Roy

'Saturday. Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.'

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Alicia Lefanu : Helen Monteagle

'Sunday Feb. 8. [...] Read Helen Monteagle by A. Lefanu Stupid foolish Book.'

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Rev. Joseph Berrington : A Literary History of the Middle Ages

'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.'

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Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

'Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Moliere : Le Tartuffe

'Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'.

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Moliere : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Moliere : Le Mariage force

'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Moliere : Le Festin de Pierre

'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Moliere : L'Amour Medecin

'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Moliere : Les Fourberies de Scapin

'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

unknown : Life of Tasso

'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

unknown : Life of Tasso

'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'

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Moliere : Le Malade imaginaire

'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'

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Moliere : Le Medecin malgre lui

'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Moliere : La Comtesse D'Escarbagnas

'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'

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Moliere : L'Etourdi

'Monday April 13th. [...] Read L'Etourdi of Moliere.'

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Moliere : L'Etourdi

'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'

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unknown : Life of Tasso

'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'

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unknown : Life of Tasso

'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this play is excellent.'

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Moliere : Le Depit Amoureux

'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this play is excellent.'

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Moliere : Le Depit Amoureux

'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'

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unknown : Les precieuses ridicules

'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'

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Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'

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Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'

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Moliere : Amphitryon

'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'

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unknown : Life of Tasso

'Saturday April 18. Read the Life of Tasso. Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'

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unknown : Life of Tasso

''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].'

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William Shakespeare : King Lear

'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'

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William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

: Edinburgh Review

'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 Remove from La Villa di Parigi to Palazzo Verospi upon the Corso -- Read the Edinburgh & Quarterly Reviews.'

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unknown : 'Voyage de Constantinople'

'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].'

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: Quarterly Review

'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 [...] Read the Edinburgh & Quaterly [sic] Reviews.'

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Mademoiselle de Montpensier : Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de M. Gaston d'Orleans, frere de Louis XIII

'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Cobbett : [?] Rural Rides

'Saturday March 13. Read Cobbett, which is a strange book to read with one's head full of the ruins of Rome.'

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William Cobbett : [?] Rural Rides

'Sunday March 14th. Read Cobbett'.

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William Wordsworth : unknown

'Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Esculapius and read Wordsworth'.

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unknown : 'Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos'

'Wednesday March 17th. Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- '.

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Schlegel : Criticism

'Friday March 19th. [...] Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- Read the second Volume of [...] Schlegel's [Criticism]'.

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unknown : 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'

'Monday March -- 22nd [...] '.

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unknown : 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'

'Tuesday March 23rd. '.

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: 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'

'Friday March 26th. Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'. [scored out in source]

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Schlegel :

'Saturday March 27th [...] Read Schlegel Criticism'.

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Schlegel : Criticism

'Tuesday March 30th. [...] Finish Schlegel's Critiscism [sic].'

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unknown : 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'

'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening '.

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unknown : 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'

'Sunday April 4th. [...] '.

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Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803

'Saturday April 10th [...] Read Tour by Forsyth'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plato : Symposium

'Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.'

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Plato : Symposium

'Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.'

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Plato : Symposium

'Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'.

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unknown : 'La Fleur des Batailles'

'Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'.

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unknown : 'Histoire de Rigda et de Regner Lodborg'

'Sunday April 18th. Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'.

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unknown : 'Huon de Bordeaux'

'Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'.

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unknown : 'Huon de Bordeaux'

'Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'.

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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco

'Wednesday April 21st. Read 1 Canto of Ricciardetto'.

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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 2)

'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.

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unknown : Guerin de Montglave

'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.

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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 3 and 4)

'Saturday April 24th. [...] Read 3rd. & 4th. Canto of Ricciardetto.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 5 and 6)

'Sunday April 25th. Read 5th. & 6th. Canto of Ricciardetto'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 7)

'Monday April 26th. Read 7th Canto of Ricciardetto'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 8 and 9)

'Tuesday April 27th. Read 8th. & 9th. Canto of Ricciardetto'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 10)

'Wednesday April 28th. [...] Read the tenth Canto of Ricciardetto'.

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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 11)

'Thursday April 29th. Read 11th. Canto of Ricciardetto'.

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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 12)

'Friday April 30th. Read the 12th. Canto of Ricciardetto and read no further. I find it so stupid'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Paradiso (Canto 1)

'Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'.

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anon : 'Flores et Blanche-fleur'

'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

anon : 'Cleomades et Claremonde'

'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

anon : 'Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelone, Fille du Roi de Naples'

'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Johann Joachim Winckelmann : Histoire de l'art chez les anciens

'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann [sic]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 87: 'An uncle died insane. Could read perfectly on committal. Learnt portions of the Old Testament, and the whole of the New Testament as far as the Epistle to the Romans. 12 months' imprisonment.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [87] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 240: 'Sister a lunatic. Most ignorant on committal. Learnt to read and committed to memory three of the Gospels and several chapters of the Old Testament. Imprisoned six months.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [240] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 264: 'An uncle deranged, and a brother of weak intellect. Could not read on committal. Has learnt to read, and committed to memory the four Gospels, and part of the Acts of the Apostles.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [264] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 26: 'Brother of No. 264. Could not read on committal. Learnt to read, and could repeat the gospels of St Mark and St John. 6 months in prison.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [26] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 505: 'An aunt insane. Could not read on committal. Learnt to read, and committed to memory the gospels of St Matthew and St John. 7 months for house breaking.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [505] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 353: 'Father had been insane. Could read on committal. Learnt several chapters of the New Testament. Term of imprisonment 14 days, [for] misconduct in workhouse.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [353] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 670: 'An uncle in a lunatic asylum. Could read and write on committal. Can repeat the Gospel of St John. [In prison] since May, 1845, for maliciously wounding his wife.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [670] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 734: 'Sister a lunatic. Could read and write on committal. Learnt several chapters of the New Testament. [Imprisoned] 1 month for assault.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [734] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 792: 'Brother died lately in a lunatic asylum. Could read and write on committal. Learnt the Gospel of St John. [In prison] since August 1845, for housebreaking.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [792] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 839: 'An uncle insane. Could read. Has learnt several chapters of the New Testament. [In prison] since Sept 13 1845, for a felony.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [839] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 814: 'A sister died in a lunatic asylum. Could read and write on committal. Learnt several chapters of the New Testament. [In prison] 14 days for destroying clothes, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [814] Print: Book

: Figaro

'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number of wounded.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Newspaper

Andr Gide : Isabelle

'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds me of "Dominique".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Eugene Fromentin : Dominique

'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds me of "Dominique".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Alexis Saint-L?ger L?ger : Eloges

'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for misprints!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Fables in Song

?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday...I just finished some of the deedest rubbish about Lord Lytton?s ?Fables?, that an intelligent editor ever shot into his waste paper basket.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Leslie Stephen : letter

'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing']

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

W.D. Howells : unknown

'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first literary essays I ever read were those of W.D. Howells and Russell Lowell.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Russell Lowell : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch

'In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this. They practically read through the whole of Punch for that year, and chose a number of conversational phrases from its dialogues. They were much struck by the prevalence in 1850 of phrases which they had imagined to be quite modern.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

H. G. Wells : Marriage

'I return the proofs by registered bookpost. I have read them with care. I have of course confined my observations to misprints, punctuation, points of phraseology, & sentences of which I absolutely failed to grasp the meaning.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Codex

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

'Sunday May 16th. Read 4 Canto's [sic] of Dante's Purgatorio.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 5, 6, 7, 8)

'Monday May 17th. [...] Read 5th. 6th. 7th. & 8 Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 9 and 10)

'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'

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Alfieri : Mirra

'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'

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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12)

'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '.

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '.

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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 13, 14, 15, 16)

'Thursday May 20th. Read 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16th Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio.'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Friday May 21st. [...] .'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Saturday May 22nd. [...] .'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Sunday May 23rd. [...] .'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Tuesday May 25th. [...] .'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Wednesday May 26th. .'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Sunday May 30th. [...] .'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Monday May 31st. [...] .'

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Boccaccio : Decameron

'Tuesday June 1st. [...] '.

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Charles Lucas : The Infernal Quixote: A Tale of the Day

'Monday May 24th. [...] Read the Infernal Quixote.'

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Charles Antoine Guillaume Pigault-Lebrun : 'Tableaux de Societe'

'Saturday May 29th. [...] Read Tableau de Societe de P-- [...] Le Baune [sic].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

unknown : Le petit Charles ou Neveu de mon oncle

'Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read .'

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William Cobbett : A Year's Residence in the United States of America

'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero Read Cobbett's Journal in America Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Morris Birbeck : Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois

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Thomas Love Peacock : Nightmare Abbey

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Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

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: The Spectator

'Thursday July 1st. [...] Read the Spectator.'

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca : Los Cabellos de Absalon

'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.'

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George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan [Cantos I and II]

'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'

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unknown : 'life of Plutarch'

'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca : Los Cabellos de Absalon

'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Theseus

'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Mazeppa

'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Vida es Sueno

'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Theseus

'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

St Matthew : Gospel

'Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno. Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Vida es Sueno

'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Romulus

'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives of Romulus and Lycurgus

'Sunday Jany. 9th. Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives of Lycurgus and Numa

'Tuesday Jany. 11th. Finish the Life of Lycurgus -- Begin that of Numa'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives of Numa and Solon

'Wednesday Jany. 12. [...] Read & finish the Life of Numa -- Begin Solon [makes notes from this reading]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Solon

'Thursday Jany. 13th. Finish the Life of Solon'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Poplicola

'Friday Jany. 14th. Read the Life of Poplicola -- 'Saturday Jany. 15th. Finish the Life of Poplicola'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Themistocles

'Sunday Jany. 16th. [...] Read the Life of Themistocles which a beautiful monument to the glory & virtue of the Athenians [goes on to comment in detail on text].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Camillus

'Monday Jany. 17th. Read the Life of Camillus -- 'Tuesday Jany. 18th. [...] Finish the Life of Camillus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV

'Thursday Jany. 20th. [...] Work all day. S. reads Henry 4th to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Plutarch : Life of Pericles

'Friday Jany. 21st. Begin Life of Pericles.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

unknown : 'Irish pamphlet'

'Thursday Jany 27th. [...] Read an Irish pamphlet'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

unknown : 'Irish pamphlet'

'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Travels Before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court

'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

[probably] August Wilhelm von Schlegel : [probably] A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

unknown : 'another Irish Pamphlet'

'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand : De Buonaparte, des Bourbons, et de la necessite de se rallier a nos princes legitimes

'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Discours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'annee 1750: ... si le retablissement des sciences et des arts a contribue a epurer les moeurs

'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious wailing -- It had better have been entitled a Disquisition on the Military Art since it teaches the way to make good Soldiers but not [...] Philosophers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown

Thomas Paine : The American Crisis

'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Paine : Common Sense

'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Thomas Paine : The American Crisis

'Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Paine : works

'Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown

Thomas Paine : The American Crisis

'Friday Feb. 4th Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, based on The American Crisis no.10] [...] Walk with Laurette on the Argine -- Finish Paine's Crisis -- The last number which congratulates the Americans on the conclusion of the War is fine'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Paine : Letter to the Abbe Raynal

'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court

'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court

'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travels before the Flood.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Letter to the Abbe Raynal

'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travels before the Flood.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man (Part 1)

'Tuesday Feb. 8th. Read Paine's Rights of Man. 'Wednesday Feb 9th. [...] Read Rights of Man first part -- 'Thursday Feb. 10th [...] Finish the first part of Rights of Man.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man (Part 2)

'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra

'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra

'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man

'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication. [...] 'Tuesday Feb. [...] 15th. [...] Finish 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason and begin the second. [...] 'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

: The Trial of Thomas Paine,for Certain False, Wicked, Scandalous and Seditious Libels Inserted in the Second Part of the Rights of Man

'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra

'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

'Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra

'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato

'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato

'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato

'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato

'Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19 March (reading begun 19 February); 'Read a little of Davanzati's Tacitus' entered on 18 March.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra

'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells Henry that [...] Jane Seymour can sing, Ana Bolena dance and the Infanta Maria knows the elements of Moral Philosophy'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra

'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Etienne de La Boetie : Discours de la servitude volontaire

'Wednesday March 1st. [...] Begin translating De la Servitude Volontaire d'Etienne de la Boetie'. ['Translate Etienne de la Boetie' also recorded in entries for 3, 5, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 March 1820; 'Finish translating Etienne de la Boetie' recorded in entry for 22 March].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

David Erskine Baker : Biographica dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers

'Monday March 13th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography [makes detailed notes from vol. I part i in this]'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

David Erskine Baker : Biographia dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers

'Tuesday March 14th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : Life of Adam Smith

'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's Treatise concerning the Imitative Arts I find the following: "The Minuet, where the Lady passes & repasses the Gentleman, then gives him one hand and then another, and at last both, is supposed to be a[...] Moorish dance emblematic of the passion of love." So little did our prudish grandmother's [sic] know what they were about.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Adam Smith : Treatise on the Imitative Arts

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Fletcher (?and Massinger) : The Beggar's Bush

'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman Hater

'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy scene which would apply to the present ministers.' [...] 'Sunday March 19th. [...] Finish Woman-Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book

Condorcet : Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Condorcet : Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Life of Voltaire by Condorcet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Gabriel Brotier : Chronological Supplement
Reading of Brotier, Chronological Supplement [to de la Malle's Tacitus] recorded by Claire Clairmont on 4, 5, 6 April 1820.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Voltaire : Memoirs
'Wednesday April 5th. [...] Read Memoires of Voltaire written by himself [notes anecdote from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Tacitus : Germania
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola. 'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Tacitus : Life of Agricola
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola. 'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Tacitus : De Oratoribus
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola. 'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Baron Felix de Bock : Les Chevaliers des sept montagnes, ou aventures arrivees dans le XIIIe siecle, du temps ou le tribunal secret avait sa plus grande influence, avec une notice sur l'etat ancien et actuel de ce tribunal
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

George Farquhar : Love and a Bottle
'Thursday April 13th. [...] Read Farquhar's Love & a Bottle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.' ['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 15, 17, 18, 22, 29 April].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Sejanus His Fall
'Sunday April 16th. [...] Read the fall of Sejanus -- [...] 'Tuesday April 18th. [...] Read Locke & fall of Sejanus. [...] 'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd
'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd
'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit at Several Weapons
'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit Without Money
'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Patrick Brydone : A Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford
'Sunday April 23rd. [...] Read Brydone's Letters [...] from Sicily. [...] 'Monday April 24 [...] Read Brydone's Letters from Sicily & Malta which are most delightfully interesting. [...] 'Tuesday April 25th. Read Brydone's Letters. [...] 'Wednesday April 26th. [...] Finish Brydone's Letters from Sicily & Malta.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Noble Gentleman
'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Encyclopedia
'Friday April 28th. [...] Read the Encyclopedia'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger : The Elder Brother
'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Caroline Wohlzogen : Agnes de Lilien
'Wednesday May 3rd. [...] Read Agnes de Lilien by the sister in law of Schiller which seems to me to be a stupid Book. [...] 'Friday May 5th. Finish Agnes de Lilien.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I] 'Read Memoires of the last Revolution at Naples [notes points from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Virgen del Sagrario
'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I]' [readings from this text also recorded on 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 May 1820].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Beaumont : Woman Pleased
'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Fletcher : The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret
'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Cause celebre: Proces des prevenus de lassassinat de M. [Antoine Bernardin] Fualdes ... accompagne d'une notice historique sur les principaux personnages [...] qui figurent dans cette affaire
'Friday May 12th. Read Proces Fualdes. [...] 'Saturday May 13th. Read Proces Fualdes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Unknown

George Farquhar : plays
'Tuesday May 16th. [...] Read Plays by Farquhar.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Vanburgh : plays
'Wednesday May 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Saturday May 20th. Read History of the Revolution at Naples.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson
'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 May 1820]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Monday May 29th. [...] Read Rights of Woman.' [records of readings from this text also appear in entries for 31 May, and 1, 2, 3 June 1820, with 'Finish [...] Rights of Woman' recorded on 4 June].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
'Thursday [...] June 1st. [...] Read Letters from Norway. [...] 'Friday June 2nd. [...] Read Rights of Woman & Letters from Norway. [...] 'Sunday June 4th. [...] Finish Letters from Norway & Rights of Woman.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Monday June 5th. Read Saggio [...] storico sulla Rivoluzione di Napoli.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 6 and 7 June 1820].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Thursday June 8th. [...] Read 1st Vol of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. [...] 'Friday June 9th. [...] Read Ivanhoe [...] 'Saturday June 10th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Edinburgh Review
'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review
'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review
'Teusday [sic] June 11th. [...] Read Quarterly Review.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor
'Friday June 16th. [...] Read Bride of Lammermoor.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Walter Scott : A Legend of Montrose
'Saturday June 17th. [...] Read A Legend of Montrose.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Edinburgh Review
'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew after the manner of the Bible [quotes/cites various examples]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : 'History of England' (French-language text)
'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew after the manner of the Bible [quotes/cites various examples]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: newspapers
'Monday June 26th. [...] Read Newspapers' [makes notes on military recruitment and funding issues reported].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Newspaper

: Edinburgh Review
'Teusday [sic] June 27th. [...] Read Edinburg [sic] Review.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

William Nicholson : An Introduction to Natural Philosophy
'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'. [records of further reading in latter text appear in entries for 29 June, and 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 July 1820].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Diogenes Laertius : Life of Xenophon
'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. .'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Boccaccio : Decameron
'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. .'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I line 33].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland. [...] 'Wednesday July 5th. [...] Read 40 lines of Virgil'. [Report 'Read Virgil' also appears in entries for 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 July 1820]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen
'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.' [subsequent readings from Aristippe recorded in entries for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 July 1820]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

(probably) Beaumarchais : (probably) Le Barbier de Seville
'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Alexandre L. B. Robineau : Jerome Pointu: Comedie
'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Lady Mount Cashell : Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel: Or Tales of Wonder and Delight. Containing Narratives of Foreign Countries and Manners, and Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Voyages, Travels, and History in General
'Tuesday July 18th. [...] Read Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Comic Dramas, in Three Acts
'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish Bulls.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth and R.L. Edgeworth : Essay on Irish Bulls
'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish Bulls. [...] 'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Moore : Edward: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Chiefly in England
'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls -- Begin Edward by Dr Moore. [...] 'Saturday July 22nd. Finish Edward by Dr Moore.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan : Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
'Sunday July 23rd. Read Florence Macarthy all day by Lady Morgan which I finish.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

unknown : Latin text
'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.' [readings from latter text also recorded in entries for 26, 27, 29 July 1820].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad
'Wednesday July 26th. [...] Read 1 Book of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad
'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Demosthenes : speeches
'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad. Translate Latin Speeches of Demosthenes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad (Book IV)
'Saturday July 29th. [...] Read Book IV of Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad (Book V)
'Sunday July 30th. [...] read [...] half the V Book of the Iliad. [...] 'Monday [...] July 31st. [...] Finish the V Book of the Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Tale of a Tub
'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Herodotus : Histories
'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

David Hume : Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688
'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Case is Altered, The
'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam, The
'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Aeschylus : Persae
'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Chetwode Eustace : Tour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scenery, its Antiquities, and its Monuments... with an account of the present state of its cities and towns and occasional Observations on the recent Spoliations of the French
'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Phaedrus
'S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Richard III
'S. reads Richard III in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Richard III
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Chetwode Eustace : Tour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scenery, its Antiquities, and its Monuments... with an account of the present state of its cities and towns and occasional Observations on the recent Spoliations of the French
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Theocritus : Idylls
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Theocritus : Idylls
'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry VIII
'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry VIII
'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue
'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Horace : Odes
'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lucan : Bellum Civile / Pharsalia
'Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida
'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida
'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer
'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Bernardin de St Pierre : Paul et Virginie
'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer
'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Prisoner of Chillon, The, and other poems
'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Symposium
'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Gisborne      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Fowre Hymnes
'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Epithalamion
'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : Myrrha
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Vincenzo Monti : Cajo Graccho
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Caleb Williams
'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams. [...] 'Wednesday August 9th. Ill all day -- Read Caleb Williams. [...] 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Clara Reeve : The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story
'Monday August 7th. [...] Read old English Baron.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Plato : Symposium
'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico. [...] 'Friday August 11th. Read Symposion [sic].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Demosthenes : unknown
'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Niccolo Tegrimi : Vita di Castruccio Castracani de gl'Antelmi nelli principe di Lucca
'Sunday August 13th. Read the Life of Castruccio by Nicalao Tegrimi [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel
'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey
'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Caroline Barnard : The Parent's Offering; or Tales for Children
'Saturday August 19th. [...] Read Parents Offering. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Johann David Wyss : The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island
'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Charles Brockden Brown : Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' [further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 September 1820; 'Finish Clarissa Harlowe' recorded in entry for 14 September].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D.
'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by one Campbell. 'Sunday Sept. 10th. Read Survey of the South of Ireland. [...] 'Tuesday Sept. 12th. [...] Read Philosophical Survey's [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Charlotte Brooke : Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse
''Friday Sept. 15th. [...] Read Irish Poetry translated by Miss Brooke'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of Castlehaven : The Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven, His Engagements and Carriage in the Wars of Ireland, from the Year 1642 to the Year 1651
''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Charlotte Brooke : Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse
'Wednesday Sept. 20th. [...] Read Miss Brooke's Irish poetry. [...] '[...] finish Miss Brooke's Irish poetry'. [goes on to reproduce passages from the following pieces in this book: 'Moira Borb: A poem'; 'Elegy to the Daughter of Owen'; 'Elegy'; 'Song for Mable Kelly. By Carolan.']
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Keats : Endymion
'[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion. [...] 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Virgil : unknown
'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Arthur O'Connor, T. A. Emmett, and W. J. McNevin : Memoir on the Objects of the Societies of United Irishmen
'Friday October 13 [...] Read Memoirs of O'Connor'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Keats : Isabella, or the Pot of Basil
'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from stanza 10].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Phaedrus : fables
'Monday October 23rd. Do a fable and a half of Phaedrus. [...] '[Tuesday] October -- 24th. Do 5 and a half fables from Phaedrus.' [further readings in this author recorded in entries for 27, 28, 30, 31 October; and 7, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17 November 1820].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke : 'Political Works'
'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Pietro Giannone : Dell'Istoria civile del regno di Napoli
'Friday October 27th. [...] Begin Istoria Civile di Napoli da Ginannone.' [records of reading this text also appear in journal entries for 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14 November 1820].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Keats : Lamia
'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Keats : Hyperion
'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Clemente Bondi : 'Le Conversazioni: Poemetto'
'Sunday Nov. 19th. [...] read Conversazione da Bondi.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Newspapers
'Friday Nov. 24th. Read Newspapers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Newspaper

Belfegor da Machiavelli : Novella piacevolissima
'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Niccolo Macchiavelli : Discorsi ... sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio
'Monday Dec. 11th. Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Indicator
'[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

Leigh Hunt : Indicator
'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

Petrarch : sonnets
'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least attention was paid there to the concord of the gender & number of the substantive with the article, besides (as in Dante) many other grammatical errors in the persons & cases of Verbs. But so it is -- Liberty is essential to the nature of Poetry [goes on to discuss this idea further]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Henry Coxe : Picture of Italy: Being a Guide to the Antiquities and Curiosities of That Classical and Interesting Country
'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : La Gerusalemme liberata
'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley      Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : De L'Allemagne
'[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 27, 28, 29 December 1820; and 3 and 5 January 1821]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-Fouque : Sintram and his Companions: A Romance
'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1
'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1. (1820), and Retrospective Review II (1820)].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

: Retrospective Review vol. II
'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1. (1820), and Retrospective Review II (1820)].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

J. C. F. von Schiller : 'Das Geheimniss'
'Friday Feb. 9th. [...] Read Das Geheimniss one of Schiller's minor Poems.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : 'Das Gluck'
'Saturday Feb. 10th. [...] Read Das Gluck a poem by Schiller.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Das Lied von der Glocke
'Sunday Feb. 11th. [...] Read Das Lied von der Glocke by Schiller.' [further/other readings of this text (or sessions translating it) also recorded in journal entries for 13, 15 and 16 February 1821, and 13 March, with 'Read & finish Das Lied von der Glocke recorded on 14 March].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve
'Friday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read a Magazine called Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

Ippolito Pindemonte : Le Prose e poesie campaestri d'Ippolito Pindemonte
'Monday Feb. 26th. [...] Read Prose Campestri da Pindemonte.' [reading from this text also recorded in journal entry for 5 March 1821, with 'Finish Poesie Campestre by Pindemonti [sic] recorded in entry for 8 March].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Keats : Hyperion
'[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Joseph Francois Michaud : Histoire des croisades
'[Tuesday] March 13th. [...] In the Evening read Das Lied von der Glocke [Schiller] and begin the History of the Crusades by Michaud.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Hero und Leander
'Thursday March. 15th. [...] Begin the Hero & Leander of Schiller.' [reading from this text also recorded in journal entry for 18 March 1821, with 'Finish the Hero und Leander von Schiller' recorded on March 21].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer
'Friday March 23rd. [...] Read Der Gang nach dem [...] Eisenhammer -- von Schiller.' [further readings from this text recorded in journal entry for 26 March 1821, with 'Work and finish Schiller's Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer' recorded on 27 March].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : L'Avaro Fastoso
'Thursday March 29th. [...] Read L'Avaro Fastoso di Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Der Ring des Polycrates
'Monday April 2nd. [...] Read Der Ring des Polycrates.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Der Kampf mit dem Drachen
'Thursday April 5th. Begin Der Kampf mit dem Drachen von Schiller.' [readings from this text also recorded on 7 and 8 April 1820, with 'Finish Der Kampf mit dem Drachen' recorded on 9 April].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Filippo Pananti : Avventure ed osservazione sopra le coste di Barberia
'Wednesday April 11th. [...] Begin Avventure ed Osservazione di Filippo Pananti sopra le coste di Barberia.' [Readings from this text, along with detailed notes on it, also recorded in journal entry for 12 April 1821, with 'Finish Travels of Pananti' recorded on 13 April].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Zerstorung von Troja
'Saturday [...] April 14th. [[...] Read Die Zerstorung von Troia, freie [...] Ubersetzung der zweiten Buchs der Aeneide [sic] [precedes this with quotation of lines 3-4 from this text].' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 April 1821]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : La Vedova Scaltra
'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day should appear to [sic] odious to me so I read Goldoni. La Vedova Scaltra e la famiglia dell'Antiquario.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : La Famiglia dell'antiquario
'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day should appear to odious to me so I read Goldoni. La Vedova Scaltra e la famiglia dell'Antiquario.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : La Cameriera Brillante
'Sunday April 29th. [...] Read La [...] Cameriera Brillante by Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : La Moglie saggia
'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria da Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : Il Feudatario
'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria [sic] da Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : La Buona moglie
'Wednesday May 2nd. [...] Read La Buona Moglie di Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Johann Isaac von Gerning : Reise durch Oesterreich und Italien
'Saturday May 5th. [...] Begin Reise durch Italien von J. J. Garning [sic].' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 6, 7, 10, 11, 22 May 1821]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

anon : I Piffari di montagna, ossia cenno estemporaneo sulla congiura del principe di Canosa, e sopra i carbonari
'Monday April 16th. [...] Read I Piffari di Montagna a pamphlet upon the Carbonari.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue : Possen, die Zeit beachtend, bey Gelegenheit des Ruckzungs der Franzosen. Seitenstuck zum Flussgott Nieman
'Wednesday May 16th. [...] Begin Seitenstuck zum Flussgitt Niemen von Kotzebue. [...] 'Sunday May 20th. [...] Finish Possen von [...] Kotzebue.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : La Donna volubile
'Friday May 18th. [...] Read the Donna Volubile by Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : L'Adulatore
'Sunday May 20th. Read L'Adulatore, di Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

[n/a] : Punch
'Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's. A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

: prayers
'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

: prayers
'Mr Chase called and read prayers to the prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Chase      Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : [plays]
'Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we drank Brandy and Water and read Falstaff till one o clock or past.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [playbill]
'I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mrs Poole.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Handbill, Poster, playbill

: prayers
'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very light reading I returned home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

: prayers
'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Vincenzo Monti : Galeotto Manfredi, principe di Faenza
'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

: prayers and exhortation
'The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : Filippo
'Read the Filippo of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : Polinice
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : Antigone
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to the Mechanics where we read for a short time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Vittorio Alfieri : Rosmunda
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to the Mechanics where we read for a short time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Unknown

Vittorio Alfieri : Virginia
'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : 'L'Allegro'
'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : 'Il Penseroso'
'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

: prayers
'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannos
'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : [Plays]
'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV
'S. calls on Lord B - He [presumably Shelley] reads the 4th Canto of Childe Harold'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV
'Read 4th Canto'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Mazeppa
'Transcribe Mazeppa'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Ode on Venice'
'Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Vittorio Alfieri : Saul
'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population
'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population
'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : Agide
'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : [Tragedies]
'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : My Novel
'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story that I became unable quietly to read on regularly, but leaving the details for another time gloated over the plot, and the Finish.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr Palmer on the Education of the Masses.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Edward Bulwer Lytton : My Novel
'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [magazines]
'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrived by the "Blue Jacket".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Blackwood's Magazine
'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic shows no mercy & really the book is such an impudent acknowledgement of chicanery & deception that it richly deserves the castigation it receives, particularly as the Author after glorying in the possession of a large fortune made by gulling the public with a manufactured mermaid & even more unpardonable trickeries snuffles cant & professes piety.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Charles Dickens : Martin Chuzzlewit
'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest sentiments. I was extremely pleased with myself & unanimously rewarded my exertions with a glass of gin & water and the Hardest manilla I could find my cigar case, after which I tried on the smoking cap Emma gave me on my birthday, looked in the glass & wondered I was not more distinguished then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son
'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son
'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Hendrik Conscience : The Poor Gentleman
'Attended the reading of The Poor Gentleman & was very pleased with the gentlemanly manners of most of the Amateurs. Agreed to play Gruff old Humphrey Dobbin and suppose I must do it. It is not a pleasing character to sustain, but if Sir Richard Bramble is up in his part & gives the Cue well, every word Dobbin says is a Growl & if Dobbin growls well every sentence he speaks is a point.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: men     Print: Book

Hendrik Conscience : The Poor Gentleman
'Attended a meeting of the Amateur Society in the evening when the Play to be performed was read throughout.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: men     Print: Book

Hendrik Conscience : The Poor Gentleman
'Attended rehearsal a little business done amidst a great deal of noise, my companions in the performance are in general very rowdy gents, after the play had been read four or five & amongst them myself went to a restaurant (sic) where we had oysters and Old Tom &c. I got home about half past eleven.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: men     Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institution & then went to the Hall of the Criterion Hotel where there is a Promenade Concert nightly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'After Tea I took a stroll through the town and then went to Collingwood on my return I looked in at the Reading Room of the Mechanics, amused myself by waiting a considerable time for the relinquishing of the Argus by one or other of two very slow old gentlemen who each had a copy and spite my impatience coolly kept turning over page after page as if they were not only deeply interested in the news but also wrapped in every advertisement.' 'I got it at last, not however from either of them for they were as busy as ever when I left, for all the world like two of Madame Tussaud?s clever Wax Figures with a little internal machinery, that turned the paper over at certain intervals, in watching them I had overlooked a third copy which I now got hold of & then found "there was nothing in it".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: prayers
'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and delivered an Address to the Protestant prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

[n/a] : Argus
'Read the Argus at the Mechanics Reading Room & came home to bed before ten.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: prayers
'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the Protestant prisoners'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Stoddart      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then came back and got to bed before ten o clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

: prayers
'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [newspapers]
'Read the papers at the Mechanics.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [newspapers]
'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was walking across the adjacent apartment & then that some heavy wagon was rumbling along the street. I turned round & soon went to sleep after I found nothing was the matter & on seeing the next morning's newspaper found the shock of an earthquake reported.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

George Coleman : The Heir at Law
'Spent a good deal of to day in reading "The Heir at Law" a Comedy proposed to be played by the Garrick Club. I have expressed an opinion that it is very suitable.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [newspapers]
'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [newspapers]
'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day & had a chat with him.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: prayers
'Mr Corrie the Presbyterian minister read prayers to & addressed the prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Corrie      Print: Book

[unknown] : [newspapers]
'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Argus
'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quarters to see the paper, and got home about eleven o clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: prayers
'Mr Stoddart read prayers & preached to the prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Stoddart      Print: Book

: prayers
'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the prisoners, in my estimation I would be better to have no clergyman at all than to provide such as this gentleman. He is a hearty good natured man but rants from the pulpit nothing but noisy meaningless & uninteresting twaddle.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Stoddart      Print: Book

George Coleman : Heir at Law
'Went home with Messrs Reed & then got back to my quarters. Studied a little of my part in the Heir at Law, saw all was right in the Gaol & then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

: prayers
'The presbyterian minister read prayers to the prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

[unknown] : Argus
'The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon the Mayor, attributing his late Ball as a bait thrown to catch the mayoralty again for the next year.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

George Coleman : The Heir at Law
'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

George Coleman : The Heir at Law
'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Neild      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Punch
'Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy. The engravings are very creditably executed, but there is an apparent want of originality throughout. The best Jokes being but imitations of English sallies disguised in Colonial vernacular.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him "Suffolk's" Bible & told him a little about the character of the individual, he seemed very interested.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Johann Georg Zimmermann : Solitude
'Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Neild      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten. Came home then & after reading a short time went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

John Wilson : Noctes Ambrosianae
'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purchased to day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Harriette : [letter]
'Called upon Joe & chatted for some time with him, read a letter which Harriette had sent.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : The Age
'Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
'Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : prayers
'The Rev Mr Corrie read prayers to & then addressed the protestant prisoners.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Corrie      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [French Grammar]
'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Age
'Went for a short stroll. Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street. Called at Reed's and looked over the "Age" then home to breakfast.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]
'Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]
'Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Edgar Allan Poe : [Allan Poe]
'Sat at home in the evening mourning over my face and lazily reading the improbabilities of Allan Poe, went to bed very early.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not help wishing I had been at the performance.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [newspaper cutting]
'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one of the Melbourne papers which contained the news of the Arrival of the Red Jacket. It was only published a short time before the Mail closed, so I thought the Papers here would not have it. They had however but yet I gave it to Nixon the Editor of The Constitution as a pledge silent but doubtless intended that I should not spoil the Sale of the Extraordinary which he intended to publish by showing it to any more people. The Conductors of the other Paper heard of my having news and came eagerly to see what I had got & were very crestfallen when I told them what had become of my "Paper".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [newspapers]
'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garrick Club. It appears to have been as successful as any of the former performances and to have been honored by a large audience.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Night and Morning
'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Ovens & Murray Advertiser
'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ general(ly) induces I was surprised into emotion by the sudden sight of my own name & on reading the Paragraph in which the phenomenon occurred I found myself abused most royally. I was charged with rushing out of my Hole one night & violently siezing some respectable well dressed individual then ferociously dragging him to the Lock Up having him confined all night & then failing to produce any charge before the Magistrate the next morning.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens & Murray Advertiser
'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred against me in its last Issue & gave me credit for benevolent motives in making the Arrest.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a majority of upwards of [?] over his opponents.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy. Returned read while & then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Constitution
'The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being formed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

N A : Arabian Nights
Published in The Woman Worker, newspaper: 'As I sat engaged with the very charming adventures of Zobeide, in the "Arabian Nights", and just as I had reached the spot where she comes upon the petrified town, with its stone men and women, and the stone queen with her golden crown, with the beautiful young man who alone had been spared, there came a loud rat-tat on the door. I did not want to talk politics or the factory system, for I was very happy (it is the first time I have read this witching book, and I was in heaven), and scarcely cared to be reminded of the follies and sins of our present social system. I was wandering in a romantic clime full of spices, fountains that spout pearls out of their mouths quite carelessly, and where the giants all come to grief - and did not want bothering with the memroy that I was one of a race that people a globe whirling through space at so many thousand miles per hour. A round ball whose sides are covered with workhouses, prisons, law courts, and asylums, as well as nice houses, and dainty villas, and working men's cottages. Good old Caliph Haroun Alraschid and a fariyland held me in thrall. Ha, ha, but I must check this romantic attitude of mind; I am told it is leading me to paint factory life blacker than it is'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Carnie      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Praeterita
A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf: 'Long ago, with the engine groaning below the wooden, dusty floor of a hot winding-room in a cotton factory, I read the description of a little wood overhanging the Falls of Schaffhausen. Ruskin had written it; and in his words was the beat of the waters and the colour of the flowers, and I longed to see the reality. Yet his description is only the shadow of the real glory of those Schaffhausen meadows'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Carnie      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Tempest, The
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Two Gentlemen of Verona
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population, An
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : Vita di Alfieri
'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Winter's Tale
'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Winter's Tale
'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Manso : La vita di Torquato Tasso
'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Timon of Athens
'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Timon of Athens
'Read Timon of Athens'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : All's Well That Ends Well
'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Charles Maturin : Women, ou Pour et Contre
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Fudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown the Younger
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Beppo: a Venetian story
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Life of Virgil
'Read the life of Virgil'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality)
'Read the Black dwarf'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Hecyra
'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Apuleius : Golden Ass, The (Metamorphoses)
'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Hecyra
'Finish Terence'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Hans Egede Saabye : Greenland : being Extracts from a Journal kept in that Country in the years 1770 to 1778.
'Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle
'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle
'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
'Read Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
'finish Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV
'Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Horace : Odes
'Finish the II book of Horace & read Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Alain-Rene Lesage : Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
'Read Gil Blas'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Sophie Ristaud Cottin : Claire d'Albe
'Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Souza : Adele de Senage, ou lettres de Lord Sydenham
'Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Alain-Rene Lesage : Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
'Finish Gil Blas - read Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Stael : Corinne
'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Stael : Corinne
'Read Corinne & Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Stael : Corinne
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Lines written among the Eugenean Hills'
'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Virgil : Georgics
'Read the Georgics'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Johann Joachim Winckelmann : Geschichte der Kunst des Alterhums
'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'read 2 Canto's of Dante with Shelley - he reads Livy and Winkhelmann aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Johann Joachim Winckelmann : Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Livy : Ab urbe condita
'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives
'S read Plutarch's lives.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Euripides : [unknown]
'Read Georgics and Dante - S. read Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame Fauques de Vaucluse : The Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An oriental tale
'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas
'Read Sismondi - & Faublas'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little drank a little thought a little and then saw all was right in the Gaol and went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'finish Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dominque Dufour de Pradt : Du Congres de Vienne
'Sunday May 27th. [...] Read Congres de Vienne de M. Pradt.' [also records 'Read Congres de Vienne' on 28 May 1821, and 'Finish Congres de Vienne' on 4 June].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Godwin : Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England
'Read the 1st vol of Mandeville'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'a rainy day - visit the Coliseum - Read the bible'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Die Leiden des jungen Werther
'[Tuesday] May 29th. [...] Read the 1st Letter in Leiden von Werther.' [Also records reading this text on 31 May 1821, and on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 June].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Johann Joachim Winckelmann : Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.' [also records reading latter text on 7, 8, 9 June 1821]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Lucretius : [unknown]
'S. reads Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : Il Cavaliere di buon gusto
''Monday June 18th. Pack up [for departure to Pisa next day] [...] Read the Cavaliere del buon Gusto da Goldoni [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Euripides : Medea
'S. reads Medea Euripedes [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Plutarch : 'Life of Marius'
'S. reads Plutarchs life of Marius'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Abbot
'Sunday June 24th. [...] Read the Abbot by Walter Scott'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'Read Hamlet'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Melincourt
'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

anon : review of Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley (1820)
'Friday June 29th. [...] Read the Quarterly. Review of Southey's Life of Wesley [notes several anecdotes given in this]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

Euripides : Hippolitus
'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus [sic] of Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear
'Read King Lear'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello
'Read Othello'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar
'Read Julius Caesar'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth : Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun by Himself and Concluded by His Daughter, Maria Edgeworth
'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs. [...] 'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I think their system seems to aim at making the mind satisfied with little.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King John
'Read King John - & Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonais
'[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Thomas Love Day : The History of Sandford and Merton
'Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress
'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803
'Read Forsyth's tour'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803
'Finish Forsyth's tour'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Merry Wives of Windsor, The
'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des Dames
'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Kabale und Liebe
'Sunday August 5th. [...] Begin Cabale und Liebe [sic] of Schiller.' [also records reading this text on 6, 10, 11, 12 ('Sit at home all day & read Cabale und Liebe [sic]'), and 13 August 1821].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pietro Metastasio : [unknown]
'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Pietro Metastasio : [unknown]
'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy
'[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which ignorant people bear to the wise says -- "hating that light which [...] reprooved their darkness."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [History Plays]
'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy
'Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

[unknown] : [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames
'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth
'[Tuesday] August 28th. Read Kenilworth -- [...] 'Wednesday August 29th. Read Kenilworth. [...] 'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

[unknown] : [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames
'Read Bib. de Chevalerie'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Chrysostomus : [unknown]
'Read Livy - & Chrysostome'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y Villegas : Suenos y discursos de verdades
'Read the vision of Quivedo'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Hope : Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek
'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius. [...] 'Friday August 31st. Read Anastasius. [...] 'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Giovanni Boccaccio : [possibly] Decameron
'read Bocaccio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'read the Decameroni'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'Finish the Decamerone'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan : Italy (Volume I)
'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy. [...] 'Sunday Sept -- 2nd. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy -- [...] ''Monday Sept. 3rd. Finish [...] 1st. Vol. Lady Morgan's Italy'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Los rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional
'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Jungfrau von Orleans
'Saturday Oct 6th. [...] Begin Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] von Schiller.' [also records reading this text in journal entries for 7, 8, and 15 October ('Finish Johanna D/Arc') 1821].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Jungfrau von Orleans
'Thursday Oct. 11th. Read Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] with S-- [...] 'Saturday Oct. 13th. [...] read Johanna D Arc with S--'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont and Percy Bysshe Shelley     Print: Book

Clarke : Travels
[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too] 'M Clarke's Travels Hume's dissertation on the passions Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c 2 vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the drama Oeuvres de Moliere Aristippes de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Mille et une nuits Tragedies de Voltaire Trajedies de Corneille x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis Ben Jonson's Comedies Pope's Homer Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne Faublas Italian Pamela x Aminta of Tasso Monti's Tragedies x Orlando Furioso Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata tragedies of Alfieri x Inferno of Dante Vita di Alfieri Latin x The Aenied [sic] Terence's Comedies 2 books of Horace 10 books of Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
'Wednesday Oct [...] 17th. [...] Begin Faust by Goethe [goes on to quote part i lines 590-593 and lines 602-605 from this]' [readings in this text also recorded in journal entries for 18, 19, 21 ('Read Faust all day'), 23 October 1821].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Malthus : Essay on Population
[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references.] 'S Humes England Malthus's Essay on Population Histoire de l'art de Winkhelmann Latin Georgics Livy's History Greek The Hymns of HOmer The Greek Tragedians Memorabilia of Zenophon Comedies of Aristophanes The Symposium - Phaedrus - Apology f Socrates &c. of Plato Herodotus Theocritus Italian Vita di Tasso Divina Comedia di Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Apology of Socrates
[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references.] 'S Humes England Malthus's Essay on Population Histoire de l'art de Winkhelmann Latin Georgics Livy's History Greek The Hymns of HOmer The Greek Tragedians Memorabilia of Zenophon Comedies of Aristophanes The Symposium - Phaedrus - Apology f Socrates &c. of Plato Herodotus Theocritus Italian Vita di Tasso Divina Comedia di Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : Vita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da esso
[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too] 'M Clarke's Travels Hume's dissertation on the passions Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c 2 vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the drama Oeuvres de Moliere Aristippes de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Mille et une nuits Tragedies de Voltaire Trajedies de Corneille x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis Ben Jonson's Comedies Pope's Homer Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne Faublas Italian Pamela x Aminta of Tasso Monti's Tragedies x Orlando Furioso Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata tragedies of Alfieri x Inferno of Dante Vita di Alfieri Latin x The Aenied [sic] Terence's Comedies 2 books of Horace 10 books of Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
[Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on these references] 'm Georgics x Sismondis Histoire des Republics Italiennes 2 Vols of MOntaigne Forsyth's tour x Romans de la Chevalerie Visions de Quivedo Bocaccio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

anon : The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson and Others, for High Treason ... with the Antecedent Proceedings. Taken in short-hand by William Brodie Gurney (vol. 2)
'Monday Oct. 29th. [...] The following passage is from Thistlewood's Defence 'A few hours hence and I shall be no more; but the nightly breeze which will whistle over the silent grave that shall protect me from its keenness, will bear to your restless pillow the memory of one who lived but for his country -- and died when liberty and justice had been driven from its confines by a set of wretches.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Euripides :
[Mary's list of Percy Shelley's reading in 1819 - database entries are based on references in the journal]. s Euripides Lucretius Homer's Illiad and Odyssey' [various torn out pages follow]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Etienne Francois de Lantier : Les Voyages d'Antenor en Grece et en Asie, avec des notions sur l'Egypte, manuscrit grec trouve a Herculaneum, traduit par E-F Lantier
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Spectator, The
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Christoph Martin Wieland : Menander und Glycerion
'Saturday Nov. 3rd. [...] After dinner [...] begin Wieland's novel of Menander & Glycera.' [reading/translation of this text also recorded in journal entries for 4, 5, 6, 8, 25 November 1821, with 'Finish Wieland's Menander and Glycera' recorded on 8 December].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lucan : Pharsalia
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Robert Burns : 'Tam O' Shanter'
In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert Burns.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Robert Burns : 'Lament for James Earl of Glencairn'
In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert Burns.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar
'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan : Italy
'Monday Dec. 10th. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy'. [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 11, 12, 14, 15, 25, 27 December 1821, with 'Finish Lady Morgan's Italy' recorded on 28 December].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

unknown : 'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'
'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 16, 17, 19, 20 December 1821].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy : Gabrielle de Vergy, tragedie
'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Hugh Kelly : False Delicacy, ou La Fausse Delicatesse
'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Antoine Marin Lemierre : Hypermnestre
'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon : Rhadamisthe et Zenobie
'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Titus Andronicus
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV part I
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV part II
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

unknown : 'Ditmar von Aarenstein'
'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.' [readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entries for 2, 3, and 9 January 1822, with 'Finish Ditmar von Aarenstein' recorded on 13 January].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear
'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Galignani's Messenger
'Thursday Feb. [...] 7th. [...] Read Southey's and Lord B's squabble in Galignani'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit
'Saturday March 9th. [...] Translate [...] a little of the life of Goethe.' [readings/translation/copying of translation from this text also recorded in journal entries for 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 March 1822, and 3, 7, 8, 10 April].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : I Due Pantaloni o i mercantanti
'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : Le Donne Curiose
'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : Il Poeta Fanatico
'Friday March 28th. [...] Read Il Poeta Fanatico di Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carlo Goldoni : Il Matrimonio per concorso
'Sunday March 31st. Read Il Matrimonio per Concorso di Goldoni.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Saint Albin Berville and Jean Francois Barriere : Memoires de Madame Roland
'[Tuesday] May 12-24th [...] Early in the morning I read Madame Roland [...] 'Wednesday May 13th.-25th [...] Finish the Memoirs of Madame Roland.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

King James I of Scotland : The King's Quair
In journal entry for Wednesday 25 May, Claire Clairmont transcribes stanzas 28 and 29 from Canto II of The King's Quair, by James I of Scotland.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte Fouque : Die Cypressenkranze
'Friday May [...] 27th. [...] After dinner read Die Cypressenkranze de la Baronne la Motte Fouque.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Chretien-Hermann Gambs : Skold
'Monday May [...] 30th. [...] After dinner Mr. Gambs reads aloud his tale of Skold. It pleases me very much -- Its principal charm is the naturalness of [...] its descriptions [...] and the extreme variety of the style.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre
'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country property and read a little of Wilhelm Meister.' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 2 and 3 June 1825].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Chretien-Hermann Gambs : Moses (Cantos 3, 4, 5, 6)
'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] After dinner M. Gambs reads aloud the 3, 4, 5, and 6th. Canto of Moses [goes on to comment upon this text in detail].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

J. C. F. von Schiller : Wallenstein
'Saturday [...] June 4th. [...] After dinner [...] M.G. [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] reads to me Schiller's Wallenstein.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Wallenstein
'Wednesday [...] June 8th. [...] I read Wallenstein and give my lessons.' [readings in this text also recorded in journal entries for 9, 13, 15, 17, 26 June 1825, with 'Read and finish Wallenstein' recorded on 27 June].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine
'Friday June [...] 24th. Early in the morning receive a letter from Mr. Baxter with a number of Blackwood's Magazine and some Edinburgh Newspapers. Read them all day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Revolt of Islam
'Sunday June [...] 19th. [...] Read the Revolt of Islam with M.G. [i.e. friend Chretien-Hermann Gambs]'. [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 20 and 26 June; 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 17, 24 July; 4, 7, 18, 28, 29 August; 3, 4 September 1825, some in company with Gambs].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Plato : Phaedon
'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and Memoirs of Marmontel.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Marmontel : Memoirs
'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and Memoirs of Marmontel.' [further readings from latter text recorded in journal entries for 1 and 2 July 1825]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

C. F. D. Schubart : 'Die ewige Jude: Ein lyrische Rhapsodie'
'Monday [...] July 11th. [...] Read Der ewige Jude by Schubart, the translation of which is in the Notes of Queen Mab.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Unknown

unknown : 'Travels in Germany'
'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

unknown : Life of Goethe
'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' [records finishing Goethe on 9 August 1825].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Chretien-Hermann Gambs : Lecture on Modern History
'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont

Jean Francois Regnard : Le Distrait
'Friday August [...] 19th. [...] Read Le Distrait by Regnier [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: newspapers
'Thursday August [...] 25th. [...] After dinner I take up the Newspaper by accident and read there an account of a duel between Trelawny [close friend] and another englishman. In a moment my whole peace is destroyed.. [...] They say he is dangerously wounded, but I must hope'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Newspaper

Charles Rollin : unknown
'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Monthly Review.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: review of Shute, Lord Bishop of Sarum, A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Sarum
'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Monthly Review.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

: newspaper
'Sunday September 25th. [...] After breakfast [...] the newspapers were put by Catherine Ivanovna into my hand -- I glanced over them hastily as is my custom to see if there is anything about Greece. I saw my dear friend [Trelawny]'s name; I did not dare to read, yet notwithstanding with a horrible feeling of dread & yet hope -- I read -- that he was well [after being wounded in duel] and still in his cavern [...] I went then instantly into the garden and sat myself on the balcony to enjoy all the fullness of my happiness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Newspaper

Maria Edgeworth : 'story of the Basket Woman'
'Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Ernst Christoph von Houwald : Das Bild: Trauerspiel in funf Akten
'[Tuesday] September [...] 27th. [...] Read all the morning Das Bild von Houwald with Mr. G[ambs]. It is a charming tragedy in the romantic style and the novelty of the invention & yet its naturalness is delightful [goes on to quote at length from Act I scene 5].' [also records reading this text, with Chretien-Hermann Gambs, in journal entries for 28 and 29 September 1825]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in the Evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Voltaire : Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suede
'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in the Evening. [...] 'Sunday [...] October 2nd. read the life of Charles the XII. [...] 'Monday [...] October 3rd. [...] Finish reading Charles XII.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Carl Friedrich Becker : life of Charles XII
'[Tuesday] [...] Octbr. 4th. [...] Begin reading the History of Charles the XII by Becker in German.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: Edinburgh Review
'Wednesday [...] October 5th. [...] Read the Edinburgh Review.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin des Odoards : Histoire philosophique de la revolution de France
'Saturday [...] Oct. 8th. [...] Read in the afternoon [following funeral of one of her pupils]. Histoire de la Revolution francaise par Antoine Fantin Desodoards [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan : Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, reine de France ... suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les regnes de Louis XIV, de Louis XV et de Louis XVI
'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death of a child] & read the whole day Memoirs of Madame Campan.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

unknown : 'lives of the saints'
'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'The Barring Out'
'Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : The Ghost-Seer
'Thursday October [...] 27 [...] Read Schillers Ghost [...] Seer.' [also records reading this text on 28 October 1825]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner : Die Templer auf Cypern
'Friday October [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read a little of Werner's Templers with M. G[ambs]. but not much for I am very stupid with a bad head-ach [previous day's journal entry marked X for start of menstrual period].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Paul et Virginie
'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Lingard : Tracts Occasioned by the Publication of a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham by Shute, Bishop of Durham
'Monday October [...] 31st. [...] A note from Mr. Baxter with Lingard's [...] Reply to the attacks of Shute, Bishop of Durham against the Catholic Religion which I read.' [also records reading this text in journal entry for 1 November 1825]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

: newspapers
'Wednesday [...] November 2nd. [...] A packet of Newspapers from Mr. Baxter. I sit in my room & read them all the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Newspaper

Maria Edgeworth : 'Simple Susan'
'Monday [...] Nov. 7th. [...] sit upon the divan & read Simple Susan with Johnny & M. G.' [also records reading this text in journal entries for 8, 10, 11 November 1825, with 'After dinner read aloud & finished Simple Susan' recorded on 15 November].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'Mademoiselle Panache'
'Saturday [...] Nov. 5th. [...] After dinner [...] sit upon the divan in Marie Ivanovna's cabinet & read Madlle. Panache to Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Werner : Martin Luther, oder die Weihe der Kraft
'Monday Novbr. [...] 14th. [...] dress and read Martin Luther with M. G[ambs]. His prayer just before presenting himself before the council at Worms is fine & full of energetic simplicity; what I chiefly remark is that in this piece [...] there are no passages of surpassing beauty as in Houwald, but the interest & vigour never relaxes for a moment either into indifference or feebleness.' [also records reading/listening to this text in journal entries for 10, 16, 19, 27 November 1825, with 'After dinner finished Martin Luther with M.G.' recorded on 30 November].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons
'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'The Nine Days' Wonder'
'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Alexandre Joseph Pierre de Segur : Les Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez differents peuples anciens et modernes
'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.' [also records reading latter text in journal entries for 23 November 1825].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost (Book I)
'[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] a little of 1st Canto of Paradise lost by the side of the fire which is lighted in the great drawing room.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'The Black Lane'
'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read a little of the Black Lane in Rosamond to him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Simon Lee'
'Sunday Nov. [...] 27th. [...] Mr. Armfeld & the little Bielfeld spent the Evening -- we read Wordsworth's Ballad of Simon Lee & then we talked.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Kraniche des Ibykus
'Monday Novbr. [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read Ibycus & Die Kraniche with Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] ['Analysis' of this text follows in same entry].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Amand Gottfried Adolph Mullner : Die Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier Acten
'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We are interrupted by M. Baxter who spends the Evening.' [also records reading this text, sometimes with Gambs, in journal entries for 1, 2, 6 ('read till dinner time Die Schuld which we begin over again'), 7 (transcribes passages) December 1825].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

William Robertson : The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came in in [...] his usual wild hurried manner [...] consented to play a Sonata of Beethoven's [...] Then after inveighing against everything in Moscow, pavement, lights, houses & the women he caught up his hat and departed. to our great relief. They played at the Cat & the Mouse and I read Robertson.' [also mentions reading Robertson earlier in same entry, and in entries for 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 23, 25, 27 December 1825; and 2, 10, 11 January 1826].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld : Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened
'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.' [also records reading this text on 6 December 1825].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : riddles
'Monday [...] Dec. 12th. [...] read some of Schiller's riddles'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803
'Tuesday Dec. [...] 20th. [...] Letter from Mr. Baxter and Forsyth's Travels in Italy. After dinner I read it.' [records further readings from this text, some with Chretien-Hermann Gambs, in journal entries for 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 December 1825; and 3 January 1826].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Benvenuto Cellini : Eine Geschichte des XVI Jahrhunderts
'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's Memoirs.' [records another reading from this text, with Chretien-Hermann Gambs, in journal entry for 8 January 1826].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

E. T. W. Hoffmann : 'Ritter Gluck: Eine Erinnerung aus dem Jahre 1809'
'Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

E. T. W. Hoffmann : 'Kreisleriana'
'Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Mary Shelley : Letter to Claire Clairmont
'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where Clairmont received all mail] and found a letter from Mary. Got into the carriage and read it [...] We went to Levy's Magazine. I read my letter whilst the Princess [Galitzin] walked round the shop. In came a tall man [...] He stared at the Princess and then at my letter -- its black seal seemed to startle him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Manuscript: Letter

Mary Shelley : Letter to Claire Clairmont
'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where Clairmont received all mail] and found a letter from Mary. Got into the carriage and read it [...] We went to Levy's Magazine. I read my letter whilst the Princess [Galitzin] walked round the shop. In came a tall man [...] He stared at the Princess and then at my letter -- its black seal seemed to startle him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Medwin : Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted during a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822
'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book contained! Poor Shelley is made to play quite a secondary part [goes on to criticise book further, and in detail] [...] When I was in bed today, I wept a great deal because my reading of to-day had brought back Shelley vividly to my mind [goes on to inveigh against Byron's 'imposture' and his treatment of his, and her, illegitimate daughter].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Leslie Stephen : letter
?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, to Mrs Sitwell.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Andrew Lang : letter
?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon : Les Aventures de Telemaque
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have finished "Telemaque," and have read one, or two of Racine's plays, which I like very much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Jean Racine : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have finished "Telemaque," and have read one, or two of Racines plays, which I like very much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Southey : Thalaba the Destroyer
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'every one here declares against [Southey] allowing him very few beauties [...] for my part he is one of my favorite poets [...] Bum [aunt] is the only person who agreed with me, indeed she only read "Thalaba," but she thought it both beautiful, and descriptive'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Graham-Clarke      Print: Book

: Latin grammar
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as far in the Grammar as "Propriae quae maribus"; I do not like it at all, I think it twice as difficult as French'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Latin Bible
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as far in the Grammar as "Propriae quae maribus"; I do not like it at all, I think it twice as difficult as French [...] Poor Bro [brother] I believe, has not much more taste for it than I have, but he is now so far advanced in it, as to translate the Latin Bible'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Manoeuvring
Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'My very dear Mama / Excuse me, I do not at all like Manoeuvring, it is not to my taste. I recognize that it is still Miss Edgeworth, but it is no longer the author of Patronage in reality [...] I agree that Mr. Palmer is a charming character [...] except that one the novels you choose for me always give me pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage
Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that she is not entirely made to be a heroine [...] she has too much sense of mind. 'The few novels I have read confirm this thought -- for example, [in] Rob Roy -- the lofty and noble soul of Diana Vernon strikes us with admiration [...] she forgets womanly duties in the personality of a man; she is a heroine, Caroline is not [...] [when] she chooses to fill the character she sustains [with] grief for her parents [...] it pleased me greatly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy
Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that she is not entirely made to be a heroine [...] she has too much sense of mind. 'The few novels I have read confirm this thought -- for example, [in] Rob Roy -- the lofty and noble soul of Diana Vernon strikes us with admiration [...] she forgets womanly duties in the personality of a man; she is a heroine, Caroline is not [...] [when] she chooses to fill the character she sustains [with] grief for her parents [...] it pleased me greatly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Works including The Corsair
Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817: 'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair &c how foolish I have been not to read them before they did not entertain me much as I have perused the extracts and the reviews on them [...] I think many of the passages exquisitely beautiful the parting of Conrad and Medora & the intercessory between the hero and Gulnare are in my humble opinion two of the MOST beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Reviews of the Corsair
Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817: 'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair &c how foolish I have been not to read them before they did not entertain me much as I have perused the extracts and the reviews on them [...] I think many of the passages exquisitely beautiful the parting of Conrad and Medora & the intercessory between the hero and Gulnare are in my humble opinion two of the MOST beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Frances Sitwell : letter
?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such an ordeal as that to which you propose to subject yourself. Be wise, for all people?s sakes; and if there be real fear, as I imagine, for your precious life, rather front the ugliest alternative.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Frederick Sylvester North Douglas : An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Bigland : An Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Marquise de Sevigne : Letters
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : "Simple Susan"
Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819: 'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim and contradiction I have just read them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

anon : Whim and Contradiction: A Tale
Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819: 'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim and contradiction I have just read them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Greek epitaph
Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822: 'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was shown your Greek epitaph, in the first place he says Anacreontic measure is not proper for an epitaph, it ought to be Hexameters or Pentameters, in the second place you must send down the translation of it, as he cannot make out your meaning. He also saw your lines which were sent to Colburns [i.e to Henry Colburn, founder of the New Monthly Magazine] and thinks them quite beautiful but it is not adapted to the public, as it is not so interesting to them not knowing the circumstances which attended it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel McSwiney      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Barrett : verses
Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822: 'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was shown your Greek epitaph, in the first place he says Anacreontic measure is not proper for an epitaph, it ought to be Hexameters or Pentameters, in the second place you must send down the translation of it, as he cannot make out your meaning. He also saw your lines which were sent to Colburns [i.e to Henry Colburn, founder of the New Monthly Magazine] and thinks them quite beautiful but it is not adapted to the public, as it is not so interesting to them not knowing the circumstances which attended it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel McSwiney      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Barrett : Leila
Thomas Campbell to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 August 1822, in response to her having asked his opinion of her narrative poem Leila: 'the poem is open to many objections -- It bespeaks an amiable heart and an elegant mind -- but it is the work of an inexperienced imagination & though the versification & expression are such as should make me very loth to exhort you to give up poetical composition Yet I should decieve you if I anticipated the story and main effect of the poem being likely to be popularly admired -- I have marked one or two passages to which I particularly object -- I object in general to its lyric intermixtures -- The are the most difficult of all gems to set in a Narrative poem & should always be of the first water.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell      Manuscript: Unknown

Cicero : unknown
Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823: 'We are now doing Cicero in the evening instead of doing Homer both morning and evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at Charterhouse     Print: Book

Homer : unknown
Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823: 'We are now doing Cicero in the evening instead of doing Homer both morning and evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at Charterhouse     Print: Book

Ovid : unknown
Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 26 April 1823: 'Russel works us most properly now in Grammar, and Ovid which we are to be examined in'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Russell (master), Thomas Moulton-Barrett, and other boys at Charterhouse     Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Lines on the Death of Lord Byron
Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter, Elizabeth Barrett, on the publication of the latter's 'Lines on the death of Lord Byron', 5 July 1824: 'In the Globe & Traveller of 30th June appears Lines on the death of Ld Byron, which we beg to recommend as worthy your notice. As Papa took up the paper in the Dining Room a glance satisfied me whence they came, but I said nothing until he came into the Drawing Room, when taking the paper, with a becoming carelessness of air, I asked him what he thought of those lines [...] ["]They cannot be Ba's" said he, taking the paper from me to read them again, ["]tho' certainly when I first read them, they reminded me greatly of her style -- have you any idea they are hers?["] "I have a [italics]conviction[end italics] of it," said the conceited Mother [...] suffice it to say, my beloved child, that Papa is quite delighted with these feeling & beautiful lines, & thinks them superior to any you ever wrote'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett     Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Review of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825) (including extracts from poem)
Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825: 'Have you met with Southey's new Poem "The Tale of Paraguay["]? The extracts I have seen delight me maugre the reviewing commentary which speaks I think much too harshly and partially.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : Roman Law
?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of writing, for which I am not in the vein.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind with Other Poems
Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published volume of poetry the previous evening, 28 February 1826: 'vain the temptations of our "rich repast," till I had peeped into those pieces which had not yet delighted our eyes -- nor did Papa, taste any thing, till he had found the paper cutter, so that between every two or three mouthfuls, we had "Riga's" dying strain, or a "dream," or something which made us feel too much to do the usual justice to Mrs Treherns cookery'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett     Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : 'fugitive pieces'
Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published volume of poetry the previous evening, 28 February 1826: 'Arabel, who had read the fugitive pieces and some of the Essay to the listening circle [in drawing room], told me she thought the former beautiful, but that she did not understand a word of the former [sic] [...] & Henry who was indulging in turning "[italics]clean[end italics]" over head & heels, after his intellectual treat, declared he thought "every word of it, was very nice indeed."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind
Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published volume of poetry the previous evening, 28 February 1826: 'Arabel, who had read the fugitive pieces and some of the Essay to the listening circle [in drawing room], told me she thought the former beautiful, but that she did not understand a word of the former [sic] [...] & Henry who was indulging in turning "[italics]clean[end italics]" over head & heels, after his intellectual treat, declared he thought "every word of it, was very nice indeed."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind with Other Poems
Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published volume of poetry the previous evening, 28 February 1826: 'Arabel, who had read the fugitive pieces and some of the Essay to the listening circle [in drawing room], told me she thought the former beautiful, but that she did not understand a word of the former [sic] [...] & Henry who was indulging in turning "[italics]clean[end italics]" over head & heels, after his intellectual treat, declared he thought "every word of it, was very nice indeed." After these learned critics had betaken themselves to bed, Papa & I, each with a precious little vol: in our hands, drew close to the fire, and conned over every word [goes on to discuss reponses to individual pieces in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett     Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind with Other Poems
John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from Barrett), 12 July 1826: 'I had scarcely quitted you, when I thought that I had been very injudicious, to say the least, to beg your book -- Probably enough, you may not have another in the house. [...] 'Your work has not afforded solitary pleasure -- Mrs Kenyon [wife] has shared it with me, and Mr Philipps is making himself acquainted with it. 'For myself, claiming a cousin-ship in some degree or other, I have read it with pride as well as pleasure [goes on to discuss various pieces and passages further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Kenyon      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind with Other Poems
John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from Barrett), 12 July 1826: 'I had scarcely quitted you, when I thought that I had been very injudicious, to say the least, to beg your book -- Probably enough, you may not have another in the house. [...] 'Your work has not afforded solitary pleasure -- Mrs Kenyon [wife] has shared it with me, and Mr Philipps is making himself acquainted with it. 'For myself, claiming a cousin-ship in some degree or other, I have read it with pride as well as pleasure [goes on to discuss various pieces and passages further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Philipps      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind with Other Poems
John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from Barrett), 12 July 1826: 'I had scarcely quitted you, when I thought that I had been very injudicious, to say the least, to beg your book -- Probably enough, you may not have another in the house. [...] 'Your work has not afforded solitary pleasure -- Mrs Kenyon [wife] has shared it with me, and Mr Philipps is making himself acquainted with it. 'For myself, claiming a cousin-ship in some degree or other, I have read it with pride as well as pleasure [goes on to discuss various pieces and passages further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Kenyon      Print: Book

Uvedale Price : An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826: 'Mr Price's desire that I should have read these sheets [proofs of Price's Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages] with the design of remarking on them I have obeyed with much deference to him [...] I have read them with deep interest & attention [goes on to discuss and dispute text in great depth and detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Barrett : comments on Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages
Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 November 1826, in response to her written comments on his Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages: 'I have read your paper with more attention than I could give it in a hasty reading [goes on to engage with particular points raised by Barrett in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Uvedale Price      Manuscript: Letter

Uvedale Price : dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek
Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'When Luxmoore was with us, a little before he called at Hopend [sic; for Hope End, Barrett's family home], I shewed him what I had just been writing on the Charter-house mode of pronouncing [classical Greek], chiefly that of their passing over the vowel to the consonant in iambi & pyrrhics but continuing to accent them, as we do, on the first syllable: He read it with more interest than he is apt to do on such subjects, & wished me to go on with it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: [probably] Charles Scott Luxmoore      Manuscript: Unknown

George Robert Gleig : The Subaltern
Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'I will ask you [...] whether you have ever read the Subaltern? It is said, by military men to be a very exact as well as lively account of the D. of Wellington's campaign in the Pyrenees [...] a great part of it is interesting even to so unmilitary a man as myself [...] the whole account of the attack & capture of St Sebastian at the beginning of the work, is most striking in all its circumstances and & all its detail [goes on to make detailed commentary, focusing especially upon description of thunderstorm in chapter 3]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Uvedale Price      Print: Book

Uvedale Price : dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his MS dissertation on Charterhouse pronunciation of classical Greek: 'my brother [a Charterhouse pupil] & I were much gratfified by reading your m.s. before we dispatched it [to John Russell]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett and Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett     Manuscript: Unknown

Petronius : Satyricon
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Chamberlayne : Pharonnida, an Heroic Poem
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Beattie : The Minstrel
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Chatterton : An Excelente Balade of Charitie
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : "On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song"
?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article

Lucan : Pharsalia
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review
'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Remorse: a tragedy in five acts
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Alchemist, The
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Lucan : Pharsalia
'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy and Mary Shelley     Print: Book

Ben Jonson : New Inn, The
'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Poetaster, The
'Write - Read the Poetaster'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Wife for a Month, The
'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Philaster, or Love Lies Bleeding
'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]
'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam, The
'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Cenci, The
'Copy S's Tragedy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]
'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : [unknown]
'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] - The Greek Tragedians & Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]
'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : [unknown]
'S. reads Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Bocaccio [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Charles Clairmont     Print: Book

Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Sad Shepherd, The
'Read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - & Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening - read 24th Canto of Dante with him'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Sad Shepherd, The
'read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - Dante with me - & finishes the Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[Francesco] Petrarch [Petrarco] : Il trionfo della Morte
'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : [unknown]
'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley, Charles Clairmont and Mrs Gisborne     Print: Book

John Fletcher : Chances, The
'Read the Chances'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lucan : Pharsalia
'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Herbert Spencer : unknown
'I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of language. All that he says, curiously enough, my mother left out when she read Macbeth to me ... I remember the day my mother read Macbeth to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Stevenson      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : "The Development of Genius"
'In 1826 and early 1827, E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] struggled with a long poem, "The Development of Genius" [...] She showed it to her father in early February 1827 and he ridiculed it [...] but [Uvedale] Price encouraged her. However, it was not published in her lifetime.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

: prayers
Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 October 1821: 'I read her [invalid Elizabeth Barrett's] prayers to her today in the bible, & she has altogether been very comfortable'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 11 April 1826: 'Mrs. Campbell & her lovely children quite well. They all have the poem. Mrs. D[effell] says it has been her amusement & study & however incapable she may be of judging of a literary work, nature & the feelings of the heart she can appreciate as well as the learned, therefore she is delighted with the Essay [on Mind], tho' the subject be dry and deep -- "it exhibits in its pages the purity, the piety of the Author's mind. Extensive reading & the power of carefully separating, as she proceeds in the study of dangerous writers, the tares from the wheat, it seems to me a wonderful production." [quotation apparently from letter by Mrs Deffell]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Deffell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16 May 1826: 'Emily lent the Essay on Mind to John Cumberlidge who read it attentively and returned it, marked in [italics]several[end italics] places, but only [italics]once[end italics] in disapprobation. At the corner of what page this "[italics]Qu[end italics]" is placed I dare not tell'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cumberlidge      Print: Book

Philip Massinger : [unknown]
'read Massinger'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Philip Massinger : [unknown]
'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : [probably] History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems
John Ramsay to James Graham-Clarke, 14 October 1826: 'Some time ago I sent a Copy of the little work of your highly-gifted, elegant-minded Niece [Elizabeth Barrett] to a literary character in Edinburgh well known to [Francis] Jeffrey. I did not hear from him till yesterday [...] I shall transcribe parts of his letter to me. '"I perused with much pleasure the Essay on Mind &ca. The whole I consider an excellent production when the age of the Author [20] is taken into account. But I have hesitated to present the book to the Edinr Reviewers [...] The subject "Mind" is greatly too extensive, and instead if being exhausted the different departments of the subject are scarcely noticed [goes on to discuss in great, critical detail]"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : [unknown]
'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Horace : Odes
'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Fletcher : Night Walker or, the Little Thief
'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Homer :
'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
'S reads Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Mateo Aleman : Guzman de Alfarache
'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mateo Aleman : Guzman de Alfarache
'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Richard Johnson : The Famous Historie of the Seven Champions of Christendom
'At four and a half my great delight was poring over fairy phenomenons and the actions of necromancers -- & the seven champions of Christendom in "Popular tales" has beguiled many a weary hour.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Horace : Odes
'Finish the 1st book of Horace's Odes'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Baruch Spinoza : [unknown]
'S. visits the galleries - writes - reads Spinosa - Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Peter Bell: a tale in verse
'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Friedich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte Fouque : Undine, eine Erzahlung
'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

unknown : 'History of England and Rome'
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

unknown : 'History of Greece'
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Beattie : The Minstrel
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies! -- I was enchanted with all these but I think the story interested me more that [sic] the poetry till "The Minstrel" met my sight [...] The brilliant imagery[,] the fine metaphors and the flowing numbers of "the Minstrel" truly astonished me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Peter Bell the Third
'Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Homer : The Iliad
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost (extracts)
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello
'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Antoine Hamilton : M?moirs de la vie du comte de Grammont contenant particulierement histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous la r?gne de Charles II
'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of the Revolution - & Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Stael : Considerations sur les principaux evenemens de la Revolution francaise
'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of the Revolution - & Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : Lettres
'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Fletcher : Love's Pilgrimage
'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : Lettres
'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Gospel of St Luke
'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament
'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La devocion de la Cruz
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : El Purgatorio de San Patricio
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : unknown
'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was in infinite danger of being as vain as I was inexperienced! During this dangerous period I was from home & the fever of a heated imagination was perhaps increased by the intoxicating gai[e]ties of a watering place Ramsgate where we then were and where I commenced my poem "The Battle of Marathon" [...] When we came home one day after having written a page of poetry which I considered models of beauty I ran downstairs to the library to seek Popes Homer in order to compare them that I might enjoy my OWN SUPERIORITY [...] I brought Homer up in triumph & read first my own Poem & afterwards began to compare -- I read fifty lines from the glorious Father of the lyre -- It was enough -- I felt the whole extent of my own immense & mortifying inferiority -- 'My first impulse was to throw with mingled feelings of contempt & anguish my composition on the floor -- my next to burst into tears! & I wept for an hour and then returned to reason and humility [...] From this period for a twelvemonth I could find no pleasure in any book but Homer. I read & longed to read again and tho I had it nearly by heart I still found new beauties & fresh enchantments'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : Los cabellos de Absalon
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : unknown
'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was in infinite danger of being as vain as I was inexperienced! During this dangerous period I was from home & the fever of a heated imagination was perhaps increased by the intoxicating gai[e]ties of a watering place Ramsgate where we then were and where I commenced my poem "The Battle of Marathon" [...] When we came home one day after having written a page of poetry which I considered models of beauty I ran downstairs to the library to seek Popes Homer in order to compare them that I might enjoy my OWN SUPERIORITY [...] I brought Homer up in triumph & read first my own Poem & afterwards began to compare -- I read fifty lines from the glorious Father of the lyre -- It was enough -- I felt the whole extent of my own immense & mortifying inferiority -- 'My first impulse was to throw with mingled feelings of contempt & anguish my composition on the floor -- my next to burst into tears! & I wept for an hour and then returned to reason and humility [...] From this period for a twelvemonth I could find no pleasure in any book but Homer. I read & longed to read again and tho I had it nearly by heart I still found new beauties & fresh enchantments'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La cisma de Ingilterra
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : El principe constante
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : Cypriano
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : El magico prodigioso
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : The Battle of Marathon
'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was in infinite danger of being as vain as I was inexperienced! During this dangerous period I was from home & the fever of a heated imagination was perhaps increased by the intoxicating gai[e]ties of a watering place Ramsgate where we then were and where I commenced my poem "The Battle of Marathon" [...] When we came home one day after having written a page of poetry which I considered models of beauty I ran downstairs to the library to seek Popes Homer in order to compare them that I might enjoy my OWN SUPERIORITY [...] I brought Homer up in triumph & read first my own Poem & afterwards began to compare -- I read fifty lines from the glorious Father of the lyre -- It was enough -- I felt the whole extent of my own immense & mortifying inferiority -- 'My first impulse was to throw with mingled feelings of contempt & anguish my composition on the floor -- my next to burst into tears! & I wept for an hour and then returned to reason and humility [...] From this period for a twelvemonth I could find no pleasure in any book but Homer. I read & longed to read again and tho I had it nearly by heart I still found new beauties & fresh enchantments'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : Los dos amantes del cielo
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tragedians Homers Iliad and Odyssey Plato's Republic Several of Plutarch's lives The Memorabilia of Xenophon Madame de Stael sur la Revolution Francaise Calderon - Several of the tragedies and Auto's'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Locke : unknown
'At twelve I enjoyed a literary life in all its pleasures. Metaphysics were my highest delights and after having read a page from Locke my mind not only felt edified but exalted.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'M&S Histoires des Republics Italiennes par Sismondi Forsyth's tour Boccacio Dante's Paradiso and Purgatorio Several plays of Shakespeare - Beaumont and Fletcher &c. Ben Jonson Voyages d'Antenor Massinger 4 vols of Clarendon Paradise Lost Remorse - Undine - Novels &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] '2 Vols of Montaigne Forsyths tour Romans de la Chevalerie Vision de Quivedo Clarissa Harlowe The Spectator The Bible as far as the Psalms in latin Twenty books of Livy - making thirty with the ten of last year Lucan's Pharsalia 3 books of Horace Gussman d'Afarache Memoires du Compte de Grammont Lettres de Madme Sevigne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes
'In my sixth year [...] Nothing could contribute so much to my amusement as a novel. A novel at six years may appear ridiculous, but it was a real desire that I felt, -- not to instruct myself, I felt no such wish, but to divert myself and to afford more scope to my nightly meditations ... and it is worthy to remark that in a novel I carefully past over all passages which described CHILDREN -- 'The Fops love and pursuit of the heroines mother in "Temper" delighted me, but the description of the infancy of Emma was past over'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Milton : unknown
'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic] not to indulge my fancy and I studied the works of those critics whose attention was directed to my favorite authors.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown
'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic] not to indulge my fancy and I studied the works of those critics whose attention was directed to my favorite authors.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Homer : unknown
'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic] not to indulge my fancy and I studied the works of those critics whose attention was directed to my favorite authors.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Homer : unknown
'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Virgil : unknown
'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hooker : unknown
'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Cicero : unknown
'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's are more solid & more profound -- mine are more refined & dazzling [...] He delights in the sober reasoning of the Historian! He feels greater interest in the noble Sallust while I have remained entranced over a page of the divine & animated Cicero!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Eliot : Middlemarch
'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Adventures of Philip
'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upstairs and read Phillip till lunchtime (you see I adhere to my own views as to how Philip should be spelt).'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Anley : Miriam; Or, the Power of Truth
Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827: 'As we were going down the stairs yesterday Lady M. said to me -- "I am reading a little book now called "Miriam"-- if you should happen to meet with it you will find in its early part, one page which puts me strongly in mind of you -- of your character -- but you shall not see it [italics]here[end italics]." I did not know what to say, but felt very uncomfortable & looked very foolish -- promising myself to lay hold of "Miriam" & of Lady Margaret's opinion respecting me, at the first opportunity.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Margaret Maria Cocks      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Harry and Lucy
Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827: 'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor Castle on 23 February] [...] I was sitting alone in the morning room reading Harry & Lucy I was startled by the wheels of a carriage, turned round! who should it be but Lady Knowles, of course I ran away, this was about half past four, what a time to pay a morning visit!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'A Day of Pleasure at Malvern'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Hugh Stuart Boyd : A Malvern Tale
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Prologue and Epilogue to poems of St Gregory
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'Elegy'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Translation from Sophocles' Electra
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Uvedale Price and James Commeline : correspondence on pronunciation of classical languages
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [...] I thought it odd that an article of the Edinburgh Review should be referred to, on a philological subject; &, on looking into the one which Mr Commeline calls the "Manual of his heresy", I was surprised to find us accused there of ["]subverting the true metrical structure of Latin hexameters, even according to the accentual system" by [italics]not[end italics] laying our accent on the [italics]long[end italics] syllable, & by laying it on the short ones. The Reviewer seems confused in his speculations'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

unknown : Review of William Mitford, An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language...
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [...] I thought it odd that an article of the Edinburgh Review should be referred to, on a philological subject; &, on looking into the one which Mr Commeline calls the "Manual of his heresy", I was surprised to find us accused there of ["]subverting the true metrical structure of Latin hexameters, even according to the accentual system" by [italics]not[end italics] laying our accent on the [italics]long[end italics] syllable, & by laying it on the short ones. The Reviewer seems confused in his speculations'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Reflections on the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, September 1827: 'I am [...] obliged to you for sending me your work on the Atonement [...] I have read your book with sincere respect both for your ability as a disputant & your elevated feelings as a Christian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : (probably) "The Development of Genius"
Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, c.October 1827: 'As Lady Margaret wished to see a part of my poem, I read her a few sheets, & when I had done she begged they might remain with her till I left Eastnor [...] 'She said the work shewed "great mind & thought [italics]always[end italics], -- & poetical power [italics]frequently[end italics]:" observing in criticism that I was "too metaphysical now & then."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Sheet

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom, St Gregory Nazianzen, and St Basil
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 November 1827: 'You have extremely obliged me by lending me your Select Translations, -- passages from which, I have repeatedly read with increasing delight & admiration: particularly the Oration on Eutropius, which is a picture in motion , -- & that [italics]Homeric[end italics] description of a battle, contained in your extract from the 6th book of St Chrysostom "On the Priesthood".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Uvedale Price : An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages
James Commeline to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 December 1827: 'Together with Mr Price's book, allow me to return you my best thanks for the perusal of it. Though written [...] with great elegance & felicity of composition, it really strikes me as a remarkable specimen of that order of architecture [...] of which all the parts are perfect in their kind, except the foundation [goes on to criticise work in detail].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Rev. James Commeline Jr      Print: Book

Lucan : Pharsalia
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 December 1827: 'I [italics]have[end italics] read the Pharsalia; & am very glad that you do not join in the classical [italics]growl[end italics] against it, given vent to, by most critics [...] Lucan is an ardent poet: the lightning of his spirit [...] has a real stormy grandeur which can only proceed from genius.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Uvedale Price : An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages
Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 December 1827: 'It gave me great pleasure to hear that you think so favorably of my Essay now that you have read the whole of it, & that what you [italics]had[end italics] read in MS., has gained by being in print.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Hebrew scriptures
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1828: 'I know very little Hebrew, & have indeed only read a few chapters in the original scriptures.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Aeschlylus : Prometheus Bound
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 March 1828: I have reconsidered Io [...] I quite agree with you in admiring the night visions, the geographical descriptions, & several other passages full of animation & power. I can do this with perfect truth, as I read the scene in an unconnected state'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

anon : Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end italics] [...] The flat contradiction between the Eclectic Review & Literary Gazette, with respect to [italics]Akenside[end italics], will amuse you [...] I was put out of humour for at least ten minutes, by the charge of my having imitated Darwin. I never could [italics]bear[end italics] Darwin! I have tried his Botanic Garden four or five times, & never could get thro' above twenty pages!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end italics] [...] The flat contradiction between the Eclectic Review & Literary Gazette, with respect to [italics]Akenside[end italics], will amuse you [...] I was put out of humour for at least ten minutes, by the charge of my having imitated Darwin. I never could [italics]bear[end italics] Darwin! I have tried his Botanic Garden four or five times, & never could get thro' above twenty pages!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Erasmus Darwin : The Botanic Garden, a Poem
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end italics] [...] The flat contradiction between the Eclectic Review & Literary Gazette, with respect to [italics]Akenside[end italics], will amuse you [...] I was put out of humour for at least ten minutes, by the charge of my having imitated Darwin. I never could [italics]bear[end italics] Darwin! I have tried his Botanic Garden four or five times, & never could get thro' above twenty pages!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

St Chrysostom : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading several parts of your translation, exactly as you desired me to do -- slowly, & out loud: and I have admired the particular cadences & the general rhythm, all the way.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

St Chrysostom : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading several parts of your translation, exactly as you desired me to do -- slowly, & out loud: and I have admired the particular cadences & the general rhythm, all the way.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

anon : 'Review'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1-3 May 1828: 'Saturday, eight o' clock. Our dinner hour was rather later than usual today [...] we have only just left the table. I find your parcel waiting for me in my room, & hear that your messenger is in eminent [sic] danger of being benighted. Therefore my quick way of reading, which you are so severe upon, has done me some service, in looking over the magazine & your letter [...] The Review is a very satisfactory one to [italics]my[end italics] vanity'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Sophocles : [unknown]
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Gospel of St Matthew
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
'S. reads D.[on] Juan aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
'Read Don Juan'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Mazeppa
'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Baruch Spinoza : Tractatus Theologico-politicus
'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read the Bible'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Tempest, The
'Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Tempest, The
'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Proverbs
'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Sophocles : Hercules
'S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - he reads the Hercules of Sophocles aloud to me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part I
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King John
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ecclesiastes
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Song of Solomon
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Baruch Spinoza : Tractatus Theologico-politicus
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Johannes von Muller : Allgemeine Geschichte
'S. reads the bible - and Muller's universal History'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Reisen vor der Sundfluth
'Read Travels before the flood'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Reisen vor der Sundfluth
'Finish Travels before the flood'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

various : [pamphlets on Irish politics]
'Read Pamphlets.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
'Begin Julie'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Isaiah
'read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits
'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Isaiah
'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Jeremiah
'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Bartolome de las Casas : Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias
'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Aeschylus : [unknown]
'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Athenaeus : Deipnosophistai
'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Bartolome Las Casas : Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias
'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : Jeremiah
'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits
'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Bartolomeo de las Casas : Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias
'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]
'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV
'S. reads Henry IV aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra : Historia de la conquista de Mejico
'Read Livy & F of the Bees. S. reads Solis' History of Mexico'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra : Historia de la conquista de Mejico
'Read Livy. F. of the Bees - Copy S's poems. S reads the Hist. of Mexico - & Henry IV aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits
'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Catiline his Conspiracy
'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Common Sense
'Read Common Sense'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Letter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs of North America
'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology
'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology
'Read Age of Reason'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V
'S. reads Henry V'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry VI
'S. reads Henry VI aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry VI
'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas More : Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes : [unknown]
'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ezekiel
'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes : Humane Nature
'S. reads Hobbes'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Tobit
'S. reads Tobit aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas More : Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
'Finish the Utopia'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology
'Finish the Age of Reason'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Sejanus, his Fall
'S. reads the Fall of Sejanus aloud. reads Hobbes. On Man.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man, The
'Read Rights of Man'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Cataline, his Conspiracy
'S reads Hobbes - Catalines plot aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Uvedale Price : Essay on the Picturesque
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28-29 May 1828: "If you have not read the Essay on the Picturesque, will you let me send it to you [...] It is one of the books which I read for the sake of its style, without feeling an interest in its subject'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens : Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens : Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Lady Mary Shepherd : Essays on the Perception of an External Universe
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828: 'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]written[end italics] but warm thanks, for the valuable present, left for me by your Ladyship -- I have read several parts of the Essays with a [italics]curious[end italics] pleasure -- several with an entire mental satisfaction: and I have everywhere admired the originality, brilliancy, & power, which, -- whether your Ladyship's positions be questionable or the contrary, -- undeniably distinguish your mode of supporting them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid [?]
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : [unknown]
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire
'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire
'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Henrietta Muschett : poem
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 July 1828: 'I will [italics]not[end italics] keep Miss Muschett's poem, -- notwithstanding your kind permission [...] My general impression of the poem is this, -- that it is very elegantly & feelingly & pleasingly written; but it is deficient in harmony, and the ideas seem to me to be diluted by a [italics]wordiness[end italics] in the expression [...] I like the 20th and 21st stanzas best.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'elegy'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828: 'It is late for me to be writing, -- but I have this moment received your elegy, -- & I do not wish our servant to go tomorrow [...] without taking a few lines from me on the subject [...] for its has [italics]particularly pleased me[end italics] [goes on to discuss in detail]'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

E.H. Barker : Parriana; or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr, collected by E. H. Barker
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828: 'I have not gone [italics]thro'[end italics] the Parriana yet. I have been extremely amused by your most [italics]characteristic[end italics] letters, published by Mr Barker.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

E. H. Barker : The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K.B., to the Authorship of Junius's Letters, Disproved
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 6 August 1828: 'I have finished the Parriana -- but not the work on Junius.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Thoughts on an Illustrious Exile
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 26-27 September 1828: 'On opening your book to look for Joan of Arc, I came upon your translation of the beautiful episode in the Georgics [i.e. "The Death of Orpheus and Eurydice"] [...] Did I not once tell you how much I admired this translation? I believe I did -- but I must say it over again.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

E.H. Barker (ed.) : Cicero's Catilinian Orations
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 February 1829, thanking him for forwarding parcel containing E. H. Barker's edition of Cicero's Catilinian Orations: 'I was much interested by the extracts from Schottus's dissertation. I was surprised that Tacitus's treatise should be printed without notes [...] I was also surprised [...] to find Mr Barker's notes in English, while the notes of Ernesti & Ernestus are left in Latin. Surely some uniformity should have been preserved: either the Latin notes should have been rendered into English, or the English notes into Latin. These remarks are for [italics]you[end italics]. You need not take the trouble of repeating, to Mr Barker, anything more than my thanks.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Heliodorus : Aethiopica
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I return Heliodorus, -- & [italics]keep[end italics] many pleasant recollections of him. The lamentation of Chariclia on the death of Calasiris, at page 171. book 7., appears to me the most [italics]eloquent[end italics] passage in the work [goes on to cite and discuss other passages]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : notes to the Agamemnon
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end italics]: first, from your notes to the Agamemnon, & Select passages; & secondly, & more fully & clearly, from your essays in Dr Clarkes commentary.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'Essay on the Greek Article'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end italics]: first, from your notes to the Agamemnon, & Select passages; & secondly, & more fully & clearly, from your essays in Dr Clarkes commentary.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : essays
Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829: 'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir Uvedale [Price]. Some time ago I read Stewart's Essays; & I flattered myself, till this moment, that I recollected his arguments clearly enough, to be able to write upon them to you. But upon opening the book & turning over the pages, I find more pages [...] on the subject, than I recollected or reckoned upon: and this letter must not be kept till I can read & think them all over.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : essays
Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829: 'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir Uvedale [Price]. Some time ago I read Stewart's Essays; & I flattered myself, till this moment, that I recollected his arguments clearly enough, to be able to write upon them to you. But upon opening the book & turning over the pages, I find more pages [...] on the subject, than I recollected or reckoned upon: and this letter must not be kept till I can read & think them all over.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Gregory Nazianzen : In laudem virginitatis
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829: 'I have actually & absolutely finished the seven hundred & thirty one lines of Gregory Nazianzen's poem In laudem virginitatis. It will be impossible for me to forget the exact number, as long as I live! I began the poem with the very best intentions of being pleased & interested. At the end of two hundred lines, my Patience became restless & uncomfortable, but took courage & toiled on; & then grew feverish & spasmodically affected, -- & finally sank under accumulations of dulness & dryness & heaviness & tediousness & lengthiness, between the 400th & 500th lines [goes on to discuss piece critically and in detail].]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829: 'I had a very obliging letter from Mr Barker yesterday, to tell me that he had lent my poems to the Bishop of Limerick who was indulgent in his opinion of them, & intended to send me his sermons.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Jebb      Print: Unknown

John Jebb : Sermons on Subjects Chiefly Practical
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 25 May 1829: 'I have received the Bishop of Limerick's book, & thank you for sending it [...] I read one Sermon last night, & thought it very well & classically written.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece (introduction)
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1829: 'I meant to have taken with me today the following extract from the learned Abbe Barthelemi's introduction to his "Voyage of Anarcharsis". It consists of his opposition to a few of the charges generally & principally brought against Homer [including lack of dignity in presentation of noble characters] -- & pleased me very much when I read it for the first time a few days ago [goes on to transcribe passage in own English translation].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

St Basil : Oration on Barlaam
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

St Basil : Oration on Gordius
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

St Basil : Treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

St Basil : Homily 'De Fide'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'treatise on Geology'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829: 'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I will say nothing about the science of it, for fear you should laugh at me, in which case I should not have even the satisfaction of complaining of your injustice. I assure you I have read it quite thro', & more than once [goes on to cite specific passages].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

St Chrysostom : 'In Eutropium Eunuchum, Patrium et Consulem'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the Oration on Eutropius [italics]is[end italics]; I have read it twice, -- & I have besides, been reading a little of Longinus's treatise every day, of which I had previously read only own or two chapters [...] the brilliancy of his imaginative powers dazzles you so much, as almost to prevent your perceiving the roughness & cragginess [...] As to the Oration on Eutropius, it has of course delighted me extremely [...] But it has [...] weakness occasioned not merely by [italics]repetition[end italics], but by a super-abundance of supererogatory epithets.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Longinus : De Sublimitate
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the Oration on Eutropius [italics]is[end italics]; I have read it twice, -- & I have besides, been reading a little of Longinus's treatise every day, of which I had previously read only own or two chapters [...] the brilliancy of his imaginative powers dazzles you so much, as almost to prevent your perceiving the roughness & cragginess [...] As to the Oration on Eutropius, it has of course delighted me extremely [...] But it has [...] weakness occasioned not merely by [italics]repetition[end italics], but by a super-abundance of supererogatory epithets.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

St Chrysostom : orations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthians
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829: 'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & the eighth one on the same subject [goes on briefly to cite specific passages].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Plato : Phaedon
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 December 1829: 'I have been reading over again Plato's Phaedon [...] The reasoning seems to me very inconsecutive & inconclusive [...] But the style is a veil of golden tissue, like that which over- hung the countenance of Moore's Veiled Prophet [in Lalla Rookh]: and let no-one upraise it! [...] Do you recollect the chapters on natural philosophy? How splendid they are!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Greek epitaph 'On the death of a favourite Tom Cat'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Monday 28 December 1829, thanking him for his epitaph on a cat, and following critical appraisal of it: 'You told me never to read anything of yours to anybody, because I read so badly. Notwithstanding this, I did transgress on Saturday by reading your [italics]feline[end italics] epitaph to Bro, because I thought it sounded better when read in [italics]our[end italics] way, than Carthusianly, as he would have read it. And as I read really very slowly (for [italics]me[end italics]!) & distinctly [...] you need not bewail yourself nor be severe upon me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

St Chrysostom : 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Book

St Chrysostom : 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Annotations to St Chrysostom, 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Longinus : De Sublimitate
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thro', which would have been incredible & impossible, if I had not known you. [goes on briefly to comment on texts].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Euripides : Rhesus
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thro', which would have been incredible & impossible, if I had not known you. [goes on briefly to comment on texts].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'Translate s[pinoza] - S reads the Aenied [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Locke : [unknown]
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet : Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet : Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Macchiavelli : La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca
'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened
'Read Life of Voltaire - & Evenings at home'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Wisdom of Solomon
'S. reads Wisdom of Solomon in the evening aloud. Reads Locke and Political Justice.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Patrick Brydone : Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford
'Finish Bridones travels - read Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Ovid : [unknown]
'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
'read Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Phaedrus
'S finishes Phaedrus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Bonduca
'S reads Fletcher's Tragedy of Bonduca aloud to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Bonduca
'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Phaedon : [unknown]
'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret
'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret
'S finishes the Trajedy to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Henry Reveley : Encyclopaedia
'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Day : History of Sandford and Merton; a work intended for the use of children
'Read Sandford & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : 'Virgil's Gnat'
'S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Read Vind. of the Right of Woman'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Day : History of Sandford and Merton: a work intended for the use of children
'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
'Read Boswell's life of Johnson'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Theocritus : [unknown]
'S. reads Theocritus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained
'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Memoirs of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'read Memoirs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Posthumous Works of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
'read Letters from Norway'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained
'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
'Finish Letters from No[r]way'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Mary: a fiction
'Read Livy - Mary - a fiction'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose)
'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt (ed.) : Indicator, The
'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose)
'Read the Bride of Lammermoor'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Read Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Finish Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield, The
'Read Vicar of Wakefield'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Caleb Williams, or Things as they are
'Read Caleb Williams'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Caleb Williams, or Things as they are
'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Euripides : [unknown]
'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A
'Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

Virgil : Aeneid
'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Niccolo Fortiguerra : Ricciardetto
'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Greek Romances
'S. reads the Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Greek Romances
'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Lucretius : [unknown]
'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Fortiguerra : Ricciardetto
'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Conyers Middleton : History of the Life of marcus Tullius Cicero
'Read Middletons Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Finish Livy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Cicero : [First Oration]
'First Oration of Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Cicero : [First Oration]
'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lucretius : [unknown]
'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

[n/a] : Greek Romances
'S. finish Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : 'Hymn to Mercury'
'S. finishes his translation of Homer's hymn to Mercury'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line
'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Cicero : [Second Oration]
'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line
'S. begins Hist of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

: Latin epigraph
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1830: 'As you like epigrams, & are not likely to have met with one which I met with yesterday in the Times newspaper, & thought ingenious, I will write it down. The subject is Mr [Martin Archer] Shee's election to the office of President, in the room of Sir Thomas Lawrence, -- a circumstance unexpected by any person, -- Mr Shee being better known by his "Rhymes on Art" than by his practice in art. '"Pictoribus atque poetis, Quidlibet audendi" -- 'Lo! Painting crowns her sister Poesy -- The world is all astonished! So is [italics]She[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

: report on change-ringing
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 February 1830: 'Here is a paragraph about Bells which I copy from the Times [transcribes passage reporting first ringing of 'Holt's complete peal of Grandsire triples' in country, by Ipswich senior society of change ringers] [...] 'Perhaps, after all, there may be nothing worth your reading in the paragraph; but as it contained mystic words, "change-ringers", "Grandsire triples" &c I thought I would run the chance of sending it to you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Jean Jacques Racine : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read them by myself; and if they disgusted me then, they are intolerable to me now. The French have no part or lot in poetry [goes on to complain of what she perceives to be excessive formality and orderliness of French neoclassical poetry]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett and younger Moulton-Barrett brothers     Print: Book

Jean Jacques Racine : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read them by myself; and if they disgusted me then, they are intolerable to me now. The French have no part or lot in poetry [goes on to complain of what she perceives to be excessive formality and orderliness of French neoclassical poetry]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: report of marriage of Emily Bayford and Charles George Butler
Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, c.1 October 1830: 'Papa read us out of the newspaper Emily Bayford's marriage, it took place on Tuesday [28 September]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett      Print: Newspaper

unknown : Life of Napoleon
Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830: 'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's sister] has done nothing but talk in the most nonsensical manner & laughing loud enough for anyone to hear her all over the house -- All this time I have been as studious as usual reading Napoleon's life but Alas! I found other obstacles there for when Arabel was quiet for an instant my eyes would close & in spite of the noise I have had two or three dreams in the last half hour'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Bentley : A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831: 'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future time -- -- i have read it [italics]once[end italics] thro', -- yet, as there are many things [italics]in[end italics] the book which I should like to read oftener than once, I do not feel quite satisfied, & would bespeak a second loan [...] It is certainly a wonderful work, -- & less wonderful in the extent & depth of its learning, than in the felicity & aptitude & vivacity of that learning's application.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life
Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831: 'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead of after tea, where I contrived to abstract myself out of a good deal of pain into Lord Byron's Life by Moore.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Sir William Blackstone : Commentaries on the Laws of England
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a Mr Hawkins an INFINITE Tory, entitled "Reform in Parliament, the ruin of Parliament"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Hawkins : 'Reform of Parliament the Ruin of Parliament'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a Mr Hawkins an INFINITE Tory, entitled "Reform in Parliament, the ruin of Parliament"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

: 'Letter to the Lords' (article concerning Reform Bill)
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 15 November 1831: 'I have been reading an article in the Quarterly Review this morning [italics]about[end italics] the administration, where of course bill the second, is prophetically considered as dead & buried, & Lord Grey turned out. Nothing beats the insolence of the writer except his own folly!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Irving : preface
Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827: 'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irving's new book; I have not yet been able to read it thro'. as there are so many here who have a prior claim to the first perusal; but Mama has read aloud to me some of the most striking passages in the preface, which have quite delighted me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Sir Humphrey Davy : Consolation in Travail
Arabella Graham-Clarke to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 Deecmber 1830: 'Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] read the last work of Sir Humphrey Davey "Consolation in travail" It is philosophical and I think would amuse her'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Erskine : The Garb of Old Gaul
'Then there is Mr Brand's lantern and his Highland cloak; and the tale of how he, John Brand, right royally attired in the garb of old Gaul, presented a nosegay of roses to the Queen of the Netherlands.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers Chapter 34
'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double magnifying microscopes' (or whatever it was that dear Sam Weller said) ...
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Elizabeth (Susan) Wetherell (Warner) : Queechy
'I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Misses Jaffray      Print: Book

Homer : Carmina Homerica
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832: 'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting the number of lines he has thought proper to leave out of his Homer. If I make no mistake, about 2500 lines are left out of his Iliad, and 1926, out of his Odyssey. Is not this atrox [horrible]?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Genesis
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or something of the grammar before, I have not been fagging hard -- or indeed [italics]at all[end italics] -- for Papa would not let me do so. Instead of fagging, I have read Corinne for the third time, & admired it more than ever. It is an immortal book, & deserves to be read three score & ten times.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : Corinne, ou L'Italie
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or something of the grammar before, I have not been fagging hard -- or indeed [italics]at all[end italics] -- for Papa would not let me do so. Instead of fagging, I have read Corinne for the third time, & admired it more than ever. It is an immortal book, & deserves to be read three score & ten times.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Genesis
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Hebrew lexicon
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: sequel to I Promessi Sposi
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'Poor Sir Walter Scott! You have heard that he is dying [...] The other night Papa read a passage from the Lady of the Lake to me; and I did not like to hear it. It sounded like something unnatural -- as if you were looking at a broken instrument, & hearing its sweetest music at the same time. [...] You know I am not an admirer of Sir Walter's poetry.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett sr      Print: Book

Frances Anne Kemble : Francis the First, an Historical Drama
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'I have read Miss Fanny Kemble's tragedy [...] It seems to me to be a very clever & indeed surprising production as from the pen of a young person; but I think that from any other pen, it would not find readers. The dialogue is sometime very spirited & ably done; but the poetry is seldom good as poetry'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. I have been looking over it, and do not think his additions & notes of much value. But he is impartial, -- which is a wonderful merit in an editor.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Greek text/s
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: younger Moulton-Barrett brothers     Print: Book

: Hebrew Bible
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Pelham, or The Adventures of a Gentleman
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Synesius Bishop of Ptolemais : Hymns
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832: 'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you for lending Synesius to me [...] I have gone thro' the whole of Synesius; and notwithstanding his occasional diffuseness & self- repetition [...] he does [italics]make you feel[end italics] that he is a poet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Euripedes : Orestes
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I am glad you have been reading Euripedes. I have looked at the passages you referred me to, in my Euripedes, -- and I observe that I have marked them all three. A pencil line of admiration is drawn along the whole margin of the scene you speak of, in the Orestes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Pindar : Odes
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Alcestis
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Troades
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Biblia Hebraica
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : novels including The Disowned
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Trollope : Domestic Manners of the Americans
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Dr Parr : 'works'
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: The Theatre of the Greeks
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edited by a Cambridge Student [...] In the body of the work, are extracts from Schlegel: so full of poetical & classical enthusiasm, that I should like to know something of the [italics]German[end italics] Schlegel!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

August Wilhelm von Schlegel : Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edited by a Cambridge Student [...] In the body of the work, are extracts from Schlegel: so full of poetical & classical enthusiasm, that I should like to know something of the [italics]German[end italics] Schlegel!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue
Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833: 'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getting back [of] "Rosalind & Helen" an excuse for calling on you some evening -- the said R. & H has I observe been well thumbed & sedulously marked by an acquaintance of mine, but I have not time to rub out his labour of love.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

: An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 September 1833: 'Dr Clarke's doctrines are not always & altogether and strictly Scriptural; but on all essential doctrines, he is always & altogether & strictly spiritual, -- and the Lord Jesus KNEW [italics] that he loved Him[end italics]. I am just beginning to read the third volume of his Life.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Gottlieb Friedrich Klopstock : The Messiah
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 14 September 1834: 'Have you seen a poetical translation of Klopstock's messiah, the performance of a lady residing close to Honiton. I have read and been much pleased with it [goes on to comment upon specific passages].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Herbert : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Do you know Herbert's poems? [Mr Hunter] lent them to me a week ago [...] His poetry has a more spiritually devotional character than any which I ever read.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Plato : Parmenides
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to find out from the Parmenides what [italics]one[end italics] is and what it is not.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Gustave Drounieau : Resignee
Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834: 'I heard of poor Drounieau's case in the Papers. I have read none of his verses, but was rather pleased with some parts of a novel of his, called Resignee'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

George Sand : Lelia (chapter VIII)
Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834: 'Madame Dudevant has accomplished something it seems -- a certain "Jacques" [...] I read an analysis of her's of the mental constitution of a gambler, from Lelia [...] a much truer exposition may be found in "The young Duke" by young D'Israeli [goes on to comment further upon latter novel].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Thomas Brown : Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics better than ever, & am beginning to think it quite as [italics]demonstrative[end italics] as mathematics the beloved! -- I am reading besides, Anthony Collins, and Luther, [italics]on the will[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Anthony Collins :
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics better than ever, & am beginning to think it quite as [italics]demonstrative[end italics] as mathematics the beloved! -- I am reading besides, Anthony Collins, and Luther, [italics]on the will[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Martin Luther :
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics better than ever, & am beginning to think it quite as [italics]demonstrative[end italics] as mathematics the beloved! -- I am reading besides, Anthony Collins, and Luther, [italics]on the will[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Brougham : A Discourse upon Natural Theology
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 July 1835: 'I have been reading [...] Lord Brougham's Natural Theology, -- and have shaken my head over it [...] It seems to me to have its most valuable parts in its notes, -- in the observations there upon Hume's philosophy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Agricole Fortia d'Urban : works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal
Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amadee de Ripert-Monclar, 30 July 1835: 'I have you to thank [...] for some very clever books by the Marquis de Fortia which I have read with the greatest interest [...] I happen to have met with a work of his, since writing to you last, on the passage of Hannibal over the Alps, which delighted me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

: Bridgewater Treatises
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Prout : Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Chalmers : On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry [...] Chalmers's treatise is, as to eloquence, surpassingly beautiful: as to matter, I could not walk with him all the way -- altho' I longed to do it, for he walked on flowers, & under shade'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Collins : work 'upon necessity'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835, regarding possible visit to him: 'Don't expect [...] to find me improved in anything -- albeit I [italics]have[end italics] read Collins upon necessity. You know, women never [italics]do[end italics] improve -- after a certain point.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Ralph Wardlaw : A Dissertation on the Scriptural Authority, Nature, and Uses, of Infant Baptism
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835: 'Did you ever hear of Dr Wardlaw's treatise upon infant baptism? It is very clearly and forcibly written, -- and altho' I cannot bring my mind to agree with him on all points, yet I think that the main question is placed by him in a satisfying light [notes having copied remarks of Wardlaw's, concerning language in Greek testament, on flyleaf of own Greek testament]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Kirby : The Habits and Instincts of Animals
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read them all) very unequal [...] They are not consistent in their character. For instance .. Kirby! Who, except a man of science, has understanding for everything in him [...] it was all I could do to get thro' with him, & more than I could do to make out his meaning in many places. His introduction interested me above all the rest, in its subject: but [...] its is written in a very superficial manner, & indicates that he has touched Hebrew as the Mahometan did Paradise, with one foot.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Brown : Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poetry knows the place of his soul [...] I have gone thro' every sentence of his "philosophy of the human mind", making clear to mine that he is so. With regard to cause and effect, I do not believe him, -- and on some other questions'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Ion
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'Have you seen Serjeant Talfourd's new tragedy, the Ion [...] He has been kind & flattering enough to send it to my publisher for me; & I read it thro' yesterday with much pleasure & admration. The tone of sentiment throughout it, is high & noble -- & the impression of the whole, like the sight of a hero. My fault finding is confined to a want of concentration, which I either perceive or fancy.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling : autobiography
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'I have read lately Stilling's autobiography; & was by turns touched & amused by it. It is an instance of the durability of romance & sentiment. I read it in English of course'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets and Other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836: 'You have not my dear kind friend thought me unkind and thankless in not writing my gratitude to you the moment I felt it, for your books [...] [explains having waited until had time to do justice to these, including one of Mitford's own] [...] My pencil has marked Emily and Fair Rosamund and Henry Talbot The bridal Eve, The Captive & The masque of the Seasons as chief favorites of mine. My pencil always does for me the prudent business which beans & pebbles did for the heroes of childish romance .. marking his footsteps in the wood [...] In these paths, these new paths -- thank you dear Miss Mitford for letting me walk in them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Crabbe : The Library
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836: 'I remember daring to say to Sir Uvedale Price that I could not like Crabbe; and I remember -- how well! his taking the "Library" from the table and reading from it a passage to which he said his own attention had been directed by [Charles James] Fox, and which I could not choose but acknowledge to be fine poetry. But [...] I annexed to the acknowledgement a clause -- -- that the passage was not written in Crabbe's usual style. And dear Sir Uvedale [...] admitted at once that I was right.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Uvedale Price      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Paracelsus
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given himself a great deal of kind trouble in finding the Countess of Essex for me and of my reading it and Paracelsus besides which he also lent me. As to the play, its talent may be both felt & seen -- but felt & seen [italics]in parts[end italics] [...] But have you seen Paracelsus? I am a little discontented even [italics]there[end italics], & wd wish for more harmony & rather more clearness & compression [...] but I do think that the pulse of poetry is full & warm & strong in it [...] There is a palpable power! a height & depth of thought, -- & sudden repressed gushings of tenderness which suggest to us a depth beyond, in the affections. I wish you wd read it, & agree with me that the author is a poet in the holy sense. And I wish that some passages in the poem referring to the divine Being had been softened or removed. They sound to me daringly; and [italics]that[end italics] is not the appropriate daring of genius.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Shepherd : The Countess of Essex
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given himself a great deal of kind trouble in finding the Countess of Essex for me and of my reading it and Paracelsus besides which he also lent me. As to the play, its talent may be both felt & seen -- but felt & seen [italics]in parts[end italics] [...] But have you seen Paracelsus? I am a little discontented even [italics]there[end italics], & wd wish for more harmony & rather more clearness & compression [...] but I do think that the pulse of poetry is full & warm & strong in it [...] There is a palpable power! a height & depth of thought, -- & sudden repressed gushings of tenderness which suggest to us a depth beyond, in the affections. I wish you wd read it, & agree with me that the author is a poet in the holy sense. And I wish that some passages in the poem referring to the divine Being had been softened or removed. They sound to me daringly; and [italics]that[end italics] is not the appropriate daring of genius.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : 'Jesse Cliffe'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'Jesse Cliffe -- I have read it! [italics]Thank you for it![end italics] and you must hear that from so many!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Mermaid'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836: 'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have I -- but did you see his "mermaid" at the end of Leigh Hunt's paper on mermaids in the New Monthly Magazine? There is a tone in the poetry -- in the very extravagance of the poetry & language -- an abandonment & wildness -- which seemed to me to accord beautifully with the subject, & stayed with me afterwards -- a true sign of true poetry -- whether I would or not. And if there are [...] occasional perplexities & obscurations in the meaning -- still, no one could complain of them [italics]there[end italics] -- seeing that the language seems to have caught its strangeness with its music from the Mermaid's tongue.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

: 'Saunders & Ottley's catalogue of new publications'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836: 'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have I -- but did you see his "mermaid" at the end of Leigh Hunt's paper on mermaids in the New Monthly Magazine? [...] I am very anxious to read something besides -- having seen in Saunder's & Ottley's catalogue of new publications -- [italics]A new novel by Miss Mitford[end italics]. How long are people to stand on tiptoe waiting for it?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Advertisement, Unknown, catalogue

H.F. Chorley : Memorials of Mrs Hemans
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, c.29 August 1836: 'Mrs Lenox Conyngham's name had come to my ears but it was not familiar to them, -- & your brief account of her wd have interested me even if you had not said that she thought kindly of me. I am going to read her poems, & to go on reading Mr Chorley's Memorials. Shame upon me, you may think, for not having finished reading [italics]them[end italics] long ago!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Percy : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

: 'old English [i.e. Renaissance] drama'
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : plays
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Notre-Dame de Paris
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Jean Froissart : Chronicles
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Poet's Vow'
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Serial / periodical

Sheridan Knowles : The Wrecker's Daughter
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 December 1836: 'I have been reading [...] Sheridan Knowles's play of "The Wreckers" [sic]. It is full of passion and pathos, -- & made me shed a great many tears.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I have had little opportunity of walking with them in their purple & fine linen. Only [italics]extracts[end italics] from Bea[u]mont & Fletcher -- & Ford, -- have past before my eyes!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Ford : plays (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I have had little opportunity of walking with them in their purple & fine linen. Only [italics]extracts[end italics] from Bea[u]mont & Fletcher -- & Ford, -- have past before my eyes!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Justin Martyr : Apologia Prima Pro Christianis (LVXI,2)
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837: 'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which struck me while I was reading him, on the subject of the Lord's supper [transcriptions follow from two works, in Greek].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Justin Martyr : Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo, 70
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837: 'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which struck me while I was reading him, on the subject of the Lord's supper [transcriptions follow from two works, in Greek].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Charles Macready : annotations to Robert Browning, Strafford
Robert Browning to William Charles Macready, January 1837: 'I have taken a cursory look at your [italics]addissions[end italics] in "Strafford," seeing it on the table. I shall remedy every oversight I am sure out of an after crop of thoughts!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Manuscript: Unknown

George Combe : Elements of Phrenology
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837: 'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever, & amusing; but I do not think it logical or satisfactory.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Fletcher : The Faithful Shepherdess
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837: 'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shepherdess. The general conception & plan are feeble & imperfect -- do you not admit it? but the work in detail -- how prodigal it is in exquisite poetry'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Otto of Wittelsbach
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837: 'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest Miss Mitford, & so you will be obliged to read my admiration upon it [goes on to discuss text in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Anne Butler : The Star of Seville
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: 'Yes! the extracts from Mrs Butler's play, in the Athenaeum, are very beautiful -- and so are some others which I have seen in another paper.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Russell Mitford : "The Widow's Dog"
Mary Hunter (aged 10) to Elizabeth Barrett, quoted in letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: '"I read today in a magazine a tale of Miss Mitford's about the widow's dog Chloe who was very faithful and would go back to the widow's house. If you do not know the story, I dare say she will tell it to you. I should like to know Miss Mitford very much -- for her writings are [italics]so[end italics] beautiful & affectionate, -- and I think she would not dislike children."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hunter      Print: Serial / periodical

Lady Margaret Cocks : dramatic poems
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837: 'I am very much obliged by your kindness in allowing me to read the MS dramatic poems -- it seems to me that the character of your writing is not sufficiently concentrated & passionate for tragic poetry -- and that the moral beauty of gentle & tender & holy feeling is not eminent enough with glaring light & angular shadow, to constitute of itself the dramatic. Such a moral beauty -- & it pervades what you write -- is however a better & happier thing than dramatic excellence.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre : Translations from the Italian
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837: 'I have been much pleased lately in reading Lady Dacre's translations from Petrarch, which she has very kindly sent me. They are elegant & classical, -- & she has managed skilfully to double & redouble her rhymes in the manner of her original, & be graceful all the while.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I have not read every number [...] what is striking in him is his wonderful individuality -- He never or seldom sacrifices the natural to the comic -- but wins the jest from Nature without stealing it. No one could pass a character of his in the street without bowing.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Cicero : Pro Roscio Amerino
'Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Cicero : Pro Roscio Comoedo
'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Frances Anne Butler : The Star of Seville
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I have read the Star of Seville [...] It [italics]is[end italics] unequal -- it appears as if its writer stopped to take breath after her finest things -- and she has written some very fine things. You will admire Estrella's apology for her appearance [italics]alone[end italics], at the trial scene. It touched me deeply'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Cicero : Actio prima in Verrem
'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lucretius : [unknown]
'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Fortiguerra : Ricciardetto
'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Apollonius Rhodius : Argonautica
'[Shelley] reads Appolonius [sic] Rhodius'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Lodovico Antonio Muratori : Dissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell'Italiana favella
'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Apollonius Rhodius : Argonautica
'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giuliano - Reads the double marriage aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giuliano - Reads the double marriage aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Country Stories
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837: 'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to say of ourselves, when the "Country stories" lie cut & read upon the table? They have the Mitford-charm all over them! [..] The characteristic of your mind seems to be -- the power of bringing from the surfaces of things that freshness of beauty, which others seek from in the profundities of nature [...] Indeed it is a beautiful book'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Fletcher : Double Marriage, The
'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giuliano - Reads the double marriage aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Lucretius : [unknown]
'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Age of Bronze
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837: 'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's Tears," about Queen Victoria's weeping during the Accession Proclamation on 21 June] finding their way into a Belford Regis newspaper! The young Queen is very interesting to me -- & those tears [...] are beautiful & touching to think upon. Do you remember Lord Byron's bitter lines [...] '"Enough of human ties in royal breasts! Why spare men's feelings when their own are jests?" 'They have never past from my memory since I read them. There is something hardening, I fear, in power [...] But our young Queen wears still a very tender heart! and long may its natural emotions lie warm within it!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: death notice for Harriet Baker (d.17 August)
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I have seen in the papers, the death of a beloved friend of yours, & of one for whom I myself had a true esteem [...] The illness of dear Miss Baker was known to me a very short time before the last news came.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the King. To which are added, copies of their correspondence since the period of their separation. And the Queen's Character.
'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Swellfoot the Tyrant
'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [books on Ireland]
'Muratori - greek - Irish books'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line
'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Horace : First Epistle
'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Jungfrau von Orleans
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Maria Stuart
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Gotz von Berlichingen mit der eisenen Hand
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Egmont
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Letters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His Life
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'Has your Ladyship seen Lamb's letters, in Mr Talfourd's edition? I quite [italics]sighed[end italics] when I finished them. They are exquisite -- & the "gentle-hearted Charles" [quotes Coleridge] shows in them all his gentle heart, together with his very quaint sly brilliant (as [italics]star[end italics]light) fancies.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Lady Mary Wortley Montague : Letters
Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 29 September 1837: 'I confess to you that I utterly dislike Lady Mary! [...] She had a hard shining imagination, instead of a heart -- and words studied into carelessness, beating up & down, where warm natural woman pulses ought to have beat. She had too little depth for manhood, -- & too little softness for womanhood. Take away the corner stone & the top stone from Horace Walpole's imagination -- or rather, take away what poetry he had -- & dress him up in a hoop -- & there is Lady Mary Wortley Montague ready for court!! ---- I never could bear her -- or Horace Walpole either -- and whenever I have looked at her letters, I have felt too much out of humour to be amused.' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Letter to Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 September 1837: 'You certainly shd write Dash [Mitford's dog]'s memoirs! My youngest brothers, to say nothing of my eldest, were delighted with the [italics]memorabilia[end italics], I read to them out of your letter.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

Frances Trollope : The Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837: 'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me of the Vicar of Wrexhill -- at least of the extracts I have seen from it! -- What a lamentable book -- & to be written by a woman -- who from the weakness & softness of her nature should so feel the need & the beauty of that strength & surpassing tenderness found in the religion of Jesus Christ, & only there! -- It is very ill to hold up to scorn the most unsecular portion of the Church of England -- but to do so by misrepresen[ta]tion & perversion is most ill! [goes on to complain further regarding representation of religious characters, and quotation from Scripture, in text]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Jane Porter : novels
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 November 1837: 'Hearing of Miss Porter is like being a child again. I remember weeping & wailing over her romances, when I had nothing besides to weep and wail for. Whatever their faults may be, they have in them an elevation & an heroism which this learned age wd do well to learn.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Pauline
John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833: 'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate copiously in the margin and sum up on the fly-leaf. On the whole the observations are not flattering to the author -- perhaps too strong in the expression to be shown him'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind
Mary Russell Mitford to Lady Dacre, 3 July 1836, on Elizabeth Barrett: 'The "Essay on Mind" which she sent me [...] was written before she was seventeen -- It is a wonderful production -- with notes as full of learning as those to the Prometheus. Henry Cary [...] was reading it here yesterday -- & declared that she had read books and alluded to them familiarly as if read by every body that the young men at Oxford in his day ever thought of looking into.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Cary      Print: Book

Thomas Henry Lister : Granby
'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of good, & I hope you will send one of your most severe one's.? What an entertaining book Granby is; do you remember Lady Harriet talking about inhaling [Ni]tric Oxide? Johnson has actually done it, & describes the effects as the most intense pleasure he ever felt. We both mean to get tipsey in the Vacation.?. The old Mr. Wedgwood, I see in Ure's Chem. Dic., did nothing else but hold his nose & kick.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Humphry Davy : Researches, Chemical and Philosophical
'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of good, & I hope you will send one of your most severe one's.? What an entertaining book Granby is; do you remember Lady Harriet talking about inhaling [Ni]tric Oxide? Johnson has actually done it, & describes the effects as the most intense pleasure he ever felt. We both mean to get tipsey in the Vacation.?. The old Mr. Wedgwood, I see in Ure's Chem. Dic., did nothing else but hold his nose & kick.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

: Bible
'I have tried to follow your advice about the Bible, what part of the Bible do you like best? I like the Gospels. Do you know which of them is generally reckoned the best?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Philip Massinger : Lovers' Progress, The
'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Wiliam Robertson : History of America
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Lodovico Antonio Muratori : Dissertazioni sopra le Antichit? italiane gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell' Italiana favella
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

L.F. Jauffret : THE TRAVELS OF ROLANDO Containing in a Supposed Tour Round the World, Authentic Descriptions of the Geography, Natural History, Manners and Antiquities of Various Countries
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

L.F. Jauffret : Travels of Rolando Containing in a Supposed Tour Round the World, Authentic Descriptions of the Geography, Natural History, Manners and Antiquities of Various Countries
'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Villani : Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII
'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
'Begin the Georgics with S.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

William Robertson : History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth century
'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo : Antient Metaphysics; or, the Science of Universals
'S. reads Antient Metaphysics'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?ge
'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francesco Petrarch : [unknown]
'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Gillies : History of Ancient Greece, its colonies and conquests; from the earliest accounts, till the division of the Macedonian Empire in the East, including the history of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts
'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida
'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Herodotus : Histories
'S. reads Herodotus - Gillies & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen age
'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
'Read Don Juan'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
'Read Lambs Specimens'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

[n/a] : Indicator
'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

John Keats : Hyperion
'S. reads Hyperion aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Keats : Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poems
'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Villani : Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII
'Read Villani'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Barry Cornwall [pseud.] : Dramatic Scenes, and other poems
'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Medwin      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady
'I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I advise you begin it as soon as you can.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Thomas Medwin : [journal of time in India]
'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India''
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Medwin      Manuscript: diary

Thomas Erskine : Armata: a fragment
'read Armata - read Homer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : [unknown]
'read Armata - read Homer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Stael : Corinne
'read Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti : [unknown]
'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : [unknown]
'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Pedro Calderon de la Barca : [unknown]
'Don Quixote & Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'Don Quixote & Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Witch of Atlas, The'
'Copy the Witch of Atlas'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Indicator
'Greek - not well - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

Friedrich Heinrich Karl : Sintram und seine Gefahrten
'Greek - Sintram - S. not well'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : [unknown]
'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

: New Testament
[Reading list by Mary Shelley of Percy Shelley's reading in 1820. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so do not receive separate entries based on this list] 'Shelley - 1820 The new Testament Mullur's Universal History. Hobbes. Political Justice Locke Robertson's America and Hist. of Charles V Antient Metaphysics Gillies Greece Spanish Solis' History of Mexico. Several of the plays of Calderon Greek. Sophocles Plato's Republic - Pahedon - Phaedrus Euripides Greek Romances Appollonius Rhodius'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Erskine : Armata: a fragment
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

: Encyclopaedia Britannica
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Mandeville : Fable of the Bees
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Tegrimi : Vita Castruccio Castracani
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : [unknown]
'Greek - Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : [unknown]
'Greek - Voltaire's Tales'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Aeschylus : [fragments]
'S. reads fragments of Aeschylus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Abbot, The: a romance
'Read the Abbot'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannus
'Read Oedipus Tyrannus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannus
'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Giovanni Villani : Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII
'Read Villani'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'Dante's Vita Nuova'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Frederick William Herschel : Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy
'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Humboldt : unknown
'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in the hot-house and come home and read Humboldt: my enthusiasm is so great that I cannot hardly sit still on my chair.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Unknown

Humboldt : unknown
'I hope you continue to fan your Canary ardor: I read & reread Humboldt, do you do the same, & I am sure nothing will prevent us seeing the Great Dragon tree.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Unknown

Herbert Spencer : A System of Synthetic Philosophy
'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Anna Seward : Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 January 1838: 'In my childish days & for some days afterwards I have read & re-read Miss Seward's Letters. They had a charm for me notwithstanding their vanity & elaborateness & bombast; and that charm was from the earnest love of poetic literature with which they are penetrated, & the generous thoughts & feelings which light them up.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Jean Racine : Letters
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not for their slavish servile devotion to the king (and I think it was real), and to that odious woman Madame de Maintenon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Nicolas Boileau Despreaux : Letters
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not for their slavish servile devotion to the king (and I think it was real), and to that odious woman Madame de Maintenon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

John Kenyon : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838: 'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I have had in reading these poems -- so full of strong thoughts & lovely stedfast feelings [...] "Moonlight" is full of beauty [...] Of the "occasional verses" [...] I like least the "neglected wife" & like most [...] "music" -- & "Bromfield Churchyard", & "Reminiscence", & the "Two harps" & the powerful "Destiny"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

: advertisement for rare antique Bible
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.26 February 1838: 'I saw the following advertisement in the Athenaeum of Saturday, & believing that it may interest you, do not delay to send it [reproduces advertisement for sale of 1539 folio edition of Cranmer's Bible]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

Henry Alford : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838: 'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a want of abiding power[end italics]. Do you not think so? -- It might be a fault in my humour at the time I read them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Samuel Garth : The Dispensary, a Poem
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: '[To] satisfy some curiosity, [I] have been reading Garth's "Dispensary," a poem very worthy of its subject'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : "The Exile"
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: 'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with much interest and delight'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Monckton Milnes : Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and Historical Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838: 'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Milnes's Poems just printed for private circulation. They are of the Tennyson school [...] & very much delighted me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Kenyon : "The Greek Wife"
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838: 'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silence, even if she had a little to say [goes on to discuss piece in detail] Thank you for the great pleasure I have had in reading this poem -- Its concluding stanzas are animated & forcible, & leave an impression'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Barrett : The Seraphim
Thomas Noon Talfourd to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 June 1838: 'Mr Serjt Talfourd presents his compliments to Miss Barrett and begs to express to her how much he is gratified and honored by the gift of her charming volume of poems; -- at which he has already glanced with singular pleasure -- and which he hopes to enjoy thoroughly in the first leisure he can obtain.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Noon Talfourd      Print: Book

John Edmund Reade : Italy
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838: 'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before I opened your letter'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Noon Talfourd : The Athenian Captive
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Noon Talfourd, 13 June 1838: 'Miss Barrett presents her compliments to Mr Serjeant Talfourd, and desires to express to him her thankfulness both for his very obliging note [of 2 June 1838], and also and in particular for the valued present accompanying it. She is glad to be able to associate with the true pleasure with which she lately read his beautiful play, the gratification of now receiving it from its author.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frederick W Beechey : Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom. London
'Have you Cap. Beecheys voyage to the Pacific? if you have not, I will buy it, as it contains some most excellent Meteorological Journals?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Henry Fothergill Chorley : letter (extract)
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 June 1838: 'I have seen an extract from a private letter of Mr Chorley editor of the Athenaeum, which speaks [italics]huge[end italics] praises of my poems. If he were to say a tithe of them in print it wd be nine times above my expectation!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

Richard Edwin Austin Townsend : Visions of the Western Railways
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 June 1838: 'Mr Townsend's poems have just reached me. I have had no time to read them, except at a rail road speed, & that not continuously. They seem to have much thought & poetic beauty'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Edwin Austin Townsend : Visions of the Western Railways
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838: 'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]did[end italics] read the romance of Mr Osggood [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Sargent Osgood : 'romance'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838: 'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]did[end italics] read the romance of Mr Osggood [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Madame de Grandrion : Duty and Inclination
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 September 1838: 'I "remind you" to tell me all about Miss Landon's husband. I have a full conviction that he is the author of [italics]Duty and Inclination[end italics], of which I could only read the first volume. The reason of my conviction is, that it is unaccountable otherwise how Miss Landon could consent to edit & [italics]praise[end italics] such -- -- trash.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Findens' Tableaux of the Affections: A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 October 1838: 'I did not receive Finden immediately. I had desired Papa to unpack & take possession of it -- because I fancied [...] it might be a pleasure to him. From this arrangement I have scarcely finished my own vision of the beautiful volume [goes on to discuss contents of anthology in detail, praising Mitford's pieces in it, as well as other contents including poetry by Richard Edwin Austin Townsend, John Chorley, and Henry Chorley; also thanks Mitford, editor of volume, for manner in which she presented Barrett's own contribution, 'The Romaunt of the Page']'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Euclid : unknown
'After looking at my 11 books of Euclid, & first part of Algebra (including binomial theorem?) I may then begin Trigonometry after which must I begin Spherical? are there any important parts in the 2d & 3d parts of Woods Algebra.? '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Theodosia Garrow : poems 'The Gazelles' and 'On Presenting a Young Invalid With a Bunch of Early Violets'
Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, late November 1838: 'I cannot return the [italics]Book of Beauty[end italics] to Miss Garrow without thanking her for allowing me to read in it sooner than I should otherwise have done, those contributions of her own which help to justify its title, and which are indeed sweet and touching verses.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Rauber
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 March 1839: 'I like Schiller's Robbers better than any other play of his I have read.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Humboldt : unknown
'I now first felt even moderately well, & I was picturing to myself all the delights of fresh fruit growing in beautiful valleys, & reading Humboldts descriptions of the Islands glorious views.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Unknown

Alexander von Humboldt : unknown
'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence after leaving Teneriffe.? My feelings amount to admiration the more I read him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Unknown

: La Dictionnaire Classique
'Nobody could possibly be better fitted out in every respect for collecting than I am: many cooks have not spoiled the broth this time; Mr Brownes little hints about microscopes &c have been invaluable.? I am well off in books, the Dic: Class: is most useful.? If you should think of any thing or book that would be useful to me; if you would write one line E Darwin Whyndham Club St James Sqr.?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Francis Bond Head : Gallop: Rapid journeys across the Pampas
'I suppose you all well know Heads book.? for accuracy & animation it is beyond praise.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

Caesar : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late March 1839: 'Beloved Papa & Sette were obliged to go away two days ago [...] Sette's gossipings & secret- tellings were such delightful [italics]old newnesses[end italics]. I used to think in quite the old times when he read Caesar to me -- his eyes [...] holding communion with Punch [apparently a pet] out of the window, -- that I was unfortunate to have no more power in the way of enforcing discipline. It is better as it is -- It is better to be loved than feared'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Septimus Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Lancelot Andrewes : Sermons
Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'What can I do bound hand and foot in this wilderness, in the way of book-ferreting? with a physician who groans in the spirit whenever he sees within my reach any book larger & graver looking than "the last new octavo neatly bound"? [...] but you tempted me with Bishop Andrews, the Bishop is in folio, & I was in an obstinate fit -- & I [italics]did[end italics] read -- -- & [italics]was[end italics] scolded'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Edmund Reade : Italy
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'Mr Reade has power [...] both of thought & language [...] It [Italy] is the only poem of Mr Reade's I ever read [...] I may confess to [italics]you[end italics] that it [italics]provoked[end italics] me [i.e. with imitation of Byron]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Beatrix ou les Amours Forces
Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one, "Beatrix", in the feuilleton of the "Siecle", day by day -- I receive it from Paris two days old and usually post it off to a friend of mine, as soon as skimmed. But the four or five first chapters were so delightful that I hate myself for not having sent them to Barham [i.e. Barham Lodge, Haworth's home at Elstree]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Honore de Balzac : "Scenes"
Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one, "Beatrix", in the feuilleton of the "Siecle", day by day -- I receive it from Paris two days old and usually post it off to a friend of mine, as soon as skimmed. But the four or five first chapters were so delightful that I hate myself for not having sent them to Barham [i.e. Barham Lodge, Haworth's home at Elstree]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Euphrasia Fanny Haworth      Print: Unknown

John Parkhurst : An Hebrew and English Lexicon
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dictionaries are excellent for [italics]distraction[end italics]. Just at such a time .. when we were leaving Herefordshire .. I pinned myself down to Hebrew, took Parkhurst & Professor Lee for my familiars, & went through the Hebrew Bible form Genesis to Malachi, Syrica & all, as if I were studying for a professorship, -- & never once halting for breath. But I do hope & trust to learn no more languages. There is no mental exertion, per se so little beneficial to the mind.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Samuel Lee : A Grammar of the Hebrew Language
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dictionaries are excellent for [italics]distraction[end italics]. Just at such a time .. when we were leaving Herefordshire .. I pinned myself down to Hebrew, took Parkhurst & Professor Lee for my familiars, & went through the Hebrew Bible form Genesis to Malachi, Syrica & all, as if I were studying for a professorship, -- & never once halting for breath. But I do hope & trust to learn no more languages. There is no mental exertion, per se so little beneficial to the mind.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Rosina, Lady Bulwer-Lytton : Cheveley, or the Man of Honour
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839: 'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end italics] I can confess with one blush less that I have just read it through. People obliged to be dumb like me, & under a medical disciplinarian like Dr Barry have as good an excuse as any can have for reading it [...] The book, if not the reader, is without excuse. It is wonderful in unwomanliness [...] The book is a hard cold coarse book -- a bold impudent book -- & she who wrote it may have COUNTED many strifes but has [italics]felt[end italics] none'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Fullerton Cumming, M.D. : Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey; Up the Danube and Down the Rhine
Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 4 June 1839: ''[Dr Barry] has been lending me his friend & patient Dr Cummings book, to read -- "Wanderings in search of Health" [...] His adventures in wandering down the Nile in search of health inclined me to laugh as much as his confession that he was "a physician in search of it'"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Sir Edward Coke : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and send them to my brother George who begins his circuits next year as a BARRISTER!! I shall be curious to observe how his enthusiasm for his profession, which actually set him down to read Coke among this exquisite scenery, when he came down with me last year [...] will bear up under the infliction.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Goodin Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

Theodosia Garrow : stanzas on the death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1839: 'I do not know whether Miss Garrow does or does not write ballads [...] I have seen no writing of her's except what was published in Lady Blessington's annual last year, & some stanzas in MS. upon LEL's death, which appeared to me rather inferior to the rest. Her verses are, in my mind, to judge from these specimens, graceful & feeling, without much indication of either mounting or sinking into other characteristics'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Naylor : Ceracchi, a Drama and other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 13-14 July 1839: 'I told [Mr Naylor] [...] that the gift of his book was the more gratifying to me as coming from a friend of Miss [Mary Russell] Mitford. Praising the poetry of it generally, was quite out of the question. It is an excellent [italics]mimicry from le comique[end italics] of Tennyson -- Tennyson's mannerism & peculiarities [end italics]without his genius[end italics]. I felt myself quite laughing while I was reading some things in it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 August 1839: 'I a personally quite unacquainted with Mr Horne [...] Have you not heard of his Cosimo de' Medici? He is a man of indubitable genius. I feel THAT quite distinctly, although I have read only a little of his poetry'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Henry Fothergill Chorley : The Lion, a Tale of the Coteries
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'I have read Mr Chorley's Lion [...] it is a work highly indicative of ability [...] brilliant with allusion, yet not too dazzling to think by. A great part of the first volume & the greater part of the third struck & interested me much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Fothergill Chorley : Sketches of a Sea Port Town
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'Mr Chorley's Sea port town was brought to me a little while ago -- but not as Mr Chorley's. Henrietta [sister] brought it from the circulating library -- The [italics] librarian had recommended it![end italics] -- & I am so forced to be dumb & to abstain from continuous attention to grave subjects, that amusing books of the class to which it belongs are necessary to me sometimes. Well! I did not like the name of the book -- & was turning listlessly to the title page with the words "I cant read this", -- when [italics]there[end italics], was Mr Chorley's name! Of course I [italics]cd[end italics] read it immediately, -- & was much struck by the power it indicated, & the constructiveness of the stories -- a rare characteristic, even in these story telling days.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

anon : Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter
Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839: 'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end italics] [water excursion] yesterday, to do more than feel very pleased & honored too, by Mr Landor's gift. Thank you for conveying it to me [...] The Admiral's daughter is the second of the "[italics]Two old men's tales[end italics]". I read it upon its publication several years ago, & was much struck with its passion & intensity'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: racing programme
Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, 16 September 1839: 'Wish "Paracelsus" luck, by the way, at the Great St Leger -- for he, a horse, starts, I see by this morning's "Times", with a batch of the rarest -- as does "Avicenna" -- both gloried in by Mr C. Atwood!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Newspaper

Eliza Cook : Melaia, and Other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1839: 'I have lately held within my hands Miss Eliza Cook's poems [...] [comments upon book's introduction and frontispiece] [...] The sight of the book & its whole tone amused me very much. For the rest I cd read nothing in it worth reading again.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Church of England catechism
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1840: '[Mary Hunter] was brought up a dissenter among dissenters, & amused herself one day when she & I were together in a bookseller's shop, with looking over for a novelty the church catechism'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hunter      Print: Book

Jean Theodore Lacordaire : M?moire sur les habitudes des Col?opt?res de l'Am?rique m?ridionale.
'Judging from the Pamphlet, you gave me & which I have found very useful, the insects of the Rio Plata are tolerably well-known.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin

Barry Edward O'Meara : Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St Helena
'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I would have returned the book immediately, finding how long it had been here, had the subject been any other than Napoleon - however I made what haste I could with it; but though I read whenever a temporary cessation of civilities on the part of the inhabitants left a minute at my own disposal, I only finished it at twelve o'clock the night you wrote for it - '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : Samor, the Lord of the Bright City
'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - he excells in description - the outlines of his pictures want charecter [sic] but his colouring is rich and brilliant, and on the whole his manner is very graceful - he fails sadly when he makes his personages speak and feel - however 'the Bright City' is not without heart - the episode of Lilian and Vortimer is very natural and pathetic, and Rowena's love is quite Byronical - I think if you have not read it, it is worth your time - How very presumptuous it is in me to attempt criticising such an Author as Milman!-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : Samor, the Lord of the Bright City
'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sustain. He paints too gorgeously and indistinctly, he also whines too much, he is sometimes even liable to cant. I am astonished at your diffidence in judging him: it were well if he always found even critics by profession so well qualified.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

: The Report of the second meeting of the British Association at Oxford in 1832.
'I am now reading the Oxford Report.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Unknown

Charles Hughes Terot : Poems
'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and his accordingly are but a kind of flash in the pan - no damage is done; but the other piece has a sort of pococurante [little-caring] air about it which looks more like genius and truth, and answers greatly better. Except the last stanza, they are good. If he is only about twenty years of age or so, he may cultivate poetry with considerable hope: if nearer thirty I advise him never to write another line.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC

Frances Sitwell : letter
?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at Swanston Cottage] somehow reminded me of your letter from Bishopsbourne, now alas! in cinders. O I grudge those letters I burned.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage].

Robert Louis Stevenson : Victor Hugo's Romances
?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I think. Modesty is my most remarkable quality, I may say in passing.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?

George Sand : Comtesse de Rudolstadt
?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up from the book.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

George Sand : Consuelo
?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a book that that could divert me, when I thought myself on the very edge of the grave, from the work that I so much desired, and was yet unable to do, and from other thoughts both sweet and sorrowful, should somewhat support and amuse you under all the hard things that may be coming upon you. If it is to be had in Edinburgh you shall have it, dear, even before this letter.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

John Home : Douglas
'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard's Warning", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles      Print: Book

Campbell : The Wizard's Warning
'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard's Warning", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown". One of my sisters, when an infant, was sent to the country to be nursed; and I used to accompany Peg Nielson, our servant, to see the child on Saturday afternoons... Peg was a capital story-teller and many a time did she entertain us with "auld warld" tales of brownies, fairies, ghosts and witches, often making our flesh creep. But she could also be amusing and cheerful in the adventures she narrated. While on the way to Clerkington Mains, I asked her to tell me a story. "Yes she would: it was a story of a gypsy woman and a little boy who was carried away in a ship by the smugglers." And then she began, and told me, in a manner that seemed most graphic, the wonderful adventures of Harry Bertram and Meg Merrilies, as related in the well-known novel of "Guy Mannering". Many years after I read the book and found that she had omitted nothing of the story: her memory was so good and her power of narration so excellent.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles      Print: Book

: Catalogue of library of Samuel Parr
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1840: '[Dr Scully (physician attending Barrett)] brought me a book last week, a catalogue raisonne of Dr Parr's Library in which, among the Patres ecclesiastici "my heart leaped up to see'" the mention of your select passages [from writings of SS Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzen, and Basil] -- by S. Boyd, [italics]1810[end italics]. No observation upon it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Catherine Gore : Preferment: or, My Uncle the Earl
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable cleverness, is dull & heavy [...] As to "One fault", with neither dulness nor heaviness, the book seems to [italics]me[end italics] far less clever than Mrs Trollope's books generally or always are [goes on to discuss aspects of this text, including plot, further]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Trollope : One Fault. A Novel
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable cleverness, is dull & heavy [...] As to "One fault", with neither dulness nor heaviness, the book seems to [italics]me[end italics] far less clever than Mrs Trollope's books generally or always are [goes on to discuss aspects of this text, including plot, further]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck : Select Memoirs of Port Royal
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated partly composed by Miss Schimmelpenninck, of the Port Royal? It is long since I read, will be longer before I forget that most interesting account of the most interesting establishment which ever owed its conventual name & form to the Church of Rome, & its purity & nobility to God's blessing & informing Spirit'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard: A Romance
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840: 'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been struck by the great danger, in these times, of representing authority so constantly and fearfully in the wrong, so tyrannous, so devilish, as the author has been pleased to portray it in "Jack Sheppard" [...] Of course Mr Ainsworth had no such design, but such is the effect; and as the millions who see it represented at the minor theatres will not distinguish between now and a hundred years back, all the Chartists in the land are less dangerous than this nightmare of a book, and I, Radical as I am, lament any additional temptations to outbreak, with all its train of horrors.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments
Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840: ''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I have finished Shelley's volumes which, if it were not for the here & there defilement of his atrocious opinions [...] would have very deeply delighted me. As it is there are traces of my pencil "[italics]in a passion[end italics]" as dear Georgie [brother] would say. [goes on to criticise Shelley's translations from Plato in particular]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Review of William Reade's poems Italy and The Deluge
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, mid-February 1840: 'Did you ever hear how poor Mr Reade has compromised himself with Fraser .. in the magazine? [...] how Fraser reviewed his poetry savagely last December or January, & published at full length still more savagely divers applications & submissions which the poet had addressed to his private tender mercies [...] It made my blood run cold with sympathy for the poor poet when I read it first.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

William Merry : The Philosophy of a Happy Futurity est. on the Sure Evidence of the Bible
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 February 1840: 'I never received Mr Merry's book until a very few days since. Wasn't it too bad of my dear people in Wimpole Street? [...] they [...] kept the book until boots, & shoes enough for a colony cd be made -- allowing for that corresponding genius of procrastination common to shoemakers. I really was ashamed to write to you until I had the book -- & when I had it I read it off my conscience & wrote to Mr Merry'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N. : novels
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840: 'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but I have never seen him. Without being one of his indiscriminate admirers, I like parts of his books (some of which I have read to my father), and have been told that they have done good in the profession -- suggestions thrown out in them having been taken up and acted upon by the Lords of the Admiralty'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : A Legend of Florence
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840: 'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - & although your remark upon the versification seems to me not without its verity -- I do think it a beautiful & most touching play [goes on to discuss specific passages]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Paracelsus
Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received your poem [Sordello] [...] You much overrate my judgement, but whatever it is, you shall have it, before I have redd it so often as I redd Paracelsus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Savage Landor      Print: Book

George Darley : Sylvia; or, The May Queen
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 March 1840: 'I [italics]have[end italics] Sylvia or the May Queen among my books in London. Dont you remember telling me to read it, & did'n't I obey you & buy it directly? It overflows with poetry [...] but does as pastorals can scarcely choose but do, hold on to one by the skirts of one's fancy rather than by the imagination in a high sense'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) : The Liberal
'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a glance of it one evening; I read it thro and found two papers apparently by Byron, and full of talent as well as mischief. Hunt is the only serious man in it, since Shell[e]y died: he has a wish to preach about politics and bishops and pleasure and paintings and nature, honest man; Byron wants only to write squibs against Southey and the like. The work will hardly do. If possible you shall see this number.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

Barry Edward O'Meara : Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-Helena
'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so many books-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter

Andrew Ure : Review of 'Description of Instruments, Designed for Extending and Improving Meteorological Observations' (1820)
'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a very unpalatable morsel: I know not whether you will care for i[t].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Edmund Spenser : 'Hymn of Heavenly Beautie'
'Till lately I have never read Spenser, and therefore was not personally acquainted with his beauties. Neither do I mean to say now that I have read his "Fairie Queen"; but having accidentally met with an extract from his "Hymn of Heavenly Love", a long poem, I went to Papa's study and read the whole poem, which is most exquisitely beautiful, and is perhaps equal to anything Milton ever wrote. [...] I was so much delighted with it that I read another, his "Hymne of Heavenly Beautie", Which in point of poetic excellence perhaps exceeds the other. [...] Papa's copy of his poems is a very old edition, prinnted in the time of Queen Elizabeth, to whom it is dedicated. The illuminations are very curious, and the engravings most laughable; the print is small, and the old words make it rather difficult to read.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Shore      Print: Book

:
'All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the most hideous yells, accompanying a triumphal car in the shape of a waggon completely covered with fresh boughs and bearing flags. They had also with them a band and three large flags bearing the following inscriptions: 'EARL GREY AND HIS COLLEAGUES', 'TAVISTOCK AND PAYNE FOR EVER', 'EARL GREY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY', 'W.R. IV AND REFORM'. [...] The procession took place late in the evening; the band entered our garden and played several tunes, while the flags were all the while waving before the windows.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Shore      Print: flags

Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) : The Liberal
'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will venture to sell a copy of. The first two articles, seemingly Byron's, are exceedingly potent - very clever and very wicked; the rest is in Hunt's vein, and no better or worse than a common examiner.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter

Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon) : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England,
'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I am endeavouring to do - I immediately commenced an active search through the libraries of my acquaintance for some of the books you named... I prefer[r]ed acqu[a]inting myself with the history of England through the medium of Clarendon. Clarendon however is 'out of fashion'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Edmund Spenser : 'Mother Hubbard's Tale'
'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the court and clergy, and a very bitter one too.' [Editors note: 'Then follow three pages of extracts from the above named poem, very accurately done'].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Shore      Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The Ancient History
'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I am endeavouring to do - I immediately commenced an active search through the libraries of my acquaintance for some of the books you named... My next attempt was on Rollin and that proved more successful. I read his Ancient History in my infancy; but remembered no more of it than the number of volumes. I have already finished the first volume.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Friedrich Schiller : Maria Stuart
'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Vittorio Alfieri : Unknown
'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Publius Cornelius Tacitus : Unknown
'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Richard Hengist Horne : The History of Napoleon
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 May 1840: 'I had finished Napoleon & was about to write to you on the subject -- & I will still write.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Darley : Thomas a Becket
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1840: 'Have you given up the idea of seeing Mr Darley's book again -- It chaperons or is chaperoned by some Devonshire cream -- but I beg you to remember that the stains upon its back came to me as they go, and proceeded from neither cream nor me -- The chronicle is very clever & spirited -- picturesque & racy -- & the character of Becket appears to me developped [sic] with no ordinary power: at the same time I confess myself disappointed in the absence of tragic passion & concentration'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Glencoe
Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840: '["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [...] Thank you my dearest Georgie! [...] It was, as you well knew it wd be, a great pleasure to me to look into Glencoe -- and yet the play is to my mind, a failure [...] High & tender thoughts there are, gracefully & harmoniously expressed -- which is not [italics]being tragic[end italics]!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : The Return of the Druses
William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840: 'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and with the deepest concern I yield to the belief that he will [italics]never write again[end italics] -- to any purpose. I fear his intellect is not quite clear.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Charles Macready      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village
Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840: 'You cant guess what my business has been lately [...] my business has been retracing my steps in the Village, your village [...] You cannot realize, -- you the writer -- cannot, -- the peculiar effect of that delightful book, upon one in a prison like me, shut up from air & light [...] It frees me at once for the moment -- shows me the flowers & the grass they grow by, & pours into my face the sweetness & freshness & refreshment of the whole summer in a breath.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Powell : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Powell, 24 December 1840: 'It is right to apprize you of the safe arrival [of book from Powell] [...] I see the Monthly Chronicle -- & had read some of the poems which accompanied the book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'L.E.L.'s Last Question'
Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 January 1839: 'You may fancy our surprise when, upon opening the Athenaeum, on Saturday, the first thing Papa saw, was these lines ["L.E.L.'s Last Question"] of Ba [Elizabeth Barrett]'s, -- who had written them & sent them to the editor, unknown to any one.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'
Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote out and sent to me the other day, Ba's ballad, unknown to her -- & by doing so, Papa says he has committed a breach of morality & he refuses to read it. I, not being quite so strict, have read it & am quite overflowing with gratitude to George for being so very IMMORAL -- It is most beautiful [...] but SO horrible [...] my hair felt inclined to turn [italics]upward[end italics] as I read it!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Goodin Moulton-Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'
Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote out and sent to me the other day, Ba's ballad, unknown to her -- & by doing so, Papa says he has committed a breach of morality & he refuses to read it. I, not being quite so strict, have read it & am quite overflowing with gratitude to George for being so very IMMORAL -- It is most beautiful [...] but SO horrible [...] my hair felt inclined to turn [italics]upward[end italics] as I read it!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Moulton-Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade : Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch
'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents! To go dangling about, for the space of twenty years, puffing and sighing after a little coquette, whose charms lay briefly in the fervour of his imagination, and the art she had to keep him wavering between hope and despondency - at once ridiculous and deplorable - that he might write sonnets in her praise!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Margaret A. Carlyle : Letter
'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these new instances of your unwearied attention to my interests and comfort.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

Grant Allen : Physiological Aesthetics
Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Mary Arnold-Forster : Studies in Dreams
Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lucien Arreat : Les croyances des demain
Some textual marginalia in pencil in French on pages 173 and 176, and pencil marks throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lucien Arreat : Memoire et imagination
Textual marginalia in pencil in French on page 46 only, and some pencil marks in the margins throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Georges Hirth : Physiologie de l'art
Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

(Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud : De la methode dans les sciences
Some marginalia in pencil in English and French on the following pages: 97, 206, 241, 321.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

(Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud : De la methode dans les sciences, deuxieme serie
Marginalia in pencil in French on page 191 only; some vertical pencil marks in the margins elsewhere.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

James Mark Baldwin : Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes
Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

James Mark Baldwin : Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development: a study in social psychology
Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Gilbert Ballet : Le langage interieur, et les diverse formes de l'aphasie
'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 38, 47, 54, 65.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Salomon Stricker : Du langage et de musique
'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

William Bateson : Problems of Genetics
Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Albert Bazaillas : Musique et inconscience
Detailed notes at the front and considerable marginalia in both English and French throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Henri Etienne Beaunis : Les sensations internes
Some marginal notes in English and French throughout, especially pp.127-37
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Camille Bellaigue : Psychologie musicale
Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Julien Benda : Le Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la Mobilit
Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

A.C. Benson : Walter Pater
A few marginal notes in pencil in English, thought not all are necessarily in Vernon Lee's hand.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Henri Bergson : L'evolution creatrice
Considerable marginal notes in pencil in English and French throughout; summary index of notes on the title page and flyleaf.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Miscellaneous Poems
'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I find the verses on Maria's winning the cup at Ilsley inscribed to me, and for which honour I beg you to accept of my best thanks; an honour which I value the more because these verses are in company with those elegant and truly pathetic strains, addressed to your dear mother; which, unlike most other poetical effusions of praise, contain nothing but what is founded in truth.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Cobbett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Miscellaneous Poems
'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on the one hand by labour and on the other by pain; for it would be in vain to tell you how I have occupied my mind on the before-mentioned theme, and this was the very volume to lead me sweetly and softly from myself to many charming scenes, conducted by the hand of virtue and genius. Where all are amiable, it is hard to select, but the poem addressed to yourself (page 70), and that part of the "Epistle to a Friend" which contains the subject beginning with the line, "How true the wish, how pure the glow," to the end of the passage, went nearest to my affections.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: S.J. Pratt      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Miscellaneous Poems
'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days since, and for which I am indebted to your politeness. I have been very much pleased with Miss Mitford's poems generally, and many passages I think excellent. In particular I was delighted to see her muse busy in Northumberland, the scenery of which in many parts is well worthy of a poet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Mitford      Print: Book

Dr Russell : Verses
'Dear Madam, Dr. Russell's verses are very highly welcomed. I like them very much. There is great simplicit, neatness and elegance in them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: R.A. Davenport      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Blanch of Castile and other poems
'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make a good drama. The story is busy and pathetic. For the two small poems I thank you much. That to Lord Redesdale is most striking to me, and it is a just tribute to feeling where one would least expect it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: J.P. Smith      Manuscript: Sheet

Mary Russell Mitford : Poems on the Female Character
'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledged the receipt of the pretty poem which you have done me the honour of submitting to my perusal. The fact is, I have been confined to my room for several days, and though I have run through your entertaining M.S., I have by no means given that attention to it which it deserves, and which alone would entitle me to give you an opinion upon it.... I can, from the very cursory perusal I have hitherto made of it, say very truly that it gave me great pleasure, and is both an elegant and poetical work...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Holland      Manuscript: Sheet

Gilbert White : Selborne
'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, and, of course, highly delighted with that book, I was seized with an insuperable desire to see that village which Mr. White has, in the eye of a naturalist, made classic ground...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : The Sisters
'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and delight which I cannot express. I like it better than anything you have done (am I right or wrong?) and you have contrived to mix up poetical imagery and expression with such a great degree of interest as I have never before found in any poem.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Tales of Fashionable Life
'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Life". I don't enter into disquisitions about whether they come up to or fall short of her other works, but I am most highly entertained with them. Such admirable delineation of character and such excellent tendencies one seldom sees, and her stories are interesting, not from intricacy of plot, but from exact representations of Nature...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady
'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not the effectual mode. Pray did you ever go through that work? There is, indeed, tautology of sense - the same thing said ten thousand times over. I should be glad to hear your thoughts of that work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady
'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears to me that there is not one character in the whole work that has any natural train in it, or any marks of distinction, which it required any considerable talents to depict....' [extensive criticism of "Clarissa" follows]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford      Print: Book

Sir H. Englefield : Verses on Waltzing
'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect as far as touching forcibly the proper points. They are supposed to be indignantly addressed to the man who is found waltzing with the poet's mistress: What! The girl I adore by another embraced! What! The bakm of her breath shall another man taste? [etc] Is it not excellent? Before I had seen this I had written something to render the waltz odious, which I sent to a friend in town to get inserted in some newspaper.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford      Print: Book

Virgil : Envy
'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, always keeps clear of this fault, and I cannot believe, in spite of Mr. Maturin, and Mr. Wilson, and Lord Byron, that it is true taste which tolerates it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, always keeps clear of this fault, and I cannot believe, in spite of Mr. Maturin, and Mr. Wilson, and Lord Byron, that it is true taste which tolerates it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

John Wilson : The City of the Plague
'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, tenderness, and sublimity are mixed with descriptions that would almost prevent one from ever re-opening the volume. Plague and famine are fine subjects for the Muse, but she need not give one a medical detail of their physical horrors.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

unknown : Strathallan
'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel disappointed in now. The fact is that the time is past for it. The best parts of it are those which describe feelings that during the late war came home to the bosoms of all. Since the peace, or, at least, since her most precious majesty's trial, all our political and public feelings have been in a manner asleep...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Foscari
[He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of "Foscari". I must frankly tell you that the play has very much surprised me. I gave you credit for a great deal, but not for what you are mistress of. The drama is your proper walk, and I pray you heartily henceforth to make the right use of your great talents, and to contribute something to the solid, permanent literature of your age.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: P. Bayley      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Russell Mitford : Foscari
'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somewhat highly raised. The interest begins at once, and continues throughout, and there are a thousand little touches of great beauty, although (and this in a drama is perhaps the best praise) there is no one passage on which I can fix as possessing a distinct and paramount superiority... In your "Foscari" I find also a much greater strength than is usual from a female pen, accompanied with many a lambent spark of genuine heartfelt feeling... which none but a woman could have given.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Manuscript: Unknown

Sismondi : Literature du Midi de l'Europe
'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collateral information, and at any rate that is amusing.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

John Galt : Annals of the Parish
'The short and simple annals of the poor, which have lately poured in such profusion from the Scottish press, I thought at first exquisitely beautiful and pathetic, and the tone of piety which pervaded them, at once appeared as a national characteristic, and was sublime in its simplicity. But after reading a succession of them I wearied of the beauty, the pathos, and even the piety, for they were brought forward too often, and betrayed too much of stage trick.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

George Crabbe : [poems]
'I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pastorals to be almost as ideal. Crabbe, with his occasional coarseness and propensity to dwell upong hte disgusting "where there is no need of such vanity," is almost the only one who has dared to be correct, and he has given us some beautiful specimens of "lights" as well as "shadows."...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

Washington Irving : Unknown
'...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his own mind.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi
'I think it ["Rienzi"] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effective play.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: W.C. Macready      Manuscript: Unknown

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'Finish the Vita Nuova.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear
'S. begins King Lear in the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The
'S. reads the Antient Mariner aloud'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Philip Sidney : Defence of Poesie, The
'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Horace : [unknown]
'Read Horace with S in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Case is Altered, The
'S. reads the Case is Altered of B.[en] Jonson aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Philip Sidney : Defence of Poesie, The
'Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Defence of Poetry, A
'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Ben Jonson : Tale of a Tub
'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Taaffe : Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Sophocles : Antigone
'finish the Antigone'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima
'Osservatore Fiorentino'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima
'Finish the Osservatore F.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Anacreon : [Odes]
'Read 3 odes of Anacreon'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Franco Sacchetti : Delle novelle
'Walk with S. - he reads some of the tales of Sacchetti aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Every Man in his Humour
'walk with S. - he reads Every Man in his humour aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Every Man in his Humour
'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Williams : Promise, The; or, a Year, a Month, and a Day
'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Alexander Pope : Rape of the Lock, The
'S. goes to Pisa. - finishes the Rape of the Lock to me in the Evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on Criticism, An
'S. reads Pope's Essay on Criticism aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott (ed.) : Ancient English Drama
'Old Plays'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population, An
'read Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : System of Magick, A; or, a History of the black art. Being an historical account of mankind's most early dealings with the Devil; and how the acquaintance on both sides first began
'Read Treatise on Magic & Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Troilus and Criseyde
'S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population, An
'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Of Poulation... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject
'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Of Population... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject
'read the Answer to Malthus - finish it'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Ancient Greek works]
'read greek - read Mackenzies works'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie : [Works]
'read greek - read Mackenzies works'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Richard Lovell Edgeworth : Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
'read Edgeworths life.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Sophocles : Philoctetes
'Read Philoctetes'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey
'Read Homer - Old plays'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott (ed.) : Ancient English Drama
'Read Homer - Old plays'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Henry Matthews : Diary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour... in Portugal, Italy and France in the Years 1817-19
'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey
'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. Are you aware how very little the idea of writing of the public changes your mode of expression? Some of your sketches I like very much. "Hannah" I had read before, as well as the "Talking Lady," with whose portrait I was particularly struck...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Franklin      Print: Book

: Advertisement for Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'P.S. - I have seen no public notice of your book, except the advertisement a fortnight since.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Franklin      Print: Advertisement

Mary Russell Mitford : Cromwell
'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It is impossible not to be amused - impossible not occasionally to admire. On the other hand, the Liston farce of part of it - even exceeds my notion of the liberty of the genre romantique.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Milman      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is right and proper that I should apologize for the liberty I am taking. But really, after having accompanied you, as I have done again and again, in "violeting," and seeking for wood-sorrel ? after having been with you to call upon Mrs. Allen in "the dell", and becoming thoroughly acquainted with May and Lizzie, I cannot but hope that you will kindly pardon my obtrusion, and that my name may be sufficiently known to you to plead my case. There are writers whose works we cannot read without feeling as if we really had looked with them upon the scenes they bring before us, and as if such communion had almost given us a claim to something more than the mere intercourse between authors and "gentle readers". Will you allow me to say that your writings have this effect up me, and that you have taught me, in making me know and love your "Village" so well, to wish for further knowledge also of her who has so vividly impressed its dingles and copses upon my imagination, and peopled them so cheerily with healthful and happy beings?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Fanny's Fairings
'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I am, therefore, famishing for the want of books. I have to pick up all my news of literature from the newspapers. I saw a delightful piece of yours quoted there lately from a book called "The Coronet, or Literary and Christian Remembrancer." It was entitled "Fanny's Fairings."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi
'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown away, for, as [Rev William] Harness can bear witness, I can repeat long passages of it by heart. I have now the pleasure of forwarding to you the volumes I mentioned...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Dyce      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from the Annuals and "Our Village" - so well do the savages know how to make their papers sell - but I have not seen, what I chiefly [sic] sought, any account of the noble tragedy, three acts of which you read to me when I last saw you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Trollope      Print: Newspaper

Mary Russell Mitford : Tragedies
'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [...] You will find it in "Les Anecdotes Germaniques," page 151, and as I have experienced so much pleasure from the perusal and representation of your beautiful tragedies, I shall have great satisfaction in being of the smallest use to you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G.E. Lynch Cotton      Print: Book

Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'Orville : Les Anecdotes Germaniques
'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [...] You will find it in "Les Anecdotes Germaniques," page 151, and as I have experienced so much pleasure from the perusal and representation of your beautiful tragedies, I shall have great satisfaction in being of the smallest use to you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G.E. Lynch Cotton      Print: Book

Mrs S.C. Hall : Sketches of Irish Character
'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is meagre.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in Suffold, and I greeted your boys as old acquaintances.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Strickland      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling of intimate acquaintance, a deep and affectionate interest in her occupations and happiness. You cannot be ignorant that your books are re-printed and widely circulated on this side of the Atlantic? your name has penetrated beyond our maritime cities, and is familiar and loved through many a village circle and to the borders of the lonely depths of unpierced woods ? that we eagerly gather the intimations of your character and history that we fancy are dispersed through your productions ? that we venerate "Mrs. Mosse", are lovers of "Sweet Cousin Mary" and have wept and almost worn mourning for dear bright little "Lizzie", that, in short, such is your power over the imagination that your pictures have wrought on our affections like realities.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Catharine M. Sedgwick      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to express my interest in her, and in the perusal of her charming book, one of the most valuable in my library, which I have read several times, and at each repetition have experienced increased delight.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Kate Sedgwick      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Inez
'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember reading it to me (excepting the fourth act, which was not then born) just before I left England?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Trollope      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Russell Mitford : works
'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainted, I have long been on terms of intimacy, and for whom I have felt the most lively sentiments of regard and esteem. Ever since I had the pleasure of being a fellow contributor of yours in the Ladies? Magazine, I have most anxiously wished for an introduction to you, but was deterred from seeking an opportunity of making myself known by the consciousness of my own obscurity?When, however, I became an inhabitant of the house in Hans Place, which I knew to be the scene of your juvenile days, from the description given in the "Boarding School Recollections," and began to entertain a hope that my intimacy with Miss Landon and the acquaintance of Miss Skerrit would sanction my long-cherished wish?.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Roberts      Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : journal
'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, which has just been lent me...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Trollope      Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing like it in any language, and it is among the few to which one can turn again and again with even new pleasure. The "Farewell" is one of the sweetest bits of writing that I know.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Trollope      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his bed by illness. He laughed and cried by turns, and averred there could not be a word changed for the better, except that of reaper applied to Dora.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Catharine M. Sedgwick      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both my husband and myself have always derived from your writing. We know your "village" and all its crofts, and lanes and people, and we wish we had the happiness of peronally knowing you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : works on political economy
'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simple lady of my acquaintance that "political economy is an excellent thing," but, alas! when I read Miss M's books, I slip [possibly skip?] the political economy as a friend of mine did the muscles when he studied anatomy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Catharine Sedgwick      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been wending this winter. We had read them before, and many of the stories were as familiar to us as household words; but they have been read this time principally that William might trace out their localities, and a great additional charm has his knowledge of your part of the country given them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and William Howitt     Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town
'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with them. I am sure they are meritorious, let the critics say what they may.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland      Print: Book

Fanny Kemble : unknown
'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with them. I am sure they are meritorious, let the critics say what they may.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland      Print: Book

H. Tudor : unknown
'The best account I have read of America, as it now is, I have found in a book written by H. Tudor, Esq. (a townsman of my own whom I knew very well in his early life, some thirty years since). He is their warm admirer...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland      Print: Book

Willis : Melaine
'With Willis's Melaine, etc., I have been delighted, and indeed affected, more than with any poetry I ever read in my life. I wonder if he is the gentleman I met at Mr. Wilson's...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town
'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [...] The book is republished rather shabbily by Carey. I am in great hopes that we shall get our ungracious laws altered at the next congressional session, so that you English contributors to our advantage shall get some remuneration for your pains.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Catharine Sedgwick      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town
'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last fortnight in the country, and perhaps there is no book in the world so pleasant to be on the grass with and read to a charming woman. I have only grudged the transfer of leaves from my right hand to my left, and if you had heard the "Is that all?" of my listener as I closed the last volume, you would have felt that you had not lived in vain - as who has, who has given pleasure to the world, or beguiled weariness, or refined the aspect of life?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: N.P. Willis      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : response to article in the Monthly Critic
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, late January 1841: 'I have just read your reply to the Monthly Critic -- though not his attack'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Dr. Channing : Sermons
'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, both because I think them good and because the last of them, "Gleams of Truth", is a practical illustration of the principles touching the relations of the more favoured and less favoured classes of society, which are so ably and so beautifully set forth in the separate sermon of Dr. Channing which I send with them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Ticknor      Print: Book

Catharine M Sedgwick : Hope
'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, both because I think them good and because the last of them, "Gleams of Truth", is a practical illustration of the principles touching the relations of the more favoured and less favoured classes of society, which are so ably and so beautifully set forth in the separate sermon of Dr. Channing which I send with them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Ticknor      Print: Book

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Ion
'Thank you very much for the gift of "Ion"; the tragedy was known to us by extracts, and our desire to see it was great. We like it very much - it is a noble descendant of the noble Greek tragedy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Book

Robert Montgomery Bird : Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 February 1841: 'If you are looking out for romances to melt away the sense of snow & long evenings from your invalid [i.e. Mitford's father], there is the American Dr Bird's "Nick of the Woods" -- which for adventure & hair breadth escapes & rapid movement from the beginning to the end, will charm you far above the freezing point, though face to face with a thermometer. I recommend to you "Nick of the Woods". I read it lately myself, & went forthwith by metempsychosis into a pilgrim of those vast sighing forests'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Nicholls : Arouse the Soul
'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, full of life, humour, and the noblest elements of poetry. I cannot tell you how such poems as "Arouse the Soul," "I Dare not Scorn," and others such of which this volume has many, affect me. It is such writing as this which makes one feel that talent is nobler than birth, and high-mindedness of more worth than gold.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Book

Robert Nicholls : I Dare not Scorn
'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, full of life, humour, and the noblest elements of poetry. I cannot tell you how such poems as "Arouse the Soul," "I Dare not Scorn," and others such of which this volume has many, affect me. It is such writing as this which makes one feel that talent is nobler than birth, and high-mindedness of more worth than gold.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : 'Orpheus'
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 10 March 1841: 'I have seen Orpheus, & write just to thank you for the pleasure of the vision [...] You have gathered power, intensity, freedom of versification -- But in my brain ---- "slow the Argo ploughs her way LIke a dun dragon spreading moonlit wings", to suggest certain unsurpassable lines.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

: Advertisement for new edition of Mary Russell Mitford's "Our Village"
'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, full of fair pictures of humanity, which, especially where there are children who love reading and being read to, becomes a household book, turned to again and again, and remembered and talked of with affection. So it is by our fireside; it is a work our little daughter has read, and loves to read, and which our little son Alfred, a most indomitable young gentleman, likes especially - not so much for its variety of character, which gives its charm to his sister's mind, but for its descriptions of the country... Such, dear Miss Mitford, being the case, when I saw the new edition advertised, I began to cast in my mind whether or not we could not buy it...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Advertisement

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, full of fair pictures of humanity, which, especially where there are children who love reading and being read to, becomes a household book, turned to again and again, and remembered and talked of with affection. So it is by our fireside; it is a work our little daughter has read, and loves to read, and which our little son Alfred, a most indomitable young gentleman, likes especially - not so much for its variety of character, which gives its charm to his sister's mind, but for its descriptions of the country... Such, dear Miss Mitford, being the case, when I saw the new edition advertised, I began to cast in my mind whether or not we could not buy it...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Howitt      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, full of fair pictures of humanity, which, especially where there are children who love reading and being read to, becomes a household book, turned to again and again, and remembered and talked of with affection. So it is by our fireside; it is a work our little daughter has read, and loves to read, and which our little son Alfred, a most indomitable young gentleman, likes especially - not so much for its variety of character, which gives its charm to his sister's mind, but for its descriptions of the country... Such, dear Miss Mitford, being the case, when I saw the new edition advertised, I began to cast in my mind whether or not we could not buy it...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Howitt      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi
'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction. It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Book

Samuel Laman Blanchard : Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 June 1841: 'I have been reading Blanchard's life of poor L.E.L. [...] The book is to me deeply affecting. She was a fine creature thrown away'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Rienzi
'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction. It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine
'I saw it [praise of Joanna Baillie] in "Blackwood's" this present month, and with indignation too. I never deny the wonderful excellence of Joanna Baillie, but no one shall persuade me that "Rienzi" is not as good as any drama by her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : Sordello
Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa passes, for which also I am your debtor [...] both Pieces have given rise to many reflections in me [...] you seem to possess a rare spiritual gift, poetical, pictorial, intellectual [...] to unfold which into articulate clearness is naturally the problem of all problems for you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Pippa Passes
Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa passes, for which also I am your debtor [...] both Pieces have given rise to many reflections in me [...] you seem to possess a rare spiritual gift, poetical, pictorial, intellectual [...] to unfold which into articulate clearness is naturally the problem of all problems for you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury : The History of a Flirt: Related by Herself
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Before I forget again .. have you looked into the "History of a flirt"? The name may daunt you -- but the writer "leans to Miss Austen's side" [...] There is nothing high toned or passionate -- & supposing you safely over the monotony of the subject & the odiousness of the heroine, it may not prove heavy reading for your evenings [...] It did indeed strike me as one of the very best domestic novels which have fallen upon these evil days.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Poor LEL! Just as she had outstretched her hand to touch nature, & to feel thrillingly there that is poetry is more than fantasy .. to die so! I have dropped tears on tears over some of her later poems'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Pippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841: 'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" .. comprehension, I was going to say! [...] There are fine things in it -- & the presence of genius, never to be denied! -- At the same time it is hard .. [italics]to understand[end italics] -- is'nt it?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 August 1841: 'I have seen & read [italics]the book[end italics] [...] It is written by an enthusiast in the cause of genius upon the spectacle of its misery, lighted up to ghastliness by the torchlight of [Isaac] D'Israeli & other memorialists [...] Its thunderbolts are hurled against all false media -- such as interpose between men of genius & the public, in the form of [italic]readers[end italics] for publishers & Theatrical managers, &c &c [...] There is, in fact, with much talent & power, a sufficiency of acrimony & indiscretion [...] notwithstanding the sense forced upon me of the overweight of certain words -- I did feel myself taken off my feet & carried along in the brave strong generous current of the spirit of the book -- It is a fearless book, with fine thoughts on a stirring subject'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: '[Crow] is an excellent young woman -- intelligent bright-tempered & feeling-hearted, -- more to me than a mere servant; since her heart works more than her hand in all she does for me! And her delight in your Village which I gave her to read, was as true a thing as ever was that of readers of higher degree. She says to me that if we go to Reading, she means to visit the Village, and will know every house in it just as if it were an old place to her!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Crow      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : 'On the Portrait of the Duchess of Burlington, Painted after her Death by Mr Lucas'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: 'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athenaeum! -- Lady Burlington's I mean!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Theodosia Garrow : 'The Doom of Cheynholme'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon estimate of it. Mr Landor, you know, says "Sappho" -- and Mr Kenyon says [...] "wonderful genius!" [...] The best poem I have seen of hers, is the Ballad in Lady Blessington's Keepsake for next year [...] and I think & feel of that ballad as of the rest, that it is flowingly & softly written, with no trace of the thing called genius [...] It is right to admit that I have seen only four or five poems -- but those were selected ones .. for Lady Blessington -- (two selected by Mr Landor)'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Theodosia Garrow : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon estimate of it. Mr Landor, you know, says "Sappho" -- and Mr Kenyon says [...] "wonderful genius!" [...] The best poem I have seen of hers, is the Ballad in Lady Blessington's Keepsake for next year [...] and I think & feel of that ballad as of the rest, that it is flowingly & softly written, with no trace of the thing called genius [...] It is right to admit that I have seen only four or five poems -- but those were selected ones .. for Lady Blessington -- (two selected by Mr Landor)'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Benjamin Robert Haydon : letters to Mary Russell Mitford
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 September 1841: 'Mr Haydon's letters shut up in the best letter of all [i.e. one from Mitford], I received this morning & will return to you in a day or two. I must let Papa just look at them. They interested me much [...] How fine this life of genius is! -- & its religion too! [...] I like these letters. They spring up like a fountain among the world's conventionalities'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

George Stephens : Martinuzzi
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841: 'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago [...] Martinuzzzi is in a course of performance still [...] After the fatal first night, sundry corrections & reformations were made in the tragedy [...] The tragedy has fine things in it, but not very frequently & always broken into chips [...] Mr Horne lent me the play -- & now I have to stutter out the truth to him in all courtesy.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

George Stephens : Martinuzzi
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 October 1841: 'I have not heard from Mr Horne since he wrote to me of Martinuzzi .. A friend of mine, Mrs Orme (who lived with us once as my governess & my sisters',) promised to procure for me from Dr Stone [friend of Horne's] a copy of Martinuzzi which he had marked the margin of, with "great laughter", "peals of laughter", as the spectators laughed where they ought to have cried [...] It was a transcript of the impressions of the first night.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Tom Stone      Print: Book

Washington Irving : Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 October 1841: 'I had heard of Lucretia Davidson, in a passing way, & I never read her memoir. Therefore notwithstanding the obviousness of the influence of her memory, the book you sent me suggested something better & brighter than an "imitation." [...] there is, I think (in the midst of the muck which is mere [italics]warbling[end italics]) indication of something capable of growth & survival beyond the hour of excitement & desease [...] It is a natural question to ask -- "Was it genius -- or a show?" -- and in the multitude of rhymings I stopped to ask it [...] Was Lucretia older than her sister at the time of death? -- & was her poetry more promising? [...] It is an interesting memoir [...] I thought it very painful. I would willingly hope that she was something more than a precocious prodigy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 October 1841: 'I never read Leigh Hunt's book [...] because (now comes a foolish reason) I had understood that he said cruel things & ungrateful of poor Lord Byron [...] Lately, wishing to think Leigh Hunt above that shame, I have been wishing myself to get the book & make it out "not so bad". Strange, that you shd read it only now! -- just now!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

John Kenyon : 'Upper Austria'
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 10 November 1841: 'I have been wandering in Lower Austria [sic] -- very much pleased -- by the help of your music-tongued & smiling philosophy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Theodosia Garrow : poem on death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1841, having recommended she read Theodosia Garrow's narrative poem 'The Doom of Cheynholme' in The Keepsake For 1842: 'You may like it better than I do [...] Individuality & inspiration I do [italics]not[end italics] find in her. Enclosed is a paper I laid my hand on this morning -- some stanzas of hers on poor LEL's death, & in her own autograph. Read it & tell me what you think'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

William Whewell : Essay Towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines
'Give Mr Whewell my best thanks for sending me his tide paper: all on board are much interested by it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Unknown

Henri Bergson : Matiere et Memoire
Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Summary index of notes on front and back inside covers, flyleaf, half-title page, title page, and last page (opposite the 'Table des Matieres'). This book was re-read in January 1923.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Henri Bergson : Essai sur les donn?es imm?diates de la conscience
Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Note on inside cover tells us that this book was re-read in February 1923.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Alexis Bertrand : La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines
Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Fr?d?ric Paulhan, 'Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition' (Paris : Felix Alcan, 1887)
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Fr?d?ric Paulhan : Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition
Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Alexis Bertrand, 'La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Theodor Billroth : Wer ist musikalisch?
Some considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Alfred Binet : Les r?v?lations de l??criture d?apr?s un contr?le scientifique
Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages:147-8, 154-5.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Alfred Binet : La psychologie du raisonnement: recherches exp?rimentales par l?hypnotisme
Considerable marginalia in pencil in English and French throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Pierre Bonnier : L'orientation
Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages: 14, 37, 44, 76, 88
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Henry Noel Brailsford : A League of Nations
Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Henry Noel Brailsford : The war of steel and gold: a study of the armed peace
Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughout
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lujo Brentano : Der wirtschaftende mensch in der geschichte
Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. There are notes in ink by Lujo Brentano on the rear flyleaf. This volume was given to Vernon Lee by Lujo Brentano on 30 September 1928.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lujo Brentano : Die Anf?nge des modernen Kapitalismus
Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German, throughout the volume. This volume was given to Vernon Lee by Lujo Brentano (no date recorded).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lujo Brentano : Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols)
Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Ended reading Jan.22 XXVIII? on the inside front cover of vol. 1.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lujo Brentano : Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols)
Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Finished reading this volume 29 Feb 1928? on the inside cover on vol. 2.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lujo Brentano : Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols)
Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. Volume 3 is published in 1929.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Joseph S. Bridges : Plant Study in School Field & Garden
Some marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages only: 65, 232-3.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Jules Combarieu : Les rapports de la musique et de la po?sie: consid?r?es au point de vue de l?expression
Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Julien-Noel Costantin : Les v?g?taux et les milieux cosmiques (adaptation ? ?volution)
Detailed marginalia in French in pencil on the following pages: 49-51
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Benedetto Croce : Estetica: Come scienza dell?espressione e linguistica generale
Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page references) on the half-title page. Presented to Vernon Lee by the author in 1904.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Theodor Dahmen : Die Theorie des sch?nen von dem bewegungsprincip abgeleitete ?sthetik
Some marginalia in English in pencil, especially on the following pages: 47, 51, 63, 177-8
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Adonais'
'read S's Adonais.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own

J. Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson... to which is prefixed the Life of Mrs Hutchinson written by herself
'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

E. Ludlow : Memors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3 1640
'Read Ludlow's memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

E. Ludlow : Memors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3 1640
'Read Ludlow's Memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Shelley : Valperga
'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Homer : Odyssey
'read 2 books of Homer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Mary Shelley : Matilda
'read Matilda to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Thomas Hope : Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek
'read Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth: a romance
'finish Kenilworth'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Cain
'read Cain'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Vision of Judgment, The
'Read the Vision of Judgement'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Harriet Lee : 'Kruitzner or the German's tale'
'Read the German's tale'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams
'read Caleb Williams to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek texts]
' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it be so difficult - it so richly repays one. Yet I read little for I am not well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John G. Dalyell : Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea
'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Herodotus : Histories
'read Herodotus with S.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Niccolo Tegrimi : Vita Castrucci Castracani
'Read - Tegrino'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Shelley : Matilda
'Read Matilda to E.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Shelley : Valperga
'Finish C.A. to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Tacitus : Annals
'Read Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The
'Read Milton on divorce'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John G. Dalyell : [account of shipwreck of Wager in] Shipwrecks and Diasters at Sea
'E. reads the shipwreck of the Wager to us in the Evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Williams      Print: Book

Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.) : 'Floure and the Leaf, The', attributed to Chaucer in edition of his Works.
'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.) : 'Chaucer's Dream', attributed to Chaucer in edition of his Works.
'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Tacitus : Annals
'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Read Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Heaven and Earth
'S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s - Heaven and Earth in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : Waverley, or 'tis Sixty Years Since
'Read Homer and Waverly'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The
'Read Homer and the Antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Read Rob Roy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'Read Emile'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Werner
'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Sardanapalus, a Tragedy
'read Sardanapalus'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Two Foscari, The
'Read the Two Foscari'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Walter Scott : Pirate, The
'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : [probably] Odyssey
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Hope : Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek
'Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Hope : Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek
'Finish Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
'Read Letters from Norway'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
'Read Wrongs of Woman'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lady Morgan : Florence Macarthy: an Irish Tale
'read Florence Macarthy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

David Lyndsay [pseud.] : Dramas of theAncient World
'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francois Fenelon : Les Aventures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou suite du quatrieme livre de l'Odyssee d'Homere
'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Macchiavelli : Historie Fiorentine
'begin Macchiavelli's history.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Macchiavelli : Historie Fiorentine
'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey
'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Anthony Hamilton : Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont
'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand : Atala; ou les amours de deux sauvages
'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Euripides : Ion
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

E. Ludlow : Memoirs of E. Ludlow Esq.; Lieutenant-General of the horse, commander in chief of the forces in Ireland, one of the council of state, and a member of the parliament which began on NOvember 3 1640
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy : Le Siege de Calais
'It is not my interest to recommend it but in justice to what I owe to your amusement I must advise you to read the Lettres du Marquis de Roselle, if you have not yet seen them. They are written by the wife of Monsieur Beaumont who has got so much credit by defending the family of Calas. I do not recommend the boasted Siege of Calais to you, though it contains some good lines, but the conduct is woeful.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole      Print: Book

Virgil : [probably] Georgics
'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In ten centuries.
'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Apopthegmes New and Old
'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : Physische Geographie
'Kant's Geografica Fisica'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Samson Agonistes
'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Stael : Memoires sur la vie privee de mon pere, par Madame la Baronne de Stael Holstein, suivis des Melanges de M. Necker
'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Milton : Samson Agonistes
'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : Physische Geographie
'Finish the 1st Vol of Geografica Fisica'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : Physische Geographie
'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Niccolo Ugo Foscolo : Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Charles Darwin : The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
'I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

John A. Heraud : The Roman Brother: A Tragedy
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 November 1841: 'The Roman Brother -- & thank you! -- There are fine things in it -- very -- but it wants continuity, interest altogether -- & leaves you cold as a stone.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling : Theory of Pneumatology
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1841: 'Mrs Niven may keep the Pneumatology as long, just as long, as she pleases. I am glad she cares to look into it. I am pleased that the first glance into it has interested [italics]you[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

R. M. Milnes : One Tract More, or, The System Illustrated by "The Tracts for the Times," Externally Regarded: by a Layman
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1841: 'What a singular movement is this Puseyite one [...] Mr Milnes is a Puseyite & wrote the "One tract more," which I read at Torquay by grace of Mr Kenyon's kindness, but thought little of.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Ann Radcliffe : Gaston de Blondeville
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville". perhaps you don't know it, but I am, have been .. in all sorts of tenses -- a profound reader of romances. I have read Gaston [...] The fault of Mrs Radcliffe's preceeding works was her want of courage in not following back the instincts of our nature to their possible causes. She made the instinct toward the supernatural too prominent, to deny & belie the thing [...] Can anything be more irritating than the Key to her mysteries [...]? 'Just in proportion to the degree of this disagreeableness, is Gaston better & nobler in [italics]design[end italics]. Inasmuch as the ghost is real, it is excellent, but inasmuch as the book hath three volumes (or two) -- it is naught. It did hang upon me (with all its advantages as a ghost story) with a weight from which her preceeding works are sacred. It quite disappointed me! [...] the whole appeared to me heavy & not impressive -- &, what is strange, not so terrible with its actual marvels, as were the waxen mimicries of the Castle of Otranto.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas J. Serle : Joan of Arc
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville" [...] And I have been reading your Mr Serle's Joan of Arc -- confessing with you the talent of the book, while I groaned a little under the heaviness [...] Joan is not very interesting -- true & beautiful as is the aspect she wears. She is seen as in a picture -- attitude, countenance -- but we dont feel her heart beat -- we know nothing of her inward life.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: daily newspapers
Mary Russell Mitford to William Harness, February 1842: 'My poor father has passed this winter in a miserable state of health and spirits. His eyesight fails him now so completely that he cannot even read ... the newspaper. Accordingly, I have not only every day gone through the daily paper, debates and all ... but after that, I have read to him from dark till bedtime'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Newspaper

Anna Brownell Jameson : writings including Conversations on the State of Art and Literature in Germany (1837)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'Mrs Jameson's early writings -- the Ennuyee for instance -- have an adroit leaning to sentiment, which is [italics]sentimentality[end italics], & provokes one the more for the excellent taste observable & admirable even there. In her later books, I do, I confess, see much to admire. The conversations, for instance, on the state of art & literature in Germany .. oh surely, we cannot all but admire their acuteness & eloquence & high intonation.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Trollope : The Blue Belles of England
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'Have you read the "Blue Belles"? Do -- it is very clever -- and besides I want you to send me the little key which belongs to the personalities. Who is Lady Dort? -- & Mrs Stewart Gardiner? Who is the painter? It is very clever -- good for its bad class!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling : Autobiography
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'I have kept back my letter that I might send you Stilling's Autobiography! But [...] I cant get it anywhere [..] I [italics]am[end italics] so disappointed. Cant Mrs Cox get it for you from the place where she read it herself?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Cox      Print: Book

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841
Robert Browning to Rachel Talfourd, c.1842: 'Out of certain projects of calling personally and saying my thankful say -- comes this poor paper and ink acknowledgement of the Sergeant's great kindness [...] I have read the "Recollections" with the greatest delight, seeing in my mind the whole party at every turn. Will you have the goodness to tell him this, mending my imperfect phrase.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Joseph Hunter : A Disquisition on the Scene, Origin, Date, etc. of Shakespeare's Tempest
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I did not complain of the briefness of the vision [...] I do hate all those geographical statistical historical yea, & natural-historical illustrators of a great poet [...] I dont care a grain of sand on the shore whether Prospero's island was Bermuda or Lampedusa! [goes on to make more detailed criticisms of this text, and the attempts in it to identify real-life origins of Shakespeare's settings and characters]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Alford : Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I did not complain of the briefness of the vision [...] I have been reading too by the same grace .. of dear Mr Kenyon .. Mr Alford's Chapters on the Greek poets. I dont like them at all. Such criticism, on the surface & of long familiarity with the common eye, the sense of the world has outgrown. It wd have done for those days when poetry was considered a pretty play like skittles, but is not suitable to this [italics]now[end italics], when its popularity as a toy is passed, & its depth & holiness as a science more surely tho' partially regarded.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Westwood : Note to Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 7 January 1842: 'Miss Barrett -- inferring Mr Westwood from the handwriting, -- begs his acceptance of the unworthy little book [Barret's An Essay on Mind] he does her the honour of desiring to see [...] Will he receive at the same moment, the expression of the touched & gratified feelings with which Miss Barrett read what he wrote on the subject of her later volumes [...] she is thankful for what he said so kindly in his note to her'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

Frances Trollope : The Blue Belles of England
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 9 January 1842: 'My dear love -- I have just looked through the Blue Belles -- and so far as I can guess at Mrs Trollope's people [...] I should say that Lady Dort was Mrs Skinner of Portland Place -- who is really quite as absurd if not more so [goes on to identify possible originals of other characters in text]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

: Poetae Graeci Christiani, una cum Homericus Centonibus
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1842: 'I have won a sight of the Poetae Christiani -- but the price is ruinous -- [italics]fourteen guineas[end italics] -- and then the work consists almost entirely of Latin poets -- deducting Gregory & Nonnus, and John Damascenus & a cento from Homer by somebody or other -- Turning the leaves rapidly I do not see much else'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : Alsargis
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 18 January 1842: 'What can you have thought, my dear Mr Horne, of all this loitering with your tragedy? [...] Here it is all safe back for you [...] thank you, thank you, twice over, for all the -- -- -- [italics]pleasure[end italics] is the wrong word -- -- -- [italics]sensation[end italics] is not quite right -- the [italics]emotion[end italics], which this fine tragedy has given me [goes on to comment upon text in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Westwood : Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842: 'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] very grateful to you for the gift of your poems [...] my pencil has marked my favourites. I like, among others, that song with the pretty wild measure, about the summer, and the song to spring about the "bright-vein'd flowers"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Diary and Letters (Volume 1)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842: 'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end italics] make! There is certainly a [italics]consciousness[end italics] which combined with the egoism & the Evelinaism "in saecula saeculorum", suggests no idea of modesty, real modesty [...] And thus I do not worship the "dear little Burney" as a fair incarnate modesty [...] But I do like her book -- I do think it full of living pulses & delightfulness, & my heart leaps up at the hum of work-day life issuing thus from the tomb-door of that dead generation. Oh -- do read the book -- I mean, at once -- read it at once.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Margaret Baron-Wilson : The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842: 'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside Hayley's Autobiography [goes on to criticise these texts in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Hayley : Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq ... Written by Himself
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842: 'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside Hayley's Autobiography [goes on to criticise these texts in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Diary and Letters (Volume 1)
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1842: 'I have only read the first volume of Madame D'Arblay's "Diary." Dr Johnson appears to the greatest possible advantage [...] and Mrs Thrale -- oh that warm heart! that lively sweetness! My old governess knew her as Mrs Piozzi, in Wales [...] As to the little Burney, I don't like her at all [...] A girl of the world -- a woman of the world [...] thought clearly and evidently of nothing on this earth but herself and "Evelina."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

H. F. Chorley : Music and Manners
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 March 1842: 'Since writing to you yesterday, my beloved friend, I have read in H. F. C[horley]'s "Music and Manners" the account of a visit which he made to Madame d'Abrantes, I think in '39 [goes on to relate anecdote given]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Unknown

: De legibus
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went thorugh the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Plato : Works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: works attributed to Plato
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic]with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Aeschylus : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Sophocles : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Euripides : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Aristotle : Poetics
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regularly into both hands when I finish Plato's last page.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Aristotle : Ethics
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regularly into both hands when I finish Plato's last page.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Aristotle : 'work upon rhetoric'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regularly into both hands when I finish Plato's last page.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: newspaper
'When I get home my noble aunt is reading the papers. At the time I was writing this the number of people reading the papers was more than usual.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

Lytton Strachey : Elizabeth and Essex
'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side would be made of iron bars, all giving on to a landing, like a zoo [...] I tried to read the book I had brought with me, a pocket edition of Lytton Strachey's "Elizabeth and Essex". It was not an ideal choice but I had snatched it up as I left my room.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Diana Mosley      Print: Book

: The Times
'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a word to say in politics".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown
'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight continuous bombing and gunfire have shaken the house. A huge fire has lit up Aldershot and Farnham to the east; whilst gunfire and flares light up Bordon and the south coast. Mrs Grant is cowering downstairs in the kitchen; I find Sidney reading but glad to have a cup of tea. Neither he nor I are perturbed...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sidney Webb      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : A Room of One's Own
'Sunday 3 October. I am reading "A Room of One's Own". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write an essay about life in the WRNS'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Pym      Print: Book

: Daily Mirror
'Every day for a fortnight at the end of February, an observer brought a copy of the "Daily Mirror" into the canteen and handed it round among immediate neighbours (about a dozen usually had some kind of a look at it), and noted down afterwards all the items in the paper that had attracted any comments of any kind. During the whole of this period there was a total of not more than four remarks about the war news at all, and these were of the briefest. Here is a typical set of reactions to looking at the paper - the particular day being February 26th, the day when a Cripps speech was headlined all over the front page: "What's your birthday, Peg?" "June. First half of June. What's it say?" "'No great excitements, but a pleasant, easy-going sort of day.'"...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

: Daily Herald
'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, they seemed strangely amiable.... I sat beside two workmen who swallowed food and news simultaneously (steamed ginger pudding, the "Daily Herald" and the "Daily Express").'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

: Daily Express
'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, they seemed strangely amiable.... I sat beside two workmen who swallowed food and news simultaneously (steamed ginger pudding, the "Daily Herald" and the "Daily Express").'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

Vere Hodgson : MS diary
'Gratifying letter from John Fossett: "Very many thanks for two instalments of diary. Joan and I derived hours of pleasure from reading it aloud to each other. How we laughted about the Mulberry Tree. We passed it over to the RAF and how they enjoyed it. It seemed like being at home again as we lived through your experiences.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Fossett      Manuscript: Sheet

Mary Shelley : [letters to PB Shelley]
'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his absences at Marlow. What a scene to recur to! My William, Clara, Allegra are all talked of - They lived then - They breathed this air & their voices struck on my sense; their feet trod the earth beside me - & their hands were warm with blood and life when clasped in mine'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say "Mary" - "It is Shelley" I thought - the revulsion was of agony - Never more shall I hear his beloved voice'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Homer : Odyssey
'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton : Paul Clifford
'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulwer become? the first Author of the age? I do not doubt it - he is a magnificent writer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries
'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - in fact I didn't have the slightest idea of what it would contain - I beg you if ever this book falls into your hands, do not read it. - it would cause you pain' [translation of a letter from Mary Shelley to Teresa Guiccioli]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Memoires inedits de madame la comtesse de Genlis
'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 vols. - Above all, dear, get the Promessi Sposi - at first you may lag a little, but as you get on the truth & perfect Italianism of the manners and desciptions - the beautiful language which differs from all other Italian prose - being really the Tusca[n] of the day that he writes, & not a bad imitation of the [ ] trecentisti - the pasion & even sublimity of parts rendered it to me a most delightful book - I can imagine a person who had not been to Italy not liking it but to [underlined] us [end underlining] it must be delightful.' [letter to Jane Williams Hogg]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi
'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 vols. - Above all, dear, get the Promessi Sposi - at first you may lag a little, but as you get on the truth & perfect Italianism of the manners and desciptions - the beautiful language which differs from all other Italian prose - being really the Tusca[n] of the day that he writes, & not a bad imitation of the [ ] trecentisti - the pasion & even sublimity of parts rendered it to me a most delightful book - I can imagine a person who had not been to Italy not liking it but to [underlined] us [end underlining] it must be delightful.' [letter to Jane Williams Hogg]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Prosper Merimee : La Jacquerie
'[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.' [letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Crofton Croker : Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose' [letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Banim : Tales by the O'Hara Family
'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certainly exonerate the Anglo Irish from the charge of impropriety - but I do not think it as clever as the Nowlans' [letter to ? Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

James Boaden : Man of Two Lives, The
'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happily - yet it strikes me to be a translation - the phrases, the thoughts - the incidents are so truly German.' [letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Washington Irving : Conquest of Granada, The
'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - the Conquest of Granada - I want to consult it, and have been disappointed in having it from Hookham - No book has delighted me so much for a very long time - Your kind offer with regard to books has made me take this liberty - I hope I do not do wrong' [Letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Stendhal [pseud.] : Promenades dans Rome
'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it quite impossible to do anything with it' [leter to John George Cochrane, editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review - presumably Mary had undertaken to review the book]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Lord Byron
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life - I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infinitely well what pleases me - Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy tact displayed by Mr Moore, which distinguish this book - I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece - and on his return - there is strength and richness as well as sweetness The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same for you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is our Lord Byron - the fascinating - faulty - childish - philosophical being - daring the world - docile to a private circle - impetuous and indolent - gloomy and yet more gay than any other - I live with him again in these pages - getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful and buoyant tone of his conversation and manners - [...] There is something cruelly kind in this single volume When will the next come? - impatient before how tenfold now am I so. Among its many other virtues this book is [underlined] accurate [end underlining] to a miracle I have not stumbled on one mistake with regard either to time place or feeling' [letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Lord Byron
'I saw my Father today who is quite delighted with Mr Moore's book - indeed who is not? - He thinks the whole sets Lord Byron in the light he best deserves - Generous open hearted and kind - He particularly thinks beautiful the account of the first acquaintance between Lord Byron and Mr Moore' [Letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Godwin      Print: Book

William Godwin : Cloudesley
'I have just finished Cloudesley - the interest is inexpressibly absorbing - there is a truth and majesty in the delineation of the passions, and a simplicity and grace in the style different from the present day - and striking one as one reads as how infinitely superior' [Letter to Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley - Mary's publishers]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : "Victor Hugo's Romances"
'"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was needed there also.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?

Robert Louis Stevenson : [material on John Knox]
?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me some trouble.?
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox

Laetitia Elizabeth Landon : Romance and Reality
'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining] she has too much fancy & feeling for - I was deeply interested in the 3d Vol - it does her heart & imagination both great credit. Cavendish I find very amusing' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Johnson Neale : Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea
'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining] she has too much fancy & feeling for - I was deeply interested in the 3d Vol - it does her heart & imagination both great credit. Cavendish I find very amusing' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Johnson Neale : Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea
'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite about certain things; it is bad enough that they are' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer : Eugene Aram
' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - some events in the family of a friend of mine forced me to go out of town, & took all my attention forcibly away from my task. However my article is now in full progress - & I write to tell you so that you may expect it next week. One thing I am plagued about - Colburn has been too stingy to give me a copy - & getting it from a library it is continually sent for back It is a wonderful and divine book - though so very sad' [Letter to John Bowring]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of Normanby : Contrast, The
'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of May Fair or Arlington -' [letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer : Godolphin
'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.] : Marriage in High Life, A
'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Percy : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous tales & is a great story teller' [letter to Maria Gisborne; subject is Percy Shelley junior]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [translation of Homer's Hymn to Mercury and the Cyclops]
'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous tales & is a great story teller' [letter to Maria Gisborne; subject is Percy Shelley junior]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley      Print: Book

Anselm von Feurbach : Caspar Hauser
'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply exciting work - It reminds me much of Calderon's La Vida es Sueno' [letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Sophocles : Antigone
'Percy is reading the [underline] Antigone [end underlining]' [letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley      Print: Book

Giambattista Marino : L'Adone
'I have just begun the Adone - & like it' [letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besides that I do love the kind hearted wise & Gentle Bear - & think him as loveable a [Man] friend as a profound philosopher' [letter to John Murray, who had just published a new edition of Boswell's Life Of Johnson that Mary was keen to possess]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lady Stepney : Heir Presumptive, The
'Lady Stepney's Novel shall be returned to you in a day or two - It is very clever & amusing' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Caroline Norton : "The Wife" and "Woman's Reward"
'I have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain such true observations - thoughts that come home to one's heart, even till it aches, as shew the Authoress to have the greatest sensibility joined to her acknowledged talent' [Letter to Elizabeth Stanhope]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Gisborne : [a tale of Italy]
'I am anxious to thank S.G. [Signor Giovanni = John Gisborne] for the pleasure I have received from his tale of Italy a tale all Italy - breathing of the land I love - the descriptions are beautiful - & he has shed a great charm round the concentrated & undemonstrative person of his gentle heroine. I suppose she is the reality of the story. - Did you know her? - It is difficult however to judge how to procure for it the publication it deserves [Mary details the problems] But there arises a stronger objection from the length of the story - As the merit lies in the beauty of the details, I do not see how it could [be] but cut down to [underlined] one quarter [underlining ends] of its present length, which is as long as any tale printed in an Annual' [Letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.] : Works of Garcilaso de la Vega
' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?' [letter to John Bowring who was helpiing Mary with Spanis researches]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Legend of Florence, A
'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you write about it) lovely world.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Richard Monckton Milnes : Poetry for the People
'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful - O let not words, the callous shell of thought & I will not say my life was sad and I like infinitely They owned their passion without shame or fear. I hope some day you will come and read to me again' [Letter to Richard Monckton Milnes]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Monckton Milnes      Print: Book

Alexander Andrew Knox : Heir of Cyprus, The
'You liked "St Thomas's Eve" which gave great promise - a promise which "The Heir Of Cyprus" redeems. The tory is far more artistically, & is indeed admirably managed, whilst the poetry is not less spirited and fervid. It is presumptuous, I fear, to speak thus - but I think that animated by your genius, the character of the Hero will have a very powerful effect on the stage' [letter to William Macready]
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Recollections of a first visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841
'Will you thank Mr Talfourd for the kind present of his pleasant book' [letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Abraham Hayward : [account of Euroipean travels]
'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning your name?' [letter to Abraham Hayward. Mary is preparing her own acount of travels in Germany and Italy in 1841/2]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt
'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you have done the most difficult thing in the world with so true a grace that you more than reconcile me to the alterations. The Story of Rimini is certainly more true, more complete more beautiful as it now stands.' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Mary Shelley : Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843
'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of work - written much of it in a state of pain that makes me look at its pages now as if written in a dream. The second volume only tells anything new - I fear I shall be very much ashamed of it' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Leigh Hunt      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Imagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the English Poets
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Paradiso
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

John Keats : 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

James Abbott : [story of India]
[Mary writes to Alexander Blackwood, asking if he might be inclined to accept for "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" a tale by a Captain Abbott] 'The tale is long & would be distributed over several numbers of your Magazine - It is of course faithful in scenery & Costume - & is in short a romantic tale of India by an Old Indian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn : Grafin Faustine
'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very clever - all about Clement is excellent - two things I think erroneous - one is bad management on the part of the authoress the other unnatural - She ought to have accounted better for the absence of Andlau - In the situation she describes he wd have come back or sent for her - never have allowed so long a separation - the unnatural thing is Faustina ever wishing to leave her child - a woman of that directness of feeling is always I think maternal but I like the book & it is clever - lend it to Knox when you have read it' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn : [a novel]
'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very clever - all about Clement is excellent - two things I think erroneous - one is bad management on the part of the authoress the other unnatural - She ought to have accounted better for the absence of Andlau - In the situation she describes he wd have come back or sent for her - never have allowed so long a separation - the unnatural thing is Faustina ever wishing to leave her child - a woman of that directness of feeling is always I think maternal but I like the book & it is clever - lend it to Knox when you have read it' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

Jean Francois Marmontel : Memoires
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 March 1842: 'I [italics]have[end italics] read Marmontel's memoirs .. & a most amusing book it is'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Zanoni
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842: 'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much in it, one wd yearn to see cast out of it, in reverence to the unity of the whole [goes on to comment on text in further detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Correspondence
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842: 'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming" being the right word, since I verily & indeed believed myself wrapt up close in the domestic brocades of the Harlowe family, all the time I spent in reading it. His own letters are letters out of his romances to the very crossing of the t[']s [...] Lady Bradleigh [sic] is delightful -- -- I don't wonder that he tired himself with pacing up & down Hyde Park in his desire to catch a glimpse of her! [...] I read that volume with quite a romance-palpitation. Thank you, thank you for telling me of the book'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Edwin Austin Townsend : poem on the departure and farewell sermon of George Augustus Selwyn, on his being appointed Bishop of New Zealand
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842: 'I like this waste of the public money upon bishops of New Zealand!! [...] as little as you do, & have ventured to be open with Mr Townsend & tell him as much. The utter absurdity [...] of forcing out the forms & ceremonies of this Parliament church, out among the savages, I cd even cry over in utter vexation [...] let those who are sent, be [italics]missionaries[end italics]. The bishops are impotent [...] in all situations of the kind -- & as I ventured to tell Mr Townsend, the martyr soul of poor Williams was the true Bishop-soul for the South Seas. 'There is great sweetness in his little poem to be sure -- a few lines together which one smiles over to oneself as for pleasure. Still -- what a subject!'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett : letter to Mary Russell Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I made my father happy in reading what you say of Sir Robert [Peel]: his eyes brightened like diamonds at the sound. For my part, I incline to think with one of Miss Edgeworth's heroines, that "he cannot be so very artful as is said, because everybody does say so."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Manuscript: Letter

: speeches of Daniel O'Connell
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I remember a few years ago reading speeches by O'Connell in one of the Irish papers, which, with the faults of Irish oratory, had yet life and power.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Newspaper

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Philip Massinger : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Select Collection of Old Plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles F. Darley : Plighted Troth
Wiliam Charles Macready, Journal, 6 August 1841: 'Finished the play of Plighted Troth -- a play written in a quaint style, but possessing the rare qualities of intense passion and happy imagination.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Charles Macready

Charles Darwin : The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Lionel Dauriac : Essai sur l'esprit musical
Detailed notes on the front flyleaf and half-title page, and extensive marginalia in pencil in French throughout.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Hans Driesch : The History & Theory of Vitalism
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume, and summary notes on the inside front cover.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Georges Dumas : La tristesse et la joie
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Emile Durkheim : De la division du travail social: ?tude sur l?organisation des soci?t?s sup?rieures
Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Beatrice Edgell : Theories of Memory
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Henry Fawcett : Manual of Political Economy
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Charles F?r : Sensations et Mouvement: ?tudes exp?rimentale de psycho-m?canique
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume; a brief summary of notes on the front flyleaf.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Charles W. Ferguson : The Confusion of Tongues: a review of modernisms
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English on the following pages only: 256, 265-6, 274.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Guđmundur Finnbogason : L'intelligence sympathetique
Summary index in pencil in Vernon Lee's hand on page 244.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Jacques Vontade : L??me des Anglais (Hypoth?ses Impertinentes)
Much marginalia in pencil, mainly in French but some in English, throughout the volume; summary notes on the rear end papers.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Henry Ford : My Life and Work
Much marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. 'Finished reading Giovedi Santi 1929' written on the half-title page. Received from Evelyn Wimbush, Christmas 1928.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

F.W. Gamble : The Animal World
Brief notes in pencil on the front flyleaf, and some marginalia on the following pages only (all in English): 32, 34.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Patrick Geddes : The Evolution of Sex
Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Patrick Geddes : Evolution
Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Human Work
Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Charlotte Perkins Gilman : The Home: Its Work and Influence
Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Rudolf Goldscheid : H?herentwicklung und Menschen?konomie: grundlegung der sozialbiologie
Detailed summary of notes on front inside cover, flyleaf, title page, half-title page, first page of text, and rear inside cover. Very heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German throughout. This book was also read by Mario Calderoni and his marginal annotations are also evident. Read by Vernon Lee in March 1913 and re-read in 1920.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Rudolf Goldscheid : Entwicklungswerttheorie, Entwicklungs?konomie, Menschen?konomie
Summary of notes on the half-title page and rear papers. Heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German throughout.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Edwin S. Goodrich : Living Organisms: An Account of their Origin & Evolution
Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive on the following pages: 90, 108-111, 116-7, 134-5, 140-1, 175, 185.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Karl Groos : Einleitung in die Aesthetik
Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Karl Groos : Der Aesthetische Genuss
Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with page references pasted into the volume opposite the title page, and this is continued on the rear inside cover.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Karl Groos : Die Lehre vom umfassenden Seelenein
Some marginal annotation in pencil and ink in English on the following pages only: 15, 17, 28.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Karl Groos : Die Befreiungen der Seele
Only one marginal gloss ('good') written in pencil on one page only. Note that this book does not have page numbers.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Karl Groos : Das Seelenleben des Kindes
Considerable marginalia, mainly in English but some in German, throughout the volume. Detailed notes on the rear inside cover.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Memoirs of a Cavalier
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me much, except Robinson Crusoe & The Plague'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me much, except Robinson Crusoe & The Plague'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : A Journal of the Plague Year
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me much, except Robinson Crusoe & The Plague'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 30 March 1842: 'I have been reading Emerson -- He does away with individuality & personality in a most extraordinary manner -- teaching that [...] every man's being is a kind of Portico to the God Over-soul -- with Deity for background [...] there are heresies as thick as blackberries. Still the occasional beauty of thought & expression, & the noble erectness of the thinking faculty gave me "wherewithal to glory".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Russell Lowell : A Year's Life
Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 March 1842: 'I beg you at last to receive my very earnest thanks for the volume of graceful poetry which I received from you some months ago through the hands of our mutual friend Mr Kenyon [...] There is a natural bloom upon the poems, a one-heartedness with nature, which is very pleasant to me to recognize [...] I hope that you will write on'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Kenyon : A Rhymed Plea for Tolerance
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'The "Rhymed Plea" is admirable "after its kind" -- but with all my true & admiring regard for its author & his writings I could not be content to receive it as sole comforter for the absence of higher inspirations.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Agnes Maria Bennett : The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'I read the Beggar girl, when I was very young'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [on the Greek Christian poets], I put on a veil and tell you that Mr Kenyon thought it well done altho' "labor thrown away from the unpopularity of the subject" -- that Miss Mitford was very much pleased [...] that Mrs Jamieson read them "with great pleasure" unconsciously of the author, -- & that Mr Horne the poet & Mr Browning the poet were not behind in approbation! Mr Browning is said to be learned in Greek [...] & of Mr Horne I should suspect something similar. Miss Mitford & Mrs Jamieson altho' very gifted & highly cultivated women are not Graecians & therefore judge the papers simply as English compositions. 'The single unfavorable opinion is Mr Hunter's who thinks that the criticisms are not given with either sufficient seriousness or diffidence, & that there is a painful sense of effort through the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Kenyon      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [on the Greek Christian poets], I put on a veil and tell you that Mr Kenyon thought it well done altho' "labor thrown away from the unpopularity of the subject" -- that Miss Mitford was very much pleased [...] that Mrs Jamieson read them "with great pleasure" unconsciously of the author, -- & that Mr Horne the poet & Mr Browning the poet were not behind in approbation! Mr Browning is said to be learned in Greek [...] & of Mr Horne I should suspect something similar. Miss Mitford & Mrs Jamieson altho' very gifted & highly cultivated women are not Graecians & therefore judge the papers simply as English compositions. 'The single unfavorable opinion is Mr Hunter's who thinks that the criticisms are not given with either sufficient seriousness or diffidence, & that there is a painful sense of effort through the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [on the Greek Christian poets], I put on a veil and tell you that Mr Kenyon thought it well done altho' "labor thrown away from the unpopularity of the subject" -- that Miss Mitford was very much pleased [...] that Mrs Jamieson read them "with great pleasure" unconsciously of the author, -- & that Mr Horne the poet & Mr Browning the poet were not behind in approbation! Mr Browning is said to be learned in Greek [...] & of Mr Horne I should suspect something similar. Miss Mitford & Mrs Jamieson altho' very gifted & highly cultivated women are not Graecians & therefore judge the papers simply as English compositions. 'The single unfavorable opinion is Mr Hunter's who thinks that the criticisms are not given with either sufficient seriousness or diffidence, & that there is a painful sense of effort through the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Jamieson      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [on the Greek Christian poets], I put on a veil and tell you that Mr Kenyon thought it well done altho' "labor thrown away from the unpopularity of the subject" -- that Miss Mitford was very much pleased [...] that Mrs Jamieson read them "with great pleasure" unconsciously of the author, -- & that Mr Horne the poet & Mr Browning the poet were not behind in approbation! Mr Browning is said to be learned in Greek [...] & of Mr Horne I should suspect something similar. Miss Mitford & Mrs Jamieson altho' very gifted & highly cultivated women are not Graecians & therefore judge the papers simply as English compositions. 'The single unfavorable opinion is Mr Hunter's who thinks that the criticisms are not given with either sufficient seriousness or diffidence, & that there is a painful sense of effort through the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hengist Horne      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [on the Greek Christian poets], I put on a veil and tell you that Mr Kenyon thought it well done altho' "labor thrown away from the unpopularity of the subject" -- that Miss Mitford was very much pleased [...] that Mrs Jamieson read them "with great pleasure" unconsciously of the author, -- & that Mr Horne the poet & Mr Browning the poet were not behind in approbation! Mr Browning is said to be learned in Greek [...] & of Mr Horne I should suspect something similar. Miss Mitford & Mrs Jamieson altho' very gifted & highly cultivated women are not Graecians & therefore judge the papers simply as English compositions. 'The single unfavorable opinion is Mr Hunter's who thinks that the criticisms are not given with either sufficient seriousness or diffidence, & that there is a painful sense of effort through the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [on the Greek Christian poets], I put on a veil and tell you that Mr Kenyon thought it well done altho' "labor thrown away from the unpopularity of the subject" -- that Miss Mitford was very much pleased [...] that Mrs Jamieson read them "with great pleasure" unconsciously of the author, -- & that Mr Horne the poet & Mr Browning the poet were not behind in approbation! Mr Browning is said to be learned in Greek [...] & of Mr Horne I should suspect something similar. Miss Mitford & Mrs Jamieson altho' very gifted & highly cultivated women are not Graecians & therefore judge the papers simply as English compositions. 'The single unfavorable opinion is Mr Hunter's who thinks that the criticisms are not given with either sufficient seriousness or diffidence, & that there is a painful sense of effort through the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Barrett Hunter      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey (ed) : The Works of William Cowper, Esq., ... With a Life of the Author
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 April 1842: 'The best and fullest biography [of William Cowper] in all ways appears to be poor Southey's -- the life published together with the works a few years ago [...] I read the book some years ago -- Mr Kenyon lent it to me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842: 'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great many thanks. 'The Tragedy will be considered probably "naught" as a whole, but of considerable entity of beauty in its detached parts. It appears to [italics]me[end italics] that there are even fine dramatic touches in it although it is not a fine tragedy [...] For the rest -- there is much which is beautiful & powerful -- only you have [end italics]to dig for it[end italics] -- Do read the sonnets to the painter .. & the next palinodia sonnet -- & the one beginning "A Poet" -- & that composed on May morning 1838'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 April 1842: 'Dear Mr Kenyon lent me Wordsworth's new volume two days ago -- & I have read the last line & end gratefully to the poet. The tragedy [italics]fails[end italics] [...] yet has more dramatic feature occasionally than I had expected to find [...] Among the other poems there are some four or five sonnets which are supremely excellent [makes other criticisms]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightful -- yet I am only just now reading them -- & the Duc de St Simon's also. I have a sort of Memoir brain fever at the present season-- Don't you think so?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon : Memoires
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightful -- yet I am only just now reading them -- & the Duc de St Simon's also. I have a sort of Memoir brain fever at the present season-- Don't you think so?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'The Cardinal and the Dog'
William Charles Macready, Jr. to Robert Browning, May 1842: 'My dear Mr Browning 'I was very much obliged to you, for your kind letter. I liked exceedingly the Cardinal and the dog. I have tried to illustrate the poem, and I hope that you will like my attempt.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Charles Macready      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Russell Mitford : letter to Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 May 1842: 'I cdnt help reading to Crow your beautiful story of your Flush [dog] [...] mine immediately took up the gesture of listening intently gathering his ears over his great eyes as if he saw a hare [...] & patting about his little paws everytime the word [...] "Flush" occurred. Be sure he thought I was reading about [italics]him[end italics]!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842: 'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine Tennyson [...] But notwithstanding the poetry of the novelties -- & you will observe that his two preceding volumes (only one of which I had seen before .. having enquired for the other vainly) are included in these two, -- nothing appears to me quite equal to Oenone [...] That is not said in disparagement of the last, but in admiration of the first. There is in fact more thought, more bare brave working of the intellect in the later poems, even if we miss some of the high ideality, & the music that goes with it, of the older ones.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Scott : 'Tom Cringle's Log'
Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 12 January 1842: 'In reading "Tom Cringle's Log" to my father, the other day, I find that Mr Scott, the author, speaks of the Speaker of the House of Assembly in Jamaica as the handsomest and most agreeable man in the island. Now, he must have been Miss [Elizabeth] Barrett's uncle, who held that station for very many years before his death, which occurred two or three years ago'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Unknown

: death notice of Lady Sidmouth
Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 4 May 1842: 'I have had a great shock lately, in the death of poor Lady Sidmouth. I received from her two letters at once, on the Tuesday, accompanying a small portion of honey from Hymettus, which I sent, in right of Museship, to Miss [Elizabeth] Barrett; and on Friday I read her death in the newspaper.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [advertisement]
'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being burnt down, my attention was caught by one of the very numerous bills with which the boards, at that time surrounding it, were covered: it ran thus - "Susan Hopley; or the Life of a Maid Servant". This book, I thought to myself, must be a novelty...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford      Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster

[unknown] : [newspapers]
'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]
'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford      Print: Broadsheet

Catherine Crowe : Susan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid Servant
'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work to write her own life story]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[John] [Cleave] : Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette
'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was subscribing to periodically issued numbers of the "Pickwick Papers". He had seen me in the breakfast hour poring over the contents of a dirty rag paper, - not that the matter was dirty, - but the paper itself was oiled, and worn from its being constantly carried about in my pocket. This was "Cleave's Gazette", published weekly at a penny, a sum I managed to screw out of my threepence a fortnight "old brass".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Brierley      Print: Newspaper

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers
'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was subscribing to periodically issued numbers of the "Pickwick Papers"... and he generously offered me an early perusal of the "Pickwick Papers", on the condition that I fetched the numbers as they were due from a little stationer's shop near the Navigation Inn. This was a double pleasure to me, as in addition to reading the pamphlet I could have half-an-hour's breathing outside the mill. Dickens assisted in lightening the burden of a weary time. I gathered fresh life from his admirable writings; and even then began to look into the distant future, with the hope that at sometime I might be enabled to track his footsteps, however far I might be behind. This prospect constantly buoyed up my hopes; and, when at last I was taken away from the mill I felt a regret that by this proceeding I sacrificed a glorious opportunity of making myself known in the world.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Brierley      Print: Serial / periodical

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays: First Series
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1841: 'Yes [...] to [having read] Emerson's letters [sic]. Or rather, yes, to the letters, & "no" to Carlyle's preface -- because I read the American edition. Mr Kenyon lent the book to me, the book belonging to Mr Crabbe Robinson whose hair stood on end when he heard of its being lent to me! "Why" he said "that book is too stiff even for myself -- and I am not very orthodox." In fact the book [...] is very extravagant in some of its views. It sets about destroying [...] the personality of every person, & speaks of the Deity as of a great Background to which every created individual forms a little porch!!! For the rest, there are beautiful & noble thoughts in the book, beautifully & nobly said.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'I send this with Tennyson's new vol -- The alterations are insane. WhatEVER is touched is spoiled [...] Locksley Hall is shorn of two or three couplets I will copy out from the book of somebody who luckily transcribed from the proof-sheet -- meantime [italics]one[end italics] line, you will see, I [italics]have[end italics] restored'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Eva; the Ill-omened Marriage, and Other Tales and Poems (extracts)
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two, or one, in a Review -- & thought them abominable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1842: 'I read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic] when I was thirteen: no, twelve! .. and, through the whole course of my childhood, I had a steady indignation against Nature who made me a woman, & a determinate resolution to dress up in men's clothes as soon as ever I was free of the nursery'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Ellen Pickering : novels
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 July 1842: 'If our dear Mr Kenyon should turn out to be bewitched [by Ellen Pickering], it was not achieved by the novels. He keeps Wordsworth & Tennyson in his house until weeks count up into months without reading a page of them: he is not likely to read a Miss P. But I who read more of good & bad than I dare confess, & who of late years [as invalid] have stretched out my hand for literature, more sometimes to be languid & half asleep over than for thoughtful purpose, know her novels very well, & have found the degree of amusement or beguilement I sought, from several of them. Nobody can praise them for good writing to be sure, -- nor for any other sort of elevation above the commonplace [...] But there is a degree of amusement to be confessed in the books -- at least by me when I am sleepy -- & there is an amiableness & good feeling which I was always pleased to confess.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna : 'little books'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842: 'As to Charlotte Elizabeth -- yes, I have read that little book you speak of, & several of her little books besides. Her bitterness & narrowness towards the R Catholics [...] I admit & lament to the roots of my heart. She is a very devoted woman, & lives to God nearly as if she lived with Him -- and I believe that in exciting religious feeling her books have done much good & especially among the young.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Samuel Romilly : Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Written by Himself
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842: 'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an enthusiast about [italics]him[end italics] [...] it is wonderful & chilling to me, his unconsciousness, -- apparent at least & unbroken to the observation, by voice or sign, throughout these memoirs, -- of the Spiritual Realities beyond his humanity. Is it not so? I think it was my impression.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: The Berkshire Chronicle
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842: 'My dearest friend, here is the newspaper [containing report of Mitford's laying corner stone of New Public Rooms, London Street, Reading, on 31 August] back & thanks upon thanks for the pleasure of the sight of it. I admire your chief orator [Dr Cowan, who gave speech on occasion] [...] & applaud with all the applause & exult in all the exultation'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

: report of reprieve of condemned criminal Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842: 'Will Mrs Partridge receive the expression of my earnest thoughts for her happiness? [...] But I never had the pleasure of seeing Mr Partridge on either side the Alps -- never alas! WAS on any side but one [...] I read in the paper lately that Elizabeth Barrett was reprieved from capital punishment. So "we are [italics]three[end italics]" -- or were at least.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Thomas Powell : poems
Robert Browning to Thomas Powell, c.October 1842: 'I am highly obliged to you [...] for the two volumes of verse now on my table. I have not as yet found time for the steady perusal I must give them -- but a glance at some of the smaller pieces has already convinced me of the injustice of your styling their appearance in print, an "infliction."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : unknown
William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 October 1842: 'I had the gratification of receiving a good while ago, two copies of a volume of your writing, which I have read with [italics]much[end italics] pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

Benjamin Robert Haydon : letter to the Sheffield Mercury regarding formation of a School of Design in Sheffield.
Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 29 October 1842: 'I have to thank you [...] for the sight of a very interesting letter of the Sheffield paper which I seem to be bound to return to you, as you do not say "keep it".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Frances Trollope : The Barnabys in America
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842: 'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. She is very clever there is no denying. But I do wonder whether the [italics]educated[end italics] quakers make use of [italics]Thee[end italics] in the nominative case -- whether they make use of such execrable grammar (for instance) as "Thee bee'st". I never heard a quaker talk, and yet I cd scarcely wonder or doubt at all about it, if I did not observe that Capt. Marryat & Mrs Trollope & other writers of at least supposed education, represent their quakers always talking so.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Frederick Marryat : A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions
'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions (1839), in 1841'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia Garrow : The Keepsake for 1843
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842: 'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Blessington's Annual [...] The annual is fuller of trash than usual I think, which is saying a good deal of ill. His own contribution indeed is a very excellent & poetical paraphrase of Schiller's "Gods of Greece" -- & there is a prose story by Mr Landor which has much beauty in his peculiar manner, -- & there is, moreover, a graceful fairy story by Miss Garrow, which I prefer to her last year's ballad, although retaining my opinion of the want of individuality & of power.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Eugene Sue : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frederic Soulie : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Louis de Maynard de Queilhe : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)
Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult of delight which your most noble Dramatic Lyrics have given me I have ventured as you will see to express, however imperfectly a tithe of what I felt in the following most crude and hasty lines [long poem in heroic couplets follows letter] [...] I wish you could have seen the delight with which my wife & myself devoured your "Pomegranate" & the ringing of "Bells" we set up afterwards [...] you must let me grasp your hand as a friend for "Waring": which I read & reread with tears in my eyes, I KNOW you can guess why [poem was based on Arnould and Browning's mutual friend Alfred Domett].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph and Maria Arnould     Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Waring'
Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult of delight which your most noble Dramatic Lyrics have given me I have ventured as you will see to express, however imperfectly a tithe of what I felt in the following most crude and hasty lines [long poem in heroic couplets follows letter] [...] I wish you could have seen the delight with which my wife & myself devoured your "Pomegranate" & the ringing of "Bells" we set up afterwards [...] you must let me grasp your hand as a friend for "Waring": which I read & reread with tears in my eyes, I KNOW you can guess why [poem was based on Arnould and Browning's mutual friend Alfred Domett].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

George Sand : Leila
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: '"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the ends of my fingers -- blush three blushes in one .. for [italics]Her[end italics] who could be so shameless -- for her sex, whose purity she so disgraced -- & for myself in particular, who cd hold such a book for five minutes while a coal-fire burnt within reach of the other.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les derniers jours d'un condamne
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: ''Have you observed what I have observed [...] that Charles Dickens has meditated deeply & not without advantage upon Victor Hugo, -- and that some of his very finest things .. (all for instance of the Jew's condemnation-hours in Oliver Twist) .. are taken from Victor Hugo, .. "Les derniers jours d'un condamne" & passim? I admire Boz very absolutely & gratefully [...] but my sense of his power & genius grew grey & weak [...] with reading Hugo.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frederic Soulie : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: 'I have just done reading a romance of Frederick Soulie's which begins with a violation & a murder, & ends consistently with a murder & a violation, -- the hero who is the agent of this "just proportion" being shut up at last & starved in a premature coffin, after having his eyelids neatly sowed [sic] up by the fair fingers of his lady-love.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Pollock : The Course of Time
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I confess it appeared to me an extroardinary [sic] work for a young poet -- full of grand conceptions half formed -- & tracked everywhere with unequal staggering footsteps of genius.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : review article on Tennyson and/or Browning
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson & Browning in the Church of England quarterly [...] Mr Horne is acute and generous as he always is, -- but Leigh Hunt's article, altho' honest in criticism, I do not doubt, & wise in many of the remarks, strikes me as a cold welcome from a poet to a poet -- & to such a poet as Tennyson! -- & I felt a little vexed while I was reading it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Leigh Hunt : review article on Tennyson and/or Browning
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson & Browning in the Church of England quarterly [...] Mr Horne is acute and generous as he always is, -- but Leigh Hunt's article, altho' honest in criticism, I do not doubt, & wise in many of the remarks, strikes me as a cold welcome from a poet to a poet -- & to such a poet as Tennyson! -- & I felt a little vexed while I was reading it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Frederika Bremer : The Neighbours: A Story of Everyday Life
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 December 1842: 'My thoughts have lately been of Frederica Bremer?s "Neighbours" instead of my own?I mean of the very charming novel which Mrs Howitt has just "done into English" from the Swedish ? or German peradventure ? it being probably a translation from the German ? Read it my dearest friend, & agree with me that it is delightful. "Like Miss Austen" says Mrs Howitt - & "like Miss Austen" being the best introduction to you possible, "I echo her" ? altho? in my private & individual opinion & saving your presence, I do consider the book of a higher & sweeter tone than Miss Austen had voice and soul for. There is more poetry, more of the inner life, more of the ideal aspiration more of a Godward tendency in the book than we need seek for or than even you my beloved friend, can, I think, imagine in any book or books of Miss Austen considered in a moment of your most enthusiastic estimation. I am pleased, & touched .. charmed for the better, by the book. The serenity, the sweetness, the undertone of Christian music, affect me the more for coming to me in the midst of my lion & tiger hunting with La jeune France [ie her reading of lurid, recent French fiction]; & the impression will not pass, it appears to me, with the reading of the last page.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Burney D'Arblay : Diary and Letters (Volume 5)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 December 1842: 'I did think the fifth volume [of Frances Burney D'Arblay's Diary and Letters] interesting & very interesting -- and yet, I dont give it the preference quite as you do [...] I believe I was [...] vexed at her wary conduct & cold policy & most provident distrust towards that noble woman Madme de Stael [goes on to comment upon and criticise text in detail].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Van Dyke : The Other Wise Man
'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise Man", "Who Moved the Stone?" and "In the Steps of the Master", which we all enjoyed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Frank Morrison : Who Moved the Stone
'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise Man", "Who Moved the Stone?" and "In the Steps of the Master", which we all enjoyed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

H.V. Morton : In the Steps of the Master
'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise Man", "Who Moved the Stone?" and "In the Steps of the Master", which we all enjoyed.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

: Letter announcing financial/property loss
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1842: 'Ah -- my poor dearest Papa! How I remember the coming of that letter to apprise him of the loss of his fortune [...] He was surrounded by his family [...] And the letter came -- & just one shadow past on his face while he read it (I marked it at the moment) & then he broke away from the melancholy, & threw himself into the jests & laughter of his innocent boys.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

Antony Hope : The Prizoner of Zenda
'We are reading "The Prisoner of Zenda" in sewing lessons. It is very exciting, and I love it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Mary Howitt : The Seven Temptations
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 December 1842: 'I like Mary Howitt's lyrical poetry -- ballad poetry, I shd say distinctively, -- and once thought, -- before I had read the "Seven Temptations", that I wd prefer having her genius to work with, than either Mrs Hemans's & [sic] Miss Landon's. The Seven Temptations changed my view, & checked my admiration. She cannot sustain a high song'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'Oriana'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 December 1842: 'Do you really object to the re-iteration of [italics]Oriana[end italics] [in Tennyson's poem of that name]? Do you think it affected? To my mind, it is highly artistic, & [italics]effective[end italics] instead! It rang all day in my head when first I read it [...] You hear the Norland wind wail in it!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lays of Ancient Rome (extracts)
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842: 'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaulay's Lays of Rome -- a kind of revenge on that literature which so long plagued ours with Muses, and Apollo, and Luna and all that, -- by taking the stalest subjects in it, and as plentifully bestowing on them the commonplaces of our indigenous ballad-verse -- "Then out spake brave Sir Cocles" -- "Go, hark ye, stout Sir Consul" -- and a deal more: I have only seen extracts, but they gave me this notion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : 'Locksley Hall'
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 13 December 1842: 'I read Tennyson. "Locksley Hall" is very fine; but should it not have finished at '"I myself must mix with action, Lest I wither by despair"? 'It seems to me that all after that weakens the impression of the story, which has its appropriate finish with that line.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842: 'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh over. There are fine things [...] But there is much in the little (for the publication consists of only a few pages) which I, who admire him, wish away -- impotent attempts at humour, -- a vain jangling with rhymes [...] and a fragmentary rough-edgedness about the [italics]mounting[end italics] of some high thoughts.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 December 1842: 'I sent Pere Goriot [...] because it is my belief that I never mentioned to you the name of Balzac, & that he [italics]is[end italics], nevertheless, the most powerful writer of the French day next to Victor Hugo & George Sand! [...] Pere Goriot is a very painful book -- but full of moody power, dashed with blood & mud. It appears to me the most powerful work of its writer, I have read -- & also the most open to tenderness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : Leila
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho' the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual & physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond praising.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : Jacques
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho' the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual & physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond praising.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : Indiana
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho' the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual & physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond praising.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frances Trollope : Letter to Mary Russell Mitford
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'I am bewitched, my beloved friend, to be sure! Do you know I could have been obstinate in my self-persuasion that I had returned to you Mrs Trollope's letter & here it is in my writing basket. And all this while I have been rewarding you for your kindness in letting me see it [...] & keeping you from sending your answer, by my carelessness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon fils : Le Sopha, Conte Moral
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'Did you ever look at -- I dont say [italics]read[end italics] -- the "Sofa" of Crebillon fils. I sent for it once in the innocense [sic] of my ignorance, & after a quarter of an hour's turning of the leaves dropped it like a burning iron. It is the most disgusting sensual book I ever [italics]tried[end italics] to read -- but [italics]did'nt[end italics] read, I do assure you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon : Memoires d'une Femme de Qualite sur Louis XVIII, sa Cour et son Regne
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842: 'I remember [...] reading in the curious Memoires d'une femme de qualite, a mot upon Madme de Genlis who was said to have confessed in [italics]her[end italics] memoirs [italics]everybody's sins except her own[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Comtesse de Genlis : Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842: 'I like Madme de Genlis in many of her writings [...] Do you know [...] the story of the Duchesse de C. in the cavern, extended into three volumes? Would you like to know it, if you do not already? I have it here. It belongs to me. And it always seems to me the very best, most vivid & most interesting of its author's various romances, & well worth reading once or twice or thrice.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') : 'Carthon'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did much delight in him as that fact proves. Since your letter came I have taken him up again -- & have just finished 'Carthon' -- There are beautiful passages in it [...] But [...] nothing is articulate -- nothing [italics]individual[end italics], nothing various.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. translation of the Gorgias of Plato, by a Mr Hyman of Oxford, who is a step-son of Mr Haydon's the artist? It is an excellent translation with learned notes -- but it is [italics]not elegant[end italics]. He means to try the public upon it -- but as I have intimated to him, the Christians of the present day are not civilized enough for Plato.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Benjamin Robert Haydon : autobiography
Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843: 'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! I have been deeply interested in it in all ways [...] you owe this M.S. to the world as you owe to it the productions of your Art [...] the descriptions of Northcote, Opie, & Fuseli are highly graphic & life-like'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Hugh Blair : A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian
Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upon Ossian. The Miss Smiths can bear witness, that before I read it, I made several of the remarks which I afterwards found in Blair.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Book

James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') : Ossian poems
Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upon Ossian. The Miss Smiths can bear witness, that before I read it, I made several of the remarks which I afterwards found in Blair.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Book

William Ware : Zenobia: or, The Fall of Palmyra
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1843: 'I have read the Letters from Palmyra. They are [...] powerfully written, in an elevated style which rises, not unfrequently, into eloquence! Still there does appear to me a coldness -- oh I may be very wrong -- but I read the book some time since, it struck me so.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Anton Felix Schindler : The Life of Beethoven
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1843: 'I read this very morning Schindler's interesting memoirs of Beethoven'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) : Poems of Darthula
Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, the Poems of Darthula has been read to me again. It appears to me, a thing very extraordannary [sic], that a mind like yours, should not take grate [sic] delight in such Poetry as that of Ossian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Book

: Encyclopedia entry on 'Ossian' controversy
Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 27 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, I have read some account of Ossian, and his Poems, in the Penny Cyclopedia [...] The Rascal who wrote it, deprecates the Poems about as much as you do.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : unknown
Benjamin Robert Haydon, in his Autobiography, mentions 'Liz', 'An attractive girl on the second floor of a house full of young men ... [who] attached herself to the party, made tea for them, marketed with them, carved for them, went to the lay with them, read Shakespeare with them,' going on to remark, 'Her position was anomalous, but I firmly believe it was innocent ... She was a girl with a man's mind ... as interesting a girl as you would wish to see'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Liz      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Martin Chuzzlewit
Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843: 'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three doors from Mr Kenyon in Harley Place? The new numbers appear to me admirable, & full of life & blood .. whatever we may say to the thick rouging & extravagance of gesture. There is a beauty, a tenderness, too, in the organ-scene'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

John Gower : Confessio Amantis
Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 11 February 1843: 'I wish I could send you the "Confessio amantis" -- I have read it but do not possess it -- & have been waiting for some time until a black letter copy shall fall within reach of my hands'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) : The Death of Cuchullin
Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you expressly on the Poems of Ossian; I have read another, called, The death of Cuthullin [sic]. I found, that it contained the idea you admired so much, about the darkened half of the moon, behind its growing light [...] Harriet Holmes who read it to me, thought it finer than the other [?Carric-thura]. I myself am doubtfull [sic] about it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Holmes      Print: Book

John Wilson (as Christopher North) : The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843: 'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- [italics]I[end italics] call him a "brute- angel" [...] Oh surely, surely, he is a great poet .. in prose! I am reading the Recreations -- 3d volume.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : The Last of the Barons (extract)
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843: 'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Barons," is to be, he says, the last of Bulwer's -- and seems a poor affair, if one may judge by the single extract I have seen.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Thornton Hunt : Foster Brother, The
'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The sincerity and earnestness of the author gives animation & reality to his characters The idea of making filial devotion a reprehensible weakness is bold but well managed; only since the father is to enter a cloister he could not take his daughter there - & however this is nothing - his angry denunicaitions of peace are admirable The only criticism I would make is that the interest is not sufficiently concentrated on one person or one event - but why criticize when [underlined] much [end underlining] pleased. Pray thank Thornton for the pleasure he has given me.' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Knox : Morning Chronicle
'The article in todays Chronicle about the curry powder [about the duke of Norfolk's suggestion that workers could alleviate hunger by dissolving it in water] is by Knox' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Newspaper

Leigh Hunt : Stories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the writers
'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for his oppression - except that a sense that they are right, because they are taught to consider themselves authorities to themselves, is the one thing taught by flatterers and courtiers to the great [Mary then comments further on this and on Tasso's life] Your Pulci is admirable - & so is your Ariosto - & in truth your book is a true and valuable gift to your country'. [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Forest and Game-law Tales
'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I [underlined] do [end underlining] thank you. I liked the 3d tale, "Maude Chapel Farm" very much.' [letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : [biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Schiller
'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckling to the times - and mistakes the spirit of the times, & casts an indelible stain on his own name, as long as it survives.' [letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'The Cherry Orchard'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [...] Still, after their kind, they are excellent [...] Why I learnt to read out of those first little books for children, & my child's heart has beat very fast in the "Cherry Orchard" & for Rosamond's "Purple vase"!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : 'Rosamond'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [...] Still, after their kind, they are excellent [...] Why I learnt to read out of those first little books for children, & my child's heart has beat very fast in the "Cherry Orchard" & for Rosamond's "Purple vase"!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

anon : Duty and Inclination (volume 1)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843: 'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inclination" -- I tried twice & failed. the first time I tried, it had just come out with Miss Landon's name on the title page & a laudatory introduction -- & I sent it back to the booksellers in the agony of a yawn in the middle of the first volume. A year afterwards I wanted something light to doze over, & I bethought me of "Duty of Inclination", -- & how Miss Landon cdnt surely have praised it quite for nothing, -- & how the fault of my yawning might have been in my physics rather than in "Duty['s]" imaginatives, .. & how I wd try it again. So I sent for the book and tried it for the second time. My dearest Miss Mitford, it is as nearly [italics]trash[end italics] as any book I can think of [...] It is the sort of lightness which tires you to death'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

anon : Duty and Inclination
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843: 'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inclination" -- I tried twice & failed. the first time I tried, it had just come out with Miss Landon's name on the title page & a laudatory introduction -- & I sent it back to the booksellers in the agony of a yawn in the middle of the first volume. A year afterwards I wanted something light to doze over, & I bethought me of "Duty of Inclination", -- & how Miss Landon cdnt surely have praised it quite for nothing, -- & how the fault of my yawning might have been in my physics rather than in "Duty['s]" imaginatives, .. & how I wd try it again. So I sent for the book and tried it for the second time. My dearest Miss Mitford, it is as nearly [italics]trash[end italics] as any book I can think of [...] It is the sort of lightness which tires you to death'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Thank you, my dear cousin, for Mr Longfellow's verses -- a [italics]whole book[end italics] of which I never saw before, & never liked him so little as in the same. But I suppose verses of this sort are meant to be light & insigni[fi]cative'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Leonard Horner : Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume I)
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very interesting -- but he seems to me to have had too wavering a will, or rather too many objects, .. to be a great man.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Leonard Horner : Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume II)
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my dear cousin, as a whole politician .. as he gathers himself into one slowly with all his energy & strength [...] And then what an admirable letter Sydney Smith's is, in the appendix -- quite perfect in its kind I think.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Wit and Humour
'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be as great a favourite as the first - and "Wit and Humour" do their best to rival "Imagination and Fancy". You and Chaucer help them very much - but they are at a disadvantage. Surprize is said to be one of the ingredients of Wit - & it is deprived of that when at every turn of a page you are sure to find it Wit & humour also want a voice - & when read in silence can never raise the laugh that they excite in a sociable circle - thus indeed you [sic] new volume ought to be an Xmas gift & brought out with King and Queen & forfeits amid its festivities' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Robert Southey : Roderick, the Last of the Goths
Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815: 'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding the romance of the original story, it was with fatigue that I got through it. I am not surprised that the book has had a run, because there [italics]is[end italics] a romantic story, and because it is seasoned with methodistical cant to the taste of the times; but that the work should be commended by any person of cultivated taste, as it has been, seems to me strange.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Horner      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Wit and Humour
'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of Quevedo? the Spanish wit? - whose dry humour is very pointed - His account of the different awakenings of different characters for the day of Judgement is one among many specimens' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas : [unknown]
'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of Quevedo? the Spanish wit? - whose dry humour is very pointed - His account of the different awakenings of different characters for the day of Judgement is one among many specimens' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : The Last of the Barons
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843: 'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the hardest & most laborious work passing through his "Last of the Barons" (May it be the last of his romances wrought after such a fashion!) [...] There are threads of golden beauty [...] the sub-stuff being strong, & stiff, & useful -- very good stout history [...] but as for romance & poetic Art, the Goddess of useful knowledge has set her face against them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Bewick : The History of British Birds (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843: 'I have seen Bewick only in extracts -- therefore you are justified in reproaching my ignorance --- and I dare say I was perfectly wrong in supposing him to be a mere scientific writer without a soul'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Abraham Hayward : Verses of Other Days
'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality being unaffected, & easy - Thank you for them very much'. [letter to Abraham Hayward]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Men, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs
'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your volumes with great pleasure recognizing old friends' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : letter to Crabbe Robinson
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843: 'Mr Kenyon came to see me yesterday [...] and he brought & read to me a letter from Mr Wordsworth to Mr Crabbe Robinson speaking with great feeling of the release of the poor Laureate [i.e. the death of Robert Southey]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Kenyon      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : Examiner
'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Serial / periodical

Frances Trollope : Hargrave, or the Adventures of a Man of Fashion
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843: 'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Hargrave. She has great skill in the construction of a story & shows it here; although I do not think that otherwise & generally, the work is of her cleverest.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer : Night & Morning
'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The vast masses of energy & life broken up by the great thaw of the imperial system, floating along the tide are terrible icebergs for the vessel of the state. Some think Napoleonism [he ought to say revolutionism - MS's comment] over - its effects are only begun [underlined by MS] Society is shattered from one end to the other, & I laught at the little rivers by which they think to keep it together.[end underlining] - the last is curious.' [MS does not close her quotation marks] [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Times
'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Newspaper

James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) : The Death of Cuchullin
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843: 'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remained too long unanswered [...] I thought it necessary to read "Cuthullin" steadily through as a preliminary to replying to your remarks upon it. This has been achieved at last [...] I admit the great beauty of certain things in the poem [...] although I preserve my opinion upon the general monotony & defective individuality'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Julius Caesar : De Bello Gallico
Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843: 'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I found them harder to read than his battles were to fight'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Times
'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come out in the Lucia' [sing in "Lucia di Lammermoor" [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Newspaper

: article regarding Ossian controversy
Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett (in hand of an amanuensis, Boyd being blind), letter postmarked 13 April 1843: 'It runs in my head, that several years ago, perhaps when I was at Morven [sic, for Malvern] Wells, an article was read to me, out of the Edinbourg [sic Review] or some such work; but I rather think, out of the Edinbourg. I think it was to this effect. A Society of Literary Men, has been employed for some years in investigating the Question about the authenticity of Ossian's Poems. The result is, that the character of Macpherson has been completely vindicated. It is now ascertained, that these Poems are really in existence, and were not forged by him. I myself do not remember, that I ever for a single minute doubted their genuineness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Samuel Carter Hall : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843: 'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I am one of her many readers [...] From her husband I had one or two kind notes once, when he had the editorship of Colburn's magazine & I was a contributor to the same.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passsages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passsages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Book

[unknown] : [great poets' works]
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passsages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Book

Bayley : [Dictionary]
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passsages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Book

William Pinnock : [?] Catechism of the History of England
'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's "Selections"; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

William Pinnock : Catechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World
'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's "Selections"; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Sarah Trimmer : Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families
'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's "Selections"; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Church Catechism
'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's "Selections"; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Richard Walter : Voyage Around the World by George Anson
'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being frightened by ghost stories told by the nursery-maids, as she had been once frightened herself. I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking my turn with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us "Anson's Voyages", or "Lemrier's Tour to Morocco", or the "History of Montezuma". When she had finished, we all, kneeling around her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell      Print: Book

William Lempriere : Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Taruant ; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco
'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being frightened by ghost stories told by the nursery-maids, as she had been once frightened herself. I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking my turn with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us "Anson's Voyages", or "Lemrier's Tour to Morocco", or the "History of Montezuma". When she had finished, we all, kneeling around her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell      Print: Book

[unknown] : History of Montezuma
'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being frightened by ghost stories told by the nursery-maids, as she had been once frightened herself. I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking my turn with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us "Anson's Voyages", or "Lemrier's Tour to Morocco", or the "History of Montezuma". When she had finished, we all, kneeling around her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Isaiah
'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this day. No one told me to do so, or even knew that I had done it. The beauty of the language, the exquisite musical rhythm of the sentences caught my ear, but I had little perception of anything beyond.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Spectator
'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addison's "Cato" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addison's "Cato" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book

Mason : [Plays]
'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addison's "Cato" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Cato
'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addison's "Cato" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Gottfried August Burger : Lenore
'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a beautiful copy of Burger's "Lenore", illustrated by striking line engravings, and having the German on one page and the English translation on the other.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Joseph Glanvill : Philosophical Considerations touching Witches and Witchcraft
'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain books to us, when as children we stayed with him at Binstead, on condition of our never touching any others. My brothers had Glanvill's "History of Witches", and we four had a handsome edition of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments", which, being unexpurgated, was not the wisest choice that could have been made, though it gave me hours of entrancing delight at the time, and taught me to understand allusions to tales which have become part of general literature'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: brothers of Elizabeth missing Sewell, including Henry, William and James     Print: Book

[n/a] : Arabian Nights Entertainments, The
'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain books to us, when as children we stayed with him at Binstead, on condition of our never touching any others. My brothers had Glanvill's "History of Witches", and we four had a handsome edition of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments", which, being unexpurgated, was not the wisest choice that could have been made, though it gave me hours of entrancing delight at the time, and taught me to understand allusions to tales which have become part of general literature'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters, including Eleanor     Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Judges
'[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of making a vow came into my head I had actually made it and was bound to keep it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large portions of "The Lady of the Lake" which are fresh in my memory at this moment'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'We formed a book-club amongst ourselves, chose and purchased some special favourite, or one which we heard praised, read it in turn, and then sold it by auction'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell and school friends     Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only during the reading of the Scriptures but at all times. I tried to reason against the difficulties, but that only increased the evil'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliazbeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Matthew Henry : Communicant's Companion
'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have taken months to answer - and I tried to find time for self-examination out of school hours, and at first thought myself obliged to answer every question, and at last gave up the attempt in despair. my own sense told me it was in vain'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliazbeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

unknown : 'life' of David Wilkie
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Friendship when daily I used to read to him my journal of my thoughts -- & he used to speak of the danger of all personal remarks in [a] journal [...] It [i.e. Haydon's] was only a journal of conclusions on Art, & Poetry which have been the foundation of my lectures -- I am shocked that I never knew [italics]he[ed italics] kept a journal of nothing but remarks on his Friends their weaknesses & follies'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Robert Haydon      Print: Book

Benjamin Robert Haydon : journal
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Friendship when daily I used to read to him my journal of my thoughts -- & he used to speak of the danger of all personal remarks in [a] journal [...] It [i.e. Haydon's] was only a journal of conclusions on Art, & Poetry which have been the foundation of my lectures -- I am shocked that I never knew [italics]he[ed italics] kept a journal of nothing but remarks on his Friends their weaknesses & follies'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Robert Haydon      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 1 May 1843: 'I have been reading Carlyle .. his "Past & Present" -- There is nothing new in it -- even of Carlyleism .... but almost everything true -- I am a devotee of Carlyle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: notice of death of David Wilkie (on 1 June 1841)
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 May 1843: '[David Wilkie] was amiable & affectionate -- and when I read [of] his Death, (I was at Dover) I felt as if a string was pulled out, -- I dreamt all night I was at Jerusalem -- & visiting with him the Tombs of the Kings'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Robert Haydon      Print: Newspaper

William Wordsworth : Grace Darling
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843: '[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon Grace Darling when it first appeared: and with a curious mixture of feelings [...] I yet read it with so much pain from the nature of the subject, that my judgement was scarcely free to consider the poetry [...] '[italics]But[end italics] ... I do confess to you my dear friend, that I suspect, .. through the mist of my sensations, .. the poem in question to be very inferior to his former poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Frederika Bremer : The Home: or, Family Cares and Family Joys
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 May 1843: 'Mary Howitt's last translation from Frederika Bremer's swedish, "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Julia Pardoe : 'Modern Turkish Travellers'
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'The other day I took up the Foreign Quarterly of last January in which is your Chinese paper, & fell upon another article called "Turkish travellers" which I had never fallen upon before. Some things in it are so like you, and some other things are so unlike [...] Surely the style is yours -- or I am bewitched, which is possible too.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Nicholas John Halpin : Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's Dream
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'Reading Mr Halpin of the Shakespeare society upon Oberon's command to Puck in the "midsummer night's dream," & falling into the degree of passion to which sympathy is more necessary than it is to grief itself, I turned in my thoughts to you as the person most likely of all to be in a competent passion [...] Now by the soul of Shakespeare, it ought to be a reason or blasphemy by act of Parliament for men to write such treaties & call them commentaries. They are [italics]mentaries[end italics] in the strictest sense [...] Mr Halpin gives us a "paraphrase" of Oberon's "sug'red words", -- from which, here is an extract. '"And so the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy-free." 'Halpin loquitur. "And so the virgin queen departed from Kenilworth castle, unshackled by any matrimonial engagement & as heart-whole as ever .." 'I hope you dont belong to the Shakespeare society.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : article on Royal Commission on Children's Employment
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'By the way [...] I have been reading you in the Illuminated Magazine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

John Edmund Reade : Sacred Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 May 1843: 'Mr Reade's "Sacred Poems" I am now looking into by dear Mr Kenyon's kindness. He is [italics]in Wordsworth now[end italics], having made the circuit of the poets. What a phenomenon!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Giorgio Vasari : Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843: 'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's Lives so popular [--] why have they gone through so many Editions? -- because what is anecdotical & human is not sacrificed for the sake of the abstract & professional [...] The fact the Michael Angelo was liable to head aches -- is a Comfort! and when I read he had the cramp! -- my dear, I rise an inch taller as I walk'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Robert Haydon      Print: Book

Philip James Bailey : Festus
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals, of mine [...] wrote to me, praising [John] Sterling extravagantly. [italics]I[end italics], .. who never cd see much in Sterling, .. was sincere & cold about him in reply, .. & begged the praiser to read Festus, which I was reading at the moment. Well! -- Presently I had another letter. My correspondent was astounded at me! Upon my praise, he had procured Festus, & looked at one or two pages, .. when he was driven back in convulsive fits, by the hot blast of Indecency & Blasphemy emitted from the leaves -- he found it impossible to read such a book!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Philip James Bailey : Festus
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals, of mine [...] wrote to me, praising [John] Sterling extravagantly. [italics]I[end italics], .. who never cd see much in Sterling, .. was sincere & cold about him in reply, .. & begged the praiser to read Festus, which I was reading at the moment. Well! -- Presently I had another letter. My correspondent was astounded at me! Upon my praise, he had procured Festus, & looked at one or two pages, .. when he was driven back in convulsive fits, by the hot blast of Indecency & Blasphemy emitted from the leaves -- he found it impossible to read such a book!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

V : IX Poems by V. (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 June 1843: 'My idea of [italics]V[ed italics] has always been .. a clever woman, whose vocation it is not, to write poetry. Her "I watched the Heavens" is after Dante -- [italics]after[end italics] in all sorts of ways. Of the "Nine Poems" I have seen extracts only.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843: 'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sweet girl! [...] We go to Harrow today to see Byrons Tombstone [i.e. his favourite spot in the local churchyard] & autograph -- & to amuse her, as she reads him with such interest.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Mordwinoff Haydon      Print: Book

Mrs Coleridge : 'On Rationalism'
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 30 June 1843: 'I honor Mrs Coleridge for the readiness of reasoning & integrity in her reasoning, for the learning, energy & impartiality which she has brought to her purpose -- & I agree with her in many of her objects; & disagree, by opposing her opponents with a fuller front than she is always inclined to do [...] I have read the book in spite of prophecies. After all I shd like to cut it in two -- it wd be better for being shorter -- and it might be clearer also. There is in fact some dulness & perplexity [...] & what I cannot help considering a superfluous tenderness for Puseyism.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : Orion
Katherine Cockell to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 June 1843: 'I could not put Orion out of my hands for my needful food, -- nor out of my head for my more needful sleep. I was wholly possessed, rapt away into some new sphere never before dreamt of, & all this, (& much more than all this) tho' I have no classical enthusiasm (of course not!) real or affected; & tho' I have a particular antipathy to Giants.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Cockell      Print: Book

William Russell : History of Modern Europe
'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

William Robertson : History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth
'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Improvement of the Mind, The
'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [History of Venetian Doges]
'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 July 1843: 'Mr Kenyon came yesterday -- & he had just been reading, he said, "Pride & Prejudice", .. driven into making an acquaintance with Miss Austen in despite of his anti-novelism, by the buzz of admiration which beset him from Mr Harness, and others [goes on to report Kenyon's enthusiastic praises of novel, as well as his reservations concerning its 'want of elevation', in what she confesses are not necessarily 'verbatim' terms]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Kenyon      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : Orion
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 July 1843: 'Mr Kenyon was with me yesterday, and praised "Orion" most admiringly. He had read it only in parts yet, through a press of occupation, but he had from these parts, he said, the same sort of pleasure as from Keats's "Endymion" or "Hyperion;" and what particularly charmed him was the versification.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Kenyon      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a Spanish grammar]
'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a Spanish dictionary]
'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

George Payne Rainsford James : novels
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'I like the spirit & courteous goodness of Mr James's books [...] I believe I have read almost everyone [sic] of his books .. either when I was ill or when I was well. They have much of what Chaucer calls "gentilesse" .. if not much passion & imagination -- and his scenic descriptions are admirable. I do not know better books for an invalid -- although the author may not be pleased with my reason for saying so -- viz that they seldom make the heart beat.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Linnaean botany book]
'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]
'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]
'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightful memoirs. She was fifty or past it when she met Lauzun, & the tears ran down my cheeks as I read the recitation of her love sorrows.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk
'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the floor of the other room was covered with Mr Heathcote's books. They were very kindly left for our use, and I made an acquaintance with Sir Walter Scott's "Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk", and read Shakespeare to Ellen, and led a quiet life, seeing no one'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the floor of the other room was covered with Mr Heathcote's books. They were very kindly left for our use, and I made an acquaintance with Sir Walter Scott's "Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk", and read Shakespeare to Ellen, and led a quiet life, seeing no one'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Laetitia Hawkins : Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline
'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived from the fact that the large bare house reminded me of a description of one like it in an old novel by Miss Hawkins - "The Countess and Gertrude".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature
'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration, and which I stumbled upon, as it seemed accidentally (though doubtless it was a Providential help sent me), while we were spending a few days at the Hermitage. I took it up first for curiosity, and read it through nearly, but not quite to the end; feeling very much afraid all the time that some one would inquire into my studies, and being greatly humiliated by an observation made by William, who one day found me with it in my hand. His surprised tone as he exclaimed, "You can't understand that", made me shrink into my shell of reserve, and for years I never owned to anyone that Butler's "Analogy" had been to me, as it has been to hundreds, the stay of a troubled intellect and a weak faith'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

George Borrow : The Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonment of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1843: 'Mr Borrow [italics]is[end italics] a very original & characteristic writer -- I was delighted with his book [...] the Bible Society committee was not satisfied with him. They call him wild I believe & wanting in gravity [...] but I admire Mr Borrow, & like him all the better for putting off the conventional demureness of a pattern missionary, & daring to be a [italics]man[end italics] in spirit & in truth.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Tracts for the Times
'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as my brother William's opinions had by that time become marked, he soon succeeded in indoctrinating us all with them. A very great comfort it certainly was to myself to have my ideas cleared upon subjects which had long been floating about in my brain, and worrying me almost without my knowing it. Especially it was a relief to me to find great earnestness and devotion in a system which allowed of reserve in expression, and did not make the style of conversation, which I had met with in the only definitely religious tales I had read, a necessary part of Christianity. Mrs Sherwood's "Tales" and others of a similar kind, described children as quoting texts, and talking of their feelings in an unnatural way, or what seemed to me unnatural; and I had really suffered so much at school from things said to me which jarred upon my taste that it was perfect rest to be able to talk upon religious subjects without hearing or using cant phrases'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Charles James Lever : Charles O'Malley
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843: 'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I tried only once certainly -- & then my own humour might have been partly in fault. My conclusion then was, that I cdnt read him -- that he was a very clever fellow & the very fellow to be written & read between the smoke of a cigar & the steam of a glass of brandy [...] His noise made my head ache, & his loud laughing made me grave. In fact, the book appeared to me a view of Life by the light of strong, somewhat coarse & altogether unworn animal spirits .. & not that touching, solemn, holy thing which Life is, in the eyes of that God who died for its purification, & those human beings who have learnt nearly all they know in the depth of its agonies.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Martha Sherwood : [Tales]
'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as my brother William's opinions had by that time become marked, he soon succeeded in indoctrinating us all with them. A very great comfort it certainly was to myself to have my ideas cleared upon subjects which had long been floating about in my brain, and worrying me almost without my knowing it. Especially it was a relief to me to find great earnestness and devotion in a system which allowed of reserve in expression, and did not make the style of conversation, which I had met with in the only definitely religious tales I had read, a necessary part of Christianity. Mrs Sherwood's "Tales" and others of a similar kind, described children as quoting texts, and talking of their feelings in an unnatural way, or what seemed to me unnatural; and I had really suffered so much at school from things said to me which jarred upon my taste that it was perfect rest to be able to talk upon religious subjects without hearing or using cant phrases'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer
'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Amy Herbert
'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Manuscript: Unknown

Michael Scott : Tom Cringle's Log
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843: 'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I tried only once certainly -- & then my own humour might have been partly in fault. My conclusion then was, that I cdnt read him [...] His noise made my head ache, & his loud laughing made me grave [...] I tried the Log & cdnt quite get thro' it. I shrink too from these maritime books now, for other reasons.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Charlotte Yonge : Daisy Chain, The
'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel in "The Daisy Chain". Great interest was expressed by her and her mother in Mrs Mozley (Cardinal Newman's sister), the author of a tale called the "Fairy Bower", which had appeared shortly before. It was the precursor of the many tales, illustrative of the Oxford teaching, that were written at this period, and which were hailed with special satisfaction by young people, who turned fom the texts, and prayers, and hymns, which Mrs Sherwood had introduced into her stories, and yet needed something higher in tone than Miss Edgeworth's morality'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Mrs Mozley : Fairy Bower, The
'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel in "The Daisy Chain". Great interest was expressed by her and her mother in Mrs Mozley (Cardinal Newman's sister), the author of a tale called the "Fairy Bower", which had appeared shortly before. It was the precursor of the many tales, illustrative of the Oxford teaching, that were written at this period, and which were hailed with special satisfaction by young people, who turned fom the texts, and prayers, and hymns, which Mrs Sherwood had introduced into her stories, and yet needed something higher in tone than Miss Edgeworth's morality'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Yonge and her mother     Print: Book

[unknown] : [Oxford Movement sermons]
'My sisters and I had a volume of the sermons given by an Oxford friend of our brother William; but it was with the caution that there were two sermons which it was better for us not to read. The prohibition was ultimately taken off, but not till our friend had made up his mind that we were not likely to have our minds disturbed by the new teaching, which was extemely stern, and likely in some cases to be discouraging.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth M. Sewell and her sisters     Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer
'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on the sofa half asleep, as I thought; but he listened, and I think was interested, for he asked me what I was reading. I forget exactly what answer I made, but it certainly was not that I was reading anything of my own, and so I lost the opportunity of giving him pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Mary Martha Sherwood : [Tales based on Church Catechism]
'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to me by Mrs Sherwood's stories on the same subject, which in my childhood had been a great source of Sunday amusement'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Earl's Daughter, The
'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. "Margaret Percival" I read to her entirely, and also a portion of "Laneton Parsonage", and I remember being obliged to reassure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story - which was only completed after her death'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Margaret Percival
'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. "Margaret Percival" I read to her entirely, and also a portion of "Laneton Parsonage", and I remember being obliged to reassure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story - which was only completed after her death'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Laneton parsonage
'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. "Margaret Percival" I read to her entirely, and also a portion of "Laneton Parsonage", and I remember being obliged to reassure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story - which was only completed after her death'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Gray : 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'
'Wolfe was a great admirer of Gray's "Elegy"; and as he was going down the river with his officers, previous to the storming of Montreal, he read the poem to them to while away the time, for it was then a new thing, just published. When he had finished he turned to them and said, "Gentlemen, I had rather have been the author of that poem, and have given utterance to the sentiments expressed in it, than I would enjoy all the honour which I believe awaits us in this expedition".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Wolfe      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : [a sermon]
'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling notion, but a sermon of Newman's I was reading to-night would be a great safeguard against being led into mischief by it, "Obedience, the remedy for religious pereplexity".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

[unknown] : Life of Stephen Langton
'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of the English Saints" (These lives were small biographies written by the more extreme members of the Oxford party.) It is well written and interesting, but I cannot go with it Thomas a Becket is no saint to my mind, and I dislike the uncalled-for hits at the Reformation'. [text in parenthesis added by the author or editor, it is unclear which, when turning journal text into publishable material]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Cecilia Frances Tilley : Chollerton: A tale of our own times
'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed strained and the fasting was brought forward prominently, and there seemed too much womanish humility. In one place the authoress cannot follow a young clergman, by description, in his feelings, or intrude "into that sacred edifice which formerly a woman's foot was forbidden to profane". This is, if I remember rightly, the drift of the observation, and really my humility cannot reach that depth. I think I [italics] can [end italics] imagine something of what a clergyman might feel, and I should never consider it an intrusion to go wherever men go, taking them as men. Of course the altar is different; but there the distinction is not between men and women, but between God and man'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Forest and Game-Law Tales
'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws" I began, but they are so dull to me that I have scarcely patience to finish. The thing I like about them is their fairness. The rich people are not all wretches,though Miss Martineau's sympathies are evidently with the poor'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Archibald Alison : History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII
'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history are so dreadfully dry, after one has been writing and working all day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Katherine Ashton
'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the character is in the main true was shown to me strangely by the fact that the gentleman who gave me the idea of it came to me after he had read "Katherine Ashton" and owned that Colonel Forbes resembled himself, though no one else ever suggested the likeness.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon.      Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey
'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's in actuality, have helped me more than any sermon. Southey's hard work and pecuniary anxieties come home to me'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Lectures on Architecture and Painting
'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exaggerated tirades against Romanism, but they are full of wonderful thought, and an intense feeling for truth, which must have an effect, one would think, upon those who read, or who have heard them'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

J.W. Kaye : Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

Edward Bouverie Pusey : [Sermons]
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

William Howitt : Rural and Domestic Life of Germany
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 July 1843: 'I am reading William Howitt's Germany with a good deal of interest.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Times, The
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [pamphlets and magazines]
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Meyrick      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : The Dead Pan
Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 August 1843: 'I owe to you many many moments of pleasure, some ideas (rare gifts in this age!) & no small feeling of complacency from your permission to my dear Mrs Reid to bring me your very noble poem, Pan Departed [sic]. The stanzas of that poem have run in my head, & raised my thought, ever since the first reading [...] May I add that I would sacrifice the whole poem, -- throw it into the fire, -- if the name & offices of Christ did not stand in it exactly as they do.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau

Richard Hengist Horne : Orion
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 August 1843: 'I heard of Orion the other day being admired at the first glance, & carried away to be admired at leisure, by Mrs Jameson'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Brownell Jameson      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 August 1843: 'I intended to return the book much earlier, but [...] the "Legend" was most peremptory in its demand to be read & re-read & then it positively refused to go back, till a copy had been made. So we were obliged to set a nimble little hand to work, & can now part with the volume, with the satisfactory feeling that all we most value in it, we have made our own. I cannot tell you how much I admire the poem, for every time I read it -- my liking increases.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : 'The House of Clouds'
Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 August 1843: 'Miss Mitford read to me -- and with what a melodious feeling she reads poetry -- your "House of Clouds." I did not know of it before. I thought it very beautiful [...] Miss Mitford thought it your [italics]best[end italics] production -- I, one of them.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford

Cornelius Mathews : Motley Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then, I have read them with great attention & recognised the power & talent which are destined, I do not doubt, to develop themselves still farther & in more distinctive forms. There is an inclination to the grotesque which while it gives evidence of a ready fancy, disturbs the effect of the general impression to such readers as I am -- & the very faithfulness to American manners & associations while I consistently applaud it, does nevertheless occasionally in spite of myself increase this disturbance.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Cornelius Mathews : Behemoth, a Legend of the Moundbuilders
Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then, I have read them with great attention & recognised the power & talent which are destined, I do not doubt, to develop themselves still father & in more distinctive forms. There is an inclination to the grotesque which while it gives evidence of a ready fancy, disturbs the effect of the general impression to such readers as I am -- & the very faithfulness to American manners & associations while I consistently applaud it, does nevertheless occasionally in spite of myself increase this disturbance.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Robert Browning : Pippa Passes
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have seen -- the commencement I thought very beautiful, & the [italics]design[end italics] of the poem altogether, -- but the interior is often so labyrinthine, that it is not the easiest matter in the world to thread one's way [...] Turning over some numbers of the Athenaeum, last night, I came upon a review of [R. H. Horne's Orion], which the first half- dozen lines proclaimed to be yours. How pleasant it is, all of a sudden, to turn round a corner, & be met by some familiar face [...] 'I read the "Brown Rosarie["] the other day to a young friend, an artist & he was so much delighted with it, that he determined forthwith to execute a set of designs from it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : review of Richard Hengist Horne, Orion
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have seen -- the commencement I thought very beautiful, & the [italics]design[end italics] of the poem altogether, -- but the interior is often so labyrinthine, that it is not the easiest matter in the world to thread one's way [...] Turning over some numbers of the Athenaeum, last night, I came upon a review of [R. H. Horne's Orion], which the first half- dozen lines proclaimed to be yours. How pleasant it is, all of a sudden, to turn round a corner, & be met by some familiar face [...] 'I read the "Brown Rosarie["] the other day to a young friend, an artist & he was so much delighted with it, that he determined forthwith to execute a set of designs from it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have seen -- the commencement I thought very beautiful, & the [italics]design[end italics] of the poem altogether, -- but the interior is often so labyrinthine, that it is not the easiest matter in the world to thread one's way [...] Turning over some numbers of the Athenaeum, last night, I came upon a review of [R. H. Horne's Orion], which the first half- dozen lines proclaimed to be yours. How pleasant it is, all of a sudden, to turn round a corner, & be met by some familiar face [...] 'I read the "Brown Rosarie["] the other day to a young friend, an artist & he was so much delighted with it, that he determined forthwith to execute a set of designs from it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : The Shadow of Death
'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lays of Ancient Rome
Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 October 1843: 'I very much admire Mr Macaulay -- & could scarcely read his ballads & keep lying down. They seemed to draw me up to my feet as the mesmeric powers are said to do'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : The Seraphim
Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 October 1843: 'Lady M. Lambton discharged her commission punctually, bringing me your precious volume before 1st of Sepr. Then I wished to read & study it before writing; & then came such a succession of visitors [...] that I have had to [...] put off all letters to a quieter time [...] here is a quiet morning, & I use its strength to thank you. 'I find noble & beautiful thoughts & lines in the Seraphim, & shall ever be glad that I have seen it. But I own to you that I turn with a stronger desire & pleasure to the minor poems, some of which really transport me [...] It is because some of the minor poems are riper, more complete & self-contained, & therefore simpler in expression [...] that I prefer them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

Robert Browning, Jr : 'On Bonaparte'
Robert Browning, Sr to Thomas Powell, 11 March 1843: 'I hope the enclosed may be acceptable as curiosities. They were written by Robert when quite a child. I once had nearly a hundred of them. But he has destroyed all that ever came in his way, having a great aversion to the practice of many biographers in recording every trifling incident that falls in their way [...] There was one amongst them "On Bonaparte" -- remarkably beautiful -- and had I not seen it in his own handwriting I never would have believed it to have been the production of a child. It is destroyed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning, Sr      Manuscript: Unknown

D.V. Thomas : advertisement
'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near here "[italics] D.V. Thomas [end italics], Purveyor of pure new milk?. Imagine anyone trusting to a man with so conditional a name for anything under heaven!'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

William Merry : Predestination and Election, Considered Scripturally
Elizabeth Barrett to William Merry, 2 November 1843: 'Your book [...] is written in a spirit so amiable & conciliating, .. so Christian-heartedly [...] that it almost reconciles me to its controversial character & its subject [...] again and again, as I read along, I felt ... "[italics]That[end italics] is true" -- "[italics]that[end italics] is rightly put"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Baron Jean du Potet de Sennevoy : An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism ... With an Appendix Containing Reports of British Practitioners in Favour of the Science
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 December 1843: 'I have read in Baron Dupotet's & Dr Stone's book upon Mesmerism, that in cases of the chest, it will not avail -- and that the spitting of blood has been brought on very violently by attempting to cast the patient into sleep'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Monckton Milnes : 'Lay of the Humble'
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 December 1843: 'I admired [Richard Monckton Milne's] first volume very much; but his later poetry seems to want fire and imagination, and to strain too much at the didactic [...] And then that exquisite "Lay of the Humble" which I was praising lately, and which affected me very much at the time I read it (it appeared in the first volume), somebody told me the other day that it was not original. Taken from the German I think they said it was. I wish I knew. It is very beautiful in any case.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : 'The Song of the Shirt'
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843: 'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It is not every man -- is it? -- who can prick so into the heart with a needle -- but Hood is an extraordinary writer [...] What tragic passion he throws into that "sti[t]ch sti[t]ch before he has done with it! -- enough to make two or three successful modern tragedies'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Hannah Lawrance : Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England from the Commencement of the Twelfth Century
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843: 'One or two volumes of the Memoirs of the queens of England, I have read -- & they seemed to me to show industry & good taste in the selection & compilation of material. But I did not read any more, just because I like the old chronicles & dislike the compiling spirit.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Sarah Ellis (nee Stickney) : The Poetry of Life
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843: 'Either a Stickney or a Strictland wrote the "Poetry of Life", prose (very) essays, which I couldn't get to the end of'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Hooker : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's & so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory belonging to it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's & so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory belonging to it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Bible
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's & so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory belonging to it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Caroline Bowles : The Birth-Day
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'Although not agreeing with you that the poetry of Caroline Bowles (the Birthday & the minor verses) is "meretricious," -- nay, seeming to see in it much tender simplicity, freshness & moral sweetness, I do not class it or herself highly as poet & poetry, & am aware of the feebleness essentially, -- the want of reach of mind & imagination [goes on to comment upon specific passages of The Birth-Day].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Christmas Carol
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'The Christmas Carol strikes me much as it does you. I dont like the machinery -- which is entangled with allegory & ghostery -- but I like & admire the mode of the working out -- & the exquisite scenes about the clerk & little Tiny [Tim]; I thank the writer in my heart of hearts for them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : epitaph for Robert Southey
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843: 'On my return from a long, weary walk through mud & mist, yesterday morning, my eyes were gladdened by the sight of your letter [...] Thank you for those lines of Wordsworth's [epitaph for Robert Southey, transcribed by Barrett in her letter, of 26 December 1843]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Hengist Horne : Orion
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843: 'I must not forget to thank you for your recommendation of "Orion" -- I have read it again & again, & like it exceedingly -- I thought it a little [italics]cold[end italics] at first, but lost sight of that in the second reading'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Woods : lines of poetry
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 31 December 1843: 'With thanks I return the verses of your artist friend [enclosed in letter from Westwood of 27 December]. It is a pretty fancy, & gave me pleasure to read.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to a Skylark
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Alastor
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Revolt of Islam (Canto I)
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so far aloof from common feelings, & common sympathies -- There are poems of his, which I never tire of reading -- the "ode to a Skylark", & "Alastor", & part of the "Prometheus", & that magnificent first canto of the "Revolt of Islam", with the fight of the eagle & serpent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Stones of Venice
'?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Heinrich Heine : Du hast Diamenten und Perlen
'I [...] was singing after my own fashion "Du hast diamentem und Perlen"[...]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: song

H.G. Wells : Marriage
'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married life than anybody has ever achieved before.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Codex, proofs

: La Nouvelle Revue Francaise
'I think you should like 'La Nouvelle Revue Francaise' (31 Rue Jacob, Paris. 1 fr 50c. monthly). The critical articles at the end are always quite first class, & much of the creative stuff is admirable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

: Royal Literary Fund annual report
'A copy of the latest annual report of the Royal Literary Fund was recently forwarded to me from headquarters, and I have been studying its accounts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: report

Charles Sarolea : 'Everyman' magazine
'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Guy de Maupassant : La Maison Tellier
'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Nostromo
'I read 'Higuerota' again not long since, I always think of that book as 'Higuerota', the said mountain being the principal personage in the story, When I first read it I thought it the finest novel of this generation (bar none), and I am still thinking so.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : The Secret Agent
'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire from the comparison. What I chiefly like in your books of 'Reminiscences' is the increasing sardonic quality of them?the rich veins of dark and glittering satire and sarcasm. There was a lot of it, too, in the latter half of 'Under Western Eyes'. I must tell you that I think the close of ?The Secret Sharer? about as fine as anything you?ve ever done. Overwhelmingly strong and beautiful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Under Western Eyes
'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire from the comparison. What I chiefly like in your books of 'Reminiscences' is the increasing sardonic quality of them?the rich veins of dark and glittering satire and sarcasm. There was a lot of it, too, in the latter half of 'Under Western Eyes'. I must tell you that I think the close of ?The Secret Sharer? about as fine as anything you?ve ever done. Overwhelmingly strong and beautiful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : The Secret Sharer
'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire from the comparison. What I chiefly like in your books of 'Reminiscences' is the increasing sardonic quality of them?the rich veins of dark and glittering satire and sarcasm. There was a lot of it, too, in the latter half of 'Under Western Eyes'. I must tell you that I think the close of ?The Secret Sharer? about as fine as anything you?ve ever done. Overwhelmingly strong and beautiful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: Book catalogue
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 December 1843: 'Looking over a book catalogue this morning I saw Agnes Strickland's name attached to a "Demetrius & other poems" whereof I never heard before.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

George Payne Rainsford James : novels
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5-6 January 1844: '[George Payne Rainsford James] is a picturesque writer [...] Often when I have been very unwell, I have been able to read his books with advantage, when I cd not read better ones. You may read him from end to end without a superfluous beat of the heart -- & they are just the sort of intellectual diet fitted for persons "ordered to be kept quiet" by their physicians [...] I am grateful to Mr James for many a still serene hour.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Westwood : Beads from a Rosary
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 11 January 1844: 'I have [...] read your volume through [...] I have several favourite poems -- the "Invocation" [...] & "Spring" [...] & the "Mill-song," & the Wind, & the "Parlour Fire," .. but my favourite in the whole book, I think, must be confessed to be the "Birth song of the Flowers."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Plato : unknown
'[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and describes in [italics]The Scholemaster[end italics] (1570) how he found her reading Plato while the rest of the household was out hunting.'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Jane Grey      Print: Book

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton : poems
Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844: 'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I thought very good of its kind. More high-minded in its personal aggrievedness, and less reproachful & vindictive than Ld Byron.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hengist Horne

Richard Hengist Horne : plays
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : The Ballad of Delora
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Annotations in Richard Hengist Horne, The Ballad of Delora
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Richard Hengist Horne : The Ballad of Delora
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Samuel Lover : novels
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844: '[Samuel Lover] is a very powerful writer of Irish novels [...] You probably know his ballads [...] His novels, however, all of which I have not read, are the stuff whereon his fame is made -- and they are highly vital, & of great value in the sense of commentary on the national character.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles James Lever : Harry Lorrequer
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844: 'I [italics]cannot read[end italics] Lever, ... honestly & without affectation, I [italics]cannot[end italics] [...] Over and over again have I tried to read his book -- and every time I came to the conclusion that he was a remarkably clever writer who was unreadable by me. [...] The chapters, I have read of him, make my head ache as if I had been sitting in the next room to an orgy [...] of gentlemen topers, -- with their low gentility, & "hip hip hurrahs," & wine out of wine-coolers [...] he is contracted & conventional, & unrefined in his line of conventionality -- and I cannot believe that he represents fairly even the social & jovial side of men of much refinement'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Wiliam Carleton : 'tales' (extracts)
Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844: 'Do you happen to know anything of the Irish tales of Carlton [sic]? Some [italics]extracts[end italics] I have seen I think excellent.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hengist Horne      Print: Unknown

Eugene Sue : The Mysteries of Paris
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. ' know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius which radiates, from end to end, through that extraordinary work [...] the writer, if of less general power than Balzac, is still more copious in imagination & creation. He glories in all extremities & intensities of evil & of passion [...] he has written other romances [...] "Mathilde" interested me beyond them all, & consists of some seven or eight volumes [...] but except for the insight it gives into French society, I am not sure that you wd be pleased with it [...] I have been thinking that the American translation in which you read the "Mysteries," may probably be a [italics]purified[end italics] edition, of which I have seen some notices.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Eugene Sue : The Mysteries of Paris
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. I know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius which radiates, from end to end, through that extraordinary work [...] the writer, if of less general power than Balzac, is still more copious in imagination & creation. He glories in all extremities & intensities of evil & of passion [...] he has written other romances [...] "Mathilde" interested me beyond them all, & consists of some seven or eight volumes [...] but except for the insight it gives into French society, I am not sure that you wd be pleased with it [...] I have been thinking that the American translation in which you read the "Mysteries," may probably be a [italics]purified[end italics] edition, of which I have seen some notices.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Mathilde, Memoires d'une Jeune Femme
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. I know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius which radiates, from end to end, through that extraordinary work [...] the writer, if of less general power than Balzac, is still more copious in imagination & creation. He glories in all extremities & intensities of evil & of passion [...] he has written other romances [...] "Mathilde" interested me beyond them all, & consists of some seven or eight volumes [...] but except for the insight it gives into French society, I am not sure that you wd be pleased with it [...] I have been thinking that the American translation in which you read the "Mysteries," may probably be a [italics]purified[end italics] edition, of which I have seen some notices.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Philip James Bailey : Festus
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: '[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much struck by "Festus" [...] Both the "Festus" & the supplement apologetic to it, which appeared in the Monthly Repository (I think) filled me with admiration [...] Its [italics]fault[end italics] is an extraordinary inequality -- so really one falls down precipices continually; & from pinnacles of grandeur, into profundities of badness. Parts of the poem are as bad, & as weak as is well possible to be conceived of: and moreover [...] there is an occasional coarseness & gratuitous indelicacy [...] Also, I will not say that there is not some over-daring in relation to divine things [...] But when all is said, what poet-stuff remains!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Philip James Bailey : Additional scene for Festus
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: '[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much struck by "Festus" [...] Both the "Festus" & the supplement apologetic to it, which appeared in the Monthly Repository (I think) filled me with admiration [...] Its [italics]fault[end italics] is an extraordinary inequality -- so really one falls down precipices continually; & from pinnacles of grandeur, into profundities of badness. Parts of the poem are as bad, & as weak as is well possible to be conceived of: and moreover [...] there is an occasional coarseness & gratuitous indelicacy [...] Also, I will not say that there is not some over-daring in relation to divine things [...] But when all is said, what poet-stuff remains!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Taylor : Philip van Artevelde
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: 'I suppose by an opinion upon Taylor you mean nothing elaborate -- & indeed I am not qualified for it without a little study, having read Van Artevelde once in a hurry (once -- long ago!) & no work of his subsequently at all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Colombe's Birthday
Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844: 'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his charming wife (who is to take the principal part) -- and all went off au mieux -- [italics]but[end italics] -- he wants to keep it till "Easter next year" -- and unpublished all the time!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Manuscript: Unknown

John Edmund Reade : letter to Mary Russell Mitford
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844: 'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amused me more perhaps than it [italics]shd[end italics] have done, as representing a human being bound, so, upon the agonizing wheel of an extreme & incessant vanity [...] Did you not laugh out loud when you read it? [goes on to mock Reade's views on his contemporaries in literature]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

George Burges : criticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Sophocles
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to him I am for permitting me to look, for a moment, according to his view of the question [...] I am delighted to be able to call by the name of Aeschylus, under the authority of Mr Burges, those noble electrical lines [...[ which had struck me twenty times as Aeschylean, when I read them among the recognized fragments of Sophocles.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

Sophocles : 'recognised fragments of Sophocles'
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to him I am for permitting me to look, for a moment, according to his view of the question [...] I am delighted to be able to call by the name of Aeschylus, under the authority of Mr Burges, those noble electrical lines [...[ which had struck me twenty times as Aeschylean, when I read them among the recognized fragments of Sophocles.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

unknown : A Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of Norwich
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844: 'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end italics]! They are more [italics]personal[end italics] than any I ever saw of his, -- & have more warm everyday life in them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Sir Aurel Stein : unknown
'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries ago, and it is hard to belive that he is even dead. And the reason Sir Aurel suggests for this desiccation of Central Asia is, that not so much has the climate changed, as that in the past those areas subsisted in the main on the excess water given by the slow melting of the original ice-cap, since the actual snowfall must have been insufficient to produce glaciers of a size to give their requisite summer volume of water. And so it seems to me that that is to some extent the condition of Ladakh...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat')      Print: Unknown

John Sterling : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to my apprehension, into the class of respectable poets: good sense & good feeling, somewhat dry & cold, and very level smooth writing, being what I discern in him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Bartholomew Simmons : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to my apprehension, into the class of respectable poets: good sense & good feeling, somewhat dry & cold, and very level smooth writing, being what I discern in him -- There are Mr Sterling, Mr Simmons, Lord Leigh [...] who have education & natural ability enough to be anything in the world EXCEPT poets -- & who choose to be poets "in spite of nature & their stars" [...] Moreover all these men, by a curious consistency, take up & use the Gallic- Drydeny corruption of versification [source eds believe by this Barrett means blank verse] -- so at least the passing glances I have had of their proceedings lead me to suppose.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to my apprehension, into the class of respectable poets: good sense & good feeling, somewhat dry & cold, and very level smooth writing, being what I discern in him -- There are Mr Sterling, Mr Simmons, Lord Leigh [...] who have education & natural ability enough to be anything in the world EXCEPT poets -- & who choose to be poets "in spite of nature & their stars" [...] Moreover all these men, by a curious consistency, take up & use the Gallic- Drydeny corruption of versification [source eds believe by this Barrett means blank verse] -- so at least the passing glances I have had of their proceedings lead me to suppose.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Unknown

Robert Browning : Colombe's Birthday
Bryan Waller Procter to Robert Browning, ?26 March 1844: 'I got your play last night then read it with very great pleasure [...] Colombe is a charming creature. The play [...] is [italics]full[end italics] of interest & capital situations -- the language excellent. You have done well [...] to lay aside all mystery of language & speak direct'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Bryan Waller Procter      Print: In proof copy

Paul de Kock : novels
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1844: 'Really, [Paul de Kock] is very bad -- he is very [italics]nasty[end italics] -- he splashes the dirt about him, like a child in a guttter [...] Twice I tried books of his, & sent them back again, .. feeling them to be to bad to read. The third time, they sent me a book of his in mistake for another which I had asked for -- & I went through with it, -- & saw so much (getting used to the filth) to like & recognise for picture & faculty, .. that I took courage, -- & have read most of his forty or fifty volumes, I do believe [goes on to discuss author further]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : A New Spirit of the Age
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, ?12 April 1844: 'I have just finished the second volume [of A New Spirit of the Age], dear Miss Barrett, & my fingers itch to tell you that I am quite positively sure that [italics]you are in more pages of the book than those headed by your name[end italics]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Alfred Domett : letter to Robert Browning
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning & Sister[,] Dowson & wife dined with us a week back, Browning read us your letter, a capital one [...] Your advice to him as to his [poetic] language, r[h]ythm & c was admirable & he seemed [italics]really[end italica] grateful for it [...] he read it out to us himself & I can assure you there was not in his manner the slightest semblance of anything approaching to offence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Manuscript: Letter

Robert Browning : Paracelsus
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Browning -- I still believe as devoutly as ever in Paracelsus & find more wealth of thought & poetry in it than [in] any book except Shakespeare. The more one reads the more miraculous does that book seem as the work of a man of five and twenty'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately with the highest pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

John Webster : The White Devil
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately with the highest pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Poems
Sara Coleridge to John Kenyon, 1844: 'I return with thanks the Poems of Miss Barrett, which I now always mention in high terms to any of my acquaintances, whenever the conversations [sic] affords an opportunity. I think my favourites are the "Poet's Vow," "A Romance of the Ganges," "Isobel's Child" (so like "Christabel" in manner, as mamma and I both thought), "The Island," "The Deserted Garden," and "Cowper's Grave" [goes on to criticise work in further detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Coleridge      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : A New Spirit of the Age
Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844: 'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the Age] all marked through. He has marked with great admiration various passages written violently of by [italics]others[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Leigh Hunt      Print: Book

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton : The Dream, and Other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 June 1844: 'The poem [of Caroline Norton's] which I called [italics]domestic[end italics] is one, I think, in an octave stanza, containing a story .. of a wife who becomes aware of the dishonour of her husband. It succeeds the Dream -- It has more [italics]power[end italics], than any composition of Mrs Norton's which I ever read. The name quite escapes me -- & I have so painful an association of a personal nature with the book, as to lose all courage to look into it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : poetry
Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 July 1844: 'I read Tennyson with deep & high delight, yet with the mournful feeling that his operation & immortality must be restricted by the want of simplicity wh. is the curse of our poets now-a- days. None can live who do not speak out clear & substantial, well-rounded thoughts in the most lucid & direct expression. Scarcely one does this, -- & for want of it I do fear none will live.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

Catherine Gore : Agathonia
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 July 1844: 'I heard the other day that "Agathonia" was Mrs Gore's! [...] Mr Crabbe Robinson told George [? i.e. Barrett's brother] at Mr Kenyon's the other day that he had been vexed at the dificulty he found in reading it through, [italics]as it was my book![end italics] -- Then the fame of it went over to Mrs Coleridge, .. & lighted at last on the right head .. Mrs Gore's.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Crabb Robinson      Print: Book

Henry Fothergill Chorley : Memorials of Mrs Hemans
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of interest certainly. Still I stand by my position, that she was too conventionally a [italics]lady[end italics], to be a great poetess [...] I took up Blanchard's memoir of LEL just after Mr Chorley's book, & was struck by an undeniable vulgarity spreading all the way through it, in obvious contrast to the refinement of the other work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Samuel Laman Blanchard : Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of interest certainly. Still I stand by my position, that she was too conventionally a [italics]lady[end italics], to be a great poetess [...] I took up Blanchard's memoir of LEL just after Mr Chorley's book, & was struck by an undeniable vulgarity spreading all the way through it, in obvious contrast to the refinement of the other work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

James Russell Lowell : Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 July 1844, thanking him for copy of his Poems (1844): 'Your "Legend of Brittany" is full of beautiful touches [...] Then among the miscellaneous poems my pencil has marked various beauties & felicities. Chief of all I like the [italics]ode[end italics], which has struck a deep string in me, as it must in all, to whom Poetry has been as to me, the Life-light of existence. 'If I ventured to make a remark in criticism on this new volume in a general point of view, it wd be that there is a certain vagueness of effect, through a redundant copiousness of what may be called poetical diction!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Russell Mitford : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844: 'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely little cousin Lizzie Barrett [...] Well -- that child is only ten years old, & not remarkable in any way for precocity, .. simply an intelligent child, and fond of reading -- and she delights, quite delights in your books!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lizzie Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Poems
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved our first reading of the book, & like silly children, who have plucked grape, by grape, till not one is left upon the stalk, we are wishing, with a sigh, that the pleasure were yet to come [...] let me thank you, first of all, for that little touch of kindness, which made itself warmly felt, when in cutting open the leaves I came to the "Romance of the Swan's Nest" [goes on to discuss other pieces in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood and family     Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Poems
Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved our first reading of the book, & like silly children, who have plucked grape, by grape, till not one is left upon the stalk, we are wishing, with a sigh, that the pleasure were yet to come [...] let me thank you, first of all, for that little touch of kindness, which made itself warmly felt, when in cutting open the leaves I came to the "Romance of the Swan's Nest" [goes on to discuss other pieces in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Westwood      Print: Book

Catherine Smith Pyer : Wild Flowers; or Poetic Gleanings from Natural Objects
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 September 1844: 'I have sent you Miss Pyer's volume of poems today .. & see in it an address to yourself. The subscription is all settled.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Le Lys dans la Vallee (including Preface)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 September 1844: 'I read the preface to "Le Lis" & was delighted by it -- but I admire the romance far more than you seem to do, and as a love-romance, a nouvelle "nouvelle Heloise," think it quite exquisite.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : La Vieille Fille
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844: 'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me so, that I vowed to read no more of him, -- & it was by a mere accident that he met me again & overcame me. That first book was his "Veille [sic] fille," which I still think a prodigy of noisomeness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Poems
Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 September 1844: 'You have been in my mind, & your vols -- or one at a time, while the other was out, -- open before me daily, & many times in a day [...] I saw at once -- in cutting the leaves -- that you had made an immense advance on the former volume [goes on to note various shorter pieces] [...] Lady Geraldine is glorious. I was [italics]swept[end italics] through it [continues with further, detailed criticism of whole collection].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Coningsby: or, The New Generation
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844: 'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet scarcely efficient [...] It has no story, & not a great deal of character; and is powerful as an exponent of the Young England political views, without being specific. Still, a master-mind lives in the book, & the reader feels it everywhere.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Le Juif Errant
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 October 1844: 'I thought I had read only the [italics]third[end italics] volume of "Le Juif," -- but your fourth must be my third, for I have assuredly read the madhouse scene -- & a very fine thing it is [goes on to comment further upon specific episodes in novel] [...] I do wish I had the other volumes of the "Juif Errant" -- but I suppose they are not written yet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry Rogers : 'Recent Developments of Puseyism'
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besides the admirable paper by Macaulay in the same number.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Babington Macaulay : 'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Earl of Chatham'
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besides the admirable paper by Macaulay in the same number.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

John Gibson Lockhart : Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Have you any recollection of Adam Blair? I believe there was an outcry against the indecency of that book, -- & lately, on comparing the first with a last edition of it, I find that the author has left out the few lines which were taken generally to be offensive, & which compared to the least of certain offences, were the merest lamb-innocences.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : La Torpille
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any information, such as you ask for [...] As to Casimir Delavigne, I dislike his poetry so much that I dont think I [italics]can[end italics] try to read any more of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Jean Francois Casimir Delavigne : poetry
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any information, such as you ask for [...] As to Casimir Delavigne, I dislike his poetry so much that I dont think I [italics]can[end italics] try to read any more of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Camille Bodin : Pascaline et Savinie
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read two of her books -- Savinie -- and Stenia, .. which last I cd not have lived through if it had not been for the [italics]precious ridiculousnesses[end italics] (as Mrs Malaprop might translate Moliere) of the Englishisms.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Camille Bodin : Stenia et l'abbe Maurice
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read two of her books -- Savinie -- and Stenia, .. which last I cd not have lived through if it had not been for the [italics]precious ridiculousnesses[end italics] (as Mrs Malaprop might translate Moliere) of the Englishisms.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Edward Moxon : Sonnets
Elizabeth Barrett to Edward Moxon, 25 November 1844: 'I am grateful to you for the gift you have sent me [...] I have glanced through a good many of the sonnets already, & am able to appreciate their refined grace.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Heinrich Heine : [poems]
'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Walt Whitman : probably Leaves of Grass
'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much before, and it fetched the auditory considerable. Reading these things that I like aloud when I am painfully excited is the keenest artistic pleasure I know: it does seem strange that these dependant arts ? singing, acting and in its small way, reading aloud ? seem the best rewarded of all arts. I am sure it is more exciting for me to read, than it was for W.W. to write: and how much more must this be so with singing!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Friedrich von Matthisson : Adelaide
'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its span in immensity, calculated him, by a sort of birthright, for such an "argument" as the paradise lost: he had an exquisite passion for what is properly, in the sense of ease and pleasure, poetical Luxury; and with that it appears to me he would fain have been content, if he could, so doing, have preserved his self-respect and feel of duty performed; but there was working in him as it were that same sort of thing as operates in the great world to the end of a Prophecy's being accomplished: therefore he devoted himself rather to the Ardours thean the pleasures of Song, solacing himself at intervals with cups of old wine; and those are with some exceptions the finest parts of the Poem. With some exceptions - for the spirit of mounting and adventure can never be unfruitful or unrewarded: had he not broken through the clouds which envellope [sic] so deliciously the Elysian fields of Verse, and committed himself to the Extreme, we should never have seen Satan as described - But his face/ Deep Scars of thunder had entrench'd etc.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise Lost" possesses over every other poem - the Magnitude of Contrast, and that is softened by the contrast being ungrotesque to a degree. Heaven moves on like music throughout. Hell is also peopled with angels; it also move[s] on like music, not grating and harsh, but like a grand accompaniment in the Base to Heaven.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openings of great Poems, more particularly where the action begins - that of Dante's Hell. Of Hamlet, the first step must be heroic and full of power; and nothing can be more impressive and shaded then the commencement of the action here - "Round he throws his baleful eyes -" '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phrases and lines: 'round he throws his baleful eyes'; 'At once, as far as Angel's ken, he views/ The dismal situation waste and wild'; 'sights of woe,/ Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace/ And rest can never dwell; hope never comes/ That comes to all'. He writes after line 75: 'One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another. Things may be described by a Man's self in parts so as to make a grand whole which that Man himself would scarcely inform to its excess. A Poet can seldom have justice done to his imagination - for men are as distinct in their conceptions of material shadowings as they are in matters of spiritual understanding: it can scarcely be conceived how Milton's Blindness might here ade [for aid] the magnitude of his conceptions as a bat in a large gothic vault'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?' and writes: 'There is a cool pleasure in the very sound of vale. The english word is of the happiest chance. Milton has put vales in heaven and hell with the very utter affection and yearning of a great Poet. It is a sort of delphic Abstraction - a beautiful thing made more beautiful by being reflected and put in a Mist. The next mention of Vale is one of the most pathetic in the whole range of Poetry. "Others, more mild, / Retreated in a silent Valley etc". How much of the charm is in the Valley!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'the glittering staff unfurl'd' to 'Of warriors old with order'd spear and shield'. He then writes: 'The light and shade - the sort of black brightness - the ebon diamonding - the ethiop Immortality - the sorrow, the pain, the sad-sweet Melody - the Phalanges of Spirits so depressed as to be "uplifted beyond hope" - the short mitigation of Misery - the thousand Melancholies and Magnificences of this Page - leaves no room for anything to be said thereon but "so it is".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his form had not yet lost/ All her original brightness, nor appear'd' to 'Perplexes monarchs', and writes: 'How noble and collected an indignation against Kings, "and for fear of change perplexes Monarchs" etc. His very wishing should have had power to pull that feeble animal Charles from his bloody throne. "The evil days" had come to him; he hit the new System of things a mighty mental blow; the exertion must have had or is yet to have some sequences.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'Anon out of the earth a fabric huge/ Rose like an exhalation' to 'yielded light/ As from a sky' and writes: 'What creates the intense pleasure of not knowing? A sense of independence, of power, from the fancy's creating a world of its own by the sense of probabilities. We have read the Arabian Nights and hear there are thousands of those sorts of Romances lost - we imagine after them - but not their realities if we had them nor our fancies in their strength can go further than this Pandemonium - "Straight after the doors opening" etc. "rose like an exhalation" - '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the lines from 'Others, more mild, /Retreated in a silent valley' to 'By doom of battle'; 'Their song was partial, but the harmony'; 'Suspended Hell'; 'in discourse more sweet/ (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense)/ Others apart sat on a hill retired'. He writes: 'Milton is godlike in the sublime pathetic. In Demons, fallen Angels, and Monsters the delicacies of passion, living in and from their immortality, is of the most softening and dissolving nature. It is carried to the utmost here - "Others more mild" - nothing can express the sensation one feels at "Their song was partial" etc. Examples of this nature are divine to the utmost in other poets - in Caliban "Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments" etc. In Theocritus, Polyphemus, and Homer's Hymn to Pan where Mercury is represented as taking his "homely fac'd" to heaven. There are numerous other instances in Milton - where Satan's progeny is called his "daughter dear", and where this same Sin, a female, and with a feminine instinct for the showy and martial is in pain lest death should sully his bright arms, "nor vainly hope to be invulnerable in those bright arms." Another instance is "pensive I sat alone". We need not mention "Tears such as Angels weep."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

Bob Stevenson : letter
I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, however, you may think I have behaved nastily to you; and it just occurs to me that I have never explained how I did not answer your proposal about B. of A. I did not get your letter, until the Sunday; I then wrote immediately but, as it was so much too late, didn?t say anything about it. This was rude; and I am sorry, I did so; it shall not occur again.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Casimir Delavigne : Louis XI
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : Marino Faliero
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : Les Enfants d'Edouard
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : La Popularite
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : La Fille du Cid
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : Une Famille au temps de Luther
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Madame d'Abrantes : romances
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I have read some of the romances of Madme d'Abrantes [...] Yes -- she is delightful.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Jenny Bodin (nee Bastide) : Stenia et l'abbe Maurice
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Madme Bodin nee Jenny Bastide is neither very pure nor at all powerful [...] "Stenia" did me to the death of dulness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau : Marianna
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Of [italics]Sandeau[end italics] I have read very little. His "Marianna" has power in its way [...] but acclimatation is a necessary precaution -- for the passion of the book exceeds the comprehension of an Englishman by leagues of extravagance. It's a melancholy, desecrating book'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good deal, .. or perhaps not a good deal, .. of Casimir Delavigne's other plays -- but he seemed to me to pine after Racine & the ([italics]French[end italics]) classic abominations of desolation so obviously that I turned back.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Casimir Delavigne : plays
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good deal, .. or perhaps not a good deal, .. of Casimir Delavigne's other plays -- but he seemed to me to pine after Racine & the ([italics]French[end italics]) classic abominations of desolation so obviously that I turned back.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : Les Maitres Mosaistes
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on choosing French fiction to read] -- it is perfectly pure, & very beautiful; and so also is "Les sept chords du lyre" -- a prose poem which delighted me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : Les sept cordes de la lyre
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on choosing French fiction to read] -- it is perfectly pure, & very beautiful; and so also is "Les sept chords du lyre [sic]" -- a prose poem which delighted me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: Review of Elizabeth Barrett, Poems (1844)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Think of the Westminster Review [...] commending me for "moral courage" on account of the sonnets to Madame Dudevant [George Sand] -- for daring to say what I do, "in the face of opinion." I was half afraid while Papa was reading the passage. I observed that he made a little impatient movement -- & I am sure he thought it equivocal praise for a woman, to have moral courage against opinion.! "That's capital" he said -- just in the tone of .. "That's very impertinent." But the Westminster Review is so gracious, & says so many kind things of me & my poetry, that the emotion was swept away like a cobweb, -- and he forgot to ask me any searching questions. Dearest Papa!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

: Reports concerning cure of Harriet Martineau by mesmerism
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I have heard that Miss Martineau's connections are greatly vexed by the publicity given to the case [of Martineau's having been apparently cured of an ovarian cyst by mesmerism] [...] The medical men who attended her [...] are said to be both furious & incredulous. Most unpleasant of all is, they have put her medical case in very bare hideous language, I hear, into the Medical Gazettes from whence it has been copied into some Evening papers. Papa who saw it, was lamenting it much. "No man wd like it" he observed, -- "much less a woman. They quite turn her inside out."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Leigh Hunt : Imagination and Fancy
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 3 December 1844: 'I am grateful enough to [Leigh Hunt] [...] having, .. in addition to all former causes of gratitude, .. the present delight of reading his new critical work upon poetry. The most delightful and genial of poetical critics he is assuredly. Not that I always agree with him [goes on to criticise work in detail] [...] the book is, however, a beautiful book, & will be a companion to me for the rest of my life. My brother George gave it to me, as the most acceptable gift in the world.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Le Salamandre (including Preface)
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among those you ask about, is "Le Salamandre" [...] As strange a work it is as ever was written -- with few indications of the power to come. The only remarkable thing is the preface, in which, by way of reason for making all his people unhappy in this world, or rather for taking them out of it by being shot and shooting themselves, he says that to represent good people as successful in this world and rogues as unsuccessful would take away the chief argument for a future life.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Une tenebreuse affaire
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among those you ask about, is "Le Salamandre" [...] The only remarkable thing is the preface, in which [...] he says that to represent good people as successful in this world and rogues as unsuccessful would take away the chief argument for a future life. Now I really do hold that virtue, although not always prosperous, is yet upon the whole far happier than vice [...] I am quite sure that to represent systematically vice as fortunate, and goodness as wretched, tends to make selfish people vicious; and it is really wicked in Balzac to give one the pain he does in this way. In "Une Tenebreuse Affaire," for instance, I was so provoked with him for making Napoleon kill Michu and forgive those dolts of gentlemen, that I could have flung the book at his (Balzac's) head, if luckily that wonderful head had been within reach.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Frederika Bremer : The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'Ah! dearest love, Frederika Bremer! I did read half "The Neighbours," and really you are the only person of a high class of mind whom I have found liking her works.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Horace Twiss : The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (vol. 1)
Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844: 'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward to in the Eldon memoirs, as Pincher's biography. I am only in the first volume. Are English chancellors really made of such stuff? Pincher will help to reconcile me to the Law lords perhaps.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Meredith : Letters vol 1
'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especially the 1st vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The Passionate Friends
'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Marriage?certainly more homogeneous?& about as good as the New M . . . '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book

unknown : unknown
'. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see that under the headings of the different countries it gives on each double page a complete conspectus of all important events which happened during a given period. I consider it a work which is absolutely invaluable to the novelist who deals, however indirectly or briefly, with any past period, And I have used it constantly ever since I bought a copy of the original publication about twelve years ago.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Squire : The Three Hills
'I was glad to see your hand, as it forced me to write to you. About 5 or 6 weeks ago I had the impulse to write to you about the high satisfaction I had from your last book, but with the base indifference that sometimes paralyses the most ardent souls, I simply did not write. Your poetry gives me real pleasure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Laurent Tailhade : Poemes aristophanesques
'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have written originally in English.)'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Samuel Butler : The Way of all Flesh
'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity. About "The Devil?s Garden" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist. "Fortitude" is by a man who has written one real book ("Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill") , but "Fortitude" is undoubtedly a failure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

W.B. Maxwell : The Devil's Garden
'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity. About "The Devil?s Garden" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist. "Fortitude" is by a man who has written one real book ("Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill") , but "Fortitude" is undoubtedly a failure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Fortitude
'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity. About "The Devil?s Garden" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist. "Fortitude" is by a man who has written one real book ("Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill") , but "Fortitude" is undoubtedly a failure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or mediocrity. About "The Devil?s Garden" there is nothing to be said, it simply does not exist. "Fortitude" is by a man who has written one real book ("Mr, Perrin & Mr. Traill") , but "Fortitude" is undoubtedly a failure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The Passionate Friends
'You have been looking for the wrong things in "The Passionate Friends", & failing to see the right things.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Dark Flower
'I like "The Dark Flower" very much, & wrote to tell Galsworthy so?a thing I have never done before about a book of his, though he is a friend of mine.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

C.L. Philippe : Bubu de Montparnasse
'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Montparnasse", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already done so), and "Dans les rues", by J.H. Rosny ain?.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

J.H. Rosny : Dans les rues
'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Montparnasse", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already done so), and "Dans les rues", by J.H. Rosny ain?.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: The New Statesman
'In your issue of August 29th, reviewing war literature, you say: "Almost without exception during the last fortnight our eminent novelists have rushed into print as authorities on all matters of foreign policy and military strategy." Can you name these novelists?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

: Manchester Guardian
'As to applicants having received better treatment from Poor Law Guardians than from the Fund, My authority was a detailed article dealing with the condition of affairs in Manchester published in the Manchester Guardian of the 11th inst.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

Abel Hermant : Confessions d'un homme d'aujourdhui
'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sunday.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: New Statesman
'How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith? I think that last week?s issue was an excellent one.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Theodore Dreiser : The Genius
'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Friedrich von Matthison : Adelaide
'... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Paul : Epistle to the Philippians, I.3
'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the New Testament and take the text, meine schone Freundin, as a message from me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: wristlet

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian
'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the inscription in its stiff Jedediah Cleishbotham fashion is not without something touching.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: gravestone

George Gordon Lord Byron : Mazeppa
'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a rapid intuition of genius, that makes one rather sorry for one?s own generation of better writers and ? I don?t know what to say; I was going to say ?smaller men?; but that?s not right; read it and you will feel what I cannot express. Don't be put out by the beginning; persevere; and you will find yourself thrilled before you are at an end with it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Notes on the Movements of Young Children.
'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay

Thomas Dick Lauder : Scottish Rivers
'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not have done it just now, but I was in the humour ? and I did eat...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Charles Rollin : The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients
'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I have bestowed on this ancient history I find my mind retains but a faint outline of it. - I did not read the dissertation on the arts and sciences it seemed lumpish stuff, and foreign to my present purpose[.] However if you think it for my good to spend a fortnight on these three volumes I will not grudge it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Cruthers and Johnson
'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I would give Shandy and my pearl necklace to be able to write such an other - but that I shall never be!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Sheet

Friedrich Schiller : William Tell
'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but himself could have made such a play as Tell on such a plan?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Sheet

Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio) : Unknown
'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me that deplorable (these blots are no work of mine) volume of calamities? it was enough to throw any one in my case into the blue devils for a twelvemonth to come.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Gozzi Carlo : Turnadot, Princess of China
'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have made a violent effort to keep my temper-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases : Memorial de Sainte Helene
'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have made a violent effort to keep my temper-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Stella
'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to let it alone for a little and try something else - I chose Stella as I had read it in french and with great difficulty I have got through it and part of Clavigo - I do not think I shall like Goethe much unless he improves greatly-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Clavigo, a Tragedy
'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to let it alone for a little and try something else - I chose Stella as I had read it in french and with great difficulty I have got through it and part of Clavigo - I do not think I shall like Goethe much unless he improves greatly-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Giovanne Boccaccio : Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle
'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation you seemed to have in allowing me to read him I felt inclined to return it immediately - but on reflection I thought it silly to deprive myself of the pleasure of reading a clever work because it contained some exceptionable passages which I might pass of[f] even if I found them disagreeable - so I shall go on - at least as long as I find it for my good- '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Johann Gottfried Gruber : Christop Martin Wieland
'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely better than then two following pieces - At last I am beginning to recognise the Goethe you admire -'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Egmont
'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely better than then two following pieces - At last I am begnining to recognise the Goethe you admire -'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Giovanne Boccaccio : Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle
'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different parts of the book - in the two first my choice was fortunate and I was inclined to think the work had been belied - the third was enough - I will never open the book again -'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has interested me - '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Niccolo Macchiavelli : Discourses on Livy
'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has interested me - '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

George Gordon Byron : The Age Of Bronze
'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still easily fail to be a great man. You shall see his Bronze (a poetical squib) when you arrive; and another Liberal which is on the way.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I propose that you and he shall be closely acquainted by and by.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : Life of Necker [Jacques?]
'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than it was in winter.- I hope it is not putting you to inconvenience my detaining these books so long[.] If you want them tell me instantly- '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Friedrich Schiller : Fiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical Tragedy
'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than it was in winter.- I hope it is not putting you to inconvenience my detaining these books so long[.] If you want them tell me instantly-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Johann Karl August Musaeus : Volksmahrchen der Deutschen
'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advices and palavers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Anon : Review of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arguments For Judgment To Come
'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I had not read two sentences of it till I said to myself "this is He" do not forget to tell me - I shall be disappointed if I find I have mistaken your style -'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

: [newspaper]
'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (after his opinion faintly declared to the contrary) the Synod compelled him to decline.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

Edward Irving : For The Oracles Of God, Four Orations
'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is strong talent in it, true eloquence, and vigorous thought: but the foundation is rotten, and the building itself is a kind of monster in architecture - beautiful in parts - vast in dimensions - but on the whole decidedly a monster.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

unknown : Twelve True Old Golden Rules
[TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules For those who like to fare better than they now do, and at the same time to thrive and grow rich. 1 The ready penny always fetches the best bargain. He who buys upon trust, must not complain if he is cheated. The shopkeeper suspects the customer who buys on trust, and thinks that he means to cheat and never to pay; and therefore he takes good care to be before hand, and charges highly accordingly. 2 The best pennyworth is to be had where most sit together in the open market; and bargains are often cheaper in the latter end of the day. When honest men have done their work, it is better for them to go to market than to the alehouse 3 When times are hard, why should we make them harder Still, it is not enough to be taxed once by Government without being taxed by folly, thrice by drunkenness four times by Laziness, and so on ? a good man, even in hard times will do twice as well as a bad man will in the best of times, let us all then rise up against ourselves, who thus tax and injure ourselves and we shall soon find that the times mend. let us do good to ourselves at home, and we shall become happy in our own habitations; and learn that it is a true saying, that God helps those who help themselves. 4 Time is our estate; it is our most valuable property If we lose it, or waste it, we can never ? never purchase it back again. We ought, therefore, not to have an idle hour, or throw away an idle penny. While we employ our time and our property (however small that property may be) to the best advantage, we shall find that a fortune may be made in any situation of life; and that poor man, who once wanted assistance himself may become able to assist and relieve others 5 Industry will make a man a purse, and frugality will find him strings for it, Neither the purse nor nor the strings will cost him any thing. He who has it should only draw the strings as frugality directs and he will be sure always to find an useful penny at the bottom of it the servants of industry are known by their livery; it is always whole and wholesome. Idleness travels very leisurely, and poverty soon overtakes her. look at the ragged Slaves of idleness and judge which is the best master to serve ? Industry or Idleness (continues)
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon

unknown : unknown
'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues] He is not the Wandering jew, nor an old Levite, nor St John, as some people imagine, it seems his generation was in the world before Adam and in the ark with Noah, and with Christ when Condemned to be crucified, The Scripture makes mention of him. He is no imposter He knoweth not his parents, nor ever did Suck the breast of his mother, His beard is the colour of vermillion, and is seldom or ever cut. he goes barefooted like a grey friar, He wears neither hat cap, nor wig. His coat is neither wove, knit spun or made with hands, neither is it silk.?
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      Print: Advertisement

Hannah Glasse : First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy
A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747. For example: 'To boile a Custard Pudding Take a pint of Cream, out of which take two or three Spoonfulls, and mix with a Spoonful of fine flour, Set the rest to Boil, When it is boiled, take it of, and Stir in the Cold Cream, & flour very well, when it is Cold beat up five yolks & two whites of eggs Stir in a Little Salt and some nutmeg & two or three Spoonfuls of Sack Sweeten to your palate, butter a wooden bowl, & pour it in, tie a Cloth over it & boile it half an hour, when it is enough, untie the Cloth, turn the pudding out into your Dish & pour melted butter over it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      Print: Book

unknown : [Almanac]
West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to _________________________________________________________ Jamaica 140 60 Kingston Great Britain _________________________________________________________ Barbadoes [021] 14 Bridgetown ? _________________________________________________________ St. Christopher 20 7 Basse-terre ? _________________________________________________________ Antigua 20 20 St. John?s ? _________________________________________________________ Nevis and each of them is Plymouth ? Montserrat 18 circumfer (continues. len = length; Brd = breadth)
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      Print: Unknown, set out in a table

unknown : [almanac]
[Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger: ?Mars is situated next above the Earth his course being between the orbit of Jupiter and that of the Earth but very distant from both it is the least of all the planets, Mercury excepted has less lustre than any other star and appears of a dusky red hue Mars is considerably less than the Earth, its diameter, being only 4400, miles his distance from the sun is 129,000,000 of miles and he revolves about the central luminary in 687 days proceeding at the rate of 45,000 miles an hour continues
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      Print: Unknown

Emery Tylney : (in) Foxe's Book of Martyrs
'You may remember that I used to desire to outlive you: I have changed my cue: I should be left to speak in the words of surely the most affecting historical document in the world ? Emery Tylney?s character of George Wishart: ? ?O that the Lord had left her to me, her poor boy, that she might have finished what she had begun!? I can?t tell you how beautiful that whole paper is from which those words are imitated: I was reading it again the other day, and my heart came into my mouth when I got to that passage: one is so little prepared for such a cry of the soul amid the succinct details of life and manners that surround it. And the saying in my mind attaches itself to you: I have had to explain all round that you might understand the full meaning of the words, and how they are not simply my words, but have been sanctified by the fire of martyrdom and the name of one of the good, pure, quiet, delicate spirits of the Earth; and you needed to know that, to know why I like to apply them to you.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Katharine de Mattos : unknown
'?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more types in the same style; and when I have the lot , I?ll tell you about the?[end of extract]'.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson : John Knox
'I have another letter from Groves [sic] about my ?John Knox?, which is flattering in its way: he is a very gushing and spontaneous person.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Grove      Manuscript: Unknown

Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon
'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly entertaining'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Camilla; or, a Picture of Youth
'My [underlined] vast [end underlining] dear Sister! O why, instead of 5, not give us [underlined ten, twenty [end underlining], of such dear delicious people? - I have devoured the whole, - and now feel so forlorn, so grieved to have none for tomorrow, that I tremble lest some grievous melancholly malady should seize upon me! - One after another, and then almost all at once, I have loved every soul among them so much, that to part with them is quite dreadful. Dear Sir Hugh! - But to me, if not most dear, at least most amusing Sir Sedley - where did you pick up that delightful, ridiculous [underlined] vast [end underlining] enchanting creature? - and how could you be so cruell as to dismiss him to the Hebrides with such a stink and never let us hear of him again? - I missed him [underlined] ineffably [end underlining] - I love him [underlined] superlatively [ end underlining], and, at the last moment, must own, I hated him [underlined] inexpressibly [end underlining]! sweet good little Eugenia! - Shall I ever dare to grumble again at a [underlined] red nose [end underlining] and a [underlined] dwarfs height [end underlining! - I wish, however, I had, like her, a little Latin and greek to make it go down rather more palateably. Of Camilla herself what can I say sufficiently expressive of my rapturous fondeness for her! [Burney then continues for several paragraphs to analyse and admire characters and plot of her half-sister's novel...] [underlined] Enfin [end underlining], with blessings and thanks that (tho' not for [underlined] me [end underlining] singly in the world you have brought forth so unequalled a treeat, I will conclude by signing myself the most enchanted of readers & affectionate of sisters'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabriel are discoursing over the repast Eve had set before them, Milton, to put our minds at ease as to the ill consequences of such dawdling, kindly tells us - the meal consisting wholly of fruits "No fear lest dinner cool!" - In "Paradise Regained", however, there is an address from the Devil to our Saviour worth its weight in gold - meeting him in the Wilderness, & affecting not to know him, he begins a conversation thus - "Sir, by what ill chance &c - Now that [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] appears to me the very acme of burlesque - and sets me a shouting every time it comes into my head. - My two dear grown-ups, Miss Wilbraham, & Miss Eliza, who as well as me read [underlined] both [end underlining] Paradises last winter doat upon [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] as much as I do: - and whenever we prate over fruit luncheons, apologise for it by saying - "No fear lest luncheon cool".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabriel are discoursing over the repast Eve had set before them, Milton, to put our minds at ease as to the ill consequences of such dawdling, kindly tells us - the meal consisting wholly of fruits "No fear lest dinner cool!" - In "Paradise Regained", however, there is an address from the Devil to our Saviour worth its weight in gold - meeting him in the Wilderness, & affecting not to know him, he begins a conversation thus - "Sir, by what ill chance &c - Now that [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] appears to me the very acme of burlesque - and sets me a shouting every time it comes into my head. - My two dear grown-ups, Miss Wilbraham, & Miss Eliza, who as well as me read [underlined] both [end underlining] Paradises last winter doat upon [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] as much as I do: - and whenever we prate over fruit luncheons, apologise for it by saying - "No fear lest luncheon cool".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabriel are discoursing over the repast Eve had set before them, Milton, to put our minds at ease as to the ill consequences of such dawdling, kindly tells us - the meal consisting wholly of fruits "No fear lest dinner cool!" - In "Paradise Regained", however, there is an address from the Devil to our Saviour worth its weight in gold - meeting him in the Wilderness, & affecting not to know him, he begins a conversation thus - "Sir, by what ill chance &c - Now that [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] appears to me the very acme of burlesque - and sets me a shouting every time it comes into my head. - My two dear grown-ups, Miss Wilbraham, & Miss Eliza, who as well as me read [underlined] both [end underlining] Paradises last winter doat upon [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] as much as I do: - and whenever we prate over fruit luncheons, apologise for it by saying - "No fear lest luncheon cool".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Wilbraham      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabriel are discoursing over the repast Eve had set before them, Milton, to put our minds at ease as to the ill consequences of such dawdling, kindly tells us - the meal consisting wholly of fruits "No fear lest dinner cool!" - In "Paradise Regained", however, there is an address from the Devil to our Saviour worth its weight in gold - meeting him in the Wilderness, & affecting not to know him, he begins a conversation thus - "Sir, by what ill chance &c - Now that [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] appears to me the very acme of burlesque - and sets me a shouting every time it comes into my head. - My two dear grown-ups, Miss Wilbraham, & Miss Eliza, who as well as me read [underlined] both [end underlining] Paradises last winter doat upon [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] as much as I do: - and whenever we prate over fruit luncheons, apologise for it by saying - "No fear lest luncheon cool".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Wilbraham      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabriel are discoursing over the repast Eve had set before them, Milton, to put our minds at ease as to the ill consequences of such dawdling, kindly tells us - the meal consisting wholly of fruits "No fear lest dinner cool!" - In "Paradise Regained", however, there is an address from the Devil to our Saviour worth its weight in gold - meeting him in the Wilderness, & affecting not to know him, he begins a conversation thus - "Sir, by what ill chance &c - Now that [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] appears to me the very acme of burlesque - and sets me a shouting every time it comes into my head. - My two dear grown-ups, Miss Wilbraham, & Miss Eliza, who as well as me read [underlined] both [end underlining] Paradises last winter doat upon [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] as much as I do: - and whenever we prate over fruit luncheons, apologise for it by saying - "No fear lest luncheon cool".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wilbraham      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Regained
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabriel are discoursing over the repast Eve had set before them, Milton, to put our minds at ease as to the ill consequences of such dawdling, kindly tells us - the meal consisting wholly of fruits "No fear lest dinner cool!" - In "Paradise Regained", however, there is an address from the Devil to our Saviour worth its weight in gold - meeting him in the Wilderness, & affecting not to know him, he begins a conversation thus - "Sir, by what ill chance &c - Now that [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] appears to me the very acme of burlesque - and sets me a shouting every time it comes into my head. - My two dear grown-ups, Miss Wilbraham, & Miss Eliza, who as well as me read [underlined] both [end underlining] Paradises last winter doat upon [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] as much as I do: - and whenever we prate over fruit luncheons, apologise for it by saying - "No fear lest luncheon cool".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wilbraham      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Robert Southey : Thalaba the Destroyer
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Joseph Cooper Walker : Historical and critical essay on the revival of the drama in Italy, An
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book, Unknown

Robert Southey : Letters written during a short residence in Spain and Portugal
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of Tom Jones, a foundling, The
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Pietro Metastasio : L'Olimpiade
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : Demofoonte
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : Giuseppe riconosciuto
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : Gioas re de Giuda
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : La Clemenza di Tito
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : Catone in Utica
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : Attilio Regolo
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : Ciro riconosciuto
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Metastasio : Zenobia
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Torquato Tasso : Aminta
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

: Il balliano; ovvero Il vero amore ne'cimenti e piu forte
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Pietro Chiari : La bella Pellegrina
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Rinaldo di Capua : La zingara
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Scipione Maffei : La Merope
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford : [unknown]
'I hate to be tantalized in such a way [referring to erratic correspondence]. - It is like being condemned to eat green pease, one by one, with a tooth-pick, a method much recommended, for the economization of human pleasures, by Count Rumford. Did you ever meet with the passage? If the goods of life are to be thus scantily doled out to me, I had rather philosophically make up my mind to do without them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Hester Lynch Piozzi : Observations and Reflections made in the course of a journey through FRance, Italy and Germany
'So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark staring mad for love [of] her. I have been reading her Journey through France and Italy, and nothing that I ever luxuriously licked my lips over, ever delighted me half so much. The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity for the errors of mankind - breathing such candour, chearfulness and good nature, that I quite adore her. She uses various quaint phrazes, very comical and expressive; but somewhat odd "somehow" (as she says) till one gets accustomed to her style. The original poetry thinly scattered through the work, I do not admire. But a woman cannot have every excellence of heart and genius. She has enough to satisfy a more fastidious spirit than mine'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Marie "Sophie" Cottin : Elisabeth, ou les Exiles de Siberie
'We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised: but "somehow", I have taken it into my head that it is [underlined] too good [end underlining] for my palate, because Mrs W - the strictest person in the world about Novels, put it into the hands of my Bone - and my bone yawned over it - andd when I asked her how she liked it, said - "O very much - only there's hardly any love in it!" Whip Novels without love!'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Wilbraham      Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown
'Today we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took us round. He was full of a certain recondite, far away humour that did not quite make you laugh at the time, but was somehow laughable to recollect. Moreover, he had so far a just imagination, and could put one in the right humour for seeing an old place, very much as, according to my favourite text, Scott's novels and poems do for one.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

unknown : unknown
'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Christmas Stories (2, unnamed)
I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you to read them, because they are too much perhaps. I have only read two of them yet, and I have cried my eyes out, and had a terrible fight not to sob. But O, dear God, they are [italics] good [end italics] − and, I feel so good after them, and would do anything, yet and shall do anything, to make it a little better for people. I want to go out and comfort someone; I shall never listen to the nonsense they tell one, about not giving money −I [italics] shall [end italics] give money; not that I haven?t done so always, but I shall do it with a high hand now. O what a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books like these books, and just [italics] filled [end italics] people?s hearts with pity.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

[Madame] de Genlis : Alphonsine, ou la tendresse maternelle
'Miss James has lent me, and I have been reading Alphonsine - that is the two first volumes - and it has completely bewitched me - I was such an old Ass as to sit up last night till three o'clock, reading - and then snuffed out my candle, and went to bed by daylight., The perfect originality of the plan upon which the story is founded, enchants me - and difficult as such an idea was to developpe, Mde de Genlis I think has done justice to her own design - a felicity many authors fail in attaining. - Oh - (But now another day has passed, and I have finished the three volumes of Alphonsine - and the [underlined] last [end underlining] disgraces the two first - Such a pack of higgledy piggledy stuff, without interest, finish, or any attempt at probability, I never read - Whip the woman!-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Charles Burney : The exposition of the Creed, by J. Pearson... abridged for the use of young persons
'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - "The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - "Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?" "O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together." "Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and shewed a false and pedantic taste'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book, printed book not yet published

Samuel Johnson : Dictionary of the English Language, A
'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - "The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - "Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?" "O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together." "Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and shewed a false and pedantic taste'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature
'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - "The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - "Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?" "O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together." "Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and shewed a false and pedantic taste'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature
'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - "The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - "Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?" "O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together." "Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and shewed a false and pedantic taste'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Francis      Print: Book

John Locke : Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An
'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - "The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - "Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?" "O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together." "Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and shewed a false and pedantic taste'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Francis      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When I had finished it, I remained with such a relish for Walter Scott upon my mind, that I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly divested of sneakingness - I admire his squabble with old Angus - his tranquil determination to gain possession of the Lady Clare, and [underlined] her lands, coute qui coute [end underlining], - And as for Constance de Beverley, and her infernal Trial, I think enough can never be said of her reprobate magnanimity, of the picturesque description of her person, of the surrounding gloomy objects - of scarcely any of the striking circumstances introduced throughout the whole harrowing scene. But here am I telling you of an old book just the sort of humdrum stuff I often tell myself with pen and ink in my little private reviews - And I wont say another word upon the subject. But have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems, containing a Day in Spring, and other detached pieces, with four lovely engravings from his own designs? One of them representing a youthful Spenser, dreaming about Knights, and squires, & Dames of high degree, and Fairies, & other entertaining whimsies. And all these visionary personages are dancing around him in the prettiest groupes you can imagine - You will think me a deuce of a pedant to keep jabbering so much about books, when perhaps you would like to hear about people. but I see no people, and keep company continually with books-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Marmion
'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When I had finished it, I remained with such a relish for Walter Scott upon my mind, that I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly divested of sneakingness - I admire his squabble with old Angus - his tranquil determination to gain possession of the Lady Clare, and [underlined] her lands, coute qui coute [end underlining], - And as for Constance de Beverley, and her infernal Trial, I think enough can never be said of her reprobate magnanimity, of the picturesque description of her person, of the surrounding gloomy objects - of scarcely any of the striking circumstances introduced throughout the whole harrowing scene. But here am I telling you of an old book just the sort of humdrum stuff I often tell myself with pen and ink in my little private reviews - And I wont say another word upon the subject. But have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems, containing a Day in Spring, and other detached pieces, with four lovely engravings from his own designs? One of them representing a youthful Spenser, dreaming about Knights, and squires, & Dames of high degree, and Fairies, & other entertaining whimsies. And all these visionary personages are dancing around him in the prettiest groupes you can imagine - You will think me a deuce of a pedant to keep jabbering so much about books, when perhaps you would like to hear about people. but I see no people, and keep company continually with books-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Unknown

Richard Westall : Day in Spring, A
'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When I had finished it, I remained with such a relish for Walter Scott upon my mind, that I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly divested of sneakingness - I admire his squabble with old Angus - his tranquil determination to gain possession of the Lady Clare, and [underlined] her lands, coute qui coute [end underlining], - And as for Constance de Beverley, and her infernal Trial, I think enough can never be said of her reprobate magnanimity, of the picturesque description of her person, of the surrounding gloomy objects - of scarcely any of the striking circumstances introduced throughout the whole harrowing scene. But here am I telling you of an old book just the sort of humdrum stuff I often tell myself with pen and ink in my little private reviews - And I wont say another word upon the subject. But have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems, containing a Day in Spring, and other detached pieces, with four lovely engravings from his own designs? One of them representing a youthful Spenser, dreaming about Knights, and squires, & Dames of high degree, and Fairies, & other entertaining whimsies. And all these visionary personages are dancing around him in the prettiest groupes you can imagine - You will think me a deuce of a pedant to keep jabbering so much about books, when perhaps you would like to hear about people. but I see no people, and keep company continually with books-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'I have been with a nice little party of College friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing but read Shakespear. Mrs Siddons was Magnificent-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Charlotte Barrett : [a letter]
'The story of Julia and the daisies is beautiful - I read it to MF, (my father) and he liked it much'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Manuscript: Letter

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'As I chose that my recent course of extravagance should die a melodious death [...] the last indulgence I gave it was the purchase of "The Lady of the Lake". How sweet, and to my fancy, bewitching a poem it is!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

[unknown] : Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]
'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I should like mightily to read the whole'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]
'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I should like mightily to read the whole'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Brunton : Self-control
'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first volumes, but never looked at them. Miss Jardine lent them there. She spent a sociable evening with us, and made me laugh by observing that the book began with a sort of ravishment that almost enclined her to shut it up after the first forty pages, and never to open it again. Sister Burney likes it; not the ravishment but the tout ensemble; but thinks the last volume flags.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joanne Jardine      Print: Book

Mary Brunton : Self-control
'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first volumes, but never looked at them. Miss Jardine lent them there. She spent a sociable evening with us, and made me laugh by observing that the book began with a sort of ravishment that almost enclined her to shut it up after the first forty pages, and never to open it again. Sister Burney likes it; not the ravishment but the tout ensemble; but thinks the last volume flags.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Burney      Print: Book

Mary Brunton : Self-control
'I read Self Countrol & like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death. but I think the principal character charming & well supported & the book really gives good lessons'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Barrett      Print: Book

Marie, marquise de Sevigne : [letters to her daughter - exact title uncertain]
'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired books) - Amongst others, two collections of letters, Sevigne's to her daughter, and Bussy Rabutin's to her and various others. The celebrity of these letters makes one ashamed to praise them; it is like saying Shakespear was a clever fellow: but I [underlined] will [end underlining] say, that their wit, their facility, their original humour; their arch simplicity, their every possible epistolary merit, surpass even their reputation. Having read a good many French Memoirs of that time, I enjoy the court details, and the scandal and gossip as much as Mde de Grignan could - and the witty stories occasionally inserted are [underlined] impayable [end underlining]. [SHB then describes at length the matter of some of the letters she has been reading, concluding...] It was a bright period for french intellects - Oh, how superior to the bright period of the Encyclopedists. at the time I am reading of, lived & wrote, Moliere, Corneille, Racine, La Rochfaucault [sic], Boilleau, celebrated Divines a million, and who were really good Christians; and Sevigne, and all her witty cluster of friends - and no jargon, & no frippery, & false philosophy among them - but sterling stuff, too good almost to be french'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy : [letters]
'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired books) - Amongst others, two collections of letters, Sevigne's to her daughter, and Bussy Rabutin's to her and various others. The celebrity of these letters makes one ashamed to praise them; it is like saying Shakespear was a clever fellow: but I [underlined] will [end underlining] say, that their wit, their facility, their original humour; their arch simplicity, their every possible epistolary merit, surpass even their reputation. Having read a good many French Memoirs of that time, I enjoy the court details, and the scandal and gossip as much as Mde de Grignan could - and the witty stories occasionally inserted are [underlined] impayable [end underlining]. [SHB then describes at length the matter of some of the letters she has been reading, concluding...] It was a bright period for french intellects - Oh, how superior to the bright period of the Encyclopedists. at the time I am reading of, lived & wrote, Moliere, Corneille, Racine, La Rochfaucault [sic], Boilleau, celebrated Divines a million, and who were really good Christians; and Sevigne, and all her witty cluster of friends - and no jargon, & no frippery, & false philosophy among them - but sterling stuff, too good almost to be french'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Winandermere Railway'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844: 'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me so much offence by the prose note attached to it beginning .. "This is not mere poetry, but truth" -- or something to that effect! So unworthy of a poet, as giving in to the vulgar notion of poetry & truth being different things! Also, I saw Mon[c]kton Milnes's sonnet in reply -- very good -- but not one of his best sonnets.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Richard Monckton Milnes : 'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to Mr Wordsworth's Late Sonnet'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844: 'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me so much offence by the prose note attached to it beginning .. "This is not mere poetry, but truth" -- or something to that effect! So unworthy of a poet, as giving in to the vulgar notion of poetry & truth being different things! Also, I saw Mon[c]kton Milnes's sonnet in reply -- very good -- but not one of his best sonnets.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'I used to read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic], (the "Rights of woman",) .. when I was twelve years old [...] Her eloquence & her doctrine were equally dear to me at that time, when I was inconsoleable [sic] for not being born a man.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: advertisement for Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'I observe an advertisement of [Charles Cowden Clarke's] wife's concordance.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

Frederic Soulie : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: '[Frederic Soulie] was one of the first of the new French school I ventured to approach, & he made me open my eyes very wide indeed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mademoiselle" as she was called, mind to read them again. They made me laugh and cry -- [italics]at[end itaics] her & [italics]with[end italics] her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Le dernier Chouan
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain power, without any doubt, but very heavy in many parts, & exceedingly painful in all [goes on to comment further on this text] [...] nobody in the world could read it a second time [...] 'Also I am reading David Sechard [...] Balzac has bewitched me [...] His wonderful greatness in making the ideality, real, -- & the reality, ideal, I take to be unequalled among writers. The first volume I have not finished yet [goes on to comment further on text] [...] I delight in the book, as far as I have read! -- It is worth twenty "Chouans" to my particular taste at least.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : David Sechard, volume 1
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans". Of a certain power, without any doubt, but very heavy in many parts, & exceedingly painful in all [goes on to comment further on this text] [...] nobody in the world could read it a second time [...] 'Also I am reading David Sechard [...] Balzac has bewitched me [...] His wonderful greatness in making the ideality, real, -- & the reality, ideal, I take to be unequalled among writers. The first volume I have not finished yet [goes on to comment further on text] [...] I delight in the book, as far as I have read! -- It is worth twenty "Chouans" to my particular taste at least.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Chimes
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844: 'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Dickens wants the earnest good-faith in narration which makes Balzac so enchanting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Chimes
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & still think it, one of the most beautiful of [Dickens's] works.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Frederic Soulie : Confession generale
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just your case, -- having read only the first volume, & failed of the others [i.e. not been able to obtain them from library], -- there are three: & I was the more provoked because I was interested in the denouement [...] Do you know "Fernande" by Dumas? It was sent to me instead of "Un homme serieux", last night __ & I rather like the opening. But Dumas is a second-class writer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Fernande
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just your case, -- having read only the first volume, & failed of the others [i.e. not been able to obtain them from library], -- there are three: & I was the more provoked because I was interested in the denouement [...] Do you know "Fernande" by Dumas? It was sent to me instead of "Un homme serieux", last night __ & I rather like the opening. But Dumas is a second-class writer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Sordello
John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844: 'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accomplished it in 3 days, & pronounced it not only intelligible but deeply interesting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Marston      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : "On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places"
'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, but ailing − very ailing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay.

Robert Louis Stevenson : ?John Knox and his Relations with Women??
'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Proof copy.

Katharine de Mattos : Included "Miss Griffin"?
'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper".

Thomas Carlyle : Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'
'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets together, and are very happy. He is a kind faithful slut of a fellow.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter

Thomas Carlyle : Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'
Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets together, and are very happy. He is a kind faithful slut of a fellow.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Carlyle      Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter

Francis Quarles : Emblems
'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are of clay.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Katharine de Mattos : unknown
'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are of clay.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown

George Moulton-Barrett : letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father and brother's responses to her marriage: 'The delay of the week in Paris brought me to the hour of my death warrant at Orleans [...] Robert brought in a great packet of letters [...] He wanted to sit by me while I read them, but I would not let him [...] I got him to go away for ten minutes, to meet the agony alone [...] And besides it was right not to let him read -- -- They were very hard letters, those from dearest Papa & dearest George'. '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Manuscript: Letter

Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett : letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father, brother's, and sisters' responses to her marriage: 'The delay of the week in Paris brought me to the hour of my death warrant at Orleans [...] Robert brought in a great packet of letters [...] He wanted to sit by me while I read them, but I would not let him [...] I got him to go away for ten minutes, to meet the agony alone [...] And besides it was right not to let him read -- -- They were very hard letters, those from dearest Papa & dearest George [...] 'Now I will tell you -- Robert who had been waiting at the door [...] came in & found me just able to cry from the balm of your tender words -- I put your two letters into his hands, & [italics]he[end italics], when he had read them, said with tears in his eyes, & kissing them between the words -- "I love your sisters with a deep affection -- I am inexpressibly grateful to them -- It shall be the object of my life to justify their trust as they express it here."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Manuscript: Letter

Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett : letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father, brother's, and sisters' responses to her marriage: 'The delay of the week in Paris brought me to the hour of my death warrant at Orleans [...] Robert brought in a great packet of letters [...] He wanted to sit by me while I read them, but I would not let him [...] I got him to go away for ten minutes, to meet the agony alone [...] And besides it was right not to let him read -- -- They were very hard letters, those from dearest Papa & dearest George [...] 'Now I will tell you -- Robert who had been waiting at the door [...] came in & found me just able to cry from the balm of your tender words -- I put your two letters into his hands, & [italics]he[end italics], when he had read them, said with tears in his eyes, & kissing them between the words -- "I love your sisters with a deep affection -- I am inexpressibly grateful to them -- It shall be the object of my life to justify their trust as they express it here."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Manuscript: Letter

: notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
'[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28 September 1846 issue of Galignani's Messenger, an English-language newspaper started in Paris by Giovanni Galignani (1757-1821) and his English wife in 1814. The notice read: "R. Browning, Jun., Esq., of Hatcham, to Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of E. M. Barrett, Esq., of Wimpole Street."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Fothergill Chorley      Print: Newspaper

Marchese Massimo Tapparelli D'Azeglio : Niccolo de' Lapi
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 21 November 1846: 'We have seen your professor once since you left us [...] when he came in one evening & caught us reading, sighing, yawning over Nicolo de' Lapi [sic], a romance by the son in law of Manzoni. Before we could speak, he called it "excellent, tres beau," one of their very best romances .. upon which, of course dear Robert could not bear to offend his literary & national sensibilities by a doubt even. [italics]I[end italics], not being so humane, thought that any suffering reader would be justified (under the rack-wheel) in crying out against such a book, as the dullest, heaviest, stupidest, lengthiest. Did you ever read it? If not, [italics]dont[end italics] [...] Robert in his zeal for Italy [...] tried to persuade me at first [...] that "really Ba, it was'n't so bad" [...] but after two or three chapters, the dulness grew too strong, for even his benevolence, & the yawning catastrophe overthrew him as completely as it ever did me, though we both resolved to hold on by the stirrup to the end of the two volumes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

: Siecle
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 7 January 1847: 'If it were not for the Bible & Shakespeare, we might say seriously that we had not seen a real book since our arrival in Pisa, until my great victory a few days ago, of the new subscription [...] Now, we have every evening at five oclock, just as we sit down to coffee, a french newspaper .. the Siecle'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Newspaper

Giorgio Vasari : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Cornelius Mathews, mid-January 1847: 'We live here in the most secluded manner, eschewing English visitors and reading Vasari'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Adolphe Marquis de Custine : La Russie en 1839
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to James and Julia Martin, 1 February 1847: 'We are reading (much at the latest) Custine's Russia'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Giorgio Vasari : Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 4 February 1847: 'By the grace of M. Ferucci, we have Vasari from the library, & are ploughing through it [...] Really I do venture to think it a dull book. Perhaps when we reach his contemporaries, we may find more flesh & blood.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

: Advertisement for edition of Honore de Balzac, Comedie Humaine
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'I see by the "Siecle" that Balzac's works are coming out in a complete edition arranged by himself under the title of "Comedie Humaine," and, with the idea, that this arrangement may be of use to you in various ways I send you a copy of it as it is printed at large in the French paper [encloses transcription of text].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Frederic Soulie : Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new romance of Soulie's called "Saturnin Fichet," which is really not good .. & tiresome to boot. Robert & I began by each of us reading it, but after a little while he left me alone being certain that no good could come of such a work: so, of course, ever since, I have been exclaiming & exclaiming as to the wonderful improvement & increasing beauty & glory of it, .. just to justify myself, & to make him sorry for not having persevered! The truth is, however, that but for obstinacy, I should give up too. Deplorably dull, the story is, .. & there is a crowd of people each more indifferent than each'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Newspaper

Frederic Soulie : Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new romance of Soulie's called "Saturnin Fichet," which is really not good .. & tiresome to boot. Robert & I began by each of us reading it, but after a little while he left me alone being certain that no good could come of such a work: so, of course, ever since, I have been exclaiming & exclaiming as to the wonderful improvement & increasing beauty & glory of it, .. just to justify myself, & to make him sorry for not having persevered! The truth is, however, that but for obstinacy, I should give up too. Deplorably dull, the story is, .. & there is a crowd of people each more indifferent than each'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Newspaper

Honore de Balzac : novels
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read most of his books'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Stendhal : Le Rouge et le noir
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read most of his books [...] we read together the other day the "Rouge et Noir", that powerful book of Stendhal's ([Marie Henri] Bayle [sic]) & he thought it very striking, & observed, .. what I had thought from the first again & again, .. that it was exactly like Balzac [italics]in the raw[end italics] .. in the material, .. & undevelopped [sic] conception. What a book it is really,only so full of pain & bitterness, & the gall of iniquity!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Hugh Stuart Boyd : letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 31 March 1847: 'Thank you for the dear welcome letters [...] Tell [Arabel] to thank Mr Boyd for his kind one -- Mr Boyd's [...] came when I was ill [following miscarriage] & Robert read [it] to me -- Not that he reads my letters so in general, mind, .. but that my head swam so on that particular occasion & wd not let me read properly.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Manuscript: Letter

: Italian grammar
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847: 'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & stood by the table in my lazy careless way, turning over the leaves of an old book which lay there. "Why, Wilson! you have another Italian grammar --" "Yes, I could'nt understand a word of the other, -- and the man of the house lent me this" -- I turned to the title page -- written in a large distinct hand .... [italics]James Johnstone Bevan, Milano[end italics] ...!! [...] The book was Mr Bevan's book, the landlord was Mr Bevan's landlord; & in a house of the said landlord (not this house but another) had Mr Bevan & two of his friends lived for a whole winter [goes on to note further association of Bevan with landlord] [...] Is'nt this a curious coincidence?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

: Italian grammar
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847: 'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & stood by the table in my lazy careless way, turning over the leaves of an old book which lay there. "Why, Wilson! you have another Italian grammar --" "Yes, I could'nt understand a word of the other, -- and the man of the house lent me this" -- I turned to the title page -- written in a large distinct hand .... [italics]James Johnstone Bevan, Milano[end italics] ...!! [...] The book was Mr Bevan's book, the landlord was Mr Bevan's landlord; & in a house of the said landlord (not this house but another) had Mr Bevan & two of his friends lived for a whole winter [goes on to note further association of Bevan with landlord] [...] Is'nt this a curious coincidence?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wilson      Print: Book

unknown : Life of St Giovanni Gualberto
Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 26 July 1847: 'We passed the time [at the monastery at Vallombrosa] till monday, .. reading the Life of San Gualberto (who established the monastery) & learning from that only book within our reach, how spiritual holiness & benediction float in the air of the place [...] & how no mortal soul can approach the mountain, without partaking the sanctifying advantage.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Martin (vol I)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, c.20 September 1847: 'French books I get at [in Florence], but scarcely a new one, .. which is very provoking [...] I have not read "Martin" ever since the first vol. in England.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alphonse Lamartine : Histoire des Girondins
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Even at the Palace where they read so little they are all devouring those eloquent Volumes -- the Queen & all. I would not have believed that Lamartine's prose could be so fine -- but the prose of poets is often finer than their verse [...] The Author does injustice to Napoleon I think, & is over candid to Robespierre & many of the other Revolutionary Heroes -- so that one wonders sometimes [italics]who[end italics] was guilty -- but still the book is charming.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Alphonse Lamartine : Histoire des Girondins
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Even at the Palace where they read so little they are all devouring those eloquent Volumes -- the Queen & all. I would not have believed that Lamartine's prose could be so fine -- but the prose of poets is often finer than their verse [...] The Author does injustice to Napoleon I think, & is over candid to Robespierre & many of the other Revolutionary Heroes -- so that one wonders sometimes [italics]who[end italics] was guilty -- but still the book is charming.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria and Royal Household     Print: Book

Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert : Dix Ans a la cour du roi Louis-Philippe et souvenirs du temps de l'Empire et de la Restauration
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Leon Gozlan : La Queue du chien d'Alcibiade
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Frederic Soulie : Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Unknown

John Bunyan : The Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream
'I can say this much that your paper has impressed me very much, and I shall never get the village out of my head; I know the place; it is called (to imitate Bunyan) the village of Hope-deferred, and near it goes the river of the Shadow of Suicide.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Les Deux Diane
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Unknown

Alexandre Dumas : Memoires d'un Medecin: Joseph Balsamo
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Unknown

Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet : Le Batard de Mauleon
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Unknown

J. Heneage Jesse : Literary and Historical Memorials of London
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London [sic] -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Charles Saint John : Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London [sic] -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Charles Baudelaire : Petits poemes en prose
'And yet I am going to send you a book that was written altogether in the spirit of that place. I send it however, because it is just one of those specimens of consummate polished perfection in that style, that I think you would do best to read at present: I mean Baudelaire?s "Petits Poemes". On second thoughts, I will not send it until I hear from you, in case you have it already. If you have it not, I shall send you mine, it has unfortunately been subjected to the outrages of an amateur expurgator, but the most of it is there, and I think you would do well to study it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession
Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the British Museum, with a Poem published in 1833, entitled "Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession," which elicited my warm admiration, and which, having failed in an attempt to procure a copy at the publisher's, I have since transcribed. It seems to me, in reading this beautiful composition, that it presents a noticeable analogy in style and feeling to your first acknowledged work, "Paracelsus": so much so indeed as to induce a suspicion that it might actually be written by yourself [goes on, very formally, to ask whether this is the case].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti      Print: Book

Franco di Benci Sacchetti : Trecento novelle
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, mid-December 1847: 'We are going through some of old Sacchetti's novelets now: characteristic work for Florence, if somewhat dull elsewhere [...] We got a newly printed addition to Savonarola's poems the other day -- very flat & cold -- they did not catch fire when he was burnt. The most poetic thing in the book, is his face on the first page, with that eager, devouring soul in the eyes of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Savonarola : Poesie di Ieronimo Savonarola illustrate e pubblicate per cura di Andin de Rians
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, mid-December 1847: 'We are going through some of old Sacchetti's novelets now: characteristic work for Florence, if somewhat dull elsewhere [...] We got a newly printed addition to Savonarola's poems the other day -- very flat & cold -- they did not catch fire when he was burnt. The most poetic thing in the book, is his face on the first page, with that eager, devouring soul in the eyes of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Johann Gottlieb Fichte : Characteristics of the Present Age
Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writers at all -- especially [italics]Fichte[end italics]? an enterprising American bookseller here has been translating all his exoteric works i.e. all except his Formal System of Metaphysics -- the titles will show you the nature of the Books[:] "The destination of Man" "The nature & vocation of the scholar" "Characteristics of the present age" [...] I have been reading them with that engrossing, rapt, concentrated attention which no book can command except one which speaks to the very soul of the reader: formalized in Fichte's books I find what has long been hovering vaguely before my own mind as truth: especially on Religion & Christianity. Do READ THEM -- they are not costly[,] the price of the hitherto published is as follows Characteristics of the Present Age 7s Vocation of the Scholar 2s The Destination of Man 3s 6d'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

Johann Gottlieb Fichte : The Nature and Vocation of the Scholar
Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writers at all -- especially [italics]Fichte[end italics]? an enterprising American bookseller here has been translating all his exoteric works i.e. all except his Formal System of Metaphysics -- the titles will show you the nature of the Books[:] "The destination of Man" "The nature & vocation of the scholar" "Characteristics of the present age" [...] I have been reading them with that engrossing, rapt, concentrated attention which no book can command except one which speaks to the very soul of the reader: formalized in Fichte's books I find what has long been hovering vaguely before my own mind as truth: especially on Religion & Christianity. Do READ THEM -- they are not costly[,] the price of the hitherto published is as follows Characteristics of the Present Age 7s Vocation of the Scholar 2s The Destination of Man 3s 6d'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

Johann Gottlieb Fichte : The Destination of Man
Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writers at all -- especially [italics]Fichte[end italics]? an enterprising American bookseller here has been translating all his exoteric works i.e. all except his Formal System of Metaphysics -- the titles will show you the nature of the Books[:] "The destination of Man" "The nature & vocation of the scholar" "Characteristics of the present age" [...] I have been reading them with that engrossing, rapt, concentrated attention which no book can command except one which speaks to the very soul of the reader: formalized in Fichte's books I find what has long been hovering vaguely before my own mind as truth: especially on Religion & Christianity. Do READ THEM -- they are not costly[,] the price of the hitherto published is as follows Characteristics of the Present Age 7s Vocation of the Scholar 2s The Destination of Man 3s 6d'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

: Notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
John Forster to Sarianna Browning, 21 September 1846: 'You cannot imagine the surprise with which I saw this morning's announcement [of Robert Browning, Sarianna's brother's, marriage to Elizabeth Barrett]. Not unmixed with a little pang, .. that I should have known it first through the strangeness of a newspaper'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Forster      Print: Newspaper

Robert Browning : Paracelsus
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often than any thing else in verse'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Dramatic Lyrics
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often than any thing else in verse'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

Charles de Bernard : Le Gentilhomme campagnard
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847: 'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [following miscarriage], & partly by being read to & partly by reading I got through a good deal of amusing French book-work, & among the rest, two volumes of Bernard's new ["]Gentilhomme Campagnard." Rather dull I thought it, but clever of course -- dull for Bernard. Then we read "Le Speronare" by Dumas -- a delightful book of travels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliazbeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Le Speronare
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847: 'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [following miscarriage], & partly by being read to & partly by reading I got through a good deal of amusing French book-work, & among the rest, two volumes of Bernard's new ["]Gentilhomme Campagnard." Rather dull I thought it, but clever of course -- dull for Bernard. Then we read "Le Speronare" by Dumas -- a delightful book of travels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Virgil : The Aeneid, Books III and probably V
'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case you don?t know) aloud this morning, and I had a hand at my throat tightening steadily as I read, until I could articulate no more and had to throw the book away. That is one of the experiences in life worth having; so were the Elgin Marbles.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

unknown : unknown [novels]
'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the deck, and gambling in the smoking-room.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Warrington Steevens      Print: Book

William Mitford : History of Greece, The
'I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, & I really believe a perfectly upright & honest man. He suffers not himself to be dazzled by the splendid qualities of the people he writes about - but, by turns, causes either an enthousiastic admiration of their magnanimity or a just horror of their atrocity. Individually they were the most glorious creatures, God ever permitted to shine upon earth - Collectively, they were infernal: and I take it, as good and honourable Mitford says, it was owing to their faulty religious & political institutions. But certainly the merit of this history is great, in proving, that bad as the world is now, even under Christian regulations., it is not nationally anywhere so bad as it was in Pagan Greece - except during the height and fury of the French Revolution - and still, and ever perhaps in Turkey'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Mary Leadbetter : Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry
'Have you seen the little book, "Cottage Dialogues", by Mrs Leadbetter? Edgeworths notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own, I tired a little of the receipts to make cheap dishes. Without half so much ceremony & fuss and trouble, I had rather dine upon that cheap dish, an egg boiled in the shell - or a good mess of gruel and onions'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Hannah More : Practical Piety
'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more than ever convince me what a worthless wretch I am without giving me the courage and virtue to become better. But last night, wanting to compose my wayward spirit, I ventured to open it, and read the first Chapter on Internal Christianity - And was agreeably surprised to find myself much peased with it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Louis-Pierre Anquetil : Louis XIV, sa cour et le Regent
'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's letters, and since then read Anquetils' "Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Regent". - a most admirably entertaining work, in four moderate little volumes. He stells a story of Le Regent truly characteristic - He was obliged to pass a few days in the country which he hated, & the people round him perceiving his ennui, proposed une partie de chasse - "Non, je n'aime pas la chasse" - A game at billiards - "Non, je n'aime pas le billiard" - Une lecture amusante - "Non, je n'aime pas la lecture". Then what [underlined] should [end underlining] they do? - Why nothing - for to own the truth, he had no pleasure in innocent amusements. [His] words were 'Je n'aime point les plaisirs innocents!" - [The] laughable though desperate profligacy of this answer, makes me shout.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuvieme siecle"]
'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of it made me extremely desirous to see it. There are in it descriptions of the present Parisien world - the state of Religion, of society, of amusements, of schools, fashions &c, &c - And all appears fairly done, and in a manly unaffected manner. pate le 3eme [a little hand points to an ink blot] I should like also excessively to see [underlined] Catteau's Voyage en Allemagne et Suede. [end underlining] The little I read about it, has made me so fond of the Swedes! Not the Swedish nobles, but the tiers etat; the farmers, landholders and peasantry: they resemble the Swiss at their best; but appear still more carefully educated at their provincial schools, and are quite dear things.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Calleville, Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede]
'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of it made me extremely desirous to see it. There are in it descriptions of the present Parisien world - the state of Religion, of society, of amusements, of schools, fashions &c, &c - And all appears fairly done, and in a manly unaffected manner. pate le 3eme [a little hand points to an ink blot] I should like also excessively to see [underlined] Catteau's Voyage en Allemagne et Suede. [end underlining] The little I read about it, has made me so fond of the Swedes! Not the Swedish nobles, but the tiers etat; the farmers, landholders and peasantry: they resemble the Swiss at their best; but appear still more carefully educated at their provincial schools, and are quite dear things.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

Hannah More : Practical Piety
'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparatively small Faults and Virtues" merits to be written in letters of gold, and comes home to the feelings with an aptness and force not to be resisted or described. All she says on Prayer, though but a new modification of her former sentiments delivered on this subject, is touching and beautiful: - in short, the first volume, which I have just finished, edifies and charms me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Francois de la Rochefoucauld : Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales
'Anch'io have been reading La Rochefaucould [sic] - and he has furnished me with an excellet Motto for my third Volume - And what is more to the purpose, with some entertainment of the highest & most rational kind for my breakfast hours. I can only afford time now to read at my meals. Ah pauvre humanite - I am afraid he is a [underlied] very [end underlining] little too severe against it! [...] He seldom writes as if he was hardened enough to exult in human depravity, but often as if he sadly, yet irresistibly felt its existence to be true - and such a book, it strikes me, properly considered, is calculated to produce infinite benefit'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Robert South : [unknown]
'I have, for Sunday reading, great delight in old South'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece
'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was so much taken up with last summer. Without such a previous brushing up of the memory, about those Grecian chaps, I should not have enjoyed Anacharsis at all'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein : De l'Allemagne
"I too am reading Mme de Staal [sic], and am such a Goth, that I catch myself yawning over it! Probably I am not formed to love "les plaisirs [underlined] dissertant [end underlining]." The book is like a long Review, and all about the same set of objects; and I tire for want of connection, and something either to interest my feelings or amuse my imagination. Yet, I have extracted some delightful, and some most wise little passages; and I read, though with fatigue, still with admiration, such a copious series of well-expressed reflections [...] I told my sister d'Arblay to-night, how glad I was that our best English writers, meaning Adison [sic], Swift, Johnson &c, had not written like Mde de Staal; for if they had, as sure as a gun, I should never have loved reading - I should never have opened a book. I have finished vol. I & shall probably read II and III, out of vanity, & just to say I have read them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestics [sic] when you say of it, that it breaths [sic] a spirit of "careless originiality". - It is charming. - Nothing was ever better conducted than the fable; nothing can be more [underlined] piquant [end underlining] than its dialogues; more distinct than its characters. Do, I entreat, tell me by whom it is written; and tell me, if your health will allow you, [underlined] soon [end underlining]. I die to know. Some say it is by Mrs Dorset, who wrote that clever little [underlined] bijou [end underlining], "the Peacock at Home". is it so? Pray, pray tell me. I have the three vols now in the house, and know not how to part with them. I have only just finished, and could begin them all over again with pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein : De L'Allemagne
'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention it - I yawned over her Allemagne - and yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do you agree with me in thinking, that with all her brilliant varnish, she is corrupt at heart? Had Satan himself written "Pauline", one of the stories published with "Zuma", he could have produced nothing more offensive to decency, more detestably disgusting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein : Zulma, et trois nouvelles
'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention it - I yawned over her Allemagne - and yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do you agree with me in thinking, that with all her brilliant varnish, she is corrupt at heart? Had Satan himself written "Pauline", one of the stories published with "Zuma", he could have produced nothing more offensive to decency, more detestably disgusting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Catherine Anne Dorset : Peacock "at home", The
'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestics [sic] when you say of it, that it breaths [sic] a spirit of "careless originiality". - It is charming. - Nothing was ever better conducted than the fable; nothing can be more [underlined] piquant [end underlining] than its dialogues; more distinct than its characters. Do, I entreat, tell me by whom it is written; and tell me, if your health will allow you, [underlined] soon [end underlining]. I die to know. Some say it is by Mrs Dorset, who wrote that clever little [underlined] bijou [end underlining], "the Peacock at Home". is it so? Pray, pray tell me. I have the three vols now in the house, and know not how to part with them. I have only just finished, and could begin them all over again with pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage
'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's with the carelessness and haste a common Novel may be skimmed over with, I shall not be thought to have detained "Patronage" a [underlined] very[end underlining] unreasonabe time. I thank you most cordially for the loan. Nobody more thoroughly venerates the admirable Author than I do - And in this last work, she really has excelled herself! Every young man ought particularly to study it - but it contains many hints useful and good for all ages, conditions, and characters. She is the pride of Englsh female writers - and I do positively believe, the most useful author, whether male or female, now existing'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so eminently original in its characters and descriptions, that I think it bears the stamp of real genius'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Mary Brunton : Self Control
'"Discipline" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end underlining], fool that I am! - But one thing is, I did not like the other book by the author, Self Control, and so I have no appetite to try the second'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'Many thanks for the loan of "Emma", which, even amidst languor and depression, forced from me a smile, & afforded me much amusement'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - I have read no story book with such glee, since the days of "Waverley" and "Mannering", and, by the same author as "Emma", my prime favourite of all modern Novels "Pride and Prejudice"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - I have read no story book with such glee, since the days of "Waverley" and "Mannering", and, by the same author as "Emma", my prime favourite of all modern Novels "Pride and Prejudice"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Barrett      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years Since
'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - I have read no story book with such glee, since the days of "Waverley" and "Mannering", and, by the same author as "Emma", my prime favourite of all modern Novels "Pride and Prejudice"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Scott : Visit to Paris in 1814, A
'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Scott : Paris revisited in 1815 by way of Brussels
'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Alicia Tindal Palmer : Authentic Memoirs of the Life of John Sobieski
'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Pierre-Simon Pallas : Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in 1793 and 1794
'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll : The Reign of Law
'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Heinrich Heine : Die Heimkehr. XXXIX Buch der Lieder
[Transcription] 'Das Herz ist mir bedruckt und sehnlich Gedenke ich der alten Zeit; Die Welt war damals noch so wohnlich Und ruhig lebten hin die Leut. Doch jetzt ist alles wie verschoben Das ist ein Drongen eine Noth; Gestroben ist der herr Gott oben Und unten ist der Teufel todt. Und Alles schaut so gramlich trube, So krausvervirrt und morsch und kalt.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Henry Hallam : Constitutional History of England [?]
'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

John Morley : The Struggle for National Education
'I have read Morley's second article on Education today'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Walt Whitman : Leaves of Grass
'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed out up to Magnus Simpson, came in, took out Leaves of Grass, and without giving the poor unbeliever time to object, proceeded to wade into him with favourite passages.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Richard Baxter : Baxteriana
'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled "Converse with God in Solitude". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Richard Baxter : Of Coversing [sic] with God in Solitude
'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled "Converse with God in Solitude". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Catherine Hutton : Miser Married, The
'There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusing little book called "The Miser Married"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John McLeod : Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship the Alceste to the Yellow Sea
'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it lent me, & was glad to swap.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Henry Ellis : Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China
'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it lent me, & was glad to swap.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Mary Delany : Letters from Mrs Delany... to Mrs frances Hamilton, from the year 1779, to the year 1788
'The Hulses have been reading Mrs Delany's Letters, & never were so interested, they say, nor even [underlined] affected [end underlining] in some parts of it, by any book in their lives'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: General Sir Samuel Hulse and his wife     Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth
'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not quite; the catastrophe is painful, & Elizabeth figures not so appropriately in a Romance, as her beautiful Rival; neither is the false varnish given to Leicester's character capable of making one forget his historical turpitude. The introduction of Raleigh is a delightful relief; and I wanted Sir Philip Sidney to boot; and more about several others only incidentally mentioned. It would perhaps have been too hazardous to bring in dear Shakespear: I cannot, however, but wish that he had adventured it. May be, I am a fool, and Scott's enemy for desiring it: but with his versatility of power; his happy embodyings of fictitious characters, he might surely have given form and pressure (if any man could) to the realities of Shakespear mind, and manners, & person. - At all events, Raleigh being so well delineated, I hope he will soon take some other historical personage in hand.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Monastery, The
'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not quite; the catastrophe is painful, & Elizabeth figures not so appropriately in a Romance, as her beautiful Rival; neither is the false varnish given to Leicester's character capable of making one forget his historical turpitude. The introduction of Raleigh is a delightful relief; and I wanted Sir Philip Sidney to boot; and more about several others only incidentally mentioned. It would perhaps have been too hazardous to bring in dear Shakespear: I cannot, however, but wish that he had adventured it. May be, I am a fool, and Scott's enemy for desiring it: but with his versatility of power; his happy embodyings of fictitious characters, he might surely have given form and pressure (if any man could) to the realities of Shakespear mind, and manners, & person. - At all events, Raleigh being so well delineated, I hope he will soon take some other historical personage in hand.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Abbot, The
'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not quite; the catastrophe is painful, & Elizabeth figures not so appropriately in a Romance, as her beautiful Rival; neither is the false varnish given to Leicester's character capable of making one forget his historical turpitude. The introduction of Raleigh is a delightful relief; and I wanted Sir Philip Sidney to boot; and more about several others only incidentally mentioned. It would perhaps have been too hazardous to bring in dear Shakespear: I cannot, however, but wish that he had adventured it. May be, I am a fool, and Scott's enemy for desiring it: but with his versatility of power; his happy embodyings of fictitious characters, he might surely have given form and pressure (if any man could) to the realities of Shakespear mind, and manners, & person. - At all events, Raleigh being so well delineated, I hope he will soon take some other historical personage in hand.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Giovanni Baptista Belzoni : Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia
'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching passages, but, as a whole, it drags. Her knowledge of military details appears to me marvellous; the period at which she makes her people act and talk, is during the Protestant War in Germany; she carries you to the dreadful siege of Magdebourg, & takes you into the camp and tent of Forstenson, Konigsmark, and I cannot tell you how many others, & seems to know more of warriors and warfare than, as a woman myself, I can at all account for'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Anna Maria Porter : Village of Mariendorpt, The
'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching passages, but, as a whole, it drags. Her knowledge of military details appears to me marvellous; the period at which she makes her people act and talk, is during the Protestant War in Germany; she carries you to the dreadful siege of Magdebourg, & takes you into the camp and tent of Forstenson, Konigsmark, and I cannot tell you how many others, & seems to know more of warriors and warfare than, as a woman myself, I can at all account for'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Fortunes of Nigel, The
'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Hero, and a romantic, half crazy girl falling in love with him from mistaking him for an honest bold man'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Pirate, The
'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Hero, and a romantic, half crazy girl falling in love with him from mistaking him for an honest bold man'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Philippe-Paul, comte de Segur : Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendant l'annee 1812
'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Memoirs of Samuel Pepys
'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Bayley : History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, the
'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Russell : Tour in Germany, and some of the southern provinces of the Austrian Empire, in... 1820, 1821, 1822
'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russell's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Stephanie Felicite Brulart, comtesse de Genlis : Memoires
'What paltry stuff the Memoirs of poor vain Genlis are!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Horatio Smith : Tor Hill
'Tor Hill, I have read - and was amused to find myself [underlined] en pays de connaissance [end underlining]. Many years ago, I walked with my poor brothers James & Martin, from a little village in Somersetshire called Uphill, to Glastonbury, and thence three miles further, to visit Glastonbury Tor, on the Summit of a high hill. The local descriptions are very accurate, at least as far as I remember - and there are some interesting sketches of character - of personages who attach - but the concluding part of the story is wretchedly huddled together -the attempts at facetiousness beneath contempt - and throughout, there is a hardness of manner which gives to the book what the earliest Masters gave to their paintings, dryness, meagerness, & want of gradual light and shade. [underlined] He [end underlining] cope with the Author of Waverley! - he be hanged!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : Spy, The
'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, & various pothers. He copies nobody, & he has an energy, a power of developing what he has previously enveloped, and of keeping the interest upon the stretch, that is admirable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : Last of the Mohicans, The
'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, & various pothers. He copies nobody, & he has an energy, a power of developing what he has previously enveloped, and of keeping the interest upon the stretch, that is admirable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Mason Good : Book of Nature, The
'I have bought a book lately full of general information, & written in a good spirit - that is containing a happy mixture of religious feeling with Science. Its title is "Good's Book of Nature". Have you heard of it? It is by a Dr Good, an M.D.F.R.S. who delivered Lectures at the London Institution'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I am longing for Bishop Heber's Journal. Did you read, in one of the Quarterly's , an Article relating to him, remarkably well written, and worthy in all respects of its subject. - It must be now nearly a year ago that it appeared. I wish you could get it - and there is also a more recent article, published in the very last Review - quite excellent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

: [Reviews in the Quarterly Review of Bishop Heber's Journal]
'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I am longing for Bishop Heber's Journal. Did you read, in one of the Quarterly's , an Article relating to him, remarkably well written, and worthy in all respects of its subject. - It must be now nearly a year ago that it appeared. I wish you could get it - and there is also a more recent article, published in the very last Review - quite excellent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

John Franklin : Narrative of a Second expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1825, 1826 and 1827
'I like your Capt. Franklin mainly - and his manly & respectful commendation of my poor dear James, is charming. - I am (though a little ashamed to own it) not fond, in general, of Voyages. Many women are, and I wish I were one - for the more innocent amusements we have the better. But when scientific purposes are to be answered by such voyages, I have great respect for them, and only wish I could get at their marrow, without being obliged to read about the gluttonous, dirty, lying, thieving, and brutal Savages! - To think that such creatures are really our fellow-beings, and that we might have been such as they are, but for the favour of God, is to me the most melancholy consideration in the world'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Giovanni Giraud : Commedie
'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great deal of character well delineated and well supported - Books are so cheap here, that I bought Nota's Comedies, which are in great repute & often acted, and are printed in eight duodecimo volumes for six Pauls!'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Alberto Nota : Commedie
'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great deal of character well delineated and well supported - Books are so cheap here, that I bought Nota's Comedies, which are in great repute & often acted, and are printed in eight duodecimo volumes for six Pauls!'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Niccolini : Antonio Foscarini
'I read only Italian books - and have just finished Niccolini's Foscarini, which is a fine masculine, energetic performance, & gave me much pleasure, and makes me admire and respect the Author'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Lorenzo Pignotti : Storia della Toscana sino al principato
'I really wonder at, and am sorry that our tastes differ so much that you do not like Pignotti, though I like him so very much. I have read as far as the beginning of the seventh vol: and every day my interest in the work encreases. His reflexions indeed are not very brilliant, deep, or new, but they are sagacious and just; and independently of the style, the subject is, to my thinking, highly curious, and chiefly from its extraordinary resemblance to the turbulent spirit of the little Grecian Republics, who, like the Florentines, the inhabitants of Pisa, Gennoa, and Venice, were always at daggers drawn, and yet flourishing, wealthy, and devotedy fond of the fine arts' [Burney then goes on to summarise further the content of the book]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Lord Campbell : Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc
'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read over again for this purpose − Flaubert?s "Tentation de Saint Antoine":it struck me a good deal at first, but this second time it has fetched me immensely; I am but just done with it, so you will know the large proportion of salt to take with my present statement that it?s the finest thing I ever read! Of course, it isn?t that, it?s full of [italics] longueurs [end italics], and it is not quite ?red up?, as we say in Scotland, not quite articulate, but there are splendid things in it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Robert Wodrow : Analecta
'... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I could.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Michael Bruce : Ode to the Cuckoo
'The authorship of these beautiful verses has been most truculently fought about; but whoever wrote them (and it seems as if this Logan had) they are lovely. What time the pea puts on the bloom Though fliest the vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands Another spring to hail. Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, The sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. O could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make on joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightnt be more in the great William than I supposed. And I was quite upset! Really and truly I am now let in to [the] company of worshippers -- though I still feel a little oppressed by his -- greatness I suppose [...] I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II -- I thought them very near the great man -- with more humanity I should say -- not all on such a grand tragic scale [comments further on points of comparison and contrast between Shakespeare and Marlowe].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Edward II
Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightnt be more in the great William than I supposed. And I was quite upset! Really and truly I am now let in to [the] company of worshippers -- though I still feel a little oppressed by his -- greatness I suppose [...] I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II -- I thought them very near the great man -- with more humanity I should say -- not all on such a grand tragic scale [comments further on points of comparison and contrast between Shakespeare and Marlowe].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightnt be more in the great William than I supposed. And I was quite upset! Really and truly I am now let in to [the] company of worshippers -- though I still feel a little oppressed by his -- greatness I suppose [...] I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II -- I thought them very near the great man -- with more humanity I should say -- not all on such a grand tragic scale [comments further on points of comparison and contrast between Shakespeare and Marlowe].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

: eighteenth-century texts
Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have written quite a lot [...] Also I have read a good deal, mostly 18th century'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Walter Savage Landor : Pericles and Aspasia
'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her surroundings (unpublished).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Virginia Stephen : short stories
'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short narratives, all apparently lost, unless one was "Phyllis and Rosamond", dated June 1906'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Madge Vaughan      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest Renan : Cahiers de Jeunesse
Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it is beautiful -- like the chime of silver bells [...] I think it a virtue in the French language that it submits to prose, whereas English curls and knots and breaks off in short spasms of rage. Also I am reading my dear Christina Rossetti [...] the first of our English poetesses [...] Then I am reading your Keats, with the pleasure of one handling great luminous stones. I rise and shout in ecstacy, and my eyes brim with such pleasure that I must drop the book and gaze from the window. It is a beautiful edition.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Christina Rossetti : poems
Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it is beautiful -- like the chime of silver bells [...] Also I am reading my dear Christina Rossetti [...] the first of our English poetesses [...] Then I am reading your Keats, with the pleasure of one handling great luminous stones. I rise and shout in ecstacy, and my eyes brim with such pleasure that I must drop the book and gaze from the window. It is a beautiful edition.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

John Keats : poems
Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it is beautiful -- like the chime of silver bells [...] Also I am reading my dear Christina Rossetti [...] the first of our English poetesses [...] Then I am reading your Keats, with the pleasure of one handling great luminous stones. I rise and shout in ecstacy, and my eyes brim with such pleasure that I must drop the book and gaze from the window. It is a beautiful edition.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

John Keats : poems
Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is about the greatest of all [...] I like cool Greek Gods, and amber skies, and shadow like running water, and all his great palpable words -- symbols for immaterial things.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Henry James : The American Scene
Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalmed in a block of smooth amber: it is not unpleasant, very tranquil, as a twilight shore -- but such is not the stuff of genius: no, it should be a swift stream.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

G. E. Moore : Principia Ethica
Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908: 'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling to the remotest part of my brain, and setting up a feeble disturbance, hardly to be called thought. It is almost a physical feeling, as though some little coil of brain unvisited by any blood so far, and pale as wax, had got a little life into it at last, but had not strength to keep it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

: 'new novels'
Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own writing! I read 3 new novels in two days: Leonard waltzed through the Old Wives Tale like a kitten after its tail: after this giddy career I have now run full tilt into Crime et Chatiment, fifty pages before tea, and I see there are only 800; so I shall be through in no time. It is directly obvious that he [Dostoevsky] is the greatest writer ever born'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment
Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own writing! I read 3 new novels in two days: Leonard waltzed through the Old Wives Tale like a kitten after its tail: after this giddy career I have now run full tilt into Crime et Chatiment, fifty pages before tea, and I see there are only 800; so I shall be through in no time. It is directly obvious that he [Dostoevsky] is the greatest writer ever born'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : An Old Wives Tale
Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own writing! I read 3 new novels in two days: Leonard waltzed through the Old Wives Tale like a kitten after its tail: after this giddy career I have now run full tilt into Crime et Chatiment, fifty pages before tea, and I see there are only 800; so I shall be through in no time. It is directly obvious that he [Dostoevsky] is the greatest writer ever born'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne : Les Essais
'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my return in the shape of some Montaigne.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne : Les Essais, Livre III, Ch XII, De la physionomie
'As Montaigne says, talking of something quite different:"Pour se laisser tomber a plomb, et de si haut, il faut que se soit entre les bras d'une affection solide, vigoureuse et fortunee."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Theophile Gautier : Le Capitaine Fracasse
'I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Theophile Gautier : Emaux et Camees
'It has the same talent as Emaux et Camees and no other.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor) : The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical
'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

George Meredith : letters
Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse enormous vanity, which at last made him unapproachable like Meredith whose letters I am reading -- who seems to me as hard as an old crab at the bottom of the sea'.
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Clive Bell : Art
'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia [Woolf], reading it in the midst of her [mental] illness, did not much appreciate it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry James : 'works'
Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell me what merit you find in Henry James. I have disabused Leonard [Woolf, husband] of him; but we have his works here, and I read, and can't find anything but faintly tinged rose water, urbane and sleek, but vulgar, and pale as Walter Lamb. Is there really any sense in it? I admit I can't be bothered to snuff out his meaning when it's very obscure. I am beginning the Insulted and Injured [Dostoevsky, 1862]; which sweeps me away. Have you read it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Insulted and Injured
Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell me what merit you find in Henry James. I have disabused Leonard [Woolf, husband] of him; but we have his works here, and I read, and can't find anything but faintly tinged rose water, urbane and sleek, but vulgar, and pale as Walter Lamb. Is there really any sense in it? I admit I can't be bothered to snuff out his meaning when it's very obscure. I am beginning the Insulted and Injured [Dostoevsky, 1862]; which sweeps me away. Have you read it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present
Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], and wondering whether all his rant has made a scrap of difference practically [...] I become steadily more feminist, owing to the Times, which I read at breakfast and wonder how this preposterous masculine fiction [the war] keeps going a day longer -- without some vigorous young woman pulling us together and marching through it'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: The Times
Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], and wondering whether all his rant has made a scrap of difference practically [...] I become steadily more feminist, owing to the Times, which I read at breakfast and wonder how this preposterous masculine fiction [the war] keeps going a day longer -- without some vigorous young woman pulling us together and marching through it'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Sophocles : Electra
Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Sophocles the day after we came -- the Electra, which has made me plan to read all Greek straight through [...] I found great consolation during the influenza in the works of Leonard Merrick, a poor unappreciated second-rate pot-boiling writer of stories about the stage, whom I deduce to be a negro, mulatto, or quadroon; at any rate he has a grudge against the world, and might have done much better if he hadn't at the age of 20 married a chorus girl, had by her 15 coffee coloured brats and lived for the rest of the time in a villa in Brixton, where he ekes out his living by giving lessons in elocution to the natives'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leonard Merrick :
Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Sophocles the day after we came -- the Electra, which has made me plan to read all Greek straight through [...] I found great consolation during the influenza in the works of Leonard Merrick, a poor unappreciated second-rate pot-boiling writer of stories about the stage, whom I deduce to be a negro, mulatto, or quadroon; at any rate he has a grudge against the world, and might have done much better if he hadn't at the age of 20 married a chorus girl, had by her 15 coffee coloured brats and lived for the rest of the time in a villa in Brixton, where he ekes out his living by giving lessons in elocution to the natives'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure
Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best place in the world for reading Shakespeare. Asheham is very lovely at the moment [...] I've been sitting in the garden all the afternoon, reading Measure for Measure, looking at the trees, and thinking as much of you as of anything.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: classical Greek literature
Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I understand anything they say; also I have read the whole of Milton, without throwing any light upon my own soul, but that I rather like. Don't you think it very queer though that he entirely neglects the human heart? Is that the result of writing one's masterpiece at the age of 50?'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Milton : complete works
Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I understand anything they say; also I have read the whole of Milton, without throwing any light upon my own soul, but that I rather like. Don't you think it very queer though that he entirely neglects the human heart? Is that the result of writing one's masterpiece at the age of 50?'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ethel Smyth : Impressions that Remained (vol. 2)
Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919: 'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triumphantly, through sheer force of honesty. It's a pity she can't write; for I don't suppose one could read it again. But it fascinates me all the same. I saw her at a concert two days ago -- striding up the gangway in coat and skirt and spats and talking at the top of her voice [...] she keeps up the figure of the nineties to perfection. Of course the book is the soul of the nineties.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor
Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by the portrait of Ottoline [Morrell] which appears from time to time [...] There is no suspense or mystery: water is all semen: I get a little bored, and make out the riddles too easily. Only this puzzles me: what does it mean when a woman [Gudrun] does eurythmics in front of a herd of Highland cattle?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : Women in Love
Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by the portrait of Ottoline [Morrell] which appears from time to time [...] There is no suspense or mystery: water is all semen: I get a little bored, and make out the riddles too easily. Only this puzzles me: what does it mean when a woman [Gudrun] does eurythmics in front of a herd of Highland cattle?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : Bliss
Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Party], and don't mean to. I've read Bliss; and it was so brilliant, -- so hard, and so shallow, and so sentimental that I had to rush to the bookcase for something to drink. Shakespeare, Conrad, even Virginia Woolf.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses
Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922: 'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too. I have him on the table. His pages are cut. Leonard is already 30 pages deep. I look, and sip, and shudder.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922: 'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume comes in very handy. Last night I started on vol 2 [A l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs] of him (the novel) and propose to sink myself in it all day [...] Oh if I could write like that! I cry. And at the moment such is the astonishing vibration and saturation and intensification that he produces -- theres [sic] something sexual in it -- that I feel I [italics]can[end italics] write like that, and seize my pen and then I [italics]can't[end italics] write like that. Scarcely anyone so stimulates the nerves of language in me: it becomes an obsession. But I must return to Swann.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Rebecca West : The Judge
Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flying particles; indeed I had hastily to tie the judge tight and send it back to Mudies [Library] half finished. But this irreticence does not make me think any the worse of her human qualities [...] I do admire poor old Henry [James], and actually read through the Wings of a Dove [1902] last summer, and thought it such an amazing acrobatic feat, partly of his, partly of mine, that I now look upon myself and Henry James as partners in merit. I made it all out. But I felt very ill for some time afterwards. I am now reading Joyce, and my impression, after 200 out of 700 pages, is that the poor young man has got the dregs of a mind compared even with George Meredith. I mean if you could weigh the meaning on Joyces [sic] page it would be about 10 times as light as on Henry James'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry James : The Wings of a Dove
Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flying particles; indeed I had hastily to tie the judge tight and send it back to Mudies [Library] half finished. But this irreticence does not make me think any the worse of her human qualities [...] I do admire poor old Henry [James], and actually read through the Wings of a Dove [1902] last summer, and thought it such an amazing acrobatic feat, partly of his, partly of mine, that I now look upon myself and Henry James as partners in merit. I made it all out. But I felt very ill for some time afterwards. I am now reading Joyce, and my impression, after 200 out of 700 pages, is that the poor young man has got the dregs of a mind compared even with George Meredith. I mean if you could weigh the meaning on Joyces [sic] page it would be about 10 times as light as on Henry James'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses
Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flying particles; indeed I had hastily to tie the judge tight and send it back to Mudies [Library] half finished. But this irreticence does not make me think any the worse of her human qualities [...] I do admire poor old Henry [James], and actually read through the Wings of a Dove [1902] last summer, and thought it such an amazing acrobatic feat, partly of his, partly of mine, that I now look upon myself and Henry James as partners in merit. I made it all out. But I felt very ill for some time afterwards. I am now reading Joyce, and my impression, after 200 out of 700 pages, is that the poor young man has got the dregs of a mind compared even with George Meredith. I mean if you could weigh the meaning on Joyces [sic] page it would be about 10 times as light as on Henry James'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Marcel Proust :
Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Rimbaud :
Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacques should have been reading Mrs Dalloway, and liking it. I'm awfully vain I know; and I was on pins and needles about sending it to Jacques; and now I feel exquisitely relieved; not flattered: but one does want that side of one to be acceptable'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat      Print: Unknown, In proof copy

Walter Raleigh : Letters
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926: 'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of English literature? Walter Raleigh calls Shakespeare "Billy Shaxs" -- Blake, "Bill" -- a good poem "a bit of all right." This shocks me. I've been reading his letters.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Gerald Brenan : A Holiday by the Sea
Virginia Woolf to Gerald Brenan, 3 October 1926: 'Ralph said he had read enough of your novel [A Holiday by the Sea] to perceive a masterpiece.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Partridge

V. Sackville-West : Knole and the Sackvilles
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927: 'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a lot: you have a rich dusky attic of a mind.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Marcel Proust :
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry James :
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky :
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac :
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've not read it for 15 years.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy :
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've not read it for 15 years.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've not read it for 15 years.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ronald Firbank :
Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929: 'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new room -- this we have been seeing about for 3 months now, and not a stone is laid. But when the stones are laid you will have to brave the eternal sea mist and south west gale and come here. I should provide you with the works of Ronald Firbank which I am reading with some unstinted pleasure'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Rebecca West : Harriet Hume
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929: 'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree that the convention is tight and affected and occasionally foppish beyond endurance, but then it is a convention and she does it deliberately, and it helps her to manufacture some pretty little China ornaments for the mantelpiece. One could read some of it again'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Somerset Maugham : Cakes and Ale
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930: 'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a book from the Times, get Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham. All London is ringing with it. For there poor Hugh [Walpole] is most cruelly and maliciously at the same time unmistakably and amusingly caricatured [as Alroy Kear]. He was sitting on his bed with only one sock on when he opened it. There he sat with only one sock on till 11 next morning reading it [...] He almost wept in front of Hilda Matheson, Vita [Sackville-West] and Clive [Bell], in telling us. And he couldn't stop. Whenever we changed the conversation he went back.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Stella Benson :
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all quivering -- saccharine with sentimentality; brittle with the kind of wit that makes sentiment freezing: But I'll try again'.
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Princess Daisy of Pless : From My Private Diary
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931: 'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them partly reading Princess Daisy of Pless, speculating upon her real character and life and longing for a full account of them from you -- who appear in a footnote as a distinguished author. What a chance the British aristocracy had and lost -- I mean if they'd only grafted brains on to those splendid bodies and wholesome minds -- for I can't help liking her, in her wild idiocy, and her frankness "7 days late -- can it be a child --" seems to me the highest human quality, if it werent [sic] combined with a housemaids [sic] sensibility and the sentimentality of a Surbiton cook.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George Eliot : Middlemarch
Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs [Thus to Revisit] -- fascinating, and even endearing; but I long to know the truth about him'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Thus to Revisit
Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs [Thus to Revisit] -- fascinating, and even endearing; but I long to know the truth about him'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As You Like It
Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931: 'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending you a wire to ask what is the truth about Jacques -- What is it? His last speech reads so very odd.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Elizabeth Bowen :
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932: 'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I rather think, as I told you, that her emotions sway in a certain way [...] I'm reading her novel to find out. Whats so interesting is when one uncovers an emotion that the person themselves, I should say herself, doesn't suspect. And its a sort of duty dont you think -- revealing peoples true selves to themselves?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Axel Munthe : The Story of San Michele
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -- writing -- only the wrong side of the carpet [...] this passion, which has been so well advised, lands me tonight in a book like the reek of stale cabbage and cheap face powder -- a book called The Story of San Michele by [Axel] Munthe [1929] [...] A book more porous with humbug, reeking more suddenly with insincerity, I've never read. I'm at page 50 [...] And I'm reading Stella Benson [Tobit Transplanted (1931)]: with pleasure'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Stella Benson : Tobit Transplanted
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -- writing -- only the wrong side of the carpet [...] this passion, which has been so well advised, lands me tonight in a book like the reek of stale cabbage and cheap face powder -- a book called The Story of San Michele by [Axel] Munthe [1929] [...] A book more porous with humbug, reeking more suddenly with insincerity, I've never read. I'm at page 50 [...] And I'm reading Stella Benson [Tobit Transplanted (1931)]: with pleasure'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Waves
'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas 1932. The first words of the book are: "There is a fearful passage in Virginia Woolf's beautiful and mysterious book The Waves, which when I read it, gave me an acute shock of unanticipated reminiscence." He then quotes a long passage in which he found his title: "The apple-tree leaves became fixed in the sky; the moon glared."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

: Bible, O.T., Judges, Chapter 5.
'Today I have been to church which has not improved my temper I must own. The clergyman did his best to make me hate him and I took refuge in that admirable poem, The Song of Deborah and Barak; I should like to make a long scroll of painting (say, to go all round a cornice) illustrative of this jolly poem; with the people seen in the distance going stealthily on footpaths, while the great highways lie vacant; with the archers besetting the draw wells; with the Princes in hiding on the hills among the bleating sheep-flocks; with the overthrow of Sisera, the stars fighting against him in their courses and that ancient river, the river Kishon, sweeping him away in anger; with his mother looking and looking down the long road in the red sunset, and never a banner and never a spear-clump coming into sight, and her women with their white faces round her, ready with lying comfort. To say nothing of the people on white asses.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Bible or possibly prayerbook

James Joyce : short story
Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933: 'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- seems to me very good. The others Ive not read.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Quentin Bell : letter
Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933: 'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seemed to me put with masterly brevity; most true.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

: report of death of Sir George Duckworth
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934: 'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Well, there's nothing much to be said at this distance, in the wilds of Kerry. Poor old creature -- I wonder what happened and why he was at Freshwater [...] here we are a great deal further and wilder than if in Italy or Greece. We only see Irish papers, now and then; there are no towns, only an occasional small fishing village and as we changed our plans, all our letters have gone wrong. It was mere chance we found a copy of the Times lying about.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Marcel Proust :
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so magnificent that I cant write myself within its arc'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Edith Wharton : A Backward Glance
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [Ethel's sister], and probably you. Please tell me some time what you thought of her. Theres the shell of a distinguished mind; I like the way she places colour in her sentences, but I vaguely surmise that theres something you hated and loathed in her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934: 'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when there are so many other books you might be reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stephen Spender      Print: Book

: The Bible
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bible --? Which by the way, I have bought and am reading. And Renan. And the New Testament; so don't call me heathen in future.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ernest Renan : St Paul
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bible --? Which by the way, I have bought and am reading. And Renan. And the New Testament; so don't call me heathen in future.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: New Testament
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bible --? Which by the way, I have bought and am reading. And Renan. And the New Testament; so don't call me heathen in future.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost complete satisfaction. I'd forgotten how magnificent it is [...] So enthusiastic am I that I've got a new life of him [Dickens]: which makes me dislike him as a human being.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Thomas Wright : Life of Charles Dickens
'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the actress Frances Eleanor Ternan, which lasted many years and contributed to his estrangement from his wife.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette : Sido
'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929), and one of fiction (Duo, 1934), and the two writers sent each other messages through mutual friends.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Prelude
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936: 'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good, so succulent, so suggestive, that I have to hoard it, as a child keeps a crumb of cake? And then people say he's dull!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Bertrand Russell : Which Way to Peace?
Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936: 'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is trying to convince the labour party that the policy of isolation is now the only one. Berties book convinced him.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

George Sand : Memoires (vol 5)
Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want anything so ecstatic, but broad and mellow and satisfactory, try the Memoires of George Sand. 10 little volumes; I'm in the 5th, and find it absorbing'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Patrice de MacMahon : unknown
'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Poster

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve : Chateaubriand et son groupe litteraire sous l'Empire
'I have bought Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand and am immensely delighted with the critic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Arthur Hugh Clough : unknown
'Dowson has lent me Clough, which I like a good deal ..'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Moral Tales for Young People
'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Alexander Buchan : Handy Book of Meteorology [?]
'Andrews seems very pleasant and we had a fierce forenoon of it over meteorology. He has Bookan (as he calls him)...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Lorenzo Pignotti : Storia della Toscana sino al principato
'I am much interested by Pignotti's history, which [underlined] though I bought [end underlining], I am reading, and have got into the seventh volume. The squabbles and turbulence of the little Italian Republics, puts one in mind of the Greeks, where so much of the same spirit reigned. The gradual progress to celebrity of the Medici family keeps up ones attention, and the little that is interspersed concerning the other Italian rulers, the Visconti, the Gonzagni, the Sforza family, & the great Condottieri of the day, is all very entertaining'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

: [newspapers]
'The papers are sent to me very regularly by the kind Shuldhams, and I read them with indescribable eagerness; but they take away my spirits for the rest of the day. The affairs of Ireland - the horrors that appear to be hanging over the heads of the poor dear Poles - the Conflagrations in England, &c, &c - all these, are tremendous circumstances'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Newspaper

Joseph-Francois Michaud : Histoire des Croisades
'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Vincenzo Monti : Aristodemo
'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Vincenzo Monti : Galeotto Manfredi
'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Vincenzo Monti : Caio Gracco
'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

: [Gospels and Psalms]
'I like - I admire the Italian translation of the Gospels & Psalms, which are what I have hitherto read. If the Prophetical books are not so well rendered, I will abide by my dear English version'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Humphry Davy : Consolations in Travel, or the Last days of a Philosopher
'Mr Layard has lent me Sir Humphry Davy's "Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher". It is a posthumous publication, & the editor says that "Had his life been prolonged, it is probable that some additions and some changes would have been made". - There are many fanciful and unwarranted ideas on the subject of the creation of this world, & the state of existence in the next: but, on the whole, it is a most interesting work, and shews a mind anxious to discern the right, and well prepared to love and glorify its Creator.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

J.H., Count de Santo Domingo : Tablettes romaines; contenant des faits, des anecdotes et des observations sure les moeurs, les usages, les ceremonies, le gouvernement de Rome
'Another book of a very different character has amused me mightily; it is entitled "Tablettes Romaines", and is full of wit and vivacity, and gives a very just and true picture of modern Rome, at least, as far as I am competent to judge. I wish you could get it. The pretended name of the Author is Santo Domingo, but, somehow, I suspect that to be a fudge. It was printed at Bruselles, for neither in Italy nor at Paris would such free opinions have been allowed to see the light - at least during the Carlists day'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Edward John Trelawney : Adventures of a Younger Son
'I have just finished Trelawney's Adventures of a Younger Brother. It is a book that excites whilst reading, and leaves behind it, many painful feelings. A true radical spirit runs thoughout it; - a contempt of all establishments, social, political, or religious; - a mad ferocity of disposition that causes the narrative to be filled with details of atrocious murders, so minutely described that ones flesh creeps upon ones bones whilst reading. Yet - to give even the devil his due, he has succeeded in drawing a female character of surpassing loveliness, purity, and tender faithfulness. He makes her an Arab however, that European women may take no pride to themselves from the favourable description he gives of her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

unknown : works on the Reformation
'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke afterwards until ten, when I begin work, I read Reformation: from ten, I work until about a quarter to one; from one until two, I lunch and read a book on Schopenhauer or one on Positivism; two to three work, three to six anything; if I am in before six, I read about Japan; six dinner and a pipe with my father and coffee until 7.30; 7.30 to 9.30, work; after that either supper and a pipe at home, or out to Simpson?s or Baxter?s: bed between eleven and twelve.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Unknown

Thomas Babington Macaulay : unknown
Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936: 'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain rather active in fact: but didn't write -- did nothing but lie in bed and read Macaulay.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: The Scotsman/Edinburgh Courant
'Thanks for the newspapers and for having marked them. Baildon has rather got it; I cannot but feel sympathy with the reviewer.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

: Edinburgh Courant
'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used where, for any one else, he would have said '"was" kind and benevolent"; such locutions show a certain bias. But the strange part was his attempt to stultify Mill's position, and almost to pull mouths at him, because he had been singularly faithful in love. All this sounds so unlike what I should have expected from Charteris that I suspect bad reporting.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

Virginia Woolf : Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938: 'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] second, that you should actually have read, still more marvellously have liked, Night and Day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Night and Day
Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938: 'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] second, that you should actually have read, still more marvellously have liked, Night and Day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938: 'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very good book -- Mandeville's Fable of the bees [1714].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lady Frederick Cavendish : The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938: 'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight, no originality. All as drab and dowdy as Mabel's Sunday best (Mabel is our maid of all work.) [...] And such damned condescension to artists. Yet all else is fine flowing and thoroughbred - only the mind cluttered with curtains and ferns.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Maynard Keynes : article on the Munich Crisis
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, Monday 3 October 1938: 'Yesterday the Keynes came to tea. Maynard had already summed up the situation [i.e. the Munich Crisis] in a very good article which he read us; I'll send you the N[ew]. S[tatesman] on Friday in which it appears. His view is that the whole thing was staged by Chamb[erlain].; that there was never any fear of war; that he never even consulted Russia; that it was a put-up job between him and Hitler [...] that we are sure of peace during our life time [...] and so on.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Maynard Keynes

Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown
Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all sense that one differed from another. I am reading Chaucer and hope in a year to have recovered my palate.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Shena, Lady Simon : paper on women and war
Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940: 'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too many to read your paper. I find it useful, suggestive, and sound. I agree with most of your arguments [...] do cast your mind further that way: about sharing life after the war: about pooling men's and women's work: about the possibility, if disarmament comes, of removing men's disabilities. Can one change sex characteristics? How far is the women's movement a remarkable experiment in that transformation? Mustn't our next task be the emancipation of man?'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Winifred Holtby : study on Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a barrel organ writer [...] I'm judging WH only on her journalism [...] and the book on me, which I felt to be a painstaking effort rather to clear up her own muddles than to get the hang of mine. But I didnt want to be written about (not personally) and so never did more than whip through it with one eye shut.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Edmund Burke : unknown
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Andre Gide : unknown
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : unknown
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940: 'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridge I bought in an old type copy tarnished cover, yellow and soft: and I began, and went on, and skipped the high peaks, and gradually climbed to the top of his pinnacle, by a winding unknown way.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Benedict Nicolson : letter to Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Letter

Virginia Woolf : Roger Fry
Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Benedict Nicolson      Print: Book

unknown : [Japanese picture books]
[After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

George Sand : unknown
'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled brains.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

George Sand : Francois le Champi
'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

James Justinian Morier : Zohrab the Hostage
'By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you have not, can you tell whether others like it? I was charmed with it here in manuscript, when he kindly lent it to me. Besides, I delight in Mr Morier as a man, as well as an author'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Manuscript: Unknown

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal, marquise de Sevigne : Letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and her friends
'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Louis-Adolphe Thiers : Histoire de la Revolution Francaise
'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Carlo Botta : Storia d'Italia, continuata da quella del Guicciardini
'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Andre Morellet : Memoires
'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Baron E.L. de la Mothe - Houdancourt : Memoires de Madame la comtesse de Barri
'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

William Robertson : History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V
'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to a perusal of my own little library, and am solacing myself with Plutarch's Lives, and Robertson's History of Charles V. and vary my sport occasionally with an Historical Play of Shakespear, or a good Sunday Book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [History plays]
'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to a perusal of my own little library, and am solacing myself with Plutarch's Lives, and Robertson's History of Charles V. and vary my sport occasionally with an Historical Play of Shakespear, or a good Sunday Book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

James Boswell : Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to a perusal of my own little library, and am solacing myself with Plutarch's Lives, and Robertson's History of Charles V. and vary my sport occasionally with an Historical Play of Shakespear, or a good Sunday Book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Grosvenor      Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives
'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to a perusal of my own little library, and am solacing myself with Plutarch's Lives, and Robertson's History of Charles V. and vary my sport occasionally with an Historical Play of Shakespear, or a good Sunday Book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Seducers in Ecuador
'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being full of a particular kind of interest which I daresay has something to do with its being the sort of thing I should like to write myself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

Algernon Charles Swinburne : unknown
'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lying in bed on Tuesday morning with Swinburne (a copy of) was woke up by the Clerk of the Schools to know why I did not come up.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

William Hurrell Mallock : The New Republic, or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House
'That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the key to all the actors please send it to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas ? Kempis : The Imitation of Christ
'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man daily is greatly conducive to holiness.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Carlo Botta : Storia d'Italia
'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Ludovico Ariosto : [Works]
'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [plays]
'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

William Robertson : History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V
'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives
'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Alexander Keith : Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, derived from the literal fulfilment of prophecy
'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on the Prophecies, an excellent book, but not in any degree equal in force or in ability to the work in question, which has already gone through thirteen editions'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Thomas Newton : Dissertations on the Prophecies, which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world
'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on the Prophecies, an excellent book, but not in any degree equal in force or in ability to the work in question, which has already gone through thirteen editions'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne : Memoires
'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous though short-lived success (I always consider him as a permitted scourge), Bourrienne's book caught fast hold of me, & I was really sorry when I had finished it. Yet, I could only get it in English: but the translation is not very bad'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Charles Lamb : Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his Life
'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters with the utmost delight; & not the less so for seeing such continual allusions to one "H.C. Robinson". Do you know such a person? And my dear brother James too, and kind-hearted Martin - these reminiscences were very pleasant to me. But of Lamb himself - what an affectionate disposition - what originality, what true wit, & what a singular, and I must say, melancholy combination of the truest & warmest piety, with the most extraordinary and irreverent profaneness. I cannot understand the union of two such opposites: but I believe there have been many other instances of it. Amongst fools who may take up the work, the oaths and the levity might do harm, & therefore I regret their insertion: but those who knew him, can only regret, & love him [underlined] notwithstanding [ end underlining].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Edward William Lane : Account of the manners and customs of the Modern Egyptians
'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians: both works are full of Wood cuts in illustration of the subjects they describe, and in Wilkinson's work I found an ancient Egyptian Car, & a wooden pillow hollowed out for the head, which I immediately remembered having seen at Professor Roselini's Egyptian Museum at Florence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Gardner Wilkinson : Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians: both works are full of Wood cuts in illustration of the subjects they describe, and in Wilkinson's work I found an ancient Egyptian Car, & a wooden pillow hollowed out for the head, which I immediately remembered having seen at Professor Roselini's Egyptian Museum at Florence'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

George Sand : La Petite Fadette
'I have the whole of her novels before me. Even La Petite Fadette, for as long as it was in the house, I had not read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

John Davis : The World's Hydrographical Description
?Reed by me N. Hughes 1595 ? noember?
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: N. Hughes      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Sketches by 'Boz'
'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laugh, provided the laugh is not provoked by anything bordering upon indecency. - A little innocent vulgarity or even coarseness, I do not mind, if accompanied by wit & humour. Dickens has edited a delightful Life of poor dear Grimaldi. Have you seen Benson Earl Hill's "Recollections of an Artillery Officer"? I was much amused by it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laugh, provided the laugh is not provoked by anything bordering upon indecency. - A little innocent vulgarity or even coarseness, I do not mind, if accompanied by wit & humour. Dickens has edited a delightful Life of poor dear Grimaldi. Have you seen Benson Earl Hill's "Recollections of an Artillery Officer"? I was much amused by it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Benson Earle Hill : Recollections of an Artillery Officer including scenes and adventures in Ireland, America, Flanders and France
'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laugh, provided the laugh is not provoked by anything bordering upon indecency. - A little innocent vulgarity or even coarseness, I do not mind, if accompanied by wit & humour. Dickens has edited a delightful Life of poor dear Grimaldi. Have you seen Benson Earl Hill's "Recollections of an Artillery Officer"? I was much amused by it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Anne Mathews : Memoirs of Charles Mathews, comedian
'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe
'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Life of Mrs Siddons
'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Frances (Burney) d'Arblay : Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay
'Have you seen the Journal & letters of my dear Sister? & Charlotte Barrett's pretty Introduction. I earnestly hope the work will be liked; and I think it stands a very fair chance, so many celebrated people will be brought forward. - This is a very tolerable place for getting books (English [underlined] s'entend [end underlining]) but my copy is a present, & will have a fine gauntlet to run, I promise it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Frances (Burney) d'Arblay : Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay
'Am charmed to find "The Diary" is approved by the General. The third vol: I think must be universally interesting - the [underlined] first [end underlining], to own the truth, contained too much about the early appearance of Evelina, to please me. - But it went down well with many people, & has caused a fresh demand for Evelina & Cecilia at every Library in Cheltenham'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Frances (Burney) d'Arblay : Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay
'You want to know what I think of the "Diary". I wil tell you fairly & impartially. after wading with pain and sorrow through the tautology and vanity of the first volume, I began to be amused by the second, and every suceeding volume has, to my thinking, encreased in power to interest & entertain. That there is still considerable vanity I cannot deny. In her life, she bottled it all up, & looked and generally spoke with the most refined modesty, & seemed ready to drop if ever her works were alluded to. But what was kept back, and scarcely suspected in society, wanting a safety valve, found its way to her private journal. Thence, had Mrs Barrett been judicious, she would have trundled it out, by half quires, and even whole quires at a time'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Susan Ferrier : Inheritance, The
'The "Inheritance" is excellent, & perhaps, Miss Ferrier's best - at least, it has left the best taste in my mouth: but I quite, & always did, prefer Miss Austen'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : [Review of Madame d'Arblay's "Diary and Letters" in the "Edinburgh Review"]
'I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I like mainly, except his severe mention of the Royal Family, and his unnecessary critique of my Sister's Life of Dr Burney. Surely Croker had cut that up quite bitterly enough; - I cannot see why it need have been brought forward again'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

Anne, Lady Vavasour : My Last Tour and First Work; or, a Visit to the Baths of Wildbad and Rippoldsau
'read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one Volume, & is very entertaining and often clever, & lively, with considerable general information. Campbell's Editorship of the "Life of Frederick the Great" has also amused me much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Frederick Shoberl : Frederick the Great, His Court and Times
'Read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one Volume, & is very entertaining and often clever, & lively, with considerable general information. Campbell's Editorship of the "Life of Frederick the Great" has also amused me much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

Frederick Shoberl : Frederick the Great, His Court and Times
'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [underlined] I [end underlining] did not enjoy so much. They are chiefly about the seven year's [sic] war: but there are parts even of that, which interested me very much. - Then "Stevenson's Central South America". That is not the full title, but I forget exactly how the book is called. - I suppose you know the Life of Lord Howe. I was delighted with it; and it is only in one volume. There, if you chuse to try any of the above, I think I have cut you out work enough to last a good while'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

W.B. Stevenson : Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twety Years' Residence in South America
'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [underlined] I [end underlining] did not enjoy so much. They are chiefly about the seven year's [sic] war: but there are parts even of that, which interested me very much. - Then "Stevenson's Central South America". That is not the full title, but I forget exactly how the book is called. - I suppose you know the Life of Lord Howe. I was delighted with it; and it is only in one volume. There, if you chuse to try any of the above, I think I have cut you out work enough to last a good while'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

John Barrow : Life of Richard Earl Howe, K.G., Admiral of the Fleet, and General of Marines
'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [underlined] I [end underlining] did not enjoy so much. They are chiefly about the seven year's [sic] war: but there are parts even of that, which interested me very much. - Then "Stevenson's Central South America". That is not the full title, but I forget exactly how the book is called. - I suppose you know the Life of Lord Howe. I was delighted with it; and it is only in one volume. There, if you chuse to try any of the above, I think I have cut you out work enough to last a good while'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

: newspapers
'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

Robert Louis Stevenson : unknown "Tale"
'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought it was the only one of mine she had ever heard, that promised any possible success: I have read some of it also to Baxter who was pleased and counselled me to go on with it. I suppose with these two opinions I should feel strengthened.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329.

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Idiot
Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that Scott had; only Scott merely made superb ordinary people, & D. creates wonders, with very subtle brains, & fearful sufferings. Perhaps the likeness to Scott partly consists in the loose, free & easy, style of the translation. I am also reading Michelet, plodding through the dreary middle ages; & Fanny Kemble's Life. Yesterday in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme" -- almost superhuman in its beauty & brilliancy -- you really can't believe such things are written down.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France
Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that Scott had; only Scott merely made superb ordinary people, & D. creates wonders, with very subtle brains, & fearful sufferings. Perhaps the likeness to Scott partly consists in the loose, free & easy, style of the translation. I am also reading Michelet, plodding through the dreary middle ages; & Fanny Kemble's Life. Yesterday in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme" -- almost superhuman in its beauty & brilliancy -- you really can't believe such things are written down.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Fanny Kemble : 'Life'
Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that Scott had; only Scott merely made superb ordinary people, & D. creates wonders, with very subtle brains, & fearful sufferings. Perhaps the likeness to Scott partly consists in the loose, free & easy, style of the translation. I am also reading Michelet, plodding through the dreary middle ages; & Fanny Kemble's Life. Yesterday in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme" -- almost superhuman in its beauty & brilliancy -- you really can't believe such things are written down.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that Scott had; only Scott merely made superb ordinary people, & D. creates wonders, with very subtle brains, & fearful sufferings. Perhaps the likeness to Scott partly consists in the loose, free & easy, style of the translation. I am also reading Michelet, plodding through the dreary middle ages; & Fanny Kemble's Life. Yesterday in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme" -- almost superhuman in its beauty & brilliancy -- you really can't believe such things are written down.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on Criticism
Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith. The classics make the time pass much better than the Pall Mall Gazette.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & reading the Letter to Arbuthnot on Hammersmith Station.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Gilbert Murray : unknown
Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & reading the Letter to Arbuthnot on Hammersmith Station.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leslie Stephen : critical work on Pope
Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leonard Woolf : 'The Three Jews'
Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15 [...] He read Janet "The Three Jews".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

Leonard Woolf : The Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions
Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, when I finished it. My opinion is that it is a remarkable book; very bad in parts; first rate in others. A writer's book, I think, because only a writer perhaps can see why the good parts are so very good, & why the bad parts aren't very bad [...] I was made very happy by reading this: I like the poetic side of L. & it gets a little smothered in Blue-books, & organisations.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

A. E. Housman : A Shropshire Lad
Saturday 13 February 1915: 'After luncheon [...] I went to a concert at the Queen's Hall [...] I was annoyed by a young man & woman who took advantage of the music to press each other's hands; & read "A Shropshire Lad" & look at some vile illustrations.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: 'young man and woman'     Print: Book

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France
Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: The Times
Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open Dante or think of him without a shudder -- the cause being I think partly the enormous numbers of newspapers I've been reading in. Lottie [servant] brought me all the Times's which have accumulated [during absence].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Rosalind Murray : The Leading Note
Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine into R.T. more closely [...] I came home with my book, which does not seem a very masterly performance after Turgenev, I suppose; but if you dont get your touches in the right place the method is apt to be sketchy & empty.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ottoline Morrell : journal
Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven't an inner life. She read me a passage [of her diary] in my praise though, so the realities do come in sometimes.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ottoline Morrell      Manuscript: Codex

Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude Tuckwell : Life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : 'book on Children & Sex'
Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for 20 minutes, reading a book on Children & Sex.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : unknown
Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a great burly cavalry officer was reading his book in a far corner; unused to reading books, I should think.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : unknown
Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up tobacco, but now argues that Tolstoy's commands were for men of looser life than he, so that he may smoke cigarettes.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Shove      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : masques
Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She read Ben Jonson's masques. They are short, & in between she broke off to talk a little [...] I enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Maria, Lady Strachey      Print: Book

Captain Ronald A. Hopwood : 'The Old Way'
Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She read Ben Jonson's masques. They are short, & in between she broke off to talk a little [...] I enjoyed it [...] She read us a poem called The Old Way, of a swashing, patriotic kind, & exclaimed how fine it was, & how, as long as we had Hopwood for a poet we needn't complain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Maria, Lady Strachey      Print: Book

John Pentland Mahaffy : Rambles and Studies in Greece
'Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Manuscript: Codex, publisher's proofs

John Addington Symonds : Studies of the Greek Poets
'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh
'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Reginald Harding      Print: Book

: Nineteenth Century
'I see the Nineteenth Century has a full list each month of its articles and contributors, which is put in the windows and on the counters of the booksellers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Serial / periodical

Euripides : Hercules Furens
'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad Hercules or the Phoenissae: plays with which I am well acquainted.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Euripides : Phoenissae
'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad Hercules or the Phoenissae: plays with which I am well acquainted.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold
'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favourites.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Common Reader
'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forward-to-reading-so-much' sort of letter, I thought I would wait until I had read both it and The Common Reader, which I am sorry to say I have now done.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

George Crabbe : unknown
'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a copy out of my own pocket money before you were weaned. What's more, I have read Peter Grimes I daresay 6 times in 10 years; "But he has no compassion in his grave" - That is where that comes from. There is also a magnificent description of wind among bulrushes which I will show you if you will come here.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : unknown
'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Charles Baudelaire : Petits Poemes en Prose
'[?] I could not [?] pay the postage for the book. [?] The book, you will receive shortly. Do not run away with the idea that I think it specially commendable. Only I think he might be suitable at this moment for you. Note the following. III, VI, XIII, XIV (O admirable), XVII, XVIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVII, XXXVII. Some of these are really very excellent; and (it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book) will show you I think how you must approach such slight and essentially exotic ideas in prose, and yet retain for them some of the immunities that go with verse.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Katharine de Mattos : unknown
'[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015)
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours".

Robert Louis Stevenson : Desiderata
'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is the exact copy even to spelling.[?]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Sheet

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was disguised as a child's book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Benedict Nicolson      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Sodom et Gonorrhe
'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate the title, I am looked at rather askance for the numerous volumes of Sodome et Gomorrhe which litter the decks.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : unknown
'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;) they recede, achieve a perspective; they become historical almost, like Veronese banquets through which flit a few masked Longhi figures, and ruffled by the uneasy impish breeze of French Freud. I re-enter their company after struggling with the Persian irregular verbs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : unknown
'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise or a theorbo!) so I have written a few letters, - precious few, - and read a lot of Proust, and that's all.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Louis de Robert : Comment debuta Marcel Proust
'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publish in translation; it's quite short.)'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Ezra Pound : Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir
10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: newspapers
24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

: newspapers
24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Newspaper

William Makepeace Thackeray : Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional picturesqueness.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond MacCarthy      Print: Unknown

John, Viscount Morley : unknown
2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & other books; but reading when done to kill time has a kind of drudgy look in it [...] One day I sat in the garden reading Shakespeare; I remember the ecstacy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown
2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & other books; but reading when done to kill time has a kind of drudgy look in it [...] One day I sat in the garden reading Shakespeare; I remember the ecstacy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Bertrand Russell : unknown
4 March 1918: 'I found a silent group at the [1917] Club, all men, & unknown to me, with the exception of Alix who sat still as a statue reading one of Berty Russell's books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alix Sargant-Florence      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798'
5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred upon an afternoon reading in the garden. I happened to read Wordsworth; the poem which ends "what man has made of man".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : unknown
'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll have to explain verbally some day. Unless you can guess. How well you write, though, confound you. When I read you, I feel no one has ever written English prose before, - Knocked it about, put it in its place, made it into a servant.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West

Marcel Proust : Du Cote de chez Swann
18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [...] Occasionally he read a quotation from a book by Proust (whose name I've forgotten), & then from his translation [of the Lysistrata]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

Aristophanes : Lysistrata
18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [...] Occasionally he read a quotation from a book by Proust (whose name I've forgotten), & then from his translation [of the Lysistrata]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Manuscript: Unknown

James Joyce : Ulysses
1 May 1918: 'On Sunday [28 April] Desmond came to dinner [...] Late at night he took to reading Joyce's ms. aloud, & in particular to imitating his modern imitation of a cat's miau. L[eonard]. went to bed, & though capable of spending a night in this manner, I had compunction, & decoyed Desmond upstairs, collecting books as we went.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond MacCarthy      Manuscript: Codex

Bertrand Russell : unknown
6 June 1918: 'I've seen Alix [...] She is able to conceive the possibility of one day finding some book to read. She has tried Bertie's mathematics, relinquished it, but did not altogether dismiss my suggestion of legal history.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alix Sargant-Florence      Print: Book

: notice of death of Sarah Emily Duckworth
27 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2 days ago at Lane End [...] She was in her 91st year. A more composed, & outwardly useless life one can't imagine [...] I saw her a few weeks ago, apparently unaware of death, taking her house for 4 years further, & saying precisely what she'd said at any time -- about good & bad novels [goes on to reminisce further about aunt]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

George Otto Trevelyan : The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's sister-in-law] was announced.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lytton Strachey : unknown
23 July 1918: 'Jack Hills & Pippa dined here [...] To my surprise [...] he knows about Georgian poetry, & has read Lytton's book, & condemns the Victorians.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Waller Hills      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Impassioned Prose
'...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hole in it, and the wind is blowing through me, and I'm reading de Quincey, and Richardson, and again de Quincey- again de Quincey because I'm in the middle of writing about him, and my God Vita, if you happen to know do wire what's the essential difference between prose and poetry - It cracks my poor brain to consider.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Middleton Murry : Review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems
29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas for tea; Brett, Ottoline, 3 children & Philip. The string which united everything together was Philip's attack on Murry in The Nation for his review of Sassoon [...] to prove his case Philip read Murry's article, his letter, & his letter to Murry, three times over, so I thought, emphasising his points, & lifting his finger to make us attend. And there was Sassoon's letter of gratitude too. I think Ott. was a little bored.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Serial / periodical

Philip Morell : Letter to John Middleton Murry regarding his review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918
29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas for tea; Brett, Ottoline, 3 children & Philip. The string which united everything together was Philip's attack on Murry in The Nation for his review of Sassoon [...] to prove his case Philip read Murry's article, his letter, & his letter to Murry, three times over, so I thought, emphasising his points, & lifting his finger to make us attend. And there was Sassoon's letter of gratitude too. I think Ott. was a little bored.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell

Siegfried Sassoon : Letter to Philip Morrell regarding his defence of his work against John Middleton Murry's review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918
29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas for tea; Brett, Ottoline, 3 children & Philip. The string which united everything together was Philip's attack on Murry in The Nation for his review of Sassoon [...] to prove his case Philip read Murry's article, his letter, & his letter to Murry, three times over, so I thought, emphasising his points, & lifting his finger to make us attend. And there was Sassoon's letter of gratitude too. I think Ott. was a little bored.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell

William Michael Rossetti : Memoir of Christina Rossetti
Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, to which he added a "compendious Memoir of her uneventful and rather secluded life."' See Additional Comments.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : 'Bliss'
7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night, with [...] the English review for me, with [...] Katherine Mansfield on Bliss. I threw down Bliss with the exclamation, "She's done for!" Indeed I don't see how much faith in her as as woman or writer can survive that sort of story [...] her mind is a very thin soil, laid an inch or two upon very barren rock [...] she is content with superficial smartness; & the whole conception is poor, cheap, not the vision, however imperfect, of an interesting mind. She writes badly too. And the effect was as I say, to give me an impression of her callousness & hardness as a human being. I shall read it again; but I dont suppose I shall change.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : life of Byron
7 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect he had upon women [goes on to comment further upon Byron's life, letters, and poetry]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand though - That's my only criticism - you've left (I daresay in haste) one or two dangling dim places....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'.

Virginia Woolf : Mrs Dalloway
'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in the room - But there was only Pippin, trying to burrow under my quilt, and the night noises outside, which are so familiar in one's own room; and the house was all quiet.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Benjamin Robert Haydon : Autobiography
'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when you come to stay here - I read Haydon, and an excellent Cruickshank-ish book called Murder for Profit.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : To One in Paradise (1834)
'Is not this verse pretty? Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love, For which my soul did pine -- A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

William Robertson : Charles V
'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calculate on getting through with all the books which you recommend to me in about twenty years.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

unknown : History of America
'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calculate on getting through with all the books which you recommend to me in about twenty years.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

: Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)
'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind of notice of it in the Examiner (wherein my performance was called admirable!) and lately in the Scotsman (where it was able).'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Scotman
'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - shallow and narrow enough it is true, but favourable and on the whole the best it has yet received.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

Virginia Woolf : The Common Reader
'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the common reader, a pair of spectacles, a pencil, go in to dinner,'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

James Boswell : Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's conception of the Hebrides and yours - '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Andre Gide : Memoirs
'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except the marble that had been dropped into the hole in the door. I read Jesting Pilate and liked it. I have tried Arabia Deserta for the fiftieth time, but can't manage it. Yet no doubt it is a more monumental work than Jesting Pilate.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoors again.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

William Cowper : The Task, Part III (The Garden)
' What else? Yes, I have read Cowper: "The stable yields a stercoraceous heap...." It bears an unpleasant resemblance to The Land, doesn't it? But it has its good moments, "While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home." I read Les faux-monnayeurs too. I remember you said you didn't like it. Yet I wonder you weren't interested by the method of springing decisive events on the reader, without the usual psychological preparation. I thought it gave a stange effect of real life. I liked it better than Si le grain ne meurt, in which I liked only the beginning of the 3rd third volume, about the French litterateurs;'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : King Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory.
'I have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have scarcely been able to eat today.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse
'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing which seems real. I can only say that I am dazzled and bewitched. How did you do it? how did you walk along that razor-edge without falling? why did you say anything so silly as that I 'shouldn't like it'?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse
'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as important as Jane Austen. She is a genius and I would carry a thousand hair-shedding dogs to the gates of Hell for her did she wish it!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream.
'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsummer Night?s Dream"[?]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Helen Waddell : The Wandering Scholars
'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Sun and the Fish
'I can't tell you how much I like "The Sun and the Fish", (all the more because it is all about things we did together,) and I am ordering a copy of Time and Tide.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Serial / periodical

William Butler Yeats : Leda and the Swan
'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the one about Leda, How can those terrified vague fingers push That feathered glory from her loosening thighs?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Unknown

: The Times
'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have heard nothing more; so it may be untrue.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Sidney Colvin : Review of Basil Champneys' book A Quiet Corner of England.
'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; if I had dared to do so, I might have praised much more.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Leonard Woolf : Empire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic Imperialism
7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, passion & logic of it; indeed its a good thing now & then to read one's husband's work attentively.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Sydney Waterlow : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didn't read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Waterlow      Manuscript: Unknown

Clive Bell : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Bell      Manuscript: Unknown

Vanessa Bell : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vanessa Bell      Manuscript: Unknown

Duncan Grant : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Duncan Grant      Manuscript: Unknown

Molly MacCarthy : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Molly MacCarthy      Manuscript: Unknown

Duncan Grant : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Duncan Grant      Manuscript: Unknown

Roger Fry : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Manuscript: Unknown

: Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-Foster
20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but he has the loose, far scattered vitality of the great books, which keeps me going'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sophocles : Trachiniae
Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- oh dear me!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : unknown
Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C.] Squire doubts her genius -- so, I'm afraid, do I. These little points, though so cleanly collected, don't amount to much, I think. I read her at the Club last night'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : 'reminiscences'
Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if Macaulay sells better. Carlyle (reminiscences) is more colloquial and scrappy than I remembered, but he has his merits. -- more punch in his phrase than in Lytton's.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : unknown
Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if Macaulay sells better. Carlyle (reminiscences) is more colloquial and scrappy than I remembered, but he has his merits. -- more punch in his phrase than in Lytton's.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Kenneth Burke : 'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out
Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I have drawn the sting of it by deciding to print it among my puffs, where it will come in beautifully. The Dial is everything honest & vigorous & advanced; so I ought to feel crushed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : The Wings of a Dove
Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulations become so elaborate towards the end that instead of feeling the artist you merely feel the man who is posing the subject. And then I think he loses the power to feel the crisis. He becomes merely excessively ingenious [goes on to comment further on text].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : stories
Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if she were not so clever she coudn't be so disagreeable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Unknown

Clive Bell : [journalism]
Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would have to be clipped to march in time with his.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Herman Melville : Moby Dick
Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Madame de La Fayette : La Princesse de Cleves
Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Old Mortality
Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lady Gwendolyn Cecil : The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Cecil Torr : Small Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2)
Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : Life of Tennyson
Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : Life of [?Samuel] Johnson
Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Nightmare Abbey
Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions. 'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Crotchet Castle
Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions. 'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Old Mortality
Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions. 'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : unknown
Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions. 'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lord Byron's Correspondence
Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last year [...] You cant question Nelly [Woolf's cook] much without rubbing a sore. She threatens at once to send up a cheap meal [...] Not a very grievous itch; & quelled by the sight of the new Byron letters just come from Mudie's [library].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Madame de la Fayette : La Princesse de Cleves
Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterpiece has long been on my conscience. Me to talk of fiction & not to have read this classic! But reading classics is generally hard going. Especially classics like this one, which are classics because of their perfect taste, shapeliness, composire, artistry [...] I think the beauty very great, but hard to appreciate [comments further on text].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: The New Statesman
Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains in England (metaphorically speaking) sweated themselves for I dont know how many hours to give me this brief condescending sort of amusement [...] Reviews seem to me more & more frivolous.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Nation
Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains in England (metaphorically speaking) sweated themselves for I dont know how many hours to give me this brief condescending sort of amusement [...] Reviews seem to me more & more frivolous.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be able to account for it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret A. Carlyle      Print: Book

: Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was mounting the Coach at 7am, and what should I see in it but a review of Meister! I bought it, read it, and sent it to you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Friedrich Schiller : Works
'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside me, which I have been glancing over; and I feel anxious to commence the business fo remoulding and enlarging, in due form.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre
'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what notice it can attain among you. The Travels was written two years ago by Goethe, and promises so far as I can yet judge to be a very special work. I am not without some serious thoughts of putting it into an English dress to follow its elder brother.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

unknown : Various unspecified books concerning John Knox.
'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Mrs Dalloway
'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forward-to-reading-so-much' sort of letter, I thought I would wait until I had read both it and The Common Reader, which I am sorry to say I have now done.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or Wanderjahre
'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : To my Mother.
'This is E. A. Poe: Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore by that dear name I long have called you- You who are [italics]more than mother unto me, And fill my heart of hearts.[end italics] [?]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Thomas Day : The History of Sandford and Merton
'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Carlyle      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would be the case- but on the contrary I have met with nothing for a long time that pleased me half so well, or that has suggested to me so many profitable trains of thought-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume)
'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execute. I also wished to read Goethe's book, before determining on your proposal with regard to it. This I have at length done: I find it will not answer. The work is incomplete, the first volume only having yet appeared; and it consists of a series of fragments, individually beautiful, but quite disjointed, and in their present state scarcely intelligible.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Thomas De Quincey : Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same page where Goethe was handled so unworthily.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Unknown (trad) : Jack The Giant Killer
'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Mary Martha Sherwood : The Wishing Cap
'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Unknown : Blue Beard
'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme : unknown poetry
'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sully Prudhomme to read when I come to you. Soulary better perhaps − better certainly, [italics]comme forme[end italics], but so unsympathetic when compared to Prudhomme in character and thought. Prudhomme is a [italics]good[end italics] man. Fancy! And a modern French poet! Wonders after that will never cease.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Orlando
'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Manuscript: Codex

J.C. Squire : The Observer
'I shall never speak to Squire again. I never read anything like it for sheer idiocy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Newspaper

Herbert Read : unknown
'I tried to read Read on poetry - Words words words, - and all polysyllabic. That isn't poetry; not even the explanation of it.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West

Virginia Woolf : Orlando
'He [a friend] took me to a bar which he said was quite respectable, but the proprietor showed me pornographic photographs, which are things I absolutely loathe and abhor. So I went away in a dudgeon and read a chapter of Orlando to cleanse my mind. That book is the cleanest thing I know, - like very clear and deep crystal.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson

Virginia Woolf : Orlando
'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story of the bank clerk who loses his memory, but having stopped at the book shop on the way and bought Orlando in Tauchnitz I began to read, and so lost myself that the evening is already nearly gone. Do you know, I never read Orlando without tears pricking my eyes?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Arnold Zweig : The Case of Sergeant Grisha
'But I did read one that I liked: Sergeant Grisha.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Unknown

unknown : [work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover]
'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible book which I recommend by the way to the Hogarth Press, in translation, - and I am writing to you, and over both of us hangs the immediate prospect of putting on our pretty evening clothes and sallying out to a party.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Unknown

: Temple Bar
The circulating record of the Cardigan Book Society suggests that this reader read the work, as the "Remarks" section of the record is filled in (although the remarks are illegible) and there is a marginal comment in the same hand by the title of the last article, "Zero: A Story of Monte Carlo". The annotation reads "Praed" [probably therefore identifying the article as being by Winthrop Macworth Praed].
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Miles      Print: Serial / periodical

Hans Christian Andersen : Fairy Tales
'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was three she had taught herself to read. Hans Christian Andersen's "Fairy Tales" became an early favorite. Some of the tales that she read again and again, it must have seemed, mirrored her own life. Aware that she had not inherited her mther's beauty, she was intrigued in particular by "The Ugly Duckling".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne : Poems
'When it was discovered that she liked Swinburne's poetry, Sir George demanded that she forego such sensual verse. If she had to read poetry, he pontificated, she should read Tennyson for beauty, Austin Dobson for charm, and Kipling for strength'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Rape of the Lock, The
[Sitwell said] 'I used to read "The Rape of the Lock" at night under the bedclothes by the light of a candle. It's a wonder I didn't set myself on fire. I had memorized it by the time I was twelve'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Robert Browning : [poems]
'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she thought "Sonnets from the Portuguese" were beautiful in emotion but simply not good sonnets'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Sonnets from the Portuguese
'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she thought "Sonnets from the Portuguese" were beautiful in emotion but simply not good sonnets'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Stephane Mallarme : [poems]
[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of "Les Fleurs du mal", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Paul Verlaine : [poems]
[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of "Les Fleurs du mal", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Arthur Rimbaud : [poems]
[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of "Les Fleurs du mal", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Charles Baudelaire : Les fleurs du mal
[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of "Les Fleurs du mal", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Felicia Hemans : 'Casabianca'
'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday afternoons at one time because of her refusal to learn by heart Mrs Hemans's "Casabianca" ("The boy stood on the burning deck..."). The reason for her recalcitrance was that "as everybody had left the Burning Deck, and he was doing no conceivable good by remaining there, why in heck didn't he get off it!"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

William Morris : [unknown]
[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

John Keats : [unknown]
[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [unknown]
[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

William Butler Yeats : [unknown]
[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Yeats'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Rebecca West : Harriet Hume
'I say, has Rebecca West's book come your way? It is unreadable. It is a brew of Meredith, 'Orlando' and Amanda Ross.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

unknown : [ms novel]
'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest poem, by far the finest of our living poets -" but for all that, we shan't publish him.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Codex

Sophocles : unknown
Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : unknown
Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; "[italics]extremely[end italics] good" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Voyage Out
Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; "[italics]extremely[end italics] good" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : unknown
Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of Eliot [i.e. The Sacred Wood] whom I've not read; but L[eonard]. has & reviewed & praised into the bargain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : Books on the Table
Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet with Edmund Gosse. How often have I said that I would never read anyone before beginning to write? The book came at breakfast, & I fell. He is one of the respectables [...] But how low in tone it all is -- purred out by the firesides of Dowagers. That is not quite true, seeing that he has some sturdiness, some independence, & some love of letters. The peculiar combination of suavity, gravity, malignity, & common sense always repels me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt
[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs vol 2 page 223, supposing I should want to cook this up again somewhere. L.H. was our spiritual grandfather, a free man [...] These free, vigorous spirits advance the world, & when one lights on them in the strange waste of the past one says Ah you're my sort -- a great compliment.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jane Harrison : Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left it, & lay reading Jane's pamphlet.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: James Strachey

Julien Benda : unknown
18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

anon : advertisement/announcement on racing
15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary tomorrow [...] "Latest Racine" he had read on the posters at Waterloo; thought it referred to Masefield; then re-read Racing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Poster

Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Waste Land
Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry; & tensity. What connects it together, I'm not so sure. But he read till he had to rush -- letters to write about the London Magazine -- & discussion thus was curtailed. One was left, however, with some strong emotion. The Waste Land, it is called'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Stearns Eliot

James Joyce : Ulysses
Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, charmed interested by the first 2 or 3 chapters -- to the end of the Cemetery scene; & then puzzled, bored, irritated, & disillusioned as by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples [...] An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating [...] I may revise this later. I do not compromise my critical sagacity. I plant a stick in the ground to mark page 200.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : Bliss
Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] Shanks' orders'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Boen Hawkesford      Print: Book

Clifford Kitchin : Death of my Aunt
'By the way, Harold and I both like Clifford Kitchin's murder book, and I shall recommend it on Thursday, so tell Leonard to notice if it affects sales.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Harold Nicolson : Peacemaking
'Tell Leonard to read Harold's new book. It is more in his line than yours, being political, but I think you would be amused by some passages in his diary, which is the second half of the book. I have a great admiration for Harold, - quite unprejudiced. I like his lucid mind, and his ease of expression. He is like a person who knows how to use a scythe, - rhythmic, sharp, and sure.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West

Gilbert Seldes : Review of James Joyce, Ulysses
Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation, which, for the first time, analyses the meaning, & certainly makes it much more impressive than I judged.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

James Joyce : Ulysses
Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense [...] I'm reminded all the time of some callow board school boy [...] full of wits & powers, but so self-conscious & egotistical that he loses his head, becomes extravagant, mannered, uproarious, ill at ease, makes kindly people feel sorry for him, & stern ones merely annoyed; & one hopes he'll grow out of it; but as Joyce is 40 this scarcely seems likely. I have not read it carefully; & only once; & it is very obscure; so no doubt I have scamped the virtue of it more than is fair.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale) : Anecdotes of the Late Doctor Johnson
Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [...] I told Lytton I should try to write down his talk -- which sprang from a conversation about Boswell [...] Lytton had of course read Mrs Thrale [...] One night he gave us a complete account of the prison system, based on reports which he has been reading -- thoroughly, with mastery, & a kind of political ability which impresses me.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Book

Stephen Hobhouse and A. Fenner Brockway, eds : English Prisons Today. Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee
Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [...] I told Lytton I should try to write down his talk -- which sprang from a conversation about Boswell [...] Lytton had of course read Mrs Thrale [...] One night he gave us a complete account of the prison system, based on reports which he has been reading -- thoroughly, with mastery, & a kind of political ability which impresses me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Epicoene, or The Silent Woman
Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [Gordon Square].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : [unidentified plays]
Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [Gordon Square].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family/friends     Print: Book

John Dryden : unknown
Monday 6 August 1923: 'We went over to Charleston yesterday [...] Clive was sitting in the drawing room window reading Dryden.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Bell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Wives and Daughters
Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read such a white dimity rice puddingy chapter of Mrs Gaskell in the gale "Wives and Daughters"'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : '18th Century prose'
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Richard Hakluyt : unknown
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Prosper Merimee : unknown
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : unknown
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Letters
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

J. G. Lockhart : Life of Walter Scott
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : unknown
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

unknown : biographical works
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown
Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Ethel M. Dell : unknown
Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her companion], who [...] is not allowed to plant flowers, she said bitterly, because it worries Margaret, & so nothing is done to the garden, which too worries Margaret. For these worries, she takes Ethel M. Dell & Dickens.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown
Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her companion], who [...] is not allowed to plant flowers, she said bitterly, because it worries Margaret, & so nothing is done to the garden, which too worries Margaret. For these worries, she takes Ethel M. Dell & Dickens.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Common Reader
Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great pleasure".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Common Reader
Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great pleasure".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : On the Lake
Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anything yet of hers.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf : diaries
'On 22 December the Woolfs went to Charleston for Christmas [...] Clive and Vanessa Bell [sister to Virginia Woolf] and the three children were there [...] Vanessa reported to Duncan Grant [...] that they had spent a fascinating evening reading V[irginia]W[oolf]'s diary recalling early days at 46 Gordon Square, with the four Stephens' very full and "rather high society life" there' (source ed.'s note).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vanessa Bell and family     Manuscript: Unknown

Virginia Woolf : 1923 diary
Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some of 1923 this morning, being headachy again'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

Beatrice Webb : My Apprenticeship
Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some of 1923 this morning, being headachy again'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after reading Anna Karenina, to dine at a pot-house with Rose Macaulay -- not a cheerful entertainment; but an experience perhaps.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : novels
Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Gould      Print: Book

Anton Chekhov : unknown
Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Gould      Print: Book

Gerard Manley Hopkins : [manuscripts]
Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopkins manuscripts; & sat looking at them with that gigantic grasshopper Aldous [Huxley] folded up in a chair close by.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

Aldous Huxley : Two or Three Graces
Sunday 25 July 1926: 'Mrs Hardy said to me, do you know Aldous Huxley? [...] They had been reading his book, which she thought "very clever". But Hardy could not remember it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas and Florence Hardy     Print: Book

Maurice Baring : C
'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how good is it? Easy to say it is not a great book. But what qualities does it lack? That it adds nothing to one's vision of life, perhaps. Yet it is hard to find a serious flaw.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Collected Poems
'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold; and I think I see how you may develop differently.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf : Three Guineas
'In the meantime, let me say that I read you with delight, even though I wanted to exclaim, "Oh, BUT,Virginia..." on 50% of your pages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Kenneth Clark : unknown
'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came back and read about Leonardo - Kenneth Clark - good I think: this also made me think of you.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Vita Sackville-West : Country Notes
'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a work of art - or would you?) - but I dipped in and read about Saulieu and the fair and the green glass bottle....I shall keep it by my bed, and when I wake in the night - so, I shant use it as a soporific, but as a sedative: a dose of sanity and sheep dog in this scratching, clawing, and colding universe....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Robert Bridges : unknown
Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A desire to read poetry set in on Friday. This brings back a sense of my own individuality. Read some Dante & Bridges, without troubling to understand, but got pleasure from them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Unknown

Dante Alighieri : unknown
Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A desire to read poetry set in on Friday. This brings back a sense of my own individuality. Read some Dante & Bridges, without troubling to understand, but got pleasure from them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Geoffrey Scott : The Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of Taste
Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since September 6th [...] Somehow, my reading had lapsed [...] One night I got hold of Geoffrey Scott's book on Architecture, & a little spark of motive power awoke in me. This is a warning, then; never to cease the use of the brain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

V. Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a classic, I am curbed & -- not castrated; no, the opposite; I cant think of the word at the moment. 'Had I been writing P[assenger] to T[eheran] I should have run off whole pools of this coloured water; & then (I think) found my own method of attack [...] Were I writing travels I should wait till some angle emerged: & go for that. The method of writing smooth narrative cant be right; things dont happen in one's mind like that. But she is very skilful & golden voiced.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Maurice Baring : unknown
Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : 'sporting memoirs'
Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie
Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first time, I felt this death leaves me an elderly laggard; makes me feel I have no right to go on; as if my life was at the expense of his. And I had not been kind; not asked him to dinner & so on.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Othello
Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Times [goes on to comment further on Shakespeare] [...] I've read only French for 4 weeks.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : French texts
Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Times [goes on to comment further on Shakespeare] [...] I've read only French for 4 weeks.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lytton Strachey : Elizabeth and Essex
Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poor book. I have not finished it, and am keeping it to see if my [text ends]'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Samuel Butler : Notebooks
Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice Meynell's life out of my mouth. One rather craves brilliance & cantankerousness. Yet I am interested; a little teased by the tight airless Meynell style; & then I think what they had that we had not -- some suavity & grace, certainly [comments further on Meynell's work, life and personality] [...] When one reads a life one often compares one's own life with it. And doing this I was aware of some sweetness & dignity in those lives compared with ours [...] Yet in fact their lives would be intolerable -- so insincere, so elaborate; so I think [goes on to comment further on Meynell family, and others' reminiscences of them]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Viola Meynell : Alice Meynell. A Memoir
Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice Meynell's life out of my mouth. One rather craves brilliance & cantankerousness. Yet I am interested; a little teased by the tight airless Meynell style; & then I think what they had that we had not -- some suavity & grace, certainly [comments further on Meynell's work, life and personality] [...] When one reads a life one often compares one's own life with it. And doing this I was aware of some sweetness & dignity in those lives compared with ours [...] Yet in fact their lives would be intolerable -- so insincere, so elaborate; so I think [goes on to comment further on Meynell family, and others' reminiscences of them]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Elizabeth Jenkins : Virginia Water
Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & teased & spun out upon one quite simple & usual psychological experience; but the mans no poet & cant make one see; all his sentences are like steel lines on an engraving. I am reading Racine, have bought La Fontaine, & so intend to make my sidelong approach to French literature, circling & brooding'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Middleton Murry : God: an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology
Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & teased & spun out upon one quite simple & usual psychological experience; but the mans no poet & cant make one see; all his sentences are like steel lines on an engraving. I am reading Racine, have bought La Fontaine, & so intend to make my sidelong approach to French literature, circling & brooding'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jean Racine :
Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & teased & spun out upon one quite simple & usual psychological experience; but the mans no poet & cant make one see; all his sentences are like steel lines on an engraving. I am reading Racine, have bought La Fontaine, & so intend to make my sidelong approach to French literature, circling & brooding'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Augustine Biirrell : ?Collected Essays, 1880-1920
Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I am having a holiday -- reading old Birrell'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George Puttenham : The Arte of English Poesie
'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Webbe : A Discourse of English Poetrie
'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Gabriel Harvey : Works
'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Gabriel Harvey : Commonplace Book
'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Gabriel Harvey : Letter Book, 1573-1580
'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Richard Hakluyt : unknown
Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which father lugged home [from library] for me [...] He must have been 65; I 15 or 16, then; & why I dont know, but I became enraptured, though not exactly interested, but the sight of the large yellow page entranced me. I used to read it & dream of those obscure adventurers, & no doubt practised their style in my copy books. I was then writing a long picturesque essay upon the Christian religion, I think; called Religio Laici, I believe [...] & I also wrote a history of Women; & a history of my own family -- all very longwinded & El[izabe]than in style.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

: 'Lord Chaplin's life'
Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

E. F. Benson : Dodo
Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since yesterday, when I lay, mumbling the bones of Dodo: if it had bones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Molly Hamilton : unknown
Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a story; & then heaps it with the dreariest, most confused litter of old clothes. When I stop to read a page attentively I am shocked by the dishabille of her English. It is like hearing cooks & scullions chattering; she scarcely articulates [...] And the quality of the emotion is so thick & squab, the emotions of secondrate women painters, of spotted & pimpled young men'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: report of air crash on 21 July
Wednesday 23 July 1930: 'Lady L[avery] discussed the air crash [...] I was driving down to the Temple with Vita [Sackville-West], & we bought a Standard in the gateway. "Titled victims" she said [...] Then I read Lady Ednam, Marquis Dusserre (for so they reported him) & then in the stop press Lord Dufferin [goes on to record Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West's husband's, reaction to news]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West     Print: Newspaper

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Inferno for half an hour at the end of my own page [of current work]: & that is the place of honour'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Rosamund Lehmann : A Note in Music
Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beating up now & again to poetry; but I am as usual appalled by the machinery of fiction: its much work for little result. Yet I see no other outlet for her gifts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : La Divina Commedia
Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week over one canto. No hurry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Archibald Hamilton Rowan : The Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan
Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

E. F. Benson : As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show
Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

James Jeans : unknown
Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

The Rev. John Skinner : The Journal of a Somerset Rector
Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way. The parson -- Skinner -- who shot himself emerges like a bloody sun in a fog. a book worth perhaps looking at again in a clearer mood [goes on to remark further on this text] [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Queen Victoria : Letters
Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers
'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing now and then to anoint myself with face cream.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers
'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's proficiency on ski. It seemed that he was arguing fiercely with Mr.Snodgrass on the advantages`of the stem Christiania over the telemark, and I caught fragments such as, "Magnificent feeling-always use it-sharp swing-no bone breaker-good turn-very!" While Mr. Pickwick, clad in gaiters,smiled benignantly in the background.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Book

: newspapers
'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade reading letters from home, and the latest sensations and French railway accidents in the newspapers.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Newspaper

: newspapers
'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that the first thing I turned to was the cricket reports. How Kent was faring in the county championships seemed of greater importance than the latest political crisis, divorce, scandal or arsenical poisoning.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Newspaper

Richard Aldington : Death of a Hero
'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I would have preferred Mr. P.G.Wodehouse on this occasion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Book

James Boswell : A Life of Samuel Johnson
'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Book

Marrie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand : Letters
'How do you like Thalaba? There are always so many nothings to be done in London daily, that I have not read ten lines for the last ten weeks, till I came to Holland House, where I have galloped through two volumes of Madame Du Deffand's Letters, and with much amusement, though the anecdotes are in themselves of no great value; still, being written on the spot, and at the moment, they have a vivacity and interest which make one read letter after letter without weariness. The extracts from Lord Orford's letters contain frequently excellent things; and indeed, in Madame Du Deffand's own general observations, there is much good sense and plain truth; but that sense and truth, being generally grounded upon knowledge of the world, it unfortunately follows, of course, that the information which it conveys must be of a disagreeable and humiliating complexion. [Lewis then talks about Lord Orfor'd treatment of a blind woman] Have you read these letters? You know, of course, that they were edited by your friend, Miss Berry, who has also written the Preface, the Life, and the Notes, all of which are most outrageously abused by many persons, though, in my opinion, without any just grounds'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Lewis      Print: Book

Charles Lamb : 'The Triumph of the Whale'
'I send you some verses which I read in the Examiner; I think them very witty, although very abominable'. [What follows is Charle's Lamb's poem, 'The Triumph of the Whale': Io! Paean! Io! sing To the funny people's King. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he Flounders round the polar sea. See his blubbers--at his gills What a world of drink he swills, From his trunk, as from a spout, Which next moment he pours out. Such his person--next declare, Muse, who his companions are.-- Every fish of generous kind Scuds aside, or slinks behind; But about his presence keep All the Monsters of the Deep; Mermaids, with their tails and singing His delighted fancy stinging; Crooked Dolphins, they surround him, Dog-like Seals, they fawn around him. Following hard, the progress mark Of the intolerant salt sea shark. For his solace and relief, Flat fish are his courtiers chief. Last and lowest in his train, Ink-fish (libellers of the main) Their black liquor shed in spite: (Such on earth the things _that write_.) In his stomach, some do say, No good thing can ever stay. Had it been the fortune of it To have swallowed that old Prophet, Three days there he'd not have dwell'd, But in one have been expell'd. Hapless mariners are they, Who beguil'd (as seamen say), Deeming him some rock or island, Footing sure, safe spot, and dry land, Anchor in his scaly rind; Soon the difference they find; Sudden plumb, he sinks beneath them; Does to ruthless seas bequeath them. Name or title what has he? Is he Regent of the Sea? From this difficulty free us, Buffon, Banks or sage Linnaeus. With his wondrous attributes Say what appellation suits. By his bulk, and by his size, By his oily qualities, This (or else my eyesight fails), This should be the PRINCE OF WHALES].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Lewis      Print: Serial / periodical

J.B. Trotter : Memoirs of the latter years of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox
'You say, "I wonder what you think of Trotter's Life of Fox"? Now I wonder that, supposing I had only read two paragraphs, you could have any doubt of what I must think; and still more I should wonder if, supposing that I [italics] had [end italics] read the paragraphs, you should imagine it possible for me to read two more. I contented myself with the extracts in the newspapers, which were quite numerous enough to satisfy my curiosity, and prevent my wishing to see any more of the work. [Lewis then describes the relationship of the author to Fox's family and his feeling that he was not well enough provided for, hence his writing of the memoirs] with the benevolent intention of vexing them. The work is evidently the production of a disappointed man. His late dispute with the physicians, respecting his charge of their having accelerated Fox's death by the use of digitalis, is sufficient to show how little he is to be relied upon for accuracy; and, as to his style, it is the most inflated bombastic manner of writing that ever yet came in my way, and would be much better adapted to "The Sorrows of Lady Henrietta Heartbroke: being the First Literary Attempt of a Young Lady".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Lewis      Print: Newspaper

Mary Wells : Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late Wells; of the Theatres- Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket: Including Her Correspondence
'I have heard of nothing good in the literary way; but I read three volumes yesterday of the strangest, dullest, and most incomprehensible trash imaginable, two or three passages in which made me laugh above measure, owing solely (I verily believe) to the writer's being half a fool and half a madwoman. It is the life of Mrs Wells, a ci-devant actress; in which, among other things, she proves that the Duke of [-] has given himself a vast deal of unnecessary trouble; a thing of which I never should have suspected him. [Lewis then criticise Wells's way of writing about marriage, her debts, etc].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Lewis      Print: Book

Princess Caroline Princess of Wales : [verbal sketches of well known people]
'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading persons in England. She read me some of them. They were drawn with spirit, but I could not form any opinion of their justice; first, because a mere outline, however boldly sketched, cannot convey a faithful portraiture of character; and, secondly, because many of the persons mentioned therein wre unknown to me. Upon the whole, these characters impressed me with a high opinion of her discernment and power of expression. Not that it was good English, but that it was strong sense. But how dangerous! If that book exists, it would form a curious episode in the memoirs of those times.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Manuscript: MS book

Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia : MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great
'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite English. She was particularly amused at the Margravine de Bareith's Memoirs. This lady was the sister of Frederick the Great - devil. In truth, they were amusing, as all memoirs are that merely relate to facts'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Print: Book

Voltaire : Candide
'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, which does her honour. She said, - "its character as a work of extreme cleverness has been so long established that to venture in the least to detract from it, is to encounter the ridicule of a multitude. I must say, however, that the persiflage which reigns throughout, and in which its whole essence consists, is not consonant to my taste or understanding. Vicious subjects ought not to be treated lightly; they merit the coarsest clothing, and ought to be arrayed in language which would create abhorrence and disgust. But the whole works [sic] seems designed to turn vice into virtue. Either it has no aim or end, or it has one which should be loathed. It must be confessed, however, that the tripping levity of its self-assurance, and the sarcastic drollery of its phrase, excite laughter; but it is a poor prerogative after all, to be the mental buffoon of ages". Though I, perhaps, have more indulgence for Voltaire, in consideration of his vast talents, than my friend, yet I admired the [italics] woman [end italics] who thought and spoke thus; and her Royal Highness is fortunate in having such a friend'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Print: Book

Voltaire : Candide
'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, which does her honour. She said, - "its character as a work of extreme cleverness has been so long established that to venture in the least to detract from it, is to encounter the ridicule of a multitude. I must say, however, that the persiflage which reigns throughout, and in which its whole essence consists, is not consonant to my taste or understanding. Vicious subjects ought not to be treated lightly; they merit the coarsest clothing, and ought to be arrayed in language which would create abhorrence and disgust. But the whole works [sic] seems designed to turn vice into virtue. Either it has no aim or end, or it has one which should be loathed. It must be confessed, however, that the tripping levity of its self-assurance, and the sarcastic drollery of its phrase, excite laughter; but it is a poor prerogative after all, to be the mental buffoon of ages". Though I, perhaps, have more indulgence for Voltaire, in consideration of his vast talents, than my friend, yet I admired the [italics] woman [end italics] who thought and spoke thus; and her Royal Highness is fortunate in having such a friend'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: a lady in waiting to Princess Caroline      Print: Book

Voltaire : Candide
'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, which does her honour. She said, - "its character as a work of extreme cleverness has been so long established that to venture in the least to detract from it, is to encounter the ridicule of a multitude. I must say, however, that the persiflage which reigns throughout, and in which its whole essence consists, is not consonant to my taste or understanding. Vicious subjects ought not to be treated lightly; they merit the coarsest clothing, and ought to be arrayed in language which would create abhorrence and disgust. But the whole works [sic] seems designed to turn vice into virtue. Either it has no aim or end, or it has one which should be loathed. It must be confessed, however, that the tripping levity of its self-assurance, and the sarcastic drollery of its phrase, excite laughter; but it is a poor prerogative after all, to be the mental buffoon of ages". Though I, perhaps, have more indulgence for Voltaire, in consideration of his vast talents, than my friend, yet I admired the [italics] woman [end italics] who thought and spoke thus; and her Royal Highness is fortunate in having such a friend'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

: [papers and correspondence]
'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.

C.J. Dorat : Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance
'I asked leave to read to Her Royal Highness, and I began 'Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Walter Arthur Keppel Craven :
'I was shown today some verses by an accomplished man, which made me wish to be a free agent, and to visit the scenes which he describes so well. Mr Keppel Craven addressed them to a lady, a friend of mine. The writer was one of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales's most intimate friends, and she valued his acquaintance'. [The verses (which are lengthy) follow, dated Scio, March 1812]
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury

Walter Scott : Rokeby
'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am already in the first canto: - my soul has glowed with what he justly terms "the art unteachable". My veins have thrilled; my heart has throbbed; my eyes have filled with tears - during its perusal. The poet who can thus master the passions to do his bidding, must be indeed a poet'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must hide their diminished heads - a Mr Shelley, of University College, who lives upon arsenic, aqua-fortis, half-an-hour's sleep in the night, and is desperately in love with the memory of Margaret Nicholson. He hath published, what he terms, the Posthumous Poems, printed for the benefit of Mr Peter Finnerty; which, I am grieved to say, though stuffed full of treason, are extremely dull; but the author is a great genius, and, if he be not clapped up in Bedlam or hanged, will certainly prove one of the sweetest swans on the tuneful margin of the Charwell'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book, Unknown

:
'I also transmit Octavian, and a volume of poems written by a friend of mine. He is, poor fellow! in the last stage of a consumption; so the critics should be merciful, for he will never write better, nor worse, (which is of more consequence to brother authors,) and a death-bed repentance of such literary crimes is as bitter as it is useless'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book, Unknown

Alexander Peden :
'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. For my part, as I have read a great many of the old Presbyterian sermons, I do not see those passages in so atrocious a light; for they are nothing to the wonderful things one meets with in the effusions of Peden and Cargill; whose favourite scriptural book appears to have been the song of Solomon: - which song, by the way, I lately found in MS. in the Advocates' library, translated into rhyme by Mistress Barbara Macky, and humbly dedicated to that most noble lady the Countess of Caithness, daughter to that thrice worthy marquess, my Lord Marquess of Argyll. And a conscientious translator Mistress Barbara was; for she leaves out not one word of her original: but her fidelity is superior to her meter by many degrees'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Unknown

Donald Cargill :
'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. For my part, as I have read a great many of the old Presbyterian sermons, I do not see those passages in so atrocious a light; for they are nothing to the wonderful things one meets with in the effusions of Peden and Cargill; whose favourite scriptural book appears to have been the song of Solomon: - which song, by the way, I lately found in MS. in the Advocates' library, translated into rhyme by Mistress Barbara Macky, and humbly dedicated to that most noble lady the Countess of Caithness, daughter to that thrice worthy marquess, my Lord Marquess of Argyll. And a conscientious translator Mistress Barbara was; for she leaves out not one word of her original: but her fidelity is superior to her meter by many degrees'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Unknown

: Song of Solomon
'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. For my part, as I have read a great many of the old Presbyterian sermons, I do not see those passages in so atrocious a light; for they are nothing to the wonderful things one meets with in the effusions of Peden and Cargill; whose favourite scriptural book appears to have been the song of Solomon: - which song, by the way, I lately found in MS. in the Advocates' library, translated into rhyme by Mistress Barbara Macky, and humbly dedicated to that most noble lady the Countess of Caithness, daughter to that thrice worthy marquess, my Lord Marquess of Argyll. And a conscientious translator Mistress Barbara was; for she leaves out not one word of her original: but her fidelity is superior to her meter by many degrees'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Manuscript: Unknown, verse translation by Barbara Macky

: newspapers
'We were shocked and saddened to read in the newspapers of Lieutenant-Colonel H.T.Morshead's tragic death in Burma. The association of mountaineering in the past and mountaineering in the present is a very real one.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe (team leader) and other (unspecified) members of 1931 Kamet Expedition     Print: Newspaper

Anna Seward : Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807
'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book

Sydney Owenson : Missionary, The: An Indian Tale
'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Vision of Don Roderick , The
'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book

John Ford : [Plays]
'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book

John Ford : Broken Heart, The
'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book

Nathaniel Lee :
'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book

James Somerville Somerville : Memorie of the Somervilles being a history of the baronial House of Somerville
'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Manuscript: MS book

His Holiness the Rawal of Badrinath : [address to mountaineers]
'The same afternoon we were received with much pomp and ceremony by [His Holiness] the Rawal [of the pilgrim village of Badrinath]. An address was read to us by his interpreter from the foot of the temple steps. This address was couched so delightfully that I make no excuse for giving it here in full.' (Full text of letter follows over 2 pages.)
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe

Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield :
'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who flourished in King Charles the Second's time, in Bath House, containing most curious letters of the Duchess of Cleveland, Lady Southesk, and many other personages whom Count Hamilton has rendered so interesting. I will try to get Sir John to publish them, for such things should not run the risk of fire, not to mention rats and mice. There is a sort of memoir of Lord Chesterfield at the beginning of the volume, in which he says his second wife died of the spotted fever or plague; but in fact he is said to have poisoned her in the wine of the sacrament, to be revenged for her gallantries, which were notorious: that old villain, Sir John Denham, having shown him the way, by getting rid of his wife after a fashion nearly similar'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Manuscript: Letter

Anna Maria Porter : Don Sebastian Or The House Of Braganza
'When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair authoress was in love,) and many of my other friends there; in place of which I found nothing but such heroes and heroines as might have been fashionable and common formerly, but who are wonderfully out of date and rare now; so that circumstances gave me a disgust to the book'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Heritage
'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Grey Wethers
' "I have been reading Grey Wethers," said the Marquis- "a magnificent book. The descriptions of the downs are as fine as any in the language. Such power! Such power! Not a pleasant book of course! But what English!" '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Curzon      Print: Book

: Psalm 121
'Before leaving Kampa we visited Dr Kellas's grave.[...]Then Shebby, the oldest member of the Expedition, read Psalm 121, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills," while the rest of us stood by with bared heads. On this morning of brilliant clarity, Chomiomo Pauhunri and Kanchenjau, the three peaks climbed by this great pioneer, were full in view behind the brown plain.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E.(Edward) O.(Oliver) Shebbeare

Edward Felix Norton : despatch
'Before we turned in Raymond, at Hugh's suggestion, read aloud Norton's 1924 despatch, in which he summoned up the possibilities of climbing Everest.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: (Charles) Raymond Greene

Soulary : unknown
'Do you know Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme? Such birds, both of them: Soulary a really consummate artist, More akin to Rosetti than anyone else in English: Sully-Prudhomme , [italics] a good man[end italics] and a very pretty poet, somewhat after the fashion of Longfellow, with plaintive passages that haunt one?s mind and sentiments that one can share.I clapped my hands, when I found the reign of scarlet corruption at an end, and a new generation arisen that did not remember Gautier. Here are men whom everything interests; men with red blood (not quintessential absinthe and vitriol), and a strong social passion in them. I am so anxious to write about them. I offered Appleton a series of papers on the modern French school − the Parnassiens, I think they call them − de Banville, Coppee Grammont) I think that?s his name), Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme. But he has not deigned to answer my letter − God?s blood if I had my hand on his weasel!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Thomas Babington Macaulay : unknown
'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you more good.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sidney Colvin      Print: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review?

: Bible
' Before starting on the march we attended a service in the Mission Church[...].[Hugh]Ruttledge read the first lesson and [E.O.]Shebbeare the second; it was impressive to hear them clattering up the slippery aisle in their nailed boots.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Ruttledge      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Sonnets
'I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it falling to pieces, and read Shakespeare's sonnets.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Book

: newspapers and weekly magazines
'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by mail were copies of "The Spectator" and "The Times". The news of the day was, as usual, depressing, but I got a certain amount of kick out of the literary reviews, especially as`regards one book which "The Times" praised highly, and "The Spectator" damned to perdition. Such contentiousness seemed to me symbolical of the distant combative world. Another paper, an illustrated weekly, told me in a wealth of detail and many diagrammatic drawings, how to make my house gas-proof, but it said nothing about tents. It all seemed utterly fantastic viewed from the Valley of Flowers.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

T. S. Eliot : unknown
Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. "But we never see any young people" & so reads Tom Eliot &c'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thouart [Thouars]; kept us, as the man did not mend it while we lunched. I read Sons & Lovers [by D. H. Lawrence], every word.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : The Man Who Died
Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lovers first, then the last I seem to span the measure of his powers & trace his decline. A kind of Guy Fawkes dressing up grew on him it seems, in spite of the lovely silver-bright writing here & there: something sham. Making himself into a God, I suppose.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : biographies
Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Judith Paris
Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I tried to read Judith Paris, then Ivanhoe. A note on Judith Paris: its a London museum book. Hugh bouncing with spurious enthusiasm -- a collection of keepsakes bright beads -- unrelated. Why? No central feeling anywhere [...] All a trivial litter of bright objects to be swept up. 'Scott: a note. A pageant. And I know the man [Locksley] (I forget his name) will hit the mark. So I'm not excited. Almost incredible that my father [Leslie Stephen, in Hours in a Library vol. 1 p.158] shd. have taken this scene seriously. But I think some roots. A perfectly desire surely to amuse, now & then ruffled (but oh how seldom!) by some raid from the sub-conscious -- only in the humour tho. Rowena, Rebecca, hairdressers ornaments -- Madame Tussaud sham jewels [...] But I think I trust him & like him better than Hugh. Question of morality. That we are all moralists; with a temporary standard.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I tried to read Judith Paris, then Ivanhoe. A note on Judith Paris: its a London museum book. Hugh bouncing with spurious enthusiasm -- a collection of keepsakes bright beads -- unrelated. Why? No central feeling anywhere [...] All a trivial litter of bright objects to be swept up. 'Scott: a note. A pageant. And I know the man [Locksley] (I forget his name) will hit the mark. So I'm not excited. Almost incredible that my father [Leslie Stephen, in Hours in a Library vol. 1 p.158] shd. have taken this scene seriously. But I think some roots. A perfectly desire surely to amuse, now & then ruffled (but oh how seldom!) by some raid from the sub-conscious -- only in the humour tho. Rowena, Rebecca, hairdressers ornaments -- Madame Tussaud sham jewels [...] But I think I trust him & like him better than Hugh. Question of morality. That we are all moralists; with a temporary standard.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Waves
'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the last 3 days completely submerged in The Waves -- & am left rather gasping, out of breath, choking, half drowned, as you might expect. I must read it again when I may hope to float more quietly -- but meanwhile I'm so overcome by the beauty ...'"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vanessa Bell      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Waves
Extract of letter to Virginia Woolf from E. M. Forster, copied by Woolf in diary entry of 16 November 1931: '"I expect I shall write to you again when I have re read The Waves. I have been looking in it & talking about it at Cambridge. Its difficult to express oneself about a work which one feels to be so very important but I've the sort of excitement over it which comes from believing that one's encountered a classic."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. M. Forster      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Waves
'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading, on 13 November 1931.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Waves
'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading, on 13 November 1931.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson      Print: Book

Goethe : Faust
25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & so took a month lying down; have not written a line; have read Faust, Coningsby &c.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Coningsby
25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & so took a month lying down; have not written a line; have read Faust, Coningsby &c.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The Science of Life
Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind
Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading "Wells on Woman" -- how she must be ancillary & decorative in the world of the future, because she has been tried, in 10 years, & has not proved anything.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : Greek grammar
Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the gorge, or valley, at Delphi, under an olive tree, sitting on dry earth covered with white daisies. L. is reading his Greek grammar beside me'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Ethel Smyth : A Three-Legged Tour in Greece
Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is braying; L. reading, not without sympathy, Ethel Smyth; it is 2 minutes to 7'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Max Eastman : The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science
Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : unknown
Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Middleton Murry : unknown
Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : unknown
Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock [...] we are shaking & rattling through Lombardy towards the Alps [on way back from holiday in Greece]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Naomi Mitchison : Review of W. H. Auden, The Orators
Thursday 2 June 1932: 'Lord David [Cecil]'s party last night. Half across London [...] Edwardes Sq[a]re very large leafy silent Georgian refined: so too no. 41 [...] Talk about Auden & Naomi Mitchison: her review of Auden read aloud'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Princess Charlotte : Letter
'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a chambermaid, and appeared to me wholly illegible; but she said she could decipher it, and so she did in regard to understanding the general meaning, but I defy her powers or her patience to have made out [italics] literally [end italics], what those twenty-eight pages contained'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Manuscript: Letter

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein : Petits Romans
'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me had given her great pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Print: Book

:
'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'
'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor his muse'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales

Frances Burney, Madame d'Arblay : Wanderer, The
'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; and the same suspicion has arisen again in my mind, that "Evelina" was written, or at least corrected, by Dr Johnson.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina
'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; and the same suspicion has arisen again in my mind, that "Evelina" was written, or at least corrected, by Dr Johnson.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein : De l'Allemagne
'"I do not consider at all", observed Madame de C[-], "the author of a book, but only the work itself abstractedly, and I think the work we are now speaking of is one of the most perfect and most extraordinary, to be a woman's writing, I ever read."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Madame de [C-]      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein : De l'Allemagne
'Madame de C[-], who appears to me to be a clever and deep-thinking person, admired the whole of it without reserve, and said, she thought nothing could be more luminous than the manner in which Madame de Stael spoke of the different systems of metaphysical philosophy; and the only thing she regretted, was, that some extracts of Kant's writings had not been inserted'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Madame de [C-]      Print: Book

Jane Porter : Scottish Chiefs, The
'Madame de C[-] praised Miss Porter's "Scottish Chiefs", and said, it quite [italics] monted [end italics] her imagination about Scotch persons and Scotland. Had she known the excellent and high-minded authoress, she would have added an additional note of praise on the rare character of the writer'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Madame de [C-]      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein : Treatise on the Influence of the Passions
'Read Madame de Stael sur les Passions. What a wonderful mind is hers! what an insight she has into the recesses of human feeling! How many secret springs does she unlock; and how much the woman - the tender, the kind, the impassioned woman - betrays herself even in all the philosophy of her writings.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein : Essai sur les fictions
'Madame de Stael's "Essai sur les fictions" delights me particularly: for every word in it is a beautiful echo of my own feelings'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Mary Berry : [historical work]
'I read several chapters of Miss Berry's work, a Comparative View of the English and French Nations, since the time of Charles II to the present day. I think this work a most sterling performance, and one, from the nature of its subject, as well as the grave and masterly way in which she treats it, likely to do honour to her memory. I hear Miss Berry has been reproached with its being too grave; but I think the sober chastened style in which it is written suits the dignity of the matter. A lighter pen might have found [italics] de quoi [end italics] to have made a continuation of that most amusing and immoral work, the Memoires de Grammont; but where a deeper tone of thought induces a higher aim than mere wit and entertainment, surely she has chosen more appropriate means to attain her object'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

: [a novel]
'I read a novel all the evening, but yet his very presence is horridly degrading'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

: [newspapers]
'I read in Stafford's library the wonderful news of the allies entering into Paris'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Newspaper

: verses
'[Lord D-] pulled out of his pocket some very abominable verses, which he called "capital" and desired me to read. He said they were written by Miss [-]. I do not believe that they are, and I asked leave to copy them, I shall show them to Lady [-], who is Miss [-]'s friend, and will be able to contradict Lord D[-]'s statement, if it be incorrect; which I am inclined to think it is, and that the verses are his lordship's own composition. Pour le 19me siecle. Soyez bien grasse, ayez cinquante ans ; Beaucoup de gorge, et bien du clinquant; Un air dedaigneux, un fils lache et rampant; Un grand nigaud de mari, bas et complaisant: Et voila de quoi plaire un magnanime Regent!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Manuscript: MS verses

Immanuel Kant :
'I have myself read his [Kant's] works, and I think nothing can be more lucid than his style, or more easy to be understood'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Galileo Galilei : [letters]
'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters written by less extraordinary persons, are ten thousand times more interesting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Raphael : [letters]
'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters written by less extraordinary persons, are ten thousand times more interesting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Miss Plumtre or Plumptre :
'Took notes from Miss Plumtre. Finished the first volume'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

: 'curious books on the black arts'
'[during an encounter with a Madame de Villegard who showed her 'curious old books on the black art'] I read some of the letterpress of the cabalistic books, which indeed appeared to me nonsense. Madame de V[-] looked wise and pleased, because I listened to her, and she said, if I would study any branch of the occult sciences, all her works on these subjects were at my disposal'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne : Letters
'of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever entered more completely into the sentiment of her delightful letters than myself. It is melancholy that no similar instance of so perfect a love between parent and child has since been upon record'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Charlotte Bury : Diary
'I am often ashamed when I read over what I have written, to see how I allow my mind to wander, and my pen to note down so many of its vagaries. Yet I never have resolution to amend the style of my diary. And why should I not indulge myself by giving way to my feelings?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Manuscript: MS journal

: Psalms
'I went to church: heard a very fine sermon. The text was taken from the Psalms. Missed the verse, and could not find it, but the meaning was that evil company corrupts good manners'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Metastasio [pseud.] :
'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Waves
Thursday 21 July 1932: 'Alice Ritchie ringing me up [...] said "One thing I want to say. Please dont go so far away in your next book". She had just re-read The Waves: magnificent: but loneliness almost unbearable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Ritchie      Print: Book

Alexis de Tocqueville : Souvenirs
In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocqueville Any number of biographies -- Coleridge -- one or two poems. Lord Kilbracken memoirs. Shaw Pen portraits. Ainslie memoirs. Vita's novel [...] Nothing much good -- except de T: Coleridges letters; but failed to finish the 2nd vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lord Kilbracken : Reminiscences
In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocqueville Any number of biographies -- Coleridge -- one or two poems. Lord Kilbracken memoirs. Shaw Pen portraits. Ainslie memoirs. Vita's novel [...] Nothing much good -- except de T: Coleridges letters; but failed to finish the 2nd vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Pen Portraits and Reviews
In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocqueville Any number of biographies -- Coleridge -- one or two poems. Lord Kilbracken memoirs. Shaw Pen portraits. Ainslie memoirs. Vita's novel [...] Nothing much good -- except de T: Coleridges letters; but failed to finish the 2nd vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Douglas Ainslie : Adventures Social and Literary
In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocqueville Any number of biographies -- Coleridge -- one or two poems. Lord Kilbracken memoirs. Shaw Pen portraits. Ainslie memoirs. Vita's novel [...] Nothing much good -- except de T: Coleridges letters; but failed to finish the 2nd vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

V. Sackville-West : 'novel'
In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocqueville Any number of biographies -- Coleridge -- one or two poems. Lord Kilbracken memoirs. Shaw Pen portraits. Ainslie memoirs. Vita's novel [...] Nothing much good -- except de T: Coleridges letters; but failed to finish the 2nd vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : poems
In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocqueville Any number of biographies -- Coleridge -- one or two poems. Lord Kilbracken memoirs. Shaw Pen portraits. Ainslie memoirs. Vita's novel [...] Nothing much good -- except de T: Coleridges letters; but failed to finish the 2nd vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : letters
In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocqueville Any number of biographies -- Coleridge -- one or two poems. Lord Kilbracken memoirs. Shaw Pen portraits. Ainslie memoirs. Vita's novel [...] Nothing much good -- except de T: Coleridges letters; but failed to finish the 2nd vol.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

E.M. Forster : A Passage to India
'Spender cut his tobacco allowance down to one pipeful a day in order to take with him Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Forster's "A Passage to India". These were a great boon to us in our few bouts of bad weather,though Tilman and I felt ourselves morally obliged to pay with tobacco for the luxury of reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of Shaksgam Expedition     Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in common -- the same pressure to be ourselves: so that I dont escape when I read him; am surfeited [...] What I enjoy (in the Letters) is the sudden visualisation [...] but I get no satisfaction from his explanations of what he sees [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Elizabeth Wright : The Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1)
Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will come this morning. He was a maker of dialect dixeries: he was a workhouse boy [...] And he married Miss Lea a clergyman's daughter. And I've just read their love letters with respect [goes on to comment further on text].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

R. Barry O'Brien : The Life of Charles Stuart Parnell
Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry James : The Sacred Fount
Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of all books for this din -- sitting by the open window, looking across heads & heads & heads -- all Siena parading in gray & pink & the cars hooting. How finely run along all those involuted thread [in James]? I dont -- thats the answer. I let 'em break. I only mark that the sign of a masterly writer is the power to break his mould callously [goes on to comment further on James].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: Calcutta Statesman
'I slept most of the morning, and in the afternoon I lay in the sun and read copies of the Calcutta "Statesman " four months old, that Auden had brought for wrapping up geological specimens. I derived as much enjoyment from them as if they had been that morning's issue.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eric Shipton      Print: Newspaper

Thomas Creevey : The Creevey Papers
Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

J. G. Frazer : The Golden Bough
Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part 1
Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Leopardi'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leopardi : [poem]
Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Leopardi'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : 'French poetry'
Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Georgia].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

Edward Whymper : Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator
'But instead of learning to sail, I read Edward Whymper's "Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator". The author is better known for his "Scrambles among the Alps", but this came later in my education.[...] I have not read the book again but I still have the most vivid impressions of it: the climbing of Chimborazo [...] the night spent on Cotopaxi [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eric Shipton      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : diaries
Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) much refreshed. This is by way of justifying these many written books [...] The diary amuses me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

Florence Hardy : Life of Thomas Hardy
Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt settle on any save T. Hardy's life just now. Rather to my liking.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Geoffrey Cust Faber : A Character Study of the Oxford Movement
Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens to me? Not quite. Because I'm not evading anything. I long to write The Pargiters [work in progress]. No. I think the effort to live in 2 spheres: the novel; & life is a strain'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Turgenev : unknown
Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Arsene Houssaye : Confessions
Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by Clive [Bell].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George D. Abraham : Swiss Mountain Climbs
'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big mountains coud be climbed without guides.[...] I had acquired a copy of Abraham's "Swiss Mountain Climbs" which set out in depressing detail the official tariffs of the great peaks, the study of which acted as a constant check on my ambitions.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eric Shipton      Print: Book

Vera Brittain : Testament of Youth
Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Youth. Not that I much like her. A stringy metallic mind, with I suppose, the sort of taste I should dislike in real life. But her story, told in detail, without reserve, of the war, & how she lost lover & brother, & dabbled her hands in entrails [as nurse] [...] runs rapidly, vividly across my eyes. A very good book of its sort. The new sort, the hard anguished sort, that I could never write [comments further] [...] I give her credit for having lit up a long passage to me at least. I read & read & read & neglect Turgenev & Miss [Ivy] C[ompton]. Burnett.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Margot Oxford : More Memories
23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Mary Agnes Hamilton : Sidney and Beatrice Webb
23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Marguerite Steen : Hugh Walpole: A Study
5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half asleep; through the rift reading Steen (author of Stallion) on Hugh Walpole. My word -- how Hugh can let that rotten pear lie on his name God knows.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: Hugo's Urdu
'The voyage took a month.[...] We had collected all the available literature about Nanda Devi, and before long we knew the whole story off by heart. I taught Tilman what little Urdu I knew, and then we spent a weary hour each morning supplementing this from Hugo.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eric Shipton      Print: Book

Winifred Holtby : study of Virginia Woolf
Thursday 5 October 1933: '[At Labour Party Conference, Hastings] I talked to Pethick L.; a frost-bitten blue eyed little old man now; & he was reading Holtby on V. W. You [italics]are[end italics] V. W.? Yes. I said'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence      Print: Book

Maurice Wilson : [diary]
'About 300 yards above Camp III we found the body of Maurice Wilson, who had atempted to climb Mount Everest alone the previous year and about whom nothing more had been heard. From a diary we found on his body and from subsequent enquiries we were able to piece together his curious story.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Expedition members     Manuscript: Codex, Diary

Lord John Russell : Life of William Lord Russell, with Some Account of the Times
'I employed myself in the evening, reading Lord John Russell's life of his ancestor Lord William Russell. The preface is modest, dignified, and forcible; the narrative is lucid; and the style is unaffected, and devoid of ornament, yet elegant. It is like the author. How much the sobriety of a sensible English book strengthens and refreshes the understanding, especially when we have lived some time in a dearth of English literature'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Sydney, Lady Morgan : Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
'I read Lady Morgan's Florence Macarthy. There is originality and genius in all she writes'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

: [Catholic books]
'There is a most amiable Archbishop, who is very anxious for my conversion to the "[italics] true [end italics] faith". He gives me all sorts of books to read'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

: [life of Goethe]
'I am reading Goethe's life. With what enthusiasm he made his journey into Italy. It is pleasant to read or hear of any persons who allow themselves to go beyond the commonplace bounds of hacknied [sic[ feeling, and who dare to think and judge for themselves, independently of the dry maxims laid down by road books'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

John Wilson : Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life
'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her opinion is valuable and curious, as being that of a clever writer. she says: I hear you were charmed with the "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life". Some of them I think beautiful, some of them ridiculous, and all want truth and reality; for though I can still relish a fairytale or a romance, yet I do not like fiction in the garb of truth. As mere creations of fancy, they are fine; as pictures of Scottish life and human nature, they are false. But do not let me forget this Mr [-] is an [italics] awfu' [end italics] man to have for one's enemy. The greatest wonder of the day, I think, is that "Adam Blair" should be the author of "Valerius" - two works so totally different in every respect. What prodigious versatility of power the writer of them must possess! Of course you know it is Mr Lockhart, the son-in-law of Scott'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

John Wilson : Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life
'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her opinion is valuable and curious, as being that of a clever writer. she says: I hear you were charmed with the "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life". Some of them I think beautiful, some of them ridiculous, and all want truth and reality; for though I can still relish a fairytale or a romance, yet I do not like fiction in the garb of truth. As mere creations of fancy, they are fine; as pictures of Scottish life and human nature, they are false. But do not let me forget this Mr [-] is an [italics] awfu' [end italics] man to have for one's enemy. The greatest wonder of the day, I think, is that "Adam Blair" should be the author of "Valerius" - two works so totally different in every respect. What prodigious versatility of power the writer of them must possess! Of course you know it is Mr Lockhart, the son-in-law of Scott'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss [-]      Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : Adam Blair
'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her opinion is valuable and curious, as being that of a clever writer. she says: I hear you were charmed with the "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life". Some of them I think beautiful, some of them ridiculous, and all want truth and reality; for though I can still relish a fairytale or a romance, yet I do not like fiction in the garb of truth. As mere creations of fancy, they are fine; as pictures of Scottish life and human nature, they are false. But do not let me forget this Mr [-] is an [italics] awfu' [end italics] man to have for one's enemy. The greatest wonder of the day, I think, is that "Adam Blair" should be the author of "Valerius" - two works so totally different in every respect. What prodigious versatility of power the writer of them must possess! Of course you know it is Mr Lockhart, the son-in-law of Scott'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss [-]      Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : Valerius
'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her opinion is valuable and curious, as being that of a clever writer. she says: I hear you were charmed with the "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life". Some of them I think beautiful, some of them ridiculous, and all want truth and reality; for though I can still relish a fairytale or a romance, yet I do not like fiction in the garb of truth. As mere creations of fancy, they are fine; as pictures of Scottish life and human nature, they are false. But do not let me forget this Mr [-] is an [italics] awfu' [end italics] man to have for one's enemy. The greatest wonder of the day, I think, is that "Adam Blair" should be the author of "Valerius" - two works so totally different in every respect. What prodigious versatility of power the writer of them must possess! Of course you know it is Mr Lockhart, the son-in-law of Scott'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss [-]      Print: Book

Nathaniel William Wraxall : Memoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Valois
'I have been reading Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois. it is a very diverting book. The discovery that I make from it is, that men were at that time sooner old than they are now. All the kings of France died of old age at fifty; but ladies lasted longer. At sixty-six Diana Poitiers was so beautiful that no man could behold her without love'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Anna Seward : Letters
'After my visit to Mrs [-], I returned home, and read Miss Seward's Letters. I think them very entertaining, though the style is much too laboured and affected for letter-writing. She is a clever woman, and they contain much reflection and criticism; there is more in them than the generality of published letters, but not one atom of simplicity or nature. In one of her letters to Walter Scott, she praises C. S.[harpe?]'s poetry, which pleases me, and will him, still more'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Anne Grant : Essays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: to which are added, translations from the Gaelic
'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a review of Ford's plays, in which latter there are some beautiful pieces of writing, especially in "The Broken Heart". I am sorry they are disgraced with such coarseness. It does not do to tear off the drapery of a moral imagination, and expose our naked and shivering nature. But certainly those powerful pictures of the passions that were exhibitied in former days, make a good contrast to the tameness of modern performances. I do not like "Love's Melancholy" at all. The character of Penthea in "The Broken Heart" is very fine; but I could not see the advantages of making Calantha dance on when all her friends are dead'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Francis Jeffrey : [ review of 'Essays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: to which are added, translations from the Gaelic...' by Anne Grant]
'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a review of Ford's plays, in which latter there are some beautiful pieces of writing, especially in "The Broken Heart". I am sorry they are disgraced with such coarseness. It does not do to tear off the drapery of a moral imagination, and expose our naked and shivering nature. But certainly those powerful pictures of the passions that were exhibitied in former days, make a good contrast to the tameness of modern performances. I do not like "Love's Melancholy" at all. The character of Penthea in "The Broken Heart" is very fine; but I could not see the advantages of making Calantha dance on when all her friends are dead'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Jeffrey : [ review of new edition of Ford's plays]
'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a review of Ford's plays, in which latter there are some beautiful pieces of writing, especially in "The Broken Heart". I am sorry they are disgraced with such coarseness. It does not do to tear off the drapery of a moral imagination, and expose our naked and shivering nature. But certainly those powerful pictures of the passions that were exhibitied in former days, make a good contrast to the tameness of modern performances. I do not like "Love's Melancholy" at all. The character of Penthea in "The Broken Heart" is very fine; but I could not see the advantages of making Calantha dance on when all her friends are dead'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Serial / periodical

John Ford : Broken Heart, The
'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a review of Ford's plays, in which latter there are some beautiful pieces of writing, especially in "The Broken Heart". I am sorry they are disgraced with such coarseness. It does not do to tear off the drapery of a moral imagination, and expose our naked and shivering nature. But certainly those powerful pictures of the passions that were exhibitied in former days, make a good contrast to the tameness of modern performances. I do not like "Love's Melancholy" at all. The character of Penthea in "The Broken Heart" is very fine; but I could not see the advantages of making Calantha dance on when all her friends are dead'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

John Ford : Lover's Melancholy, The
'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a review of Ford's plays, in which latter there are some beautiful pieces of writing, especially in "The Broken Heart". I am sorry they are disgraced with such coarseness. It does not do to tear off the drapery of a moral imagination, and expose our naked and shivering nature. But certainly those powerful pictures of the passions that were exhibitied in former days, make a good contrast to the tameness of modern performances. I do not like "Love's [sic] Melancholy" at all. The character of Penthea in "The Broken Heart" is very fine; but I could not see the advantages of making Calantha dance on when all her friends are dead'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'I happened by chance when in this mood [melancholy], to open "The Lady of the Lake", and I thought, as I read it, so long as there were such sublime poems in the world to elevate and abstract the mind, that I could never be quite unhappy in any situation. There are so many interests and pleasures independent of the world! Everybody must be disappointed that the heroine's lover is nothing, and derives no interest from any circumstances except in being the object of her love; and I was sorry Fitz-James kills Roderick. Fitz-James, perhaps, could not help it, but Walter Scott could. It gives an uneasy sensation'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Sydney, Lady Morgan : O'Donnel: A National Tale
'Mr North has been reading Lady Morgan's "O'Donnel", and is delighted with it. He says he never read a book that amused him so much, and that it has the merit of being more interesting in the last than in the first volume'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr North      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such forcible language, the madness of modern wars. Of Swift, he made frequent and honourable mention, and regarded him, both in style and sentiment, as a pattern of correctness. He often quoted some of the short poetical addresses to Stella, and was particularly pleased with the couplet, Say Stella, - feel you no content, Reflecting on a life well-spent? Smith had an invincible dislike to blank verse, Milton's only excepted. "they do well", said he, "to call it blank, for blank it is". Beattie's Minstrel he would not allow to be called a poem; for he said it had no plan, beginning or end. He did not much admire Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", but preferred the "Pastor Fido", of which he spoke with rapture'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Smith

Jonathan Swift : [poems to Stella]
'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such forcible language, the madness of modern wars. Of Swift, he made frequent and honourable mention, and regarded him, both in style and sentiment, as a pattern of correctness. He often quoted some of the short poetical addresses to Stella, and was particularly pleased with the couplet, Say Stella, - feel you no content, Reflecting on a life well-spent? Smith had an invincible dislike to blank verse, Milton's only excepted. "they do well", said he, "to call it blank, for blank it is". Beattie's Minstrel he would not allow to be called a poem; for he said it had no plan, beginning or end. He did not much admire Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", but preferred the "Pastor Fido", of which he spoke with rapture'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Smith      Print: Book

John Milton : [poems]
'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such forcible language, the madness of modern wars. Of Swift, he made frequent and honourable mention, and regarded him, both in style and sentiment, as a pattern of correctness. He often quoted some of the short poetical addresses to Stella, and was particularly pleased with the couplet, Say Stella, - feel you no content, Reflecting on a life well-spent? Smith had an invincible dislike to blank verse, Milton's only excepted. "they do well", said he, "to call it blank, for blank it is". Beattie's Minstrel he would not allow to be called a poem; for he said it had no plan, beginning or end. He did not much admire Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", but preferred the "Pastor Fido", of which he spoke with rapture'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Smith      Print: Book

James Beattie : 'Minstrel, The'
'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such forcible language, the madness of modern wars. Of Swift, he made frequent and honourable mention, and regarded him, both in style and sentiment, as a pattern of correctness. He often quoted some of the short poetical addresses to Stella, and was particularly pleased with the couplet, Say Stella, - feel you no content, Reflecting on a life well-spent? Smith had an invincible dislike to blank verse, Milton's only excepted. "they do well", said he, "to call it blank, for blank it is". Beattie's Minstrel he would not allow to be called a poem; for he said it had no plan, beginning or end. He did not much admire Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", but preferred the "Pastor Fido", of which he spoke with rapture'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Smith      Print: Book

Allan Ramsay : Gentle Shepherd, The
'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such forcible language, the madness of modern wars. Of Swift, he made frequent and honourable mention, and regarded him, both in style and sentiment, as a pattern of correctness. He often quoted some of the short poetical addresses to Stella, and was particularly pleased with the couplet, Say Stella, - feel you no content, Reflecting on a life well-spent? Smith had an invincible dislike to blank verse, Milton's only excepted. "they do well", said he, "to call it blank, for blank it is". Beattie's Minstrel he would not allow to be called a poem; for he said it had no plan, beginning or end. He did not much admire Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", but preferred the "Pastor Fido", of which he spoke with rapture'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Smith      Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Guarini : Il Pastor Fido
'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such forcible language, the madness of modern wars. Of Swift, he made frequent and honourable mention, and regarded him, both in style and sentiment, as a pattern of correctness. He often quoted some of the short poetical addresses to Stella, and was particularly pleased with the couplet, Say Stella, - feel you no content, Reflecting on a life well-spent? Smith had an invincible dislike to blank verse, Milton's only excepted. "they do well", said he, "to call it blank, for blank it is". Beattie's Minstrel he would not allow to be called a poem; for he said it had no plan, beginning or end. He did not much admire Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", but preferred the "Pastor Fido", of which he spoke with rapture'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Smith      Print: Book

Sydney Owensen : Novice of St Dominic, The
''We talked a great deal of our poor friend, Lady E[-], and lady [-] said she thought the portrait of Imogen, in the Novice of St Dominic, was a fac-simile of her character, and not at all a flattered portrait; that it had always appeared to her wonderful how the authoress of that novel should have so correctly portrayed Lady E[-] without knowing her [...] Lady [-] and myself then discussed the merit of Miss Owenson, and agreed, as I believe most people do, in thinking her a very extraordinary woman, with genius of a very high stamp. When I told Lady [-] I had never read the Novice of St Dominic, she was much surprised, and said, "Read it without delay, for the enthusiasm and exquisite sentiments which are conspicuous throughout the whole work, will enchant you. It is a most fascinating book. Perhaps you will find the half of the first volume heavy, and the language, though beautiful in parts, inflated. But I greatly prefer Imogen to the superhuman Corinne, whose character, though pleasing as a whole, is not always natural or consistent".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady [-]      Print: Book

Anna Seward : Letters
'[Sir [-]] observed that he was reperusing Miss Seward's Letters, and said, what an odd fancy it was to bequeath them to Constable, enjoining their publication after her death. "There are parts", said he, "I like very well; but there is too much gall in them, especially for any one to wish to have it spread when they were in the dust'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir [-]      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Letters
'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and that I like them better. I hesitated for so long before reading them, because you disparaged them to me. I do not admire herself: she is a hard, unfeeling, misanthropical old sinner. But her mind is so laid open to me, that I pardon her faults and think she could not help them, as I do and think of my own. I have finished her letters to Horace, and am quite angry there is no account of her death. I am now reading her letters to Voltaire, which I cannot endure; they are full of nothing but fulsome flattery, which disgusts me. How much true affection dignifies every thing! but flattery when seen through, is odious. I like the portaits at the end of her book'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand : Letters of the Marquise du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole
'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and that I like them better. I hesitated for so long before reading them, because you disparaged them to me. I do not admire herself: she is a hard, unfeeling, misanthropical old sinner. But her mind is so laid open to me, that I pardon her faults and think she could not help them, as I do and think of my own. I have finished her letters to Horace, and am quite angry there is no account of her death. I am now reading her letters to Voltaire, which I cannot endure; they are full of nothing but fulsome flattery, which disgusts me. How much true affection dignifies every thing! but flattery when seen through, is odious. I like the portaits at the end of her book'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand : [Letters to Voltaire]
'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and that I like them better. I hesitated for so long before reading them, because you disparaged them to me. I do not admire herself: she is a hard, unfeeling, misanthropical old sinner. But her mind is so laid open to me, that I pardon her faults and think she could not help them, as I do and think of my own. I have finished her letters to Horace, and am quite angry there is no account of her death. I am now reading her letters to Voltaire, which I cannot endure; they are full of nothing but fulsome flattery, which disgusts me. How much true affection dignifies every thing! but flattery when seen through, is odious. I like the portaits at the end of her book'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Sta?l-Holstein : De l'Allemagne
'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I have been reperusing Madame de Stael's De l'Allemagne. I cannot very well express how much I am charmed with that work. As Midas's hand had the art of transmuting everything it touched into gold, so her pen illuminates every object, turning the rude ore of the mine into current coin, and rendering it useful to every one. It is certainly a most luminous emanation of the human mind, and proves the female intellect may perchance equal, if not surpass, that of the other sex. I never read any style I like so well, and the candour, liberality, and impartiality of her sentiments are truly admirable'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Susan Ferrier : Marriage
'I visited Lady [-], who was engaged in reading Miss F[errier]'s new novel. I told her, I heard she did not acknowledge being the authoress. Lady [-] observed it was surprising she should be so well acquainted with the living, talking, &c., of fashionable people, as she had heard that Miss F[errier] knew nobody belonging to that class of persons except the Argyll family'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady [-]      Print: Book

Sydney Owenson : Woman, or Ida of Athens
'"At that time [ca 1809]", continued Lady [-], "all the world was engaged in reading Ida of Athens. I think it was likely to please a [italics] vivid imagination [end italics], but would displease the matter of fact reader. The language is, in my opinion, pedantic, and fatigues the eye and ear with a constant glitter of high flown words; though some parts of it are doubtless very beautiful. But the sentiments are so bedizened with tinsel that they are hardly to be made out".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady [-]      Print: Book

Margaret Mitchell : Gone with the Wind
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eric Shipton      Print: Book

unknown : Seventeenth Century Verse
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Peter R. Oliver      Print: Book

Michel Eyquem (de) Montaigne : Essays
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles B.M. Warren      Print: Book

unknown : [Physiology textbook]
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about ,played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles B.M. Warren      Print: Book

Miguel (de) Cervantes : Don Quixote
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about ,played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: W.H.(Bill) Tilman      Print: Book

George Eliot : Adam Bede
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Lloyd      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Martin Chuzzlewit
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Book

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Noel Odell      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : [unknown verses]
'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] I read them some verses. It is great fun: I always read verses, and in the vinous enthusiasm of the moment they always propose to have them printed; [italics]ce qui n?arrive jamais, du reste[end italics]: in the morning, they are more calm.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook.

George Sand : Mademoiselle Merquem
'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

unknown : [Elizabethan lyrics]
'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the book of Elizabethan lyrics which I have been trying to read seems to be all about love-(blast it)-so I threw it across the room in anger because it made things worse.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : unknown
'I am reading Proust, and dislike his mentality more and more. I get the sense of that flabby, diseased, asthmatic man, all frowsty in bed till evening, and preoccupied with such contemptible things - nothing but women and snobbery.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'He sat down on the floor beside me, and helped me to look up "droil". "What's this?" he said, taking up my proofs. I simpered. He took them out into the garden, spread a rug very carefully on the grass, and began to read. I fled upstairs and packed. After an hour I re-appeared. The Laureate was still reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Bridges      Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs

Edith Sitwell : [poems]
'But nobody knew when they (the poems) were meant to come to an end; therefore the applause always came in the wrong place, either too soon or too late; either the poem came to an end unexpectedly and was received in complete silence because the audience expected it to continue, or else there was deafening applause in the middle, where the reader had merely paused for breath.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West

Bertrand Russell : On Education
'I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's "On Education". A good firm book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading the Georgics (mine, not Virgil's), and really I thought they were rather good.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West

Kenneth Grahame : Golden Age
His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : Smoke
His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

Robert Browning : unknown
His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward : Robert Elsmere
'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

Robert Southey : Roderick: The Last of the Goths
'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or sleeping over it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Humphry Davy : unknown
'Sir H. Davy is going to publish a volume of poetry. I saw one of the poems; it is very abstruse, and metaphysical, on the nature and essence of man, beginning with him as a suckling at the living rill, and going on until death infuses the natural parts into the dew and the firmament. Yet it does not cover a sheet of paper all this process!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Richard Cumberland : Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: written by Himself
'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have been reading his father's life. It explains the story of a paper in the Observer, written by him, that always interested me much, of his going to see a friend's place after his death, with the circumstance of his decease. It was the late Lord Sackville'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Richard Cumberland : Observer, The: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays
'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have been reading his father's life. It explains the story of a paper in the Observer, written by him, that always interested me much, of his going to see a friend's place after his death, with the circumstance of his decease. It was the late Lord Sackville'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

unknown : [novels]
'[The Comtesse] has a [italics] library [end italics] of novels - literally; so that I wonder she has not, by filling her head with such a mass of trash, committed half a dozen murders and run away from her husband at least as many times, to make herself a heroine; - and, what is more, she cannot be [italics] scrupulous [end italics] in the selection of these novels, from the specimens of some she has lent me. Yet none of this idle reading seems to have injured her mind or manners; she speaks French beautifully, has very good manners, and is, I am told, very amiable'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady [-]      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Corsair, The
'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and this desire has been increased by reading the "Corsair" lately; it is indeed exquisite, the most perfect, I think, of all Byron's performances. What a divine picture of death is that of the description of Gulnare!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Ferrier      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage
'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever attempted to swallow. Truth, nature, life, and sense, there is, I dare say, in abundance, but I cannot discover a particle of imagination, taste, wit, or sensibility; and without these latter qualities, I never could feel much pleasure in any book. In a novel especially, such materials are expected, and, if not found, it is exceedingly disappointing to be made to pick a dry bone, when one thinks one is going to enjoy a piece of honeycomb'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Ferrier      Print: Book

James Hogg : [ballads]
'I allude to my old friend, and your acquaintance, the Ettrick Shepherd (for I will not mention him by the unpoetical name of Mr James Hogg) who is now, you will perceive by the enclosure, venturing upon the public with a collection of ballads. Some of them, if I (myself a ballad-monger) may be permitted to judge, have a very uncommon share of poetical merit'. [Walter Scott goes on to tell Charlotte Bury that he is attempting to raise a subscription for Hogg and he hopes she will use her influence to gain subscribers].
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Humphry Davy : 'To the Glow-Worm'
[Charlotte Bury went to see Humphry Davy, hoping to enlist his support in a subscription for James Hogg] 'and the visit was productive to me of a great treasure; for seeing some verses lying on a table, I asked permission to read them, upon which I obtained a copy of the following lines, which are, apart from their own merit, invaluable as coming from so great a man. Lines by Sir Humphrey Davy To the Glow-worm THOU little gem of purest hue, That, from thy throne o'erspread with dew, Shedd'st lustre o'er the brightest green That ever clothed a woodland scene, I hail thy pure and tranquil light Thou lovely living lamp of night Thy haunt is in the deepest shade By purple heath and bracken made : By thee the sweetest minstrel sings, That courts the shady grove; O'er thee the woodlark spreads his wings, And sounds his notes of love Companion of the lights of heaven Thine is the softest breeze of even; For thee the balmy woodbine lives, The meadow-grass its fragrance gives. And thou canst make thy tranquil bower In Summer's sweetest, fairest flower. The hour of peace is all thy own ; Thy lamp is lit for one alone ; Shedding no transitory gleams. No rays to kindle or destroy ; Constant, innocuous, still it beams The light of life, of love, of joy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Manuscript: Sheet

: [letters from Princess Caroline]
'The extracts you sent me of "The Thompson" correspondence are charming. I am happy to see that "we" have lost none of our powers of writing; "[italics] dat [end italics]" would be a great pity; and trust some day that all these invaluable specimens of her epistolary genius will be gathered together, and printed, and set forth, as models of letter-writing to posterity'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gell      Manuscript: Letter

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel : [probably] Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur
'I was glad to have the enjoyment of reading Schlegel's History of Literature. It is a fine work, built on a sure foundation; and though I do not always agree with his taste, his feelings and his principles are exactly what I believe it is right to square one's own by'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Joseph Moyle Sherer : The Story of a Life. By the Author of Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and Italy, Recollections of the Peninsula, &c
'Spent a quiet day at home. Read "The Story of a Life" by Sherer; a powerfully written book with vivid description and truth of portraiture, both as to human character and to the effects of the scenery of nature. It has much interest, and a fine vein of religious morality distinguishes it from the commonplace productions of literature'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's Life does not make the reader love him - not as far as I have read at least'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

John Tweddell : Remains of the late John Tweddell, fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge: Being a selection of his letters... With a republication of his Prolusiones Juveniles, etc
'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's Life does not make the reader love him - not as far as I have read at least'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne : Letters
'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son
'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Letters
'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Letters
'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Letters
'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

Heloise : [Letters to Abelard]
'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

: unknown
'After reading many private as well as public documents of his age, I am persuaded that he and lord Melville were the two only honest political characters in Scotland' [he appears in the text only as [--] [--] ]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book, probably manuscripts as well

unknown : [books of natural history]
'Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it with quaint engravings of strange rock formations in the Hartz Mountains, the Mammoth caves in Kentucky, the Aurora Borealis, and the eruption of Mount Etna; always with little men armed with long staves, looking as though they themselves were responsible for the phenomena. But none of these were part of the school curricula.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eric Shipton      Print: Book

: The Times Special Coronation Supplement
'Among the mail was "The Times" Special Coronation Supplement. The men were vastly intrigued with the pictures. "That I suppose is your Potala?" asked [Sherpa] Wangdi, pointing to a drawing of Westminster Abbey. "And that is the King and the Grand Lama about to crown him?". I agreed that the Archbishop of Canterbury was indeed our Grand Lama.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Smythe      Print: Newspaper

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so mingled with true in its pages, that the next generation will not be able to separate them; otherwise, if it were worth any person's while [italics] now [end italics] to write explanatory notes on that work, it might go down to posterity as hints for memoirs of her times. Some of the poetry scattered throughout the volumes is very mellifluous, and was set to music by more than one composer'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Caroline Lamb : 'Winter Amusements'
'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had written as supposing them to be spoken by the Duchess of D[evonshire].' [the poem that follows is entitled WINTER AMUSEMENTS]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Manuscript: Sheet

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein : De l'Allemagne
'I happened to open Madame de Stael's "Allemagne", and passed the whole night in reading that delightful work over again. The great charm in all her writings is, that they are her own thoughts, set down with all the force of home-felt truth; and any person who has had the gratification of living in intimacy with this celebrated woman, must be aware that in reading her works they are holding conversation, as it were, with herself.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

: [various MS letters, religious charters and poems]
'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting lives of Presbyterian ministers. whatever the Bannatyne Club has printed, might as well have been left to the rats and mice, which have done more good in their generation than they have any credit for; and the club has had the overhauling of everything here. There are no poems but some Latin verses written by young lawyers; and as to letters, I do think the wise people of Scotland never wrote any, saving about money, and the secure hiring of servants'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Manuscript: various

: [volumes published by the Bannatyne club]
'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting lives of Presbyterian ministers. whatever the Bannatyne Club has printed, might as well have been left to the rats and mice, which have done more good in their generation than they have any credit for; and the club has had the overhauling of everything here. There are no poems but some Latin verses written by young lawyers; and as to letters, I do think the wise people of Scotland never wrote any, saving about money, and the secure hiring of servants'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

Mary Wortley Montagu : Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
'Letters bring Lady M. W. M[ontagu] into my head, which I now do not confess in public ever to have read, for they are deemed so naughty by all the world, that one must keep up one's reputation for modesty, and try to blush whenever they are mentioned. Seriously dear [-], I never was more surprised with any publication in my life. It was, perhaps, no wonder that the editor, my Lord of W[harncliffe], cheated by the charms of his subject, might lose his head and in the last volume kick up his heels at Horace Walpole and Dr Cole, and print the letters about Reevemonde, &c. But how the discreet Lady Louisa S[tuart]t could sanction this, I cannot guess'. [he then comments at length on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe      Print: Book

Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis : Mademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis XIII
'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at the same time. The subject is taken from the reign of Louis XIII and Anne d'Autriche. The colouring of the characters has proved a very happy effort of genius, and, after my taste and my humble judgment, I think it one of the best that she ever wrote, except 'Les Voeux Temeraires'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales      Print: Book

Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis : Les voeux temeraires : ou L' enthousiasme
'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at the same time. The subject is taken from the reign of Louis XIII and Anne d'Autriche. The colouring of the characters has proved a very happy effort of genius, and, after my taste and my humble judgment, I think it one of the best that she ever wrote, except 'Les Voeux Temeraires'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line']
'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bodies of Charles the First and Henry the Eighth: you may communicate it to any of your friends you please'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales      Manuscript: Unknown

Giovanni Battista Guarini : Il Pastor Fido
'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled in the Italian tongue I cannot possibly give an opinion of it as a [italics] translation [end italics]. As anything else, I do not like it, nor ever liked pastorals or pastoral writing, even of the first order, further than as vehicles for fine poetry; and then the poetry would have pleased me better had it spoken for itself, than from the mouth of a creature to me so inconceivable as a shepherd or shepherdess, whose chief, or rather [italics] only [end italics] characteristics are innocence and simplicity. I am sorry to say they are but too apt to be insipid and uninteresting to those who merely read about them [she continues this critique at length, concluding] It may be owing to some defect in my mind that I really never yet knew an interesting pastoral character, or cared a straw about whether they hanged themselves upon the first willow, or drowned themselves in the neighbouring brook. I can enter into the delights of Homer's gods, and follow to their darkest recesses Milton's devils, and delight in the absurdities and extravagancies of Shakespeare's men and women, but I never could sympathise in the sufferings of even Virgil's shepherd swains'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey and Iliad
'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled in the Italian tongue I cannot possibly give an opinion of it as a [italics] translation [end italics]. As anything else, I do not like it, nor ever liked pastorals or pastoral writing, even of the first order, further than as vehicles for fine poetry; and then the poetry would have pleased me better had it spoken for itself, than from the mouth of a creature to me so inconceivable as a shepherd or shepherdess, whose chief, or rather [italics] only [end italics] characteristics are innocence and simplicity. I am sorry to say they are but too apt to be insipid and uninteresting to those who merely read about them [she continues this critique at length, concluding] It may be owing to some defect in my mind that I really never yet knew an interesting pastoral character, or cared a straw about whether they hanged themselves upon the first willow, or drowned themselves in the neighbouring brook. I can enter into the delights of Homer's gods, and follow to their darkest recesses Milton's devils, and delight in the absurdities and extravagancies of Shakespeare's men and women, but I never could sympathise in the sufferings of even Virgil's shepherd swains'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled in the Italian tongue I cannot possibly give an opinion of it as a [italics] translation [end italics]. As anything else, I do not like it, nor ever liked pastorals or pastoral writing, even of the first order, further than as vehicles for fine poetry; and then the poetry would have pleased me better had it spoken for itself, than from the mouth of a creature to me so inconceivable as a shepherd or shepherdess, whose chief, or rather [italics] only [end italics] characteristics are innocence and simplicity. I am sorry to say they are but too apt to be insipid and uninteresting to those who merely read about them [she continues this critique at length, concluding] It may be owing to some defect in my mind that I really never yet knew an interesting pastoral character, or cared a straw about whether they hanged themselves upon the first willow, or drowned themselves in the neighbouring brook. I can enter into the delights of Homer's gods, and follow to their darkest recesses Milton's devils, and delight in the absurdities and extravagancies of Shakespeare's men and women, but I never could sympathise in the sufferings of even Virgil's shepherd swains'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

Virgil : Eclogues
'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled in the Italian tongue I cannot possibly give an opinion of it as a [italics] translation [end italics]. As anything else, I do not like it, nor ever liked pastorals or pastoral writing, even of the first order, further than as vehicles for fine poetry; and then the poetry would have pleased me better had it spoken for itself, than from the mouth of a creature to me so inconceivable as a shepherd or shepherdess, whose chief, or rather [italics] only [end italics] characteristics are innocence and simplicity. I am sorry to say they are but too apt to be insipid and uninteresting to those who merely read about them [she continues this critique at length, concluding] It may be owing to some defect in my mind that I really never yet knew an interesting pastoral character, or cared a straw about whether they hanged themselves upon the first willow, or drowned themselves in the neighbouring brook. I can enter into the delights of Homer's gods, and follow to their darkest recesses Milton's devils, and delight in the absurdities and extravagancies of Shakespeare's men and women, but I never could sympathise in the sufferings of even Virgil's shepherd swains'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

: [books about Roman /ancient history]
'You bid me tell you what I read; and, in obedience to your commands, I confess myself to be at present under a course of [italics] historical physic [end italics], which ought to have been administered to me in my youth, and for want of which I have grown up under many infirmities. [...] I am therefore labouring hard amongst the ruins of antiquity, tho' even amidst their profound recesses I sometimes have a little of the dust of [italics] modern rubbish [end italics] thrown into my eyes. The truth is, in a town, it is very difficult to refrain from following the multitude in their pursuits of literature. One is so [italics] baited [end italics] with new books that one is forced to take the up in self defence; for who would dare to drag forth a huge musty volume of Roman antiquities, in preference to an elegant little epitome of modern biography? '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
'When my day's task is at an end, I keep my nightly vigils with Young, whose Night Thoughts I do think, next to Milton's, the most sublime poem in the English language. I know 'tis accounted gloomy, and for those who love an eternal glare of sunshine it may be so; but for such as seek the shade 'tis only a refreshing repose. have you read it of late years?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

Robert Morehead : A Series Of Discourses On The Principles of Religious Belief
'I am reading on Sundays "Morehead's Discourses on the Principle of Religious Belief", which are greatly admired, though I canot say I think there is either much strength or novelty in them. It seems to me as if he had taken some of the most striking passages in scripture and [italics] beat them out [end italics], and worked them up, as a [italics] cunning artificer [end italics] does a bit of pure gold'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

Giovanni Battista Guarino : Il Pastor Fido
'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authority!) do not take pleasure in this said translation of the "Pastor Fido" of Guarino, many of the wise folks here admire it beyond measure. Walter Scott and Wilson are of these and therefore there must be something worthy to excite the commendations of such men as they are, though I cannot discover its beauties. I suppose it is for the reason I already mentioned, that to me there is nothing so insupportable as a pastoral life. The shepherds and shepherdesses are always simpletons and viragoes, and that rule is faithfully adhered to in this instance, with the addition of an [italics] Arcadian [end italics] nymph in a [italics] wig [end italics]!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V[-]      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful matter, with long fair hair and soft blue eyes, who was buffeted up and down the world like a shuttlecock, and visited with all sorts of possible and impossible miseries. Now they are black-haired, sensible women, who do plain work, pay morning visits, and make presents of legs of pork; - vide "Emma", which, notwithstanding, I do think a very capital performance: there is no story whatever, nor the slightest pretensions to a moral, but the characters are all so true to life, and the style is so dry and piquant, that it does not require the adventitious aides of mystery and adventure. "Rhoda" is of a higher standard of morals and very good and interesting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Ferrier      Print: Book

Frances Jacson : Rhoda
'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful matter, with long fair hair and soft blue eyes, who was buffeted up and down the world like a shuttlecock, and visited with all sorts of possible and impossible miseries. Now they are black-haired, sensible women, who do plain work, pay morning visits, and make presents of legs of pork; - vide "Emma", which, notwithstanding, I do think a very capital performance: there is no story whatever, nor the slightest pretensions to a moral, but the characters are all so true to life, and the style is so dry and piquant, that it does not require the adventitious aides of mystery and adventure. "Rhoda" is of a higher standard of morals and very good and interesting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Ferrier      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The
'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was written by a man of the name of Greenfield, once a popular clergyman, but whose name it is now a scandal to mention'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs [-]      Print: Book

: [Letters]
'Have you read Paul's Letters? Partial as I am to the author, I confess I was disappointed. I believe they are very just and well written, and profound; but they really are not very entertaining. A man of genius must feel sadly trammelled, methinks, when confined to matters of fact, especially of modern date. This book, however, is much admired by persons of taste and judgement; so, I suppose, it is my vicious inclination for high colouring that has destroyed my capacity for relishing plain sense'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs [-]      Print: Book

: [volume of religious meditations]
'Of the excellence of the devotions in the little volume you were so good as to send me, there cannot be two opinions, drawn, as they are in substance, from the pure wells of inspiration - those sacred scriptures in which we have eternal life. Those graces of style which a person of literary acquirements and refined taste can always command, are not essentially necessary to edification; yet we read it as a recommendation of apples of gold, that they are set in pictures of silver, and a certain degree of embellishment was considered appropriate for the sanctuary. Your friend has, however, judiciously avoided all studied or meretricious ornament, and suited her language to the weight and solemnity of the subject'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant      Print: Book

Anne Grant : Letters from the Mountains
'I feel, dear [-], gratified by the partiality which you express for my writings. You would, more than many others, be much influenced by the subject so often alluded to, of Highland scenery and manners. You could scarcely be impartial in this instance'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein :
'[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not except from this general rule; she has done a plaguey deal of mischief, and no good, by meddling in literary matters, and I wish to heaven she would renounce pen, ink, and paper for ever more.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Lewis      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The
'I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused which was written by a person I had seen and conversed with, the consequence hath been to me a most sensible pleasure: for in fact it is the remarks and modern pieces that I have delighted most in, being as it were personally acquainted with many of the antient pieces formerly'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

James Grahame : Sabbath, The
'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have already perused and have concluded that the Cameronian hath more in his head than hair'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess that I had it not. This is g[TEAR] you a hint that the present should have [TEAR] from some other hand. I am delighted beyond measure with many of the descriptions and with none more than that of William of Deloraine but I have picked some faults which I have not now time to explain but in Stanza 3d 1.1st were the knights squires and yeomen all knights? Should it not be rather [italics] The knights were all of mettle true? [end italics] - I have not yet discovered what the terrible parade of fetching Michael Scott's black book from the tomb served or what was done with it of consequence before returned and fear it will be construed as resorted to for sake of furnishing the sublime and awefull description'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book, Unknown

unknown : unknown
'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first Englishman to push his way way right through the Himalayas to the plains of Turkestan beyond. Here [in his house] I found [...] books [...] and maps and old manuscripts. I was among the relics of an explorer,at the very house in which he had planned his explorations[...]. I pored over the old books and maps, and talked for hours with the old servants, till the spirit of exploration gradually entered my soul, and I rushed off on a preliminary tour on foot in the direction of Tibet, and planned a great journey into that country for the following year.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Younghusband      Print: Book, manuscripts also mentioned

: Peking Gazette
'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking Gazette") and the despatches of the French general (published by the French Government) about the same battles. It was most instructive reading.The Chinese reported to the emperor [...] that the French had from ten to twenty times the number they really had ; and the slaughter these gallant Chinese soldiers effected beats everything previously recorded in history. Accirding to the "Peking Gazette", no les than 1,800,000 Frenchmen were actually killed in the Tonquin [sic] war: and according to the same authority Admiral Courbet was killed on forty-six occasions.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Younghusband      Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown
'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently moving camel. While it was light I would read and even write; but soon the sun would set before us, the stars would appear one by one, and through the long dark hours we would go silently on [...].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Younghusband      Print: Unknown

: newspaper (Daily Telegraph)
'I also gratefully acknowledge receipt of the "Daily Telegraph." The Liberal gov was defeated on the budget vote a day or so [9 June 1885] before our departure from Penarth; as soon as we arrived here I looked anxiously t[h]rough the papers expecting great things.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

: newspaper (London Evening Standard)
'The second number of the "Standard" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

Marguerite Poradowska : Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes
''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Marguerite Poradowska : La Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoules
'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in French and in your adaptation, for I think it must be tiring indeed in Polish if [Ladislas] Lozinski - like the others - is in the habit of "marking time" as you put it. Naturally I do not find there the "relief", the distinct style one finds in "Yaga", but I recognise with very great pleasure the language, style, indeed almost all the purely literary pleasure the reading of "Yaga" gave me. The fact is that, restored in appetite (if I may express myself so), I have just reread "Yaga"-which I like more than ever.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Marguerite Poradowska : Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes
'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in French and in your adaptation, for I think it must be tiring indeed in Polish if [Ladislas] Lozinski - like the others - is in the habit of "marking time" as you put it. Naturally I do not find there the "relief", the distinct style one finds in "Yaga", but I recognise with very great pleasure the language, style, indeed almost all the purely literary pleasure the reading of "Yaga" gave me. The fact is that, restored in appetite (if I may express myself so), I have just reread "Yaga"-which I like more than ever.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marguerite Poradowska : Popes et popadias (published in book form as Les Filles du Pope)
'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines my hopes were realised - and then very quickly surpassed. It is a marvel of observation, which gives the liveliest pleasure as such, not to mention the style,which I do not dare judge- but let me say it charmed me. You are very good at description. Beginning with the ferry crossing under a threatening sky, I read the entire series of scenes which make up your charming tale with avidity. It takes a small scale narrative (short story) to show the master's hand.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Marguerite Poradowska : Joujou
'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the nautical language.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Marguerite Poradowska : Le Mariage du fils Grandsire
'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something. Just imagine a work of art called parcel No.4000, etc,etc,etc [...] It was late. I have read only the first chapter. I cannot judge even if I dared. But from the first pages I am in the presence of your chraming originality.It is really you! I do not have time to read the book at one sitting but I will really savour it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marguerite Poradowska : Le Mariage du fils Grandsire
'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the book tomorrow and speak of it in my next letter.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marguerite Poradowska : Le Mariage du fils Grandsire
'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the chance to reread it entirely.' [here follows Conrad's appreciative and detailed comments on the novel, which is set in Lille in the years leading up to the Franco-Prussian war and tells of Michel Grandsire who marries against the wishes of his family, his wife deserts him, he joins the army; gravely wounded he is nursed by his childhood sweetheart (from ed.footnote p.146 in source text)
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marguerite Poradowska : Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes
''I reread "Yaga" only the other day. It gave me intense pleasure. I read slowly and mingled my dreams with these pages that I love so well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not clear whether this was being read in the book version or that published in the Revue des Deux Monde

: announcement of death of Stella Benson
Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of noted Novelist on the poster. And I thought of Hugh Walpole. But it is Stella Benson [...] I did not know her, but have a sense of those fine patient eyes; the weak voice; the cough; the sense of oppression. She sat on the terrace with me at Rodmell [Woolf's country residence]. And now, so quickly, it is gone, what might have been a friendship [reflects further on acquaintanceship with Benson] [...] How mournful the afternoon seems, with the newspaper carts dashing away up Kingsway "Death of Noted Novelist" on the placard [...] Why not my name on the posters?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Poster

Goldoni :
Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chiselled, severe; has read: was reading Goldoni he said. & Flaubert's letters.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Sickert      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : letters
Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chiselled, severe; has read: was reading Goldoni he said. & Flaubert's letters.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Sickert      Print: Book

Andrew Marvell : unknown
Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was there so divinely happy & pressed with ideas [...] So I never wrote a word of farewell to the year [...] nothing about the walks I had ever so far into the downs; or the reading -- Marvell of an evening, & the usual trash.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Arthur Young : Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789
Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [Bell, nephew] came to tea; read Young;s French travels'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Arthur Young : Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789
Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels in France [...] then a book a day from the Times [Book Club], Berners, Selincourt & a stout life by Neale of Q. Elizabeth which pretending to impartiality emphasises the double chin & the wig of Mary at the critical moment: a fig for impartial & learned historians! All men are liars.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Arthur Young : Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789
Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels in France [...] then a book a day from the Times [Book Club], Berners, Selincourt & a stout life by Neale of Q. Elizabeth which pretending to impartiality emphasises the double chin & the wig of Mary at the critical moment: a fig for impartial & learned historians! All men are liars.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : unknown
Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels in France [...] then a book a day from the Times [Book Club], Berners, Selincourt & a stout life by Neale of Q. Elizabeth which pretending to impartiality emphasises the double chin & the wig of Mary at the critical moment: a fig for impartial & learned historians! All men are liars.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lord Berners : First Childhood
Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels in France [...] then a book a day from the Times [Book Club], Berners, Selincourt & a stout life by Neale of Q. Elizabeth which pretending to impartiality emphasises the double chin & the wig of Mary at the critical moment: a fig for impartial & learned historians! All men are liars.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ernest de Selincourt : Dorothy Wordsworth
Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels in France [...] then a book a day from the Times [Book Club], Berners, Selincourt & a stout life by Neale of Q. Elizabeth which pretending to impartiality emphasises the double chin & the wig of Mary at the critical moment: a fig for impartial & learned historians! All men are liars.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

J. E. Neale : Queen Elizabeth
Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels in France [...] then a book a day from the Times [Book Club], Berners, Selincourt & a stout life by Neale of Q. Elizabeth which pretending to impartiality emphasises the double chin & the wig of Mary at the critical moment: a fig for impartial & learned historians! All men are liars.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: report of death of George Duckworth
Tuesday 1 May 1934: 'L. opening the first Times to come our way, said George Duckworth is dead. So he is. And I feel the usual incongruous shades of feeling [goes on to reflect further on Duckworth and his death]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Pericles
Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Titus Andronicus
Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus
Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

T. S. Eliot : The Rock. A Pageant Play
'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London, and was published at the same time. V[irginia] W[oolf] only read it, and expressed her views in a letter to Stephen Spender'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George Barker : poems
Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoning. Barker has some strange gift he thinks & dimly through a tangle of words ideas emerge.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie
Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -- in comparison [to last chapter of own work in progress]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ex-Detective Sergeant B. Leeson : Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective
Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of startling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Saint-Simon : Memoirs
Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of startling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry James : Preface, Portrait of a Lady
Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of stratling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Andre Gide : Pages de Journal, 1929-1932
Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of stratling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Pericles
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Taming of the Shrew
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : unknown
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Charles de Vigny : unknown
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Saint-Simon : Memoirs
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Andre Gide : unknown
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Cowper Powys : Autobiography
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Experiment in Autobiography
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of Sarawak : Good Morning and Good Night
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Bonamy Dobree : Modern Prose Style
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Alice James : Alice James: Her Brothers -- Her Journal
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

James Thomson : The Seasons
Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I began [Thomson's] The Seasons last night; after Eddie [Sackville-West]'s ridiculous rhodomontade -- or so I judge it [...] a vast book called The Sun in Capricorn: a worthless book I think [...] No. I don't like him. Trash & tarnish; and this morbid silliness.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Edward Sackville-West : The Sun in Capricorn
Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I began [Thomson's] The Seasons last night; after Eddie [Sackville-West]'s ridiculous rhodomontade -- or so I judge it [...] a vast book called The Sun in Capricorn: a worthless book I think [...] No. I don't like him. Trash & tarnish; and this morbid silliness.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : life of James Boswell
Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake off a blackness, a blankness. Now (10 to 1) after writing & beginning to read an old life of Boswell I feel the wheels grinding.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : diaries
Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end of the book [The Years]. I looked up past diaries -- a reason for keeping them -- & found the same misery after Waves.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

Sophocles : Antigone
Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -- an emotion different from any other.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Experiment in Autobiography
Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ernest Renan : St Paul
Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [garage], & then home, & read St Paul & the papers [...] I am reading the Acts of the Apostles. At last I am illuminating that dark spot in my reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: newspapers
Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [garage], & then home, & read St Paul & the papers [...] I am reading the Acts of the Apostles. At last I am illuminating that dark spot in my reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

: Acts of the Apostles
Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [garage], & then home, & read St Paul & the papers [...] I am reading the Acts of the Apostles. At last I am illuminating that dark spot in my reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Herbert Spenser : Principles of Biology
'It [a child relative?s speculations about the nature of fairies] was a good deal in the vein of Herbert Spencer?s description of the primitive man, all this.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Anne Isabella Thackeray : The Village on the Cliff. A Novel.
'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up literature. [italics]I[end italics] can?t write like that. Never mind, [italics]je serai fidele [end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : John Knox and the Controversy about Female Rule
'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.

Robert Louis Stevenson : An Autumn Effect.
'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.

Guy de Maupassant : unknown
'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to write -only the day before yesterday.["The Two Vagabonds" subsequently to become "An Outcast of the Islands"(1896)]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, see additional comments

Anatole France : Le Lys Rouge
'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to write -only the day before yesterday.["The Two Vagabonds" subsequently to become "An Outcast of the Islands"(1896)]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marguerite Poradowska : Le Mariage du fils Grandsire
'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every single word. with an odd and entirely sentimental fondness,I truly love this book. On every page I find you at your most lovable.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : Pierre et Jean
'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all - with the profoundest despair. it seems nothing but has a technical complexity which makes me tear my hair. one feels like weeping with rage while reading it. Ah well!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : An Imagined World
'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: newspapers
'The Scottish dailies have begun to review my "FollY" ["Almayer's Folly"]. brief,journalistic, but full pf praise! Above all, the "Scotsman", the major Edinburgh paper, is almost enthusiastic. The "Glasgow Herald" speaks with a more restrained benevolence.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : The Wonderful Visit
'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that book, I remember reflecting--with contemptible bitterness--that a mind which could conceive and execute such a work was utterly beyond my reach.[...] I have only read the "Time Machine" the "Wonderful Visit" the "Bacillus" volume of short stories--and I am informed to day that "Dr Moreau " is just now on his way to my island. I expect to have the delight of his acquaintance tomorrow. Your book[s?] [presumably "Wonderful Visit" or all three texts mentioned as read] lay hold of me with a grasp that can be felt. I am held by the charm of their expression and of their meaning.' Thereafter follows several more lines of effusive commentary.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : The Time Machine
'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that book, I remember reflecting--with contemptible bitterness--that a mind which could conceive and execute such a work was utterly beyond my reach.[...] I have only read the "Time Machine" the "Wonderful Visit" the "Bacillus" volume of short stories--and I am informed to day that "Dr Moreau " is just now on his way to my island. I expect to have the delight of his acquaintance tomorrow. Your book[s?] [presumably "Wonderful Visit" or all three texts mentioned as read] lay hold of me with a grasp that can be felt. I am held by the charm of their expression and of their meaning.' Thereafter follows several more lines of effusive commentary.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that book, I remember reflecting--with contemptible bitterness--that a mind which could conceive and execute such a work was utterly beyond my reach.[...] I have only read the "Time Machine" the "Wonderful Visit" the "Bacillus" volume of short stories--and I am informed to day that "Dr Moreau " is just now on his way to my island. I expect to have the delight of his acquaintance tomorrow. Your book[s?] [presumably "Wonderful Visit" or all three texts mentioned as read] lay hold of me with a grasp that can be felt. I am held by the charm of their expression and of their meaning.' Thereafter follows several more lines of effusive commentary.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

George Lewis (Louis) Becke : By Reef and Palm
'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading again his "Reef and Palm". Apart from the great interest of the stories what I admire most is his perfect unselfishness in the telling of them.[...] I haven't seen yet the "The First Fleet Family" and have a great curiosity.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey) : A First Fleet Family
' I have read "The First Fleet Family"with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of largely negative criticism.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henry James : The Spoils of Poynton
'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very characteristic and friendly inscription on the flyleaf. I need not tell you how pleased I am. I have already read the book. It is as good as anything of his--almost--a story of love and wrongheadedness revolving around a houseful of artistic furniture. It's Henry James and nothing but Henry James.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : [Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise]
'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of that incarnate devil Maclise one of the wickedest incarnations of the spirit of (artistic) unnatural crime that ever lived.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

W.Someret Maugham : Liza of Lambeth
'I've just finished reading "Lisa of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is another question. I at any rate have nothing to say except this--that I do not like society novels--and Liza to me is just a society novel--society of a kind.[...]It will be fairly successful I believe--for it is a "genre" picture without any atmosphere and consequently no reader can live in it. He just looks on-- and that is what the general reader prefers.' Conrad then compares the novel to George Du Maurier's illustrations.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine
'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue[of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mrs Oliphant's work is just in the right note.It is justice--and discriminating justice--rendered to that serene talent. I think she wrote too much (perhaps it's envy; to me it's simply inconceivable) but she was ever faithful to her artistic temperament--she always expressed herself. She was a better artist than George Elliot[sic] and, at her best immensely superior to any living woman novelist I can call to mind. Harris (an old friend of mine--in his work) can write more than a bit. Not to everyone is given to be so graphic and so easy at the same time. Besides his point of view is most sympathetic to me. Blackmore is himself--of course. But professor Saintsbury's paper interested me most--a bit of fundamental criticism most cleverly expounded.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) Voynich : The Gadfly
'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P.[presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined gallantly. But it comes to this, if his point of view is accepted, that having suffered is sufficient excuse for the production of rubbish.[...] I don't remember ever reading a book I disliked so much.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Experiment in Autobiography
Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [...] A lack of decency, said M. [...] Then he read us a long magnificently spry and juicy letter from Shaw, on a sickbed, aged 77. The whole of economics twiddled round on his finger, with the usual dives & gibes & colloquialities. The most artificial of all styles, I said, like his seeming natural speaking.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: John Maynard Keynes      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : letter to John Maynard Keynes, 11 December 1935
Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [...] A lack of decency, said M. [...] Then he read us a long magnificently spry and juicy letter from Shaw, on a sickbed, aged 77. The whole of economics twiddled round on his finger, with the usual dives & gibes & colloquialities. The most artificial of all styles, I said, like his seeming natural speaking.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Maynard Keynes      Manuscript: Letter

: Blackwood's Magazine
'Thanks for the copy of the November number [of Blackwood;'s Magazine][...] I turned to "Tennyson" with eagerness.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Chateaubriand : unknown
Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : 'Italian novel'
Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Humphry James : Paddy's Woman and Other Storiesries
'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" than in the whole volume of Tennyson. This is my deliberate opinion. And what a descriptive power! The man hath wings--sees from on high.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : unknown
Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. Almost always this comes from an Au[tobiograph]y: a liking, at least some imaginative stir: for no doubt her books, which she cant count, & has no illusions about, but she cant stop telling stories, are wash, pigs, hogs -- any wash you choose. But she is a shrewd capable old woman.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Summerson : John Nash, Architect to King George IV
Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. Almost always this comes from an Au[tobiograph]y: a liking, at least some imaginative stir: for no doubt her books, which she cant count, & has no illusions about, but she cant stop telling stories, are wash, pigs, hogs -- any wash you choose. But she is a shrewd capable old woman.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Annie S. Swan : My Life
Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. Almost always this comes from an Au[tobiograph]y: a liking, at least some imaginative stir: for no doubt her books, which she cant count, & has no illusions about, but she cant stop telling stories, are wash, pigs, hogs -- any wash you choose. But she is a shrewd capable old woman.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Robert Bridges : Shorter Poems
'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" than in the whole volume of Tennyson. This is my deliberate opinion. And what a descriptive power! The man hath wings--sees from on high.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Stephen Spender : The Destructive Element
Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more rain. I tried walking along the bank [...] Then I came home & read -- Stephen Spender [The Destructive Element] [...] It has considerable swing & fluency; & some general ideas; but peters out in the usual litter of an undergraduates table [discusses text further]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Howard Overing Sturgis : Belchamber
'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its principal character "Sainty" -- the Marquis and Earl of Belchamber. V[rginia] W[oolf] read the "World's Classics" edition of 1935, with an introduction by Gerard Hopkins which draws a portrait of the author.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : Aaron's Rod
Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has just passed into Germany. L[eonard]. is in the customs. I am nibbling at Aaron's Rod [by D. H. Lawrence, 1922]. Ought I to go in and see what is happening? A fine dry windy morning. The Dutch Customs took 10 seconds. This has taken 10 minutes already.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

anon : report of death of T. E. Lawrence
Monday 20 May 1935: 'Quentin bought an Italian paper & read of [T. E.] Lawrence's death.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Quentin Bell      Print: Newspaper

Katherine Mansfield : The Letters of Katherine Mansfield
Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All I think a little posed & twisted by illness & [John Middleton] Murry; but agonised, & at moments that direct flick at the thing seen which was her gift.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Stendhal : 'on Rome'
Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All I think a little posed & twisted by illness & [John Middleton] Murry; but agonised, & at moments that direct flick at the thing seen which was her gift.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Ruth Gruber : Virginia Woolf: A Study
Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothing so much upsets & demoralises as this looking at ones face in the glass. And a German glass produces an extreme diffuseness & complexity so that I cant get either praise or blame but must begin twisting among long words.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Emily Hilda Young : Miss Mole
Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Abbe Dunnet : unknown
Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Dryden : The Hind and the Panther
Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Dryden : The Hind and the Panther
Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jessie Chambers : D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record
Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Bailey : John Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and Diaries
Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel the power to settle, calmly & firmly on books coming back at once. John Bailey's life, come today, makes me doubt though -- what? Everything [...] I've only just glanced & got the smell of Lit. dinner. Lit. Sup, Lit this that & the other -- & the one remark to the effect that Virginia Woolf, of all people, has been given Cowper by Desmond [MacCarthy], & likes it! I, who read Cowper when I was 15 -- d----d nonsense.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Vittorio Alfieri : unknown
Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel the power to settle, calmly & firmly on books coming back at once. John Bailey's life, come today, makes me doubt though -- what? Everything [...] I've only just glanced & got the smell of Lit. dinner. Lit. Sup, Lit this that & the other -- & the one remark to the effect that Virginia Woolf, of all people, has been given Cowper by Desmond [MacCarthy], & likes it! I, who read Cowper when I was 15 -- d----d nonsense.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Cowper : unknown
Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel the power to settle, calmly & firmly on books coming back at once. John Bailey's life, come today, makes me doubt though -- what? Everything [...] I've only just glanced & got the smell of Lit. dinner. Lit. Sup, Lit this that & the other -- & the one remark to the effect that Virginia Woolf, of all people, has been given Cowper by Desmond [MacCarthy], & likes it! I, who read Cowper when I was 15 -- d----d nonsense.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

William Congreve : Love for Love
Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sir Charles Mallett : Anthony Hope and His Books
Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

John Ford : The Lover's Melancholy
[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard words. remote. Not Mrs Easdale, who is silly, egotistic, sloppy, & very conventional. I am shocked to find Rodmell patched onto those pages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Mrs Easdale : Middle Age: 1885-1932
[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard words. remote. Not Mrs Easdale, who is silly, egotistic, sloppy, & very conventional. I am shocked to find Rodmell patched onto those pages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : A Room of One's Own
From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Reading V[irginia] W[oolf]'s A Room of One's Own fired [Ethel Smyth] with the desire to meet the author, which she did in 1930'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Smyth      Print: Book

August Strindberg : The Inferno
'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the strange thing is, it is entirely a writer's madness. I mean no one but a writer or artist of some sort would find significance in such small things.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell

Stephen Crane : The Red Badge of Courage
'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the outside of many things and the inside of some.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Stephen Crane : A Man and Some Others
'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing ["The Open Boat"] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise].
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Stephen Crane : The Open Boat
'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing ["The Open Boat"] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise].
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Sydney Schiff : Prince Hempseed
'I have just read Prince Hempseed for the first time. I do hope you don't mind my writing to you about it, because I think it is such a fine book and I was deeply moved by it. It seems to me to be more alive psychologically than any novel by a living English writer that I have read, and one would have thought that even the impenetrable stupidity of the British public would have been pierced by the terible sincerity and truth of this book. But I suppose you've had the usual kind of abuse. I couldn't have believed, until I read Prince Hempseed, that any book about a child could be so interesting; but this goes beyond interest, and all I can say is, if the English people would read this book properly, they might become less brutish. It's an awful thing to think of poor sensitive bewildered children being driven into life like this, amidst such hopeless loneliness. I hope you don't mind me saying all this; but, you see, I do thinkthe book is such a fine achievement that I can't help telling you so. I wonder if Dr. Henry Head has read it. He's always saying he wishes someone would write a really fine book about a child's psychology....At least he said so on the few occasions when I have met him....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

James Hogg : Mountain Bard, The
'I am not a little proud of the approbation you have been pleased to bestow upon a mountain Bard'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Surtees      Print: Book

: [a parody of Scott's 'Marmion']
'I heard two gentleman [sic] reading with great glee and much laughter several sheets of a parody upon part of it yesterday which they gave me to understand would be published. The verse seemed not at all contemptible but the matter bore every mark of malice and envy'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Sheet

Walter Scott : 'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach'
'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever will be by a part) so will Marmion. You gave the truest picture of your manner of writing in the introduction to Mr Erskine that ever was given [SEAL] ever will and I am particularly partial to that epistle I think it extremely beautifull. I should like extremely well to see another poem of yours in the same stanza with Glenfinlas my first and I believe still greatest favourite'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion
'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever will be by a part) so will Marmion. You gave the truest picture of your manner of writing in the introduction to Mr Erskine that ever was given [SEAL] ever will and I am particularly partial to that epistle I think it extremely beautifull. I should like extremely well to see another poem of yours in the same stanza with Glenfinlas my first and I believe still greatest favourite'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Walter Scott : 'To Henry Erskine, Esq'
'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever will be by a part) so will Marmion. You gave the truest picture of your manner of writing in the introduction to Mr Erskine that ever was given [SEAL] ever will and I am particularly partial to that epistle I think it extremely beautifull. I should like extremely well to see another poem of yours in the same stanza with Glenfinlas my first and I believe still greatest favourite'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: [reviews of The Mountain Bard and The Shepherd's Guide]
'I have read several English reviews of my books at great length which are favourable in the extreme'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Janet Stuart : 'Ode to Dr Thomas Percy'
[a long anecdote about how Hogg found his correspondent Janet Stuart's book in an Edinburgh bookshop and had to pay 7/6 for a 'pamphlet' which the bookseller argued was 'a very extraordinary production'] 'I did not only read it I devoured it: the man was right; it is an [italics] extraordinary production [end italics]. I do not think a man is flattering when he tells what he thinks I think there is not a more beautiful poem in the English language of its kind. Some of my friends, though they acknowledge it contains great beauties, blame it for what they are pleased to call a [italics] mysterous [sic] obscurity [end italics], while to me who am luckily versant in ancient ballads, it is as plain as the ABC. Yet I acknowledge I should be happy to see in my Adeline's next piece a little more of the unaffected simplicity so visible in her whole character and deportment'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg

Robert Southey : Curse of Kehama, The
'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Bridal of Triermain, The
'[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 years &c a servile imitation of Scott and possesses some poetical merit. It will not however be regarded'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

John Morrison : Hoggiad, The
'A gentleman who deems himself libelled at in the Wake has sent a long poem to Edin. to be printed [italics] in quarto [end italics] which he denominates [italics] The Hoggiad [end italics] or [italics] A Supplement to the Queen's Wake [end italics] It is the most abusive thing I ever saw but has otherwise some merit'..
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson : A Country Dance
'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean to finish it. What I have lost and gained is odd. As far as regards simple writing, of course I am in another world now; but in some things, though more clumsy, I seem to have been freer and more plucky: this is a lesson I have taken to heart. I have got a jolly new name for my old story. I am going to call it ?A Country Dance?: the two heroes keep changing places, you know; and the chapter, where the most of this changing goes on, is to be called: ?Up the Middle, down the Middle?. It will be in six, or (perhaps) seven, chapters. I have never worked harder in my life, than these last four days. If I can only keep it up.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories.

Hugh Walpole : The Dark Forest
'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening rather vague and lacking in direction ? due no doubt to "recency" (a new word) of the impressions. However the book gathers force. By the time it finishes it is the best book of yours since Mr P & Mr. T.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Charles Shaw : When I was a Child
'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles Shaw?s anonymous book, "When I was a Child" and an episode in Clayhanger. Let me remark that I am a fairly regular student of the columns of the United Methodist and other denominational organs, and I only wish that certain papers of a different stamp showed as keen an interest in literature as you do. As soon as I heard of it I bought the book with the full intention of using it if I could, as I have bought and used scores of historical books bearing on the district or period in which I happened as a novelist to be interested.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Jocelyn
'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS

Gabriela Cunninghame Graham : Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times
'Yesterday I finfished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Grahames's wife Gabriela.] Ca m'a laisse une profonde impression de tristesse [...] I can say no more just now.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : The Impenitent Thief
'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my wife. Every word has found a home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Bernard Barton : 'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk'
'I recieved yours accompanying the beautifull complimentary verses, which are judged by the small circle of my friends to be the best that ever have appeared in our language addressed to any poet while alive. Goldie published them in the Courant the principal paper of this country as addressed to the Ettrick Shepherd by a gentleman of Suffolk. I admired the verses very much indeed for their poetical merit but much more for the spirit of enthusiasm and kindness that breathes throughout towards a friendless and un-noted Bard'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg

Bernard Barton : 'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk'
'I think the stanzas greatly improved and they are in the press as an introduction to the second edition of the [italics] wake [end italics]. There was one term which I was thinking should have been altered as it rather struck me to be bordering on the extravagant I think it was [italics] heaven-born [end italics] which I thought should only have been [italics] gifted [end italics] or something to that effect but you may trust that to me I will think of it when the proof comes to my hand'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

James Hogg : [Tales published in the Spy]
'Many of my friends are of the same opinion with you at least with regard to the tales of the Spy. Mr Walr. Scott says in a letter "If I may judge from my own feelings and the interest I took in them the tales are superior at least in management to any I have read: the stile of them is likewise quite new".' [this letter to Bernard Barton discusses publishing Hogg's tales from the periodical The Spy in book form]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Serial / periodical

: Edinburgh Review
'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still reported that the Wake is. It is reviewed at great length in this number of the Scottish. It is an excellent article and said to be written by the editor. He has placed my character as a poet in a much higher point of view than any has yet ventured to place it perhaps you may think that impossible after reading the following extract out of a London Monthly publication. After giving the analysis he says, the English writer I mean "This subject, so fertile of poetic beauty the most diversified and contrasted, yields an harvest fully adequate to all that could be expected from the advantages of the field. Greater ease and spirit, a sweeter, richer, more animated and easy flow of versification, more clearness of language, more beauty of imagery, more grandeur, fervor, pathos, and occassionally more vivid and aweful sublimity, can hardly be found". [this quotation continues for two pages, forming the greater part of this letter]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Scotish Review
'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still reported that the Wake is. It is reviewed at great length in this number of the Scottish. It is an excellent article and said to be written by the editor. He has placed my character as a poet in a much higher point of view than any has yet ventured to place it perhaps you may think that impossible after reading the following extract out of a London Monthly publication. After giving the analysis he says, the English writer I mean "This subject, so fertile of poetic beauty the most diversified and contrasted, yields an harvest fully adequate to all that could be expected from the advantages of the field. Greater ease and spirit, a sweeter, richer, more animated and easy flow of versification, more clearness of language, more beauty of imagery, more grandeur, fervor, pathos, and occassionally more vivid and aweful sublimity, can hardly be found". [this quotation continues for two pages, forming the greater part of this letter]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Monthly Magazine
'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still reported that the Wake is. It is reviewed at great length in this number of the Scottish. It is an excellent article and said to be written by the editor. He has placed my character as a poet in a much higher point of view than any has yet ventured to place it perhaps you may think that impossible after reading the following extract out of a London Monthly publication. After giving the analysis he says, the English writer I mean "This subject, so fertile of poetic beauty the most diversified and contrasted, yields an harvest fully adequate to all that could be expected from the advantages of the field. Greater ease and spirit, a sweeter, richer, more animated and easy flow of versification, more clearness of language, more beauty of imagery, more grandeur, fervor, pathos, and occassionally more vivid and aweful sublimity, can hardly be found". [this quotation continues for two pages, forming the greater part of this letter]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Scotish Review [sic]
'In the last No of the Scottish Review there is a very long and exquisite review of the [italics] Wake [end italics]. It is a good article, said to be written by the editor of that work, who has placed my poetry in a point of view where none has hitherto ventured to place it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

William Roscoe : [pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe'
'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: presumably in MS

Walter Scott : [pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe'
'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: presumably in MS

Walter Paterson : Legend of Iona, The
'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: United Methodist
'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles Shaw?s anonymous book, "When I was a Child" and an episode in Clayhanger. Let me remark that I am a fairly regular student of the columns of the United Methodist and other denominational organs, and I only wish that certain papers of a different stamp showed as keen an interest in literature as you do. As soon as I heard of it I bought the book with the full intention of using it if I could, as I have bought and used scores of historical books bearing on the district or period in which I happened as a novelist to be interested.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Stuart P. Sherman : [article on Arnold Bennett]
'In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork "Nation" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sherman. On the whole I regard it as the best article I have seen on the subject. I should very much like to have seen this article reprinted, either with other by the same hand or alone, but I suppose that there is no chance of this.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltuikov : The Golovleff Family
'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is any good, but the book is great. I read it twice in French.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

H.G. Wells : Mr Britling Sees It Through
'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes that ought to be the best are the best. In fact it is an impressive work. . . . P.S. You will doubtless find some of the corrections quite inadmissible. They are all simply suggestions. A.B.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

E.H. Anstruther : The Farm Servant
'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything very particular, but it began to hold me soon afterwards.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Plato : unknown
'...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Plato and am now labouring in Aristotle's Ethics" . . . what hideous Greek the man wrote!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book, scholarly edition

Theodore Dreiser : The Financier
'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its dreadful slovenliness in details of phrase, is an extremely remarkable affair indeed. It gave me intense pleasure. This is praise. I wish I knew Dreiser intimately. Wells?s new novel is very fine.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: 'Literary Notes and News'
'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as well that this munificent printer?s error should be set right at once. The sum was ?1,250.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

: Westminster Gazette
'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as well that this munificent printer?s error should be set right at once. The sum was ?1,250.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Hardy : poems
Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which she can't re-read -- Too melancholy & sordid -- & the subjects not interesting enough'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

: Star
Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row of question marks at the end. What excited me was the evening paper. After printing [for Hogarth Press] all afternoon I went out later, bought a Star, looked at it casually under the public House lamp, & read that the Prime Minister needed our prayers. We were faced with momentous decisions [...] We evolved from this an offer of peace to France: but it appears to be only L[loyd]. G[eorge].'s way of whipping up his gallery. Anyhow, I was whipped.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Thomas Hardy : poems
Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

Lucretius : unknown
Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Emphie Case      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impressions of Paradise Lost [...] Impressions fairly well describes the sort of thing left in my mind. I have left many riddles unread. I have slipped on too easily to taste the full flavour [goes on to describe and discuss in detail] [...] But how smooth, strong & elaborate it all is! What poetry!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: newspaper report of US presidential message
Thursday 24 October 1918: 'Having walked across Bushy [sic] Park [...] we took tram to Kingston & there heard the paper boys shouting out about the President's message [regarding negotiations toward armistice], which we bought & devoured in the [train.]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard and Virginia Woolf     Print: Newspaper

Virginia Woolf : The Voyage Out
Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian [Stephen] had asked her to tell me how much he'd liked The Voyage Out, which he has just read for the first time, & is too shy to write & tell me so himself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Adrian Stephen      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Diary
Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. I confess that the rough & random style of it, often so ungrammatical, & crying for a word altered, afflicted me somewhat. I am trying to tell whichever self it is that reads this hereafter that I can write very much better [...] And now I may add my little compliment to the effect that it has a slapdash & vigour, & sometimes hits an unexpected bulls eye [goes on to discuss further reasons for, and artistic benefits of, keeping diary].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Codex

Sir Thomas Browne : unknown
Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I came up against Sir Thomas Browne, & found I hadn't read him since I used to dip & duck & be bored & somewhow [sic -- misprint?] enchanted hundreds of years ago. Therefore I had to break off, send for his books (by the way, I have read him fairly often, now I come to think of it) & start little stories.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Mrs Humphry Ward : A Writer's Recollections
Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- full of old ghosts; books half way to decomposition [...] I could not resist Mrs Ward, & I stand in her unconscionably long hours, as if she were a bath of tepid water that one lacks the courage to leave [goes on to comment further on Ward's autobiography].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Mrs Humphry Ward : A Writer's Recollections
'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read it then'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry Festing Jones : Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir
Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit for illness. Butler has the effect of paring the bark off feelings: all left a little raw, but vivid -- a lack of sap though [goes on to comment further on Butler and his biographer, Henry Festing Jones]]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Charles Greville : Memoirs
Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit for illness. Butler has the effect of paring the bark off feelings: all left a little raw, but vivid -- a lack of sap though [goes on to comment further on Butler and his biographer, Henry Festing Jones]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : The Trumpet-Major
Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George Borrow : Wild Wales
Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, & dine alone, & sleep over Mr Clarkson's memoirs. He had a sexual kink, & a passion for fish'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Harry J. Greenwall : The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson
Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, & dine alone, & sleep over Mr Clarkson's memoirs. He had a sexual kink, & a passion for fish'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: The Times
Sunday 19 January 1936: 'I went up to an elderly stout woman reading the paper at the Times Book Club the other day. It was Margery Strachey [sic]. What are you doing? I said. Nothing! she replied. "I've got nowhere to go & nothing to do." 'And I left her, sitting reading The Times.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Marjorie Strachey      Print: Newspaper

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Peter Quennell : Byron. The Years of Fame
Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : letters
Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my craft in the most fierce conditions. Really reading Flaubert's letters I hear my own voice cry out Oh art! Patience. Find him consoling, admonishing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Divine Comedy
Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] stolid, second rate, a snob, & very vain [...] Reads seasonally: Dante: Homer: Shakespeare.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Ronald Storrs      Print: Book

Homer : unknown
Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] stolid, second rate, a snob, & very vain [...] Reads seasonally: Dante: Homer: Shakespeare.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Ronald Storrs      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown
Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] stolid, second rate, a snob, & very vain [...] Reads seasonally: Dante: Homer: Shakespeare.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Ronald Storrs      Print: Book

Sir Thomas Browne : letters
Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Colette : Mes Apprentisages
Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal drowse & cdn't fix on that or anything.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Moliere : Le Misanthrope
Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal drowse & cdn't fix on that or anything.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : What Then Must We Do?
Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...] then the tramps [...] The middle aged woman was trying to make a fire: a man in townish clothes was lying on his side in the grass [...] When we [Woolf and husband Leonard] came back after an hour the woman had got the fire to burn [...] She was cutting a slice of bread off a loaf, but there was no butter. At night it became very cold, & as we sat down to our duck L. said he wondered how they [s]pent the night. I said probably they go to the workhouse. This fitted in well with What shall we do then, wh. I read in the train. But incidentally I'm not so much impressed as I expected by it. Vivid, but rather wordy so far.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Howard Spring : review of Virginia Woolf, The Years
Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yesterday: by the way I was walking in Covent Garden & found St Pauls, CG for the first time [...] then went to Burnets [of Garrick St.] [...] bought the E. Standard & found myself glorified as I read it in the Tube.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [juvenile poems]
'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many pieces among those you published in your youth which are I deem not much known and which I think extremely beautifull if you would deign to favour us with something of either the one class or the other you can hardly conceive how much it would oblige [italics] me [end italics] in particular and turn as it were every letter of our little repository into gold'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

J. H. Craig : Hunting of Badlewe, The
'By the by have you read my friend Mr Crag's [sic] "Hunting of Badlewe" published by Colburne. If you have not I wish you would and tell me punctually what you think of him, and the utmost that may be anticipated of him as a poet and dramatist'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

William Tenant : Anster Fair
'Pray have you seen a poem that was published last year entitled "Anster Fair" I am vexed that it has never been noticed for their [sic] is a strength of mind and a [TEAR] originality of conception manifested in it which I n[TEAR] before witnessed - it is anonymous but I understand it is written by a poor schoolmaster in Fife you must by all means see it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

William Tenant : Anster Fair
'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another thing published lately by Colbourn London called "The Hunting of Badlewe". There is hard struggling here with some kind of very sublime and metaphysical productions called "Reviews" some of them will I fear prove [italics] Ephemeral [end italics] or very short lived. Mrs Grant's 1813 has excited little or no interest here and if some exertion is not made to save it in London it is lost, yet the second book in particular certainly contains something very good'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

J.H. Craig : Hunting of Badlewe, The
'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another thing published lately by Colbourn London called "The Hunting of Badlewe". There is hard struggling here with some kind of very sublime and metaphysical productions called "Reviews" some of them will I fear prove [italics] Ephemeral [end italics] or very short lived. Mrs Grant's 1813 has excited little or no interest here and if some exertion is not made to save it in London it is lost, yet the second book in particular certainly contains something very good'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Anne Grant : Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem
'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another thing published lately by Colbourn London called "The Hunting of Badlewe". There is hard struggling here with some kind of very sublime and metaphysical productions called "Reviews" some of them will I fear prove [italics] Ephemeral [end italics] or very short lived. Mrs Grant's 1813 has excited little or no interest here and if some exertion is not made to save it in London it is lost, yet the second book in particular certainly contains something very good'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: [review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814']
'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the public feeling with regard to you, and it was (besides being evidently the words of a [italics] hurt person [end italics]) a very shabby article'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: [review in the Scottish Review of JH Craig's The Hunting of Badlewe]
'Badliewe [sic] has not yet made great noise but has excited a deep interest in a limited sphere. It is reviewed in both our minor reviews in the one with a good deal of asperity but they allow the author to be posessed of some kind of unaccountable fund of poetical genius. In the "Scottish" published yesterday there is a long and able review of it - the writer is quite misled likewise with regard to the author too - He blames the plot but extols the poetry some of it even above all others - says that the author is no common man and though he has great faults which it becomes him to mention the author if he continue writing his own way cannot go far wrong'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is not and cannot be a doubt remaining - the internal evidence is of itself sufficient - it may be practical enough to imitate either your lordship or him for a few verses but that the same turn of thought characters and expression in a word that the whole structure of mind sholud so exactly coinincide in two distinct individuals is not in nature. - By the by this seems to have brought a curious fact to light. I heard Ballantyne with my own ears attest when Waverly went first to the press which is now a long while ago that it was by the author of "The Bridal of Triermain" who in all the surmises [italics] had never yet been named [end italics] What are we to think here my Lord? However I like Waverly exceedingly and never was more diverted than by some of the pictures there of Scottish manners and I am much pleased to hear you commend it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

John Galsworthy : Jocelyn
'And the merit of the book ["Jocelyn"], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given the exact measure of your characters in a language of great felicity,with measure,with poetical appropriateness to characters tragic indeed but within the bounds of their nature. That's what makes the book valuable apart from its many qualities as a piece of lirerary work.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : Bridal of Triermain, The
'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is not and cannot be a doubt remaining - the internal evidence is of itself sufficient - it may be practical enough to imitate either your lordship or him for a few verses but that the same turn of thought characters and expression in a word that the whole structure of mind sholud so exactly coinincide in two distinct individuals is not in nature. - By the by this seems to have brought a curious fact to light. I heard Ballantyne with my own ears attest when Waverly went first to the press which is now a long while ago that it was by the author of "The Bridal of Triermain" who in all the surmises [italics] had never yet been named [end italics] What are we to think here my Lord? However I like Waverly exceedingly and never was more diverted than by some of the pictures there of Scottish manners and I am much pleased to hear you commend it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is not and cannot be a doubt remaining - the internal evidence is of itself sufficient - it may be practical enough to imitate either your lordship or him for a few verses but that the same turn of thought characters and expression in a word that the whole structure of mind sholud so exactly coinincide in two distinct individuals is not in nature. - By the by this seems to have brought a curious fact to light. I heard Ballantyne with my own ears attest when Waverly went first to the press which is now a long while ago that it was by the author of "The Bridal of Triermain" who in all the surmises [italics] had never yet been named [end italics] What are we to think here my Lord? However I like Waverly exceedingly and never was more diverted than by some of the pictures there of Scottish manners and I am much pleased to hear you commend it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Gabriela Cunninghame Graham : Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times
'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the Life of Santa Teresa is the impression of a wonderful richness; a world peopled thickly--with the breath of mysticism over all--the landscapes, the walls,the men,the women. Of course I am quite incompetent to criticise such a work; but I can appreciate it .[...] It is absorbing like a dream amd as difficult to keep hold of.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Arthur Symons : [article in Saturday Review]
'[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" went out of his way to damn Kipling and me with the same generous praise. he says that "Captains Courageous" and the "Nigger" have no idea behind them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Bristol Fashion Pt.2 in Saturday Review
'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what's more you can say what you know in a most individual way.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Israel Zangwill : Premier and the Painter
[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admiration for his [Zangwill's] work-- dating far back, to the days of "Premier and the Painter" which I read by chance of the Indian Ocean--a copy with covers torn off and two pages missing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Notes on the District of Menteith
'The Guide book simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic].I've read it last night having only then returned home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Hugh Clifford : Studies in Brown Humanity
'Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unrival[l]ed knowledge of the subject. But it is not literature.' (Then follows a justification of the responsibilities of a critic to sign reviews even if unflattering.)
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville
'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not exactly perceive what on earth they have been making a fuss about.[...] I notice variations in the text as I've read it in the typewritten copy.This seems the most fnished piece of work you have ever done.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, see additional comments

: Blackwood's Magazine
'Blackwood's Magazine for this month has an appreciation of F.M. Kelly's [James Fitzmaurice Kelly 1857-1923] edition of Don Quixote. Very fair. Nothing striking but distinct recognition. I do like the attitude of the "Maga" on the Spanish business.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Preface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in Morocco
'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages

[unknown] : [Story of Perseus]
'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Harrison Cady : Jungle Jinks
'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

George Macdonald : [probably] Princess and Curdie, The
'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Emmuska, Baroness Orczy : Scarlet Pimpernel, The
'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Edith Nesbit : [probably] Five Children and It
'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [Works]
'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Henry Rider Haggard : She
'In a BBC talk of 1947 about the book that had most influenced her early years, she chose to talk about Rider Haggard's "She"; she came upon it at the age of twelve, "when I was finding the world too small". The descriptions of Kor, the great derelict city, caught her imagination. She "saw" Kor before she ever saw London: "Inevitably, the Thames Embankment was a disappointment".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

[unknown] : [detective stories]
'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pure pleasure all her life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

[n/a] : Encyclopaedia
'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Frank Harris : Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impulses noble and ignoble. I am just finishing it. The best things I have read for ages are the Chekhov short stories in the new complete edition (2 vols out) published here by Chatto & Windus, translated by the eternal Constance Garnett. These stories are unmatched.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Anton Chekhov : The Tales of Tchehov
'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impulses noble and ignoble. I am just finishing it. The best things I have read for ages are the Chekhov short stories in the new complete edition (2 vols out) published here by Chatto & Windus, translated by the eternal Constance Garnett. These stories are unmatched.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Patrick MacGill : The Great Push
'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do want you to realise that intelligent people here, though civilian, well understand that most of the stuff printed in the dailies about the army is largely tosh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara
'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the best thing you ever wrote - there are many pictures in it which the heart of man can scarcely brook. It is besides more satisfactorily and better wind up [sic] than any of your former tales and the images rather more perceptible. You are constantly improving in this Your figures from the very first were strong without parallel but in every new touch of your pencil they are better and better relieved. In the first Canto there is haply too much painting of the same and too close on that so much dwelt on in the Corsair; Yet still as it excels the rest in harmony of numbers I am disposed to give it the preference to any of them. [Hogg then advises Byron not to attempt writing drama] I have been extremely puzzled to find out who Sir Ezzelin is sometimes I have judged him to be some sea captain at others Medora's uncle or parent from whom the Corsair had stole her but I have at last pleased myself by concluding that Lord Byron does not know himself - what a wretched poet Mr Rogers is. You are truly very hardly set for great original poets in England at present when such as he must be extolled. I could not help smiling at his Jacqueline'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Corsair, The
'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the best thing you ever wrote - there are many pictures in it which the heart of man can scarcely brook. It is besides more satisfactorily and better wind up [sic] than any of your former tales and the images rather more perceptible. You are constantly improving in this Your figures from the very first were strong without parallel but in every new touch of your pencil they are better and better relieved. In the first Canto there is haply too much painting of the same and too close on that so much dwelt on in the Corsair; Yet still as it excels the rest in harmony of numbers I am disposed to give it the preference to any of them [Hogg then advises Byron not to attempt writing drama] I have been extremely puzzled to find out who Sir Ezzelin is sometimes I have judged him to be some sea captain at others Medora's uncle or parent from whom the Corsair had stole her but I have at last pleased myself by concludoing thatg Lord Byron does not know himself - what a wretched poet Mr Rogers is You are truly very hardly set for great original poets in England at present when such as he must be extolled. I could not help smiling at his Jacqueline'.'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the best thing you ever wrote - there are many pictures in it which the heart of man can scarcely brook. It is besides more satisfactorily and better wind up [sic] than any of your former tales and the images rather more perceptible. You are constantly improving in this Your figures from the very first were strong without parallel but in every new touch of your pencil they are better and better relieved. In the first Canto there is haply too much painting of the same and too close on that so much dwelt on in the Corsair; Yet still as it excels the rest in harmony of numbers I am disposed to give it the preference to any of them. [Hogg then advises Byron not to attempt writing drama] I have been extremely puzzled to find out who Sir Ezzelin is sometimes I have judged him to be some sea captain at others Medora's uncle or parent from whom the Corsair had stole her but I have at last pleased myself by concluding that Lord Byron does not know himself - what a wretched poet Mr Rogers is. You are truly very hardly set for great original poets in England at present when such as he must be extolled. I could not help smiling at his Jacqueline'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Jacqueline
'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the best thing you ever wrote - there are many pictures in it which the heart of man can scarcely brook. It is besides more satisfactorily and better wind up [sic] than any of your former tales and the images rather more perceptible. You are constantly improving in this Your figures from the very first were strong without parallel but in every new touch of your pencil they are better and better relieved. In the first Canto there is haply too much painting of the same and too close on that so much dwelt on in the Corsair; Yet still as it excels the rest in harmony of numbers I am disposed to give it the preference to any of them. [Hogg then advises Byron not to attempt writing drama] I have been extremely puzzled to find out who Sir Ezzelin is sometimes I have judged him to be some sea captain at others Medora's uncle or parent from whom the Corsair had stole her but I have at last pleased myself by concluding that Lord Byron does not know himself - what a wretched poet Mr Rogers is. You are truly very hardly set for great original poets in England at present when such as he must be extolled. I could not help smiling at his Jacqueline'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Robert Southey : Roderick, The Last of the Goths
'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and challenges you fairly to a trial but after a serious perusal of "Wordsworth's excursion" together and no little laughter and some parodying he has with your assistance fairly confessed to me yesterday that he now holds the [italics]school [end italics] in utter contempt Wordsworth is really a fine intelligent man and one that must ever be respected but I fear the [italics] Kraken [end italics] has peppered him for this world - with its proportion of beauties (by the by they are but thin sown) it is the most heavy and the most absurd work that I ever perused without all exception - Southey's new work will be published in Novr. I have had the peculiar privilege of perusing it from end to end. It is much the best thing that was ever produced by the [italics] pond school [end italics] I assure you my lord it is and will raise Southey much in character as a poet The story moves a little heavily for some time but it is wild tragical and the circumstances in which the parties are placed extremely interesting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The
'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and challenges you fairly to a trial but after a serious perusal of "Wordsworth's excursion" together and no little laughter and some parodying he has with your assistance fairly confessed to me yesterday that he now holds the [italics]school [end italics] in utter contempt Wordsworth is really a fine intelligent man and one that must ever be respected but I fear the [italics] Kraken [end italics] has peppered him for this world - with its proportion of beauties (by the by they are but thin sown) it is the most heavy and the most absurd work that I ever perused without all exception - Southey's new work will be published in Novr. I have had the peculiar privilege of perusing it from end to end. It is much the best thing that was ever produced by the [italics] pond school [end italics] I assure you my lord it is and will raise Southey much in character as a poet The story moves a little heavily for some time but it is wild tragical and the circumstances in which the parties are placed extremely interesting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg and John Wilson     Print: Book

Robert Southey : Roderick, The Last of the Goths
'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age - its great merit consists in the extent and boldness of the plan its perfect consistency and the ease with which it is managed - in these respects you are so far above your cotemporaries [sic] as not to admit of a comparison - I should like above all things to review it in some respectable work'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Southey : Roderick, The Last of the Goths
'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affecting passages - Scott is in the press - the beginning is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The
'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affecting passages - Scott is in the press - the beginning is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affecting passages - Scott is in the press - the beginning is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Southey : Roderick, The Last of the Goths
'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of conversation with Mr Jeffery [sic] about it who though he does not agree with me in every particular. He says it is too long and wants [italics] elasticity [end italics] and will not he fears be generally read though much may be said in its favours' [Hogg was trying to get Jeffrey to allow him to review the poem]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book, Hogg had also read the poem in MS

Robert Southey : Roderick, The Last of the Goths
'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of conversation with Mr Jeffery [sic] about it who though he does not agree with me in every particular. He says it is too long and wants [italics] elasticity [end italics] and will not he fears be generally read though much may be said in its favours' [Hogg was trying to get Jeffrey to allow him to review the poem]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The
'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was my pleasure to find he had only got to the 17 division I assured him he had the marrow of the thing to come at as yet'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

Francis Jeffrey : [review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review]
'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was my pleasure to find he had only got to the 17 division I assured him he had the marrow of the thing to come at as yet'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Robert Halifax : He Looked in my Window
'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Frank Swinnerton : Nocturne
'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . And I left off "Wuthering Heights" in order to read it, which was a fairly clear test. (Never read W.H. before. Very fine.) . . . Marguerite is now reading "Nocturne", confound her!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . And I left off "Wuthering Heights" in order to read it, which was a fairly clear test. (Never read W.H. before. Very fine.) . . . Marguerite is now reading "Nocturne", confound her!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Samuel Butler : Notebooks
'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem Scott ever wrote - He has availed himself of his particular forte, a kind of easy elastick rapidity which never once flags from beginning to end. It is a pity that the tale should be again butched the two females are but a clog upon it, and no one natural occurrence connected with them takes place - I likewise expected some finer bursts of feeling with regard to Scottish independence - the coaxing apology to England is below any Scot to have uttered - But these are quite subordinate matters and can never materially affect the poem and I have not a doubt, tho' the public seem to be receiving it with select caution, that it will finally succeed to the author's highest anticipation - If it do not none of his ever deserved to do so which is enough for you and me'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very different breathings of late and some of these from headquarters but the Scots are chagrined at the fear he has shown of giving offence to the English in his description of the final battle and they maintain that he is himself the English bard who was taken captive there and [italics] compelled [end italics] to celebrate the Scotish [sic] victory If a right strong effort is not made to support Scott at this time, Like the snow on the mountain Like the foam on the river Like the bubbles on the fountain, He is gone! and for ever.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Quarterly Review
'A friend brought me in the last "Quarterly" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by far too little variety in it though I think some of the articles good - I have always been afraid your Review would lose all character of independance [sic] by the system of one friend reviewing another but I never before thought you would suffer a poet to review himself'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

James Hogg : Pilgrims of the Sun, The
'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not going to review it till he get another to join with it which makes me think it is no peculiar favourite with him, I copy his own words from the note he sent which was an invitation to sup "I have run slightly over your new published poem - It unquestionably shows great powers of imagination and composition but I am afraid it is too [italics] stretchy [end italics] and desultory - the public estimation of your powers will lose nothing by it of your judgement it may but of this we shall have a long crack".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

: Quarterly Review
'I was much pleased with your last Review upon the whole which was the only No. I ever read; it is a much more amusing Review than the Edin. and I should think more engaging to common readers'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Edinburgh Review [review of Scott's 'Lord of the Isles']
'"The Lord of the isles" is in [the Edinburgh Review] and seems meant as a favourable review, in my opinion however it is [italics] scarce middling [end italics] as we Scots folks say'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal articles are, but O I am grieved to see such an ignorant and absurd review of Mannering so contrary to the feelings of a whole nation for I certainly never saw high and low rich and poor so unanimous about any book as that [... Hogg berates the reviewer] Scott has been the most strenuous supporter of the character of your Miscellany as excellent, and there is an indelicacy in the the [sic] whole thing that cannot be thought of'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal articles are, but O I am grieved to see such an ignorant and absurd review of Mannering so contrary to the feelings of a whole nation for I certainly never saw high and low rich and poor so unanimous about any book as that [... Hogg berates the reviewer] Scott has been the most strenuous supporter of the character of your Miscellany as excellent, and there is an indelicacy in the the [sic] whole thing that cannot be thought of'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Years
Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Maynard Keynes      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : unknown
Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

George Sand : Elle et Lui
Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Reading Elle et Lui, a very good best seller [by George Sand]. Cant stop reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Guy Chapman : Beckford
Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but why write about this cold egotist? this nugatory man?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Desmond MacCarthy : lecture on Sir Leslie Stephen
Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] last Tuesday, that is; [he] read us his L[eslie]. S[tephen]. lecture, a rather laboured but honest but perfunctory lecture: after which he & I sitting in the twilight with the door open, L[eonard]. [Woolf] coming in & out, discussed his shyness: he says he thinks it made him uncreative.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond MacCarthy

William Wordsworth : Poems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads
'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies as incomparably beautiful and laughing immoderately at Mr Wordsworth's new prefaces which certainly excel all that ever was written in this world in egotism vanity and absurdity'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies
'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics] melodies [end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Irish Melodies
'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics] melodies [end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Siege of Corinth, The'
'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, the perusal of which have so much renewed my love and admiration of you as a poet that I can no longer resist the inclination of once more writing to you'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Parisina'
'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, the perusal of which have so much renewed my love and admiration of you as a poet that I can no longer resist the inclination of once more writing to you'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth'
'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touched before and there is something in "The Siege of Corinth" at least which convinces me that you have loved my own stile of poetry better than you ever acknowledged to me. Some of the people here complain of the inadequacy of the tales to the poetry I am perfectly mad at them and Mr Jeffery [sic] among the rest for such an insinuation. I look upon them both as descriptive poems descriptive of some of the finest and boldest scenes of nature and of the most powerful emotions of the human heart. Perdition to the scanty discernment that would read such poems as they would do a novel for the sake of the plot to the disgrace of the age however be it spoken in the light romantic narrative which our mutual friend Scott has made popular this is the predominant ingredient expected and to a certainty the reviewers will harp upon the shortcoming of it in your poems as a fault'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

John Wilson : City of the Plague, The
'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in literature. Wilson is a man of great genius and fancy but he is intoxicated with Wordsworth and a perfect dreamer of moons ships seas and solitudes were it not for this antihydrophobia (forgive my mangling of that long Greek word) I do not know what he might not be capable of'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III)
'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much egoism still it is a powerful and energetic work and superior to every long poem of my noble friend's - I have had only time to read two articles of the Review which I was in a great hurry to do because I knew the authors of both and was informed of their being in Giffords hand before they were put to press, but I hope all the other articles are better'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

: Quarterly Review
'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much egoism still it is a powerful and energetic work and superior to every long poem of my noble friend's - I have had only time to read two articles of the Review which I was in a great hurry to do because I knew the authors of both and was informed of their being in Giffords hand before they were put to press, but I hope all the other articles are better'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Gillies : [review of Hogg's 'Dramatic Tales']
'I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers to me as the author I dislike but an author has no right to be either satisfied or dissatisfied with a review - it is kindly meant in honest G. and I think must be admitted'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

James Hogg : 'Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript'
'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thing without some description of the forces on the other side - the third chapter however is very faulty - the characters are made too plain and the language of scripture compleatly departed from. I have remedied that in proof in great measure but alas it is out of time! - As it is it will create great interest I am certain of its popularity as well as its being blamed. "Maggy Scott" is likewise a good fancy it has no faults but one the name should not have been "Dinmont" else he should have spoken [italics] Scotish [sic, end italics]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

: 'Letter to the Lord High Constable, from Mr Dinmont'
'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thing without some description of the forces on the other side - the third chapter however is very faulty - the characters are made too plain and the language of scripture compleatly departed from. I have remedied that in proof in great measure but alas it is out of time! - As it is it will create great interest I am certain of its popularity as well as its being blamed. "Maggy Scott" is likewise a good fancy it has no faults but one the name should not have been "Dinmont" else he should have spoken [italics] Scotish [sic, end italics]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

William Hogg : [prize essay on sheep, prize awarded by the Highland Society of Scotland]
'My brother and I have read over together the Essay on Sheep their natural history &c which we so often talked about it is extremely curious and interesting and very original he has ordered me to sell it to the highest bidder for a magazine Encyclopaedia or any such thing but on the condition that the purchaser is to publish it in a small volume or pamphlet afterwards with notes and an appendix by me. I think Boyd and you might venture to give him £30 or at least 25£ for the copyright.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James and William Hogg

: Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
'I cannot tell you how much I think of the Magazine it is so interesting and spirited throughout it is safe'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anonymous poem and articles
'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the Indian Officer is from the same pen of masterly humour as the article on Cookery? I wish Z. had left out the allusion to primrose and Mildmay altogether all the rest is in his best genuine stile The Shepherd's dog is also very well indeed Hoy was my uncle the anecdote is quite true'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

William Laidlaw : 'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog'
'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the Indian Officer is from the same pen of masterly humour as the article on Cookery? I wish Z. had left out the allusion to primrose and Mildmay altogether all the rest is in his best genuine stile The Shepherd's dog is also very well indeed Hoy was my uncle the anecdote is quite true'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Aitken : Frogs, The: A Fable
'Some of my friends think that the introduction and moral of the "Frogs" are too highly wrought and polished for the simplicity of the fable; it is however a very ingenious little thing'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV)
'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, including the poetic 'Notices'
'There are some very able papers in the last Magazine as usual but I do not think the selection likely to add much to its popularity The Notices however are inimitable more finished but scarce so [italics] piquant [end italics] as the former ones'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

William Ernest Henley : unknown
'My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'This last is not near so interesting as the former, there is too much of pompous fine writing in it at least attempts at it. Such papers as that declamatory one on the state of parties are not the kind of political papers that will stand the test. Besides how absurd is it to praise Madam [sic] de Stael and attack Playfair?!!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite different messes they are both exquisite in kind a feast of fat things. No previous number of the Review has been better; no one of the Magazine has been near so good: for some months past I felt as if I suspected a falling off, but this must give it a heeze again else originality of composition has lost its value'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review
'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite different messes they are both exquisite in kind a feast of fat things. No previous number of the Review has been better; no one of the Magazine has been near so good: for some months past I felt as if I suspected a falling off, but this must give it a heeze again else originality of composition has lost its value'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I find your Mag. a great favourite in Dumfriesshire especially with the ladies. Macculloch had been trying to stir up a party against it - It is little wonder With all the cleverness and carelessness of composition (which has generally I think a good grace) I cannot help feeling that the last two numbers are too egotistical which never has a good grace But perhaps this will not be generally felt if they have not that fault they have no other I am wearying terribly for this month's one.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political article entitled 'The Warder'
'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely he must it is so like him and so graphic'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Allan Cunningham : 'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely he must it is so like him and so graphic'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Surtees : History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, The
'I received your splendid work the other day; and have placed it in my little library, having only looked over the plates, and some references from these; and read the general history, in which I have found many things that interested me in no ordinary degree.' [Later in the same letter, after recounting a local farmer's amazement at the size of the book, Hogg calls it 'your extraordinary work, in which the labour and research truly confounds me']
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Charles Howard : Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family
'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew who was the author'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: [unidentified sonnet]
'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew who was the author'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Charles Howard : Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family
'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew who was the author'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

James Hogg : Mountain Bard, The
'It so happened that you were the very first man in England that testified approbation of my rude genius after the publication of the Mountain Bard, which you did to Mr Scott in very warm and friendly terms'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Surtees      Print: Book

Stendhal [pseud.] : De l'amour
'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the French, found its way into "To the North". In 1932 she was reading for the first time Flaubert's "L'education sentimentale", and told Lady Ottoline: "What perfect writing, and what a clear powerful mind, and what a perfect picture of an enchantment he can produce. And what compass he has: this picture of colour and movement compared with the sad immobility of poor Bovary." A few months later she began translating it'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : L'Education Sentimentale
'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the French, found its way into "To the North". In 1932 she was reading for the first time Flaubert's "L'education sentimentale", and told Lady Ottoline: "What perfect writing, and what a clear powerful mind, and what a perfect picture of an enchantment he can produce. And what compass he has: this picture of colour and movement compared with the sad immobility of poor Bovary." A few months later she began translating it'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Henry Millon de Montherlant : [unknown]
'In 1937 she was having "a heavenly time" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the "New Statesman".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : 'Yvette' [and other short stories]
'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Virginia Woolf: "I suppose he had sharp sense but really rather a boring mind. You soon get to know his formula, but there is always the fascination: it's like watching someone do the same card trick over and over again. I did feel the fascination so strongly that I wondered if I were getting brutalised myself. There is a particularly preposterous story called 'Yvette'...."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : [unknown]
'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Virginia Woolf: "I suppose he had sharp sense but really rather a boring mind. You soon get to know his formula, but there is always the fascination: it's like watching someone do the same card trick over and over again. I did feel the fascination so strongly that I wondered if I were getting brutalised myself. There is a particularly preposterous story called 'Yvette'...."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

E.M. Forster : Celestial Omnibus, The
'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Richard Middleton : Ghost Ship, The
'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

Thomas McCrie : Life of Andrew Melville, The
'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Thomas McCrie : Life of John Knox, The
'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Allan Cunningham : 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian'
'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian The one is a drawing from life the other a composition and not at all in keeping'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

James Laidlaw : [Letter from America to his son]
'I inclose you a very curious letter from a cousin german of my own to his son who still remains in this country. It has given me so much amusement that I thought it might be acceptable to you for publication in the Magazine. If you think it proper to give it a corner, do not alter the orthography, or the writer's singular mode of grammar in any other way than by pointing it What he says with regard to the riches and freedoms of the United States must be taken with reserve, it being well known here that he is very dissatisfied, but that he wants the son to whom he is writing and others of his family to join him. This indeed is apparent from the tenor of the letter.' [there are several pages of explanation of the letter and its writer]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Letter

Allan Cunningham : 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian'
'When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one you drew from life.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wilson : [ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.']
'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a desiderratum in his literary life. It is a most friendly review and will help the sale of the tales greatly but the Magazine on the whole is not a superior one. The first article is however [italics] very good [end italics]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: [ essay on H.H. Milman's painting 'The Fall of Jerusalem']
'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a desiderratum in his literary life. It is a most friendly review and will help the sale of the tales greatly but the Magazine on the whole is not a superior one. The first article is however [italics] very good [end italics]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Gibson Lockhart : 'Testimonium, A Prize Poem by James Scott, Esq.'
'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize poem It is exceedingly shrewd and clever. New York I do not understand The poetry of Cunningham is perfectly beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Gibson Lockhart : 'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York'
'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize poem It is exceedingly shrewd and clever. New York I do not understand The poetry of Cunningham is perfectly beautiful'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Allan Cunningham : 'Cameronian Song'
'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize poem It is exceedingly shrewd and clever. New York I do not understand The poetry of Cunningham is perfectly beautiful'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Gillespie : [various pieces in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1820]
'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the Pringles continues to be excellent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 'Letter to Peter Morris, M.D. On the Sorts and Uses of Literary Praise'
'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the Pringles continues to be excellent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Galt : 'The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Correspondenceof the Pringle Family. No IV'
'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the Pringles continues to be excellent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

T. Brown : Art of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great Britain
'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to take a hand in editing it and I think it would take remarkably well both in schools and as a cabinet work. It is "The art of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great Britain" with many most beautiful extracts [...] If close printed it would be 7/ and you might have it on your own terms. I go over it every word and will answer for the ingenuity of it but it is not really mine so cannot be in my name but I declare on honour it is a great deal more ingenious than I could have written it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

John Galt : Annals of the Parish
'I have read the "Parish Register" with great attention. It is rather lifeless and wants character and point but I like it for its simplicity and extraordinary resemblance to truth in my estimation the first properties that any work of the same stamp can possess. It will not however sell extensively for the matter was much better calculated for a periodical work. If it had appeared piecemeal among other things it would have taken very well but as the old proverb runs "ower muckle o' ae' thing's gude for naething".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Neil Munro : The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories
'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street.We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think wonderful in a way.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Higginson's Dream
'"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of course I am in complete sympathy with the point of view. For the same accomplishmnet in expression I can never hope--and Robert [Cunninghame Grahame] is too strong an individuality [sic] to be influenced by anyone's writing. He desired me to correct the proofs but the "Sat. Rev" people did not send me the proofs.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

William Ernest Henley : [poems]
'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrofula you know − but [italics]bougrement[end italics] intelligent, and he writes straight enough verses, I think. He?s learning, you know. But he makes good songs [and] here and there has a good idea. His hospital sonnets are very true and boldly real − not realistic, a word I have now learned to hate.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Henry James : The Two Magics
'PS I've read "Two Magics" Henry James's last. The first story ["The Turn of the Screw"] is all there. He extracts an intellectual thrill out of the subject. The second ["Covering End"] is unutterable rubbish.Quite a shock to one of the faithful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox (Hermann Ford) Ford (Hueffer) : Shifting of the Fire
'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first impression being that there is a considerable "inside" in you.The book is delightfully young.' [thereafter 30 lines of critical comment for what was Ford Madox Ford's first novel, written in his teens and later adapted by Edward Garnett.]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Mogreb-el-Acksa
'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped everything--as you may imagine and rushed at it paper knife in hand. It is with great difficulty I interrupt my reading at the 100th page -- and I interrupt it only to write to you. A man staying here has been reading over my shoulder; for we share our best with the stranger within our tent. No thirsty men drank water as we have been drinking in, swallowing, tasting, blessing, enjoying, gurgling, choking over, absorbing, your thought, your phrases, your irony [...Then follows ten lines of enthusiastic praise for the book.]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Mogreb-el-Acksa
'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance.Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approaching it has appeared since Burton's "Mecca" ["Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah" 1855] [...] The Journey in Morocco is a work of art, a book of travel written like this is no longer a book of travel--it is a creative work.[...] The book pulled at my very heart strings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : The Invisible Man
'Thanks ever so much for "The Invisible Man". I shall keep him a few more days longer. Frankly--it is uncommonly fine.[Hence follows a long paragraph of appreciative comment comparing it favorably with "The War of the Worlds".] The letter ends with 'In reading this last ["The Invisible Man"], one is touched by the anguish of it, as by something that may one day happen to oneself.It is a great triumph for you'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Stephen Crane : The Price of the Harness
'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the very best thing he has done since "The Red Badge [of Courage]"--and it has even somethimng the "Red Badge" has not--or not so much of. He is maturing. He is expanding.' [Then follows six more lines of praise.]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Hugh Clifford : Article in Singapore Free Press
'I had a treat in the shape of a number of the "Singapore Free Press" 2 and a half columns about "Mr Conrad at home and abroad". extremely laudatory but in fact telling me I don't know anything about it. Well I never did set up as an authority on Malaysia.I looked for a medium in which to express myself. I am inexact and ignorant no doubt (most of us are) but I don't think I sinned so recklessly. Curiously enough all the details about the little characteristic acts and customs which they hold up as proof I have taken out (to be safe) from undoubted sources--dull,wise books.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

: [traditional tales]
'I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them long ago; but a multiplicity of family and farming concerns have put literary correspondence out of my head [...] The Tales are all ingenious and bear evident marks of old tradition; but, unfortunately, I have finished my "Winter Evening Tales", and can make no use of them. In the mean time I am as much obliged to you as though I could, and if ever I think of making another collection I shall apply to you'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'Have received the Mag. and like it exceedingly. The best for a good while'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

James Hogg : Three Perils of Man, The
'To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new work on his usual terms of publishing with me. For what? Because forsooth I copy his own words "Though it displays great originality of thought and a good deal of fancy it is of that cast that must draw down comparisons with the romances of the author of Waverly [sic] and manifestly to its disadvantage these being made the criterion of judging of merit therefore he is sorry &c." but the truth is I believe he found I was going to press too hard for money at too early a date'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Boyd      Manuscript: Unknown

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : The Time Machine
'The trans: of the T.M.["The Time Machine"] is really first rate. What an admirably good thing it is, this T.M. How true,clever, ingenious, full of thought and beauty. I read on in the trans: neglecting my work.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

David Laing : [review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Edinburgh Monthly Review]
'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg then complains at Boyd's unwillingness to publish "The Three Perils of Man"] I neither could have expected such an insolent nor such an ignorant review from D. Laing.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: [MS volume of Jacbite material]
'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read but I see there are some excellent articles in it as well as true comic ones. I like "Mediocrity". The Jacobite relics are doubtless very curious but they are totally English. They appear to me to be all the work of one man and I think them Tom D'Urfys I know they are; and I think that perhaps they are in his hand writing'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read but I see there are some excellent articles in it as well as true comic ones. I like "Mediocrity". The Jacobite relics are doubtless very curious but they are totally English. They appear to me to be all the work of one man and I think them Tom D'Urfys I know they are; and I think that perhaps they are in his hand writing'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: [attack on Hogg's 'Memoir' in the new edition of 'The Mountain Bard' -Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'Well sir you have now put the crown on all the injurious abuse that I have suffered from you for these three years and a half, and that in despite of your word of honour which no miserable pretext can justify. If I have ever done ought either to you or your correspondents to deserve this it was unintentional. For my own part I would have regarded this wanton attack as I did all the rest of the ribaldry and mockery that has been so liberally vomited forth on me from your shop but there are other feelings now besides my own that I am bound to respect, and on these the blows that you inflict wound deeper and smart with more poignancy' [Hogg is referring to his wife]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

William Clerk : 'True, but Stupid History of Tom MacFribble, The'
'The article which I inclose "The History of Tom M. Fribble" is not mine. It is written by a Mr William Clerk a teacher here who copies a good many things for me therefore the allowance for it (if published) must be mentioned by itself. It is a very ingenious allegorical tale but ill wound up at the close'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

John Wilson : Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life
'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a great deal of very powerful effect purity of sentiment and fine writing but with very little of real nature as it exists in the walks of Scottish life The feelings and language of the author are those of Romance Still it is a fine and beautiful work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

John Galt : Provost
'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a great deal of very powerful effect purity of sentiment and fine writing but with very little of real nature as it exists in the walks of Scottish life The feelings and language of the author are those of Romance Still it is a fine and beautiful work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

David Laing : [review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'The Mountain Bard'
'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you in the Edin. Quarterly of The Mountain Bard that hindered me to call as I was wont. I thought that article illiberal from a friend and wrong view taken of the Memoir but I am so used to these rubs that I have learned the virtue of forgiveness a good deal; and hereby promise and swear that now when I have told you what I felt that article shall never be mentioned nor thought of more between the writer and me, [italics] whoever he may be [end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wilson : [various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellany. I think the letter from THE GOTH the shrewdest and cleverest thing I ever saw but every thing is a gem though they are all of different waters. The Stott is rather too bad. It was hardly worth while tearing the guts out of the thing in such a turgid butcherlike stile. Believe me there will be some kick up about it. The critique on the [italics] jubilee [end italics] is a real good natured thing one would have thought it hardly possble to have made as much out of a trifle'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica"
'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'est bien lui!' [Its good, that-- it's really him!]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : 'A Paheka'
'The thing ["A Paheka" ] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Gertrude Stein : 'Sitwell, Edith Sitwell': a word portrait
'Dear Miss Stein, Thank you so much for your letter and the wonderful portrait, which followed me through Spain, and only reached me last night, on my return from Toledo. I read the portrait aloud at dinner to an audience of my two brothers, a young composer called William Walton, and a young painter called Richard Wyndham, and, tired as we were, it exhilerated, stimulated, at the same time calmed our nerves to the extraordinary degree. The sound and rhythm seem to me, if I may say so, inevitability itself - but nobody but you would have found this inevitability. You can have no idea what a delight it is to me that you are going to include this in the book. I am waiting for the appearance of that book with the greatest impatience, and I do hope Duckworth's will take it, because it is a nice firm, and it will be such a feather in their cap.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Manuscript: Letter, A 'word portrait' so possibly contained in a letter.

John Dryden : unknown
'.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his country house for a fortnight. I sat on the verandah all day, reading and sleeping. I read a lot of Dryden, in a lovely first edition (Dryden was by birth a county neighbour, which accounts for the library being full of his work) - Pope, the life of Alexander the Great, of whom there is a portrait wearing a periwig, and delightful eighteenth century books about the moral worth of animals, praising the industry of the Bee, reproving the Ostrich for being a Bad Parent.....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Life of Alexander the Great
'.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his country house for a fortnight. I sat on the verandah all day, reading and sleeping. I read a lot of Dryden, in a lovely first edition ( Dryden was by bith a county neighbour, which accounts for the library being full of his work) - Pope, the life of Alexander the Great, of whom there is a portrait wearing a periwig, and delightful eighteenth century books about the moral worth of animals, praising the industry of the Bee, reproving the Ostrich for being a Bad Parent.....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

John Wilson : Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The
'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all save two or three trivial misnomers regarding the character of Scottish peasantry [Hogg then compliments the author] The part that I like a thousand times best is what no other seems to regard namely the whole of Daniel Craig's character and its renovation. There is a charm in that which few will have the good taste to discover But it is nature; at least far closer on genuine nature than aught the author ever touched on. I dare say it was merely by accident but it shows what he can do'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

John Gibson Lockhart : Reginald Dalton
'I have read Reginald with great care and with great interest. It is a masterly work upon the whole, particularly in stile grouping and plot. In these its excellencies lie, and they are of a high class. But it strikes me that so masterly an architect might have made a far more imposing fabric on the whole. Its faults are these. A damned affectation of inserting short classical and French quotations without end and without measure which to common readers like me hurts the work materially - The work is too long for the materials two volumes would have been rather so - The plot is an excellent plot. I have seen nothing better concieved in the present age, and every thing bears upon it turning on it as a hinge. The author has prodigious merit in the conception of the plot, and therefore it is the greater pity that there is some manifest defects in the conducting of it. The final event is far too soon seen. From the moment that the Vicar tells the story of his sister-in-law's seduction it is palpable. I saw it perfectly, and my chief interest afterwards was incited by my anxiety to see how the author was going to bring it about. This is Sir W. Scott's plan, but it is not to be made a precedent of. In fact it will not do with any body but himself to let the events be seen perfectly through. However he could not have conceived such a true dramatic plot, all so perfecty in bearing; that he could not; but he could have made more of the characters and incidents; a great deal more. There is a fascination in the stile and in the abstract ideas that often delights me. The hand of a master is apparent there; and after all I think the sole failure is in the conducting of the plot, which you may depend on it will hurt the popularity of a grand work. There was great scope for pathos in it- there is not an item - several scenes of powerful impression seem just approaching - they pass over without taking due effect; and besides, the leaving out of the Christian name in the will was a misnomer unlikely enough for so much to hinge upon [Hogg critiques some further aspects of the plot].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; 'Noctes Ambrosianae. no. IX'
'This last is indeed a [italics] redeeming Number [end italics] even if the fallings off had been greater Nothing like it has I think appeared'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

James Hook : Percy Mallory
'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defective but I cannot tell you the half I would say about it in this line. The Maga. is excellent. no dross. But I think I am still most delighted with old Tim of them all. He is uniformly the first I read and Wrestliana is the very thing for me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

William Maginn : 'Letters of Timothy Tickler Esq. to Eminent Literary Characters. No XII. To Christopher North, Esq.' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defective but I cannot tell you the half I would say about it in this line. The Maga. is excellent. no dross. But I think I am still most delighted with old Tim of them all. He is uniformly the first I read and Wrestliana is the very thing for me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wilson : 'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defective but I cannot tell you the half I would say about it in this line. The Maga. is excellent. no dross. But I think I am still most delighted with old Tim of them all. He is uniformly the first I read and Wrestliana is the very thing for me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Eliza Logan : St Johnstoun; or, John, Earl of Gowrie
'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you know who is the editor of "The Northern Whig"? It comes hither from Belfast. Can it be Gray?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Northern Whig, The
'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you know who is the editor of "The Northern Whig"? It comes hither from Belfast. Can it be Gray?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Newspaper

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier : Marriage
'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a painter as she is (if a she it be of which I have strong doubts) Sir W Scott's portraits are sometimes more strongly defined but they are not more unique and rarely or never so humourous [sic]. He can paint an individual well the hero of the story But can he paint a group like the family of the Fairbairns? No I defy him or any [italics] man [end italics] alive save David Wilkie as for [italics] women [end italics] there's no saying what [italics] they [end italics] can do when men and children are the objects. In short if the author of MARRIAGE and THE INHERITANCE be a woman I am in love with her and I authorise you to tell her so.' [the letter has a postscript: 'You have sent the two [italics] first [end italics] vols of The Inheritance and I want the [italics] third [end italics] I return one']
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier : Inheritance, The
'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a painter as she is (if a she it be of which I have strong doubts) Sir W Scott's portraits are sometimes more strongly defined but they are not more unique and rarely or never so humourous [sic]. He can paint an individual well the hero of the story But can he paint a group like the family of the fairbairns? No I defy him or any [italics] man [end italics] alive save David Wilkie as for [italics] women [end italics] there's no saying what [italics] they [end italics] can do when men and children are the objects. In short if the author of MARRIAGE and THE INHERITANCE be a woman I am in love with her and I authorise you to tell her so.' [the letter has a postscript: 'You have sent the two [italics] first [end italics] vols of The Inheritance and I want the [italics] third [end italics] I return one']
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: [articles concerning Hogg's poem 'Queen Hynde' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'I have looked over the articles Hogg v. Campbell and Noctes and am not only not angry but highly satisfied and pleased with both. I had forgot to mention to you that I was afraid terrified for high praise in Maga because our connection considered it would have been taken for puffing a thing of all things that I detest and one I think has ought but a good effect a bitter good humoured thing like this was just what I wanted'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I did not think very highly of last Maga This appears more spirited the former part of the NOCTES is very good my part abominable'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: [article on 'Agriculture' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I cannot but admire'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : [letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly Journal
'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I cannot but admire'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wilson : 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articles I dont like'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

R.P. Gillies : German Stories, selected from the works of Hoffmann, De la Motte-0Fouque, Pichler, Kruse, and others
'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial to my mind. The ease and simple elegance of the stile is exquisite. That work should certainly have a great circulation I have great faults with Mrs Johnston's work in which there is however great genius but the anachronisms are without end and the characters too much borrowed from Scott Beyond all the story is forced and confused beyond all measures. Our ladies were pleased with it beyond measure so it must have something very fascinating'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Christian Isobel Johnstone : Elizabeth de Bruce
'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial to my mind. The ease and simple elegance of the stile is exquisite. That work should certainly have a great circulation I have great faults with Mrs Johnston's work in which there is however great genius but the anachronisms are without end and the characters too much borrowed from Scott Beyond all the story is forced and confused beyond all measures. Our ladies were pleased with it beyond measure so it must have something very fascinating'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I have recieved your's with the £5 inclosed and also the two Magas the last article of each only I have read and dread that you are too hard on Canning and his party'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Hamilton : Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, The
'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect it to have one grievious fault that of introducing innumerable curous [sic] and original characters of whom you would like to be well acquainted and of whom you hear no more. I have no patience at all with this rambling and deesultory mode of running through a life, and if it do not turn out better embodied ultimately than it has done thus far I shall damn it as the work of a man of high accomplishments given to prosing and garrulity'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

More : 'Hymn to Hesperus'
'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I percieve that Mr More's hymn to the Evening star is perfectly beautiful and I think the masterpiece of all he has yet written'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine
''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excellent, and Whibley very interesting--very appreciative,very fair. I happen to know Rimbaud's verses.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Gabriela Cunninghame Graham : Family Portraits
'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has given me; but when I raised my eyes from the page , it was with the very vivid feeling of having seen not only the long line of the portaits but also the beauty of the profound and tender idea which illuminated for you all the faces portrayed, the sad eyes of the dead with the flame of a gentle pity and a penetrating sympathy.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Unknown

William Beckford : Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek
'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the immense promise as set forth by the introduction. Chaucer I have dipped into, reading aloud as you advised. I am afraid I am not English enough to appreciate fully the father of English literature. Moreover I am generally insensible to verse. Thereupon came "The Stealimg of the Mare" This I delight in. I've read it at once and right through. It is quite inspiring most curious and altogether fascinating.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Unknown

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales
'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the immense promise as set forth by the introduction. Chaucer I have dipped into, reading aloud as you advised. I am afraid I am not English enough to appreciate fully the father of English literature. Moreover I am generally insensible to verse. Thereupon came "The Stealing of the Mare" This I delight in. I've read it at once and right through. It is quite inspiring most curious and altogether fascinating.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt) : The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare
'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the immense promise as set forth by the introduction. Chaucer I have dipped into, reading aloud as you advised. I am afraid I am not English enough to appreciate fully the father of English literature. Moreover I am generally insensible to verse. Thereupon came "The Stealing of the Mare" This I delight in. I've read it at once and right through. It is quite inspiring most curious and altogether fascinating.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

James Hogg : Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The
'Mrs Hughes insists on the Confessions of a Sinner being republished with my name as she say it is the best story of that frightful kind that ever was written'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Hughes      Print: Book

James Hogg : 'Cameronian Preacher's Tale, The'
'My two articles in your work has [sic] been very much praised in this country. Prof. Wilson said in a very large public company that "The Cameronian's Tale" was "not only better than any of Sir Walter's in the Keepsake but that it had ten times more merit than them all put together"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Thomas De Quincy : [articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

James Hogg : Shepherd's Calendar, The
'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marvellous Doctor is quite ruined for though previously shortened one half to suit Maga that was no reason the other half should now have been withheld'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and redicule [sic] is again beginning I have been earnestly advised by several of my best and dearest friends to let you hear from me in a way to which I have a great aversion'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Jacobite Minstrelsy, with notes Illustrative of the Text, and Containing Historical Details in Relation to the House of Stuart from 1640-1784
'There is a new work lately come to my hand "The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland" which is the most bare-faced plagiarism that ever was attempted. It is by a Griffin & Co Glasgow Nearly one half of the songs are my own genuine copyright attained by myself at great trouble and expense'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Henry Scott Ridell : 'Ode to the Harp of Zion'
'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only fault being a small shade of redundancy of thought but that I cannot help. It gives great promise and I want to bring him in as my [italics]assistant [end italics] and [italics]successor [end italics]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Pringle [ed.] : Friendship's Offering
'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this year.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wilson : 'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]
'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is inimitable so is "The Currency"and indeed the whole is excellent save that our friend has rather overstrained the "wishing Gate"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I have not yet had time to read through the Twin Sisters but there is a certain stile apparent in the Fall of Nineveh &c which is always irrestible [sic] though not equal to "Stop Stop Snip" I would not wonder to see the sale of Maga extend to 50=000.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Mr Brooks : [poem]
'I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for insertion in the Juvenile Keepsake and hope you will oblige me by giving it a place'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Sheet

James Hogg : 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston, The'
[Hogg is enclosing his 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston'] 'No body ever saw it but Dr Moir (Delta) who read it and will recognize it at first sight but as it is likely he will be of the fraternity I hope this will be no objection' [Hogg wants the story to appear in The Club Book]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: David Macbeth Moir      Manuscript: Unknown

: ['Literary Gossip' articles in Newcastle Magazine]
'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Magazine. Bobby Chambers' paper, and the Lit. Jour. &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review
'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Magazine. Bobby Chambers' paper, and the Lit. Jour. &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: [possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser'
'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Magazine. Bobby Chambers' paper, and the Lit. Jour. &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Newspaper

Caroline Bowles Southey : 'La petite Madelaine'
'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wilson [TEAR] poem is most splendid but I have never been able to get straight through it nor I don't think any man ever will'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Newspaper

John Wilson : 'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands'
'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wilson [TEAR] poem is most splendid but I have never been able to get straight through it nor I don't think any man ever will'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Newspaper

Robert Southey : [possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope, and the Devil'
'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my knowledge. Southey's is one of his very best'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I have recieved Maga to night and looked it over but think very poorly of it You need not send any more of them as I would not be at the pains to cut them up for the sake of their endless repetitions of political dogmas'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review
'Who the devil was it who wrote the last article of the Quarterly? He is a lad of some spirit and I must have a half mutchkin with him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Honore de Balzac : unknown
Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Augustine Birrell : Things Past Redress
Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Emma to her, & she reads H. James to herself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Book

Henry James : unknown
Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Emma to her, & she reads H. James to herself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Ottoline Morrell      Print: Book

Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand : unknown
Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Three Guineas
Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by 3Gs." Theo Bosanquet who has a review copy read her extracts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Theodora Bosanquet      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Three Guineas
Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have panted for for years and years'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philippa Strachey      Print: Book

unknown : Greek verse
Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse, and thinking idly.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Queenie Leavis : Review of Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire single thrill of horror. And I didnt read it through [...] But I read eno' to see that it was all personal - about Queenie's own grievances & retorts to my snubs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Madame de Sevigne : unknown
Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book then that [...] bowls 5 to 6.30: then Madame de Sevigne; get dinner 7.30 [...] read Siegfried Sassoon; & so to bed at 11.30 or so.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : unknown
Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book then that [...] bowls 5 to 6.30: then Madame de Sevigne; get dinner 7.30 [...] read Siegfried Sassoon; & so to bed at 11.30 or so.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown
Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: Bible
Wednesday 16 November 1938: 'Dinner at Clive [Bell]'s [...] we all talked: about Jews: about Clive's lunch party with Willy Maugham & de la Mare: which are the best books for the illiterate: then about being Jews: then about technique: the word broken in the Bible; L[eonard]. read passages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

T. S. Eliot : valedictory editorial article
Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I could write: I mean the idea is that its among the painters not the writers one finds stability, consolation. This refers to a sentence of his about the profundity of the painter's meaning; & how a writer always superficialises.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Eugene Delacroix : Journal de Eugene Delacroix
Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I could write: I mean the idea is that its among the painters not the writers one finds stability, consolation. This refers to a sentence of his about the profundity of the painter's meaning; & how a writer always superficialises.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Diary (17 May 1932)
Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme there (1932) laid down for treating decline of fame. To accept; then ignore; & always venture further.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Mont Blanc
Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually over lapping [sic]. If a new poem, what should I say? I think a great idea somewhere; but the language so nebulous, or rather words overlapping, like ripples, each effacing the other, partly: & a general confusion results.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

T. S. Eliot : The Family Reunion
Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a car, & on the back seat was a Cheetah with a chain round his loins. I also found a presentation copy of Tom's Family Reunion; & sucked no pleasure from the first pages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

T. S. Eliot : The Family Reunion
Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It starts theories. But no... You see the experiment with stylised chatter isnt successful. he's a lyric not a dramatic. But here theres no free lyricism. is caught back by the character [...] A clever beginning, & some ideas; but they spin out: & nothing grips: all mist -- a failure: a proof hes not a dramatist. A monologist.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sir Edward Marsh : A Number of People
Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown
Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault. Like seeing something emerge; without containing mind. Yet the accuracy & even sometimes the penetration [...] Also I'm reading Rochefoucauld.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Rochefoucauld : unknown
Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault. Like seeing something emerge; without containing mind. Yet the accuracy & even sometimes the penetration [...] Also I'm reading Rochefoucauld.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown
Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction: how the emphasis, the caricature of these innumerable scenes, forever formng character, descend from the stage.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Adolf Hitler : Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact
Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it on top of Bus. Inconclusive -- cut up in Stop Press. Everyone reading it -- even newspaper sellers, a great proof of interest [...] Read Chaucer. Enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Adolf Hitler : Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact
Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it on top of Bus. Inconclusive -- cut up in Stop Press. Everyone reading it -- even newspaper sellers, a great proof of interest [...] Read Chaucer. Enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: 'newspaper sellers'     Print: Newspaper

Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown
Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it on top of Bus. Inconclusive -- cut up in Stop Press. Everyone reading it -- even newspaper sellers, a great proof of interest [...] Read Chaucer. Enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Blaise Pascal : unknown
Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of these rooms shall I die in? Which is going to be the scene of some -- oh no, I wont write out the tragedy that has to be acted there [...] So I read Pascal & Pater & wrote letters & cooked dinner & did my embroidery. But couldnt sleep sound.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Walter Pater : unknown
Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of these rooms shall I die in? Which is going to be the scene of some -- oh no, I wont write out the tragedy that has to be acted there [...] So I read Pascal & Pater & wrote letters & cooked dinner & did my embroidery. But couldnt sleep sound.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Andre Gide : Andre Gide's Journal 1885-1939
Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting knotted book. Its queer that diaries now pullulate. No one can settle to a work of art. Comment only.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Theophrastus : 'Characters'
Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may as well make a note of it. Trying to anchor my mind on Greek. Rather successful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : unknown
Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scope: to make it objective, to get outside. Thus defeat the shrinkage of age. Always take on new things.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : unknown
Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivalence as Freud calls it. (I'm gulping up Freud).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sigmund Freud : Group Psychology
Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Charles Ricketts : Self-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts, RA
Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lord Herbert : Letters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembroke and his Circle, 1734-80
Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature
Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert diaries & ... yes, Dadie's Shakespeare, & notes overflow into my 2 books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : private letter
'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a ntoe of delivery. I opened it, and found two pretty stitched little books, and a letter from - Goethe! I copy it from the fractur [Gothic script] hand it was written in, and send it for your edification. The patriarchal style of it pleases me much.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

:
'Here is a sort of little standard library kept - Spenser, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, & a few foreign books, & we sit and read & dream our time away'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth and William Gaskell     Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :
'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

William Wordsworth :
'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :
'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

George Crabbe :
'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Alexander Pope :
'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

John Dryden :
'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Wiiliam Howitt :
'[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural scenery and the thoughts and feelings arising from the happy circumstances of rural life'.] [Editors' gloss on contents of part of this letter to William and Mary Howitt]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Holland : [Exercise book]
'We are 'here today, & gone tomorrow', as the fat scullion maid said in some extract in Holland's Exercise book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: [lectures on poetry]
'Wm read his first 2 lectures on Poetry &c aloud which people seemed very much to like & I lay on the sofa & enjoyed myself in listening'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 'Deserted House, The'
'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on some of those deserrted old halls. Do they not remind you of Tennyson's 'Deserted House' - 'Life and thought are gone away', &c.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Robert Southey : Doctor, The
'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers to a rhapsodic description of alpine scenery encountered on a recent trip]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

:
'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received callers, listened to Thekla's magnificent playing-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Hour and the Man, The
'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interesting, & the conversations (where we may suppose she speaks herself) are just like those in Deerbrook very interesting. The [italics] story [end italics] is too like reading a history - one knows all along how it must end, - & there's a map at the beginning [italics] like [end italics] a history.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Deerbrook
'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interesting, & the conversations (where we may suppose she speaks herself) are just like those in Deerbrook very interesting. The [italics] story [end italics] is too like reading a history - one knows all along how it must end, - & there's a map at the beginning [italics] like [end italics] a history.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

:
'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out with the girls - round the grounds - a good long walk; and then into the lane up to the village, which is very pretty. Then home, read loitered and talked till dinner time (6 o' clock)'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: [a sermon]
'Today Mr Shaen has been reading a sermon to us'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Shaen      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the person I'm talking with always in order to hear some convincing arguments to clear up my opinions. Tell me what Crix thinks - everybody's opinions'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Henry Taylor : Notes From Books, in Four Essays
'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Holland      Print: Book

Arthur Helps : Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon
'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Holland      Print: Book

: [advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Review]
'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have just seen advertised in the new Edinburgh'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Catherine Crowe : Susan Hopley
'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Hopley'; it is a series of most unnatural adventures, naturally told, in a common-place way; but some people can't even be common-place naturally. They just interest one in certain states of the mind in which one is too lazy for thought or any high feeling, and only [italics] up [end italics] to being a bit occupied by scenes passed before you without much connexion, like those unrolling views we show children. Oh dear!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: Times, The
'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not that sentence unbecoming in a minister's wife?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : Kenilworth
'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, only - (everything has its only) - in repeating our subjects of conversation, I named an accidental five minutes conversation with one or two of the girls about Sir Walter Scott's novels (apropos of a picture of Queen Elizabeth, via 'Kenilworth', &c.) and Mrs J.J. Tayler is shocked at such a subject of conversation on a Sunday,- so there I am in a scrape'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton
'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should always be 'getten'; &c. - In the midst of all my deep & great annoyance, Mr Carlyle's letter has been most valuable; and has given me almost the only unmixed pleasure I have yet received from MB.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : [letter approving 'Mary Barton']
'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should always be 'getten'; &c. - In the midst of all my deep & great annoyance, Mr Carlyle's letter has been most valuable; and has given me almost the only unmixed pleasure I have yet received from MB.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

John Forster : Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, The
'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Goldsmith's life, and (long ago) with the Lives of the Statesmen &c; but people say he no longer writes the literary articles.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

John Forster : Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth
'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Goldsmith's life, and (long ago) with the Lives of the Statesmen &c; but people say he no longer writes the literary articles.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

John Forster : [review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barton']
'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whole book dances before my eyes as a commonplace piece of effect'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Carlyle : [encouraging letter about 'Mary Barton']
'I had a letter from Carlyle, and when I am over-filled with thoughts arising from this book, I put it all aside, (or [italics] try [end italics] to put it aside,) and think of his last sentence - 'May you live long to write good books, or do silently good actions which in my sight is far more indispensable'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Carlyle : [article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller]
'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London Examiner? I never heard of Chas Buller before; but was struck with the beautiful testimonial after his death; I think I can remember the exact words of one part - 'And in his patience with the much that he could not do, let us grant there was something very beautiful too'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Clifford Beer : A Mind That Found Itself
'I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beer’s book very good, certainly useful to me. [Clifford Beer, "A Mind That Found Itself"]. . . . By the way, have you read "A Theory of the Leisure Class"? It is a wonderful book, damnably written.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : Autobiography
Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Winifred Holtby : South Riding
Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spring 1940 by Woolf's Hogarth Press] [...] its odd -- reading that & South Riding both mint new, give me a fillip after all the evenings I grind at Burke & Mill. A good thing to read one's contemporaries, even rapid twinkling slice of life novels like poor W.H.'s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Edmund Burke : unknown
Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spring 1940 by Woolf's Hogarth Press] [...] its odd -- reading that & South Riding both mint new, give me a fillip after all the evenings I grind at Burke & Mill. A good thing to read one's contemporaries, even rapid twinkling slice of life novels like poor W.H.'s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

anon : mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf
Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I read my epitaph -- Mrs W. died so soon, in the N.S. & was pleased to support that dismissal very tolerably [...] And read all Havelock Ellis, a cautious cumulative, teased & tired book; too pressed down with that very common woman, Edith [Lees, Ellis's wife]: so I judged her, but she was life to him [...] He's honest & clear but thick [illegible] & too like the slow graceful Kangaroo with its cautious soft leaps. But thats much due to influenza.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Havelock Ellis : My Life
Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I read my epitaph -- Mrs W. died so soon, in the N.S. & was pleased to support that dismissal very tolerably [...] And read all Havelock Ellis, a cautious cumulative, teased & tired book; too pressed down with that very common woman, Edith [Lees, Ellis's wife]: so I judged her, but she was life to him [...] He's honest & clear but thick [illegible] & too like the slow graceful Kangaroo with its cautious soft leaps. But thats much due to influenza.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

A. B. Goldenveizer : Talks with Tolstoi
Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching an exposed electric wire. Even so imperfectly conveyed -- his rugged short cut mind -- to me the most, not sympathetic, but inspiring, rousing, genius in the raw [...] I remember that was my feeling about W. & Peace, read in bed at Twickenham. Old [Sir George] Savage [doctor] picked it up. "Splendid stuff!" & Jean [Thomas, owner of nursing home] tried to admire what was a revelation to me. Its directness, its reality. Yet he's against photographic realism.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace
Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching an exposed electric wire. Even so imperfectly conveyed -- his rugged short cut mind -- to me the most, not sympathetic, but inspiring, rousing, genius in the raw [...] I remember that was my feeling about W. & Peace, read in bed at Twickenham. Old [Sir George] Savage [doctor] picked it up. "Splendid stuff!" & Jean [Thomas, owner of nursing home] tried to admire what was a revelation to me. Its directness, its reality. Yet he's against photographic realism.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot from the 18th Century. Mistressly in her winding up. No flagging [...] And the love so intense, so poignant [makes few further comments, in same note form] Elinor I suppose Cassandra: Marianne Jane, edited.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : letters
Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quinas [sic] [1933] by Chesterton. His skittish over ingenious mind makes one shy (like a horse). Not straightforward, but has a good engine in his head.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : letters
Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quinas [sic] [1933] by Chesterton. His skittish over ingenious mind makes one shy (like a horse). Not straightforward, but has a good engine in his head.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

G. K. Chesterton : Thomas Aquinas
Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quinas [sic] [1933] by Chesterton. His skittish over ingenious mind makes one shy (like a horse). Not straightforward, but has a good engine in his head.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : unknown
Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : letters
Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- again & again, left us about as down as we've yet been. We sat silent in the 9 o'clock dusk; & L. could only with difficulty read Austen Chamberlain. I found the Wordsworth letters my only drug.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown
Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. How delicate & pure & musical & uncorrupt he & Coleridge read, after the left wing group [...] how they compact; & fuse, & deepen.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Biographia Literaria
Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sir Leslie Stephen : essay on Coleridge
Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: Scrutiny
Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in Aug. 1940 -- that the air raids are now at their prelude. Invasion, if it comes, must come within 3 weeks [...] We've not had our raid yet, we say. Two in London. One caught me in the L[ondon]. Library. There I sat reading in Scrutiny that Mrs W[oolf]. after all was better than the young. At this I was pleased.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Madame de Sevigne : letters
Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now. Even through the centuries his acid dandified somehow supercilious well what? -- cant find the word -- this manner of his, this character penetrates; & moreover reminds me of someone I dislike [...] Theres a ceremony in him that reminds me of Tom [ie T. S. Eliot]. Theres a parched artificial cruelty'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry Williamson : Goodbye West Country
Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now [...] I'm reading Henry Williamson. Again I dislike him.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry Williamson : Goodbye West Country
Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] He cant move an inch from the glare of his own personality -- his fame. And I've never read one of those immortal works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

F. L. Lucas : Studies French and English
Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London Library atmosphere effused. Turned me against all lit crit [...] Is all lit. crit. that kind of exhausted air? -- book dust, London Library, air. Or is it only that F.L.L[ucas] is a second hand, frozen fingered, university specialist, don trying to be creative, don all stuffed with books, writer? Would one say the same of the Common Reader [by Woolf]? I dipped for 5 minutes & put the book back depressed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France
Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations against Nessa [for issuing invitation to Igor and Helen Anrep] by reading Michelet'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France vol.15
Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinity: whose history of England I began after tea (throwing aside Michelet vol.15) with a glorious sense of my own free & easiness in writing now) [...] I like outsiders better. Insiders write a colourless English. They are turned out by the University machine.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

G. M. Trevelyan : History of England
Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinity: whose history of England I began after tea (throwing aside Michelet vol.15) with a glorious sense of my own free & easiness in writing now) [...] I like outsiders better. Insiders write a colourless English. They are turned out by the University machine.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

E. F. Benson : Final Edition, an Informal Autobiography
Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of glibness.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : 'The Leaning Tower'
Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I suffer so in that light?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Herbert Read : Annals of Innocence and Experience
Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet making.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Herbert Read : Annals of Innocence and Experience
Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiography this morning at breakfast. Little boys making sand castles. This refers to H. Read; Tom Eliot; Santayana; Wells. Each is weathertight, & gives shelter to the occupant. I think I can follow Read's building; so far as one can follow what one cannot build. But I am the sea which demolishes these castles [...] meaning that owing to Read's article on Roger [Fry, or Woolf's biography of Fry], his self that built the castle is to me destructive of its architecture [comments further] [...] I am carrying on, while I read, the idea of women discovering, like the 19th century rationalists, agnostics, that man is no longer God. My position, ceasing to accept the religion, is quite unlike Read's, Wells', Tom's, or Santayana's. It is essential to remain outside; & realise my own beliefs: or rather not to accept theirs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : Thyrsis
Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart. 'The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again. 'I actually opened Matthew Arnold & copied these lines [from "Thyrsis"]. While doing so, the idea came to me that why I dislike, & like, so many things idiosyncratically now, is because of my growing detachment from the hierarchy, the patriarchy [...] I am I; & must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing & living.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

anon : account of the Great Fire of London
Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, London was burning. 8 of my city churches destroyed, & the Guildhall. This belongs to last year.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Desmond MacCarthy : Drama
Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too sloppy & depending upon the charm of the Irish voice. Yet I've only dipped, I say to quiet my critical conscience, which wont let me define things so easily.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses
Wednesday 15 January 1941: 'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in wool gloves, bringing Ulysses in type script to our tea table at Hogarth House [...] Would we devote our lives to printing it [at Hogarth Press]? [...] the pages reeled with indecency. I put it in the drawer of the inlaid cabinet. One day Katherine Mansfield came, & I had it out. She began to read, ridiculing: then suddenly said, But theres something in this: a scene that should figure I suppose in the history of literature.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Manuscript: Typescript

Andre Gide : La Porte Etroite
Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : unknown
'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had made lash to for me close by the Cabin Stove, with my back to the door. I had taken up a book and was reading as composedly as if sitting in my closet. I did not however enjoy this calm situation long, for presently I heard a rumbling just behind me [...] what was my surprize, when the cabin-door burst open and I was overwhelmed with an immense wave, which broke my chair from its moorings [...] I found myself swimming amongst joint-stools, chests, Tables and all the various furniture of our parlour.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Schaw      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made fast to the table by many a knot and twist of small cord, than my young companion took up a book, and very composedly began to read to herself. I begged her to let me share her amusement by reading aloud. This she instantly complied with. She had however taken up the first book that came to hand, which happened to be not very apropos to the present occasion, as it proved to be Lord Kaims's Elements of Criticism. She read on however and I listen'd with much seeming attention, tho' neither she nor I knew a word it contained [...] The storm roared over and around us, the Candle cast a melancholy gleam across the Cabin, which we now considered as our tomb. We did not, however, assist each other's distress, for neither of us mentioned our own.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Rutherfurd      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made fast to the table by many a knot and twist of small cord, than my young companion took up a book, and very composedly began to read to herself. I begged her to let me share her amusement by reading aloud. This she instantly complied with. She had however taken up the first book that came to hand, which happened to be not very apropos to the present occasion, as it proved to be Lord Kaims's Elements of Criticism. She read on however and I listen'd with much seeming attention, tho' neither she nor I knew a word it contained [...] The storm roared over and around us, the Candle cast a melancholy gleam across the Cabin, which we now considered as our tomb. We did not, however, assist each other's distress, for neither of us mentioned our own.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Rutherfurd      Print: Book

Thomas Salmon : A New Geographical and Historical Grammar
'[After sighting land believed by captain and crew of Jamaica Packet to be Graciosa, island in the Azores] the next thing was to get the Captain to ly to, as it was very dangerous for him to proceed on his way, thro' a cluster of Islands, of which he was confessedly ignorant. This being agreed to, we all returned to the Cabin. Read the description of the Island from Salmon's Geographical Grammar. We're charmed to find it produces every thing we want, Sheep, poultry, bread, wine and a variety of Vegetables, besides the finest fruits in the world.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Schaw and other passengers on board Jamaica Packet     Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV
'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe, who with less ceremony than might have been expected from his general politeness stept into an apartment adjoining the hall, and took up a book I had been reading, which he brought open in his hand into the company. I was piqued at his freedom, and reproved him with a half compliment to his general good breeding. He owned his fault and with much gallantry promised to submit to whatever punishment I would inflict. You shall only, said I, read aloud a few pages which I will point out, and I am sure you will do Shakespear justice. He bowed and took up the book, but no sooner observed that I had turned up for him, that part of Henry the fourth, where Falstaff describes his company, than he coloured like Scarlet. I saw he made the application instantly; however he read it thro', tho' not with the vivacity he generally speaks; however he recovered himself and coming close up to me, whispered, you will certainly get yourself tarred and feathered; shall I apply to be executioner?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Schaw      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV
'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe, who with less ceremony than might have been expected from his general politeness stept into an apartment adjoining the hall, and took up a book I had been reading, which he brought open in his hand into the company. I was piqued at his freedom, and reproved him with a half compliment to his general good breeding. He owned his fault and with much gallantry promised to submit to whatever punishment I would inflict. You shall only, said I, read aloud a few pages which I will point out, and I am sure you will do Shakespear justice. He bowed and took up the book, but no sooner observed that I had turned up for him, that part of Henry the fourth, where Falstaff describes his company, than he coloured like Scarlet. I saw he made the application instantly; however he read it thro', tho' not with the vivacity he generally speaks; however he recovered himself and coming close up to me, whispered, you will certainly get yourself tarred and feathered; shall I apply to be executioner?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Howe      Print: Book

: newspaper
'I have seen a newspaper published by the [Wilmington] committee's order, where the whole story of the battle [of Bunker Hill] is denied, tho' it is said that the Americans had made an attack on us and killed many of our officers, amongst others they mentioned Major Pitcairn. I hope it is not the Pitcairn that was married to a Miss Dalrymple, as I know many of her relations.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Schaw      Print: Newspaper

Sir William Chambers : A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did not the garden and other appurtenances atone for it, it would hardly be worth the trouble of going to see, but those indeed are well worthy of a traveller's Notice. This garden contains within it variety enough to satisfy a Sir William Chalmers [sic], and had I not read his account of what a garden ought to be, I should not venture to express all I saw under that single appellation, but tho' it is far from being so extensive as his plan, yet it contains a great deal more than his three natural notes of earth, air and water, water, earth and air.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Schaw      Print: Book

Robert Chalmers : Vestiges of the Natural HIstory of Creation
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Las Cases : Memorial de Saint Helene
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6-[8] January 1845: 'As to Napoleon, if he had walked less in blood, I could have given him a fuller sympathy -- but there were fine things in him [...] Las Casas [sic] I read years ago, & will read soon over again.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Vacation Rambles and Thoughts
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's "Rambles & thoughts"? With some wordiness, & faults of taste otherwise, it is a very pleasant book & has set me on the desire of climbing to the top of Mont Blanc [...] It improves as you read.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Alphonse de Lamartine : La Chute d'un ange
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how often does it happen that the immediate public, looking at the new bad, forgets or is ignorant of the old good! Just this occurred to me in reading Lamartine's dull piece of extravagance, "La Chute d'un Ange." Nothing but your recommendation could have induced me to read another line of his writing. Now, I have gone through "Jocelyn;" and, although I dislike the story -- the heroine in man's clothes, and the hero made a priest, Heaven knows how -- I have yet been delighted with the general feeling and beauty of the poem, particularly with one portion full of toleration, and another about dogs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Alphonse de Lamartine : Jocelyn
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how often does it happen that the immediate public, looking at the new bad, forgets or is ignorant of the old good! Just this occurred to me in reading Lamartine's dull piece of extravagance, "La Chute d'un Ange." Nothing but your recommendation could have induced me to read another line of his writing. Now, I have gone through "Jocelyn;" and, although I dislike the story -- the heroine in man's clothes, and the hero made a priest, Heaven knows how -- I have yet been delighted with the general feeling and beauty of the poem, particularly with one portion full of toleration, and another about dogs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : Poems
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 10 January 1845: 'I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett [...] since the day last week when I first read your poems, I quite laugh to remember how I have been turning and turning again in my mind what I should be able to tell you of their effect upon me [...] part of me it has become, this great living poetry of yours, not a flower of which but took root and grew [...] talking with whoever is worthy, I can give a reason for my faith in one and another excellence, the fresh strange music, the affluent language, the exquisite pathos and true new brave thought -- but in thus addressing myself to you, your own self, and for the first time, my feeling rises altogether [goes on to describe how had previously missed opportunity of being introduced to Barrett by their mutual friend John Kenyon].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : extract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting seance
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addressed by H. Martineau to Moxon the publisher, .. to the effect that ... Lord Morpeth was down on his knees in the middle of the room a few nights ago, in the presence of the somnambule J__ & conversing with her in Greek & Latin -- that .. the four Miss Liddels were also present, .. & that .. they five talked to her during one seance in five foreign languages, .. viz .. Latin, Greek, French, Italian & German.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Kenyon      Manuscript: Letter

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightn't be more in the great William than I supposed. And I was quite upset! Really and truly I am now let in to [the] company of worshippers-though I still feel a little oppressed by his-greatness I suppose. I shall want a lecture when I see you; to clear up some points about the Plays. I mean about the characters. Why aren't they more human? Imogen and Posthumous and Cymbeline-I find them beyond me-Is this my feminine weakness in the upper region?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Fernande
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845: 'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --? I fancy I did, during the reading of the first seven pages. Beware of it, I tell you now -- If Mr Lovejoy ordered it for his library, he will be taken to be disorderly by "prude Angleterre." As Schlegel said of the "Sad shepherdess," that it was "unchaste praise of chastity", so we might reverse the saying for "Fernande." At least -- the heroine is a courtezan [sic] by profession -- but you wd not guess it, except by her talking too much of modesty [...] for the rest, she is a Grace, a muse, a saint & martyr. No virtuous woman could have half her fascinations -- (& that's the moral of the whole!) [...] M. Dumas's "Fernande" will make some of your country gentlemen open their eyes, be certain, if Mr Lovejoy introduces her into Berkshire -- I advise you to advise against it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Dr Faustus
'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Edward II
'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

Paul de Kock : Mon Ami Piffard; et Chipolata
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 January 1845: 'Paul [de Kock] is the writer of farce, .. broad farce ..: and for impulsive gaiety, he has not his peer. I think the more of him just now, because they sent me, a few days since, by a mistake for another work, from the library, "Mon ami Piffard," which is not his best work, & yet set me laughing most cordially. It's a farce rolled out into the narrative form, -- neither more nor less-- A little nasty, of course, to mark, not exactly the [talics]hoof[end italics] of Paul, but his snout. -- But what particuarly struck me [...] was the impulse, the can't-help-myself joyousness of the book [...] I hope it isn't the indecency which I take so kindly in him'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henry John Newbolt : Drake's Drum
'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

Pierre Veron : Le Pantheon de Poche
'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: Pierre Veron’s "Pantheon de Poche".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Jean Racine : unknown
'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John Racine, however; the noise is very pleasing and as unintelligent and soothing as a mill wheel; occasionally too there are verses of a dignity! − Verses with Versailles wigs − pageant verses − like a Roman Triumph.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : The Wishing Cap
'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, without discovering that it contained such interesting news.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Serial / periodical

Sam Greg : [remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton']
'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me, and which I conjecture were written by your husband? Those remarks and the note which accompanied have given me great and real pleasure. I have heard much about the disapproval which Mr Greg's family have felt with regard to 'M.B.', and have heard of it with so much regret that I am particularly glad that Mr Sam Greg does not participate in it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

Arthur Hugh Clough : Ambarvalia
'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus, which had before excited my attention'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Francis Espinasse : [prospectus]
'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus, which had before excited my attention'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

: [review of 'Margaret, a tale of the Real and the Ideal']
'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Sylvester Judd : Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal
'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfield, and your note. Oh, dear! I have been so whirled about {against} since I saw you last that I hardly know what to write. I do so like D. Copperfield; and it was a charming liberty you took in sending it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Alexander Crawford, Lord Lindsay : Lives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres
'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Oenone
[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does not have his own copy - she later asks Forster if he could procure a copy for Bamford, signed by Tennyson] ''whenever he got into a house where there were Tennyson's poems he learnt as many as he could of[f] by heart; & he thought he knew better than twelve', - & he began Oenone, & then the Sleeping Beauty'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 'Sleeping Beauty, The'
[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does not have his own copy - she later asks Forster if he could procure a copy for Bamford, signed by Tennyson] ''whenever he got into a house where there were Tennyson's poems he learnt as many as he could of[f] by heart; & he thought he knew better than twelve', - & he began Oenone, & then the Sleeping Beauty'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : [possibly] Discourses to Mixed Congregations
'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is absolutely simply the utterance of the man'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wrote Jane Eyre'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley :
'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Geraldine Jewsbury : [unknown review]
'[italics] Is [end italics] Miss Jewsbury's review shallow? It looked to me very deep, but then I know I'm easily imposed upon in the metaphysical line, and could no more attempt to write such an article than fly'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

John Henry Newman : [Sermons]
'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [Poems]
''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the pretty golden leaves, and peeping here and there at old favourites since it came. But I have shut it up close again, that it may all properly stick togeher like a new bound book, before I take it to Bamford'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 'Sleeping Beauty, The'
[Gaskell describes handing over the gift of a signed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford] 'I said, 'Look at the title page', for I saw he was fairly caught by something he liked in the middle of the book, & was standing reading it there in the street. 'Well! I am a proud man this day', he exclaimed, - then he turned it up and down, & read a bit, (it was a very crowded street), and his grey face went quite brown-red with pleasure [...] Then he dipped down into his book, and began reading aloud the Sleeping beauty, and in the middle stopped to look at the writing again, and we left him a sort of sleep[-]walking state, & only trust he will not be run over'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
'she said to H M, 'What did you really think of "Jane Eyre"?' H M. I thought it a first rate book, whereupon the little spirite went red all over with pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

Maggie Bell : [MS. novel]
'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sorely'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

W.C. DeVane : [review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Day']
'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but don't think I've fairly read it yet!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it is so true and brave, that I greatly admire her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Caroline Emelia Stephen : Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home
'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home'? It is very painful, and from the impression of pain which, despite its happy ending, it leaves upon one I think it must want some element of peace, but still it is very true, and [italics] very [end italics] suggestive; and a description to the life of the trials of many single women, who waken up some morning to the sudden feeling of the [italics] purposelessness [italics] (is there such a word) of their life. Do read it if it comes yr way.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Frederick Denison Maurice : [Sermon on 'Religion versus God']
'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that striking and curious sermon of Mr Maurice's, entitled 'Religion versus God'. In which he spoke of the falseness of that religious spirit which led people to disregard those nearest to them, to wound or leave those whom God had placed around and about and dependent on them, in search of some new sphere of action.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus
'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I get perplexed sometimes. 'Do the duty that lies nearest to thee'.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Libbie Marsh's Three Eras
''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own behalf'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea of the Seven Lamps'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Bronte : [works by all three sisters]
'They used to read to each other when they had written so much. Their father never knew a word about it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: the Bronte sisters     Manuscript: Unknown

: [reviews of Jane Eyre]
[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the book. He said she might leave it, and he would see. But he sent them an invitation to tea that night, and towards the end of tea he said, 'Children, Charlotte has been writing a book - and I think it is a better one than I expected.''
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the book. He said she might leave it, and he would see. But he sent them an invitation to tea that night, and towards the end of tea he said, 'Children, Charlotte has been writing a book - and I think it is a better one than I expected.''
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Bronte      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: Leader, The
'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

: Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']
'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

: Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']
'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

William Whewell : Fraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']
'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

: Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pendennis]
'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : unknown
'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort".
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.- "The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought, And is with Child of glorious great intent, Can never rest, until it forth have brought Th' eternal Brood of Glory excellent -"
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture, The
'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the last instance'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture, The
'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the last instance'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Catherine Cuthbertson : Santo Sebastiano: or, The Young Protector
'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold of the Young Protector; it is too old a book to be met with easily'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Henry Esmond
'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: the Scotts     Print: Book

H. Morley : Palissy the Potter
'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got very interested in four or 5 chapters, & then the book had to go back'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: North British Review [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']
'The "North British Review"had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of "Ruth" in it. Who the deuce could have written it? It is so truly religious, it makes me swear with delight. I think it is one of the Christian Socialists, but I can't make out which. I must make Will find out'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

: Literary Gazette [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']
'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensive from affectation' 'deep regret that we and all admirers of Mary Barton must feel at the author's loss of reputation' 'Thoroughly commonplace' etc., etc. I don't know of a newspaper which has praised it but the Examiner, wh. was bound to for Chapman's sake - and that's [italics] that [end italics] and be hanged to it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

: [various periodicals: reviews of Gaskell's 'Ruth']
'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensive from affectation' 'deep regret that we and all admirers of Mary Barton must feel at the author's loss of reputation' 'Thoroughly commonplace' etc., etc. I don't know of a newspaper which has praised it but the Examiner, wh. was bound to for Chapman's sake - and that's [italics] that [end italics] and be hanged to it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Gaskell : Ruth
'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own power of judging, and could not tell whether I had done it well or ill. I only knew how very close to my heart it had come from'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: R. Monckton Milnes      Print: Book

: [letter of a 'First Hand']
'Yes! I did read that letter of 'First Hand'; - those letters inded, and I liked the whole tone and mode of expression so much that I was thoroughly glad to see how people came forwards to set her up in her scheme.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

Thomas Hood : 'Lady's Dream, The'
'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil being done by [italics] want of thought [end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

Charlotte Bronte : Villette
'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that is morbid [italics] into [end italics] her writing, and [italics] out [end italics] of her life; and my books are so far better than I am that I often feel ashamed of having written them and as if I were a hypocrite. However I was not going to write of myself but of Villette. I don't agree with you that {it is} one cannot forget that it is a 'written book'. My interpretation of it is this. I believe it to be a very correct account of one part of her life; which is very vivid & distinct in her remembrance, with all the feelings that were called out at that period, forcibly present in her mind whenever she recurs to the recollection of it. I imagine she [italics] could [end italics] not describe it {with} in the manner in which she would pass through it [italics] now [end italics], as her present self; but in looking back upon it all the passions & suffering, & deep despondency of that old time come back upon her. Some of this notion of mine is founded entirely on imagination; but some of it rests on the fact that many times over I recognized incidents of which she had told me as connected with that visit to Brussels. Whatever truth there may be in this conjecture of mine there can be no doubt that the book is wonderfully clever; that it reveals depths in her mind, aye and in her [italics] heart [end italics] too which I doubt if ever any one has fathomed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Villette
'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that is morbid [italics] into [end italics] her writing, and [italics] out [end italics] of her life; and my books are so far better than I am that I often feel ashamed of having written them and as if I were a hypocrite. However I was not going to write of myself but of Villette. I don't agree with you that {it is} one cannot forget that it is a 'written book'. My interpretation of it is this. I believe it to be a very correct account of one part of her life; which is very vivid & distinct in her remembrance, with all the feelings that were called out at that period, forcibly present in her mind whenever she recurs to the recollection of it. I imagine she [italics] could [end italics] not describe it {with} in the manner in which she would pass through it [italics] now [end italics], as her present self; but in looking back upon it all the passions & suffering, & deep despondency of that old time come back upon her. Some of this notion of mine is founded entirely on imagination; but some of it rests on the fact that many times over I recognized incidents of which she had told me as connected with that visit to Brussels. Whatever truth there may be in this conjecture of mine there can be no doubt that the book is wonderfully clever; that it reveals depths in her mind, aye and in her [italics] heart [end italics] too which I doubt if ever any one has fathomed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Kay-Shuttleworth      Print: Book

Joseph Kay : Condition of Poor Children in English and German Towns
'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pamphlet on the Condition and Education of English children as compared with Germans; I believe his address was signed at the end of the preface, but this book was borrowed from me as soon as I had read it, & has not yet been returned'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Charlotte Bronte : Villette
'She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] very [end italics] disagreeable remarks Miss M. made on Villette, and this has been preying on Miss Bronte's mind as she says everything does prey on it, in the solitude in which she lives'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

: Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']
'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and asked me if I knew you had written it. I wish you could have heard how I backed away from the veiled prophet, and how vehemently I disclaimed ever even having conjectured anything about any article in the Examiner'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']
'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and asked me if I knew you had written it. I wish you could have heard how I backed away from the veiled prophet, and how vehemently I disclaimed ever even having conjectured anything about any article in the Examiner'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Frederick Perthes : Memoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religious and Political Life in Germany from 1789 to 1848
'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') and her sister. They have together translated all that is yet published of the autobiographical life of Perthes; no, I see it is not [italics] all [end italics] translated - they have stopped, when we novelists do - at the end of the adventures, & when Perthes is re-instated in his business, & in a fair way of doing well for himself. You probably know enough of his history &c to enable you in some measure to judge for yourself of the kind of book it is. A young German bourgeois, who makes his own way from nothing to a station of great wealth & influence both commercial & political: (he was a bookseller, &c) the personal story is very interesting & includes an account of the French occupation of Hamburgh &c.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

James Crossley : 'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register'
In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmund Burke and the Annual Register' [Gaskell then provides James Crossley with some more information on this subject].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Granville : [tales]
'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and it was perhaps owing to their example that she had taken up the business of writing novels (at 10£ each) for the Minerva Press. I saw some of her tales, which were harmless enough, a weak dilution of Miss Porters in style and plot'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

John Tupling : Folious appearances. a consideration on our ways of lettering books
'I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which I like exceedingly. What is the name of the man, again?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duchess Eleanor']
'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, long before I had the slightest suspicion it was yours; & more than suspicion I have not had till now'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
'Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one day, to ask her if the report he had heard at Keighley was true &c. Fancy him, an Irish curate, loving her even then, reading that beginning of Shirley!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Bell Nicholls      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton
'you are not coming up to a certain Mr Hibbert who is now reading Mary Barton for the [italics] fourteenth [end italics] time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hibbert      Print: Book

William Gaskell : Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect
'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I know it will give him. It will come to him at the same time as my little confession of having thought his lectures worthy of your reading. I have been very much interested by your remarks which {are} will be of course still more interesting to one capable of entering into their full value'.
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Savage Landor

Henry Morley : 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'
'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to Mr Wills, and ask who wrote it; and now, as much would ever have more, she wants me to ask you if Brother Mieth was not Brother Andrup - (Anthrup?) and if you were there at the time of his death; and if you, like her, got a piece of wood shaving out of the bed on which he lay and kept it for a relic? and if you heard his Leben read? - and - and - I don't know how many more questions, all hinging on the one supposition that Brother Mieth was Brother Andrup - It is a charming paper, I, the exoteric may say. But she will hardly allow that I [italics] can [end italics] recognise it's merits, and has gone off upon Neuwied ever since, taking the bit between her teeth. Would you be so kind as to stop her with a hair of the dog that bit her, & give us all another paper on Neuwied in some shape. That reading the Diary & the confessions of sins over the coffin must have been most striking. I don't know half enough about the Moravians.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Patterson      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Morley : 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'
'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to Mr Wills, and ask who wrote it; and now, as much would ever have more, she wants me to ask you if Brother Mieth was not Brother Andrup - (Anthrup?) and if you were there at the time of his death; and if you, like her, got a piece of wood shaving out of the bed on which he lay and kept it for a relic? and if you heard his Leben read? - and - and - I don't know how many more questions, all hinging on the one supposition that Brother Mieth was Brother Andrup - It is a charming paper, I, the exoteric may say. But she will hardly allow that I [italics] can [end italics] recognise it's merits, and has gone off upon Neuwied ever since, taking the bit between her teeth. Would you be so kind as to stop her with a hair of the dog that bit her, & give us all another paper on Neuwied in some shape. That reading the Diary & the confessions of sins over the coffin must have been most striking. I don't know half enough about the Moravians.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen :
'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter volumes of Bunsen are the only books that she even looked into here'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Nightingale      Print: Book

Anna Jameson : Commonplace Book of Thoughts, A
'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; and turn it over, & peep in, and read a sentence and shut it up to think over it's graceful suggestive wisdom in something of the 'gourmet' spirit of a child with an eatable dainty; which child, if it have the proper artistic sensuality of childhood, first looks it's cake over to appreciate the full promise of it's appearance, - next, snuffs up it's fragrance, - and gets to a fair & complete mouth-watering before it plunges into the first [italics] bite [end italics]. I do like your book. I liked it before, - I like it better now - it is like looking into deep clear water, - down below at every instant of prolonged gaze, one sees some fresh beauty or treasure of clear white pebble, or little shady nooks for fish to lurk in, or delicate water weds. Thank you for it. I do value it'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: Household Words [?]
'I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully just at this time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Gaskell : North and South
'I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B. say to Florence Nightingale? I can't imagine!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me of Mr Nicholls, & also with what she herself has said to me before now. Yet it shows something fine in him to have been able to appreciate her.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

William Fairbairn : [remarks on 'North and South']
'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure because it is so sincere and judicious that I value it; and your fault-finding does me good because it always makes me [italics] think [end italics]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

Charlotte Bronte : [letters to Ellen Nussey]
'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even you, her most cherished friend, could wish the impression on me to be different from what it is, that she was one to study the path of duty well, and, having ascertained what it was right to do, to follow out her idea strictly. They gave me a very beautiful idea of her character'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

Charles Dickens : Little Dorrit
'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood; however he read 'Little-Dorrit' & I read it over his shoulder. Oh Polly! he was such a slow reader, you'll sympathise, Meta won't, my impatience at his never getting to the bottom of the page so we only got to the end of the page. We only read the first two chapters, so I never found out who 'Little Dorrit' is [Gaskell then summarises what happens in these chapters] By this time we got to Knutsford, & my friend got out, & now that I saw him no longer in profile but full-faced I recognized Mr Seymour, & was sorry I had not moved'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : [letters to W.S. Williams]
'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late for Friday's post for me to acknowledge them. I have read them hastily over and I like the tone of them very much; it is curious how much the spirit in which she writes varies according to the correspondent whom she was addressing, I imagine. I like the series of letters which you have sent better than any other excepting one that I have seen. The subjects too are very interesting; how beautifully she speaks (for instance) of her wanderings on the moor after her sister's death.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

: [book on Yorkshire]
'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot tell you how much use it has been to me; my paper marks, which I found had not been taken out of the book, before it was packed up, will, in a small degree, show you how much I have had to refer to in it'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : [manuscripts]
'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing case, full of paper books of different sizes, from the one I enclose upwards to the full 1/2 sheet size, but all in this indescribably fine writing. - Mr Gaskell says they would make more than 50 vols of print, - but they are the wildest & most incoherent things, as far as we have examined them, [italics] all [end italics] purporting to be written, or addressed to some member of the Wellesley family. They give one the idea of creative power carried to the verge of insanity. Just lately Mr M Milnes gave me some MS. of Blake's, the painters to read, - & the two MSS (his & C.B.'s) are curiously alike. But what I want to know is if a photograph could be taken to give some idea of the finness of the writing'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: books

William Blake : [manuscripts]
'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing case, full of paper books of different sizes, from the one I enclose upwards to the full 1/2 sheet size, but all in this indescribably fine writing. - Mr Gaskell says they would make more than 50 vols of print, - but they are the wildest & most incoherent things, as far as we have examined them, [italics] all [end italics] purporting to be written, or addressed to some member of the Wellesley family. They give one the idea of creative power carried to the verge of insanity. Just lately Mr M Milnes gave me some MS. of Blake's, the painters to read, - & the two MSS (his & C.B.'s) are curiously alike. But what I want to know is if a photograph could be taken to give some idea of the finness of the writing'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Bronte : Professor, The
'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only such, as the omissions of three or four short ppassages not altogether amounting to a page, - would do away with. I don't agree with Sir James that 'the publication of this book would add to her literary fame' - I think it inferior to all her published works - but I think it a very curious link in her literary history, as showing the [italics] promise [end italics] of much that was afterwards realized.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

Virginia Woolf : The Years
Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & finds it no longer unintelligible, but superb -- How can this be true of any mind?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Smyth      Print: Book

John Maynard Keynes : 'Memoir Club' paper
Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I could follow, about Cambridge youth; their philosophy; its consequences [...] The beauty & unworldliness of it. I was impressed by M. & felt a little flittery & stupid. Then he had to rest; it turned grey & cold. M. had to be slowly conveyed -- a bed made on the ground floor at Charleston. Nevertheless a very human satisfactory meeting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Maynard Keynes      Manuscript: Unknown

R. H. Tawney :
Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[inister] to broadcast at 11.15 [makes various brief observations] [...] I believe little exact notes are more interesting than reflections -- the only reflection is that this is bosh & stuffing compared with the reality of reading say Tawney [...] One's too tired, emotionally, to read a page. I tried Tawney last night -- cd'nt concentrate [...] Its now about 10.33.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Francis Steegmuller : Flaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double Portrait
Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Jacques Emile Blanche : More Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38
Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Roger Fry : Last Lectures
Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: 'life of Erasmus'
Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & Jacques Blanche.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: The Evening Standard
Friday 6 October 1939: 'I meant to record a Third Class Railway carriage conversation. The talk of business men. Their male detached lives. All politics. Deliberate, well set up, contemptuous & indifferent to the feminine. For example: one man hands the E. Standard, points to a womans photograph. "Women? Let her go home & bowl her hoop" said the man in blue serge with one smashed eye [...] Odd to look into this cool man's world: so weather tight: insurance clerks on top of their work [...] Not a chink through which one can see art, or books. They play cross words when insurance shop fails.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Third class railway passengers     Print: Newspaper

Charles Dickens : Little Dorrit
Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & suggestive & firm for 200 pages: then a mere bleat bitter repetition contorsion [sic] & inversion [...] he's nothing to offer, once he's done his historical accounting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Gerald Heard : Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man
Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & suggestive & firm for 200 pages: then a mere bleat bitter repetition contorsion [sic] & inversion [...] he's nothing to offer, once he's done his historical accounting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Allan Park Paton : poem
Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 18 January 1845: 'I take shame to myself in the confession, that the first newspaper you sent to me, was sent in vain for the verses -- inasmuch as, being occupied at the moment, & aware of the usual worthlessness of poetical insertions in journals, I was satisfied with barely running my eye down the four sides & with coming to a hasty conclusion that the paper had been sent to me in mistake for another [...] [italics]This[end italics] time, I have read & considered!, & I may assure you that it shall never happen to me again to throw aside unread, any poem with the signature "Heather" in connection with it. -- The poem which I [italics]have[end italics] read, is, to my mind & ear, full of promise [...] there is unity in the conception [...] What I least like, in the way of [italics]execution[end italics] [...] is the burden of the whole. Where the metre changes, some sense of artifice in construction & defect in harmony seems to force itself on the ear.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Honore de Balzac : Modeste Mignon
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter. I read my French abomination at breakfast & dinner & tea time, .. so as to forget myself & be delighted to find that I have eaten a little more than usual in my trance (deeper than mesmeric) & happy state of physical unconsciousness [...] And your first words [in letter] [...] are still of Mignon, Mignon. It is a decided case of flint to flint -- & of electricity by coincidence. 'Well -- and I am delighted with the book just as you are [...] because charmed beyond the point of pleasure produced by mere artistic power in the writer. The truth is [...] that if I were to write my own autobiography, or rather, (much rather), if Balzac were to write it for me, he could not veritably have made it different from what he has written of Modeste. The ideal life of my youth was just [italics]that[end italics], .. line for line [goes on to comment further on text] [...] And that "satiete par la pensee."! -- [italics]There[end italics], lies the test of the morbidity -- for it is morbid -- it is dangerous! & worse romances than poor Modests's is likely to be (I have only read a third of the book) might come of it [comments further on own and Mitford's responses to text]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Modeste Mignon
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter. I read my French abomination at breakfast & dinner & tea time, .. so as to forget myself & be delighted to find that I have eaten a little more than usual in my trance (deeper than mesmeric) & happy state of physical unconsciousness [...] And your first words [in letter] [...] are still of Mignon, Mignon. It is a decided case of flint to flint -- & of electricity by coincidence. 'Well -- and I am delighted with the book just as you are [...] because charmed beyond the point of pleasure produced by mere artistic power in the writer. The truth is [...] that if I were to write my own autobiography, or rather, (much rather), if Balzac were to write it for me, he could not veritably have made it different from what he has written of Modeste. The ideal life of my youth was just [italics]that[end italics], .. line for line [goes on to comment further on text] [...] And that "satiete par la pensee."! -- [italics]There[end italics], lies the test of the morbidity -- for it is morbid -- it is dangerous! & worse romances than poor Modests's is likely to be (I have only read a third of the book) might come of it [comments further on own and Mitford's responses to text]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

unknown : article on reported cure by mesmerism of Harriet Martineau
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 January 1845: 'I have seen a page of the Lancet (which Nelly Bordman sent me), with extracts from the abominable "case". It is plain enough from the extracts printed by Mr Greenhough in a letter to the Chronicle yesterday, from H. Martineau's notes to him, that she understood & was ready to permit a [italics]partial[end italics] publication. But what she did [italics]not[end italics] expect, was an independent pamphlet filled with the most offensive details possible. Could any woman [...] have expected patiently such a disclosure, so made?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Frederic Soulie : Les Memoires du diable
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 February 1845: 'Do you think you cd. take courage & attempt the eight volumes of Frederic Soulie[']s Memoires du diable? eight rather thick volumes? I am in the midst & heat of them -- & though they stink in one's nostrils not infrequently & are full of the most gorgeous extravagances, the variety & power, the invention, (flash upon flash), & the vividness of life all through, render them to my mind, a most remarkable work [...] Much in it is most disgusting. But you [italics]must[end italics] be struck by the variety of power in it, -- & I cant keep back any new sight from you. Yes indeed! -- how nearer & nearer we are drawn in this "palpitating literature," as you call it so truly! palpitating is just the word! & it sets me palpitating too, whatever it may do by yourself'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] at last -- & the "Physiologie" besides [...] remember that the "Fille" which is as disgusting a book as you represent it, was my "first fruits" of Balzac. I made my acquaintance with him in that iniquitous book, -- that beastly book -- for, as women, we cannot speak of it with too cogent an abhorrence. Is there any wonder that I made a vow deeply never to read a book by the writer of it any more. I did vow it. And it was a mere mistake of those librarians who are always making mistakes (but I forgive a thousand for the dear love of that one) which sent me "Le Pere Goriot" [...] I bore with him wonderfully; -- & began to sympathise so immorally besides, (as Mr Kenyon says of me) with the artistic power of the book, that I was tempted to throw my plummet down again into the depths of the artist's mind [...] I am struck just as you are, by this wonderful faculty of lifting up so high & clear above the social pollutions, which it is his delight to dabble in, images & creations most stainless & lovely. I do not say (or think) that such a faculty renders him less dangerous as a writer, -- but it is undeniably wonderful as a faculty, & proves him a poet .. minus, the sense of music.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : La vieille fille
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] at last -- & the "Physiologie" besides [...] remember that the "Fille" which is as disgusting a book as you represent it, was my "first fruits" of Balzac. I made my acquaintance with him in that iniquitous book, -- that beastly book -- for, as women, we cannot speak of it with too cogent an abhorrence. Is there any wonder that I made a vow deeply never to read a book by the writer of it any more. I did vow it. And it was a mere mistake of those librarians who are always making mistakes (but I forgive a thousand for the dear love of that one) which sent me "Le Pere Goriot" [...] I bore with him wonderfully; -- & began to sympathise so immorally besides, (as Mr Kenyon says of me) with the artistic power of the book, that I was tempted to throw my plummet down again into the depths of the artist's mind [...] I am struck just as you are, by this wonderful faculty of lifting up so high & clear above the social pollutions, which it is his delight to dabble in, images & creations most stainless & lovely. I do not say (or think) that such a faculty renders him less dangerous as a writer, -- but it is undeniably wonderful as a faculty, & proves him a poet .. minus, the sense of music.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Joseph Arnould : 'Rabelais and His Times' (review of various works on Rabelais)
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 23 February 1845: 'Arnould is a happiness to see and know [...] I send, with this [letter], a Review with an article of his -- "Rabelais" -- which I know you will be delighted with as I have been'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Frederic Soulie : Confession generale, vols 1 and 2
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'Tell me, was Soulie's "Confession Generale" never finished? Did it stop short for ever at the second volume with you as with me? Because it is interesting -- and I am suspended in the air in the case of an interesting book that wont end: it[']s a cruel punishment which Dante should have put into Hell, instead of this side the gate of it .. "that day they read no more." Perhaps he meant to hint it so -- & that the thought of the unfinished book tormented the damned lovers as one of the forms of their damnation.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Claude Francois de Meneval : Napoleon et Marie Louise: souvenirs historiques
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'Do you know the "Napoleon et Marie Louise" of M. de Meneval, the secretary of the emperor? The three little volumes have interest in them -- and if you require (which you dont I hope) any further impulse towards hating the Austrian [Marie Louise], you will find it there [makes further comments] [...] Well might Napoleon shrink from speakng of her .. & from analysing the motives of her conduct! -- His [italics]silence[end italics], as Meneval describes it, strikes me as very affecting'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Lessons for Children, From Two to Three Years Old
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's '"Come hither Charles -- Come to Mama --" 'oh! how I remember it, book & all! & Miss Edgeworth's Frank & Rosamond. They were my own classics, and those of my brothers and sisters.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Early Lessons
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's '"Come hither Charles -- Come to Mama --" 'oh! how I remember it, book & all! & Miss Edgeworth's Frank & Rosamond. They were my own classics, and those of my brothers and sisters.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : La Femme superieur
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 March 1845: 'I am in the midst of "La Femme superieure." [sic] The truth of this work & the subtlety & deepness of the [italics]life[end italics] in it .. for I will not call it portraiture, .. are wonderful -- but certainly it justifies the attribute of heaviness & slowness we talked of the other day [goes on to remark, as apparently Mitford has also done, upon importance attached by Balzac to details of costume].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Thomas De Quincey : 'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delight in an exquisite paper by the Opium-eater, which my heart trembled through from end to end? What a poet that man is! how he vivifies words, & deepens them, & gives them profound significance'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : Little Dorrit
'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood; however he read 'Little-Dorrit' & I read it over his shoulder. Oh Polly! he was such a slow reader, you'll sympathise, Meta won't, my impatience at his never getting to the bottom of the page so we only got to the end of the page. We only read the first two chapters, so I never found out who 'Little Dorrit' is [Gaskell then summarises what happens in these chapters] By this time we got to Knutsford, & my friend got out, & now that I saw him no longer in profile but full-faced I recognized Mr Seymour, & was sorry I had not moved'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Seymour      Print: Serial / periodical

: [verses]
'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of intelligence, which come, with their pleasant [italics] London-taste [end italics], most acceptably into my Manchester life. These verses in particular are extremely humorous & characteristic'.
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Charlotte Bronte : Professor, The
'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life, - & I thought if he were again brought before the public, what would he think of me? [Gaskell goes on to say that her fears were not fulfilled] so on that ground there would be no objection to publishing it. I don't think it will add to her reputation, - the interest will arise from its being the work of so remarkable a mind. It is an autobiography of a man the English Professor at a Brussels school, - there are one or two remarkable portraits - the most charming woman she ever drew, and a glimpse of that woman as a mother - very lovely; otherwise little or no story; & disfigured by more coarseness - & profanity in quoting texts of Scripture disagreeably than in any of her other works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

: Examiner, The
'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. When do you think it will be out?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : Professor, The
'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesting as a story. And yet there are parts one would not lose - a lovely female character - & glimpses of home & family life in the latter portion of the tale. - But oh! I wish Mr Nicholls wd have altered more!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William Fairbairn : [letter offering his opinion of Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte]
'I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like my book, because I had never received your usual letter of criticism; and in the second, it was the one sweet little drop of honey that the postman had brought me for some time, as, on the average, I had been receiving three letters a day for above a fortnight, finding great fault with me (to use a [italics] mild [end italics] expression for the tone of their compliments) for my chapter about the Cowan Bridge School.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

E.B. Eastwick ['ed'] : Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman : and his translations with his fellow-creatures
'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q. Review looks good too, and I hit upon a lively paper describing the Overland journey, which fell in well with the direction of my curiosity'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: Bombay Quarterly Review
'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q. Review looks good too, and I hit upon a lively paper describing the Overland journey, which fell in well with the direction of my curiosity'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

: Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah']
'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q. Review looks good too, and I hit upon a lively paper describing the Overland journey, which fell in well with the direction of my curiosity'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Currer Bell [pseud.] : Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: Times, The
'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

John W. Kaye : [possibly] Administration of the East India Company, The
'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much interest as I ought to do, in all the out-of-the-way names & places, none of which give me any distinct idea'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

John Malcolm : [possibly] Government of India, The
'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much interest as I ought to do, in all the out-of-the-way names & places, none of which give me any distinct idea'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

: Homeward Mail, The
'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printer's name'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Francis James Child : Ballads
'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecates her own letter writing style and says she is put off by the thought of having to write 'properly']
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Ruth
'[A. Stanley] told me something I liked to hear, & so I shall tell it to you. In Moscow he had seen a good deal of a priest of the Greek Church, - a pure Muscovite - but a very intelligent man. Speaking of forms of religion in England this priest was so well acquainted with the position of dissenting ministers with regard to their congregations that A S was surprised, & enquired where & how he got his knowledge. 'From an English novel. Ruth.''
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Charles Eliot Norton : [articles in the 'Atlantic Monthly' on India and an exhibition]
'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what I've read & liked. Your paper on India, - but then that was not fair, because I knew it was yours, - Floyd Ireson's ride VERY much. Turkey tracts, - yes, I did, & I just defy you, if you said you didn't; and Florentine Mosaics. I cd not read the other story, - and I did not care for Carlyle. I liked yr paper in the first no. on our Exhibition - only there [italics] was [end italics] one Duccio da Siena, & you say there was not.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Carlyle : [article in the 'Atlantic Monthly']
'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what I've read & liked. Your paper on India, - but then that was not fair, because I knew it was yours, - Floyd Ireson's ride VERY much. Turkey tracts, - yes, I did, & I just defy you, if you said you didn't; and Florentine Mosaics. I cd not read the other story, - and I did not care for Carlyle. I liked yr paper in the first no. on our Exhibition - only there [italics] was [end italics] one Duccio da Siena, & you say there was not.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

: Atlantic Monthly
'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what I've read & liked. Your paper on India, - but then that was not fair, because I knew it was yours, - Floyd Ireson's ride VERY much. Turkey tracts, - yes, I did, & I just defy you, if you said you didn't; and Florentine Mosaics. I cd not read the other story, - and I did not care for Carlyle. I liked yr paper in the first no. on our Exhibition - only there [italics] was [end italics] one Duccio da Siena, & you say there was not.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : Scenes from Clerical Life
'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they began as early as Janry or February - They are a discovery of my own, & I am so proud of them. [italics] Do [end italics] read them. I have not a notion who wrote them'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Monckton Milnes : 'Lucknow'
'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such supreme interest as 'Lucknow' because your style (may I say it?) has such a great charm for me. It is such pure beautiful English. I had heard of the forthcoming article on Buckle, without knowing whom it was by. Thank you for telling me'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

: Atlantic Monthly
'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the Catacombs. Marianne & Meta always write the names opposite the articles in the Atlantic'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

William Elder : Biography of Elisha Kent Kane
'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is very ungrateful of me to say this, for Mr Elder sent it me. Next - who is Mr Parton who writes biographies on your side of the water? Barnom, & Aaron Burr - the first I literally [italics] could not [end italics] read, just for the want of any moral feeling at all in it, - the last I have just read, because I wanted to get some knowledge of American society in the last centy & beginning of this, - and to know who Aaron Burr was? There is just the same, or worse, want of any idea of simply [sic] right or wrong, - but I don't come out clear as to what [italics] could [end italics] have been Aaron B's [italics] real [end italics] character'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

James Parton : Life and Times of Aaron Burr, The
'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is very ungrateful of me to say this, for Mr Elder sent it me. Next - who is Mr Parton who writes biographies on your side of the water? Barnom, & Aaron Burr - the first I literally [italics] could not [end italics] read, just for the want of any moral feeling at all in it, - the last I have just read, because I wanted to get some knowledge of American society in the last centy & beginning of this, - and to know who Aaron Burr was? There is just the same, or worse, want of any idea of simply [sic] right or wrong, - but I don't come out clear as to what [italics] could [end italics] have been Aaron B's [italics] real [end italics] character'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

James Parton : [Life of Barnum]
'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is very ungrateful of me to say this, for Mr Elder sent it me. Next - who is Mr Parton who writes biographies on your side of the water? Barnom, & Aaron Burr - the first I literally [italics] could not [end italics] read, just for the want of any moral feeling at all in it, - the last I have just read, because I wanted to get some knowledge of American society in the last centy & beginning of this, - and to know who Aaron Burr was? There is just the same, or worse, want of any idea of simply [sic] right or wrong, - but I don't come out clear as to what [italics] could [end italics] have been Aaron B's [italics] real [end italics] character'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Francis Henry Egerton : Apercu Historique et genealogique
'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Paris. It was in the French language - & contained all the Egerton traditions, and papers relating to the Lord Chancellor Egerton. The Egertons of [italics] Tatton [end italics] know nothing of it. I do not know the present Lord Ellesmere well enough to ask him.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Voltaire : Candide
'I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the "Candide" which he has been so kind as to give me. Will you allow me to offer you my most sincere congratulations on your extraordinary art?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Fortitude
'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911), The Dark Forest (1916) and The Green Mirror (1918)]. But this unlevelness does not worry me in the least. It is constantly found in the greatest novelists, and is natural & inevitable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Duchess of Wrexe
'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911), The Dark Forest (1916) and The Green Mirror (1918)]. But this unlevelness does not worry me in the least. It is constantly found in the greatest novelists, and is natural & inevitable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Victory
'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send "Bealby" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Chance
'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send "Bealby" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Bealby
'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his books; but he didn’t send "Bealby" along, and I lost the list and didn’t get it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Thucydides : [Histories]
'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is the greatest of all historians. Indeed I need say no more than that if I wrote history this is the way I should write it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : L'Education Sentimentale
'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I think France over-rated. You ought to read "Bubu de Montparnasse" of Charles Louis Philippe. This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels. I think "Coeur simple" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read. I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Un Coeur Simple
'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I think France over-rated. You ought to read "Bubu de Montparnasse" of Charles Louis Philippe. This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels. I think "Coeur simple" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read. I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Anatole France : La Rotisserie de la reine Pédauque
'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I think France over-rated. You ought to read "Bubu de Montparnasse" of Charles Louis Philippe. This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels. I think "Coeur simple" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read. I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Anatole France : Thais
'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I think France over-rated. You ought to read "Bubu de Montparnasse" of Charles Louis Philippe. This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels. I think "Coeur simple" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read. I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Charles Louis Philippe : Bubu de Montparnasse
'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I think France over-rated. You ought to read "Bubu de Montparnasse" of Charles Louis Philippe. This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels. I think "Coeur simple" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read. I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Lytton Strachey : Eminent Victorians
'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I think France over-rated. You ought to read "Bubu de Montparnasse" of Charles Louis Philippe. This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels. I think "Coeur simple" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read. I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby
'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday because I had no brain left. It wasn’t so bad in its crude, posterish way. Anyhow, it could be read.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Henry James : The Real Thing
Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from the heart because and only because the work approaching [sic] so near perfection yet does not strike cold.[...] The outlines are so clear the figures so finished, chiselled, carved and brought out[...]. The volume of short stories entitled I think "The Lesson of the Master" [1892] contains a tale called "The Pupil" if I remember rightly where the underlying feeling of the man --his really wide sympathy--is seen nearer the surface.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Unknown

Henry James : The Pupil
Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from the heart because and only because the work approaching [sic] so near perfection yet does not strike cold.[...] The outlines are so clear the figures so finished, chiselled, carved and brought out[...]. The volume of short stories entitled I think "The Lesson of the Master" [1892] contains a tale called "The Pupil" if I remember rightly where the underlying feeling of the man --his really wide sympathy--is seen nearer the surface.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Unknown

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : The Ipane
''I hold "Ipane". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jealousy. There are things in that volume that are like magic and though space and through the distance of regretted years convey to one the actual feeling, the sights, the sounds, the thoughts; one steps on the earth, breathes the air and has the sensation of your past. I know of course every sketch; what was almost a surprise was the extraordinarily good convincing effect of the whole. [...] I have read it already three times.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: Mercure de France
'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you. Thanks. you have given your opinin in words that go straight to my heart. The phrase "who is one of ours" touched me, for, truly I feel bound to France by a deep sympathy [...]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [advertisement for the 'Psychological' magazine]
'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a paper on Charlotte Bronte. Having a very strong interest in the subject I should particularly wish to see that number and if you would kindly direct it to be forwarded to me, I would return the publisher the amount in postage stamps.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Advertisement

Hendschel : Telegraph
[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all quiet and nicely-lighted up; so Flossy began to read a book she had brought with her; and I got Hendschel's Telegraph (the German Bradshaw) off the table, and began to puzzle out my train to Strasbourg to meet Louy, - when, lo & behold, Flossy whispered to me, me, smelling of rum - that Mr Bosanquet had come in! I tucked my head down over my book, & told F.E. to take no notice; but he drew nearer and nearer, pretending to look at the affiches on the walls, until at last he came close, & said 'Mrs G. can I assist you in making out yr train'...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all quiet and nicely-lighted up; so Flossy began to read a book she had brought with her; and I got Hendschel's Telegraph (the German Bradshaw) off the table, and began to puzzle out my train to Strasbourg to meet Louy, - when, lo & behold, Flossy whispered to me, me, smelling of rum - that Mr Bosanquet had come in! I tucked my head down over my book, & told F.E. to take no notice; but he drew nearer and nearer, pretending to look at the affiches on the walls, until at last he came close, & said 'Mrs G. can I assist you in making out yr train'...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Elizabeth Gaskell      Print: Book

Christian Karl Josias Bunsen : Lyra Germanica
'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wished for your appreciation of Kate Winkworth's translation when we were at Heidelberg'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Florence Nightingale : Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hosptal Administration of the British Army
'I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it at one long morning sitting - hardly stirring between breakfast and dinner. I cannot tell you how much I like it, and for such numbers of reasons. First, because you know of a varnish that is as good or better than black-lead for grates (only I wonder what it is). Next, because of the little sentences of real deep wisdom which from their depth and true foundation may be real helps in every direction and to every person; and for the quiet continual devout references to God which make the book a holy one'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Mr Aide : Rita
'I tell [Mr Aide] my "honest opinion" of his [italics] first [end italics] volume at any rate: It introduces one just exactly into the kid of disrepuble [sic] society one keeps clear of with such scrupulous care in real life, - it is not merely [italics] one [end italics] character that is none of the best, - but every one we get a glimpse of is the same description of person. I don't think it is "corrupting" but it is disagreeable, - a sort of dragging one's peticoats through mud. I wish the little gentleman, - who really seems more than commonly good (for a man, - begging your & your son's pardon) had not written this book; because it gives one a sort of distrust of his previous life.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Amos Barton
'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance three pretexts for asking this favour from you. Firstly my delight in the book; and in the "Stories from Clerical Life", ever since the first part of "Amos Barton" in Blackwood. It almost seems presumptuous in me to express all the admiration I feel; you might be tempted to quote Dr Johnson'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede
'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance three pretexts for asking this favour from you. Firstly my delight in the book; and in the "Stories from Clerical Life", ever since the first part of "Amos Barton" in Blackwood. It almost seems presumptuous in me to express all the admiration I feel; you might be tempted to quote Dr Johnson'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : Blackwood's Magazine
'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and say you owe me compensation for an article {of} under which if the wit had been a tithe equal to the wish to abuse I might have winced with pain. As it was I only felt indignant at the bad spirit in which the review of my Life of Charlotte Bronte was written, & half inclined to offer my services to Mr Aytoun the next time he wished to have an article written which should point out with something like keen and bitter perception the short-comings of my books'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede
'I received the copy of "Adam Bede" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to you for it. - I thoroughly admire this writer's works - (I do not call him Mr Elliot, because I know that such is not his real name.) I was brought up in Warwickshire, and recognize the county in every description of natural scenery. I am thoroughly obliged to you for giving it to me; it is a book that it is a real pleasure to have, and if for every article in your Magazine, abusive of me, you will only be so kind as to give me one of the works of the author of "Scenes from Clerical Life", I shall consider myself your debtor'. [Later on the same page, Gaskell says 'One of Mrs Poyser's speeches is as good as a fresh blow of sea-air; and yet {it} she is a true person, and no caricature']
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [American cookery books]
'Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand all the words used - because, you see, [italics] we [end italics] speak English, - but we have made some capital brown bread and several other good things, by the help of them'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which piety & virtue live) are keeping pace, as they should do - She works away at German & Greek - reads carefully many books, - with a fineness of perception & relish which delights me...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley : Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley : Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?)'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

G.W. Dasent : Popular Tales from the Norse
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Times, The
'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of counting - Our Times of today has taken away my breath - Who, What, Wherefore, Why - oh! do be a woman, and give me all possible details - Never mind the House of Commons: it can keep - but my, our, curiosity CAN'T-'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

Herbert Grey : Three Paths, The
'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a novel; but the work is in the form which always assumes that name, nor do I think it is one to be quarrelled with. I suppose you mean that you used the narrative form merely to {convey} introduce certain opinions & thoughts. If so you had better have condensed them into the shape of an Essay. Those in Friends in Council &c. are admirable examples of how much may be said on both sides of any question without any {dogma} decision being finally arrived at, & certainly without any dogmatism. [Gaskell then discusses the merits of the concise essay form] But I believe in spite of yr objection to the term 'novel' you do wish to 'narrate', - and I believe you can do it if you try, - but I think you must observe what is [italics] out [end italics] of you, instead of examining what is [italics] in [end italics] you. [Gaskell explains the merits of this at length]. Just read a few pages of De Foe &c - and you will see the healthy way in which he sets [italics] objects [end italics] not [italics] feelings [end italics] before you. [She advises Grey to use what he observes through every day contact with real people] Think if you can not imagine a complication of events in their life which would form a good plot. (Your plot in The Three paths is very poor; you have not thought enough about it - simply used it as a medium. [She discusses the advantages of tight plotting and advises] Don't intrude yourself into your description. If you but think eagerly of your story till [italics] you see it in action [end italics], words, good simple strong words will come. [she then criticises his overuse of epithets, overlong conversations and allusions, concluding] You see I am very frank-spoken. But I believe you are worth it.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Arthur Helps : Friends in Council
'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a novel; but the work is in the form which always assumes that name, nor do I think it is one to be quarrelled with. I suppose you mean that you used the narrative form merely to {convey} introduce certain opinions & thoughts. If so you had better have condensed them into the shape of an Essay. Those in Friends in Council &c. are admirable examples of how much may be said on both sides of any question without any {dogma} decision being finally arrived at, & certainly without any dogmatism. [Gaskell then discusses the merits of the concise essay form] But I believe in spite of yr objection to the term 'novel' you do wish to 'narrate', - and I believe you can do it if you try, - but I think you must observe what is [italics] out [end italics] of you, instead of examining what is [italics] in [end italics] you. [Gaskell explains the merits of this at length]. Just read a few pages of De Foe &c - and you will see the healthy way in which he sets [italics] objects [end italics] not [italics] feelings [end italics] before you. [She advises Grey to use what he observes through every day contact with real people] Think if you can not imagine a complication of events in their life which would form a good plot. (Your plot in The Three paths is very poor; you have not thought enough about it - simply used it s a medium. [She discusses the advantages of tight plotting and advises] Don't intrude yourself into your description. If you but think eagerly of your story till [italics] you see it in action [end italics], words, good simple strong words will come. [she then criticises his overuse of epithets, overlong conversations and allusions, concluding] You see I am very frank-spoken. But I believe you are worth it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : [unknown]
'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a novel; but the work is in the form which always assumes that name, nor do I think it is one to be quarrelled with. I suppose you mean that you used the narrative form merely to {convey} introduce certain opinions & thoughts. If so you had better have condensed them into the shape of an Essay. Those in Friends in Council &c. are admirable examples of how much may be said on both sides of any question without any {dogma} decision being finally arrived at, & certainly without any dogmatism. [Gaskell then discusses the merits of the concise essay form] But I believe in spite of yr objection to the term 'novel' you do wish to 'narrate', - and I believe you can do it if you try, - but I think you must observe what is [italics] out [end italics] of you, instead of examining what is [italics] in [end italics] you. [Gaskell explains the merits of this at length]. Just read a few pages of De Foe &c - and you will see the healthy way in which he sets [italics] objects [end italics] not [italics] feelings [end italics] before you. [She advises Grey to use what he observes through every day contact with real people] Think if you can not imagine a complication of events in their life which would form a good plot. (Your plot in The Three paths is very poor; you have not thought enough about it - simply used it s a medium. [She discusses the advantages of tight plotting and advises] Don't intrude yourself into your description. If you but think eagerly of your story till [italics] you see it in action [end italics], words, good simple strong words will come. [she then criticises his overuse of epithets, overlong conversations and allusions, concluding] You see I am very frank-spoken. But I believe you are worth it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Hugh Clifford : In a Corner of Asia
'I received the book only three hours ago--and it is only too short! I've read it twice.[...]. Many thanks. I've lived for a few hours in your pages.Of the sketches I've not previously seen, "The Central Gaol" and "The Vigil of Pa' Tua" are the two I like the best. Of the others,"The Death March" has always been my favorite; indeed all are absorbing--to me at least.' Thereafter follow almost three pages of detailed and constructive criticism.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books she [is] wanting to read than she can get through, being a very slow reader.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

Robert Chambers : Domestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution
'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our four girls could see something of Scotland'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Times, The
'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote Oakfield, - and married somebody within a fortnight after first seeing her, - or some such rash proceeding'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

Henrietta Jenkin : Cousin Stella
'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Henrietta Jenkin : Cousin Stella
'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

Henry Brooke : Fool of Quality, The
'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : On Liberty
'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conjectured that was derogatory to your wife would wound you most deeply. And therefore I now write to express my deep regret that you received such pain through me.' [Gaskell is referring to the printing of a letter about John Stuart Mill's future wife in her Life of Charlotte Bronte, to which he had reacted angrily].
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Frederick William Farrer : Eric
'Eric, - oh my dear Harrie I have always been meaning to read it,& never have. You see I was out of the house at Heidelberg when Marianne & Julia read it'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne and Julia Gaskell     Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede
'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but Miss Evans' life taken at the best construction, does so jar against the beautiful book that one cannot help hoping against hope'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [review of his own 'Idylls of the King']
'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson's reading it'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred, Lord Tennyson      Print: Serial / periodical

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The
'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget whh) of de Quincey's Miscellanies that relates to the Lakes, - places & people as they were in his day. Try for this last, if you don't get it elsewhere at Mrs Nicholson's circulating library at Ambleside'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Miscellanies
'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget whh) of de Quincey's Miscellanies that relates to the Lakes, - places & people as they were in his day. Try for this last, if you don't get it elsewhere at Mrs Nicholson's circulating library at Ambleside'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Complete Guide to the English Lakes
'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Dorothy Wordsworth : [MS narrative]
'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordsworth said it was the most perfect [italics] English [end italics] narrative he ever read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Manuscript: Unknown

William White : Travel in Northumberland and the Border
'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I met them in yr letter.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : Marble Faun, The
'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will perplex the English public pretty considerably.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley : Historical Memorials of Canterbury
'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Janet's Repentance
'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes from Clerical Life - I set "Janet's Repentance" above all, still.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Ellen Raynard : Missing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of The London Poor
'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The book came in the middle of a storm of wind & rain on Saturday Evening, and I began to read it, and pretty nearly finished it before I went to bed. It is very interesting, - and is indeed the discovery of the "Missing Link".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Macmillan's Magazine
'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for whose benefit we are come, as she has outgrown her strength - six inches in the last twelve months. - We are delighted with [italics] our [end italics] type, & that we don't print in double columns which is so trying to the eyes; we put the page of the Virginians by a page of Macmillan last night & you can't think how much more legible [italics] ours [end italics] was.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia     Print: Serial / periodical

William Makepeace Thackeray : Virginians, The
'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for whose benefit we are come, as she has outgrown her strength - six inches in the last twelve months. - We are delighted with [italics] our [end italics] type, & that we don't print in double columns which is so trying to the eyes; we put the page of the Virginians by a page of Macmillan last night & you can't think how much more legible [italics] ours [end italics] was.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia     Print: Book, Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : Scenes from Clerical Life
'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede
'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : 'Amos Barton'
'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Mahoney : [Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the persona of 'Father Prout']
'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine promises to be a famous success; and I enjoy - now you know [italics] you [end italics] did, so you need not look moral - the Saturday's cutting up of 'Dead [?heart]; - oh [italics] how [end italics] stupid it was. - I don't think we shall ever be so stupid.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Mahoney : [Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart']
'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine promises to be a famous success; and I enjoy - now you know [italics] you [end italics] did, so you need not look moral - the Saturday's cutting up of 'Dead[?heart]; - oh [italics] how [end italics] stupid it was. - I don't think we shall ever be so stupid.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Anthony Trollope : Framley Parsonage
'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

William Makepeace Thackeray : Lovel the Widower
'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine
'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : All the Year Round [article]
'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Skimpole'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Madame Mohl : [review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame Recamier]
'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her letter in, - I know I can trust you, - and we are just off to Church. [italics] Please [end italics] return it; it will explain that what you have is the National R. article as it was [italics] first written [end italics] - twice as long as it was when printed, - [italics] she [end italics] thinks the best part was taken out'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Henrietta Camilla Jenkin : Cousin Stella
'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I knew & could tell them all about the authoress'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Framley Parsonage
'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and every one I know is always dreading the [italics] last [end italics] number. I hope he will make the jilting of Griselda a long while a-doing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Annual Register
'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. The Annual Register has been [italics] carefully [end italics] looked over [italics] months [end italics] ago, & it is of no use going over the ground again'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Melle Mori
'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Charles Eliot Norton : New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations
'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to have of my own, & in print, ever since you let me read it in MS. Thank you so [italics] very [end italics] much for it. I do so value it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

George Eliot [pseud] : Mill on the Floss, The
'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be grateful enough to write this letter'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth : Scarsworth
'Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth seeks your acquaintance & society [because] he has a novel, - partly read to Mrs Nicholls the last time she was at Gawthrop, - partly to me, - [italics] wholly [end italics] to many of his friends - a novel of Lancashire society, whh is at present in MS & which he wants you to publish I have no doubt.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth      Print: Book

[unknown] : [anthology of laudatory sonnets]
'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent to her 'from the author', & my own dear precious sonnet.' [Gaskell then transcribes the sonnet, beginning 'Sweet Vocalist; the Nightingale of sound!', asking smith - facetiously? - if he would like it for the Cornhill]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : London Guardian
'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they will both go to one of the Septr Representations'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [German/English dictionary]
'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Thomas, Lord Macaulay : Biographies
'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obligation to sit and settle to a little steady reading every day'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence     Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : History of Latin Christianity
'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obligation to sit and settle to a little steady reading every day'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence     Print: Book

: newspapers
Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hysterical transports of some public organs for the simple reason that I expected to see displayed all the valour, perseverance, devotion which in fact have been displayed. Confound these papers. From the tone of some of them one would have thought they expected the artillery to clear out at a gallop across hills and ravines[...]. Those infernal scribblers are rank outsiders .'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

: Blackwood's Magazine
'I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising advance. I've just finished reading it having waited for the last inst: [...] The French article [about the Dreyfus case] in the last number I dislike frankly as to tone. It is not "Maga's" tone either; it does not give an impression of intelligence behind the words--it is not quite candid. [...] The navy article awfully interesting and the Fashon in fiction simply delightful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

John Buchan : The Far Islands
'I prefer to say nothing critical about John Buchan's story'. Hence follow more than twenty lines of quite strong and pointed, almost entirely negative, criticism.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Ivan Turgenev : A Desperate Character and Other Stories
'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully good--and true. Thanks to you both.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Hugh Clifford : Father Rouellet
'As to your sketch (for it is that) in last "B'wood", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effective.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [Manchester newspaper]
'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

John Tyndall : Glaciers of the Alps, The
'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

Wilhelm Meinhold : Amber Witch, The
'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Elizabeth Gaskell      Print: Book

Charles Eliot Norton : Notes of Travel and Study in Italy
'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art & Study in Italy, - thank you [italics] so [end italics] much for it'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Edward Wilberforce : 'Purgatory'
'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforce' the young man we all used to meet in Rome; a very odd-looking, and as [italics] we [end italics] thought conceited person. But the poem tho' unpleasing from it's subject - which some people would say 'removes it from the province of art', - (and then where would Dante go?) is very strong & fine, so much more so than I should have expected from the author.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Fraser's Magazine
'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforce' the young man we all used to meet in Rome; a very odd-looking, and as [italics] we [end italics] thought conceited person. But the poem tho' unpleasing from it's subject - which some people would say 'removes it from the province of art', - (and then where would Dante go?) is very strong & fine, so much more so than I should have expected from the author.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Atlantic Monthly
'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a letter of introduction to you'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Bosanquet      Print: Serial / periodical

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Elsie Venner
'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or Margaret     Print: Book

Henry Vaughan : Silex Scintillans
'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Henry Vaughan : They are all gone into the world of light
'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper acconts of events in America in run up to Civil War]
'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing is Panorama painting; but still these three particulars alluded to above (3-months' service men leaving, - major leaving with wounded colonel, - New York enthusiasm) seem generally accepted as [italics] facts [end italics] by all papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

Mr Laing : Pastoral Visits
'I never saw the book of Mr Laings ('Pastoral Visits') which you speak of; and I should much like to see it, if you have a copy to spare.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Kay Shuttleworth      Print: Book

Charles Eliot Norton : [paper on 'The Advantages of Defeat]
'I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble paper of yours on the Advantages of Defeat, - a paper which I have circulated far & wide among my friends, - and I only wish I had more of the same kind to show, - in order to make us English know you Americans better.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Nathaniel Hawthorne : Marble Faun, The
'['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as every one in England had, the "Cleopatra chapter", and assures them that she is proud of being able to say to people that she had been acquainted from the first with the statue commemmorated']' Letter reproduced in this edition from a printed source which gives this precis.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The Plattner Story and Others
'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription on the fly-leaf; for the more I know of you--in our inconclusive talks--the more I feel that such should be the terms of our intercourse. I've of course read the book more than once. You get hold of one by your immense power of presentation, by your capacity to give shape, colour, aspect to the invisible.[...] ' Hence follows about twenty lines of appreciative comment and some negative criticism of one of the stories "The Cone".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : [Letters]
'(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be well-educated young lady who knew nothing about Madame de Sevigne, who had been like a well-known friend to me all my life.)'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Hamilton Aide : Carr of Carrlyon
'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more valuable;) and then I thought I would read it first: and very pleasant it was to be carried out of murky smoky Manchester into something so purely Italian as the beginning is, - it is a regular atmosphere of Italy; I like the story much the best of any of his, don't you?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Frederick Harrison : [MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire]
'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I could have told him more, or set him to rights; but there is an immense deal of truth in the whole, especially considering that it was gathered by one man in the short space of 3 weeks'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

T. S. Eliot : unknown
'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quartermasters or Interpreters Corps) has an intimate knowledge of the French language. Also that he is a writer of distinguished merit, for whose work personally I have a great admiration.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

William Wetmore Story : Cleopatra
'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in writing to thank you for it. Please accept now my best thanks for it. I admired it as a whole quite as much as I had expected to do from the extracts that I had seen in the reviews. Cleopatra seems to be the special means of inspiration for Mr Story, for I think he has never in sculpture equlled his marble Cleopatra; and certainly this poem is by far the finest that he has ever written. Thanking you again for the pleasure I had in reading it'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth C. Akers : Two Summers
'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 1862.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [American newspaper extracts]
'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 1862.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

Spencer Wilkinson : Sunday Times articles
'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the foremost European authorities. This man does not in the least hide his notions about the running of the British Army by the old cavalry crew at the War Office.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

Dorothy M. Richardson : Backwater
'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : In a German Tramp
'[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "german Tramp" is not only excellent[...] but it is something more. Of your short pieces I don't know but this this is the one I like best. The execution has a vigour-the right touch-- and an ease that delight me.' Hence follows around ten lines of appreciative criticism including a reference to two other stories published in the Saturday Review in 1899.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : The Two Gentlemen of Verona
In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his father Apollonius N. Korzeniowski translated into Polish Victor Hugo's "La Legende des Siecles", "Travailleurs de la Mer" and " Hernani", Alfred de Vigny's " Chatterton", Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", "As You Like It", "Two Gentlemen of Verona", "A Comedy of Errors" and "Othello" . 'These I remember seeing in proofs when sent for his correction.[...] Some of these I've read when I could be no more than eight or nine years old.' [See also additional comments.]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, One page of his father's translation into Polish.

Victor Hugo : Les Travailleurs de la Mer
'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, and to his perfect satisfaction, as he lay on the bed not being very well at the time, the proofs of his translation of Victor Hugo's "Toilers of the Sea". Such was[...] my first introduction to the sea in literature. [...] I am not likely to forget the process of being trained in the art of reading aloud.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish.

Jules Michelet : French Revolution
'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Buta
'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good in form and especially in expression.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Ivan Turgenev : The Jew and Other Stories
'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Also "Enough" worth reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

H. G. Wells : The Soul of a Bishop
'This is a very good number. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: The New Statesman
'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Frank Swinnerton : Shops and Houses
'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point that I was obliged to buy a second copy. I think this book shows marked development on the part of the author. There are about 150 pp. as good as the very best few pages of "On the Staircase", & some much better.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Frank Swinnerton : On the Staircase
'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point that I was obliged to buy a second copy. I think this book shows marked development on the part of the author. There are about 150 pp. as good as the very best few pages of "On the Staircase", & some much better.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

E.V. Lucas : The Sane Star
'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the play. [The Sane Star]... Play returned herewith. A.B.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

: National News
'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminiscences. . .'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

James T. Fields : "On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature
'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e. De Quincey's three daughters], though Papa, like the dutiful parent he is, and though a "vain man", admits that our judgment in such matters is equal if not sometimes better than his. However in this case we one and all came separately to the conclusion that there was exquisite poetic grace and beauty in the lines. Who is the Poet you sent the mosses too [sic]? for we don't know one who has spoken of Venice that has been living since you could have written this. My sister Florence says that with one or two exceptions in the case of Longfellow and that most beautiful of writers Hawthorne, yours is nearly the only good thing in the book. I have not had time to look it over yet.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence De Quincey      Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : "Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature
'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e. De Quincey's three daughters], though Papa, like the dutiful parent he is, and though a "vain man", admits that our judgment in such matters is equal if not sometimes better than his. However in this case we one and all came separately to the conclusion that there was exquisite poetic grace and beauty in the lines. Who is the Poet you sent the mosses too [sic]? for we don't know one who has spoken of Venice that has been living since you could have written this. My sister Florence says that with one or two exceptions in the case of Longfellow and that most beautiful of writers Hawthorne, yours is nearly the only good thing in the book. I have not had time to look it over yet.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence De Quincey      Print: Book

Henry W. Longfellow : "Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature
'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e. De Quincey's three daughters], though Papa, like the dutiful parent he is, and though a "vain man", admits that our judgment in such matters is equal if not sometimes better than his. However in this case we one and all came separately to the conclusion that there was exquisite poetic grace and beauty in the lines. Who is the Poet you sent the mosses too [sic]? for we don't know one who has spoken of Venice that has been living since you could have written this. My sister Florence says that with one or two exceptions in the case of Longfellow and that most beautiful of writers Hawthorne, yours is nearly the only good thing in the book. I have not had time to look it over yet.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence De Quincey      Print: Book

James T. Fields : "On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature
'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e. De Quincey's three daughters], though Papa, like the dutiful parent he is, and though a "vain man", admits that our judgment in such matters is equal if not sometimes better than his. However in this case we one and all came separately to the conclusion that there was exquisite poetic grace and beauty in the lines. Who is the Poet you sent the mosses too [sic]? for we don't know one who has spoken of Venice that has been living since you could have written this. My sister Florence says that with one or two exceptions in the case of Longfellow and that most beautiful of writers Hawthorne, yours is nearly the only good thing in the book. I have not had time to look it over yet.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey      Print: Book

Marguerite Poradowska : Pour Noemi
'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from one end to the other. It's very good. It's very good! The characters are defined with a precision which I envy in you. [...] I love the book.There is a very gentle charm and also power in the style.' Hence follows five more lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton     Print: Book

H.G. Wells : Love and Mr Lewisham
'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.' Hence follow five more lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Richard Doyle : Bird's-eye Views of Society
'Thank you extremely for your kind present of Doyle's clever "Bird's-eye Views of Society", which have already been highly approved of in this their new form by my daughters, who have been spending their time over it ever since its arrival'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne, 'Meta' and Julia Gaskell     Print: Book

[n/a] : [Report of the Sanitary Commission]
'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one wanted to know.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Atlantic Monthly
'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an [italics] over [enditalics]-stern & violent man?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Oliver Wendell Holmes : [poem]
'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who did not know it; - & we did so grieve!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : [Letters]
'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

John Addington Symonds : Thoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863
'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which looks to me [italics] very [end italics] clever, & Mr Symonds wants to know if it can go into the Cornhill for January'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

James Russell Lowell : Fireside Travels
'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I was so entirely delighted with that book, and should [italics] so [end italics] like to have it [italics] from him [end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Charles Lever : Tony Butler
'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "Fireside Travels".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Maggie Elliott : [story with title like 'Jem']
'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol - author of "Jem" (something) - the Dale Boy, in the Febry or March No of 1864 Fraser's Magazine - She would do it well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford
'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was going to say, [italics] enjoy [end italics] it! (but that would not be pretty!) laugh over it afresh! [...] I am so glad your mother likes it too! [Gaskell then relates an anecdote that she 'dared not' put in the book]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford
'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was going to say, [italics] enjoy [end italics] it! (but that would not be pretty!) laugh over it afresh! [...] I am so glad your mother likes it too! [Gaskell then relates an anecdote that she 'dared not' put in the book]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford
'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was going to say, [italics] enjoy [end italics] it! (but that would not be pretty!) laugh over it afresh! [...] I am so glad your mother likes it too! [Gaskell then relates an anecdote that she 'dared not' put in the book]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Ruskin      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight)
''The MS heralded by your letter arrived tbhis morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: technically and in the clearness of the idea it is superior to the "Villa [Rubein]". Jack [Galsworthy] is making giant strides;[...]' Hence follows twenty lines of encouragement.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Daily News
'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this paper for?" said Florence {?} and she opened it, - & read out "Assassination of President Lincoln". My heart burnt within me with indignation & grief, - we could think of nothing else'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Elizabeth Crompton      Print: Newspaper

: [reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney]
'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see in reviews.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Cruz Alta
'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly all, except "Cruz Alta" itself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[unknown] : [book on portraits of Dante]
'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselves seem to carry one so [italics] up [end italics] into a ["]purer aether, a diviner air".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

James R. Lowell : Fireside Travels
'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say,) and with that charming little bit of writing from you at the beginning. I don't mean that I did not delight in the book from the very first time I read a page in it; but the sense of property in it gives a double value, and the sense of successful beggary is very charming, though perhaps I ought to be ashamed. Only I am [italics] not [end italics], because I [italics] am [end italics] successful. I have known you so long! I knew serious poems of yours long ago, - twenty years or so; but my personal knowledge of you began in Rome 1857, - when (did you know it?) you and one other went about with the dear Storys, and me and mine up and down Rome [in the sense, it seems, that Charles Eliot Norton spoke much of Lowell - this is elaborated on...] Well then the Bigelow papers - I think I could stand a Civil Service Examination in them; and we had three copies of our own, till a little daughter married, and carried off one.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

James R. Lowell : [poems]
'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say,) and with that charming little bit of writing from you at the beginning. I don't mean that I did not delight in the book from the very first time I read a page in it; but the sense of property in it gives a double value, and the sense of successful beggary is very charming, though perhaps I ought to be ashamed. Only I am [italics] not [end italics], because I [italics] am [end italics] successful. I have known you so long! I knew serious poems of yours long ago, - twenty years or so; but my personal knowledge of you began in Rome 1857, - when (did you know it?) you and one other went about with the dear Storys, and me and mine up and down Rome [in the sense, it seems, that Charles Eliot Norton spoke much of Lowell - this is elaborated on...] Well then the Bigelow papers - I think I could stand a Civil Service Examination in them; and we had three copies of our own, till a little daughter married, and carried off one.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Unknown

James R. Lowell : Biglow Papers, The
'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say,) and with that charming little bit of writing from you at the beginning. I don't mean that I did not delight in the book from the very first time I read a page in it; but the sense of property in it gives a double value, and the sense of successful beggary is very charming, though perhaps I ought to be ashamed. Only I am [italics] not [end italics], because I [italics] am [end italics] successful. I have known you so long! I knew serious poems of yours long ago, - twenty years or so; but my personal knowledge of you began in Rome 1857, - when (did you know it?) you and one other went about with the dear Storys, and me and mine up and down Rome [in the sense, it seems, that Charles Eliot Norton spoke much of Lowell - this is elaborated on...] Well then the Bigelow papers - I think I could stand a Civil Service Examination in them; and we had three copies of our own, till a little daughter married, and carried off one.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Cinque Ports
'Many thanks for the "Cinque Ports" which came today as a most agreeable surprise. In the matter of outward characteristics the book has substance, appearance an air of sober finish which to me is very pleasing. [...] Hueffer's talent has been from the first sympathetic to me. throughout his feeling is true and his expression genuine with ease and moderation.' Hence follow nine lines of restrained praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette
'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [italics] are [end italics] opened; but not considered objectionable I suppose.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

John Galsworthy : The Villa Rubein
'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I had tried to talk of the book so many times that it seemed to have become part of me, that part of belief amd thought so intimate that it cannot be put into speech as if it cannot live apart from one coherent self.' [See also additional comments].
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Olive Garnett : The Petersburg Tales
'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable,constructed and inhabited. It hath [sic] foundation and life.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Silence
'I've read "The Silence" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you together with the MS. Here I will only say that I feel strongly my good fortune in being able to sympathise more and more with your work, with its spirit, feeling and fundamental conception.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Frank Challice Constable : (letter)
'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most intetesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attractive. It is at the same time a most flattering recognition of my qualities and shortcomings. I shall write to Mr Constable in a day or two.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Letter

: Blackwood's Magazine.
'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace a treat, an event.' Hence follows a short commentary on four items in the issue of Blackwood's Magazine referred to.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

William Robert Kennedy : Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in the Navy
'I have never had the pleasure of meeting him [Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy] ; but I've read and admired his book.[...] I re-read Admiral Kennedy's book with gratitude and have a great affection for the man [...].' Interspersed are ten lines of rather nostalgic praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

David Meldrum : The Conquest of Charlotte
'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath of fresh air to a breast oppressed by all the fumes and cheap perfumes of fiction that is [sic ]thrown on the altar of publicity in the hopes of propitiating the god of big sales. It is refreshing indeed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

John Galsworthy : A Man of Devon
'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'. Hence follows a page of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Vanished Arcadia
'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["The Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiration for its expression.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Kubla Khan
'... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Euripides : The Bacchae
'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Julia Mary Cartwright Ady : The Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart.
'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent, but the man.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Alice Stopford Green : Town Life in the Fifteenth Century
'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

J.W. Mackail : Life of William Morris
'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Austen Henry Layard : Nineveh
'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

unknown : [History of Music]
'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Rhoda Broughton : Not Wisely but Too Well
'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women
'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : The Golden Bowl
'...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hardworking review for her...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Walt Whitman : Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him quite tolerably.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : The Discovery of the Future
'The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific eloquence--that is eloquence appealing not to the passions like the eloquence of the orator but to the reason..[...] All the criticism I've seen (now after reading the lecture) strike me as extremely unfair --[...] '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

David Meldrum : (An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte
'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

(Enoch) Arnold Bennett : A Man from the North.
'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am profoundly impressed with the achievement of style.[...] as you may suppose I've read the book more than once. Unfortunately I don't know how to criticise; to discuss however I am ready.' Hence follow about ten lines of constructive criticism of what Conrad calls the 'design' of the novel.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Hugh Clifford : Bushwhacking and Other Sketches
'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volume.[...]The book I consider as the best expression of your talent. All is seen and all is felt, with that gift of expression peculiar to you which suggests action itself underneath the record of vision and emotion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Making of Modern Verse
'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : Rossetti
'Thanks for the "Rossetti". My opinion of it you know but I am reading it carefully. It is good.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid.Of the thing itself I think but little, so that her merit shines with the greater lustre.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Elizabeth Martindale : Margaret Hever
'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful.[...] I do not want to deface the pages tho' I have meditated them.[...] The passages I have written on loose sheets embody my criticism which is concerned solely with the technique.' Hence follow five lines of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Guy de Maupassant : [Stories]
'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

(Enoch) Arnold Bennett : Anna of the Five Towns
'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to read your book. I read it once, twice,then kept it upstairs for dipping into when I came up to bed.' Hence follow twenty lines of praise and an invitation to Pent Farm to further discuss the work.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Success
'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ["Success"] had produced on me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Neil Munro : Children of the Tempest
'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".' Conrad then very briefly mentions two stories, one by Neil Munro.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans
'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". I read them at your age in that order;[..] Thirty four years ago is a long long time to look back upon.' Hence follows further comments about the language and content.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : The Deerslayer
'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". I read them at your age in that order;[..] Thirty four years ago is a long long time to look back upon.' Hence follows further comments about the language and content.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : The Prairie
'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". I read them at your age in that order;[..] Thirty four years ago is a long long time to look back upon.' Hence follows further comments about the language and content.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night, Or What You Will.
'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful part; and I got them to put off my rehearsals to the last moment, so that I may get a fortnight with you in London and a fortnight with Bob in France: for that must be done this time, [italics]couteque coute [end italics]. I am not altogether satisfied that I shall do Orsino [italics]comme il faut[end italics]; but the Jenkins are pleased, and that is the great affair.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Julia Kavanagh : Rachel Gray
'Meta & I have read this 1st vol of Rachel Gray - I think it very interesting'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth and Margaret (Meta) Gaskell     Print: Book

William Cox Bennett : Baby May and Other Poems on Infants
'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most tempting, and I mean to take it with me to Bolton Abbey, whither I am on the point of going. But independently of the intrinsic value of the poem, there is the great pleasure of receiving marks of approbation and sympathy from distant and unknown friends; (and such I may call you, may I not?) especially from one, first known to me through "Baby May" two or three years ago, but every poem of whose has made me feel to know and like him better and better.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William Cox Bennett : Triumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad
'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most tempting, and I mean to take it with me to Bolton Abbey, whither I am on the point of going. But independently of the intrinsic value of the poem, there is the great pleasure of receiving marks of approbation and sympathy from distant and unknown friends; (and such I may call you, may I not?) especially from one, first known to me through "Baby May" two or three years ago, but every poem of whose has made me feel to know and like him better and better.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia
'Miss Jewsbury lay on the floor and read half through the Essays of Elia and called our drawing room "such an ugly room in which we should always be unhappy".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Jewsbury      Print: Book

Julius Hare : Guesses at Truth
'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Inquirer, The
'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [a history of the French Revolution]
'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Gaskell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : Bessy's Troubles at Home
'The children who like Bessy's Troubles are great geese, & no judges at all, which children generally are, for it is complete rubbish I am sorry to say'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: 'children', presumably known to Marianne Gaskell     Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Gaskell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Times, The
'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "Poor Capt Duckworth much lamented both by officers and men". That is all we know at present'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

Charlotte Bronte : [letters]
'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way of expressing herself must have been different to common'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

: various newspapers and periodicals
'The review [in the "Spectator"] is good is it not.The "Speaker" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That is also a good review. Upon the whole the "Press" is good. The provincila papers seem to catch on to Jim. They sent me cuttings from Ed'gh. The Bradford "Observer" was most appreciative.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : [letters]
'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (very clever) criticism on Thackeray, man and writings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

Ellen Nussey : [account of Anne Bronte's death]
'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as she cannot bear that you should remain any longer unthanked for your most interesting account of Miss Anne Bronte's death at Scarborough, which she has had much peasure in reading, and which she hopes you will allow her to make use of in the Memoir.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Bronte : [letters]
'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are almost more beautiful than any others of Miss Bronte's that she has seen.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : ['standard works'; not novels]
'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you some advice as to what books to read. Mama wants to know how Miss Bronte can have become acquainted with the books that she mentions to you. From Keighley Mama knows she could get novels but where such standard works as Miss Bronte refers to in her letters were obtained is a puzzle to Mama. At Haworth Mama says she did not see many books except quite new ones that had been given to Miss Bronte since she became famous. If you would kindly let her know all you know.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon : [unknown]
'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Paris to see her [Julia, her daughter, who was unwell] for myself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [French]
'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Adam Smith : [unknown]
'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Niall etc. & "has no sense of humour but takes everything literally".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Thompson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [letter to Marianne Gaskell]
'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at the same time which I snatched up and I could not believe I should be equally unfortunate with the second, but when I saw yours it was irresistible to read it; quite by way of chaperonage of course, and not a bit for gossipry. However, there is not much news of any kind in it, as you will find.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yesterday morning. I beg to enclose a Post Office Order for the amount.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell      Print: Book

Julia Kavanagh : [possibly] French Women of Letters
'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it before long.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: 'the Heald girls'     Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Rime of the Ancient mariner, The
'[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, - for each figure was motionless and bright, & the smooth current bore them past so noiselessly & still.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell      Print: Book

Sacheverall Sitwell : All Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical Fantasia
'The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than agree with him, that the passage about Pyramus and Thisbe will, in the future, be regarded as one of the greatest passages in English literature. As I say, I agree, but the whole book in its entirety is to me like some wonderful and unspeakably moving music. It excites one, moves one, intoxicates one to an incredible degree. The worst is, it unfits one for daily life. To have to eat one's lunch in the middle of reading it is practically impossible. And I got, literally, no sleep after it, on Friday night. I couldn't sleep after it. This isn't talent - not even great talent- not even a great gift - it is genius. You know what my pride in you is. I am most terribly proud to be your sister.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

E M Forster : The Eternal Moment
'I can't tell you what delight and happiness The Eternal Moment has been to me, and I can't thank you enough for your very great kindness in sending it to me. Even though I was undergoing the horrors of a bad attack of influenza, I realised what a wonderful book it is. Well, all I know is that "The Machine Stops" made me feel as though I had come out of dark tunnel in which I had always lived into an immense open space, and were seeing things living for the first time. I believe it is the most tremendous short story of our generation. But then the whole book has got every quality of beauty and truth and illumination. I do think "The Point of It" is such a wonderful story too, and "The Eternal Moment" is enough to frighten one out of one's wits - but not to frighten one only. It is, in a way, the most terrifying ghost story I have ever read. The strange thing about these stories is that every time one reads them and I've read them all several times already, one finds fresh beauties in them. They seem to have an inexhaustible store.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Robert Chambers : Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certain power in tying a knot -- -- (in mating a system) -- but it is not a love-knot, & it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books -- Did the thought ever strike you of [italics]Mr. [Andrew] Crosse having anything to do with the writing[end italics]? I understand that Sir Richard Vivian [sic] denies it determinedly -- & his brother, who visits here, does it for him besides, by all manner of oaths.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Le Juif errant
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845: 'I have been so low, and weary, & tired of life [...] Yesterday, I went to bed at four o'clock -- & even the ninth volume of the "Juif" would not animate me as it should.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Raymond Brucker and Michel Masson : Le macon
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845: 'Do you know "Le macon" by Michel Raymond --? It is not as vivid as most of these books from France, -- nor as passionate, -- but it is interesting as a picture of the life of the people in Paris & I have read it with pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Delphine de Girardin : L'Ecole des journalistes
'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a Bruxelles edition with serveral feuilletons about it appended thereunto, especially a letter to the authoress by Jules Janin, one of his best'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Odes et Ballades (volume 1)
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 March 1845: 'I have the first volume of Victor Hugo's "Odes et Ballades," but they are slavishly loyal to those vile old Bourbons. What could he see in them? I suppose I shall like the second volume better.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 19 March 1845: 'Mind you read Andersen's "Improvisatore." I have just finished it, -- & am charmed, -- though of story, there is none, & of character, not much more. But the sense of inner life throughout it, & the exquisite visions & breathings into Italy, quite take away one's breath for pleasure. And then, there is a memoir of the author which interests one in him, for a beginning. He is a real poet, .. this Andersen, -- & worthy of being a countryman of Hamlet ... the Dane par excellence.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : Jeanne
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1845: 'Read George Sand's "Jeanne". It is full of beauty, of profound beauty & significance, .. & is pure besides [...] though the heroine is somewhat too divinely idiotic, -- of a stupidity, a little too gross. And yet I am scarcely sure now, .. although I felt so when I was reading the book -- it is a noble & singular conception, & gives proof of what may be called an heroic imagination.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Nichols : Don Juan
'Yesterday, I underwent one of the greatest experiences in my life - at a "Poets Reading" in aid of charity. The whole thing made one feel like a bird that has blundered into a room and is bumping its head against the ceiling in trying to get out. Bob Nichols read a whole Act (I suppose it was a whole Act, it certainly lasted for forty minutes) of his unpublished poetic drama "Don Juan" with appropriate face and gesture, but not, thank heavens, appropriate action. At moments one did not know if one was in Church or a Music-hall. But I expect Bob's "Don Juan" will do a lot of good, morally speaking, for if those who lead harum-scarum lives have got to be such a bore as that, nobody is going to risk it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Manuscript: Unknown

Frederic Soulie : Le Bananier
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'A most singular book of Eugene Sue's [sic] I have read lately, the whole front of which is directed against slave-emancipation & the part which England has played in it [...] The scene is laid in a sugar plantation in the West Indies, & the book, from its very imbecility, is worth your looking into -- Very weak it is, to be sure, -- & outrageously absurd -- and you will see at once that a philanthropist & liberal who advocates the slave-trade, can scarcely be [italics]thorough[end italics] & consistently cordial in free opinions.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne and Mary Gillies : A Story Book of Country Scenes
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years old might be too old for it, -- but, in general, I do not quarrel with the fitnesses [...] I remember a little book which was a favorite in our nursery, called "A visit to a farm-house [by S.W.]," with precisely the same characteristics, & a better & more interesting general construction. There are a few touches more of poetry in this book, -- owing to Mr. Horne, of course, but the defect is the absolute want of reference to Deity, as creator, which the child looks for, .. which the first instinct of the child looks out to meet. Not that I advocate the teaching of theological systems to children of that early age; but that if the sense of beauty is to be educated, the sense of God should be educated also.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

S. W. : A Visit to a Farm-house
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years old might be too old for it, -- but, in general, I do not quarrel with the fitnesses [...] I remember a little book which was a favourite in our nursery, called "A visit to a farm-house," with precisely the same characteristics, & a better & more interesting general construction.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Moulton-Barrett family (children)     Print: Book

: The Athenaeum
Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 12 April 1845: 'I have been detained from writing to you by reading the Athenaeum of today.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Bernard : Un homme serieux
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles Bernard : Le Paravent
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Charles Bernard : Une Aventure de magistrat
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Sand : Rose et Blanche
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" [sic] (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Stendhal : Le rouge et le noir
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'I must beg you to order & read "Le rouge et le noir" by a M. de Stendhal .. a "nom de guerre" I fancy. I wish I knew the names of any other books written by him. This, which I shd. not dare to name to a person in the world except you, so dark & deep is the colouring, is very striking & powerful & full of deep significance [...] It is, as to simple power, a first-class book according to my impression, -- though painful & noxious in many ways. But it is a book for you to read at all risks -- you must certainly read it for the power's sake. It has ridden me like an incubus for several days.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Henriette Etiennette Fanny Reybaud : Deux a deux
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'We shall find no where on the earth, I believe, the climate of Paradise; -- not even at Hyeres. In Mdme. Charles Reybeaud's [sic] "Deux a deux," which interested me more than any book of hers I have read since, .. (I withdraw my praise of her, -- she is a weak commonplace writer, I think, --) there was some good praise of Hyeres & the orange trees.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Caroline Norton : 'The Child of the Islands' (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 30 April 1845: 'You will see the announcement of Mrs. Norton's new poem on the "Child of the Islands", namely our little Prince of Wales, .. in which she exhorts him to all manner of righteousness & justice & proper kingliness. I have read the poem only in extracts as yet, -- but the melody of cadence & eloquence of thought & tongue seem very delectable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Benjamin Disraeli : Vivian Grey
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [...] There is a story of D'Israeli's, an old one, with an episode of strange interest, or so I found it years ago, -- well, you go breathlessly on with the people of it, page after page, till at last the end [italics]must[end italics] come, you feel -- and the tangled threads draw to one, and an out-of-door feast in the woods helps you .. that is, helps them, the people, wonderfully on and lo, dinner is done, and Vivian Grey is here, and Violet Fane there [...] At this moment, Mr Somebody, a good man [...] "in answer from a question from Violet, drew from his pocket a small, neatly written manuscript, and, seating himself on an inverted wine-cooler, proceeded to read the following brief remarks upon the characteristics of the Maeso-gothic literature" -- This ends the page, -- which you don't turn at once! But when you [italics]do[end italics], in bitterness of soul, turn it, you read -- "On consideration, I" (Ben, himself) "shall keep them for Mr Colburn's 'New Magazine" -- and deeply you draw thankful breath!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts)
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'That book you like so, the Danish novel, must be full of truth & beauty, to judge from the few extracts I have seen in Reviews. That a Dane should write so, confirms me in an old belief -- that Italy is stuff for the use of the North, and no more: pure Poetry there is none, nearly as possible none, in Dante even [...] strange that those great wide black eyes should stare nothing out of the earth that lies before them!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Benjamin Disraeli : Vivian Grey
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845: 'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Esther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquier
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845: 'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel by Balzac] [...] It is "Esther" in two volumes, & to all appearance full of life, & interest, & most atrocious wickedness, .. to judge from the first two chapters'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

: [Romances]
'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

: [Novels and poetry]
'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

: [Latin medical books]
'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dissected Dogs & fancied myself an Anatomist, quitting entirely Poetry Novels & Books of Entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

: [botany books]
'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dissected Dogs & fancied myself an Anatomist, quitting entirely Poetry Novels & Books of Entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Gilbert Knowles : Materia medica botanica
'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dissected Dogs & fancied myself an Anatomist, quitting entirely Poetry Novels & Books of Entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Francois de La Rochefoucauld : Maximes
'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

George Crabbe : [funeral address for Duke of Rutland]
'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late Duke'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Manuscript: Unknown

Michael Drayton : Polyolbion
'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becoming antient.' [Crabbe is alluding to his writing of introductory verses for a 'Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir', a collaboration with John Nichols]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Arthur Young : Six Month's Tour Through the North of England, A
'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inquired into but have taken nothing by way of Extract, so that all you intend to take may be put in the proper Place in your work, without Danger of Repetition' [Crabbe is alluding to his work on the 'Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir', a collaboration with John Nichols]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

William Marshall : Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs'
'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inquired into but have taken nothing by way of Extract, so that all you intend to take may be put in the proper Place in your work, without Danger of Repetition' [Crabbe is alluding to his work on the 'Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir', a collaboration with John Nichols]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Johan Christian Fabricius : Systema entomologiae
'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; it is indeed almost impossible to follow him in the smaller insects through all the minutia of his researches, but admitting him to be right in these, his Disposition and discriptions [sic] are accurate. I [grant his] obscurity and the greater Facility of the method of Linn[aeus], but I find much to be pleased with in the Systema Entomologica Fabia and frequently recur to it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

: [newspapers]
'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticisms, I have recourse for Information: sad Information now!' [Crabbe alludes to his satirical poem 'The Newspaper']
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Newspaper

George Crabbe : Parish Register, The
'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish register in print. I can assure you that its appearance in this dress has increased my opinion of its beauty & as you have done me very undeservedly the honour of calling me a judge of such matters I will venture to say that it seems to me calculated to advance the reputation of the Author of the Library & the Village which to any one acquainted with those two excellent poems is saying a great deal'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Library, The
'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish register in print. I can assure you that its appearance in this dress has increased my opinion of its beauty & as you have done me very undeservedly the honour of calling me a judge of such matters I will venture to say that it seems to me calculated to advance the reputation of the Author of the Library & the Village which to any one acquainted with those two excellent poems is saying a great deal'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Village, The
'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish register in print. I can assure you that its appearance in this dress has increased my opinion of its beauty & as you have done me very undeservedly the honour of calling me a judge of such matters I will venture to say that it seems to me calculated to advance the reputation of the Author of the Library & the Village which to any one acquainted with those two excellent poems is saying a great deal'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Village, The
'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant of an old house in the country in a course of poetical study so very like that of your very admirably painted young poet that I could hardly help saying "thats me" when I was reading the tale to my family. Among the very few books which fell under my hands was a volume or two of Dodsley's Register one of which contained copious extracts from the "Village" & the "Library" particularly the conclusion of Book I of the former and an extract from the latter beginning with the desription of the old Romancers. [Scott describes how he memorised these but could not afford to buy the books themselves] You may therefore guess my sincere delight when I saw your poems at a later period assume the rank in the public estimation which they so well deserve'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Library, The
'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant of an old house in the country in a course of poetical study so very like that of your very admirably painted young poet that I could hardly help saying "thats me" when I was reading the tale to my family. Among the very few books which fell under my hands was a volume or two of Dodsley's Register one of which contained copious extracts from the "Village" & the "Library" particularly the conclusion of Book I of the former and an extract from the latter beginning with the desription of the old Romancers. [Scott describes how he memorised these but could not afford to buy the books themselves] You may therefore guess my sincere delight when I saw your poems at a later period assume the rank in the public estimation which they so well deserve'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Dodsley : [Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Library']
'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant of an old house in the country in a course of poetical study so very like that of your very admirably painted young poet that I could hardly help saying "thats me" when I was reading the tale to my family. Among the very few books which fell under my hands was a volume or two of Dodsley's Register one of which contained copious extracts from the "Village" & the "Library" particularly the conclusion of Book I of the former and an extract from the latter beginning with the desription of the old Romancers. [Scott describes how he memorised these but could not afford to buy the books themselves] You may therefore guess my sincere delight when I saw your poems at a later period assume the rank in the public estimation which they so well deserve'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Serial / periodical

Dodsley : [Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Village']
'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant of an old house in the country in a course of poetical study so very like that of your very admirably painted young poet that I could hardly help saying "thats me" when I was reading the tale to my family. Among the very few books which fell under my hands was a volume or two of Dodsley's Register one of which contained copious extracts from the "Village" & the "Library" particularly the conclusion of Book I of the former and an extract from the latter beginning with the desription of the old Romancers. [Scott describes how he memorised these but could not afford to buy the books themselves] You may therefore guess my sincere delight when I saw your poems at a later period assume the rank in the public estimation which they so well deserve'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Serial / periodical

George Crabbe : Patron, The
'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant of an old house in the country in a course of poetical study so very like that of your very admirably painted young poet that I could hardly help saying "thats me" when I was reading the tale to my family. Among the very few books which fell under my hands was a volume or two of Dodsley's Register one of which contained copious extracts from the "Village" & the "Library" particularly the conclusion of Book I of the former and an extract from the latter beginning with the desription of the old Romancers. [Scott describes how he memorised these but could not afford to buy the books themselves] You may therefore guess my sincere delight when I saw your poems at a later period assume the rank in the public estimation which they so well deserve'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Tales in verse
'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia Scott      Print: Book

John Clare : unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845: 'Thank you, thank you, for letting me see the pencilled lines by poor Clare! -- How strangely melancholy, that combination is -- of mental gifts & mental privations! Poor Clare! --'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Bamford : Passages in the Life of a Radical
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845: 'I know Bamford's "Life of a Radical," which contains some of his verses -- but there seemed to me to be more poetry in the prose. It is a vividly interesting autobiography which I shd. have mentioned to you long ago.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Allan Park Paton : 'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill'
Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845: 'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank you much [...] the stanzas on Kennedy's Mill road struck & pleased me so much, that I looked about vainly for your address contained in a mislaid note of yours, in order to write to you on the subject & advise you to choose some worthier medium with the public, than a provincial journal, .. though it were but a magazine. And now you write to tell me that you think of printing a book! -- to which I wish all manner of success [goes on to offer further advice on pursuing career as professional writer]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Ebenezer Elliott : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845: 'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you mention -- & I always estimated him highly as a true poet, earnest & heart-sound [...] of an imagination not imperiously creative, .. but bright & alive in its sphere & place.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett

George Sand : Le Compagnon du Tour de France
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845: 'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George Sand? I sent for it, with a fancy that it might be a traveller's book .. just [italics]that[end italics] -- & it is one of her best romances, & full of curious interest of different kinds.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Claret and Tokay'
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845: 'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a maze about the poems. It was assuredly the wine song & no other which I read of yours in Hood's [...] Do bring in all the Hood poems of your own -- inclusive of the Tokay, because I read it in such haste as to whirl up all the dust you saw, from the wheels of my chariot.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : An Essay on Mind
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, ?18 July 1845: 'I confess to you that [...] as soon as I read your "Essay on Mind" (which of course I managed to do about 12 hours after Mr [John] K[enyon]'s positive refusal to keep his promise, and give me the book) from preface to Vision of Fame at the end, and reflected upon my own doings in that time, 1826, I did indeed see, and wonder at, your advance over me in years'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : 'The Raven'
Richard Hengist Horne to Edgar Allan Poe, 17 May 1845: 'Miss Barrett has read the "Raven" and says she thinks there is a fine lyrical melody in it. When I tell you that this lady "says" [...] I mean "writes" -- for although I have corresponded with Miss Barrett these 5 or 6 years, I have never seen her to this day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Samuel Jackson Pratt : Lower World, The
'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with obliging direction where to find a Line of Panegyric in the Performance. This was flattering & yet (on the common principles of human Nature) calculated to move Envy & stir up the angry movements of the spirit for I had but one solitary line of applause, virtuous, to be sure was my Muse denominated, but the Muse of Marmion had 3 lines'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

: Scotish Review, The
'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-disposed kind of Man, and not the profligate he would seem to hold forth, I thought the Business of these Gentlemen had been with our verse & prose & not with our Dispositions & Characters [...] possibly the Civility of the older Edinburgh Reviewer (of whom I also am ignorant) may have caused a fit of spleen for there is evidently among even the best of these Critics a Spirit of Opposition as well as Emulation & I think whichsoever of the two Reviews the Quarterly or Edinboro I read first on any Author whose Subject I am acquainted with, I can foretell what the rival brother will observe: this I have seen in their Examinations of you of myself of Miss Edgeworth'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

: Edinburgh Review
'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-disposed kind of Man, and not the profligate he would seem to hold forth, I thought the Business of these Gentlemen had been with our verse & prose & not with our Dispositions & Characters [...] possibly the Civility of the older Edinburgh Reviewer (of whom I also am ignorant) may have caused a fit of spleen for there is evidently among even the best of these Critics a Spirit of Opposition as well as Emulation & I think whichsoever of the two Reviews the Quarterly or Edinboro I read first on any Author whose Subject I am acquainted with, I can foretell what the rival brother will observe: this I have seen in their Examinations of you of myself of Miss Edgeworth'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'We like you amuse ourselves with reading: we are familiar with the Scenery of the North & Court of King James: we could guess that Snowdoun, Knight was King but not that [the - Crabbe uses the 'eth' symbol] Hospitable Foe was Rod'rick-Dhu'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Crabbe family     Print: Book

George Buchanan : [Latin poems and hymns]
'To my Gothic ear, indeed the "Stabat Mater", the "Dies Irae", and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church are more solemn and affecting than the fine classical poetry of Buchanan; the one has the gloomy dignity of a Gothic church, and reminds us instantly of the worship to which it is dictated; the other is more like a Pagan temple, recalling to our memory the classical and fabulous deities.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Rokeby
'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold and bought, & for this I know how much I am indebted [;] not so for the 2d part of the favour, the Pleasure of the perusal, nor for the 3d, the Honour of the present: but in more direct terms my dear Sir I do sincerely & heartily thank you & I beg of you likewise to accept the Thanks of my Household Mrs Crabbe & her Sons'. [Crabbe goes on to say how 'we had scarsely gratified our own Curiosity' when petitions from villagers to borrow the boook began]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Samuel Jackson Pratt : Sympathy; a Poem
'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end cancelled] contemporaries, but this soon ceased & I was outrun in the first Season nor has his diligent Muse or whatever Spirit it be, ceased to prompt his ready Pen from that time to almost this present: The Lower World terminates his poetical career where Scott & Crabbe are handed down to'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rokeby
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Horace Smith : Horace in London
'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

Horace Smith : Rejected Addresses
'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Unknown

William Wordsworth : [poems]
'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Unknown

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The
'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or poets Reverie" written by a friend [of Wordsworth] (Mr Lambe?) & the Reason for my pointing it out to your notice if perchance you have not dwelt on its Singularities, is this that it does not describe Madness by its effects but by Imitation, as if a painter to give a picture of Lunacy should make his Canvas crazy, & fill it with wild unconnected Limbs & Distortions of features, & yet one or two of the Limbs are pretty'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

George Crabbe : [Works]
'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the truth the auxiliary copy arrived in good time for my original copy suffers as much by its general popularity among my young people as a popular candidate from the hugs and embraces of his democratical admirers. The cleanness and accuracy of your painting whether natural or moral renders I have often remarked your poetry generally delightful to those whose youth might render them insensible to the other poetical beauties with which they abound. There are a sort of pictures (surely the most valuable were it but for that reason) which strike the uninitiated as much as they do the connoisseur though the last alone can render the reasons for his admiration'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Crabbe : [Works]
'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the truth the auxiliary copy arrived in good time for my original copy suffers as much by its general popularity among my young people as a popular candidate from the hugs and embraces of his democratical admirers. The cleanness and accuracy of your painting whether natural or moral renders I have often remarked your poetry generally delightful to those whose youth might render them insensible to the other poetical beauties with which they abound. There are a sort of pictures (surely the most valuable were it but for that reason) which strike the uninitiated as much as they do the connoisseur though the last alone can render the reasons for his admiration'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott's children     Print: Book

George Crabbe : [Works]
'Our lord of the "cairn & the scaur" waste wilderness and hundred hills for many a league around is the Duke of Buccleuch the head of my clan a kind & benevolent landlord a warm and zealous friend and the husband of a lady comme il y'en a peu. They are both great admirers of Mr Crabbes poetry and would be happy to know him should he ever come to Scotland and venture into the Gothic halls of a Border Chief.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles William Montagu Scott and Harriet Katherine Townshend, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch     Print: Book

George Crabbe : [letters from Crabbe to Charlotte Ridout's friend Charlotte Williams]
[Crabbe relates how he had fallen in love with Charlotte Williams and written her various letters, before she revealed she loved another] 'there was all this Time a Friend, who read every Letter & every Verse, for I took every Method that was allowed me, & Strange Creatures are Men & Women! While I was thus attentive to raise some partial feelings in the Mind of the Gipsy who wrote to me, this other who only read what was written, became interested & engaged & at length You must give me Credit strange as it is! She caught my Disease: it did not Signify to her that I was as old as her father! I could write in just that Style which she had fancied to be that of genuine Affection & Truth'. [Crabbe and Charlotte Ridout became engaged, but it was broken off for financial reasons]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Ridout      Manuscript: Letter

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Crabbe      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis'
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : 'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)'
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : 'The Boy and the Angel'
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : 'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)'
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : Timbuctoo
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 14 June 1845: 'When I ask my wise self what I really do remember of that Prize-poem -- the answer is -- both of Chapman's lines a-top, quite worth any prize for the quoter -- then, the good epithet of "green Europe" contrasting with Africa -- then, deep in the piece, a picture of a vestal in a vault [...] I read the poem many years ago, and never since -- tho' I have an impression that the versification is good.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning

Aeschylus : Prometheus Bound
'R[obert] B[rowning] wrote seven and a half pages of comments about E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]'s revised translation [of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound], and ended with these remarks: "And so it is all magnificently rendered. The above attempts at notifcation are the merest stoppings for a moment where I did not know my old path thro' the text again [...] take my true praise and congratulations."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Manuscript: Unknown

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Alice, or The Mysteries
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter postmarked 13 August] -- but I must keep that word of words, "genius" -- for something different -- "talent" will do here surely.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Ernest Maltravers
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter postmarked 13 August] -- but I must keep that word of words, "genius" -- for something different -- "talent" will do here surely.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

George Sand : Consuelo
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'There lies Consuelo -- done with! 'I shall tell you frankly that it strikes [italics]me[end italics] as precisely what in conventional language with the customary silliness is styled a [italics]woman's[end italics]-book, in its merits & defects [goes on to comment extensively on text]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe : 'The Raven'
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 6 September 1845: 'I shd. have written long since to you, if but to thank you for Edgar Poe's ballad .. of which [...] [italics]two[end italics] copies were lying by me when yours came, .. one from some anonymous American, & one from the author himself [...] For the ballad [...] I do not exactly know how to make up my mind to a conclusion about it. There is a certain power in it, no doubt, -- but if the writer had been mad .. professedly mad you know .. I shd. have appreciated the power better. It is not the madness of [italics]passion[end italics], I think .. it is as of an intellect dis[t]raught. There is a ludicrousness which tickles me through & through the melancholy. The "Sir or Madam" for instance! -- how do you bear [italics]that[end italics]?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Newspaper

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845: 'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first time, real Italy at Sorrento, she says. Oh that book -- does one wake or sleep? [...] Godwin's daughter and Shelley's wife, and who surely was something better once upon a time [...] the intrepidity of the commonplace quite astounds me [goes on to criticise specific passages] [...] once she travelled the country with Shelley on arm; now she plods it, [Samuel] Rogers in hand [...] I quarrel with her, for ever, I think.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Posthumous Poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Besides the translations, some of the original poems were not in my copy & were, so, quite new to me. "Marianne's Dream" I had been curious about to no end -- I only know it now.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Marianne's Dream'
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Besides the translations, some of the original poems were not in my copy & were, so, quite new to me. "Marianne's Dream" I had been curious about to no end -- I only know it now.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845: 'I have read to the last line of your Rosicrucian; & my scepticism grew & grew through Hume's process of doubtful doubts, & at last rose to the full stature of incredulity .. for I never could believe Shelley capable of such a book, (call it a book!) not even with a flood of boarding-school idiocy dashed in by way of dilution. Altogether it roused me to deny myself so far as to look at the date of the book, & to get up & travel to the other end of the room to confront it with other dates in the "Letters from Abroad" [...] & on comparing these dates in these two volumes before my eyes, I find that your Rosicrucian was "printed for Stockdale" in [italics]1822[end italics], & that Shelley [italics]died in the July of the same year[end italics]!! And unless the "Rosicrucian" went into more editions than one, & dates here from a latter one [...] the innocence of the great poet stands proved -- now does'nt it? For nobody will say that he published such a book in the last year of his life, in the maturity of his genius, & that Godwin's daughter helped him in it!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Oh to be in England'
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845: 'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [...] so characteristic of you [...] that I was sorely tempted to ask you to write it "twice over," .. & not send the first copy to Mary Hunter notwithstanding my promise to her. And when you come to print these fragments, would it not be well if you were to stoop to the vulgarism of prefixing some word of introduction, as other people do, you know, .. a title .. a name? You perplex your readers often by casting yourself on their intelligence in these things [...] Now these fragments ... you mean to print them with a line between .. & not one word at the top of it .. now dont you? And then people will read '"Oh, to be in England" & say to themselves .. "Why who is this? .. who's out of England?" Which is an extreme case of course, -- but you will see what I mean .. & often I have observed how some of the very most beautiful of your lyrics have suffered just from your disdain of the usual tactics of writers in this one respect.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Sheet

Honore de Balzac : Les Paysans
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845: 'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[end italics] have only seen that one volume) is another proof of the pressure of the times towards sympathies with the people [...] he is Balzac still in "Les Paysans" -- but story there is none, & so no interest -- & no unity, as far as that first volume indicates: & I found it rather hard reading, despite the human character, & the scenic effects. As to "Le Juif" I have done with him, and am not sorry to have done. The last volumes fall off step by step.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Eugene Sue : Le Juif errant
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845: 'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[end italics] have only seen that one volume) is another proof of the pressure of the times towards sympathies with the people [...] he is Balzac still in "Les Paysans" -- but story there is none, & so no interest -- & no unity, as far as that first volume indicates: & I found it rather hard reading, despite the human character, & the scenic effects. As to "Le Juif" I have done with him, and am not sorry to have done. The last volumes fall off step by step.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845: 'Before I have half re[a]d through your Dramatic Romances, I must acknowledge the delight I am receiving [...] What a profusion of imagery, covering what a depth of thought!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Savage Landor      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Luria (Act I)
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845: 'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last night, & feel just as a bullet might feel [...] shot into the air & suddenly arrested & suspended. It ("Luria") is all life [comments in detail upon specific passages and phrases] [...] I am snatched up into "Luria" & feel myself driven on to the ends of the poet, just as a reader should.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Fothergill Chorley : Pomfret
Elizabeth Barrett to Henry Fothergill Chorley, ?14 November 1845: 'I have read your three volumes of "Pomfret" with interest & moral assent, & with great pleasure in various ways: -- it is a pure, true book without effort, which, in these days of gesture & rolling with the eyes, is an uncommon thing [...] The best character in the book I take to be "Rose" [...] He is so lifelike, with the world's conventional life, that you hear his footsteps when he walks'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Barrett : 'Past and Future'
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 November 1845: 'Since I wrote what is above, I have been reading [...] that sonnet -- "Past and Future" -- which affects me more than any poem I ever read [...] is not that sonnet to be loved as a true utterance of yours?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Astolphe Louis Leonard Marquis de Custine : Le Monde comme il est
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1845: 'I have been loitering over "Le monde comme il est" & think your thoughts of it. Good things, excellent things, admirable things are in it, but one cannot call it a success.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Lydia Sigourney : Scenes in my Native Land
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 20 December 1845: 'Mrs. Sigourney has just sent me, .. just this morning .. her "Scenes in my native land" -- &, peeping between the uncut leaves, I read of the poet Hillhouse, of "sublime spirit & Miltonic energy," standing in "the temple of Fame" as if it were built on purpose for him! -- I supppose he is like most of the American poets .. who are shadows of the true .. as flat as a shadow, as colourless as a shadow, as lifeless & as transitory.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 December 1845: 'Yesterday I was reading the "Purgatorio" and the first speech of the group of which Sordello makes one, struck me with a new purpose [goes on to quote, and to translate "off hand", lines 52-57 from Purgatorio V]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : Ballad Romances
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" will stand alone still -- but I got pleasantly smothered with that odd shower of wood-spoils at the end, the dwarf-story [...] and there is good sailor-speech in the "Ben Capstan" [...] At one thing I wonder -- his not reprinting a quaint clever [italics]real[end italics] ballad, published before "Delora", on the "Merry Devil of Edmonton" -- the first of his works I ever read -- no, the very first piece was a single stanza, if I remember, in which was this line "When bason-crested Quixote, lean and bold," .. good, is it not?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : 'The Merrie Devil of Edmonton'
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" will stand alone still -- but I got pleasantly smothered with that odd shower of wood-spoils at the end, the dwarf-story [...] and there is good sailor-speech in the "Ben Capstan" [...] At one thing I wonder -- his not reprinting a quaint clever [italics]real[end italics] ballad, published before "Delora", on the "Merry Devil of Edmonton" -- the first of his works I ever read -- no, the very first piece was a single stanza, if I remember, in which was this line "When bason-crested Quixote, lean and bold," .. good, is it not?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Hengist Horne : 'Stanzas to a Ruined Windmill'
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" will stand alone still -- but I got pleasantly smothered with that odd shower of wood-spoils at the end, the dwarf-story [...] and there is good sailor-speech in the "Ben Capstan" [...] At one thing I wonder -- his not reprinting a quaint clever [italics]real[end italics] ballad, published before "Delora", on the "Merry Devil of Edmonton" -- the first of his works I ever read -- no, the very first piece was a single stanza, if I remember, in which was this line "When bason-crested Quixote, lean and bold," .. good, is it not?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Hengist Horne : 'The Monk of Swineshead Abbey'
Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not help speaking coldly a little of it [...] I did think & do, that the last was unworthy of him, & that the first might have been written by a writer of one tenth of his facility. But last night I read the "Monk of Swineshead Abby" & the "Three Knights of Camelot" & "Bedd Gelert" & found them all different stuff, better[,] stronger, more consistent, & read them with pleasure & admiration.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : 'The Three Knights of Camelott: a Fairy Tale'
Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not help speaking coldly a little of it [...] I did think & do, that the last was unworthy of him, & that the first might have been written by a writer of one tenth of his facility. But last night I read the "Monk of Swineshead Abby" & the "Three Knights of Camelot" & "Bedd Gelert" & found them all different stuff, better[,] stronger, more consistent, & read them with pleasure & admiration.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Richard Hengist Horne : 'Bedd Gelert'
Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not help speaking coldly a little of it [...] I did think & do, that the last was unworthy of him, & that the first might have been written by a writer of one tenth of his facility. But last night I read the "Monk of Swineshead Abby" & the "Three Knights of Camelot" & "Bedd Gelert" & found them all different stuff, better[,] stronger, more consistent, & read them with pleasure & admiration.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Les Petits Menages d'une Femme verteuse
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'Any more news of Balzac? "Les petits maneges" I have read & thought excellent -- but it is a continuation of that odious book .. "Les amours forces" -- "Beatrix," remember.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Bulwer Lytton : 'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient'
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E Lytton Bulwer [sic] -- because indeed I dislike his dissertation on cold water as much as anything I have read lately. I [italics]know[end italics] the Malvern Hills, you will be reminded -- & when I think of that peculiar climate where people with delicate chests stand upon the mountain-slopes (such a beautiful country!) & breathe razors [...] I do marvel that any man of common sense can keep his countenance & recommend that situation as a substitute for Italy & Madeira to pulmonary patients [comments further on same subject].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury : Zoe: The History of Two Lives
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?7 January 1846: 'Zoe [...] I have been reading at last. An extraordinary book certainly. I should take the author to be a free-thinker, by a copious interpretation of the word. The power, & liberty of utterance, are undeniable generally -- but parts of the book are very inferior.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Forest and Game Law Tales
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 13-14 January 1846: 'Will you have Miss Martineau's books when I can lend them to you? Just at this moment I [italics]dare not[end italics], because they are reading them here.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Moulton-Barrett family     Print: Book

Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Voltaire : Philosophical Dictionary
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

David Hume : Essays
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werther
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau :
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft :
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

William King : Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, on childhood religious beliefs and practices, 15 January 1846: 'As to the [classical] gods and goddesses, I believed in them all quite seriously, & reconciled them to Christianity [...] As soon as I began to doubt about my goddesses, I fell into a vague sort of general scepticism, .. & though I went on saying "the Lord's prayer" at nights & mornings, & the "Bless all my kind friends" afterwards, by the childish custom .. yet I ended this liturgy with a supplication wihch I found in "King's memoirs" & which took my fancy & met my general views exactly .. "O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since
'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & talk of revisals & amendments. I have a private Reason for my Opinion viz. my own Vanity. who but a friend would haved quoted me so often & once in a peculiar Manner? - I ask no Question! I ought not but I tell you what we say & think. Waverley may be best but Guy is most entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & talk of revisals & amendments. I have a private Reason for my Opinion viz. my own Vanity. who but a friend would haved quoted me so often & once in a peculiar Manner? - I ask no Question! I ought not but I tell you what we say & think. Waverley may be best but Guy is most entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]iter as an Example of the good Ladies: the [wo]man absolutely holds forth the doctrine of [irre]sistable Passion, & that if Lady Avondale falls desperately in love with Lord Glenarvon, after marrying the Man of her own Choice, there is no help for it: if he spare her, well & good! if not she must fall! charming Morality & such as my dear Miss Houltons will never be taught.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Village, The
'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the ingenuous modesty which disclamed it. He admired the Village, the Library, & the Newspaper exceedingly, & the delight with which he read them to his family could not but be acceptable to the Author, had he known the sound judgment & the exquisite taste which that excellent man possessed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Shackleton      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Library, The
'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the ingenuous modesty which disclamed it. He admired the Village, the Library, & the Newspaper exceedingly, & the delight with which he read them to his family could not but be acceptable to the Author, had he known the sound judgment & the exquisite taste which that excellent man possessed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Shackleton      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Newspaper, The
'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the ingenuous modesty which disclamed it. He admired the Village, the Library, & the Newspaper exceedingly, & the delight with which he read them to his family could not but be acceptable to the Author, had he known the sound judgment & the exquisite taste which that excellent man possessed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Shackleton      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Deserted Village, The
'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the ingenuous modesty which disclamed it. He admired the Village, the Library, & the Newspaper exceedingly, & the delight with which he read them to his family could not but be acceptable to the Author, had he known the sound judgment & the exquisite taste which that excellent man possessed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Shackleton      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Parish Register, The
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Tales in Verse
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Borough, the
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter      Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter      Print: Serial / periodical

Mary Shackleton : [verses]
'Mary Leadbeter! - Yes indeed I do well remember You! not Leadbeter then, but a pretty demure Lass, standing a timid Auditor while her own Verses were read by a kind Friend but a keen Judge'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shackleton

Mary Leadbeter : [unknown]
'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is conspicuous: I am not sure that I have read all you have given us; but what I have read has really that rare and almost indifineable Quality Genius; that is to say, it Seizes on the Mind & commands Attention, & on the Heart & compels its feelings.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Edmund Malone : [unknown]
'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [pamphlet]
'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe

Maria Graham : Journal of A Residence in India
[present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [Dramas]
'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Amelia Alderson Opie : Father and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover, and Other Poetical Pieces
'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Father & Daughter [end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Human Life
'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly, though a beautiful, is a common image; and harebells have not only the same objection, but they are so seldom seen in cultivated ground that the name brings the idea of a wood or wild scene. I therefore prefer the boy's pursuit of insects and flowers in general to these particular instances.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Manuscript: Unknown

George Crabbe : [verses]
'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to agreeing on their publication]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Manuscript: Unknown

George Crabbe : Tales from the Hall
'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Rogers : Human Life, A Poem
'I have received Mr Roger's poem of which I was happy to hear an admirable Character at Bath & in Company where nothing would be said without due Consideration: some Passages were particularly admired.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: friends of Crabbe     Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Human Life, A Poem
'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge speak feelingly, warmly and accurately of the Verses. Those on Page 41 are most admired by Ladies who feel tenderly & correctly & indeed, though I have other passages in as high Estimation & indeed higher, I am [underlined twice] not [end underlining] insensible to the Images which those lines Excite'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: lady friends of Crabbe     Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Human Life, A Poem
'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge speak feelingly, warmly and accurately of the Verses. Those on Page 41 are most admired by Ladies who feel tenderly & correctly & indeed, though I have other passages in as high Estimation & indeed higher, I am [underlined twice] not [end underlining] insensible to the Images which those lines Excite'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Francis Jeffrey : [review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall']
'[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have praised me into some Reputation for writing Lyrical Verses, that is to say, Songs, a Talent with which I did not previously flatter myself that I was I possession of & it is marvelous how much even acute Readers are led & influenced by these periodical Critics who dictate to us all more than perhaps any of us are willing to allow.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Gally Knight : Alashtar, an Arabian Tale [?]
'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the basuis of a poem]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Washington Irving : [Works]
'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand this but it is not of Importance that I should'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie : Man of Feeling, The
'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Miscellany]
'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - very kindly prest me to accept a Volume & a very pleasing Volume of Miscellanies which I will take with me if I live to reach Trowbridge again.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[unknown] : [poetry]
'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon the Subject: it is rather unmerciful, but I must bear it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by some Things.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

Patrick Keith : Systems of Physiological Botany
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Travels]
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Denis Chavis : Arabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Thomas Warton : History of English Poetry, The
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

William Hazlitt : Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion
'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakness, Vice and Gullibility'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Johann C. Spurzheim : Phrenology
'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I understand, I cannot always agree & that in Assertions which do not immediately relate to the Science to which I lean sceptically.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Abraham Scott : Calvinistic Doctrines Refuted
'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I do not like the Expression that Regeneration must precede Faith, but it is his Intricacy and his so strongly contending that Things must be as he has stated. There is too much of the Logician & though he is in Earnest, It is with the spirit of one who Fights for the Truth & loves the Fighting. He narrows the way & then what plain unlettered Christian is able to comprehend his Meaning? I do not say He is wrong, but I have no Doubt of there being many who differ very much from him & yet [5X] equal Reasons may be urged for them. In fact tho' I can but accord with Mr Scott on the Nature of saving Faith as distinguished from unproductive Belief, yet there is much in his tract which I do not understand & not a little which I cannot agreed to. see his Definition of Faith Page 9-10'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[n/a] : Morning Herald, The
'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morning Herald. Other papers I do not see, except the provincial.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Newspaper

Horace Smith : Gaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Reynolds : [unknown]
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche
Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": Gottingen, 1794 to 1816 (it was published in numbers seemingly. Douglas the publisher lent it to me: and tho’ I hate the damned tongue too cordially to do more than dip into it, I have seen some shrewd things. If you cannot get it for yourself, (it seems scarce), I daresay I could negotiate with Douglas for a loan.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas :
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849: 'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] read some amusing books, (Dumas & Sue! -- shake your head!) & seen our child grow fuller of roses & understanding day by day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Eugene Sue :
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849: 'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] read some amusing books, (Dumas & Sue! -- shake your head!) & seen our child grow fuller of roses & understanding day by day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Louis Napoleon : Letter to Edgar Ney
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'The [French] President's letter from Rome has delighted us -- A letter worth writing and reading! We read it first in the Italian papers (long before it was printed in Paris) and the amusing thing was, that where he speaks of the "hostile influences," (of the cardinals) they had misprinted it "orribili influenze", which must have turned still colder the blood in absolutist readers. The misprint was not corrected until long after -- more than a week, I think.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Newspaper

Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh Clough : Ambarvalia (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck by the extracts. They may however have been selected without much discriminaton [...] I am very glad that you like the Gipsey Carrol in dear Mr Kenyon's volume, because it is, & was in M.S., a great favorite [sic] of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

John Kenyon : 'Sacred Gipsy Carol'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck by the extracts. They may however have been selected without much discriminaton [...] I am very glad that you like the Gipsey Carrol [sic] in dear Mr Kenyon's volume, because it is, & was in M.S., a great favorite [sic] of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh Clough : Ambarvalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Arthur Hugh Clough : The Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Unknown

Matthew Arnold : 'The Sick King in Bokhara'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : 'The Forsaken Merman'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : (Probably) 'The Bugle Song' (opening 'The splendour falls')
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 February 1850: 'Such a magical act as conjuring up for me the sight of a new poem by Alfred Tennyson, is unnecessary to prove you a right beneficent enchantress. Thank you, thank you [...] But now ... you know how free and sincere I am always! .. now tell me [...] apart from a certain sweetness & rise & fall in the rhythm, do you really see much for admiration in the poem. Is it [italics]new[end italics] in any way? [...] I do [italics]not[end italics] perceive much in this lyric, which strikes me, & Robert also (who goes with me throughout) as quite inferior to the other lyrical snatches in the Princess. By the way, if he introduces it in the Princess, it will be the only [italics]rhymed[end italics] verse in the work. Robert thinks that he was thinking of the Rhine-echoes in writing it'.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : The Caxtons. A Family Picture
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am reading "Shirley", and am interested -- only it does not seem to me equally suggestive of power (so far) with Jane Eyre.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am reading "Shirley", and am interested -- only it does not seem to me equally suggestive of power (so far) with Jane Eyre.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found it heavy, I confess, though in [...] the compositional savoir faire, there is an advance. Robert has exhumed some French books, just now, from a little circulating li[brary] which we had not tried -- and we have just been making ourselves uncomfortable over Balzac's "Cousin Pons". But what a wonderful writer he is! Who could have taken such a subject, out of the lowest mud of humaity, & glorified & consecrated it?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Le Cousin Pons
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found it heavy, I confess, though in [...] the compositional savoir faire, there is an advance. Robert has exhumed some French books, just now, from a little circulating li[brary] which we had not tried -- and we have just been making ourselves uncomfortable over Balzac's "Cousin Pons". But what a wonderful writer he is! Who could have taken such a subject, out of the lowest mud of humaity, & glorified & consecrated it?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

: newspapers
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I complain of Florence for the want of books -- we have to dig & dig before we can get anything new -- and [italics]I[end italics] can read the newspapers only through Robert's eyes, who only can read them at Vieusseux's [Reading Rooms] in a room sacred from the foot of woman: and this is'nt always satisfactory to me, as whenever he falls into a state of disgust with any political regime, he throws the whole subject over, & wont read a word more about it. Every now & then, for instance, he ignores France altogether .. and I, who am more tolerant, & more curious, find myself suspended over an hiatus'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Newspaper

Robert Browning : Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850: 'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italics] inwardly digested your last Poem [...] Well then I must say quite honestly that though your master hand has never dashed on the canvas the colours of poetry more grandly [...] yet, [italics]as a whole[end italics], it is less satisfactory to me than some of your earlier inspirations: call me limited, narrow, academic what you will, but I cannot quite like the grotesque, wonderful inventive & ingenious as it is of your opening; & then not so much on the ground of any mere individual dislike on my own part, as from the feeling that it may be a stumbling block to so many weaker brethren in the critic world'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould      Print: Book

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine : Les Confidences
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850: 'I return the "Confidences" with thanks upon thanks. Both Robert & I began with a sort of interest & pleasure, & ended with a sort of sickness of the book & the man. Weakness & falseness are two bad things indeed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph Balsamo
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850: 'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Catherine Maria Fanshawe : poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [...] as one of the most witty of our wits in verse, men or women. I have only seen M.S. copies of her verses, & that years ago, but they struck me very much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Manuscript: Unknown, copied

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'I have seen extracts in the Examiner from Tennyson's "In Memoriam," which seemed to me exquisitely beautiful & pathetical.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

: 'German Socialism'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?10 November 1850: 'By the British Review, do you mean the [italics]North British[end italics]? I read a clever article in that review some months on the German socialists, ably embracing its analysis the fraternity in France, & attributed, I have since heard, to Dr Hanna, the son in law & biographer of Chalmers.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

William Makepeace Thackeray : The History of Pendennis
'The History of Pendennis (2 vols, 1849-50) by William Makepeace Thackeray was published by Bradbury and Evans in twenty-four numbers (twenty-three parts) from November 1848 to December 1850 [...] The edition the Brownings were reading, which had been lent to them by Charles Eliot Norton (see letter 2893 [in source]) was probably the one being published in Leipzig by Bernhard Tauchniz. Issued in three volumes from April 1849 to December 1850, the second volume appeared in March 1850'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The History of Pendennis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?3 December, 1850: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more which Robert is finishing'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till they are old -- in spite of which, we have just read "In Memoriam" -- how beautiful! -- how full of pathos, and subtle feeling & thought! [...] Then we have Carlyle's Latter day pamphlets .. powerful & characteristic -- and seventeen numbers of David Copperfield, which we both set down or rather set up as Dickens's masterpiece.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till they are old -- in spite of which, we have just read "In Memoriam" -- how beautiful! -- how full of pathos, and subtle feeling & thought! [...] Then we have Carlyle's Latter day pamphlets .. powerful & characteristic -- and seventeen numbers of David Copperfield, which we both set down or rather set up as Dickens's masterpiece.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Serial / periodical

: Latter-Day Pamphlets
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till they are old -- in spite of which, we have just read "In Memoriam" -- how beautiful! -- how full of pathos, and subtle feeling & thought! [...] Then we have Carlyle's Latter day pamphlets .. powerful & characteristic -- and seventeen numbers of David Copperfield, which we both set down or rather set up as Dickens's masterpiece.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

John Westland Marston : Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband only saw it in the reading room, where women dont penetrate, (because in Italy we cant read, you see) & where the periodicals are kept so strictly like Hesperian apples, by the dragons of the place, that none can be stolen away for even half an hour. So he could only wish me to catch sight of that article -- and you are good enough to send it & oblige us both accordingly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

John Westland Marston : Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband only saw it in the reading room, where women dont penetrate, (because in Italy we cant read, you see) & where the periodicals are kept so strictly like Hesperian apples, by the dragons of the place, that none can be stolen away for even half an hour. So he could only wish me to catch sight of that article -- and you are good enough to send it & oblige us both accordingly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. There is power & truth -- she can shape & she can pierce -- but I wish half the book away, it is so tedious every now & then, -- and besides I want more beauty, more air from the universal world -- these class-books must always be defective as works of art [...] Then the style of the book is slovenly, and given to a kind of phraseology which would be vulgar even in colloquial English. Oh -- it is a powerful book in many ways -- You are not to set me down as hypercritical. Probably the author will write herself clear of many of her faults: she has strength enough.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'As to "In Memoriam," I have seen it, I have read it, .. dear Mr [John] Kenyon had the goodness to send it to me [...] the book has gone to my heart & soul [...] All I wish away, is the marriage hymn at the end, & [italics]that[end italics], for every reason I wish away -- it's a discord in the music. The monotony is a part of the position -- the sea is monotonous, & so is lasting grief [...] So the effect of the book is artistic & true, I think'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December: 'We have been reading together Tennyson's "In Memoriam" in the evenings. Most beautiful and pathetic. I read aloud, Robert looking over the page -- & we talked & admired & criticised every separate stanza. Now, we are going in like manner through Shelley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December: 'We have been reading together Tennyson's "In Memoriam" in the evenings. Most beautiful and pathetic. I read aloud, Robert looking over the page -- & we talked & admired & criticised every separate stanza. Now, we are going in like manner through Shelley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : sonnets ['from the Portugese']
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851: 'Now I am going to speak to you about those sonnets [...] The truth is that though they were written several years ago, I never showed them to Robert till last spring .. I felt shy about them altogether .. even to him. I had heard him express himself strongly against "personal" poetry & I shrank back. -- As to publishing them, it did not enter my head. But when Robert saw them, he was much touched & pleased -- & [...] could not consent, he said, that they should be lost to my volumes: so we agreed to slip them in under some sort of veil, & after much consideration chose the "Portugese" [goes on to explain reasons for choice]'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Manuscript: Unknown

: The French Stage and the French People, as illustrated in the Memoirs of M. Fleury
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 May 1845: 'The "Memoires de Fleure," was made into an agreeable English book, with certain abbreviations, by Theodore Hook, -- & I read it a few years ago under the title of "The French stage," & something more, or something else'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

William Lisle Bowles : Parochial History of Bremhill, The
'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few pages: I knew nothing of Wansdike, nothing of Tanhill, and could not have told in what county, scarcely in what kingdom, were Avebury and Silbury [Crabbe details his activities whilst not reading the book] I am not a reader of topgraphy, though at one time I corresponded with John Nichols. I always had an opinion that it was extremely dull and I even now suspect that yours is not the genuine sort, for I understand you very well and to say nothing of the knowledge acquired, have been amused. The account of parishes and their "fat rectors" is most assuredly correct, lamentably correct [...] Your natural history and more especially your account of Kelloway rock revived in me the desire of seeng that part of the county [but, he says, his health prevents this] I read the more learned portion of the work with all the interest I could acquire and really by the time I had finished the notes on Chap. 2nd I conceived that I understood the matter like a contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine. I mean in its pristine glory. [Crabbe then praises Bowles for inspiring feeling in his readers, which is unusual for those who write on monuments] But seriously, though I like your book the better because it engages me by subjects which I partly understand, yet I dare not affirm that a rigid antiquary would approve any portion of the work, except that which I either do not comprehend or cannot relish....'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Edward Copleston : Inquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predestination
'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His "City of God" I expect to find very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Joseph Milner : History of the Church of Christ
'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His "City of God" I expect to find very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

John Newton : Cardiphonia, or Utterance of the Heart
'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His "City of God" I expect to find very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[unknown] : [book on witchcraft trials]
'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of Witches, a book wh I should like to see again'. [Crabbe outlines the witchcraft case in question]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

:
'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas with me it is almost all. And yet I often ask myself, at the end of my volumes, - Well! what am I the wiser, what the better, for this? Reading for amusement only, and, as it is said, merely to kill time, is not the satisfaction of a reasonable being. At your age, my dear Caroline, I read every book which I could procure. Now, I should wish to procure only such as are worth reading; but I confess I am frequently disappointed'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

Christopher Benson : Hulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulties; Twenty Discourses
'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown work on religious enthusiasm]
'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he does believe, which is not all that imaginative people [suppose.] He thinks the spread of Christianity over the World is rapidly going on with ev[ry] Prospect of Success, & that Every Believer should be a persuader & maker of Converts as far as his Abilities & powers &c extend-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers at time of Reform debate]
'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine
'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

George Crabbe : Lady Barbara
'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Ellen
'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

George Crabbe : [sermons]
'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is to me no unpleasant kind of Employment.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Manuscript: Unknown

Florence MacCunn : Sir Walter Scott's Friends
'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced me from both Lawrence and Carlyle. I read the whole of D.H.L's letters last week when in bed with a cold; felt completely in sympathy with him and a passionate desire to be on his side, no matter whom I deserted or decried. Began the whole book again, marking passages,meaning to re-read all his works and try and make him out. All this prompted by an article in [italics] L[ife] and L[etters] [end italics] that annoyed me. J. Soames, comparing him with Rousseau. Probably everything she said was true, but the whole tone was patronising and self-righteous. I wanted to explode a squib under her chair. Now I want to find if there's any likeness or not between Lawrence and Carlyle. But at the moment I am in revolt against L. Why does one veer about so with him?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : [Letters]
'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced me from both Lawrence and Carlyle. I read the whole of D.H.L's letters last week when in bed with a cold; felt completely in sympathy with him and a passionate desire to be on his side, no matter whom I deserted or decried. Began the whole book again, marking passages,meaning to re-read all his works and try and make him out. All this prompted by an article in [italics] L[ife] and L[etters] [end italics] that annoyed me. J. Soames, comparing him with Rousseau. Probably everything she said was true, but the whole tone was patronising and self-righteous. I wanted to explode a squib under her chair. Now I want to find if there's any likeness or not between Lawrence and Carlyle. But at the moment I am in revolt against L. Why does one veer about so with him?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : [works]
'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced me from both Lawrence and Carlyle. I read the whole of D.H.L's letters last week when in bed with a cold; felt completely in sympathy with him and a passionate desire to be on his side, no matter whom I deserted or decried. Began the whole book again, marking passages,meaning to re-read all his works and try and make him out. All this prompted by an article in [italics] L[ife] and L[etters] [end italics] that annoyed me. J. Soames, comparing him with Rousseau. Probably everything she said was true, but the whole tone was patronising and self-righteous. I wanted to explode a squib under her chair. Now I want to find if there's any likeness or not between Lawrence and Carlyle. But at the moment I am in revolt against L. Why does one veer about so with him?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : [unknown]
'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced me from both Lawrence and Carlyle. I read the whole of D.H.L's letters last week when in bed with a cold; felt completely in sympathy with him and a passionate desire to be on his side, no matter whom I deserted or decried. Began the whole book again, marking passages,meaning to re-read all his works and try and make him out. All this prompted by an article in [italics] L[ife] and L[etters] [end italics] that annoyed me. J. Soames, comparing him with Rousseau. Probably everything she said was true, but the whole tone was patronising and self-righteous. I wanted to explode a squib under her chair. Now I want to find if there's any likeness or not between Lawrence and Carlyle. But at the moment I am in revolt against L. Why does one veer about so with him?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

J. Soames : [article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters]
'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced me from both Lawrence and Carlyle. I read the whole of D.H.L's letters last week when in bed with a cold; felt completely in sympathy with him and a passionate desire to be on his side, no matter whom I deserted or decried. Began the whole book again, marking passages, meaning to re-read all his works and try and make him out. All this prompted by an article in [italics] L[ife] and L[etters] [end italics] that annoyed me. J. Soames, comparing him with Rousseau. Probably everything she said was true, but the whole tone was patronising and self-righteous. I wanted to explode a squib under her chair. Now I want to find if there's any likeness or not between Lawrence and Carlyle. But at the moment I am in revolt against L. Why does one veer about so with him?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Carlyle : [Works]
'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinking myself safe and then, not even knowing I'm there, [they] cuff me with a great fist of a phrase that sends me sprawling ... Reading C. one feels that [italics] nothing [end italics] is worth writing, least of all own tiny things. No one ever had less [italics] message [end italics] than I have and that my duty in times like these is hardly to 'chirrup' on a quiet bough...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Jane Welsh : [letters to Carlyle]
'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Jane Welsh before their marriage... She begins in the smartest, pertest, Jane Welsh way, but gradually the other Jane begins to break through, passionate, melancholy, impatient, fun-loving - fame-hungry almost - and nervous. But she seems to care for him only as a friend - the idea of marriage is disgusting to her. She is very like me; they had not met for months, had only two hours, and she wasted it all by forcing a quarrel she did not want. And her "arch enemy" was headache.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Jane Welsh : [letters to Carlyle]
'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare-brained a rattle as anyone could wish... She nearly killed herself by going out hatless in an east wind so as not to upset the dressing of her hair; another time she fell off a wall "trying to hide her ankles" from Dr Fyffe. Yet another time in her zeal for study she sewed the bodices to the skirts of her frocks so that she could dress in ten minutes.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

: The Book of Job
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901: 'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over an immense fire with a wind roaring round the house [...] I have been sharing my chair with my dog & reading the Book of Job again & now I feel quite sunk in the drowsy dreaminess of brain-weariness [...] ever so many thanks for the book which is a perfection of delight to me. If there is one thing which spoils one's pleasure in reading Job & Ecclesiastes it is the horror of those two barbarous columns in the ordinary barbarously bound bible -- & I have always prayed for a relief from those awful double columns, which are the hall-mark of religious respectability.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Charles Marriott : The Column
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901: 'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell you that I did live last week an hour or two -- which being interpreted is that I read The Column by Charles Marriott which if you have not, do. If I were a reviewer I should shout & scream "A New Great Author". But I'm not. Farewell.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Honore De Balzac : Le Pere Goriot
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901: 'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refusing to fly London with the rest of the world [...] I like wandering through the deserted streets tawdry with painter's ladders & half starved cats & soiled fluttering tags of newspapers [...] It fascinates me by its bare brutality of ugliness, & produces the aesthetic titillation of a slum. During that season too I batten upon Balzac & his hold remains on me for weeks afterwards so that I am rereading Le Pere Goriot out on the cliffs & rocks here.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Paracelsus
'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Paracelsus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: The 'X' Society     Print: Book

Thomas Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts of 500 lines each, it will not be the longest play on record as [Thomas Kyd's] The Spanish Tragedy which I have just read has -- counting the additions of Ben Jonson I believe -- about 2970 lines.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

John Collier : His Monkey wife; or, Married to a Chimp
'His Monkey Wife isn't a work of talent; it is a work of genius - or the word genius doesn't mean anything. Anyhow, it is what I know to be genius. And I feel badly that I have only read it in its third impression........I don't think I know a work that contains more wisdom and more terifying and destructive wit. The word "wit" has been debased from meaning Swift to meaning that wretched buffoon Noel Coward. But you have wit as Swift understood it.........I don't think anything is left to be said now either about men's attitude towards women, or about women's inmost thoughts. I have always liked you very much but I think you are a most terrifying young man. How on earth do you know so much! I'm overwhelmed by the scope of the book, and its most apalling insight... Honestly, as exposing the point of view of a man towards an accustomed woman, and of the secret view a woman takes of herself, I don't know anything to touch the fancy dress ball scene....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

: The Pall Mall Gazette
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against the current idea. I got back six closely written pages to prove that the writer was "talking through his hat" in true Gothic style. From the same paper I cut out the enclosed which I thought might interest you. I have spent most of the vac. it seems to me cutting extracts out of newspapers.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Newspaper

: 'What is Sport?'
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against the current idea. I got back six closely written pages to prove that the writer was "talking through his hat" in true Gothic style. From the same paper I cut out the enclosed which I thought might interest you. I have spent most of the vac. it seems to me cutting extracts out of newspapers.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thoby Stephen      Print: Newspaper

Maxim Gorky : Foma Gordyeeff
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 April 1902: 'I have read nothing [over Easter vacation] except a book by the new -- comparatively -- Russian, Gorki. It is called Foma Gordyeeff & is ultra-Russian, savage & what is better pitiless to sentimentality, though not inhumanly pitiless. For all that I don't like it -- he is too crude & unartistic & has merely baldly told what a number of bored & rather brutal fools would do with their lives. The book is often consequently baldly sordid'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902: 'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agree with you -- in the main -- about it. Of course personally I never or try never to compare it with Lear because though it challenges comparison all through on the face of it, I don't really think it is fair to do so.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Book

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike of the Elizabethan dramatist John Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi was read and admired by the "X" Society.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: The 'X' Society     Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Turkish Tales'
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. The last is a stiff job -- my God I've never read such trash as those Giaours and Corsairs. I had never read them before & assumed that they were nauseous, but I never imagined such feeble banalite as they contain. The letters however make up for a great deal & on the whole there is some amusement in steadily plodding through a whole author & really for once getting to know about one [...] I have also at last read [Joris Karl Huysmans'] A Rebours ... it [italics]is[end italics] diseased magnificence. The words simply dazzle me. I rather thought that sentence in the colossal chapter on the flowers & des Essintes' [sic] nightmare was in a way an epitome of Huysmans if not of all France. "Tout n'est que syphilis." Pish! I suppose everything is.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Letters
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. The last is a stiff job -- my God I've never read such trash as those Giaours and Corsairs. I had never read them before & assumed that they were nauseous, but I never imagined such feeble banalite as they contain. The letters however make up for a great deal & on the whole there is some amusement in steadily plodding through a whole author & really for once getting to know about one [...] I have also at last read [Joris Karl Huysmans'] A Rebours ... it [italics]is[end italics] diseased magnificence. The words simply dazzle me. I rather thought that sentence in the colossal chapter on the flowers & des Essintes' [sic] nightmare was in a way an epitome of Huysmans if not of all France. "Tout n'est que syphilis." Pish! I suppose everything is.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Joris Karl Huysmans : A Rebours
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. The last is a stiff job -- my God I've never read such trash as those Giaours and Corsairs. I had never read them before & assumed that they were nauseous, but I never imagined such feeble banalite as they contain. The letters however make up for a great deal & on the whole there is some amusement in steadily plodding through a whole author & really for once getting to know about one [...] I have also at last read [Joris Karl Huysmans'] A Rebours ... it [italics]is[end italics] diseased magnificence. The words simply dazzle me. I rather thought that sentence in the colossal chapter on the flowers & des Essintes' [sic] nightmare was in a way an epitome of Huysmans if not of all France. "Tout n'est que syphilis." Pish! I suppose everything is.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Arthur Schopenhauer :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Barry Pain :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Robert Browning :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Oscar Wilde :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

: A Manual of Ethics
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

George Stout : [on Psychology]
Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903: 'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team? I wish you would as I am in a raging temper, which I try to cure by reading Stout's Psychology.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

: Times Literary Supplement
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904: 'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees & masses of wonderful creepers [...] I have been reading the Times Literary Supplement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Henry James :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905: 'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & sign my name. I play tennis, dine, read Henry James (Jaffna has a library which contains him & [Dinah Craik's] John Halifax, Gentleman), & go to bed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905: 'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to travel for two nights & a day in a bullock waggon through the jungle in order to reach this place [Jaffna]. For discomfort it was simply hell. I had to lie on my back on the hard floor of the waggon & was battered & jolted along for 36 hours but I took one of the small Shakespeare volumes with me in my pocket, & it helped me to forget my aching bones.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Alfred de Vigny :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal in odd moments, & a curious mixture, I think. A book I have always meant to do, I finished last week & could hardly put down at all, The Life of Parnell [...] Also the Life of Russell by the same man [R. B. O'Brien] & [Disraeli's] Coningsby which is absolutely preposterous, & [Voltaire's] La Dictionnaire Philosophique.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

R. B. O'Brien : The Life of Parnell
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal in odd moments, & a curious mixture, I think. A book I have always meant to do, I finished last week & could hardly put down at all, The Life of Parnell [...] Also the Life of Russell by the same man [R. B. O'Brien] & [Disraeli's] Coningsby which is absolutely preposterous, & [Voltaire's] La Dictionnaire Philosophique.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

R. B. O'Brien : The Life of Russell
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal in odd moments, & a curious mixture, I think. A book I have always meant to do, I finished last week & could hardly put down at all, The Life of Parnell [...] Also the Life of Russell by the same man [R. B. O'Brien] & [Disraeli's] Coningsby which is absolutely preposterous, & [Voltaire's] La Dictionnaire Philosophique.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Coningsby
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal in odd moments, & a curious mixture, I think. A book I have always meant to do, I finished last week & could hardly put down at all, The Life of Parnell [...] Also the Life of Russell by the same man [R. B. O'Brien] & [Disraeli's] Coningsby which is absolutely preposterous, & [Voltaire's] La Dictionnaire Philosophique.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Voltaire : La Dictionnaire Philosophique
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal in odd moments, & a curious mixture, I think. A book I have always meant to do, I finished last week & could hardly put down at all, The Life of Parnell [...] Also the Life of Russell by the same man [R. B. O'Brien] & [Disraeli's] Coningsby which is absolutely preposterous, & [Voltaire's] La Dictionnaire Philosophique.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Denis Diderot :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905: 'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only exist in the 19th century. He is a timid egoistic maniac [...] He has however hundreds of books in horrible print & binding -- I found some Diderot among them, which I had not read -- wonderful but quite mad.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Henry James : The Golden Bowl
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905: 'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent us or we him? He uses [italics]all[end italics] our words in their most technical sense & we can't have got them all from him'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al : Euphrosne
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905: 'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 things in it wh. I ever want to read again, the Cat [by Strachey], Ningamus & the thing about the song, I forget its name.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf

E. M. Forster : Where Angels Fear to Tread
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordinary that it is as amusing as it is. It is a queer kind of twilight humour don't you think [...] What enraged me in the book was the tragedy. If it is supposed to [italics]be[end italics] a tragedy it's absolutely hopeless; if it's supposed to be amusing, it simply fails.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Voltaire : Letters
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these & wander from about 7-9 every morning & from 4-6 every evening, the rest of the day I read Voltaire's letters, Huysmans & Henry James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Joris Karl Huysmans :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these & wander from about 7-9 every morning & from 4-6 every evening, the rest of the day I read Voltaire's letters, Huysmans & Henry James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Henry James :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these & wander from about 7-9 every morning & from 4-6 every evening, the rest of the day I read Voltaire's letters, Huysmans & Henry James.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So many groups of distinct, yet intertwining lives, all so broad yet so sharp in detail.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : [MSS by or about Carlyle]
'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown

Harriet Martineau : [works]
'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-righteousness. A very [italics] true [end italics] nature there; honest and unflinching and courageous. One gets nourished by the oddest people...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Jane Welsh : [letters to Carlyle]
'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] him [end italics] in a far better light. She is maddening with her archness and her flirtations and her sham high-browism and her "wee wee Cicero". But it is interesting to see how awful young girls are.; novelists, except Tolstoy, never se it...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

George Santayana : Reason in Common Sense
'[included in diary entry] SANTAYANA ('Reason in Common Sense') "There may well be intense consciousness in the total absence of rationality. Such consciousness is suggested in dreams, in madness and may be found for all we know, in the depths of universal nature".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

John Keats : [Letters]
'[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817) "negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason". this quality goes to make "a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously". I do not think I have any 'creative' genius. What I have, if I have anything, is the capacity to [italics] recgnise [end italics] things.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

John Keats : [Letters]
'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Field : [book on child psychology]
'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by being sweet but sat heavily on my belly.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Humphrey Jennings : Little town in France
'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by being sweet but sat heavily on my belly.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Unknown

Marcel Proust : [works]
'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not wanting anything, not even concerned with the future, but perfectly happy reading Proust...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Antonia White : Lost Traveller, The
'Find no desire to write this book ['The Lost Traveller'] since Tom read it. It produced a effect on him at first but that seemed to wear off.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Hopkinson      Manuscript: Unknown

Antonia White : [diary notebook]
'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my own picture of what happened and which he so strenuously denied [...] Of course it is painful to me to read of all his natural, happy ecstasy over Frances, because it shows me so clearly what I have missed in him'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Hopkinson      Manuscript: Unknown

Tom Hopkinson : [diary notebook]
'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my own picture of what happened and which he so strenuously denied [...] Of course it is painful to me to read of all his natural, happy ecstasy over Frances, because it shows me so clearly what I have missed in him'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown

Peter Warlock : [letters]
'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: the book is on my table: I have the time. Why can't I do it?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Francis Thompson : [poems]
'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading Francis Thompson's poems that day (my mother had bought them for me not knowing what she was giving me) I found something terrible, sweet and transforming which really did make me draw breath and pant after it...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : Captain's Doll, The
'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better than ever. Odd how again, though, the woman is more real than the man. The man is a mouthpiece for the right ideas but he doesn't quite [italics] exist [end italics]. Hannele exists yet the doll is oddly more alive than the Captain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

John Woolman : Journal of John Woolman
'[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] bouleversant [italics] as to convert me to the Friends. Can one talk of spirituality as being "provincial"? Or is that just my old Catholic snobbery?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Charlotte d'Erlanger : [unknown]
'[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference between Charlotte's work and my own. Charlotte [d'Erlanger], I think was a born writer: forceful, economical and with a real eye. The [italics] quality [end italics] of her work showed through all the ignorance of childhood.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White

Rainer Maria Rilke : Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The
'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke returned safely. I have seen a photo of him in a black coat and a watch chain standing in the gateway of a German castle. Where have I been from which there was any danger of not returning? Even from insanity I came back to find a name, a latchkey, a home, identifying friends. In writing I hug the shore all the time. Rilke's book hs affected me profoundly; given me the sense of being out of my depth, of a dazzling interconnection between two worlds in which one simultaneously moves. It has left me sensitised like a watch that has been too near a magnet. The effect was so violent that I had to lie down at intervals while I was reading it; I was shaking as if in a high fever.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Rainer Maria Rilke : Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The
'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has happened again now with the Rilke book'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : [poetry]
'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has happened again now with the Rilke book'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : ['trash']
'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen to music.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Rainer Maria Rilke : [works]
'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished it, achieved it' [alluding to story about Rilke's death on p.70]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : ['lives of painters']
'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : ['journals of poets']
'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Eric Siepmann : [notebook]
'[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook Free spirit liable to possession or obsession... Debauchery is the most frozen isolation to which man can condemn himself...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown

Tom Hopkinson : I have been Drowned
'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily will have in mine if I can write it, of the small share I have in hers and may have in Siepmann's, of the way I saw something in Tom's drowning story ['I have been Drowned'] of which he was unaware and which Emily brought to flower so that now he has written a quite extraordinary story, beyond anything he has done before and which gave me the same feeling of strangeness, delight, almost awe that Emily's two last poems, "Melville" and "The Creation" gave me'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White

Djuna Barnes : Nightwood
'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily will have in mine if I can write it, of the small share I have in hers and may have in Siepmann's, of the way I saw something in Tom's drowning story ['I have been Drowned'] of which he was unaware and which Emily brought to flower so that now he has written a quite extraordinary story, beyond anything he has done before and which gave me the same feeling of strangeness, delight, almost awe that Emily's two last poems, "Melville" and "The Creation" gave me'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Emily : [poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation']
'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily will have in mine if I can write it, of the small share I have in hers and may have in Siepmann's, of the way I saw something in Tom's drowning story ['I have been Drowned'] of which he was unaware and which Emily brought to flower so that now he has written a quite extraordinary story, beyond anything he has done before and which gave me the same feeling of strangeness, delight, almost awe that Emily's two last poems, "Melville" and "The Creation" gave me'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White

Fyodor Dostoevsky : Brothers Karamazov, The
'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same function as the psycho-analyst. The psycho-analyst cuts a poor and shabby figure beside the saint but he is the best substitute an age of non-faith can produce.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Frances Grigson : [letters to Tom Hopkinson]
'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not very agreeable things'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Letter

Hoare : [article on Rimbaud]
'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised me some money for new clothes. Now the planning of them has become a nightmare. I want the clothes very badly. But looking through the pages of [italics] Vogue [end italics] has filled me with numb despair.' [because it is so hard to choose]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Vogue
'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised me some money for new clothes. Now the planning of them has become a nightmare. I want the clothes very badly. But looking through the pages of [italics] Vogue [end italics] has filled me with numb despair.' [because it is so hard to choose]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Serial / periodical

Emily Coleman : Tigron, The
'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her. she seems to wants us and the world to judge it, not as a thing in itself but "think what this woman must have been through to write it..." I love a great deal of the book but I am not happy about it as a whole.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown

William Wordsworth : [Poems]
'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not Wordsworth but Emily's Wordsworth. She will fearlessly correct and alter passages. She does not read; she flings herself upon and passionately possess a work...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : [Poems]
'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not Wordsworth but Emily's Wordsworth. She will fearlessly correct and alter passages. She does not read; she flings herself upon and passionately possess a work...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Coleman      Print: Book

Andre Breton : Nadja
'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly [Andre] Bretons's [italics] Nadja [end italics]. Attracted back to my old adolescent love [of] the magical.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Dejection: An Ode
'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses those bad negative states in which one looks and sees nothing - the "grief without a pang".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Barker      Print: Book

Basil Nicholson : Business is Business
'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Charles Darwin : Voyage of the Beagle, The
'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear, so solid, so modest, so alive. When I read a book like that I am full of admiration yet I feel so humiiated and despairing too...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonplace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lees-Milne      Print: Book

Charles Darwin : Voyage of the Beagle, The
'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding always on books and fancy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Bouvard et Pecuchet
'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at it with curiosity then said "I expect you think I'm rude, looking like that. But I used to read a lot of those sorts of books once" "What sort of books?" "Oh, yellow books like that. I picked up a lot in a booksellers. But mine were much bigger than that" "What were they?" "Oh I don't remember their names or what they were about" "Do you remember the authors?" "Can't say I do. I seem to remember one was some sort of a Japanese story" "And they were in French?" "Oh yes, in French of course".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : [French novels]
'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at it with curiosity then said "I expect you think I'm rude, looking like that. But I used to read a lot of those sorts of books once" "What sort of books?" "Oh, yellow books like that. I picked up a lot in a booksellers. But mine were much bigger than that" "What were they?" "Oh I don't remember their names or what they were about" "Do you remember the authors?" "Can't say I do. I seem to remember one was some sort of a Japanese story" "And they were in French?" "Oh yes, in French of course".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Andrew Marvell : [Poems]
'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy him".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Basil Nicholson      Print: Book

John Keats : [Poems]
'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy him".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Basil Nicholson      Print: Book

Laura Riding : [unknown]
'Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and complacent exhibitionism; her criticism shrewd but patronising, some of the poems really deep and fine... There may be a good deal of the suppressed or unsuppressed Lesbian in her'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Unknown

Katherine Mansfield : [letters]
'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see all my weaknesses in her, admire her for her frantic attempts to be honest and deal with them. I can now read her, feeling her equal not an awestruck inferior as I used to. I know all she knew.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Christine Botting : [diary]
'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading her ludicrous, pathetic, nauseating diary about herself and Oswald Norton. "Cleopatra had a famous wriggle last night. Julia ull-ully". The sexual act is not indecent but almost any verbal description of it is. Interspersed with all this are prayers, recriminations, schoolgirl ravings, a kind of complacent self reproach.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown

Antonia White : Frost at Midnight
'[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Glossop      Print: Book

Antonia White : [diary]
'I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said it articulated a great many of his own feelings. At first he was very enthusiastic, then suddenly clouded over and was obviously feeling cold and contempotuous towards me'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Codex, green notebook

George Eliot [pseud.] : Mill on the Floss, The
'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Mill on the Floss, The
'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begin to think George Eliot is not only the greatest English woman novelist but perhaps the greatest English novelist. She has not the fiery poetry of Emily Bronte nor the exquisite surface of Jane Austen but she has a richness and sweep and depth that is Shakespearean. The one thing that maims or constrains her a little is some rigid moral sense which goes against her [italics] natural [end italics ] morality. She is haunted by an impossible ideal of purity and strictness. In [italics] Middlemarch [end italics] and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] she incarnates this in two women; one so impossibly good that she is repellent. I am in for a George Eliot bout as a drunkard goes on a jag. Over dinner I raced through a short life of her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede
'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begin to think George Eliot is not only the greatest English woman novelist but perhaps the greatest English novelist. She has not the fiery poetry of Emily Bronte nor the exquisite surface of Jane Austen but she has a richness and sweep and depth that is Shakespearean. The one thing that maims or constrains her a little is some rigid moral sense which goes against her [italics] natural [end italics ] morality. She is haunted by an impossible ideal of purity and strictness. In [italics] Middlemarch [end italics] and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] she incarnates this in two women; one so impossibly good that she is repellent. I am in for a George Eliot bout as a drunkard goes on a jag. Over dinner I raced through a short life of her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Middlemarch
'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begin to think George Eliot is not only the greatest English woman novelist but perhaps the greatest English novelist. She has not the fiery poetry of Emily Bronte nor the exquisite surface of Jane Austen but she has a richness and sweep and depth that is Shakespearean. The one thing that maims or constrains her a little is some rigid moral sense which goes against her [italics] natural [end italics ] morality. She is haunted by an impossible ideal of purity and strictness. In [italics] Middlemarch [end italics] and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] she incarnates this in two women; one so impossibly good that she is repellent. I am in for a George Eliot bout as a drunkard goes on a jag. Over dinner I raced through a short life of her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a life of George Eliot]
'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begin to think George Eliot is not only the greatest English woman novelist but perhaps the greatest English novelist. She has not the fiery poetry of Emily Bronte nor the exquisite surface of Jane Austen but she has a richness and sweep and depth that is Shakespearean. The one thing that maims or constrains her a little is some rigid moral sense which goes against her [italics] natural [end italics ] morality. She is haunted by an impossible ideal of purity and strictness. In [italics] Middlemarch [end italics] and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] she incarnates this in two women; one so impossibly good that she is repellent. I am in for a George Eliot bout as a drunkard goes on a jag. Over dinner I raced through a short life of her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : Captain's Doll, The
'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his invention - like the wife in "The Captain's Doll".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[n/a] : Arabian Nights, The
'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cecil King      Print: Book

Charles Montagu Doughty : Travels in Arabia Deserta
'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cecil King      Print: Book

Jean Froissart : Chronicles
'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cecil King      Print: Book

Antonia White : [diary notebooks]
'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion gets into these notebooks than into anything else.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Codex, notebook

John Forster : Life of Charles Dickens, The
'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the autumn. I want a fact book not a fiction book. There are some wonderful things in it. When Dickens finally left the blacking factory he so much hated, he wept. "With a relief so strange that it was like oppression, I went home".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Tom Hopkinson : Man Below, The
'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot help admitting there are passages in it far beyond my own powers, I feel resentful of this and that in some way such passages must be due to my influence or to Tom's having stolen them from me. Yet even in his earliest, crudest work... there are indications of such descriptive powers.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown

Jules Michelet : French Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution francaise
'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace
'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only manage snatches of [italics] War and Peace [end italics] and [italics] Sherlock Holmes [end italics]. I am supposed to have done a detailed criticism of Emily's book - I have skimmed through it but that is all.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Arthur Conan Doyle : [Sherlock Holmes Stories]
'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only manage snatches of [italics] War and Peace [end italics] and [italics] Sherlock Holmes [end italics]. I am supposed to have done a detailed criticism of Emily's book - I have skimmed through it but that is all.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Emily Coleman : [unknown]
'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only manage snatches of [italics] War and Peace [end italics] and [italics] Sherlock Holmes [end italics]. I am supposed to have done a detailed criticism of Emily's book - I have skimmed through it but that is all.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White

[n/a] : New Statesman, The
'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [end italics] ... I see all the lists of books on social, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical subjects I feel... that I am a useless frivolous creature'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Serial / periodical

George Eliot : [unknown]
'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person's horror at a crime coming not from the crime but from the fact that [italics] they [end italics] have committed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[n/a] : [an American magazine]
'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person's horror at a crime coming not from the crime but from the fact that [italics] they [end italics] have committed it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Serial / periodical

Antonia White : [MS fiction]
'The shock last night when Ian was cold and unenthusiastic about the first bit of the book which I'd managed to write. I burnt it. I... hoped he would stop me... He explained how tired he was and unreceptive... that there were good things and it was only too short-circuited. He was right too. I want to start again today but I am stuck... I wrote to please him and he wasn't pleased.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ian Henderson      Manuscript: Unknown

George Sand : [letters to and from Flaubert]
'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, fear of life. They really cared for each other. She is like the man, he like the woman'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Jacob's Room
'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attempt to relate day and night. She [Virginia Woolf] lays her little strands side by side instead of working them into a patern. But perhaps it is because there is no solid structure underneath that it leaves me with this curious empty and dissatisfied feeling. In the last book it is beaten out so thin that it is threadbare.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Julien Green : [unknown]
'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journal I turn for some light' [she hopes Green's methods will aid her in her writer's block]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

George Tyrrell : [Jesuit writings]
'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemned by the Church.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Catholic texts]
'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemned by the Church.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Antonia White : [diaries]
'After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has fallen for a young man, after a long time feeling 'immune' to sex]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Codex, notebook

Antonia White : [diaries]
'It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping something inside '[end italics].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Codex, notebook

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic word.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[n/a] : [Gospels]
'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand the nature of Catholicism]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

[unknown] : [writings about religion, Church History, etc]
'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walter H[ylton] and Dame Julian [of Norwich] and in the prayers of the Church.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Walter Hylton : Scala Perfectionis, or Ladder of Perfection
'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walter H[ylton] and Dame Julian [of Norwich] and in the prayers of the Church.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Julian of Norwich : Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love
'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walter H[ylton] and Dame Julian [of Norwich] and in the prayers of the Church.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

Thomas McCrie : Life of John Knox
'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Woodstock
'Colvin has brought home Woodstock from Nice and we have started reading it aloud, which is a huge institution.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Roger Fry : The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906: 'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds]. It seems, though I have only had time to dip into it, extremely interesting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As You Like It
Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906: 'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading Society. We read As You Like It on Friday. It was not quite as bad as it might have been & I had expected the worst. There was considerable difficulty over the word copulation "I press in here, Sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives" was allowed to pass, because no one was quite sure whether it referred to grammar or sexual intercourse. It was only the weight of my assurance that it referred to the former that induced Touchstone not to leave it out. I was Jaques.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Shakespeare Reading Society     Print: Book

Charles Dickens :
Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906: 'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I believe I was coming for a month as A[ssistant]G[overnment]A[gent] Mannar. I am now on circuit which means that I ride about 10 miles each day through a desolation of sand to visit a few huts which are called villages [...] I ride through the sand from 6 A.M. to 9 & lie in my tent during the heat of the day & read Dickens whom of course I now consider the greatest of novelists. At any rate he is astonishingly amusing in Kaddukkarankudiyiruppu (which means the village of the man of the Jungle).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Jean de la Bruyere :
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906: 'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [John Maynard] Keynes [following letter from Strachey] at the back of my mind. He is in full the "sot" of La Bruyere for his chief characteristic -- with all his damned intelligence -- is that once you have seen him, he never surprises you'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Sir George Otto Trevelyan : The Competition Wallah
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907: 'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I have for the first time read The Competition Wallah. It is extraordinary; it might be the Northern Province in 1907 instead of Bengal in the sixties.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

E. M. Forster : The Longest Journey
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907: 'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an astonishing & irritating production? What a success he will be! For people will think it all so clever. I thought on every other page that he was really going to bring something off, but it all fades away into dim humour & the dimmer ghosts of unrealities. It might have been so magnificent & is a mere formless meandering. The fact is I don't think he knows what reality is, & as for experience the poor man does not realize that practically it does not exist. Still his mind interests me, its curious way of touching on things in the rather precise & charming way in which his hands (I remember) used to touch things vaguely.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Francis Cornford : Thucydides Mythistoricus
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907: 'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricus. It seems to me rather good, except that as a book it has the almost universal fault of not ending.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the train last week to look after cattle disease. As I read it again, it seemed to me to be the saddest & most beautiful book I had ever read. Surely it is the beginning & end of realism [comments further].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

E. M. Forster : A Room with a View
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908: 'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] & as last year, at about the same time, it has just stirred the fringe of my brain [goes on to describe having recently had to view, in official capacity, the body of a murdered native woman] [...] I had no idea before that the smell of a decomposing human being is so infinitely fouler than anything else. Is that reality according to Forster? I believe last year I thought that he thought it is. But this book which appears to me really rather good & sometimes thoroughly amusing is absolutely muddled, isn't it?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

G. E. Moore : 'Professor James' "Pragmatism"'
Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909: 'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & paper [...] I read your paper but to tell the actual truth I was disappointed, disappointed in the way in which most papers disappoint one. I want your opus magnum which will tell me what things are true much more than papers which tell me that Pragmatism, which I don't believe in, is false.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Unknown

Guy de Maupassant : 'tale'
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have just got to the end practically of the last batch I ordered out. I suddenly thought I must read Maupassant again & when I reread the tale about the child who is pinched on the buttocks by the adulterating captain I thought I was right. I also read [the Earl of Cromer's] Modern Egypt & you can deduce my state of mind by the fact that I think it is the greatest book written in the last 25 years.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Earl of Cromer : Modern Egypt
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have just got to the end practically of the last batch I ordered out. I suddenly thought I must read Maupassant again & when I reread the tale about the child who is pinched on the buttocks by the adulterating captain I thought I was right. I also read [the Earl of Cromer's] Modern Egypt & you can deduce my state of mind by the fact that I think it is the greatest book written in the last 25 years.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

: The Times
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 February 1911: 'The Times gave me quite a shock the other day to see that A. S. [Gaye] is going to marry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Brothers Karamazov
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan about Christ & Christianity & socialism which goes on without stopping for about 50 pages? I am halfway through. The Agamemnon is childish compared to it. I read it in trains & on steamers in inextricable fjords & on great lakes, very slowly, as befits it, in perpetual sunshine; I shall never finish it I think or perhaps it will never end. And Edgar [Woolf] is always sitting by me reading the Ordeal of Richard Feverel [...] We went up the coast from Gotenberg towards Norway [...] Then we wandered up a fjord to a detestable town called Uddevala [...] Then we took a toy steamboat & sailed over the lake [...] to Leksamd & thence here [Raatvik]. It was pleasant to sit on deck reading Les Freres at the rate of a page an hour, gliding past the shores from which the fair haired naked men & women perpetually waved their hands to us.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : Les Freres Karamazov
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan about Christ & Christianity & socialism which goes on without stopping for about 50 pages? I am halfway through. The Agamemnon is childish compared to it. I read it in trains & on steamers in inextricable fjords & on great lakes, very slowly, as befits it, in perpetual sunshine; I shall never finish it I think or perhaps it will never end. And Edgar [Woolf] is always sitting by me reading the Ordeal of Richard Feverel [...] We went up the coast from Gotenberg towards Norway [...] Then we wandered up a fjord to a detestable town called Uddevala [...] Then we took a toy steamboat & sailed over the lake [...] to Leksamd & thence here [Raatvik]. It was pleasant to sit on deck reading Les Freres at the rate of a page an hour, gliding past the shores from which the fair haired naked men & women perpetually waved their hands to us.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

George Meredith : The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan about Christ & Christianity & socialism which goes on without stopping for about 50 pages? I am halfway through. The Agamemnon is childish compared to it. I read it in trains & on steamers in inextricable fjords & on great lakes, very slowly, as befits it, in perpetual sunshine; I shall never finish it I think or perhaps it will never end. And Edgar [Woolf] is always sitting by me reading the Ordeal of Richard Feverel [...] We went up the coast from Gotenberg towards Norway [...] Then we wandered up a fjord to a detestable town called Uddevala [...] Then we took a toy steamboat & sailed over the lake [...] to Leksamd & thence here [Raatvik]. It was pleasant to sit on deck reading Les Freres at the rate of a page an hour, gliding past the shores from which the fair haired naked men & women perpetually waved their hands to us.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edgar Woolf      Print: Book

Virginia Stephen : fiction MSS
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912: 'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can see that you might write something astonishingly good.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

: Spanish dictionary
Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1 September 1912: 'No one has ever given or lent me anything more useful than your little Spanish dictionary. It is always in my hand or pocket. I can now carry on quite a long conversation out of its leaves. We [Woolf and wife Virginia, on honeymoon] stayed in an inn in a village under Montserrat [...] in which only one youth was said to know any language other than Spanish & that was French which was less in quantity & quality than our Spanish. Crowds stood around us while I looked up words in your dictionary & there was nothing which did not eventually become intelligible.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

: The Strand Magazine
Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912: 'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolates & reading & looking at pictures, including her own portrait, in the Strand Magazine.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Minority Report.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

: Poor Law Minority Report
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Minority Report.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Unknown

Leonard Woolf : The Village in the Jungle
Maurice B. Wright to Leonard Woolf, 15 September 1913: 'I should like to thank you for your book The Village in the Jungle. I have enjoyed it more than anything I have read for many a day.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Maurice B. Wright      Print: Book

Leonard Woolf : The Wise Virgins
Marie Woolf to Leonard Woolf (reader's son), 11 December 1913: 'I am now returning you the Manuscript [of The Wise Virgins] [...] the reading of which has given me more pain than evidently you intended. ... You thought fit to hold us [Woolf family] all up [...] to ridicule, contempt and pity. ... You have not convinced me one jot that the people at Rickstead [i.e. Putney, Woolf family home] are one bit less valuable to the common working of the Universe, than are the people at Bloomsbury [...] this style of writing is unworthy of you [...] If you publish the book as it stands, I feel there will be a serious break between us'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

: The Times
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & the Lit. Sup. And that is about all I've done today.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Newspaper

: The Times Literary Supplement
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & the Lit. Sup. And that is about all I've done today.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Lytton Strachey : Life of Cardinal Manning
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Giles Lytton Strachey      Manuscript: Unknown

Hurrell Froude : Remains
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to me a self-sentimentalist.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Apologia pro vita sua
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to me a self-sentimentalist.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Lytton Strachey : Life of Dr Arnold
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916: 'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laugh until I cried twice, once at "where he remained for the next thirty-six hours" and once at the painful mystery of the animal world.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Manuscript: Unknown

: report of death of Samuel Garrett
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923: 'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy journey. Train from Paris packed & if I had not started at 9.15, I should not have got a corner seat [...]On the station at Paris I suddenly heard: "Mr Woolf, I dont suppose you remember me", looked round, & saw Mrs Dominic Spring-Rice [...] I had a long talk with her on the boat. At Newhaven I bought The Times, opened it, & the first thing that caught my eye was that her father had died yesterday. She certainly did not know. Ought I to have broken the news? At any rate, I didnt.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Newspaper

Dorothy Osborne : The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell, nephew] came and painted the gramophone and after tea I took him for a walk [...] Then I read Dorothy Osborne until bedtime.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

T. S. Eliot : Ash Wednesday
Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930: 'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I cannot stop at twice & go on rereading until something from outside intervenes to stop me. The usual thing happened to me the other evening with Ash Wednesday. It is amazingly beautiful. I dislike the doctrine, as you probably know, but the poetry remains & shows how unimportant belief or unbelief may be.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Horace : Satires
Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both refreshing. Your translations and the two conversations were equally or even more refreshing. By a curious coincidence I had been reading Horace's satires after an interval of I don't know how many years. I never read the classics except in bed before I get up in the morning and I nearly always read Greek. But the other day I thought I would begin Horace again and began the Satires. I liked it better than I had expected for I had recollections of being bored by Horace's hexameters. Your translations are extraordinarily satisfactory and satisfying.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

: Classical Greek texts
Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both refreshing. Your translations and the two conversations were equally or even more refreshing. By a curious coincidence I had been reading Horace's satires after an interval of I don't know how many years. I never read the classics except in bed before I get up in the morning and I nearly always read Greek. But the other day I thought I would begin Horace again and began the Satires. I liked it better than I had expected for I had recollections of being bored by Horace's hexameters. Your translations are extraordinarily satisfactory and satisfying.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Robert Trevelyan : Epistle
Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both refreshing. Your translations and the two conversations were equally or even more refreshing. By a curious coincidence I had been reading Horace's satires after an interval of I don't know how many years. I never read the classics except in bed before I get up in the morning and I nearly always read Greek. But the other day I thought I would begin Horace again and began the Satires. I liked it better than I had expected for I had recollections of being bored by Horace's hexameters. Your translations are extraordinarily satisfactory and satisfying.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard and Virginia Woolf     Print: Book

H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler : The King's English
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficulty is that that is precisely what it does do, and now I cannot write a sentence, because as soon as I get one down, I see that it is exactly like some horror of Miss [Marie] Corelli [popular novelist]'s quoted as a warning in that damned book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Marie Corelli : extracts from novels
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficulty is that that is precisely what it does do, and now I cannot write a sentence, because as soon as I get one down, I see that it is exactly like some horror of Miss [Marie] Corelli [popular novelist]'s quoted as a warning in that damned book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

John Clare : Madrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems written by John Clare
Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924: 'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hands en route for a reviewer last week, and it looked so good that I coveted it for my own.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Frank Hardie : 'Youth, Socialism and Peace'
Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933: 'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which I had already read with great interest. I think we probably agree to the extent of about 95%. Even on the subject of isolation I have always been strongly drawn to the policy under certain conditions. But the conditions do not at present exist and I feel the gravest doubts as to their ever existing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Serial / periodical

Leonard Woolf : article on 'the politician and the intellectual'
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940: 'I read your article on the Politician and the Intellectual, in the New Statesman of July 20th, and I hope that you will excuse a much older man who has enjoyed the company of many of both sorts for troubling you with a few observations on it [goes on to comment further].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes      Print: Serial / periodical

Leonard Woolf : Empire and Commerce in Africa
Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955: 'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigerian Civil Service [...] He read Empire and Commerce after his retirement and when he lived in Granada; hearing that Virginia and I were going to stay in the mountains above, he asked us to come and spend the night at his house. I had a long talk with him and he was very bitter against [Lord] Lugard [imperialist attacked by Woolf in text], claiming that a great deal of the credit for indirect rule etc., whicb Lugard claimed himself, ought to have gone to him, Temple.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Temple      Print: Book

Turgenev :
Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never read a Russian novel until she read Crime and Punishment in 1912? The translations of Turgenev by Constance Garnett were published 1894 to 1899. I certainly read some of these at Cambridge in 1901 [...] Anna Karenina in Garnett's translation appeared in 1901 and I certainly read this at Cambridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never read a Russian novel until she read Crime and Punishment in 1912? The translations of Turgenev by Constance Garnett were published 1894 to 1899. I certainly read some of these at Cambridge in 1901 [...] Anna Karenina in Garnett's translation appeared in 1901 and I certainly read this at Cambridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

John Dryden : Alexander's Feast
'[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, and my Mother being one Day abroad, I had happily laid hold on "Alexander's Feast", and found something in it so charming, that I read it aloud; - but how like a condemned Criminal did I look, when my Father, softly opening his Study-door, took in the very Fact; I dropt my Book, and burst into Tears, begging Pardon, and promising never to do so again: But my Sorrow was soon dispell'd, when he bade me not be frighten'd, but read to him, which to his great Surprize, I did very distinctly, and without hurting the beauty of the Numbers. Instead of the whipping, of which I stood in Dread, he took me up in his Arms, and kiss'd me, giving me a whole Shilling, as a Reward, and told me, "He would give me another, as soon as I got a Poem by Heart"; which he put into my Hand, and prov'd to be Mr [italics] Pope[end italics]'s sacred Eclogue, which Task I perform'd before my Mother return'd Home. They were both astonish'd at my Memory, and from that Day forward, I was [permitted to read as much as I pleas'd'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia van Lewen      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Sacred Eclogue in Imitation of Virgil’s 'Pollio'
'[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, and my Mother being one Day abroad, I had happily laid hold on "Alexander's Feast", and found something in it so charming, that I read it aloud; - but how like a condemned Criminal did I look, when my Father, softly opening his Study-door, took in the very Fact; I dropt my Book, and burst into Tears, begging Pardon, and promising never to do so again: But my Sorrow was soon dispell'd, when he bade me not be frighten'd, but read to him, which to his great Surprize, I did very distinctly, and without hurting the beauty of the Numbers. Instead of the whipping, of which I stood in Dread, he took me up in his Arms, and kiss'd me, giving me a whole Shilling, as a Reward, and told me, "He would give me another, as soon as I got a Poem by Heart"; which he put into my Hand, and prov'd to be Mr [italics] Pope[end italics]'s sacred Eclogue, which Task I perform'd before my Mother return'd Home. They were both astonish'd at my Memory, and from that Day forward, I was [permitted to read as much as I pleas'd'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia van Lewen      Print: Book

[unknown] : [poetry]
'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Reader, i quickly became a Writer'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia van Lewen      Print: Book

Matthew Pilkington : [letters]
'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amintas [end italics]: as they were really very elegant; my Mother, who always examined my Letters, exprest great Curiosity to know the Writer'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia van Lewen      Manuscript: Letter

Matthew Pilkington : [letters to her daughter]
'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amintas [end italics]: as they were really very elegant; my Mother, who always examined my Letters, exprest great Curiosity to know the Writer'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth van Lewen      Manuscript: Letter

Constantia Grierson : [poems]
'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and beautiful Writings, except one poem of her's in Mrs [italics] Barber [end italics]'s Works; Ii have never seen any published; 'tis true, as her turn was chiefly to philosophical or divine Subjects, they might not be agreeable to the present Taste; yet could her heavenly Muse descend from its sublime height to the easy epistolary Stile, and suit itself to my then gay Disposition' [Pilkington then reproduces two poems by Constantia Grierson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Van Lewen      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Barber : Poems on Several Occasions
'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and beautiful Writings, except one poem of her's in Mrs [italics] Barber [end italics]'s Works; Ii have never seen any published; 'tis true, as her turn was chiefly to philosophical or divine Subjects, they might not be agreeable to the present Taste; yet could her heavenly Muse descend from its sublime height to the easy epistolary Stile, and suit itself to my then gay Disposition' [Pilkington then reproduces two poems by Constantia Grierson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Van Lewen      Print: Book

Laetitia Van Lewen : Petition of the Birds, The
'[Pilkington reproduces her poem 'The Petition of the Birds', written for her fiance] This little poetical Essay met with more Applause than it really merited, on Account of my Youth, and was extremely acceptable to Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics], who with the Raptures of an enamour'd Bridegroom, read it to every Person whom he thought possesst of Taste or Genius'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Jonathan Swift : History of the Four Last Years of the Queen
'I had him [Dean Swift] all to myself for near three hours, during which time he made me read to him the Annals of the four last years of the Reign of Queen [italics] Anne [end italics], written by himself; the Intentions of which seemed to be a Vindication of the then Ministry and himself, from having any Design of placing the Pretender on the Throne of [italics] Great Britain [end italics] [Pilkington summarises the content of the work] At the Conclusion of every Period, he demanded of me, "Whether I understood it? for I wou'd", says he, "have it intelligent to the meanest Capacity, and if you comprehend it, 'tis possible every Body may." I bow'd and assured him, I did. And indeed it was written with such Perspicuity and Elegance of Stile, that I must have had no Capacity at all if I did not taste what was so exquisitely beautiful.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry St John Bolingbroke : [letters to Swift]
'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be honoured with his Commands: "But, Sir, may I presume to make a request to you?" "Yes", says he, "but Ten to One I shall deny it". "I hope not Sir, 'tis this; may I have Leave to read the Letters as I go on?" "Why, provided you will acknowledge yourself amply rewarded for your Trouble, I don't much care if I indulge you so far; but are you sure you can read?" "I don't know Sir, I'll try". "Well then begin with this". It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with a remark, how differently that Hour appeared to him now, rising cool, serene, and temperate, to contemplate the Beauties of Nature, to what it had done in some former Parts of his Life, when he was either in the midst of Excesses, or returning Home sated with them [Pilkington continues to summarise the 'moral philosophy' of the letter and professes herself delighted with all his other letters] Nor can I be at all surprized that Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] should so often celebrate a Genius who for sublimity of Thought, and elegance of Stile, had few Equals. The rest of the Dean's Correspondents were, the Lady [italics] Masham [end italics], the Earl of [italics] Oxford [end italics] [a long list of others, ending] Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], Dr [italics] Arbuthnot [end italics]; A Noble and learned Set! So my Readers may judge what a Banquet I had. I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] professed for Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], he cou'd not forbear a great many Satyrical, or if I might be allowed to say so, envious Remarks on the success of the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics] The Dean very frankly own'd, he did not think Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] was so candid to the Merits of other Writers, as he ought to be. I then ventur'd to ask the Dean, whether he thought the Lines Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] addresses him with, in the Beginning of the [italics] Dunciad [end italics], were any Compliment to...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [letters to Swift from various correspondents]
'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be honoured with his Commands: "But, Sir, may I presume to make a request to you?" "Yes", says he, "but Ten to One I shall deny it". "I hope not Sir, 'tis this; may I have Leave to read the Letters as I go on?" "Why, provided you will acknowledge yourself amply rewarded for your Trouble, I don't much care if I indulge you so far; but are you sure you can read?" "I don't know Sir, I'll try". "Well then begin with this". It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with a remark, how differently that Hour appeared to him now, rising cool, serene, and temperate, to contemplate the Beauties of Nature, to what it had done in some former Parts of his Life, when he was either in the midst of Excesses, or returning Home sated with them [Pilkington continues to summarise the 'moral philosophy' of the letter and professes herself delighted with all his other letters] Nor can I be at all surprized that Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] should so often celebrate a Genius who for sublimity of Thought, and elegance of Stile, had few Equals. The rest of the Dean's Correspondents were, the Lady [italics] Masham [end italics], the Earl of [italics] Oxford [end italics] [a long list of others, ending] Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], Dr [italics] Arbuthnot [end italics]; A Noble and learned Set! So my Readers may judge what a Banquet I had. I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] professed for Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], he cou'd not forbear a great many Satyrical, or if I might be allowed to say so, envious Remarks on the success of the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics] The Dean very frankly own'd, he did not think Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] was so candid to the Merits of other Writers, as he ought to be. [cont. in a subsequent entry]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Alexander Pope : [letters to Swift]
'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be honoured with his Commands: "But, Sir, may I presume to make a request to you?" "Yes", says he, "but Ten to One I shall deny it". "I hope not Sir, 'tis this; may I have Leave to read the Letters as I go on?" "Why, provided you will acknowledge yourself amply rewarded for your Trouble, I don't much care if I indulge you so far; but are you sure you can read?" "I don't know Sir, I'll try". "Well then begin with this". It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with a remark, how differently that Hour appeared to him now, rising cool, serene, and temperate, to contemplate the Beauties of Nature, to what it had done in some former Parts of his Life, when he was either in the midst of Excesses, or returning Home sated with them [Pilkington continues to summarise the 'moral philosophy' of the letter and professes herself delighted with all his other letters] Nor can I be at all surprized that Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] should so often celebrate a Genius who for sublimity of Thought, and elegance of Stile, had few Equals. The rest of the Dean's Correspondents were, the Lady [italics] Masham [end italics], the Earl of [italics] Oxford [end italics] [a long list of others, ending] Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], Dr [italics] Arbuthnot [end italics]; A Noble and learned Set! So my Readers may judge what a Banquet I had. I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] professed for Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], he cou'd not forbear a great many Satyrical, or if I might be allowed to say so, envious Remarks on the success of the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics] The Dean very frankly own'd, he did not think Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] was so candid to the Merits of other Writers, as he ought to be. [cont. in a subsequent entry]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Alexander Pope : Dunciad
'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with a remark, how differently that Hour appeared to him now, rising cool, serene, and temperate, to contemplate the Beauties of Nature, to what it had done in some former Parts of his Life, when he was either in the midst of Excesses, or returning Home sated with them [Pilkington continues to summarise the 'moral philosophy' of the letter and professes herself delighted with all his other letters] Nor can I be at all surprized that Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] should so often celebrate a Genius who for sublimity of Thought, and elegance of Stile, had few Equals. The rest of the Dean's Correspondents were, the Lady [italics] Masham [end italics], the Earl of [italics] Oxford [end italics] [a long list of others, ending] Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], Dr [italics] Arbuthnot [end italics]; A Noble and learned Set! So my Readers may judge what a Banquet I had. I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] professed for Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], he cou'd not forbear a great many Satyrical, or if I might be allowed to say so, envious Remarks on the success of the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics] The Dean very frankly own'd, he did not think Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] was so candid to the Merits of other Writers, as he ought to be. I then ventur'd to ask the Dean, whether he thought the Lines Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] addresses him with, in the Beginning of the [italics] Dunciad [end italics], were any Compliment to him? [italics] viz O Thou! whatever Title please thine Ear. [end italics] 'I believe', says he, they were meant as such, but they are very stiff'; - 'Indeed, Sir, said I, 'he is so perfectly a Master of harmonious Numbers, that had his Heart been in the least affected with his Subject, he must have writ better'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Dunciad
'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with a remark, how differently that Hour appeared to him now, rising cool, serene, and temperate, to contemplate the Beauties of Nature, to what it had done in some former Parts of his Life, when he was either in the midst of Excesses, or returning Home sated with them [Pilkington continues to summarise the 'moral philosophy' of the letter and professes herself delighted with all his other letters] Nor can I be at all surprized that Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] should so often celebrate a Genius who for sublimity of Thought, and elegance of Stile, had few Equals. The rest of the Dean's Correspondents were, the Lady [italics] Masham [end italics], the Earl of [italics] Oxford [end italics] [a long list of others, ending] Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], Dr [italics] Arbuthnot [end italics]; A Noble and learned Set! So my Readers may judge what a Banquet I had. I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] professed for Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], he cou'd not forbear a great many Satyrical, or if I might be allowed to say so, envious Remarks on the success of the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics] The Dean very frankly own'd, he did not think Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] was so candid to the Merits of other Writers, as he ought to be. I then ventur'd to ask the Dean, whether he thought the Lines Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] addresses him with, in the Beginning of the [italics] Dunciad [end italics], were any Compliment to him? [italics] viz O Thou! whatever Title please thine Ear. [end italics] 'I believe', says he, they were meant as such, but they are very stiff'; - 'Indeed, Sir, said I, 'he is so perfectly a Master of harmonious Numbers, that had his Heart been in the least affected with his Subject, he must have writ better'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Jonathan Swift      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : 'a Libel on Dr Delany and a Certain Great Lord'
'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] professed for Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], he cou'd not forbear a great many Satyrical, or if I might be allowed to say so, envious Remarks on the success of the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics] The Dean very frankly own'd, he did not think Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] was so candid to the Merits of other Writers, as he ought to be. I then ventur'd to ask the Dean, whether he thought the Lines Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] addresses him with, in the Beginning of the [italics] Dunciad [end italics], were any Compliment to him? [italics] viz O Thou! whatever Title please thine Ear. [end italics] 'I believe', says he, they were meant as such, but they are very stiff'; - 'Indeed, Sir, said I, 'he is so perfectly a Master of harmonious Numbers, that had his Heart been in the least affected with his Subject, he must have writ better; How cold, how forc'd, are his Lines to you, compared with yours to him.' [italics] Hail happy [end italics] Pope [italics] whose generous Mind. [end italics] Here we see the masterly Poet, and the warm, sincere, generous Friend'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : [letter to Swift]
[reported speech of Jonathan Swift] 'In the first Place, Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics], she had the Insolence this Morning, not only to desire to read the Writings of the most celebrated Genius's of the Age, in which I indulged her; but she must also, forsooth, pretend to praise or censure them as if she knew something of the matter; indeed her Remarks were not much amiss, considering they were guess Work; but this Letter here of Mr [italics] Pope[end italics]'s she has absolutely condemned. Read it' (he did so)'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas-Simon Gueulette : Mille et une heures, contes peruviens
'borrowing a Hint from a Story in the [italics] Peruvian [end italics] Tales; I form'd from it the following Poem' [she then gives the text of a long poem called 'The Statues: or, The Trial of Constancy. A Tale']
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Laetitia Pilkington : Paper
[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, that she did them the Honour to put them in her Pocket-Book, and I never thought more of them. About four years after this, making a visit to Baron [italics] Wainwright[end italics]'s Lady, she told me she had got a very pretty Poem from [italics] London [end italics], wrote by the Lord Chancellor [italics] Talbot[end italics]'s Daughter, a young Lady of but twelve Years of Age, and desir'd I would read them for the Good of the Company; but how great was my Surprise, to find they were the above Lines! however I went thro' my task, and Mrs [italics] Wainwright [end italics] ask'd my Opinion of them, and seem'd impatient at my Silence' [Pilkington then tells how she managed to convey diplomatically that they were hers, saying she'd seen them four years before, whereupon] the Baron said, that he also remember'd them, and that he was told by the Person he saw them with, that they were writ by a very young Girl, who was married to a clergyman in [italics] Ireland [end italics]...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : Paper
[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, that she did them the Honour to put them in her Pocket-Book, and I never thought more of them. About four years after this, making a visit to Baron [italics] Wainwright[end italics]'s Lady, she told me she had got a very pretty Poem from [italics] London [end italics], wrote by the Lord Chancellor [italics] Talbot[end italics]'s Daughter, a young Lady of but twelve Years of Age, and desir'd I would read them for the Good of the Company; but how great was my Surprise, to find they were the above Lines! however I went thro' my task, and Mrs [italics] Wainwright [end italics] ask'd my Opinion of them, and seem'd impatient at my Silence' [Pilkington then tells how she managed to convey diplomatically that they were hers, saying she'd seen them four years before, whereupon] the Baron said, that he also remember'd them, and that he was told by the Person he saw them with, that they were writ by a very young Girl, who was married to a clergyman in [italics] Ireland [end italics]...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: 'a Lady of Distinction'      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : Paper
[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, that she did them the Honour to put them in her Pocket-Book, and I never thought more of them. About four years after this, making a visit to Baron [italics] Wainwright[end italics]'s Lady, she told me she had got a very pretty Poem from [italics] London [end italics], wrote by the Lord Chancellor [italics] Talbot[end italics]'s Daughter, a young Lady of but twelve Years of Age, and desir'd I would read them for the Good of the Company; but how great was my Surprise, to find they were the above Lines! however I went thro' my task, and Mrs [italics] Wainwright [end italics] ask'd my Opinion of them, and seem'd impatient at my Silence' [Pilkington then tells how she managed to convey diplomatically that they were hers, saying she'd seen them four years before, whereupon] the Baron said, that he also remember'd them, and that he was told by the Person he saw them with, that they were writ by a very young Girl, who was married to a clergyman in [italics] Ireland [end italics]...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Wainwright      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : Paper
[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, that she did them the Honour to put them in her Pocket-Book, and I never thought more of them. About four years after this, making a visit to Baron [italics] Wainwright[end italics]'s Lady, she told me she had got a very pretty Poem from [italics] London [end italics], wrote by the Lord Chancellor [italics] Talbot[end italics]'s Daughter, a young Lady of but twelve Years of Age, and desir'd I would read them for the Good of the Company; but how great was my Surprise, to find they were the above Lines! however I went thro' my task, and Mrs [italics] Wainwright [end italics] ask'd my Opinion of them, and seem'd impatient at my Silence' [Pilkington then tells how she managed to convey diplomatically that they were hers, saying she'd seen them four years before, whereupon] the Baron said, that he also remember'd them, and that he was told by the Person he saw them with, that they were writ by a very young Girl, who was married to a clergyman in [italics] Ireland [end italics]...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John, Baron Wainwright      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : Paper
[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send you your Bit of News-paper with the Verses, than which I never saw better in their Kind; I have the same Opinion of those you were pleased to write upon me, as have also some particular Friends of Genius and Taste, to whom I ventured to communicate them, who universally agree with me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Jonathan Swift      Print: Newspaper

Laetitia Pilkington : Sent with a Quill to Dr Swift
[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send you your Bit of News-paper with the Verses, than which I never saw better in their Kind; I have the same Opinion of those you were pleased to write upon me, as have also some particular Friends of Genius and Taste, to whom I ventured to communicate them, who universally agree with me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Jonathan Swift      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : Sent with a Quill to Dr Swift
[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send you your Bit of News-paper with the Verses, than which I never saw better in their Kind; I have the same Opinion of those you were pleased to write upon me, as have also some particular Friends of Genius and Taste, to whom I ventured to communicate them, who universally agree with me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: friends of Swift     Manuscript: Unknown

Jonathan Swift : [prose works]
'We supp'd at the Dean's, and I had been reading out, by his Command, some of his prosaic Work; he was pleased to say I acquitted myself so well, that I should have a Glass of his best Wine, and sent Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics] to the Cellar for it'.
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington

Horace : Odes
'He [Matthew Pilkington] was one Winter's Evening reading [italics] Horace [end italics], and said he would engage to write an Ode exactly in his Manner; so he directly set about it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Pilkington      Print: Book

Laetitia Pilkington : Ode, An
[Having written an ode in the manner of Horace, she showed it to her husband who had also written one and] 'who, contrary to my Expectation (for I imagin'd he would be pleas'd), was very angry, and told me the Dean had made me mad, that the Lines were nonsense, and that a Needle became a Woman's Hand better than a Pen and Ink. So to bring him into Temper I prais'd his Ode highly, and threw my own into the Fire'. [the ode is reprinted on pp49-50]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Matthew Pilkington : [a Horatian Ode]
[Having written an ode in the manner of Horace, she showed it to her husband who had also written one and] 'who, contrary to my Expectation (for I imagin'd he would be pleas'd), was very angry, and told me the Dean had made me mad, that the Lines were nonsense, and that a Needle became a Woman's Hand better than a Pen and Ink. So to bring him into Temper I prais'd his Ode highly, and threw my own into the Fire'. [the ode is reprinted on pp49-50]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Alexander Pope : [letter to Swift]
[Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in which he said Pope was treating him handsomely, Laetitia took it to show Swift] 'The Dean read it over with a fix'd Attention, and returning it to me, he told me, he had, by the same Pacquet, receiv'd a Letter from Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], which, with somewhat of a stern Brow, he put into my Hand, and walk'd out into the Garden [the letter is full of abuse from Pope of M. Pilkington's manner and behaviour] By the time I had read it thro', the Dean return'd, and ask'd me what I thought of it? I told him, I was sure Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics] did not deserve the Character Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] had given of him; and that he was highly ungenerous to caress and abuse him at the same Time. Upon this the Dean lost all Patience, and flew into such a rage that he quite terrify'd me'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Matthew Pilkington : [letter to Laetitia Pilkington, about Pope]
[Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in which he said Pope was treating him handsomely, Laetitia took it to show Swift] 'The Dean read it over with a fix'd Attention, and returning it to me, he told me, he had, by the same Pacquet, receiv'd a Letter from Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], which, with somewhat of a stern Brow, he put into my Hand, and walk'd out into the Garden [the letter is full of abuse from Pope of M. Pilkington's manner and behaviour] By the time I had read it thro', the Dean return'd, and ask'd me what I thought of it? I told him, I was sure Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics] did not deserve the Character Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] had given of him; and that he was highly ungenerous to caress and abuse him at the same Time. Upon this the Dean lost all Patience, and flew into such a rage that he quite terrify'd me'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Jonathan Swift      Manuscript: Letter

Jonathan Swift : Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it, [italics] Behold the fatal Day arrive! How is the Dean? He's just alive [end italics] I was so sensibly affected, that my Eyes fill'd with Tears; The Dean observing it, said, "Phoo, I am not dead yet - but you shan't read any more now". I then earnestly requested he would let me take it home with me. [he did this, on condition she neither copy it nor show it to anyone else - she did not, but her memory was very good and she learnt it and "could not forbear delighting some particular Friends with a Rehearsal of it" - when Swift heard others knew it, he thought LP had broken her word and was furious. He would not believe her assurances to the contrary] and produc'd a Poerm something like it, publish'd in [italics] London [end italics], and told me, from my reading it about, that odd Burlesque on it had taken rise. He bade me read it aloud. I did so, and could not forbear laughing, as I plainly perceiv'd, tho' he had endeavour'd to disguise his Stile, that the Dean had burlesqu'd himself'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Jonathan Swift : Life and Genuine Character of Dr Swift, The
'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it, [italics] Behold the fatal Day arrive! How is the Dean? He's just alive [end italics] I was so sensibly affected, that my Eyes fill'd with Tears; The Dean observing it, said, "Phoo, I am not dead yet - but you shan't read any more now". I then earnestly requested he would let me take it home with me. [he did this, on condition she neither copy it nor show it to anyone else - she did not, but her memory was very good and she learnt it and "could not forbear delighting some particular Friends with a Rehearsal of it" - when Swift heard others knew it, he thought LP had broken her word and was furious. He would not believe her assurances to the contrary] and produc'd a Poerm something like it, publish'd in [italics] London [end italics], and told me, from my reading it about, that odd Burlesque on it had taken rise. He bade me read it aloud. I did so, and could not forbear laughing, as I plainly perceiv'd, tho' he had endeavour'd to disguise his Stile, that the Dean had burlesqu'd himself'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his Works, but all [italics] Shakespear[end italics]'s, which I put to this Trial; I desir'd him to open any Part of it and read a Line, and I would engage to go on with the whole Speech; as we were in his Library, he directly made the Experiment: The Line he first gave me, he had purposely picked out for its singular Oddness: [italics] Put rancours in the Vessel of my Peace [end italics] MacBeth I readily went on with the whole Speech, and did so several times, that he try'd me with different Plays. The Dean then took down [italics] Hudibras [end italics], and order'd me to examine him in it, as he had done me in [italics] Shakespear [end itaics]; and, to my great Surprize, I found he remember'd every Line, from Beginning to End of it. I say, it surpriz'd me, because I had been misled by Mr [italics] Pope [end italics]'s Remark, That [italics] Where beams of warm Imagination play The Memory's soft Figures melt away [end italics] Essay on Criticism'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [Plays]
[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his Works, but all [italics] Shakespear[end italics]'s, which I put to this Trial; I desir'd him to open any Part of it and read a Line, and I would engage to go on with the whole Speech; as we were in his Library, he directly made the Experiment: The Line he first gave me, he had purposely picked out for its singular Oddness: [italics] Put rancours in the Vessel of my Peace [end italics] MacBeth I readily went on with the whole Speech, and did so several times, that he try'd me with different Plays. The Dean then took down [italics] Hudibras [end italics], and order'd me to examine him in it, as he had done me in [italics] Shakespear [end itaics]; and, to my great Surprize, I found he remember'd every Line, from Beginning to End of it. I say, it surpriz'd me, because I had been misled by Mr [italics] Pope [end italics]'s Remark, That [italics] Where beams of warm Imagination play The Memory's soft Figures melt away [end italics] Essay on Criticism'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on Criticism
[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his Works, but all [italics] Shakespear[end italics]'s, which I put to this Trial; I desir'd him to open any Part of it and read a Line, and I would engage to go on with the whole Speech; as we were in his Library, he directly made the Experiment: The Line he first gave me, he had purposely picked out for its singular Oddness: [italics] Put rancours in the Vessel of my Peace [end italics] MacBeth I readily went on with the whole Speech, and did so several times, that he try'd me with different Plays. The Dean then took down [italics] Hudibras [end italics], and order'd me to examine him in it, as he had done me in [italics] Shakespear [end itaics]; and, to my great Surprize, I found he remember'd every Line, from Beginning to End of it. I say, it surpriz'd me, because I had been misled by Mr [italics] Pope [end italics]'s Remark, That [italics] Where beams of warm Imagination play The Memory's soft Figures melt away [end italics] Essay on Criticism'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Samuel Butler : Hudibras
[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his Works, but all [italics] Shakespear[end italics]'s, which I put to this Trial; I desir'd him to open any Part of it and read a Line, and I would engage to go on with the whole Speech; as we were in his Library, he directly made the Experiment: The Line he first gave me, he had purposely picked out for its singular Oddness: [italics] Put rancours in the Vessel of my Peace [end italics] MacBeth I readily went on with the whole Speech, and did so several times, that he try'd me with different Plays. The Dean then took down [italics] Hudibras [end italics], and order'd me to examine him in it, as he had done me in [italics] Shakespear [end itaics]; and, to my great Surprize, I found he remember'd every Line, from Beginning to End of it. I say, it surpriz'd me, because I had been misled by Mr [italics] Pope [end italics]'s Remark, That [italics] Where beams of warm Imagination play The Memory's soft Figures melt away [end italics] Essay on Criticism'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Jonathan Swift      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream, A
'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics] has borrowed thence to adorn his Masque of [italics] Comus [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

John Milton : Comus: A Masque
'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics] has borrowed thence to adorn his Masque of [italics] Comus [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Horace : Odes
'The following Ode of [italics] Horace [end italics] bearing some Similitude to my then present Circumstances, I took the Liberty of paraphrasing and sent it to my husband, notwithstanding his former Lectures [that women should not write. There follows LP's version of 'The Seventh Ode of the Third Book of Horace']
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Various : Autographs
'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the same night: the one a letter of fifteen pages from Mr Baillie; the other a collection of autographs from his Opposite. What do you think? among these were a letter from Goethe, and a fragment of a letter from Byron!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Autographs

Thomas Carlyle : Letter dated 20th January 1825
'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-tempered, I beg; for you shall find me a severer critic than the Opiumeater-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Jane Baillie Welsh : Letter dated 29th January
'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, I think, the best you ever sent me; there is more of the true woman, of the essence of my Jane's honourable nature in it, than I ever saw before. Such calm quiet good-sense, and such confiding simple true affection! I were myself a pitiable man, if it did not move me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

: The Courier
'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father for the pleasure and contentment they have given me: had I got their letter a day sooner, this sheet had not been yours.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Newspaper

Patrick Delany : Fifteen Sermons upon Social Duties
'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Observation, That he believes, very few Women have either been so weak, or so wicked, to wrong the Marriage-bed, but when they have been provok'd to it, either by the ill Treatment they receiv'd from their Husbands, or in Revenge to their prior falsehoods. If I have not deliver'd the worthy Author's sentiments with his own Elegance of Style, I am sure he will pardon me, as I only quote from memory, not being mistress of his admirable Works.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
[having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pilkington says] 'I must beg my Reader's Pardon for these numerous Quotations; but as [italics] Swift [end italics] says, those anticipating Rascals the Ancients, have left nothing for us poor Moderns to say: But still to shew my Vanity, let it stand as some sort of Praise, that I have stolen wisely'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Learning will, I am sure, pardon me, as I solemnly declare, it was the attractive Charms of a new Book,which the Gentleman would not lend me, but consented to stay till I read it through, that was the sole Motive of my detaining him' [the incident led to LP being divorced for adultery]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Matthew Pilkington : [alteration to her poem on 'Stella']
[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad to Mr Pilkington, who thought proper to alter the last verse, giving it this prophane and nonsensical turn; Cou'd the Gods, in blest Condition, Aught on Earth with Envy view, Lovely Stella, their Ambition Wou'd be to resemble you. As for the Gods envying Mortals, and wishing to be like them, it has neither Sense, [italics] English [end italics], nor even Novelty to recommend it; nor is it agreeable to the Dictates of Reason or Religion; for even a Heathen Author stands condemned for setting [italics] Cato [end italics] in a Light superior to the Gods; but a Christian Divine may say any thing, and so much for an old song'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetititia Pilkington : [verses on 'Stella']
[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad to Mr Pilkington, who thought proper to alter the last verse, giving it this prophane and nonsensical turn; Cou'd the Gods, in blest Condition, Aught on Earth with Envy view, Lovely Stella, their Ambition Wou'd be to resemble you. As for the Gods envying Mortals, and wishing to be like them, it has neither Sense, [italics] English [end italics], nor even Novelty to recommend it; nor is it agreeable to the Dictates of Reason or Religion; for even a Heathen Author stands condemned for setting [italics] Cato [end italics] in a Light superior to the Gods; but a Christian Divine may say any thing, and so much for an old song'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetititia Pilkington : [verses on 'Stella']
[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad to Mr Pilkington, who thought proper to alter the last verse, giving it this prophane and nonsensical turn; Cou'd the Gods, in blest Condition, Aught on Earth with Envy view, Lovely Stella, their Ambition Wou'd be to resemble you. As for the Gods envying Mortals, and wishing to be like them, it has neither Sense, [italics] English [end italics], nor even Novelty to recommend it; nor is it agreeable to the Dictates of Reason or Religion; for even a Heathen Author stands condemned for setting [italics] Cato [end italics] in a Light superior to the Gods; but a Christian Divine may say any thing, and so much for an old song'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Worsdale      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetititia Pilkington : Verses on Counsellor Callaghan
'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and threatened Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics], if he did not read it out, for the Amusement of the Company, he should be my next Subject for Satyr; but no body so earnestly insisted on seeing the Song as [italics] Callaghan [end italics] himself. To oblige him and entertain the Company, Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics] sung it to the Tune of [italics] Chevy Chace [end italics. The ballad is then reproduced] I have been credibly informed that this song made [italics] Callaghan [end italics] blush, which was more than any thing had ever done before. However he took a Copy of it, which he promised to publish; but finding he has not been as good as his Word, I must even be at the Expence of doing it my self'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetititia Pilkington : Verses on Counsellor Callaghan
'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and threatened Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics], if he did not read it out, for the Amusement of the Company, he should be my next Subject for Satyr; but no body so earnestly insisted on seeing the Song as [italics] Callaghan [end italics] himself. To oblige him and entertain the Company, Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics] sung it to the Tune of [italics] Chevy Chace [end italics. The ballad is then reproduced] I have been credibly informed that this song made [italics] Callaghan [end italics] blush, which was more than any thing had ever done before. However he took a Copy of it, which he promised to publish; but finding he has not been as good as his Word, I must even be at the Expence of doing it my self'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetititia Pilkington : [poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own]
'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [italics] Pilkington[end italics]'s Work to me, and swear it was his own, and in return, he, with the same modest Assurance, presented mine to him, but we were too well acquainted with each other's Stile to be deceiv'd'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Matthew Pilkington : [poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own]
'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [italics] Pilkington[end italics]'s Work to me, and swear it was his own, and in return, he, with the same modest Assurance, presented mine to him, but we were too well acquainted with each other's Stile to be deceiv'd'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury : Characteristics
'It is known to every learned Divine, that the Priests engross'd the whole Country of [italics] Egypt [end italics], as the eldest Son of ev'ry Priest was born a Priest, and therefore intitled to a tenth Part of the Land, upon which [italics] Joseph [end italics] who was not only an admirable Man, but an excellent Politician, and had a divine Revelation that the Land should suffer Famine ten Years, ordered the Priests to pay in all their Subsidies to the King, whereby in those ten Years of Dearth the King purchased at so low a Rate, as giving the People a little Corn, all the Lands in [italics] Egypt [end italics]. These are Remarks of the admirable Lord [italics] Shaftesbury [end italics], whose inimitable Style and clear Manner of Reasoning, carry Conviction with them. I never knew any Clergyman who quoted him, but to his prejudice, except Doctor [italics] Turnbull [end italics]: And yet I can't see why the Morality or the Preaching of it, should in any wise be offensive to a Christian'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [commendatory verses by various admirers]
'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] Dublin [end italics], and do assure them, I have as many Pacquets of a Day, as a Minister of State; some praising, and some abusing me; the best of which in my Praise, I have chosen out for their Perusal' [various laudatory poems follow]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [unknown]
'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time with Ombre, Reading, and Pratling, very tolerably'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Stephen Hales : [unknown]
'I told the Doctor, my Writings might amuse, but his made the World the wiser and the better, as I had had the Pleasure of reading them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Laetitia Pilkington : To Mr Cibber
[LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] shewed it to all the Noblemen at [italics] White's [end italics], as means to engage them to subscribe to me, which, to oblige him, many of them did; and, to make it public, Mr [talics] Cibber [end italics] inserted it in a Pamphlet of his own called the [italics] Egotist, or Colley upon Cibber [end italics]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To Mr Cibber
[LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] shewed it to all the Noblemen at [italics] White's [end italics], as means to engage them to subscribe to me, which, to oblige him, many of them did; and, to make it public, Mr [talics] Cibber [end italics] inserted it in a Pamphlet of his own called the [italics] Egotist, or Colley upon Cibber [end italics]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: gentlemen at White's Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To The Hon. Colonel Duncombe
[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did not fail to shew the Lines to all the Noblemen at [italics] White's[end italics], who heartily bantered the Colonel on his Generosity to his Mistress'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: gentlemen at White's Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To The Hon. Colonel Duncombe
[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did not fail to shew the Lines to all the Noblemen at [italics] White's[end italics], who heartily bantered the Colonel on his Generosity to his Mistress'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Augustus, Lord Fitzroy      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
[Having agreed to let her landlady lodge a Dr Turnbull in her (LP's) bedchamber] 'I went up to my own Apartment, where I found the Doctor reading'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Turnbull      Print: Book

Laetitia Pilkington : [Poems]
'A short while after he went down Stairs, he sent his Compliments up, and begg'd I would lend him a Book to amuse himself till Bed-time, so being willing to cultivate the good Opinion he seem'd to have conceiv'd of me, I sent him my own Poems in Manuscript, which, pardon my Vanity, did not fail to confirm it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Turnbull      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.
[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], who liked them so well, that he undertook to deliver them for me. The next morning, early, he waited on him, and then call'd upon me, and, giving me ten Guineas, asked me, whether I thought them a sufficient Reward for my Poetry? I told him, I really did: Well then, said he, Mr Pelham distinguished thus: "There are five Guineas, for the Lady's Numbers; and Five more, for the good Advice they contain; and tell her, I hope God will always give me Grace to follow it". '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.
[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], who liked them so well, that he undertook to deliver them for me. The next morning, early, he waited on him, and then call'd upon me, and, giving me ten Guineas, asked me, whether I thought them a sufficient Reward for my Poetry? I told him, I really did: Well then, said he, Mr Pelham distinguished thus: "There are five Guineas, for the Lady's Numbers; and Five more, for the good Advice they contain; and tell her, I hope God will always give me Grace to follow it". '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Pelham      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To Colley Cibber, Esq
[LP reproduces her poem 'To Colley Cibber, Esq.] 'Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] received these Lines with his usual Partiality to me, and my Performances'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : Sorrow
[LP recounts her first meeting with Colley Cibber] '"Sit down", said he, "be less ceremonious to be better bred; come, shew me your Writings". I obeyed; and, upon his reading the Poem, called [italics] Sorrow [end italics], he burst into Tears, and was not ashamed to give the flowing Virtue manly Way; he desired a Copy of it - which I gave him'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I was going to proceed, when Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] interrupted me; I was, said he, at the Duke of [italics] Richmond[end italics]'s last Summer, when his Daughter, a most accomplished young Lady, and a very early Riser, sat reading in a beautiful Portico, about Six in the Morning; I accosted the fair Creature, and asked her the Subject of her Contemplation? So in a most elegant, and agreeable Stile, she related to me Part of a very entertaining Novel, she held in her Hand, and, I believe, in better words than the Author wrote it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Emilia, Lady Lennox      Print: Book

Laetitia Pilkington : [Poems]
'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them to the Earl of [italics] Chesterfield [end italics], who positively insisted on it, that I must understand [italics] Greek [end italics], and [italics] Latin [end italics], otherwise I never could write [italics] English [end italics] so well.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : [Poems]
'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them to the Earl of [italics] Chesterfield [end italics], who positively insisted on it, that I must understand [italics] Greek [end italics], and [italics] Latin [end italics], otherwise I never could write [italics] English [end italics] so well.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield      Manuscript: Unknown

J. Walsh : [letter professing to be from Matthew Pilkington's lawyer]
'I ventured to communicate to him [Dr Turnbull] Mr [italics] Walsh[end italics]'s Letter; the Doctor lifted up his Hands and Eyes to Heaven, and seem'd as much shocked by the Perfidiousness of the Wretch, as I had been; for whoever wrote the Letter, it was certainly done by Mr [italics] Pilkington[end italics]'s direction.' [a letter signed J. Walsh making false accusations about LP, such as that she had murdered her father]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Turnbull      Manuscript: Letter

Laetitia Pilkington : [Poems]
'I ingenuously told him [Mr Parkinson], I had no other Fortune than my Pen, and, at his request, shewed him some of my Writings' [Parkinson introduced her to a patron, Sir John Ligonier]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Parkinson      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely with reading; and my not having a Library of my own, made me a constant Customer to a Shop in the Neighbourhood, where they hired out Books by the Quarter'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Laetitia Pilkington : Apology for the Minister, An
[Mr Rooke tells LP] 'as I had, in the Shop, read your [italics] Apology for the Minister [end italics], I was greatly surprized to hear it was the Product of a Lady's Pen'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Rooke

[n/a] : Champion, The
'Here entered our kind Host, and brought us a Paper called the [italics] Champion [end italics], in which was a very humorous Piece of Advice to all who went to Court, to wear Shields on their Bums, this was so [italics] Mal a propos [end italics] that it raised our Mirth'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]
[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason I always read the News; - then I dress, and, about Twelve go to the [italics] Cocoa-Tree [end italics], where I talk Treason; from thence to [italics] St James's Coffee-house [end italics], where I praise the Ministry; then to [italics] White's [end italics], where I talk Gallantry; so by Three, I return home to Dinner; after that, I read about an Hour, and digest the Book and the Dinner together'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Rooke      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason I always read the News; - then I dress, and, about Twelve go to the [italics] Cocoa-Tree [end italics], where I talk Treason; from thence to [italics] St James's Coffee-house [end italics], where I praise the Ministry; then to [italics] White's [end italics], where I talk Gallantry; so by Three, I return home to Dinner; after that, I read about an Hour, and digest the Book and the Dinner together'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Rooke      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on Roman History]
'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar [end italics], and [italics] Brutus [end italics] from both, but he related a great Part of [italics] Roman[end italics] History to me, even from the first [italics] Punic [end italics] War to the Death of [italics] Julius [end italics]. My Readers may venture to believe it was not new to me, who had from my Childhood been, if I may use the Word, a perfect Devourer of Books; and I found them both sweet to the Palate, and nourishing Food to the Mind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Lady's Dressing-Room, The
[Describing a very ugly woman] 'I think I must for the rest refer my Reader to the Lady's Dressing Room, for [italics] In such a Case few Words are best, and Strephon bids us guess the rest [end italics] I really, till I saw this Wretch, imagined the Dean had only mustered up all the dirty Ideas in the World in one Piece, on Purpose to affront the Fair Sex, as he used humorously to stile old Beggar-women, and Cinder-Pickers.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : [Poems]
'Mr E-e, seeing my Table covered with written Papers, told me, my Room resembled that of a Lawyer, and asked me Leave to read my Contemplations; to which I agreeing, he had the Complaisance to seem entertained'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr E-e      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [a French drinking song]
'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, to translate a [italics] French Chanson a boire [end italics].'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington

: Spanish Grammar
'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little fellow, between whom and Irving I have had occasion frequently of late to officiate as interpreter (the Sp[an]iard speaking only French). I have bethought me of turning his skill [to] account; I have bought a Spanish grammar, and begun yesterday to take lessons from him in his language, which I may repay by giving him lessons in mine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Alexander Carlyle : Letter
'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligence contained in your letter of yesterday. For several weeks I had lived in a total dearth of tidings from you; and both on account of your welfare, and of our mutual projects in the farming line, I had begun to get into the fidgets, and was ready to hasten homewards with many unpleasant imaginations to damp the expected joy of again beholding friends so dear to me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

Badams : Letter
'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelting schemes): he wishes me to stay till his return, but if I cannot, he entreats me to take Taffy (a little fiery corn-fed indefatigable Welsh Pony of his, on which I ride) with all its furniture, for the love of him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

Badams : Letter
'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derbyshire, and keep the steed in remembrance of him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

Matthew Pilkington : [Life of Barber]
[Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderman [italics] Barber [end italics], wherein there is an Account of the amours of [italics] Cadenus [end italics] and [italics] Vanessa [end italics], to which the Alderman was privy, and related them to Mr Pilkington: Now I have been informed you have some Letters of the Dean's, which may embellish the Work; and also, a true Character of the Alderman, written by his Chaplain; I will make you a handsome Consideration for them if you will give them to me to publish.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmond Curll      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : [Letter]
'[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recommended me to him, said "Poor Creature! I suppose you want Charity; there's Half a Crown for you".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hans Sloane      Manuscript: Letter

Laetitia Pilkington : Roman Father, The
[bailiffs burst into her room to take her to the Marshalsea; one of them] 'who had employed himself in looking over my Papers, cried, "Ay the [italics] Irish [end italics] Whore, here is something about some [italics] Roman [end italics] Father, that's the Pope, and be damn'd to you is it?'''
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [prison discharge document]
[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over these Words, [italics] Discharge from your Custody the body of, &c. [end italics], as I was by nine Weeks Confinement, Sickness, and Fasting, rendered quite weak, the joyful Surprize made me faint away several Times, and, indeed, my kind Benefactor had like to have frustrated his own generous Design of preserving me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To Colley Cibber, esq.
[On New Year's Day, 1743, LP published verses in the 'Gazette' in honour of Colley Cibber] 'My dear old Friend was pleased with my Sense of his Goodness to me; only he told me, my Lines were more proper to be addressed to an Archbishop than to him, who had nothing to boast of more than a little common Humanity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Richardson : Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
[having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [italics] Pamela [end italics], and been told it was written by one Mr [italics] Richardson [end italics], I asked him whether he was not the Author of it? He said, he was the Editor: I told him, my Surprize was now over, as I found he had only given to the incomparable [italics] Pamela [end italics] the Virtues of his own worthy Heart'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : Egotist, The
'As my dear Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] had made me a present of fifty of his last Answer to Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], I sat down to read it, and found it so full of Spirit, and Humour, that just as it had thrown me into a hearty fit of Laughing, a Clergyman entered, who asked me, what had I got new?' [LP was by now running a print and pamphlet shop]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington

Laetitia Pilkington : To Mr Cibber
[LP gives the text of a poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'I sent these Lines to my dear Gentleman, who presently came to me, as I was once more in his Neighbourhood, - and in his cheerful Way, said, "Faith, Child, you have praised me so, that I think, it is the least I can do to make you eat for a Fortnight"; - so he gave me three Guineas'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Jack Pilkington : [a letter]
[a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission to peruse my Letter, to which he agreeing, I had not read above ten Lines, when I burst into Tears, so the Gentleman insisted on my laying it aside while he stayed, telling me, I must so far oblige him as to write a Love Letter for him'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Jack Pilkington : [a letter]
'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [inscriptions]
'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but was infinitely shocked to find I was locked in to the solitary Mansions of the Dead'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Graffito

Eliza Haywood : Female Spectator, The
'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us with the insipid: Her [italics] Female Spectators [end italics] are a collection of trite Stories, delivered to us in stale and worn-out Phrases'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Serial / periodical

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : Leben Fibels
'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and Tieck?) he is the best man in Germany: but his extravagance and barbarism will render the task of selecting from him one of some difficulty.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : Herbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitschriften
'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and Tieck?) he is the best man in Germany: but his extravagance and barbarism will render the task of selecting from him one of some difficulty.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : Die Flegeljahre
'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and Tieck?) he is the best man in Germany: but his extravagance and barbarism will render the task of selecting from him one of some difficulty.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Anne Lefevre Dacier : [translations of and notes on Homer]
'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics]; the first is Madam [italics] Dacier [end italics], whose Learning Mr [italics] Pope [end italiocs], while he is indebted to for all the notes on [italics] Homer [end italics], endeavours to depreciate; the second is Mrs. [italics] Catherine Philips [end italics], the matchless [italics] Orinda [end italics], celebrated by Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics], Lord [italics] Orrery [end italics], and all the Men of Genius who lived in her Time. I think this incomparable Lady was one of the first Refiners of the [italics] English[end italics] Numbers; Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics]'s, though full of Wit, have somewhat harsh and uncouth in them, while her Sentiments are great, and virtuous; her Diction natural, easy, flowing, and harmonious. Love she has wrote upon with Warmth, but then it was such as Angels might share in without injuring their oringinal purity. Her Elegy on her Husband's Daughter, is a Proof of the Excellency and Tenderness of her own Heart, rarely met with in a Stepmother; nor could I ever read it without tears, a Proof it was wrote from her Heart'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Katherine Philips : Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda
'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics]; the first is Madam [italics] Dacier [end italics], whose Learning Mr [italics] Pope [end italiocs], while he is indebted to for all the notes on [italics] Homer [end italics], endeavours to depreciate; the second is Mrs. [italics] Catherine Philips [end italics], the matchless [italics] Orinda [end italics], celebrated by Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics], Lord [italics] Orrery [end italics], and all the Men of Genius who lived in her Time. I think this incomparable Lady was one of the first Refiners of the [italics] English[end italics] Numbers; Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics]'s, though full of Wit, have somewhat harsh and uncouth in them, while her Sentiments are great, and virtuous; her Diction natural, easy, flowing, and harmonious. Love she has wrote upon with Warmth, but then it was such as Angels might share in without injuring their oringinal purity. Her Elegy on her Husband's Daughter, is a Proof of the Excellency and Tenderness of her own Heart, rarely met with in a Stepmother; nor could I ever read it without tears, a Proof it was wrote from her Heart'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Katherine Philips : ''in Memory of F.P. who died at Acton the 24 May 1660 at 12 and a 1/2 of Age'
'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics]; the first is Madam [italics] Dacier [end italics], whose Learning Mr [italics] Pope [end italiocs], while he is indebted to for all the notes on [italics] Homer [end italics], endeavours to depreciate; the second is Mrs. [italics] Catherine Philips [end italics], the matchless [italics] Orinda [end italics], celebrated by Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics], Lord [italics] Orrery [end italics], and all the Men of Genius who lived in her Time. I think this incomparable Lady was one of the first Refiners of the [italics] English[end italics] Numbers; Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics]'s, though full of Wit, have somewhat harsh and uncouth in them, while her Sentiments are great, and virtuous; her Diction natural, easy, flowing, and harmonious. Love she has wrote upon with Warmth, but then it was such as Angels might share in without injuring their oringinal purity. Her Elegy on her Husband's Daughter, is a Proof of the Excellency and Tenderness of her own Heart, rarely met with in a Stepmother; nor could I ever read it without tears, a Proof it was wrote from her Heart'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Abraham Cowley : [Poems]
'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics]; the first is Madam [italics] Dacier [end italics], whose Learning Mr [italics] Pope [end italiocs], while he is indebted to for all the notes on [italics] Homer [end italics], endeavours to depreciate; the second is Mrs. [italics] Catherine Philips [end italics], the matchless [italics] Orinda [end italics], celebrated by Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics], Lord [italics] Orrery [end italics], and all the Men of Genius who lived in her Time. I think this incomparable Lady was one of the first Refiners of the [italics] English[end italics] Numbers; Mr [italics] Cowly [end italics]'s, though full of Wit, have somewhat harsh and uncouth in them, while her Sentiments are great, and virtuous; her Diction natural, easy, flowing, and harmonious. Love she has wrote upon with Warmth, but then it was such as Angels might share in without injuring their oringinal purity. Her Elegy on her Husband's Daughter, is a Proof of the Excellency and Tenderness of her own Heart, rarely met with in a Stepmother; nor could I ever read it without tears, a Proof it was wrote from her Heart'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine : Raphael
'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in German): there is genius in all of these, but whether any of them is among the best of his half-a-century of works, I have no means of ascertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine : Rudolph von Werdenberg
'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in German): there is genius in all of these, but whether any of them is among the best of his half-a-century of works, I have no means of ascertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine : Tinchen oder die Mannerprobe
'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in German): there is genius in all of these, but whether any of them is among the best of his half-a-century of works, I have no means of ascertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Mrs Grierson : [Poems]
'I cannot, except my own Countrywoman, Mrs [italics] Grierson [end italics], find out another female Writer, whose Works are worth reading, she indeed had a happy and well-improved Genius; I remember she wrote a very fine poem on Bishop [italics] Berkley's Bermudian [end italics] Scheme' [LP then summarises and quotes from the poem]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Bishop Clayton : [poem]
'Your Lordship's poetry in my Praise I can never forget, and as it would be a Loss to the World if any Part of so justly an admired Author's Works shold be buried in Oblivion, take, oh World! the following lines:' [she reproduces the poem]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Benjamin Hoadly : Suspicious Husband, The
'Dulness is not confined to them [Bishops], it descends to their Sons, witness our celebrated Comedy, [italics] The Suspicious Husband [end italics], which, but for its neither having one Character well drawn, any Plot, any thing like a Sentiment, and wrote too in a gallimawfry Stile, might be a good Performance; but as long as it is stamped with a Name, it passes current, though Sterling Nonsense.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [poetry by various correspondents]
'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it would have proved as odd a Medley as any thing ever yet exhiited to publick View; I suppose everyone who fancied they had Wit, had a Mind to see how it would look in print, but I must beg to be excused; though the learned Mr [italics] Timothy Ticle Picker [end italics] pressed very hard for a place, it would be a strong Proof of my Vanity to insert his anti-sublime compliments to me'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Old Testament
'Indeed it were to wished that either this learned and excellent Divine [Dr Delany], or some other of equal Abilities, if such may be found, would oblige the World with a new translation of the [italics] Old Testament [end italics], since, as we now have it, it seems filled with Incongruities, Indecencies, and shocking Absurdities, such as the Holy Spirit could never have dictated, [italics] whose Body is light, and whose Shadow Truth'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

unknown : [German novel]
'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; but at present I submit to it with equanimity, and even find enjoyment in the thought that in this humblest of spheres of existence I am doing all I can do save my spirit and my fortunes from the shipwreck which threatened then, and to fit me for discharging to myself and others whatever duties my natural or accidental capabilities, slender but actually existing as they are, point out and impose upon me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Mrs Montagu : Letter
'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did you say, to make her so good to me? She could not have written more frankly and affectionately if I had been her own child. I have never met with any thing like this from Woman before- I purpose loving Mrs Montague all my life; if I find her always the same as she has introduced herself to me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter : unknown
'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Basil Montague, am "a lover of all quiet things"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Mrs Montagu : Letter dated 13 June
'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the letter. I have heard from the "noble Lady" again, and written again - She will surely be satisfied that there is no worm of disappointment preying on my damask cheek; for I have told her in luminous EngLIsh that my heart is not in England but in Annandale!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Jane Baillie Welsh : Will
'Mr Donaldson has seen my will too with your name written in it in great letters. No matter! why should I be ashamed of shewing an affection which I am not ashamed to feel- But we will talk over all these things when we meet- It will take all your indulgence to excuse this breathless letter- God bless you my darling.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Donaldson      Manuscript: Will

George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown
'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrived at 7.30. I read Byron all the time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

Mrs Montagu : Letter dated 3 July
I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Mercy how romantic she is[.)] write presently to Templand.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Mrs Montagu : Letter dated 20 July
'My dearest I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter, which I found lying for me, has distracted my thoughts from the prospect of our meeting-the brightest in my mind for many months, and fixed them on a part of my own conduct which makes me unworthy ever to see you, or be clasped to your true heart again. I cannot come to you cannot be at peace with myself:... I loved [Edward Irving]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Carlyle : Letter dated 29th July 1825
'My own, best, dearest Love I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of coming. As it was they were obilged to put leeches on my temples to keep me quiet: they thought it was the fatigue of travelling which had made me ill again; and I did not take any pains to undeceive them. My God! what should I suffer, were I indeed to lose your regard, when the apprehension discomposes me thus?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Carlyle : Letter dated 4 August
'My dear Carlyle, I received your letter with the inclosed addressed to Mr Burns, which I had the pleasure of delivering to him about three weeks ago. I reached Edinburgh about mid-day; took the coach at three o'clock, and arrived in Haddington about seven.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Johnston      Manuscript: Letter

Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
'(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
'I let Colonel Haworth read a bit of it. "By God!" he said, "this is the first book I've read on Persia which gives one the slightest idea what it's like." '
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:

Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'Dearest - you don't know what "The Land" means to me! I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to my life.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson

William Wordsworth : unknown
'Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West

unknown : [nineteenth-century works]
'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whether in prose or poetry - and the more I read, the more I am convinced that I was born out of season: I should have lived in an age when seriousness and noble thoughts found an echo.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Unknown

Virginia Woolf : "memoir of Old Bloomsbury"
'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at Saulieu, but I loved hearing it again; I want you to hear it.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf : Orlando
'My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that I scarcely know where (or who!) I am. It came this morning by the first post and I have been reading it ever since, and am now half-way through. Virginia sent it to me in a lovely leather binding - bless her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

: Express
'Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the "Express" and "Evening Standard". They really fill me with alarm. I simply shall be unable to write the sort of sob-stuff they want.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Newspaper

: [French and German newspapers]
'Read French and German newspapers. Wrote three paragraphs. Fiddled about.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Rutherford Crockett : The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion
E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898: 'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir Toady Lion? It is splendid: a child's story, & reminds me of the times I used to have with Ansell & Frankie [neighbours].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems in two volumes, two volumes of Jebb's Sophocles, Kugler's History of Italian Painting in two volumes, and last but not least Jane Austen in 10 volumes. It is such a lovely edition, in green cloth with beautiful print and paper, and each volume is very light to hold [...] Each novel goes into two volumes, except Persuasion & Northanger Abbey, who only take one. I am reading the latter again, & I am more delighted with it than ever.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Edward Morgan Forster : "The Greek Feeling for Nature"
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek Feeling for Nature"; everyone sat upon it very much, and disagreed with everything I said.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

: Punch
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday a party were going for a ramble and then coming to tea with you. I hope it was a success'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday a party were going for a ramble and then coming to tea with you. I hope it was a success'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

: Nature Notes
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday a party were going for a ramble and then coming to tea with you. I hope it was a success'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

Jabez Bunting Dimbleby :
E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899: 'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. I can't think how Maimie [i.e. Mary Aylward, family friend] is taken in. Scattered scraps of information such as "in 1903 there will be a second Flood: 'one of the continents' (!) will sink below the sea. In 1910 the world will probably be consumed in the tail of a comet, &tc." '"Dear me," says Maimie, "to think that we shall probably be alive to see it."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry James : Portrait of a Lady
E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home next week. I have just read James' "A portrait of a Lady" [sic]. It is very wonderful but there's something wrong with him or me: he is not as George Meredith. Now I'm reading the Forest Lovers by Maurice Hewlett, and am a little bored though there is lots of delightful writing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett : The Forest Lovers: A Romance
E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home next week. I have just read James' "A portrait of a Lady" [sic]. It is very wonderful but there's something wrong with him or me: he is not as George Meredith. Now I'm reading the Forest Lovers by Maurice Hewlett, and am a little bored though there is lots of delightful writing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : plays
E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899: 'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully clever & amusing, but they make me feel bad inside.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Macaulay Trevelyan : 'The Uses of History'
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of Trinity read a paper on "The Uses of History", & very good it was.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Trevelyan      Manuscript: Unknown

: Punch
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Thank you so much for sending the Punches. They are a public blessing to the staircase!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Undergraduates at King's College, Cambridge     Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Morgan Forster : paper
E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, 1 January 1905: 'I was up [at Cambridge] for a fortnight, and read the Society [i.e. the Apostles] a paper, which, if I find it, I will send you [...] No one thought there was much in it (Strachey, Sheppard, Keynes, present). You may throw it away.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

: 'The Child's first Lesebuch'
E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin] [...] go a walk [...] We return at 4.0, and have tea in his room, during which he reads Keats to me or I the Child's first Lesebuch to him, correcting each other.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Butler : Erewhon; or, Over the Range
E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Walter Pater : Marius the Epicurean
E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905: 'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905: 'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [employer's daughter and Forster's pupil] has just drawn me doing it on the black board.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day: 'These then are my thoughts [...] My books are equally stimulating: Wilhelm Tell -- which is thought mighty fine -- and Northanger Abbey, which I read aloud to Elizabeth [employer] in the evenings. Also Thais, but that I am only beginning.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Anatole France : Thais
E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day: 'These then are my thoughts [...] My books are equally stimulating: Wilhelm Tell -- which is thought mighty fine -- and Northanger Abbey, which I read aloud to Elizabeth [employer] in the evenings. Also Thais, but that I am only beginning.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

E. M. Forster : Where Angels Fear to Tread
'[George Macaulay] Trevelyan wrote to Leonard Woolf (December 1905 [...]) "I wonder whether you will have seen E. M. Forster's novel 'Where Angels Fear to Tread': it is worth reading, but some people like it a great deal, others, like myself, only rather."'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Trevelyan

Joris-Karl Huysmans : La Cathedrale
E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906: 'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicised me [...] In or outside Chartres you can find every human passion. Huysman[s], amid much nonsense, does make this point -- that the middle ages did not shirk things [...] His is an interesting book -- I forget if you set me onto it: at all events you first told me his name.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : A Censored Play: The Breaking Point
E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907: 'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think it wonderful, and unlike anything I have read before. One receives images from some books, and yours suggested a vase in the hands of a clumsy person which will be dropped sooner or later, but when, one cannot tell. I had this image even before I came to the broken glass in the first act.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans'
E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908: 'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and fills the book properly, the development holds one [...] The interest does persist to the very end. I did put the book down, because I went to bed, but I finished it first thing in the morning. You ought to get it taken all right [comments further]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

E. M. Forster : works
E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, 2 July 1909: 'Something exciting is coming on [...] The Minister for Foreign Affairs has read the works of your humble servant, has approved of them, & has asked me to dinner in consequence [...] I am looking forward to it, and am not in a funk, for Grey is not only charming, but simple, I hear: I do know his brother & sister a little.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Edward Grey      Print: Unknown

Ernest B. Havell : Indian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanation of Their Motives and Ideals
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910: 'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was going to tell you something special in the next, and now for the life of me I can't remember what it is. It's a comment on our civilisation. This reminds me: of my story being read to the Rajah [...] I don't know why it should make me smile, but it does [...] Perhaps he would think it odd to read a book about Indian Art, as I have been doing -- by Havell. A little petulant in tone, but fascinating.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Brothers Karamazov
E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910: 'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappointed. It seems sketchy, though I have no notion what I mean by that useful word; not "insincere" by any means.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jane Baillie Welsh : Letter dated 9 October 1825
'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Letter to my Mother (dear kind Letter!) I must have brot [sic] with me from Templand. Legible without commentary,- or with almost none. The Nithsdale Visit is ab[ou]t terminating; and dull distant Haddington, with an uncertain future, lies ahead.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

Grace Baillie Welsh : Letter
'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical reasonings) that I was utterly lost to all sense of duty; and towards you. "She had, indeed, given her consent to our union" (she said) "when you should have made yourself a name and a situation in life [entire phrase underscored twice]; but only because I asked it, with tears, upon my bended knees, at a time, too, when my life seemed precarious!!"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Mrs Montagu : letter
'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to me; and charity covereth a multitude of sins- She says "Mr Carlyle ought not to have stept in between you and your kind intention; nay more, he ought himself to have seen my boy"-'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Manuscript: Letter

Laetitia Pilkington : Roman Father, The; A Tragedy
'However, at all Hazards, I'll venture to stand the Test of publishing the Following, because Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] approved it.' [LP then reproduces several pages worth of her tragedy, 'The Roman Father']
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : [a love letter]
'One Day, as I was in my Shop, a Gentleman, very richly dressed, told me, he had a Letter for me; I received it very respectfully, but could not help smiling, when I found it was the Letter I wrote for [italics] Tom Brush [end italics], neatly copied and directed to me, and that, lest it should miscarry, he had brought it himself.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Laetitia Pilkington : To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield
[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale came in, and snatched it from me, saying, he would send it himself to his old Friend [italics] Philip [end italics]. I could not get it from him, but as I remembered every syllable of it, I wrote it in a better Hand than that rough Draft I had given Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], and having the Honour of his Correction, who is a fair and candid Critic, sent it again to him.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Worsdale      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield
[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale came in, and snatched it from me, saying, he would send it himself to his old Friend [italics] Philip [end italics]. I could not get it from him, but as I remembered every syllable of it, I wrote it in a better Hand than that rough Draft I had given Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], and having the Honour of his Correction, who is a fair and candid Critic, sent it again to him.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers
'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [italics] A parallel between Mrs Pilkington and Mrs Philips, written by an Oxford Scholar [end italics], as he tells us, himself, starving in a Garret: pray, Mr Scholar, deal ingenuously, did not [italics] Worsdale [end italics] hire you to writeit, because he was indolent'. [LP proceeds at length to refute the arguments of the papmhlet]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington

John Carteret Pilkington : To Samuel Foote, Esq. on seeing his Englishman in Paris
[Jack Pilkington gives an introduction to his now deceased mother's third volume of memoirs, relating how he wrote a poem 'To Samuel Foote Esq, on seeing his Englishman in Paris' and sent it to him, proposing to insert it in the 'Daily Advertiser'; he received the following reply] 'It is impossible for me to thank you as I ought, for your inclosed Favour; and full as impossible for me, to answer the Contents of your obliging Letter; there is at present, such a Conflict in me, between Modesty and Vanity, that as neither can get the better, I must leave the destination of your elegant Piece, to your own Discretion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Foote      Manuscript: Unknown

Lord Kingsborough : [letters]
'Amongst all the Letters I have yet seen published, I never saw any so truly elegant, learned, and polite, as those with which your Lordship has condescended to honour your poor Servant'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Alexander Pope : Windsor Forest
'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Ethic Epistles
'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Eloisa to Abelard
'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

John Milton : Il Penseroso
'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

John Denham : Cooper's Hill
'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury : Philosophical Rhapsody, A
'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : [notice in her shop window]
'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'd her from the Vulgar, stood reading the paper I had stuck up, with Regard to writing Letters and Petitions.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Sheet

Alexander Pope : On the Death of Mr Crashaw
'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she then quotes the lines] His Inscription on Sir [italics] Godfrey Kneller's [end italics] Monument is as remarkably bad as this is excellent. [She quotes 8 lines] And bad as it is, 'tis but a lean Translation from the [italics] Italian [end italics], an enervate Language, well adapted to the soft Warblers of it, but incapable of manly Strength, Dignity or Grace.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : [Inscription on monument of godfrey Kneller in Westminster Abbey]
'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she then quotes the lines] His Inscription on Sir [italics] Godfrey Kneller's [end italics] Monument is as remarkably bad as this is excellent. [She quotes 8 lines] And bad as it is, 'tis but a lean Translation from the [italics] Italian [end italics], an enervate Language, well adapted to the soft Warblers of it, but incapable of manly Strength, Dignity or Grace.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Graffito

Laetitia Pilkington : [Memoirs and Poems]
[Two gentlemen came in to LP's shop and saw her with an MS volume of her Memoirs open in front of her; they inquired as to whether it was her accounts] 'This Gentleman, whom I presently after found was an Earl, by his Companion's calling him by his Title, insisted on seeing the Subject of my Amusement. This was the First Volume of my Work, which once he had began [sic], he went quite through with, and gave it more Applause than ever an Author's dear Partiality to their own offspring could possibly make me believe it deserved.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: an earl      Manuscript: volume

Mary Barber : [Poems]
'Mrs Barber, whose Name, at her earnest request, I omitted in my first Volume, and who was the Lady I mentioned to have been with me, at my first interview with the Dean at Dr [italics] Delany [end italics]'s Seat, was at this time writing a volume of Poems, some of which I fancy might, at this Day, be seen in the Cheesemongers, Chandlers, Pastry-Cooks, and Second-hand Booksellers Shops: however, dull as they were, they certainly would have been much worse, but that Doctor [italics] Delany [end italics] frequently held what he called a [italics] Senatus Consultum [end italics], to correct these undigested Materials.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Colley Cibber : [alterations to her poem 'To Mr Cibber']
[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and Conduct of CICERO Consider'd [end italics]; and did me the Honour to read it to me: I was infinitely pleased to find, by the many lively Sallies of wit in it, that the good Gentleman's Spirits were undepress'd with Years; - Long may they continue so. This gave me an opportunity of writing a Poem to him [the poem is then reproduced] Mr [italics] Cibber was exceedingly well pleas'd when I waited on him with it, and said, he would give it a Place, but that it wanted Correction, which he promised to bestow on it: This I readily agreed to, being convinced his Judgement far surpassed mine. I waited on him the next Morning, and found he had greatly improved my Work: I thank'd him for his obliging Pains, but remarked his Modesty in having struck out some Lines, in which he was most praised.' [LP then relates how Cibber and other gentlemen gave her money for her poem]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : To Mr Cibber
[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and Conduct of CICERO Consider'd [end italics]; and did me the Honour to read it to me: I was infinitely pleased to find, by the many lively Sallies of wit in it, that the good Gentleman's Spirits were undepress'd with Years; - Long may they continue so. This gave me an opportunity of writing a Poem to him [the poem is then reproduced] Mr [italics] Cibber was exceedingly well pleas'd when I waited on him with it, and said, he would give it a Place, but that it wanted Correction, which he promised to bestow on it: This I readily agreed to, being convinced his Judgement far surpassed mine. I waited on him the next Morning, and found he had greatly improved my Work: I thank'd him for his obliging Pains, but remarked his Modesty in having struck out some Lines, in which he was most praised.' [LP then relates how Cibber and other gentlemen gave her money for her poem]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Colley Cibber : Character and Conduct of Cicero Considered
[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and Conduct of CICERO Consider'd [end italics]; and did me the Honour to read it to me: I was infinitely pleased to find, by the many lively Sallies of wit in it, that the good Gentleman's Spirits were undepress'd with Years; - Long may they continue so. This gave me an opportunity of writing a Poem to him [the poem is then reproduced] Mr [italics] Cibber was exceedingly well pleas'd when I waited on him with it, and said, he would give it a Place, but that it wanted Correction, which he promised to bestow on it: This I readily agreed to, being convinced his Judgement far surpassed mine. I waited on him the next Morning, and found he had greatly improved my Work: I thank'd him for his obliging Pains, but remarked his Modesty in having struck out some Lines, in which he was most praised.' [LP then relates how Cibber and other gentlemen gave her money for her poem]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Edward Gibbon : Autobiography
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910: 'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are passages in it that are more than "correct", and on the border line of beauty. What a giant he is -- greatest historian & greatest [...] name of the 18th century [italics]I[end italics] say; whether it is his greatness or his remoteness that makes his goings on with religion so queer I do not know.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Niccolo Manucci : Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910: 'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining book [...] He is so amusing & vivid about the Indian character that I can't believe it's all lies, though it is said to be partly.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold :
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910: 'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat Arnold. he's not as good as he thinks, but better than I thought. His central fault is prudishness -- I don't use the word in its narrow sense, but as implying a general dislike to all warmth. He thinks warmth either vulgar or hysterical.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Sir Alfred C. Lyall : British Dominion in India
E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for travels in India]. Also I have failed to read another of Alice Parin's [sic] novels called Idolatry. The other I tried was good, but this is about missionaries & wicked Hindus and most tiresome.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Alice Perrin : Idolatry
E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for travels in India]. Also I have failed to read another of Alice Parin's [sic] novels called Idolatry. The other I tried was good, but this is about missionaries & wicked Hindus and most tiresome.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Alice Perrin :
E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for travels in India]. Also I have failed to read another of Alice Parin's [sic] novels called Idolatry. The other I tried was good, but this is about missionaries & wicked Hindus and most tiresome.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Sir Alfred C. Lyall : Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social
'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

G. F. I. Graham : The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan
'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Puck of Pook's Hill
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh is it necessary to build character on a psychological untruth? In other words to teach the young citizen that he is absolutely unlike the young German or the young Bashahari -- that foreigners are envious and treacherous, Englishmen, through some freak of God, never --? Kipling and all that school know it's an untruth at the bottom of their hearts -- as untrue as it is unloveable. But, for the sake of patriotism, they lie. It is despairing [...] 'I couldn't on the other hand read the New Machiavelli, finding it too fretful and bumptious, and very inartistic, but must try again -- the more so as Wells, in an article in Le Temps has mentioned me among the authors qui meritent etre mieux connus en France [...] The best novels I have come across in the past year are Rosalind Murray's The Leading Note [...] and Wedgwood's Shadow of a Titan -- unfortunately written in an affected and unreadable style.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : The New Machiavelli
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh is it necessary to build character on a psychological untruth? In other words to teach the young citizen that he is absolutely unlike the young German or the young Bashahari -- that foreigners are envious and treacherous, Englishmen, through some freak of God, never --? Kipling and all that school know it's an untruth at the bottom of their hearts -- as untrue as it is unloveable. But, for the sake of patriotism, they lie. It is despairing [...] 'I couldn't on the other hand read the New Machiavelli, finding it too fretful and bumptious, and very inartistic, but must try again -- the more so as Wells, in an article in Le Temps has mentioned me among the authors qui meritent etre mieux connus en France [...] The best novels I have come across in the past year are Rosalind Murray's The Leading Note [...] and Wedgwood's Shadow of a Titan -- unfortunately written in an affected and unreadable style.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Rosalind Murray : The Leading Note
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh is it necessary to build character on a psychological untruth? In other words to teach the young citizen that he is absolutely unlike the young German or the young Bashahari -- that foreigners are envious and treacherous, Englishmen, through some freak of God, never --? Kipling and all that school know it's an untruth at the bottom of their hearts -- as untrue as it is unloveable. But, for the sake of patriotism, they lie. It is despairing [...] 'I couldn't on the other hand read the New Machiavelli, finding it too fretful and bumptious, and very inartistic, but must try again -- the more so as Wells, in an article in Le Temps has mentioned me among the authors qui meritent etre mieux connus en France [...] The best novels I have come across in the past year are Rosalind Murray's The Leading Note [...] and Wedgwood's Shadow of a Titan -- unfortunately written in an affected and unreadable style.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

A. Felix Wedgwood : The Shadow of a Titan
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh is it necessary to build character on a psychological untruth? In other words to teach the young citizen that he is absolutely unlike the young German or the young Bashahari -- that foreigners are envious and treacherous, Englishmen, through some freak of God, never --? Kipling and all that school know it's an untruth at the bottom of their hearts -- as untrue as it is unloveable. But, for the sake of patriotism, they lie. It is despairing [...] 'I couldn't on the other hand read the New Machiavelli, finding it too fretful and bumptious, and very inartistic, but must try again -- the more so as Wells, in an article in Le Temps has mentioned me among the authors qui meritent etre mieux connus en France [...] The best novels I have come across in the past year are Rosalind Murray's The Leading Note [...] and Wedgwood's Shadow of a Titan -- unfortunately written in an affected and unreadable style.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Valentine Chiriol : Indian Unrest
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- the Pioneer, and if possible something Nationalist & semi-seditious. I have read Chiriol's book, and am anxious to taste the Journalism direct [...] I can't get hold of anything over here.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : novels
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911: 'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether it is something to have the novels of Hardy with you, I doubt. He is a poet, and the few novels of his I've read were unsatisfying. However serious the edifice, the ground plan of it is farce. He's a poet [...] and only comes to full splendour in his poems. In them his narrow view of human, and especially female, character doesn't matter, and Wessex and Destiny at last stand clear out of the mist.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

Forrest Reid : The Bracknels
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912: 'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it does help one to distinguish between the superficial and the real, and to some minds there is something exhilarating in this [...] The book has moved me a good deal'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Moore : Ave
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

G. L. Strachey : Landmarks in French Literature
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

J. T. Sheppard : Greek Tragedy
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Mme Augustine Bulteau : L'Ame des Anglais
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Andre Chevrillon : Dans L'Inde
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Forrest Reid : The Bracknels
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Lascelles Abercrombie : Emblems of Love
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Edith Wharton : Ethan Frome
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Max Beerbohm : Zuleika Dobson
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Miss Wright : poem
E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912: 'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and I had a long talk alone with Miss Wright about her writings. We got on very well; at least I felt we did. She showed me that dream poem that we had at Tesserete. It is altered [...] and I think very good indeed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

William James : Memories and Studies
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- supernatural, profound, and fine --: The Reward of Virtue by Amber Reeves [...] Foemina is interesting on L'Ame des Anglais, though she theorises too much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Walter de la Mare : The Return
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- supernatural, profound, and fine --: The Reward of Virtue by Amber Reeves [...] Foemina is interesting on L'Ame des Anglais, though she theorises too much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Amber Reeves : The Reward of Virtue
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- supernatural, profound, and fine --: The Reward of Virtue by Amber Reeves [...] Foemina is interesting on L'Ame des Anglais, though she theorises too much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Leonard Woolf : story
E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912: 'Dear Woolf 'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I know of no other magazine that will pay for erections and excrement. Suggestions. New title. Shorten the Introduction and simplify its style [...] 'I enjoyed the story more the second reading, but still feel the touch of "scold" about it, that often goads me in Kipling [...] your man who has done & felt things is a little too anxious to give those who haven't a bad time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

Richard Barham Middleton : 'The Ghost Ship'
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912: 'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] I thought it very good, and it added to the other qualities I want in a supernatural story, the quality of good nature. The others in the same book did not look as interesting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster

Forrest Reid : Following Darkness
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912: 'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can tell you to be connected with it [as dedicatee]. Initials [in dedication] are of no importance -- it is the knowledge that I have helped in it. Besides, your books have a knack of opening in my hands when daily life has gone wrong [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Forrest Reid : Following Darkness
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 2 February 1913: 'I sent F[ollowing].D[arkness]. to a woman of another kind [i.e. than Alice Meynell, possibly reviewer of book in the Times Literary Supplement] and have just heard "I am still haunted by it -- it has interested me very much -- it is extraordinarily intimate and has a certain distinction and beauty that attract me [...] together with a certain brutal reality. My impressions are complex and I don't express them well. I do think it quite extraordinarily good."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'I read "Mansfield Park" [Jane Austen]. Proust applied to la petite noblesse de campagne. I also read Aristotle's Ethics, feeling that it was really high time, before I got to Rome, to know what was meant by "good".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

Harold Nicolson : Public Faces
'"Face" is one of his favourite books; so there. He simply loves it. Also your book on your father.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Grant      Print: Book

Emily Dickinson : poems
'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

: Time
' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting." Junior merely grunted and went on reading "Time". And I, pretending to read Charles Lamb, wondered how a woman of over forty could still suppose Dieppe was called Dieppy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Serial / periodical

Mrs Meade : [letter to LP's son, Jack]
'I was one Day exceedingly surprised when the Penny-post brought a Letter, directed to my Son; as it was marked [italics] Teddington [end italics] I open'd it, judging it was some business that Mrs [italics] Meade [end italics] wanted to have transacted; when, O shameful! it was a Love-letter to the Child, who was but sixteen Years of Age, and she is four Years older than I am, with a Direction to him to meet her at a Coffee-house in [italics] London [end italics], and an Offer of Marriage to him'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Laetitia Pilkington : Memoirs
[LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Gentleman sat reading my first Volume. I did not interrupt him, as he seem'd to be deeply engaged. The Master of the House coming in, and saying, "Mrs [italics] Pilkington [end italics], I am very glad to see you, and your Son", made the Gentleman look at us attentively: After Dinner, he told us, he had a Bond and Judgement entered on it against you, at the Suit of Mr [italics] Clark [end italics], the Brewer; that hitherto he had been compassionate, supposing us to be such Creatures as your Imagination had painted us out to the World to be: But, said he, now I am convinced of my Error, I shall shew him no further Mercy'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: a gentleman      Print: Book

[unknown] : [poems sent by admirers]
'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Mind and Person too, sent to me since I came to [italics]Ireland [end italics]; that I believe some Gentlemen, tho' I cannot, have found me out to be a marvelous proper Womaan'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Xenophon : Symposium
'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in return commend to all such of my fair Readers as have a Taste for real Wit, in which the divine [italics] Socrates [end italics] as conspicuously shone, as he did in Purity of Life and Constancy in Martyrdom; that they peruse it with Care, as it will refine their Ideas and improve their Judgements, polish their Stile, shew them true Beauty, and lead them gently and agreeably to its prime Origin and Source. [LP then quotes from Milton's 'Comus' on beauty] I must here observe in my tracing Authors thro' each other, [italics] Zenophon [end italics] and [italics] Plato [end italics] borrowed from [italics] Socrates [end italics], whose disciples they were. [italics] Zenophon [end italics] acknowledges it as freely as I do the Instructions I received from Dr [italics] Swift [end italics]. Lord [italics] Shaftsbury's[end italics] Search after Beauty, is copied from [italics] Socrates [end italics]; Mr [italics] Pope's [end italics] Ethics stolen from both; and the leaned Mr [italics] Hutcheson[end italics]'s Beauty and Harmony, an Imitation of the great Philosophers and excellent Moralists first mentioned'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Francis Hutcheson : Inquiry into the Originals of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, An
'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in return commend to all such of my fair Readers as have a Taste for real Wit, in which the divine [italics] Socrates [end italics] as conspicuously shone, as he did in Purity of Life and Constancy in Martyrdom; that they peruse it with Care, as it will refine their Ideas and improve their Judgements, polish their Stile, shew them true Beauty, and lead them gently and agreeably to its prime Origin and Source. [LP then quotes from Milton's 'Comus' on beauty] I must here observe in my tracing Authors thro' each other, [italics] Zenophon [end italics] and [italics] Plato [end italics] borrowed from [italics] Socrates [end italics], whose disciples they were. [italics] Zenophon [end italics] acknowledges it as freely as I do the Instructions I received from Dr [italics] Swift [end italics]. Lord [italics] Shaftsbury's[end italics] Search after Beauty, is copied from [italics] Socrates [end italics]; Mr [italics] Pope's [end italics] Ethics stolen from both; and the leaned Mr [italics] Hutcheson[end italics]'s Beauty and Harmony, an Imitation of the great Philosophers and excellent Moralists first mentioned'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury : Characteristics
'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in return commend to all such of my fair Readers as have a Taste for real Wit, in which the divine [italics] Socrates [end italics] as conspicuously shone, as he did in Purity of Life and Constancy in Martyrdom; that they peruse it with Care, as it will refine their Ideas and improve their Judgements, polish their Stile, shew them true Beauty, and lead them gently and agreeably to its prime Origin and Source. [LP then quotes from Milton's 'Comus' on beauty] I must here observe in my tracing Authors thro' each other, [italics] Zenophon [end italics] and [italics] Plato [end italics] borrowed from [italics] Socrates [end italics], whose disciples they were. [italics] Zenophon [end italics] acknowledges it as freely as I do the Instructions I received from Dr [italics] Swift [end italics]. Lord [italics] Shaftsbury's[end italics] Search after Beauty, is copied from [italics] Socrates [end italics]; Mr [italics] Pope's [end italics] Ethics stolen from both; and the leaned Mr [italics] Hutcheson[end italics]'s Beauty and Harmony, an Imitation of the great Philosophers and excellent Moralists first mentioned'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Ethic Epistles
'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in return commend to all such of my fair Readers as have a Taste for real Wit, in which the divine [italics] Socrates [end italics] as conspicuously shone, as he did in Purity of Life and Constancy in Martyrdom; that they peruse it with Care, as it will refine their Ideas and improve their Judgements, polish their Stile, shew them true Beauty, and lead them gently and agreeably to its prime Origin and Source. [LP then quotes from Milton's 'Comus' on beauty] I must here observe in my tracing Authors thro' each other, [italics] Zenophon [end italics] and [italics] Plato [end italics] borrowed from [italics] Socrates [end italics], whose disciples they were. [italics] Zenophon [end italics] acknowledges it as freely as I do the Instructions I received from Dr [italics] Swift [end italics]. Lord [italics] Shaftsbury's[end italics] Search after Beauty, is copied from [italics] Socrates [end italics]; Mr [italics] Pope's [end italics] Ethics stolen from both; and the leaned Mr [italics] Hutcheson[end italics]'s Beauty and Harmony, an Imitation of the great Philosophers and excellent Moralists first mentioned'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Francis Hutcheson : Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of Reputation, both as a Writer, a Divine and a Mathematician, he had done wisely; but O! his Essay on the Passions overturned his scarce established Praise; if it has any Meaning, it is like dark veil'd [italics] Cotyto [end italics], in her Ebon Chair, close curtained round, impenetrably obscure, or from his Flames, [italics] No Light but rather darkness visible [end italics; allusions to 'Comus' and 'Paradise Lost']. I really thought it was the Defect of my Head that made me not comprehend this Piece, till I heard the present Lord Bishop of [italics] Elphin [end italics], whose Learning or Judgment was never yet doubted, declare he did not understand it. After all, whether the Defect lay in the Book or the Bishop let the Reader determine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Francis Hutcheson : Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of Reputation, both as a Writer, a Divine and a Mathematician, he had done wisely; but O! his Essay on the Passions overturned his scarce established Praise; if it has any Meaning, it is like dark veil'd [italics] Cotyto [end italics], in her Ebon Chair, close curtained round, impenetrably obscure, or from his Flames, [italics] No Light but rather darkness visible [end italics; allusions to 'Comus' and 'Paradise Lost']. I really thought it was the Defect of my Head that made me not comprehend this Piece, till I heard the present Lord Bishop of [italics] Elphin [end italics], whose Learning or Judgment was never yet doubted, declare he did not understand it. After all, whether the Defect lay in the Book or the Bishop let the Reader determine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Francis Hutcheson : Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of Reputation, both as a Writer, a Divine and a Mathematician, he had done wisely; but O! his Essay on the Passions overturned his scarce established Praise; if it has any Meaning, it is like dark veil'd [italics] Cotyto [end italics], in her Ebon Chair, close curtained round, impenetrably obscure, or from his Flames, [italics] No Light but rather darkness visible [end italics; allusions to 'Comus' and 'Paradise Lost']. I really thought it was the Defect of my Head that made me not comprehend this Piece, till I heard the present Lord Bishop of [italics] Elphin [end italics], whose Learning or Judgment was never yet doubted, declare he did not understand it. After all, whether the Defect lay in the Book or the Bishop let the Reader determine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Synge      Print: Book

William Wollaston : Religion of Nature Delineated, The
'[italics] Wollaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, tho' frequently intermingled with Mathematical Proofs, is yet so plain, that it demonstrates the Authors Thoughts clearly; which whoever does, can never fail to write with equal Perspicuity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : [a letter]
'my Curiosity led me to read the Letter before I examined the Contents of the Paper [plum cake from Jonathan Swift], which, to the best of my Knowledge, was this: Madam, I send you a Piece of Plumb-cake, which I did intend should be spent at your Christening [LP's baby had just died]; if you have any Objection to the Plumbs, or do not like to eat them, you may return them to, Madam, your sincere Friend and Servant, J. Swift'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Charles Wogan : ['Adventures of Eugenius' - veiled Autobiography]
'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] Eugenius [end italics]; as also an Account of the Courtship and Marriage of the Chevalier, to the Princess [italics] Sobiesky [end italics], wherein he represents himself to have been a principal Negotiator. It was wrote in the Novel Stile, but a little heavily. There was also some of the Psalms of [italics] David [end italics], paraphras'd in [italics] Miltonick [end italics] Verse, and a Letter to the Dean, with Remarks on the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics]; in which he says he believes the People of [italics] England [end italics] and [italics] Ireland [end italics] had quite lost all Remains of Elegance and Taste, since their top Entertainments were composed of Scenes of Highwaymen, and Prostitues, who all remain unpunish'd and triumphant in their Crimes: He concluded with paying the Dean the Compliment of intreating him to correct the Work. The Dean said, he did not care to be troubled with it, and bid Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics] take it to [italics] London [end italics], and look over it at his Leisure, which accordingly he did.' [LP then relates how Swift changed his mind and there was a violent row]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Wogan : [Psalms of David in Miltonic verse]
'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] Eugenius [end italics]; as also an Account of the Courtship and Marriage of the Chevalier, to the Princess [italics] Sobiesky [end italics], wherein he represents himself to have been a principal Negotiator. It was wrote in the Novel Stile, but a little heavily. There was also some of the Psalms of [italics] David [end italics], paraphras'd in [italics] Miltonick [end italics] Verse, and a Letter to the Dean, with Remarks on the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics]; in which he says he believes the People of [italics] England [end italics] and [italics] Ireland [end italics] had quite lost all Remains of Elegance and Taste, since their top Entertainments were composed of Scenes of Highwaymen, and Prostitues, who all remain unpunish'd and triumphant in their Crimes: He concluded with paying the Dean the Compliment of intreating him to correct the Work. The Dean said, he did not care to be troubled with it, and bid Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics] take it to [italics] London [end italics], and look over it at his Leisure, which accordingly he did.' [LP then relates how Swift changed his mind and there was a violent row]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Wogan : [letter on the subject of 'The Beggar's Opera']
'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] Eugenius [end italics]; as also an Account of the Courtship and Marriage of the Chevalier, to the Princess [italics] Sobiesky [end italics], wherein he represents himself to have been a principal Negotiator. It was wrote in the Novel Stile, but a little heavily. There was also some of the Psalms of [italics] David [end italics], paraphras'd in [italics] Miltonick [end italics] Verse, and a Letter to the Dean, with Remarks on the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics]; in which he says he believes the People of [italics] England [end italics] and [italics] Ireland [end italics] had quite lost all Remains of Elegance and Taste, since their top Entertainments were composed of Scenes of Highwaymen, and Prostitues, who all remain unpunish'd and triumphant in their Crimes: He concluded with paying the Dean the Compliment of intreating him to correct the Work. The Dean said, he did not care to be troubled with it, and bid Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics] take it to [italics] London [end italics], and look over it at his Leisure, which accordingly he did.' [LP then relates how Swift changed his mind and there was a violent row]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

Charles Wogan : [various works sent to Jonathan Swift]
'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] Eugenius [end italics]; as also an Account of the Courtship and Marriage of the Chevalier, to the Princess [italics] Sobiesky [end italics], wherein he represents himself to have been a principal Negotiator. It was wrote in the Novel Stile, but a little heavily. There was also some of the Psalms of [italics] David [end italics], paraphras'd in [italics] Miltonick [end italics] Verse, and a Letter to the Dean, with Remarks on the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics]; in which he says he believes the People of [italics] England [end italics] and [italics] Ireland [end italics] had quite lost all Remains of Elegance and Taste, since their top Entertainments were composed of Scenes of Highwaymen, and Prostitues, who all remain unpunish'd and triumphant in their Crimes: He concluded with paying the Dean the Compliment of intreating him to correct the Work. The Dean said, he did not care to be troubled with it, and bid Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics] take it to [italics] London [end italics], and look over it at his Leisure, which accordingly he did.' [LP then relates how Swift changed his mind and there was a violent row]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : Memoirs
[Having been told by a lady that Lord Kingsborough lived nearby, and expressed enthusiasm, the lady said] 'well, Madam, though you have made a Mystery of your Name, I am certain you are Mrs [italics] Pilkington [end italics]; I am sure you are the Person; because you speak of his Lordship, in the very same Stile you have wrote of him. I have the two Volumes'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: a lady      Print: Book

William Woolaston : Religion of Nature Delineated, The
'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the Creator; as I am tax'd with numerous Quotations, which are tedious (as soom of my Readers tell me) I shall not borrow one from him, but refer the Learned to his inimitable Work; though I am persuaded, no Person who has not a clear Head, can taste his Beauties'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

Laetitia Pilkington : [letter asking for financial assistance]
'I wrote, in order to gain Relief, to a Prelate of [italics] Ireland [end italics], then resident in [italics] London [end italics]; I sent the letter by the Daughter of a Dissenting Clergyman, of whose Honour and Virtue I was confident. He received her civilly, read over my Letter, and declared he did not know me; but as he had some slight Knowledge of my Father, there was a Guinea for me'..
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Clayton      Manuscript: Letter

Colley Cibber : [letter to LP]
'I communicated this Letter [from Colley Cibber, reproduced in the text] to Lord Chief Baron [italics] Bowes [end italics], the Hon. [italics] Arthur Hill [end italics], Esq., and several Persons of Taste, who were infinitely delighted with it, as they were with many others, which I had from Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], and which would considerably have embellished my Work, had I not the Misfortune to lose them, by lending them to a Man of Distinction, who by some Accident mislaid them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hill, Lord Bowes      Manuscript: Letter

Laetitia Pilkington : [Dedication to her 'Memoirs']
[LP received a letter from Lord Kingsborough, in response to her Dedication to him] 'I return you my Thanks for the Favour of your Dedication, which tho' I am sensible is too high a Compliment, yet my Vanity will not permit me to refuse'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert, Lord Kingsborough      Manuscript: Unknown

Laetitia Pilkington : [letter]
[LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy his letters, she sent him a poem pleading forgiveness. He replied] 'Madam, I am extremely honoured, by that Esteem and Friendship which you profess for me in your really fine Copy of Verses; yet, when I reflect on a late Letter of yours, which I still have by me, I cannot help thinking myself as unworthy of your Praise, as I was of your Threats'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert, Lord Kingsborough      Manuscript: Letter

Laetitia Pilkington : To the Right Hon. the Lord Kingsborough
[LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy his letters, she sent him a poem pleading forgiveness. He replied] 'Madam, I am extremely honoured, by that Esteem and Friendship which you profess for me in your really fine Copy of Verses; yet, when I reflect on a late Letter of yours, which I still have by me, I cannot help thinking myself as unworthy of your Praise, as I was of your Threats'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert, Lord Kingsborough      Manuscript: Unknown

: Beowulf
'In much that way, I felt later, when my mother first read Beowulf to me, Grendel must have come up from his marsh mists, pawing and snuffling round the doors of Heriot, hating the firelight and the harpsong that he longed to share; and the smell of Man.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

: Rainbow
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Serial / periodical

Beatrix Potter : unknown
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

A.A. Milne : unknown
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : unknown
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : unknown
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : unknown
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Kenneth Grahame : unknown
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Puck of Pook's Hill
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : unknown
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

George John Whyte-Melville : The Gladiators
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : Last Days of Pompeii
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Arthur Weigal : Egyptian Princess
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

unknown : [children's book]
'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mistake. Instead of merely sitting me down in front of Peter Rabbit, The Secret Garden or the Jungle Books and telling me to get on with it, she provided a dreadful book about a Rosy-Faced Family who Lived Next Door and Had Cats that Sat on Mats, and expected me to get on with that. I was outraged – I, who had walked the boards with the Crummles, and fought beside Beowulf in the darkened Hall of Heriot. I took one look, and decided that the best way of making sure that I should never meet the Rosy-Faced Family or any of their unspeakable kind in the future was not to learn to read at all. So I didn’t, and my mother never quite had the hardness of heart to stop reading to me. We had lessons and lessons and lessons; and we got practically nowhere.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : Little Match Girl, The
'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular story, but I have a nasty suspicion that it was done as a means of providing light relief for herself, because The Little Match Girl always made me cry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Grimm : Fairy Tales
'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. I have no recollection of the actual process; I do not know how or why or when or wherefore the light dawned. I only know that when I went to Miss Beck’s Academy I could not read, and that by the end of my first term, without any apparent transition period, I was reading, without too much trouble, anything that came my way.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

L.M. Montgomery : Emily of New Moon
'And then one day I found a book. It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of consumption – that made a change, to start with - after which she was brought up by strict aunts in an old farmhouse somewhere in Canada. A Canadian story, not an American one; but I barely registered that at the time. What made it so different from other books of its kind I did not know, and I do not really know even now. But for me it was magic. I carried it off and kept it under my pillow or clutched to my bosom at bed-making time, and it seems as though I read it all that summer long, which can scarcely have been the fact; but I think I must have read it through, at first voraciously and then with slow and lingering delight, at least three times on the trot. And it was summer. On fine summer nights the beds remained out on the concrete strip all night, and I used to read, half under the bedclothes to evade Night Nurse’s eagle eye, until the last dregs of the light had drained away [...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

Charles Lamb : unknown
'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an English book, she began throwing out leading questions.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

: King's Speech
'I went to a party given by Mr Baldwin [Prime Minister] to the junior Ministers at No. 10. We all sat round the Cabinet Table and old S.B. read out the King's Speech.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse : unknown
'Moreover, her train had arrived one-and-a-half hours before luncheon, so she had gone to the Paddington Hotel and sat in the lounge reading P.G.Wodehouse.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Smyth      Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Solitude
'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in the library. And once before I went to bed.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson

John Keats : Letters
'I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train. His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Naples is one of the most terrifying things that I have ever read.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Book

unknown : [selections from a Greek Anthology]
'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translations from the Greek Anthology), but it was like a spring then, like the mountain springs we used to drink from in Persia; but now it is like a deep deep lake which can never dry up.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Edmund Wilson : Through the Embassy Window; Harold Nicolson
'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some exceedingly foolish things, is a man of intelligence who also writes very well." '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Newspaper

unknown : unknown
'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and musician" and I am described as "the wife of the Hon. Harold Nicolson C.M.G." '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

Thomas Stevenson : 'British Storms' in Good Words
'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words article?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Fortnightly Review
'... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Jean Baptise Honore Raymond Capefigue : Histoire de la Reforme, de la Ligue, et du Regne de Henri IV
'Imagine my delight to find a footnote in Capefigs thus conceived ... Immediately after, Capefigues talks of la grande flotte de Dracke.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

George Sand : unknown
'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out of the house, and begin life anew in the cool blue night. Never to come back here; never, never. Only to go on forever by sunny day and gray day, by bright night and foul, by highway and byway, town and hamlet, until somewhere by a roadside or in some clean inn, clean death opened his arms to me, and took me to his quiet heart forever.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

William Ernest Henley : Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits
'My dear Henley, Sketches III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan. IV As a whole. VII Both quatrains. VIII line 2. Extemporising a becoming gloom. IX Well, I don’t like it. Portraits I The sestett[sic] is not up to the mark, I think, but I don’t press this. IV Is a little broken, and the phrasing is a little imbecile. VII I don’t like. IX The first quatrain, and the words "does not feel his place" in the second. There is positively all I find….'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Probably proof.

John Aubrey : The Scandals and Credulities of John Aubrey
'Your preface to Aubrey is as delightful as it is learned, and Aubrey himself astonishes me more and more. Has there ever been a writer with more economy of phrase, or with a better gift of describing characters and appearances in two or three sentences? He seems to me to give every essential, and to cut off every wrapping which would take away from that essential. He is so companionable,too. I do think your valuation, your criticism, of him is one of the most discerning and enlightening pieces of criticism of our time, and I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you for giving me this book, so full of life, of warmth and of light....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

John Hayward : Nineteenth Century Poetry - An Anthology
'It was so charming of you to send me your anthology,..............It is particularly interesting to me, because, although your anthology and my second, and third(forthcoming) anthology cover the same period, we rarely cover the same ground. I am jealous, as well as happy, that you have included the four heavenly Keats Odes, and Shelley's "To Night", one of the loveliest of all poems, and the beauties from "Prometheus Unbound". I am especially delighted, too, with your Tennyson, because with the exception of "Tears, idle tears" we touch different ground again, and that means that, when I am travelling, if I take your anthology and my anthologies, I shall be rich with nearly all the beauties I could need. We touch the same ground, again, in the inclusion of Rosetti's "The Woodspurge", but our choice of Christina Rosetti is different, for I have gone completely mad, and have included the whole of "Goblin Market". Your anthology includes more poets than mine; your taste, I think, is more catholic. But under the influence of your anthology I am beginning to feel positively calm about Matthew Arnold - a state which I did not think would ever be mine, on that subject......'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : A Sportsman's Sketches
'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things that were ever written. I would rather have written "Bielshin Prairie" than have done anything else in the realm of human achievements'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Pierre de Ronsard : Sonnets pour Helene
'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'etais jeune!" But then i am not Ronsard! I never, indeed, remember to have read anything of R's, except that...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a review of Ford's work]
'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had read the British weekly which says "Mr H's literary power does not fall short of genius!" which struck them as comic'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: soldier      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [newspapers]
'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Newspaper

Ford Madox Ford : [unknown article in French]
'I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [book on wild flowers]
'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it worth it?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper classifieds]
'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't know where Fulking is - but I have written to the owner to ask & if it is not too far I shall run over to see it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [press cuttings - subject unknown]
'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Authors Club as an address for the Press Cuttings people, as the fewer things go to S.L. the better.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Newspaper

Ford Madox Ford : [poems]
'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clifford Bax      Print: Unknown

Clifford Bax : [poems]
'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Unknown

Phyllis Reid : [poems]
'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen

Phyllis Reid : [a poem]
'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that somehow there is something lacking in their personal sympathy with me!!! And [underlined] I [end underlining] don't admire Clifford's, - tho' I try and dissemble a little - so you [underlined] see [end underlining]!! And this morning relations with P. were a trifle strained becaused she read me some poetry she'd written, for criticism, I said I thought there were always too many Stars & Pools & Buds in what she wrote, & she said I was so dreadfully sophisticated and affected!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Phyllis Reid      Manuscript: Unknown

Ford Madox Ford : [letter to Stella Bowen]
'P.'s roving eye fell upon your letter of today, & read the beginning of the sentence about "Poor old Phyllis & her poems!" Which led to demands to know how it ended. Which led to strenuous refusals on my part & denials of her right to ask, and assurances of the trviality of the reference. Which led to really violent hysteria.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Phyllis Reid      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [first reading]
'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Perhaps she will be writing short stories by your return!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Unknown

Herbert George Wells : Outline of History, The
As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite sound from a Left point of view till he gets to Napoleon! But [underlined] how [end underlining] jealous he is of all great men from Pericles and J. Caesar to everyone else. You see him saying: "No! I couldn't do what Alexander did. So I'll do for [underlined] his [end underlining] reputation!" And the joke of it is that he damns every one of them - Solomon, Mahomet, Alexander, Julius Caesar & the rest for being untrustworthy with women! I've never seen Satan so splendidly reprove sin.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Mr Bosphorus and the Muses
'I have been interrupted [in finishing a play] by getting back the m.s. of [underlined] Mr. Bosphorus [end underlining] which I have just gone through again, cutting it a little. I shall send it off again this afternoon.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Manuscript: Unknown

Herbert George Wells : Outline of History, The
'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on Amenhotep IV who she declares is a lidie with two heads'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Holbein
'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about pictures, & when I said that I thought Giotto was more decorative than Holbein she... quoted my own "Holbein" against me, without knowing my name... But I think she had a shrewd suspicion that I was... Maurice Hewlett. For she said that someone in the Hotel Montfleuris had pointed me out as "writing" & immediately began to rave about [underlined] "Little Novels from Italy" [end underlining]. So I got off at the next stopping place - at little Africa.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett : Little Novels of Italy
'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about pictures, & when I said that I thought Giotto was more decorative than Holbein she... quoted my own "Holbein" against me, without knowing my name... But I think she had a shrewd suspicion that I was... Maurice Hewlett. For she said that someone in the Hotel Montfleuris had pointed me out as "writing" & immediately began to rave about [underlined] "Little Novels from Italy" [end underlining]. So I got off at the next stopping place - at little Africa.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the morning with a newspaper & thinks no one is noticing her, she prattles on about B for Bodog's; P for Piggy & points to the right letters.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Newspaper

Ford Madox Ford : Marsden Case, The: A Romance
'I am rather dithered after writing nearly all night & [underlined] then [end underlining] reading the [underlined] Marsden Case [end underlining] - not without satisfaction.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford

[n/a] : World, The
'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlining] that I send you.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Daily Mail, The
'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Newspaper

Violet Hunt : Flurried Years, The
'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sailed in & made matters excruciatingly more disagreeable. She has told several people that V.H. is an admirable and martyred saint & that every word in the book is true.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : Flurried Years, The
'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sailed in & made matters excruciatingly more disagreeable. She has told several people that V.H. is an admirable and martyred saint & that every word in the book is true.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rebecca West      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : [several poems]
'I read "The Old Houses of Flanders" & "Clair de Lune", first half, & "Thank Goodness the Moving is Over" last night after my speech... & I was signing copies of my books for an hour an a half afterwards!'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford

Jessie Conrad : Times Literary Supplement
'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is Jessie's letter to the [underlined] Times [end underlining]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times]
'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Europe with a younger and more robust Egeria. I meant to send you the review in the N.Y. Times which contained those phrases, but I forgot it and it is impossible to get back issues of papers here.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Newspaper

Jessie Conrad : Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him
'Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible Billingsgate from Jessie because he had mentioned my book about C. more favourably than hers. I've read hers. It's really quite good and not [underlined] very [end underlining] offensive to me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : Flurried Years, The
'I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through & could find nothing in it but a most touching tribute to myself & that in it I stand out as a tremendous hero of romance!!!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Boni      Print: Book

Getrude Stein : [art criticism]
'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said her work was "purest bosh" & thought it "a shame" that undergraduates should be inveighed into listening & being influenced by her art propaganda.' [SB defended Stein's work]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Cole      Print: Book

Edith Wharton : [unknown]
'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underlined] was [end underlining].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Book

Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Time of Man, The
'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Roberts whose book I immensely admire.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Good Soldier, The
'I was lately forced into the rather close examination of this book, for I had to translate it into French, that forcing me to give it much closer attention than would be the case in any reading however minute. And I will permit myself to say that I was astounded at the work I must have put into the construction of the book, at the intricate tangle of references and cross-references.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Good Soldier, The
'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in the English Language!" whereupon my friend Mr John Rodker who has always had a properly tempered admiration for my work remarked in his clear, slow drawl: "Ah yes, it is, but you have left out a word. It is the finest French novel in the English language!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Good Soldier, The
'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in the English Language!" whereupon my friend Mr John Rodker who has always had a properly tempered admiration for my work remarked in his clear, slow drawl: "Ah yes, it is, but you have left out a word. It is the finest French novel in the English language!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Rodker      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : [dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier']
'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud. I don't know how to tell you how proud it makes me. It is lovely of you to want to pay me such a tribute. Of course I don't deserve a quarter of it. Some day I shall begin to tell you what [underlined] you [end underlining] have done for [underlined] me [end underlining]! I suppose you know me well enough however to guess that at the idea of your letter being [underlined] published [end italics] I am overcome by feelings of really awful - shyness, I suppose it is.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : New York Times
'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTIFUL BUT SHE IS KNOCK-KNEED SAYS FLORENCE SIEGFIELDJUN'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Newspaper

Isabel Paterson : [column in ] New York Herald Tribune Books
'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end underlining] much the article about Ezra - I have read Hemingway's book - It seems pretty good. I like that hard clean sort of effect - but I think it gives also the effect of brittleness - or is that nonsense? It is also rather dazzling & tiring. He has touched me off rather nastily - rather on Jean's lines - So I feel very discouraged! Even you don't quite escape. Still its all of no consequence. Jenny had Violet's book lying about yesterday, which really [underlined] did [end underlining] rather upset me - The Envoi appears to say, that with someone who has had so [underlined] many [end underlining] final grand Passions there will [underlined] never [end underlining] be [underlined] any [end underlining] means of knowing who was really "the" one!
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Serial / periodical

Ford Madox Ford : [unknown article about Ezra Pound]
'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end underlining] much the article about Ezra - I have read Hemingway's book - It seems pretty good. I like that hard clean sort of effect - but I think it gives also the effect of brittleness - or is that nonsense? It is also rather dazzling & tiring. He has touched me off rather nastily - rather on Jean's lines - So I feel very discouraged! Even you don't quite escape. Still its all of no consequence. Jenny had Violet's book lying about yesterday, which really [underlined] did [end underlining] rather upset me - The Envoi appears to say, that with someone who has had so [underlined] many [end underlining] final grand Passions there will [underlined] never [end underlining] be [underlined] any [end underlining] means of knowing who was really "the" one!
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Serial / periodical

Ernest Hemingway : Sun Also Rises, The
'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end underlining] much the article about Ezra - I have read Hemingway's book - It seems pretty good. I like that hard clean sort of effect - but I think it gives also the effect of brittleness - or is that nonsense? It is also rather dazzling & tiring. He has touched me off rather nastily - rather on Jean's lines - So I feel very discouraged! Even you don't quite escape. Still its all of no consequence. Jenny had Violet's book lying about yesterday, which really [underlined] did [end underlining] rather upset me - The Envoi appears to say, that with someone who has had so [underlined] many [end underlining] final grand Passions there will [underlined] never [end underlining] be [underlined] any [end underlining] means of knowing who was really "the" one!
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : I Have This to Say
'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end underlining] much the article about Ezra - I have read Hemingway's book - It seems pretty good. I like that hard clean sort of effect - but I think it gives also the effect of brittleness - or is that nonsense? It is also rather dazzling & tiring. He has touched me off rather nastily - rather on Jean's lines - So I feel very discouraged! Even you don't quite escape. Still its all of no consequence. Jenny had Violet's book lying about yesterday, which really [underlined] did [end underlining] rather upset me - The Envoi appears to say, that with someone who has had so [underlined] many [end underlining] final grand Passions there will [underlined] never [end underlining] be [underlined] any [end underlining] means of knowing who was really "the" one!
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Book

Isabel Paterson : [manuscripts]
'I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday breakfast here being alleesamee lunch. So she was not up and I sat and read manuscripts of hers till twelve and at one I had to go and give Capes lunch at the Nat Arts Club'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Manuscript: Unknown

Ford Madox Ford : Thus to Revisit
'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered. He has put 'Hueffer' on the back of 'Thus to Revisit' having copied the jacket - but I suppose that is of no great consequence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Last Post, The
'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so that's all safe). Mark's death is a lovely poem. And poor Valentine! But all that is a bit too near the knuckle. Still I'm the only person who is going to feel that, and it doesn't make it less wonderful art. I'm glad you didn't have a scene betwen Helen Luther and Valentine. I let Bradley read the MSS before sending it to Duckworth and he is awfully enthusiastic. He thinks it is a wonderfully sustained finish to the whole series. Only he expected a tragic denouement and was taken aback by the capitulation of Sylvia! So was I, rather. But I don't think you've ever in your life done anything better than you've done in this book. There is nothing better anywhere in Literature than Marie Leonie, Mark on Women, and the boy, and even Valentine's agonies even if she [underlined] is [end underlining] so beastly normal! Anyway that is my opinion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Manuscript: Unknown

Ford Madox Ford : Last Post, The
'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so that's all safe). Mark's death is a lovely poem. And poor Valentine! But all that is a bit too near the knuckle. Still I'm the only person who is going to feel that, and it doesn't make it less wonderful art. I'm glad you didn't have a scene betwen Helen Luther and Valentine. I let Bradley read the MSS before sending it to Duckworth and he is awfully enthusiastic. He thinks it is a wonderfully sustained finish to the whole series. Only he expected a tragic denouement and was taken aback by the capitulation of Sylvia! So was I, rather. But I don't think you've ever in your life done anything better than you've done in this book. There is nothing better anywhere in Literature than Marie Leonie, Mark on Women, and the boy, and even Valentine's agonies even if she [underlined] is [end underlining] so beastly normal! Anyway that is my opinion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Ford Madox Ford : New York is Not America
'I am not half so pleased [as with "The Last Post"] with "New York is not America", the American proofs of which I am now wading through. The sentences seem to be so dreadfully long.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: page proofs for American edition

Ford Madox Ford : Last Post, The
'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: page proofs for American edition

Ford Madox Ford : Last Post, The
'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: page proofs for English edition

[unknown] : [research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly']
'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

[unknown] : [research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods']
'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying over it I am fair moidert'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Ezra Pound : [early poems]
'[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things that wd make poor Ezra squirm'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings]
'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many people'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Newspaper

Edward Morgan Forster : Aspects of the Novel
'[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - suggested by a book of E.M. Forster's, which is pretty bad'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

[n/a] : Saturday Review
'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne picture.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

Ford Madox Ford : Last Post, The
'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't believe you have any last idea how much I admire your genius, & how proud it makes me of my association with you [Stella then talks about her own painting] But your letter, & the "Last Post" together, seem to mark the end of our long intimacy, which did have a great deal of happiness in it for me, & which did involve us in a great deal of decent effort.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Book

[unknown] : [research for 'A Little Less than Gods']
'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

[n/a] : Saturday Review
'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the Saturday Review which has one.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : New York Times Book Review
'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

William McFee : New York Herald Tribune Books
'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

Harry Hensen : [untraced review of Ford's 'The Last Post']
'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

Esther Julia Ford : [a short story]
'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience. Perhaps one day when she had had experience. And she supposed no-one would print her silly story. And she went and read it to Fannie, and then to Mlle Renee and at last she let me see it and explained that it would look much better when she had made a clean copy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Manuscript: Unknown

Esther Julia Ford : [a short story]
'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience. Perhaps one day when she had had experience. And she supposed no-one would print her silly story. And she went and read it to Fannie, and then to Mlle Renee and at last she let me see it and explained that it would look much better when she had made a clean copy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Manuscript: Unknown

Ford Madox Ford : [chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale']
'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've had a sitter all day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : [articles on Pacific politics]
'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insisted on reading aloud passages from the life and letters of Gauguin, the artist.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [life and letters of Gauguin]
'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insisted on reading aloud passages from the life and letters of Gauguin, the artist.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janice Biala      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : [early chapters of what would become 'It was the Nightingale']
'Cape has seen the first 4 chapters [of what Stella calls 'Towards Tomorrow']. He finds them full of charm but says he could not make a better offer than Gollancz's, nor indeed such a good one.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Isabel Paterson : [review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York Herald Tribune Book Review
'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the title "Uncle Ford". I expect you have seen them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Serial / periodical

W.R. Benet : 'Uncle Ford'
'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the title "Uncle Ford". I expect you have seen them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Time of Man, The
'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Great Trade Route, The
'I've just received "The Great Trade Route" this morning, and there's a gentleman on the cover who tells me that it is "bland, ironic humurous [sic] discursive, always amusing, throughly convincing" & I've been trying to find the place where I left off in the proofs but have just realized how futile such a search is & have gone back to the beginning.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing this. He sits about doing me while I work or read or play patience'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : March of Literature, The
'I am loving your book [The March of Literature]: in fact I'm enjoying it even more than Great Trade Route. I do hope it's doing as well as it deserves'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Book

Frank Richards : [Billy Bunter stories]
'he swapped and shared books, especially Billy Bunter stories. ("[Bunter's] roars and squeaks of anguish were constantly imitated then and for years after", says Sutton; "Philip seemed to identify with Bunter up to a point.")'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : [unknown]
'Sutton and Larkin grew steadily closer as they moved up through the senior school. Tiring of their childish reading, they turned to weightier matters, Larkin discovering D.H. Lawrence and Sutton "retaliating with Cezanne".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [various fiction works in his father's library]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

Samuel Butler : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

Aldous Huxley : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : [unknown]
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin      Print: Book

John Cowper Powys : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Llewelyn Powys : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Theodore Francis Powys : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

James Joyce : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Christina Rossetti : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Alfred Edward Housman : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Wystan Hugh Auden : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Edward Falaise Upward : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Christopher Isherwood : [unknown]
'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Paul Verlaine : [unknown]
'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Verlaine and Lamartine as well as Auden and Eliot'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Verlaine : [unknown]
'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Verlaine and Lamartine as well as Auden and Eliot'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

unknown : law books
'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I cannot, owing to poetical (prose poetical) afflatus, Civil Law, and a kind of nondescript incapacity that weighs upon me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.

William Penn : Fruits of Solitude
[On blank recto flyleaf at the beginning of the volume:] 'My Dear Brown,/ Here it is, with the mark of a San Francisco BOUQUINISTE. And if ever in all my "human conduct" I have done a better thing to any fellow-creature than handing on to you this sweet, dignified, and wholesome book, I know I shall hear of it on the last day. To write a book like this were impossible; at least one can hand it on − with a wrench − one to another. My wife cries out and my own heart misgives me, but still here it is. I could scarcely better prove myself − Yours affectionately, R.L. Stevenson. [Later, placed on a blank recto page facing p.166, i.e. the last page of Fruits of Solitude and before Fruits of a Father’s Love:] My Dear Brown, / I hope if you get this far, you will know what an invaluable present I have made you. Even the copy was dear to me, printed in the colony that Penn established and carried in my pocket all about San Francisco streets, read in street cars and ferry boats, when I was sick unto death, and found in all times a peaceful and sweet companion. But I hope, when you shall have reached this note, my gift will not have been in vain; for while just now we are so busy and intelligent, there is not the man living, no, nor recently dead, that could have put, with so lovely a spirit, so much honest, kind wisdom into words. / R.L.S.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

George Sand : Nanon
'I have finished Nanon...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

William Kingdom Clifford : The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State
'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author.

Ernest Dawson : The River of Cathay
'The River of Cathay is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Hugh Clifford : A Free Lance of Today
'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here and there. The book is remarkable- and that it will be very much remarked I have no doubt.' Thence follows eleven lines of qualified praise though comparing the book rather unfavourably with Clifford's 1898 work "Since the Beginning".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767
'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm,to the last paragraph with its ironic aside about the writers of books "proposing something and concluding nothing" - and its exquisite last lines..'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henry-Durand Davray : unknown
'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talking at him as to French fiction I am flattered.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Marcelle Tinayre : La Maison du Peché
'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good , but is not "fort".' Thence follows five lines of moderately negative criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Hay Athole Macdonald : election speech
'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

George Moore : [unknown]
'Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. "I was on a great [George] Moore kick at that time", he said; "probably he was at the bottom of my style, then".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Unknown

Henry Green : [unknown]
'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired "The Waves"); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life "The Senior Commoner" he approved for its "general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public"; and with Katherine Mansfield. "I do admire her a great deal", he told Sutton, "and feel very close to her in some things".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Unknown

Virginia Woolf : Waves, The
'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired "The Waves"); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life "The Senior Commoner" he approved for its "general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public"; and with Katherine Mansfield. "I do admire her a great deal", he told Sutton, "and feel very close to her in some things".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Julian Hall : Senior Commoner, The
'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired "The Waves"); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life "The Senior Commoner" he approved for its "general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public"; and with Katherine Mansfield. "I do admire her a great deal", he told Sutton, "and feel very close to her in some things".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : [unknown]
'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired "The Waves"); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life "The Senior Commoner" he approved for its "general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public"; and with Katherine Mansfield. "I do admire her a great deal", he told Sutton, "and feel very close to her in some things".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Christopher Isherwood : All the Conspirators
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

John Keats : 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Henry Newbolt : 'Drake's Drum'
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Wystan Hugh Auden : Poems
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Wystan Hugh Auden : Orators, The
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Wystan Hugh Auden : Look, Stranger!
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Wystan Hugh Auden : Journal of an Airman, The
'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebullient detachment (he described Isherwood's first novel, "All the Conspirators", as being like "life photographed"). Eventually Larkin would praise Auden as "the first 'modern' poet, in that he could employ modern properties unselfconsciously". Reading him in St John's during his first term he felt: "Auden rose like a sun. It is impossibly to convey the intensity of the delight felt by a ... mind reared on 'Drake's Drum', 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Ode to a Nightingale, when a poet is found speaking a language thrilling and beautiful, and describing things so near to everyday life that their once-removedness strikes like a strange cymbal. We entered the land, books in hand, like travellers with a guidebook... 'Poems', 'The Orators' and 'Look, Stranger!' seemed three fragments of revealed truth... To read 'The Journal of an Airman' was like being allowed half an hour's phone conversation with God".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

Vernon Watkins : Ballad of the Mari Lwyd, The
'Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly published "Ballad of the Mari Lwyd", seemed to him too full of symbols, too arty, too removed from the recognizably modern world described by Auden.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Die Zeit
'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose contents, in tone not unlike "The Times" of those days, you would hear chewed over, in the heavy accents of eastern Europe, by little groups in the street of a summer evening, or at the Workers' Circle on a Sunday morning'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jewish residents of the Gorbals     Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [books in English]
'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, oddly, refused to read the English papers; I fancy he thought more highly of books. I dimly remember evenings, before mother became very ill, when she sat with him at the kitchen table while he ate his dinner, and with obvious delight read an English paper to him. She also of course read "Die Zeit", and letters in Yiddish from relatives left behind in Lithuania; these came more and more infrequently and finally died away. I suppose she never had time to read anything else'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

[n/a] : [English newspapers]
'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, oddly, refused to read the English papers; I fancy he thought more highly of books. I dimly remember evenings, before mother became very ill, when she sat with him at the kitchen table while he ate his dinner, and with obvious delight read an English paper to him. She also of course read "Die Zeit", and letters in Yiddish from relatives left behind in Lithuania; these came more and more infrequently and finally died away. I suppose she never had time to read anything else'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Glasser      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Die Zeit
'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, oddly, refused to read the English papers; I fancy he thought more highly of books. I dimly remember evenings, before mother became very ill, when she sat with him at the kitchen table while he ate his dinner, and with obvious delight read an English paper to him. She also of course read "Die Zeit", and letters in Yiddish from relatives left behind in Lithuania; these came more and more infrequently and finally died away. I suppose she never had time to read anything else'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Glasser      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Who's Who
'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the sleek, well-nourished university students, I became so familiar to the staff that they dubbed me, in kindly fashion, "the young professor". One day, perhaps as a piece of sympathetic magic, I looked up Einstein's massive entry in "Who's Who" and copied it out word for word, his universities, degrees, honorary doctorates, publications. I kept that transcript pasted into an exercise book, a talisman'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the sleek, well-nourished university students, I became so familiar to the staff that they dubbed me, in kindly fashion, "the young professor". One day, perhaps as a piece of sympathetic magic, I looked up Einstein's massive entry in "Who's Who" and copied it out word for word, his universities, degrees, honorary doctorates, publications. I kept that transcript pasted into an exercise book, a talisman'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[n/a] : [announcement of Einstein talk]
'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Encyclopaedia Britannica
'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history and ideas, particularly of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, logic. It was a halting progress, for at every step I had to make up for lack of background, of facts, of definitions, of words, and buried my nose in dictionaries and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", which led of course to more and more sideways reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[n/a] : [dictionaries]
'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history and ideas, particularly of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, logic. It was a halting progress, for at every step I had to make up for lack of background, of facts, of definitions, of words, and buried my nose in dictionaries and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", which led of course to more and more sideways reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]
'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history and ideas, particularly of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, logic. It was a halting progress, for at every step I had to make up for lack of background, of facts, of definitions, of words, and buried my nose in dictionaries and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", which led of course to more and more sideways reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]
'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : [unknown]
'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on politics]
'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper reports on Russia]
'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [acceptance letter from Oxford University]
'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its strange, sonorous, processional language. "Willing to come into residence": you didn't go and stay, you went into [italics] residence [end italics]!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford University]
'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces, and read the letter, screwing up her eyes'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rachel      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Stevenson : letter (in "Nature")
'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [inscriptions at the Bodleian library]
'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorway, Scola Mathematica, Schola Physica - the sovereign estates of the mind laid out as on a chart'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Graffito

John Wilkes : Essay on Woman
'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bring him John Wilkes's "Essay on Woman" - a work so scandalous that it was on the restricted access list - and copied it out for [itaklics] zamizdat [end italics] circulation among a select few: "Awake my Fanny, leave all meaner things, This morn shall show what rapture swiving brings..." I accepted a copy, on several sheets of smudged carbon, and for many weeks hid it in the lining of my trunk, expecting that at any moment, in some fateful fashion, the sin would proclaim itself'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Unknown

John Wilkes : Essay on Woman
'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bring him John Wilkes's "Essay on Woman" - a work so scandalous that it was on the restricted access list - and copied it out for [itaklics] zamizdat [end italics] circulation among a select few: "Awake my Fanny, leave all meaner things, This morn shall show what rapture swiving brings..." I accepted a copy, on several sheets of smudged carbon, and for many weeks hid it in the lining of my trunk, expecting that at any moment, in some fateful fashion, the sin would proclaim itself'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hamish      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the echoing ablutions, when I ran a bath or flushed the toilet and sometimes, forgetfully, strolled about whistling'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a girl's diary]
'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the corridor - I saw that she had left her diary open, it seemed deliberately, and I saw my name and the words "he is a glorious young animal!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Codex

George Orwell : Road to Wigan Pier, The
'I marvelled that "The Road to Wigan Pier", to me naive, had made such a stir. I could think of nothing in it that was not obvious, but when I said so in the Cole Group it was as if I had uttered a mortal heresy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

G.D.H. Cole : [unknown]
'I had worshipped Cole on the printed page, and my first sight of him in the flesh was fittingly magical.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Lilian Glasser : [letters]
'In my sisters' letters, reading between the lines, I found a self-justifying resentment, the accusation - mystifying to me - that it was I who was guilty of severing the vital links, when in truth it was [italics] they [end italics] who had done so long ago when I was a small child'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Letter

Rachel : [letters from Glasser's aunt]
'I read the letters [from Aunt Rachel] again and again as I strode furiously across the Parks, and the wind threw tears cold against my face. Often, reading her carefully rounded copperplate English - learnt at night school long ago - I heard again the words she had uttered through tears when I first told her of the scholarship: "If only your mother could have been spared to see you turn out like this..."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Letter

Mr Glasser : [letters to his son, Ralph]
'Father's brief lines were full of a sombre perplexity only too familiar. Indirectly, however, they carried a special shock, for to my amazement I had difficulty deciphering the words. He wrote in Yiddish, and following the common practice used the Hebrew cursive script. As a child I had learned to read and write Hebrew and Yiddish fluently; now the knowledge was fading fast.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]
'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explained in reading and in lectures. We talked of French and German poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[unknown] : [German poetry]
'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Pierre Ronsard : Sonnets pour Helene
'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet, barbed, that drove home a feeling I had recognised and resisted long before, a sense of the intransigent flux of life, unappeasable in the midst of sweetness - intimations of mortality, of transient triumph. I tried out the thought on Bill: "Quand vous serez bien vielle, au soir, a la chandelle, Assise aupres du feu, devidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous emerveillant, Ronsard me celebrait du temps que j'etais belle".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Rachel : [letter]
'Towards the end of the war I would receive a letter in her tiny, rounded hand, one of those wartime "pre-mission" letters, intended for onward transmission only if the writer did not return. Two sentences in particular would burn into my mind, and whenever I thought of them I would hear her voice in my head: "You suffer because you are the man you are. I did not always know how to give you the understanding you need."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [citation for bravery]
'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Unknown

Victor Gollancz : "Let my people go": some practical proposals for dealing with Hitler's massacre of the Jews
'In all seriousness he [Victor Gollancz] could flaunt a prophetic grandeur, or perhaps simply uncontrolled showmanship, which would have been comic in less traumatic contexts: for instance, in the title of his pamphlet on the Nazi brutality to Jews, apostrophising not only Hitler but all other rulers - "Let my People Go" - words befitting a Moses, not a Gollancz'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser

R.G. Collingwood : Speculum Mentis, or the Map of Knowledge
'An exception [to the intellectual triviality Glasser found at Oxford], far from generously recognised, was R.G. Collingwood in his luminous exposition of the proper business of philosophical enquiry, in lectures and in the Olympian sweep of his book "Speculum Mentis". Its opening sentences I would remember in all the years to come: "All thought exists for the sake of action. We try to understand ourselves and the world only in order that we may learn how to live".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[n/a] : [Intelligence lists of communists]
'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in a tipsy huddle cose to the wheezing gas fire, she murmured that she had seen my unusual name in an index of Communists'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [Oxford Finals Class Lists]
'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, separated from those below by a blank space and a thick black line. Under a heading "The following were judged worthy of Distinction", were three names; mine was there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Poster

Harold Joseph Laski : [unknown]
'When fairly launched into a subject, especially in a formal lecture in his favourite field, French political thought, these disquieting elements faded; and words and cadences flowed elegantly, engaging the imagination like themes in a romantic symphony - something not always present, alas, in his writing, which tended to be involuted and tantalisingly diffuse, defects of his supreme quality, a widely sweeping, impatient mind'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Harold Joseph Laski : [unknown]
'Writing on liberty, arguing that its attainment was an inborn duty, he said that in order to divine its proper use one must "Listen to the still, small voice within you." The image was not original. Poe, among others, had used it; and in Laski's usage it expressed the world view of the Philosophes. Still, it was an engaging one, despite its naive assumption that clear sight, and goodwill, resided eternally in the noble savage within us - if we would only set him free'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical fashion, he [Glasser's father] looked after himself well, read a great deal, played solo whist in the Workers' Circle, spent hours chewing over the world with friends.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

[unknown] : [poems]
'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse with a note: "This is to get you into trouble with the secret police!" A characteristic irony, for the poems were far from subversive; the reference, I think, was rather to what he [italics] could [end italics] have written but had suppressed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : Letter
'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “Spring-time”, that’s what I want to know.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne : Twice-Told Tales
'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the interest in I have in him, his style, in my mind is so beautifully refined and there is such exquisite pathos and quaint humour, and such an awfully [underlined] deep knowledge of human nature, not that hard unloving detestable, and, as it is purely one sided (or wrong [underlined] sided) false reading of it that one finds in Thackeray. He reminds me in many things of Charles Lamb, and of heaps of our rare old English humourists, with their deep pathetic nature--and one faculty he possesses beyond any writer I remember (not dramatic, for then I would certainly remember Shakespeare, and others on further though perhaps) viz. that of exciting you to the highest pitch without on any [underlined] occasion that I am aware of making you feel by his catastrophe ashamed of having been excited. What I mean is, if you have ever read it, such a case as occurs in the "Mysteries of Udolpho" where your disgust is beyond all expression on finding that all your fright about the ghostly creature that has haunted you throughout the volumes has been caused by a pitiful wax image! [...] And no Author I know does [underlined] try to work upon them [i.e. the passions] more, apparently with no [underlined] effort to himself. I cannot satisfy myself as to whether I like his sort of Essays contained in the twice told tales best, or his more finished works such as Blithedale romance. Every touch he adds to any character gives a higher interest to it, so that I should like the longer ones best, but there is a concentration of excellence in the shorter things and passages that strike, in force like daggers, in their beauty and truth, so that I generally end in liking that best which I have read last [...] There are beautiful passages in Longfellow, above all, as far as my knowledge goes in the Golden Legend, some of which in a single reading impressed themselves on my memory.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey

Nathaniel Hawthorne : Blithedale Romance
'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the interest in I have in him, his style, in my mind is so beautifully refined and there is such exquisite pathos and quaint humour, and such an awfully [underlined] deep knowledge of human nature, not that hard unloving detestable, and, as it is purely one sided (or wrong [underlined] sided) false reading of it that one finds in Thackeray. He reminds me in many things of Charles Lamb, and of heaps of our rare old English humourists, with their deep pathetic nature--and one faculty he possesses beyond any writer I remember (not dramatic, for then I would certainly remember Shakespeare, and others on further though perhaps) viz. that of exciting you to the highest pitch without on any [underlined] occasion that I am aware of making you feel by his catastrophe ashamed of having been excited. What I mean is, if you have ever read it, such a case as occurs in the "Mysteries of Udolpho" where your disgust is beyond all expression on finding that all your fright about the ghostly creature that has haunted you throughout the volumes has been caused by a pitiful wax image! [...] And no Author I know does [underlined] try to work upon them [i.e. the passions] more, apparently with no [underlined] effort to himself. I cannot satisfy myself as to whether I like his sort of Essays contained in the twice told tales best, or his more finished works such as Blithedale romance. Every touch he adds to any character gives a higher interest to it, so that I should like the longer ones best, but there is a concentration of excellence in the shorter things and passages that strike, in force like daggers, in their beauty and truth, so that I generally end in liking that best which I have read last [...] There are beautiful passages in Longfellow, above all, as far as my knowledge goes in the Golden Legend, some of which in a single reading impressed themselves on my memory.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey      Print: Book

Charles Lamb : unknown
'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the interest in I have in him, his style, in my mind is so beautifully refined and there is such exquisite pathos and quaint humour, and such an awfully [underlined] deep knowledge of human nature, not that hard unloving detestable, and, as it is purely one sided (or wrong [underlined] sided) false reading of it that one finds in Thackeray. He reminds me in many things of Charles Lamb, and of heaps of our rare old English humourists, with their deep pathetic nature--and one faculty he possesses beyond any writer I remember (not dramatic, for then I would certainly remember Shakespeare, and others on further though perhaps) viz. that of exciting you to the highest pitch without on any [underlined] occasion that I am aware of making you feel by his catastrophe ashamed of having been excited. What I mean is, if you have ever read it, such a case as occurs in the "Mysteries of Udolpho" where your disgust is beyond all expression on finding that all your fright about the ghostly creature that has haunted you throughout the volumes has been caused by a pitiful wax image! [...] And no Author I know does [underlined] try to work upon them [i.e. the passions] more, apparently with no [underlined] effort to himself. I cannot satisfy myself as to whether I like his sort of Essays contained in the twice told tales best, or his more finished works such as Blithedale romance. Every touch he adds to any character gives a higher interest to it, so that I should like the longer ones best, but there is a concentration of excellence in the shorter things and passages that strike, in force like daggers, in their beauty and truth, so that I generally end in liking that best which I have read last [...] There are beautiful passages in Longfellow, above all, as far as my knowledge goes in the Golden Legend, some of which in a single reading impressed themselves on my memory.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey

Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the interest in I have in him, his style, in my mind is so beautifully refined and there is such exquisite pathos and quaint humour, and such an awfully [underlined] deep knowledge of human nature, not that hard unloving detestable, and, as it is purely one sided (or wrong [underlined] sided) false reading of it that one finds in Thackeray. He reminds me in many things of Charles Lamb, and of heaps of our rare old English humourists, with their deep pathetic nature--and one faculty he possesses beyond any writer I remember (not dramatic, for then I would certainly remember Shakespeare, and others on further though perhaps) viz. that of exciting you to the highest pitch without on any [underlined] occasion that I am aware of making you feel by his catastrophe ashamed of having been excited. What I mean is, if you have ever read it, such a case as occurs in the "Mysteries of Udolpho" where your disgust is beyond all expression on finding that all your fright about the ghostly creature that has haunted you throughout the volumes has been caused by a pitiful wax image! [...] And no Author I know does [underlined] try to work upon them [i.e. the passions] more, apparently with no [underlined] effort to himself. I cannot satisfy myself as to whether I like his sort of Essays contained in the twice told tales best, or his more finished works such as Blithedale romance. Every touch he adds to any character gives a higher interest to it, so that I should like the longer ones best, but there is a concentration of excellence in the shorter things and passages that strike, in force like daggers, in their beauty and truth, so that I generally end in liking that best which I have read last [...] There are beautiful passages in Longfellow, above all, as far as my knowledge goes in the Golden Legend, some of which in a single reading impressed themselves on my memory.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : unknown
'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the interest in I have in him, his style, in my mind is so beautifully refined and there is such exquisite pathos and quaint humour, and such an awfully [underlined] deep knowledge of human nature, not that hard unloving detestable, and, as it is purely one sided (or wrong [underlined] sided) false reading of it that one finds in Thackeray. He reminds me in many things of Charles Lamb, and of heaps of our rare old English humourists, with their deep pathetic nature--and one faculty he possesses beyond any writer I remember (not dramatic, for then I would certainly remember Shakespeare, and others on further though perhaps) viz. that of exciting you to the highest pitch without on any [underlined] occasion that I am aware of making you feel by his catastrophe ashamed of having been excited. What I mean is, if you have ever read it, such a case as occurs in the "Mysteries of Udolpho" where your disgust is beyond all expression on finding that all your fright about the ghostly creature that has haunted you throughout the volumes has been caused by a pitiful wax image! [...] And no Author I know does [underlined] try to work upon them [i.e. the passions] more, apparently with no [underlined] effort to himself. I cannot satisfy myself as to whether I like his sort of Essays contained in the twice told tales best, or his more finished works such as Blithedale romance. Every touch he adds to any character gives a higher interest to it, so that I should like the longer ones best, but there is a concentration of excellence in the shorter things and passages that strike, in force like daggers, in their beauty and truth, so that I generally end in liking that best which I have read last [...] There are beautiful passages in Longfellow, above all, as far as my knowledge goes in the Golden Legend, some of which in a single reading impressed themselves on my memory.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey      Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : The Golden Legend
'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the interest in I have in him, his style, in my mind is so beautifully refined and there is such exquisite pathos and quaint humour, and such an awfully [underlined] deep knowledge of human nature, not that hard unloving detestable, and, as it is purely one sided (or wrong [underlined] sided) false reading of it that one finds in Thackeray. He reminds me in many things of Charles Lamb, and of heaps of our rare old English humourists, with their deep pathetic nature--and one faculty he possesses beyond any writer I remember (not dramatic, for then I would certainly remember Shakespeare, and others on further though perhaps) viz. that of exciting you to the highest pitch without on any [underlined] occasion that I am aware of making you feel by his catastrophe ashamed of having been excited. What I mean is, if you have ever read it, such a case as occurs in the "Mysteries of Udolpho" where your disgust is beyond all expression on finding that all your fright about the ghostly creature that has haunted you throughout the volumes has been caused by a pitiful wax image! [...] And no Author I know does [underlined] try to work upon them [i.e. the passions] more, apparently with no [underlined] effort to himself. I cannot satisfy myself as to whether I like his sort of Essays contained in the twice told tales best, or his more finished works such as Blithedale romance. Every touch he adds to any character gives a higher interest to it, so that I should like the longer ones best, but there is a concentration of excellence in the shorter things and passages that strike, in force like daggers, in their beauty and truth, so that I generally end in liking that best which I have read last [...] There are beautiful passages in Longfellow, above all, as far as my knowledge goes in the Golden Legend, some of which in a single reading impressed themselves on my memory.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey      Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : The House of Seven Gables
'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a part of his "House of the Seven Gables" and I don't remember any delineation of character under Shakespeare's that is to me so exquisitely fascinating as his of Phoebe, and it is the one I think, among all his characters which mark him most of all as a man of very great genius, for in the hands of any but such a man, instead of being as she is "A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright With something of an Angel light." she would have been a common place stupid creature who only was good because she had not will to be bad [...] The contrast too of the restless minded metaphysical Holgrave always searching into the cause of things, and his tremendous delight in watching the development of character are admirable [underlined]. This latter feature is I am sure a marking characteristic of Mr. Hawthorne's and I just wish to warn him that though I have in thought [underlined] quite an agonizing sympathy with him in it, yet when carried to such a pitch as he does in practice that he won't give a hand to a pair of poor lovers that have fallen into the gutter on a rainy night because his part is only to be a spectator. I have no patience with him, and beg to say if I catch him at anything like that I will commit an assault upon him as sure as fate. I should tell you, as more important than any thing that I can say on the subject, that for the first time Papa read "The House of the Seven Gables" a few days ago [...] he said that if anyone wished to give a very favorable notion to a non-German reader of Jean Paul Richter's style of thought and sentiment they could not do it more successfully than by pointing out many passages in it [i.e. the Hawthorne], and when I tell you that Papa admires him more than any Author of his class by far, and has often regretted our not being German scholars simply on his account you will have an idea....'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : "She Was a Phantom of Delight"
'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a part of his "House of the Seven Gables" and I don't remember any delineation of character under Shakespeare's that is to me so exquisitely fascinating as his of Phoebe, and it is the one I think, among all his characters which mark him most of all as a man of very great genius, for in the hands of any but such a man, instead of being as she is "A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright With something of an Angel light." she would have been a common place stupid creature who only was good because she had not will to be bad [...] The contrast too of the restless minded metaphysical Holgrave always searching into the cause of things, and his tremendous delight in watching the development of character are admirable [underlined]. This latter feature is I am sure a marking characteristic of Mr. Hawthorne's and I just wish to warn him that though I have in thought [underlined] quite an agonizing sympathy with him in it, yet when carried to such a pitch as he does in practice that he won't give a hand to a pair of poor lovers that have fallen into the gutter on a rainy night because his part is only to be a spectator. I have no patience with him, and beg to say if I catch him at anything like that I will commit an assault upon him as sure as fate. I should tell you, as more important than any thing that I can say on the subject, that for the first time Papa read "The House of the Seven Gables" a few days ago [...] he said that if anyone wished to give a very favorable notion to a non-German reader of Jean Paul Richter's style of thought and sentiment they could not do it more successfully than by pointing out many passages in it [i.e. the Hawthorne], and when I tell you that Papa admires him more than any Author of his class by far, and has often regretted our not being German scholars simply on his account you will have an idea....'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey      Print: Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne : The House of Seven Gables
'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a part of his "House of the Seven Gables" and I don't remember any delineation of character under Shakespeare's that is to me so exquisitely fascinating as his of Phoebe, and it is the one I think, among all his characters which mark him most of all as a man of very great genius, for in the hands of any but such a man, instead of being as she is "A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright With something of an Angel light." she would have been a common place stupid creature who only was good because she had not will to be bad [...] The contrast too of the restless minded metaphysical Holgrave always searching into the cause of things, and his tremendous delight in watching the development of character are admirable [underlined]. This latter feature is I am sure a marking characteristic of Mr. Hawthorne's and I just wish to warn him that though I have in thought [underlined] quite an agonizing sympathy with him in it, yet when carried to such a pitch as he does in practice that he won't give a hand to a pair of poor lovers that have fallen into the gutter on a rainy night because his part is only to be a spectator. I have no patience with him, and beg to say if I catch him at anything like that I will commit an assault upon him as sure as fate. I should tell you, as more important than any thing that I can say on the subject, that for the first time Papa read "The House of the Seven Gables" a few days ago [...] he said that if anyone wished to give a very favorable notion to a non-German reader of Jean Paul Richter's style of thought and sentiment they could not do it more successfully than by pointing out many passages in it [i.e. the Hawthorne], and when I tell you that Papa admires him more than any Author of his class by far, and has often regretted our not being German scholars simply on his account you will have an idea....'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they would have been put into an asylum. There are only those two parts beginning "Oh that it were possible" and "I have lead her home, my love, my only friend" that are not like ravings of a lunatic it strikes me, and yet my friends the Sellars say they admire it more than anything he has written [...] By the way I admire Whittier very much, and am very grateful to you for introducing him to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily De Quincey      Print: Book

John Greenleaf Whittier : unknown
'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they would have been put into an asylum. There are only those two parts beginning "Oh that it were possible" and "I have lead her home, my love, my only friend" that are not like ravings of a lunatic it strikes me, and yet my friends the Sellars say they admire it more than anything he has written [...] By the way I admire Whittier very much, and am very grateful to you for introducing him to me.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily De Quincey

Henry Hope Reed : Lectures on History and Tragic Poetry as Illustrated by Shakespeare
'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned in returning to America along with his sister-in-law. We have been reading his lectures upon "Shakspere," [sic] and upon "English Literature" and are all quite enchanted with them. I think his criticism of Shakspere [sic] is sometimes almost equal to Shakspere [sic] himself. I think Reed must have been a delightful person to have known. Since we have come across it, we have been hearing of it from all quarters. I suppose it must only have made its appearance in this country lately. I think that wherever he is read he must make a sensation as of the great lights of the world.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily De Quincey      Print: Book

Henry Hope Reed : Lectures on English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson
'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned in returning to America along with his sister-in-law. We have been reading his lectures upon "Shakspere," [sic] and upon "English Literature" and are all quite enchanted with them. I think his criticism of Shakspere [sic] is sometimes almost equal to Shakspere [sic] himself. I think Reed must have been a delightful person to have known. Since we have come across it, we have been hearing of it from all quarters. I suppose it must only have made its appearance in this country lately. I think that wherever he is read he must make a sensation as of the great lights of the world.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily De Quincey      Print: Book

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : A Convert (?)
'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard` Garnett : The Twilight of the Gods and Other tales
'He [Edward Garnett] gave me his father's book for you. He handed it to me because I wanted to look at some new stories in the vol:[...]I send it on now. E.G. thinks that the intelligence and irony of the book may appeal to H.G. I think so too.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Guy de Maupassant : Stories from De Maupassant [English title]
Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occurred to me as improvement. Your work and your corrections are all right. The preface is extremely good.' Hence follow twelve lines of minor comment about the translation, including delicately skirting around Mrs.Hueffer's naive misuse of the French verb 'baiser' instead of 'embrasser'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Proofs

Walter Scott : Field of Waterloo, The
'Of his poem Waterloo she writes: "These are my honest opinions, just as I should give them to any third person: and let me fairly add that I by no means expected to be so much pleased. Whatever subject draws universal attention, sets 'every goose cackling', every newspaper declaiming, descanting, admiring, lamenting, exaggerating, it is harder for a poet to handle than Swift's broomstick itself, and I protest, I thought Waterloo such a hopeless one that I was almost vexed at your undertaking it. But you have wonderfully avoided the commonplace".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [novels]
'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; admitting her taste with unusual frankness: "I did not read novels when very young, and possibly I like them all the better afterwards; they are like wine to a person not used to them, but I fear I have been a downright dram-drinker, so long have they lost their effect".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise
'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew one young lady who owned to me that she stole a reading of it standing on the top steps of her father's library-ladder; and another, who procured it and carried it into the country with her on her wedding day, as the first fruits of being her own mistress. Yet within these few years I happened to hear a girl of very warm feeling, enthusiastic, romantic, just the person whose head it would have turned of old, declare she had tried to read it, but been so disgusted that she threw it away before she got through half the first volume'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise
'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew one young lady who owned to me that she stole a reading of it standing on the top steps of her father's library-ladder; and another, who procured it and carried it into the country with her on her wedding day, as the first fruits of being her own mistress. Yet within these few years I happened to hear a girl of very warm feeling, enthusiastic, romantic, just the person whose head it would have turned of old, declare she had tried to read it, but been so disgusted that she threw it away before she got through half the first volume'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise
'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew one young lady who owned to me that she stole a reading of it standing on the top steps of her father's library-ladder; and another, who procured it and carried it into the country with her on her wedding day, as the first fruits of being her own mistress. Yet within these few years I happened to hear a girl of very warm feeling, enthusiastic, romantic, just the person whose head it would have turned of old, declare she had tried to read it, but been so disgusted that she threw it away before she got through half the first volume'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : [unknown]
'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie : Man of Feeling, The
'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : [unknown]
'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

George Crabbe : [unknown]
'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common novels one now meets with, like that between roast beef and whipt syllabub".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] taken up and let down again, and you not being a [italics] Harriet Smith [end italics], your [italics] good genius [end italics] would rather you were not of the number. The present inmate is, I acknowledge, rather of the [italics] Miss Jane Fairfax [end italics] class, and the first I have known so favoured... Oh! how I wish (and have long wished) for the [italics] Mr Knightly [sic, end italics] to come and take the government on his own shoulders, then everything would go on as it ought... which proves me to be something like a romantic old fool.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Caroline Dawson : [journal]
'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that I long for the second part, and want to see the characters you have painted in action; but I pity you for being forced to spend so much of your time visiting and playing at cards by daylight'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : [newspapers]
'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in the newspapers I will not repeat anything here.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [history books]
'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read of both in English and Scotch history, which I always think amusing'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion
'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with "Marmion", but I was prisoner with so severe a cold the last week I stayed at Dalkeith that I could not attempt writing. Lady Dalkeith undertook the care of the parcel, which I hope has been safely restored; but now my head is clear enough, I must tell you how much pleasure it gave me, and that this pleasure rose still higher on reading it over and over again. Like the "Lay", it carries one on, and one cannot lay it down. It is, I feel, a great piece of presumption in me either to commend or criticise; but one passage, I confess, strikes me as more feeble than the rest, though by itself, or in a less spirited poem, I should never have affix'd to it that epithet. What I mean is that part of the introduction to the third Canto where you begin to give Mr Erskine your reasons for not adopting his advice; it immediately follows the compliment to Miss Baillie. Yet even in this the picture of the old Highland drover is beautiful. What ensues upon Smailhome Tower, etc., I was particularly charmed with, but I shall not pretend to point out all the beauties in this note'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with "Marmion", but I was prisoner with so severe a cold the last week I stayed at Dalkeith that I could not attempt writing. Lady Dalkeith undertook the care of the parcel, which I hope has been safely restored; but now my head is clear enough, I must tell you how much pleasure it gave me, and that this pleasure rose still higher on reading it over and over again. Like the "Lay", it carries one on, and one cannot lay it down. It is, I feel, a great piece of presumption in me either to commend or criticise; but one passage, I confess, strikes me as more feeble than the rest, though by itself, or in a less spirited poem, I should never have affix'd to it that epithet. What I mean is that part of the introduction to the third Canto where you begin to give Mr Erskine your reasons for not adopting his advice; it immediately follows the compliment to Miss Baillie. Yet even in this the picture of the old Highland drover is beautiful. What ensues upon Smailhome Tower, etc., I was particularly charmed with, but I shall not pretend to point out all the beauties in this note'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord
'With the same amusement [of secret knowledge about Scott's authorship] I now sit by the fire, sucking in the sagacious remarks I hear. Says one, who has a favourite relation that writes - what nobody reads - "I am clear this is not by the author of "Waverley"; it is too good. "Waverley" was certainly Scott's: now Scott could not write this, it is above him, and there is not that constant description of scenery that makes him so tiresome".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: acquaintances of Louisa Stuart     Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: acquaintances of Louisa Stuart     Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Antiquary, The
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Weddell      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : [novels]
'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and Monkbarns, but "Waverley" being my first love, I canot give him up. [italics] as a whole [end italics], however, I believe it does bear the palm, and it surprises me by not sinking into flatness, after the return of Morton from abroad; which was a very slippery place for [italics] you [end italics], who profess never knowing what you are going to write.... I must mention a remark Mrs Weddell has repeatedly made: "this has the [italics] nature [end italics] of Daniel Defoe's novels, tho' with a higher style of writing. I can hardly forbear fancying every word of it true". And we are all agreed that instead of perverting history, it elucidates it, and would give a person partially acquainted with it the desire to be more so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Weddell      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : Mankind in the Making
'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.' Interspersed and following are several lines of warm praise for Wells's new book.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells : Twelve Stories and a Dream
'An excellent volume. Last time I saw you , you spoke of it slightlingly-and this only adds to my envy of your astounding gift-for if this is the sort of thing you throw off while you whistle!-well!' Thence follow tweleve lines of praise for this collection of short stories.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

(Enoch) Arnold Bennett : Leonora
'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] Yes. you can do things; you present them with a skill and a language for which I wish to thank you as distinc[t]ly as possible, and with all the respect due to such a remarkable talent.[...] And here the first criticism that occurs is that there is not enough of Leonora herself. [...] And that's about the only objection that can be made to the book as a work. With the sheer pleasure of reading it, that-say-defect- does not interfere.' Thence follow sixteen more lines of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Kazimierz Waliszewski : Un cas de naturalisation littéraire: Joseph Conrad
'A thousand thanks for the article you devote to me in the "Revue". I read it with lively interest, profound attention and much gratitude.' Thence follow six more lines of grateful appreciation of the article.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

E.(Edward) D.(Dene) Morel : The Congo Slave State.
'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his presentation of the commercial policy and the administrative methods of the Congo State is absolutely true. It is a most brazen breach of faith as to Europe. It is in every aspect an enormous and atrocious lie in action.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre.
'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject that only you can do justice to-with your wonderful English and your sympathetic insight insto the souls of the Conquistadores.' Thence follows half a page of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

J.[James] M.[Matthew] Barrie : The Little White Bird
'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me as demonstrating once more your wonderful power to deal with fanciful and delicate conceptions; something much too perfect to be called skill.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Kazimierz Waliszewski : Ivan le Terrible
'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted 24 times by complete forgetfulness of my difficulties.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henri Jean François Borel : Wu Wei:A Phantasy Based on the Philosophy of Lao-Tse
'Arrived: A book with a Chinese title of Scandinavian authorship translated by Mrs Reynolds. I am touched and pleased indeed by the kind`attention. Have looked into it alreday with the translator alone in view. And that is all right. That's all I have to say. If I were to talk of skill and fluency and mastery and the rest of the journalese bosh you would not believe me and you would be right. But the thing will do and that's the most an honest man can say of any writing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Lewins : unknown
'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratifying to the elect: In which paper he has the following: "Healthy sensation .. is thus our only Heaven: morbid sensation, varying as it does from ennui or general malaise to mental and corporeal agony and anguish, our only Hell".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson : The London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life ed. H.S.Salt
'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The other volume I have been reading with a surprised admiration. It shall be an abiding delight-I see that much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson : Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The other volume I have been reading with a surprised admiration. It shall be an abiding delight-I see that much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V
[Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson 'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley novels
'I am still ... doing a pleasanter spell of work over the Waverley novels.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Fortunes fo Nigel
'I have read one after another ... The Fortunes of Nigel.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley
'Waverley is so poor and dull.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Margaret Symonds : Days Spent on a Doge's Farm
'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and you see how she, a person of true artistic soul, revels in the land.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at Fritham and elsewhere in speaking of a certain great English writer-the greatest: I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightnt be more in the great William than I supposed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Lewis Melville : The Thackeray Country
'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

F. G. Kitton : The Dickens Country
'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : various romances
#Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Ruffini : Dr Antonio
'Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian) If not do so now if possible. We have been doing the very scenes he mentions & his descriptions are true to the smallest detail.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Book

Browning : unknown
'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so time passed less heavily than I anticipated. Dick napped & read Lytton, growling when I addressed him any remarks – he does not show to advantage when travelling. I told him so when I addressed him like a father on the subject later on.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Book

Thackeray : unknown
'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so time passed less heavily than I anticipated. Dick napped & read Lytton, growling when I addressed him any remarks – he does not show to advantage when travelling. I told him so when I addressed him like a father on the subject later on.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Book

: Criminal Digest
'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so time passed less heavily than I anticipated. Dick napped & read Lytton, growling when I addressed him any remarks – he does not show to advantage when travelling. I told him so when I addressed him like a father on the subject later on.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Book

Lytton : unknown
'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so time passed less heavily than I anticipated. Dick napped & read Lytton, growling when I addressed him any remarks – he does not show to advantage when travelling. I told him so when I addressed him like a father on the subject later on.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Sorabji      Print: Book

Cornelia Sorabji : 'Stray Thoughts of an Indian Girl
'Look at the 19th Century for October. It has an article in by me which the Editor has called “Stray Thoughts of an India Girl” – I called it Social India but found that changed in the proof. He is so pleased with it & entreats so earnestly that I would write often that I think next time I send him a contribution I will ask him to value it in coin of the realm. It will be a nice way of supplementing my allowance and the 19th Centy. pays rather well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Sheet

Cornelia Sorabji : unknown
'By the way the Mother gave him some of Miss Sorabji to read and he finds it as I did, very good – “splendid” he said in parts and is inclined to prophesy a great success for her. I feel sure of it for you see she knows so much more than other people and has many gifts as a writer.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rudyard Kipling

Mr Morritt : [account of Hampton Court, Herefordshire]
'By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial seats in the kingdom, lately purchased by Sir -- Arkwright, son of the cotton-mill inventor. I can now tell you the fate of Newstead Abbey'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart

Walter Scott : Bride of Lammermoor, The
'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. It possesses the same power of captivating the attention as its predecessors; one may find this or that fault but who does not read on? The Master of Ravenscroft is perhaps the best [italics] lover [end italics] the author ever drew; and oh! how glad I was to hear the true notes of the old lyre in Annot Lyle's matin song!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : [Works]
'I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of their children: "you may think them a great many, yet there is not one we could spare". For my own part I acknowledge I am not a fair judge; all these writings, all the author's works confessed and unconfessed, are so much associated in my mind with, not the earliest, but the pleasantest, part of my life, that they awaken in me many feelings I could hardly explain to another. They are to me less like books, than like the letters one treasures up, "pleasant yet mournful to the soul", and I cannot open one of them without a thousand recollections that as time rolls on, grow precious, although they are often painful. Independent of this, how many hours of mine have they soothed and softened! and still do soothe and soften, for I can read them over and over again'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Legend of Montrose, A
'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. It possesses the same power of captivating the attention as its predecessors; one may find this or that fault but who does not read on? The Master of Ravenscroft is perhaps the best [italics] lover [end italics] the author ever drew; and oh! how glad I was to hear the true notes of the old lyre in Annot Lyle's matin song!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Thomas Gray : [Letters]
'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Sir William Sleeman : Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but the best chapter, about a Suttee on the Nerbudda, you would perhaps be inclined to skip. I have also been reading The Private Life of an Eastern King by E. W. Knighton who was librarian to one of the Kings of Oudh, a very entertaining and intersting little book, and it rings true. It is certainly out of print, but may be in the L[ondon] L[ibrary].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Sir William Sleeman : Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but the best chapter, about a Suttee on the Nerbudda, you would perhaps be inclined to skip. I have also been reading The Private Life of an Eastern King by E. W. Knighton who was librarian to one of the Kings of Oudh, a very entertaining and interesting little book, and it rings true. It is certainly out of print, but may be in the L[ondon] L[ibrary].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. M. Forster      Print: Book

E. William Knighton : The Private Life of an Eastern King
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but the best chapter, about a Suttee on the Nerbudda, you would perhaps be inclined to skip. I have also been reading The Private Life of an Eastern King by E. W. Knighton who was librarian to one of the Kings of Oudh, a very entertaining and interesting little book, and it rings true. It is certainly out of print, but may be in the L[ondon] L[ibrary].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. M. Forster      Print: Book

Forrest Reid : unidentified 'sketch'
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913: 'It's a good little sketch I think, and shows you can do a catastrophe if you choose. I never guessed he had murdered his wife, but my mother did. I have kept it longer than I ought, and not for any reason. The second time I read it, I enjoyed it more.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. M. Forster

Pierre Louys : Byblis changee en fontaine
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913: 'We are here [Harrogate] till the 10th [...] It has been a dull month, but not boring. [...] I ordered Chanson de Billitis [sic] from the L[ondon] L[ibrary] and it came as Byblis whiich smelt of the boudoir rather than the forest, but I liked it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. M. Forster      Print: Book

John Adam Cramb : Germany and England
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not have kept out of this war.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster

General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi :
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not have kept out of this war.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

: 'White Paper'
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not have kept out of this war.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

: notice on wartime safety measures
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a notice that instructs me to "attack" a petrol bomb with sand instead of water. How am I to know whether it is a petrol bomb? But it will probably spare me the fatigue of considering.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: ?poster ('notice')

E. M. Forster : Maurice
E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as this [Forster's novel of homosexual love, Maurice] -- a year's work! [...] Carpenter has read and liked it, but he's too unliterary to be helpful [...] Roger Fry & Sydney [Waterlow] have also read the book, and their opinions, being totally unbiased, are interesting. R. agrees with you that it is beautiful and the best work I have done. S. finds it moving, and persuasive to all but bigots, admirable as a sociological tract, full of good things, but he finds the characters weighed down by these'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Carpenter      Manuscript: Unknown

E. M. Forster : Maurice
E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as this [Forster's novel of homosexual love, Maurice] -- a year's work! [...] Carpenter has read and liked it, but he's too unliterary to be helpful [...] Roger Fry & Sydney [Waterlow] have also read the book, and their opinions, being totally unbiased, are interesting. R. agrees with you that it is beautiful and the best work I have done. S. finds it moving, and persuasive to all but bigots, admirable as a sociological tract, full of good things, but he finds the characters weighed down by these'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Manuscript: Unknown

E. M. Forster : Maurice
E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as this [Forster's novel of homosexual love, Maurice] -- a year's work! [...] Carpenter has read and liked it, but he's too unliterary to be helpful [...] Roger Fry & Sydney [Waterlow] have also read the book, and their opinions, being totally unbiased, are interesting. R. agrees with you that it is beautiful and the best work I have done. S. finds it moving, and persuasive to all but bigots, admirable as a sociological tract, full of good things, but he finds the characters weighed down by these'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Waterlow      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Serial / periodical

: Quarterly Review [articles on classics]
'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt]
'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Serial / periodical

John Hookham Frere : Quarterly Review [burlesque poetry]
'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Serial / periodical

Sydney, Lady Morgan : Woman: or, Ida of Athens
'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the language of second-rate novels. Lady Morgan, I suppose, talked of tact in her "Ida of Athens".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

[unknown] : [description of the Court of Haiti]
'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that is really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

: [description of Court of Haiti]
'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Clinton      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Clinton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in America]
'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Holroyd      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america]
'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'I know not what Prince Leopold will say to it [the character of Athelstane]. He had a bad cold and Sir Robert Gardiner went to keep him company and read "Ivanhoe" to him last Saturday. He was so delighted he would not let him leave off till one in the morning, and entered with the zeal of a contemporary into the Saxon cause'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Gardiner      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no one's behaviour can have been worse. But they (the newspapers) make me absolutely sick with the stuff they insert about his poor father, sometimes absolutely false, sometimes stories caught by the tail, twisted and blundered, till the original teller could not know them again'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : [Waverley Novels]
'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish it the better. Whereas Mrs Radcliffe's, for example, always abound with the most disgusting species of anachronism, the polished manners and sentimental cant of modern times put in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The enlightened philosophy likewise! young ladies arguing with their maids against their belief in ghosts and witches, when a judge durst not have expressed his doubts of either upon the bench. This [italics] palavering [end italics] style has crept into history through Miss Aitken, the language of whose memoirs of Elizabeth is so suited to modern notions that Mrs Scott has said it reminded her of Puddingfield's newspaper in the Anti-Jacobin German play. "Magna Charta was signed on Friday three weeks, and their Majesties, after partaking of a cold collation, returned to Windsor".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Anne Racliffe : [Novels]
'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish it the better. Whereas Mrs Radcliffe's, for example, always abound with the most disgusting species of anachronism, the polished manners and sentimental cant of modern times put in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The enlightened philosophy likewise! young ladies arguing with their maids against their belief in ghosts and witches, when a judge durst not have expressed his doubts of either upon the bench. This [italics] palavering [end italics] style has crept into history through Miss Aitken, the language of whose memoirs of Elizabeth is so suited to modern notions that Mrs Scott has said it reminded her of Puddingfield's newspaper in the Anti-Jacobin German play. "Magna Charta was signed on Friday three weeks, and their Majesties, after partaking of a cold collation, returned to Windsor".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Lucy Aikin : Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish it the better. Whereas Mrs Radcliffe's, for example, always abound with the most disgusting species of anachronism, the polished manners and sentimental cant of modern times put in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The enlightened philosophy likewise! young ladies arguing with their maids against their belief in ghosts and witches, when a judge durst not have expressed his doubts of either upon the bench. This [italics] palavering [end italics] style has crept into history through Miss Aitken, the language of whose memoirs of Elizabeth is so suited to modern notions that Mrs Scott has said it reminded her of Puddingfield's newspaper in the Anti-Jacobin German play. "Magna Charta was signed on Friday three weeks, and their Majesties, after partaking of a cold collation, returned to Windsor".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Lucy Aikin : Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish it the better. Whereas Mrs Radcliffe's, for example, always abound with the most disgusting species of anachronism, the polished manners and sentimental cant of modern times put in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The enlightened philosophy likewise! young ladies arguing with their maids against their belief in ghosts and witches, when a judge durst not have expressed his doubts of either upon the bench. This [italics] palavering [end italics] style has crept into history through Miss Aitken, the language of whose memoirs of Elizabeth is so suited to modern notions that Mrs Scott has said it reminded her of Puddingfield's newspaper in the Anti-Jacobin German play. "Magna Charta was signed on Friday three weeks, and their Majesties, after partaking of a cold collation, returned to Windsor".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Scott      Print: Book

Walter Scott : [Waverley Novels]
'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish it the better. Whereas Mrs Radcliffe's, for example, always abound with the most disgusting species of anachronism, the polished manners and sentimental cant of modern times put in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The enlightened philosophy likewise! young ladies arguing with their maids against their belief in ghosts and witches, when a judge durst not have expressed his doubts of either upon the bench. This [italics] palavering [end italics] style has crept into history through Miss Aitken, the language of whose memoirs of Elizabeth is so suited to modern notions that Mrs Scott has said it reminded her of Puddingfield's newspaper in the Anti-Jacobin German play. "Magna Charta was signed on Friday three weeks, and their Majesties, after partaking of a cold collation, returned to Windsor".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Clinton      Print: Book

John Stanley : [a speech]
'a thousand thanks for [your letter], and for Sir John Stanley's speech, which I like very much, though I own I think he gives a little into commonplace towards the end, when he says the French Revolution would never have happened if so and so - forgetting that the unfortunate sovereign under whom it did happen was religious, moral, and virtuous to the highest degree, solely attached to his own wife, - and it was an old observation that a wife, a Queen's having any influence over her husband was a thing the French at no time could bear' [LS critiques various other points of the speech at length]
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart

John Stanley : [a speech]
'There is a part of Sir John's speech I think quite beautiful, that which describes the sensation of vacancy; and his waiving any observations of a political nature is extremely judicious.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor carelessness, but adherence to the strict letter of the time he describes. It was their constant language. They had few books to read, and they quoted [italics] a tort et a travers [end italics] the one they knew, just as in the 17th century they did the Classics. Even Jeremy Taylor cannot bid us do as we would be done by without bringing in a passage from Plato or Homer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, The
'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor carelessness, but adherence to the strict letter of the time he describes. It was their constant language. They had few books to read, and they quoted [italics] a tort et a travers [end italics] the one they knew, just as in the 17th century they did the Classics. Even Jeremy Taylor cannot bid us do as we would be done by without bringing in a passage from Plato or Homer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Magazine
'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a design to ridicule the priesthood, it is as unjust as if they said the Templar and de Bracey were intended to render the character of a soldier odious'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Clinton      Print: Serial / periodical

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : [Letters]
'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, trenching upon all the old forbidden ground. Even Madame de Sevigne's reiterated encomiums on her daughter and extreme professions of fondness, have in some degree this effect. And you may depend upon it, dear Lou, that exaggerated praise of any person, nay, of anything, is sure to leave on the mind of every hearer an impression rather unfavourable to that person or thing'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

William Congreve : Way of the World, The
'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked old play that you never read: "Good Mirabel, do not let us be familiar and fond before folks, like my Lady Faddle and Sir Francis". Whereas now it is my Lady Faddle and Sir Francis in Westminster Abbey and St Patrick's Cathedral'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

John Galt : Ayrshire Legatees, The
'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like at all. Mme de Stael's "Dix Annees d'Exil" is here, but a lord of the creation has got possession of it and reads so slowly that I have no chance of it while I stay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : [Waverley Novels]
'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like at all. Mme de Stael's "Dix Annees d'Exil" is here, but a lord of the creation has got possession of it and reads so slowly that I have no chance of it while I stay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Scott      Print: Book

Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael : Dix Années d'exil
'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like at all. Mme de Stael's "Dix Annees d'Exil" is here, but a lord of the creation has got possession of it and reads so slowly that I have no chance of it while I stay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : Martyr of Antioch, The
'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I think.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

unknown : [law books]
'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, so often as I have a spare moment, I am in the embraces of a law book: barren embraces.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Law books in the plural.

[unknown] : Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon
'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have the [italics] sceau [end italics] of his genius and of his profound art. I am also reading "Journal de Las Cases". I shut one book where he himself details the precautions taken to secure personal liberty under his government, the strict laws for the purpose, no person could be kept in prison a day without so, and so, and so, judges, privy council, and I know not what. I opened the other where Las Cases says that on looking over papers at St Helena, the Emperor was himself surprised to see the number of books prohibited and of [italics] persons arrested by the police [end italics], whom he had never heard of and knew nothing about'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Emmanuel Las Cases : Memorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations o the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena
'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have the [italics] sceau [end italics] of his genius and of his profound art. I am also reading "Journal de Las Cases". I shut one book where he himself details the precautions taken to secure personal liberty under his government, the strict laws for the purpose, no person could be kept in prison a day without so, and so, and so, judges, privy council, and I know not what. I opened the other where Las Cases says that on looking over papers at St Helena, the Emperor was himself surprised to see the number of books prohibited and of [italics] persons arrested by the police [end italics], whom he had never heard of and knew nothing about'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

John Galt : Entail, The, or The Lairds Of Grippy
'Pray, if you love laughing, read "the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy". It is admirable for that purpose, tho' far more broadly Scotch than I can understand; but besides the patois, the old lady has a slip-slop of her own quite incomparable - [italics] concos montes [end italics] for [italics] compos mentis [end italics], etc. - and the author [Galt] this time is so wise as to keep quite out of good company, avoid lords and ladies, and only describe the people he has seen'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Peveril of the Peak
'We have begun "Peveril", but not gone far in it. It is read aloud, and, [italics] entre nous [end italics], ill-read, and I can yet form no judgement, only I am indignant at the liberties taken with so fine a character as the Countess of Derby, who was a heroine, but no virago'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Redgauntlet
'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It has taken my fancy very particularly, though (not to flatter you) I could almost wonder why: for there is no story in it, no love, no hero - unless Redgauntlet himself, who would be such a one as the Devil in Milton; yet in spite of all these wants, the interest is so strong one cannot lay it down, and I prophesy for it a great deal of mauling and abuse, and a second edition before the maulers know where they are'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Wandering Willie's Tale
'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very best manner. I felt disappointed, though, at Wandering Willie's not coming forward more effectually after that very interesting scene of using old times as a sort of telegraph. I thought he was to be a prime agent, and then I heard no more of him; that is to say, the aforesaid author grew tired and flung the cards into the bag as fast as he could. I know his provoking ways.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : Frederick Walker. In Memoriam.
'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof.

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had something to set it off, however; for I think verily the temporary editor of the work during the [italics] interregnum [end italics] must have been bribed into his extreme degree of dullness'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had something to set it off, however; for I think verily the temporary editor of the work during the [italics] interregnum [end italics] must have been bribed into his extreme degree of dullness'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Serial / periodical

Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] : [memorial on grave]
'[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit Poeme en Prose] was about. It is a little cruciform place, with heavy cornices and string course to match, and a steep slate roof. The small kirkyard is full of old gravestones; one of a Frenchman from Dunquerque, I suppose he died prisoner in the military prison hard by. And one, the most pathetic memorial I ever saw: a poor school-slate, in a wooden frame, with the inscription cut into it evidently by the father’s own hand.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate.

Niccolo Machiavelli : The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans ....
[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin example(1) p.542 (v.1. The Prince chpt. VI) against the footnote "r" on religion and armed conflict is the marginal note "NB The hindoo religion refutes Machiavel's position"; (2)p. 690 (v.1. The Prince chpt XXV) has the marginal note "his Majesty first defined the word chance or fortune" against the translator's note "o".
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine      Print: Book

Mary Shelley : Last Man, The
'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time was the first volume of one puffed in the newspaper, "The Last Man", by the authoress of "Frankenstein". I would not trouble them for any more of it, but really there were sentences in it so far exceeding those Don Quixote ran mad in trying to comprehend, that I could not help copying out a few of them; they would have turned Feliciano de Silva's own brains. [LS then quotes passages beginning "Her eyes were impenetrably deep" and "The overflowing warmth of her heart"...] Since the wonderful improvement that somebody who shall be nameless, together with Miss Edgeworth and one or two more, have made in novels, I imagined such stuff as this had not ventured to show its head, though I remember plenty of it in the days of my youth. So for old acquaintance-sake I give it welcome. But if the boys and girls begin afresh to take it for sublime and beautiful, it ought to get a rap and be put down'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [Novels]
'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time was the first volume of one puffed in the newspaper, "The Last Man", by the authoress of "Frankenstein". I would not trouble them for any more of it, but really there were sentences in it so far exceeding those Don Quixote ran mad in trying to comprehend, that I could not help copying out a few of them; they would have turned Feliciano de Silva's own brains. [LS then quotes passages beginning "Her eyes were impenetrably deep" and "The overflowing warmth of her heart"...] Since the wonderful improvement that somebody who shall be nameless, together with Miss Edgeworth and one or two more, have made in novels, I imagined such stuff as this had not ventured to show its head, though I remember plenty of it in the days of my youth. So for old acquaintance-sake I give it welcome. But if the boys and girls begin afresh to take it for sublime and beautiful, it ought to get a rap and be put down'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Susan Ferrier : Inheritance, The
'Are not Maria and Anny a thousand times preferable to the Miss in "Inheritance", who describes the Lakes of Cumberland?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Gilbert White : Natural History of Selborne, The
'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother and (though I hate the word) [italics] bore [end italics] her with what she has no relish for'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Spectator, The
'My mind was early formed (or half formed) by the old exploded "Spectator", and Addison's assertion that he had seen "A woman's face break out into heats as she was railing against a great man she never saw in her life" hindered my ever being a female politician, even when I became an old maid, though the two characters are as congenial as those of barber and newsmonger'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Morning Post
'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the "Courier" and "Morning Post", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Courier, The
'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the "Courier" and "Morning Post", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Chancery Case]
'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the "Courier" and "Morning Post", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]
'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the newspapers said £19,000 or £29,000. Ten thousand makes some difference, but even the smaller sum would be tremedous.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting that the secret had been remarkably well kept, considering above twenty people knew it, [italics] one [end italics] of whom, to say truth, is now writing to you'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
'I have been feasting upon the Demonology and Witchcraft; yet some stories freshly rung in my ears, and I am sure fully equal to any of those you tell, give me a longing to attack you for civilly supposing the present [italics] enlightened age [end italics] rejects the superstitions of our forefathers because they were absurd' [LS then talks about the vogue for 'Animal Magnetism', saying superstitions are a matter of fashion]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming works by Scott]
'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". By the bye, it has struck me that the review of Southey's "John Bunyan" bears some tokens of coming from that quarter.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan"]
'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". By the bye, it has struck me that the review of Southey's "John Bunyan" bears some tokens of coming from that quarter.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Serial / periodical

A.K. : [fragments, including something in French]
'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impression it makes on my mind - as neither more nor less than [italics] commonplace [end italics] Perhaps she has not, but I have read so many descriptions of concentrated feelings, boiling passion under [italics] un froid exterieur [end italics], dark and gloomy minds, that this strikes me as only what I have seen fifty times before [LS then critiques 'The school of Sentiment'] By her further description I should pronounce it [italics] unwholesome [italics] reading. The smallest grain of [italics] amour physique [end italics] poisons the whole, renders it literally and positively [italics] beastly [end italics], for it is describing the sensations of a brute animal. And here lies the difference between even [italics] bad [end italics] English books and the French ones, which everyone reads without blushing. Mrs Bellamy and Mrs Baddeley, two women of the town, whom I remember as actresses, wrote their Memoirs. They painted their first false steaps either as the effect of seduction, they were victims to the arts employed to ruin them, or else they had been led away by their [italics] affections [end italics]; they had conceived a violent passion for such and such a man, whom they took pains to paint as formed to captivate the [italics] heart [end italics]. Madame Roland, one of the heroines of the French Revolution, a [italics] virtuous [end italics] woman, so far as chastity goes, writes her Memoirs and tells you what were her [italics] sensations towards the opposite sex in general [end italics] (without any particular object) at 14 or 15 years old!!! And young ladies were taught to read and admire this who would not have been allowed to open "Tom Jones", where Fielding does describe [italics] l'amour physique [end italics] between Tom and Molly Seagrim, but I daresay would as soon have given Sophia an inclination to commit murder as hinted that she ever had Madame Roland's [italics] sensations[end italics], or even that Tom had them towards her'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Manuscript: Unknown

George Anne Bellamy : Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy
'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impression it makes on my mind - as neither more nor less than [italics] commonplace [end italics] Perhaps she has not, but I have read so many descriptions of concentrated feelings, boiling passion under [italics] un froid exterieur [end italics], dark and gloomy minds, that this strikes me as only what I have seen fifty times before [LS then critiques 'The school of Sentiment'] By her further description I should pronounce it [italics] unwholesome [italics] reading. The smallest grain of [italics] amour physique [end italics] poisons the whole, renders it literally and positively [italics] beastly [end italics], for it is describing the sensations of a brute animal. And here lies the difference between even [italics] bad [end italics] English books and the French ones, which everyone reads without blushing. Mrs Bellamy and Mrs Baddeley, two women of the town, whom I remember as actresses, wrote their Memoirs. They painted their first false steaps either as the effect of seduction, they were victims to the arts employed to ruin them, or else they had been led away by their [italics] affections [end italics]; they had conceived a violent passion for such and such a man, whom they took pains to paint as formed to captivate the [italics] heart [end italics]. Madame Roland, one of the heroines of the French Revolution, a [italics] virtuous [end italics] woman, so far as chastity goes, writes her Memoirs and tells you what were her [italics] sensations towards the opposite sex in general [end italics] (without any particular object) at 14 or 15 years old!!! And young ladies were taught to read and admire this who would not have been allowed to open "Tom Jones", where Fielding does describe [italics] l'amour physique [end italics] between Tom and Molly Seagrim, but I daresay would as soon have given Sophia an inclination to commit murder as hinted that she ever had Madame Roland's [italics] sensations[end italics], or even that Tom had them towards her'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Sophia Baddeley : Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley
'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impression it makes on my mind - as neither more nor less than [italics] commonplace [end italics] Perhaps she has not, but I have read so many descriptions of concentrated feelings, boiling passion under [italics] un froid exterieur [end italics], dark and gloomy minds, that this strikes me as only what I have seen fifty times before [LS then critiques 'The school of Sentiment'] By her further description I should pronounce it [italics] unwholesome [italics] reading. The smallest grain of [italics] amour physique [end italics] poisons the whole, renders it literally and positively [italics] beastly [end italics], for it is describing the sensations of a brute animal. And here lies the difference between even [italics] bad [end italics] English books and the French ones, which everyone reads without blushing. Mrs Bellamy and Mrs Baddeley, two women of the town, whom I remember as actresses, wrote their Memoirs. They painted their first false steaps either as the effect of seduction, they were victims to the arts employed to ruin them, or else they had been led away by their [italics] affections [end italics]; they had conceived a violent passion for such and such a man, whom they took pains to paint as formed to captivate the [italics] heart [end italics]. Madame Roland, one of the heroines of the French Revolution, a [italics] virtuous [end italics] woman, so far as chastity goes, writes her Memoirs and tells you what were her [italics] sensations towards the opposite sex in general [end italics] (without any particular object) at 14 or 15 years old!!! And young ladies were taught to read and admire this who would not have been allowed to open "Tom Jones", where Fielding does describe [italics] l'amour physique [end italics] between Tom and Molly Seagrim, but I daresay would as soon have given Sophia an inclination to commit murder as hinted that she ever had Madame Roland's [italics] sensations[end italics], or even that Tom had them towards her'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Marie-Jeanne Roland : Memoirs of Madame Roland
'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impression it makes on my mind - as neither more nor less than [italics] commonplace [end italics] Perhaps she has not, but I have read so many descriptions of concentrated feelings, boiling passion under [italics] un froid exterieur [end italics], dark and gloomy minds, that this strikes me as only what I have seen fifty times before [LS then critiques 'The school of Sentiment'] By her further description I should pronounce it [italics] unwholesome [italics] reading. The smallest grain of [italics] amour physique [end italics] poisons the whole, renders it literally and positively [italics] beastly [end italics], for it is describing the sensations of a brute animal. And here lies the difference between even [italics] bad [end italics] English books and the French ones, which everyone reads without blushing. Mrs Bellamy and Mrs Baddeley, two women of the town, whom I remember as actresses, wrote their Memoirs. They painted their first false steaps either as the effect of seduction, they were victims to the arts employed to ruin them, or else they had been led away by their [italics] affections [end italics]; they had conceived a violent passion for such and such a man, whom they took pains to paint as formed to captivate the [italics] heart [end italics]. Madame Roland, one of the heroines of the French Revolution, a [italics] virtuous [end italics] woman, so far as chastity goes, writes her Memoirs and tells you what were her [italics] sensations towards the opposite sex in general [end italics] (without any particular object) at 14 or 15 years old!!! And young ladies were taught to read and admire this who would not have been allowed to open "Tom Jones", where Fielding does describe [italics] l'amour physique [end italics] between Tom and Molly Seagrim, but I daresay would as soon have given Sophia an inclination to commit murder as hinted that she ever had Madame Roland's [italics] sensations[end italics], or even that Tom had them towards her'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impression it makes on my mind - as neither more nor less than [italics] commonplace [end italics] Perhaps she has not, but I have read so many descriptions of concentrated feelings, boiling passion under [italics] un froid exterieur [end italics], dark and gloomy minds, that this strikes me as only what I have seen fifty times before [LS then critiques 'The school of Sentiment'] By her further description I should pronounce it [italics] unwholesome [italics] reading. The smallest grain of [italics] amour physique [end italics] poisons the whole, renders it literally and positively [italics] beastly [end italics], for it is describing the sensations of a brute animal. And here lies the difference between even [italics] bad [end italics] English books and the French ones, which everyone reads without blushing. Mrs Bellamy and Mrs Baddeley, two women of the town, whom I remember as actresses, wrote their Memoirs. They painted their first false steaps either as the effect of seduction, they were victims to the arts employed to ruin them, or else they had been led away by their [italics] affections [end italics]; they had conceived a violent passion for such and such a man, whom they took pains to paint as formed to captivate the [italics] heart [end italics]. Madame Roland, one of the heroines of the French Revolution, a [italics] virtuous [end italics] woman, so far as chastity goes, writes her Memoirs and tells you what were her [italics] sensations towards the opposite sex in general [end italics] (without any particular object) at 14 or 15 years old!!! And young ladies were taught to read and admire this who would not have been allowed to open "Tom Jones", where Fielding does describe [italics] l'amour physique [end italics] between Tom and Molly Seagrim, but I daresay would as soon have given Sophia an inclination to commit murder as hinted that she ever had Madame Roland's [italics] sensations[end italics], or even that Tom had them towards her'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Jane Scott : Trevelyan
'Yesterday I had a letter from [Mrs Scott] written with characteristic eagerness about "Trevelyan".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Scott      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"]
'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, written by his [italics] literary adviser [end italics] you may be sure, just in the same spirit as the puffs of Warren's blacking and Rowland's kalydor. Oh dear! it is a degradation I cannot bear'. [LS is arguing that aristocrats ought not admit to publishing books]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Court Journal
'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevelyan" was written by Ly S. of Petersham".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Serial / periodical

H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells : Kipps:The Story of a Simple Soul
'Your first inst[alment] [of "Kipps"] in the PMM [Pall Mall Magazine] is jolly good. It turns up [sic] remarkably well. Coming upon it unexpectedly (the No.of PMM was sent to me) I gave a great gasp to see the story of which I had heard first so long ago now beginning at last. I don't know that I will read the other instalments. I should think not. I've been pleased and now I can wait. There is in that opening, my dear boy, a quality.' Hence follow eight more lines of praise, including a resolution to read the second instalment after all.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells : A Modern Utopia
'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface to the closing sentence I feel in touch with a more accessible Wells - a Wells mellowed, as it were in the meditation of the three books of which this last one is certainly the nearest to my understanding and the most commanding to my assent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Progress and Other Stories
'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat down to write. Nothing in my writing life[...] has give mre a greater pleasure, a deeper satisfaction of innocent vanity [...] than the dedication of the book so full of admirable things, from the wonderful preface to the slightest of the sketches between the covers.' Hence follow nine more lines of unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin : Hyperion
E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Holderlin's Hyperion -- I wish someone would translate it. Have you read The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence? If not, do not, because you cannot, but read one chapter in it called A poem of friendship, which is most beautiful. The whole book is the queerest product of subconsciousness that I have yet struck -- he has not a glimmering from first to last of what he's up to.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : The White Peacock
E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Holderlin's Hyperion -- I wish someone would translate it. Have you read The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence? If not, do not, because you cannot, but read one chapter in it called A poem of friendship, which is most beautiful. The whole book is the queerest product of subconsciousness that I have yet struck -- he has not a glimmering from first to last of what he's up to.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

: The New Statesman
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter of Balfour's: it seems to me distinctly on the spot. Reventlow's was too much of a bore to send.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Morning Post
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter of Balfour's: it seems to me distinctly on the spot. Reventlow's was too much of a bore to send.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Newspaper

James Arthur Balfour : 'What Our Fleet Has Done'
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter of Balfour's: it seems to me distinctly on the spot. Reventlow's was too much of a bore to send.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Newspaper

Count Ernst von Reventlow : 'A Year of Naval Warfare'
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter of Balfour's: it seems to me distinctly on the spot. Reventlow's was too much of a bore to send.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Newspaper

Dickinson :
E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916: 'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of them -- a sensitive and intelligent fellow -- I have become real friends [...] He is, incongruously enough, a Ship's Steward [...] He is absolutely independent, but not with the theoretical independence of the Socialist. He devours masses of Dickinson [...] and Shaw.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary      Print: Unknown

George Bernard Shaw :
E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916: 'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of them -- a sensitive and intelligent fellow -- I have become real friends [...] He is, incongruously enough, a Ship's Steward [...] He is absolutely independent, but not with the theoretical independence of the Socialist. He devours masses of Dickinson [...] and Shaw.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary      Print: Book

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson : The Meaning of Good
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you say, and I hope in one case the brotherly [...] I lent him books by you, and though he stuck in The Meaning of Good as "unlikely to help", John Chinaman he liked so much as to read part of it aloud to the rest of the ward. "They said What do you want to read that for? I said it's very interesting about the opium as showing what Europe's like. They said But what does it matter? Who cares?" [...] he grew up in respectable circles in the west of England'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary      Print: Book

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson : Letters from John Chinaman
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you say, and I hope in one case the brotherly [...] I lent him books by you, and though he stuck in The Meaning of Good as "unlikely to help", John Chinaman he liked so much as to read part of it aloud to the rest of the ward. "They said What do you want to read that for? I said it's very interesting about the opium as showing what Europe's like. They said But what does it matter? Who cares?" [...] he grew up in respectable circles in the west of England'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary      Print: Book

Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) : 'Bombardment'
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts was here, and went round at once to get news of Jermyn [Moorsom]. But he was still in England [...] My only other link with our joint past is the Hot Stuff article in last month's English Review, which was provided by Mrs Turner. In fairness I must add that it contained more stuff than heat, stuff curiously disposed into metrical lengths. Quite three pages of the prose ran into the rhythm of Hiawatha. "There before us lay the village. Members of the etat-major walked around Celestine's garret." I cannot make out what she is up to, but then I never could. Some sort of effect is obviously intended.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) : 'Rousbrugge'
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts was here, and went round at once to get news of Jermyn [Moorsom]. But he was still in England [...] My only other link with our joint past is the Hot Stuff article in last month's English Review, which was provided by Mrs Turner. In fairness I must add that it contained more stuff than heat, stuff curiously disposed into metrical lengths. Quite three pages of the prose ran into the rhythm of Hiawatha. "There before us lay the village. Members of the etat-major walked around Celestine's garret." I cannot make out what she is up to, but then I never could. Some sort of effect is obviously intended.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

: 'Missionary magazine'
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also enjoyed. Work here [as Red Cross officer tracing missing soldiers] is quieter again, which leaves me time for reading, and while you were at H. J.'s Portrait of a Lady I was tackling his latter and tougher end in the person of What Maisie Knew. I haven't [italics]quite[end italics] got through her yet, but I think I shall: she is my very limit -- beyond her lies The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors and other impossibles. I don't think James could have helped his later manner -- is [sic] a natural development, not a pose. All that one can understand of him seems so genuine, that what one can't understand is likely to be genuine also.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : What Maisie Knew
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also enjoyed. Work here [as Red Cross officer tracing missing soldiers] is quieter again, which leaves me time for reading, and while you were at H. J.'s Portrait of a Lady I was tackling his latter and tougher end in the person of What Maisie Knew. I haven't [italics]quite[end italics] got through her yet, but I think I shall: she is my very limit -- beyond her lies The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors and other impossibles. I don't think James could have helped his later manner -- is [sic] a natural development, not a pose. All that one can understand of him seems so genuine, that what one can't understand is likely to be genuine also.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry James : Portrait of a Lady
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also enjoyed. Work here [as Red Cross officer tracing missing soldiers] is quieter again, which leaves me time for reading, and while you were at H. J.'s Portrait of a Lady I was tackling his latter and tougher end in the person of What Maisie Knew. I haven't [italics]quite[end italics] got through her yet, but I think I shall: she is my very limit -- beyond her lies The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors and other impossibles. I don't think James could have helped his later manner -- is [sic] a natural development, not a pose. All that one can understand of him seems so genuine, that what one can't understand is likely to be genuine also.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Laura Mary Forster      Print: Book

John Milton :
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying extracts into my "War Anthology" [...] I have put in "your" Milton passage and next to it a passage from Pater -- that in which he describes the longings of Marcus Aurelius for the Ideal City [...] (The passage is in Marius the Epicurean -- at the end of the chapter called Urbs Beata) [...] It is somehow very tranquil to copy out passages such as these, and the very labour of writing seems to bring one nearer to those who wrote them in the past.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster

Walter Pater : Marius the Epicurean
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying extracts into my "War Anthology" [...] I have put in "your" Milton passage and next to it a passage from Pater -- that in which he describes the longings of Marcus Aurelius for the Ideal City [...] (The passage is in Marius the Epicurean -- at the end of the chapter called Urbs Beata) [...] It is somehow very tranquil to copy out passages such as these, and the very labour of writing seems to bring one nearer to those who wrote them in the past.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Robert Bridges, ed. : [possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers and Poets made by the POet Laureate in 1915 & dedicated by gracious permission to His Majesty the King
E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticking, as I always do, in a Zola.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Emil Zola :
E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticking, as I always do, in a Zola.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : The Rainbow
E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow I picked up in a book shop during the brief period it was for sale and thought it looked dull. How I wish I had bought it now.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Edward Gibbon :
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917: 'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its solemn arrangement of "movements", which, while they bored me, used to impress, look now, in the light of actual experience. I have only tried Gibbon, whom nothing can disintegrate, but expect that everyone and everything else will shatter into dust.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

: The Feet of the Young Men
E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't docked 2/- from your £ for it: an undistinguished little book [...] I enjoy books and such thoughts as progress from them greatly, and am pleased to find I can understand a little of Spinoza and that he is every bit as fine as I had suspected. He holds my intellect at its utmost strain'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Benedict Spinoza : Ethics
E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't docked 2/- from your £ for it: an undistinguished little book [...] I enjoy books and such thoughts as progress from them greatly, and am pleased to find I can understand a little of Spinoza and that he is every bit as fine as I had suspected. He holds my intellect at its utmost strain'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry James : The Middle Years
E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henry James difficult to understand, though it [italics]is[end italics] difficult to throw off the interests of one's larger life, and flatten oneself -- flat flatter flattest -- to crawl down his slots.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Racine :
E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Paul Claudel :
E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Robert Trevelyan : Translations from Lucretius
E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

Edward Carpenter : My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes
'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Barger      Print: Book

Henry James : The Sense of the Past
E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918: 'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscure -- find it much nearer the work of other writers than is the rest of the later James. He is really interested in his subject [time travel] as well as in his treatment of it. And a topping subject.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Robert Graves :
E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked Graves. Nichols not so much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols :
E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked Graves. Nichols not so much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

Robert Trevelyan :
E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918: 'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very much.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster

Forrest Reid : 'Kenneth'
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. The "Trial of Witches" [...] seemed to me a most powerful [reminder] of the past.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Forrest Reid : 'The Trial of Witches'
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. The "Trial of Witches" [...] seemed to me a most powerful [reminder] of the past.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 February 1920: 'Mother is reading "The Arrow of Lead" as she calls it, and finds it very slow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Clara Forster      Print: Book

Jane Scott : Trevelyan
'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little trait her being less fond of St Ives than of the other boy because he had seen Theresa. But [italics] entre nous [end italics], sacredly, I do think she has too much excuse for standing out about the latter, and A.K. made the observation too. [LS then comments on the character of Theresa and her actions.] But interest, interest, interest, as Mrs Williams says, is the first, second, and third perfection in a novel, and that never fails or slackens, nor does one hardly know such a hero as Tevelyan. Mrs Williams will have it that Theresa is not worthy of him, nor likely to have attracted such a man, and caused such a lasting passion; she is not intellectual enough; a mere boarding-school-girl uninformed, etc. etc. Pshoh! I am not over sure that such men like much [italics] mind [end italics] in a woman. I am very sure they can do without it - and at any rate Theresa has capabilities, is what a superior man might train and make something of. However, there is but one voice as (to) thinking it a most interesting book - what nobody can lay down'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Jane Scott : Trevelyan
'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little trait her being less fond of St Ives than of the other boy because he had seen Theresa. But [italics] entre nous [end italics], sacredly, I do think she has too much excuse for standing out about the latter, and A.K. made the observation too. [LS then comments on the character of Theresa and her actions.] But interest, interest, interest, as Mrs Williams says, is the first, second, and third perfection in a novel, and that never fails or slackens, nor does one hardly know such a hero as Tevelyan. Mrs Williams will have it that Theresa is not worthy of him, nor likely to have attracted such a man, and caused such a lasting passion; she is not intellectual enough; a mere boarding-school-girl uninformed, etc. etc. Pshoh! I am not over sure that such men like much [italics] mind [end italics] in a woman. I am very sure they can do without it - and at any rate Theresa has capabilities, is what a superior man might train and make something of. However, there is but one voice as (to) thinking it a most interesting book - what nobody can lay down'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Williams      Print: Book

Jane Scott : Trevelyan
'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little trait her being less fond of St Ives than of the other boy because he had seen Theresa. But [italics] entre nous [end italics], sacredly, I do think she has too much excuse for standing out about the latter, and A.K. made the observation too. [LS then comments on the character of Theresa and her actions.] But interest, interest, interest, as Mrs Williams says, is the first, second, and third perfection in a novel, and that never fails or slackens, nor does one hardly know such a hero as Tevelyan. Mrs Williams will have it that Theresa is not worthy of him, nor likely to have attracted such a man, and caused such a lasting passion; she is not intellectual enough; a mere boarding-school-girl uninformed, etc. etc. Pshoh! I am not over sure that such men like much [italics] mind [end italics] in a woman. I am very sure they can do without it - and at any rate Theresa has capabilities, is what a superior man might train and make something of. However, there is but one voice as (to) thinking it a most interesting book - what nobody can lay down'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Jane Scott : Trevelyan
'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers are altogether unwrung, and she speaks of "Trevelyan" just as I could wish, enumerating all her bothers and businesses, but saying she cannot resist taking it up at odd times, "it is so very, very interesting!!" She has not yet come to the end; however, this has quite dispelled my fears. For that matter, when we all read "Emma" together at poor Bothwell - the duchess one - we could not help laughing a little more at the devotion of father and daughter to their respective apothecaries, and all the coddling that ensued from it, but we did not find that it struck the devotees in existence. People are so used to themselves! One of Foote's most comical farces represented to the life a certain Mr. Ap. Rees, whom, as old people told me, it did not in the least exaggerate. They swore to having heard him utter the very things the farce put in his mouth. But he himself never found it out. He was intimate with Foote, read the play, told him it was d- stupid and would not suceed, wondered it did, yet went to it and laughed for company, till some good-natured friend informed him he was the person ridiculed; then he went in a rage to the Lord Chamberlain and desired it might be suppressed'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady [anon]      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers are altogether unwrung, and she speaks of "Trevelyan" just as I could wish, enumerating all her bothers and businesses, but saying she cannot resist taking it up at odd times, "it is so very, very interesting!!" She has not yet come to the end; however, this has quite dispelled my fears. For that matter, when we all read "Emma" together at poor Bothwell - the duchess one - we could not help laughing a little more at the devotion of father and daughter to their respective apothecaries, and all the coddling that ensued from it, but we did not find that it struck the devotees in existence. People are so used to themselves! One of Foote's most comical farces represented to the life a certain Mr. Ap. Rees, whom, as old people told me, it did not in the least exaggerate. They swore to having heard him utter the very things the farce put in his mouth. But he himself never found it out. He was intimate with Foote, read the play, told him it was d- stupid and would not suceed, wondered it did, yet went to it and laughed for company, till some good-natured friend informed him he was the person ridiculed; then he went in a rage to the Lord Chamberlain and desired it might be suppressed'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Samuel Foote : [a farce]
'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers are altogether unwrung, and she speaks of "Trevelyan" just as I could wish, enumerating all her bothers and businesses, but saying she cannot resist taking it up at odd times, "it is so very, very interesting!!" She has not yet come to the end; however, this has quite dispelled my fears. For that matter, when we all read "Emma" together at poor Bothwell - the duchess one - we could not help laughing a little more at the devotion of father and daughter to their respective apothecaries, and all the coddling that ensued from it, but we did not find that it struck the devotees in existence. People are so used to themselves! One of Foote's most comical farces represented to the life a certain Mr. Ap. Rees, whom, as old people told me, it did not in the least exaggerate. They swore to having heard him utter the very things the farce put in his mouth. But he himself never found it out. He was intimate with Foote, read the play, told him it was d- stupid and would not suceed, wondered it did, yet went to it and laughed for company, till some good-natured friend informed him he was the person ridiculed; then he went in a rage to the Lord Chamberlain and desired it might be suppressed'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ap Rees      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevelyan and other books]
'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and almost regret my sincerity in taking notice of them to [italics] her [end italics] lest she should be hurt; for I cannot help saying what I think just [italics] as [end italics] I think it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Ellis Cornelia Knight : Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy
'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, alas! it is not "Trevelyan".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

Ellis Cornelia Knight : Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy
'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, alas! it is not "Trevelyan".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Clinton      Print: Book

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand : Moïse
'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] so you will see it. In his preface he talks of Racine's sacred dramas, but, after all, the histories of Esther and Athalie, though in the Bible, are [italics] mere history [end italics; this is significant because LS is objecting to Chateaubriand representing Moses on stage - implicitly a different thing from what Racine did - this is elaborated on] When I got the book I could scarcely follow the actors, who ate half their words and bellowed the other half.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

[unknown] : [legal briefs]
[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to him when he returned home tired from the House of Commons, and marking from his dictation those passages he deemed of importance'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly

Thomas Day : Sandford and Merton
[from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natural gifts to the writing of books of an educational nature for children'. [ME spent holidays at Day's home]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : Corinne, or Italy
'Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncouth than they used to be] since she wrote the history of Lady Edgermond's Society "elles sont d'une grace d'une simplicite charmante et belles comme le jour", but I am not certain that she would not place us all or at least with a very few exceptions on Lady Cooke's bench of idiots'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

[unknown] : [letter to Madame de Stael]
'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first arise on coming to this country. I will try if I can get you a copy of it. Mademoiselle [Albertine] is very much praised in it, but I do not think that we admire her as much as they did in Sweden.' [The letter is included]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Thomson : Annals of Philosophy
'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to him, I have found No 1 and 2 of Thompson's "Annals of Philosophy" - the Report of the Committee of the H of commons on Transportation to Botany Bay (July 10 12)'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Print: Serial / periodical

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage
'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourable mention made of me and by seeing myself in company with those whom I have no pretensions to associate with. No person but Miss Edgeworth would call "Patronage" a trivial performance, but even she has not a right to call it so. Like most of her other works, under the form of a mere book of amusement it conveys the most important lessons. I hope that the publication of it will add greatly to the lively satisfaction she must feel when she reflects how greatly her writings have contributed to improve the condition of mankind, and what mischievous follies and frailties they have in numerous individuals corrected or repressed'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly      Print: Book

[unknown] : [novel by a lady novelist]
'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly      Print: Book

[unknown] : [novel by a lady novelist]
'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage
'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Print: Serial / periodical

Henri-Benjamin Constant-de Rebecque : [pamphlet on press freedom]
'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to Sir Samuel, together with a very excellent one of Gallois's on the same side'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly

Gallois : [pamphlet on press freedom]
'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to Sir Samuel, together with a very excellent one of Gallois's on the same side'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque : [pamphlet on press freedom]
'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to Sir Samuel, together with a very excellent one of Gallois's on the same side'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly

Maria Edgeworth : [various books]
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before". As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: elder children of Anne Romilly     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Harry and Lucy
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before". As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: a son of Anne Romilly     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Harry and Lucy
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before". As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: a son of Anne Romilly     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Rosamond
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before". As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: children of Anne Romilly     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses']
'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Publication which is perhaps not much known in Ireland but which contains some very excellent articles.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Philanthropist, The
'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Publication which is perhaps not much known in Ireland but which contains some very excellent articles.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Romilly : [speech on the Slave Trade]
'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of the speech there were but two words which I would have ommitted... Nothing could be added by any person of sound taste and enlarged understanding. I hope that Lady Romilly will be curious to know the two words which I would have ommitted. - The two epithets "horrible" and "foul" page 10 - because in the last lines of the preceding page you had said that vague and general terms of reprobation such as "inhuman", "sanguinary", "detestable" can convey but inadequate notions etc.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Romilly : [speech on the Slave Trade]
'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of the speech there were but two words which I would have ommitted... Nothing could be added by any person of sound taste and enlarged understanding. I hope that Lady Romilly will be curious to know the two words which I would have ommitted. - The two epithets "horrible" and "foul" page 10 - because in the last lines of the preceding page you had said that vague and general terms of reprobation such as "inhuman", "sanguinary", "detestable" can convey but inadequate notions etc.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Manuscript: Unknown

James Mackintosh : Edinburgh Review [review of Madame de Stael's 'De l'Allemagne']
'The review [by Maria Edgeworth] of "Les Peines et les Recompenses" [French edition by Dumont of Bentham's treatise] cannot please Sir Js Mackintosh because it expresses sentiments on [italics] utility [end italics] different from those which he has endeavored, contrary to his conscience, to establish in compliment we suppose to Madame de Stael, in his "Edinburgh Review" of her "Allemagne".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since
'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all things; I did not like the hero, and thought the whole more a portraiture of individual than of general manners, but this may have arisen from ignorance, and I find in general the Scotch pleased with it. Walter Scott, if he did not write it, certainly must have had a good deal to do with it, but there is a sort of notice prefix'd to the last edition which they seem to say makes it very improbable that it should have been written by him'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since
'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all things; I did not like the hero, and thought the whole more a portraiture of individual than of general manners, but this may have arisen from ignorance, and I find in general the Scotch pleased with it. Walter Scott, if he did not write it, certainly must have had a good deal to do with it, but there is a sort of notice prefix'd to the last edition which they seem to say makes it very improbable that it should have been written by him'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Print: Book

Norman Douglas : unknown
'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much knowledge of facts in your readers. Still we shall try to place it where it may be judged sympathetically.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Maria Edgeworth : [children's books]
'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, says, "tell Miss Edgeworth I do really think Rosamond was foolish not to choose the shoes, but her Mama made her go without them very long, I would not have made her go barefoot more than a week". You have you see produced a very young critic. He is just beginning to feel great pleasure in reading, and he never does it without making his remarks as he goes'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: two sons of Anne Romilly     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Rosamond
'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, says, "tell Miss Edgeworth I do really think Rosamond was foolish not to choose the shoes, but her Mama made her go without them very long, I would not have made her go barefoot more than a week". You have you see produced a very young critic. He is just beginning to feel great pleasure in reading, and he never does it without making his remarks as he goes'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [title page of a children's book]
'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, the "O Mama pray let me look" and "O Mama may [italics] I [end italics] read it?"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Richard Lovell Edgeworth : [a narrative]
'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition from your pen would have made a very delightful fashionable tale'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly

Domenico Comparetti : Vergileo nel Medio Evo
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Paul Bourget : Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas : Nouveaux Entre'actes
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Theodule Ribot : Les Maladies de la Volonte
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Correspondance
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Charles Arthur Mercier : Sanity and Insanity
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Emile Zola : La Fortune des Rougon
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Emile Zola : Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Pierre Loti : Le Roman d'un Enfant
Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Charles Henri Ford ( with Parker Tyler) : The Young and the Evil
'Thank you for sending me your novel. I think that there is much good writing, and that you have a strong visual sense, but I do get tired of the perpetual pillow fights. Frankly, don't either of you young men know anybody who is capable of getting into his own bed and staying there? If you do for goodness sake cultivate his acquaintance, and write about him next time for a change. Also, calling a spade a spade never made the spade interesting yet. Take my advice, leave spades alone, or if you must mention them, then mention the garden too. All the miners round here - they are not an expressive race- use words which recur over and over again on your pages. But I don't find they add anything to my consciousness. No, no, you[should] develop your talent along different lines, and let us have some more writing like that page about the girl and the sailor - with the last phrase left out. P.S I mean that our forefathers, though an ignorant lot in some ways, were no more ignorant of the process of excretion than are their descendents today. But apart from medical treatises, these things do not in themselves make interesting reading. The prose rythms of your book really do deserve a more worthy subject, next time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Ronald Bottrall : Festival of Fire
'Now I'm reading Festivals of Fire, which I had sent for before I got your letter; it was most charming of you to offer to send it it to me, and I think it remarkable, and it is obvious that you are a real poet. As I said before, the rhythmical quality of "The Loosening" its fluidity and perfect control, was most remarkable, and I never doubted that you have a most remarkable mind; all I wanted was more sifting of the material. When I know Festivals of Fire properly, I shall write to you again...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Walter Greenwood : Love on the Dole
'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you that I know you to be, not only a born writer, but a great writer (and I never use that word lightly). I do not know when I have been so deeply, so terribly moved and so strongly impressed as I have been these two superb novels. How on earth you succeeded in combining the beauty and the unutterable tenderness of these books, their beautiful and inevitable form, with such an apalling indictment of our present damnable civilisation, I don't know. You are such a writer that the terrible tragedies of starvation, the people whose poignant and shining love, love between boy and girl, between husband and wife, love between friends, seem to me to have been known all my life.....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Walter Greenwood : His Worship the Mayor
'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you that I know you to be, not only a born writer, but a great writer ( and I never use that word lightly). I do not know when I have been so deeply, so terribly moved and so strongly impressed as I have been these two superb novels. How on earth you succeeded in combining the beauty and the unutterable tenderness of these books, their beautiful and inevitable form, with such an apalling indictment of our present damnable civilisation, I don't know. You are such a writer that the terrible tragedies of starvation, the people whose poignant and shining love, love between boy and girl, between husband and wife, love between friends, seem to me to have been known all my life.....'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Friedrich Engels : Conditions of the Working Classess in England
'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised anger in me, instead of grief. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Practical Education
'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in the child's mind at the moment, and I am sure this is a thing which is seldom if ever attended to.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : [writings about England, never published as 'De L'Angleterre', as originally planned]
' have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of "L'Angleterre". He says it is full of talent, but that there are some strange mistakes as to English Manners; but that a dinner at Lord Grey's is very well described'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Mackintosh      Manuscript: Unknown

Albert Jean Michel de Rocca : Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne
'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but they give me a great desire to read more, particularly as Sophie who took it up could not lay it down again, and in general a girl of fourteen is a pretty good judge of the interest'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Albert Jean Michel de Rocca : Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne
'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but they give me a great desire to read more, particularly as Sophie who took it up could not lay it down again, and in general a girl of fourteen is a pretty good judge of the interest'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sophie Romilly      Print: Book

[unknown] : Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley']
'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Waverley
'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion
'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Mackintosh      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverley"], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read "Discipline" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as "Waverley" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Mackintosh      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rokeby
'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverley"], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read "Discipline" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as "Waverley" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Mackintosh      Print: Book

Mary Brunton : Discipline
'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverley"], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read "Discipline" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as "Waverley" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Albert Jean Michel de Rocca : Mémoires Sur La Guerre Des Français En Espagne
'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverley"], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read "Discipline" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as "Waverley" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

[unknown] : Eugene
'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverley"], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read "Discipline" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as "Waverley" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Traveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society
'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]". Never was epithet more appropriate to the whole scenery'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Unknown

August Wilhelm von Schlegel : [Essays]
'Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opinions'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Richard Lovell Edgeworth : Readings on poetry
'We have been much instructed by the readings on poetry and long for the Irish Tales'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Romilly Family     Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Fare thee well
'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the "Morning Chronicle" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the "Farewell" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the "Sketch from Private Life" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Sketch from Private Life, A
'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the "Morning Chronicle" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the "Farewell" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the "Sketch from Private Life" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Morning Chronicle
'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the "Morning Chronicle" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the "Farewell" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the "Sketch from Private Life" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Newspaper

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Sketch from Private Life, A
'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the "Morning Chronicle" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the "Farewell" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the "Sketch from Private Life" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly      Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Fare thee well
'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the "Morning Chronicle" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the "Farewell" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the "Sketch from Private Life" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly      Print: Unknown

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis : [children's plays]
'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Plays for Children". Those of Madame de Genlis have always been extremly [sic] successful, altho' not very good, and "Old Poz" has been most successful, and has been acted by many a happy little party'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Old Poz
'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Plays for Children". Those of Madame de Genlis have always been extremly [sic] successful, altho' not very good, and "Old Poz" has been most successful, and has been acted by many a happy little party'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Fare thee well
'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully written. I have seen in the reports on mendicity that there are persons who teach the arts of abuse - His Lordship seems to have studied in this school, with great success'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth      Print: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Sketch from Private Life, A
'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully written. I have seen in the reports on mendicity that there are persons who teach the arts of abuse - His Lordship seems to have studied in this school, with great success'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth      Print: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society

[unknown] : [Reports on Mendicity]
'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully written. I have seen in the reports on mendicity that there are persons who teach the arts of abuse - His Lordship seems to have studied in this school, with great success'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth      Print: Unknown

Jane Austen : Emma
'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much that one wishes to forget, that I am not inclined to write about them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unidentified novel]
'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much that one wishes to forget, that I am not inclined to write about them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Benjamin Constant : Adolphe
'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed to possess. Nevertheless one must see that it has been written by a man of no common mind, and by a close observer of human nature under the particular situation which he describes. At least I should think he only expresses what hundreds of men have felt when they have been hampered and tied down by an unfortunate connection which they vainly wish but have not force of mind enough to break through. And now I must tell you that I am very bold in defending it for my oracle Mr Whishaw (my husband has not read it), is at the head of a large party who abuse it; but they will talk of it as a novel, and as such I am quite willing to allow that it has no great interest or merit; but take it as he calls it, an anecdote, and read it without the intention of being amused, but merely as a study of character, and surely it has considerable merit. It is impossible that the Lady can be intended for Madame de Stael, altho' many traits point out his own vacillating character in "Adolphe", and perhaps some of the scenes may have been drawn from life. I should very much like to have your opinion, and still more Mr Edgeworth's, for a man must from his knowledge of men in the world, be a better judge of such subjects than a woman'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Benjamin Constant : Adolphe
'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed to possess. Nevertheless one must see that it has been written by a man of no common mind, and by a close observer of human nature under the particular situation which he describes. At least I should think he only expresses what hundreds of men have felt when they have been hampered and tied down by an unfortunate connection which they vainly wish but have not force of mind enough to break through. And now I must tell you that I am very bold in defending it for my oracle Mr Whishaw (my husband has not read it), is at the head of a large party who abuse it; but they will talk of it as a novel, and as such I am quite willing to allow that it has no great interest or merit; but take it as he calls it, an anecdote, and read it without the intention of being amused, but merely as a study of character, and surely it has considerable merit. It is impossible that the Lady can be intended for Madame de Stael, altho' many traits point out his own vacillating character in "Adolphe", and perhaps some of the scenes may have been drawn from life. I should very much like to have your opinion, and still more Mr Edgeworth's, for a man must from his knowledge of men in the world, be a better judge of such subjects than a woman'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Whishaw      Print: Book

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons intended to be portrayed. Many characters are drawn I think full as well as the Princess of Madagascar. The circle at Lady Oxford's is surely well drawn and faithful; Buchanan, Sir Godfrey Webster - and even Lady Byron's own character is not ill done. The letter is an original, the signature alone different, and I am a firm believer in the whole history as far as relates to Calantha and "Glenarvon". He did not quit her until he was tired, and the letter was actually sealed with Lady Oxford's seal and directed in her hand writing'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn? One of our friends, well read in Johnson, told me most of the serious parts were extracts from the "Rambler". I have not had time or patience to compare them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn? One of our friends, well read in Johnson, told me most of the serious parts were extracts from the "Rambler". I have not had time or patience to compare them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Serial / periodical

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an extract from it in the newspapers, I brought it home, and really think if Lady Caroline wrote it she deserves high place amongst the fair authors of the present day. I cannot think it is hers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

: [newspaper extract of Preface to "Glenarvon"]
'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an extract from it in the newspapers, I brought it home, and really think if Lady Caroline wrote it she deserves high place amongst the fair authors of the present day. I cannot think it is hers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Newspaper

Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an extract from it in the newspapers, I brought it home, and really think if Lady Caroline wrote it she deserves high place amongst the fair authors of the present day. I cannot think it is hers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Edgeworth      Print: Book

Jane Haldimand Marcet : Conversations on Political Economy
'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who like me know very little or nothing about it, are delighted with the knowledge they have acquired. One of our ci-devant Judges, Sir James Mansfield, who in his 83rd year devours all that is new in Literature, is charmed and laments extremely that he did not know as much as that Book has taught him when he was at the Bar'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Jane Haldimand Marcet : Conversations on Political Economy
'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who like me know very little or nothing about it, are delighted with the knowledge they have acquired. One of our ci-devant Judges, Sir James Mansfield, who in his 83rd year devours all that is new in Literature, is charmed and laments extremely that he did not know as much as that Book has taught him when he was at the Bar'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Mansfield      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Manfred
'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In "Childe Harold" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote "Darkness" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died", that is the line I think'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold
'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In "Childe Harold" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote "Darkness" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died", that is the line I think'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Darkness
'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In "Childe Harold" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote "Darkness" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died", that is the line I think'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [poems]
'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In "Childe Harold" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote "Darkness" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died", that is the line I think'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly      Print: Book, Unknown

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord
'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the Author of "Waverley" altho' it is not avow'd who that is. If it is not Walter Scott it is marvellous. I saw a gentleman the other day who told me that he had seen the manuscript in America in the hands of Walter Scott's Brother who there avow'd himself the Author'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord
'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the Author of "Waverley" altho' it is not avow'd who that is. If it is not Walter Scott it is marvellous. I saw a gentleman the other day who told me that he had seen the manuscript in America in the hands of Walter Scott's Brother who there avow'd himself the Author'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [letters to his wife Harriet]
'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise of liberality and enlightened sentiment I should suppose had never before been exhibited. The Cause was heard in the Chancellor's private room out of compassion to Mr Shelley and his family. The account which appeared in the papers must have been written by himself, or his friend Mr Hunt of the "Examiner" who was present, and they went so far that the Chancellor intimated that he would have a rehearing of the cause in public and they immediately became silent'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly

[n/a] : [newspaper]
'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise of liberality and enlightened sentiment I should suppose had never before been exhibited. The Cause was heard in the Chancellor's private room out of compassion to Mr Shelley and his family. The account which appeared in the papers must have been written by himself, or his friend Mr Hunt of the "Examiner" who was present, and they went so far that the Chancellor intimated that he would have a rehearing of the cause in public and they immediately became silent'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Newspaper

Jeremy Bentham : [works]
'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his works. It makes them unreadible [sic] and of much less use than they otherwise would be. He has just published a singular Book the title of which is "Bentham on Codification", a great deal very excellent, Sir Samuel says, but most injudicious and injurious to the good cause, not only from throwing a ridicule on it, but also from going so much too far, for it is scarcely attempted to be disguised that Republicanism is his great object'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

Jeremy Bentham : Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction
'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his works. It makes them unreadible [sic] and of much less use than they otherwise would be. He has just published a singular Book the title of which is "Bentham on Codification", a great deal very excellent, Sir Samuel says, but most injudicious and injurious to the good cause, not only from throwing a ridicule on it, but also from going so much too far, for it is scarcely attempted to be disguised that Republicanism is his great object'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly      Print: Book

James Mill : History of British India, The
'Mr Mill's great work on India will soon be published in 3 vol. quarto. Sir Samuel saw the two first, and seems to think that it will be extremely curious, and very well done, but finds the style very bad'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly      Manuscript: Unknown

Sydney Morgan : France
'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of error from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of error from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Serial / periodical

William Ernest Henley : Notes on the Firth
'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have made a great sensation here, where the portraits are easily recognized; and though these have not the same extrinsic interest, they seem to me better as workmanship and more agreeable altogether. Henley is a singularly fine fellow, whose constancy under great trouble is as remarkable as his verse. Let me add that he is not the richest person in the world, so (should these sonnets suit you for the magazine) an early publication will be of great service to him.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Sheet, Unknown

William Ernest Henley : Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits.
'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have made a great sensation here, where the portraits are easily recognized; and though these have not the same extrinsic interest, they seem to me better as workmanship and more agreeable altogether. Henley is a singularly fine fellow, whose constancy under great trouble is as remarkable as his verse. Let me add that he is not the richest person in the world, so (should these sonnets suit you for the magazine) an early publication will be of great service to him.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy.

Olivia Manning : Balkan Trilogy, The
'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquisite accuracy, and some bitterness, as Guy in her series of novels, The Balkan trilogy - schoolboy innocence, unthinking cruelty, shallow enthusiasms, superficially generous-spirited and outgoing but essentially egotistical, a mixture of coldness and an insatiable need for warmth'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

:
'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of traffic'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Thomas Stearns Eliot : 'Burbank'
'I have been thinking about Eliot and Jew hatred - a compassionate man one would say, cultured, civilised? and yet he can write poison like this: "The rats are underneath the piles. The Jew is underneath the lot." ' [quotation from Glasser's friend Bill Werner]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Bill Werner      Print: Book

Luigi Illica : [libretto of 'La Boheme]
'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the people he knew who lived on black coffee and little else in romantic Paris, and was saddened and perplexed by the opera's alloy of sordidness and sentimentality'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Henry Murger : Scenes de la Vie de Boheme
'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the people he knew who lived on black coffee and little else in romantic Paris, and was saddened and perplexed by the opera's alloy of sordidness and sentimentality'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Tom : Eyes of Adonis
'[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim volume of poems on thick hand-made paper - "Eyes of Adonis". Some of the poems were little more than doggerel, and he was hurt to find that he could not even [italics] give [end italics] the little books away'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [papers left at his death]
'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir John Hawkins's ponderous labours, I must acknowledge, exhibit a [italics] farrago [end italics], of which a considerable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping; but besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary extracts from various works [...], a very small part of it relates to the person who is the subject of the book; and, in that, there is such an inaccuracy in the statement of facts, as in so solemn an author is hardly excusable, and certainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

John Hawkins : Life of Samuel Johnson
'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir John Hawkins's ponderous labours, I must acknowledge, exhibit a [italics] farrago [end italics], of which a considerable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping; but besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary extracts from various works [...], a very small part of it relates to the person who is the subject of the book; and, in that, there is such an inaccuracy in the statement of facts, as in so solemn an author is hardly excusable, and certainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Dr Warburton : [Letter to Thomas Birch]
'There is, in the B. Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my own work, by contrasting it with that of which I have spoken, is so well conceived and expressed, that I cannot refrain from here inserting it: [the letter follows, including this passage] "Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux, are indeed strange inspid creatures; and yet I had rather read the worst of them, than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's, or the other's life of Boileau, where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages, that it makes their method quite nauseous".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Letter

John Toland : Life of John Milton
'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my own work, by contrasting it with that of which I have spoken, is so well conceived and expressed, that I cannot refrain from here inserting it: [the letter follows, including this passage] "Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux, are indeed strange inspid creatures; and yet I had rather read the worst of them, than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's, or the other's life of Boileau, where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages, that it makes their method quite nauseous".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Warburton      Print: Book

Pierre Desmaiseaux : La vie de Boileau-Despréaux
'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my own work, by contrasting it with that of which I have spoken, is so well conceived and expressed, that I cannot refrain from here inserting it: [the letter follows, including this passage] "Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux, are indeed strange inspid creatures; and yet I had rather read the worst of them, than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's, or the other's life of Boileau, where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages, that it makes their method quite nauseous".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Warburton      Print: Book

William Mason : Memoirs of Gray
'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have appeared to have more merit in the execution of the work, I have resolved to adopt and enlarge upon the excellent plan of Mr Mason, in his Memoirs of Gray [ie connecting quotations, conversation and letters with narrative]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Mason : [Memoir of William Whitehead]
'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his character, is, I trust, too well established in the judgment of mankind, to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr Mason, in his "Memoirs of Mr William Whitehead", in which there is literally no "Life", but a mere dry narrative of facts'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

: Book of Common Prayer [collect for the day]
'When he [Johnson] was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, Mrs Johnson one morning put the common prayer-book into his hands, pointed to the collect for the day, and said, "Sam, you must get this by heart". She went upstairs, leaving him to study it: But by the time she had reached the second floor, she heard him following her. "What's the matter?" said she. "I can say it", he replied; and repeated it distinctly, though he ciould not have read it over more than twice'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [reading lessons]
'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He told me she could read the black letter, and asked him to borrow for her, from his father, a bible in that character'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: Bible
'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He told me she could read the black letter, and asked him to borrow for her, from his father, a bible in that character'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dame Oliver      Print: Book

: [romances of chivalry]
'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligent collector, informs me, that "When a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life; so that (adds his Lordship) spending part of a summer at my parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of "Felixmarte of Hircania", in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profesion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Melchor de Ortega : Felixmarte de Hircania
'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligent collector, informs me, that "When a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life; so that (adds his Lordship) spending part of a summer at my parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of "Felixmarte of Hircania", in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profesion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Petrarch : [works]
'he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them. He used to mention one curious instance of his casual reading, when but a boy. Having imagined that his brother had hid some apples behind a large folio upon an upper shelf in his father's shop, he climbed up to search for them. There were no apples; but the large folio proved to be Petrarch, whom he had seen mentioned in some preface, as one of the restorers of learning. His curiosity having been thus excited, he sat down with avidity and read a great part of the book'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [various works of classics and literature]
'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (added he) I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Anacreon :
'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (added he) I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hesiod :
'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (added he) I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius :
'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he behaved modestly, and sat silent, till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation, he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius; and thus he gave the first impression of that more extensive reading in which he had indulged himself'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio
'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse, as a Christmas exercise. He performed it with uncommon rapidity, and in so masterly a manner, that he obtained great applause from it, which ever after kept him high in the estimation of his College and, indeed, of all the University'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Allestree : Whole Duty of Man, The
'"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Whole Duty of Man", from a great part of which I could derive no instruction. When, for instance, I had read the chapter on theft, which from my infancy I had been taught was wrong, I was no more convinced that theft was wrong than before; so there was no accession of knowledge".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

:
'"The church in Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday. This habit continued till my fourteenth year".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Law : Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A
'"When at Oxford, I took up Law's "Serious Call to a Holy Life", expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Euripides : [Tragedies]
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Horace : Ars Poetica
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Theocritus :
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Juvenal : Tenth Satire
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [memoranda of his reading]
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

:
'[quotation from Johnson's 'Life of Edmund Smith', regarding Gilbert Walmsley] His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gilbert Walmsley      Print: Book

Jeronimo Lobo : Voyage to Abyssinia , A
'[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, though his body was relaxed. He lay in bed with the book, which was a quarto, before him, and dictated while Hector wrote'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [Turkish History]
'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of him, in order to form his play from it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [original notes for "Irene"]
'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquainted with Johnson's mode of penmanship which at all times was very particular. The King having accepted of this manuscript as a literary curiosity, Mr Langton made a fair and distinct copy of it, which he ordered to be bound up with the original and the printed tragedy; and the volume is deposited in the King's library.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [original notes for "Irene"]
'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquainted with Johnson's mode of penmanship which at all times was very particular. The King having accepted of this manuscript as a literary curiosity, Mr Langton made a fair and distinct copy of it, which he ordered to be bound up with the original and the printed tragedy; and the volume is deposited in the King's library.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Langton      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [original notes for "Irene"]
'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquainted with Johnson's mode of penmanship which at all times was very particular. The King having accepted of this manuscript as a literary curiosity, Mr Langton made a fair and distinct copy of it, which he ordered to be bound up with the original and the printed tragedy; and the volume is deposited in the King's library.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George III      Manuscript: Unknown

Sidney Colvin : annotations
'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Manfredi.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter, annotations

Sidney Colvin : The History of a Pavement
'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

William Ernest Henley : [second series of] Hospital Poems
'Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me to forward these to you for your opinion; the pencil marks are principally Payne’s. One poem at least, the “Spring Sorrow”, which seems to me the most beautiful, I hope you will communicate to Madame. I thank God for this [italics]petit bout de consolation[end italics], that by Henley’s own account, this one more lovely thing in the world is not altogether without some trace of my influence: let me say that I have been something sympathetic which the mother found and contemplated while she yet carried it in her womb. This, in my profound discouragement, is a great thing for me; if I cannot do good work myself, at least, it seems, I can help others better inspired; I am at least a skilful accoucheur.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown

Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
[following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii] 'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defence -- probably typical of Sterne, whom I have begun to read. How did he discover the art of leaving out what he wanted to say? And why was it lost again until our own time. Can nothing liberate English fiction from conscientiousness? S. clearly a g[rea]t writer and his philosophy of life almost good and quite good in quotations: "Look at little me" spoils it in the bulk. 'But (now finishing T.S.): what character drawing! [goes on to comment further]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift :
'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Frances Burney :
'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett :
'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders
In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Moll Flanders, remarking upon the work as 'A puzzling book -- gynomorphic, [with] not one stitch of the man-made', and discussing aspects including character and form.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
'[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should be capable of being put into a phrase, "ten words that reveal its unity", and so boggles at War and Peace, though he "duly" recognises its vitality [...] Must I read him through?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan Harrington when I had chicken pox, 19, and felt this strongly]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Meredith : Evan Harrington
'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan Harrington when I had chicken pox, 19, and felt this strongly]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Vanbrugh : The Provok'd Wife
Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (opening '[italics]Virtue[end italics], alas, is no more like the thing that is called so than 'tis like vice itself').
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man duller than themselves. No gaiety wit or invention [...] Boy scout manual. Unlike Moll or Roxana or Selkirk himself, Crusoe never develops or modifies. As much bored as I was 30 years ago. Its only literary merit is the well conceived crescendo of the savages. Historically important, no doubt, and the parent of other insincerities, such as Treasure Island [...] I shan't read Part II. [goes on to quote from, and comment upon, text further]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man duller than themselves. No gaiety wit or invention [...] Boy scout manual. Unlike Moll or Roxana or Selkirk himself, Crusoe never develops or modifies. As much bored as I was 30 years ago. Its only literary merit is the well conceived crescendo of the savages. Historically important, no doubt, and the parent of other insincerities, such as Treasure Island [...] I shan't read Part II. [goes on to quote from, and comment upon, text further]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...] '[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly acted like Mortals until about thirty Years old, after which, by Degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected -- etc. -- -- 'but I will transcribe this passage into my anthology, under Old Age'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady
'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the endless variety and modulations are not in themselves interesting enough [...] Granted her premises about copulation and relations, Cl. deduces with delicacy and truth. Within her conventions, she is sound. She is tragic and charming. Rich[ardson]. had a tragic mind [quotes passages] [...] 'The book raises the question of subject-matter. Within its limits it is great. But what limits!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry James : The Ambassadors
Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassadors, with comments including 'Pattern exquisitely woven,' and 'However hard you shake his sentences, no banality falls out.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Norman Douglas : D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners
Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners (1924).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Billy Budd
Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with remarks including 'Billy Budd [...] has goodness, of the glowing aggressive sort which cannot exist unless it has evil to consume'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Great Expectations
'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anything else of D[ickens]. known to me. Very fine writing occasionally ([italics]end of Pt.I[end italics].) [...] Occasional hints not developed -- e.g. [...] Jagger's [sic] character [italics]does[end italics] nothing, Herbert Pocket's has to be revised. But all the defects are trivial, and the course of events is both natural and exciting [goes on to comment further, and to quote at length from conclusion to 'the first stage of Pip's Expectations']'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Sylvia Townsend Warner : Lolly Willowes
Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes ('how silly the book becomes when the witchcraft starts, how worse than silly when it culminates').
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

David Garnett : A Man in the Zoo
Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

David Garnett : Lady into Fox
Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

David Garnett : The Sailor's Return
Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including 'V. of W. gets out of his [depth] 1/2 way through -- after the painting of the family group with Mrs Primrose as Venus all the grace and wit vanishes [...] the happy ending to the tragedy makes all worse than ever.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

[unknown] : [reading primer]
'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of reading, I bought me a Primer, and got now one, then another, to teach me to Spell, and so learn'd to Read imperfectly, my Teachers themselves not being ready Readers: But in a little time, having learn'd to Read competently well, I was desirous to learn to Write, but was at a great loss for a Master, none of my fellow Shepherds being able to teach me'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I was then engaged in a laborious trade and not allowed time for such Imployments of the Brain; yet I was so intent on my Study, that abridged myself of my Sleep and Rest. For after having wrought hard all day, from Five or Six in the Morning, till Ten or Eleven at Night, it was frequent with me to sit up two or three Hours reading'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on astrology]
'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad taking their Pleasure. I was then upon Astrolgy [sic], a Science too rashly decried by some' [he then discusses the merits of Astrology at length, but not mentioning any specific texts]
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books]
'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertains herself with a book for the improvement of her mind'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

William Hamilton : Blind Harry's Wallace
'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [History Plays]
'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [A history of England]
'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad
'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [scholastic divinity essays]
'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete page of scholastic divinity, which must have been better calculated to exercise the memory than to call forth the devotional affections'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which to her ardent temper was insupportable, she took the prompt resolution of reading the scriptures by stealth, and deciding the question from her own unbiassed judgment. The result of this examination was, a conviction of their truth; and she observed that the moral precepts connected with the doctrine of Christianity, were too pure to have been promulgated by an impostor'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books chosen by Mrs Marshall]
'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Marshall      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Scottish history]
'[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella Stuart; and, either to extend her knowledge, or amuse her fancy, collected much miscellaneous information respecting her, which she afterwards cast into the form of a historical novel'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'History and travels are our chief favourites; but with them we intermix a variety of miscellaneous literature, with now and then a favourite novel, to relish our graver studies'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall     Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
'[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that ship being seen off the Cape in great distress; at length its arrival was announced, and, on Saturday last, among the list of passengers, I saw your name; but still I was not, could not be, convinced that it was really you'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Gentleman's Magazine, The
'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted the notice and esteem of Johnson, in an eminent degree, before he came to London as an adventurer in literature'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Irene
'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drury-lane theatre, to have it acted at his house'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Irene
'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drury-lane theatre, to have it acted at his house'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Peter Garrick      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Scot's Magazine, The
'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The Scots Magazine", which was begun at Edinburgh in the year 1739, and has been ever conducted with judgement, accuracy, and propriety'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a student at Oxford, and remembers well the effect which "London" produced. Every body was delighted with it; and there being no name to it, the first buzz of the literary circles was "here is an unknown poet, greater even than Pope".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Douglas      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Epitaph on Philips, a Musician
'This Epitaph [on 'Philips, a musician'] is so exquisitely beautiful that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr Johnson, was compelled to allow it very high praise'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Home, Lord Kames      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : ['The Italian' - unknown text]
'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson

Thomas Birch : [unknown]
'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Life of Savage
'Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it [Johnson's "Life of Savage"] in Devonshire, knowing nothing of its authour [sic], and began to read it while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney piece. It seized his attention so strongly, that, not being able to lay down the book till he had finished it, when he attempted to move, he found his arm totally benumbed'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joshua Reynolds      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary]
'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript, for his perusal; and that when it was lying on his table, Mr William Whitehead happened to pay him a visit, and being shewn it, was highly pleased with such parts of it as he had time to read, and begged to take it home with him, which he was allowed to do; that from him it got into the hands of a noble Lord, who carried it to Lord Chesterfield'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Taylor      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary]
'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript, for his perusal; and that when it was lying on his table, Mr William Whitehead happened to pay him a visit, and being shewn it, was highly pleased with such parts of it as he had time to read, and begged to take it home with him, which he was allowed to do; that from him it got into the hands of a noble Lord, who carried it to Lord Chesterfield'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Whitehead      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary]
'[extract of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Dr Birch] I have just now seen the specimen of Mr Johnson's dictionary, addressed to Lord Chesterfield. I am much pleased with the plan, and I think the specimen is one of the best that I have ever read. Most specimens disgust, rather than prejudice us in favour of the work to follow; but the language of Mr Johnson's is good, and the arguments are properly and modestly expressed'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [sources for his Dictionary]
'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black lead pencil, the traces of which could easily be effaced'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : Preceptor, The
'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds that has appeared in any language'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes, The
'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More readers, therefore, will be delighted with the pointed spirit of "London", than with the profound reflection of "The Vanity Of Human Wishes". Garrick, for instance, observed in his sprightly manner, with more vivacity than regard to just discrimination, as is usual with wits, "When Johnson lived much with the Herveys, and saw a good deal of what was passing in life, he wrote his 'London', which is lively and easy. When he became more retired, he gave us his 'Vanity of Human Wishes', which is as hard as Greek. Had he gone on to imitate another satire, it would have been as hard as Hebrew".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes, The
'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More readers, therefore, will be delighted with the pointed spirit of "London", than with the profound reflection of "The Vanity Of Human Wishes". Garrick, for instance, observed in his sprightly manner, with more vivacity than regard to just discrimination, as is usual with wits, "When Johnson lived much with the Herveys, and saw a good deal of what was passing in life, he wrote his 'London', which is lively and easy. When he became more retired, he gave us his 'Vanity of Human Wishes', which is as hard as Greek. Had he gone on to imitate another satire, it would have been as hard as Hebrew".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Garrick      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal.
'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More readers, therefore, will be delighted with the pointed spirit of "London", than with the profound reflection of "The Vanity Of Human Wishes". Garrick, for instance, observed in his sprightly manner, with more vivacity than regard to just discrimination, as is usual with wits, "When Johnson lived much with the Herveys, and saw a good deal of what was passing in life, he wrote his 'London', which is lively and easy. When he became more retired, he gave us his 'Vanity of Human Wishes', which is as hard as Greek. Had he gone on to imitate another satire, it would have been as hard as Hebrew".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Garrick      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [notes collected for periodical articles]
'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in which he has written, in the form of Mr Locke's "Common-Place Book", a variety of hints for essays on different subjects. He has marked upon the first blank leaf of it, "to the 128th page, collections for 'The Rambler'"; and in another place, "In fifty -two there were seventeen provided; in 97-21; in 190-25".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'Mrs Johnson, in whose judgement and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of "The Rambler" had come out, "I thought very well of you before; but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Rambler" exhibits [Boswell then talks at length of the philosophical merits of the essays] I may shortly observe that the "Rambler" furnishes such an assemblage of discourses on practical religion and moral duty, of critical investigations, and allegorical and oriental tales, that no mind may be thought very deficient that has, by constant study and meditation, assimilated to itself all that may be found there'. [Boswell singles out numbers 7, 110, 54 and 32]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twilight of Pagan philosophy. I never read the following sentence without feeling my frame thrill: "I think there is some reason for questioning whether the body and mind are not so proportioned, that the one can bear all which can be inflicted on the other; whether virtue cannot stand its ground as long as life, and whether a soul well principled, will not be sooner separated than subdued".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought particularly excellent, by folding down a corner of the page; and such as he rated in a super-eminent degree, are marked by double folds'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought particularly excellent, by folding down a corner of the page; and such as he rated in a super-eminent degree, are marked by double folds'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Young      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Joseph Addison : [essays]
'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly, the style of Addison as nerveless and feeble, because it has not the strength and energy of that of Johnson. Their prose may be balanced like the poetry of Dryden and Pope. Both are excellent, though in different ways. Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that he insinuates his sentiments and tastes into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

John Hawkesworth : Adventurer, The
'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to distinguish them, with certainty, from the compositions of his great archetype'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

James Boswell : [account given to him by Mrs Williams]
'[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as he had [italics] given [end italics] those Essays to Dr Bathurst, who sold them at two guineas each, he never would own them; nay, he used to say that he did not [italics] write [end italics] them: but the fact was, that he [italics] dictated [end italics] them,while Bathurst wrote". I read to him Mrs Williams's account; he smiled, and said nothing'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield]
'[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his patronage]. "I should have imagined (replied Dr Adams) that Lord Chesterfield would have concealed it". "Poh! (said Dodsley) do you think a letter from Johnson could hurt Lord Chesterfield? Not at all, Sir. It lay upon his table where any body might see it. He read it to me; said, 'this man has great powers', pointed out the severest passages, and observed how well they were expressed".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dodsley      Manuscript: Letter

Samuel Johnson : [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield]
'[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his patronage]. "I should have imagined (replied Dr Adams) that Lord Chesterfield would have concealed it". "Poh! (said Dodsley) do you think a letter from Johnson could hurt Lord Chesterfield? Not at all, Sir. It lay upon his table where any body might see it. He read it to me; said, 'this man has great powers', pointed out the severest passages, and observed how well they were expressed".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield      Manuscript: Letter

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son
'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was contested in the Court of Session in Scotland, and Mr Henry Dundas, one of the counsel read this character [of the 'respectable Hottentot'], as an exhibition of Johnson, Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, one of the Judges, maintained with some warmth, that it was not intended as a portrait of Johnson, but of a late noble Lord, distinguished for abstruse science'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Dundas      Print: Book

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke : Philosophical works
'On the 6th of March came out Lord Bolingbroke's works, published by Mr David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings, under the name of [italics] Philosophy [end italics], which were thus ushered into the world, gave great offence to all well-principled men.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Thomas Warton : Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser
'[thanking Warton for a book he has sent ] You have shewn to all, who shall hereafter attempt the study of our ancient authors, the way to success; by directing them to the perusal of the books which those authors had read. Of this method, Hughes and men much greater than Hughes, seem never to have thought'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books of Northern literature]
'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr Wise read to us a dissertation which he was preparing for the press, intitled "A History and Chronology of the fabulous Ages".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Mr Wise : History and Chronology of the fabulous Ages, A
'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr Wise read to us a dissertation which he was preparing for the press, intitled "A History and Chronology of the fabulous Ages".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Wise      Manuscript: Unknown

Alexander Barclay : Ship of Fools, The
'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a number of [italics] Eglogues [end italics]; so he writes it, from [italics] Egloga [end italics], which are probably the first in our language. If you cannot find the book I will get Mr Dodsley to send it to you'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [memoranda for a projected literary journal]
'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal": "[italics] The Annals of Literature, foreign as well as domestick. [end italics] Imitate Le Clerk - Bayle - Barberac. Infelicity of Journals in England. Works of the learned. We cannot take in all. Sometimes copy from foreign Jouralists. Always tell".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book

Samuel Johnson : Dictionary
'The part of your "Dictionary" which you have favoured me with the sight of has given me such an idea of the whole, that I most sincerely congratulate the publick upon the acquisition of a work long wanted, and now executed with an industry, accuracy, and judgement, equal to the importance of the subject. You might, perhaps, have chosen one in which your genius would have appeared to more advantage; but you could not have fixed upon any other in which your labours would have done such substantial service to the present age and to posterity'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Birch      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [Plan for his dictionary]
'[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when the great work was announced in the newspapers as nearly finished, he wrote to Dr Johnson, begging to be informed when and in what manner his "Dictionary" would be published; intreating, if it should be by subscription, or he should have any books at his own disposal, to be favoured with six copies for himself and his friends'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when the great work was announced in the newspapers as nearly finished, he wrote to Dr Johnson, begging to be informed when and in what manner his "Dictionary" would be published; intreating, if it should be by subscription, or he should have any books at his own disposal, to be favoured with six copies for himself and his friends'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Dictionary
'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing style, a comprehensive, yet particular view of what he had done; and it will be evident, that the timed he employed upon it [the Dictionary] was relatively short. [Boswell then comments on the great praise the Dictionary received] One of its excellencies has always struck me with peculiar admiration: I mean the perspicuity with which he has expresed abstract scientifick notions.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [essays]
'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that of these, neither "The Life of Chaucer", "Reflections on the State of Portugal", nor an "Essay on Architecture", were written by him. I am equally confident, upon the same evidence, that he wrote "Further Thoughts on Agriculture"; being the sequel of a very inferiour essay on the same subject, and which, though carried on as if by the same hand, is both in thinking and expression so far above it, as to leave no doubt of its true parent; and that he also wrote "A Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authors", and "A Dissertation on the Epitaphs Written by Pope".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Universal Visitor
'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that of these, neither "The Life of Chaucer", "Reflections on the State of Portugal", nor an "Essay on Architecture", were written by him. I am equally confident, upon the same evidence, that he wrote "Further Thoughts on Agriculture"; being the sequel of a very inferiour essay on the same subject, and which, though carried on as if by the same hand, is both in thinking and expression so far above it, as to leave no doubt of its true parent; and that he also wrote "A Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authors", and "A Dissertation on the Epitaphs Written by Pope".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Harrison : Miscellanies
'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxuriance of Mrs [italics] Rowe [end italics]. This, however, is not all their praise; they have laboured to add to her brightness of imagery, her purity of sentiments. The poets have had Dr [italics] Watts [end italics] before their eyes; a writer, who, if he stood not in the first class of genius, compensated that defect by a ready application of his powers to the promotion of piety'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Elizabeth Rowe : [unknown]
'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxuriance of Mrs [italics] Rowe [end italics]. This, however, is not all their praise; they have laboured to add to her brightness of imagery, her purity of sentiments. The poets have had Dr [italics] Watts [end italics] before their eyes; a writer, who, if he stood not in the first class of genius, compensated that defect by a ready application of his powers to the promotion of piety'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Isaac Watts : [unknown]
'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxuriance of Mrs [italics] Rowe [end italics]. This, however, is not all their praise; they have laboured to add to her brightness of imagery, her purity of sentiments. The poets have had Dr [italics] Watts [end italics] before their eyes; a writer, who, if he stood not in the first class of genius, compensated that defect by a ready application of his powers to the promotion of piety'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Madden : Boulter's Monument
'[according to Thomas Campbell] he begged of me that when I returned to Ireland, I would endeavour to procure for him a poem of Dr Madden's called "Boulter's Monument". The Reason (said he) why I wish for it, is this: when Dr Madden came to London, he submitted that work to my castigation; and I remember I blotted a great many lines, and might have blotted many more, without making the poem worse. However, the Doctor was very thankful, and very generous, for he gave me ten guineas, [italics] which was to me at that time a great sum [end italics]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Idler, The
'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any of this great man's writings'. [Boswell mentions numbers 14, 24, 41, 43, 51, 52, 58 and 89]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most important scenes of human life, and shews us that this stage of our being is full of "vanity and vexation of spirit". [Boswell comments on its value] Voltaire's "Candide", written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's "Rasselas"; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state there is more evil than good, the intention of the writers was very different. Voltaire, I am afraid, meant only by wanton profanness to obtain a sportive victory over religion, and to discredit the belief of a superintending Providence: Johnson meant, by shewing the unsatisfactory nature of things temporal, to direct the hopes of man to things eternal'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Candide: Or, All for the Best
'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most important scenes of human life, and shews us that this stage of our being is full of "vanity and vexation of spirit". [Boswell comments on its value] Voltaire's "Candide", written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's "Rasselas"; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state there is more evil than good, the intention of the writers was very different. Voltaire, I am afraid, meant only by wanton profanness to obtain a sportive victory over religion, and to discredit the belief of a superintending Providence: Johnson meant, by shewing the unsatisfactory nature of things temporal, to direct the hopes of man to things eternal'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Candide: Or, All for the Best
'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most important scenes of human life, and shews us that this stage of our being is full of "vanity and vexation of spirit". [Boswell comments on its value] Voltaire's "Candide", written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's "Rasselas"; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state there is more evil than good, the intention of the writers was very different. Voltaire, I am afraid, meant only by wanton profanness to obtain a sportive victory over religion, and to discredit the belief of a superintending Providence: Johnson meant, by shewing the unsatisfactory nature of things temporal, to direct the hopes of man to things eternal'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Aristotle : Poetics
Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Max Beerbohm : Letter to Lytton Strachey
Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927): 'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanhope. Copyright? What is copyright to me? I am a Beerbohm -- Max' Forster notes underneath: '[Letter from Max to Lytton]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Letter

John Dryden : Epistles
'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of Dryden [sic] 'Reading these Epistles which have no connection with my work and little with my ideas, have given me a happy sense of my own leisure. Who has the necessary time and vacancy of mind to read Dryden's Epistles for pleasure in 1927? or to copy out extracts from them into a Commonplace Book? Or to write out more often than is necessary the words: Dryden, Epistles, Dryden's Epistles? No one but me and perhaps Siegfried Sassoon.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Thomas Mann : The Magic Mountain
In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, accompanying this with comments including: 'Thomas Mann a bore, but from a sense of literary duty rather than personally.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

J. B. Priestley : article on E. M. Forster
'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only by an ill-bred-and-natured journalist Priestley in today's D.N. but by friendly and sensitive Leonard Woolf. Is it just that I am different to most people, or that, knowing the difference, I have developed to conceal it?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Newspaper

H. E. Wortham : Oscar Browning
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E. Wortham's biography of him, on the potential of the human mind, and the chances governing realisation, or non-realisation of this ('I have been drawn to think rather of the tens who have failed than of the units who have succeeded, and of the ore that lies buried in our social strata rather than of the bright coins which circulate from hand to hand').
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

: 'I love me' (song lyric)
Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927: 'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself, I love me, I love me, my picture's on the shelf, You may not think I look so good but me thinks I'm just fine It's grand when I look in my eye and knows that I'm all mine. 'Oh I love me and I love me and my love doesn't bore Day by day in every way I love me more and more I takes me to a quiet place I puts my arms around my waist If I gets fresh I slap my face, I'm wild about myself. '[noted by Forster underneath] -- From a song book seen in a pub at Castle Acre.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt
Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that it is a poem pretending to be a sermon [...]] [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt
Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that it is a poem pretending to be a sermon [...]] [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

E. M. Forster : short stories
'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to follow [...] [literature] has committed itself too deeply to the worship of vegetation. 'Re-reading my old short stories have [sic] forced the above into my mind. It was much easier to write when I believed that Wessex was waiting to return, and for the new belief I haven't been properly trained.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster

Francois Mauriac : Le Desert de l'Amour
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Francois Mauriac, Le Desert de l'Amour (1925), and one line, 'La nuit etait vouee au vent et a la lune,' from Mauriac's La Pharisienne, added by Forster in 1942.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Francois Mauriac : La Pharisienne
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Francois Mauriac, Le Desert de l'Amour (1925), and one line, 'La nuit etait vouee au vent et a la lune,' from Mauriac's La Pharisienne, added by Forster in 1942.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

A. S. Eddington : Stars and Atoms
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, atoms, and stars, and on the effects of temperature on matter, from A. S. Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1927).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Thomas Deloney : The Gentle Craft part II
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life from Thomas Deloney, The Gentle Craft (Pt. II).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 November 1760 to George Montagu, describing the funeral of George II.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

A. S. Eddington : The Nature of the Physical World
'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more possible to me and therefore less wonderful. They degenerate into mathematical symbols which we are content to use without understanding.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

A. N. Whitehead : Science and the Modern World
Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929): 'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. [Whitehead, Science & the Modern World.]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz : The Kalahari and its Native Races
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz, The Kalahari and its Native Races (1928) p.153, p.155.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

T. S. Eliot : 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'
' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible part in the man, the personality." This [T. S. Eliot, Sacred Wood, p52] seems sound, but "emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him" is surely nonsense. He recovers in "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from those things."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Anton Chekhov : 'Uprooted'
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants from Chekhov's story 'Uprooted.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry Vaughan : 'Quickness'
'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginning with 'Your quiet altar after all was best']'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

F. L. Lucas : 'The Graces'
'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginning with 'Your quiet altar after all was best']'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Cyril Connolly :
'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking at the door, and wondered whether it is more than a set of knuckle bones.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

Andre Maurois : Byron
'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit 'runs an epigram of Maurois which bowled me at the first reading; then, as so often, I thought "not really worth writing down." He is only saying that [italics]Byron[end italics] acted up to his theories. But he has written a very fine biography in which one always feels secure over the facts and has not to depend on the flashes of intuition cultivated by the Strachey school.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Cowper Powys : Wolf Solent
'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardyesque fungi, the Powys [brothers T. F. and John Cowper], have never got anywhere. Patiently advertising their own decay and searching the hedgerows for simples. Can't go to bed with anyone, only talk and think it over, don't know that lust and tenderness bring relief.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

[unknown] : [book on astronomy]
'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dctionary" "Fell into my hands when I was eight" (as he said in his old age) and "attached my affections to paganism".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman      Print: Book

John Lempriere : Bibliotheca Classica
'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dictionary" "Fell into my hands when I was eight" (as he said in his old age) and "attached my affections to paganism".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman      Print: Book

J.E Bode : Ballads from Herodotus
'Somewhat later [than his discovery of Lempriere at 8] another chance discovery which may well have been formative was J.E. Bode's "Ballads from Herodotus", in which the Greek stories were Victorianized in stirring Macaulayesque verse.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Housman      Print: Book

Walter Scott : [unknown]
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Housman      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : [unknown]
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Housman      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers, The
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Housman      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Housman family     Print: Book

[unknown] : [a French magazine]
'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty oriental tale; translate that, and send it to your printer". Mr Murphy, having read the tale, was highly pleased with it, and followed Foote's advice. When he returned to town, this tale was pointed out to him in "The Rambler", from whence it had been translated into the French magazine.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Foote      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [a French magazine]
'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty oriental tale; translate that, and send it to your printer". Mr Murphy, having read the tale, was highly pleased with it, and followed Foote's advice. When he returned to town, this tale was pointed out to him in "The Rambler", from whence it had been translated into the French magazine.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Rambler, The
'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty oriental tale; translate that, and send it to your printer". Mr Murphy, having read the tale, was highly pleased with it, and followed Foote's advice. When he returned to town, this tale was pointed out to him in "The Rambler", from whence it had been translated into the French magazine.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Sheridan : Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The
'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of his resentment, to depreciate Johnson, by characterising him as "A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men"; that very Johnson whom he once so highly admired and venerated'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Sheridan : Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The
'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculcates a future state of retribution; and what it teaches is impressed upon the mind by a series of as deep distress as can affect humanity, in the amiable and pious heroine who goes to her grave unrelieved, but resigned, and full of hope of "heaven's mercy". Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it: "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Frances Sheridan : Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The
'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculcates a future state of retribution; and what it teaches is impressed upon the mind by a series of as deep distress as can affect humanty, in the amiable and pious heroine who goes to her grave unrelieved, but resgned, and full of hope of "heaven's mercy". Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it: "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in some estimation, though much of it is chimerical'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Macpherson : Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland
'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossian [end italics], was at its height. Johnson had all along denied their authenticity; and, what was still more provoking to their admirers, maintained they had no merit. The subject having been introduced by Dr Fordyce, Dr Blair, relying on the internal evidence of their antiquity, asked Dr Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems? Johnson replied, "Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children". Dr Johnson did not know that Dr Blair had just published a "Dissertation", not only defending their authenticity, but seriously ranking them with the poems of [italics] Homer [end italics] and [italics] Virgil [end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Macpherson : Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland
'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossian [end italics], was at its height. Johson had all along denied their authenticity; and, what was still more provoking to their admirers, maintained they had no merit. The subject having been introduced by Dr Fordyce, Dr Blair, relying on the internal evidence of their antiquity, asked Dr Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems? Johnson replied, "Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children". Dr Johnson did not know that Dr Blair had just published a "Dissertation", not only defending their authenticity, but seriously ranking them with the poems of [italics] Homer [end italics] and [italics] Virgil [end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Blair      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : [Odes]
'His [Colley Cibber's] friends gave out that he [italics] intended [end italics] his birth-day "Odes" should be bad: but that was not the case, Sir; for he kept them many months by him, and a few years before he died he shewed me one of them, with great solicitude to render it as perfect as might be, and I made some corrections, to which he was not very willing to submit'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

William Whitehead : [poem on Garrick]
'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little man to inscribe verses to players". I did not presume to controvert this censure, which was tinctured with his prejudice against players; but I could not help thinking that a dramatick poet might with propriety pay a compliment to an eminent performer as Whitehead has very happily done in his verses to Mr Garrick'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

William Whitehead : [poem on Garrick]
'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little man to inscribe verses to players". I did not presume to controvert this censure, which was tinctured with his prejudice against players; but I could not help thinking that a dramatick poet might with propriety pay a compliment to an eminent performer as Whitehead has very happily done in his verses to Mr Garrick'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
'Sir, I do not think Gray a first-rate poet. He has not a bold imagination, nor much command of words. The obscurity in which he has involved himself will not persuade us that he is sublime. His "Elegy in a Church yard" has a happy selection, but I don't like what are called his great things'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

John Campbell : Hermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over Old Age and the Grave.
'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man of much knowledge, and has a good share of imagination. His "Hermippus Redivivus" is very entertaining, as an account of the Hermetick philosophy, and as furnishing a curious history of the human mind. If it were merely imaginary it would be nothing at all.".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Charles Churchill : [unknown]
'He talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry, observing, that "it had a temporary currency, only from its audacity of abuse, and being filled with living names, and that it would sink into oblivion".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Charles Churchill : [poems]
'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest part of it is upon the topicks of the day, on which account, as it brought him great fame and profit at the time, it must proportionally slide out of the publick attention as other occasional objects succeed. But Churchill had extraordnary vigour both of thought and expression. His portraits of the players will ever be valuable to the true lovers of the drama; and his strong caricatures of several eminent men of his age, will not be forgotten by the curious. Let me add, that there are in his works many passages which are of a general nature; and his "Prophecy of Famine" is a poem of no ordinary merit. It is, indeed, falsely injurious to Scotland, but therefore may be allowed a greater share of invention'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Charles Churchill : Prophecy of Famine, The. A Scots Pastoral
'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest part of it is upon the topicks of the day, on which account, as it brought him great fame and profit at the time, it must proportionally slide out of the publick attention as other occasional objects succeed. But Churchill had extraordnary vigour both of thought and expression. His portraits of the players will ever be valuable to the true lovers of the drama; and his strong caricatures of several eminent men of his age, will not be forgotten by the curious. Let me add, that there are in his works many passages which are of a general nature; and his "Prophecy of Famine" is a poem of no ordinary merit. It is, indeed, falsely injurious to Scotland, but therefore may be allowed a greater share of invention'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Bonnell Thornton : Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz. the salt-box, the jews- harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the hum-strum or hurdy-gurdy, &c
'Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz. the salt-box, the jews- harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the hum-strum or hurdy-gurdy, &c". Johnson praised its humour, and seemed much diverted with it'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Connoisseur, The
I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : World, The
I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Connoisseur, The
'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Paley : Evidences of Christianity
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion;Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Robert Jenkin : Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion
'Jenkin's is the most copious and the best work I ever read in defence of divine revelation. It treats in a clear manner of the necessity of a divine revelation, antiquity of the scriptures, God's dispensations under the Patriarchs, Moses, Judges, Kings, and Christ; the wisdom and goodness of God is excellently displayed in the manner of the promulgation and preservation of the scriptures; various difficulties are cleared and objections answered. The author has, through the whole, discovered great depth of thought, a thorough knowledge of the history of the four great monarchies mentioned in the Old Testament, and of other ancient nations; which he has brought forward in confirmation of the truth of divine revelation. In reading this excellent learned production I could not help remarking the wonderful difference that therre is between this work and the poor superficial works of freethinkers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Unknown

Henry Newbolt : The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905
'The book ["The Year of Trafalgar"] arrived. Some day I will bring it to London for you to write your name and mine on the flyleaf, thus making it specially valuable apart from its intrinsic worth, which I have been eagerly absorbing.' Hence follow eight lines of unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : 'The Icelandic Sagas'
'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out of that.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Newbolt : The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905
'I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Anatole France : Sur la pierre blanche
'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] there are two allusions to you.' Hence follow eleven lines of clarification and discussion.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Anatole France : Abeille: conte
'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never knows.[...] I must tell you in confidence that some time ago dear Jack [Galsworthy] sat upon me so heavily for my admiration of "Thais" that I promised to myself to walk very delicately in the way of recommending books for the future.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Anatole France : Thais
'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never knows.[...] I must tell you in confidence that some time ago dear Jack [Galsworthy] sat upon me so heavily for my admiration of "Thais" that I promised to myself to walk very delicately in the way of recommending books for the future.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: evening paper
'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid. "'The Queen is now asleep,'" she quoted in sepulchral tones, while I, absorbed with my crayons, reamined busily unaware that so much more than a reign was ending, and that the long age of effulgent prosperity into which I had been born was to break up in thirteen years' time with an explosion which would reverberate through my personal life to the end of my days.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon [a cook]      Print: Newspaper

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to us on Sunday afternoons. We ploughed through "David Copperfield" and "Nicholas Nickleby" in this manner, which perhaps explains why I have never been able to finish anything else by Dickens except "A Tale of Two Cities".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: newspapers
'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonais
'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and a tiny crescent of moon, glimpsed through a skylight in the roof, scudded in and out of the flying clouds, I first read Shelley's "Adonais", which taught me in the most startling and impressive fashion of my childhood's experience to perceive beauty embodied in literature, and made me finally determine to become the writer that I had dreamed of being ever since I was seven years old.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these buried bones') from Tennyson, In Memoriam (1870 edition).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'A Farewell'
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

A. E. Housman : Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland')
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Pierre Corneille : Trois Discours
Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique'; 'Sur la tragedie'; 'Sur les trois unites').
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Dryden : The Conquest of Granada
Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Dryden : An Essay of Heroic Plays
Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Pierre Corneille : Rodogune
'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of Corneille I've struck [...] Antiochus and Seleucus are devoted to each other, and there it is; their love for Rod[[ogune]. and the commands of Cleopatre doesn't contend with their devotion'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Dryden : Preface, The Maiden Queen
Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Queen, regarding which Forster comments: 'Interesting but not sound. It's true that a writer knows whether he has carried out his aims, but he may be biassed in favour of his model, all the same'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rasselas
Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, to which Forster refers as 'a charming and important (why decried as dull?) composition'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Life of [Richard] Savage
Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Savage, to which Forster refers as 'Good tempered account of a trying friend [...] S[avage]. reminds me of what I've just heard of Cyril Conolly [sic]. Lord Tyrconnel= Logan Pearsall Smith.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Preface to Dictionary
Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary and Plan (addressed to Chesterfield).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Plan [for Dictionary]
Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary and Plan (addressed to Chesterfield).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : remarks on Othello
[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Walter Raleigh, ed. : Johnson on Shakespare
[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : The Battle of the Books
[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as destructive criticism? On [sic] a piece with his other works -- Jerries emptied with the same conscientiousness, same elaborate presentation of blame as praise. I feel, (as usual except perhaps in Laputa) a void behind the much advertised bitterness. I feel he never grows up [goes on to draw detailed comparison with ch. 3 of A Tale of a Tub].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : A Tale of a Tub
[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as destructive criticism? On [sic] a piece with his other works -- Jerries emptied with the same conscientiousness, same elaborate presentation of blame as praise. I feel, (as usual except perhaps in Laputa) a void behind the much advertised bitterness. I feel he never grows up [goes on to draw detailed comparison with ch. 3 of A Tale of a Tub].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Nicolas Boileau : L'Art Poetique
Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments on which include: 'He realises that experience is valuable to a writer and that the heart of the reader must be touched: but his conceptions of experience and the heart are jejune.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : De Vulgari Eloquentia
'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written excitedly, and while Div[ina]. Com[media] was forming in his mind. What a pity it only deals with Canzone! [goes on to comment further on passages noted from text]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Saint Joan
'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insincerities.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses
'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insincerities.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

J. A. Symonds :
[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong, or whether law and custom rule the world of humanity, evolved for social convenience from primal savagery'] 'J. A. Symonds: but whence? copied into this book off an odd scrap of paper, and into an odd space in the book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand.

J. A. Symonds :
[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong, or whether law and custom rule the world of humanity, evolved for social convenience from primal savagery'] 'J. A. Symonds: but whence? copied into this book off an odd scrap of paper, and into an odd space in the book.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster

Henry James : The Letters of Henry James (vol.I)
Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from which cover topics including the writings of Pater, Kipling and Hardy.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Aubrey : The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey
'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they may bring the past when properly juxtaposed. How many anecdotes and conversations I've let die -- half a civilisation already'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Voltaire : Des Singularites de la Nature
Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in Voltaire, Des Singularites de la Nature (incorporating comments such as 'Ce mecanisme est bien admirable; mais la sensation que la nature a jointe a ce mecanisme est plus admirable encore').
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Charles F. Richardson : 'Critical Introduction'
Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical Introduction' to The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: 'It may be added that Poe stands supreme, even in the only morally pure national literature the world has ever seen, in the absolute chastity of his every word.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric': 'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[end italics]: one's taste and critical faculties, thoroughly roused at first, are lulled unaccountably, and one heaves "gorgeous" er "splendid". 'Instances in Romeo & Juliet [Yet now I cannot find them, though they suggested this note and I have been looking at the play most of the evening] [goes on to comment further on topic]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Ogilvie : [poems]
'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous writer, Mr. (now Dr.) John Ogilvie, one of the Presbyterian ministers of Scotland, which had lately come out, but could find no thinking in them. Boswell. "Is there not imagination in them, Sir?" Johnson. "Why, Sir, there is in them what [italics] was [end italics] imagination, but it is no more imagination in [italics] him [end italics] than sound is sound in the echo. And his diction too is not his own. We have long ago seen [italics] white-robed innocence [end italics] and [italics] flower-bespangled meads[end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Pierre Bayle : Historical and Critical Dictionary
'"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is what I love most." Talking of the eminent writers in Qneen Anne's reign, he observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Mr. Addison was, to be sure, a great man; his learning was not profound; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Arbuthnot : [unknown]
'"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is what I love most." Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, he observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Mr. Addison was, to be sure, a great man; his learning was not profound; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [unknown]
'"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is what I love most." Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, he observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Mr. Addison was, to be sure, a great man; his learning was not profound; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

David Dalrymple : [letter to Boswell]
'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had last received from him: "It gives me pleasure to think that you have obtained the friendship of Mr. Samnel Johnson. He is one of the best moral writers which England has produced. At the same time, I envy you the free and undisguised converse with such a man. May I beg you to present my respects to him, and to assure him of the veneration which I entertain for the author of the 'Rambler' and of 'Rasselas'? Let me recommend this work to you; with the 'Rambler' you certainly are acquainted. In 'Rasselas' you will see a tender-hearted operator, who probes the wound only to heal it. Swift, on the contrary, mangles human nature. He cuts and slashes, as if he took pleasure in the operation, like the tyrant who said, [italics] Ita feri ut se sentiat emori [end italics]." Johnson seemed to be much gratified by this just and well-turned compliment.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Letter

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had last received from him: "It gives me pleasure to think that you have obtained the friendship of Mr. Samnel Johnson. He is one of the best moral writers which England has produced. At the same time, I envy you the free and undisguised converse with such a man. May I beg you to present my respects to him, and to assure him of the veneration which I entertain for the author of the 'Rambler' and of 'Rasselas'? Let me recommend this work to you; with the 'Rambler' you certainly are acquainted. In 'Rasselas' you will see a tender-hearted operator, who probes the wound only to heal it. Swift, on the contrary, mangles human nature. He cuts and slashes, as if he took pleasure in the operation, like the tyrant who said, [italics] Ita feri ut se sentiat emori [end italics]." Johnson seemed to be much gratified by this just and well-turned compliment.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had last received from him: "It gives me pleasure to think that you have obtained the friendship of Mr. Samnel Johnson. He is one of the best moral writers which England has produced. At the same time, I envy you the free and undisguised converse with such a man. May I beg you to present my respects to him, and to assure him of the veneration which I entertain for the author of the 'Rambler' and of 'Rasselas'? Let me recommend this work to you; with the 'Rambler' you certainly are acquainted. In 'Rasselas' you will see a tender-hearted operator, who probes the wound only to heal it. Swift, on the contrary, mangles human nature. He cuts and slashes, as if he took pleasure in the operation, like the tyrant who said, [italics] Ita feri ut se sentiat emori [end italics]." Johnson seemed to be much gratified by this just and well-turned compliment.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : [satires]
'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had last received from him: "It gives me pleasure to think that you have obtained the friendship of Mr. Samnel Johnson. He is one of the best moral writers which England has produced. At the same time, I envy you the free and undisguised converse with such a man. May I beg you to present my respects to him, and to assure him of the veneration which I entertain for the author of the 'Rambler' and of 'Rasselas'? Let me recommend this work to you; with the 'Rambler' you certainly are acquainted. In 'Rasselas' you will see a tender-hearted operator, who probes the wound only to heal it. Swift, on the contrary, mangles human nature. He cuts and slashes, as if he took pleasure in the operation, like the tyrant who said, [italics] Ita feri ut se sentiat emori [end italics]." Johnson seemed to be much gratified by this just and well-turned compliment.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple      Print: Book

Frederick II King of Prussia : [unknown]
'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero, a musician, and an author. Johnson. "Pretty well, Sir, for one man. As to his being an author, I have not looked at his poetry ; but his prose is poor stuff. He writes just as you may suppose Voltaire's footboy to do, who has been his amanuensis. He has such parts as the valet might have, and about as much of the colouring of the style as might be got by transcribing his works." [Boswell tells how he repeated this to Voltaire, who was amused as he was on bad terms with Frederick the great]. But I think the criticism much too severe; for the "Memoirs of the House of Brandenbergh" are written as well as many works of that kind. His poetry, for the style of which he himself makes a frank apology, "[italics] Jargonnant un francois barbare [end italics]", though fraught with pernicious ravings of infidelity, has, in many places, great animation, and in some a pathetick tenderness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Frederick II King of Prussia : Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederick I.
'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero, a musician, and an author. Johnson. "Pretty well, Sir, for one man. As to his being an author, I have not looked at his poetry ; but his prose is poor stuff. He writes just as you may suppose Voltaire's footboy to do, who has been his amanuensis. He has such parts as the valet might have, and about as much of the colouring of the style as might be got by transcribing his works." [Boswell tells how he repeated this to Voltaire, who was amused as he was on bad terms with Frederick the great]. But I think the criticism much too severe; for the "Memoirs of the House of Brandenbergh" are written as well as many works of that kind. His poetry, for the style of which he himself makes a frank apology, "[italics] Jargonnant un francois barbare [end italics]", though fraught with pernicious ravings of infidelity, has, in many places, great animation, and in some a pathetick tenderness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Frederick II King of Prussia : [poems]
'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero, a musician, and an author. Johnson. "Pretty well, Sir, for one man. As to his being an author, I have not looked at his poetry ; but his prose is poor stuff. He writes just as you may suppose Voltaire's footboy to do, who has been his amanuensis. He has such parts as the valet might have, and about as much of the colouring of the style as might be got by transcribing his works." [Boswell tells how he repeated this to Voltaire, who was amused as he was on bad terms with Frederick the great]. But I think the criticism much too severe; for the "Memoirs of the House of Brandenbergh" are written as well as many works of that kind. His poetry, for the style of which he himself makes a frank apology, "[italics] Jargonnant un francois barbare [end italics]", though fraught with pernicious ravings of infidelity, has, in many places, great animation, and in some a pathetick tenderness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

David Hume : [unknown]
'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure of his sentences is French. Now the French structure and the English structure may, in the nature of things, be equally good. But if you allow that the English language is established, he is wrong. My name might originally have been Nicholson, as well as Johnson ; but were you to call me Nicholson now, you would call me very absurdly."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

David Hume : Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity had passed through my mind long before he wrote. Always remember this, that after a system is well settled upon positive evidence, a few partial objections ought not to shake it. The human mind is so limited, that it cannot take in all the parts of a subject, so that there may be objections raised against any thing. There are objections against a plenum, and objections against a vacuum; yet one of them must certainly be true." I mentioned Hume's argument against the belief of miracles, that it is more probable that the witnesses to the truth of them are mistaken, or speak falsely, than that the miracles should be true. [Johnson then argues against this]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

David Hume : Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity had passed through my mind long before he wrote. Always remember this, that after a system is well settled upon positive evidence, a few partial objections ought not to shake it. The human mind is so limited, that it cannot take in all the parts of a subject, so that there may be objections raised against any thing. There are objections against a plenum, and objections against a vacuum; yet one of them must certainly be true." I mentioned Hume's argument against the belief of miracles, that it is more probable that the witnesses to the truth of them are mistaken, or speak falsely, than that the miracles should be true. [Johnson then argues against this]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good; but I had all the facts."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Warton : Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope
'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleasing book. I wondered that he delayed so long to give us the continuation of it. Johnson. "Why, Sir, I suppose he finds himself a little disappointed, in not having been able to persuade the world to be of his opinion as to Pope." We have now been favoured with the concluding volume, in which, to use a parliamentary expression, he has explained, so as not to appear quite so adverse to the opinion of the world, concerning Pope, as was at first thought; and we must all agree, that his work is a most valuable accession to English literature'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Warton : Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope
'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleasing book. I wondered that he delayed so long to give us the continuation of it. Johnson. "Why, Sir, I suppose he finds himself a little disappointed, in not having been able to persuade the world to be of his opinion as to Pope." We have now been favoured with the concluding volume, in which, to use a parliamentary expression, he has explained, so as not to appear quite so adverse to the opinion of the world, concerning Pope, as was at first thought; and we must all agree, that his work is a most valuable accession to English literature'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Martin Martin : Description of the Western Islands of Scotland
'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that he was highly pleased with it; that he was particularly struck with the St. Kilda man's notion that the high church of Glasgow had been hollowed out of a rock; a circumstance to which old Mr. Johnson had directed his attention.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Martin Martin : Description of the Western Islands of Scotland
'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that he was highly pleased with it; that he was particularly struck with the St. Kilda man's notion that the high church of Glasgow had been hollowed out of a rock; a circumstance to which old Mr. Johnson had directed his attention.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Johnson      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Tale of a Tub, A
'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sense; for his humour, though very well, is not remarkably good. I doubt whether "The Tale of a Tub" be his; for he never owned it, and it is much above his usual manner." "Thomson, I think, had as much of the poet about him as most writers. Every thing appeared to him through the medium of his favourite pursuit. He could not have viewed those two candles burning but with a poetical eye."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Thomson : [poems]
'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sense; for his humour, though very well, is not remarkably good. I doubt whether "The Tale of a Tub" be his; for he never owned it, and it is much above his usual manner." "Thomson, I think, had as much of the poet about him as most writers. Every thing appeared to him through the medium of his favourite pursuit. He could not have viewed those two candles burning but with a poetical eye."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene. I had the poem in my pocket, and read the lines aloud with enthusiasm : On Thames's banks in silent thought we stood, Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood : Pleas'd with the seat which gave Eliza birth, We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

George Buchanan : Nympha Caledoniae
'Buchanan, he said, was a very fine poet; and observed that he was the first who complimented a lady, by ascribing to her the different perfections of the heathen goddesses; but that Johnston improved upon this, by making his lady, at the same time, free from their defects. He dwelt upon Buchanan's elegant verses to Mary, Queen of Scots, "Nympha Caledoniae, &c" and spoke with enthusiasm of the beauty of Latin verse. "All the modern languages (said he) cannot furnish so melodious a line as 'Formosam resonare doces Amarillida silvas'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Pomponius Mela : De situ orbis
'He had in his pocket, "Pomponius Mela de Situ Orbis," in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon ancient geography.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Blacklock : [poems]
'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its author had the misfortune to be blind, we may be absolutely sure that such passages are combinations of what he has remembered of the works of other writers who could see".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Gisbert Japix : Rymelerie
'[Boswell to Johnson] Of the modern Frisick, or what is spoken by the boors at this day, I have procured a specimen. It is [italics] Gisbert Japix's Rymelerie [end italics], which is the only book that they have. It is amazing that they have no translation of the bible, no treatises of devotion, nor even any of the ballads and story-books which are so agreeable to country people. You shall have Japix by the first convenient opportunity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : London Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a poem"]
'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the greatest part of this review; but, I imagine, he did not recollect it distinctly, for it appears to be mostly, if not altogether, his own'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : [journal]
'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows : "At church, Oct.—65. " To avoid all singularity; [italics] Bonaventura [end italics] " To come in before service, and compose my mind by meditation, or by reading some portions of scripture. [italics] Tetty [end italics]. " If I can hear the sermon, to attend it, unless attention be more troublesome than useful. " To consider the act of prayer as a reposal of myself upon God, and a resignation of all into his holy hand." '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

James Boswell : [letter to Johnson from Corsica]
'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to seal them up in bundles, and ordered them to be delivered to me, which was accordingly done. Amongst them I found one, of which I had not made a copy, and which I own I read with pleasure at the distance of twenty years. It is dated November, 1765, at the palace of Pascal Paoli, in Corte, the capital of Corsica, and is full of generous enthusiasm. After giving a sketch of what I had seen and heard in that island, it proceeded thus: "I dare to call this a spirited tour. I dare to challenge your approbation."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Letter

Oliver Goldsmith : Traveller, The
'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since Pope's time".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Bishop Watson : Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Bishop Porteus : Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Addison : Evidences of the Christian Religion
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Madame de Genlis : Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Bishop Butler : Divine Analogy
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Bentley : Sermons on the Folly of Atheism
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Jenkins : Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Edward Cooper : Two Sermons Preached at Wolverhampton
'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the addition of his zeal in the cause of the Bible Society.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Henry Austen : Sermons
'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our Heroine read it aloud of a Sunday Evening, just as Isabella Wardour in the Antiquary, is made to read the History of the Hartz Demon in the ruins of St Ruth - tho I beleive [sic], on reflection, Lovell is the Reader.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Antiquary
'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our Heroine read it aloud of a Sunday Evening, just as Isabella Wardour in the Antiquary, is made to read the History of the Hartz Demon in the ruins of St Ruth - tho I beleive, on reflection, Lovell is the Reader.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

James Edward Austen : unpublished manuscript story
'[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opinion. We think it has more of the Spirit & Entertainment of the early part of his Work, the first 3 or 4 Chapters, than some of the subsequent...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Edward Austen      Manuscript: Sheet

Caroline Austen : unpublished manuscript story
'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rather than the Mock Modesty of that french word...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Manuscript: Sheet

Robert Southey : Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo
'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all the world, you know; but parts of it suit me better than much that he has written before. The opening - the Proem I beleive [sic] he calls it - is very beautiful. One cannot but grieve for the loss of the Son so fondly described. Has he at all recovered it?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; had been much pleased with his society, and was just come from the Continent, where he was very generally admired. Nor can I yet allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him. His absurd preference of savage to civilized life and other singularities are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding than of any depravity in his heart. And notwithstanding the unfavourable opinion which many worthy men have expressed of his "Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard," I cannot help admiring it as the performance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to Divine Mystery, though beset with perplexing doubts: a state of mind to be viewed with pity rather than with anger.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Discourse on Inequality
'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; had been much pleased with his society, and was just come from the Continent, where he was very generally admired. Nor can I yet allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him. His absurd preference of savage to civilized life and other singularities are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding than of any depravity in his heart. And notwithstanding the unfavourable opinion which many worthy men have expressed of his "Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard," I cannot help admiring it as the performance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to Divine Mystery, though beset with perplexing doubts: a state of mind to be viewed with pity rather than with anger.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read; that he had read a great deal in the early part of his life, but having fallen into ill health, he had not been able to read much, compared with others: for instance, he said, he had not read much, compared with Dr. Warburton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Lowth-Warburton controversy]
'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburton has most general, most scholastic learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end." His Majesty then asked him what he thought of Lord Lyttelton's history, which was then just published. Johnson said, he thought his style pretty good, but he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

George, Lord Lyttelton : History of the Life of Henry the Second
'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburton has most general, most scholastic learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end." His Majesty then asked him what he thought of Lord Lyttelton's history, which was then just published. Johnson said, he thought his style pretty good, but he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Lowth-Warburton controversy]
'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburton has most general, most scholastic learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end." His Majesty then asked him what he thought of Lord Lyttelton's history, which was then just published. Johnson said, he thought his style pretty good, but he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George III of England      Print: Book

Dr Hill : [unknown]
'The King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill. Johnson answered, he was an ingenious man, but had no veracity; and immediately mentioned, as an instance of it, an assertion of that writer, that he had seen objects magnified to a much greater degree by using three or four microscopes at a time than by using one. "Now, (added Johnson,) every one acquainted with microscopes, knows, that the more of them he looks through, the less the object will appear." "Why, (replied the King,) this is not only telling an untruth, but telling it clumsily; for, if that be the case, every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Monthly Review
'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the "Monthly Review" was done with most care, the "Critical" upon the best principles; adding that the authors of the "Monthly Review" were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry to hear. The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions, when Johnson observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly. "Aye, (said the King,) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ;" for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Critical Review
'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the "Monthly Review" was done with most care, the "Critical" upon the best principles; adding that the authors of the "Monthly Review" were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry to hear. The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions, when Johnson observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly. "Aye, (said the King,) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ;" for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the "Monthly Review" was done with most care, the "Critical" upon the best principles; adding that the authors of the "Monthly Review" were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry to hear. The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions, when Johnson observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly. "Aye, (said the King,) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ;" for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

Fanny Knight : Letters
'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining Letters as you have lately sent! - Such a description of your queer little heart! - Such a lovely display of what Imagination does. [...] I cannot express to you what I have felt in reading your history of yourself, how full of Pity & Concern & Admiration & Amusement I have been...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Manuscript: Letter

Henry Fielding : [unknown]
'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood, by a more superficial observer, than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart." It always appeared to me that he estimated the compositions of Richardson too highly, and that he had an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : [unknown]
'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood, by a more superficial observer, than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart." It always appeared to me that he estimated the compositions of Richardson too highly, and that he had an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : [unknown]
'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood, by a more superficial observer, than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart." It always appeared to me that he estimated the compositions of Richardson too highly, and that he had an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]
'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood, by a more superficial observer, than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart." It always appeared to me that he estimated the compositions of Richardson too highly, and that he had an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Jane Austen : novels
'Do not oblige him to read any more. - Have mercy on him and tell him the truth [about the authorship of Austen's novels] & make him an apology...he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my Works.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Wildman      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'between reading, chatting and backgammon, we conclude the evening, and usually retire, making the remark, that if we are not regaled by any high-seasoned amusements, we are disturbed by no uneasy cares'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall     Print: Book

[n/a] : Hedaya
[EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Persian tome'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Hamilton      Print: Book

[unknown] : [oriental literature]
'[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and without affecting to become a Persian scholar, she spontaneously caught the idioms, as she insensibly became familiar with the customs and manners of the East'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Letters of a Hindoo Rajah
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "The Modern Philosophers", notwithstanding the objections of the too scrupulous author. Experience justified the decision: the work appeared early in 1800, and passed through two editions before the end of the year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs G-      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "The Modern Philosophers", notwithstanding the objections of the too scrupulous author. Experience justified the decision: the work appeared early in 1800, and passed through two editions before the end of the year'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs G-      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Hamilton : Letters on Education
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her "Letters on Education"], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to some sensible female, who had an interest in the subject; - a practice repugnant to the self-importance of literary egotism, but from which she learnt to measure the capacities of those it was her object to enlighten, and her ambition to instruct'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Hamilton : Letters on Education
'When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapter'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: proof

[n/a] : [Classical latin works in translation]
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium of translation, she had been conversant with the best historians, annalists, poets, and orators of ancient Rome; and she was guided by the most esteemed modern writers on the subject of antiquities, laws, and usages'. [in writing her "Memoirs of Agrippina"]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[n/a] : [modern works on Classical subjects]
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium of translation, she had been conversant with the best historians, annalists, poets, and orators of ancient Rome; and she was guided by the most esteemed modern writers on the subject of antiquities, laws, and usages'. [in writing her "Memoirs of Agrippina"]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Cottagers of Glenburnie, The
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encouraged by observing, that it excited mirth. This induced her to extend the plan'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting book, which, according to her good aunt Marshall's rule, was read aloud for the benefit of the whole party'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Thomas Secker : Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England
'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons. These are very plain discourses, easy to be understood, and calculated to leave a very lasting impression on the mind. These excellent sermons Mrs L and I read together . . .'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James and Mary Lackington     Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : [poem - 'Is that Auld Age']
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem, which she one evening read with a smiling countenance to her little family circle' [the poem is reproduced].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Manuscript: Unknown

William Gilpin : Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England
'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons. These are very plain discourses, easy to be understood, and calculated to leave a very lasting impression on the mind. These excellent sermons Mrs L and I read together . . .'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James and Mary Lackington     Print: Book

Thomas Wilson : Sermons
'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons. These are very plain discourses, easy to be understood, and calculated to leave a very lasting impression on the mind. These excellent sermons Mrs L and I read together . . .'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James and Mary Lackington     Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : [unknown]
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference for compositions of a higher order. Dugald Stewart, Paley, and Allison, had long been the chosen companions of her private hours'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Archibald Allison : [unknown]
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference for compositions of a higher order. Dugald Stewart, Paley, and Allison, had long been the chosen companions of her private hours'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

William Paley : [unknown]
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference for compositions of a higher order. Dugald Stewart, Paley, and Allison, had long been the chosen companions of her private hours'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

William Gilpin : Sermons preached to a country congregation
'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons. These are very plain discourses, easy to be understood, and calculated to leave a very lasting impression on the mind. These excellent sermons Mrs L and I read together . . .'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James and Mary Lackington     Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4]
'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in which the Apostle, whose words I have now been reading, mentions, "With all lowliness and meekness, and with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persevere in making those Scriptures their daily study. By such strict and repeated examination of any other work, how many errors and incongruities should we discover?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things have occurred to me which it would have been useful to preserve' [but she says her memory is 'unfaithful']
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Richard Watson : An Apology for the Bible
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Beilby Porteus : A Summary of the Principle Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation
I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . .
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Joseph Butler : The Analogy of Religion
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

William Paley : A View of the Evidences of Christianity
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Burges : The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Blaise Pascal : Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Evidence of the Christian Religion
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Stephanie de Genlis : Religion considered as the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Robert Jenkin : Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Bishop Horne : Sermons (4vols)
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Samuel Carr : Sermons
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Sermons (5 vols)
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

John Scott : Christian Life(5 vols)
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Augustin Calmet : Dictionary of the Bible
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Flavius Josephus : Works
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Humphrey Prideaux : The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Hannah More : Works
'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Life, 5vols. several leaned and sensible expositions of the Bible; Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments; Josephus' Works, Prideaux's Connections, 4vols. Mrs H. More's Works, and various other excellent Works. For some time one sermon was read on every Sunday, but soon Mrs L. began to like them, and then two or three were read in the course of the week; at last one at least was ready every day, and very often part of some other book in divinity, as Mrs. L said that she preferred such kind of reading far beyond the reading of novels.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Kenneth Macaulay : History of St Kilda
'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and wanted to be a smart modern thinker; and yet he affirms for a truth, that when a ship arrives there all the inhabitants are seized with a cold".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Kenneth Macaulay : History of St Kilda
'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited by outsiders]: "Now for the explication of this seeming mystery, which is so very obvious as, for that reason, to have escaped the penetration of Dr. Johnson and his friend, as well as that of the author. Reading the book with my ingenions friend, the late Reverend Mr. Christian of Docking—after ruminating a little, 'The cause, (says he,) is a natural one: The situation of St. Kilda renders a North-East wind indispensably necessary before a stranger can land. The wind, not the stranger, occasions an epidemick cold'."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Kenneth Macaulay : History of St Kilda
'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited by outsiders]: "Now for the explication of this seeming mystery, which is so very obvious as, for that reason, to have escaped the penetration of Dr. Johnson and his friend, as well as that of the author. Reading the book with my ingenions friend, the late Reverend Mr. Christian of Docking—after ruminating a little, 'The cause, (says he,) is a natural one: The situation of St. Kilda renders a North-East wind indispensably necessary before a stranger can land. The wind, not the stranger, occasions an epidemick cold'."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Reverend Christian      Print: Book

David Hume : History of England
'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never have written History, had not Voltaire written it before him. He is an echo of Voltaire." Boswell "But, Sir, we have Lord Kames." Johnson. "You [italics] have [italics] Lord Кames. Keep him; ha, ha, ha! We don't envy you him. Do you ever see Dr. Robertson?" Boswell. "Yes, Sir." Johnson. "Does the dog talk of me ?" Boswell. "Indeed, Sir, he does, and loves you." Thinking that I now had him in a corner, and being solicitous for the literary fame of my country, I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr. Robertson's "History of Scotland". But, to my surprise, he escaped.—" Sir, I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Voltaire : [books of history]
'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never have written History, had not Voltaire written it before him. He is an echo of Voltaire." Boswell "But, Sir, we have Lord Kames." Johnson. "You [italics] have [italics] Lord Кames. Keep him; ha, ha, ha! We don't envy you him. Do you ever see Dr. Robertson?" Boswell. "Yes, Sir." Johnson. "Does the dog talk of me ?" Boswell. "Indeed, Sir, he does, and loves you." Thinking that I now had him in a corner, and being solicitous for the literary fame of my country, I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr. Robertson's "History of Scotland". But, to my surprise, he escaped.—" Sir, I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never have written History, had not Voltaire written it before him. He is an echo of Voltaire." Boswell "But, Sir, we have Lord Kames." Johnson. "You [italics] have [italics] Lord Кames. Keep him; ha, ha, ha! We don't envy you him. Do you ever see Dr. Robertson?" Boswell. "Yes, Sir." Johnson. "Does the dog talk of me ?" Boswell. "Indeed, Sir, he does, and loves you." Thinking that I now had him in a corner, and being solicitous for the literary fame of my country, I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr. Robertson's "History of Scotland". But, to my surprise, he escaped.—" Sir, I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Robertson : History of Scotland
'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never have written History, had not Voltaire written it before him. He is an echo of Voltaire." Boswell "But, Sir, we have Lord Kames." Johnson. "You [italics] have [italics] Lord Кames. Keep him; ha, ha, ha! We don't envy you him. Do you ever see Dr. Robertson?" Boswell. "Yes, Sir." Johnson. "Does the dog talk of me ?" Boswell. "Indeed, Sir, he does, and loves you." Thinking that I now had him in a corner, and being solicitous for the literary fame of my country, I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr. Robertson's "History of Scotland". But, to my surprise, he escaped.—" Sir, I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book". It is but justice both to him and Dr. Robertson to add, that though he indulged himself in this sally of wit, he had too good taste not to be fully sensible of the merits of that admirable work.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Baretti : Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy; with Observations on the Mistakes of some Travellers, with Regard to that Country
'He praised Signor Baretti. "His account of Italy is a very entertaining book; and, Sir, I know no man who carries his head higher in conversation than Baretti. There are strong powers in his mind. He has not, indeed, many hooks; but with what hooks he has, he grapples very forcibly".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Thomson : [poetry]
'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing him of gross sensuality and licentiousness of manners. I was very much afraid that in writing Thomson's "Life", Dr. Johnson would have treated his private character with a stern severity, but I was agreeably disappointed; and I may claim a little merit in it, from my having been at pains to send him authentic accounts of the affectionate and generous conduct of that poet to his sisters, one of whom, the wife of Mr. Thomson, schoolmaster, of Lanark, I knew, and was presented by her with three of his letters, one of which Dr. Johnson has inserted in his "Life".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Thomson : [letters to his sisters and accounts by them of his character]
'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing him of gross sensuality and licentiousness of manners. I was very much afraid that in writing Thomson's "Life", Dr. Johnson would have treated his private character with a stern severity, but I was agreeably disappointed; and I may claim a little merit in it, from my having been at pains to send him authentic accounts of the affectionate and generous conduct of that poet to his sisters, one of whom, the wife of Mr. Thomson, schoolmaster, of Lanark, I knew, and was presented by her with three of his letters, one of which Dr. Johnson has inserted in his "Life".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Letter

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets
'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing him of gross sensuality and licentiousness of manners. I was very much afraid that in writing Thomson's "Life", Dr. Johnson would have treated his private character with a stern severity, but I was agreeably disappointed; and I may claim a little merit in it, from my having been at pains to send him authentic accounts of the affectionate and generous conduct of that poet to his sisters, one of whom, the wife of Mr. Thomson, schoolmaster, of Lanark, I knew, and was presented by her with three of his letters, one of which Dr. Johnson has inserted in his "Life".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

James Thomson : [letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character]
'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing him of gross sensuality and licentiousness of manners. I was very much afraid that in writing Thomson's "Life", Dr. Johnson would have treated his private character with a stern severity, but I was agreeably disappointed; and I may claim a little merit in it, from my having been at pains to send him authentic accounts of the affectionate and generous conduct of that poet to his sisters, one of whom, the wife of Mr. Thomson, schoolmaster, of Lanark, I knew, and was presented by her with three of his letters, one of which Dr. Johnson has inserted in his "Life".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Letter

Jonathan Swift : The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War
'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured to support the Dean of St. Patrick's, by various arguments. One in particular praised his "Conduct of the Allies." Johnson. "Sir, his 'Conduct of the Allies,' is a performance of very little ability." "Surely, Sir, (said Dr. Douglas,) you must allow it has strong facts." Johnson. "Why yes, Sir; but what is that to the merit of the composition? In the Sessions-paper of the Old Bailey there are strong facts. Housebreaking is a strong fact; and murder is a mighty strong fact; but is great praise due to the historian of those strong facts? No, Sir, Swift has told what he had to tell distinctly enough, but that is all. He had to count ten, and he has counted it right."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Douglas

Jonathan Swift : The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War
'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured to support the Dean of St. Patrick's, by various arguments. One in particular praised his "Conduct of the Allies." Johnson. "Sir, his 'Conduct of the Allies,' is a performance of very little ability." "Surely, Sir, (said Dr. Douglas,) you must allow it has strong facts." Johnson. "Why yes, Sir; but what is that to the merit of the composition? In the Sessions-paper of the Old Bailey there are strong facts. Housebreaking is a strong fact; and murder is a mighty strong fact; but is great praise due to the historian of those strong facts? No, Sir, Swift has told what he had to tell distinctly enough, but that is all. He had to count ten, and he has counted it right."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that permission, by adding to their books a Baskerville's 'Virgil'. I have now sent it, and desire you to reposit it on the shelves in my name'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Matthew Prior : Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains
'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man who had never felt it: his love verses were college verses; and he repeated the song "Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains," &c. in so ludicrous a manner, as to make us all wonder how any one could have been pleased with such fantastical stuff. Mrs. Thrale stood to her gun with great courage, in defence of amorons ditties, which Johnson despised, till he at last silenced her by saying, "My dear Lady, talk no more of this. Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense." Mrs. Thrale then praised Garrick's talents for light gay poetry ; and, as a specimen, repeated his song in "Florizel and Perdita," and dwelt with peculiar pleasure on this line: "I'd smile with the simple, and feed with the poor."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Matthew Prior : [poems]
'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man who had never felt it: his love verses were college verses; and he repeated the song "Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains," &c. in so ludicrous a manner, as to make us all wonder how any one could have been pleased with such fantastical stuff. Mrs. Thrale stood to her gun with great courage, in defence of amorons ditties, which Johnson despised, till he at last silenced her by saying, "My dear Lady, talk no more of this. Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense." Mrs. Thrale then praised Garrick's talents for light gay poetry ; and, as a specimen, repeated his song in "Florizel and Perdita," and dwelt with peculiar pleasure on this line: "I'd smile with the simple, and feed with the poor."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale      Print: Book

David Garrick : [light verse]
'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man who had never felt it: his love verses were college verses; and he repeated the song "Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains," &c. in so ludicrous a manner, as to make us all wonder how any one could have been pleased with such fantastical stuff. Mrs. Thrale stood to her gun with great courage, in defence of amorons ditties, which Johnson despised, till he at last silenced her by saying, "My dear Lady, talk no more of this. Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense." Mrs. Thrale then praised Garrick's talents for light gay poetry ; and, as a specimen, repeated his song in "Florizel and Perdita," and dwelt with peculiar pleasure on this line: "I'd smile with the simple, and feed with the poor."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Dunciad, The
'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the "Dunciad". While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem:— a poem on what?" Johnson, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on [italics] dunces [italics]. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst [italics] thou [italics] lived in those days! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive, than it was then. Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine. He told us, with high satisfaction, the anecdote of Pope's enquiring who was the author of his "London," and saying, he will be soon [italics] deterré [italics]. He observed, that in Dryden's poetry there were passages drawn from a profundity which Pope could never reach. He repeated some fine lines on love, by the former, (which I have now forgotten,) and gave great applause to the character of Zimri. Goldsmith said, that Pope's character of Addison shewed a deep knowledge of the human heart. Johnson said, that the description of the temple, in "The Mourning Bride," was the finest poetical passage he had ever read; he recollected none in Shakspeare equal to it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Pastorals
'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the "Dunciad". While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem:— a poem on what?" Johnson, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on [italics] dunces [italics]. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst [italics] thou [italics] lived in those days! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive, than it was then. Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine. He told us, with high satisfaction, the anecdote of Pope's enquiring who was the author of his "London," and saying, he will be soon [italics] deterré [italics]. He observed, that in Dryden's poetry there were passages drawn from a profundity which Pope could never reach. He repeated some fine lines on love, by the former, (which I have now forgotten,) and gave great applause to the character of Zimri. Goldsmith said, that Pope's character of Addison shewed a deep knowledge of the human heart. Johnson said, that the description of the temple, in "The Mourning Bride," was the finest poetical passage he had ever read; he recollected none in Shakspeare equal to it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Congreve : Mourning Bride, The
'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the "Dunciad". While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem:— a poem on what?" Johnson, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on [italics] dunces [italics]. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst [italics] thou [italics] lived in those days! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive, than it was then. Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine. He told us, with high satisfaction, the anecdote of Pope's enquiring who was the author of his "London," and saying, he will be soon [italics] deterré [italics]. He observed, that in Dryden's poetry there were passages drawn from a profundity which Pope could never reach. He repeated some fine lines on love, by the former, (which I have now forgotten,) and gave great applause to the character of Zimri. Goldsmith said, that Pope's character of Addison shewed a deep knowledge of the human heart. Johnson said, that the description of the temple, in "The Mourning Bride," was the finest poetical passage he had ever read; he recollected none in Shakspeare equal to it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel
'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the "Dunciad". While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem:— a poem on what?" Johnson, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on [italics] dunces [italics]. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst [italics] thou [italics] lived in those days! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive, than it was then. Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine. He told us, with high satisfaction, the anecdote of Pope's enquiring who was the author of his "London," and saying, he will be soon [italics] deterré [italics]. He observed, that in Dryden's poetry there were passages drawn from a profundity which Pope could never reach. He repeated some fine lines on love, by the former, (which I have now forgotten,) and gave great applause to the character of Zimri. Goldsmith said, that Pope's character of Addison shewed a deep knowledge of the human heart. Johnson said, that the description of the temple, in "The Mourning Bride," was the finest poetical passage he had ever read; he recollected none in Shakspeare equal to it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the "Dunciad". While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem:— a poem on what?" Johnson, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on [italics] dunces [italics]. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst [italics] thou [italics] lived in those days! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive, than it was then. Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine. He told us, with high satisfaction, the anecdote of Pope's enquiring who was the author of his "London," and saying, he will be soon [italics] deterré [italics]. He observed, that in Dryden's poetry there were passages drawn from a profundity which Pope could never reach. He repeated some fine lines on love, by the former, (which I have now forgotten,) and gave great applause to the character of Zimri. Goldsmith said, that Pope's character of Addison shewed a deep knowledge of the human heart. Johnson said, that the description of the temple, in "The Mourning Bride," was the finest poetical passage he had ever read; he recollected none in Shakspeare equal to it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the "Dunciad". While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem:— a poem on what?" Johnson, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on [italics] dunces [italics]. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst [italics] thou [italics] lived in those days! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive, than it was then. Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine. He told us, with high satisfaction, the anecdote of Pope's enquiring who was the author of his "London," and saying, he will be soon [italics] deterré [italics]. He observed, that in Dryden's poetry there were passages drawn from a profundity which Pope could never reach. He repeated some fine lines on love, by the former, (which I have now forgotten,) and gave great applause to the character of Zimri. Goldsmith said, that Pope's character of Addison shewed a deep knowledge of the human heart. Johnson said, that the description of the temple, in "The Mourning Bride," was the finest poetical passage he had ever read; he recollected none in Shakspeare equal to it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Pope      Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Montagu : Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear
'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir; it does her honour, but it would do nobody else honour. I have, indeed, not read it all. But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread. I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery. Sir, I will venture to say, there is not one sentence of true criticism in her book." Garrick. "But, Sir, surely it shews how much Voltaire has mistaken Shakspeare, which nobody else has done." Johnson. "Sir, nobody else has thought it worth while. And what merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Montagu : Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear
'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir; it does her honour, but it would do nobody else honour. I have, indeed, not read it all. But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread. I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery. Sir, I will venture to say, there is not one sentence of true criticism in her book." Garrick. "But, Sir, surely it shews how much Voltaire has mistaken Shakspeare, which nobody else has done." Johnson. "Sir, nobody else has thought it worth while. And what merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joshua Reynolds      Print: Unknown

Elizabeth Montagu : Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear
'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir; it does her honour, but it would do nobody else honour. I have, indeed, not read it all. But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread. I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery. Sir, I will venture to say, there is not one sentence of true criticism in her book." Garrick. "But, Sir, surely it shews how much Voltaire has mistaken Shakspeare, which nobody else has done." Johnson. "Sir, nobody else has thought it worth while. And what merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Garrick      Print: Unknown

Indu Rakshit :
Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the representation of the feminine' in contemporary Western and Indian art.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Serial / periodical

Voltaire : Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3)
Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII Book 3 (on the execution of Jean Reginald Patkul, ambassador of the Czar), accompanied by comment: 'Each time I read the magnificent passage above -- at last transcribed -- I am struck by the economy of the [italics]irony[end italics] and even of the [italics]pathos[end italics]. Yet the whole passage vibrates with both. There is a sort of religious grandeur -- cruelty and cowardice are both noted without contempt. 'When will there be such writing again, or even the leisure to transcribe it? Voltaire and I do speak the same language, vast though be the difference in our vocabularies, we are both civilised [...] We belong to the cultured interlude which came between the fall of barbarism and the rise of universal "education" [...] We believe in reason, in pity, and in not always coming out right -- that is to say I hope to be logical and compassionate'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Christopher Isherwood : Mr Norris Changes Trains
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains): 'Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched, like a bladder disease.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and other words, and on effects of 'the world' upon strong and weak characters, in Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Mardi
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne: ' "I stand for the heart. To the dogs with the head! The reason the mass of men fear God and at bottom dislike him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy him all brain like a watch' ".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Norman Douglas : Together
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, opening: 'How many avenues of delight are closed to the mere moralist or immoralist who knows nothing of things extra-human; who remains absorbed in mankind and its half-dozen motives of conduct, so unstable yet forever the same, which we all fathomed before we were twenty!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannus
'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read some of Oedipus Tyrannus with only the lamp and two vases in sight. One vase has four roses, the other a spray of oak leaves: the acorns when the sun falls on them, have a blue bloom. [Midnight 5-9-36]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Thomas Malory : Le Morte D'Arthur
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "So upon Trinity Sunday at night King Arthur dreamed a womderful dream [...] that to him there seemed he sat upon a chaflet [platform] in a chair, and the chair was fast to a wheel "'. Underneath, Forster notes: 'Copied, with modernised spelling, just as King George VI returned from his coronation to his palace.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

: Book of Zechariah
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii: 'And they answered the Angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees and said: "We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still and is at rest."' Underneath, Forster notes: 'Accidental poetry. The spurt begins v.8 with "I saw by night" and is magic and meaningless.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : passages from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as 'Copied from some notes made for lecturing on I[bsen]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

Abraham Cowley : Essay no. 5 ('The Garden')
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garden'), dedicated to John Evelyn, and opening: 'I never had any other Desire so strong, and so like to Covetousness as that one which I have had always. That I might be Master at last of a small House and a large Garden, with very modern Conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my Life to the Culture of them and the study of Nature.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Bunyan : The Life and Death of Mr Badman
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's wife (opening 'Now, said she, I am going to rest for my sorrows, my sighs, my tears, my mournings, and complaints') from chapter 16 of John Bunyan, The Life and Death of Mr Badman.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jean de la Bruyere : 'Du Coeur'
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both devotional and 'gallant' books, and the heart's ability to '[reconcile contrary things]' [source ed's translation] from La Bruyere's essay 'Du Coeur'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Bunyan : The Life and Death of Mr Badman
Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of John Cox, from chapter 19 of John Bunyan's Life and Death of Mr Badman.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jean Freville, trans. and ed. : Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literature of different historical periods from Les Grands Textes deu Marxism, sur litterature et l'Art, anthology edited by Jean Freville; topics and authors covered include the Renaissance; comedy; poetry; Goethe; Shakespeare; Carlyle, and Disraeli. Following transcriptions, Forster notes: 'I read this anthology to find material for the Ivory Tower.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Oliver Goldsmith      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edmund Burke : Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Adolf Hitler : address on national art
Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at Munich' (denouncing 'degenerate' art, and demanding an ideally pure and timeless national art for Germany), which Forster notes that he originally read as research for his article 'The Ivory Tower'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

Jean-Baptiste Dubos : [unknown]
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Dominique Bouhours : [unknown]
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw : Hardyknute
'The ballad of Hardyknute has no great merit, if it be really ancient. People talk of nature. But mere obvious nature may be exhibited with very little power of mind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin : (excerpted) writings on literature
Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Being a 2nd instalment of Les Grands Textes du Marxism.' Forster's accompanying comments include: 'Leninism less cultured than Marxism -- i.e. less interested in the creation and enjoyment of works of art. But it does not openly denounce individualism or recommend corporate emotion, as the Nazis do. There seems no reason why Communism, if left in peace, should not become civilised.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber himself, taking from his conversation all that he ought not to have said, he was a poor creature. I remember when he brought me one of his Odes to have my opinion of it, I could not bear such nonsense, and would not let him read it to the end; so little respect had I for [italics] that great man! [end italics] (laughing.)"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : [an ode]
'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber himself, taking from his conversation all that he ought not to have said, he was a poor creature. I remember when he brought me one of his Odes to have my opinion of it, I could not bear such nonsense, and would not let him read it to the end; so little respect had I for [italics] that great man! [end italics] (laughing.)"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1)
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins as 'weak men' with 'no serious influence on the general mind.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Buchanan : [poems]
'Buchanan (he observed,) has fewer [italics] centos [end italics] than any modern Latin poet. He not only had great knowledge of the Latin language, but was a great poetical genius. Both the Scaligers praise him.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
'Boswell. "What do you think of Dr. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' Sir?" Johnson. "Why, Sir, there are many fine things in them".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson : History of the British Expedition to Egypt
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five British sailors' purchase of a woman sold at auction by Arabs.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

[n/a] : London Chronicle
'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it aloud was assigned to me. I was diverted by his impatience. He made me pass over so many parts of it, that my task was very easy. He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middlesex election to be read.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : London Chronicle
'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it aloud was assigned to me. I was diverted by his impatience. He made me pass over so many parts of it, that my task was very easy. He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middlesex election to be read.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Newspaper

William Gifford : Memoir of Ben Jonson
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir of Ben Jonson; Forster also notes that 'Lord Macaulay has written "Very Good" in the margin of the copy at Wallington'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

William Gifford : Memoir of Ben Jonson
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir of Ben Jonson; Forster also notes that 'Lord Macaulay has written "Very Good" in the margin of the copy at Wallington'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay      Print: Book

John Bramhall : Discourse of Liberty and Necessity
'[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Liberty and Necessity", and bid me read South's "Sermons on Prayer"; but avoided the question which has excruciated philosophers and divines, beyond any other.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

South : Sermons on Prayer
'[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Liberty and Necessity", and bid me read South's "Sermons on Prayer"; but avoided the question which has excruciated philosophers and divines, beyond any other.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Benjamin Farington : Science and Politics in the Ancient World
Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that Science became conditioned by politics [...] 'Now I am reading Cornford (From Religion to Philosophy). I doubt whether Farington has. For Cornford proves that Ionian Science was conditioned by religion. This, though less exciting, is probable. 'I find these early speculations useful in clearing my own mind, and helping it to see how it has been twisted. And Farington recalls me to my proper job [...] I ought to think a little more, and not to slop about being diffident or charming.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Walter Harte : History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden
'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus", he much commended him as a scholar, and a man of the must companionable talents he had ever known. He said, the defects in his history proceeded not from imbecility, but from foppery. He loved, he said, the old black letter books; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant; wonderfully so, considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

F. M. Cornford : From Religion to Philosophy
Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that Science became conditioned by politics [...] 'Now I am reading Cornford (From Religion to Philosophy). I doubt whether Farington has. For Cornford proves that Ionian Science was conditioned by religion. This, though less exciting, is probable. 'I find these early speculations useful in clearing my own mind, and helping it to see how it has been twisted. And Farington recalls me to my proper job [...] I ought to think a little more, and not to slop about being diffident or charming.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

[unknown] : ['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.]
'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus", he much commended him as a scholar, and a man of the must companionable talents he had ever known. He said, the defects in his history proceeded not from imbecility, but from foppery. He loved, he said, the old black letter books; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant; wonderfully so, considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Robert Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy, The
'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus", he much commended him as a scholar, and a man of the must companionable talents he had ever known. He said, the defects in his history proceeded not from imbecility, but from foppery. He loved, he said, the old black letter books; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant; wonderfully so, considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Law : Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call", which he said was the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language. "Law, (said he) fell latterly into the reveries of Jacob Behmen, whom Law alledged to have been somewhat in the same state with St. Paul, and to have seen [italics] unutterable things [end italics]. Were it even so, (said Johnson,) Jacob would have resembled St. Paul still more, by not attempting to utter them."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Newton : Sermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple')
Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messiah' (Forster's heading) noted underneath by Forster as 'From a Sermon preached at St Mary's Woolnoth in 1784'; passage about how mortals distract themselves, by means including setting of scriptures to music, from proper awareness of God's impending judgement of them.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Dunciad (books I and II)
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addresses to and by the personification of 'Dulness', beginning in I.12, I.311, II.34, and II.83). These accompanied by comments opening: 'How undull! and how gay are Pope's ordures besides Swift's,' and continuing: 'Bk II [...] is grand and frolicsome, and belongs to that happy moment when aristocracy catches hold of ordinary experiences and common life, and plunges, retaining its own proper form.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Arthur Hugh Clough : Dipsychus
'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or the world of ambition greed & snobbery. So its effect is fumbly [...] Don't expect to pursue Clough beyond the anthology-pieces.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton : A Lecture on the Study of History
Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lecture on the Study of History ('A speech of Antigone, a single sentence of Socrates [...] come nearer to our lives than the ancestral wisdom of barbarians who fed their swine on the Hercynian acorns'). Forster responds with comment that 'Lord Acton is right, but [...] He forgot that that most people do not respond to culture or intellectual honesty [...] he appears to this generation as an old man lecturung in a cap and gown,' having also noted 'This afternoon (29-2-40) I was at Bishops Cross, where new born lambs were dying in the cold, and Hughie Waterson, a Nazi by temperament, was trying to save them [...] Him the ancestral wisdom inspired.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Prelude
Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lecture on the Study of History ('A speech of Antigone, a single sentence of Socrates [...] come nearer to our lives than the ancestral wisdom of barbarians who fed their swine on the Hercynian acorns'). Forster responds with comment that 'Lord Acton is right, but [...] He forgot that that most people do not respond to culture or intellectual honesty [...] he appears to this generation as an old man lecturung in a cap and gown,' having also noted 'This afternoon (29-2-40) I was at Bishops Cross, where new born lambs were dying in the cold, and Hughie Waterson, a Nazi by temperament, was trying to save them [...] Him the ancestral wisdom inspired.' Forster goes on to quote, for comparison, eight lines from The Prelude XII (opening 'I could no more / Trust the elevation which had made me one / With the great family which still survives [...]', and three lines from Wordsworth's 'Sonnet on Napoleon' (beginning with 'The great events with which old story rings'), continuing with remark: 'I glanced at these two books of the Prelude to see whether Wordsworth's Imagination and Taste had been impaired in the same way as my own.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Sonnet on Napoleon'
Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lecture on the Study of History ('A speech of Antigone, a single sentence of Socrates [...] come nearer to our lives than the ancestral wisdom of barbarians who fed their swine on the Hercynian acorns'). Forster responds with comment that 'Lord Acton is right, but [...] He forgot that that most people do not respond to culture or intellectual honesty [...] he appears to this generation as an old man lecturung in a cap and gown,' having also noted 'This afternoon (29-2-40) I was at Bishops Cross, where new born lambs were dying in the cold, and Hughie Waterson, a Nazi by temperament, was trying to save them [...] Him the ancestral wisdom inspired.' Forster goes on to quote, for comparison, eight lines from The Prelude XII (opening 'I could no more / Trust the elevation which had made me one / With the great family which still survives [...]', and three lines from Wordsworth's 'Sonnet on Napoleon' (beginning with 'The great events with which old story rings'), continuing with remark: 'I glanced at these two books of the Prelude to see whether Wordsworth's Imagination and Taste had been impaired in the same way as my own.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Madame de Sevigne : Letters
Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame de Sevigne, the first of which, Forster notes underneath it, 'is not the one I wanted to copy out,' continuing, 'Her orthodox, gaiety, and caution are much better combined in the following,' and announcing the third with 'And still better -- gaiety dominating'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Joseph Priestley : [unknown]
'Of Dr. Priestley's theological works, he remarked, that they tended to unsettle every thing, and yet settled nothing.' [account by Dr Maxwell, and Irish London priest friend of Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : [novels]
'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [French novels]
'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

George, first Lord Lyttelton : Dialogues of the Dead
'Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. "That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him".' [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James MacPherson : 'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian]
'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain shall we look for the [italics] lucidus ordo [end italics], where there is neither end or object, design or moral, [italics] nec certa recurrit imago [italics]".' [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Boethius : [unknown]
'Speaking of Boetius, who was the favourite writer of the middle ages, he said it was very surprising, that upon such a subject, and in such a situation, he should be [italics] magis philosophus quam Christianus [end italics]".'[account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Arthur Murphy : [unknown]
'Speaking of Arthur Murphy, whom he very much loved, "I don't know (said he) that Arthur can be classed with the very first dramatick writers; yet at present I doubt much whether we have any thing superiour to Arthur".' [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad
'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his father, when he sent him to the Trojan war, was the noblest exhortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer, and comprised in a single line: [Greek characters; 'Be ever best and o'ertop other men'; "Iliad" vi] which, if I recollect well, is translated by Dr. Clarke thus: [italics] semper appetere prestantissima, et omnibus aliis antecellere [end italics]'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands
'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands'] is one of the finest pieces of eloquence in the English language. Upon this occasion, too, we find Johnson lashing the party in opposition with unbounded severity, and making the fullest use of what he ever reckoned a most effectual argumentative instrument,—contempt. His character of their very able mysterious champion, Junius, is executed with all the force of his genius, and finished with the highest care.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell

Thomas Percy : Hermit of Warkworth, The
'I was last night at the Club. Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many [italics] fits [end italics]; it is pretty enough. He has printed, and will soon publish it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands
'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "Well, sir, which of them did you think the best?" Boswell. "I liked the second best." Johnson. "Why, sir, I liked the first best; and Beattie liked the first best. Sir, there is a subtlety of disquisition in the first that is worth all the fire of the second".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell

Samuel Johnson : False Alarm, The
'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "Well, sir, which of them did you think the best?" Boswell. "I liked the second best." Johnson. "Why, sir, I liked the first best; and Beattie liked the first best. Sir, there is a subtlety of disquisition in the first that is worth all the fire of the second".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell

R. W. Ketton-Cremer : Horace Walpole: A Biography
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include reported last words of Sir Robert Walpole and Sir Thomas Mann, from R. W. Ketton-Cremer's Horace Walpole: A Biography.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Voltaire : Zaide
[under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in the frigid double-recognition scene) suprised me, and as I cannot appreciate the badness of the French as Lytton [?Strachey] could; I enjoyed the play and should like to see it acted.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Ernest Hemingway : For Whom the Bell Tolls
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an odd thing') from chapter 13 of Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1941).
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Sonnets of the Imagination XLII
Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery': '"Nor shall your presence, howsoe'er it mar The loveliness of Nature, prove a bar To the Mind's gaining a prophetic sense Of future change, that point of vision, whence May be discovered what in soul you are." '[Sonnets of the Imagination XLII]' This followed by remarks: 'Right! The problem of 1941 has not been better put. And it could be so well put only by someone who had not all the facts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Eliot : Silas Marner
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in chapter 10 of George Eliot, Silas Marner, which followed by remark: 'G. E. shows her greatness in this minor interview. Who else in her century or in any could present simplicity and goodness without patronage [italics]end[end italics] without self-abasement? Atmosphere all through both thick and unforced; buried buried are we in the depths of a deeper England than Hardy's. [comments further on text]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Francois de Malherbe : 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille'
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' (1607, followed by remark: 'If I admire this, do I like French poetry? I do admire it. And, mythology lost, what will become of poetry? Mythology gave a stiffening to the fabric.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Francois de Malherbe : 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois'
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' (1628), followed by remark: 'If I admire this, do I like French poetry? I do admire it. And, mythology lost, what will become of poetry? Mythology gave a stiffening to the fabric.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Gerald Heard : The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, because, though greater than any of his generation, he was younger, he belonged, by the creative power which he allowed to keep flowing in renewal through him, to a generation of men, who even now after two thousand years, have yet to be born.' Forster then notes: 'Thus does Gerald Heard spice up his urge to prayer in The Creed of Christ. Have written (20-9-41) a letter to him which I ought to have transcribed. Like other priests, he so emphasises the perils of mis-prayer that one feels it was wise never to have started.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

: 'The Disappointment of God'
'The Disappointment of God. 'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disappointed by the state of the world we must not go so far as to suppose that he is surprised. -- Very funny effect, especially in its paginal context. Deducing Gods personality must be a fascinating game. But the world has disappointed [italics]me[end italics] so much that I scarcely smiled.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Newspaper

Elizabeth Gaskell : Sylvia's Lovers
'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The sensuousness of the sailor, the characterisation, without fuss, of S's parents, the amusing deterioration of S's friends after marriage. And the wisdom in this account of old-fashioned country mentality: [quotes passage from chapter 7 of text, opening 'Taken as a general rule, it may be said that few knew what manner of men they were,' before commenting further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

H. A. L. Fisher : A History of Europe
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Ruskin : 'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England')
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with five commas omitted from original): 'Every mutiny every danger every terror and every crime occurring under or paralysing our Indian legislation, arises directly out of our national desire to live out of the loot of India.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Paul-Louis Courier : 'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822)
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont multiplies en France bien plus encore que les violons quoique moins necessaires pour la danse.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Paul Valery :
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est le produit le plus dangereux que la chimie de l'intellect ait elabore.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

St Augustine : De Civitate Dei
Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' impositions of their languages upon new subject peoples in De Civitate Dei.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Kenneth Macaulay : History of St Kilda
He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about liberty and slavery. I mentioned to him that Macaulay told me, he was advised to leave out of his book the wonderful story that upon the approach of a stranger all the inhabitants catch cold; but that it had been so well authenticated, he determined to retain it. Johnson. "Sir, to leave things out of a book merely because people tell you they will not be believed is meanness. Macaulay acted with more magnanimity".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [legal case papers]
'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and proposed to read to him the printed papers concerning it. "No, sir (said he), I can read quicker than I can hear." So he read them to himself.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [legal case papers]
'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it is troublesome to you." "Why, Sir (said he), I do not take much delight in it; but I'll go through it".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Henry More : [theological works]
'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells us is certain. Dr. Henry More has carried it as far as philosophy can. You may buy both his theological and philosophical works in two volumes folio, for about eight shillings'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Charles Drelincourt : Christians Defense against the Fears of Death
'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a famous story of the appearance of Mrs. Veal, prefixed to 'Drelincourt on Death.'" Johnson. " I believe, Sir, that is given up. I believe the woman declared upon her deathbed that it was a lie".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Charles Drelincourt : Christians Defense against the Fears of Death
'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a famous story of the appearance of Mrs. Veal, prefixed to 'Drelincourt on Death.'" Johnson. " I believe, Sir, that is given up. I believe the woman declared upon her deathbed that it was a lie".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Mark Akenside : Pleasures of Imagination, The
'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick." Boswell. "Akenside's distinguished poem is his 'Pleasures of Imagination': but, for my part, I never could admire it so much as most people do." Johnson. "Sir, I could not read it through." Boswell. "I have read it through; but I do not find any great power in it".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Mark Akenside : Pleasures of Imagination, The
'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick." Boswell. "Akenside's distinguished poem is his 'Pleasures of Imagination': but, for my part, I never could admire it so much as most people do." Johnson. "Sir, I could not read it through." Boswell. "I have read it through; but I do not find any great power in it".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [legal trial papers]
'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell

Oliver Goldsmith : Life of Parnell
'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials; for nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Owen Ruffhead : Life of Alexander Pope
'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed we should have no more of it, as the author had not been able to persuade the world to think of Pope as he did. Boswell. "Why, sir, should that prevent him from continuing his work? He is an ingenious counsel who has made the most of his cause: he is not obliged to gain it." Johnson. "But, sir, there is a difference when the cause is of a man's own making".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Warton : Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope
'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed we should have no more of it, as the author had not been able to persuade the world to think of Pope as he did. Boswell. "Why, sir, should that prevent him from continuing his work? He is an ingenious counsel who has made the most of his cause: he is not obliged to gain it." Johnson. "But, sir, there is a difference when the cause is of a man's own making".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Warton : Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope
'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed we should have no more of it, as the author had not been able to persuade the world to think of Pope as he did. Boswell. "Why, sir, should that prevent him from continuing his work? He is an ingenious counsel who has made the most of his cause: he is not obliged to gain it." Johnson. "But, sir, there is a difference when the cause is of a man's own making".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham : Rehearsal, The
'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. If it was intended to be like a particular man, it could only be diverting while that man was remembered. But I question whether it was meant for Dryden, as has been reported; for we know some of the passages said to be ridiculed were written since 'The Rehearsal'; at least a passage mentioned in the Preface is of a later date." I maintained that it had merit as a general satire on the self-importance of dramatick authours. But even in this light he held it very cheap.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham : Rehearsal, The
'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. If it was intended to be like a particular man, it could only be diverting while that man was remembered. But I question whether it was meant for Dryden, as has been reported; for we know some of the passages said to be ridiculed were written since 'The Rehearsal'; at least a passage mentioned in the Preface is of a later date." I maintained that it had merit as a general satire on the self-importance of dramatick authours. But even in this light he held it very cheap.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal." Boswell. "Will you not allow, sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" Johnson. "Why, sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all 'Tom Jones'. I indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.'" Erskine. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." Johnson. "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excessive and unaccountable depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. "Tom Jones" has stood the test of publick opinion with such success as to have established its great merit, both for the story, the sentiments, and the manners, and also the varieties of diction, so as to leave no doubt of its having an animated truth of execution throughout.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : [novels]
'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal." Boswell. "Will you not allow, sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" Johnson. "Why, sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all 'Tom Jones'. I indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.'" Erskine. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." Johnson. "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excessive and unaccountable depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. "Tom Jones" has stood the test of publick opinion with such success as to have established its great merit, both for the story, the sentiments, and the manners, and also the varieties of diction, so as to leave no doubt of its having an animated truth of execution throughout.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal." Boswell. "Will you not allow, sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" Johnson. "Why, sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all 'Tom Jones'. I indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.'" Erskine. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." Johnson. "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excessive and unaccountable depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. "Tom Jones" has stood the test of publick opinion with such success as to have established its great merit, both for the story, the sentiments, and the manners, and also the varieties of diction, so as to leave no doubt of its having an animated truth of execution throughout.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : [novels]
'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal." Boswell. "Will you not allow, sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" Johnson. "Why, sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all 'Tom Jones'. I indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.'" Erskine. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." Johnson. "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excessive and unaccountable depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. "Tom Jones" has stood the test of publick opinion with such success as to have established its great merit, both for the story, the sentiments, and the manners, and also the varieties of diction, so as to leave no doubt of its having an animated truth of execution throughout.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Erskine      Print: Book

Samuel Paterson : Another Traveller: or Cursory Remarks and Critical Observations made upon a Journey through Part of the Netherlands
'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in imitation of Sterne, and not of Coriat, whose name Paterson had chosen as a whimsical one. "Tom Coriat (said he) was a humourist about the court of James the First. He had a mixture of learning, of wit, and of buffoonery. He first travelled through Europe, and published his travels. He afterwards travelled on foot through Asia, and had made many remarks; but he died at Mandoa, and his remarks were lost".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey, A
'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in imitation of Sterne, and not of Coriat, whose name Paterson had chosen as a whimsical one. "Tom Coriat (said he) was a humourist about the court of James the First. He had a mixture of learning, of wit, and of buffoonery. He first travelled through Europe, and published his travels. He afterwards travelled on foot through Asia, and had made many remarks; but he died at Mandoa, and his remarks were lost".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Coryat : Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels
'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in imitation of Sterne, and not of Coriat, whose name Paterson had chosen as a whimsical one. "Tom Coriat (said he) was a humourist about the court of James the First. He had a mixture of learning, of wit, and of buffoonery. He first travelled through Europe, and published his travels. He afterwards travelled on foot through Asia, and had made many remarks; but he died at Mandoa, and his remarks were lost".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Tacitus : Histories
'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and terseness of expression, he was too compact, too much broken into hints as it were, and therefore too difficult to be understood. To my great satisfaction Dr. Johnson sanctioned this opinion. "Tacitus, sir, seems to me rather to have made notes for an historical work than to have written a history".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Tacitus : Histories
'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and terseness of expression, he was too compact, too much broken into hints as it were, and therefore too difficult to be understood. To my great satisfaction Dr. Johnson sanctioned this opinion. "Tacitus, sir, seems to me rather to have made notes for an historical work than to have written a history".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Prayers and Meditations
'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious duties, particularly in reading the Holy Scriptures'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible
'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious duties, particularly in reading the Holy Scriptures'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Francis Osborne : [unknown]
'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boys would throw stones at him." He, however, did not alter my opinion of a favourite authour, to whom I was first directed by his being quoted in "The Spectator," and in whom I have found much shrewd and lively sense, expressed indeed in a style somewhat quaint, which, however, I do not dislike. His book has an air of originality. We figure to ourselves an ancient gentleman talking to us.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Francis Osborne : [unknown]
'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boys would throw stones at him." He, however, did not alter my opinion of a favourite authour, to whom I was first directed by his being quoted in "The Spectator," and in whom I have found much shrewd and lively sense, expressed indeed in a style somewhat quaint, which, however, I do not dislike. His book has an air of originality. We figure to ourselves an ancient gentleman talking to us.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Spectator, The
'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boys would throw stones at him." He, however, did not alter my opinion of a favourite authour, to whom I was first directed by his being quoted in "The Spectator," and in whom I have found much shrewd and lively sense, expressed indeed in a style somewhat quaint, which, however, I do not dislike. His book has an air of originality. We figure to ourselves an ancient gentleman talking to us.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

James Beattie : Minstrel, The; or, The Progress of Genius
'Beattie's book is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Pindar : [poems]
'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: London Chronicle
'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the "London Chronicle" Dr. Goldsmith's apology to the publick for beating Evans, a bookseller, on account of a paragraph 5 in a newspaper published by him, which Goldsmith thought impertinent to him and to a lady of his acquaintance. The apology was written so much in Dr. Johnson's manner that both Mrs. Williams and I supposed it to be his; but when he came home, he soon undeceived us. When he said to Mrs. Williams, "Well, Dr. Goldsmith's manifesto has got into your paper;" I asked him if Dr. Goldsmith had written it, with an air that made him see I suspected it was his, though subscribed by Goldsmith. Johnson. "Sir, Dr. Goldsmith would no more have asked me to write such a thing as that for him than he would have asked me to feed him with a spoon, or to do any thing else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it as if I had seen him do it".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : London Chronicle
'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the "London Chronicle" Dr. Goldsmith's apology to the publick for beating Evans, a bookseller, on account of a paragraph 5 in a newspaper published by him, which Goldsmith thought impertinent to him and to a lady of his acquaintance. The apology was written so much in Dr. Johnson's manner that both Mrs. Williams and I supposed it to be his; but when he came home, he soon undeceived us. When he said to Mrs. Williams, "Well, Dr. Goldsmith's manifesto has got into your paper;" I asked him if Dr. Goldsmith had written it, with an air that made him see I suspected it was his, though subscribed by Goldsmith. Johnson. "Sir, Dr. Goldsmith would no more have asked me to write such a thing as that for him than he would have asked me to feed him with a spoon, or to do any thing else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it as if I had seen him do it".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Williams      Print: Newspaper

Oliver Goldsmith : [apology for beating a bookseller]
'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the "London Chronicle" Dr. Goldsmith's apology to the publick for beating Evans, a bookseller, on account of a paragraph 5 in a newspaper published by him, which Goldsmith thought impertinent to him and to a lady of his acquaintance. The apology was written so much in Dr. Johnson's manner that both Mrs. Williams and I supposed it to be his; but when he came home, he soon undeceived us. When he said to Mrs. Williams, "Well, Dr. Goldsmith's manifesto has got into your paper;" I asked him if Dr. Goldsmith had written it, with an air that made him see I suspected it was his, though subscribed by Goldsmith. Johnson. "Sir, Dr. Goldsmith would no more have asked me to write such a thing as that for him than he would have asked me to feed him with a spoon, or to do any thing else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it as if I had seen him do it".'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson

John Dalrymple : Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland
'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord Russel and Algernon Sydney. Johnson. " Why, Sir, every body who had just notions of government thought them rascals before. It is well that all mankind now see them to be rascals." Boswell. "But, Sir, may not those discoveries be true without their being rascals?" Johnson. "Consider, Sir, would any of them have been willing to have had it known that they intrigued with France? Depend upon it, Sir, he who does what he is afraid should be known has something rotten about him. This Dalrymple seems to be an honest fellow; for he tells equally what makes against both sides. But nothing can be poorer than his mode of writing, it is the mere bouncing of a school boy: Great He! but greater She! and such stuff." I could not agree with him in this criticism; for though Sir John Dalrymple's style is not regularly formed in any respect, and one cannot help smiling sometimes at his affected grandiloquence, there is in his writing a pointed vivacity, and much of a gentlemanly spirit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dalrymple : Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland
'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord Russel and Algernon Sydney. Johnson. " Why, Sir, every body who had just notions of government thought them rascals before. It is well that all mankind now see them to be rascals." Boswell. "But, Sir, may not those discoveries be true without their being rascals?" Johnson. "Consider, Sir, would any of them have been willing to have had it known that they intrigued with France? Depend upon it, Sir, he who does what he is afraid should be known has something rotten about him. This Dalrymple seems to be an honest fellow; for he tells equally what makes against both sides. But nothing can be poorer than his mode of writing, it is the mere bouncing of a school boy: Great He! but greater She! and such stuff." I could not agree with him in this criticism; for though Sir John Dalrymple's style is not regularly formed in any respect, and one cannot help smiling sometimes at his affected grandiloquence, there is in his writing a pointed vivacity, and much of a gentlemanly spirit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Spectator, The
'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepared by a gentleman eminent in the literary world, and the materials which he had collected for the remainder had been transferred to another hand. He observed, that all works which describe manners require notes in sixty or seventy years, or less; and told us he had communicated all he knew that could throw light upon "The Spectator." He said, "Addison had made his Sir Andrew Freeport a true Whig, arguing against giving charity to beggars, and throwing out other such ungracious sentiments; but that he had thought better, and made amends by making him found an hospital for decayed farmers." He called for the volume of "The Spectator," in which that account is contained, and read it aloud to us. He read so well that every thing acquired additional weight and grace from his utterance.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Joseph Addison : Spectator, The
'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepared by a gentleman eminent in the literary world, and the materials which he had collected for the remainder had been transferred to another hand. He observed, that all works which describe manners require notes in sixty or seventy years, or less; and told us he had communicated all he knew that could throw light upon "The Spectator." He said, "Addison had made his Sir Andrew Freeport a true Whig, arguing against giving charity to beggars, and throwing out other such ungracious sentiments; but that he had thought better, and made amends by making him found an hospital for decayed farmers." He called for the volume of "The Spectator," in which that account is contained, and read it aloud to us. He read so well that every thing acquired additional weight and grace from his utterance.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of My Own Time
'On Thursday, April 8, I sat a good part of the evening with him, but he was very silent. He said, "Burnet's 'History of his own Times' is very entertaining. The style, indeed, is mere chit-chat. I do not believe that Burnet intentionally lyed; but he was so much prejudiced that he took no pains to find out the truth. He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch; but will not inquire whether the watch is right or not".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Greek New Testament
'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and I turned over several of his books.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [books belonging to Johnson]
'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and I turned over several of his books.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Laud : [diary]
'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson: "1623. February 1, Sunday. I stood by the most illustrious Prince Charles, at dinner. He was then very merry, and talked occasionally of many things with his attendants. Among other things, he said, that if he were necessitated to take any particular profession of life, he could not be a lawyer, adding his reasons: 'I cannot (saith he) defend a bad, nor yield in a good cause.'" Johnson. "Sir, this is false reasoning; because every cause has a bad side: and a lawyer is not overcome, though the cause which he has endeavoured to support be determined against him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Allan Ramsay : Gentle Shepherd, The
'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only abounding with beautiful rural imagery, and just and pleasing sentiments, but being a real picture of manners; and I offered to teach Dr. Johnson to understand it. "No, sir (said he), I won't learn it. You shall retain your superiority by my not knowing it".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton : History of the Life of Henry the Second
'Boswell. "I rather think, Sir, that Toryism prevails in this reign." Johnson. "I know not why you should think so, Sir. You see your friend Lord Lyttelton, a nobleman, is obliged, in his "History", to write the most vulgar Whiggism".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a recently published book]
'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you not read it through?" Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, "No, sir; do [italics] you [end italics] read books [italics] through [end italics]?"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Elphinstone      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a recently published book]
'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you not read it through?" Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, "No, sir; do [italics] you [end italics] read books [italics] through [end italics]?"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies']
'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allow his beautiful tale published in Mrs. Williams's "Miscellanies" to be of that species. I have, however, found among his manuscript collections the following sketch of one: " Glowworm lying in the garden saw a candle in a neighbouring palace,—and complained of the littleness of his own light;—another observed wait a little ;—soon dark,—have outlasted [many] of these glaring lights which are only brighter as they haste to nothing".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [manuscript plan for a fable]
'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allow his beautiful tale published in Mrs. Williams's "Miscellanies" to be of that species. I have, however, found among his manuscript collections the following sketch of one: " Glowworm lying in the garden saw a candle in a neighbouring palace,—and complained of the littleness of his own light;—another observed wait a little ;—soon dark,—have outlasted [many] of these glaring lights which are only brighter as they haste to nothing".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Oliver Goldsmith : Traveller, The
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Deserted Village, The
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Roman History From The Foundation of The City of Rom
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Robertson : History of Scotland 1542 - 1603
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Rene Aubert Vertot : Révolutions romains
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

David Dalrymple : [books of history]
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Robertson : History of Scotland 1542 - 1603
' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comick writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. "An historian! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?" Johnson. "Why, who are before him?" Boswell. "Hume, —Robertson,—Lord Lyttelton." Johnson. (His antipathy to the Scotch beginning to rise). "I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's 'History' is better than the [italics] verbiage [end italics] of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." Boswell. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose 'History' we find such penetration—such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece: he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his 'History'. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool: the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, sir; I always thought Robertson would be crushed by his own weight,—would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress, The
'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evidence of its merit, the general and continued approbation of mankind. Few books, I believe, have had a more extensive sale. It is remarkable, that it begins very much like the poem of Dante; yet there was no translation of Dante when Bunyan wrote. There is reason to think that he had read Spenser".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Divine Comedy
'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evidence of its merit, the general and continued approbation of mankind. Few books, I believe, have had a more extensive sale. It is remarkable, that it begins very much like the poem of Dante; yet there was no translation of Dante when Bunyan wrote. There is reason to think that he had read Spenser".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Monsieur Menage : Menagiana Ou Les Bons Mots
'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good pun in "Menagiana," I think on the word corps'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Hodgkin : Italy and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I)
'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent, knowing that it was the time for tears. Since to relieve them all was impossible, we joined our lamentations with theirs [...]" [...] Virgil's "Urbas antiqua ruit, multos dominata per annos" quoted, which I myself was to read 1500 [sic] later, after seeing the Docks on fire from my roof in Chiswick. '[Extracted from Hodgkin. Jerome has to leave Rome for the desert because he found the ladies too charming there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid (Book II)
'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent, knowing that it was the time for tears. Since to relieve them all was impossible, we joined our lamentations with theirs [...]" [...] Virgil's "Urbas antiqua ruit, multos dominata per annos" quoted, which I myself was to read 1500 [sic] later, after seeing the Docks on fire from my roof in Chiswick. '[Extracted from Hodgkin. Jerome has to leave Rome for the desert because he found the ladies too charming there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

George Eliot : Middlemarch
From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940: 'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last night with disgust and indignation, but with no intensity though the spectacle was superb, I thought It is nothing like the burning of Troy. Yet the Surrey Docks were ablaze, at the back with towers and spires outlines [sic] against them, greenish yellow searchlights swept the sky in futile agony [...] Now and then tracts of the horizon flashed a ghastly electric green. Or the fire ahead burst up as I hoped it was dying down. "Oh!" I cried once faintly, then returned to my bed and read Middlemarch.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

W. E. H. Lecky : History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne
[Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine] 'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne", interesting, ill-indexed, strong on the Egyptian anchorites.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

St Augustine : 'On Marriage and Concupiscence'
'St Augustine, Some scattered notes. 'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on the Pelagians. What he thinks is wrong in copulation is not the semen but the pleasure attending its emission, and he thinks the pleasure wrong because people are ashamed to be seen doing it [...] Elsewhere, he says that the time for giving in marriage was B.C., and the time for abstaining from it A.D., but he does not urge the extinction of the human race, and hopes that husbands and wives will continue to go ahead, with as little pleasure as possible, until the establishment of the City of God. I find it difficult to follow, in anyone so intelligent, such opinions, and think they may have been induced by the unintelligent asceticism of his age; by the knowledge that thousands of stupid men were sitting in the desert all along Africa.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Michaud : article on Pelagius
[Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Neville Figgis : The Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of God
[Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of the City of God" [goes on to transcribe extracts and add own notes and queries].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

St Jerome : Select Letters of St Jerome
Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb'), with closing remarks: 'Now farewell St Jerome for ever, but I must not ignore some similarities between us: we both decline to concentrate on the political catastrophe. Your obsession with virginity helps you, for it is in danger whether there's peace or war.' [in notes, Forster expresses disapprobation for Jerome's attitudes to sexuality in particular, describing Letter 117 (p.136; on female modesty) as 'terrifying in its blindness and vigour']
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

St Basil : Letters (vol.II)
'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall suffice [goes on to make detailed notes and transcriptions from text].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

F. A. Wright : A History of Later Greek Literature
'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A History of Later Greek Literature from the Death of Alexandria in 323 B.C. to the Death of Justinian in 565 A.D. (Routledge, 1932).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Socrates of Constantinople : Ecclesiastical History
[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and without contempt [...] Bk V ch. 18 on the purity campaign of Theodosius is very funny. There was a machine which lowered visitors to a brothel into a bakehouse, where they worked for the rest of their lives [....] Funny too is the bishop who trod on another bishop's foot, with the result that it festered and had to be amputated. Bk VI ch 19.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

E. H. Carr : Michael Bakunin
[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried outside it to contemplate the endless senseless torturing of Europe; the same places occur in the 18th cent, as in the 5th, and people are still being killed and thwarted, and beautiful and useful objects being destroyed. [makes further notes on text]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Le Temps Retrouve
Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust, Le Temps Retrouve.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Du Cote de chez Swann
'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust: "Bought Du Cote de Chez Swann at Marseilles and note how cleverly Proust uses his memories and experiences to illustrate his state of mind [...] His work impresses me by its weight and length, and sometimes touches me by its truth to my feelings."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Charles Darwin : The Voyage of the Beagle
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

A. P. Wavell : Allenby: Soldier and Statesman
Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards being found asleep together, with Allenby's remark 'that will do more to end this stupid war than anything else,' from A. P. Wavell, Allenby: Soldier and Statesman.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jean Bruller : Le Silence de la Mer
'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Jean Giono : 'Prelude de Pan'
'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

Honore de Balzac : Illusions perdues
'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Andre Gide : Journal
'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published secretly under the Nazis in France. Read also too slow a story by Giono of the coming of Pan: it quickens at the end where human beings and animals dance together, with regrettable results [...] Read too in Illusions Perdues [...] and in Gide's Journal [...] Gide aroused my envy by reading, reading, but if I kept a journal I too should appear to have read, read a lot.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Unknown

Stefan George : 'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme'
Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle'), with accompanying comment: 'The George and the Baudelaire above express, the one with studied starkness, the other with studied affectation, the masculine and feminine of the same idealism [...] Given over to habits of comfort, I feel insincere when I enjoy these poems. They are not for me or for anyone who is not prepared to sacrifice comfort.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Charles Baudelaire : 'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle')
Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle'), with accompanying comment: 'The George and the Baudelaire above express, the one with studied starkness, the other with studied affectation, the masculine and feminine of the same idealism [...] Given over to habits of comfort, I feel insincere when I enjoy these poems. They are not for me or for anyone who is not prepared to sacrifice comfort.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Van Wyck Brooks : The Ordeal of Mark Twain
'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering me a bit [discusses text further, drawing comparisons between Twain's, and own, experiences of ageing and senses of failure].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton : A Lecture on the Study of History
[under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student] E. M. Forster transcribes passage opening 'Keep men and things apart; guard against the prestige of great names,' and phrase 'The critic is one who, when he lights on an interesting statement, begins by suspecting it,' noting underneath: 'The above are from his lecture "The Study of History" [...] Transcribing them while the planes whirr, I wonder how far Liberalism might have progressed if the world had kept calm.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Arnold Toynbee : A Study of History (vol I)
Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the keener / Mood shall be the more / As our might lessens': 'The Lay of the Battle of Malden [sic] (date --) quoted by Arnold Toynbee on the title page of his History. Again the bombers whirr (14-3-44) as I transcribe it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

: A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944): 'On Hydon's top there is a cup And in that cup there is a drop Take up the cup and drink the drop And place the cup on Hydon's top.' Forster notes underneath: 'Local rhyme quoted in Murrays Guide to Surrey.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Bede : Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)
Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('S'en aller toute d'un fois est un privilege; tu periras par morceaux'), accompanied by note: 'I encounter these two mournful small fry on the same day. Boo hoo down the ages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henri-Frederic Amiel : Fragments d'un Journal Intime
Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('S'en aller toute d'un fois est un privilege; tu periras par morceaux'), accompanied by note: 'I encounter these two mournful small fry on the same day. Boo hoo down the ages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Charles Waterton : Wanderings in South America
Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, accompanied by comment 'His stupid obscene cruelty to the reptiles out there displeases me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Samuel Henley : Appendix no. 2
Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discovered by later explorers, from Samuel Henley's Appendix to Edward Daniel Clarke, 'The Tomb of Alexander' (1805). Underneath, Forster notes: 'This is the first entry I have made since the death of my mother, today three months in her grave.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings
Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin's introduction to his notes on Turner drawings owned by him, and exhibited in 1878 at the Fine Art Society's London galleries.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Tennyson (family members) : stories
'Their [the Tennyson children's] imaginative natures gave them many sources of amusement. One of these lasted a long time: the writing of tales in letter form, to be put under the vegetable dishes at dinner, and read aloud when it was over. I have heard from my uncles and aunts that my father [Alfred Tennyson]'s tales were very various in theme, some of them humorous and some savagely dramatic; and that they looked to him as their most thrilling story-teller.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson family     Manuscript: Unknown

Ovid :
'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin Grammar, originally put together by Erasmus, Lilly and Colet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Analecta Graeca Minora
'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin Grammar, originally put together by Erasmus, Lilly and Colet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Eton Latin Grammar
'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin Grammar, originally put together by Erasmus, Lilly and Colet.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Milton : Samson Agonistes
Alfred Tennyson, aged twelve, to his aunt Marianne Fytche: 'You used to tell me that you should be obliged to me if I would write to you and give you my remarks on works and authors. I shall now fulfil the promise which I made at that time. Going into the library this morning, I picked up "Samson Agonistes," on which (as I think it is a play you like) I shall send you my remarks [goes on to comment in detail on various transcribed passages from text, with points discussed including Classical allusions, and etymologies of words]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Prisoner of Chillon
'[Alfred Tennyson's] grandmother, the sister of the Reverend Samuel Turner, would assert: "Alfred's poetry all comes from me." My father remembered her reading to him, when a boy, "The Prisoner of Chillon" very tenderly.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Turner      Print: Book

Horace :
'My father said that he [...] received a good but not a regular classical education. At any rate he became an accurate scholar, the author "thoroughly drummed into" him being Horace; whom he disliked in proportion. He would lament, "[...] It was not till many years after boyhood that I could like Horace. Byron expressed what I felt. 'Then farewell Horace whom I hated so.' Indeed I was so over-dosed with Horace that I hardly do him justice even now that I am old."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

John Milton :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Edmund Burke :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Francois Rabelais :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Sir William Jones :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Joseph Addison :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Jonathan Swift :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Daniel Defoe :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

John Bunyan :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

George Louis Leclerc de Buffon :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys)     Print: Book

Thomas Bewick :
Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading: 'I remember his tremendous excitement when he got hold of Bewick for the first time: how he paced up and down the lawn for hours studying him, and how he kept rushing in to us in the schoolroom to show us some of the marvellous wood-cuts'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

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Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading: 'He was always a great reader; and if he went alone he would take his book with him on his walk. One day in the winter, the snow being deep, he did not hear the Louth mail coming up behind. Suddenly "Ho! ho!" from the coachman roused him. He looked up and found a horse's nose and eyes over his shoulder, as if reading his book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor
'After reading the Bride of Lammermoor [Tennyson] wrote the following [reproduces juvenile poem "The Bridal"]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Virgil :
'Whewell, who was [Tennyson's] tutor, he called "the lion-like man" and had for him a great respect. It is reported that Whewell, recognising his genius, tolerated in him certain informalities which he would not have overlooked in other men. Thus, "Mr Tennyson, what's the compound interest of a penny put out at the Christian era up to the present time?" was Whewell's good-natured call to attention in the Lecture Room while my father was reading Virgil under the desk.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

John Locke :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

George Berkeley :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

Butler :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

David Hume :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

Jeremy Bentham :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

Rene Descartes :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

Imanuel Kant :
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles     Print: Book

Rene Descartes :
'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insight [...] On one occasion, I remember, he mastered a difficult book of Descartes at a single sitting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Timbuctoo
'Matthew Arnold told G. L. Craik that when, as a youth, he first read "Timbuctoo" he prophesied the greatness of Tennyson.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Arnold      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
S. T. Coleridge on Tennyson's Poems. Chiefly Lyrical (1830): '"I have not read through all Mr Tennyson's poems, which have been sent to me; but I think there are some things of a good deal of beauty in what I have seen. The misfortune is, that he has begun to write verses without very well understanding what metre is."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

Herodotus :
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of the Forest [...] I have been studious too, partly after my fashion, and partly after my father [historian Henry Hallam]'s; i.e. I read six books of Herodotus with him, and I take occasional plunges into David Hartley, and Buhle's Philosophie Moderne for my own gratification.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry and Arthur Hallam     Print: Book

David Hartley :
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of the Forest [...] I have been studious too, partly after my fashion, and partly after my father [historian Henry Hallam]'s; i.e. I read six books of Herodotus with him, and I take occasional plunges into David Hartley, and Buhle's Philosophie Moderne for my own gratification.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

Buhle : Philosophie Moderne
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of the Forest [...] I have been studious too, partly after my fashion, and partly after my father [historian Henry Hallam]'s; i.e. I read six books of Herodotus with him, and I take occasional plunges into David Hartley, and Buhle's Philosophie Moderne for my own gratification.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Milton :
'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :
'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser :
'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Campbell :
'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Bible - Book of Isaiah
'Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Going to get a drink of water, she left] her Bible open at the place where she had been reading . . . the 34th chapter of Isaiah, beginning "My sword shall be bathed in heaven" . . . . On returning she found a patch of something like blood covering the very text. In great surprise, she carried the book home, where a young man tasted the substance with his tongue, and found it of a saltless or insipid flavour. On the two succeeding Sundays, while the same girl was reading her Bible in the open air, similar blotches of matter, like blood,fell upon the leaves. She did not perceive it in the act of falling till it was about an inch from the book.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Fraser      Print: Book

William Paley : View of the Evidences of Christianity
'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Christianity. This very excellent work I perhaps never should have read, had I not met with a pirated edition of it, (the whole being printed in one volume duodecimo, on decent paper) which I bought bound, for three and sixpence.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [novels]
'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re-read Meredith in the important first collected edition which began to appear in the same year, that is in 1885'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

George Meredith : Diana of the Crossways
'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re-read Meredith in the important first collected edition which began to appear in the same year, that is in 1885'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

George Meredith : [novels]
'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re-read Meredith in the important first collected edition which began to appear in the same year, that is in 1885'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Heinrich Heine : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Joseph Marie Eugene Sue : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Henri Murger : Scenes de la Vie Boheme
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Auguste Comte : Cours de Philosophie Positive
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : Fathers and Sons
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Moliere : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

George Sand [pseud.] : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Alfred de Musset : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Emile Zola : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Edmond de Goncourt : [unknown]
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

William Morris : Earthly Paradise, The
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Unto this Last
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Redgauntlet
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Walter Savage Landor : Imaginary Conversations
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Johann Peter Eckerman : Conversations of Goethe
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : [unknown]
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : [unknown]
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Gissing      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Paul Charles Joseph Bourget : [unknown]
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Jens Peter Jacobsen : Niels lyhne
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Jens Peter Jacobsen : Marie Grube
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : Fathers and Sons
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : [unknown]
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Woodlanders, The
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Mayor of Casterbridge, The
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Hedda Gabler
'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never returned) and making him more interested in the nihilistic or purely intellectual attitudes of his characters than in those of them who had a Walter Egremont type of social conscience. Thus, he re-read Bourget, on [his friend] Bertz's recommendation looked at J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and "Marie Grube", reread Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (for the seventh time), reread Dostoevski, whom he recomended to his brother but disliked himself, once again mulled over Hardy's "The Woodlanders" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (he later said that "Jude" was poor stuff by comparison with these), and began to ponder Ibsen, starting with "Hedda Gabler".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to lose his sight [...] He took to a milk diet for some months, which apparently "did good." At all events his eyesight was strong enough to allow him to study Don Quixote in the original.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Susan Ferrier : Destiny
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

Susan Ferrier : Inheritance
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

Sir William Blackstone :
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like "forestal."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like "forestal" [...] The friends exchanged thoughts on the political state of the world [...] Miss Austen's novels were read and compared. My father preferred Emma and Persuasion, and Hallam wrote, "Emma is my first love, and I intend to be constant. The edge of this constancy will soon be tried, for I am promised the reading of Pride and Prejudice."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like "forestal" [...] The friends exchanged thoughts on the political state of the world [...] Miss Austen's novels were read and compared. My father preferred Emma and Persuasion, and Hallam wrote, "Emma is my first love, and I intend to be constant. The edge of this constancy will soon be tried, for I am promised the reading of Pride and Prejudice."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like "forestal" [...] The friends exchanged thoughts on the political state of the world [...] Miss Austen's novels were read and compared. My father preferred Emma and Persuasion, and Hallam wrote, "Emma is my first love, and I intend to be constant. The edge of this constancy will soon be tried, for I am promised the reading of Pride and Prejudice."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Lotos-Eaters'
'Charles Merivale [...] wrote to [W. H.] Thompson [...]: '"Though the least eminent of the Tennysonian Rhapsodists, I have converted by my readings both my brother and your friend (or enemy?) Richardson to faith in the "Lotos-Eaters."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Merivale      Print: Book

Mrs Jameson : Characteristics
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson: 'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with similes about groves and violets, and streams of music, and incense and attar of roses, that I hardly know what I write. Bating these little flummeries of style, it is a good book, showing much appreciation of Shakespeare and the human heart'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Lady of Shalott'
'[Edward] Fitzgerald writes on "The Lady of Shalott": '"Well I remember this poem, read to me, before I knew the author, at Cambridge one night in 1832 or 3, and its images passing across my head, as across the magic mirror, while half asleep on the mail coach to London in the "creeping dawn" that followed."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : sonnets
'[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield: '"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propos to the latter, Jingling James, his namesake, dined with us last week [...] I sent him copies of both you and Charles [Tennyson] yesterday, and met him in the street this morning [...] 'I read,' he said, 'twelve of the sonnets last night, which if I had not liked them better than other sonnets I could not have done. There are great outbreaks of poetry in them.' Omitting my own interjectional queries, etc., which leave to Jemmy's remarks an over-pompous connectedness which they had not viva voce, I give you his words as nearly as I remember."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Montgomery      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister
The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833: 'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time, with which I find as many faults and beauties as every one does.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice      Print: Book

George Sand [pseud.] : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Emile Zola : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : [unknown]
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

J.P. Jacobsen : Niels Lyhne
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Frederika Bremer : Hertha
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Hippolyte Taine : History of English Literature
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Paul Bourget : Études et portraits
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Paul Bourget : Essais de psychologie contemporaine
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Albert Henry Buck : Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

William B. Carpenter : Principles of Mental Physiology, With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Theodule-Armand Ribot : Hérédité: étude psychologique
'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's "Niels Lyhne" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's "Hertha", he also read Taine's "English Literature", Bourget's "Etudes et Portraits" as well as the "Essais Psychologiques", A.H. Buck's "Treatise on Hygiene", W. B. Carpenter's "Principles of Mental Physiology" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's "Hereditie".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Charles Darwin : On the Origin of Species
'[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Species" - a queer jumble of thoughts'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Aristophanes : [unknown]
'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]
'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

anon [Religious Tract Society] : tracts
'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of those religious tracts which are published by the Religious Tract Society, and sold cheap by T. Williams, Stationer's-court, Ludgate-street, London. . . I was much pleased with an opportunity of procuring some of them. I took one of each of more than thirty sorts; and when I got home, Mrs L and I read them over together, in order to know if they were proper to be dispersed abroad, and whether they were calculated to do good to such as should read them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: tracts

John Whitehead : The Life of the Rev John Wesley
'Not long ater this he brought from Bristol Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, 2 vols. 8vo. I having expressed a wish to see in what state of mind Mr Wesley died. After having satisfied myself on that head, I returned the set of books, as I had no intention to read any more of the work, but the account of his death.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

John Whitehead : The Life of the Rev John Wesley
'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr Wesley's ancestors and relations, the life of Mr Charles Wesley, (whom I had often heard preach) and a history of Methodism, I requested Mrs L to help me in reading it through. // To describe the conflict, and the difference commotions which passed in my mind while we were reading this excellent work is impossible. I have been instructed, delighted, much confounded, and troubled.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James and Mary Lackington      Print: Book

Henry Wharton : Defence of Pluralities, A
'Johnson said, I might see the subject [a controversy about the Church of Scotland] well treated in the "Defence of Pluralities".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Daines Barrington : [Essay on bird migration]
'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo : Of the Origin and Progress of Language
'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it is all conjecture about a thing useless, even were it known to be true. Knowledge of all kinds is good. Conjecture, as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, such as whether men went upon all four [sic], is very idle." '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joachim Neander : [unknown]
'[Letter to George Steevens] I thank you for "Neander", but wish he were not so fine. I will take care of him'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Alexander Webster : [census of Scotland]
'[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they are, indeed, much less positive than, if he can trust his own book, which he laid before me, he is able to give'. [A footnote says] 'A manuscript account drawn by Dr. Webster of all the parishes in Scotland, ascertaining their length, breadth, number of inhabitants, and distinguishing Protestants and Roman Catholicks. This book had been transmitted to government, and Dr. Johnson saw a copy of it in Dr. Webster's possession'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Codex

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He himself objected only to the alteration of [italics] free [end italics] to [italics] brave [end italics], in the passage where he says that Edward "departed with the glory dne to the conqueror of a free people". He says to call the Scots brave would only add to the glory of their conqueror. You will make allowance for the national zeal of our annalist. I now send a few more leaves of the "Annals", which I hope you will peruse, and return with observations, as you did upon the former occasion. Lord Hailes writes to me thus: "Mr. Boswell will be pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dalrymple has of Dr. Johnson's attention to his little specimen".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He himself objected only to the alteration of [italics] free [end italics] to [italics] brave [end italics], in the passage where he says that Edward "departed with the glory dne to the conqueror of a free people". He says to call the Scots brave would only add to the glory of their conqueror. You will make allowance for the national zeal of our annalist. I now send a few more leaves of the "Annals", which I hope you will peruse, and return with observations, as you did upon the former occasion. Lord Hailes writes to me thus: "Mr. Boswell will be pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dalrymple has of Dr. Johnson's attention to his little specimen".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He himself objected only to the alteration of [italics] free [end italics] to [italics] brave [end italics], in the passage where he says that Edward "departed with the glory dne to the conqueror of a free people". He says to call the Scots brave would only add to the glory of their conqueror. You will make allowance for the national zeal of our annalist. I now send a few more leaves of the "Annals", which I hope you will peruse, and return with observations, as you did upon the former occasion. Lord Hailes writes to me thus: "Mr. Boswell will be pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dalrymple has of Dr. Johnson's attention to his little specimen".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson : When the Devil Was Well.
'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I cannot agree with you; it seems green fruit to me, if not really unwholesome; it is profoundly feeble, damn its weak knees!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown

Pierre-Jean Beranger : unknown
I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

:
'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was afraid to look any more, I felt so eerie; but of course I [italics]know[end italics] the third was the "Baxter".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides.

Izaak Walton : Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson
'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking that Lord Hailes had it in view. I remember one morning, while he sat with you in my house, he said, that there should be a new edition of "Walton's Lives"; and you said that "they should be benoted a little." This was all that passed on that subject. You must, therefore, inform Dr. Horne, that he may resume his plan. I enclose a note concerning it; and if Dr. Horne will write to me, all the attention that I can give shall be cheerfully bestowed, upon what I think a pious work, the preservation and elucidation of Walton, by whose writings I have been pleasingly edified'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Izaak Walton : Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson
'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking that Lord Hailes had it in view. I remember one morning, while he sat with you in my house, he said, that there should be a new edition of "Walton's Lives"; and you said that "they should be benoted a little." This was all that passed on that subject. You must, therefore, inform Dr. Horne, that he may resume his plan. I enclose a note concerning it; and if Dr. Horne will write to me, all the attention that I can give shall be cheerfully bestowed, upon what I think a pious work, the preservation and elucidation of Walton, by whose writings I have been pleasingly edified'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple, lord Hailes      Print: Book

Izaak Walton : Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson
'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking that Lord Hailes had it in view. I remember one morning, while he sat with you in my house, he said, that there should be a new edition of "Walton's Lives"; and you said that "they should be benoted a little." This was all that passed on that subject. You must, therefore, inform Dr. Horne, that he may resume his plan. I enclose a note concerning it; and if Dr. Horne will write to me, all the attention that I can give shall be cheerfully bestowed, upon what I think a pious work, the preservation and elucidation of Walton, by whose writings I have been pleasingly edified'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers]
'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull and Ulva, in which many passengers were lost, and among them Maclean of Col. We, you know, were once drowned; I hope, therefore, that the story is either wantonly or erroneously told. Pray satisfy me by the next post.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.
' [Letter from Johnson to Boswell] Last night I corrected the last page of our "Journey to the Hebrides".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: proofs

[n/a] : [Greek Testaments]
'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, was a proper time for a new course of life. I began to read the Greek Testament regularly at 160 verses every Sunday. This day I began the Acts. In this week I read Virgil's 'Pastorals'. I learned to repeat the 'Pollio' and 'Gallus'. I read carelessly the first 'Georgick'." Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for "divine and human lore," when advanced into his sixty-fifty year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. It is remarkable, that he was very fond of the precision which calculation produces. Thus we find in one of his manuscript diaries, "12 pages in 4to Gr. Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 10 days".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : Eclogues
'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, was a proper time for a new course of life. I began to read the Greek Testament regularly at 160 verses every Sunday. This day I began the Acts. In this week I read Virgil's 'Pastorals'. I learned to repeat the 'Pollio' and 'Gallus'. I read carelessly the first 'Georgick'." Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for "divine and human lore," when advanced into his sixty-fifty year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. It is remarkable, that he was very fond of the precision which calculation produces. Thus we find in one of his manuscript diaries, "12 pages in 4to Gr. Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 10 days".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : 8th Eclogue
'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, was a proper time for a new course of life. I began to read the Greek Testament regularly at 160 verses every Sunday. This day I began the Acts. In this week I read Virgil's 'Pastorals'. I learned to repeat the 'Pollio' and 'Gallus'. I read carelessly the first 'Georgick'." Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for "divine and human lore," when advanced into his sixty-fifty year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. It is remarkable, that he was very fond of the precision which calculation produces. Thus we find in one of his manuscript diaries, "12 pages in 4to Gr. Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 10 days".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : 1st Georgic
'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, was a proper time for a new course of life. I began to read the Greek Testament regularly at 160 verses every Sunday. This day I began the Acts. In this week I read Virgil's 'Pastorals'. I learned to repeat the 'Pollio' and 'Gallus'. I read carelessly the first 'Georgick'." Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for "divine and human lore," when advanced into his sixty-fifty year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. It is remarkable, that he was very fond of the precision which calculation produces. Thus we find in one of his manuscript diaries, "12 pages in 4to Gr. Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 10 days".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [diary]
'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, was a proper time for a new course of life. I began to read the Greek Testament regularly at 160 verses every Sunday. This day I began the Acts. In this week I read Virgil's 'Pastorals'. I learned to repeat the 'Pollio' and 'Gallus'. I read carelessly the first 'Georgick'." Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for "divine and human lore," when advanced into his sixty-fifty year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. It is remarkable, that he was very fond of the precision which calculation produces. Thus we find in one of his manuscript diaries, "12 pages in 4to Gr. Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 10 days".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

John Hoole : Cleonice
'[Letter from Johnson to John Hoole] I have returned your play, which you will find underscored with red, where there was a word which I did not like. The red will be washed off with a little water. The plot is so well framed, the intricacy so artful, and the disentanglement so easy, the suspense so affecting, аnd the passionate parts so properly interposed, that I have no doubt of its success'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.
'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Be pleased to accept of my best thanks for your "Journey to the Hebrides", which came to me by last night's post. I did really ask the favour twice; but you have been even with me by granting it so speedily. [italics] Bis dat qui cito dat [end italics]. Though ill of a head cold, you kept me up the greatest part of last night: for I did not stop till I had read every word of your book. I looked back to our first talking of a visit to the Hebrides, which was many years ago, when sitting by ourselves in the Mitre tavern, in London, I think about [italics] witching time o'night [end italics]; and then exulted in contemplating our scheme fulfilled, and a [italics]monumentum perenne [end italics] of it erected by your superiour abilities. I shall only say, that your book has afforded me a high gratification. I shall afterwards give you my thoughts on particular passages. In the mean time, I hasten to tell you of your having mistaken two names, which you will correct in London, as I shall do here, that the gentlemen who deserve the valuable compliments which you have paid them, may enjoy their honours. In page 106, for [italics] Gordon [end italics], read [italics] Murchison [end italics]; and in page 357, for [italics] Maclean [end italics] read [italics] Macleod [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have at last sent back Lord Hailes's sheets, I never think about returning them, because I alter nothing. You will see that I might as well have kept them. However, I am ashamed of my delay; and if I have the honour of receiving any more, promise punctually to return them by the next post'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate and useful criticisms. Had he given some strictures on the general plan of the work, it would have added much to his favours". He is charmed with your verses on Inchkenneth, says they are very elegant, but bids me tell you he doubts whether " [italics] Legitimat faciunt pectora pura preces [end italics]" be according to the rubrick ; but that is your concern; for, you know, he is a Presbyterian.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [Latin verses upon Inchkenneth]
'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate and useful criticisms. Had he given some strictures on the general plan of the work, it would have added much to his favours". He is charmed with your verses on Inchkenneth, says they are very elegant, but bids me tell you he doubts whether " [italics] Legitimat faciunt pectora pura preces [end italics]" be according to the rubrick ; but that is your concern; for, you know, he is a Presbyterian.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes      Manuscript: Unknown, in latin

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophical views of society, and in ingenious sentiment and lively description. A considerable part of it, indeed, consists of speculations which many years before he saw the wild regions which we visited together probably had employed his attention, though the actual sight of those scenes undoubtedly quickened and augmented them. Mr. Orme, the very able historian, agreed with me in this opinion, which he thus strongly expressed:— "There are in that book thoughts which, by long revolution in the great mind of Johnson, have been formed and polished like pebbles rolled in the ocean!"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophical views of society, and in ingenious sentiment and lively description. A considerable part of it, indeed, consists of speculations which many years before he saw the wild regions which we visited together probably had employed his attention, though the actual sight of those scenes undoubtedly quickened and augmented them. Mr. Orme, the very able historian, agreed with me in this opinion, which he thus strongly expressed:— "There are in that book thoughts which, by long revolution in the great mind of Johnson, have been formed and polished like pebbles rolled in the ocean!"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Orme      Print: Book

James Macpherson : [Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language
'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of his journey by a very strict examination of the evidence offered for it: and although their authenticity was made too much a national point by the Scotch, there were many respectable persons in that country who did not concur in this; so that his judgment upon the question ought not to be decried, even by those who differ from him. As to myself, I can only say, upon a subject now become very uninteresting, that when the fragments of Highland poetry first came out, I was much pleased with their wild peculiarity, and was one of those who subscribed to enable their editor, Mr. Macpherson, then a young man, to make a search in the Highlands and Hebrides for a long poem in the Erse language, which was reported to be preserved somewhere in those regions. But when there came forth an Epick Poem in six books, with all the common circumstances of former compositions of that nature; and when, upon an attentive examination of it, there was found a perpetual recurrence of the same images which appear in the fragments; and when no ancient manuscript to authenticate the work was deposited in any publick library, though that was insisted on as a reasonable proof, [italics] who [end italics] could forbear to doubt?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'The observations of my friend Mr. Dempster in a letter written to me, soon after he had read Dr. Johnson's book, are so just and liberal that they cannot be too often repeated: "There is nothing in the book, from beginning to end, that a Scotchman need to take amiss. What he says of the country is true; and his observations on the people are what must naturally occur to a sensible, observing, and reflecting inhabitant of a convenient metropolis, where a man on thirty pounds a year may be better accommodated with all the little wants of life than Col or Sir Allan. I am charmed with his researches concerning the Erse language, and the antiquity of their manuscripts. I am quite convinced; and I shall rank Ossian and his Fingals and Oscars amongst the nursery tales, not the true history of our country, in all time to come. Upon the whole, the book cannot displease, for it has no pretensions. The author neither says he is a geographer, nor an antiquarian, nor very learned in the history of Scotland, nor a naturalist, nor a fossilist. The manners of the people and the face of the country are all he attempts to describe, or seems to have thought of. Much were it to be wished that they who have traveled into more remote, and of course more curious regions, had all possessed his good sense".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Dempster      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'Mr. Knox, another native of Scotland, who has since made the same tour, and published an account of it, is equally liberal. "I have read (says he) his [Johnson's] book again and again, traveled with him from Berwick to Glenelg, through countries with which I am well acquainted; sailed with him from Glenelg to Rasay, Sky, Rum, Col, Mull, and Icolmkill, but have not been able to correct him in any matter of consequence. I have often admired the accuracy, the precision, and the justness of what he advances, respecting both the country and the people. The Doctor has every where delivered his sentiments with freedom, and in many instances with a seeming regard for the benefit of the inhabitants, and the ornament of the country. His remarks on the want of trees and hedges for shade, as well as for shelter to the cattle, are well founded, and merit the thanks, not the illiberal censure of the natives. He also felt for the distresses of the Highlanders, and explodes-with great propriety the bad management of the grounds, and the neglect of timber in the Hebrides".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Knox      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'Mr. Tytler, the acute and able vindicator of Mary Queen of Scots, in one of his letters to Mr. James Elphinstone, published in that gentleman's "Forty Years' Correspondence," says, "I read Dr. Johnson's Tour with very great pleasure. Some few errors he has fallen into, but of no great importance, and those are lost in the numberless beauties of his work. If I had leisure, I could, perhaps, point out the most exceptionable places; but at present I am in the country, and have not his book at hand. It is plain he meant to speak well of Scotland; and he has in my apprehension done us great honour in the most capital article, the character of the inhabitants".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Tytler      Print: Book

Gustave Aimard : unidentified novels
'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Mary Ward : Robert Elsmere
'Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces, it might have influenced me less, but I remained ignorant until some years later of Mrs. Ward's political machinations, and her book converted me from an unquestioning if somewhat indifferent church-goer into an anxiously interrogative agnostic.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Olive Schreiner : Woman and Labour
'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning the faithful to a vital crusade - was due my final acceptance of feminism.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : plays
'Yet when the War broke out, I did not clearly understand what was meant by homosexuality, incest or sodomy, and was puzzled by the shadow that clung to the name of Oscar Wilde, whose plays I discovered in 1913 and read with a rapturous delight in their epigrams.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

George Eliot : Romola
'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowski made little impression upon this routine, though their writings offered occasional compensation for its utter futility. "The reading of 'Romola,'" enthusiastically records my diary for April 27th, 1913, "has left me in a state of exultation!"'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain

Olive Schreiner : The Story of an African Farm
'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in my hands.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Philip Gilbert Hamerton : Art Essays
'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Andrew Lang : Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me than the battles between giants and mortals in the Andrew Lang fairy-tale books that I began to read soon afterwards.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

George Eliot : Daniel Deronda
'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poetry
'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetry was the only form of literature that I could read for comfort, and the only kind that I ever attempted to write.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

Edmund Gosse : New Poems
'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary verse .. Hence you will be kind enough to take this from me in a kindly spirit ... "To my daughter" is delicious.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

George Bancroft : History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the American Continent
'Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Plato : 'Apologia' and 'Meno'
'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to discourage my hysterical pursuit of elusive definitions.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain

William Wordsworth : unknown
'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the delight of my scholarship work in that long-ago that was already beginning to be labelled "pre-war".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : 1914
'Those famous sonnets, brought into prominence by the poet's death on the eve of the Dardanelles campaign, were then only just beginning to take the world's breath away, and I asked our tutor if she would read us one or two.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Highland sonnets'
James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of Highland sonnets that brought on the last attack [...] He read me several, that I had not seen or heard before, many of them admirably good: also a long romantic wizard and fairy poem, of the time of Merlin and king Arthur, very pretty but not of the first order: but I should not have expected anything so good from him which was so much out of his beat.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Manuscript: Unknown

William Wordsworth : 'The Egyptian Maid, or, The Romance of the Water Lily'
James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of Highland sonnets that brought on the last attack [...] He read me several, that I had not seen or heard before, many of them admirably good: also a long romantic wizard and fairy poem, of the time of Merlin and king Arthur, very pretty but not of the first order: but I should not have expected anything so good from him which was so much out of his beat.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Manuscript: Unknown

Jean Racine :
'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, "a dreary book"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Jean Racine :
'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, "a dreary book"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Moliere :
'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, "a dreary book"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Victor Hugo :
'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, "a dreary book"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Maurice : Eustace Conway
'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, "a dreary book"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Sterling : Arthur Coningsby
'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, "a dreary book"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Milton : Comus
[Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836] 'My uncle Arthur says: "It was then I first saw your mother, and she read to me Milton's 'Comus,' which I had not known before and which I have loved ever since."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Sellwood      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'Morte d'Arthur'
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Day-Dream'
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Lord of Burleigh'
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'Dora'
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Gardener's Daughter'
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

William Wordsworth : 'Michael'
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute [...] My father read them a great deal of Wordsworth, "the dear old fellow," as he called him [...] Fitzgerald notes again: '"I could remember A. T. saying he remembered the time when he could see nothing in 'Michael' which he now read us in admiration [...]" 'My father also read Keats and Milton'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Keats :
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute [...] My father read them a great deal of Wordsworth, "the dear old fellow," as he called him [...] Fitzgerald notes again: '"I could remember A. T. saying he remembered the time when he could see nothing in 'Michael' which he now read us in admiration [...]" 'My father also read Keats and Milton'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Milton :
'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he saw what was to be part of this 1842 volume [of Tennyson's poetry], the "Morte d'Arthur," "The Day-Dream," "The Lord of Burleigh," "Dora," and "The Gardener's Daughter." They were read out of an MS. "in a little red book to him and Spedding of a night, when all the house was mute [...] My father read them a great deal of Wordsworth, "the dear old fellow," as he called him [...] Fitzgerald notes again: '"I could remember A. T. saying he remembered the time when he could see nothing in 'Michael' which he now read us in admiration [...]" 'My father also read Keats and Milton'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Pringle : Travels
'During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Lyell : 'Geology'
'During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: 'anecdotes of Methodist ministers'
Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I am housed at Mr Wildman's, an old friend of mine in these parts: he and his wife are two perfectly honest Methodists [...] I was half-yesterday reading anecdotes of Methodist ministers, and liking to read them too'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

: 'book of English verse by a Welshman'
Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I took up this morning an unhappy book of English verse by a Welshman, and read therein that all which lies at present swampt fathom-deep under the bay of Carnarvon was long ago in the twilight of history a lovely lowland, rich in woods, thick with cities. One wild night a drunken man, who was a sort of clerk of the drains and sewers in his time, opened the dam-gates and let in the sea, and Heaven knows how many stately palaces have ever since been filled with polyps and sea-tangle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'In Memoriam' verses
[Edmund Lushington writes] 'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mostly at Boxley, where A. T. was now settled with his mother and sisters [...] the number of the memorial poems had rapidly increased since I had seen the poet, his book containing many that were new to me. Some I heard him repeat before I had seen them in writing, others I learnt to know first from the book itself which he kindly allowed me to look through without stint.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Lushington      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
[The Dean of Westminster writes] 'In a letter from Arthur Stanley, written from Hurstmonceux Rectory in the September of 1834, he says to his friend W. C. Lake (afterwards Dean of Durham), still at Rugby, that Julius Hare, with whom he was staying, "often reads to us in the evening things quite new to me, for instance [...] A. Tennyson's Poems," and he goes on to name some which had greatly pleased him, and to advise his friend to get the volume and read it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julius Hare      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
Samuel Rogers to Alfred Tennyson, 17 August 1842: 'Every day I have resolved to write and tell you with what delight I have read and read again your two beautiful volumes [...] very few things, if any, have thrilled me so much.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Rogers      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of them over again [goes on to praise Poems further, citing examples from volume]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : poems
'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of Leigh Hunt's, and some of Theocritus and Virgil [...] I had no idea Virgil could ever sound so fine as it did by his reading....Yesterday I went to see him again. After some chat we sat down in two separate rooms to read Ellen Middleton, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton -- very highly spoken of."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson     Print: Unknown

Theocritus : poems
'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of Leigh Hunt's, and some of Theocritus and Virgil [...] I had no idea Virgil could ever sound so fine as it did by his reading....Yesterday I went to see him again. After some chat we sat down in two separate rooms to read Ellen Middleton, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton -- very highly spoken of."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson     Print: Book

Virgil :
'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of Leigh Hunt's, and some of Theocritus and Virgil [...] I had no idea Virgil could ever sound so fine as it did by his reading....Yesterday I went to see him again. After some chat we sat down in two separate rooms to read Ellen Middleton, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton -- very highly spoken of."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Lady Georgiana Fullerton : Ellen Middleton
'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of Leigh Hunt's, and some of Theocritus and Virgil [...] I had no idea Virgil could ever sound so fine as it did by his reading....Yesterday I went to see him again. After some chat we sat down in two separate rooms to read Ellen Middleton, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton -- very highly spoken of."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson     Print: Book

: 'medical books'
Alfred Tennyson to Hallam Tennyson, on his childhood hypochondria: 'I used, from having early read in my father's library a great number of medical books, to fancy at times that I had all the diseases in the world, like a medical student.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson :
['Miss Fox' writes, on Tennyson's 1848 tour of Cornwall]: 'At one place [...] where he arrived in the evening, he cried, "Where is the sea? Show me the sea." So after the sea he went stumbling in the dark, and fell down and hurt his leg so much that he had to be nursed six weeks by a surgeon there, who introduced some friends to him, and thus he got into a class of society totally new to him; and when he left they gave him a series of introductions, so that instead of going to hotels he was passed on from town to town, and abode with little grocers and shopkeepers along his line of travel. He says that he cannot have better got a true impression of the class, and thinks the Cornish very superior to the generality. They all knew about Tennyson, and had read his poems, and one miner hid behind a wall that he might see him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornish 'grocers and shopkeepers' and working people     Print: Book

Sophocles : Oedipus Coloneus
From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '14th [June]. Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom
From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Miss Rundle : poem on Italy
From 'private diary' of 'Mrs Rundle Charles, who was then Miss Rundle,' on visit from Tennyson at Upland, her uncle's house, four miles outside Plymouth: 'He spoke of the Italians as a great people (it was in 1848, the year of revolutions) [...] He had read a poem of mine on Italy: said he felt "great interest in the Italian movement as in all great movements for freedom"'.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December 1849: 'I have not yet taken my bonnet off after hunting up Bamford. First of all we went to Blakeley to his little white-washed cottage. His wife was cleaning, and regretted her "master" was not at home. He had gone into Manchester [...] At last we pounced upon the great gray stalwart man coming out of a little old-fashioned public-house where Blakeley people put up. Whe I produced my book he said, "This is grand." I said, "Look at the title-page," for I saw he was fairly caught by something he liked in the middle of the book, and was standing reading it in the street. "Well, I am a proud man this day!" he exclaimed. Then he turned it up and down and read a bit (it was a very crowded street) and his gray face went quite brown-red with pleasure. Suddenly he stopped. "What must I do for him back again?" "Oh! you must write to him, and thank him." "I'd rather walk 20 mile than write a letter any day." "Well then, suppose you set off this Christmas, and walk and thank Tennyson." He looked up from his book, right in my face, quite indignant. "Woman! walking won't reach him. We're on the earth don't ye see, but he's there, up above. I can no more reach him by walking than if he were an eagle or a skylark high above my head." It came fresh, warm, straight from the heart, without a notion of making a figurative speech [...] Then he dipped down again into his book, and began reading aloud the "Sleeping Beauty," and in the middle stopped to look at the writing again. And we left him in a sort of sleep-walking state, and only trust he will not be run over.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Sleeping Beauty'
Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December 1849: 'I have not yet taken my bonnet off after hunting up Bamford. First of all we went to Blakeley to his little white-washed cottage. His wife was cleaning, and regretted her "master" was not at home. He had gone into Manchester [...] At last we pounced upon the great gray stalwart man coming out of a little old-fashioned public-house where Blakeley people put up. Whe I produced my book he said, "This is grand." I said, "Look at the title-page," for I saw he was fairly caught by something he liked in the middle of the book, and was standing reading it in the street. "Well, I am a proud man this day!" he exclaimed. Then he turned it up and down and read a bit (it was a very crowded street) and his gray face went quite brown-red with pleasure. Suddenly he stopped. "What must I do for him back again?" "Oh! you must write to him, and thank him." "I'd rather walk 20 mile than write a letter any day." "Well then, suppose you set off this Christmas, and walk and thank Tennyson." He looked up from his book, right in my face, quite indignant. "Woman! walking won't reach him. We're on the earth don't ye see, but he's there, up above. I can no more reach him by walking than if he were an eagle or a skylark high above my head." It came fresh, warm, straight from the heart, without a notion of making a figurative speech [...] Then he dipped down again into his book, and began reading aloud the "Sleeping Beauty," and in the middle stopped to look at the writing again. And we left him in a sort of sleep-walking state, and only trust he will not be run over.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford      Print: Book

Jean Ingelow : A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings
Alfred Tennyson to 'Miss Holloway (of Spilsby)', 'about her cousin Miss Jean Ingelow's poems, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings': 'I have only just returned to town, and found the Rhyming Chronicle. Your cousin must be worth knowing; there are some very charming things in her book, at least it seems so to me, tho' I do not pique myself on being much of a critic at first sight, and I really have only skimmed a few pages. Yet I think I may venture to pronounce that she need not be ashamed of publishing them. Certain things I saw which I count abominations, tho' I myself in younger days have been guilty of the same, and so was Keats. I would sooner lose a pretty thought than enshrine it in such rhymes as "Eudora" "before her," "vista" "sister." She will get to hate them herself before she gets older, and it would be a pity that she should let her book go forth with these cockneyisms. If the book were not so good I should not care for these specks, but the critics will pounce upon them, and excite a prejudice.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Crabbe : 'A Sorrowful Tale'
Aubrey de Vere on Tennyson's second visit to Ireland, as his guest, during 1848: 'In the evenings he had vocal music from Lady de Vere and her sister, and Sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven played by my eldest brother [...] Later, he read poetry to us with a voice that doubled its power, commonly choosing pathetic pieces; and on one occasion after finishing "A Sorrowful Tale" by Crabbe, glanced round reproachfully and said, "I do not see that any of you are weeping!"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Daniel O'Connell : History of Ireland
The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was working the State quarry, on the Island of Valencia, when you spent a few days there in 1848, Chartist times in London and Fenian times in Ireland [...] Your sonorous reading to us after dinner sundry truculent passages in Daniel O'Connell's History of Ireland, which happened to be lying on my table, has lingered in my ears ever since. Seeing among my few books all that your friend Carlyle had up to that time published, you told me you thought he had nothing more to say. I was often reminded of this whilst reading his subsequent Cromwell and Frederick and Latter Days, and how near that was to the truth.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Cromwell
The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was working the State quarry, on the Island of Valencia, when you spent a few days there in 1848, Chartist times in London and Fenian times in Ireland [...] Your sonorous reading to us after dinner sundry truculent passages in Daniel O'Connell's History of Ireland, which happened to be lying on my table, has lingered in my ears ever since. Seeing among my few books all that your friend Carlyle had up to that time published, you told me you thought he had nothing more to say. I was often reminded of this whilst reading his subsequent Cromwell and Frederick and Latter Days, and how near that was to the truth.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Bewicke Blackburne      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : 'Frederick'
The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was working the State quarry, on the Island of Valencia, when you spent a few days there in 1848, Chartist times in London and Fenian times in Ireland [...] Your sonorous reading to us after dinner sundry truculent passages in Daniel O'Connell's History of Ireland, which happened to be lying on my table, has lingered in my ears ever since. Seeing among my few books all that your friend Carlyle had up to that time published, you told me you thought he had nothing more to say. I was often reminded of this whilst reading his subsequent Cromwell and Frederick and Latter Days, and how near that was to the truth.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Bewicke Blackburne      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Latter Days
The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was working the State quarry, on the Island of Valencia, when you spent a few days there in 1848, Chartist times in London and Fenian times in Ireland [...] Your sonorous reading to us after dinner sundry truculent passages in Daniel O'Connell's History of Ireland, which happened to be lying on my table, has lingered in my ears ever since. Seeing among my few books all that your friend Carlyle had up to that time published, you told me you thought he had nothing more to say. I was often reminded of this whilst reading his subsequent Cromwell and Frederick and Latter Days, and how near that was to the truth.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Bewicke Blackburne      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : stanzas from In Memoriam
Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my recollection as those which are associated with that time and with "In Memoriam" [...] 'I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me till the early hours of the morning. The tears often ran down his face as he read, without the slightest apparent consciousness of them on his part. The pathos and grandeur of those poems were to me greatly increased by the voice which rather intoned than recited them [...] Sometimes towards the close of a stanza his voice dropped; but I avoided the chance of thus losing any part of the meaning by sitting beside him, and glancing at the pieces he read. They were written in a long and narrow manuscript book, which assisted him to arrange the poems in due order by bringing many of them at once before his eye.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : stanzas from In Memoriam
Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my recollection as those which are associated with that time and with "In Memoriam" [...] 'I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me till the early hours of the morning. The tears often ran down his face as he read, without the slightest apparent consciousness of them on his part. The pathos and grandeur of those poems were to me greatly increased by the voice which rather intoned than recited them [...] Sometimes towards the close of a stanza his voice dropped; but I avoided the chance of thus losing any part of the meaning by sitting beside him, and glancing at the pieces he read. They were written in a long and narrow manuscript book, which assisted him to arrange the poems in due order by bringing many of them at once before his eye.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Aubrey de Vere      Manuscript: Unknown

Ovid : works
Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883: 'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing one line of Statius; and of Ovid's "Epicedion" I never heard. I have searched for it in vain in a little three volume edition of Ovid which I have here, but that does not contain this poem'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Bible
'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and traced with deep interest such fundamental truths as underlie the great religions of the world.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: works on Bible
'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and traced with deep interest such fundamental truths as underlie the great religions of the world.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: philosophical texts
'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible [...] 'Soon after his marriage he took to reading different systems of philosophy, yet none particularly influenced him.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam: 'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not speak as another would to praise and admire: few of them [the poems] indeed I have as yet been capable of reading, the grief they express is too much akin to that they revive. It is better than any monument which could be raised to the memory of my beloved son [Arthur Henry Hallam, to whose death the poems were Tennyson's response], it is a more lively and enduring testimony to his great virtues and talents that the world should know the friendship which existed between you, that posterity should associate his name with that of Alfred Tennyson.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Alton Locke
'On the 21st February [1851] their [Alfred and Emily Tennyson's] diary reads: "We read Alton Locke"'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

: novels
Alfred Tennyson to his wife Emily, 13 July 1852: 'I am reading lots of novels. The worst is they do not last longer than the day. I am such a fierce reader I think I have had pretty well my quantum suff.:'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Dr Wordsworth : Apocalypse
'Early in 1852 my father and mother went on a visit to one of his old College friends, Mr Rashdall the clergyman of Malvern [...] While they were there my father read Dr Wordsworth's Apocalypse to my mother.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Layard : Nineveh
'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read at this time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Herschel : 'Astronomy'
'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read at this time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: The Times
'By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to me in quieter days, more potent than life, more permanent than war - I enclosed with my letter the cutting of a recent "Times" leader which had encouraged me to hope for the future resurrection of pre-war literary values.' [In the next sentence Vera Brittain states that the Times leader was called "The Unsubmerged City".]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

various : The Times History of the War
'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the total estimate of European war casualities was already five million dead and seven million wounded, and studied with care the first official account of Neuve Chapelle.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

W. E. Henley : Bric-a-Brac
'To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's "Bric-a-Brac":
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles
'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where surrounded by books I used to read "Tess of the D'Urbervilles before a glowing fire at twelve o'clock at night, I can only cry inwardly: "I [italics] hate [end italics] nursing! How tired I am of this War - will it never end!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book, Unknown

: The Times
'After following the progress of the new Allied expedition to Salonika, and studying with mixed feelings the competitive journalistic outbursts over the shooting of Nurse Cavell, the three of us read, rather sadly, in "The Times" of October 15th, the customary account of the opening of the Michaelmas term at Oxford, and speculated whether we should ever again see as students the grey walls clothed in their scarlet robes of autumn creeper.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper, Unknown

Johan August Strindberg : unknown
'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped opposite my table and never returned.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

Robert Hugh Benson : Vexilla Regis
'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine for a few of the books that Roland and I had admired and read together. "The Story of an African Farm" was there and "The Poems of Paul Verlaine", as well as "The Garden of Kama" and "Pecheur d'Islande". To these I added Robert Hugh Benson's Prayer Book, "Vexilla Regis", not only in honour of Roland's Catholicism, but because my mother had sent me some lines, which I frequently read and cried over, from Benson's "Prayer after a Crushing Bereavement":'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: newspaper
'Although, during those noisy, monotonous weeks, I had at last time to read the newspapers, with their perturbing accounts of the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, and Townshend's surrender at Kut, and the first stages of Roger Casement's progress towards his execution in August, there was still more than enough opportunity for thoughts about the past.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: the 'Star' newspaper
'A boy thrust a "Star" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: newspaper
'The leisurely life on this surgical block left plenty of time for reading the various newspapers sent to me from England.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Alfred Tennyson : Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852: 'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] It has a greatness worthy of its theme and an absolute simplicity and truth, with all the poetic passion of your nature moving beneath.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Taylor      Print: Unknown

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia
Alfred Tennyson to Charles Kingsley (1853): 'Part of the conclusion [of Hypatia] seems to me particularly valuable. I mean the talk of the Christianized Jew to the classic boy. Hypatia's mistreatment by the Alexandrians I found almost too horrible. It is very powerful and tragic; but I objected to the word "naked." Pelagia's nakedness has nothing which revolts one... but I really was hurt at having Hypatia stript, tho' I see that it adds to the tragic, and the picture as well as the moral is a fine one.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Baxter : Flowering Plants
'Some days we [Tennyson children] went flower-hunting, and on our return home, if the flower was unknown, he [Alfred Tennyson] would say, "Bring me my Baxter's Flowering Plants," to look it out for us.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Grimm : Fairy Stories
'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Persian grammar
Alfred Tennyson to John Forster, 29 March 1854: 'I understand from Archibald Peel that you are aggrieved at my not writing to you [...] A reason for my not writing much is the bad condition of my right eye which quite suddenly came on as I was reading or trying to read small Persian text. You know perhaps how very minute in some of those Eastern tongues are the differences of letters: a little dot more or less: in a moment, after a three hours' hanging over this scratchy text, my right eye became filled with great masses of floating blackness, and the other eye similarly affected tho' not so badly. I am in a great fear about them, and think of coming up to town about them'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Coventry Patmore : The Angel in the House
[Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife and two children [...] in the afternoon we sometimes read aloud in the open air, or rather we listened to the Poet's reading [...] On one occasion our book, which we agreed in greatly admiring, was Coventry Patmore's Angel in the House, then recent.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De Vere     Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid VI
'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Homer : 'description of Hades'
'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Whewell : Plurality of Worlds
'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Souvestre : 'account of the Bretons'
'When Millais left, my parents read together Souvestre's account of the Bretons. The fact that their most popular national songs are religious and that, when the cholera was among them, they would not listen to the doctors until they put their advice in song, set to national airs, struck my father.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

: account of Charge of the Light Brigade
'On Dec 2nd [1854], he [Tennyson] wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in a few minutes, after reading the description in the Times in which occured the phrase "some one had blundered," and this was the origin of the meter of his poem.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Newspaper

Theocritus : Hylas
'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Theocritus : The Island of Cos
'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Theocritus : The Syracusan Women
'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Maud (sections)
'On Jan. 10th 1855 my father had "finished, and read out, several lyrics of Maud.'"
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake
'[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Helena
'[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
From Tennyson's journal of 1855: 'October 1st. [...] I read "Maud" to five or six people at the Brownings (on Sept. 28th).'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Milton :
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Sonnets
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Henry Hallam : 'History'
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Cromwell
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Andrew Lang : [article on Montaigne]
'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: it was a little gem.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Johnson : Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] was, yet, since it was congenial with the sentiments of numbers at that time, and as every thing relating to the writings of Dr. Johnson is of importance in literary history, I shall therefore insert some passages which were struck out, it does not appear why, either by himself or those who revised it. They appear printed in a few proof leaves of it in my possession, marked with corrections in his own handwriting. I shall distinguish them by Italicks. [various passages are then reproduced]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell

Samuel Johnson : Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] was, yet, since it was congenial with the sentiments of numbers at that time, and as every thing relating to the writings of Dr. Johnson is of importance in literary history, I shall therefore insert some passages which were struck out, it does not appear why, either by himself or those who revised it. They appear printed in a few proof leaves of it in my possession, marked with corrections in his own handwriting. I shall distinguish them by Italicks. [various passages are then reproduced]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, should you again address the publick under the character of a political writer, that luxuriance of imagination or energy of language will ill compensate for the want of candour, of justice, and of truth. And I shall only add, that should I hereafter be disposed to read, as I heretofore have done, the most excellent of all your performances, 'The Rambler,' the pleasure which I have been accustomed to find in it will be much diminished by the reflection that the writer of so moral, so elegant, and so valuable a work was capable of prostituting his talents in such productions as 'The False Alarm,' the 'Thoughts on the Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands,' and 'The Patriot.' "
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Towers      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : False Alarm, The
'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, should you again address the publick under the character of a political writer, that luxuriance of imagination or energy of language will ill compensate for the want of candour, of justice, and of truth. And I shall only add, that should I hereafter be disposed to read, as I heretofore have done, the most excellent of all your performances, 'The Rambler,' the pleasure which I have been accustomed to find in it will be much diminished by the reflection that the writer of so moral, so elegant, and so valuable a work was capable of prostituting his talents in such productions as 'The False Alarm,' the 'Thoughts on the Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands,' and 'The Patriot.' "
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Towers

Samuel Johnson : Patriot, The
'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, should you again address the publick under the character of a political writer, that luxuriance of imagination or energy of language will ill compensate for the want of candour, of justice, and of truth. And I shall only add, that should I hereafter be disposed to read, as I heretofore have done, the most excellent of all your performances, 'The Rambler,' the pleasure which I have been accustomed to find in it will be much diminished by the reflection that the writer of so moral, so elegant, and so valuable a work was capable of prostituting his talents in such productions as 'The False Alarm,' the 'Thoughts on the Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands,' and 'The Patriot.' "
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Towers

Samuel Johnson : Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by Joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, should you again address the publick under the character of a political writer, that luxuriance of imagination or energy of language will ill compensate for the want of candour, of justice, and of truth. And I shall only add, that should I hereafter be disposed to read, as I heretofore have done, the most excellent of all your performances, 'The Rambler,' the pleasure which I have been accustomed to find in it will be much diminished by the reflection that the writer of so moral, so elegant, and so valuable a work was capable of prostituting his talents in such productions as 'The False Alarm,' the 'Thoughts on the Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands,' and 'The Patriot.' "
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Towers

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'I found his " Journey" the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be. At one of Lord Mansfield's formal Sunday evening conversations, strangely called [italics] Levees [end italics], his Lordship addressed me, "We have all been reading your travels, Mr. Boswell." I answered, "I was but the humble attendant of Dr. Johnson." The Chief Justice replied, with that air and manner which none who ever saw and heard him can forget, "He speaks ill of nobody but Ossian".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Murray, First Earl Mansfield      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Tale of a Tub, A
'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of a Tub' is so much superiour to his other writings that one can hardly believe he was the authour of it. There is in it such a vigour of mind, such a swarm of thoughts, so much of nature, and art, and life." I wondered to hear him say of "Gulliver's Travels", "When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest." I endeavoured to make a stand for Swift, and tried to rouse those who were much more able to defend him; but in vain. Johnson at last, of his own accord, allowed very great merit to the inventory of articles found in the pocket of [italics] The Man Mountain [end italics], particularly the description of his watch, which, it was conjectured, was his God, as he consulted it upon all occasions. He observed, that "Swift put his name to but two things (after he had a name to put), 'The Plan of the Improvement of the English Language,' and the last 'Drapier's Letter'."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of a Tub' is so much superiour to his other writings that one can hardly believe he was the authour of it. There is in it such a vigour of mind, such a swarm of thoughts, so much of nature, and art, and life." I wondered to hear him say of "Gulliver's Travels", "When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest." I endeavoured to make a stand for Swift, and tried to rouse those who were much more able to defend him; but in vain. Johnson at last, of his own accord, allowed very great merit to the inventory of articles found in the pocket of [italics] The Man Mountain [end italics], particularly the description of his watch, which, it was conjectured, was his God, as he consulted it upon all occasions. He observed, that "Swift put his name to but two things (after he had a name to put), 'The Plan of the Improvement of the English Language,' and the last 'Drapier's Letter'."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Drapier's Letters, The
'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of a Tub' is so much superiour to his other writings that one can hardly believe he was the authour of it. There is in it such a vigour of mind, such a swarm of thoughts, so much of nature, and art, and life." I wondered to hear him say of "Gulliver's Travels", "When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest." I endeavoured to make a stand for Swift, and tried to rouse those who were much more able to defend him; but in vain. Johnson at last, of his own accord, allowed very great merit to the inventory of articles found in the pocket of [italics] The Man Mountain [end italics], particularly the description of his watch, which, it was conjectured, was his God, as he consulted it upon all occasions. He observed, that "Swift put his name to but two things (after he had a name to put), 'The Plan of the Improvement of the English Language,' and the last 'Drapier's Letter'."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Plan for the Improvement of the English Language
'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of a Tub' is so much superiour to his other writings that one can hardly believe he was the authour of it. There is in it such a vigour of mind, such a swarm of thoughts, so much of nature, and art, and life." I wondered to hear him say of "Gulliver's Travels", "When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest." I endeavoured to make a stand for Swift, and tried to rouse those who were much more able to defend him; but in vain. Johnson at last, of his own accord, allowed very great merit to the inventory of articles found in the pocket of [italics] The Man Mountain [end italics], particularly the description of his watch, which, it was conjectured, was his God, as he consulted it upon all occasions. He observed, that "Swift put his name to but two things (after he had a name to put), 'The Plan of the Improvement of the English Language,' and the last 'Drapier's Letter'."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Home : Douglas, A tragedy
'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its author with a gold medal. Some years ago, at a coffee-house in Oxford, I called to him, 'Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Sheridan, how came you to give a gold medal to Home for writing that foolish play ?' This, you see, was wanton and insolent; but I meant to be wanton and insolent. A medal has no value but as a stamp of merit. And was Sheridan to assume to himself the right of giving that stamp?"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Home : Douglas, A tragedy
'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its authour with a gold medal. Some years ago, at a coffee-house in Oxford, I called to him, 'Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Sheridan, how came you to give a gold medal to Home for writing that foolish play ?' This, you see, was wanton and insolent; but I meant to be wanton and insolent. A medal has no value but as a stamp of merit. And was Sheridan to assume to himself the right of giving that stamp?"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Sheridan      Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; but surely he was not dull in poetry." Johnson. "Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet." He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said, "Is not that GREAT, like his Odes?" Mrs. Thrale maintained that his Odes were melodious; upon which he exclaimed, "Weave the warp, and weave the woof;" I added, in a solemn tone, "The winding sheet of Edward's race". "[italics] There [end italics] is a good line."—"Ay (said he), and the next line is a good one," (pronouncing it contemptuously;) "Give ample verge and room enough.—" "No, sir, there are but two good stanzas in Gray's poetry, which are in his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.'" He then repeated the stanza, "For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey," &c. mistaking one word; for instead of [italics] precincts [end italics] he said [italics] confines [end italics]. He added, "The other stanza I forget".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray : The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; but surely he was not dull in poetry." Johnson. "Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet." He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said, "Is not that GREAT, like his Odes?" Mrs. Thrale maintained that his Odes were melodious; upon which he exclaimed, "Weave the warp, and weave the woof;" I added, in a solemn tone, "The winding sheet of Edward's race". "[italics] There [end italics] is a good line."—"Ay (said he), and the next line is a good one," (pronouncing it contemptuously;) "Give ample verge and room enough.—" "No, sir, there are but two good stanzas in Gray's poetry, which are in his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.'" He then repeated the stanza, "For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey," &c. mistaking one word; for instead of [italics] precincts [end italics] he said [italics]confines [end italics]. He added, "The other stanza I forget".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray : The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; but surely he was not dull in poetry." Johnson. "Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet." He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said, "Is not that GREAT, like his Odes?" Mrs. Thrale maintained that his Odes were melodious; upon which he exclaimed, "Weave the warp, and weave the woof;" I added, in a solemn tone, "The winding sheet of Edward's race". "[italics] There [end italics] is a good line."—"Ay (said he), and the next line is a good one," (pronouncing it contemptuously;) "Give ample verge and room enough.—" "No, sir, there are but two good stanzas in Gray's poetry, which are in his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.'" He then repeated the stanza, "For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey," &c. mistaking one word; for instead of [italics] precincts [end italics] he said [italics]confines [end italics]. He added, "The other stanza I forget".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; but surely he was not dull in poetry." Johnson. "Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet." He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said, "Is not that GREAT, like his Odes?" Mrs. Thrale maintained that his Odes were melodious; upon which he exclaimed, "Weave the warp, and weave the woof;" I added, in a solemn tone, "The winding sheet of Edward's race". "[italics] There [end italics] is a good line."—"Ay (said he), and the next line is a good one," (pronouncing it contemptuously;) "Give ample verge and room enough.—" "No, sir, there are but two good stanzas in Gray's poetry, which are in his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.'" He then repeated the stanza, "For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey," &c. mistaking one word; for instead of [italics] precincts [end italics] he said [italics]confines [end italics]. He added, "The other stanza I forget".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray : [Odes]
'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; but surely he was not dull in poetry." Johnson. "Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet." He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said, "Is not that GREAT, like his Odes?" Mrs. Thrale maintained that his Odes were melodious; upon which he exclaimed, "Weave the warp, and weave the woof;" I added, in a solemn tone, "The winding sheet of Edward's race". "[italics] There [end italics] is a good line."—"Ay (said he), and the next line is a good one," (pronouncing it contemptuously;) "Give ample verge and room enough.—" "No, sir, there are but two good stanzas in Gray's poetry, which are in his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.'" He then repeated the stanza, "For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey," &c. mistaking one word; for instead of [italics] precincts [end italics] he said [italics]confines [end italics]. He added, "The other stanza I forget".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son
'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sale, considering that they were the letters of a statesman, a wit, one who had been so much in the mouths of mankind, one long accustomed [italics] virum volitare per ora [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Man of Property
'The book ["The Man of Property"] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a piece of art. I've read it 3 times. My respect for you increased with every reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: presumably copy of MS sent for publication, or the page proofs, since book was publsihed on 23 March 1906

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Fifth Queen and how she came to court
'The blessed vol: ["The Fifth Queen"] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...] Here I'll add one more phrase bearing upon the most "sensible" general effect.[...] The pictorial impression of the whole is positively overwhelming.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Heart of the Country:A Survey of Modern Land
'[Ford's ] "The Heart of the Country" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Wanted - Schooling in Fiction
'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells : In the Days of the Comet
'The Comet appeared to my naked (and surprised) eye yesterday morning. By a great effort of will I stuck to my own task till lunchtime. I began my observations in the afternoon and continued at it far into the night. I've completed them this morning. It is indeed a phenomenon!' Hence follow 18 lines of preliminary commentary on the text.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells : The Future in America: A search after realities
'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart.He has understood a heap of fundamentally unintelligible things. That's the purpose of an imagination like his, aided by an intelligence as sharp as acid.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : The Breaking Point
'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of the room. I will see no one, will let no word or thing come between it and me till I've written to you.' Hence follow five pages of commentary and praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: unclear whether MS or printed playscript

Thomas Carlyle : Essay on Burns
'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in which so much as Burns’s name appears, I was really electrified (beg pardon for such a "Daily Telegraphism") by this. It is full of very fine criticism, expressed here and there in rather an old-fashioned academical style, full of beautiful humanity − see the noble passage about Burns having refused money for his songs − and full of wonderful wisdom. The whole conclusion is indeed admirable; as where he says that all fame, riches, fortune of all sorts is to true peace no more than “mounting to the house top to reach the stars”; and again about Byron: “the fire that was in him, was the mad fire of a volcano; and now we look sadly into the ashes of a crater which erelong[sic] will fill itself with snow.”. I subscribe to that essay. My own is quite unnecessary. Do read it; it will do you good; it would do the dead good. It has reminded me once again of the great mistake of my life − and of everybody else’s; that we are all trying to gain the whole world if you will, except what alone is worth keeping; our own soul. God bless T.Carlyle, say I. […] Read that essay, it is in volume two, […]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Théophile Gautier : Emaux et Camées
'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't seen these poems since, since the days before the Deluge. How simple they were those great romantics!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

George Colman : Two Odes: To Obscurity and To Oblivion
'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conversation about their possible joint authorship] Johnson. "The first of these Odes is the best: but they are both good. They exposed a very bad kind of writing." Boswell. "Surely, sir, Mr. Mason's 'Elfrida' is a fine Poem: at least, you will allow there are some good passages in it." Johnson. "There are now and then some good imitations of Milton's bad manner".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Mason : Elfrida
'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conversation about their possible joint authorship] Johnson. "The first of these Odes is the best: but they are both good. They exposed a very bad kind of writing." Boswell. "Surely, sir, Mr. Mason's 'Elfrida' is a fine Poem: at least, you will allow there are some good passages in it." Johnson. "There are now and then some good imitations of Milton's bad manner".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Mason : Elfrida
'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conversation about their possible joint authorship] Johnson. "The first of these Odes is the best: but they are both good. They exposed a very bad kind of writing." Boswell. "Surely, sir, Mr. Mason's 'Elfrida' is a fine Poem: at least, you will allow there are some good passages in it." Johnson. "There are now and then some good imitations of Milton's bad manner".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Mason : Elfrida
'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a former part of this work, expressed my high opinion; and for that of Mr. Mason I have ever entertained a warm admiration. His "Elfrida" is exquisite, both in poetical description and moral sentiment; and his "Caractacus" is a noble drama. Nor can I omit paying my tribute of praise to some of his smaller poems, which I have read with pleasure, and which no criticism shall persuade me not to like'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Mason : Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem
'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a former part of this work, expressed my high opinion; and for that of Mr. Mason I have ever entertained a warm admiration. His "Elfrida" is exquisite, both in poetical description and moral sentiment; and his "Caractacus" is a noble drama. Nor can I omit paying my tribute of praise to some of his smaller poems, which I have read with pleasure, and which no criticism shall persuade me not to like'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Mason : [minor poems]
'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a former part of this work, expressed my high opinion; and for that of Mr. Mason I have ever entertained a warm admiration. His "Elfrida" is exquisite, both in poetical description and moral sentiment; and his "Caractacus" is a noble drama. Nor can I omit paying my tribute of praise to some of his smaller poems, which I have read with pleasure, and which no criticism shall persuade me not to like'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]
'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being mentioned, he held them very cheap: "[italics] Bouts rimes [end italics] (said he), is a mere conceit, and an [italics] old [end italics] conceit [italics] now [end italics]; I wonder how people were persuaded to write in that manner for this lady."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Campbell : Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters
'[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland," a very entertaining book, which has, however, one fault:—that it assumes the fictitious character of an Englishman.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : Careless Husband, The
'Dr. Johnson, as usual, spoke contemptuously of Colley Cibber. "It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty, should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation: and he had but half to furnish; for one half of what he said was oaths." He, however, allowed considerable merit to some of his comedies, and said there was no reason to believe that the "Careless Husband" was not written by himself.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Twiss : Travels through Portugal and Spain
'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as good as the first book of travels that you will take up. They are as good as those of Keysler or Blainville: nay, as Addison's, if you except the learning. They are not so good as Brydone's, but they are better than Pococke's. I have not, indeed, cut the leaves yet; but I have read in them where the pages are open, and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are closed is worse than what is in the open pages. It would seem (he added), that Addison had not acquired much Italian learning, for we do not find it introduced into his writings. The only instance that I recollect is his quoting '[italics] Stavo bene, per star meglio, sto qui' [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John George Keysler : Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain
'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as good as the first book of travels that you will take up. They are as good as those of Keysler or Blainville: nay, as Addison's, if you except the learning. They are not so good as Brydone's, but they are better than Pococke's. I have not, indeed, cut the leaves yet; but I have read in them where the pages are open, and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are closed is worse than what is in the open pages. It would seem (he added), that Addison had not acquired much Italian learning, for we do not find it introduced into his writings. The only instance that I recollect is his quoting '[italics] Stavo bene, per star meglio, sto qui' [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville : Travels through Holland, Germany and Switzerland, but especially Italy, with maps
'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as good as the first book of travels that you will take up. They are as good as those of Keysler or Blainville: nay, as Addison's, if you except the learning. They are not so good as Brydone's, but they are better than Pococke's. I have not, indeed, cut the leaves yet; but I have read in them where the pages are open, and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are closed is worse than what is in the open pages. It would seem (he added), that Addison had not acquired much Italian learning, for we do not find it introduced into his writings. The only instance that I recollect is his quoting '[italics] Stavo bene, per star meglio, sto qui' [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Patrick Brydone : Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford
'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as good as the first book of travels that you will take up. They are as good as those of Keysler or Blainville: nay, as Addison's, if you except the learning. They are not so good as Brydone's, but they are better than Pococke's. I have not, indeed, cut the leaves yet; but I have read in them where the pages are open, and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are closed is worse than what is in the open pages. It would seem (he added), that Addison had not acquired much Italian learning, for we do not find it introduced into his writings. The only instance that I recollect is his quoting '[italics] Stavo bene, per star meglio, sto qui' [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : His People
'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've gone through your pages so vigorous, so personal and so exquisite. What a "Return of the Native" you have given us! "His People" is a wonderful piece of description and an amazing piece of analysis.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as good as the first book of travels that you will take up. They are as good as those of Keysler or Blainville: nay, as Addison's, if you except the learning. They are not so good as Brydone's, but they are better than Pococke's. I have not, indeed, cut the leaves yet; but I have read in them where the pages are open, and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are closed is worse than what is in the open pages. It would seem (he added), that Addison had not acquired much Italian learning, for we do not find it introduced into his writings. The only instance that I recollect is his quoting '[italics] Stavo bene, per star meglio, sto qui' [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Pococke : Description of the East and Some other Countries,
'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as good as the first book of travels that you will take up. They are as good as those of Keysler or Blainville: nay, as Addison's, if you except the learning. They are not so good as Brydone's, but they are better than Pococke's. I have not, indeed, cut the leaves yet; but I have read in them where the pages are open, and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are closed is worse than what is in the open pages. It would seem (he added), that Addison had not acquired much Italian learning, for we do not find it introduced into his writings. The only instance that I recollect is his quoting '[italics] Stavo bene, per star meglio, sto qui' [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Scott : [Elegies]
'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty people might write." Upon this I took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim, " [italics] mediocribus esse poetis Non Di, non homines non concessere columnae:" [end italics] For here, (I observed,) was a very middle rate poet, who pleased many readers, and therefore poetry of a middle sort was entitled to some esteem; nor could I see why poetry should not, like every thing else, have different gradations of excellence, and consequently of value. Johnson repeated the common remark, that "as there is no necessity for our having poetry at all, it being merely a luxury, an instrument of pleasure, it can have no value, unless when exquisite in its kind".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Scott : [Elegies]
'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty people might write." Upon this I took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim, " [italics] mediocribus esse poetis Non Di, non homines non concessere columnae:" [end italics] For here, (I observed,) was a very middle rate poet, who pleased many readers, and therefore poetry of a middle sort was entitled to some esteem; nor could I see why poetry should not, like every thing else, have different gradations of excellence, and consequently of value. Johnson repeated the common remark, that "as there is no necessity for our having poetry at all, it being merely a luxury, an instrument of pleasure, it can have no value, unless when exquisite in its kind".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

[n/a] : [various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland']
'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands" was attacked in every mode; and I read a great part of them to him, knowing they would afford him entertainment. I wish the writers of them had been present: they would have been sufficiently vexed. One ludicrous imitation of his style, by Mr. Maclaurin, now one of the Scotch Judges, with the title of Lord Dreghorn, was distinguished by him from the rude mass. "This (said he) is the best. But I could caricature my own style much better myself." He defended his remark upon the general insufficiency of education in Scotland; and confirmed to me the authenticity of his witty saying on the learning of the Scotch;—"Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Izaak Walton : Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson
'He talked of Isaac Walton's "Lives", which was one of his most favourite books. Dr. Donne's "Life", he said, was the most perfect of them'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick or The Whale
Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did go no further. Lately I had in my hand "Moby Dick". It struck me as a rather strained rhapsody with whaling for a subject and not a single sincere line in the 3 vols of it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Paul Gruyer : Napoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe
'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can discover there about Napoleon in Elba.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jessie Conrad : A handbook of Cookery for a Small House
'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly- all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[...] My preface is a mock serious thing[...] but the little book is not bad. Its about 15,000 words or a little less.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well

John Galsworthy : The Country House
'My dearest Jack I read the "C[ountry H[ouse]" with perfectly unalloyed delight. [...] I can only say it came to me in book form with a freshness, with a force, with an authority which simply amazed me.' Hence follow four more lines of unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'Johnson was here solaced with an elegant entertainment, a very accomplished family, and much good company; among whom was Mr. Harris of Salisbury, who paid him many compliments on his "Journey to the Western Islands".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Harris      Print: Book

John Gay : Beggar's Opera, The
'The late "worthy'' Duke of Queensberry, as Thomson, in his "Seasons," justly characterises him, told me that when Gay showed him "The Beggar's Opera," his Grace's observation was, "This is a very odd thing, Gay; I am satisfied that it is either a very good thing, or a very bad thing." It proved the former, beyond the warmest expectations of the authour or his friends'.
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Douglas, Third Duke of Queensberry

Samuel Butler : Hudibras
'[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. There is in "Hudibras" a great deal of bullion which will always last. But to be sure the brightest strokes of his wit owed their force to the impression of the characters which was upon men's minds at the time; to their knowing them at table and in the street; in short, being familiar with them; and above all, to his satire being directed against those whom a little while before they had hated and feared.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Spectator, The [Roger de Coverley essays]
'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He was not killed; he died only because others were to die, and because his death afforded an opportunity to Addison for some very fine writing. We have the example of Cervantes making Don Quixote die.— I never could see why Sir Roger is represented as a little cracked. It appears to me that the story of the widow was intended to have something superinduced upon it; but the superstructure did not come."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He was not killed; he died only because others were to die, and because his death afforded an opportunity to Addison for some very fine writing. We have the example of Cervantes making Don Quixote die.— I never could see why Sir Roger is represented as a little cracked. It appears to me that the story of the widow was intended to have something superinduced upon it; but the superstructure did not come."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Joy
' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at once. I've read it more than once the very first day, then many times since in whole of in parts[...]' Hence follows a page of praise with some mild negative criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: probably a playscript

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observations should keep his work in suspense makes one of the evils of my journey. It is in our language, I think, a new mode of history which tells all that is wanted, and, I suppose, all that is known, without laboured splendour of language, or affected subtilty of conjecture. The exactness of his dates raises my wonder. He seems to have the closeness of Renault without his constraint. Mrs. Thrale was so entertained with your "Journal" that she almost read herself blind. She has a great regard for you'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles-Jean-François Henault : [history]
'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observations should keep his work in suspense makes one of the evils of my journey. It is in our language, I think, a new mode of history which tells all that is wanted, and, I suppose, all that is known, without laboured splendour of language, or affected subtilty of conjecture. The exactness of his dates raises my wonder. He seems to have the closeness of Renault without his constraint. Mrs. Thrale was so entertained with your [italics] Journal [end italics] that she almost read herself blind. She has a great regard for you'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Boswell : Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observations should keep his work in suspense makes one of the evils of my journey. It is in our language, I think, a new mode of history which tells all that is wanted, and, I suppose, all that is known, without laboured splendour of language, or affected subtilty of conjecture. The exactness of his dates raises my wonder. He seems to have the closeness of Renault without his constraint. Mrs. Thrale was so entertained with your [italics] Journal [end italics] that she almost read herself blind. She has a great regard for you'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : [article on Galsworthy]
'I've read Hueffer's portrait of Mr John Galsworthy several times. It is interesting mostly as a portrait of Mr Hueffer himself. I have my own strong conception of J.G. I can't say I've been greatly edified. Looked upon abstractedly the thing is distinctly good.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

: Bible
'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be with wooden types, and part with pages cut in boards.—The Bible, supposed to be older than that of Mentz, in 62 [1462]; it has no date, it is supposed to have been printed with wooden types.—I am in doubt; the print is large and fair, in two folios.—Another book was shewn me, supposed to have been printed with wooden types;—I think, "Durandi Sanctuarium in 58 [1458]. This is inferred from the difference of form sometimes seen in the same letter, which might be struck with different puncheons.—The regular similitude of most letters proves better that they are metal.—I saw nothing but the "Speculum" which I had not seen, I think, before'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

anon. : Speculum humanae Salvationis
'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be with wooden types, and part with pages cut in boards.—The Bible, supposed to be older than that of Mentz, in 62 [1462]; it has no date, it is supposed to have been printed with wooden types.—I am in doubt; the print is large and fair, in two folios.—Another book was shewn me, supposed to have been printed with wooden types;—I think, "Durandi Sanctuarium in 58 [1458]. This is inferred from the difference of form sometimes seen in the same letter, which might be struck with different puncheons.—The regular similitude of most letters proves better that they are metal.—I saw nothing but the "Speculum" which I had not seen, I think, before'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Durandi Sanctuarium
'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be with wooden types, and part with pages cut in boards.—The Bible, supposed to be older than that of Mentz, in 62 [1462]; it has no date, it is supposed to have been printed with wooden types.—I am in doubt; the print is large and fair, in two folios.—Another book was shewn me, supposed to have been printed with wooden types;—I think, "Durandi Sanctuarium" in 58 [1458]. This is inferred from the difference of form sometimes seen in the same letter, which might be struck with different puncheons.—The regular similitude of most letters proves better that they are metal.—I saw nothing but the "Speculum" which I had not seen, I think, before'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Giovanni Boccacio : [tales from the 'Decameron']
'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery.—In the library, "Beroald",—"Cymon",—"Titus", from Boccace.—"Oratio Proverbialis" to the Virgin, from Petrarch; Falkland to Sandys;—Dryden's Preface to the third vol. of Miscellanies.' [Boswell's footnote: 'He means, I suppose, that he read those different pieces, while he remained in the library'.]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Petrarch : [unknown oration]
'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery.—In the library, "Beroald",—"Cymon",—"Titus", from Boccace.—"Oratio Proverbialis" to the Virgin, from Petrarch; Falkland to Sandys;—Dryden's Preface to the third vol. of Miscellanies.' [Boswell's footnote: 'He means, I suppose, that he read those different pieces, while he remained in the library'.]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland : [unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to his associate George Sandys]
'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery.—In the library, "Beroald",—"Cymon",—"Titus", from Boccace.—"Oratio Proverbialis" to the Virgin, from Petrarch; Falkland to Sandys;—Dryden's Preface to the third vol. of Miscellanies.' [Boswell's footnote: 'He means, I suppose, that he read those different pieces, while he remained in the library'.]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dryden : [preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]
'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery.—In the library, "Beroald",—"Cymon",—"Titus", from Boccace.—"Oratio Proverbialis" to the Virgin, from Petrarch; Falkland to Sandys;—Dryden's Preface to the third vol. of Miscellanies.' [Boswell's footnote: 'He means, I suppose, that he read those different pieces, while he remained in the library'.]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Abbot Barthelemu : Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era
Vol 7 On the Griphi and Impromptus (quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small when at maturity.' A Shadow. Such also is this 'There are two sisters who incessantly ... each other day and night.' both of which words are in Greek. Other Griphi turn on the resemblance of names as for example 'What is that which is at once found on the earth, in the sea and in the heavens' - The Dog, the Serpent and the Boar.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton      Print: Book

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him far and far behind'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Jean François Henault : Abrege chronologique de l'histoire de France
'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him far and far behind'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Dugald Stewart : Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind
'A book I have a high opinion of'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton      Print: Book

D O'Bryan : The Government of the Country
'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan. N.B. a rebellious book.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton      Print: Book

Robert Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy, The
'[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation. But there is a great spirit and great power in what Burton says, when he writes from his own mind'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jason de Nores : [edition of Horace with commentary]
'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or other will come off superior. I do not mean that the victor must have the better of the argument, for he may take the weak side; but his superiority of parts and knowledge will necessarily appear: and he to whom he thus shows himself superiour is lessened in the eyes of the young men. You know it was said, [italics] 'Mallem cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio recte sapere [end italics]' In the same manner take Bentley's and Jason de Nores' Comments upon Horace, you will admire Bentley more when wrong than Jason when right."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Bentley : [edition of Horace with commentary]
'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or other will come off superior. I do not mean that the victor must have the better of the argument, for he may take the weak side; but his superiority of parts and knowledge will necessarily appear: and he to whom he thus shows himself superiour is lessened in the eyes of the young men. You know it was said, [italics] 'Mallem cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio recte sapere [end italics]' In the same manner take Bentley's and Jason de Nores' Comments upon Horace, you will admire Bentley more when wrong than Jason when right."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

George Lyttelton, First Baron Lyttelton : Dialogues of the Dead
' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley said to me, 'I knew Dartineuf well, for I was once his footman.'" Biography led us to speak of Dr. John Campbell, who had written a considerable part of the "Biographia Britannica" Johnson, though he valued him highly, was of opinion that there was not so much in his great work, "A Political Survey of Great Britain," as the world had been taught to expect'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dodsley      Print: Book

John Campbell : Political Survey of Great Britain, A
' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley said to me, 'I knew Dartineuf well, for I was once his footman.'" Biography led us to speak of Dr. John Campbell, who had written a considerable part of the "Biographia Britannica" Johnson, though he valued him highly, was of opinion that there was not so much in his great work, "A Political Survey of Great Britain," as the world had been taught to expect'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy
'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me and said, "Nothing odd will do long. 'Tristram Shandy' did not last".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Giuseppe Baretti : [unidentified 'Dialogues']
'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me and said, "Nothing odd will do long. 'Tristram Shandy' did not last".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'That ingenious and elegant gentleman's [Shenstone's] opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves, dated Feb. 9, 1760. "I have lately been reading one or two volumes of the Rambler; who, excepting against some few hardnesses in his manner, and the want of more examples to enliven, is one of the most nervous, most perspicuous, most concise, [and] most harmonious prose writers I know. A learned diction improves by time".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Shenstone      Print: Serial / periodical

John Dyer : Fleece, The
'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many people talk to you gravely of that [italics] excellent [end italics] poem, "The Fleece." Having talked of Grainger's "Sugar-Cane", I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem, when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: "Now, Muse, let's sing of [italics] rats [end italics]". And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally [italics] mice [end italics], and had been altered to [italics] rats [end italics], as more dignified. This passage does not appear in the printed work. Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it should seem, having become sensible that introducing even [italics] Rats [end italics] in a grave poem might be liable to banter. He, however, could not bring himself to relinquish the idea; for they are thus, in a still more ludicrous manner, periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands: "Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race, A countless clan, despoil the lowland cane." Johnson said, that Dr. Grainger was an agreeable man; a man who would do any good that was in his power. His translation of "Tibullus", he thought, was very well done; but "The Sugar Cane, a Poem," did not please him; for, he exclaimed, "What could he make of a sugar cane? One might as well write the 'Parsley Bed, a Poem ;' or ' The Cabbage Garden, a Poem'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Grainger : Sugar Cane, The
'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many people talk to you gravely of that [italics] excellent [end italics] poem, "The Fleece." Having talked of Grainger's "Sugar-Cane", I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem, when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: "Now, Muse, let's sing of [italics] rats [end italics]". And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally [italics] mice [end italics], and had been altered to [italics] rats [end italics], as more dignified. This passage does not appear in the printed work. Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it should seem, having become sensible that introducing even [italics] Rats [end italics] in a grave poem might be liable to banter. He, however, could not bring himself to relinquish the idea; for they are thus, in a still more ludicrous manner, periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands: "Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race, A countless clan, despoil the lowland cane." Johnson said, that Dr. Grainger was an agreeable man; a man who would do any good that was in his power. His translation of "Tibullus", he thought, was very well done; but "The Sugar Cane, a Poem," did not please him; for, he exclaimed, "What could he make of a sugar cane? One might as well write the 'Parsley Bed, a Poem ;' or ' The Cabbage Garden, a Poem'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Grainger : Poetical translation of the elegies of Tibullus, A; and of the poems of Sulpicia
'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many people talk to you gravely of that [italics] excellent [end italics] poem, "The Fleece." Having talked of Grainger's "Sugar-Cane", I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem, when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: "Now, Muse, let's sing of [italics] rats [end italics]". And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally [italics] mice [end italics], and had been altered to [italics] rats [end italics], as more dignified. This passage does not appear in the printed work. Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it should seem, having become sensible that introducing even [italics] Rats [end italics] in a grave poem might be liable to banter. He, however, could not bring himself to relinquish the idea; for they are thus, in a still more ludicrous manner, periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands: "Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race, A countless clan, despoil the lowland cane." Johnson said, that Dr. Grainger was an agreeable man; a man who would do any good that was in his power. His translation of "Tibullus", he thought, was very well done; but "The Sugar Cane, a Poem," did not please him; for, he exclaimed, "What could he make of a sugar cane? One might as well write the 'Parsley Bed, a Poem ;' or ' The Cabbage Garden, a Poem'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Grainger : Sugar Cane, The
'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many people talk to you gravely of that [italics] excellent [end italics] poem, "The Fleece." Having talked of Grainger's "Sugar-Cane", I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem, when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: "Now, Muse, let's sing of [italics] rats [end italics]". And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally [italics] mice [end italics], and had been altered to [italics] rats [end italics], as more dignified. This passage does not appear in the printed work. Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it should seem, having become sensible that introducing even [italics] Rats [end italics] in a grave poem might be liable to banter. He, however, could not bring himself to relinquish the idea; for they are thus, in a still more ludicrous manner, periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands: "Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race, A countless clan, despoil the lowland cane." Johnson said, that Dr. Grainger was an agreeable man; a man who would do any good that was in his power. His translation of "Tibullus", he thought, was very well done; but "The Sugar Cane, a Poem," did not please him; for, he exclaimed, "What could he make of a sugar cane? One might as well write the 'Parsley Bed, a Poem ;' or ' The Cabbage Garden, a Poem'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

James Grainger : Sugar Cane, The
'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many people talk to you gravely of that [italics] excellent [end italics] poem, "The Fleece." Having talked of Grainger's "Sugar-Cane", I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem, when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: "Now, Muse, let's sing of [italics] rats [end italics]". And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally [italics] mice [end italics], and had been altered to [italics] rats [end italics], as more dignified. This passage does not appear in the printed work. Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it should seem, having become sensible that introducing even [italics] Rats [end italics] in a grave poem might be liable to banter. He, however, could not bring himself to relinquish the idea; for they are thus, in a still more ludicrous manner, periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands: "Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race, A countless clan, despoil the lowland cane." Johnson said, that Dr. Grainger was an agreeable man; a man who would do any good that was in his power. His translation of "Tibullus", he thought, was very well done; but "The Sugar Cane, a Poem," did not please him; for, he exclaimed, "What could he make of a sugar cane? One might as well write the 'Parsley Bed, a Poem ;' or ' The Cabbage Garden, a Poem'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Bennet Langton      Manuscript: Unknown

James Grainger : Sugar Cane, The
'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many people talk to you gravely of that [italics] excellent [end italics] poem, "The Fleece." Having talked of Grainger's "Sugar-Cane", I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem, when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: "Now, Muse, let's sing of [italics] rats [end italics]". And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally [italics] mice [end italics], and had been altered to [italics] rats [end italics], as more dignified. This passage does not appear in the printed work. Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it should seem, having become sensible that introducing even [italics] Rats [end italics] in a grave poem might be liable to banter. He, however, could not bring himself to relinquish the idea; for they are thus, in a still more ludicrous manner, periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands: "Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race, A countless clan, despoil the lowland cane." Johnson said, that Dr. Grainger was an agreeable man; a man who would do any good that was in his power. His translation of "Tibullus", he thought, was very well done; but "The Sugar Cane, a Poem," did not please him; for, he exclaimed, "What could he make of a sugar cane? One might as well write the 'Parsley Bed, a Poem ;' or ' The Cabbage Garden, a Poem'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Grainger      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Barclay : Apology for the True Christian Divinity
'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happening to open, Johnson remarked, "He says there is neither precept nor practice for baptism in the scriptures; that is false." Here he was the aggressor, by no means in a gentle manner; and the good Quakers had the advantage of him; for he had read negligently, and had not observed that Barclay speaks of infant baptism; which they calmly made him perceive'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Robert Barclay : Apology for the True Christian Divinity
'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happening to open, Johnson remarked, "He says there is neither precept nor practice for baptism in the scriptures; that is false." Here he was the aggressor, by no means in a gentle manner; and the good Quakers had the advantage of him; for he had read negligently, and had not observed that Barclay speaks of infant baptism; which they calmly made him perceive'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Robert Nelson : Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, A
' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible, is a most valuable help to devotion; and in addition to it I would recommend two sermons on the same subject [of Christian holidays] by Mr. Pott, Archdeacon of St. Albans, equally distinguished for piety and elegance'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Holden Pott : [sermons on church holidays]
' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible, is a most valuable help to devotion; and in addition to it I would recommend two sermons on the same subject [of Christian holidays] by Mr. Pott, Archdeacon of St. Albans, equally distinguished for piety and elegance'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Patrick Brydone : Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq.
'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at different periods that no calculation whatever could be made as to the time required for their formation. This fully refuted an antimosaical remark introduced into Captain Brydone's entertaining tour, I hope heedlessly, from a kind of vanity which is too common in those who have not sufficiently studied the most important of all subjects. Dr. Johnson, indeed, had said before, independent of this observation, "Shall all the accumulated evidence of the history of the world;—shall the authority of what is unquestionably the most ancient writing be overturned by an uncertain remark such as this?"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Patrick Brydone : Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq.
'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at different periods that no calculation whatever could be made as to the time required for their formation. This fully refuted an antimosaical remark introduced into Captain Brydone's entertaining tour, I hope heedlessly, from a kind of vanity which is too common in those who have not sufficiently studied the most important of all subjects. Dr. Johnson, indeed, had said before, independent of this observation, "Shall all the accumulated evidence of the history of the world;—shall the authority of what is unquestionably the most ancient writing be overturned by an uncertain remark such as this?"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Francisco de Morais : Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra
'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like it much. He said, he read it for the language, by way of preparation for his Italian expedition'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [newspapers]
'At Leicester we read in the newspapers that Dr James was dead'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell     Print: Newspaper

Samuel Johnson : Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia
'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia", which Sir John Pringle had lent me, it being then little known as one of his works. He said, "Take no notice of it" or "don't talk of it". He seemed to think it beneath him, though done at six-and-twenty. I said to him, "Your style, Sir, is much improved since you translated this".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of the Earth and Animated Nature
'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, in Goldsmith's "History of Animated Nature", in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture; a story altogether unfounded, but for the publication of which the law would give no reparation.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Maclaurin      Print: Book

George Cheyne : English Malady, The: or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds
'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in some things; but there is no end of objections. There are few books to which some objection or other may not be made." He added, "I would not have you read anything else of Cheyne, but his book on Health, and his 'English Malady'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

George Cheyne : Essay on Health and Long Life
'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in some things; but there is no end of objections. There are few books to which some objection or other may not be made." He added, "I would not have you read anything else of Cheyne, but his book on Health, and his 'English Malady'".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joseph Simpson : Patriot, The
'He [Joseph Simpson] wrote a tragedy on the story of Leonidas, entitled "The Patriot". He read it to a company of lawyers, who found so many faults, that he wrote it over again: so then there were two tragedies on the same subject and with the same title. Dr. Johnson told us, that one of them was still in his possession. This very piece was, after his death, published by some person who had been about him, and, for the sake of a little hasty profit, was fallaciously advertised, so as to make it be believed to have been written by Johnson himself'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Simpson      Manuscript: Unknown

Abraham Cowley : Selected Works
'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "Select Works of Abraham Cowley". Mr. Murphy thought it a bad precedent; observing that any authour might be used in the same manner; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's compositions, at different periods'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy      Print: Book

Abraham Cowley : Selected Works
'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "Select Works of Abraham Cowley". Mr. Murphy thought it a bad precedent; observing that any authour might be used in the same manner; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's compositions, at different periods'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Flatman : [Poems]
'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upon Flatman, which I think by much too severe: "Nor that slow drudge in swift Pindarick strains, Flatman, who Cowley imitates with pains, And rides a jaded Muse, whipt with loose reins". I like to recollect all the passages that I heard Johnson repeat: it stamps a value on them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Flatman : [Poems]
'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upon Flatman, which I think by much too severe: "Nor that slow drudge in swift Pindarick strains, Flatman, who Cowley imitates with pains, And rides a jaded Muse, whipt with loose reins". I like to recollect all the passages that I heard Johnson repeat: it stamps a value on them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : 'Dying Christian to his Soul, The'
'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upon Flatman, which I think by much too severe: "Nor that slow drudge in swift Pindarick strains, Flatman, who Cowley imitates with pains, And rides a jaded Muse, whipt with loose reins". I like to recollect all the passages that I heard Johnson repeat: it stamps a value on them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray : [Memoirs]
'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". Johnson acquiesced in this; but depreciated the book, I thought, very unreasonably. For he said, "I forced myself to read it, only because it was a common topick of conversation. I found it mighty dull; and, as to the style, it is fit for the second table". Why he thought so I was at a loss to conceive. He now gave it as his opinion, that "Akenside was a superiour poet both to Gray and Mason".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy      Print: Book

Thomas Gray : [Poems]
'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". Johnson acquiesced in this; but depreciated the book, I thought, very unreasonably. For he said, "I forced myself to read it, only because it was a common topick of conversation. I found it mighty dull; and, as to the style, it is fit for the second table". Why he thought so I was at a loss to conceive. He now gave it as his opinion, that "Akenside was a superiour poet both to Gray and Mason".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy      Print: Book

Thomas Gray : [Memoirs]
'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". Johnson acquiesced in this; but depreciated the book, I thought, very unreasonably. For he said, "I forced myself to read it, only because it was a common topick of conversation. I found it mighty dull; and, as to the style, it is fit for the second table". Why he thought so I was at a loss to conceive. He now gave it as his opinion, that "Akenside was a superiour poet both to Gray and Mason".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Mark Akenside : [Poems]
'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". Johnson acquiesced in this; but depreciated the book, I thought, very unreasonably. For he said, "I forced myself to read it, only because it was a common topick of conversation. I found it mighty dull; and, as to the style, it is fit for the second table". Why he thought so I was at a loss to conceive. He now gave it as his opinion, that "Akenside was a superiour poet both to Gray and Mason".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Mason : [Poems]
'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". Johnson acquiesced in this; but depreciated the book, I thought, very unreasonably. For he said, "I forced myself to read it, only because it was a common topick of conversation. I found it mighty dull; and, as to the style, it is fit for the second table". Why he thought so I was at a loss to conceive. He now gave it as his opinion, that "Akenside was a superiour poet both to Gray and Mason".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: Monthly Review
'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews", in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him. He expatiated a little more on them this evening. "The Monthly Reviewers (said he) are not Deists; but they are Christians with as little christianity as may be; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Critical Review
'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews", in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him. He expatiated a little more on them this evening. "The Monthly Reviewers (said he) are not Deists; but they are Christians with as little christianity as may be; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Grove : 'Novelty' [essay in The Spectator]
'Talking of "The Spectator", he said, "It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers, in the half of the work which was not written by Addison; for there was all the world to write that half, yet not a half of that half is good. One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on Novelty, yet we do not hear it talked of. It was written by Grove, a dissenting [italics] teacher [end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

James Thomson : [Poems]
'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes, that the sense can hardly peep through. Shiels, who compiled Cibber's "Lives of the Poets", was one day sitting with me. I took down Thomson, and read aloud a large portion of him, and then asked,-Is not this fine? Shiels having expressed the highest admiration. Well, Sir, (said I,) I have omitted every other line".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dryden : 'Ode on St Cecilia's Day'
'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in 1762. Goldsmith asserted, that there was no poetry produced in this age. Dodsley appealed to his own Collection, and maintained, that though you could not find a palace like Dryden's "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day", you had villages composed of very pretty houses; and he mentioned particularly "The Spleen".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dodsley      Print: Book

Ibbot : 'Fit of the Spleen, A'
'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in 1762. Goldsmith asserted, that there was no poetry produced in this age. Dodsley appealed to his own Collection, and maintained, that though you could not find a palace like Dryden's "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day", you had villages composed of very pretty houses; and he mentioned particularly "The Spleen".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dodsley      Print: Book

Ibbot : 'Fit of the Spleen, A'
' [Johnson said] You may find wit and humour in verse, and yet no poetry. "Hudibras" has a profusion of these; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem. 'The Spleen', in Dodsley's "Collection", on which you say he chiefly rested, is not poetry'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello
'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist the circumstances of suspicion which were artfully suggested to Othello's mind. JOHNSON. "In the first place, Sir, we learn from "Othello" this very useful moral, not to make an unequal match; in the second place, we learn not to yield too readily to suspicion. The handkerchief is merely a trick, though a very pretty trick; but there are no other circumstances of reasonable suspicion, except what is related by Iago of Cassio's warm expressions concerning Desdemona in his sleep; and that depended entirely upon the assertion of one man. No, Sir, I think "Othello" has more moral than almost any play".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello
'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist the circumstances of suspicion which were artfully suggested to Othello's mind. JOHNSON. "In the first place, Sir, we learn from "Othello" this very useful moral, not to make an unequal match; in the second place, we learn not to yield too readily to suspicion. The handkerchief is merely a trick, though a very pretty trick; but there are no other circumstances of reasonable suspicion, except what is related by Iago of Cassio's warm expressions concerning Desdemona in his sleep; and that depended entirely upon the assertion of one man. No, Sir, I think "Othello" has more moral than almost any play".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

John Dennis : [critical works]
'He said, he wished to see John Dennis's "Critical Works" collected. Davies said they would not sell. Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical, presumably not in a book if Johnson wanted them to be collected

Henry Fielding : Amelia
'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Cumberland : [Odes]
'Sir Joshua [Reynolds] mentioned Mr. Cumberland's "Odes", which were just published. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, they would have been thought as good as Odes commonly are, if Cumberland had not put his name to them; but a name immediately draws censure, unless it be a name that bears down everything before it. Nay, Cumberland has made his "Odes" subsidiary to the fame of another man. They might have run well enough by themselves; but he has not only loaded them with a name, but has made them carry double".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [Monthly and Critical Reviews]
'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I have often thought, that he wondered to find so much good writing employed in them, when the authours were to remain unknown, and so could not have the motive of fame. JOHNSON. "Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

: [Monthly and Critical Reviews]
'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I have often thought, that he wondered to find so much good writing employed in them, when the authours were to remain unknown, and so could not have the motive of fame. JOHNSON. "Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joshua Reynolds      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Spectator
'By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - but I can't'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Sidney Colvin : 'Art and Criticism' in Appleton's Journal
[I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail : Les Exploits de Rocambole
'When last observed, he was studying with apparent zest the exploits of one Rocambole by the late Viscount Ponson of Terrail.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Robert Blair : 'The Grave, a Poem'
'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him; for though it is not equal throughout, and is seldom elegantly correct, it abounds in solemn thought, and poetical imagery beyond the common reach. The world has differed from him; for the poem has passed through many editions, and is still much read by people of a serious cast of mind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Robert Blair : 'The Grave, a Poem'
'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him; for though it is not equal throughout, and is seldom elegantly correct, it abounds in solemn thought, and poetical imagery beyond the common reach. The world has differed from him; for the poem has passed through many editions, and is still much read by people of a serious cast of mind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Thomas Chatterton : [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]
'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as I had seen him enquire upon the spot into the authenticity of 'Ossian's Poetry.' George Catcot, the pewterer, who was as zealous for Rowley, as Dr. Hugh Blair was for Ossian, (I trust my Reverend friend will excuse the comparison,) attended us at our inn, and with a triumphant air of lively simplicity called out, "I'll make Dr. Johnson a convert". Dr. Johnson, at his desire, read aloud some of Chatterton's fabricated verses, while Catcot stood at the back of his chair, moving himself like a pendulum, and beating time with his feet, and now and then looking into Dr. Johnson's face, wondering that he was not yet convinced. We called on Mr. Barret, the surgeon, and saw some of the originals as they were called, which were executed very artificially; but from a careful inspection of them, and a consideration of the circumstances with which they were attended, we were quite satisfied of the imposture, which, indeed, has been clearly demonstrated from internal evidence, by several able criticks.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Chatterton : [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]
'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as I had seen him enquire upon the spot into the authenticity of 'Ossian's Poetry.' George Catcot, the pewterer, who was as zealous for Rowley, as Dr. Hugh Blair was for Ossian, (I trust my Reverend friend will excuse the comparison,) attended us at our inn, and with a triumphant air of lively simplicity called out, "I'll make Dr. Johnson a convert". Dr. Johnson, at his desire, read aloud some of Chatterton's fabricated verses, while Catcot stood at the back of his chair, moving himself like a pendulum, and beating time with his feet, and now and then looking into Dr. Johnson's face, wondering that he was not yet convinced. We called on Mr. Barret, the surgeon, and saw some of the originals as they were called, which were executed very artificially; but from a careful inspection of them, and a consideration of the circumstances with which they were attended, we were quite satisfied of the imposture, which, indeed, has been clearly demonstrated from internal evidence, by several able criticks.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Chatterton : [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]
'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as I had seen him enquire upon the spot into the authenticity of 'Ossian's Poetry.' George Catcot, the pewterer, who was as zealous for Rowley, as Dr. Hugh Blair was for Ossian, (I trust my Reverend friend will excuse the comparison,) attended us at our inn, and with a triumphant air of lively simplicity called out, "I'll make Dr. Johnson a convert". Dr. Johnson, at his desire, read aloud some of Chatterton's fabricated verses, while Catcot stood at the back of his chair, moving himself like a pendulum, and beating time with his feet, and now and then looking into Dr. Johnson's face, wondering that he was not yet convinced. We called on Mr. Barret, the surgeon, and saw some of the originals as they were called, which were executed very artificially; but from a careful inspection of them, and a consideration of the circumstances with which they were attended, we were quite satisfied of the imposture, which, indeed, has been clearly demonstrated from internal evidence, by several able criticks.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Catcot      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Chatterton : [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]
'Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

: Respublicae
' [Johnson said] The little volumes entitled "Respublicae", which are very well done, were a bookseller's work'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Francis Hutcheson : System of Moral Philosophy
' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by existence. If they were not useful to man, and therefore protected by him, they would not be nearly so numerous". This argument is to be found in the able and benignant Hutchinson's [sic] "Moral Philosophy".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son
' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the immorality, and it should be put into the hands of every young gentleman.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Sharp : Letters from Italy, describing the Customs and Manners of that Country
'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter in them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes : Annals of Scotland
' [Johnson said] Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" have not that painted form which is the taste of this age; but it is a book which will always sell, it has such a stability of dates, such a certainty of facts, and such a punctuality of citation. I never before read Scotch history with certainty.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Lowth : [biblical commentaries - old testament]
'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read the Bible with a commentary; and I would recommend Lowth and Patrick on the Old Testament, and Hammond on the New".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Patrick : [biblical commentaries - old testament]
'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read the Bible with a commentary; and I would recommend Lowth and Patrick on the Old Testament, and Hammond on the New".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Henry Hammond : A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament
'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read the Bible with a commentary; and I would recommend Lowth and Patrick on the Old Testament, and Hammond on the New".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [a legal argument]
'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involved] to Mr. Burke, he was highly pleased, and exclaimed, "Well; he does his work in a workman-like manner".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Colley Cibber : Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: 'Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand' BOSWELL. "And his plays are good". JOHNSON. "Yes; but that was his trade; [italics] l'esprit du corps [end italics]; he had been all his life among players and play-writers".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : [Plays]
'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: 'Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand' BOSWELL. "And his plays are good". JOHNSON. "Yes; but that was his trade; [italics] l'esprit du corps [end italics]; he had been all his life among players and play-writers".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : [Plays]
'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: 'Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand' BOSWELL. "And his plays are good". JOHNSON. "Yes; but that was his trade; [italics] l'esprit du corps [end italics]; he had been all his life among players and play-writers".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: 'Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand' BOSWELL. "And his plays are good". JOHNSON. "Yes; but that was his trade; [italics] l'esprit du corps [end italics]; he had been all his life among players and play-writers".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Colley Cibber : [an Ode]
'[Johnson said] He [Colley Cibber] abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing. I told him that when the ancients made a simile, they always made it like something real.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : An English Girl
'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Hence follows a page of almost unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Horace : Ars poetica
'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes according to my note, gave the interpretation thus; "It is difficult to speak with propriety of common things; as, if a poet had to speak of Queen Caroline drinking tea, he must endeavour to avoid the vulgarity of cups and saucers". But upon reading my note, he tells me that he meant to say, that "the word [italics]communia [end italics], being a Roman law term, signifies here things [italics]communis juris [end italics], that is to say, what have never yet been treated by any body; and this appears clearly from what followed, "[italics]--Tuque Rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus Quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus." [end italics] "You will easier make a tragedy out of the Iliad than on any subject not handled before".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Horace : Ars poetica
'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes according to my note, gave the interpretation thus; "It is difficult to speak with propriety of common things; as, if a poet had to speak of Queen Caroline drinking tea, he must endeavour to avoid the vulgarity of cups and saucers". But upon reading my note, he tells me that he meant to say, that "the word [italics]communia [end italics], being a Roman law term, signifies here things [italics]communis juris [end italics], that is to say, what have never yet been treated by any body; and this appears clearly from what followed, "[italics]--Tuque Rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus Quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus." [end italics] "You will easier make a tragedy out of the Iliad than on any subject not handled before".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilkes      Print: Book

James Boswell : [notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johnson]
'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes according to my note, gave the interpretation thus; "It is difficult to speak with propriety of common things; as, if a poet had to speak of Queen Caroline drinking tea, he must endeavour to avoid the vulgarity of cups and saucers". But upon reading my note, he tells me that he meant to say, that "the word [italics]communia [end italics], being a Roman law term, signifies here things [italics]communis juris [end italics], that is to say, what have never yet been treated by any body; and this appears clearly from what followed, "[italics]--Tuque Rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus Quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus." [end italics] "You will easier make a tragedy out of the Iliad than on any subject not handled before".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilkes      Manuscript: Unknown

Gabriela Cunninghame Graham : Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times
' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I read first this wonderful book--the revelation for the profane of a unique saint and a unique writer.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells : The War in the Air
'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in presenting the human interest of a story in terms of jesting.' Hence follow about eight lines of praise and encouragement.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Joseph Mery : Monsieur Auguste
'I have read M. Auguste.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Joseph Mery : Un crime inconnu
'I have read M. Auguste and the Crime Inconnu, being now abonne to a library.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Joseph Mery : Les Damnes de Java
'The Damned Ones of the Hindies now occupy my attention.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Island Pharisees
'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating effects of the then new colchicine treatment] and I tackled the preface with as much mind as I had then. It is thoroughly good I think.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

George Cheyne : English Malady, The
'[Boswell having complained that he was suffering from melancholy, Johnson wrote] 'Read Cheyne's "English Malady"; but do not let him teach you a foolish notion that melancholy is a proof of acuteness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [legal documents relating to Mr Maclaurin]
' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Since I wrote, I have looked over Mr. Maclaurin's plea, and think it excellent. [ a legal case Boswell was involved in] How is the suit carried on? If by subscription, I commission you to contribute, in my name, what is proper.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

James Granger : Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has entertained me exceedingly, and I do not think him the [italics] Whig [end italics] that you supposed'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Granger : Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has entertained me exceedingly, and I do not think him the [italics] Whig [end italics] that you supposed'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Xenophon : Oeconomicus
'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a certain place, when any thing is worn out or consumed, the vacuity which it leaves will shew what is wanting; so if every part of time has its duty, the hour will call into remembrance its proper engagement.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : [a sermon]
' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph: "I have read over Dr. Blair's first sermon with more than approbation; to say it is good, is to say too little".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [paper on an aspect of Scottish law]
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your paper on "Vicious Intromission" is a noble proof of what you can do even in Scotch law.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland"]. Lord Hailes and Lord Monboddo have each received one, and return you thanks. Monboddo dined with me lately, and having drank tea, we were a good while by ourselves, and as I knew that he had read the "Journey superficially", as he did not talk of it as I wished, I brought it to him, and read aloud several passages; and then he talked so, that I told him he was to have a copy [italics] from the authour [end italics]. He begged [italics] that [end italics] might be marked on it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland"]. Lord Hailes and Lord Monboddo have each received one, and return you thanks. Monboddo dined with me lately, and having drank tea, we were a good while by ourselves, and as I knew that he had read the "Journey superficially", as he did not talk of it as I wished, I brought it to him, and read aloud several passages; and then he talked so, that I told him he was to have a copy [italics] from the authour [end italics]. He begged [italics] that [end italics] might be marked on it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Burnett, Lord Monboddo      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland", which you was so good as to send me, by the hands of our mutual friend, Mr. Boswell, of Auchinleck; for which I return you my most hearty thanks; and after carefully reading it over again, shall deposit in my little collection of choice books, next our worthy friend's "Journey to Corsica". As there are many things to admire in both performances, I have often wished that no Travels or Journeys should be published but those undertaken by persons of integrity and capacity to judge well, and describe faithfully, and in good language, the situation, condition, and manners of the countries past through.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Dick      Print: Book

James Boswell : An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island, & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland", which you was so good as to send me, by the hands of our mutual friend, Mr. Boswell, of Auchinleck; for which I return you my most hearty thanks; and after carefully reading it over again, shall deposit in my little collection of choice books, next our worthy friend's "Journey to Corsica". As there are many things to admire in both performances, I have often wished that no Travels or Journeys should be published but those undertaken by persons of integrity and capacity to judge well, and describe faithfully, and in good language, the situation, condition, and manners of the countries past through.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Dick      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : [A Sermon]
' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have read, they are [italics] sermones aurei, ac auro magis aurei [end italics]. It is excellently written both as to doctrine and language.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

William Shaw : [Erse Grammar]
'One Shaw, who seems a modest and a decent man, has written an Erse Grammar, which a very learned Highlander, Macbean, has, at my request, examined and approved.'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Macbean      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [proposals for the publication of William Shaw's 'Erse Grammar']
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] You forget that Mr. Shaw's "Erse Grammar" was put into your hands by myself last year. Lord Eglintoune put it into mine. I am glad that Mr. Macbean approves of it. I have received Mr. Shaw's Proposals for its publication, which I can perceive are written [italics] by the hand of a MASTER [end italics]' [Master here refers to Johnson]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

: [newspapers]
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Our worthy friend Thrale's death having appeared in the newspapers, and been afterwards contradicted, I have been placed in a state of very uneasy uncertainty, from which I hoped to be relieved by you: but my hopes have as yet been vain.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Newspaper

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Memoirs and Last Letters
' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Sermons
' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderfully well.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Leland : History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, The
'[letter from Johnson to Charles O' Connor] Dr. Leland begins his history too late: the ages which deserve an exact enquiry are those times (for such there were) when Ireland was the school of the west, the quiet habitation of sanctity and literature.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Theophilus Cibber : Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [Thomson's] "Life", published under the name of Cibber, but as you told me, really written by a Mr. Shiels; that written by Dr. Murdoch; one prefixed to an edition of the "Seasons", published at Edinburgh, which is compounded of both, with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's relieving Thomson from prison; the abridgement of Murdoch's account of him, in the "Biographia Britannica", and another abridgement of it in the "Biographical Dictionary", enriched with Dr. Joseph Warton's critical panegyrick on the "Seasons" in his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope": from all these it appears to me that we have a pretty full account of this poet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Patrick Murdoch : [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons']
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [Thomson's] "Life", published under the name of Cibber, but as you told me, really written by a Mr. Shiels; that written by Dr. Murdoch; one prefixed to an edition of the "Seasons", published at Edinburgh, which is compounded of both, with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's relieving Thomson from prison; the abridgement of Murdoch's account of him, in the "Biographia Britannica", and another abridgement of it in the "Biographical Dictionary", enriched with Dr. Joseph Warton's critical panegyrick on the "Seasons" in his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope": from all these it appears to me that we have a pretty full account of this poet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

anon. : [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons']
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [Thomson's] "Life", published under the name of Cibber, but as you told me, really written by a Mr. Shiels; that written by Dr. Murdoch; one prefixed to an edition of the "Seasons", published at Edinburgh, which is compounded of both, with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's relieving Thomson from prison; the abridgement of Murdoch's account of him, in the "Biographia Britannica", and another abridgement of it in the "Biographical Dictionary", enriched with Dr. Joseph Warton's critical panegyrick on the "Seasons" in his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope": from all these it appears to me that we have a pretty full account of this poet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

: Biographia Britannica
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [Thomson's] "Life", published under the name of Cibber, but as you told me, really written by a Mr. Shiels; that written by Dr. Murdoch; one prefixed to an edition of the "Seasons", published at Edinburgh, which is compounded of both, with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's relieving Thomson from prison; the abridgement of Murdoch's account of him, in the "Biographia Britannica", and another abridgement of it in the "Biographical Dictionary", enriched with Dr. Joseph Warton's critical panegyrick on the "Seasons" in his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope": from all these it appears to me that we have a pretty full account of this poet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

: Biographical Dictionary
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [Thomson's] "Life", published under the name of Cibber, but as you told me, really written by a Mr. Shiels; that written by Dr. Murdoch; one prefixed to an edition of the "Seasons", published at Edinburgh, which is compounded of both, with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's relieving Thomson from prison; the abridgement of Murdoch's account of him, in the "Biographia Britannica", and another abridgement of it in the "Biographical Dictionary", enriched with Dr. Joseph Warton's critical panegyrick on the "Seasons" in his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope": from all these it appears to me that we have a pretty full account of this poet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Joseph Warton : Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [Thomson's] "Life", published under the name of Cibber, but as you told me, really written by a Mr. Shiels; that written by Dr. Murdoch; one prefixed to an edition of the "Seasons", published at Edinburgh, which is compounded of both, with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's relieving Thomson from prison; the abridgement of Murdoch's account of him, in the "Biographia Britannica", and another abridgement of it in the "Biographical Dictionary", enriched with Dr. Joseph Warton's critical panegyrick on the "Seasons" in his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope": from all these it appears to me that we have a pretty full account of this poet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

David Hume : My Own Life
' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by himself, with the letter from Dr. Adam Smith subjoined to it. Is not this an age of daring effrontery?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , the
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Islands", as were in their own way. "For instance, (said he,) Mr. Jackson (the all-knowing) told me there was more good sense upon trade in it, than he should hear in the House of Commons in a year, except from Burke. Jones commended the part which treats of language; Burke that which describes the inhabitants of mountainous countries'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Burke      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Islands", as were in their own way. "For instance, (said he,) Mr. Jackson (the all-knowing) told me there was more good sense upon trade in it, than he should hear in the House of Commons in a year, except from Burke. Jones commended the part which treats of language; Burke that which describes the inhabitants of mountainous countries'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Jackson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Islands", as were in their own way. "For instance, (said he,) Mr. Jackson (the all-knowing) told me there was more good sense upon trade in it, than he should hear in the House of Commons in a year, except from Burke. Jones commended the part which treats of language; Burke that which describes the inhabitants of mountainous countries'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Jones      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [sermon written for Dr Dodd]
'He [Johnson] wrote also "The Convict's Address to his unhappy Brethren", a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd [ a clergyman condemned to deatn for fraud], in the chapel of Newgate According to Johnson's manuscript it began thus after the text, What shall I do to be saved?-- "These were the words with which the keeper, to whose custody Paul and Silas were committed by their prosecutors, addressed his prisoners, when he saw them freed from their bonds by the perceptible agency of divine favour, and was, therefore, irresistibly convinced that they were not offenders against the laws, but martyrs to the truth". Dr. Johnson was so good as to mark for me with his own hand, on a copy of this sermon which is now in my possession, such passages as were added by Dr. Dodd. They are not many: whoever will take the trouble to look at the printed copy, and attend to what I mention, will be satisfied of this.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

William Dodd : [letter]
'This letter [printed above; from Dr Dodd, a clergyman condemned to death, asking Johnson to help him appeal for clemency to the King] was brought to Dr. Johnson when in church. He stooped down and read it, and wrote, when he went home, the following letter for Dr. Dodd to the King. [reproduced below]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Letter

William Hamilton : 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate'
'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable. Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talked slightingly of Hamilton. He said there was no power of thinking in his verses, nothing that strikes one, nothing better than what you generally find in magazines; and that the highest praise they deserved was, that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends. He said the imitation of "Ne sit ancillae tibi amor", &c. was too solemn; he read part of it at the beginning. He read the beautiful pathetick song, 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate', and did not seem to give attention to what I had been used to think tender elegant strains, but laughed at the rhyme, in Scotch pronunciation, [italics] wishes [end italics] and [italics] blushes [end italics], reading [italics] wushes [end italics]--and there he stopped. He owned that the epitaph on Lord Newhall was pretty well done. He read the 'Inscription in a Summer-house', and a little of the imitations of Horace's 'Epistles'; but said he found nothing to make him desire to read on. When I urged that there were some good poetical passages in the book. "Where (said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?" I thought the description of Winter might obtain his approbation: 'See Winter, from the frozen north Drives his iron chariot forth! His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda's silver flood constrains,' &c. He asked why an 'iron chariot'? and said 'icy chains' was an old image. I was struck with the uncertainty of taste, and somewhat sorry that a poet whom I had long read with fondness, was not approved by Dr. Johnson. I comforted myself with thinking that the beauties were too delicate for his robust perceptions'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Hamilton : [imitations of Horace]
'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable. Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talked slightingly of Hamilton. He said there was no power of thinking in his verses, nothing that strikes one, nothing better than what you generally find in magazines; and that the highest praise they deserved was, that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends. He said the imitation of "Ne sit ancillae tibi amor", &c. was too solemn; he read part of it at the beginning. He read the beautiful pathetick song, 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate', and did not seem to give attention to what I had been used to think tender elegant strains, but laughed at the rhyme, in Scotch pronunciation, [italics] wishes [end italics] and [italics] blushes [end italics], reading [italics] wushes [end italics]--and there he stopped. He owned that the epitaph on Lord Newhall was pretty well done. He read the 'Inscription in a Summer-house', and a little of the imitations of Horace's 'Epistles'; but said he found nothing to make him desire to read on. When I urged that there were some good poetical passages in the book. "Where (said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?" I thought the description of Winter might obtain his approbation: 'See Winter, from the frozen north Drives his iron chariot forth! His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda's silver flood constrains,' &c. He asked why an 'iron chariot'? and said 'icy chains' was an old image. I was struck with the uncertainty of taste, and somewhat sorry that a poet whom I had long read with fondness, was not approved by Dr. Johnson. I comforted myself with thinking that the beauties were too delicate for his robust perceptions'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Hamilton : 'Inscription in a Summer house'
'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable. Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talked slightingly of Hamilton. He said there was no power of thinking in his verses, nothing that strikes one, nothing better than what you generally find in magazines; and that the highest praise they deserved was, that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends. He said the imitation of "Ne sit ancillae tibi amor", &c. was too solemn; he read part of it at the beginning. He read the beautiful pathetick song, 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate', and did not seem to give attention to what I had been used to think tender elegant strains, but laughed at the rhyme, in Scotch pronunciation, [italics] wishes [end italics] and [italics] blushes [end italics], reading [italics] wushes [end italics]--and there he stopped. He owned that the epitaph on Lord Newhall was pretty well done. He read the 'Inscription in a Summer-house', and a little of the imitations of Horace's 'Epistles'; but said he found nothing to make him desire to read on. When I urged that there were some good poetical passages in the book. "Where (said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?" I thought the description of Winter might obtain his approbation: 'See Winter, from the frozen north Drives his iron chariot forth! His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda's silver flood constrains,' &c. He asked why an 'iron chariot'? and said 'icy chains' was an old image. I was struck with the uncertainty of taste, and somewhat sorry that a poet whom I had long read with fondness, was not approved by Dr. Johnson. I comforted myself with thinking that the beauties were too delicate for his robust perceptions'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Hamilton : [poem on Winter]
'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable. Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talked slightingly of Hamilton. He said there was no power of thinking in his verses, nothing that strikes one, nothing better than what you generally find in magazines; and that the highest praise they deserved was, that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends. He said the imitation of "Ne sit ancillae tibi amor", &c. was too solemn; he read part of it at the beginning. He read the beautiful pathetick song, 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate', and did not seem to give attention to what I had been used to think tender elegant strains, but laughed at the rhyme, in Scotch pronunciation, [italics] wishes [end italics] and [italics] blushes [end italics], reading [italics] wushes [end italics]--and there he stopped. He owned that the epitaph on Lord Newhall was pretty well done. He read the 'Inscription in a Summer-house', and a little of the imitations of Horace's 'Epistles'; but said he found nothing to make him desire to read on. When I urged that there were some good poetical passages in the book. "Where (said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?" I thought the description of Winter might obtain his approbation: 'See Winter, from the frozen north Drives his iron chariot forth! His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda's silver flood constrains,' &c. He asked why an 'iron chariot'? and said 'icy chains' was an old image. I was struck with the uncertainty of taste, and somewhat sorry that a poet whom I had long read with fondness, was not approved by Dr. Johnson. I comforted myself with thinking that the beauties were too delicate for his robust perceptions'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Hamilton : [poem on Winter]
'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable. Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talked slightingly of Hamilton. He said there was no power of thinking in his verses, nothing that strikes one, nothing better than what you generally find in magazines; and that the highest praise they deserved was, that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends. He said the imitation of "Ne sit ancillae tibi amor", &c. was too solemn; he read part of it at the beginning. He read the beautiful pathetick song, 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate', and did not seem to give attention to what I had been used to think tender elegant strains, but laughed at the rhyme, in Scotch pronunciation, [italics] wishes [end italics] and [italics] blushes [end italics], reading [italics] wushes [end italics]--and there he stopped. He owned that the epitaph on Lord Newhall was pretty well done. He read the 'Inscription in a Summer-house', and a little of the imitations of Horace's 'Epistles'; but said he found nothing to make him desire to read on. When I urged that there were some good poetical passages in the book. "Where (said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?" I thought the description of Winter might obtain his approbation: 'See Winter, from the frozen north Drives his iron chariot forth! His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda's silver flood constrains,' &c. He asked why an 'iron chariot'? and said 'icy chains' was an old image. I was struck with the uncertainty of taste, and somewhat sorry that a poet whom I had long read with fondness, was not approved by Dr. Johnson. I comforted myself with thinking that the beauties were too delicate for his robust perceptions'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Hamilton : [poems]
'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable. Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talked slightingly of Hamilton. He said there was no power of thinking in his verses, nothing that strikes one, nothing better than what you generally find in magazines; and that the highest praise they deserved was, that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends. He said the imitation of "Ne sit ancillae tibi amor", &c. was too solemn; he read part of it at the beginning. He read the beautiful pathetick song, 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate', and did not seem to give attention to what I had been used to think tender elegant strains, but laughed at the rhyme, in Scotch pronunciation, [italics] wishes [end italics] and [italics] blushes [end italics], reading [italics] wushes [end italics]--and there he stopped. He owned that the epitaph on Lord Newhall was pretty well done. He read the 'Inscription in a Summer-house', and a little of the imitations of Horace's 'Epistles'; but said he found nothing to make him desire to read on. When I urged that there were some good poetical passages in the book. "Where (said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?" I thought the description of Winter might obtain his approbation: 'See Winter, from the frozen north Drives his iron chariot forth! His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda's silver flood constrains,' &c. He asked why an 'iron chariot'? and said 'icy chains' was an old image. I was struck with the uncertainty of taste, and somewhat sorry that a poet whom I had long read with fondness, was not approved by Dr. Johnson. I comforted myself with thinking that the beauties were too delicate for his robust perceptions'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Hamilton : [poems]
'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable. Johnson, upon repeated occasions, while I was at Ashbourne, talked slightingly of Hamilton. He said there was no power of thinking in his verses, nothing that strikes one, nothing better than what you generally find in magazines; and that the highest praise they deserved was, that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends. He said the imitation of "Ne sit ancillae tibi amor", &c. was too solemn; he read part of it at the beginning. He read the beautiful pathetick song, 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate', and did not seem to give attention to what I had been used to think tender elegant strains, but laughed at the rhyme, in Scotch pronunciation, [italics] wishes [end italics] and [italics] blushes [end italics], reading [italics] wushes [end italics]--and there he stopped. He owned that the epitaph on Lord Newhall was pretty well done. He read the 'Inscription in a Summer-house', and a little of the imitations of Horace's 'Epistles'; but said he found nothing to make him desire to read on. When I urged that there were some good poetical passages in the book. "Where (said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?" I thought the description of Winter might obtain his approbation: 'See Winter, from the frozen north Drives his iron chariot forth! His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda's silver flood constrains,' &c. He asked why an 'iron chariot'? and said 'icy chains' was an old image. I was struck with the uncertainty of taste, and somewhat sorry that a poet whom I had long read with fondness, was not approved by Dr. Johnson. I comforted myself with thinking that the beauties were too delicate for his robust perceptions'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Erskine      Print: Book

Thomas Warton : [poems]
'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry of late. "He puts (said he) a very common thing in a strange dress till he does not know it himself, and thinks other people do not know it". BOSWELL. "That is owing to his being so much versant in old English poetry".JOHNSON. "What is the purpose, Sir? If I say a man is drunk, and you tell me it is owing to his taking much drink, the matter is not mended. No, Sir, ---- has taken to an odd mode. For example; he'd write thus: 'Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray'. [italics] Gray evening [end italics] is common enough; but [italics] evening gray [end italics] he'd think fine".'[Johnson continues to critique Warton's style]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Sermons
' [Johnson] praised Blair's sermons: "Yet", said he, (willing to let us see he was aware that fashionable fame, however deserved, is not always the most lasting,) "perhaps, they may not be re-printed after seven years; at least not after Blair's death".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: Critical Review
'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an account of a curious publication, entitled, "A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies", by John Rutty, M.D. Dr. Rutty was one of the people called Quakers, a physician of some eminence in Dublin, and authour of several works. This Diary, which was kept from 1753 to 1775, the year in which he died, and was now published in two volumes octavo, exhibited, in the simplicity of his heart, a minute and honest register of the state of his mind; which, though frequently laughable enough, was not more so than the history of many men would be, if recorded with equal fairness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Critical Review
'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an account of a curious publication, entitled, "A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies", by John Rutty, M.D. Dr. Rutty was one of the people called Quakers, a physician of some eminence in Dublin, and authour of several works. This Diary, which was kept from 1753 to 1775, the year in which he died, and was now published in two volumes octavo, exhibited, in the simplicity of his heart, a minute and honest register of the state of his mind; which, though frequently laughable enough, was not more so than the history of many men would be, if recorded with equal fairness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Arnold : Observations on Insanity
'Some of the ancient philosophers held, that all deviations from right reason were madness; and whoever wishes to see the opinions both of ancients and moderns upon this subject, collected and illustrated with a variety of curious facts, may read Dr. Arnold's very entertaining work'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

George Forster : Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A
'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fine writing in it". BOSWELL. "But he carries you along with him". JOHNSON, "No, Sir; he does not carry me along with him: he leaves me behind him: or rather, indeed, he sets me before him; for he makes me turn over many leaves at a time".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

George Forster : Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A
'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fine writing in it". BOSWELL. "But he carries you along with him". JOHNSON, "No, Sir; he does not carry me along with him: he leaves me behind him: or rather, indeed, he sets me before him; for he makes me turn over many leaves at a time".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [sermon written for John Taylor]
'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part of one which he had newly begun to write: and [italics] Concio pro Tayloro [end italics] appears in one of his diaries. When to these circumstances we add the internal evidence from the power of thinking and style, in the collection which the Reverend Mr. Hayes has published, with the [italics] significant [end italics] title of "Sermons [italics] left for publication [end italics] by the Reverend John Taylor, LL.D.", our conviction will be complete. I, however, would not have it thought, that Dr. Taylor, though he could not write like Johnson, (as, indeed, who could?) did not sometimes compose sermons as good as those which we generally have from very respectable divines. He showed me one with notes on the margin in Johnson's hand-writing; and I was present when he read another to Johnson, that he might have his opinion of it, and Johnson said it was "very well". These, we may be sure, were not Johnson's; for he was above little arts, or tricks of deception.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

John Taylor : Sermons left for publication by the Reverend John Taylor LL.D.
'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part of one which he had newly begun to write: and [italics] Concio pro Tayloro [end italics] appears in one of his diaries. When to these circumstances we add the internal evidence from the power of thinking and style, in the collection which the Reverend Mr. Hayes has published, with the [italics] significant [end italics] title of "Sermons [italics] left for publication [end italics] by the Reverend John Taylor, LL.D.", our conviction will be complete. I, however, would not have it thought, that Dr. Taylor, though he could not write like Johnson, (as, indeed, who could?) did not sometimes compose sermons as good as those which we generally have from very respectable divines. He showed me one with notes on the margin in Johnson's hand-writing; and I was present when he read another to Johnson, that he might have his opinion of it, and Johnson said it was "very well". These, we may be sure, were not Johnson's; for he was above little arts, or tricks of deception.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

John Taylor : [sermon]
'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part of one which he had newly begun to write: and [italics] Concio pro Tayloro [end italics] appears in one of his diaries. When to these circumstances we add the internal evidence from the power of thinking and style, in the collection which the Reverend Mr. Hayes has published, with the [italics] significant [end italics] title of "Sermons [italics] left for publication [end italics] by the Reverend John Taylor, LL.D.", our conviction will be complete. I, however, would not have it thought, that Dr. Taylor, though he could not write like Johnson, (as, indeed, who could?) did not sometimes compose sermons as good as those which we generally have from very respectable divines. He showed me one with notes on the margin in Johnson's hand-writing; and I was present when he read another to Johnson, that he might have his opinion of it, and Johnson said it was "very well". These, we may be sure, were not Johnson's; for he was above little arts, or tricks of deception.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Taylor      Manuscript: Unknown

Colley Cibber : [birthday Ode]
'[Johnson said] 'Colley Cibber once consulted me as to one of his birth-day Odes, a long time before it was wanted. I objected very freely to several passages. Cibber lost patience, and would not read his Ode to an end.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Manuscript: Unknown

Edmund Burke : Letter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol
'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the composition much, and he ridiculed the definition of a free government, viz. "For any practical purpose, it is what the people think so"--"I will let the King of France govern me on those conditions, (said he,) for it is to be governed just as I ".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Various : [Texts by or about 15th-century French literary and historical figures]
'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on single characters: Charles, Rene of Anjou, Jacques Coeur, Villon, Louis XI, Joan of Arc. Would not that be a jolly book? I do not propose to write any of them just now; but study the period quietly. It suits me better than the Reformation , because − well, because it’s more romantic to begin with, and again because it is more manageable − not such a monstrous large order.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Probably books and articles.

Robert Plott : Natural History of Staffordshire
'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immediate springs, but after having run for many miles under ground. Plott, in his "History of Staffordshire", gives an account of this curiosity; but Johnson would not believe it, though we had the attestation of the gardener, who said, he had put in corks, where the river Manyfold sinks into the ground, and had catched them in a net, placed before one of the openings where the water bursts out. Indeed, such subterraneous courses of water are found in various parts of our globe.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the only time I ever heard him say any thing witty) observed, that "if Rochester had been castrated himself, his exceptionable poems would not have been written". I asked if Burnet had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. "We have a good [italics] Death [end italics]: there is not much [italics] Life[end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the only time I ever heard him say any thing witty) observed, that "if Rochester had been castrated himself, his exceptionable poems would not have been written". I asked if Burnet had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. "We have a good [italics] Death [end italics]: there is not much [italics] Life[end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Wilmot, Lord Rochester : [Poems]
'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the only time I ever heard him say any thing witty) observed, that "if Rochester had been castrated himself, his exceptionable poems would not have been written". I asked if Burnet had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. "We have a good [italics] Death [end italics]: there is not much [italics] Life[end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Wilmot, Lord Rochester : [Poems]
'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the only time I ever heard him say any thing witty) observed, that "if Rochester had been castrated himself, his exceptionable poems would not have been written". I asked if Burnet had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. "We have a good [italics] Death [end italics]: there is not much [italics] Life[end italics]".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Taylor      Print: Book

Matthew Prior : [Poems]
'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Poems", by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where he mentions, "those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious authour". JOHNSON. "Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness. If Lord Hailes thinks there is, he must be more combustible than other people". I instanced the tale of Paulo Purganti and his Wife. JOHNSON. "Sir, there is nothing there, but that his wife wanted to be kissed when poor Paulo was out of pocket. No, Sir, Prior is a lady's book. No lady is ashamed to have it standing in her library".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : At the Land's End of France.
'The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovely friend, if you overwork like that, your numskull will cave in again.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Matthew Prior : [Poems]
'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Poems", by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where he mentions, "those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious authour". JOHNSON. "Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness. If Lord Hailes thinks there is, he must be more combustible than other people". I instanced the tale of Paulo Purganti and his Wife. JOHNSON. "Sir, there is nothing there, but that his wife wanted to be kissed when poor Paulo was out of pocket. No, Sir, Prior is a lady's book. No lady is ashamed to have it standing in her library".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes      Print: Book

Matthew Prior : [Poems]
'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Poems", by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where he mentions, "those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious authour". JOHNSON. "Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness. If Lord Hailes thinks there is, he must be more combustible than other people". I instanced the tale of Paulo Purganti and his Wife. JOHNSON. "Sir, there is nothing there, but that his wife wanted to be kissed when poor Paulo was out of pocket. No, Sir, Prior is a lady's book. No lady is ashamed to have it standing in her library".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Horace : Odes
'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute as to the comparative excellence of Homer or Virgil was inaccurate. "We must consider (said he) whether Homer was not the greatest poet, though Virgil may have produced the finest poem. Virgil was indebted to Homer for the whole invention of the structure of an epick poem, and for many of his beauties".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute as to the comparative excellence of Homer or Virgil was inaccurate. "We must consider (said he) whether Homer was not the greatest poet, though Virgil may have produced the finest poem. Virgil was indebted to Homer for the whole invention of the structure of an epick poem, and for many of his beauties".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad and Odyssey
'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute as to the comparative excellence of Homer or Virgil was inaccurate. "We must consider (said he) whether Homer was not the greatest poet, though Virgil may have produced the finest poem. Virgil was indebted to Homer for the whole invention of the structure of an epick poem, and for many of his beauties".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Francis Bacon :
'He [Johnson] told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compiling the "English Dictionary", in which, he said, I might see Bacon very often quoted.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

David Mallet : Life of Francis Bacon, The
'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; but Mallet's mind was not comprehensive enough to embrace the vast extent of Lord Verulam's genius and research. Dr. Warburton therefore observed, with witty justness, "that Mallet, in his "Life of Bacon", had forgotten that he was a philosopher; and if he should write the Life of the Duke of Marlborough, which he had undertaken to do, he would probably forget that he was a general".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

David Mallet : Life of Francis Bacon, The
'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; but Mallet's mind was not comprehensive enough to embrace the vast extent of Lord Verulam's genius and research. Dr. Warburton therefore observed, with witty justness, "that Mallet, in his "Life of Bacon", had forgotten that he was a philosopher; and if he should write the Life of the Duke of Marlborough, which he had undertaken to do, he would probably forget that he was a general".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Warburton      Print: Book

James Grainger : 'Ode on Solitude'
'He praised Grainger's "Ode on Solitude", in Dodsley's "Collection", and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:- "O Solitude, romantick maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread; Or haunt the desart's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide; Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep; Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadnor's marble waste survey"; observing, "This, Sir, is very noble".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Masefield : Gallipoli
'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty literature as I had collected from home - Thomas Hardy's poems, John Masefield's "Gallipoli", numerous copies of "Blackwood's Magazine", and the recently published Report of the Commission on the Dardanelles.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical, magazines

Robert Service : Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
'The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", which had just been sent out to him from England. He particularly resented, it seemed, a line in the poem called "Pilgrims" which described death as "the splendid release".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor unknown      Print: Unknown

John Ranby : Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, an excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend John Ranby, Esq. entitled "Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade." To Mr. Ranby's "Doubts," I will apply Lord Chancellor Hardwicke's expression in praise of a Scotch Law Book, called "Dirleton's Doubts"; "HIS [italics] Doubts [end italics], (said his Lordship,) are better than most people's [italics] Certainties [end italics]."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell

James Steuart : Dirleton's Doubts and Questions in the Law of Scotland
I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, an excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend John Ranby, Esq. entitled "Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade." To Mr. Ranby's "Doubts," I will apply Lord Chancellor Hardwicke's expression in praise of a Scotch Law Book, called "Dirleton's Doubts"; "HIS [italics] Doubts [end italics], (said his Lordship,) are better than most people's [italics] Certainties [end italics]."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke      Print: Book

Florentius Volusenus [pseud.] : De Animi Tranquillitate
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of Volusenus, according to the custom of literary men at a certain period. It is entitled "De Animi Tranquillitate" I earnestly desire tranquillity'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

: London Chronicle
'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] The alarm of your late illness distressed me but a few hours ; for on the evening of the day that it reached me, I found it contradicted in 'The London Chronicle,' which I could depend upon as authentick concerning you, Mr. Strahan being the printer of it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Newspaper

Robert Sibbald : [manuscript Life]
'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founder of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, in the original manuscript in his own hand-writing ; and that it was, I believed, the most natural and candid account of himself that ever was given by any man'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Atterbury : [Funeral Sermon for Lady Cutts]
'[in a conversation about journals, Boswell said] "And as a lady adjusts her dress before a mirrour, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal." I next year found the very same thought in Atterbury's "Funeral Sermon on Lady Cutts" where, having mentioned her diary, he says, " In this glass she every day dressed her mind." This is a proof of coincidence, and not of plagiarism ; for I had never read that sermon before'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Philip Thicknesse : Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation
'Johnson. "I have been reading Thicknesse's Travels, which I think are entertaining." Boswell. "What, Sir, a good book?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, to read once; I do not say you are to make a study of it, and digest it ; and I believe it to be a true book in his intention. All travellers generally mean to tell truth".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Dr Kennedy : [a tragedy]
'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy (not the Lisbon physician). "The catastrophe of it (said he) was, that a King, who was jealous of his Queen with his prime-minister, castrated himself. This tragedy was actually shewn about in manuscript to several people, and, amongst others, to Mr. Fitzherbert, who repeated to me two lines of the Prologue : " Our hero's fate we have but gently touch'd ; The fair might blame us, if it were less couch'd"."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Fitzherbert      Manuscript: Unknown

:
'He [Johnson] was very silent this evening ; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking up another.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Martin Martin : Description of the Western Isles of Scotland
'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. JOHNSON. "It is sad stuff, Sir, miserably written, as books in general then were. There is now an elegance of style universally diffused. No man now writes so ill as Martin's "Account of the Hebrides" is written, A man could not write so ill, if he should try. Set a merchant's clerk now to write, and he'll do better".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Morer : Short Account of Scotland
'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. JOHNSON. "It is sad stuff, Sir, miserably written, as books in general then were. There is now an elegance of style universally diffused. No man now writes so ill as Martin's "Account of the Hebrides" is written, A man could not write so ill, if he should try. Set a merchant's clerk now to write, and he'll do better".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'I told him, that I had been present the day before when Mrs. Montagu, the literary lady, sat to Miss Reynolds for her picture ; and that she said, "she had bound up Mr. Gibbon's 'History' without the last two offensive chapters; for that she thought the book so far good, as it gave, in an elegant manner, the substance of the bad writers medii aevi, which the late Lord Lyttleton advised her to read." [Johnson retorts that she has not read these authors]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu      Print: Book

abbe Trublet : Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de M. de Fontenelle
'He [Johnson] was for a considerable time occupied in reading "Memoires de Fontenelle" leaning and swinging upon the low gate into the court, without his hat.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Sketches of the History of Man
'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles the Fifth, for celebrating his funeral obsequies in his life-time'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Francis Atterbury : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

John Tillotson : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Robert South : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Seed : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

John Jortin : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

George Smallridge : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Samuel Clarke : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Samuel Ogden : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Samuel Ogden : [Sermons]
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Patrick Delany : Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift
'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery's might both be true, though one viewed Swift more, and the other less favourably; and that, between both, we might have a complete notion of Swift.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Boyle, 5th earl of Orrery : Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift
'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery's might both be true, though one viewed Swift more, and the other less favourably; and that, between both, we might have a complete notion of Swift.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Horace :
'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason to believe that, my Lord. Are we to think Pope was happy, because he says so in his writings? We see in his writings what he wished the state of his mind to appear. Dr. Young, who pined for preferment, talks with contempt of it in his writings, and affects to despise everything that he did not despise".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Jonathan Shipley      Print: Book

Edward Young :
'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason to believe that, my Lord. Are we to think Pope was happy, because he says so in his writings? We see in his writings what he wished the state of his mind to appear. Dr. Young, who pined for preferment, talks with contempt of it in his writings, and affects to despise everything that he did not despise".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Traveller, The
'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses." Sir Joshua. "I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it was one of the finest poems in the English language." Langton. "Why were you glad? You surely had no doubt of this before." Johnson. "No ; the merit of 'The Traveller' is so well established, that Mr. Fox's praise cannot augment it, nor his censure diminish it." Sir Joshua. "But his friends may suspect they had too great a partiality for him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Oliver Goldsmith : Traveller, The
'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses." Sir Joshua. "I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it was one of the finest poems in the English language." Langton. "Why were you glad? You surely had no doubt of this before." Johnson. "No ; the merit of 'The Traveller' is so well established, that Mr. Fox's praise cannot augment it, nor his censure diminish it." Sir Joshua. "But his friends may suspect they had too great a partiality for him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joshua Reynolds      Print: Unknown

Oliver Goldsmith : Traveller, The
'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses." Sir Joshua. "I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it was one of the finest poems in the English language." Langton. "Why were you glad? You surely had no doubt of this before." Johnson. "No ; the merit of 'The Traveller' is so well established, that Mr. Fox's praise cannot augment it, nor his censure diminish it." Sir Joshua. "But his friends may suspect they had too great a partiality for him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Bennet Langton      Print: Unknown

Oliver Goldsmith : Traveller, The
'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses." Sir Joshua. "I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it was one of the finest poems in the English language." Langton. "Why were you glad? You surely had no doubt of this before." Johnson. "No ; the merit of 'The Traveller' is so well established, that Mr. Fox's praise cannot augment it, nor his censure diminish it." Sir Joshua. "But his friends may suspect they had too great a partiality for him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Fox      Print: Unknown

Thomas Hardy : In Time of the Breaking of Nations
'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems that Edward had sent me in Malta: "Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch grass: Yet this will go onwards the same Though Dynasties pass."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

John Masefield : The Loom of Youth
'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading "The Loom of Youth" in bits....It is very good and it is very true even if slightly exaggerated....'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Brittain

Gilbert Frankau : The City of Fear
'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage out of a tin egg-cup, and reading an impressive poem called "The City of Fear" by a certain Captain Gilbert Frankau, who had not then begun to dissipate his rather exciting talents upon the romances of cigar merchants:'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: The Times
'The magazines, when more demanding than the "Tatler", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly "Times", the "Spectator" and "Blackwood's", so that my impression of the winter's most significant events - the Bolshevik November coup d'etat two months after the proclamation of the Russian Republic, and the final act at Brest Litovsk on March 2nd, 1918, following the complete collapse of the Russian armies - was inevitably onesided.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Robert Burns : unknown
'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild goose) starts up and away I go. And then again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump. It is awful to have to express and differentiate Burns, in a column or two. All the more as I’m going to write a book about it. "Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns: an Essay" (or "A Critical Essay" but then I’m going to give lives of the three gentlemen, only the gist of the book is the criticism) “by Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate, MS., P.P.C., etc.” How’s that for cut and dry? And I [italics]could[end italics] write that book. Unless I deceive myself in a superior style, I could write it pretty adequately. I feel as if I was really in it, and knew the game thoroughly. You see what comes of trying to write an essay on Burns in ten columns.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Unknown

Allan Ramsay : The Gentle Shepherd
'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild goose) starts up and away I go. And then again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump. It is awful to have to express and differentiate Burns, in a column or two. All the more as I’m going to write a book about it. "Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns: an Essay" (or "A Critical Essay" but then I’m going to give lives of the three gentlemen, only the gist of the book is the criticism) “by Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate, MS., P.P.C., etc.” How’s that for cut and dry? And I [italics]could[end italics] write that book. Unless I deceive myself in a superior style, I could write it pretty adequately. I feel as if I was really in it, and knew the game thoroughly. You see what comes of trying to write an essay on Burns in ten columns.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Unknown

Robert Fergusson : Poems
'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild goose) starts up and away I go. And then again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump. It is awful to have to express and differentiate Burns, in a column or two. All the more as I’m going to write a book about it. "Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns: an Essay" (or "A Critical Essay" but then I’m going to give lives of the three gentlemen, only the gist of the book is the criticism) “by Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate, MS., P.P.C., etc.” How’s that for cut and dry? And I [italics]could[end italics] write that book. Unless I deceive myself in a superior style, I could write it pretty adequately. I feel as if I was really in it, and knew the game thoroughly'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Aeschylus :
'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you read Potter's Aeschylus?" HARRIS. "Yes; and think it pretty." GARRICK. (to Johnson.) "And what think you, Sir, of it?" JOHNSON. "I thought what I read of it verbiage: but upon Mr. Harris's recommendation, I will read a play. (To Mr. Harris.) Don't prescribe two." Mr. Harris suggested one, I do not remember which. JOHNSON. "We must try its effect as an English poem; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation. Translations are, in general, for people who cannot read the original." I mentioned the vulgar saying, that Pope's Homer was not a good representation of the original. JOHNSON."Sir, it is the greatest work of the kind that has ever been produced" BOSWELL. "The truth is, it is impossible perfectly to translate poetry. In a different language it may be the same tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Harris      Print: Book

Aeschylus :
'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you read Potter's Aeschylus?" HARRIS. "Yes; and think it pretty." GARRICK. (to Johnson.) "And what think you, Sir, of it?" JOHNSON. "I thought what I read of it verbiage: but upon Mr. Harris's recommendation, I will read a play. (To Mr. Harris.) Don't prescribe two." Mr. Harris suggested one, I do not remember which. JOHNSON. "We must try its effect as an English poem; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation. Translations are, in general, for people who cannot read the original." I mentioned the vulgar saying, that Pope's Homer was not a good representation of the original. JOHNSON."Sir, it is the greatest work of the kind that has ever been produced" BOSWELL. "The truth is, it is impossible perfectly to translate poetry. In a different language it may be the same tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad and Odyssey
'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you read Potter's Aeschylus?" HARRIS. "Yes; and think it pretty." GARRICK. (to Johnson.) "And what think you, Sir, of it?" JOHNSON. "I thought what I read of it verbiage: but upon Mr. Harris's recommendation, I will read a play. (To Mr. Harris.) Don't prescribe two." Mr. Harris suggested one, I do not remember which. JOHNSON. "We must try its effect as an English poem; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation. Translations are, in general, for people who cannot read the original." I mentioned the vulgar saying, that Pope's Homer was not a good representation of the original. JOHNSON."Sir, it is the greatest work of the kind that has ever been produced" BOSWELL. "The truth is, it is impossible perfectly to translate poetry. In a different language it may be the same tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad and Odyssey
'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you read Potter's Aeschylus?" HARRIS. "Yes; and think it pretty." GARRICK. (to Johnson.) "And what think you, Sir, of it?" JOHNSON. "I thought what I read of it verbiage: but upon Mr. Harris's recommendation, I will read a play. (To Mr. Harris.) Don't prescribe two." Mr. Harris suggested one, I do not remember which. JOHNSON. "We must try its effect as an English poem; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation. Translations are, in general, for people who cannot read the original." I mentioned the vulgar saying, that Pope's Homer was not a good representation of the original. JOHNSON."Sir, it is the greatest work of the kind that has ever been produced" BOSWELL. "The truth is, it is impossible perfectly to translate poetry. In a different language it may be the same tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad and Odyssey
'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you read Potter's Aeschylus?" HARRIS. "Yes; and think it pretty." GARRICK. (to Johnson.) "And what think you, Sir, of it?" JOHNSON. "I thought what I read of it verbiage: but upon Mr. Harris's recommendation, I will read a play. (To Mr. Harris.) Don't prescribe two." Mr. Harris suggested one, I do not remember which. JOHNSON. "We must try its effect as an English poem; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation. Translations are, in general, for people who cannot read the original." I mentioned the vulgar saying, that Pope's Homer was not a good representation of the original. JOHNSON."Sir, it is the greatest work of the kind that has ever been produced" BOSWELL. "The truth is, it is impossible perfectly to translate poetry. In a different language it may be the same tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Martial : Epigrams
'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded". Mr. Langton, who now had joined us, commended Clarendon. JOHNSON. "He is objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want of harmony. But he is supported by his matter. It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. Every [italics] substance [end italics], (smiling to Mr. Harris,) has so many [italics] accidents [end italics].--To be distinct, we must talk analytically. If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically". GARRICK. "Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's 'Martial' the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, 'You don't seem to have that turn.' I asked him if he was serious; and finding he was, I advised him against publishing. Why, his translation is more difficult to understand than the original. I thought him a man of some talents; but he seems crazy in this".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Garrick      Print: Book

Martial : Epigrams
'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded". Mr. Langton, who now had joined us, commended Clarendon. JOHNSON. "He is objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want of harmony. But he is supported by his matter. It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. Every [italics] substance [end italics], (smiling to Mr. Harris,) has so many [italics] accidents [end italics].--To be distinct, we must talk analytically. If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically". GARRICK. "Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's 'Martial' the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, 'You don't seem to have that turn.' I asked him if he was serious; and finding he was, I advised him against publishing. Why, his translation is more difficult to understand than the original. I thought him a man of some talents; but he seems crazy in this".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: David Garrick      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon :
'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded". Mr. Langton, who now had joined us, commended Clarendon. JOHNSON. "He is objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want of harmony. But he is supported by his matter. It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. Every [italics] substance [end italics], (smiling to Mr. Harris,) has so many [italics] accidents [end italics].--To be distinct, we must talk analytically. If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically". GARRICK. "Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's 'Martial' the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, 'You don't seem to have that turn.' I asked him if he was serious; and finding he was, I advised him against publishing. Why, his translation is more difficult to understand than the original. I thought him a man of some talents; but he seems crazy in this".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Bennet Langton      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon :
'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded". Mr. Langton, who now had joined us, commended Clarendon. JOHNSON. "He is objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want of harmony. But he is supported by his matter. It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. Every [italics] substance [end italics], (smiling to Mr. Harris,) has so many [italics] accidents [end italics].--To be distinct, we must talk analytically. If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically". GARRICK. "Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's 'Martial' the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, 'You don't seem to have that turn.' I asked him if he was serious; and finding he was, I advised him against publishing. Why, his translation is more difficult to understand than the original. I thought him a man of some talents; but he seems crazy in this".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Temple :
'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded". Mr. Langton, who now had joined us, commended Clarendon. JOHNSON. "He is objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want of harmony. But he is supported by his matter. It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. Every [italics] substance [end italics], (smiling to Mr. Harris,) has so many [italics] accidents [end italics].--To be distinct, we must talk analytically. If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically". GARRICK. "Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's 'Martial' the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, 'You don't seem to have that turn.' I asked him if he was serious; and finding he was, I advised him against publishing. Why, his translation is more difficult to understand than the original. I thought him a man of some talents; but he seems crazy in this".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe :
'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if not all of which, as well as of his other works, he now enumerated, allowing a considerable share of merit to a man, who, bred a tradesman, had written so variously and so well. Indeed, his "Robinson Crusoe" is enough of itself to establish his reputation'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if not all of which, as well as of his other works, he now enumerated, allowing a considerable share of merit to a man, who, bred a tradesman, had written so variously and so well. Indeed, his "Robinson Crusoe" is enough of itself to establish his reputation'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : Collection of Poems by Several Hands
' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison." There is, in Dodsley's 'Collection', a copy of verses to the authour of that song". Smith's Latin verses on Pococke, the great traveller, were mentioned. He repeated some of them, and said they were Smith's best verses.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edmund Smith : 'Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser'
' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison." There is, in Dodsley's 'Collection', a copy of verses to the authour of that song". Smith's Latin verses on Pococke, the great traveller, were mentioned. He repeated some of them, and said they were Smith's best verses.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

William Robertson : History of America
'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated characters devised for the purpose, I had a method of my own of writing half words, and leaving out some altogether so as yet to keep the substance and language of any discourse which I had heard so much in view, that I could give it very completely soon after I had taken it down. He defied me, as he had once defied an actual short-hand writer, and he made the experiment by reading slowly and distinctly a part of Robertson's "History of America", while I endeavoured to write it in my way of taking notes. It was found that I had it very imperfectly; the conclusion from which was, that its excellence was principally owing to a studied arrangement of words, which could not be varied or abridged without an essential injury.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Dodd : Thoughts in Prison
'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary effort by a man who was in Newgate for a capital crime, I was desirous to hear Johnson's opinion of it: to my surprize, he told me he had not read a line of it. I took up the book and read a passage to him. JOHNSON. "Pretty well, if you are previously disposed to like them". I read another passage, with which he was better pleased. He then took the book into his own hands, and having looked at the prayer at the end of it, he said, "What evidence is there that this was composed the night before he suffered? I do not believe it". He then read aloud where he prays for the King, &c. and observed, "Sir, do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares for the succession of a royal family?--Though, he may have composed this prayer, then. A man who has been canting all his life, may cant to the last.--And yet a man who has been refused a pardon after so much petitioning, would hardly be praying thus fervently for the King".
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Dodd : Thoughts in Prison
'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary effort by a man who was in Newgate for a capital crime, I was desirous to hear Johnson's opinion of it: to my surprize, he told me he had not read a line of it. I took up the book and read a passage to him. JOHNSON. "Pretty well, if you are previously disposed to like them". I read another passage, with which he was better pleased. He then took the book into his own hands, and having looked at the prayer at the end of it, he said, "What evidence is there that this was composed the night before he suffered? I do not believe it". He then read aloud where he prays for the King, &c. and observed, "Sir, do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares for the succession of a royal family?--Though, he may have composed this prayer, then. A man who has been canting all his life, may cant to the last.--And yet a man who has been refused a pardon after so much petitioning, would hardly be praying thus fervently for the King".
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : Tour in Scotland in 1769, A
'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky. Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of the ancient Percies, and having the warmest and most dutiful attachment to the noble House of Northumberland, could not sit quietly and hear a man praised, who had spoken disrespectfully of Alnwick-Castle and the Duke's pleasure grounds, especially as he thought meanly of his travels. He therefore opposed Johnson eagerly. JOHNSON. "Pennant in what he has said of Alnwick, has done what he intended; he has made you very angry." PERCY. "He has said the garden is trim, which is representing it like a citizen's parterre, when the truth is, there is a very large extent of fine turf and gravel walks".' [the argument continues at length]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Percy      Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : Tour in Scotland in 1769, A
'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky. Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of the ancient Percies, and having the warmest and most dutiful attachment to the noble House of Northumberland, could not sit quietly and hear a man praised, who had spoken disrespectfully of Alnwick-Castle and the Duke's pleasure grounds, especially as he thought meanly of his travels. He therefore opposed Johnson eagerly. JOHNSON. "Pennant in what he has said of Alnwick, has done what he intended; he has made you very angry." PERCY. "He has said the garden is trim, which is representing it like a citizen's parterre, when the truth is, there is a very large extent of fine turf and gravel walks".' [the argument continues at length]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : Tour in Scotland in 1769
'JOHNSON. "He's [Pennant] a [italics] Whig [end italics], Sir; a [italics]sad dog [end italics]. (smiling at his own violent expressions, merely for [italics] political [end italics] difference of opinion.) But he's the best traveller I ever read; he observes more things than any one else does". I could not help thinking that this was too high praise of a writer who had traversed a wide extent of country in such haste, that he could put together only curt frittered fragments of his own, and afterwards procured supplemental intelligence from parochial ministers, and others not the best qualified or most impartial narrators, whose ungenerous prejudice against the house of Stuart glares in misrepresentation; a writer, who at best treats merely of superficial objects, and shews no philosophical investigation of character and manners, such as Johnson has exhibited in his masterly Journey, over part of the same ground; and who it should seem from a desire of ingratiating himself with the Scotch, has flattered the people of North-Britain so inordinately and with so little discrimination, that the judicious and candid amongst them must be disgusted, while they value more the plain, just, yet kindly report of Johnson.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Niels Horebow : Natural history of Iceland, The
'Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland", from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:-- "CHAP. LXXII. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Charles Sheridan : History of the late revolution in Sweden , A
'Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the late Revolution in Sweden", and seemed to read it ravenously, as if he devoured it, which was to all appearance his method of studying. "He knows how to read better than any one (said Mrs. Knowles;) he gets at the substance of a book directly; he tears out the heart of it". He kept it wrapt up in the tablecloth in his lap during the time of dinner, from an avidity to have one entertainment in readiness when he should have finished another; resembling (if I may use so coarse a simile) a dog who holds a bone in his paws in reserve, while he eats something else which has been thrown to him.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

E M Forster : Alexandria: A History and Guide
'I cannot tell you with what delight I found your lovely history of Alexandria, and your most kind letter, awaiting me when I returned here on Thursday. ( I was delayed in London)the book has a beauty that makes one feel calmed -(at the moment I am reading the section on literature) as one feels calmed when looking at certain statues and listening to certain music. I am deeply grateful to you for sending it to me, and am proud to have it inscribed in your handwriting. I wish you could know what pleasure I feel in reading this book. Whilst I was in London, I found people tearing about, and declaring they could read nothing but newspapers. What a strange way of trying to retain one's sanity! For myself, I have been reading Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, and now I am reading Alexandria.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Poems
'That wonderful edition of Pope has appeared: and I can never thank you enough. You cannot know what a delight it is to me. It is truly wonderful for me to have all his works in this singularly beautiful edition. And apart from the joy of having it, it has come at a moment when I am about to collect, enlarge, and put together all my notes about his poetry, for this book on poetry I am working at. I am very glad, too, to have it from you. I hope you will inscribe it for me, when we meet. I have not nearly finished looking through it,even yet.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Sacheverall Sitwell : Sacred and Profane Love
'I comforted myself last night when I couldn't sleep, by reading those truly wonderful passages about the shells and sea -nymphs in Sacred and Profane Love. What miraculous beauty.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Charge of the Light Brigade
'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari: '"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, one of the few who survived that fatal mistake, the Balaclava charge [...] This patient had received a kick in the chest from a horse long after the battle of Balaclava, while in barracks at Scutari. He was depressed in spirits, which prevented him from throwing off the disease engendered by the blow. The doctor remarked that he wished the soldier could be roused. Amongst other remedies leeches were prescribed. I tried to enter into a conversation with him, spoke of the charge, but could elicit only monosyllablic replies. A copy of Tennyson's poem having been lent me that morning, I took it out and read it. The man, with kindling eye, at once entered upon a spirited description of the fatal gallop between the guns' mouths to and from that cannon-crowded height. He asked to hear it again, but, as by this time a number of convalescents were gathered around, I slipped out of the ward. The chaplain who had lent me the poem, understanding the enthusiasm with which it had been received, afterwards procured from England a number of copies for distribution. In a few days the invalid requested the doctor to discharge him for duty, being now in health; but whether the cure was effected by the leeches or the poem it is impossible to say."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor man had sent his poems beforehand. They had been acknowledged, but had not been returned, and had been forgotten. He was informed that the poems, thus sent, were always looked at, although my father and mother had not time to pass judgement on them. A most pathetic incident of this kind, my father told me, happened to him at Twickenham, when a Waterloo soldier brought twelve large cantos on the battle of Waterloo. The veteran had actually taught himself in his old age to read and write that he might thus commemorate Wellington's great victory. The epic lay for some time under the sofa in my father's study, and was a source of much anxiety to him. How could he go through such a vast poem? One day he mustered up courage and took a portion out. It opened on the head of a canto: "The Angels encamped above the field of Waterloo." On that day, at least, he "read no more." He gave the author, when he called for his manuscript, this criticism: "Though great images loom here and there, your poem could not be published as a whole." The old man answered nothing, wrapt up each of the twelve cantos carefully, placed them in a strong oak case and carried them off. He was asked to come again but he never came.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

anon : 12-canto poem on battle of Waterloo
'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor man had sent his poems beforehand. They had been acknowledged, but had not been returned, and had been forgotten. He was informed that the poems, thus sent, were always looked at, although my father and mother had not time to pass judgement on them. A most pathetic incident of this kind, my father told me, happened to him at Twickenham, when a Waterloo soldier brought twelve large cantos on the battle of Waterloo. The veteran had actually taught himself in his old age to read and write that he might thus commemorate Wellington's great victory. The epic lay for some time under the sofa in my father's study, and was a source of much anxiety to him. How could he go through such a vast poem? One day he mustered up courage and took a portion out. It opened on the head of a canto: "The Angels encamped above the field of Waterloo." On that day, at least, he "read no more." He gave the author, when he called for his manuscript, this criticism: "Though great images loom here and there, your poem could not be published as a whole." The old man answered nothing, wrapt up each of the twelve cantos carefully, placed them in a strong oak case and carried them off. He was asked to come again but he never came.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

: texts used in teaching self to read
'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor man had sent his poems beforehand. They had been acknowledged, but had not been returned, and had been forgotten. He was informed that the poems, thus sent, were always looked at, although my father and mother had not time to pass judgement on them. A most pathetic incident of this kind, my father told me, happened to him at Twickenham, when a Waterloo soldier brought twelve large cantos on the battle of Waterloo. The veteran had actually taught himself in his old age to read and write that he might thus commemorate Wellington's great victory. The epic lay for some time under the sofa in my father's study, and was a source of much anxiety to him. How could he go through such a vast poem? One day he mustered up courage and took a portion out. It opened on the head of a canto: "The Angels encamped above the field of Waterloo." On that day, at least, he "read no more." He gave the author, when he called for his manuscript, this criticism: "Though great images loom here and there, your poem could not be published as a whole." The old man answered nothing, wrapt up each of the twelve cantos carefully, placed them in a strong oak case and carried them off. He was asked to come again but he never came.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
'I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of "Maud," on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed chair, fronting a southern window which looks over the groves and yellow cornfields of Sussex towards the long line of South Downs that stretches from Arundel to Hastings (his high-domed Rembrandt-like head outlined against the sunset-clouds seen through the western window). His voice, low and calm in everyday life, capable of manifold and delicate intonation, but with "organ-tones" of great power and range, thoroughly brought out the drama of the poem.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855: 'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, but I have already a strong feeling of what it is [...] I felt the passion of it and the poetic spirit that is in it'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Taylor      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Curse of Boadicea
'When Fanny Kemble heard that my father read his "Maud" finely, she wrote: "I do not think any reading of Tennyson's can ever be as striking and impressive as that "Curse of Boadicea" [sic] that he intoned to us, while the oak trees were writhing in the storm that lashed the windows and swept over Blackdown the day we were there." (Unpublished MS.)'
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson :
'Mrs Vyner, a stranger,' to Alfred Tennyson, from River, New South Wales, 1855: 'I fancy a poet's heart must be so large and loving that he can feel for and forgive even folly. Folly it may be, and yet I [italics]must[end italics] write and thank you with a true and grateful heart for the happy moments your thoughts and your pen have given me. I am in the wildest bush of Australia, far away from all that makes life beautiful and endurable excepting the strong and stern sense of duty, the consciousness that where God has placed us is our lot to be, and that our most becoming posture is to accept our destiny with grateful humility. You must let me tell you how in a lonely home among the mountains, with my young children asleep, my husband absent, no sound to be heard but the cry of the wild dog or the wail of the curlew, no lock or bolt to guard our solitary hut [...] I have turned (next to God's book) to you as a friend, and read far into the night till my lot seemed light and a joy seemed cast around my very menial toils: then I have said, "God bless the poet and put still some beautiful words and thoughts into his heart," and the burthen of life becomes pleasant to me or at least easy.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Vyner      Print: Book

Homer : The Odyssey
'During the winter evenings of 1855 my father would translate the Odyssey aloud into Biblical prose for my mother, who writes, "Thus I get as much as it is possible to have of the true spirit of the original."'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Hanes Cymru
'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

: Mabinogion
'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

: Llywarch Hen
'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : poems
'In April [1857] a report reached us that old Tom Moore was dying. A friend writes: "This darling old poet is only just alive, mind and body. X goes over frequently to see him and read him your poems, which he cries over and delights in."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore      Print: Book

Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's Schooldays
'This summer [1857] the tour was to Manchester, Coniston, Inverary Castle, and Carstairs (the home of my father's college friend Monteith). On this journey he read aloud Tom Brown's School-Days to my mother, enjoying it thoroughly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The
'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working on the "Faerie Queene", at least ten Shakespeare plays and many other texts that were to be of use to him later'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [plays]
'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working on the "Faerie Queene", at least ten Shakespeare plays and many other texts that were to be of use to him later'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

John Keats : Endymion
'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, noticing that Keats's mind was "naturally unapt for dogma", that Keats and Hunt were given to "luxuriating" over "deliciousness", and that Reynolds came from Shrewsbury and "lacked health and energy". He involved himself similarly in the poems. "Endymion" and 'Lamia' kept his pencil especially busy as he underlined rich vocabulary and marked lush descriptions, including that of the sleeping Adonis. A bookmarker in "Endymion", embroidered with the text "create in me a clean heart O God", seems to have prayed in vain among sensuous passages in which he evidently delighted, but perhaps guilt overcame him after reading 'Lamia', because four pages of erotic description have been carefully stuck together'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

John Keats : 'Lamia'
'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, noticing that Keats's mind was "naturally unapt for dogma", that Keats and Hunt were given to "luxuriating" over "deliciousness", and that Reynolds came from Shrewsbury and "lacked health and energy". He involved himself similarly in the poems. "Endymion" and 'Lamia' kept his pencil especially busy as he underlined rich vocabulary and marked lush descriptions, including that of the sleeping Adonis. A bookmarker in "Endymion", embroidered with the text "create in me a clean heart O God", seems to have prayed in vain among sensuous passages in which he evidently delighted, but perhaps guilt overcame him after reading 'Lamia', because four pages of erotic description have been carefully stuck together'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : Life Of John Keats
'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, noticing that Keats's mind was "naturally unapt for dogma", that Keats and Hunt were given to "luxuriating" over "deliciousness", and that Reynolds came from Shrewsbury and "lacked health and energy". He involved himself similarly in the poems. "Endymion" and 'Lamia' kept his pencil especially busy as he underlined rich vocabulary and marked lush descriptions, including that of the sleeping Adonis. A bookmarker in "Endymion", embroidered with the text "create in me a clean heart O God", seems to have prayed in vain among sensuous passages in which he evidently delighted, but perhaps guilt overcame him after reading 'Lamia', because four pages of erotic description have been carefully stuck together'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Charles Dickens :
'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as "English literature", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular "libraries" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

John Milton :
'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as "English literature", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular "libraries" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Walter Scott :
'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as "English literature", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular "libraries" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: [Elizabethan and Medieval Poetry]
'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as "English literature", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular "libraries" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: [literary biographies]
'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as "English literature", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular "libraries" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: [French books and books about French]
'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as "English literature", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular "libraries" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: [books on history, classics and botany]
'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott, Keats and Dickens predominate, but he also worked on Milton, several eighteenth-century authors, and some Elizabethan and late Medieval poets. About two thirds of his library can be classified as "English literature", including biographies of at least twenty authors [explanatory sentence about dominance of biography not criticism in those days]. There are also nearly fifty books in or about French, a high proportion for someone of Owen's respectable but ordinary educational background. the rest are mostly botany, history and classics. The imprints are often those of the popular "libraries" of the time - Everyman's Library, the People's Books, the Home University Library, Penny Poets - cheap editions aimed at the growing market of young people like himself who were keen on self-improvement'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: Bible
'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith; he fully shared it at first, reading a Bible passage every day with the aid of scripture Union notes and piuosly including texts and sermon topics in his early letters'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: [Scripture Union notes on the Bible]
'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith; he fully shared it at first, reading a Bible passage every day with the aid of scripture Union notes and piuosly including texts and sermon topics in his early letters'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Unknown

: [light novels]
'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and the pious, naive verse of John Oxenham'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Owen      Print: Book

John Oxenham [pseud.] : [light novels]
'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and the pious, naive verse of John Oxenham'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Owen      Print: Book

: [texts on science / religion debate]
'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon "reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence" and "grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote "Shallow!" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, "Nothing in this world is proveable"; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, "at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O.".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: [a Christian response to Darwinism]
'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon "reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence" and "grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote "Shallow!" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, "Nothing in this world is proveable"; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, "at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O.".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

John Keats : Letters
'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon "reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence" and "grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote "Shallow!" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, "Nothing in this world is proveable"; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, "at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O.".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

William Michael Rossetti : Life of John Keats
'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon "reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence" and "grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote "Shallow!" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, "Nothing in this world is proveable"; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, "at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O.".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam, The
'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Islam", for he discovered in January 1912 from a biography of Shelley that "The Revolt" had been composed in a boat "under the beech groves" not far away. This poem was to remain in his mind for the rest of his life, providing him with the theme and title of 'Strange Meeting' in 1918'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: [biography of Shelley]
'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Islam", for he discovered in January 1912 from a biography of Shelley that "The Revolt" had been composed in a boat "under the beech groves" not far away. This poem was to remain in his mind for the rest of his life, providing him with the theme and title of 'Strange Meeting' in 1918'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Harold Monro : Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions
'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in October 1911 when he happened to buy a book of new poems by "A modern aspirant (Unknown to me)... I am idly-busy trying to discover the talent of our own days, and the requirements of the public". This book was undoubtedly "Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions" by Harold Monro. Owen read it carefully and could still quote from it two months later'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

William Michael Rossetti : Life of John Keats
'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guided my groping hand right into the wound, and I touched, for one moment, the incandescent Heart of Keats".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Laurent Tailhade : Poemes elegiaques
'[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translation of a [italics] ballade elegiaque [end italics] from it'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Alfred de Vigny : Chatterton
'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by "La Tentation de St Antoine", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing "cretin!" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's "grands defauts". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, "Madame Bovary" and "Salammbo". "Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading "Salammbo" "with more interest than the Communiques".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Ernest Renan : Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse
'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by "La Tentation de St Antoine", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing "cretin!" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's "grands defauts". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, "Madame Bovary" and "Salammbo". "Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading "Salammbo" "with more interest than the Communiques".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : La Tentation de saint Antoine
'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by "La Tentation de St Antoine", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing "cretin!" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's "grands defauts". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, "Madame Bovary" and "Salammbo". "Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading "Salammbo" "with more interest than the Communiques".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by "La Tentation de St Antoine", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing "cretin!" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's "grands defauts". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, "Madame Bovary" and "Salammbo". "Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading "Salammbo" "with more interest than the Communiques".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Salammbo
'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to plunge their hands into a man's entrails and bring out secrets of the infinite. What he always thought of as his Celtic strain would have been fascinated by "La Tentation de St Antoine", in which Flaubert meticulously describes the saint's visions of strange and dreadful beings. Owen read the book with care, underlining frequently. Tailhade had also marked it, writing "cretin!" against a criticism by the editor of the novel's "grands defauts". Evidently agreing with Tailhade, Owen went on to read at least two more of Flaubert's novels, "Madame Bovary" and "Salammbo". "Flaubert has my vote for novel-writing!", he exclaimed to Gunston in July 1915, and he told his mother that he was reading "Salammbo" "with more interest than the Communiques".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at St. Monica's reading "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: Report by the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John
'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read in the official "Report by the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John" the following words - a little pompous, perhaps, like the report itself, but doubtless written with the laudable intention of reassuring the anxious nursing profession: "The V.A.D. members were not ... trained nurses; nor were they entrusted with trained nurses' work except on occasions when the emergency was so great that no other course was open."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: official report

E.A. Mackintosh : Cha Till Maccruimein
'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein," in his volume of poems "A Highland Regiment", which Roland's mother and sister had sent me for Christmas:'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Dark Forest
'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - one of the few novels I had read that winter - "I was happy ... with a strange exultation that was unlike any emotion that I had known before. It was ... something of the happiness of danger or pain that one has dreaded and finds, in actual truth, give way before one's resolution."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Owen Seaman : The Soul of a Nation
'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch" dated April 3rd, 1918 - the very week in which our old strongholds had fallen and the camp at Etaples had been a struggling pandemonium of ambulances, stretchers and refugee nurses:'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical, magazine

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson.
'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Henri Martin : History of France
'I read […] Martin’s "History of France"[…]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Allan Ramsay : unknown
'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Olivier Basselin : A Son Nez
'I read […] Olivier Basselin […] "On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais seront-ils les maistres? Le vin est guarison De mes maux; J’aime mieux perdre les deux fenestres Que toute la maison" (That’s O. Basselin; [italics]c’est assez choite, n’est-ce pas?[end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

James Walter Ferrier : Forrester
'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and pleasure.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Lope de Vega : unknown
'The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now "Al Monte!" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sister and I are just beating through with two bad dictionaries and an insane grammar.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

unknown : material about Burns
'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Philippe de Commines : Memoires
'I read […] Comines […]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Jean Juvenal des Ursins : unknown
'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

: The Times
'I was no better reconciled to staying at home when I read in "The Times" a few weeks after my return that the persistent German raiders had at last succeeded in their intention of smashing up the Etaples hospitals, which, with the aid of the prisoner-patients, had so satisfactorily protected the railway line for three years without further trouble or expense to the military authorities.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: The Observer
'On Sunday morning, June 16th, I opened the "Observer", which appeared to be chiefly concerned with the new offensive - for the moment at a standstill - in the Noyon-Montdidier sector of the Western Front, and instantly saw at the head of a column the paragraph for which I had looked so long and so fearfully.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: The Observer
'There followed a quotation from the correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, who described "the Austrian attack on the Italian positions in the neighbourhood of the Tonale Pass".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Florence Nightingale : Cassandra
'For years I continued to detest the founder of modern nursing and all that she stood for - a state of mind which persisted until, quite recently, I read her essay "Cassandra" in the Appendix to Ray Strachey's "The Cause", and realised the contrast between her rebelliious spirit, her administrator's grasp of the essentials, and the bigoted narrowness of some of her successors.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Paul Verlaine : 'Mon Reve Familier'
'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few marked anthologies, and a 1914 transcription of Verlaine's sonnet 'Mon reve familier'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Unknown

: [anthologies of French poetry]
'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few marked anthologies, and a 1914 transcription of Verlaine's sonnet 'Mon reve familier'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne : Poems and Ballads
'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volumes of both Shelley and Swinburne with him, but after he had been in action he sent the Shelley back to Shrewsbury, keeping only Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads", the one book of poetry still in his kit at his death'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [Poems]
'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volumes of both Shelley and Swinburne with him, but after he had been in action he sent the Shelley back to Shrewsbury, keeping only Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads", the one book of poetry still in his kit at his death'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Harold Monro : Children of Love
'[Owen] bought [Harold] Monro's latest book, "Children of Love", and became a familiar visitor [at the Poetry Bookshop]. He was impressed by the war poems in "Children of Love"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

William Butler Yeats :
'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neglected (Yeats, Housman and Tagore, for instance, are mentioned in 1916 letters for the first time)'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Rabindranath Tagore :
'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neglected (Yeats, Housman and Tagore, for instance, are mentioned in 1916 letters for the first time)'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Alfred Edward Housman :
'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neglected (Yeats, Housman and Tagore, for instance, are mentioned in 1916 letters for the first time)'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :
'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and "had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy "more than anybody living". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :
'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and "had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy "more than anybody living". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

John Keats :
'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and "had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy "more than anybody living". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

Alfred Edward Housman :
'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and "had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy "more than anybody living". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

William Dean Howells : Undoscovered Country
'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

John Hill Burton : History of the Reign of Queen Anne
'An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, which I am in the heart of, with sincere pleasure.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Arthur Hugh Clough : Amours de Voyage
'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attribution to C., in another article ..'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Harold Monro : Strange Meetings
'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, published by the Bookshop in November, included work by Sassoon, Graves, Monro, Robert Nichols, John Masefield, W.W. Gibson, Walter de la Mare and John Drinkwater. Owen eventually possessed at least fifteen volumes by these Georgians and their original leader, Brooke; this was by far the largest representation of modern verse in his shelves, and most of it was bought and read in November-December 1917.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

: Georgian Poetry 1916-1917
'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, published by the Bookshop in November, included work by Sassoon, Graves, Monro, Robert Nichols, John Masefield, W.W. Gibson, Walter de la Mare and John Drinkwater. Owen eventually possessed at least fifteen volumes by these Georgians and their original leader, Brooke; this was by far the largest representation of modern verse in his shelves, and most of it was bought and read in November-December 1917.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke :
'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, published by the Bookshop in November, included work by Sassoon, Graves, Monro, Robert Nichols, John Masefield, W.W. Gibson, Walter de la Mare and John Drinkwater. Owen eventually possessed at least fifteen volumes by these Georgians and their original leader, Brooke; this was by far the largest representation of modern verse in his shelves, and most of it was bought and read in November-December 1917.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

John Oxenham [pseud.] : Vision Splendid, The
'[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, including, for example, a poem in John Oxenham's "The Vision Splendid" (1917), a book Owen had read at Craiglockhart'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

W.W. Gibson : Battle
'[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1915]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Henri Barbusse : Under Fire
'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translation, "Under Fire", appeared in June 1917 and Sassoon was reading it by mid-August; he lent it to Owen, who seems to have read it at Craiglockhart and again in December'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Henri Barbusse : Under Fire
'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translation, "Under Fire", appeared in June 1917 and Sassoon was reading it by mid-August; he lent it to Owen, who seems to have read it at Craiglockhart and again in December'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried sassoon      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells :
'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internationalism, efficiency, the defeat of militarism by military means. Owen read at least two of his books in December'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Edward Bruce Hamley : Operations of War
'Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms deep.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Bion of Smyrna : 'Epitaph on Adonis'
'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Moschus : 'Epitaph on Bion'
'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

Hannah Glass : Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of cookery may be treated by a philosopher. I doubt if the book be written by Dr. Hill; for, in Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which I have looked into, salt-petre and sal-prunella are spoken of as different substances, whereas sal-prunella is only salt-petre burnt on charcoal; and Hill could not be ignorant of this. However, as the greatest part of such a book is made by transcription, this mistake may have been carelessly adopted. But you shall see what a Book of Cookery I shall make! I shall agree with Mr. Dilly for the copy-right". Miss SEWARD. "That would be Hercules with the distaff indeed". JOHNSON. "No, Madam. Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of Cookery".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Dilly      Print: Book

Hannah Glass : Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of cookery may be treated by a philosopher. I doubt if the book be written by Dr. Hill; for, in Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which I have looked into, salt-petre and sal-prunella are spoken of as different substances, whereas sal-prunella is only salt-petre burnt on charcoal; and Hill could not be ignorant of this. However, as the greatest part of such a book is made by transcription, this mistake may have been carelessly adopted. But you shall see what a Book of Cookery I shall make! I shall agree with Mr. Dilly for the copy-right". Miss SEWARD. "That would be Hercules with the distaff indeed". JOHNSON. "No, Madam. Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of Cookery".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick : Memoirs of the Marshall Duke of Berwick
'JOHNSON. "O! Mr. Dilly-you must know that an English Benedictine Monk at Paris has translated "The Duke of Berwick's Memoirs", from the original French, and has sent them to me to sell. I offered them to Strahan, who sent them back with this answer:--"That the first book he had published was the Duke of Berwick's Life, by which he had lost: and he hated the name."--Now I honestly tell you, that Strahan has refused them; but I also honestly tell you, that he did it upon no principle, for he never looked into them". DILLY. "Are they well translated, Sir?" JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, very well--in a style very current and very clear".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Soame Jenyns : View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion
'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theological indeed; and there seems to be an affectation of ease and carelessness, as if it were not suitable to his character to be very serious about the matter". BOSWELL. "He may have intended this to introduce his book the better among genteel people, who might be unwilling to read too grave a treatise. There is a general levity in the age. We have physicians now with bag-wigs; may we not have airy divines, at least somewhat less solemn in their appearance than they used to be?" JOHNSON. "Jenyns might mean as you say". BOSWELL. "[italics]You[end italics] should like his book, Mrs. Knowles, as it maintains, as you [italics] friends [end italics] do, that courage is not a Christian virtue".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Soame Jenyns : View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion
'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theological indeed; and there seems to be an affectation of ease and carelessness, as if it were not suitable to his character to be very serious about the matter". BOSWELL. "He may have intended this to introduce his book the better among genteel people, who might be unwilling to read too grave a treatise. There is a general levity in the age. We have physicians now with bag-wigs; may we not have airy divines, at least somewhat less solemn in their appearance than they used to be?" JOHNSON. "Jenyns might mean as you say". BOSWELL. "[italics]You[end italics] should like his book, Mrs. Knowles, as it maintains, as you [italics] friends [end italics] do, that courage is not a Christian virtue".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Jonathan Edwards : [on Grace]
'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWELL. "It puzzled me so much as to the freedom of the human will, by stating, with wonderful acute ingenuity, our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist, that the only relief I had was to forget it". MAYO. "But he makes the proper distinction between moral and physical necessity".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Jonathan Edwards : [on Grace]
'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWELL. "It puzzled me so much as to the freedom of the human will, by stating, with wonderful acute ingenuity, our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist, that the only relief I had was to forget it". MAYO. "But he makes the proper distinction between moral and physical necessity".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Mayo      Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
'JOHNSON. "The fallacy of that book [Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"] is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor benefits. He reckons among vices everything that gives pleasure. He takes the narrowest system of morality, monastick morality, which holds pleasure itself to be a vice, such as eating salt with our fish, because it makes it eat better; and he reckons wealth as a publick benefit, which is by no means always true. Pleasure of itself is not a vice. Having a garden, which we all know to be perfectly innocent, is a great pleasure. [Johnson discusses Mandeville at length, concluding] I read Mandeville forty, or, I believe, fifty years ago. He did not puzzle me; he opened my views into real life very much".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Marshall : Minutes of Agriculture
'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very strange performance, the authour having mixed in it his own thoughts upon various topicks, along with his remarks on ploughing, sowing, and other farming operations. He seemed to be an absurd profane fellow, and had introduced in his book many sneers at religion, with equal ignorance and conceit. Dr. Johnson permitted me to read some passages aloud.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Daines Barrington : Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I.
'Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent "Observations on the Statutes", Johnson waited on that worthy and learned gentleman; and, having told him his name, courteously said, "I have read your book, Sir, with great pleasure, and wish to be better known to you". Thus began an acquaintance, which was continued with mutual regard as long as Johnson lived.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and so convincingly to a thinking mind, that if at any time the impression wore off, and I felt myself easy, I began to suspect some delusion.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Richard Tickell : Project, The
'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, and some more ladies. "The Project", a new poem, was read to the company by Dr. Musgrave. JOHNSON. "Sir, it has no power. Were it not for the well-known names with which it is filled, it would be nothing: the names carry the poet, not the poet the names." MUSGRAVE. "A temporary poem always entertains us". JOHNSON. "So does an account of the criminals hanged yesterday entertain us".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Musgrave      Print: Unknown

Richard Tickell : Project, The
'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, and some more ladies. "The Project", a new poem, was read to the company by Dr. Musgrave. JOHNSON. "Sir, it has no power. Were it not for the well-known names with which it is filled, it would be nothing: the names carry the poet, not the poet the names." MUSGRAVE. "A temporary poem always entertains us". JOHNSON. "So does an account of the criminals hanged yesterday entertain us".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Miss Lucan : [translation from Horace]
'We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland. MISS REYNOLDS. "Have you seen them, Sir?" JOHNSON. "No, Madam. I have seen a translation from Horace, by one of her daughters. She shewed it me". MISS REYNOLDS. "And how was it, Sir?" JOHNSON. "Why, very well for a young Miss's verses;--that is to say, compared with excellence, nothing; but, very well, for the person who wrote them. I am vexed at being shewn verses in that manner." MISS REYNOLDS. "But if they should be good, why not give them hearty praise?" JOHNSON. "Why, Madam, because I have not then got the better of my bad humour from having been shewn them".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

: [list of Johnson's works compiled by Mr Levett]
' [Boswell lamenting the dificulty of compiling a definitive Johnson bibliography] I once got from one of his friends a list, which there was pretty good reason to suppose was accurate, for it was written down in his presence by this friend, who enumerated each article aloud, and had some of them mentioned to him by Mr. Levett, in concert with whom it was made out; and Johnson, who heard all this, did not contradict it. But when I shewed a copy of this list to him, and mentioned the evidence for its exactness, he laughed, and said, "I was willing to let them go on as they pleased, and never interfered". Upon which I read it to him, article by article, and got him positively to own or refuse; and then, having obtained certainty so far, I got some other articles confirmed by him directly; and afterwards, from time to time, made additions under his sanction'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli      Print: Book

Thucydides : History of the Peloponnesian War,
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli      Print: Book

Homer :
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli      Print: Book

Lucretius :
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Homer :
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thucydides : History of the Peloponnesian War
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan
'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty", ran a sentence from one of the Elizabethan documents: "The Queen of Scots is the mother of a gallant son, but I am a barren stock."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

A.F. Pollard : History of England
'Whenever we felt too tired even to manufacture the ribald witticisms of the Going-Down play, we took it in turns to read Professor A. F. Pollard's ironic "History of England" or Lytton Strachey's newly published "Queen Victoria" aloud to each other, while the sun sank splendidly behind the willows.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain and her fellow students     Print: Book, Unknown

Edward Gee : A Treatise of Prayer and of Divine Providence as relating to it
'they lent me Mr Gee's booke concerninge prayer; he was minister at Eccleston. And upon the 15th day, Tusday, I was readinge in his booke, and in consideracion of the man's person and gravitie I was posesd with sadnes and composd these verses' [12 lines of verse extolling 'Renowned Gee' follow]
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Lowe      Print: Book

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne : Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera.
'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two − and I got − guess! − I got five pounds for it and the price of the book! That was jolly, wasn’t it? Long live "Vanity Fair"!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Vinagradoff : The Growth of the Manor
'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and difficult period, I wonder, or has some incisive and lucid writer at last let in light on its tangled obscurity?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book, Unknown

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs
'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Lowe      Print: Book

Robert Browning : The Inn Album
'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handsomely.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Unknown

Theodore William Alois Buckley : unknown
'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Lewis Bayly : The Practice of Piety
'I went into old William Hasleden's in Ashton; his wife was sicke and I read in the Practice of Pietie, and as I was reading she gave up the ghost.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Lowe      Print: Book

David Stewart of Garth : Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlands of Sctland, with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments
'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah
'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works of Bernard Shaw, including the newly published "Back to Methuselah", but otherwise had plenty of time for reminiscent meditation - I realised that the past two years at Oxford were going to take a good deal of getting over; they had meant an effort so great that I had not calculated its cost until it was finished.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

unknown : The Evolution of World Peace
'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evolution of World Peace," restored to me that sense of the cause's momentous dignity...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

Hegel : Philosophy of History
Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), Homer and Plato [...] I have added two or three other books which I thought you might like to see, the translation of the Vedas as a specimen of the oldest thing in the world, Hegel's Philosophy of History, whiich is just "the increasing purpose that through the ages runs" buried under a heap of categories. If you care to look at it will you turn to the pages I have marked at the beginning? It is a favourite book of mine [...] I also send you the latest and best work on Mythology, and Bunsen's new Bibelbuch, which, from the little I have read, seems to be an interesting and valuable introduction to Scripture.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett      Print: Book

Bunsen : work on Bible
Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), Homer and Plato [...] I have added two or three other books which I thought you might like to see, the translation of the Vedas as a specimen of the oldest thing in the world, Hegel's Philosophy of History, whiich is just "the increasing purpose that through the ages runs" buried under a heap of categories. If you care to look at it will you turn to the pages I have marked at the beginning? It is a favourite book of mine [...] I also send you the latest and best work on Mythology, and Bunsen's new Bibelbuch, which, from the little I have read, seems to be an interesting and valuable introduction to Scripture.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett      Print: Book

John Dryden :
Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it, at least so much of it as until that time had fallen in my way. In vain my mother read to me Dryden, Pope, Byron, Young, Cowper and all the standard classics of the day, each seemed to me as distasteful as I had from early infancy found Virgil, and I shall never forget her dismay when at a literary dinner I was cross-examined as to my tastes, and blushingly confessed before an Olympus of poets that I rather disliked poetry than otherwise. 'Soon afterwards I fell in with a volume of yours, and suddenly felt such a sensation of delight as I never experienced before. A new world seemed to open to me, and from that day, by a constant study of your works, I gradually worked my way to a gradual appreciation of what is good in all kinds of authors.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood      Print: Book

Alexander Pope :
Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it, at least so much of it as until that time had fallen in my way. In vain my mother read to me Dryden, Pope, Byron, Young, Cowper and all the standard classics of the day, each seemed to me as distasteful as I had from early infancy found Virgil, and I shall never forget her dismay when at a literary dinner I was cross-examined as to my tastes, and blushingly confessed before an Olympus of poets that I rather disliked poetry than otherwise. 'Soon afterwards I fell in with a volume of yours, and suddenly felt such a sensation of delight as I never experienced before. A new world seemed to open to me, and from that day, by a constant study of your works, I gradually worked my way to a gradual appreciation of what is good in all kinds of authors.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron :
Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it, at least so much of it as until that time had fallen in my way. In vain my mother read to me Dryden, Pope, Byron, Young, Cowper and all the standard classics of the day, each seemed to me as distasteful as I had from early infancy found Virgil, and I shall never forget her dismay when at a literary dinner I was cross-examined as to my tastes, and blushingly confessed before an Olympus of poets that I rather disliked poetry than otherwise. 'Soon afterwards I fell in with a volume of yours, and suddenly felt such a sensation of delight as I never experienced before. A new world seemed to open to me, and from that day, by a constant study of your works, I gradually worked my way to a gradual appreciation of what is good in all kinds of authors.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood      Print: Book

Edward Young :
Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it, at least so much of it as until that time had fallen in my way. In vain my mother read to me Dryden, Pope, Byron, Young, Cowper and all the standard classics of the day, each seemed to me as distasteful as I had from early infancy found Virgil, and I shall never forget her dismay when at a literary dinner I was cross-examined as to my tastes, and blushingly confessed before an Olympus of poets that I rather disliked poetry than otherwise. 'Soon afterwards I fell in with a volume of yours, and suddenly felt such a sensation of delight as I never experienced before. A new world seemed to open to me, and from that day, by a constant study of your works, I gradually worked my way to a gradual appreciation of what is good in all kinds of authors.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood      Print: Book

Cowper :
Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it, at least so much of it as until that time had fallen in my way. In vain my mother read to me Dryden, Pope, Byron, Young, Cowper and all the standard classics of the day, each seemed to me as distasteful as I had from early infancy found Virgil, and I shall never forget her dismay when at a literary dinner I was cross-examined as to my tastes, and blushingly confessed before an Olympus of poets that I rather disliked poetry than otherwise. 'Soon afterwards I fell in with a volume of yours, and suddenly felt such a sensation of delight as I never experienced before. A new world seemed to open to me, and from that day, by a constant study of your works, I gradually worked my way to a gradual appreciation of what is good in all kinds of authors.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood      Print: Book

Virgil :
Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it, at least so much of it as until that time had fallen in my way. In vain my mother read to me Dryden, Pope, Byron, Young, Cowper and all the standard classics of the day, each seemed to me as distasteful as I had from early infancy found Virgil, and I shall never forget her dismay when at a literary dinner I was cross-examined as to my tastes, and blushingly confessed before an Olympus of poets that I rather disliked poetry than otherwise. 'Soon afterwards I fell in with a volume of yours, and suddenly felt such a sensation of delight as I never experienced before. A new world seemed to open to me, and from that day, by a constant study of your works, I gradually worked my way to a gradual appreciation of what is good in all kinds of authors.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson :
Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it, at least so much of it as until that time had fallen in my way. In vain my mother read to me Dryden, Pope, Byron, Young, Cowper and all the standard classics of the day, each seemed to me as distasteful as I had from early infancy found Virgil, and I shall never forget her dismay when at a literary dinner I was cross-examined as to my tastes, and blushingly confessed before an Olympus of poets that I rather disliked poetry than otherwise. 'Soon afterwards I fell in with a volume of yours, and suddenly felt such a sensation of delight as I never experienced before. A new world seemed to open to me, and from that day, by a constant study of your works, I gradually worked my way to a gradual appreciation of what is good in all kinds of authors.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Grandmother'
'In July [1858] we stayed at Little Holland House, Kensington, with the Prinseps; and here my father began "The Fair Maid of Astolat," and read aloud "The Grandmother."'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

F. D. Maurice : Friendship of Books
'I remember [...] [Tennyson's] reading with admiration this passage from Maurice's Friendship of Books. "If I do not give you extracts from any of Milton's specially controversial writings, it is not that I wish to pass them over because the conclusions in them are often directly opposed to mine, for I think that I have learnt most from those that are so."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Malory : Morte d'Arthur
'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet Mr and Mrs Roebuck at dinner at Swainston: and the comet was grand, with Arcturus shining brightly over the nucleus. At dinner he said he must leave the table to look at it, and they all followed [...]" When he returned next night he "observed the comet from his platform, and, when he came down for tea, read some Paradise Lost."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet Mr and Mrs Roebuck at dinner at Swainston: and the comet was grand, with Arcturus shining brightly over the nucleus. At dinner he said he must leave the table to look at it, and they all followed [...]" When he returned next night he "observed the comet from his platform, and, when he came down for tea, read some Paradise Lost."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
From Emily Tennyson's diary: 'Oct. 17th. [1858] He [Alfred Tennyson] read aloud "The Rape of the Lock," and noted the marvellous skill of many of the couplets.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam A. H. H.
'The sudden death of Henry Hallam was a great grief to my father, for the historian had been a good friend through thirty years. On hearing of Mr Hallam's last days he read some of "In Memoriam" aloud and dwelt on those passages which most moved him.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Charles Darwin : On the Origin of Species
'In November [1859] [Tennyson] was reading with intense interest an early copy of Darwin's Origin of Species, sent him by his own desire'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Idylls of the King
W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, about three weeks ago, when I was ill in bed, I read the "Idylls of the King," and I thought, "Oh I must write to him now, for this pleasure, this delight, ths splendour of happiness which I have been enjoying." But I should have blotted the sheets, 'tis ill writing on one's back. The letter full of gratitude never went as far as the post-office and how comes it now? 'D'abord, a bottle of claret [...] Then afterwards sitting here, an old magazine, Fraser's Magazine, 1850, and I come on a poem out of "The Princess" which says "I hear the horns of Elfland blowing blowing," no its "the horns of Elfland faintly blowing" [...] and reading the lines, which only one man in the world could write, I thought about the other horns of Elfland blowing in full strength, and Arthur in gold armour, and Guinevere in gold hair [...] You have made me as happy as I was when a child with the Arabian Nights [...] I have had out of that dear book the greatest delight that has ever come to me since I was a young man; to write and think about it makes me almost young'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'The splendour falls...'
W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, about three weeks ago, when I was ill in bed, I read the "Idylls of the King," and I thought, "Oh I must write to him now, for this pleasure, this delight, ths splendour of happiness which I have been enjoying." But I should have blotted the sheets, 'tis ill writing on one's back. The letter full of gratitude never went as far as the post-office and how comes it now? 'D'abord, a bottle of claret [...] Then afterwards sitting here, an old magazine, Fraser's Magazine, 1850, and I come on a poem out of "The Princess" which says "I hear the horns of Elfland blowing blowing," no its "the horns of Elfland faintly blowing" [...] and reading the lines, which only one man in the world could write, I thought about the other horns of Elfland blowing in full strength, and Arthur in gold armour, and Guinevere in gold hair [...] You have made me as happy as I was when a child with the Arabian Nights [...] I have had out of that dear book the greatest delight that has ever come to me since I was a young man; to write and think about it makes me almost young'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : Guinevere
The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of the King" will be understood and admired by many who are incapable of understanding and appreciating many of your other works. 'Macaulay is certainly not a man incapable of [italics]understanding[end italics] anything but I knew that his tastes in poetry were so formed in another line that I gave him a good test, and three days ago I gave him "Guinevere." 'The result has been as I expected, that he has been [italics]delighted with it[end italics]. He told me that he has been greatly moved by it, and admired it exceedingly. Altho' by practice and disposition he is eminently a critic, he did not find one single fault. Yesterday I gave him the "Maid of Astolat" with which he was delighted also.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Maid of Astolat
The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of the King" will be understood and admired by many who are incapable of understanding and appreciating many of your other works. 'Macaulay is certainly not a man incapable of [italics]understanding[end italics] anything but I knew that his tastes in poetry were so formed in another line that I gave him a good test, and three days ago I gave him "Guinevere." 'The result has been as I expected, that he has been [italics]delighted with it[end italics]. He told me that he has been greatly moved by it, and admired it exceedingly. Altho' by practice and disposition he is eminently a critic, he did not find one single fault. Yesterday I gave him the "Maid of Astolat" with which he was delighted also.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Maid of Astolat
Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice over, and it rings in my ears. "The Lily Maid" seems to me the fairest, purest, sweetest love-poem in the English language [...] It moves me like the love of Juliet in Shakespeare'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Lily Maid
Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice over, and it rings in my ears. "The Lily Maid" seems to me the fairest, purest, sweetest love-poem in the English language [...] It moves me like the love of Juliet in Shakespeare'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Idylls of the King
H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860: 'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a request which I have thought some little time of making, viz. that you would be good enough to write your name in the accompanying volume of your "Idylls of the King"? You would thus add a peculiar interest to the book, containing those beautiful songs, from the perusal of which I derived the greatest enjoyment.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Prince Albert      Print: Book

Thomas Stevenson : Lighthouse Construction and Illumination
'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny quite right and, if you understand, not too literary for an engineer. I did not want to change a word.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy

Alfred Tennyson : Boadicea
'The Duke and Duchess [of Argyll] spent some days at Farringford [...] My father [...] read aloud his "Boadicea," which he had now quite finished.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Malory : Morte d'Arthur
'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer." 'By the evening of Feb. 18th he had already written down a great part of "The Northern Farmer" [...] They also read of Sir Gareth in the Morte d'Arthur.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Two Voices
Herbert Spencer to Alfred Tennyson [1855]: 'I happened recently to be re-reading your Poem "The Two Voices," and coming to the verse 'Or if thro' lower lives I came -- Tho' all experience past became Consolidate in mind and frame -- 'it occurred to me that you might like to glance through a book which applies to the elucidation of mental science, the hypothesis to which you refer. I therefore beg your acceptance of Psychology which I send by this post.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Spencer      Print: Book

Homer : The Iliad
'In the summer of 1861 we travelled in Auvergne and the Pyrenees [...] At Mont Dore, while my father was reading some of the Iliad out aloud to us, little boys came and stood outside the window in open-mouthed astonishment.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Zohrab the Hostage
Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyll, from the Temple, London, on return from French holiday of summer 1861: 'I had intended to write yesterday [...] and I scarce know why I did not: perhaps because in these chambers I had lighted on an old and not unclever novel Zohrab the Hostage; partly perhaps because I had fallen into a muse about human vanities and "the glories of our blood and state" (do you know those grand old lines of Shirley's?) [...] however, what with the novel and the musing fit, I let the post slip'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Dedication, Idylls of the King
'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince Consort: '[...] Mr Tennyson could not have chosen a more beautiful or true testimonial to the memory of him who was so really good and noble, than the dedication of the "Idylls of the King" which he so valued and admired. Princess Alice transmitted these lines to the Queen, who desired her to tell Mr Tennyson, with her sincerest thanks, how much moved she was on reading them, and that they had soothed her aching, bleeding heart. She knows also how [italics]he[end italics] would have admired them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Guinevere
The Crown Princess of Prussia to Alfred Tennyson, 23 February 1862: 'The first time I ever heard the "Idylls of the King" was last year, when I found both the Queen and Prince quite in raptures about them. The first bit I ever heard was the end of "Guinevere," the last two or three pages: the Prince read them to me, and I shall never forget the impression it made upon me hearing those grand and simple words in his voice!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Prince Albert      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862: 'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one had bound me by no promise of secrecy, I, in talking of Her Majesty and her sorrow [at death of her husband], did say to two friends, whom I bound by such a promise, that she had found comfort in reading "In Memoriam," and had made the private markings therein. 'I don't suppose much harm would result even if these broke their promise, for that is all that could be reported; still I am vexed, because if the Queen heard of the report she might fancy that her private sentiments were public prey.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862: 'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the summer and reading Clarissa Harlowe since; you and I used to talk of the book more than 20 years ago. I believe I am better read in it than almost any one in existence now. No wonder, for it is almost intolerably tedious and absurd.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

Duchess of Kent : inscription
Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the request that he write something in it before returning it: 'I had not time yesterday to overlook the volume which Her Majesty sent me. I did but see the inscription in the beginning by the Duchess of Kent and Goethe's "Edel sei der Mensch" in the Prince's handwriting -- a poem which has always appeared to me one of the grandest things which Goethe or any other man has written.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown, In Album belonging to Queen Victoria

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 'Edel sei der Mensch'
Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the request that he write something in it before returning it: 'I had not time yesterday to overlook the volume which Her Majesty sent me. I did but see the inscription in the beginning by the Duchess of Kent and Goethe's "Edel sei der Mensch" in the Prince's handwriting -- a poem which has always appeared to me one of the grandest things which Goethe or any other man has written.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown, Written by Prince Albert into Album belonging to Queen Victoria.

Guizot : Preface to Speeches of Prince Albert
Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after receiving from Queen Victoria, on 11 May, books including 'Guizot's edition of Prince Albert's Speeches': 'I have read Guizot's Preface, which is just what it ought to be -- compact, careful, reverential'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Arthur Hallam : Essay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry': 'Lord Houghton, then Richard Monckton Milnes, a Cambridge friend of my eldest brother's, drove up to the door of our house at Curragh Chase one night in 1832 [...] He had brought with him the first number of a new magazine entitled The Englishman containing Arthur Hallam's essay on Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. The day on which I first took the slender volume into my hands was with me a memorable one. Arthur Hallam's essay had contrasted two different schools of modern poetry, calling one of these classes Poets of Reflection, and the other class Poets of Sensation, the latter represented by Shelley and Keats. Of Keats I knew nothing, and of Shelley very little; but the new poet seemed to me, while he had a touch of both the classes thus characterized, to have little in common with either. He was eminently original, and about that originality there was for me a wild, inexplicable magic and a deep pathos [goes on to discuss further]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Aubrey De Vere      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
Aubrey De Vere on his first 'acquaintance' with Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical: 'I remember most of them by heart still. Day after day my sister and I used to read them as we drove up and down the "close green ways" of our woods. Our pony soon detected our abstracted mood. Several times he nearly upset us down a bank; and often choosing his path according to his private judgement, stood still with his head hanging over a gate.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Aubrey de Vere and sister     Print: Book

Stevenson : Praying and Working
From Thomas Wilson's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'He came into my room one day looking for any new book to feed upon: he took down one by Stevenson called Praying and Working, an account of German Ragged Schools; he told me afterwards he had read it with great pleasure'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : poetry
From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 3rd, 1863. Saturday. We drove to Farringford [...] Drawing-room tea [...] I wandered to the book-table where Tennyson joined me [...] In a book of Latin versions from his own poetry he found some slips in Lord Lyttelton's Cytherea Venus, etc.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello
From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford [...] Tennyson at luncheon [...]we went down and walked about the grounds [...] We went down the garden [...] and so to the farmyard. "Have you a particular feeling about a farmyard?" he asked, "a special delight in it? I have. The first time I read Shakespeare was on a hay-stack, Othello. I said, 'This man's over-rated.' Boys can't understand Shakespeare."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Dampier : Voyages
Edward Fitzgerald to Emily Tennyson [1862], in reponse to request for information on fishing and fishermen (as background for writing of Alfred Tennyson's), and after various observations on the topic: 'Oh dear! this is very learned, very useless, I dare say. But you ask me and I tell my best. I have been almost tempted to write you out some morsels of Dampier's Voyages which I copied out for myself: so fine as they are in their way I think, but they would be no use unless A. T. fell upon them by chance: for, of all horses, Pegasus least likes to drink.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Cathedral
'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Cathedral", I was to laugh and weep so rapturously in the next few months.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

F.S. Marvin : unknown
'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells, I had come to realise history as the whole story of man's development from the cave to comparative civilisation,'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: newspaper
'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a week later another death occurred which seemed, to us who went frequently to the Union Office, far more untimely and incongruous.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: The Times
'"The Times" is exciting itself over the surplus women, as revealed by the census - 102 per 1,000, I believe, to be exact! They were quite nice to us in a leading article today, and said that women who had lost their husbands or lovers in the War couldn't be expected on that account to relegate themselves to perpetual widowhood or spinsterhood.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Rebecca West : The Judge
'It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel "The Judge", which had recently been published, I had read with a disturbed and passionate interest.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

W.N.P. Barbellion : unknown
'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Vera Brittain : The Dark Tide
'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide", and asked me in return to accept "the enclosed" - which, it said, there was no necessity to acknowledge.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad
'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like to see a translation of it in poetical prose like the book of Ruth or Job".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Ramsay      Print: Book

: [books of Job and Ruth]
'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like to see a translation of it in poetical prose like the book of Ruth or Job".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Ramsay      Print: Book

John Whitaker : History of Manchester
'We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. "All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us; yet what large books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's "Manchester".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : [Sermon on Devotion]
'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doctrine is the best limited, the best expressed: there is the most warmth without fanaticism, the most rational transport. There is one part of it which I disapprove, and I'd have him correct it; which is, that 'he who does not feel joy in religion is far from the kingdom of heaven!' There are many good men whose fear of GOD predominates over their love. It may discourage. It was rashly said. A noble sermon it is indeed. I wish Blair would come over to the Church of England".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Frederick the Great of Prussia : Testament Politique
'"I have just put down the "Testament Politique,"" G. was writing to me, as though by telepathy, only a week later, "and I turn to think ... of you reading it to enlighten you on the War, of you telling me of it in the punt on that day down stream on the Cher."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Sketches of the History of Man
'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of punishment, he mentions that of Madame Lapouchin, in Russia, but he does not give it fairly; for I have looked at 'Chappe de l'Auteroche', from whom he has taken it. He stops where it is said that the spectators thought her innocent, and leaves out what follows; that she nevertheless was guilty".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jean Chappe d'Auteroche :
'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of punishment, he mentions that of Madame Lapouchin, in Russia, but he does not give it fairly; for I have looked at Chappe de l'Auteroche, from whom he has taken it. He stops where it is said that the spectators thought her innocent, and leaves out what follows; that she nevertheless was guilty".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield]
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which were written by me: and the best of it is, they have found out that one is like Demosthenes, and the other like Cicero". He censured Lord Kames's "Sketches of the History of Man" for misrepresenting Clarendon's account of the appearance of Sir George Villiers's ghost, as if Clarendon were weakly credulous; when the truth is, that Clarendon only says, that the story was upon a better foundation of credit, than usually such discourses are founded upon; nay, speaks thus of the person who was reported to have seen the vision, "the poor man, if he had been at all waking"; which Lord Kames has omitted.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present
'My first vague realisation that poverty was the result of humanity's incompetence, and not an inviolable law of nature, had come with the sixteen-year-old reading of Carlyle's "Past and Present",'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Sketches of the History of Man
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which were written by me: and the best of it is, they have found out that one is like Demosthenes, and the other like Cicero". He censured Lord Kames's "Sketches of the History of Man" for misrepresenting Clarendon's account of the appearance of Sir George Villiers's ghost, as if Clarendon were weakly credulous; when the truth is, that Clarendon only says, that the story was upon a better foundation of credit, than usually such discourses are founded upon; nay, speaks thus of the person who was reported to have seen the vision, "the poor man, if he had been at all waking"; which Lord Kames has omitted.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which were written by me: and the best of it is, they have found out that one is like Demosthenes, and the other like Cicero". He censured Lord Kames's "Sketches of the History of Man" for misrepresenting Clarendon's account of the appearance of Sir George Villiers's ghost, as if Clarendon were weakly credulous; when the truth is, that Clarendon only says, that the story was upon a better foundation of credit, than usually such discourses are founded upon; nay, speaks thus of the person who was reported to have seen the vision, "the poor man, if he had been at all waking"; which Lord Kames has omitted.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

George Horne : Letter to Mr Dunning on the English Particle
'This year the Reverend Mr. Horne published his "Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle"; Johnson read it, and though not treated in it with sufficient respect, he had candour enough to say to Mr. Seward, "Were I to make a new edition of my Dictionary, I would adopt several of Mr. Horne's etymologies; I hope they did not put the dog in the pillory for his libel; he has too much literature for that".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Horace : [Odes]
'He [Johnson] said, "the lyrical part of Horace never can be perfectly translated; so much of the excellence is in the numbers and the expression. Francis has done it the best; I'll take his, five out of six, against them all".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Milton : Tractate: Of Education
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be printed along with his Poems in the edition of "The English Poets" then going on. JOHNSON. "It would be breaking in upon the plan; but would be of no great consequence. So far as it would be any thing, it would be wrong. Education in England has been in danger of being hurt by two of its greatest men, Milton and Locke. Milton's plan is impracticable, and I suppose has never been tried. Locke's, I fancy, has been tried often enough, but is very imperfect; it gives too much to one side, and too little to the other; it gives too little to literature.--I shall do what I can for Dr. Watts; but my materials are very scanty. His poems are by no means his best works; I cannot praise his poetry itself highly; but I can praise its design".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson

John Locke : Some Thoughts Concerning Education
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be printed along with his Poems in the edition of "The English Poets" then going on. JOHNSON. "It would be breaking in upon the plan; but would be of no great consequence. So far as it would be any thing, it would be wrong. Education in England has been in danger of being hurt by two of its greatest men, Milton and Locke. Milton's plan is impracticable, and I suppose has never been tried. Locke's, I fancy, has been tried often enough, but is very imperfect; it gives too much to one side, and too little to the other; it gives too little to literature.--I shall do what I can for Dr. Watts; but my materials are very scanty. His poems are by no means his best works; I cannot praise his poetry itself highly; but I can praise its design".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Isaac Watts : [Poems]
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be printed along with his Poems in the edition of "The English Poets" then going on. JOHNSON. "It would be breaking in upon the plan; but would be of no great consequence. So far as it would be any thing, it would be wrong. Education in England has been in danger of being hurt by two of its greatest men, Milton and Locke. Milton's plan is impracticable, and I suppose has never been tried. Locke's, I fancy, has been tried often enough, but is very imperfect; it gives too much to one side, and too little to the other; it gives too little to literature.--I shall do what I can for Dr. Watts; but my materials are very scanty. His poems are by no means his best works; I cannot praise his poetry itself highly; but I can praise its design".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few proof sheets which I have'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: proof sheets

Joshua Reynolds : Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always considered as one of his literary school. Much praise indeed is due to those excellent "Discourses", which are so universally admired, and for which the authour received from the Empress of Russia a gold snuff-box, adorned with her profile in bas relief, set in diamonds; and containing what is infinitely more valuable, a slip of paper, on which are written with her Imperial Majesty's own hand, the following words: "Pour le Chevalier Reynolds en temoignage du contentement que j'ai ressentie a la lecture de ses excellens discours sur la peinture".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Joshua Reynolds : Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always considered as one of his literary school. Much praise indeed is due to those excellent "Discourses", which are so universally admired, and for which the authour received from the Empress of Russia a gold snuff-box, adorned with her profile in bas relief, set in diamonds; and containing what is infinitely more valuable, a slip of paper, on which are written with her Imperial Majesty's own hand, the following words: "Pour le Chevalier Reynolds en temoignage du contentement que j'ai ressentie a la lecture de ses excellens discours sur la peinture".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine II of Russia      Print: Book

Joshua Reynolds : Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always considered as one of his literary school. Much praise indeed is due to those excellent "Discourses", which are so universally admired, and for which the authour received from the Empress of Russia a gold snuff-box, adorned with her profile in bas relief, set in diamonds; and containing what is infinitely more valuable, a slip of paper, on which are written with her Imperial Majesty's own hand, the following words: "Pour le Chevalier Reynolds en temoignage du contentement que j'ai ressentie a la lecture de ses excellens discours sur la peinture".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Tasker : Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; upon its being resumed, I found that the subject under immediate consideration was a translation, yet in manuscript, of the "Carmen Seculare" of Horace, which had this year been set to musick, and performed as a publick entertainment in London, for the joint benefit of Monsieur Philidor and Signor Baretti. When Johnson had done reading, the authour asked him bluntly, "If upon the whole it was a good translation?" Johnson, whose regard for truth was uncommonly strict, seemed to be puzzled for a moment, what answer to make; as he certainly could not honestly commend the performance: with exquisite address he evaded the question thus, "Sir, I do not say that it may not be made a very good translation." Here nothing whatever in favour of the performance was affirmed, and yet the writer was not shocked. A printed "Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain", came next in review; the bard was a lank bony figure, with short black hair; he was writhing himself in agitation, while Johnson read, and shewing his teeth in a grin of earnestness, exclaimed in broken sentences, and in a keen sharp tone, "Is that poetry, Sir?--Is it Pindar?" JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, there is here a great deal of what is called poetry".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Horace : Carmen Seculare
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; upon its being resumed, I found that the subject under immediate consideration was a translation, yet in manuscript, of the "Carmen Seculare" of Horace, which had this year been set to musick, and performed as a publick entertainment in London, for the joint benefit of Monsieur Philidor and Signor Baretti. When Johnson had done reading, the authour asked him bluntly, "If upon the whole it was a good translation?" Johnson, whose regard for truth was uncommonly strict, seemed to be puzzled for a moment, what answer to make; as he certainly could not honestly commend the performance: with exquisite address he evaded the question thus, "Sir, I do not say that it may not be made a very good translation." Here nothing whatever in favour of the performance was affirmed, and yet the writer was not shocked. A printed "Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain", came next in review; the bard was a lank bony figure, with short black hair; he was writhing himself in agitation, while Johnson read, and shewing his teeth in a grin of earnestness, exclaimed in broken sentences, and in a keen sharp tone, "Is that poetry, Sir?--Is it Pindar?" JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, there is here a great deal of what is called poetry".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield
'[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: 'I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing'." BOSWELL. "That was a fine passage". JOHNSON. "Yes, Sir: there was another fine passage too, which he struck out: 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for, I found that generally what was new was false'."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Junius [pseud.] : Letters of Junius
'Talking of the wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed [italics] Junius [end italics]; he said, "I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me. The case would have been different had I asked him if he was the authour; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Allestree : Government of the Tongue, The
'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell into a train of ridicule upon the foibles of one of our friends, a very worthy man, I, by way of a check, quoted some good admonition from "The Government of the Tongue", that very pious book.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Blaise Pascal : Pensees
'In the interval between morning and evening service, he [Johnson] endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotional exercises; and as he has mentioned in his "Prayers and Meditations", gave me "Les Pensees de Pascal", that I might not interrupt him. I preserve the book with reverence. His presenting it to me is marked upon it with his own hand, and I have found in it a truly divine unction.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

King James I : Daemonology
'[Johnson said] "King James says in his 'Daemonology', 'Magicians command the devils: witches are their servants. The Italian magicians are elegant beings'."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Enoch Arden
'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of "Enoch Arden." "Thank you ma'am," one old lady said, "but I'd give all I had for that other beautiful tract which you read t'other day (a sentiment which was echoed by the others), it did me a power of good.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Enoch Arden
Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now [...] "Enoch" continues the perfect thing I thought it at first reading; but the "Farmer," taking me unawares, astonished me more in this stage of acquaintanceship.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Northern Farmer
Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now [...] "Enoch" continues the perfect thing I thought it at first reading; but the "Farmer," taking me unawares, astonished me more in this stage of acquaintanceship.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

: Book of Job
From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'June 8th. We went home by Winchester and slept there, and lunched with the Warburtons [...] He [Tennyson] and Mr Warburton compared notes, for A. had been reading Job in Hebrew, a book in which he had always rejoiced.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Lucretius :
From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

St Peter : First Epistle
From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Northern Farmer
W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer': '[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where he met a Mr Creyke, a Yorkshireman, with a talent for recitation. This Mr Creyke had been staying at a farmhouse in Holderness, where in the evening the neighbouring farmers used to come and smoke. One evening, he repeated "The Northern Farmer." When it was done, one of them said, "Dang it, that caps owt. Now, sur, is that i' print, because if it be I'll buy t' book, cost what it may?" Creyke said, "The book contains things you mayn't like as well, so I'll write it out for you." 'This he did: the farmer put it in his breast-pocket; and next day when out shooting Creyke saw him from time to time taking it out to read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.'

Alfred Tennyson : The Northern Farmer
'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked masters interested in geology, botany and archaeology to meet him [...] At the request of Mrs Bradley he read "The Northern Farmer," and then criticised amusingly some of the boys' Prize Poems which Bradley had asked him to look through.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Pupils at Marlborough College : Prize Poems
'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked masters interested in geology, botany and archaeology to meet him [...] At the request of Mrs Bradley he read "The Northern Farmer," and then criticised amusingly some of the boys' Prize Poems which Bradley had asked him to look through.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Guinevere
'May 3rd. [1866] After dinner the Upper Sixth came in, and at their petition [Tennyson] read "Guinevere," refusing however enthronement in a large arm-chair, and asserting it was "too conspicuous."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Parnell : Hermit, The
'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, concerning which I had in vain questioned him in several letters, and at length obtained it in [italics] due form of law [end italics]. CASE for Dr. JOHNSON'S Opinion; 3rd of May, 1779. "PARNELL, in his "Hermit", has the following passage: "To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if [italics] books [end italics] and [italics] swains [end italics] report it right: (For yet by [italics] swains alone [end italics]the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.)" "Is there not a contradiction in its being [italics] first [end italics] supposed that the [italics] Hermit [end italics] knew [italics] both [end italics] what books and swains reported of the world; yet afterwards said, that he knew it by swains [italics] alone? [end italics] [italics] I think it an inaccuracy.--He mentions two instructors in the first line, and says he had only one in the next.[end italics]".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Parnell : Hermit, The
'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, concerning which I had in vain questioned him in several letters, and at length obtained it in [italics] due form of law [end italics]. CASE for Dr. JOHNSON'S Opinion; 3rd of May, 1779. "PARNELL, in his "Hermit", has the following passage: "To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if [italics] books [end italics] and [italics] swains [end italics] report it right: ( For yet by [italics] swains alone [end italics]the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.)" "Is there not a contradiction in its being [italics] first [end italics] supposed that the [italics] Hermit [end italics] knew [italics] both [end italics] what books and swains reported of the world; yet afterwards said, that he knew it by swains [italics] alone? [end italics] [italics] I think it an inaccuracy.--He mentions two instructors in the first line, and says he had only one in the next.[end italics]".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : [letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke]
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was carried by Dr. John Blair, Prebendary of Westminster, to dine at old Lord Bathurst's; where we found the late Mr. Mallet, Sir James Porter, who had been Ambassadour at Constantinople, the late Dr. Macaulay, and two or three more. The conversation turning on Mr. Pope, Lord Bathurst told us, that "The Essay on Man" was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose, and that Mr. Pope did no more than put it into verse: that he had read Lord Bolingbroke's manuscript in his own hand-writing; and remembered well, that he was at a loss whether most to admire the elegance of Lord Bolingbroke's prose, or the beauty of Mr. Pope's verse..."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Letter

Alexander Pope : Essay on Man
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was carried by Dr. John Blair, Prebendary of Westminster, to dine at old Lord Bathurst's; where we found the late Mr. Mallet, Sir James Porter, who had been Ambassadour at Constantinople, the late Dr. Macaulay, and two or three more. The conversation turning on Mr. Pope, Lord Bathurst told us, that "The Essay on Man" was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose, and that Mr. Pope did no more than put it into verse: that he had read Lord Bolingbroke's manuscript in his own hand-writing; and remembered well, that he was at a loss whether most to admire the elegance of Lord Bolingbroke's prose, or the beauty of Mr. Pope's verse..."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst      Print: Book

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke : [alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man']
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was carried by Dr. John Blair, Prebendary of Westminster, to dine at old Lord Bathurst's; where we found the late Mr. Mallet, Sir James Porter, who had been Ambassadour at Constantinople, the late Dr. Macaulay, and two or three more. The conversation turning on Mr. Pope, Lord Bathurst told us, that "The Essay on Man" was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose, and that Mr. Pope did no more than put it into verse: that he had read Lord Bolingbroke's manuscript in his own hand-writing; and remembered well, that he was at a loss whether most to admire the elegance of Lord Bolingbroke's prose, or the beauty of Mr. Pope's verse..."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte
'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read and admired together.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Sylvanus : First Book of the Iliad
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that noble language, and that I was desirous of being told by him what method to follow; he recommended to me as easy helps, Sylvanus's "First Book of the Iliad"; Dawson's "Lexicon to the Greek New Testament"; and "Hesiod", with "Pasoris Lexicon" at the end of it.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dawson : Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that noble language, and that I was desirous of being told by him what method to follow; he recommended to me as easy helps, Sylvanus's "First Book of the Iliad"; Dawson's "Lexicon to the Greek New Testament"; and "Hesiod", with "Pasoris Lexicon" at the end of it.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Georgii Pasoris : Lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Iesu Christi Domini Nostri N. Testamentum
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that noble language, and that I was desirous of being told by him what method to follow; he recommended to me as easy helps, Sylvanus's "First Book of the Iliad"; Dawson's "Lexicon to the Greek New Testament"; and "Hesiod", with "Pasoris Lexicon" at the end of it.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hesiod :
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that noble language, and that I was desirous of being told by him what method to follow; he recommended to me as easy helps, Sylvanus's "First Book of the Iliad"; Dawson's "Lexicon to the Greek New Testament"; and "Hesiod", with "Pasoris Lexicon" at the end of it.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson] The Bishop, to whom I had the honour to be known several years ago, shews me much attention; and I am edified by his conversation. I must not omit to tell you, that his Lordship admires, very highly, your "Prefaces to the Poets".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Beilby Porteus      Print: Book

James Dunbar : Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages
'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'The bearer of this is Dr. Dunbar, of Aberdeen, who has written and published a very ingenious book'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Winifred Holtby : Harking Back to Long Ago
'In a short vignette called "Harking Back to Long Ago", Winifred describes how she and Grace, aged four and six and a half, lay awake on Christmas Eve gazing through the square uncurtained window at the frosty constellations of the winter stars.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain

Theocritus :
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evidently superiour. He wrote when there had been a larger influx of knowledge into the world than when Theocritus lived. Theocritus does not abound in description, though living in a beautiful country: the manners painted are coarse and gross. Virgil has much more description, more sentiment, more of Nature, and more of art. Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are, where Castor and Pollux, going with the other Argonauts, land on the Bebrycian coast, and there fall into a dispute with Amycus, the King of that country; which is as well conducted as Euripides could have done it; and the battle is well related. Afterwards they carry off a woman, whose two brothers come to recover her, and expostulate with Castor and Pollux on their injustice; but they pay no regard to the brothers, and a battle ensues, where Castor and his brother are triumphant. Theocritus seems not to have seen that the brothers have the advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes. "The Sicilian Gossips" is a piece of merit.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : Eclogues
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evidently superiour. He wrote when there had been a larger influx of knowledge into the world than when Theocritus lived. Theocritus does not abound in description, though living in a beautiful country: the manners painted are coarse and gross. Virgil has much more description, more sentiment, more of Nature, and more of art. Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are, where Castor and Pollux, going with the other Argonauts, land on the Bebrycian coast, and there fall into a dispute with Amycus, the King of that country; which is as well conducted as Euripides could have done it; and the battle is well related. Afterwards they carry off a woman, whose two brothers come to recover her, and expostulate with Castor and Pollux on their injustice; but they pay no regard to the brothers, and a battle ensues, where Castor and his brother are triumphant. Theocritus seems not to have seen that the brothers have the advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes. "The Sicilian Gossips" is a piece of merit.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: Sicilian Gossips
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evidently superiour. He wrote when there had been a larger influx of knowledge into the world than when Theocritus lived. Theocritus does not abound in description, though living in a beautiful country: the manners painted are coarse and gross. Virgil has much more description, more sentiment, more of Nature, and more of art. Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are, where Castor and Pollux, going with the other Argonauts, land on the Bebrycian coast, and there fall into a dispute with Amycus, the King of that country; which is as well conducted as Euripides could have done it; and the battle is well related. Afterwards they carry off a woman, whose two brothers come to recover her, and expostulate with Castor and Pollux on their injustice; but they pay no regard to the brothers, and a battle ensues, where Castor and his brother are triumphant. Theocritus seems not to have seen that the brothers have the advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes. "The Sicilian Gossips" is a piece of merit.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Callimachus :
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Callimachus is a writer of little excellence. The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of Rites and Mythology; which, though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authours, is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Mattaire : [various works including Latin verses]
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book. He seems to have been a puzzle-headed man, with a large share of scholarship, but with little geometry or logick in his head, without method, and possessed of little genius. He wrote Latin verses from time to time, and published a set in his old age, which he called "Senilia"; in which he shews so little learning or taste in writing, as to make [italics] Carteret [end italics] a dactyl. In matters of genealogy it is necessary to give the bare names as they are; but in poetry, and in prose of any elegance in the writing, they require to have inflection given to them. His book of the Dialects is a sad heap of confusion; the only way to write on them is to tabulate them with Notes, added at the bottom of the page, and references'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writings with a wonderful frankness and candour, and would even criticise them with the closest severity. One day, having read over one of his "Ramblers", Mr. Langton asked him, how he liked that paper; he shook his head, and answered, "too wordy". At another time, when one was reading his tragedy of "Irene" to a company at a house in the country, he left the room; and somebody having asked him the reason of this, he replied, "Sir, I thought it had been better".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Irene
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writings with a wonderful frankness and candour, and would even criticise them with the closest severity. One day, having read over one of his "Ramblers", Mr. Langton asked him, how he liked that paper; he shook his head, and answered, "too wordy". At another time, when one was reading his tragedy of "Irene" to a company at a house in the country, he left the room; and somebody having asked him the reason of this, he replied, "Sir, I thought it had been better".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Capel : [Preface to edition of Shakespeare]
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Of the Preface to Capel's "Shakspeare", he said, "If the man would have come to me, I would have endeavoured to endow his purposes with words; for as it is, he doth gabble monstrously".'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Townley : High Life Below Stairs
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'Talking of the "Farce of High Life below Stairs", he said, "Here is a Farce, which is really very diverting when you see it acted; and yet one may read it, and not know that one has been reading any thing at all."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Lord Elibank : [Epitaph on his Lady]
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a translation of an Epitaph which Lord Elibank had written in English, for his Lady, and requested of Johnson to turn into Latin for him. Having read "Domina de North et Gray", he said to Dyer, "You see, Sir, what barbarisms we are compelled to make use of, when modern titles are to be specifically mentioned in Latin inscriptions." When he had read it once aloud, and there had been a general approbation expressed by the company, he addressed himself to Mr. Dyer in particular, and said, "Sir, I beg to have your judgement, for I know your nicety." Dyer then very properly desired to read it over again; which having done, he pointed out an incongruity in one of the sentences.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Lord Elibank : [Epitaph on his Lady]
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a translation of an Epitaph which Lord Elibank had written in English, for his Lady, and requested of Johnson to turn into Latin for him. Having read "Domina de North et Gray", he said to Dyer, "You see, Sir, what barbarisms we are compelled to make use of, when modern titles are to be specifically mentioned in Latin inscriptions." When he had read it once aloud, and there had been a general approbation expressed by the company, he addressed himself to Mr. Dyer in particular, and said, "Sir, I beg to have your judgement, for I know your nicety." Dyer then very properly desired to read it over again; which having done, he pointed out an incongruity in one of the sentences.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Dyer      Manuscript: Unknown

: [an ode]
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Goldsmith one day brought to the Club a printed Ode, which he, with others, had been hearing read by its authour in a publick room at the rate of five shillings each for admission. One of the company having read it aloud, Dr. Johnson said, "Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think never were brought together."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray : Odes
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Talking of Gray's "Odes", he said, "They are forced plants raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after all." A gentleman present, who had been running down Ode-writing in general, as a bad species of poetry, unluckily said, "Had they been literally cucumbers, they had been better things than Odes."--"Yes, Sir, (said Johnson,) for a [italics] hog [end italics]."'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: The Bible
'Whilst I was at home, I remember, my father would make mee read the Bible; which, through an eager desire of play, and that inbred corruption wherby I hated all things that were good, I cared not for; this unwillingness to read, and stammering when I did read did tire out his patience, so he would let mee leave of[f]'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

: The Bible
'When I was past the worst of my sicknes I would be almost continually reading the Bible or other books . . . I [would] studye hard to gett up what I had lost in the reading the Bible, stinting [i.e. limiting] my selfe to many chapters a day according to Mr Bifield's book [i.e. Nicholas Byfield, Directions for the Private Reading of the Scriptures (1618)], or in other studyes, that I might be equall to the rest of my yeare; though I thinke it was not very good for my eyesight.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

: The Bible
'I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares according to Mr Bifield's directions [i.e. Nicholas Byfield, Directions for the Private Reading of the Scripture (1618)]; yet gate I not much good for want of due meditation. I took notes also out of the Bible and putt it under such heads as might suit any state of life what so ever.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

John Wilkins : A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer
'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and expression; and although by such industrious wayes I had a gift of prayer, I knew that except the spirit of God helped my infirmityes . . . I could not pray in such a manner as to pleas God. I found it much better to use scripture phrase, on all occasions, th[a]n to trust to parts, and pray at random'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : unknown
'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

John Preston : The Breast-Plate of Faith and Love
'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

William Whately : A Pithie, Short and Methodicall Opening of the Ten Commandments
'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clearly convinced that my former practise was sinfull, and deserved the stroak of God's vengeance'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Lancelot Andrewes : The Moral Law Expounded
'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clearly convinced that my former practise was sinfull, and deserved the stroak of God's vengeance'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

William Perkins : Armilla Aurea, or The Golden Chain
'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clearly convinced that my former practise was sinfull, and deserved the stroak of God's vengeance'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

anon : The Historie of China
'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that they bore more respect to their parents than any nation in the world'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Richard Rogers : Certain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all such as are converted in faith and repentance
'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be legall preparations before faith is wrought in the soule; I examined my selfe, and could not find that orderly proceeding of God with my soule by humiliation, contrition, etc. as I desired . . . '
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest
'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this world to make us weary of it. And this have I often experienced . . . '
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest
'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditation, and was much affected with his way; I perused Bishop Hall's book, and that pleased mee; but I found diversions, and I could not fixe my thoughts long upon one subject . . . '
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Joseph Hall : The Art of Divine Meditation
'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditation, and was much affected with his way; I perused Bishop Hall's book, and that pleased mee; but I found diversions, and I could not fixe my thoughts long upon one subject . . . '
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

John Preston : The Breast-plate of Faith and Love. A treatise wherein the ground and exercises of faith and love . . . is explained. Delivered in 18 Sermons
'May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that they might be fixed in my memory, I preached upon Ephesians 2:8 and made use of many of his notions . . .'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

James Ussher : A Body of Divinitie
'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of God in many cases'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

: The Bible
'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's offering his only son etc., little thinking (as I told my neighbours) how neerly it concerned mee. Reading Exodus 12 I could not refraine tears at the words of v.30.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Nicholas Byfield : The Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godly Man
'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, according to which thus I find my selfe for present' [there follows a list of five 'signs', a couple keyed to page numbers in the book.]
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons
'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zeale, and diligence. In Mr Stockton's life, whom I knew, I found that being soberly brought up he found not that change, which others, who were wicked, found at their conversion . . . '
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

: [Commentary upon Ephesians: 3]
'December 25. I had somewhat before, by accident, chosen a booke to read, which I had long by mee, but never did read it. 'Twas upon Ephesians 3:19, which did much affect mee, and some short hints of it I used in my sermon before the sacrament, and then I was much moved with a sense of Christ's love, and could scarce forbeare weeping'.
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

Bishop Hall : Sermon on Ephesians 4:30
'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quarrell with mee, and I used bitter expressions to him . . . but see a providence to humble mee! I had lent a booke which was newly come home; before I sett it up I opened it up by chance . . . and found the beginning of Bishop Hall's sermon upon Ephesians 4:30, who tooke notice that by the connexion of the text 'twas evident that sinns of the tongue did unkindly grieve God's spirit. This struck me with griefe, and shame, resolving to be more watchfull heerafter, which God grant!'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

: [Spanish Plays]
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are entertained with stories full of prodigies; their experience not being sufficient to cause them to be so readily startled at deviations from the natural course of life. The machinery of the Pagans is uninteresting to us: when a Goddess appears in Homer or Virgil, we grow weary; still more so in the Grecian tragedies, as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to Nature is intended. Yet there are good reasons for reading romances; as--the fertility of invention, the beauty of style and expression, the curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was delighted: for it is to be apprehended, that at the time when very wild improbable tales were well received, the people were in a barbarous state, and so on the footing of children, as has been explained.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [Greek tragedies]
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are entertained with stories full of prodigies; their experience not being sufficient to cause them to be so readily startled at deviations from the natural course of life. The machinery of the Pagans is uninteresting to us: when a Goddess appears in Homer or Virgil, we grow weary; still more so in the Grecian tragedies, as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to Nature is intended. Yet there are good reasons for reading romances; as--the fertility of invention, the beauty of style and expression, the curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was delighted: for it is to be apprehended, that at the time when very wild improbable tales were well received, the people were in a barbarous state, and so on the footing of children, as has been explained.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Homer :
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are entertained with stories full of prodigies; their experience not being sufficient to cause them to be so readily startled at deviations from the natural course of life. The machinery of the Pagans is uninteresting to us: when a Goddess appears in Homer or Virgil, we grow weary; still more so in the Grecian tragedies, as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to Nature is intended. Yet there are good reasons for reading romances; as--the fertility of invention, the beauty of style and expression, the curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was delighted: for it is to be apprehended, that at the time when very wild improbable tales were well received, the people were in a barbarous state, and so on the footing of children, as has been explained.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil :
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are entertained with stories full of prodigies; their experience not being sufficient to cause them to be so readily startled at deviations from the natural course of life. The machinery of the Pagans is uninteresting to us: when a Goddess appears in Homer or Virgil, we grow weary; still more so in the Grecian tragedies, as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to Nature is intended. Yet there are good reasons for reading romances; as--the fertility of invention, the beauty of style and expression, the curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was delighted: for it is to be apprehended, that at the time when very wild improbable tales were well received, the people were in a barbarous state, and so on the footing of children, as has been explained.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Hammond : Love Elegies
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witch into one of his love elegies, where the effect is unmeaning and disgusting'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Clenardus : Greek Grammar
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less acquaintance with one of the Classicks than Johnson expected, when the gentleman left the room, he observed, "You see, now, how little any body reads." Mr. Langton happening to mention his having read a good deal in Clenardus's Greek Grammar, "Why, Sir, (said he,) who is there in this town who knows any thing of Clenardus but you and I?" And upon Mr. Langton's mentioning that he had taken the pains to learn by heart the Epistle of St. Basil, which is given in that Grammar as a praxis, "Sir, (said he,) I never made such an effort to attain Greek."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Clenardus : Greek Grammar
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less acquaintance with one of the Classicks than Johnson expected, when the gentleman left the room, he observed, "You see, now, how little any body reads." Mr. Langton happening to mention his having read a good deal in Clenardus's Greek Grammar, "Why, Sir, (said he,) who is there in this town who knows any thing of Clenardus but you and I?" And upon Mr. Langton's mentioning that he had taken the pains to learn by heart the Epistle of St. Basil, which is given in that Grammar as a praxis, "Sir, (said he,) I never made such an effort to attain Greek."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Bennet Langton      Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : Publick Virtue, a Poem
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'Of Dodsley's "Publick Virtue, a Poem", he said, "It was fine blank (meaning to express his usual contempt for blank verse); however, this miserable poem did not sell, and my poor friend Doddy said, Publick Virtue was not a subject to interest the age."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : Cleone, a Tragedy
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his extreme impatience to be read to. As it went on he turned his face to the back of his chair, and put himself into various attitudes, which marked his uneasiness. At the end of an act, however, he said, "Come let's have some more, let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky. But I am afraid there is more blood than brains." Yet he afterwards said, "When I heard you read it, I thought higher of its power of language: when I read it myself, I was more sensible of its pathetick effect;" and then he paid it a compliment which many will think very extravagant. "Sir, (said he,) if Otway had written this play, no other of his pieces would have been remembered": Dodsley himself, upon this being repeated to him, said, "It was too much": it must be remembered, that Johnson always appeared not to be sufficiently sensible of the merit of Otway'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Bennet Langton      Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : Cleone, a Tragedy
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his extreme impatience to be read to. As it went on he turned his face to the back of his chair, and put himself into various attitudes, which marked his uneasiness. At the end of an act, however, he said, "Come let's have some more, let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky. But I am afraid there is more blood than brains." Yet he afterwards said, "When I heard you read it, I thought higher of its power of language: when I read it myself, I was more sensible of its pathetick effect;" and then he paid it a compliment which many will think very extravagant. "Sir, (said he,) if Otway had written this play, no other of his pieces would have been remembered": Dodsley himself, upon this being repeated to him, said, "It was too much": it must be remembered, that Johnson always appeared not to be sufficiently sensible of the merit of Otway'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Otway :
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his extreme impatience to be read to. As it went on he turned his face to the back of his chair, and put himself into various attitudes, which marked his uneasiness. At the end of an act, however, he said, "Come let's have some more, let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky. But I am afraid there is more blood than brains." Yet he afterwards said, "When I heard you read it, I thought higher of its power of language: when I read it myself, I was more sensible of its pathetick effect;" and then he paid it a compliment which many will think very extravagant. "Sir, (said he,) if Otway had written this play, no other of his pieces would have been remembered": Dodsley himself, upon this being repeated to him, said, "It was too much": it must be remembered, that Johnson always appeared not to be sufficiently sensible of the merit of Otway'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to satisfy himself whether his mental faculties were impaired, he resolved that he would try to learn a new language, and fixed upon the Low Dutch, for that purpose, and this he continued till he had read about one half of "Thomas a Kempis"; and finding that there appeared no abatement of his power of acquisition, he then desisted, as thinking the experiment had been duly tried'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Bentley :
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses in Dodsley's "Collection", which he recited with his usual energy.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Pindar : Odes
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, though he praised West's translation of Pindar, he pointed out the following passage as faulty, by expressing a circumstance so minute as to detract from the general dignity which should prevail: "Down then from thy glittering nail, Take, O Muse, thy Dorian lyre.'"
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Xenophon : Anabasis
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of characters in the end of the first Book of the "Retreat of the Ten Thousand" was the first instance of the kind that was known.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

various : [works on the fifteenth century]
'[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Unknown

Mr Grove : [articled in 'The Spectator']
[from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction what Baretti had told him; that, meeting, in the course of his studying English, with an excellent paper in the "Spectator", one of four that were written by the respectable Dissenting Minister, Mr. Grove of Taunton, and observing the genius and energy of mind that it exhibits, it greatly quickened his curiosity to visit our country; as he thought if such were the lighter periodical essays of our authours, their productions on more weighty occasions must be wonderful indeed!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets
'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when giving an account of the approach of Waller's mortal disease, he says, "he found his legs grow tumid"; by using the expression his legs swelled, he would have avoided this; and there would have been no impropriety in its being followed by the interesting question to his physician, 'What that swelling meant?' Another, when he mentions that Pope had emitted proposals; when published or issued would have been more readily understood; and a third, when he calls Orrery and Dr. Delany, writers both undoubtedly veracious, when true, honest, or faithful, might have been used. Yet, it must be owned, that none of these are hard or too big words; that custom would make them seem as easy as any others; and that a language is richer and capable of more beauty of expression, by having a greater variety of synonimes. His dissertation upon the unfitness of poetry for the aweful subjects of our holy religion, though I do not entirely agree with with him, has all the merit of originality, with uncommon force and reasoning.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets
'[Johnson was fair to Milton's poetic genius, despite hating his politics] Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots of [italics] The Revolution Society[end italics] itself, allows, that "Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet, and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions the most honourable encomiums".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Towers      Print: Book

Herbert Croft : Life of Young
'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style. When I mentioned this to a very eminent literary character [Edmund Burke], he opposed me vehemently, exclaiming, "No, no, it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak without its strength". This was an image so happy, that one might have thought he would have been satisfied with it; but he was not. And setting his mind again to work, he added, with exquisite felicity, "It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Burke      Print: Book

Herbert Croft : Life of Young
'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style. When I mentioned this to a very eminent literary character [Edmund Burke], he opposed me vehemently, exclaiming, "No, no, it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak without its strength". This was an image so happy, that one might have thought he would have been satisfied with it; but he was not. And setting his mind again to work, he added, with exquisite felicity, "It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon the excellent works of Young, he allows them the high praise to which they are justly entitled. "The 'Universal Passion' (says he) is indeed a very great performance,--his distichs have the weight of solid sentiment, and his points the sharpness of resistless truth." But I was most anxious concerning Johnson's decision upon "Night Thoughts", which I esteem as a mass of the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced; and was delighted to find this character of that work: "In his 'Night Thoughts', he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhime but with disadvantage". And afterwards, "Particular lines are not to be regarded; the power is in the whole; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity". But there is in this Poem not only all that Johnson so well brings in view, but a power of the [italics] Pathetick [end italics] beyond almost any example that I have seen. He who does not feel his nerves shaken, and his heart pierced by many passages in this extraordinary work, particularly by that most affecting one, which describes the gradual torment suffered by the contemplation of an object of affectionate attachment, visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution, must be of a hard and obstinate frame. To all the other excellencies of "Night Thoughts" let me add the great and peculiar one, that they contain not only the noblest sentiments of virtue, and contemplations on immortality, but the Christian Sacrifice, the Divine Propitiation, with all its interesting circumstances, and consolations to "a wounded spirit" solemnly and poetically displayed in such imagery and language, as cannot fail to exalt, animate, and soothe the truly pious. No book whatever can be recommended to young persons, with better hopes of seasoning their minds with [italics] vital religion [end italics], than Young's "Night Thoughts".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [Life of Young in 'Lives of the Poets']
''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon the excellent works of Young, he allows them the high praise to which they are justly entitled. "The 'Universal Passion' (says he) is indeed a very great performance,--his distichs have the weight of solid sentiment, and his points the sharpness of resistless truth." But I was most anxious concerning Johnson's decision upon "Night Thoughts", which I esteem as a mass of the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced; and was delighted to find this character of that work: "In his 'Night Thoughts', he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhime but with disadvantage". And afterwards, "Particular lines are not to be regarded; the power is in the whole; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity". But there is in this Poem not only all that Johnson so well brings in view, but a power of the [italics] Pathetick [end italics] beyond almost any example that I have seen. He who does not feel his nerves shaken, and his heart pierced by many passages in this extraordinary work, particularly by that most affecting one, which describes the gradual torment suffered by the contemplation of an object of affectionate attachment, visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution, must be of a hard and obstinate frame. To all the other excellencies of "Night Thoughts" let me add the great and peculiar one, that they contain not only the noblest sentiments of virtue, and contemplations on immortality, but the Christian Sacrifice, the Divine Propitiation, with all its interesting circumstances, and consolations to "a wounded spirit" solemnly and poetically displayed in such imagery and language, as cannot fail to exalt, animate, and soothe the truly pious. No book whatever can be recommended to young persons, with better hopes of seasoning their minds with [italics] vital religion [end italics], than Young's "Night Thoughts".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon the excellent works of Young, he allows them the high praise to which they are justly entitled. "The 'Universal Passion' (says he) is indeed a very great performance,--his distichs have the weight of solid sentiment, and his points the sharpness of resistless truth." But I was most anxious concerning Johnson's decision upon "Night Thoughts", which I esteem as a mass of the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced; and was delighted to find this character of that work: "In his 'Night Thoughts', he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhime but with disadvantage". And afterwards, "Particular lines are not to be regarded; the power is in the whole; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity". But there is in this Poem not only all that Johnson so well brings in view, but a power of the [italics] Pathetick [end italics] beyond almost any example that I have seen. He who does not feel his nerves shaken, and his heart pierced by many passages in this extraordinary work, particularly by that most affecting one, which describes the gradual torment suffered by the contemplation of an object of affectionate attachment, visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution, must be of a hard and obstinate frame. To all the other excellencies of "Night Thoughts" let me add the great and peculiar one, that they contain not only the noblest sentiments of virtue, and contemplations on immortality, but the Christian Sacrifice, the Divine Propitiation, with all its interesting circumstances, and consolations to "a wounded spirit" solemnly and poetically displayed in such imagery and language, as cannot fail to exalt, animate, and soothe the truly pious. No book whatever can be recommended to young persons, with better hopes of seasoning their minds with [italics] vital religion [end italics], than Young's "Night Thoughts".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edward Young : Love of Fame, The Universal Passion
''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon the excellent works of Young, he allows them the high praise to which they are justly entitled. "The 'Universal Passion' (says he) is indeed a very great performance,--his distichs have the weight of solid sentiment, and his points the sharpness of resistless truth." But I was most anxious concerning Johnson's decision upon "Night Thoughts", which I esteem as a mass of the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced; and was delighted to find this character of that work: "In his 'Night Thoughts', he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhime but with disadvantage". And afterwards, "Particular lines are not to be regarded; the power is in the whole; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity". But there is in this Poem not only all that Johnson so well brings in view, but a power of the [italics] Pathetick [end italics] beyond almost any example that I have seen. He who does not feel his nerves shaken, and his heart pierced by many passages in this extraordinary work, particularly by that most affecting one, which describes the gradual torment suffered by the contemplation of an object of affectionate attachment, visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution, must be of a hard and obstinate frame. To all the other excellencies of "Night Thoughts" let me add the great and peculiar one, that they contain not only the noblest sentiments of virtue, and contemplations on immortality, but the Christian Sacrifice, the Divine Propitiation, with all its interesting circumstances, and consolations to "a wounded spirit" solemnly and poetically displayed in such imagery and language, as cannot fail to exalt, animate, and soothe the truly pious. No book whatever can be recommended to young persons, with better hopes of seasoning their minds with [italics] vital religion [end italics], than Young's "Night Thoughts".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Zachariah Mudge : Sermons
'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages; with what diligence and success, his "Notes upon the Psalms" give sufficient evidence. He once endeavoured to add the knowledge of Arabick to that of Hebrew; but finding his thoughts too much diverted from other studies, after some time desisted from his purpose. His discharge of parochial duties was exemplary. How his "Sermons" were composed, may be learned from the excellent volume which he has given to the publick'. [article by Johnson in 'the London Chronicle', 2nd May 1769]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Zachariah Mudge : [notes on the Psalms]
'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages; with what diligence and success, his "Notes upon the Psalms" give sufficient evidence. He once endeavoured to add the knowledge of Arabick to that of Hebrew; but finding his thoughts too much diverted from other studies, after some time desisted from his purpose. His discharge of parochial duties was exemplary. How his "Sermons" were composed, may be learned from the excellent volume which he has given to the publick'. [article by Johnson in 'the London Chronicle', 2nd May 1769]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Walter Harte : History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden
'Mr. Eliot, with whom Dr. Walter Harte had travelled, talked to us of his "History of Gustavus Adolphus", which he said was a very good book in the German translation.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Eliot      Print: Book

Zachariah Mudge : Sermons
'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he can make into meal; he opens a wide prospect, but it is so distant, it is indistinct. I love "Blair's Sermons". Though the dog is a Scotchman, and a Presbyterian, and every thing he should not be, I was the first to praise them. Such was my candour." (smiling.)'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joshua Reynolds      Print: Book

Zachariah Mudge : Sermons
'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he can make into meal; he opens a wide prospect, but it is so distant, it is indistinct. I love "Blair's Sermons". Though the dog is a Scotchman, and a Presbyterian, and every thing he should not be, I was the first to praise them. Such was my candour." (smiling.)'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hugh Blair : Sermons
'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he can make into meal; he opens a wide prospect, but it is so distant, it is indistinct. I love "Blair's Sermons". Though the dog is a Scotchman, and a Presbyterian, and every thing he should not be, I was the first to praise them. Such was my candour." (smiling.)'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hannah More : Bas Bleu; or Conversation
'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in which many of the persons who were most conspicuous there are mentioned.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

John Shebbeare : Letters on the English Nation
'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class of ordinary writers, and deserves to be remembered as a respectable name in literature, were it only for his admirable "Letters on the English Nation", under the name of "Battista Angeloni, a Jesuit".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Mason : Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers
'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers", introduces them in one line, in a list of those "who tasted the sweets of his present Majesty's reign". Such was Johnson's candid relish of the merit of that satire, that he allowed Dr. Goldsmith, as he told me, to read it to him from beginning to end, and did not refuse his praise to its execution'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

William Mason : Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers
'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers", introduces them in one line, in a list of those "who tasted the sweets of his present Majesty's reign". Such was Johnson's candid relish of the merit of that satire, that he allowed Dr. Goldsmith, as he told me, to read it to him from beginning to end, and did not refuse his praise to its execution'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Oliver Goldsmith      Print: Unknown

William Whitehead : 'Elegy to Lord Villiers'
'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opinion, that when a man of rank appeared in that character, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed. In this I think he was more liberal than Mr. William Whitehead, in his "Elegy to Lord Villiers", in which under the pretext of "superiour toils, demanding all their care," he discovers a jealousy of the great paying their court to the Muses:-- "------to the chosen few Who dare excel, thy fost'ring aid afford, Their arts, their magick powers, with honours due Exalt;--but be thyself what they record".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle : Tragedies and Poems
'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opinion, that when a man of rank appeared in that character, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed. In this I think he was more liberal than Mr. William Whitehead, in his "Elegy to Lord Villiers", in which under the pretext of "superiour toils, demanding all their care," he discovers a jealousy of the great paying their court to the Muses:-- "------to the chosen few Who dare excel, thy fost'ring aid afford, Their arts, their magick powers, with honours due Exalt;--but be thyself what they record".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Essays", which he liked very well, and his own "Prince of Abyssinia", on which he seemed to be intensely fixed; having told us, that he had not looked at it since it was first published. I happened to take it out of my pocket this day, and he seized upon it with avidity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Watson : Chemical Essays
'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Essays", which he liked very well, and his own "Prince of Abyssinia", on which he seemed to be intensely fixed; having told us, that he had not looked at it since it was first published. I happened to take it out of my pocket this day, and he seized upon it with avidity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Astle : [notes on the will of King Alfred]
'[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too few. Many things familiar to you, are unknown to me, and to most others; and you must not think too favourably of your readers: by supposing them knowing, you will leave them ignorant. Measure of land, and value of money, it is of great importance to state with care. Had the Saxons any gold coin?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late Mr. Bewley, well known in Norfolk by the name of the [italics] Philosopher of Massingham [end italics]: who, from the "Ramblers" and Plan of his "Dictionary", and long before the authour's fame was established by the "Dictionary" itself, or any other work, had conceived such a reverence for him, that he urgently begged Dr. Burney to give him the cover of the first letter he had received from him, as a relick of so estimable a writer.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Bewley      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson : Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late Mr. Bewley, well known in Norfolk by the name of the [italics] Philosopher of Massingham [end italics]: who, from the "Ramblers" and Plan of his "Dictionary", and long before the authour's fame was established by the "Dictionary" itself, or any other work, had conceived such a reverence for him, that he urgently begged Dr. Burney to give him the cover of the first letter he had received from him, as a relick of so estimable a writer.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Bewley      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [excerpt from a work, reprinted in the Bath 'Morning Chronicle']
'A clergyman at Bath wrote to him, that in "The Morning Chronicle", a passage in "The Beauties of Johnson" [unauthorised collection of Johnson's words], article DEATH, had been pointed out as supposed by some readers to recommend suicide, the words being, "To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly"; and respectfully suggesting to him, that such an erroneous notion of any sentence in the writings of an acknowledged friend of religion and virtue, should not pass uncontradicted.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Lancelot St Albyn      Print: Newspaper

George Crabbe : Village, The
'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as ever. He had revised "The Village", an admirable poem, by the Reverend Mr. Crabbe. Its sentiments as to the false notions of rustick happiness and rustick virtue were quite congenial with his own; and he had taken the trouble not only to suggest slight corrections and variations, but to furnish some lines, when he thought he could give the writer's meaning better than in the words of the manuscript'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

George Crabbe : Village, The
'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as ever. He had revised "The Village", an admirable poem, by the Reverend Mr. Crabbe. Its sentiments as to the false notions of rustick happiness and rustick virtue were quite congenial with his own; and he had taken the trouble not only to suggest slight corrections and variations, but to furnish some lines, when he thought he could give the writer's meaning better than in the words of the manuscript'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

James Macpherson : [Ossian poems]
'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would [italics]abandon [end italics] his mind to it'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Charles Burney : Continental Travels 1770-72
'He [Johnson] gave much praise to his friend, Dr. Burney's elegant and entertaining travels, and told Mr. Seward that he had them in his eye, when writing his "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Beattie : Hermit, The
'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "Hermit" in my presence, it brought tears into his eyes'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: Love and Madness
'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madness"'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Leslie Stephen : Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay
Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Andrew Lang : French Peasant Songs.
'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : The Northern Farmer
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur." 'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Grandmother
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur." 'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : 'Faithless Nelly Gray'
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur." 'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : 'Faithless Sally Brown'
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur." 'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : 'Tim Turpin'
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur." 'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : 'Ben Battle'
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur." 'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : Whims and Oddities
'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A Belgian governess, Mdlle. Stapps, was on the chair just behind him. He said, "I can't read 'The Grandmother' properly except after breakfast, when I am weak and tremulous; fortified by dinner and a glass of port I am too vigorous." "Well; read 'The Northern Farmer' then." So he did: and asked Mdlle. how much she understood. "Pas un mot, Monsieur." 'Then he read "The Grandmother," and after that four pieces out of Hood's Whims and Oddities, "Faithless Nelly Gray," "Faithless Sally Brown," "Tim Turpin" and "Ben Battle." He explained the play on words in them to Mdlle. who was "excessivement enchantee." He laughed till the tears came at some of the things he read. This went on till 11.50'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: The Victim, or The Norse Queen
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lushingtons' request, A. read "The Victim, or The Norse Queen," "The Voyage," and "All Along the Valley."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

: The Voyage
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lushingtons' request, A. read "The Victim, or The Norse Queen," "The Voyage," and "All Along the Valley."'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : In the Valley of Cauteretz
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lushingtons' request, A. read "The Victim, or The Norse Queen," "The Voyage," and "All Along the Valley."'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

: 'Take My Love'
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of Law. The chapter on "Law in Politics" was especially interesting to us. The quotations from A. expressed some of the deepest truths [...] With the boys he was reading Flodden Field, the Prometheus of Aeschylus, and the 1st Georgic.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Heine : Songs
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of Law. The chapter on "Law in Politics" was especially interesting to us. The quotations from A. expressed some of the deepest truths [...] With the boys he was reading Flodden Field, the Prometheus of Aeschylus, and the 1st Georgic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Duke of Argyll : The Reign of Law
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of Law. The chapter on "Law in Politics" was especially interesting to us. The quotations from A. expressed some of the deepest truths [...] With the boys he was reading Flodden Field, the Prometheus of Aeschylus, and the 1st Georgic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Flodden Field
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of Law. The chapter on "Law in Politics" was especially interesting to us. The quotations from A. expressed some of the deepest truths [...] With the boys he was reading Flodden Field, the Prometheus of Aeschylus, and the 1st Georgic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel)     Print: Book

Aeschlylus : Prometheus Bound
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of Law. The chapter on "Law in Politics" was especially interesting to us. The quotations from A. expressed some of the deepest truths [...] With the boys he was reading Flodden Field, the Prometheus of Aeschylus, and the 1st Georgic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel)     Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics I
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of Law. The chapter on "Law in Politics" was especially interesting to us. The quotations from A. expressed some of the deepest truths [...] With the boys he was reading Flodden Field, the Prometheus of Aeschylus, and the 1st Georgic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel)     Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge :
F. T. Palgrave on a tour of the West Country with Tennyson in late summer 1867: 'Our way lay right across Dartmoor, desolate and eerie even under the brightest sun, to Princetown: a village gloomy in itself [...] The inn, rough and small but clean, was in accord with the surroundings. One bedroom with two huge four-posters was allotted us: and Tennyson lay in his with a candle, reading hard the book which on this trip he had taken for his novel-companion, and at every disengaged moment whilst rambling over the Moor. This chanced to be one of Miss Yonge's deservedly popular tales, wherein a leading element is the deferred Church Confirmation of a grown-up person. On Tennyson read, till I heard him cry with satisfaction, "I see land! Mr ** is just going to be confirmed, after which, darkness and slumber.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Book of Job
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Song of Solomon
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Book of Genesis
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Deutsch : article on the Talmud
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 11 January 1868: 'A. read the article on the Talmud by Deutsch.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : Enoch Arden
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-day. Dr Hook thereupon began in fun to read it so badly that A. clutched the book, "No, I cannot stand that," and read it all to them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Enoch Arden
From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-day. Dr Hook thereupon began in fun to read it so badly that A. clutched the book, "No, I cannot stand that," and read it all to them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Hook      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The San Graal
From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun. 'Sept. 11th. He read me more of the "San Graal": very fine.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : The San Graal
From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun. 'Sept. 11th. He read me more of the "San Graal": very fine.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : The San Graal
From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 23rd. [1868] We took Lionel [son] to Eton, and left him in Mr Stone's house. At Mr Warre's request A. read the "San Graal" MS complete in the garden.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

John A. Carlyle : Thesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (On Diseases Of The Mind)
'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far too little above the usual Grinder Latin. Some of these sentences are quite good. The sense too so far as it extends in these few lines is clear and flowing; and I have no doubt, if the rest in any way correspond to it, your Essay will be very far above the average.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Degree thesis

Torquato Tasso : Aminta
'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

William Chambers : Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils : to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c
'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who know him for his social, hospitable, and generous qualities, submitted the manuscript of his "Chinese Architecture" to Dr. Johnson's perusal. Johnson was much pleased with it, and said, "It wants no addition nor correction, but a few lines of introduction"; which he furnished, and Sir William adopted'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Richard Hurd : Moral and Political Dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons of the past and present age
'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Political Dialogues", with a woefully whiggish cast. Afterwards, his Lordship having thought better, came to see his errour, and republished the work with a more constitutional spirit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Sallust :
'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by a Prince of Spain, with the assistance of his tutor, who is professedly the authour of a treatise annexed, on the Phoenician language. Mr. Cambridge commended the work, particularly as he thought the Translator understood his authour better than is commonly the case with Translators: but said, he was disappointed in the purpose for which he borrowed the book; to see whether a Spaniard could be better furnished with inscriptions from monuments, coins, or other antiquities which he might more probably find on a coast, so immediately opposite to Carthage, than the Antiquaries of any other countries. JOHNSON. "I am very sorry you was not gratified in your expectations". CAMBRIDGE. "The language would have been of little use, as there is no history existing in that tongue to balance the partial accounts which the Roman writers have left us." JOHNSON. "No, Sir. They have not been [italics] partial [end italics], they have told their own story, without shame or regard to equitable treatment of their injured enemy; they had no compunction, no feeling for a Carthaginian. Why, Sir, they would never have borne Virgil's description of Aeneas's treatment of Dido, if she had not been a Carthaginian".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Owen Cambridge      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by a Prince of Spain, with the assistance of his tutor, who is professedly the authour of a treatise annexed, on the Phoenician language. Mr. Cambridge commended the work, particularly as he thought the Translator understood his authour better than is commonly the case with Translators: but said, he was disappointed in the purpose for which he borrowed the book; to see whether a Spaniard could be better furnished with inscriptions from monuments, coins, or other antiquities which he might more probably find on a coast, so immediately opposite to Carthage, than the Antiquaries of any other countries. JOHNSON. "I am very sorry you was not gratified in your expectations". CAMBRIDGE. "The language would have been of little use, as there is no history existing in that tongue to balance the partial accounts which the Roman writers have left us." JOHNSON. "No, Sir. They have not been [italics] partial [end italics], they have told their own story, without shame or regard to equitable treatment of their injured enemy; they had no compunction, no feeling for a Carthaginian. Why, Sir, they would never have borne Virgil's description of Aeneas's treatment of Dido, if she had not been a Carthaginian".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Delarivier Manley : Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of The New Atalantis
'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that her father wrote the first two volumes: and in another book, 'Dunton's Life and Errours', we find that the rest was written by one Sault, at two guineas a sheet, under the direction of Dr. Midgeley".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dunton : Life and Errours of John Dunton
'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that her father wrote the first two volumes: and in another book, 'Dunton's Life and Errours', we find that the rest was written by one Sault, at two guineas a sheet, under the direction of Dr. Midgeley".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Giovanni Paolo Marana : Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets ...
'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that her father wrote the first two volumes: and in another book, 'Dunton's Life and Errours', we find that the rest was written by one Sault, at two guineas a sheet, under the direction of Dr. Midgeley".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

William Camden : Remains Concerning Britain
'[Johnson said] There is in "Camden's Remains", an epitaph upon a very wicked man, who was killed by a fall from his horse, in which he is supposed to say, 'Between the stirrup and the ground, I mercy ask'd, I mercy found'."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Horace : [ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequens
'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode 'Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens'" JOHNSON. "Sir, he was not in earnest: this was merely poetical".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Horace : [ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequens
'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode 'Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens'" JOHNSON. "Sir, he was not in earnest: this was merely poetical".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Seward      Print: Book

Horace :
'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode 'Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens'" JOHNSON. "Sir, he was not in earnest: this was merely poetical".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

David Mallet : [a poem about Aberdeen]
'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by David [italics] Malloch [end italics], which he thought would please Johnson, as affording clear evidence that Mallet had appeared even as a literary character by the name of Malloch; his changing which to one of softer sound, had given Johnson occasion to introduce him into his "Dictionary", under the article [italics] Alias[end italics]. This piece was, I suppose, one of Mallet's first essays. It is preserved in his works, with several variations. Johnson having read aloud, from the beginning of it, where there were some common-place assertions as to the superiority of ancient times;--"How false (said he) is all this, to say that in ancient times learning was not a disgrace to a Peer as it is now. In ancient times a Peer was as ignorant as any one else. He would have been angry to have it thought he could write his name. Men in ancient times dared to stand forth with a degree of ignorance with which nobody would dare now to stand forth".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Virgil : Aeneid
'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil through. I read a book of the "Aeneid" every night, so it was done in twelve nights, and I had great delight in it. The "Georgicks" did not give me so much pleasure, except the fourth book. The "Eclogues" I have almost all by heart. I do not think the story of the "Aeneid" interesting. I like the story of the "Odyssey" much better; and this not on account of the wonderful things which it contains; for there are wonderful things enough in the "Aeneid";--the ships of the Trojans turned to sea-nymphs,--the tree at Polydorus's tomb dropping blood. The story of the "Odyssey" is interesting, as a great part of it is domestick.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : Eclogues
'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil through. I read a book of the "Aeneid" every night, so it was done in twelve nights, and I had great delight in it. The "Georgicks" did not give me so much pleasure, except the fourth book. The "Eclogues" I have almost all by heart. I do not think the story of the "Aeneid" interesting. I like the story of the "Odyssey" much better; and this not on account of the wonderful things which it contains; for there are wonderful things enough in the "Aeneid";--the ships of the Trojans turned to sea-nymphs,--the tree at Polydorus's tomb dropping blood. The story of the "Odyssey" is interesting, as a great part of it is domestick.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics
'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil through. I read a book of the "Aeneid" every night, so it was done in twelve nights, and I had great delight in it. The "Georgicks" did not give me so much pleasure, except the fourth book. The "Eclogues" I have almost all by heart. I do not think the story of the "Aeneid" interesting. I like the story of the "Odyssey" much better; and this not on account of the wonderful things which it contains; for there are wonderful things enough in the "Aeneid";--the ships of the Trojans turned to sea-nymphs,--the tree at Polydorus's tomb dropping blood. The story of the "Odyssey" is interesting, as a great part of it is domestick.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Homer : odyssey
'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil through. I read a book of the "Aeneid" every night, so it was done in twelve nights, and I had great delight in it. The "Georgicks" did not give me so much pleasure, except the fourth book. The "Eclogues" I have almost all by heart. I do not think the story of the "Aeneid" interesting. I like the story of the "Odyssey" much better; and this not on account of the wonderful things which it contains; for there are wonderful things enough in the "Aeneid";--the ships of the Trojans turned to sea-nymphs,--the tree at Polydorus's tomb dropping blood. The story of the "Odyssey" is interesting, as a great part of it is domestick.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Scriptures
Early childhood reminisences: 'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her understanding not fully enlightened as to the fullness of Gospel Truth. She taught us as far as she knew, and I now remember the solemn religious feelings I had often sitting in silence with her after reading the Scriptures with her; and our reading a Psalm before we went to bed and I have no doubt that her prayers were not in vain in the Lord. She died when I was twelve years old.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : Psalms
Early childhood reminisences: 'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her understanding not fully enlightened as to the fullness of Gospel Truth. She taught us as far as she knew, and I now remember the solemn religious feelings I had often sitting in silence with her after reading the Scriptures with her; and our reading a Psalm before we went to bed and I have no doubt that her prayers were not in vain in the Lord. She died when I was twelve years old.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Gurney      Print: Book

William Savery : [letter]
'I read Wm S- letter and thought upon it and religion before I got up, I think of and feel religion at times but I do not understand it always'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I often go to see poor Bob who seems to me dying and it is a good thing to attend a person in that situation. I think the more one sees of the different states of human nature the better. I read to him in the Testament, he flys to religion as his last resource, it is the only firm solid source of happiness in this world.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'After reading to poor Bob which was a cross to me because some one was present I wrote this.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament [probably]
'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, but I intend now to read in the Testament. I finished this day satisfactorily. I went to meeting; heard a good deal of reading and read to Nurse Norman's family.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament [probably]
'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, but I intend now to read in the Testament. I finished this day satisfactorily. I went to meeting; heard a good deal of reading and read to Nurse Norman's family.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Epictetus : [unknown]
'Altogether I think I have had a satisfactory day. I had a good lesson of French this morning and read much in Epectitus'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answered remarkably well ... I have been reading to little Castleton. I sometimes feel I am not good enough to teach others until I know more myself, and am a more strictly virtuous character'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answered remarkably well ... I have been reading to little Castleton. I sometimes feel I am not good enough to teach others until I know more myself, and am a more strictly virtuous character'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown]
'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answered remarkably well ... I have been reading to little Castleton. I sometimes feel I am not good enough to teach others until I know more myself, and am a more strictly virtuous character'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

John Gurney : [letter]
'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline] a temptation, but I believe it to be much better for me to be where I am ... then I walked in and went into the study to look for a book to read, and what should I think of reading but Barclay's "Apology".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Manuscript: Letter

Robert Barclay : Apology for the True Christian Divinity
'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline] a temptation, but I believe it to be much better for me to be where I am ... then I walked in and went into the study to look for a book to read, and what should I think of reading but Barclay's "Apology".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Matthew Lewis : The Monk
'This evening I have been reading a good deal in the "Monk". I don't know whether it hurts the mind or not, it certainly shows the passions in a very fascinating light. I think we are more apt to be impressed with that part than the morality of it. I think it loss of time and ... I should not go on reading it, but yet as I have begun it I think it better to go on.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible [most likely]
'In the afternoon ... I went to the Cathedral then I came home read to the Normans and little Castleton'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Robert Barclay : Apology for the True Christian Divinity
'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of French, went to see Bob, read in Barclay's Apology for some hours upon Revealed Religion. The part I most disapprove of is the harsh manner in which he speaks of other sects, it seems to me want [underline] Charity [end underline] and [underline] Without Charity is nothing [end underline] - some parts that he says are beautiful, clear and capable of being understood, other parts are not so much so, and I think all might have been expressed in a more [underline] concise [end underline] manner.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of French, went to see Bob, read in Barclay's Apology for some hours upon Revealed Religion.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I have been great part of this morning with poor Bob who seems now dying. I read a long chapter in the Testament to him the one upon death and I sat with him for some time afterwards'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Robert Barclay : Apology for the True Christian Divinity
'I went to see Mrs Norman and read in Barclay's Apology'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Robert Barclay : Apology for the True Christian Divinity
'read in Barclay's Apology in the evening'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Robert Barclay : Apology for the True Christian Divinity
'read a little in Barclay'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible [Old Testament]
'This day I begin to read through the Bible. I have finished the Testament. I wish to read the Bible of a morning and the Testament of an evening I feel it a [underline] good plan [end underline]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I read to the old Normans'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'read to Mrs Norman'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I have been reading a good deal in the Testament today'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'This morning Kitty came in for us to read the Testament together, which I enjoyed, I read my favourite chapter the 15th of Corinthians to them. Oh [underline] how [end underline] earnestly I hope that we may all know what truth is and follow its dictates.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I had rather a comfortable drive here from Shrewsbury, read in the Testament and got by heart one or two verses'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Hannah Gurney      Print: Book

Richard Baxter :
'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [French literature]
''He spoke often in praise of French literature. "The French are excellent in this, (he would say,) they have a book on every subject".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Baxter : Reasons of the Christian Religion, The
'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divinity of the Christian system.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Anacreon :
'I wrote to him, begging to know the state of his health, and mentioned that Baxter's "Anacreon", "which is in the library at Auchinleck, was, I find, collated by my father in 1727, with the MS. belonging to the University of Leyden, and he has made a number of Notes upon it. Would you advise me to publish a new edition of it?".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Hester Lynch Thrale : Letters
'A pleasing instance of the generous attention of one of his [Dr Johnson's] friends has been discovered by the publication of Mrs. Thrale's collection of "Letters". In a letter to one of the Miss Thrales, he writes,-- "A friend, whose name I will tell when your mamma has tried to guess it, sent to my physician to enquire whether this long train of illness had brought me into difficulties for want of money, with an invitation to send to him for what occasion required. I shall write this night to thank him, having no need to borrow".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle : Father's Revenge, The
'The Earl of Carlisle having written a tragedy, entitled "The Father's Revenge", some of his Lordship's friends applied to Mrs. Chapone to prevail on Dr. Johnson to read and give his opinion of it, which he accordingly did, in a letter to that lady. [the text of the letter is then given. The relevant parts of it follow:] "The construction of the play is not completely regular; the stage is too often vacant, and the scenes are not sufficiently connected. This, however, would be called by Dryden only a mechanical defect; which takes away little from the power of the poem, and which is seen rather than felt. A rigid examiner of the diction might, perhaps, wish some words changed, and some lines more vigorously terminated. But from such petty imperfections what writer was ever free? The general form and force of the dialogue is of more importance. It seems to want that quickness of reciprocation which characterises the English drama, and is not always sufficiently fervid or animated. Of the sentiments I remember not one that I wished omitted. In the imagery I cannot forbear to distinguish the comparison of joy succeeding grief to light rushing on the eye accustomed to darkness. It seems to have all that can be desired to make it please. It is new, just, and delightful. With the characters, either as conceived or preserved, I have no fault to find; but was much inclined to congratulate a writer, who, in defiance of prejudice and fashion, made the Archbishop a good man, and scorned all thoughtless applause, which a vicious churchman would have brought him".' 'The catastrophe is affecting. The Father and Daughter both culpable, both wretched, and both penitent, divide between them our pity and our sorrow.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Luis Vaz de Camoens : Lusiads
'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a dispute of considerable length with Johnson, who, as usual, declaimed upon the misery and corruption of a sea life, and used this expression:--"It had been happy for the world, Sir, if your hero Gama, Prince Henry of Portugal, and Columbus, had never been born, or that their schemes had never gone farther than their own imaginations". "This sentiment, (says Mr. Mickle,) which is to be found in his "Introduction to the World displayed", I, in my Dissertation prefixed to the "Lusiad", have controverted; and though authours are said to be bad judges of their own works, I am not ashamed to own to a friend, that that dissertation is my favourite above all that I ever attempted in prose. Next year, when the "Lusiad" was published, I waited on Dr. Johnson, who addressed me with one of his good-humoured smiles:--'Well, you have remembered our dispute about Prince Henry, and have cited me too. You have done your part very well indeed: you have made the best of your argument; but I am not convinced yet'."
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Luis Vaz de Camoens : Lusiads
'[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design to translate the "Lusiad", of the merit of which he spoke highly, but had been prevented by a number of other engagements'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Burton : Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England
' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you to procure me. They are called "Burton's Books"; the title of one is "Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England". I believe there are about five or six of them; they seem very proper to allure backward readers; be so kind as to get them for me, and send me them with the best printed edition of "Baxter's Call to the Unconverted".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Baxter : Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live
' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you to procure me. They are called "Burton's Books"; the title of one is "Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England". I believe there are about five or six of them; they seem very proper to allure backward readers; be so kind as to get them for me, and send me them with the best printed edition of "Baxter's Call to the Unconverted".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

James Boswell : Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation
'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may reasonably suppose that the first pamphlet which I read was yours. I am very much of your opinion, and, like you, feel great indignation at the indecency with which the King is every day treated. Your paper contains very considerable knowledge of history and of the constitution, very properly produced and applied. It will certainly raise your character, though perhaps it may not make you a Minister of State.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson

Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ
'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my notes, but that when I mentioned that I had seen in the King's library sixty-three editions of my favourite "Thomas a Kempis", amongst which it was in eight languages, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabick, and Armenian, he said, he thought it unnecessary to collect many editions of a book, which were all the same, except as to the paper and print; he would have the original, and all the translations, and all the editions which had any variations in the text'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Helen Maria Williams : Ode on the Peace, An
'He had dined that day [30th May 1784] at Mr. Hoole's, and Miss Helen Maria Williams being expected in the evening, Mr. Hoole put into his hands her beautiful "Ode on the Peace": Johnson read it over, and when this elegant and accomplished young lady was presented to him, he took her by the hand in the most courteous manner, and repeated the finest stanza of her poem; this was the most delicate and pleasing compliment he could pay.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Thomas Newton : Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled
'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he should be dead before what he has said of me would appear. He durst not have printed it while he was alive". DR. ADAMS. "I believe his 'Dissertations on the Prophecies' is his great work". JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is Tom's great work; but how far it is great, or how much of it is Tom's, are other questions. I fancy a considerable part of it was borrowed".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Newton : Account of his Own Life
'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he should be dead before what he has said of me would appear. He durst not have printed it while he was alive". DR. ADAMS. "I believe his 'Dissertations on the Prophecies' is his great work". JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is Tom's great work; but how far it is great, or how much of it is Tom's, are other questions. I fancy a considerable part of it was borrowed".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Newton : Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled
'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he should be dead before what he has said of me would appear. He durst not have printed it while he was alive". DR. ADAMS. "I believe his 'Dissertations on the Prophecies' is his great work". JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is Tom's great work; but how far it is great, or how much of it is Tom's, are other questions. I fancy a considerable part of it was borrowed".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Adams      Print: Book

Richard Savage : Wanderer, The
'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine verses". "If (said he) I had written with hostility of Warburton in my "Shakspeare", I should have quoted this couplet:-- 'Here Learning, blinded first and then beguil'd, Looks dark as Ignorance, as Fancy wild'. You see they'd have fitted him to a T" (smiling.)'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Richard Hurd : Sermons
'I brought a volume of Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's "Sermons", and read to the company some passages from one of them, upon this text, "Resist the Devil, and he will fly from you". James, iv. 7. I was happy to produce so judicious and elegant a supporter of a doctrine, which, I know not why, should, in this world of imperfect knowledge, and, therefore, of wonder and mystery in a thousand instances, be contested by some with an unthinking assurance and flippancy.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

: Book of Common Prayer
'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earnest manner): "I wish, Sir, you would compose some family prayers". JOHNSON. "I will not compose prayers for you, Sir, because you can do it for yourself. But I have thought of getting together all the books of prayers which I could, selecting those which should appear to me the best, putting out some, inserting others, adding some prayers of my own, and prefixing a discourse on prayer".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [various books of prayer]
'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earnest manner): "I wish, Sir, you would compose some family prayers". JOHNSON. "I will not compose prayers for you, Sir, because you can do it for yourself. But I have thought of getting together all the books of prayers which I could, selecting those which should appear to me the best, putting out some, inserting others, adding some prayers of my own, and prefixing a discourse on prayer".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies
'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemning expressions. "Now, (said I) this cannot be said with truth by every man, and therefore is improper for a general printed form. I myself cannot say that I am the worst of men; I will not say so".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Jeremy Taylor : Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies
'JOHNSON. "I do not approve of figurative expressions in addressing the Supreme Being; and I never use them. Taylor gives a very good advice: 'Never lie in your prayers; never confess more than you really believe; never promise more than you mean to perform'. I recollected this precept in his "Golden Grove"; but his [italics]example [end italics] for prayer contradicts his [italics] precept [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Herbert Croft : [Family Discourses]
'[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson's not being highly pleased with some "Family Discourses", which he had printed; they were in too familiar a style to be approved of by so manly a mind'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Fulke Greville : Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral
'We may apply to him [Johnson] a sentence in Mr. Greville's "Maxims, Characters, and Reflections"; a book which is entitled to much more praise than it has received: "ARISTARCHUS is charming: how full of knowledge, of sense, of sentiment. You get him with difficulty to your supper; and after having delighted every body and himself for a few hours, he is obliged to return home;--he is finishing his treatise, to prove that unhappiness is the portion of man".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

John Milton :
'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradise Lost" should write such poor Sonnets:--"Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradise Lost" should write such poor Sonnets:--"Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah More      Print: Book

John Milton : [Sonnets]
'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradise Lost" should write such poor Sonnets:--"Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah More      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : ‘A Greek Hymn’.
'Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you patted Pater on the back and promised him some cake if he kept a good little boy till the holidays.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown, possibly Bible]
'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I devoted most of my morning writing to P. Hoare, writing French and reading'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
'I have this day read Rasselas which is a book I like as it leads to deep affection'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'at night snug time reading after the rest of the family were in bed'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth
'Since dinner I have read much logic and enjoyed it, it is interesting to me, may, I think, with attention, do me good - reading Watts impresses deeply in my mind how very careful I should be of judging'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth
'I have been reading Watts on judgement this afternoon; it has led me into thought and particularly upon the evidence I have to believe in religion ... my mind has not been convinced by books; but what little faith I have confirmed by reading the Holy writers themselves.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth
'read Watts' Logic'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

St Basil of Caesarea : [unknown]
'I read much this morning in St Basil, which is to me excellent, interesting and beautiful. He advises a constant thanksgiving for the many blessings we enjoy; and that we should not grumble at the evils we are subject to; how much more cause I have for thankfulness than sorrow'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its God. After dinner I taught Danny to read and did a little logic. Since that I have been reading aloud a long homily and there I committed a fault. John asked me to let him read and I did not, which takes off the satisfaction of reading for I did not do as I would be done by.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its God. After dinner I taught Danny to read and did a little logic. Since that I have been reading aloud a long homily and there I committed a fault. John asked me to let him read and I did not, which takes off the satisfaction of reading for I did not do as I would be done by.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably Bible?]
'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

William Jones : A course of lectures on the figurative language of the Holy Scripture, and the interpretation of it from Scripture itself
'wrote a little logic this afternoon and read Jones on the Figurative languages of the Scriptures'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I first wrote in my journal, read in the Testament after breakfast'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably Bible?]
'I wrote and read a little before breakfast'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy
'I am now reading Butler's Analogy'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Lavator : Journal
'I have read a good deal of Lavator's journal and have felt sympathy with him. I like the book as it reminds me of my duty'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Lavator : self knowledge
'I have been reading Lavator on self knowledge, and like it much. I find it difficult to confine my attention to what I am reading; books tells us to think clearly and fix our ideas to the subject before us; I wish they would tell us how to do it'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I then wrote a little journal, read a chapter away from the fire; rather as a cross to the body; but I had such a sweet time alone as to forget bodily cold, for I was inwardly warmed and cheered by feeling under the guidance and protection of the Most High; happy state!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [French]
'I then read french and wrote it, had one or two little interruptions'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

John Mason : Self-knowledge: A Treatise
'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficiently to what I am reading, to remember at all accurately what I have been reading about'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
'After that Kitty made a proposition very pleasant to me, that we should sit together all the afternoon and read "Pilgrim's Progress" and work; and we sat snugly over the nursery fire, and it was interesting and pleasant to me on two accounts, as I feel interested in the Allegory of the pilgrim and it was pleasant to be so snug with Kitty who I don't like to say much about ... We then drank tea; after tea Kitty and I read a little further ... after supper I read with Kitty until bed time.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Job Scott : Journal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job Scott
'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was; however, I had a very comfortable reading with them'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : [New] Testament
'Read my Testament and felt not destitute of religion'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
'I had a comfortable time with my children only I felt too anxious for uncle Joseph to see them as he was here but he did not; I am fearful I should be vain of my reading, I feel I am so now; I hope if I try to overcome it, I shall not be so'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

John Mason : Self-knowledge: A Treatise
'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at least edifying me'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [French]
'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at least edifying me'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

Job Scott : Journal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job Scott
'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at least edifying me'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament
'12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an example to the believers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity. 14th verse neglect not the gift that is in thee.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I read to dear little Mary'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

: [books on the prophecies]
'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christian faith, a few years only have elapsed since I considered that evidence to be so dark and unintelligible as to be of little avail to the defence of the Christian cause. The few works upon the prophecies which had fallen into my hands contributed to this opinion, as the writers of them appeared to me in the light of pious visionaries, all labouring to establish some favourite point; or by twisting and turning the obscure meaning of dark passages to suit their purpose to penetrate into the events of futurity'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

: [New testament]
'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

William Paley : Natural Theology
'The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theology, have attracted my attention to objects that might otherwise have escaped my notice'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

James Currie : Life of Robert Burns
'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind received a higher degree of pleasure than "Currie's life of Burns". To me, its charm was enhanced by a thousand pleasing recollections - a thousand associations, that gave a strong additional interest to every word. The strength of Burns's feelings, the character of his mind, had excited an enthusiastic admiration, at a period when my own enthusiastic feelings were in perfect unison with those of the poet; and in him alone did I meet with the expression of a sensibility with which I could perfectly sympathise: in his emotions there was a strength, an energy, that came home to my heart; while the tender sorrows of other poets had to me appeared mawkish and insipid. Even the strong light in which he saw the ridiculous, was, I fear, too agreeable to me. The idea I then formed of his mind has been confirmed by Dr Currie's delineation of it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Robert Burns :
'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind received a higher degree of pleasure than "Currie's life of Burns". To me, its charm was enhanced by a thousand pleasing recollections - a thousand associations, that gave a strong additional interest to every word. The strength of Burns's feelings, the character of his mind, had excited an enthusiastic admiration, at a period when my own enthusiastic feelings were in perfect unison with those of the poet; and in him alone did I meet with the expression of a sensibility with which I could perfectly sympathise: in his emotions there was a strength, an energy, that came home to my heart; while the tender sorrows of other poets had to me appeared mawkish and insipid. Even the strong light in which he saw the ridiculous, was, I fear, too agreeable to me. The idea I then formed of his mind has been confirmed by Dr Currie's delineation of it'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Robert Burns : [poems]
'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been more highly gratified than by the perusal of his inestimable work, which is a [italics] chef-d'oeuvre [end italics] of cultivated and discriminating taste. On reading the poems that are added to the collection, I once more tasted of all that delicious enthusiasm with which the first productions of this child of nature and genius had feasted my soul'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

James Currie : Life of Burns
'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been more highly gratified than by the perusal of his inestimable work, which is a [italics] chef-d'oeuvre [end italics] of cultivated and discriminating taste. On reading the poems that are added to the collection, I once more tasted of all that delicious enthusiasm with which the first productions of this child of nature and genius had feasted my soul'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

: [books on metaphysics]
'[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they have become a complete [italics] calx [end italics]. I have been obliged, in pursuit of [italics] hints [end italics], to wade through volumes: keeping neither commonplace book nor memorandum, have been forced to stupify myself in search of passages which remained in my memory, while every trace of the place in which I had found them was lost'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Hector Macneil : [poems]
'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgment under imagination] is kept up; while, in your more finished producions, it is preserved in an uncommon degree. This, my feelings tell me; and to them, in this instance, judgment delegates her authority. Had I, previously to publication, known of your intention of paying a compliment to Lord N., I should certainly have remonstrated. I confess I was revolted by the idea of your virtuous muse binding her laurels round the brow of one of the most profligate and worthless of the human race; but that single passage excepted, I found so much pleasure in the perusal of the whole, that I would not have taken a thousand pounds to have gone critically over every if and and, purposely to pick out some faults'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Hector Macneil : Harp, The
'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased with the whole; but with the "Harp", and the "Waes o' War" , she is particularly charmed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Hector Macneil : Harp, The
'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased with the whole; but with the "Harp", and the "Waes o' War" , she is particularly charmed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss H.      Print: Book

Hector Macneil : The Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean
'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased with the whole; but with the "Harp", and the "Waes o' War" , she is particularly charmed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss H.      Print: Book

Elizabeth Hamilton : Letters on Education
'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] In what you say with regard to the second volume of "Letters on Education" being, in some parts, too abstruse for certain readers, you are, by no means, singular; nor was the objection unforeseen or unexpected'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hector Macneil      Print: Book

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Elements of Criticism
'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of an easy chair, whenever I heard the approach of a footstep, well knowing the ridicule to which I should have been exposed, had I been detected in the act of looking into such a book?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

Tacitus : Annals
'[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of writing a book of moral education based on the behaviour of eminent historical figures]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

:
'[letter to Dr S.] My reading [on classical subjects relevant to a projected book] has not been, by any means, extensive; for the last ten years the weakness in my eyes has been a perptually occuring hindrance to study'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

: [Edinburgh] Quarterly Review
'[letter to Dr S.] If you have not yet seen the Edinburgh Quarterly Review, I beg leave to recommend it your perusal, as a striking specimen of the abilities of a party of young gentlemen, who promise to do much credit to the literary character of Scotland'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of the Life of Aggrippina, the wife of Germanicus
'[letter to Dr S.] I submitted my half finished manuscript [to my friend Mr D. S-], which he read over with critical and minute attention. He flatters me with the assurance, that it is written in a far more mastely manner than any of my former productions; and pronounces biography to be my [italics] forte [end italics]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr D.S-      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
'[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by the persevering exertions of a righteous zeal. I allude to Clarkson's "History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade", which I think one of the most interesting books I have ever read'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

R.H. Cromek : Reliques of Robert Burns
'[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would have been sorry to imagine before the public eye; but his letter to Mr Erskine, and some others, are invaluable'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after reading. Yesterday I think I was too much off my watch ... So I felt this morning at reading unwilling to take up the cross'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in which I found peace'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Elizabeth Fry : [Journal]
'I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the Almighty been manifested to me'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : 2 Corinthians
'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by what a minister ought to prove himself a minister of God these two verses particularly took hold of me - "By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my spirit'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Esther)
'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I have attained some mental relief upon entering a New Year and finishing another. And upon opening my Bible at these words so consonant with the feelings of my heart that I quote them here - "Hear my prayer and be merciful unto thine inheritance; turn our sorrow into joy that we may live oh Lord and praise thy name"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my dear sister Elizabeth Gurney, Susan Pitchford as such maids as liked to join us, collected together. Doctor Sims was also with us. When after reading I poured forth my soul in [underline] fervent prayer [end underline] for my [underline] dearest Rachel [end underline] and myself, as to our time of conflict, for help spiritually, and [underline] naturally [end underline] for tender mercy'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Deuteronomy)
'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the works of my hands, may not yet have appeared to be fully blessed, yet in many, may I not say [underline] most [end underline], a peculiar blessing has I think rested on them. I transcribe here, from Deuteronomy 2: verse 7 "For the Lord thy God have blessed thee in all the works of thy hand. He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness these forty years, these forty years the Lord thy God has been with thee. Thou hast lacked nothing.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Robert Wodrow : The Correspondence of the Rev Robert Wodrow
'I have read one half (about 900 pages) of Wodrow's Correspondence, with some improvement but great fatigue.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)
'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord and abide in thy labour, for it is one easy thing in the sight of the Lord, to make a poor man rich"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day, and met William Wilberforce and Sophie Vansittart and many others. The exercise of my mind was deep, and the trial of body not inconsiderable from the inconvenient situation that I had to read in, being below deck, surrounded by poor prisoners, and the company. What I feel on such occasions is difficult to describe. 1st that it should be done unto the Lord, and 2nd that it may be a time of edification. 3rd that none may in any way be hurt by it. 4th my natural great fear of man, and of his judgement. 5th that self may neither glory if helped, nor be unduly mortified if causes for humiliation arise. I think I was on this occasion much helped to declare Gospel Truth with some power, and to pray to my Lord; but I felt that if watchful enough and patient enough, I might have said much more to a good purpose. But it may be safer to say too little, than too much. After this was over I saw a change in the feeling of the company towards me. They were so much more loving: I believe some of their hearts were tendered. I think it was a uniting time, I trust many of the poor prisoners felt it also, many of them I believe wept in both ships.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the first place I had [underline] all [end underline] the servants collected at the morning reading, and expressed very fully my desires for them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from Meeting to be with my beloved sick sister, and had a desire for some religious time with her. After she was dressed and removed into the Dressing Room on her couch, we read in the Bible, but so overcome was she from weakness and sleepiness, that she could not keep awake, however I went on reading, and then knelt down in prayer and thanksgiving for her and for us'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. Before we began reading, I expressed many of the striking marks of Providential care and mercy shown us in the last year, that are mentioned here. We then read, and afterwards had a solemn time.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Mr Lewis : [verses on Pope in notes to the 'Dunciad']
'[speaking of some verses in the notes to Pope's Dunciad, Boswell and Miss Seward wonder who they are by] He was prompt with his answer: "Why, Sir, they were written by one Lewis, who was either under-master or an usher of Westminster-school, and published a Miscellany, in which "Grongar Hill" first came out". Johnson praised them highly, and repeated them with a noble animation. In the twelfth line, instead of "one establish'd fame", he repeated "one unclouded flame", which he thought was the reading in former editions: but I believe was a flash of his own genius. It is much more poetical than the other.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I then went to town, and at Newgate, where I went under feelings of rather deep concern, found unexpectedly [underline] numbers [end underline] there. A magistrate who I feared not I believe a religious man, I doubt a Christian, numbers of others, foreigners, a Jew, a clergyman, [underline] many [end underline] ladies, friends, my brother Sam, who strange to say, I stand in awe of naturally in such services, kind, dear and sympathetic as he is to me. I think I may say I asked in secret for preservation before I began to read; at least it was my earnest desire to have my eyes kept single to my God: but either the fear of man got too much hold of me, or the [underline] unction [end underline] was not with me, that I did not feel the power of truth over us, as it very often has been at such times, and I am ready to believe if I had not looked at man, but dwelt yet deeper in spirit I should have had to call upon the Lord openly, and I should have found help and power in it. But I went away humbled...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

: [books of Voyages to the South Seas]
'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way before the mast, than read them through; they will be eaten by rats and mice, before they are read through. There can be little entertainment in such books; one set of Savages is like another." BOSWELL. "I do not think the people of Otaheite can be reckoned Savages". JOHNSON. "Don't cant in defence of Savages". BOSWELL. "They have the art of navigation". JOHNSON. "A dog or a cat can swim". BOSWELL. "They carve very ingeniously". JOHNSON. "A cat can scratch, and a child with a nail can scratch".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [books of Voyages to the South Seas]
'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way before the mast, than read them through; they will be eaten by rats and mice, before they are read through. There can be little entertainment in such books; one set of Savages is like another." BOSWELL. "I do not think the people of Otaheite can be reckoned Savages". JOHNSON. "Don't cant in defence of Savages". BOSWELL. "They have the art of navigation". JOHNSON. "A dog or a cat can swim". BOSWELL. "They carve very ingeniously". JOHNSON. "A cat can scratch, and a child with a nail can scratch".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Elizabeth Fry : Journals
'I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low state I was, and how much I passed through, unbelief has been ready to say how was it such a poor young creature in a spritual sense should have been permitted such conflict in my first lying-in, after my marriage, etc.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Manuscript: Codex

Euripides :
'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing himself chiefly in reading Euripides'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Colossians)
'We spent a cheerful, sober evening, until a general family Reading, when several joined our interesting party. We read the principal parts of the Epistle to the Colossians; and for all I had already so much to do, I felt bound to kneel down and offer an evening sacrifice'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Henry Brooke : Gustavus Vasa The Deliverer Of His Country
'Johnson was present when a tragedy was read, in which there occurred this line:-- "Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free". The company having admired it much, "I cannot agree with you (said Johnson). It might as well be said,-- "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Hester Lynch Thrale : Letters
'Mr. Walpole thought Johnson a more amiable character after reading his "Letters to Mrs. Thrale": but never was one of the true admirers of that great man'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Last sixth day a very interesting time at Newgate, numbers there, clergy, some nobility, a sheriff, [underline] many [end underline] ladies, gentlemen and friends. It was a solemn time, the fear of man much taken away; I had after Reading to speak to them, and pray for them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

: [a newspaper]
'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freedom of Ireland, in which this expression occurred (I know not if accurately taken): "We will persevere, till there is not one link of the English chain left to clank upon the rags of the meanest beggar in Ireland"; "Nay, Sir, (said Johnson,) don't you perceive that one link cannot clank?".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Newspaper

: [a newspaper]
'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freedom of Ireland, in which this expression occurred (I know not if accurately taken): "We will persevere, till there is not one link of the English chain left to clank upon the rags of the meanest beggar in Ireland"; "Nay, Sir, (said Johnson,) don't you perceive that one link cannot clank?".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Newspaper

John Moore : [travels]
'He censured a writer of entertaining Travels for assuming a feigned character, saying, (in his sense of the word,) "He carries out one lye; we know not how many he brings back."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joshua Reynolds : Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy
'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed one day of a passage in them, "I think I might as well have said this myself": and once when Mr. Langton was sitting by him, he read one of them very eagerly, and expressed himself thus:- "Very well, Master Reynolds; very well, indeed. But it will not be understood".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Joshua Reynolds : Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy
'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed one day of a passage in them, "I think I might as well have said this myself": and once when Mr. Langton was sitting by him, he read one of them very eagerly, and expressed himself thus:- "Very well, Master Reynolds; very well, indeed. But it will not be understood".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

C.H.V. Bogatsky : Golden Treasury for the Children of God
'I felt low and naturally prone to be irritable, and from the deep feeling of the difficulties in doing my part towards my family, led me to pant for liberation from those responsibilities which at times lie very heavily upon me. In this state I opened a book with something for every day in the year and met with something applicable to my wants that I shall transcribe it - "Golden Treasury for the Children of God" is the title of the book by C.H.V. Bogatsky: "Lord preserve me calm in spirit, gentle in my commands and watchful that I speak not unadvisably with my lips; moderate in my purposes, yielding in my temper where the honour of my God is not immediately concerned and ever steadfast where needful. "Lord grant me thy protection, and may thy blessing be upon me, that I may not bring an evil report upon that good Lord. I was permitted to spy out; but walk honourably through the wilderness and pass triumphantly over Jordan into Canaan. Amen."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Anna Seward : [poem on Lichfield]
'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the truth of a high compliment which I had been told he had paid to that lady, when she mentioned to him "The Colombiade", an epick poem, by Madame du Boccage:--"Madam, there is not any thing equal to your description of the sea round the North Pole, in your Ode on the death of Captain Cook".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)
'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and external weight of glory"; "We walk by faith and not by sight"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Anna Seward : 'Elegy on Captain Cook'
'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the truth of a high compliment which I had been told he had paid to that lady, when she mentioned to him "The Colombiade", an epick poem, by Madame du Boccage:--"Madam, there is not any thing equal to your description of the sea round the North Pole, in your Ode on the death of Captain Cook".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Anna Seward : [poem on Lichfield]
'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the truth of a high compliment which I had been told he had paid to that lady, when she mentioned to him "The Colombiade", an epick poem, by Madame du Boccage:--"Madam, there is not any thing equal to your description of the sea round the North Pole, in your Ode on the death of Captain Cook".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: Unknown

Daniel Defoe : Memoirs of Captain George Carleton
' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet with, is in "Captain Carleton's Memoirs". Carleton was descended of an ancestor who had distinguished himself at the siege of Derry. He was an officer; and, what was rare at that time, had some knowledge of engineering". Johnson said, he had never heard of the book. Lord Eliot had it at Port Eliot; but, after a good deal of enquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity; adding, with a smile, (in allusion to Lord Eliot's having recently been raised to the peerage,) "I did not think a [italics] young Lord [end italics] could have mentioned to me a book in the English history that was not known to me".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Eliot      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In the evening our dear brother Buxton dined with us, and spent the evening; and after our Reading I had to return thanks for the help granted in the day, and to pray'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Memoirs of Captain George Carleton
' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet with, is in "Captain Carleton's Memoirs". Carleton was descended of an ancestor who had distinguished himself at the siege of Derry. He was an officer; and, what was rare at that time, had some knowledge of engineering". Johnson said, he had never heard of the book. Lord Eliot had it at Port Eliot; but, after a good deal of enquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity; adding, with a smile, (in allusion to Lord Eliot's having recently been raised to the peerage,) "I did not think a [italics] young Lord [end italics] could have mentioned to me a book in the English history that was not known to me".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'The last time I parted with those in the Ship Mary such a scene all around me, when I parted from them, probably for ever; so many tears, so much feeling, as I read, etc, and almost all present were the low, and the poor.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giving way to evil produces in ourselves and others. And for one I feel so inexpressibly for, I found consolation and hope in these parts of Scripture...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Desiderius Erasmus : Ciceronianus
'[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded as I entered Lichfield. My affection and understanding went along with Erasmus, except that once or twice he somewhat unskilfully entangles Cicero's civil or moral, with his rhetorical, character'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a little and then had tea, and after tea a number of the children sang in company some of our old Earlham songs and ended with two hymns. We were then silent and read the 103rd Psalm, and I spoke earnestly to my children impressing them with the importance, now that most of them were no longer under our restraint, that they should be conformed to the will of God'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Proverbs)
'dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs encouraged me "Reproofs of instruction are the way of life" chap 6 v.23. I see it well to be reproved, may I profit by it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

: [Mr Bowyer's Life]
'[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bowyer's Life"; a book so full of contemporary history, that a literary man must find some of his old friends.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'I returned from Brighton the day before yesterday having felt a drawing of love to visit the Friends; and to attend to the difficulties of the District Society. I went [underline] quite alone [end underline], and yet not alone because I believe my master was with me. I had amongst the Friends some weighty, close service, some very encouraging. My way appeared curiously opened in the hearts of the people and I hope and trust the valued District Society will be continued. I had about a hundred visitors to meet me, and read the 100th Psalm: and prayed for them, and the Society, and strongly pressed the importance of different Christians working together, and of unity of spirit'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

: Universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, &c. With a general index to the whole
'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his friend Mr. John Nichols, a list of the authours of the "Universal History", mentioning their several shares in that work.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: Anthologia Graeca
'During his sleepless nights he amused himself by translating into Latin verse, from the Greek, many of the epigrams in the "Anthologia"'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'[came home to find one of her sons drinking ale with some men with fireworks] I slept only at short intervals, up and down all night, in the morning shaken and jaded. But I had my poor wanderer in my little room, read part of the 51st Psalm; earnestly prayed for him, exhorted, reproved, but all in tender love: he was humbled, very sorry, very affectionate, entire peace was made between us'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Elizabeth Fry : Journal
'New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but courage failed me ... Since, I have read my journal to almost all of them who are round us'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'5th day last - This evening William Foster read the 5th chap of Isaiah expressing his full belief that our Joseph would experience its truth, although the weapon should be farmed against him, it would not prosper...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Foster      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then finished with a short lively Scripture reading'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English - one Spaniard, two Americans. We first had the subject of slavery brought before us, for rather more than an hour ... I finished with a Scripture reading, referring to the subject that had been brought before us; the first part of the 61st chapter of Isaiah. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me" etc and a portion in Luke where our Lord brings it forward. I felt a real unction I believe I may say from the spirit, to speak such words as I had to say, with power.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In the evening we had many young women but hardly any men. Our great object was to stimulate them in every good word and work. We ended with a reading in the Holy Scriptures'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'We had a large meeting at one of the pasteurs at Aix en Provance the few Protestants there and their Pastor requested me to have a reading with them, which we had, but in this instance I had only my husband and Josiah to interpret which does not fully answer, but I thought we had a uniting time with them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'At Nismes we found a large party at one of the Pasteurs, where we had some further conversation on District Societies, Prisons, etc and ended with a Scripture reading'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I also had a serious reading of the Holy Scriptures with many English, who came to see us at our hotel, and a time of prayer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not unprofitable visit. The Crown Prince and Princess sent for us again; after much conversation upon many subjects I asked them to allow me to read a portion of Holy Scriptures with them, which gave me an opportunity for weightly religious communication with them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William Russell, and many others in and out. After some went away we had a solemn time of Scripture reading and prayer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In the evening we had a very large party to our reading and worship. I should think nearly a hundred persons ... we had a very solemn time after our reading in the morning at Antwerp, the last reading we had of this kind'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Robert Burrowes : [Essay on Johnson's style]
'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style. In the "Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1787", there is an 'Essay on the Style of Dr. Samuel Johnson,' by the Reverend Robert Burrowes, whose respect for the great object of his criticism is thus evinced in the concluding paragraph:-- "I have singled him out from the whole body of English writers, because his universally-acknowledged beauties would be most apt to induce imitation; and I have treated rather on his faults than his perfections, because an essay might comprize all the observations I could make upon his faults, while volumes would not be sufficient for a treatise on his perfections". Mr. BURROWES has analysed the composition of Johnson, and pointed out its peculiarities with much acuteness; and I would recommend a careful perusal of his Essay to those, who being captivated by the union of perspicuity and splendour which the writings of Johnson contain, without having a sufficient portion of his vigour of mind, may be in danger of becoming bad copyists of his manner.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie : [imitation of Johnson]
'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return of spring have been frequently remarked as well in relation to the human mind as to the animal and vegetable world. The reviving power of this season has been traced from the fields to the herds that inhabit them, and from the lower classes of beings up to man. Gladness and joy are described as prevailing through universal Nature, animating the low of the cattle, the carol of the birds, and the pipe of the shepherd." The Reverend Dr. KNOX, master of Tunbridge school, appears to have the [italics]imitari aveo [end italics] of Johnson's style perpetually in his mind; and to his assiduous, though not servile, study of it, we may partly ascribe the extensive popularity of his writings. In his "Essays, Moral and Literary", No. 3, we find the following passage:-- "The polish of external grace may indeed be deferred till the approach of manhood. When solidity is obtained by pursuing the modes prescribed by our fore-fathers, then may the file be used. The firm substance will bear attrition, and the lustre then acquired will be durable." There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous. The writer means to tell us, that Members of Parliament, who have run in debt by extravagance, will sell their votes to avoid an arrest, which he thus expresses:-- "They who build houses and collect costly pictures and furniture with the money of an honest artisan or mechanick, will be very glad of emancipation from the hands of a bailiff, by a sale of their senatorial suffrage". But I think the most perfect imitation of Johnson is a professed one, entitled "A Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard", said to be written by Mr. Young, Professor of Greek, at Glasgow, and of which let him have the credit, unless a better title can be shewn. It has not only the peculiarities of Johnson's style, but that very species of literary discussion and illustration for which he was eminent. Having already quoted so much from others, I shall refer the curious to this performance, with an assurance of much entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

Vicesimus Knox : Essays Moral and Literary
'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return of spring have been frequently remarked as well in relation to the human mind as to the animal and vegetable world. The reviving power of this season has been traced from the fields to the herds that inhabit them, and from the lower classes of beings up to man. Gladness and joy are described as prevailing through universal Nature, animating the low of the cattle, the carol of the birds, and the pipe of the shepherd." The Reverend Dr. KNOX, master of Tunbridge school, appears to have the [italics]imitari aveo [end italics] of Johnson's style perpetually in his mind; and to his assiduous, though not servile, study of it, we may partly ascribe the extensive popularity of his writings. In his "Essays, Moral and Literary", No. 3, we find the following passage:-- "The polish of external grace may indeed be deferred till the approach of manhood. When solidity is obtained by pursuing the modes prescribed by our fore-fathers, then may the file be used. The firm substance will bear attrition, and the lustre then acquired will be durable." There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous. The writer means to tell us, that Members of Parliament, who have run in debt by extravagance, will sell their votes to avoid an arrest, which he thus expresses:-- "They who build houses and collect costly pictures and furniture with the money of an honest artisan or mechanick, will be very glad of emancipation from the hands of a bailiff, by a sale of their senatorial suffrage". But I think the most perfect imitation of Johnson is a professed one, entitled "A Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard", said to be written by Mr. Young, Professor of Greek, at Glasgow, and of which let him have the credit, unless a better title can be shewn. It has not only the peculiarities of Johnson's style, but that very species of literary discussion and illustration for which he was eminent. Having already quoted so much from others, I shall refer the curious to this performance, with an assurance of much entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

John Young : Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard
'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return of spring have been frequently remarked as well in relation to the human mind as to the animal and vegetable world. The reviving power of this season has been traced from the fields to the herds that inhabit them, and from the lower classes of beings up to man. Gladness and joy are described as prevailing through universal Nature, animating the low of the cattle, the carol of the birds, and the pipe of the shepherd." The Reverend Dr. KNOX, master of Tunbridge school, appears to have the [italics]imitari aveo [end italics] of Johnson's style perpetually in his mind; and to his assiduous, though not servile, study of it, we may partly ascribe the extensive popularity of his writings. In his "Essays, Moral and Literary", No. 3, we find the following passage:-- "The polish of external grace may indeed be deferred till the approach of manhood. When solidity is obtained by pursuing the modes prescribed by our fore-fathers, then may the file be used. The firm substance will bear attrition, and the lustre then acquired will be durable." There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous. The writer means to tell us, that Members of Parliament, who have run in debt by extravagance, will sell their votes to avoid an arrest, which he thus expresses:-- "They who build houses and collect costly pictures and furniture with the money of an honest artisan or mechanick, will be very glad of emancipation from the hands of a bailiff, by a sale of their senatorial suffrage". But I think the most perfect imitation of Johnson is a professed one, entitled "A Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard", said to be written by Mr. Young, Professor of Greek, at Glasgow, and of which let him have the credit, unless a better title can be shewn. It has not only the peculiarities of Johnson's style, but that very species of literary discussion and illustration for which he was eminent. Having already quoted so much from others, I shall refer the curious to this performance, with an assurance of much entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Unknown

Juvenal : Tenth Satire
'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and so on to the end of the tenth satire; but in running it quickly over, he happened, in the line, "Qui spatium vitae; extremum inter munera ponat", to pronounce supremum for extremum; at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he shewed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Brocklesby      Print: Unknown

Juvenal : Tenth Satire
'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and so on to the end of the tenth satire; but in running it quickly over, he happened, in the line, "Qui spatium vitae; extremum inter munera ponat", to pronounce supremum for extremum; at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he shewed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [MS Autobiography]
'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two quarto volumes, containing a full, fair, and most particular account of his own life, from his earliest recollection. I owned to him, that having accidentally seen them, I had read a great deal in them; and apologizing for the liberty I had taken, asked him if I could help it. He placidly answered, "Why, Sir, I do not think you could have helped it". I said that I had, for once in my life, felt half an inclination to commit theft. It had come into my mind to carry off those two volumes, and never see him more. Upon my inquiring how this would have affected him, "Sir, (said he,) I believe I should have gone mad".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Manuscript: quarto volumes

: the Litany
'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some attentive and friendly Divine. The Rev. Mr. Hoole performed this kind office in my presence for the last time, when, by his own desire, no more than the Litany was read; in which his responses were in the deep and sonorous voice which Mr. Boswell has occasionally noticed, and with the most profound devotion that can be imagined. His hearing not being quite perfect, he more than once interrupted Mr. Hoole, with "Louder, my dear Sir, louder, I entreat you, or you pray in vain!"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Hoole      Print: Book

: the Litany
'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some attentive and friendly Divine. The Rev. Mr. Hoole performed this kind office in my presence for the last time, when, by his own desire, no more than the Litany was read; in which his responses were in the deep and sonorous voice which Mr. Boswell has occasionally noticed, and with the most profound devotion that can be imagined. His hearing not being quite perfect, he more than once interrupted Mr. Hoole, with "Louder, my dear Sir, louder, I entreat you, or you pray in vain!"'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jacques-Auguste de Thou :
'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in particular, when I was rather wishing that he would favour the world, and gratify his sovereign, by a Life of Spenser (which he said that he would readily have done, had he been able to obtain any new materials for the purpose,) he added, "I have been thinking again, Sir, of "Thuanus": it would not be the laborious task which you have supposed it. I should have no trouble but that of dictation, which would be performed as speedily as an amanuensis could write'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : Sermons
'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because, (said he) he is fullest on the propitiatory sacrifice."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 'Ulysses'
[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart and won a prize for recitation'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 'Morte d'Arthur'
[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart and won a prize for recitation'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :
'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe :
'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Thomas Campbell :
'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Alfred Douglas :
'John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalized to discover that he was also corresponding with the former lover of Oscar Wilde'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Ebeneezer Elliott :
'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Henry Taylor :
'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Philip James Bailey :
'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Lewis Morris :
'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : La Nouvelle Heloise
'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding his House in Disorder sets it on Fire in stead of setting it to rights.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: Life of Cervantes
'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise when I was learning that Language in December 1756 or January 1757 I forget which'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Salusbury      Print: Book

Moses Franks : [verses on Mrs Pitt bathing]
'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says She were written by Moses [italics] uninspired [end italics]'.
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Maria Salusbury

: [French epitaphs]
'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I could do them successfully' [she gives an example of her efforts]
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

: [French epitaph translated by Mrs Thrale and Bennet Langton]
'[Mrs Thrale gives an epitaph translated from French by Bennet Langton, and her own translation] 'I remember Johnson preferred mine at the Time it was fresh among us'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable and very true'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Collier      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable and very true'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Hester Lynch Thrale : [verses on a dog named Pompey]
'When Doctor Parker had read the foregoing Poem [given - a long poem by Mrs Thrale on his dog Pompey] he wrote these verses upon it Impromptu. [the verses are given]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Parker      Manuscript: Unknown

Dr Parker : 'To Miss Salusbury'
'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conceit original; but it is not - There is an old Greek Epigram on Dercylis only of two Lines which the Doctor has here spun into Length. Vide Anthol: Lib: 7.2 & there is some account of it too in Bouhours'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Salusbury      Manuscript: Unknown

: Greek Anthology
'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conceit original; but it is not - There is an old Greek Epigram on Dercylis only of two Lines which the Doctor has here spun into Length. Vide Anthol: Lib: 7.2 & there is some account of it too in Bouhours'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Dominique Bouhours : La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit
'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conceit original; but it is not - There is an old Greek Epigram on Dercylis only of two Lines which the Doctor has here sopun into Length. Vide Anthol: Lib: 7.2 & there is some account of it too in Bouhours'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Anon. : ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier
'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolled by mere chance into a Bookseller's Shop, where however I could find nothing to tempt Curiosity but a strange Book about Corporal Bates, which I bought & read for want of better Sport, and found it to be the very Novel from which Sterne took his first Idea: the Character of Uncle Toby, the Behaviour of Coporal Trim, even the name of Tristram itself seems to be borrowed from this stupid History of Corporal Bates forsooth'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolled by mere chance into a Bookseller's Shop, where however I could find nothing to tempt Curiosity but a strange Book about Corporal Bates, which I bought & read for want of better Sport, and found it to be the very Novel from which Sterne took his first Idea: the Character of Uncle Toby, the Behaviour of Coporal Trim, even the name of Tristram itself seems to be borrowed from this stupid History of Corporal Bates forsooth'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : Collection of Poems by Various Hands
'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all th Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Dryden : Miscellanies
'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all th Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Boethius : Consolation of Philosophy
'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all th Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : Bonduca
'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Francis Beaumont : [Plays]
'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Boethius : Consolation of Philosophy
'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! yet I do not suppose them a Plagiarisme; old Bentley would have scorned such Tricks, besides what passed once between myself and Mr Johnson should cure me of Suspicion in these Cases. We had then some thoughts of giving a Translation of Boethius, and I used now & then to shew him the Verses I had made towards the Work: in the Ode with the Story of Orpheus in it - beginning "felix qui potuit &c" he altered some of my Verses to these which he [italics] thought [end italics] his own. "Fondly viewed his following Bride Viewing lost, and losing died." Two Years after this, I resolved to go through all the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in one of them - Bonduca, I found two Lines so like these of Johnson's that one would have sworn he had imitated them: that very Afternoon he came, & says I, did you ever delight much in Reading Beaumont & Fletcher's Plays - I never read any of them at all replied he, but I intend some Time to go over them, here in your fine Edition'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edwin Hodder : Cities of the World
'…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always thought, is the fact that it omits to mention London, tho generally considered greatest city of this world. The author cannot shield the omission under the plea that he thought London too great to be reckoned of this world, for if ever there were a city of the earth, earthy, it is the English metropolis.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard [Dick] Kharsedji Sorabji      Print: Book

Kirkham (ed.) : Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia's letters home
'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters. I did not want that to become public property. If you had seen & loved Tennyson & his belongings you would know what I feel & how anything in the nature of a Newspaper’s Interview as our own pleasant reminiscence is now reduced to – would gall one. Please don’t let any more of my letters get out. Some time hence when I am hence & personalities have ceased to be so – I will put them into a book - & if they are printed now the freshness will have departed. It was stupid of me not to have issued a Caveat long ago – but I knew you knew I was going to print ‘em some day – and I did not dream of their being printed now. However – it can’t be undone now. Don’t worry about it – only please don’t let it happen again. You could not know how I would feel about it – but you know now.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : unknown
'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare she has some little knowledge of – His fairies & pucks are nice – but he can’t come up to Longfellow. I nearly died with inward mirth. She vows she is going to devote herself to Literature when she grows up: but she really does appreciate good poetry – I read her some Scott one afternoon, & she understood & liked it – and then I found her an Austin-Dobson – and read her things for nearly an hour, out of his Idylls – and you should have seen how her eyes glistened as she took it all in. She expressed a wish to have something of his – and in half an hour she had mastered both the spirit & matter of “the little blue Mandarin”.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Book

Austin Dobson : unknown
'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare she has some little knowledge of – His fairies & pucks are nice – but he can’t come up to Longfellow. I nearly died with inward mirth. She vows she is going to devote herself to Literature when she grows up: but she really does appreciate good poetry – I read her some Scott one afternoon, & she understood & liked it – and then I found her an Austin-Dobson – and read her things for nearly an hour, out of his Idylls – and you should have seen how her eyes glistened as she took it all in. She expressed a wish to have something of his – and in half an hour she had mastered both the spirit & matter of “the little blue Mandarin”.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Book

: The Spectator
'The other day some people from “The Gentlewoman” came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into their paper. I hate being public property and so refused though I acknowledged their kind intentions & the compliment they had paid me. If I once give myself into the hands of such people I shall not be able to breathe without the Editorial watch being produced to count the seconds – and I can’t live with the grip of the public ranter on my poor little wrist. I shall either long for it to tighten & deteriorate in consequence, or the publicity will make me die of shyness. I talked to the good ladies (who were much astonished that anyone would refuse to be set out in their excellent magazine), but remained firm - & they had to retire with no more ink wasted on their huge mss. They brought large enough books for their notes – poor things and it was a cold day. . . The Spectator I see is one of the adverse critics on my little Urmi. They cannot understand the Indian language naturally – and I think perhaps they are a bit angry about an Indian getting into so good a Magazine. They wish “if Indians are to take a part in our literature that they would do something separate” – Bosh! What red-Tafeism – as if we contaminate their literature. They say too it is “hardly local” – because any woman might feel the same. I daresay they fancy that because Indian women are not English they can’t have any nice feelings as to their ties to their husbands or to their children. However I don’t mind for they abuse Mr Knowles in the same paper.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Serial / periodical

Theodore Leighton Pennell :
'My dear Miss Sorabji My husband & I were so distressed at the sad news contained in our paper today that I cannot refrain from sending you a few lines of sincere sympathy with you & yours in this great loss. I remember reading your brother in law’s book with much interest. Truly her & his wonderful influence will be most widely missed. Was your sister with him at the end? With my kind love Yours very sincerely Sibyl W Roffes'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sybill Roffes      Print: Book

Virgil : fifth Eclogue
'Did not Virgil mean by his Epithet [italics] Puniceis [end italics] to Rosetis in the fifth Eclogue the rose of Tyrian Dye! The [italics] Punic [end italics] or Damask Rose. I perswaded Johnson to believe it one day at Streatham as we read the Eclogue together - in the Year 1769'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson     Print: Book

: [a Spanish play]
'[Mrs Thrale gives the Spanish quotation] "Quien la ve no la e; quien no la ve, la ve". I think the Jeu de Mots in this last quite perfect of its kind 'tis on the town of [italics] Nola [end italics]. I read it in a Spanish play.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Dr Marriott : [French poems]
'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples]
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

Alexander Pope : Odyssey
'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purposely to mislead one; Pope translated but two of the books as Doctor Warburton himself told Mr Johnson, when they met at Mrs French's Rout'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Cato
'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play, cold spiritless & dull - did Pope write them ill on purpose?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

James Harris : Philosophical Arrangements
'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney      Print: Book

: Lectures of Morality
'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus, incipit I:C:T:U:S. which is an Abbreviation though not the commonest of [italics] Juris Consultus [end italics]; the Tutour however not aware read it thus - ubi desenet Ethicus, incipit [italics] Ictus [end italics]; and begun explaining away accordingly - Where Morality ends - Strife begins &c in Lord Corke's Letters there is much such a Mistake as this; he had picked up an Epitaph he thought remarkable - it has these Letters in it I:V: Doctor et Eques - the meaning is obviously this Juris, Vtriusque Doctor et Eques: my Lord however being a true Hibernian, translates it thus: an [italics] honest man [end italics] Doctor and Knight: mistaking the I:V: for an Abbreviation of [italics] Iustus Vir [end italics] I suppose'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Lord Corke : [Letters]
'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus, incipit I:C:T:U:S. which is an Abbreviation though not the commonest of [italics] Juris Consultus [end italics]; the Tutour however not aware read it thus - ubi desenet Ethicus, incipit [italics] Ictus [end italics]; and begun explaining away accordingly - Where Morality ends - Strife begins &c in Lord Corke's Letters there is much such a Mistake as this; he had picked up an Epitaph he thought remarkable - it has these Letters in it I:V: Doctor et Eques - the meaning is obviously this Juris, Vtriusque Doctor et Eques: my Lord however being a true Hibernian, translates it thus: an [italics] honest man [end italics] Doctor and Knight: mistaking the I:V: for an Abbreviation of [italics] Iustus Vir [end italics] I suppose'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Maurice Morgan : Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago an honest Man?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

:
'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Baretti but it produces a general Effect: if you dip your Hand into the Tub at the Door, you gather up no Water but your Hand remains wet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti      Print: Book

Mr Pepys : [verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe]
'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Galant le plus Pedant, et le Pedant le plus galant qu'on puisse voir. His verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe I think are very [italics] smart [end italics] ones, and have a Turn remarkably elegant at the End'. [she gives the verses]
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

Gilles Menage : Menagiana
'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Galant le plus Pedant, et le Pedant le plus galant qu'on puisse voir. His verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe I think are very [italics] smart [end italics] ones, and have a Turn remarkably elegant at the End'. [she gives the verses]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Henry Wooton : 'Ye meaner beauties of the night'
'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I shall never forget Baretti's Critique upon it as I think it was a capital one - and for a Foreigner - astonishing. The last Stanza says he ought to be the first, for it is now A Climax Down Stairs, beginning with the Stars; and ending with the Roses'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

Henry Wooton : 'Ye meaner beauties of the night'
'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I shall never forget Baretti's Critique upon it as I think it was a capital one - and for a Foreigner - astonishing. The last Stanza says he ought to be the first, for it is now A Climax Down Stairs, beginning with the Stars; and ending with the Roses'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti      Print: Unknown

Hester Lynch Salusbury : 'Irregular Ode on the English Poets'
'[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over this Moment I resolved once to burn it, but recollecting that my poor Father had in his foolish Fondness given Copies to a Friend or two, I thought it might as well have a place here'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Hester Lynch Salusbury : 'Irregular Ode on the English Poets'
'[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over this Moment I resolved once to burn it, but recollecting that my poor Father had in his foolish Fondness given Copies to a Friend or two, I thought it might as well have a place here'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Salusbury      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers
Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Conyers Middleton : The life and letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own life. MS dates of reading up to 1921 and list of 8 men selected for University Scholarship in 1850, incl. Trevelyan. Notes include: "August 18 1887" "Oct. 15. 1919" Page 573: "George's convoy have reached Udine [i.e. G.M. Trevelyan, his son]. How extraordinarily interesting the notes written during this crisis are!" P. 469: "Aug 16 1915 Warsaw has fallen. Rige in dire peril" P. 511: " Aug 16 1915 Runciman and Massingham visited us yesterday." "P. 560: "Aug 14 1889. Rain and no grouse, having spoiled the day's shooting".
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

John Poole : Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians
"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan]. Under this "He died on August 19th 1928 at Wallington MKT" [i.e. Lady Mary Katharine Trevelyan]. Book also contains MS marginal corrections to text.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Elizabeth Von Arnim : Christopher and Columbus
"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, GOT's son.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Cicero : The treatises of M.T. Cicero
MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially in the re-binding of it, are by a previous possessor. I have rubbed these out as we went along".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Leslie Stephen : 'George Eliot' in Cornhill Magazine
'Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Frances Trollope : The Laurringtons; or, superior people
Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generations ago are illustrated cheerfully in its pages." "Read again, with the same amusement, in the winter of 1927-8". Vol.II p.137: "The whole novel is burlesque. It is to me, as it was to my mother, uncle [Lord Macaulay], and to my sister Margaret, supremely and singularly readable. Dec 5 1927 Welcombe"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Frances Trollope : The ward of Thorpe-Combe
"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and reread, by many Macaulays and Trevelyans. June 9 1928". With a note by this in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "Only nine weeks before he died."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Frances Trollope : The ward of Thorpe-Combe
"Read June 19 1947".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Philips Trevelyan      Print: Book

Henry Gunning : Reminiscences of the university, town and county of Cambridem from the year 1780
"Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn's". Vol. II has date of reading: "June 29 1914". Volumes contain several marginal references to "Uncle Tom" [i.e. Lord Macaulay].
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Aulus Gellius : Noctes atticae
Many marginal notes include: "The marginal notes and lines are from Macaulay's Deux Ponts edition. NB I did not read through Aurus Gellius: but observed the contents of the chapter, glanced through the text if it excited my curiosity, and carefully read all, and all around, Macaulay's notes and marginal lines." "Wallington July 16 1918" "I am beginning to relish Aulus Gellius as much as my uncle did. (See the letter to Ellis of July 25 1836. Life and Letters Chapter VI)." "August 10 1918 George [G.M. Trevelyan] came to Wallington from Italy this morning." "August 13 1918 - Janet and the children left today - George yesterday". "August 12 1918 Wallington I say farewell to Aulus Gellius with regret; and am inclined to think I like him even as much as Macaulay. Perhaps a little better, because at 80 one is more of the age for trifles than at 35; and prettier trifling than the setting of the dialogues I hardly know."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Caius Velleius Paterculus : Works
"The marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in pencil are my notes, of difficult interpretations, to assist me when re-reading the book again." "Read Velleius again very carefully, as if for the Tripos .." Several MS dates of reading, indicated below, including September 29 1924 "Our 55th wedding anniversary".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson : Princess, The
'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fact that Young Lochinvar came out of the west, and through all the wide Border his steed was the best. If anyone suggested just where in the west Young Lochinvar came out of, I don't recall it. As we were children in a Cornish school, I had a hazy notion that it might have been Penzance, or possibly Land's End. Then there were the lines of Tennyson: The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy ummits old in story.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lochinvar
'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fact that Young Lochinvar came out of the west, and through all the wide Border his steed was the best. If anyone suggested just where in the west Young Lochinvar came out of, I don't recall it. As we were children in a Cornish school, I had a hazy notion that it might have been Penzance, or possibly Land's End. Then there were the lines of Tennyson: The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy ummits old in story.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island
'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Island", "Don Quixote", "David Copperfield", all in abridged versions'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Island", "Don Quixote", "David Copperfield", all in abridged versions'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Island", "Don Quixote", "David Copperfield", all in abridged versions'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Florence L. Barclay : Following of the Star, The
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Sorrows of Satan, The
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Olive Higgins Prouty : Stella Dallas
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Joseph Hocking : [novels]
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Joseph Hocking : [novels]
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Causley      Print: Book

Joseph Hocking : Rosemary Carew
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Causley      Print: Book

Silas Hocking : [novels]
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Causley      Print: Book

Olive Higgins Prouty : Stella Dallas
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Causley      Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Sorrows of Satan, The
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Causley      Print: Book

Florence L. Barclay : Following of the Star, The
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Causley      Print: Book

Emma Orczy : [Scarlet Pimpernel novels]
'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre. O Robespierre, thou sea-green immobile, Thy soul, deep-stained, was ice and did not feel...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : War Poems
'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Robert Graves : [war poetry]
'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Edmund Blunden : [war poetry]
'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Wilfred Owen : [war poetry]
'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my first clear view of my father's world of 1914-18, and I went on to read Graves, Blunden, Owen'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

George Orwell : Road to Wigan Pier, The
'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Wystan Hugh Auden :
'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Stephen Spender :
'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Cecil Day-Lewis :
'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Louis MacNeice :
'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Christopher Isherwood : Goodbye to Berlin
'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at the back of the Lodging House, was a member of the Left book Club, and lent me (among much else) his copy of Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier". Somehow, too, I came upon the poems of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice; Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Causley      Print: Book

Hester Lynch Salusbury : 'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park'
'[Mrs Thrale gives her 'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park'] This trifling performance brought Tears into my Uncle's Eyes, and Money into my Pocket for having celebrated so artfully I will own the virtues of a Woman he rememberd with Gratitude and Esteem. He read 'em to every body he saw I believe'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Salusbury      Manuscript: Unknown

Sarah Fielding : 'To Miss Salusbury'
'[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinary God knows, but I dare say they are hers; though there seems to be no great attention to Grammar in them considering she was an able Scholar both in the Latin Language and the Greek'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Virgil :
'[Dr Johnson] used to mention Harry Fielding's behaviour to her [his sister Sarah] as a melancholy instance of narrowness; while she read only English Books, and made English Verses it seems, he fondled her Fancy, & encourag'd her Genius, but as soon [as] he perceived She once read Virgil, Farewell to Fondness...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Fielding      Print: Book

James Beattie : Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concurring in the Praise of so able and useful a Writer; Here is much ado about nothing cries Doctor Goldsmith why the Man has written but one Book, and I have writ several. So you have Doctor replies Mr Johnson but there go many Halfpence remember - to one Guinea'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and others     Print: Book

Hester Lynch Salusbury : 'Offley Park'
'[Mrs Thrale gives her long poem entitled 'Offley Park'] This little poem will be easily seen to have been written by way of Flattery to Sir Thomas Salusbury with whom I then lived - he was I well remember exceedingly pleased with it, and made me a handsome present'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Salusbury      Manuscript: Unknown

William Hale : [translation of one of Martial's 'Epigrams']
'he [Mr Hale] was a clever man enough too, valued himself on his Literature, and made some pretty verses. as for Example he translated the Arria Pateo well enough'. [a sample is given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

James Fordyce : Sermons to Young Women
'I heard an odd Anecdote to Day of Fordyce the Dissenter, who wrote a few pretty little Essays lately call'd Sermons to young Women'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: [pamphlet on benefits of children]
'there came out a Pamphlet setting forth the Felicity & Benefit of a numerous Offspring; some Arch Body of his acquaintance sent it to Dr Stonehouse in a Joke; he read it, and profess'd himself so changed in his Opinion, & so convinced by the Arguments of the Writer that he was now perfectly delighted to see his Wife with Child every Year after he had so complained of his nine Young ones. - The Characteristick of this Man's Mind seems to be ductility'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Stonhouse

:
'when he was at the University he [Edward Gibbon] used frequently to come to Town, and go to Lewis the bookseller's in Covt Garden, by way of buying Books, and sometimes merely to read or chat in the Shop'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Gibbon      Print: Book

Soame Jennings : Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil
'[a young man] Mr Allen - resolved to take Orders and made proper Application: The Bishop asked him of course what he had read. why but little replied he to be sure, for says he I had not absolutely determined on my profession till lately, but an Opportunity happening &c. well Sir cries the Bishop what [italics] have [end italics] you read? why my Lord returns the Youth, I have read Mr Soame Jennings's Book, that I have - [italics] quite through [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Allen      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Ethic Epistles
'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's Ethic Epistles - why says the Major did you ever try? Not [italics] this very [end italics] Book replies the Friend: then take and read it now says Markham, and read the Notes too for that explains the Text: Our Officer sate awhile with the Book in his Hand - why now Major says he after a Quarter of an hour's Study - what Stuff this is - explain quotha - why the Notes as you call 'em only make t'other more unintelligible. The Truth was he read fairly down the Page without ever stopping - Text - Notes and all.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Major Markham      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Ethic Epistles
'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's Ethic Epistles - why says the Major did you ever try? Not [italics] this very [end italics] Book replies the Friend: then take and read it now says Markham, and read the Notes too for that explains the Text: Our Officer sate awhile with the Book in his Hand - why now Major says he after a Quarter of an hour's Study - what Stuff this is - explain quotha - why the Notes as you call 'em only make t'other more unintelligible. The Truth was he read fairly down the Page without ever stopping - Text - Notes and all.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Caius Suetonius Tranquillus : Opera omnia
"July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan.]. This after a section of Caligula "quorum dou infantes adhuc rapti, unus jam puerascens." "Dec 16th 1916 Lloyd George called on to form a government." Many marginal notes copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of the book: "The marks on the outer margin, and the notes signed M, are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition. He does not seem to have regularly marked the Octavius."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Plato : Dialogues
Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October 1921 Wallington Have read the Euthyphron 6 times in 15 years." Includes a MS list of "My personal favourites in the dialogues of Plato". MS. notes in ink copied from Macaulay's folio edition of this text; this edition also belonged to Macaulay.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan

Homer : Iliad
Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Thucydides : De bello Pelloponesiaco
Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his sister] opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the holidays. What a child I was!" This vol. read by Sir George at prep school and Harrow "20 chap a day Wed. July 4th 1855" and in a later hand "when I worked so hard for the trials, and was so disappointed in coming out fourteenth. But the work won me the Gregory scholarship a year later on." I.i p.68: "These crosses in the text seem to represent the portion each boy was called on to translate." I.ii p.85 "I hate Harris"; "I detest Harris"; p.87: "I HATE HARRIS"; under this: "Poor little boy that I was; what a bad time I had with that able, and, (as I now know) not unkindly master". Many subsequent dates of reading, incl. Jan 20 1915 "sixty years after I was first reading it in the same volume at Harrow"; Sep 29 1922 "our wedding day"; March 14 1916 "Germans sent terms of peace to America through Colonel House: - and what terms!" "Finished this old book April 4 1916 Welcome. Almost everything reminds me of the most depressed and unsatisfactory period of my life, when I was the last boy in a form of 35, 63 years ago. What a mere child I was!"
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Herodotus : Works
Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finished Herodotus, all of him, once again this day Sept. 10 1925. He is a cordial in old age, and an anodyne in poor health. But I shall now pass willingly enough to Thucydides with a fine, clear legible type. My old copy was bought 73 years ago, at Harrow! I am reading, side by side with my two Greek historians, the Annals and the Histories of Tacitus. Macaulay found in the three of them "something he could find in no one else"; and my experience is the same as his. G.O. Trevelyan"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Sophocles : Sophoclis Tragodiae superstites
Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margins are Macaulay's Sophocles i.e. read while Macaulay was in India 1835,1836." Multiple dates of reading include 1903, 1920, 1924. P.71, referring to his childhood notes: "What a funny mean, little hand I wrote seventy five years ago at Harrow! Do I write better now?" P.428: "Golden poetry indeed! I have now finished a long course of Greek drama, having read the whole of Euripides at least once, and eight or ten of his plays twice or even thrice. I shall now confine myself to history - to Herodotus, Tacitus, Thucydides, and Suetonius. When I have finished all of them once more, or probably even sooner, I shall be finished myself. January 16 1925 Welcombe."
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Martin Madan : A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perseus
This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: "Given me when at Harrow, by Macaulay to prepare for the examination for the Gregory Scholarship Summer 1856".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Demosthenes : Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur Holmes
Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905; May 12 1918 (at Welcombe). He notes the dates when Macaulay read his own copy of Demosthenes and says of the reading in 1837: "The last time in 2 days". In 1902: "Certainly Holmes is a marvellous scholar" but in 1918: "Holmes writes of oratory like a pedant, narrow, sceptical and critical, - who never heard a fine speech in his life."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Demosthenes : Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Olynthiacs
Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the difficulty of the text, e.g.: "All the same, Demosthenes is tough reading: far more difficult to me than Herodotus and Plato, or the ordinary narrative of Thucydides, let alone Xenophon." On p.1: "The Olynthiacs were the first Demosthenes I read, in prefect room at Harrow, about 1853."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Demosthenes : in Midiam
Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from his Dindorf edition." MS dates of reading: April 13 1917 and Jan 16 1923. "Finished --- on the 30th Jan 1923 - the day on which a more exulted culprit than Midias was brought to account. How these masterpieces grow upon one's appreciation at each reading! I am now just halfway between 84 and 85; - nearly 70 years since I read the Midias for the first time." P.125: "Macaulay gave the the Meidias to read while I was at Harrow. His choice of books which he lent me while at school is significant. The Meidias, the Gorgias, the Plutus of Aristophanes, Quintus Curtius, Dialogues of the Dead of Lucian. When I was preparing for the Gregory Scholarship examination he gave me Juvenal with a translation on the opposite side."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Xenophon : Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton L. Brownson
Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from Macaulay's Dindorf." Many MS dates of reading between 1926-7. "It is a curious circumstance that (considering the enormous amount of Greek that I have read) I should have read this wonderful book of Anabases for the first time at the age of 88 and a half!"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Xenophon : Anabasis
"CPT read this aloud to PJD December 1957, the last book we read before his death in Jan 1958. He had not read it since Harrow days, (at school) aged 16!" Written by Pauline Dower about her father Charles Philips Trevelyan.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Philips Trevelyan      Print: Book

Horace : Works; ed by Macleane
MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Weybridge 1872. St. George's Hill, returning from taking Charley and Carry [son and wife] for a row on the Mole"; p.170: "In train to Wells with my father, May 22 1874." Titlepage verso: GO Trevelyan The companion of a lifetime which was never dull in Horace's company." Note in the hand of his son, Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "It was by his bedside when he died."
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

John Walker : Clavis Homerica
MS note on final flyleaf: "This book gets very poor towards the end. The omissions in the Shield of Achilles, - both in the key and the index, - are nothing less than disgraceful".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Henry James : Portraits of places
MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] talk, - oh so slowly - as we stroll arm in arm in the Warwickshire meadows which he loved so long and well - as I loved him, and he me". On t-p: "Trevelyan Welcombe"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France
MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, compact story; disfigured by a delight in the loathsome such as I have never known in any other great and grave writer. It amounts to monomania."
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy
Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

: Fortnightly Review
'By Swinburne's conversion, I meant no reference to his divagations about 'Rizpah', which I did not honour with perusal, but to other matter in that article which I shall not mention now, since you had not nous enough to twig its significance for yourself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Carlyle : Reminiscences
'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, we take another view; the first vol. a la bonne heure! but not - never - the second.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apollonian. Satan first "throws round his baleful eyes", then awakes his legions, he consults, he sets forward on his voyage - and just as he is getting to the end of it we see the Great God and our first parent, and that same satan all brought in one's vision - we have the invocation to light before we mount to heaven - we breathe more freely - we feel the great Author's consolations coming thick upon him at a time when he complains most - we are getting ripe for diversity - the immediate topic of the Poem opens with a grand Perspective of all concerned.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountably expressive of the description.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and lines "Breathe forth Elixir pure"; "when with one virtuous touch/ The arch-chemic Sun" and "as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator". He writes: 'A Spirit's eye'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that warning voice, which he who saw/ The Apocalypse heard cry in Heaven aloud,/ Then when the Dragon put to second rout,/ Came furious down to be revenged on men,". He writes: 'A friend of mine says this Book has the finest opening of any - the point of time is gigantically critical - the wax is melted, the seal is aobut to be applied - and Milton breaks out, "O for that warning voice," etc. There is moreover an opportunity for a Grandeur of Tenderness - the opportunity is not lost. Nothing can be higher - Nothing so more than delphic.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that fair field/ Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers,/ Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis/ Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain/ To seek her through the world." He writes: 'There are two specimens of a very extraordinary beauty in the "Paradise Lost"; they are of a nature as far as I have read, unexampled elsewhere - they are entirely distinct from the brief pathos of Dante - and they are not to be found even in Shakespeare - these are according to the great prerogative of poetry better described in themselves than by a volume. The one is in the fol[lowing] - "which cost Ceres all that pain" - the other is that ending "Nor could the Muse defend her son" - they appear exclusively Miltonic without the shadow of another mind ancient or modern.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the sign/ Of wrath awaked", and writes '"Reluctant" with its original and modern meaning combined and woven together, with all its shades of signification has a powerful effect.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

Mark Twain : A tramp abroad
MS notes and marginalia throughout book, including the thoughts of Sir George Otto Trevelyan on visiting the grave who had died young while climbing p.425.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clang despised the ground, under a cloud/ In prospect." He writes: 'Milton in every instance pursues his imagination to the utmost - he is "sagacious of his Quarry", he sees Beauty on the wing, pounces upon it and gorges it to the producing of his essential verse. "So from the root the springs lighter the green stalk," etc. But in no instance is this sort of perseverance more exemplified than in what may be called his stationing or statuary. He is not content with simple description, he must station, - thus here, we not only see how the Birds "with clang despised the ground" but we see them "under a cloud in prospect." So we see Adam "Fair indeed and tall - under a plantane" - and so we see Satan "disfigured - on the Assyrian Mount." This last with all its accompaniments, and keeping in mind the Theory of Spirits' eyes and the simile of Gallilio [sic], has a dramatic vastness and solemnity fit and worthy to hold one amazed in the midst of this "Paradise Lost" -'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excluding "where soonest he might find /the serpent", and writes: 'Satan having entered the Serpent, and inform'd his brutal sense - might seem sufficient - but Milton goes on "but his sleep disturb'd not". Whose spirit does not ache at the smothering and confinement -the unwilling stillness - the "waiting close"? Whose head is not dizzy at the prosaible [sic] speculations of satan in the serpent prison - no poetry ever can give a greater pain of suffocation.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Plays: pleasant and unpleasant
MS note at the end of "The man of destiny": "Dec 5 1926 Read aloud to C, [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] - as I once did to poor George Vanderbilt".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Sir Robert Thomas Wilson : Private diary of travels, personal services, and public events ...
Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the text says "many would prefer expatriating themselves forever to America to serving under the Buonaparte dynasty", GOT crosses through "Buoanparte" and substitutes "Bourbon".
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Oliver Cromwell : Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle
Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh do shut up". Several dates of reading noted including: "Read aloud Nov 7 1904. Charles Dalrymple came this evening"; "Read aloud June 28 1923".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : The old wives' tale
Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constance born 1846, 16 in 1862/ Sophia born 1847, 15 in 1862 [etc.]". Dates of reading: "Read aloud Wallington Oct 13 1915"; "Finished Dec. 13 1922".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : These twain
MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, George Otto Trevelyan's sister-in-law]; "Read aloud to C [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and most of it to her and Anna. Dec 23 1923 Welcombe".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Glasgow Oct 15 1891; v.4: Milan Oct 24 1891; v.5 Rome Oct 30 1891; vol.7: "On our homeward journey from Rome Dec. 2 1891".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Julius Stinde : The Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berlin life
Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without that family these Berliners might have been quiet, decent people enough." Also, on flyleaf: "Published 1886. See p. 145". Text on p. 145 has: "For fifteen years now we have enjoyed peace and all its blessings, and this we owe to German trustwowrthiness." George Otto Trevelyan writes beside this: "So it was 1886. Bismarck was born in 1815."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

: Illustrated London News
'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have pleased the public this time!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : The better sort
Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was based on the story of Mr. Skipsey, told to Carry [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] by the Spence Watsons, and by her to Henry James."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Joshua Sylvester : 'The Woodman's Beare'
The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868: 'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck with the following verse from the "Woodman's Beare," Stanza 55: '"But her slender virgin waste Made me beare her girdle spight, Which the same day imbraste Though it were cast off at night: That I wisht, I dare not say, To be girdle, night and day."' 'May I be pardoned for my curiosity in wishing to know whether these lines suggested the two last stanzas in the song in the "Miller's Daughter"?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Cockin      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Holy Grail
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, January 1869: 'A. read "The Holy Grail" to the Bradleys, explaining the realism and symbolism, and how the natural, if people cared, could always be made to account for the supernatural.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'birth and marriage of "Arthur"'
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Feb. 13th. A. read what he had done of the birth and marriage of "Arthur."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : The Coming of Arthur
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the Book" -- "Pompilia" and "Caponsacchi" are the finest parts.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Browning : The Ring and the Book
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the Book" -- "Pompilia" and "Caponsacchi" are the finest parts.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : "The San Graal"
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'May 18th. A. read the "San Graal." I doubt whether the "San Graal" would have been written but for my endeavour, and the Queen's wish, and that of the Crown Princess. Thank God for it. He has had the subject on his mind for years, ever since he began to write about Arthur and his knights.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Rogers :
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Rogers used often to read to him passages of his writings, and to consult him about the notes to his Italy. "He liked me," Tennyson said, "and thought that perhaps I might be the coming poet, and might help to hand his name down to future ages."'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Rogers

Jonathan Swift : Legion Club
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end italics], of Swift's Legion Club. He has more than once read it to me: on the last occasion, Houghton and George Venables, two great friends [...] were present, and they were also impressed by it.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Legion Club
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end italics], of Swift's Legion Club. He has more than once read it to me: on the last occasion, Houghton and George Venables, two great friends [...] were present, and they were also impressed by it.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : epigram
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows: '"A joke. 'What is a modern poet's fate? To write his thoughts upon a slate; The critic spits on what is done, [italics]Gives it a wipe[end italics] -- and all is gone.' "'T. HOOD." 'This quatrain amused Tennyson, and he said: "It is a good joke, and now I'll write you a grave [italics]truth[end italics]." Which he did as follows, adding the words "a joke" by the side of Hood's lines. '[quotes] A truth. While I live, the owls! When I die, the GHOULS!!!'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson, in commonplace book belonging to him.

Thomas Hood : epigram
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows: '"A joke. 'What is a modern poet's fate? To write his thoughts upon a slate; The critic spits on what is done, [italics]Gives it a wipe[end italics] -- and all is gone.' "'T. HOOD." 'This quatrain amused Tennyson, and he said: "It is a good joke, and now I'll write you a grave [italics]truth[end italics]." Which he did as follows, adding the words "a joke" by the side of Hood's lines. '[quotes] A truth. While I live, the owls! When I die, the GHOULS!!!'
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Locker-Lampson

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I once met Tennyson at dinner at the Conservative Club, in company with Dicky Doyle, Sir J. Emerson Tennent, Sir Arthur Buller [...] and others whom I have forgotten. Tennyson read "Maud" to us and was very gay and companionable.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Idylls of the King
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pressense's Life of Christ, Martineau's Endeavours After a Christian Life, and Lecky's European Morals.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Tennyson

Tom Hughes : Alfred the Great
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pressense's Life of Christ, Martineau's Endeavours After a Christian Life, and Lecky's European Morals.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Tennyson      Print: Book

Pressense : Life of Christ
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pressense's Life of Christ, Martineau's Endeavours After a Christian Life, and Lecky's European Morals.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Tennyson      Print: Book

Martineau : Endeavours After a Christian Life
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pressense's Life of Christ, Martineau's Endeavours After a Christian Life, and Lecky's European Morals.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Tennyson      Print: Book

Lecky : European Morals
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pressense's Life of Christ, Martineau's Endeavours After a Christian Life, and Lecky's European Morals.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Tennyson      Print: Book

Maurice : Social Morals
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Dec. 11th. Farringford. A. read me some of Maurice's Social Morals; "a noble book" it seemed to me, as A. called it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid IV
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'March 1st. Aldworth. Hallam read the 4th Aeneid with A.; they study Virgil together daily.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Hallam Tennyson     Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Diary
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll ["The Last Tournament"] by his own observation) that the starlings in June, after they have brought up their young ones, congregate in flocks in a reedy place for the sake of sociability.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Morris : ?work on ornithology
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll ["The Last Tournament"] by his own observation) that the starlings in June, after they have brought up their young ones, congregate in flocks in a reedy place for the sake of sociability.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

: Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'February. A. [...] read to me some of the Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'Tristram'
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'May 21st. He [Tennyson] read me his "Tristram" ("Last Tournament"), the plan of which he had been for some weeks discussing with me. Very grand and terrible.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'Guinevere'
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Aug. 31st. [...] A. drove to the Lewes'. He read to them, and last of all at G. H. Lewes' request "Guinevere," which made George Eliot weep.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

: 'book about Russia'
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russians, and the character of the Russian peasant and the strong feeling of unity in the nation. He has read and given me to read Fraser's Magazine with suggestive articles on colonial federation, and against the inclosure of commons, against which he has always protested. A general Colonial Council for the purposes of defence sounds to us sensible.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Fraser's Magazine
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russians, and the character of the Russian peasant and the strong feeling of unity in the nation. He has read and given me to read Fraser's Magazine with suggestive articles on colonial federation, and against the inclosure of commons, against which he has always protested. A general Colonial Council for the purposes of defence sounds to us sensible.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : Balaustion
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous, the strong, the self-sacrificer, a grand creation.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Pascal :
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Montesquieu : Decadence des Romains
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Victor Hugo :
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred de Musset :
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: Le Lendemain de la Mort
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Sept. 5th. Returned [from Continental travels] by Lausanne and Amiens to Aldworth. A. read Le Lendemain de la Mort on the way.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: playbill
From Tennyson's 'letter-diary' (1872): 'Nov. 1st. [...] I saw "Bijou" last night, and was ashamed of my countrymen for flocking to such a wretched non-entity, miserable stagey-toned, unmeaning dialogue: only one thing made amends, a young damsel whose dancing was music and poetry. By the bye I read in the bill that one of the actresses was Miss Tennyson. I think it is a fancy name assumed by her.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Handbill

Henry James : The reverberator
Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of the American family who so much reminded us of the Dossons? It could not be 1913; as we spent Christmas with them in Rome; and in 1913 Carry [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] never left her bed!"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Henry James : The Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warning
Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his sister-in-law]. Feb 14 1910"; "Feb 21 1924".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Anthony Hope : The Dolly dialogues
A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness took him."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

: The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learning, Science and Art
'I have just seen the Academy of April 9.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Gosse : 'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill Magazine
'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

John Addington Symonds : unknown
'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : English Odes
'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome. Nov 21 1886".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Henry James : The ambassadors
This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf: "I used to note down sentences for my history, that had ocurred to me in the watches of the night, in the flyleaf of the novel which I had in hand at that time."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Mary Boykin Chesnut : A diary from Dixie
Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-seeking ways at such a time [...] Her hospitality had in it a strong dah of sheer gluttony; and she was a reckless, and most ill-natured gossip." Also, very critical of the editing: "The editing is bad. Chapter X ought to end about page 143." Dates of reading: "Oct 25 1910 Uncle Tom's birthday [i.e. Lord Macaulay] - the battle of Agincourt"; August 8 1921; March 15 1925; Jan. 4 1924; July 4 1928.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Felix Bouvier : Bonaparte en Italie
Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, 1920: "3rd time of reading A most excellent military history; - I think, the best I ever read". V.II has a MS chronology on pastedown and endpaper, giving the dates of Bonaparte's movements in April and May 1796. Notes incl. translations of French words, and comments e.g., by a footnote on a letter published in Le Moniteur "dont l'authenticite nous pariat fort suspecte", he writes: "rather!"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

John Lothrop Motley : History of the United Netherlands
MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the external", Sir George writes: "High time that you did. Seldom has so able a writer been so swamped and mastered by his materials." Describes ch. 6 as "Terribly lengthy. Such masses of extracts ... are out of place in such a book as this." V.4 p.530 in reply to the author's wish to have fostered through his work a "love of freedom of thought, of speech, and of life" Sir George writes "This is a true claim on the part of Motley, and is the prime merit of his history". "Motley on the whole has raised himself by this volume [2]. He has a fine enthusiasm for liberty and public right." "The fourth volume ... is deeply interesting, and, in some respects, better constructed and written than the other three. Welcombe. May 26. 1916". Dates of reading include: "Nov 3 1915 - Wallington" and "June 28 - with C[aroline] Wallington 1921."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

James Grant : British battles on land and sea
MS annotations incl. v.1 p.534: "A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is on the wrong side of the French line, and the attack on the French left flank in the wood is not represented at all, though the chief feature of the day." P. 575 next to the text "the artifices and baseness of William III", Sir George writes: "Fool read thy Macaulay".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Charles James Fox : Memorials and correspondence of Charles James Fox
MS notes throughout, mainly taken for Sir George's own research into Charles James Fox. One reads (v.2.p.376): "I am glad he liked shooting as much as I do."
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

John Lothrop Motley : The rise of the Dutch republic: a history
MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "Sept. 21 1914 Aloud to C[aroline]"; "Dec 30 1920 with C". One note alludes to the First World War: when Motley writes of a "train of unforeseen transactions", Sir George comments: "We have enough of that just now. Aug . 31 1915".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Marcus Tullius Cicero : M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera
MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read between 1835-7: "transferred by me from his Bipontine edition [to] the outside margin of the Delpin"; "Macaulay's notes are marked with M". Sir George's dates of reading incude: 1899; 1903; "June 18 1904 Chamonix"; "Nov 17 1909 Rome A heavy day of rain & the break up of our long spell of fine weather"; "Wallington Oct 12 1916"; "Christmas Day 1918 Welcombe"; 1919; "June 21 1921 Wallington"; 1923. Sir George responds to Macaulay's comments: "I understand my uncle's feelings about it in India, and his reservations twenty years afterwards." V.3: "On the whole I agree with Macaulay about the comparative value of the Third Book [...]". Vol. 12 draws historical parallels: "It is strange to read these letters. Cicer's cruel anxiety about the course to be taken [...] were like out anxieties about America, the Balkans, and the Scandinavian States. Then, as now, the whole civilised world was in question" [written in 1915].
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Julius Caesar : Opera omnia
MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military story I ever read, as told by the hero of it. If Pharsalia had gone the other way the Kaiser and the Czar would now be called "Pompey". An anonymous piece has the MS note: "This is far and away the worst Latin I have ever read of the great Ciceronian age of prose. The text is mortally corrupt; but besides that, the style is detestable. And yet I read it with interest." In this Sir George echoes Macaulay's comment on the same piece: "It is dreadfully corrupt."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Cornelius Tacitus : Opera omnia
Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred from his Bipontine edition. His notes are marked with an "M"." Sir George's dates of reading include: "Florence Jan. 22 1901. The day of Queen Victoria's death"; Jam 25 1901 "On way from Florence to Rome, Edward the Seventh proclaimed yesterday"; June 22 1920; Aug 2 1924 "Read with unceasing zest and admiration. May I live to finish him! But I was 86 last month"; p.740: "a rare good writer. But a very difficult one to read, I must confess, as a student of very mature age (1924)"; Dec 24 1924 "With Herodotus and Thucydides, he appertains to the first three historians of the Ancient World. I am reading them all again, with Suetonius if indeed I can live to finish them. This is the 4th time in this century that I have read them all through"; Jan 17 1925. P.1629, Sir George writes: "The development of Nero is a marvellous story, marvellously told; - as Carlyle would have written it, had he been a Roman of the age of Tacitus. I read it as I read the "French Revolution" in the Trinity backs in the summer of 1858, when I ought to have been reading Pindar and Thucydides. That summer I read the French Revolution three times on end [underlined twice]; besides devouring the Third Volume of "Modern Painters" and "Men and Women". As far as a place in the classical Tripos was concerned I doubt if I could have been better employed." P.2750: "As fine history, and as much to my mind, as any I ever read. Tacitus was much the same age as Carlyle, when he wrote the French Revolution, - which I read as an undergraduate at Trinity; reading three times through one end, with no book between. I did very much the same by this volume of Tacitus in the course of this winter, at 87 years of age."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

William Chillingworth : Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation
'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads at Pembroke who lived in the same department and one of him [sic] told him that the other had been reading Chillingworth for the last week very diligently leaving a [italics] Mark [end italics] always in the place he left off, which his [italics] Chumm [end italics] moved a few pages backward every Day, & so forced him unknown to himself to go over the same Ground without advancing one Jot or ever finding the Joke out'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Livy : Historiorum libri
Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, from Macaulay's Bipontine edition in the winter of 1910 at Wallington. GOT." Sir George's dates of reading include 1914,1915,1917,1918, "read with C[aroline] Jan 14 1919"; 1927. At end of v.4: "I read this book in the same number of days as Macaulay. But he was likewise constructing the penal code, and establishing the Indian education system." Sir George's notes in Livy often comment on Macaulay's earlier observations, almost as if they are having a conversation, e.g. where in book XXVI ch 32 Macaulay writes: "The conduct of the Roman senate was on the whole honorable to them, the state of public opinion among the ancients considered", Trevelyan comments: "How differently the Reichstag is showing in the case of Belgium. On Jan 28 1915 he writes: " I have now, day for day kept up, through these five books, exactly the same pace as my uncle. Shall now ease off. My age is more than twice his; and he [underlined] was Macaulay. Would I could talk Livy over with him, and tell him about this [underlined] war! How he would have recognised the spirit and self-sacrifice of the country." 1918: "I have now finished my war-time reading of the whole of Livy." Sir George's notes draw parallels between Livy and current affairs: "very different from the actions of the Germans towards Pointcarre's property"; p.679: "I wish such a speech as this could be made in Russia today (Sep. 10 1917). P.2877: "Jan 17 1915. A beautiful winter Sunday. Colonel Charrington Smith and his party came to tea. They are going to take part in a greater war than Hannibal, Philip and Antiochus together." Throughout, he uses his book to comment on events in his own life, e.g. Feb 12 1915: "George [i.e. G.M. Trevelyan] returned from Serbia yesterday. God be thanked for it." At the end of the book: "I seldom have been more interested in any history. I read the account of the great battle of Antiochus in a translation of Livy when I was a little boy at Mr Seawell's and never since. Feb. 1 1915". Note on p.3034 gives the date of reading as July 30, 1928 i.e. 18 days before Sir George died.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

: [Greek Testament]
'Mr Jackson - a quondam Chymist, well known for his Projects to destroy the Worm which perforates the Bottoms of Ships - and Husband to the Woman mentioned on Page 58. had a mind to turn Scholar, so got him a Greek Testament & took to reading history'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Humphrey Jackson      Print: Book

: [history]
'Mr Jackson - a quondam Chymist, well known for his Projects to destroy the Worm which perforates the Bottoms of Ships - and Husband to the Woman mentioned on Page 58. had a mind to turn Scholar, so got him a Greek Testament & took to reading history'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Humphrey Jackson      Print: Book

: [verses on Garrick's Lear]
'I used to like following Verses vastly upon Garrick and Barry's playing King Lear a l'envie till I heard from good authority That Garrick wrote them himself: The Town has taken different Ways T'applaud their different Lears; To Barry they give loud Huzzaes To Garrick only Tears.'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

Sallust : Opera omnia
MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I used to think this very fine at school. It now seems to me a very indifferent exercise in rhetoric." The date of reading is 1911.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Giuseppe Pecio : [sonnet to Voltaire]
'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him however than myself, - I do not see much in it'. [the sonnet follows]
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

Giuseppe Pecio : [sonnet to Voltaire]
'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him however than myself, - I do not see much in it'. [the sonnet follows]
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Sandys

: [verses to a wife, about a penknife]
'I saw there [at Hampton] likewise a sweet pretty little Copy of Verses from a Gentleman to his Wife on the Subject of his giving her an elegant Penknife as a Present. I was not permitted to write it out, & can remember the two first Lines only'. [these are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Herbert Lawrence : [poems]
'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The following Song he wrote in my Praise forsooth is not a bad one.' [the Song is given]
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

: [verses on a lady and a pen knife]
'Apropos to Garrick when I dined at Hampton last there was a pompous Reading of some pretty Verses from A Gentleman to [italics] his own [end italics] wife with a Knife - I dare say they were Garrrick's own, here they are however, or [italics] some [end italics] of them'. [The verses follow]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Gray : [Odes]
'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as like as a little Thing can be to a big Thing, Why to be sure Madam said I he is not the great Mr Gray - he is only the [italics] Petit Gris [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Frances Greville : Ode to Indifference
'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy'. [Mrs Thrale then tells of Mrs Greville's son's death]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

Richard Cumberland : [Odes]
'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as like as a little Thing can be to a big Thing, Why to be sure Madam said I he is not the great Mr Gray - he is only the [italics] Petit Gris [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Richard Cumberland : [Odes]
'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as like as a little Thing can be to a big Thing, Why to be sure Madam said I he is not the great Mr Gray - he is only the [italics] Petit Gris [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu      Print: Book

Thomas Gray : [Odes]
'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as like as a little Thing can be to a big Thing, Why to be sure Madam said I he is not the great Mr Gray - he is only the [italics] Petit Gris [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu      Print: Book

: Bible
'In a Conversation the King of Prussia had once with Marshal Keith the latter quoted Scripture: why Keith have you been reading the Bible lately; Yes, Sir, replies the Marshal, & whatever our Majesty may think of the book in general, one must allow that Joshua understood a Line of Battle special well'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Francis Edward Keith      Print: Book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly known among Christians - 'tis a Shame however not to have known it always - Milton mentions it in the last Book of Paradise Lost'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Every Man in his Humour
'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I believe when Ben Jonson wrote Every Man in his Humour the Word was not quite gone because of all the company meeting at [italics] Cob's [end italics] House which is described to be very dirty & full of Spiders'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Robert Nelson : Companion for the festivals and fasts of the Church of England: With collects and prayers for each solemnity , A
'A Mother was making her Little Son read Nelson's Feasts and Fasts - this says he is a very good book to be sure Mama, all about our Saviourand the Apostles - but surely it is [italics] monstrous dull fun [end italics] '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The
'[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says he a strange Account of a Beast which however is dead, & I believe there are no more of them in England, it was a horrible one though with a long Tail, & was of the Serpent kind I think; he eat people up and [italics] churned [end italics] them into [italics] Gobbets [end italics] the Book says, - what the Devil Beast could this be says my Father? what was its name Jemmy? The [italics] Blatant Beast [end italics]. as I remember replied Mathias - he had been reading Spenser's Fairy Queen'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Mathias      Print: Book

Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey) : L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil)
'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Camille Debans : Le Baron Jean (Baron John)
'Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Bouvard et Pecuchet
'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

A J Butler : Review in Athenaeum
'Who did the Athenaeum I know not, but it is very kind.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Revised Version of New Testament
'The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of literary fault that calls for an eternal hell ..'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Andrew Lang : The Library
'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Charles Grant Robertson : Kurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns under General Roberts
'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

: Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Peep Behind the Scenes
'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems more entertaining than the sentimental pieties of "Christie's Old Organ", "Jessica's First Prayer" and "A Peep Behind the Scenes".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne : Super Flumina Babylonis
'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinburne's "Super Flumina Babylonis" - a favourite poem associated in her mind with war-time loss and all premature death - and opened the notebook which contained her copies of Bill's verses.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Crime and Punishment
'His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian literature and reading aloud from "Crime and Punishment".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George de Coundouroff      Print: Book

Thomas Hobbes : The Leviathan
'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation page a passage which exactly fitted the theme:'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

George Sand : Lelia
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873): 'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simplon. The coming over was a great disappointment. Thick mist the whole of the way except the first half-hour when we started from the Simplon Inn [...] During the evening we consoled ourselves by reading Lelia by George Sand'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Unknown

Arthur Murphy : Contest
'At the time when Owen Ruffhead was writing the "Contest" in opposition to Murphy's "Test"; Gilbert Cooper it seems thought so highly of the performance that he would persuade himself Mr Pitt was the Authour'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gilbert Cooper      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Raleigh : unknown
'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and studying such treasure-troves of style as the travel books of Sir Walter Raleigh and the prose works of Milton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Richard II
'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Discovery of Guiana", Milton's "Areopagitica", the writings of John Wyclif, Blake's "Minor Prophecies", and the plays of Bernard Shaw.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Mary Ward : Robert Elsmere
'Just after leaving school, I had been plunged into the same tumult of agonised inquiry by reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Robert Elsmere".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book, Unknown

Dr Dillingham : A Hymne to our Creator
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, "A Hymne to our Creator" by Dr Dillingham.
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Hugo Grotius : De veritate religionis Christianae
'[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up in the Shop, & again thrown by, entitled De Veritate Relig: & c. he began to think himself highly culpable for neglecting such a means of Information and took himself severely to task for this Sin. The first Opportunity he had of Course he examined the Book with avidity, but finding his Scholarship insufficient for the perusal of it he set his heart at rest it sees, and considered his Conscience as lightened of a Crime'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on very qu[i]etly till he came to the Ghost scene, when he hurried up to the Shop Door that he might see folks about him'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine]
'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought they were not his so I asked him; A young fellow replied he about forty Years ago, had a Sprig of Myrtle given him by a Girl he courted, and asked me to write him some Verses upon it - I promised but forgot; & when the Lad came a Week after for them, I said I'll go fetch them so ran away for five Minutes, & wrote the nonsense you are so troubled about; & which these Blockheads are printing now so pompously with their L.L.:D'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Steele : [Essays]
'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - Steele's Essays were mentioned - but they are too thin said Mr Johnson; being mere Observations on Life and Manners without a sufficiency of solid Learning acquired from Books, they have the flavour, like the light French wines you so often hear commended; but having no Body, they cannot keep. Speaking of Mason Gray &c. he said The Poems they write must I should suppose greatly delight the Authors; they seem to have attained that which themselves consider as the Summit of Excellence, and Man can do no more: yet surely such unmeaning & verbose Language if in the Morning it appears to be in bloom, must fade before Sunset like Cloe's Wreath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Thomas Gray :
'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - Steele's Essays were mentioned - but they are too thin said Mr Johnson; being mere Observations on Life and Manners without a sufficiency of solid Learning acquired from Books, they have the flavour, like the light French wines you so often hear commended; but having no Body, they cannot keep. Speaking of Mason Gray &c. he said The Poems they write must I should suppose greatly delight the Authors; they seem to have attained that which themselves consider as the Summit of Excellence, and Man can do no more: yet surely such unmeaning & verbose Language if in the Morning it appears to be in bloom, must fade before Sunset like Cloe's Wreath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Mason :
'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - Steele's Essays were mentioned - but they are too thin said Mr Johnson; being mere Observations on Life and Manners without a sufficiency of solid Learning acquired from Books, they have the flavour, like the light French wines you so often hear commended; but having no Body, they cannot keep. Speaking of Mason Gray &c. he said The Poems they write must I should suppose greatly delight the Authors; they seem to have attained that which themselves consider as the Summit of Excellence, and Man can do no more: yet surely such unmeaning & verbose Language if in the Morning it appears to be in bloom, must fade before Sunset like Cloe's Wreath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift :
'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says he is gay, but the substance slight.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift :
'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says he is gay, but the substance slight.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham : Rehearsal, The
'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the force of Ridicule! - on the contrary my dearest replies Doctor Johnson The greatness of Dryden's Character is even now the only principle of Vitality which preserves that play from a State of Putrefaction'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham : Rehearsal, The
'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the force of Ridicule! - on the contrary my dearest replies Doctor Johnson The greatness of Dryden's Character is even now the only principle of Vitality which preserves that play from a State of Putrefaction'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson :
'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man said he could not be content to sail gently down the Stream of Fame unless the Foam was continually dashing in his Face, that he might taste it at Every Stroke of the Oar'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edward Young :
'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet before another clean Place appears, that nobody will often walk that way. in this however said I as well as in his general Manner of writing he resembles your favourite Dryden - & to this no Answer was made: The next Morning we were drawing Spirits over a Lamp, and the Liquor bubbled in the Glass Retort; there says Mr Johnson - Young bubbles and froths in his Descriptions like this Spirit; but Dryden foams like the Sea we saw in a Storm the other day at Brighthelmstone'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dryden :
'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet before another clean Place appears, that nobody will often walk that way. in this however said I as well as in his general Manner of writing he resembles your favourite Dryden - & to this no Answer was made: The next Morning we were drawing Spirits over a Lamp, and the Liquor bubbled in the Glass Retort; there says Mr Johnson - Young bubbles and froths in his Descriptions like this Spirit; but Dryden foams like the Sea we saw in a Storm the other day at Brighthelmstone'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Dryden :
'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet before another clean Place appears, that nobody will often walk that way. in this however said I as well as in his general Manner of writing he resembles your favourite Dryden - & to this no Answer was made: The next Morning we were drawing Spirits over a Lamp, and the Liquor bubbled in the Glass Retort; there says Mr Johnson - Young bubbles and froths in his Descriptions like this Spirit; but Dryden foams like the Sea we saw in a Storm the other day at Brighthelmstone'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Edward Young :
'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet before another clean Place appears, that nobody will often walk that way. in this however said I as well as in his general Manner of writing he resembles your favourite Dryden - & to this no Answer was made: The next Morning we were drawing Spirits over a Lamp, and the Liquor bubbled in the Glass Retort; there says Mr Johnson - Young bubbles and froths in his Descriptions like this Spirit; but Dryden foams like the Sea we saw in a Storm the other day at Brighthelmstone'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Charles Burney : History of Music
'Burney likewise has experienced his [Johnson's] sportive Humour; when he shewed him his Book about Musick and enquired his Opinion concerning it; the Words are well arranged Sir replies Johnson but I don't understand one of them'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville :
'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption both in himself & others'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Thomas Gray :
'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Modern Gardening, every thing now is raised by a hot bed; every thing therefore is forced, & everything tasteless'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Mason :
'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Modern Gardening, every thing now is raised by a hot bed; every thing therefore is forced, & everything tasteless'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: [book on gardening]
'A propos to Gardening he once advised me to buy myself some famous Book upon the Subject, and read it says he attentively, but do not believe it'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Lady Jane Grey : 'Be Constant'
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, verses by Lady Jane Grey beginning: 'be Constant be Constant Feare not for Pain'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : History Of the Four last years Of the Queen
'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive the Value of [italics] this new [end italics] Manner, it is only, like Buckinger, who had no hands - & so wrote with his Toes. - Doctor Delap praised Swift's Style; Mr Johnson was not in the humour to subscribe to its Excellence; the Doctor was beat from one of Swift's Performances to another - but says he you must allow that there are [italics] strong Facts [end italics] in the Account of the four last Years of Queen Anne; Yes sure Sir returns Mr Johnson and so there are in the ordinary of Newgates Account'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

anon : An Hymne to our Redeemer
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, (anon) 'An Hymne to our Redeemer'. Copied in spaces between other entries in the commonplace book. Lyttelton signals the continuation of the hymn across the six pages with a series of asterisks.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Adam Ferguson : Essay on the History of Civil Society
'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive the Value of [italics] this new [end italics] Manner, it is only, like Buckinger, who had no hands - & so wrote with his Toes. - Doctor Delap praised Swift's Style; Mr Johnson was not in the humour to subscribe to its Excellence; the Doctor was beat from one of Swift's Performances to another - but says he you must allow that there are [italics] strong Facts [end italics] in the Account of the four last Years of Queen Anne; Yes sure Sir returns Mr Johnson and so there are in the ordinary of Newgates Account'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Adam Ferguson : Essay on the History of Civil Society
'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive the Value of [italics] this new [end italics] Manner, it is only, like Buckinger, who had no hands - & so wrote with his Toes. - Doctor Delap praised Swift's Style; Mr Johnson was not in the humour to subscribe to its Excellence; the Doctor was beat from one of Swift's Performances to another - but says he you must allow that there are [italics] strong Facts [end italics] in the Account of the four last Years of Queen Anne; Yes sure Sir returns Mr Johnson and so there are in the ordinary of Newgates Account'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Rose      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : History Of the Four last years Of the Queen
'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive the Value of [italics] this new [end italics] Manner, it is only, like Buckinger, who had no hands - & so wrote with his Toes. - Doctor Delap praised Swift's Style; Mr Johnson was not in the humour to subscribe to its Excellence; the Doctor was beat from one of Swift's Performances to another - but says he you must allow that there are [italics] strong Facts [end italics] in the Account of the four last Years of Queen Anne; Yes sure Sir returns Mr Johnson and so there are in the ordinary of Newgates Account'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Delap      Print: Book

Lucan : Pharsalia
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne's translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, IV.519-20.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

: Huetania
'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to talk of it. - one day however after reading the odd Dissertation upon it in the Huetania, I was led to ask Johnson his general Opinion concerning that which has been thought the Spring of so many strange Actions good & bad'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Thomas Heywood (attrib.) : Upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March, 1602 the 45 year of her Raign, & seventy of her age
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March, 1602 the 45 year of her Raign, & seventy of her age' Begins: 'The Queen was brought by water to White hall'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

anon : Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, London.
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, London'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Juvenal : Unto the wiser Gods the care permit,
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Juvenal, 'Vnto the wiser Gods the care permit'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Charles Churchill : Prophecy of Famine, a Scots Pastoral
'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when the Booksellers begged him a Place in the Edition they are now giving in small volumes - this was I think the only unjust or resentful Thing I ever knew him do, for as to despising Churchill as a Writer - no Man has Pretensions to do it - and Johnson had more Wit to be sure than not to taste the "Prophecy of Famine".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Edmund Elys : Inconstancy
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Inconstancy'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Charles Churchill : Ghost, The
'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when the Booksellers begged him a Place in the Edition they are now giving in small volumes - this was I think the only unjust or resentful Thing I ever knew him do, for as to despising Churchill as a Writer - no Man has Pretensions to do it - and Johnson had more Wit to be sure than not to taste the "Prophecy of Famine".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Charles Churchill : Ghost, The
'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when the Booksellers begged him a Place in the Edition they are now giving in small volumes - this was I think the only unjust or resentful Thing I ever knew him do, for as to despising Churchill as a Writer - no Man has Pretensions to do it - and Johnson had more Wit to be sure than not to taste the "Prophecy of Famine".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

John Norris : Beauty
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Beauty'. Lyttelton signals the continuation of the poem across three pages with a series of asterisks.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - revered. That ample Repository of religious Truth, moral Wisdom & accurate Criticism breathes indeed the genuine Emanations of its Author's Mind; express'd too in a Style so natural to him, & so much like his common Mode of conversing, that I was myself not much astonished when he told me, that he had scarcely read over one of thesed inimitable Essays before they were sent to the Press'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Elys : Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Edward Reynolds : When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edward Reynolds 'When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Unknown

John Norris : Love
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Love'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Queen Elizabeth I (attrib.) : 'On the words hoc est corpus meum'
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Elizabeth I's 'On the words hoc est corpus meum', titled 'Queen Elizas answer to Bishop Gardner'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Justus Lipsius : A Discourse of Constancy
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Nathaniel Wanley's translation of Justus Lipsius, 'A discourse of constancy'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Edward Reynolds : A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Edward Reynolds, 'A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

anon : An Evening Hymn
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous poem entitled 'An Euening Hymn' and beginning 'Now that the Sable mantle of the night....'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

John Norris : Plato's Two Cupids
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Plato's Two Cupids'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Seneca : Epistulae morales, 23, 4
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a Meditation on Seneca's maxim 'verum gaudium res severa est' (Epistulae morales, 23, 4), headed 'sen. Res severa et verum gaudium'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

John Norris : The Refinement
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'The Refinement'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sir Philip Woodhouse : Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristotles definition of friendly Loue
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristotles definition of friendly Loue'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sir Philip Woodhouse : an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Thomas Flatman : On Dr. Brown's Travels
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Thomas Flatman, 'On Dr. Brown's Travels'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sir Philip Woodhouse : Moralistic reflections in verse
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Moralistic reflections in verse'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

anon : Moral Dialogue
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous 'Moral dialogue'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sir Thomas Browne : Of Consumptions
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Hinton : The Mystery of Matter
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873): 'Oct. 28th. London. 4 Seamore Place. We took up our abode at Seamore Place in the house we shared with Lady Franklin, and A. likes it the best of any house we have had in London. He is reading The Mystery of Matter by Hinton'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Gareth
Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson (1873): 'I have a word to say about "Gareth" which your publisher sent me as "from the author." I don't think it is mere perversity that makes me like it better than all its predecessors, save and except (of course) the old "Morte." The subject, the young knight who can endure and conquer, interests me more than all the heroines of the 1st volume.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

Holinshed : Chronicles
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874): 'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched two or three scenes.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Froude : "Mary"
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874): 'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched two or three scenes.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson     Print: Book

Motley : Dutch Republic
'He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Higher Pantheism
'The first meeting after the formation of the [Metaphysical] Society took place at the Deanery, Westminster, June 2nd, 1869, under the presidency of Sir John Lubbock, when my father's poem "The Higher Pantheism" was read.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Knowles

W. B. Carpenter : 'The commonsense philosophy of Causation'
James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed by the Rev. F. D. Maurice on the meaning of the words "Nature," "Natural," "Supernatural," November 21st, 1871 [...] 'The other subjects on which papers were read in your father's presence were the following: 'July 14, 1869. The commonsense philosophy of causation: Dr W. B. Carpenter. 'June 15, 1870. Is there any Axiom of Causation? Myself. (Mr Tennyson in the chair.) 'July 13. The relativity of Knowledge: Mr Fred. Harrison. 'Dec. 13. The emotion of Conviction: Mr Walter Bagehot. 'July 11, 1871. What is Death? Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 'July 9, 1872. The supposed necessity for seeking a solution of ultimate Metaphysical Problems: Mr F. Harrison. Nov. 12. The five idols of the Theatre: Mr Shadworth H. Hodgson. Dec. 16, 1873. Utilitarianism: Professor Henry Sidgwick. Feb. 12, 1878. Double truth: Rev. M. Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: W. B. Carpenter

Rev. F. D. Maurice : paper on meanings of words 'nature,' 'natural,' 'supernatural.'
James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed by the Rev. F. D. Maurice on the meaning of the words "Nature," "Natural," "Supernatural," November 21st, 1871 [...] 'The other subjects on which papers were read in your father's presence were the following: 'July 14, 1869. The commonsense philosophy of causation: Dr W. B. Carpenter. 'June 15, 1870. Is there any Axiom of Causation? Myself. (Mr Tennyson in the chair.) 'July 13. The relativity of Knowledge: Mr Fred. Harrison. 'Dec. 13. The emotion of Conviction: Mr Walter Bagehot. 'July 11, 1871. What is Death? Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 'July 9, 1872. The supposed necessity for seeking a solution of ultimate Metaphysical Problems: Mr F. Harrison. Nov. 12. The five idols of the Theatre: Mr Shadworth H. Hodgson. Dec. 16, 1873. Utilitarianism: Professor Henry Sidgwick. Feb. 12, 1878. Double truth: Rev. M. Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. F. D. Maurice

James Martineau : 'Is there any Axiom of Causation?'
James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed by the Rev. F. D. Maurice on the meaning of the words "Nature," "Natural," "Supernatural," November 21st, 1871 [...] 'The other subjects on which papers were read in your father's presence were the following: 'July 14, 1869. The commonsense philosophy of causation: Dr W. B. Carpenter. 'June 15, 1870. Is there any Axiom of Causation? Myself. (Mr Tennyson in the chair.) 'July 13. The relativity of Knowledge: Mr Fred. Harrison. 'Dec. 13. The emotion of Conviction: Mr Walter Bagehot. 'July 11, 1871. What is Death? Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 'July 9, 1872. The supposed necessity for seeking a solution of ultimate Metaphysical Problems: Mr F. Harrison. Nov. 12. The five idols of the Theatre: Mr Shadworth H. Hodgson. Dec. 16, 1873. Utilitarianism: Professor Henry Sidgwick. Feb. 12, 1878. Double truth: Rev. M. Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: James Martineau

Frederick Harrison : 'The relativity of Knowledge'
James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed by the Rev. F. D. Maurice on the meaning of the words "Nature," "Natural," "Supernatural," November 21st, 1871 [...] 'The other subjects on which papers were read in your father's presence were the following: 'July 14, 1869. The commonsense philosophy of causation: Dr W. B. Carpenter. 'June 15, 1870. Is there any Axiom of Causation? Myself. (Mr Tennyson in the chair.) 'July 13. The relativity of Knowledge: Mr Fred. Harrison. 'Dec. 13. The emotion of Conviction: Mr Walter Bagehot. 'July 11, 1871. What is Death? Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 'July 9, 1872. The supposed necessity for seeking a solution of ultimate Metaphysical Problems: Mr F. Harrison. Nov. 12. The five idols of the Theatre: Mr Shadworth H. Hodgson. Dec. 16, 1873. Utilitarianism: Professor Henry Sidgwick. Feb. 12, 1878. Double truth: Rev. M. Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Harrison

Walter Bagehot : 'The emotion of Conviction'
James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed by the Rev. F. D. Maurice on the meaning of the words "Nature," "Natural," "Supernatural," November 21st, 1871 [...] 'The other subjects on which papers were read in your father's presence were the following: 'July 14, 1869. The commonsense philosophy of causation: Dr W. B. Carpenter. 'June 15, 1870. Is there any Axiom of Causation? Myself. (Mr Tennyson in the chair.) 'July 13. The relativity of Knowledge: Mr Fred. Harrison. 'Dec. 13. The emotion of Conviction: Mr Walter Bagehot. 'July 11, 1871. What is Death? Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 'July 9, 1872. The supposed necessity for seeking a solution of ultimate Metaphysical Problems: Mr F. Harrison. Nov. 12. The five idols of the Theatre: Mr Shadworth H. Hodgson. Dec. 16, 1873. Utilitarianism: Professor Henry Sidgwick. Feb. 12, 1878. Double truth: Rev. M. Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Bagehot

Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol : 'What is Death?'
James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed by the Rev. F. D. Maurice on the meaning of the words "Nature," "Natural," "Supernatural," November 21st, 1871 [...] 'The other subjects on which papers were read in your father's presence were the following: 'July 14, 1869. The commonsense philosophy of causation: Dr W. B. Carpenter. 'June 15, 1870. Is there any Axiom of Causation? Myself. (Mr Tennyson in the chair.) 'July 13. The relativity of Knowledge: Mr Fred. Harrison. 'Dec. 13. The emotion of Conviction: Mr Walter Bagehot. 'July 11, 1871. What is Death? Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 'July 9, 1872. The supposed necessity for seeking a solution of ultimate Metaphysical Problems: Mr F. Harrison. Nov. 12. The five idols of the Theatre: Mr Shadworth H. Hodgson. Dec. 16, 1873. Utilitarianism: Professor Henry Sidgwick. Feb. 12, 1878. Double truth: Rev. M. Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol

Alfred Tennyson : Queen Mary
Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 9 July 1875: 'I had bought your Play a few days before your gift-copy reached me. I have not had sufficient time to digest either you see, though I have read through twice.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Queen Mary
Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., to Alfred Tennyson, 20 August 1875: 'As a great admirer of your genius, I eagerly read your drama "Queen Mary," but was so surprised and pained at the ignoble part which is allotted to Sir Henry Bedingfield, that I cannot refrain from addressing you on the subject. I feel justified in so doing, for I am the direct descendant of Sir Henry [...] The millions who will read "Mary Tudor," or witness the play on the stage, will carry away the impresson that my ancestor was a vulgar yeoman in some way connected with the stables, whereas he was a man of ancient lineage, a trusted friend and servant of the Queen, who confided to him in time of danger the Lieutenancy of the Tower, and the custody of the Princess Elizabeth [continues] [...] I trust therefore to your high feeling of justice, that you will, if possible, strike out Sir Henry's name from future editions, or allott him a more dignified part on the stage, and one which will convey a more correct view of his character and position.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart.      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Harold
Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 21 December 1876: 'True thanks again, this time for the best of Christmas presents, another great work, wise, good, and beautiful. The scene where Harold is overborne to take the oath is perfect, for one instance.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Harold
Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876: 'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial thanks for sending me your "Harold." I have already read the whole of it twice, and many parts much oftener [...] You know how heartily I admired it when you read it aloud to me: and I can honestly assure you that the admiration has not been less on reading it to myself. On that first occasion it may have derived an advantage from your reading; but if so, the more careful attention one gives to what one reads with one's own eyes fully compensated for whatever was lost. The great characteristic of this drama is to me that of an heroic strength blended with heroic simplicity, and everything in it harmonious with that predominant characteristic [goes on to discuss in detail].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Aubrey de Vere      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Harold
Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876: 'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial thanks for sending me your "Harold." I have already read the whole of it twice, and many parts much oftener [...] You know how heartily I admired it when you read it aloud to me: and I can honestly assure you that the admiration has not been less on reading it to myself. On that first occasion it may have derived an advantage from your reading; but if so, the more careful attention one gives to what one reads with one's own eyes fully compensated for whatever was lost. The great characteristic of this drama is to me that of an heroic strength blended with heroic simplicity, and everything in it harmonious with that predominant characteristic [goes on to discuss in detail].'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Harold
A. P. Stanley to Alfred Tennyson, 25 December 1876: 'I will gladly contrive if you wish to transmit your poem [Harold] to the Queen. I know that Her Majesty is expecting it. 'I ought ere this to have thanked you for my own copy. It cheered some mournful winter evenings for me, and it will, I trust, for the country at large, revive or rekindle the dying touch of Truth and the belief that there is something greater and nobler than the capricious Norman Saints.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: A. P. Stanley      Print: Book

: 'old Spanish Romances'
Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 30 December 1876: 'Here I have a book of old Spanish Romances familiar to Don Quixote and Sancho. I shall write you out a [italics]rather[end italics] pretty one which I read yesterday [...] There is not much in it, if you take the time to construe; but I like the lady with her old husband partner, managing to address the young Count, perhaps as she passes him in the dance, bit by bit as the figure brings her round again.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Harold
G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profound a pleasure both works have given us -- they are great contributions!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: G. H. Lewes and George Eliot     Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Queen Mary
G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profound a pleasure both works have given us -- they are great contributions!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: G. H. Lewes and George Eliot     Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Becket
'The play [Becket] is so accurate a representation of the personages and of the time, that J. R. Green said that all his researches into the annals of the twelfth century had not given him "so vivid a conception of the character of Henry II. and his court as was embodied in Tennyson's 'Becket.'"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: J. R. Green      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Becket
The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while ago that I obtained and read your "Becket." Will you, since you were so kind as to read me some of it last July, let me tell you how much enjoyment and light it has given me? Impressive as were the parts read, it impresses one incomparably more when studied as a whole. One cannot imagine a more vivid, a more perfectly faithful picture than it gives both of Henry and of Thomas. Truth in history is naturally truth in poetry; but you have made the characters of the two men shine out in a way which, while it never deviates from the impression history gives of them, goes beyond and perfects history [continues].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Bryce      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Becket
The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while ago that I obtained and read your "Becket." Will you, since you were so kind as to read me some of it last July, let me tell you how much enjoyment and light it has given me? Impressive as were the parts read, it impresses one incomparably more when studied as a whole. One cannot imagine a more vivid, a more perfectly faithful picture than it gives both of Henry and of Thomas. Truth in history is naturally truth in poetry; but you have made the characters of the two men shine out in a way which, while it never deviates from the impression history gives of them, goes beyond and perfects history [continues].'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot
'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Eugenie Grandet
'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson :
Lady Cardwell to Alfred Tennyson, 9 April 1878: 'It may interest you to know another instance of the solace you have given those in distant lands severed from all those with whom they could hold converse. 'You know all about Col. Gordon (Chinese Gordon) and the immense pressure upon him and the heroic services he is rendering to the cause of humanity in putting down the slave trade, as Governor of the Soudan [sic], by a wonderful sacrifice of himself. I often hear from him of his long solitary rides of hundreds of miles in the desert and wilderness, and wished to find the most acceptable companion I could send to him. 'It must be in a very small compass. Happily I found the beautiful edition of all your books in the small green case, and I sent it a few months ago. 'He is intensely delighted with it and mentions it in every letter. In his last, lately received from Khartoum, he says: "I find the reading of Tennyson is my great relief, and the volumes are so small and of such clear print that they will always go with me. I have long wanted a small copy, but never knew that he had published one," etc.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: C. E. Gordon      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Welcome to Alexandra
'My father's first meeting with the Princess of Wales took place at Mrs Greville's in Chester Square. The Princess asked him to read the "Welcome to Alexandra." When he had read it, the fact of his reading his own complimentary poem to the Princess herself suddenly struck both of them as being so ludicrous, that he dropt the book on the floor and both went into fits of uncontrollable laughter.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : The Revenge
'My father was fond of asking Joachim [celebrity violinist] to play to him in his own house. One particular evening I remember, at 86, Eaton Square. My father had been expressing his wonder at Joachim's mastery of the violin, -- for Joachim had been playing to us and our friends numberless Hungarian dances, -- and by way of thanks for the splendid music I asked him to read one of his poems to Joachim. Accordingly after the guests had gone he took the great musician to smoke with him in his "den" at the top of the house [...] my father read "The Revenge." On reaching the line 'And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, he asked Joachim, "Could you do that on your violin?" -- the peace of nature after the thunder of battle. There was no more reading however that night, for he suddenly turned round to me, saying, "I must not read any more, else I shall wake up the cook who is sleeping next door."'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Catullus :
'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dwelt with more pleasure on the row to Desenzano than on almost anything else, and on the associations of Sirmione with Catullus. The long July twlight had at last died away whilst he talked of all he had been seeing, and lights were brought, and I fetched him a volume of Catullus. 'He made Miss Ritchie, who was no Latin scholar, follow the words as he read through some of his favourite poems. His finger moved from word to word, and he dwelt with intense satisfaction on the adequacy of the expression and of the sounds, on the mastery of the proper handling of quantity, and on the perfection of the art.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Catullus :
'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dwelt with more pleasure on the row to Desenzano than on almost anything else, and on the associations of Sirmione with Catullus. The long July twlight had at last died away whilst he talked of all he had been seeing, and lights were brought, and I fetched him a volume of Catullus. 'He made Miss Ritchie, who was no Latin scholar, follow the words as he read through some of his favourite poems. His finger moved from word to word, and he dwelt with intense satisfaction on the adequacy of the expression and of the sounds, on the mastery of the proper handling of quantity, and on the perfection of the art.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Ritchie      Print: Book

: Old Brighton
From Tennyson's manuscript notes on his volume of Ballads and Poems (1880): '"Rizpah" is founded on an incident which I saw thus related in some penny magazine called Old Brighton, lent me by my friend and neighbour Mrs [Mary] Brotherton [goes on to relate account in magazine of Phoebe Hessel, a woman soldier who died at Brighton in 1821, aged 108]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : 'Bones'
[Mary Brotherton writes] 'I told him [Tennyson] the story [of the eighteenth-century woman soldier Phoebe Hessel] one day at Farringford, knowing it would touch him, and he came up to see my husband and me next day, and asked me to tell it him again: on whch I gave him the little penny magazine I found it in. It was an unpretentious account of "Old Brighton." Many months after he took me up to his library, after a walk, and read me what he called "Bones." That was before it was called "Rizpah" and published.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Hester Lynch Thrale : [MS 'character' of Johnson]
'When I shewed him [Johnson] his Character next day - for he would see it; he said it was a very fine Piece of Writing; and that I had improved upon [italics] Young [end italics] who he saw was my [italics] Model[end italics] he said; for my Flattery was still stronger than [italics] his [end italics], & yet somehow or other less [italics] hyperbolical [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

James Harris : [Dedication in] Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar
'of James Harris Dedication to his Hermes he said that tho' but 14 Lines long, there were 6 Grammatical faults in it'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Martial : Epigrams
'of Elphinstone's specimen of Martial he [Johnson] said, there was too much Folly in them for Madness, and too much Madness for Folly'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Metastasio [pseud.] : Adriano
'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank Verse - [italics] sur le Champ [end italics]: Baretti wrote it down from his Lips, and I write it now from Baretti's Copy, which is almost worne out with lying by in the folds'. [the verses are given in Italian and English]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Maria Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano']
'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank Verse - [italics] sur le Champ [end italics]: Baretti wrote it down from his Lips, and I write it now from Baretti's Copy, which is almost worne out with lying by in the folds'. [the verses are given in Italian and English]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Burney : [poem about Mrs Thrale]
'I shall transcribe some Verses of Doctor Burney's on the same unworthy Subject [herself]; on which Verses Johnson made this remark when he saw them. These says he are some of the few Verses which have as much Truth as Wit, and as much Wit as Truth' [the verses are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Burney : [verses modelled on 'The Dunciad']
'[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a little Poem partly on the Plan & in the Spirit of the Dunciad in which are some exquisite Strokes of Satire well express'd, with great fertility of Allusion too, & his personified Characters of Science, Wit, and Taste, are as happily finished as 'tis possible'. [some speciumens of the verse are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

: [a story book]
'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of the Earthquake was very dismal, and that of the Dwarf very comical; 'tis better Sport to hear of such Things than to read that stupid Book about [italics] Sympathy & Poetical Language [end italics] written by the Man there with a [italics] Woman's [end italics][ Name - Doctor [italics] Betty [end italics] as you call him - She meant Dr [italics] Beattie [end italics] whose book Mrs Cumyns - her Governess had been foolish enough to put into her hands'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Thrale      Print: Book

James Beattie : Essays on Poetry and Music
'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of the Earthquake was very dismal, and that of the Dwarf very comical; 'tis better Sport to hear of such Things than to read that stupid Book about [italics] Sympathy & Poetical Language [end italics] written by the Man there with a [italics] Woman's [end italics][ Name - Doctor [italics] Betty [end italics] as you call him - She meant Dr [italics] Beattie [end italics] whose book Mrs Cumyns - her Governess had been foolish enough to put into her hands'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Thrale      Print: Book

: [newspaper]
'A Gentleman - one Mr Martin a Surgeon - was reproving his Son for relating some Story of a Gentleman's Marriage which he had read in the Newspaper & quoted from Thence a little Mal a propos: the boy was but ten Years old'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

Anacreon : Dove
''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses that had struck him when a Boy; so says he they continue to please me as well as any Greek Verses now I am Three score'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Jones : [MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day]
'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when only 13 Years old. Both the Authour & his Friend swear to their Authenticity or I would not take the Trouble to transcribe them here - it is an Ode in honour of St Caecilia's day Descriptive of the Effects of Musick'. [the poem is given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

: [a New York newspaper]
'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teething Children, & some new fashioned Sweet meats fit says the confectioner for a very elegant Table. Now does not all this prove to a Demonstration that Publick Occurrences affect not private Felicity?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Newspaper

James Grainger : 'Solitude: An Ode'
'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was sent over hither of Course, & when Dr Johnson first laid hold of it he put it in his Pocket without Examination, & carrying it to a place where he was to meet some Literary Friends, told them he had something about him that might in the reading afford them some Amusement: & according begun at the opening of the Poem thus Where shall the Muse her arduous Task begin? where breathless end? Say shall [italics] we sing of Rats? [end italics] Thus does an Author differ from himself, & a great Mind deviate into Absurdity merely for want of friends to look over their Performance.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

James Grainger : Sugar Cane, The
'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was sent over hither of Course, & when Dr Johnson first laid hold of it he put it in his Pocket without Examination, & carrying it to a place where he was to meet some Literary Friends, told them he had something about him that might in the reading afford them some Amusement: & according begun at the opening of the Poem thus Where shall the Muse her arduous Task begin? where breathless end? Say shall [italics] we sing of Rats? [end italics] Thus does an Author differ from himself, & a great Mind deviate into Absurdity merely for want of friends to look over their Performance.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett :
'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the Husk of Life perfectly well - & for the Kernel - you must go to either Richardson or Rousseau'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Henry Fielding :
'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the Husk of Life perfectly well - & for the Kernel - you must go to either Richardson or Rousseau'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson :
'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the Husk of Life perfectly well - & for the Kernel - you must go to either Richardson or Rousseau'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau :
'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the Husk of Life perfectly well - & for the Kernel - you must go to either Richardson or Rousseau'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon : Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but that is a Romance'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year
'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but that is a Romance'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Arthur Murphy : Grecian Daughter, the: A tragedy
'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I believe ever dreamed of repeating a line on't: Now though to move Terror & Pity those two throbbing Pulses of the Drama, be the first Thing required in a Tragedy; there are others which are necessary to make it complete, as Sentiment Diction &c. 'tis entertaining enough to observe the effect of each style separately - & we shall have Cato and Irene at one End; the Earl of Essex and George Barnwell at the other'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Irene: A Historical Tragedy
'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I believe ever dreamed of repeating a line on't: Now though to move Terror & Pity those two throbbing Pulses of the Drama, be the first Thing required in a Tragedy; there are others which are necessary to make it complete, as Sentiment Diction &c. 'tis entertaining enough to observe the effect of each style separately - & we shall have Cato and Irene at one End; the Earl of Essex and George Barnwell at the other'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Cato
'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I believe ever dreamed of repeating a line on't: Now though to move Terror & Pity those two throbbing Pulses of the Drama, be the first Thing required in a Tragedy; there are others which are necessary to make it complete, as Sentiment Diction &c. 'tis entertaining enough to observe the effect of each style separately - & we shall have Cato and Irene at one End; the Earl of Essex and George Barnwell at the other'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

George Lillo : London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell
'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I believe ever dreamed of repeating a line on't: Now though to move Terror & Pity those two throbbing Pulses of the Drama, be the first Thing required in a Tragedy; there are others which are necessary to make it complete, as Sentiment Diction &c. 'tis entertaining enough to observe the effect of each style separately - & we shall have Cato and Irene at one End; the Earl of Essex and George Barnwell at the other'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Henry Jones : Earl of Essex, The, a tragedy
'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I believe ever dreamed of repeating a line on't: Now though to move Terror & Pity those two throbbing Pulses of the Drama, be the first Thing required in a Tragedy; there are others which are necessary to make it complete, as Sentiment Diction &c. 'tis entertaining enough to observe the effect of each style separately - & we shall have Cato and Irene at one End; the Earl of Essex and George Barnwell at the other'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

William Congreve : Mourning Bride, The
'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passage in Congreve's Mourning Bride: beginning thus How reverend is the face of Yon tall Pile!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

William Darrell : Gentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life
'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever be the fate of the Rambler? - perhaps so.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: [verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman]
'[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Accession of the present King, or about the time of his marriage, in the Year 1761 however; about a Six Pence wch Parker had lent him or some such stuff - the Curiosity of it consists merely in the Age of the Writer, & in an Allusion to an Anecdote now almost forgotten of the famous Doctor Wilson'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Mr Paterson : [verses written to Kitty Parker]
'[at a gathering on the Isle of Wight] it fell to Paterson's Share [in a rhyming contest] it seems to celebrate Kitty Parker, then a reigning Beauty: he promised not to leave the Room, nor even the Table but insisted on Pen and Ink which was granted, & in less than half an hour he read the following verses to the Company' [the verses are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Paterson      Manuscript: Unknown

John Milton :
'[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send her chair for me & set me to read Milton I remember sometimes to Lord Godolphin sometimes to Mr Garrick who used often to be there & Mr Quin'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Salusbury      Print: Book

Thomas Parnell :
'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immediately guessed one of them to be mine, and pitched upon the right. The Verses are very like some in Parnell, but rather better in my Opinion' [the translation of 'A Madame de Chatelet' follows]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Hester Lynch Thrale : [translation of Voltaire's 'A Madame de Chatelet']
'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immediately guessed one of them to be mine, and pitched upon the right. The Verses are very like some in Parnell, but rather better in my Opinion' [the translation of 'A Madame de Chatelet' follows]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia Streatfield      Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : Rival, The
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

John Hawkesworth : [Ode on life]
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : Amurath
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

John Hawkesworth : Adventurer, The
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Richardson :
'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau :
'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Ferdinand Count Fathom
'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Charlotte Lennox : Female Quixote, The
'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews
'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Plutarch : Lives
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Richard Knolles : The generall historie of the Turks
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Paul Rycaut : History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Richard Baker : A Chronicle of England
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

S.J. Alvaro Semedo : The History of China
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Flavius Josephus : The History of the Jewish Wars
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Adam Olearius : Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Mandelilo : Travels (unidentified)
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Taverniere : Travels (unidentified)
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Pietro della Valle : Travels in Persia
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Vincent Le Blanc : The world surveyed: or, The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent Le Blanc
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Fernão Mendes Pinto : Pilgrimage of Fernam Mendez Pinto in which is told the many and very strange things he saw and heard in the kingdom of China, in the one of Tartary, in the one of Sornau, usually called Siam, in the one of Calaminhan, in the one of Pegù...
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Thomas Gage : Travels in the New World
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Terre : Travels (unidentified)
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

anon : History of the Life of Monsieur d'Epernon
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

unknown : History of Naples
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

unknown : History of Venice
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

William Camden : Historie of the Life and Reigne of Elizabeth
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Herodian : History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Procopius of Caesarea : Secret History
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sands : Travels (unidentified)
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Olaus Magnus : History of the Northern People
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Rudolf Jakob Camerarius : De sexu plantarum epistola
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Suetonius : De Vita Caesarum [the Twelve Caesars]
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Appian : Roman History
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Speed : Chronicle of the Life of King James
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Purchas : His Pilgrimage or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered from the Creation Unto This Present
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

unknown : Sermons
[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Richard Corbett : Epitaph on King James
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'King James his Epitaph by Bishop Corbet'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Aphra Behn : Epitaph on William Fairfax
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Aphra Behn, 'Epitaph on William Fairfax'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Walter Ralegh : Even such is time which takes in trust
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Walter Ralegh, 'Even such is time which takes in trust'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Richard Corbett : To his Son Vincent Corbett
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'To his Son Vincent Corbett'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Richard Corbett : An Elegie upon the Death of his own Father
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'An Elegie upon the Death of his own Father'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Sir Henry Wotton : On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Wotton, 'On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton.'
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

: Psalms, 56:3
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Psalm 56 v. 3.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Walter Ralegh : Like hermit poor
In Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a paraphrase of Walter Ralegh's lines 'Like hermit poor', entitled 'A Christian paraphrase on those Verses Like Hermit poor, &c'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

John Donne : A Hymne to God the Father
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Donne, 'A Hymne to God the Father'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs
Written in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand a translation of John Foxe's 'The Epitaph upon that Blessed Martyr Walter Mill at St Andrews in Scotland.'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Thomas Carey : On his mistress going to sea
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Thomas Carey, 'On his Mistress going to Sea'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

John Taylor : There for a token I did thinke it meete
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Taylor, 'There for a token I did thinke it meete'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Henry Savile : To the King
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Savile, 'To the King'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

William Alabaster : Verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Alabaster, 'Dr Alabasters verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Joshua Sylvester : Translation of the second day from Guillaume Du Bartas's The Second Week
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of an extract from Joshua Sylvester's translation of the second day from Guillaume Du Bartas's The Second Week (1598), ll. 663-6.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Richard Fanshawe : A Happy Life out of Martial
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Fanshawe, 'A Happy Life out of Martial'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Charles Aleyn : The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of a Couplet from Charles Aleyn, 'The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Katherine Phillips : A Virgin
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Katherine Phillips, 'A Virgin'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

: The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Queen, March ye 7 1710
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Queen, March ye 7 1710'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sir Thomas Browne (attrib.) : Verses beginning 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe'
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of lines attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, beginning, 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

William Scroggs : Speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his impeachment in 1680-1
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of extracts from a speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his impeachment in 1680-1.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

William Cartwright : To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Cartwright, 'To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sir Thomas Browne : Fragment on meadowes
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Sir Thomas Browne : Seignor verdero in his proper habitt,
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Anon : An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Anon : A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Richard Corbett : King James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope Knight, when his Lady was lately delivered of a daughter, which babe was Presented to the King with a Paper of verses in her hand...
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'King James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope Knight, when his Lady was lately delivered of a daughter, which babe was Presented to the King with a Paper of verses in her hand...'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Edward Tenison : anagrams and couplets
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Edward Tenison, a pair of anagrams on Elizabeth Lyttelton's name, and also a pair of couplets, written on the occasion of her marriage to George Lyttelton in 1680.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Manuscript: Unknown

Sir Henry Wotton : Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Sir Henry Wotton : The Character of a Happy Life
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'The Character of a Happy Life'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

St Ignatius of Antioch : My Love is Crucified
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of St Ignatius of Antioch, 'My Love is Crucified'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

Sir Philip Woodhouse : Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton

John Foxe : The Prayer of Luther at his death
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The Prayer of Luther at his death'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

John Foxe : The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

John Foxe : Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

Philippe Quinault : Autre
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Philippe Quinault, 'Autre'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: libretto

Frances Burney : Evelina
'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was by his second Daughter Fanny, who certainly must be a Girl of good Parts & some Knowledge of the World too, or She could not be the Author of Evelina - flimzy as it is compar'd with the Books I've just mentioned. [by Fielding, Lennox, Richardson and Smollet] Johnson said Harry Fielding never did anything equal to the 2d Vol: of Evelina'. [this remark is added later - Johnson borrowed the book from her around 22nd July so her opinion must date from before that]
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina
'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was by his second Daughter Fanny, who certainly must be a Girl of good Parts & some Knowledge of the World too, or She could not be the Author of Evelina - flimzy as it is compar'd with the Books I've just mentioned. [by Fielding, Lennox, Richardson and Smollet] Johnson said Harry Fielding never did anything equal to the 2d Vol: of Evelina'. [this remark is added later - Johnson borrowed the book from her around 22nd July so her opinion must date from before that]
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina
'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was by his second Daughter Fanny, who certainly must be a Girl of good Parts & some Knowledge of the World too, or She could not be the Author of Evelina - flimzy as it is compar'd with the Books I've just mentioned. [by Fielding, Lennox, Richardson and Smollet] Johnson said Harry Fielding never did anything equal to the 2d Vol: of Evelina'. [this remark is added later - Johnson borrowed the book from her around 22nd July so her opinion must date from before that]
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Gilles Menage : Menagiana
'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler that they called him sport Monsieur Tracas.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Charles Burney : [verses on death]
'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough, but the Lines themselves are most excellent' [the lines follow]
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Burney : [verses on death]
'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough, but the Lines themselves are most excellent' [the lines follow]
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Home, Lord Kames : Sketches of the History of Man
'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Years backward - he then begins gravely to argue about parental Affection, never reflecting that if the children were eaten the Race could not be continued'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of the Earth and Animated Nature
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens, & takes all their Meat from them. [Thrale continues to critique Goldsmith's knowledge of natural history] Pennant speaks most rationally about Natural History of any of our Countrymen, and among the Foreigners, Buffon makes amends to [italics] most [end italics] readers by his elegant Style & profound Ratiocination for his frequent Mistakes in the Facts.- Johnson in his Irene frequently mentions singing Birds though I believe the Birds about Constantinople are nearly mute: Thompson observes that in hot Climates the Birds scarce ever sing'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

James Thomson : Seasons, The - 'Spring'
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens, & takes all their Meat from them. [Thrale continues to critique Goldsmith's knowledge of natural history] Pennant speaks most rationally about Natural History of any of our Countrymen, and among the Foreigners, Buffon makes amends to [italics] most [end italics] readers by his elegant Style & profound Ratiocination for his frequent Mistakes in the Facts.- Johnson in his Irene frequently mentions singing Birds though I believe the Birds about Constantinople are nearly mute: Thompson observes that in hot Climates the Birds scarce ever sing'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

James Thomson : Seasons, The - 'Summer'
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens, & takes all their Meat from them. [Thrale continues to critique Goldsmith's knowledge of natural history] Pennant speaks most rationally about Natural History of any of our Countrymen, and among the Foreigners, Buffon makes amends to [italics] most [end italics] readers by his elegant Style & profound Ratiocination for his frequent Mistakes in the Facts.- Johnson in his Irene frequently mentions singing Birds though I believe the Birds about Constantinople are nearly mute: Thompson observes that in hot Climates the Birds scarce ever sing'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Irene: A Historical Tragedy
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens, & takes all their Meat from them. [Thrale continues to critique Goldsmith's knowledge of natural history] Pennant speaks most rationally about Natural History of any of our Countrymen, and among the Foreigners, Buffon makes amends to [italics] most [end italics] readers by his elegant Style & profound Ratiocination for his frequent Mistakes in the Facts.- Johnson in his Irene frequently mentions singing Birds though I believe the Birds about Constantinople are nearly mute: Thompson observes that in hot Climates the Birds scarce ever sing'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire Naturelle
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens, & takes all their Meat from them. [Thrale continues to critique Goldsmith's knowledge of natural history] Pennant speaks most rationally about Natural History of any of our Countrymen, and among the Foreigners, Buffon makes amends to [italics] most [end italics] readers by his elegant Style & profound Ratiocination for his frequent Mistakes in the Facts.- Johnson in his Irene frequently mentions singing Birds though I believe the Birds about Constantinople are nearly mute: Thompson observes that in hot Climates the Birds scarce ever sing'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Thomas Pennant : History of Quadrupeds.
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens, & takes all their Meat from them. [Thrale continues to critique Goldsmith's knowledge of natural history] Pennant speaks most rationally about Natural History of any of our Countrymen, and among the Foreigners, Buffon makes amends to [italics] most [end italics] readers by his elegant Style & profound Ratiocination for his frequent Mistakes in the Facts.- Johnson in his Irene frequently mentions singing Birds though I believe the Birds about Constantinople are nearly mute: Thompson observes that in hot Climates the Birds scarce ever sing'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Vanbrugh : Esop; a comedy
'[Having given her verses 'A Tale for the Times'] This wild irregular Measure is a sort of Favourite with me, I learnt it in Vanbrugh's Esop - a sweet Comedy though impracticable upon the Stage'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Martial : Epigrams
'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus Iam dic Posthume de tribus Capellis. that it would have a good effect enough in English adapted to the present Times - Dec: 1778.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Edward Young : Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Southern : Fatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adultery
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

George Lillo : Fatal Curiosity: A True Tragedy of Three Acts
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Vanbrugh : Provoked Husband, The
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

William Congreve : Old Batchelor, The
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Cato
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Irene: a Historical Tragedy
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

William Congreve : Mourning Bride, The
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

William Congreve : Mourning Bride, The
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the South Sea. The two Tragedies which go nearest one's Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern's Fatal Marriage and Lillo's Fatal Curiosity. The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard & Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one. The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison's Cato, & that between the two Ladies in Johnson's Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language & Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say. Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride. [italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: 'Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd'
'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I have lost Sight of them: they celebrated Mr Rudd's Fame very comically, & ended with a Parody upon Young's Tag to the 4th Act of the Revenge.[some of the parody is given] I have a Notion these Verses were written by Mason, who would not to be sure think it worth while to own them; his being found out to be the Authour of the heroick Epistle shews he has under that appearance of Coldness - a large portion of Fire and pungent Satire'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

William Mason : 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers'
'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I have lost Sight of them: they celebrated Mr Rudd's Fame very comically, & ended with a Parody upon Young's Tag to the 4th Act of the Revenge.[some of the parody is given] I have a Notion these Verses were written by Mason, who would not to be sure think it worth while to own them; his being found out to be the Authour of the heroick Epistle shews he has under that appearance of Coldness - a large portion of Fire and pungent Satire'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

Moliere [pseud.] : Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

John Dryden : Song for St. Cecilia's Day
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Antiquary
'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-room with a little wax taper in my hand ... a white towel over my head, intoning the dirge from Ivanhoe ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
15 Oct 1855 Meeting Minutes: Report from Elizabeth Fry Refuge - 'One of them Eliza Salmon was a Roman Catholic and has often told the Matron that until she came to this Refuge she never had opened a Bible: she now tells her in a letter that she reads the scriptures daily, and will never go to a Priest again.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Salmon      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Daily entry in journal, reads the Scriptures to the female convicts on board the 'Cadet' every morning and evening.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Thurs 16 November 1848: 'Visited an invalid in hospital, conversed with her on her everlasting concern, read and expounded portions of Scripture applicable to her state of mind - concluded with a prayer - observed her much affected'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Mon 20 November 1848: 'After service conversed with Ellen Hinds and Anne Wheatcroft who appeared truly contrite, read a portion of Scripture, concluded with prayer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Tues 21 November 1848: 'After service conversed apart with Anne Wheatcroft who indicated a very favourable state of mind - read and expounded a portion of Scripture suitable to her state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
27 Nov 1848 to 17 Apr 1849: visits the inmates in ship hospital to read Scriptures to them every morning.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Tues 27 Mar 1849 - Sat 31 Mar 1849: chaplain had accident on board ship, Matron reads Scriptures to convicts every morning and evening
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Fri 19 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving much'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: female convicts     Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Fri 31 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - desirous to improve'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: female convicts     Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Fri 10 Mar 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving in Scripture knowledge'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: female convicts     Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : "The Bugle Song"
From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883): '[18 September] In response to an invitation from the hospitable Sir Donald [Currie] the Royalties came to luncheon on board [...] In the small smoking room after luncheon my father, at the request of the Princess of Wales, read "The Bugle Song" and "The Grandmother." The Czarina paid him some very pretty compliment, and he, being very short-sighted, and taking her for a Maid of Honour, patted her on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, my dear."'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : "The Grandmother"
From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883): '[18 September] In response to an invitation from the hospitable Sir Donald [Currie] the Royalties came to luncheon on board [...] In the small smoking room after luncheon my father, at the request of the Princess of Wales, read "The Bugle Song" and "The Grandmother." The Czarina paid him some very pretty compliment, and he, being very short-sighted, and taking her for a Maid of Honour, patted her on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, my dear."'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

William Shakespeare : Pericles (Act V)
From Hallam Tennyson's survey of his father's 'Criticisms on Poets and Poetry': 'After reading Pericles, Act v. aloud: '"That is glorious Shakespeare: most of the rest of the play is poor, and not by Shakespeare, but in that act the conception of Marina's character is exquisite."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Locksley Hall
From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three hours. We smoked, and he talked of metaphysics, and poetry, and religion, his own life, and Hallam, and all the poems [...] Then we went down to the drawing-room where the rest were, and he read his poetry to us till the clock said twelve -- "Locksley Hall," "Sir Galahad," pieces of "Maud" (which he specially likes to read), and some of his dialect poems. He said, by the way, in reading "Locksley Hall," that the verse beginning 'Love took up, etc 'was the best simile he ever made; and that a certain line in "The Gardener's daughter" were the ones on which he most piqued himself.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Sir Galahad
From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three hours. We smoked, and he talked of metaphysics, and poetry, and religion, his own life, and Hallam, and all the poems [...] Then we went down to the drawing-room where the rest were, and he read his poetry to us till the clock said twelve -- "Locksley Hall," "Sir Galahad," pieces of "Maud" (which he specially likes to read), and some of his dialect poems. He said, by the way, in reading "Locksley Hall," that the verse beginning 'Love took up, etc 'was the best simile he ever made; and that a certain line in "The Gardener's daughter" were the ones on which he most piqued himself.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Maud (extracts)
From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three hours. We smoked, and he talked of metaphysics, and poetry, and religion, his own life, and Hallam, and all the poems [...] Then we went down to the drawing-room where the rest were, and he read his poetry to us till the clock said twelve -- "Locksley Hall," "Sir Galahad," pieces of "Maud" (which he specially likes to read), and some of his dialect poems. He said, by the way, in reading "Locksley Hall," that the verse beginning 'Love took up, etc 'was the best simile he ever made; and that a certain line in "The Gardener's daughter" were the ones on which he most piqued himself.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : 'dialect poems'
From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three hours. We smoked, and he talked of metaphysics, and poetry, and religion, his own life, and Hallam, and all the poems [...] Then we went down to the drawing-room where the rest were, and he read his poetry to us till the clock said twelve -- "Locksley Hall," "Sir Galahad," pieces of "Maud" (which he specially likes to read), and some of his dialect poems. He said, by the way, in reading "Locksley Hall," that the verse beginning 'Love took up, etc 'was the best simile he ever made; and that a certain line in "The Gardener's daughter" were the ones on which he most piqued himself.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Roden Noel : poems
Alfred Tennyson to Roden Noel (February 1885): 'Your article in the Contemporary has been sent to me ***. My eyes are very bad. One is entirely gone for all reading purposes, and the other -- I hope it will not fail me utterly before I die; -- but I have looked into your book, and find it full of true poetry -- not concentration enough, perhaps.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: newspaper report on rescue of child by dog
'On Dec. 15th [1887] "Owd Roa" was finished for press. My father's note on the poem is: "I read in one of the daily papers of a child saved by a black retriever from a burning house. The details of the story are of course mine."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Newspaper

Alfred Tennyson : The Leper's Bride
'1888. At Easter Miss Mary Anderson [actress] was with us again and he [Tennyson] read to her, whom he admired much, and held to be "the flower of girlhood," "The Leper's Bride," just finished.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Homer : Iliad
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Euripides : Iphigenia in Aulis
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : 'on Tolstoi'
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

John Fiske : The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Gibbon : History
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

John Keats : Poems
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Recluse
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Virgil : Georgics (II)
From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]" 'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Plato : Thaetetus
From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan.15th. [1889] My father asked Jowett whether his faith in God was more earnest than it had been. He answered, "Yes, certainly." He read my father the fine comparison between the philosopher and the lawyer in the Thaetetus.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett      Print: Book

Bret Harte : Cressy
From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 27th. and 28th. [1889] We carried him down for the first time to the drawing-room [...] Read Bret Harte's Cressy.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Plato : The Vision of Er
From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiaeus and said, "That is eternal hell which I do not believe." I read to him some of Book II. of the Republic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Plato : Republic (Book II)
From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiaeus and said, "That is eternal hell which I do not believe." I read to him some of Book II. of the Republic.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution
From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] my father drew upon his wonderful memory for some of his endless stories: Of [mentions various stories] [...] Of Hallam (the historian) saying to him, "I have tried to read Carlyle's French Revolution, but cannot get on, the style is so abominable."'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Northern Cobbler
From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems: 'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a village entertainment, the drunkard of the village, on her coming to the line, 'An' I loook'd [sic] cock-eyed at my noase an' i sead 'im a-gittin o'fire, 'left the room, saying, "Women knoaws too much now-a-daay."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Hayley : Life of Romney
'Of "Romney's Remorse" [Tennyson] notes: "Edward Fitzgerald said in a letter, 'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the other day: Romney wanted but education and reading to make him a very fine painter; but his ideal was not high and fine [comments further on personal life and qualities of Romney]'".
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'Crossing the Bar'
'"Crossing the Bar" was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October when we came from Aldworth to Farringford. Before reaching Farringford he had the Moaning of the Bar in his mind, and after dinner he showed me this poem written out. 'I said, "That is the crown of your life's work." He answered, "It came in a moment." He explained the "Pilot" as "That Divine and Unseen Who is always guiding us." 'A few days before my father's death he said to me: "Mind you put 'Crossing the Bar' at the end of all editions of my poems."'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : 'Crossing the Bar'
'My father considered Edmund Lushington's translation into Greek of "Crossing the Bar," one of the finest translations he had ever read'.
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Benjamin Disraeli : Henrietta Temple
'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love was given perfectly there. Lothair he did not admire, "altho' it was written to stir up the English gentry and nobility to be leaders of the people."'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Lothair
'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love was given perfectly there. Lothair he did not admire, "altho' it was written to stir up the English gentry and nobility to be leaders of the people."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Henry Esmond
'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false sentiment that, as Thackeray said, one cannot draw a man as he should be." He would read and re-read them as well as Walter Scott's and Miss Austen's novels. His comments on Walter Scott and Miss Austen were: "Scott is the most chivalrous literary figure of this century and the author with the widest range since Shakespeare. I think Old Mortality is his greatest novel. The realism and life-likeness of Miss Austen's Dramatis Personae come nearest to those of Shakespeare. Shakespeare however is a sun to which Jane Austen, tho' a bright and true little world, is but an asteroid."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Pendennis
'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false sentiment that, as Thackeray said, one cannot draw a man as he should be." He would read and re-read them as well as Walter Scott's and Miss Austen's novels. His comments on Walter Scott and Miss Austen were: "Scott is the most chivalrous literary figure of this century and the author with the widest range since Shakespeare. I think Old Mortality is his greatest novel. The realism and life-likeness of Miss Austen's Dramatis Personae come nearest to those of Shakespeare. Shakespeare however is a sun to which Jane Austen, tho' a bright and true little world, is but an asteroid."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Newcomes
'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false sentiment that, as Thackeray said, one cannot draw a man as he should be." He would read and re-read them as well as Walter Scott's and Miss Austen's novels. His comments on Walter Scott and Miss Austen were: "Scott is the most chivalrous literary figure of this century and the author with the widest range since Shakespeare. I think Old Mortality is his greatest novel. The realism and life-likeness of Miss Austen's Dramatis Personae come nearest to those of Shakespeare. Shakespeare however is a sun to which Jane Austen, tho' a bright and true little world, is but an asteroid."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Walter Scott : novels including Old Mortality
'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false sentiment that, as Thackeray said, one cannot draw a man as he should be." He would read and re-read them as well as Walter Scott's and Miss Austen's novels. His comments on Walter Scott and Miss Austen were: "Scott is the most chivalrous literary figure of this century and the author with the widest range since Shakespeare. I think Old Mortality is his greatest novel. The realism and life-likeness of Miss Austen's Dramatis Personae come nearest to those of Shakespeare. Shakespeare however is a sun to which Jane Austen, tho' a bright and true little world, is but an asteroid."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Jane Austen : novels
'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false sentiment that, as Thackeray said, one cannot draw a man as he should be." He would read and re-read them as well as Walter Scott's and Miss Austen's novels. His comments on Walter Scott and Miss Austen were: "Scott is the most chivalrous literary figure of this century and the author with the widest range since Shakespeare. I think Old Mortality is his greatest novel. The realism and life-likeness of Miss Austen's Dramatis Personae come nearest to those of Shakespeare. Shakespeare however is a sun to which Jane Austen, tho' a bright and true little world, is but an asteroid."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

George Meredith :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Walter Besant :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Black :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Thomas Hardy :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Henry James :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Marion Crawford :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Anstey :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Barrie :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

R. D. Blackmore :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Arthur Conan Doyle :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Mary Braddon :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Miss Lawless :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Ouida :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Rhoda Broughton :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Lady Margaret Majendie :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Hall Caine :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Shorthouse :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Edna Lyall : Autobiography of a Slander
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Wilhelmina von Hillern : Geier-Wally
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Frances Hodgson Burnett : Surly Tim: A Lancashire Story
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Margaret Oliphant :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

: Tithes Bill
From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'A sudden attack of influenza had made my father ill again. Despite his growing weakness, his interest in the larger politics of the country never failed. Thus at his wish I read the new Tithes Bill to him'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Robert Southwell : 'The Burning Babe'
From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 8th. [1890] He made me read Southwell's "Burning Babe" to him out of Palgrave's Sacred Song.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

Homer :
From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 17th. [1890] He [Tennyson] had all but recovered from his influenza, and sat in the sun in front of the study window, and read Jebb's Homer'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Ode on the Duke of Wellington
From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] At the request of Watts, my father read the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" [...] I read "The Golden Bough" and the "Story of a Balaclava Hero" to Watts and my father, while the portrait was in hand.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

J. G. Frazer : The Golden Bough
From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] At the request of Watts, my father read the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" [...] I read "The Golden Bough" and the "Story of a Balaclava Hero" to Watts and my father, while the portrait was in hand.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

: "story of a Balaclava hero"
From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91: 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] I read "The Golden Bough" and the "Story of a Balaclava Hero" to Watts and my father, while the portrait was in hand.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : Guinevere
From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91: 'Aug. 6th. [1890] Aldworth. The Duchess of Albany came to luncheon with us in honour of my father's eighty-first birthday [...] At her request he read "Guinevere" aloud."
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Ode on the Duke of Wellington
'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read. My father answered, "I will only read you something old." He read the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington." He dwelt long on the final words, letting them ring so to speak, especially "toll'd, Boom." At the end he said, "It is a great roll of words, the music of words. For a hundred people who can sing a song, there are not ten who can read a poem. People do not understand the music of words." He then read the little Dedication to "OEnone," then the poem. He explained the story, pausing from time to time, asking a few questions'.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Dedication, OEnone
'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read. My father answered, "I will only read you something old." He read the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington." He dwelt long on the final words, letting them ring so to speak, especially "toll'd, Boom." At the end he said, "It is a great roll of words, the music of words. For a hundred people who can sing a song, there are not ten who can read a poem. People do not understand the music of words." He then read the little Dedication to "OEnone," then the poem. He explained the story, pausing from time to time, asking a few questions'.
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : OEnone
'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read. My father answered, "I will only read you something old." He read the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington." He dwelt long on the final words, letting them ring so to speak, especially "toll'd, Boom." At the end he said, "It is a great roll of words, the music of words. For a hundred people who can sing a song, there are not ten who can read a poem. People do not understand the music of words." He then read the little Dedication to "OEnone," then the poem. He explained the story, pausing from time to time, asking a few questions'.
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Sir Edward Reed : 'lines on the Fleet'
'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Darwinism, which he was reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Russel Wallace : Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of its Applications
'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Darwinism, which he was reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

William Watson : 'Wordsworth's Grave'
'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Rudyard Kipling : 'The English Flag'
'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him [...] He praised too Mr Rudyard Kipling's "English Flag," and Kipling's answer to his letter of commendation gave him pleasure: "When the private in the ranks is praised by the general, he cannot presume to thank him, but he fights the better next day."'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : The Lotos-Eaters
'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eaters" which he was setting to music. 'For the first time my father's voice, usually so strong, failed while reading this poem and the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington," which he was anxious that a great composer should set as he read it.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Ode on the Duke of Wellington
'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eaters" which he was setting to music. 'For the first time my father's voice, usually so strong, failed while reading this poem and the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington," which he was anxious that a great composer should set as he read it.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : The Passing of Arthur
'In March [1892] he [Tennyson] recovered his voice [which had failed him during January] [...] He read "The Passing of Arthur" to Lord Houghton (now Lord Crewe) and his sister, Mrs Henniker, as well as ever'.
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Maud (extracts)
'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the bridge to the summer-house looking on the Down. After a little while he said: "Miss L----, my son says I am to read to you," and added, "I will read whatever you like." He read some of "Maud," "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and some "Enoch Arden." 'His voice, as Miss L---- noticed, was melodious and full of change, and quite unimpaired by age. There was a peculiar freshness and passion in his reading of "Maud," giving the impression that he had just written the poem, and that the emotion which created it was fresh in him [...] 'He thoroughly enjoyed reading his "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and when he was reading "Enoch Arden" he told Miss L---- to listen to the sound of the sea in the line 'The league-long roller thundering on the reef'.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : The Spinster's Sweet-Arts
'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the bridge to the summer-house looking on the Down. After a little while he said: "Miss L----, my son says I am to read to you," and added, "I will read whatever you like." He read some of "Maud," "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and some "Enoch Arden." 'His voice, as Miss L---- noticed, was melodious and full of change, and quite unimpaired by age. There was a peculiar freshness and passion in his reading of "Maud," giving the impression that he had just written the poem, and that the emotion which created it was fresh in him [...] 'He thoroughly enjoyed reading his "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and when he was reading "Enoch Arden" he told Miss L---- to listen to the sound of the sea in the line 'The league-long roller thundering on the reef'. 'His voice, as Miss L---- noticed, was melodious and full of change, and quite unimpaired by age. There was a peculiar freshness and passion in hiis reading of "Maud," giving the impression that he had just ridden the poem, and that the emotion which created it was fresh in him [...] 'He thoroughly enjoyed reading his "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and when he was reading "Enoch Arden" he told Miss L---- to listen to the sound of the sea in the line 'The league-long roller thundering on the reef'.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Enoch Arden (extracts)
'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the bridge to the summer-house looking on the Down. After a little while he said: "Miss L----, my son says I am to read to you," and added, "I will read whatever you like." He read some of "Maud," "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and some "Enoch Arden." 'His voice, as Miss L---- noticed, was melodious and full of change, and quite unimpaired by age. There was a peculiar freshness and passion in his reading of "Maud," giving the impression that he had just written the poem, and that the emotion which created it was fresh in him [...] 'He thoroughly enjoyed reading his "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and when he was reading "Enoch Arden" he told Miss L---- to listen to the sound of the sea in the line 'The league-long roller thundering on the reef'.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Thomas Carlyle : Proofs
I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answered it yesterday. But the villainous sheets kept me working till midnight; and now I am to be busy beyond all measure for a week or more.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Proofs

: Advertisement for Tea
'Our mother started with joy at the sight of 'great fall in Tea' printed in the last newspaper, at the head of an advertisement by, I think, one Melrose in South-Bd street Edinr: if you can get a quarter of a pound [pack?]ed in next time (about 1/6 worth) you may send it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Carlyle      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

William Ernest Henley : Athenaeum, 'The Poetry of Byron'
'I like your "Byron" well ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

William Ernest Henley : Cornhill Magazine 'Hector Berlioz: a Biography'
'I liked your ... "Berlioz" better.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'In the evening my father brought two friends with him and Lawrence Candler. As I was reading to my children in the laundry, my father brought them all in; when I had finished reading in the Testament we were all silent: - and soon John Kirkham knelt down in prayer and we all rose up; it was a very solemn time; my heart was not much moved, but I believe many of my dear children were affected by it'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of young people, like us, appearing to profess more than they who had lived here before us. However, I put off and put off till both William and Joseph went down; I then felt uneasy under it, and when Joseph came back, I told him, as I did before, what I wished; he at last sat down, having told George Dilwyn my desire. I began to read the 46th Psalm, but was so overcome that I could hardly read, and gave it to Joseph to finish.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of young people, like us, appearing to profess more than they who had lived here before us. However, I put off and put off till both William and Joseph went down; I then felt uneasy under it, and when Joseph came back, I told him, as I did before, what I wished; he at last sat down, having told George Dilwyn my desire. I began to read the 46th Psalm, but was so overcome that I could hardly read, and gave it to Joseph to finish.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I rather felt this morning it would have been right for me to read the Bible again, and stop George Dilwyn and Joseph reading something else. Now stopping G.D. was a difficult thing; for a person like me to remind him! however, I did not fully do as I thought right, for I did not openly tell G.D. we were going to read, but spoke to my husband, so as for him to hear; then he read, I knowing I had not done my best'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I again felt some difficulty at reading the Bible, however, I got through well. George Dilwyn encouraging me, by saying he thought I portioned the reading well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'George Dilwyn said, for our encouragement this morning, that he had seen, since he had been with us, the efficacy of reading in the Bible the first thing: he thought it a good beginning for the day'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown, possibly Bible]
'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Frederick Smith : [unknown]
'Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... I took them things for tea: I dreaded going on many accounts, fearing I should not feel at liberty to make any remarks I might wish to the children during their reading which it was my principal object in going to attend. I did not exactly see my way, however, I thought I would (as the Friends say) make my way. I found after tea they did not read till nearly eight, and I could not remain later than a little past seven. I spoke to the governess about it and she was quite willing to alter the hour, and so was the stewardess. I proposed reading a little pamphlet that has lately come out by Frederick Smith to the children. There was a solemnity during reading it; so that Ann Withers was in tears most of the time, and some of the children were disposed that way; afterwards, when we had finished, I endeavoured to weigh up whether I really had any thing to say to them or not; I thought that I had, and therefore took up the book as if to explain it; making my own remarks which appeared to affect the children and the governess so that those who were on the point of tears really wept. Now this event has made me feel rather odd; it is marvellous to me how I got courage to do it before Ann Withers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all present'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
'After poor John's funeral, I wished the servants, and those who attended, and were disposed to do so, to come and read with us, believing it might afford opportunity for relief, if any thing were given me for them. The party were in all about forty, many young people, and others. We first read two chapters in Matthew; after a pause, I kelt down and had to supplicate, first for all the party; afterwards for our own household, more particularly for the servants; in all which I was helped, and a very solemn silence followed'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I think, as far as I was concerned, I was rather rebellious after reading than otherwise'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scripture reading in the morning, it has been to me a very humbling thing, and I may say trying'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
Dec 1816 - Fry recommences visits to Newgate prison: 'On her second visit, she was, at her own request, left alone amongst the women for some hours, and on that occasion, she read to them the parable of the Lord in the vineyard, in the 20th chapter of St Matthew; and made a few observations on the eleventh hour, and on Christ having come to save sinners, even those who might be said to have wasted the greater part of their lives estranged from Him. Some asked who Christ was; others feared that their day of salvation was passed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (probably)
Words of a gentleman, well known to Fry, desirous of seeing and judging for himself effects of the experiment in Newgate Gaol, visited Newgate, and wrote: 'I was conducted by a decently-dressed person, the newly appointed yards-woman, to the door of a ward, where, at the head of a long table sat a lady belonging to the Society of Friends. She was reading aloud to the prisoners, who were engaged in needle work around it ... They all rose on my entrance, curtsied respectfully, and then at a signal given resumed their seats and employments.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'Most of the prisoners were collected in a room newly appointed for the purpose to hear a portion of the Sacred Scriptures read to them, either by the matron, or by one of the Ladies' Committee; which last is far preferrable ... I think I can never forget the impression made upon my feelings at this sight. Women from every part of Great Britain; of every age and condition, below the lower-middle rank; were assembled in mute silence, except when the interrupted breathing of their suckling infants informed us of the unhealthy state of these innocent partakers in their parents' punishment. The matron read; I could not refrain from tears; the women wept also; several were under the sentence of death. Swain for forging, who had just received her respite, sat next to me; and on my left hand sat Lawrence, alias Woodman, surrounded by her four children, and only waiting the birth of another, which she hourly expects, to pay the forfeit of her life, as her husband had done for the same crime a short time before'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown]
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school room] about twenty young women rose on our entrance and stood with their eyes cast to the ground. A young woman of respectable appearance, had offered herself as mistress, for keeping the young children in order; who were separated from their parents' words and placed in this room. I gave those who wished it permission to read to me, several could both read and write, some could say their letters, and others were in total ignorance, they wept as I asked them questions, and I read to them the parable of the prodigal son, as being particularly applicable to their present situation, they then resumed their needlework.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sophie de C      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school room] about twenty young women rose on our entrance and stood with their eyes cast to the ground. A young woman of respectable appearance, had offered herself as mistress, for keeping the young children in order; who were separated from their parents' words and placed in this room. I gave those who wished it permission to read to me, several could both read and write, some could say their letters, and others were in total ignorance, they wept as I asked them questions, and I read to them the parable of the prodigal son, as being particularly applicable to their present situation, they then resumed their needlework.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia de C      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'We next proceeded to the sick ward (it was in good order) and took a list of additional clothes wanted there, and read a chapter from the New Testament, we then bade adieu to this dismal abode'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia de C      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 2 May 1817: 'Rose early and visited Newgate where most of the Committee met to receive the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, several Aldermen, among whom were Sir William Curtis, Atkins and some of the Gaol Committee ... The women were assembled as usual, looking particularly clean, and Elizabeth Fry had commenced reading a Psalm, when the whole of this party entered this already crowded room. Her reading was thus interrupted for a short time. She looked calmly on the approaching gentlemen, who, soon perceiving the solemnity of her occupation, stood against the multitude; whilst Elizabeth Fry resumed her office, and the women their quietude; and in an impressive tone told them, she never permitted any trifling circumstance to interrupt the very solemn and important engagement of reading the Holy Scriptures ... The usual silence ensued after the reading, then the women withdrew. We could not help feeling particularly glad that the gentlemen were present at this reading'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 24 May 1817: 'I read to Woodman, who is not in the state of mind we could wish for her, indeed, so unnatural is her situation, that one can hardly tell how or in what manner to meet her case'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sophia de C      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our habit is constantly to read the Scriptures to them twice a day; many of them are taught, and some of them have been enabled to read a little themselves; it has an astonishing effect: I never saw the Scriptures received in the same way, and to many of them they have been entirely new, both the great system of religion and of morality contained in them; and it has been very satisfactory to observe the effect on their minds; when I have sometimes gone and said it was my intention to read, they would flock upstairs after me, as if it were a great pleasure, I had to afford them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our habit is constantly to read the Scriptures to them twice a day; many of them are taught, and some of them have been enabled to read a little themselves; it has an astonishing effect: I never saw the Scriptures received in the same way, and to many of them they have been entirely new, both the great system of religion and of morality contained in them; and it has been very satisfactory to observe the effect on their minds; when I have sometimes gone and said it was my intention to read, they would flock upstairs after me, as if it were a great pleasure, I had to afford them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interesting occasions that leave a lasting impression on the minds of those who witness them. There was a great uncertainty whether the poor convicts would see their benefactress again. She stood at the door of the cabin, attended by her friends and the Captain; the women on the quarter-deck facing them. The sailors, anxious to see what was going on, clambered into the rigging, on to the capstan, or mingled in the outskirts of the group. The silence was profound - when Mrs Fry opened her Bible, and in a clear audible voice, read a portion from it. The crews of the other vessels in the tier, attracted by the novelty of the scene, lent over the ships on either side and listened apparently with great attention; she closed the Bible, and after a short pause, knelt down on the deck, and implored a blessing on this work of Christian charity from that God, who, though one may sow and another water, can alone give the increase. Many of the women wept bitterly, all seemed touched'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ephesians)
Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - "I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at Devonshire House. The company consisted of the Duke of Norfolk, Lords Lansdowne, Lauderdale, Albermarle, Cowper, Hardwicke, Carnarvon, Sefton, Ossulton, Milton and Duncannon. The subject was Mrs Fry's exhortation to forty-five female convicts, at which Lord -- had been present on Friday. He could hardly refrain from tears in speaking of it. He called it the deepest tragedy he had ever witnessed. What she had read and expounded to the convicts, with almost miraculous effect, was the 4th chapter to the Ephesians.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

Priscilla Gurney : Selection of Hymns
E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

Samuel Scott : A diary of some religious exercises, and experience of Samuel Scott, late of Hartford
E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

Joseph Gurney Bevan : Piety Promoted
E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

[unknown] : Accounts of the Missions
E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

Isaac Watts : [unknown]
E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

How : [account of mission]
E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

Dalmon : poems
'In the beginning of September [1892], though feeling very ill, my father looked over a book of poems at the earnest entreaty of a stranger, Mr Dalmon, and made one or two criticisms. He crossed out Mr Dalmon's despairing words about poetry -- "[italics]The end is failure[end italics]" -- saying to him: "How can there be failure, if the divine speak through the human, be it through the voice of prince or peasant?"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: article on Keats and Wordsworth
From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father: 'While reading an article in the Spectator on blank verse, he observed: "I have been reading in the Spectator that Wordsworth and Keats are great masters of blank verse, who are also great in rhyme. Keats was not a master of blank verse. It might be true of Wordsworth at his best. Blank verse can be the finest mode of expression in our language."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Serial / periodical

Sully Prudhomme : L'Agonie
From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father: '"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been reading, and think it very beautiful, yet very sad; and there are things of Alfred de Musset like 'Tristesse' which seem to me perfect."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Alfred de Musset : poems including 'Tristesse'
From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father: '"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been reading, and think it very beautiful, yet very sad; and there are things of Alfred de Musset like 'Tristesse' which seem to me perfect."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Amiel : Journal Intime
'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in general good; but that the Journal throughout was too morbid for anything. 'The modern French poets were read by him with great interest. The last French poems he read were by Coppee, and by Jean Aicard.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Coppee : poems
'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in general good; but that the Journal throughout was too morbid for anything. 'The modern French poets were read by him with great interest. The last French poems he read were by Coppee, and by Jean Aicard.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Jean Aicard : poems
'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in general good; but that the Journal throughout was too morbid for anything. 'The modern French poets were read by him with great interest. The last French poems he read were by Coppee, and by Jean Aicard.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

: Book of Job
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...] 'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

St Matthew : Gospel
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...] 'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Anna Swanwick : Poets, The Interpreters of the Age
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...] 'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

: article on colonization of Uganda
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...] 'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy." 'On Thursday and Friday my father had a bad sore throat; on Friday my wife read him an article in the Times on the colonization of Uganda, for which he asked. He looked forward to the day when South Africa would be welded into one mighty state, linked in a strict federation with England.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Audrey Tennyson      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : King Lear, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...] 'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy" [...] 'On Friday my wife read him an article in the Times on the colonization of Uganda, for which he asked [...] 'On Monday morning at eight o'clock he sent me for his Shakespeare. I took him Steevens's edition, Lear, Cymbeline, and Troilus and Cressida, three plays which he loved dearly. 'He read two or three lines, and told Dr Dabbs that he should never get well again. We asked him later whether he felt better: he answered, "The doctor says I am." At his request I read some Shakespeare to him'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...] 'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy" [...] 'On Friday my wife read him an article in the Times on the colonization of Uganda, for which he asked [...] 'On Monday morning at eight o'clock he sent me for his Shakespeare. I took him Steevens's edition, Lear, Cymbeline, and Troilus and Cressida, three plays which he loved dearly. 'He read two or three lines, and told Dr Dabbs that he should never get well again. We asked him later whether he felt better: he answered, "The doctor says I am." At his request I read some Shakespeare to him'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day: 'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again asked for his Shakespeare and lay with his hand resting on it open, and tried to read it [...] His last food was taken at a quarter to four, and he tried to read, but could not.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day: 'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again asked for his Shakespeare and lay with his hand resting on it open, and tried to read it [...] His last food was taken at a quarter to four, and he tried to read, but could not.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's funeral: 'Many were seen reading "In Memoriam" while waiting before the service.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mourners at funeral of Alfred Tennyson     Print: Book

Dr Dabbs : account of death of Alfred Tennyson
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson: 'On Monday the 10th [October, 1892], Miss Marryat, daughter of the celebrated novelist, secured for me a copy of the Times, wherein I read the brief and touching account by Dr Dabbs of the passing away of Tennyson.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Tyndall      Print: Newspaper

Alfred Tennyson : Poems including 'The Two Voices'
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'Under the date of Sunday, 20th October, 1850, I find the following [journal] entry: "Up at 6 A.M. and began the day by reading Tennyson. I am acquainted with no spirit so strong, pure, and beautiful. Every line sparkles with empyrean fire, so that it is difficult to make a selection. I will, however, notice 'The Two Voices' [...] In this poem the tempter to despair is furnished with his best weapons, and foiled though armed cap-a-pie.'"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Tyndall      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began. Fifty years ago, in the sixth chapter of Carlyle's Past and Present I found the line: "There dwells the great Achilles whom we knew"; 'to which was attached a footnote referring the line to Tennyson [...] This footnote assured me that Tennyson was a poet whose acquaintance must be made without delay. Not very long afterwards, two young men might have been seen eagerly engaged upon a volume, in the corner of a modest hotel in St Martin's Court, Covent Garden. The one read, the other listened. The one, after a life of usefulness and honour, was snatched from us last year by influenza, and now lies in Highgate Cemetery, the other remains to record the fact. The book in which my friend Hirst and I were then absorbed was entitled "Poems by Alfred Tennyson."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Tyndall      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began. Fifty years ago, in the sixth chapter of Carlyle's Past and Present I found the line: "There dwells the great Achilles whom we knew"; 'to which was attached a footnote referring the line to Tennyson [...] This footnote assured me that Tennyson was a poet whose acquaintance must be made without delay. Not very long afterwards, two young men might have been seen eagerly engaged upon a volume, in the corner of a modest hotel in St Martin's Court, Covent Garden. The one read, the other listened. The one, after a life of usefulness and honour, was snatched from us last year by influenza, and now lies in Highgate Cemetery, the other remains to record the fact. The book in which my friend Hirst and I were then absorbed was entitled "Poems by Alfred Tennyson."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hirst      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began. Fifty years ago, in the sixth chapter of Carlyle's Past and Present I found the line: "There dwells the great Achilles whom we knew"; 'to which was attached a footnote referring the line to Tennyson [...] This footnote assured me that Tennyson was a poet whose acquaintance must be made without delay. Not very long afterwards, two young men might have been seen eagerly engaged upon a volume, in the corner of a modest hotel in St Martin's Court, Covent Garden. The one read, the other listened. The one, after a life of usefulness and honour, was snatched from us last year by influenza, and now lies in Highgate Cemetery, the other remains to record the fact. The book in which my friend Hirst and I were then absorbed was entitled "Poems by Alfred Tennyson" [...] 'The late excellent James Spedding, first drew my attention to the definition of poetry as "a fine excess," and certainly the effect of your father's inspired language upon the two young men above referred to could not be better expressed. It was wine to our intellects, and may a night between ten and eleven, during the winter of 1850-51, after the scientific labours of the day were over, we quaffed together of this noble vintage.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hirst and John Tyndall     Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of "Maud." Rachel had come to the Haymarket Theatre, for a few representations, and I, anxious to see and hear the great actress, engaged a stall. I had picked up "Maud" at a bookseller's in Piccadilly as I went to the theatre [...] I had read several pages before the play began. I read between the acts, lowering the book to catch sufficient light from the stage. Once I went out, and walked to and fro between St James's Square and the theatre, still reading. Before I reached my lodgings I had finished the poem. I thought it true, strong and beautiful'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Tyndall      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Maud
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of "Maud." Rachel had come to the Haymarket Theatre, for a few representations, and I, anxious to see and hear the great actress, engaged a stall. I had picked up "Maud" at a bookseller's in Piccadilly as I went to the theatre [...] I had read several pages before the play began. I read between the acts, lowering the book to catch sufficient light from the stage. Once I went out, and walked to and fro between St James's Square and the theatre, still reading. Before I reached my lodgings I had finished the poem. I thought it true, strong and beautiful'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Tyndall      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Tiresias and Other Poems
John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'In the year 1885 [...] were published Tiresias, and Other Poems, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. For a copy of this remarkable volume I am indebted to its author [goes on enthusiastically to discuss, and to quote at length from, various pieces in volume]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Tyndall      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
Recollections of Miss Young, who accompanied her father, Captain Young, to female convict ships at Woolwich: 'On board between two and three hundred women were assembled, in order to listen to the exhortation and prayers of, perhaps, the two brightest personifications of Christian philanthropy that the age could boast. Scarcely could two voices, even so distinguished for beauty and power be imagined, united in a more touching engagement: as indeed was intensified by the breathless attention, the tears and suppressed sobs of the gathered listeners. All of man's word however there heard, heart-stirring as it was at the time, has faded from my memory; but no lapse of time can ever efface the impression of the 107th Psalm, as read by Mrs Fry, with such extraordinary emphasis and intonation that it seemed to make the simple reading a commentary; and, as she passed from passage to passage, struck my youthful mind, as if the whole series of allusions may have been written by the pen of inspiration, in view of such a scene as was then before us. At an interval of twenty years, it is recalled to me as often as that Psalm is brought to my notice. Never in this world, can it be known to how many hearts its solemn appeals were that day carried home by that potent voice'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
Letter from brother-in-law, T.F. Buxton, to E. Fry, Northrepps, 1 Dec 1828: 'I very quiet day yesterday, and a long time spent over the 69th Psalm, from the 13th to the 17th verse, with peculiar reference to you, have given me more encouragement'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fowell Buxton      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg me to go and see him ... A man of pleasing countenance, greatly emaciated, was lying on a little white bed; all clean and in order, his Bible by his side, and animated almost beyond description at seeing me; he kissed my hand, the tears came into his eyes, his poor face flushed, and he was ready almost to raise himself out of his bed. I sat down, and tried to quiet him, and by degrees succeeded. We had a very interesting conversation; he had been in the practice of frequently attending my readings at Newgate, apparently with great attention; latterly I had not seen him, and was ready to suppose, that like many others his zeal was of short duration; but I lately heard that he had been ill ... I found that when he used to come so often to Newgate, he was a man of good moral character, seeking the truth ... he said that his visits to Newgate had been to him beyond going to any church; indeed I little know how much was going on in his heart. He requested me to read a Psalm that I had read one day in Newgate, the 107th. This I did, and he appeared to deeply feel it'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg me to go and see him ... A man of pleasing countenance, greatly emaciated, was lying on a little white bed; all clean and in order, his Bible by his side, and animated almost beyond description at seeing me; he kissed my hand, the tears came into his eyes, his poor face flushed, and he was ready almost to raise himself out of his bed. I sat down, and tried to quiet him, and by degrees succeeded. We had a very interesting conversation; he had been in the practice of frequently attending my readings at Newgate, apparently with great attention; latterly I had not seen him, and was ready to suppose, that like many others his zeal was of short duration; but I lately heard that he had been ill ... I found that when he used to come so often to Newgate, he was a man of good moral character, seeking the truth ... he said that his visits to Newgate had been to him beyond going to any church; indeed I little know how much was going on in his heart. He requested me to read a Psalm that I had read one day in Newgate, the 107th. This I did, and he appeared to deeply feel it'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

Joseph John Gurney : Letter to a Friend on the Authority, Purpose and Effects of Chritianity
Journey into Scotland in Aug 1834 with husband and two daughters: 'At Kenmore, they enjoyed a quiet Sunday and tolerable highland accommodation. In the evening, anxious to turn the day to some good account, Mrs Fry invited the servants of the inn, to attend the reading she intended to have with her own family. Some ladies were polite enough to offer the use of their sitting room as it was more roomy; a large congregation of barefooted chambermaids, and blue-bonnetted hostlers, assembled. She read part of her brother Joseph John Gurney's letter to a Friend, on the evidences of Christianity; the people were very attentive and anxious each to possess a copy, that they might read the remainder of the book to themselves. The next day, some gamekeepers who came to the inn requested a similar gift, having heard from the people there all that had taken place.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry and I went there together for several hours. She went with me to the cells and read to the men just sentenced to death. Amongst them, there were two brothers, convicted, I believe, for housebreaking. The youngest was drawn into the commission of the crime by the elder brother. James, the youngest, could not read; he was married to a very pleasing looking young woman, and had two children. I recollect Mrs Fry told the poor men who could not read that if they would try to learn while they were in Newgate, she would give those who succeeded, each a Bible. James took very great pains, and before he left the prison to be transported he could read tolerably. On the 7th of January following, Mrs Fry again went with me to the cells. James then read the 7th chapter of St Matthew's gospel, and received his Bible. He became a valuable servant to the gentleman to whom he was assigned in New South Wales'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry and I went there together for several hours. She went with me to the cells and read to the men just sentenced to death. Amongst them, there were two brothers, convicted, I believe, for housebreaking. The youngest was drawn into the commission of the crime by the elder brother. James, the youngest, could not read; he was married to a very pleasing looking young woman, and had two children. I recollect Mrs Fry told the poor men who could not read that if they would try to learn while they were in Newgate, she would give those who succeeded, each a Bible. James took very great pains, and before he left the prison to be transported he could read tolerably. On the 7th of January following, Mrs Fry again went with me to the cells. James then read the 7th chapter of St Matthew's gospel, and received his Bible. He became a valuable servant to the gentleman to whom he was assigned in New South Wales'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown]
Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 18 Aug 1838: 'These journeys are, I trust, not lost time; we have two Scripture readings daily in the carriage, and much instructive conversation; also abundant time for that which is so important, the private reading of the Holy Scripture. This is very precious to dear Elizabeth Fry, and I have often thought it a privilege to note her reverent "marking and learning" of these sacred truths of divine inspiration. Often does she lay down the Book, close her eyes, and wait upon Him, who hath the key of David to open and seal the instruction of the sacred page. Truly it helps to explain how her "profiting appears unto all" when she is thus diligent and fervent, in "meditating upon these things", and giving herself wholly to them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 18 Aug 1838: 'These journeys are, I trust, not lost time; we have two Scripture readings daily in the carriage, and much instructive conversation; also abundant time for that which is so important, the private reading of the Holy Scripture. This is very precious to dear Elizabeth Fry, and I have often thought it a privilege to note her reverent "marking and learning" of these sacred truths of divine inspiration. Often does she lay down the Book, close her eyes, and wait upon Him, who hath the key of David to open and seal the instruction of the sacred page. Truly it helps to explain how her "profiting appears unto all" when she is thus diligent and fervent, in "meditating upon these things", and giving herself wholly to them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Quakers     Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 23 Aug 1838 - large meeting of ladies to form a society for visiting prisons of Aberdeen and vicinity: 'Between the formation of the association, and proceeding to select the various officers, Elizabeth Fry read a Psalm, spoke very nicely upon it to the ladies, and was then engaged in prayer'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 8 Sept 1838: 'Invited the landlord of our Greenock Hotel, and his wife, and servants, to our Scripture reading this morning. They came in and we were favoured with an instructive session'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Journal, Boulogne 28 May 1843: 'The afternoon of the Sabbath I paid a distressing visit to the St Lazare Prison; such a scene of disorder and deep evil I have seldom witnessed - gambling, romping, screaming. With much difficulty we collected four Protestant prisoners, and read with them. I spoke to those poor disorderly women, who appeared attentive, and showed some feeling.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Old Testament)
Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have a regard to the feelings of the women. For instance, on one occasion a Jewess objected to religious instruction provided by the ladies: 'On account of our reading in the New Testament. Afterwards she came and we endeavoured to adapt the reading a little to her, we reading the Psalms and a portion of the Old Testament'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of the visitors read aloud the 15th chapter of Luke - the parable of the barren fig tree, seeming applicable to the audience'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs and several of the Aldermen attended. The prisoners were assembled together, and it being requested that no alteration in their usual practice might take place, one of the ladies read a chapter in the Bibe, and then the females proceeded to their various avocations. Their attention during the time of reading; their orderly and sober deportment, their decent dress, the absence of everything like tumult, noise or contention, the obedience, and the respect shown by them, and the cheerfulness visible in their countenances and manners, conspired to excite the astonishment and admiration of their visitors'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
Account of the gifts given to several female prisoners who burnt their playing cards: 'she called the first to her, and telling her intention, produced a neat muslin handkerchief. To her surprise, the girl looked disappointed; and, on asking the reason, she confessed that she had hoped Mrs [Fry] would have given her a Bible, with her own name written in it, which she should value beyond any thing else, and always keep and read. Such a request, made in such a manner, could not be refused; and the Lady assures me, that she never gave a Bible in her life, which was received with so much interest and satisfaction, or one, which she thinks more likely to do good. It is remarkable that this girl, from her conduct in her preceding prison, and in court, came to Newgate with the worst of characters; she has read her Bible with tolerable regularity, and has evinced much propriety of conduct, and great hopes are entertained of her permanent improvement'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'in expressing our acknowledgement of the good they have done, it is our duty to point out those parts of their proceedings which appear to us inexpedient and injudicious, and to interfere materially with the laudable objects which they themselves have in view. We think the introduction of the visitors who now attend on Fridays the readings of the women highly improper. On one occasion, when we were present, there were 23 visitors; whilst owing to the want of room thus caused, only 28 prisoners could attend the lecture. Not only were there many prisoners, who might otherwise have been present, thus deprived of this opportunity of receiving instruction, but the sight of so many strangers distracted the attention even of those who were there. We observed the absence of that strict attention which is so necessary to the profitable reception of religious instruction.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
24pp pamphlet describing a reading by Mrs Fry to the female prisoners at Newgate, at which the author was present. pp.8-9: 'The silence was at length broken by that mild voice which the prisoners had often heard. Mrs Fry began to read from the Bible. She had selected the 12th and 13th chapters of the epistle to the Romans. This selection did honour to her judgement, and while, with distinct articulation, she dwelt upon the more important of the words of Holy writ, every hearer appeared affected. The convicts shewed their interest in the instruction thus afforded them by the eye fixed on the reader, and their anxiety by heads put, as it were, forward to meet the sound, while the eye had the tear quivering on the lash, or the cheek shewed that it had overflowed its bounds. When she had finished the chapters which she had read slowly, to give time to the hearers to receive the words, and to comprehend their meaning, she remained for a few seconds perfectly silent, and the silence was a silence which might be felt.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Bible probably]
'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... she then went into the family of Lady E.K., who, being a woman of exemplary piety herself, laboured for the good of her servants also ... the private instructions of her mistress, who would at times sit and read to her while working at her needle, were at length blessed so far that she became sensible of the value of her soul'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady E.K.      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... the death of Lady E.K. obliged her to seek a new service. At that time she said she enjoyed nothing so much as reading her Bible and attending the worship of God'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Shepheardes Calendar, The
'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breere, and the other in his May of the Fox and the Kid are admirable'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... She then entered the service of Mr A., knowing his mother to be a serious character and presuming that the son would be the same. But in this she was mistaken ... During the three years of her residence under Mr A.'s roof, she heard a chapter of the Bible read but once, and that was one Sunday evening after the death of his mother ... she soon ceased to read her Bible, and, thus falling by little and little, she first neglected the forms of religion, and then grossly departed from its precepts'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... [in the gaol in Monmouth] Conscience was there aroused from its long slumber. She met with a little book which recalled to her memory the instructions she had received from Lady E.K., and the feelings thus excited were, through the overruling power and grace of God, confirmed and strengthened'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts      Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She kept her Eyes however & all went well. The Description of Night by Dr Young is superior to that of either Dryden or Shakespear - & I made Johnson confess it so. [7 lines of Young are quoted]. Oh how excellent are these Lines - but as Granger sweetly says When you struck the tender String Darkness clapt her sable Wing; Aside their Harps ev'n Seraphs flung, To hear thy sweet Complaints oh Young!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[unknown] : [hymn-book]
'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... [in the condemned cell in Newgate] She asked for Toplady's beautiful hymn, beginning, "Rock of Ages, cleft for me"; and on receiving a hymn-book which contained it read it with great interest, saying it exactly described her feelings'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts      Print: Book

James Grainger : [unknown poem praising Young]
'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She kept her Eyes however & all went well. The Description of Night by Dr Young is superior to that of either Dryden or Shakespear - & I made Johnson confess it so. [7 lines of Young are quoted]. Oh how excellent are these Lines - but as Granger sweetly says When you struck the tender String Darkness clapt her sable Wing; Aside their Harps ev'n Seraphs flung, To hear thy sweet Complaints oh Young!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She kept her Eyes however & all went well. The Description of Night by Dr Young is superior to that of either Dryden or Shakespear - & I made Johnson confess it so. [7 lines of Young are quoted]. Oh how excellent are these Lines - but as Granger sweetly says When you struck the tender String Darkness clapt her sable Wing; Aside their Harps ev'n Seraphs flung, To hear thy sweet Complaints oh Young!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Cooper      Print: Book

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire : The Sylph: a Novel
'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavouring to make the World believe it [italics] hers [end italics]; Mrs Leveson runs about Town saying how clever Miss Burney must be! & what Knowledge of [italics] Mankind [end italics] She must have! Knowledge of Mankind! in good time; the Sylph is an obscene Novel, and more [italics] Knowledge of Mankind [end italics] is indeed wanting to't than any [italics] professed [end italics] Virgin should have.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect while she remained in Newgate ... Her health was declining when she was liberated, and at her own desire, admission into the St James's Infirmary was procured for her. There she became rapidly worse ... She was reminded that though too weak to read, she might try and recal what she had formerly read; and several times when passages of Scripture were begun, she would take them up, repeating them from memory'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary O'Connor      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Volpone
'[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpone, which are too obscene to be borne, otherwise very fine I think. What a prodigious Effort of human Genius is that Volpone! when one reads it one is tempted to say - this is Perfection, let us look no further.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834. From the period of her conviction, her mind seems to have been exercised with a sense of her sinful state; and she frequently said, she had never forgotten the impression she felt on hearing the Eighty-eighth Psalm read immediately on her return to the prison after her trial.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Joy      Print: Book

Andrew Erskine : [a poem on a Geranium]
'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedingly Ingenious: but so obscene I will not pollute my Book with it. Though nobody sees the Thraliana but myself, I can not bear that our Father who seeth in Secret & is of purer Eyes than to behold uncleanness, should know my beastly privacies - though strongly tempted therefore to copy or get it by heart I have done neither, but returned it to Mrs Byron who lent it me - without any Comment. I cannot think of the Man's Name who wrote it but tis mightly clever in its way [italics] that it is [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible
'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She was indeed in bad health at the time of her coming to Newgate; she believed she should not recover, and her dread of death was extreme. She could not read, but it was her delight to listen to the Scriptures, and when others who were more dangerously ill were read to in the adjoining ward of the Infirmary, she would come, whether invited or not, to hear what was read'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Joy      Print: Book

: [an inscription]
'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscription on a Stone he saw - which was set up as he then found in honour of a Man who had leaped a certain Leap thereabouts, the extent of wch was specified on the inscription - why says my Uncle I can leap it in my Boots - & he did accordingly leap it in his Boots.'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelius Ford

[n/a] : Bible
'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She remained in Newgate till the month of January, when a pardon was obtained for her; and she removed to a very humble lodging, where she was under the care of a sister. Here, though exposed to fresh trials, she was also peculiarly favoured by the constant visits of a lady, who read the Scriptures to her and was in every way her comforter and friend.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Frances Burney : The Witlings
'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes it vastly. - but one has no Guess what will do on a Stage, at least I have none; Murphy must read an Act tomorrow, I wonder what he'll say to't. I like it very well for my own part, though none of the scribbling Ladies have the Right to admire its general Tendency.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Burney      Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Burney : The Witlings
'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes it vastly. - but one has no Guess what will do on a Stage, at least I have none; Murphy must read an Act tomorrow, I wonder what he'll say to't. I like it very well for my own part, though none of the scribbling Ladies have the Right to admire its general Tendency.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney      Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Burney : The Witlings
'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes it vastly. - but one has no Guess what will do on a Stage, at least I have none; Murphy must read an Act tomorrow, I wonder what he'll say to't. I like it very well for my own part, though none of the scribbling Ladies have the Right to admire its general Tendency.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I found poor Cooper in bed, apparently in a very low and declining state of health. I spoke a few words to her, but she covered her face and seemed unable to reply, and thinking her too ill for conversation, I passed on to the door, but found it unexpectedly locked, the matron having forgotten to leave it open for me. Finding it impossible to make her hear, I turned back to poor Cooper, and offered to read with her if it would not tire her: "Tire me!" she said, "Oh, no!" and she looked up with eyes streaming with tears, and a countenance expressive of the deepest emotion. That half-hour at Newgate glided rapidly away, for the poor prisoner opened all her heart to me, and manifested the deepest concern for her soul. She told me that she should never forget the narrative of the rich man and Lazarus, which had been read and explained to her the previous week. She said, "I felt myself so weak and so miserable that I thought I am just like Lazarus - a poor forgotten diseased creature - Oh! that my soul were like his, so that when I die angels may carry me to heaven."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Thomas Burnet : Telluris Theoria Sacra
'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of the Ancient prophecies and modern Calculations of this World's final Dissolution: when we read Burnet on the Conflagration, or Whiston on the expected Comet, how little seem to Common Objects of our Care!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I found poor Cooper in bed, apparently in a very low and declining state of health. I spoke a few words to her, but she covered her face and seemed unable to reply, and thinking her too ill for conversation, I passed on to the door, but found it unexpectedly locked, the matron having forgotten to leave it open for me. Finding it impossible to make her hear, I turned back to poor Cooper, and offered to read with her if it would not tire her: "Tire me!" she said, "Oh, no!" and she looked up with eyes streaming with tears, and a countenance expressive of the deepest emotion. That half-hour at Newgate glided rapidly away, for the poor prisoner opened all her heart to me, and manifested the deepest concern for her soul. She told me that she should never forget the narrative of the rich man and Lazarus, which had been read and explained to her the previous week. She said, "I felt myself so weak and so miserable that I thought I am just like Lazarus - a poor forgotten diseased creature - Oh! that my soul were like his, so that when I die angels may carry me to heaven."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Cooper      Print: Book

William Whiston : Astronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great Year MDCCXXXVI. Particularly of the Late Comet, Which was foretold by Sir Isaac Newton
'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of the Ancient prophecies and modern Calculations of this World's final Dissolution: when we read Burnet on the Conflagration, or Whiston on the expected Comet, how little seem to Common Objects of our Care!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[unknown] : Come to Jesus
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... From this time the poor prisoner earnestly longed for salvation, and received with joy the glad tidings of a Savior's love. The little tract, entitled "Come to Jesus", was blessed to her, and she read it frequently with much delight'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Cooper      Print: Book, tract

Philippe Nericault Destouches : L'Homme Singulier
'[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model - it shall be "L'Homme Singulier".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: [an epigram]
'I must write down the following Epigram while I remember it: somebody saw it written up on the Window of the Devizes Inn. [the epigram is given and she opines] The Puns here are admirable'.
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Bible
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ill that the governor kindly gained her admission into St Bartholomew's Hospital ... She also evinced an earnest desire for the salvation of her fellow-sufferers. On one occasion she entreated me to speak to a dying woman who lay in the bed opposite to her, and she listened with trembling anxiety while I read and talked to her'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

: [ladies memorandum books]
'[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Quack Med'cines to prevent growing fat, or perhaps to repress Appetite, I have seen strange Stuff advertised in Ladies Memorandum books for such vile purposes, & the Pitches Girls were mightly likely to be dabblers in 'em'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ill that the governor kindly gained her admission into St Bartholomew's Hospital ... On July 28th, having been prevented from seeing her for a week, I found her much worse in body, but evidently growing in grace. She was overjoyed to see me ... on some of the beautiful verses of the 103d Psalm being repeated, her countenance beamed with such love and thankfulness as can hardly be described. The nurse said it was impossible for any poor suffering creature to be more patient. She delighted to have texts of Scripture repeated to her, and would murmur them over again to herself'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Cooper      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ill that the governor kindly gained her admission into St Bartholomew's Hospital ... On July 28th, having been prevented from seeing her for a week, I found her much worse in body, but evidently growing in grace. She was overjoyed to see me ... on some of the beautiful verses of the 103d Psalm being repeated, her countenance beamed with such love and thankfulness as can hardly be described.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

:
'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & even now perhaps in popish Countries, mistaken for Demoniacal Possession: I have now this Moment read a Story in Cornelius Gemma lib: 2: de nat: Mirac: C: 4 how a young Maiden named Katharine Gualters, a Coopers Daughter, was exorcised of the Devil; when after violent Convulsive Throes, She evacuated a [italics] live Eel [end italics], (A Worm no doubt) wch he himself measured a foot & a half long, and was well convinced it could be no other than a [italics] Devil [end italics] or [italics] Fiend [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter]
'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously besides, & given them to Burney for his history of Musick. here are the Burlesque ones - but they are a [italics] Caricatura [end italics] of Potter whose Verses are obscure enough too. [the verses are given] Poor Potter! he does write strange unintelligible Verses to be sure, but I think none as bad as these neither'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Aeschylus :
'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously besides, & given them to Burney for his history of Musick. here are the Burlesque ones - but they are a [italics] Caricatura [end italics] of Potter whose Verses are obscure enough too. [the verses are given] Poor Potter! he does write strange unintelligible Verses to be sure, but I think none as bad as these neither'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Aeschylus :
'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously besides, & given them to Burney for his history of Musick. here are the Burlesque ones - but they are a [italics] Caricatura [end italics] of Potter whose Verses are obscure enough too. [the verses are given] Poor Potter! he does write strange unintelligible Verses to be sure, but I think none as bad as these neither'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Euripides :
'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously besides, & given them to Burney for his history of Musick. here are the Burlesque ones - but they are a [italics] Caricatura [end italics] of Potter whose Verses are obscure enough too. [the verses are given] Poor Potter! he does write strange unintelligible Verses to be sure, but I think none as bad as these neither'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'The case of Maria Manning is not one which it can be in any measure satisfactory to dwell upon ... Manning requested to see the visitor who had attended her in Newgate on the day before that fixed for her execution, and a strange contrast was exhibited by the heartless mob that thronged every avenue to the prison and the quiet demeanour of the culprit seated in her lonely cell. The Chaplain entered with the visitor, and at the prisoner's request read the fifty-first Psalm, and then engaged in prayer with deep solemnity; but on his leaving the two together, there was no attempt at confession - no evidence of repentance; and we fear we must conclude the wretched woman to have been shut up to a proud and haughty spirit, which scorned to acknowledge she merited the abhorrence her dark crime had called forth'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Charles Burney : [translation of a provencale ballad]
'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest English Verses I ever read, but as they will be published in his 2d Vol: I shall not trouble myself to transcribe them here'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

William Law : Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, nay so highly finished: yet nobody reads it I think, from the Notion of its being a Religious work most probably. Johnson has however studied it hard I am sure, & many of the Ramblers apparently took their Rise from that little Volume, as the Nile flows majestically from a Source dificult to be discovered or even discerned.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, nay so highly finished: yet nobody reads it I think, from the Notion of its being a Religious work most probably. Johnson has however studied it hard I am sure, & many of the Ramblers apparently took their Rise from that little Volume, as the Nile flows majestically from a Source dificult to be discovered or even discerned.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes
'2 February 1780.] Here is Dr Pepys come with a Manuscript of Dr Spence's for Johnson's Use & Inspection now he is writing the Lives of the poets: It is an admirable [italics] Ana [end italics] to be sure, containing anecdotes of Pope, Prior, &c. &c. everybody who has a Name: poor Spence thought he had taken care to keep it from the public Eye, & now we are all reading it; well!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes
'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Baretti said the same of Miss Horneck - I suppose both are Lyes. I read it in Spence.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes
'When I read the Character of Cambray in this Collection, I could not keep from falling on my Knees to give God thanks for having created such a Man: It is a common Trick with me to kiss a Book that particularly pleases me - Oh this dear Bishop of Cambray! how willingly could I kiss his Robe!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Joseph Spence : [Anecdotes]
'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too long to transcribe'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

:
'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as they fell in his way. A nosegay so gather'd is always more brilliant in Colours though less elegant in Scent & Disposition than a Garden one. I read nothing scarcely myself, & what I do is all of that loose kind - My Bouquet has many a Weed in it - & not very large neither'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

W.H. Curran : Life of J.P. Curran
'Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of Curran.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

:
'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as they fell in his way. A nosegay so gather'd is always more brilliant in Colours though less elegant in Scent & Disposition than a Garden one. I read nothing scarcely myself, & what I do is all of that loose kind - My Bouquet has many a Weed in it - & not very large neither'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Pope      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Newcomers
'Stopped at home & read "The Newcomers" until nearly mid-night.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Blackwood's
'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the wet.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

: [poetry]
'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterboro'.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Hinchcliffe      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : Eloisa to Abelard
'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus, but I think very little remember'd'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Milton : Comus: A Masque
'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus, but I think very little remember'd'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Matthew Prior : Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind
'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of a narrow State" that Thought, & almost the whole Line is taken from Cowley.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read at home in the evening till nearly eleven Then went down the Street.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

John Dryden : 'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'
'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of a narrow State" that Thought, & almost the whole Line is taken from Cowley.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Alexander Pope : Essay on Man
'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of a narrow State" that Thought, & almost the whole Line is taken from Cowley.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Abraham Cowley : Life and Fame
'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of a narrow State" that Thought, & almost the whole Line is taken from Cowley.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to bed at ten o clock. Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Waverley
'Spent the evening at Home. Read portion of Waverley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening. Read & then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read in the morning.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Was at home in the evening. Read a Portion of Rob Roy to Polly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Read Rob Roy in the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
' Read at home during the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read at home in the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had some toddy'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Broadway Magazine
'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Magazine. I skipped all the hits at the man & [read?] all the slaps the women got. Polly found me out & called me deceitful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read till I was tired then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown- newspaper]
'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown- periodicals]
'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my mind to read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Australasian
'In the evening went for a walk with Polly, called at the Mechanics & got some periodicals, took a turn through the Eastern Market & Bourke Street & then home, read the Australasian had some toddy & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics & read the Evening paper, not much news.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went into town & read the papers, there was very little new & the town seemed quiet Bourke Street being I thought remarkably so.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to a report of the Governer that the Gaol was more than self supporting the prisoners having earned in 1868 more than a thousand pounds over the whole cost of the Gaol.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went in the evening to the Mechanics & read the papers, or rather tried to do so. The Church Assembly was sitting in conference in a room over the Reading Room & the noise made in applauding the different speakers was sufficient to prevent any one from staying & trying to read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the Herald.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the papers, the Philarmonic (sic) people were practising so ready (sic) was not pleasant nor very profitable.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the article on the Dunedin Gaol, written 10 Feb]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which "my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a previous article" was "readily excused" "in consideration of my evident desire to improve the system in vogue at the Establishment of which I was the Head". I was called “Zealous & intelligent” & then (without acknowledgement) my views as expressed to the sub-editor were put forth as the “correct card”.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [English periodicals]
'Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals on the table of the Reading Room, came home & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went into town in the evening & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 21st.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
' In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Evening Paper.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went into town in the evening & read the papers, on my return the girls were very jolly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned had some beer & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak. Came home read, smoked & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went into town in the evening to the Mechanics read the papers came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Was at the Mechanics to-day went especially to see the Ovens & Murray & whether my "Copy" had been used, it did not appear but there was a notice to the effect that the letters of several Correspondents &c had been held over until Saturday. “The Lancashire Lass” is probably among them I hope not for perhaps it would be better burnt.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Australasian
'Read the Australasian & lounged upon the sofa after dinner till muster time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. Glennon’s advertisement offering £25 Reward for the discovery of the letters received by Stewart, was in Saturday's paper. There was also a paragraph calling attention to the Reward & remarking that the Government had fully exonerated Glennon & paid his expenses.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'In the evening went to the Mechanics read in the Ovens & Murray a skit I had written some week or more since on “The Lancashire Lass”.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, nothing particular.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'An answer to the letter I wrote to the Argus about Dunedin Gaol appeared to-day in the Argus signed “Robert Stout” the letter was ably written & I received in it a severe handling. Quantities of works performed & Prices charged for some were given & the correctness of the Gaoler’s report confirmed in a most satisfactory manner. Yet "A man convinced against his will" "Is of the same opinion still".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have been obliged to abandon the field'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding myself pitched into for my want of courtesy to the Dunedin Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodicals for some engravings for Lane to copy, brought home a volume of the Art Union & one of Belgravia, had a pipe & a grog & then to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Samuel Johnson :
'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think of reading at any other Time: but they remind me of [italics] him [end italics], & please me more than even his Letters; for in [italics] them [end italics] he is often scrupulous of opening his heart & has an Idea they will be seen sometime, perhaps published'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Critic, The
'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes the History of Manners certainly, yet those which give one nothing else are paltry performances: witness Tom Jones and the Clandestine Marriage, yet they are the best in their kind acording to my Notion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : School for Scandal, The
'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes the History of Manners certainly, yet those which give one nothing else are paltry performances: witness Tom Jones and the Clandestine Marriage, yet they are the best in their kind acording to my Notion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes the History of Manners certainly, yet those which give one nothing else are paltry performances: witness Tom Jones and the Clandestine Marriage, yet they are the best in their kind acording to my Notion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

George Colman : Clandestine Marriage, The
'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes the History of Manners certainly, yet those which give one nothing else are paltry performances: witness Tom Jones and the Clandestine Marriage, yet they are the best in their kind acording to my Notion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets
'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tory, & glories in it. he should have been more sparing of Praise to the Fair Penitent I think, because the Characters are from Massinger - I care not how much good is said of the language; but Old Phil: has the Merit of that Contrast, more happy perhaps than any on our Stage, of the Gay Rake, and the virtuous dependent Gentleman'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: proof sheets

Matthew Prior : Alma
'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tory, & glories in it. he should have been more sparing of Praise to the Fair Penitent I think, because the Characters are from Massinger - I care not how much good is said of the language; but Old Phil: has the Merit of that Contrast, more happy perhaps than any on our Stage, of the Gay Rake, and the virtuous dependent Gentleman'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Nicholas Rowe : Fair Penitent, The
'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tory, & glories in it. he should have been more sparing of Praise to the Fair Penitent I think, because the Characters are from Massinger - I care not how much good is said of the language; but Old Phil: has the Merit of that Contrast, more happy perhaps than any on our Stage, of the Gay Rake, and the virtuous dependent Gentleman'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Philip Massinger : Fatal Dowry, The
'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tory, & glories in it. he should have been more sparing of Praise to the Fair Penitent I think, because the Characters are from Massinger - I care not how much good is said of the language; but Old Phil: has the Merit of that Contrast, more happy perhaps than any on our Stage, of the Gay Rake, and the virtuous dependent Gentleman'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: [a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia]
'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in Abyssinia eat cuts from the live Beast; yet Mr Coxe & I found the same thing in an old Book of Travels here at Brighthelmston the other day'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Rape of the Lock, The
'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunciad, are all borrowed from one of Ben Jonson's Masques, perform'd at Court in the Reign of King James the first.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Dunciad, The
'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunciad, are all borrowed from one of Ben Jonson's Masques, perform'd at Court in the Reign of King James the first.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux : [a sonnet]
'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he was past threescore; beginning Avoir peu de parens, moins de Train que de rente &c. resembles both in its Style & Measure our Ballad of the old Man's wish - without Gout or Stone in a gentle decay. I wonder which was written first, or whether one of the Writers ever heard of the other - most probably not.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

Walter Pope : Old Mans Wish, The
'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he was past threescore; beginning Avoir peu de parens, moins de Train que de rente &c. resembles both in its Style & Measure our Ballad of the old Man's wish - without Gout or Stone in a gentle decay. I wonder which was written first, or whether one of the Writers ever heard of the other - most probably not.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Unknown

George Lillo : Elmerick; Or Justice Triumphant
'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lillo never saw it there - the Charge of Plagiarism should be well supported'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: Chevræana, ou Diverses Pensées
'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lillo never saw it there - the Charge of Plagiarism should be well supported'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Anacreon : Anacreon to himself
'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given]
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

Lord Strafford : [letter to his daughter, 1641]
'I was shewed a curious Thing today - a Letter written by Lord Strafford to his Daughter three Weeks before his Execution - he apparently expected no such Sentence, but rather apprehended Diminution of Income; and in that Apprehension recommends Oeconomy to his Family.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Letter

Richard Fulke Greville : Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the World - Adrastus, Sicinius & Strabo are admirable in their kind; & shew a vast deal of thinking, besides perfect Knowledge of the gay World'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Charles Burney : [translation of a French Chanson]
'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how happy, how skilful, how elegant is that dear Creature's Pen!'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

George Psalmanazar : [articles contributed to the 'Universal History']
'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Formosan Opinions therefore as corroborative of some Hypothesis; which he certainly does, and with a Touch of his old Effrontery too. see Page 84: Vol: I. Universal History.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

:
'Apropos to riding in a coach, Perkins told me that he had [italics] found out the Secret how to read in a Carriage [end italics] and would tell it to me, to whom it might be useful; he put a Piece of Paper he said on the Page he was reading, & so moved it when he came to the End of the Line. - where I suppose he thought the Sense naturally stopt, as it does in an Account Book. - comical enough.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Perkins      Print: Book

Samuel Joseph Sorbiere : Sorberiana
'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's seven Ages of Man!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [MS of his translations of Homer]
'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses, Sketches, emendations &c. strange that a Man shd keep such Things!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne : Letters
'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

Vincent de Voiture : Letters
'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

: Gazette
'Mr Johnson believes nothing - the Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the Gazette - "not true Madam depend on't - People so delight to fill their Mouths with big Words, and their Minds with a Wonder".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Johnson : [prose works]
'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart; & when I read Bruyere, I often catch myself kissing the Book for fondness of the Author['s] strong-marked Characters, glowing Colours, striking Sentiments - to please - H:L: T.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : [prose works]
'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart; & when I read Bruyere, I often catch myself kissing the Book for fondness of the Author['s] strong-marked Characters, glowing Colours, striking Sentiments - to please - H:L: T.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Dunciad, The
'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart; & when I read Bruyere, I often catch myself kissing the Book for fondness of the Author['s] strong-marked Characters, glowing Colours, striking Sentiments - to please - H:L: T.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Edward Young : Love of Fame, The Universal Passion
'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart; & when I read Bruyere, I often catch myself kissing the Book for fondness of the Author['s] strong-marked Characters, glowing Colours, striking Sentiments - to please - H:L: T.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Abraham Cowley :
'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart; & when I read Bruyere, I often catch myself kissing the Book for fondness of the Author['s] strong-marked Characters, glowing Colours, striking Sentiments - to please - H:L: T.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Jean de La Bruyere :
'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart; & when I read Bruyere, I often catch myself kissing the Book for fondness of the Author['s] strong-marked Characters, glowing Colours, striking Sentiments - to please - H:L: T.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In evening I went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics, nothing yet done about the formation of a new Ministry all sorts of rumours however & very various combinations. The Evening Paper states that nothing yet is known & I suppose that is most likely. '
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
' In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects. I asked what sort of a place the "Oriental Saloon" was as an article had appeared in the "The Age" which made it out to be a terribly dissipated place & one that ought to be put down. It seemed that at first the waitresses had been dressed as Bloomers. Their costume was then altered & instead of trousers, they wore short skirts & spangled dresses. White said it was all humbug so far as the description of The Age went & asked me to go in for a moment & have a look. The Age article had evidently excited a good deal of curiosity for numbers were evidently judging for themselves, among others was the Editor of The Australasian & several friends.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Brothers Grimm : [fairy tales]
'I did not go out again but passed the time away in reading, amused the youngsters with some stories from Grimms Goblins a book I brought a few nights since.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. McCulloch is forming a Ministry & asked the House to give him till Thursday to complete the arrangements.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. The Ministry not yet formed & the House adjourned till to-morrow when the New Cabinet will positively be announced.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone" has come to life again. The first number of the new series was published to-day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Brothers Grimm : [fairy tales]
'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone" has come to life again. The first number of the new series was published to-day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Age
'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it. The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Argus
'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it. The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Telegraph
'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it. The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
' Went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Extraordinary
'Came home & bought the Extraordinary there was very little in it in fact no item that was to me of any importance at all so Polly & I both regretted the expenditure of the sixpence.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[convict] : [letters]
'A fine day. In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner who was discharged to take away. They were more serious than usual as they asked for articles to be supplied to facilitate escape of some well known vagabonds convicted last Sessions. I showed the letters to the Sheriff & called with the letters at the Detective office.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : [English comic periodicals]
'After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazines had not been opened out.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Brothers Grimm : [fairy tales]
'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers for an hour or two'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Brothers Grimm : [fairy tales]
'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Olive Schreiner : unknown
'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the excitement of a sympathetic spectator, but my growing consciousness that women suffered from remediable injustices was due less to the movement for the vote than to my early environment with its complacent acceptance of female subordination.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

Stella Benson : Living Alone
After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she concluded that Stella Benson, like so many authors, put her "fan mail" in the wastepaper basket, but months afterwards a reply came from South China.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby : The Runners
'"I read "The Runners" last week," he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Priestley      Manuscript: Manuscript of an unpublished novel.

Joseph Conrad : Suspense
'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early nineteenth century come alive for her in a clear yet faint glow like candlelight."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Brothers Grimm : [fairy tales]
'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read them a fairy tale & they seemed very much delighted. Went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics, then returned'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read them a fairy tale & they seemed very much delighted. Went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics, then returned'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics... & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

George Moore : Heloise and Abelard
'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not," Winifred confessed, lamenting that she was required to present prizes just when she wanted to finish it. In spite of the novel's length and these interruptions, its owner reported that Winifred returned it, read from cover to cover, within a couple of days.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Punch
'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in them just now. Punch had a cartoon representing Macpherson as the Skeleton in the cupboard of the McCulloch & so he probably will prove to be.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Touchstone
'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Argus
'By the Argus of this morning I saw that Mr Wintle died last evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers nothing very particular in them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintle’s husband had purchased Taminick Station for £2,300.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers home by nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had gone out so I read my magazines by myself & smoked a solitary pipe'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwood's
'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had gone out so I read my magazines by myself & smoked a solitary pipe'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [fairy tales?]
'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Australasian
'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers in the afternoon'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "Butler" many years Police Magistrate at Beechworth was to take charge of one of the Melbourne Suburban Benches'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - comic periodicals]
''In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "Butler" many years Police Magistrate at Beechworth was to take charge of one of the Melbourne Suburban Benches ... Glanced over the Comic Papers some of them very amusing. Got home by nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remember there being so little after the arrival of the English Mail. After tea did Harry’s sums & read the Illustrated'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Illustrated [?]
'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remember there being so little after the arrival of the English Mail. After tea did Harry’s sums & read the Illustrated'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After muster I went into town to the Mechanics & read the Papers, saw that the verdict against Draper had been upheld by the Judges & that his sentence would have to be carried out. When I left the Reading Room it was raining rather heavily'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After tea did Harry's sums & then went to the Mechanics a second time skimmed the Weeklys'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers between muster & Tea time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & then blew his own head nearly off.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Alfred Tennyson : Poems
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was asked to meet Tennyson at the house of Hallam's cousin by marriage, W. H. Brookfield, in Portman Street [...] 'At that time the two green volumes of 1842, with "The Princess" in its first form (1847), had been to me, as to thousands more, Gateways into a new Paradise [...]I have preserved no memory of Tennyson during this evening. But at the close, discovering that our routes homeward began in the same direction [...] we set forth together [...] parting with an [Tennyson's] invitation to visit him in his lodgings [...] 'Two days after [...] I accordingly climbed to the upper floor of the lodgings, one of a few houses fronting the Hampstead Road, just south of Mornington Crescent, and found Tennyson in a somewhat dingy room, sitting close over the fire, with many short black pipes in front, and a stout jar of tobacco by his side [...] Tennyson offered to read me certain poems he had written about [Arthur] Hallam [...] He then brought forth a bundle of beautifully copied verse: the name "In Memoriam" I do not think he used; and read several pieces. One was No. CIII "On that last night...," [...] others from the early series describing the ship sailing "from the Italian shore" (No. IX): and that, I think, where parents or sweetheart await a son's or a lover's return. 'Poetry so rich and concentrated as this, and heard now for the first time from the lips of one who loved and mourned so deeply, I could but partly grasp, and knew not how to praise aright. But Tennyson's sweet-natured kindness, when he could give pleasure [...] I have never found exhaustible: and taking up one of those note-books [...] he went on to read certain songs which he thought he might do well to place between the sections of "The Princess." Thus "Sweet and low," "The splendour falls," "Ask me no more" [...] passed before me; giving the sense of some great and splendid procession slowly unrolling itself, and that to the sound of its own music.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Turner Palgrave      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : The Princess
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was asked to meet Tennyson at the house of Hallam's cousin by marriage, W. H. Brookfield, in Portman Street [...] 'At that time the two green volumes of 1842, with "The Princess" in its first form (1847), had been to me, as to thousands more, Gateways into a new Paradise [...]I have preserved no memory of Tennyson during this evening. But at the close, discovering that our routes homeward began in the same direction [...] we set forth together [...] parting with an [Tennyson's] invitation to visit him in his lodgings [...] 'Two days after [...] I accordingly climbed to the upper floor of the lodgings, one of a few houses fronting the Hampstead Road, just south of Mornington Crescent, and found Tennyson in a somewhat dingy room, sitting close over the fire, with many short black pipes in front, and a stout jar of tobacco by his side [...] Tennyson offered to read me certain poems he had written about [Arthur] Hallam [...] He then brought forth a bundle of beautifully copied verse: the name "In Memoriam" I do not think he used; and read several pieces. One was No. CIII "On that last night...," [...] others from the early series describing the ship sailing "from the Italian shore" (No. IX): and that, I think, where parents or sweetheart await a son's or a lover's return. 'Poetry so rich and concentrated as this, and heard now for the first time from the lips of one who loved and mourned so deeply, I could but partly grasp, and knew not how to praise aright. But Tennyson's sweet-natured kindness, when he could give pleasure [...] I have never found exhaustible: and taking up one of those note-books [...] he went on to read certain songs which he thought he might do well to place between the sections of "The Princess." Thus "Sweet and low," "The splendour falls," "Ask me no more" [...] passed before me; giving the sense of some great and splendid procession slowly unrolling itself, and that to the sound of its own music.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Turner Palgrave      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Songs for inclusion in new edition of The Princess
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was asked to meet Tennyson at the house of Hallam's cousin by marriage, W. H. Brookfield, in Portman Street [...] 'At that time the two green volumes of 1842, with "The Princess" in its first form (1847), had been to me, as to thousands more, Gateways into a new Paradise [...]I have preserved no memory of Tennyson during this evening. But at the close, discovering that our routes homeward began in the same direction [...] we set forth together [...] parting with an [Tennyson's] invitation to visit him in his lodgings [...] 'Two days after [...] I accordingly climbed to the upper floor of the lodgings, one of a few houses fronting the Hampstead Road, just south of Mornington Crescent, and found Tennyson in a somewhat dingy room, sitting close over the fire, with many short black pipes in front, and a stout jar of tobacco by his side [...] Tennyson offered to read me certain poems he had written about [Arthur] Hallam [...] He then brought forth a bundle of beautifully copied verse: the name "In Memoriam" I do not think he used; and read several pieces. One was No. CIII "On that last night...," [...] others from the early series describing the ship sailing "from the Italian shore" (No. IX): and that, I think, where parents or sweetheart await a son's or a lover's return. 'Poetry so rich and concentrated as this, and heard now for the first time from the lips of one who loved and mourned so deeply, I could but partly grasp, and knew not how to praise aright. But Tennyson's sweet-natured kindness, when he could give pleasure [...] I have never found exhaustible: and taking up one of those note-books [...] he went on to read certain songs which he thought he might do well to place between the sections of "The Princess." Thus "Sweet and low," "The splendour falls," "Ask me no more" [...] passed before me; giving the sense of some great and splendid procession slowly unrolling itself, and that to the sound of its own music.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Tennyson : Ode on the Duke of Wellington
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Some time in 1852 Tennyson read over to me his "Ode on the Duke of Wellington," discussing various points of detail. I think this was the sole occasion upon which, moved by the greatness of the man and of the memories which that colossal career called forth, the national sorrow and the loss of heroic example, he showed a certain anxiety about his own work. Yet he need not have feared. Heroism, at least since the days of Pindar or of Virgil, surely has never been sung of so heroically.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

: Moallakat
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: '[William Gifford] [...], meeting Tennyson for the first time, ventured to remark on the truth of [Locksley Hall] [...] to Arabian sentiment and manner [...] Tennyson [...] told us that "Locksley Hall" had, in fact, been "suggested by reading Sir William Jones' prose translation of the old Arabian Moallakat": a famous collection from the work of pre-Mahommedan poets.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Theocritus : Hylas
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'We were sitting (1857 or so) late at night in the Farringford attic-room [...] and Tennyson read over to me the little Theocritan Idyll "Hylas" [goes on to describe the reading further]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Homer :
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [...] Thus a portable copy of Homer which some friend had given him he had in his hands on our Cornish journey (1860), and kept sitting down to read as we wandered over a wild rock-island in the Scillies.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Pindar :
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [...] One evening [...] he read out off-hand Pindar's great picture of the life of Heaven in the second Olympian into pure modern prose, splendidly lucid and musical.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Lucretius : De rerum natura
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [...] One evening [...] he read out off-hand Pindar's great picture of the life of Heaven in the second Olympian into pure modern prose, splendidly lucid and musical [...] Another time, late over the midwinter fire, reading the terrible lines in which Lucretius preaches his creed of human annihilation (Book III. especially ll. 912-977, ed. Munro) [...] so carried away and overwhelmed were the readers by the poignant force of the great poet, that, next morning, when dawn and daylight had brought their blessed natural healing to morbid thoughts, it was laughingly agreed that Lucretius had left us last night all but converts to his heart-crushing atheism.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: (Included) Alfred Tennyson and Francis Turner Palgrave     Print: Book

Andrew Marvell : 'The Emigrant's Song'
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer of 1860 [...] at the Christmas-tide following, the gathered materials [...] were laid before Tennyson for final judgement [...] With most by far of the pieces submitted he was already acquainted: but I seem to remember more of less special praise of Lodge's "Rosaline," of "My Love in her attire...": and the "Emigrant's Song" by Marvell. For some poems by that writer then with difficulty accessible, he had a special admiration: delighting to read, with a voice hardly yet to me silent, and dwelling more than once, on the magnificent hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines "To his coy Mistress" [...] 'After reading Cowper's "Poplar Field": "People nowadays, I believe, hold this style and metre light; I wish there were any who could put words together with such exquisite flow and evenness." Presently we reached the same poet's stanzas to Mary Unwin. He read them, yet could barely read them, so deeply was he touched by their tender, their almost agonising pathos.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Andrew Marvell : 'To His Coy Mistress
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer of 1860 [...] at the Christmas-tide following, the gathered materials [...] were laid before Tennyson for final judgement [...] With most by far of the pieces submitted he was already acquainted: but I seem to remember more of less special praise of Lodge's "Rosaline," of "My Love in her attire...": and the "Emigrant's Song" by Marvell. For some poems by that writer then with difficulty accessible, he had a special admiration: delighting to read, with a voice hardly yet to me silent, and dwelling more than once, on the magnificent hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines "To his coy Mistress" [...] 'After reading Cowper's "Poplar Field": "People nowadays, I believe, hold this style and metre light; I wish there were any who could put words together with such exquisite flow and evenness." Presently we reached the same poet's stanzas to Mary Unwin. He read them, yet could barely read them, so deeply was he touched by their tender, their almost agonising pathos.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Cowper : 'Poplar Field'
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer of 1860 [...] at the Christmas-tide following, the gathered materials [...] were laid before Tennyson for final judgement [...] With most by far of the pieces submitted he was already acquainted: but I seem to remember more of less special praise of Lodge's "Rosaline," of "My Love in her attire...": and the "Emigrant's Song" by Marvell. For some poems by that writer then with difficulty accessible, he had a special admiration: delighting to read, with a voice hardly yet to me silent, and dwelling more than once, on the magnificent hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines "To his coy Mistress" [...] 'After reading Cowper's "Poplar Field": "People nowadays, I believe, hold this style and metre light; I wish there were any who could put words together with such exquisite flow and evenness." Presently we reached the same poet's stanzas to Mary Unwin. He read them, yet could barely read them, so deeply was he touched by their tender, their almost agonising pathos.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Cowper : 'stanzas to Mary Unwin'
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer of 1860 [...] at the Christmas-tide following, the gathered materials [...] were laid before Tennyson for final judgement [...] With most by far of the pieces submitted he was already acquainted: but I seem to remember more of less special praise of Lodge's "Rosaline," of "My Love in her attire...": and the "Emigrant's Song" by Marvell. For some poems by that writer then with difficulty accessible, he had a special admiration: delighting to read, with a voice hardly yet to me silent, and dwelling more than once, on the magnificent hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines "To his coy Mistress" [...] 'After reading Cowper's "Poplar Field": "People nowadays, I believe, hold this style and metre light; I wish there were any who could put words together with such exquisite flow and evenness." Presently we reached the same poet's stanzas to Mary Unwin. He read them, yet could barely read them, so deeply was he touched by their tender, their almost agonising pathos.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Petrarch : "Trionfo della Morte"
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer of 1860 [...] at the Christmas-tide following, the gathered materials [...] were laid before Tennyson for final judgement [...] With most by far of the pieces submitted he was already acquainted: but I seem to remember more of less special praise of Lodge's "Rosaline," of "My Love in her attire...": and the "Emigrant's Song" by Marvell. For some poems by that writer then with difficulty accessible, he had a special admiration: delighting to read, with a voice hardly yet to me silent, and dwelling more than once, on the magnificent hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines "To his coy Mistress" [...] 'After reading Cowper's "Poplar Field": "People nowadays, I believe, hold this style and metre light; I wish there were any who could put words together with such exquisite flow and evenness." Presently we reached the same poet's stanzas to Mary Unwin. He read them, yet could barely read them, so deeply was he touched by their tender, their almost agonising pathos [...] Petrarch [...] furnished a not dissimilar instance, in the ethereally-beautiful lines on the death of Laura ("Trionfa della Morte," Cap.1) [quotes six lines] [...] I remember still the tenderness with which he dwelt on the words, the sigh of delight -- almost, perhaps, the tears -- that came naturally to the sensitive soul, as he ended'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Knight's Tale
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer of 1860 [...] at the Christmas-tide following, the gathered materials [...] were laid before Tennyson for final judgement [...] With most by far of the pieces submitted he was already acquainted: but I seem to remember more of less special praise of Lodge's "Rosaline," of "My Love in her attire...": and the "Emigrant's Song" by Marvell. For some poems by that writer then with difficulty accessible, he had a special admiration: delighting to read, with a voice hardly yet to me silent, and dwelling more than once, on the magnificent hyperbole, the powerful union of pathos and humour in the lines "To his coy Mistress" [...] 'After reading Cowper's "Poplar Field": "People nowadays, I believe, hold this style and metre light; I wish there were any who could put words together with such exquisite flow and evenness." Presently we reached the same poet's stanzas to Mary Unwin. He read them, yet could barely read them, so deeply was he touched by their tender, their almost agonising pathos [...] Petrarch [...] furnished a not dissimilar instance, in the ethereally-beautiful lines on the death of Laura ("Trionfa della Morte," Cap.1) [quotes six lines] [...] I remember still the tenderness with which he dwelt on the words, the sigh of delight -- almost, perhaps, the tears -- that came naturally to the sensitive soul, as he ended [...] 'And Petrarch's own contemporary English admirer [...] supplied Tennyson with another favourite passage; that in the "Knight's Tale," where Arcite, dying, commends his soul as a legacy to his love Emilie [quotes five lines] 'It is with a doubly pathetic echo that the tone, amorously lingering, which [sic] this dear friend always rendered Chaucer's last line ["Alone withouten any compagnie"] now returns to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Arthur Hugh Clough : Mari Magno
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass in some lovely valley near Cauteretz, had read aloud passages from his last and unfinished poem, the series of tales named "Mari Magno" [...] "When he read them his voice faltered at times: like every poet, he was [italics]moved by his own pathos[end italics]."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hugh Clough      Manuscript: Unknown

Scott : The Maid of Neidpath
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Another little poem [collected in Palgrave's "Golden Treasury"] greatly moved him: perhaps he was not very familiar with it: Scott's "Maid of Neidpath." This also he read, adding after the last stanza, "Almost more pathetic than a man has the right to be."'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

John Milton : Paradise Lost (book IV)
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Shakespeare and Milton [...] he read aloud by preference: always coming to Paradise Lost with manifest pleasure and reverent admiration [...] I may name [...] the great vision of Eden (Book IV. 205-311), which he read aloud at Ardtornish in Morvern (August, 1853), and often afterwards; dwelling always upon the peculiar grace of lines 246-263.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 'Nachgefuhl'
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain pieces put him in the first rank. Among these favourites, which he gladly would read, were the "Nachgefuhl": "Der Abschied," admired for its exquisite tenderness: he had les larmes dans la voix by the time he reached the second stanza [...] and perhaps even more did he prize the beautiful song "An den Mond," where I find he has in my copy tremulously pencil-marked the last two stanzas'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 'Der Abschied'
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain pieces put him in the first rank. Among these favourites, which he gladly would read, were the "Nachgefuhl": "Der Abschied," admired for its exquisite tenderness: he had les larmes dans la voix by the time he reached the second stanza [...] and perhaps even more did he prize the beautiful song "An den Mond," where I find he has in my copy tremulously pencil-marked the last two stanzas'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 'An den Mond'
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain pieces put him in the first rank. Among these favourites, which he gladly would read, were the "Nachgefuhl": "Der Abschied," admired for its exquisite tenderness: he had les larmes dans la voix by the time he reached the second stanza [...] and perhaps even more did he prize the beautiful song "An den Mond," where I find he has in my copy tremulously pencil-marked the last two stanzas'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : poem on seeing Schiller's skull
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry [...] Another poem, valued for its stately beauty and tender feeling for a friend, was that upon Schiller's skull; which he read out in the Inn at York (1853)'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

George Meredith : 'Love in a Valley'
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'In G. Meredith's first little volume he was delighted by the "Love in a Valley" (as printed in 1851: the text in later issues has been greatly changed)'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On October 27th, 1886, he read aloud to me that piece of almost too terrible beauty, the "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," in which he has concentrated a wealth of thought and observance of life'.
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'In Nov. 1888 I visited Aldworth shortly after death had suddenly carried off my dearly-loved adventurous brother [William] Gifford (September 30) at Montevideo [...] Tennyson now read to me the beautiful lines named "Ulysses" after the title of my brother's last narrative of travel: a commemoration the honour of which he did not live to enjoy.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson

Charles Johnson : A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates
'A thousand thanks for Johnson who is a brick.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Ancient History
'As I was reading with Susan and Sophy today in Rollin's Grecian History it struck me, that when Mardonius offered Terms to the Athenians & Aristides rejected 'em; he stretched out his hands to the Sun, & appealing to that Luminary - [italics] doubtless as God of the Persians [italics] for what had he to do with the Sun in particular? he called upon him to revenge the Grecian Cause upon his Worshippers. These Bramin & Persees being here in England turns everybody's Head now like [italics] Clytie's [end italics] to the [italics] Sun [end italics]. We are all deep for the Time forsooth in Persian Mythology.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale and her daughters Sophy and Susanna     Print: Book

Francois Fenelon : [Letters]
'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demanderai cette Grace" - speaking of the Life & Health of Louis 14ze one thinks of the Fellow hanged for murder here some Years ago, on his Brother's Evidence: who sayd to the Clergyman that attended him - "When I see God Almighty I will not give my Brother Charles a good Character to him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Charles Burney : 'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale'
'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has always had an astonishing Power of doing such Things. [the tale, of 'St Peterand the Minstrel' follows]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

William Congreve : Way of the World, The
'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's Nym in Henry V: and the Expressions are in no few Passages literally copied. [italics] neither [end italics] Character strikes me much, Nym is so little known, he might safely be pilfer'd, but it seems not worth the while.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V
'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's Nym in Henry V: and the Expressions are in no few Passages literally copied. [italics] neither [end italics] Character strikes me much, Nym is so little known, he might safely be pilfer'd, but it seems not worth the while.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Giovanni Povoleri : [translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian]
'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard Elegy into Tuscan: tis enchantment to hear the Fellow read his own Language, he does it so divinely; & has indeed great Taste and Skill in ours'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Giovanni Povoleri      Manuscript: Unknown

Marco Capello : [sonnet about Piozzi]
'[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course: but He prudent Creature, insisted on my burning it, as he said it wd inevitably get about the Town how [italics] he [end italics] was Praised, & how [italics] Mrs Thrale [end italics] translated & echoed his Praises'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Jonathan Odell : [verses on Franklin's stove]
'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising upward. it was in the Form of an Urn: here are some pretty Verses on the Subject - I [italics] hope [end italics] they are Dr Burney's He Shewed them me once with the true Author's Manner; but Johnson not approving he would not own them'. [the verses on Franklin are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Jonathan Odell : [verses on Franklin's stove]
'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising upward. it was in the Form of an Urn: here are some pretty Verses on the Subject - I [italics] hope [end italics] they are Dr Burney's He Shewed them me once with the true Author's Manner; but Johnson not approving he would not own them'. [the verses on Franklin are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Manuscript: Unknown

Jonathan Swift :
'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daughter; every thing of his seems to be [italics] Froth [end italics] I think, and that Froth is [italics] Dirty [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Maria Thrale      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift :
'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daughter; every thing of his seems to be [italics] Froth [end italics] I think, and that Froth is [italics] Dirty [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Horace : '8th Ode'
'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindication of my Assertion to Johnson that low Foreheads were classical, when the 8th Ode of the 1st Book of Horace struck me so, I could not help Imitating it while the Scandal [of Pacchierotti and Lady Mary Duncan] was warm in my head.' [the verses follow]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Giovanni Povoleri : [a sonnet on love and friendship]
'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page we shall see another Sonnet, written by the Abbate Buondelmonte: I live with the Italians till I run mad after their Literature, their Talents &c.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

Abbate Buondelmonte : [a sonnet]
'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page we shall see another Sonnet, written by the Abbate Buondelmonte: I live with the Italians till I run mad after their Literature, their Talents &c.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

Anne Hunter : 'North American Death Song'
'Mrs John Hunter, Wife to the famous Anatomist has made a Base to the Tune [reputed to be North American Indian]; & set these Words to it; I had no Notion She could write so well.' ['North American Death Song' follows]
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale

Dominique Bouhours : La maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit. Dialogues.
'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who we know - held Montagne and read- While Mrs Susan comb's her Head. I thought of the following enigmatical Verses: those which gave rise to them both in French & in Italian, may be found in the above mentioned little Volume' her verses are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : 'Cadenus and Vanessa'
'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who we know - held Montagne and read- While Mrs Susan comb's her Head. I thought of the following enigmatical Verses: those which gave rise to them both in French & in Italian, may be found in the above mentioned little Volume' her verses are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bell's Elocutionist
'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ladies returned I did a little reading & then took some grog & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ladies returned I did a little reading & then took some grog & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I read the papers at the Mechanics in the evening & brought home a book'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw by the Herald Mr McMullen of Wangaratta died from the effects of a fall from his horse'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Mayne Reid : The Giraffe Hunters
'Stayed at Home all the evening reading “The Giraffe Hunters”.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Mayne Reid : The Giraffe Hunters
'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Alexander Pope : Pastorals
'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by repeated Touches, & slow Degrees, is not at all strange tho' 'tis curious; it is however odd enough that a Man should be so [italics] imbued [end italics] with the classicks as to write Love Verses from one Shepherd to another, because Virgil wote his Corydon & Alexis; The Third Pastoral runs all thro' with the name Thyrsis instead of Delia in the Book before me'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: book

Alexander Pope : 'Third pastoral'
'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by repeated Touches, & slow Degrees, is not at all strange tho' 'tis curious; it is however odd enough that a Man should be so [italics] imbued [end italics] with the classicks as to write Love Verses from one Shepherd to another, because Virgil wote his Corydon & Alexis; The Third Pastoral runs all thro' with the name Thyrsis instead of Delia in the Book before me'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Virgil : 'Second Eclogue'
'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by repeated Touches, & slow Degrees, is not at all strange tho' 'tis curious; it is however odd enough that a Man should be so [italics] imbued [end italics] with the classicks as to write Love Verses from one Shepherd to another, because Virgil wote his Corydon & Alexis; The Third Pastoral runs all thro' with the name Thyrsis instead of Delia in the Book before me'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire : [a Song]
'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus Boy! bring my Flow'rs and bind my Hair: I could but laugh to think how her Grace had been studying Translations from Horace till She adopted a Style wch [italics] to her [end italics] must appear strangely unnatural'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read till I was tired then smoked away & talked to Polly till it was time to go to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read till I was tired then smoked away & talked to Polly till it was time to go to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Frances Burney : Cecilia
'[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this Mode of Life lasts, her Book will be of Value, as the Representation is astonishingly perfect: but as nothing in the Book is derived from Study, so it can have no Principle of duration - Burney's Cecilia is to Richardson's Clarissa - what a Camera Obscura in the Window of a London parlour, - is to a view of Venice by the clear Pencil of Canaletti [sic.]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Australasian
'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday evening but stopped at home & read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday evening but stopped at home & read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Alexander Pope : Eloisa to Abelard
'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its Ingenuity; they are commonly very ignorant Women, & can only be pleased with it as it expresses strong Feelings of Nature & Passion'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I stayed at home & read ... In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, nothing however very startling. Bowman's lecture on "Shams" appeared in the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I stayed at home & read ... In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, nothing however very startling. Bowman's lecture on "Shams" appeared in the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Brothers Grimm : [fairy tales]
'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I stayed at home & read ... In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, nothing however very startling. Bowman's lecture on "Shams" appeared in the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Robert Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy, The
'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence - 'tis printed in the Tatler; Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew. See page 277 of Burton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Milton : 'L'Allegro'
'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence - 'tis printed in the Tatler; Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew. See page 277 of Burton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Milton : 'Il Penseroso'
'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence - 'tis printed in the Tatler; Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew. See page 277 of Burton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Richard Savage : Wanderer, The
'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence - 'tis printed in the Tatler; Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew. See page 277 of Burton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

William Harrison : 'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies'
'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence - 'tis printed in the Tatler; Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew. See page 277 of Burton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Samuel Johnson : [a story]
'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence - 'tis printed in the Tatler; Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew. See page 277 of Burton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Taming of the Shrew, The
'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence - 'tis printed in the Tatler; Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew. See page 277 of Burton.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

[n/a] : Argus
'The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connected with the Beechworth Gaol was more or less censured in the Report excepting "Gibson" & that there would probably be dismissals & removals'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Melbourne Punch
'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian Dean leering most sensually at a lady sitting beside him while the Melbourne Dean was looking horrified at the short skirts of one of the waitresses of the Oriental Cafe. Punch has a piece of poetry on the subject & advises the Committee of Clergymen who are to put down immorality first to look to the beam at home among themselves before they attack the mote in society at large'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Australasian
' In the Australasian of yesterday "The Peripatetic" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of Free Speech for a mess of official porridge in other words Marcus Clarke the Peripatetic has been appointed Secretary to the (illegible) [Union?]. The Australasian will miss the P.P.s column.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Frances Burney : Cecilia
'Wyndham and Johnson were talking of Miss Burney's new Novel - 'Tis far superior to Fielding's, says Mr Johnson; her Characters are nicer discriminated, and less prominent, Fielding could describe a Horse or an Ass, but he never reached to a Mule.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide. In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Melbourne Punch
'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide. In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide. In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Touchstone
'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea. In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with his sums read a bit of Blackwood smoked my pipe & went to bed tolerably early'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwood's Magazine
'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea. In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with his sums read a bit of Blackwood smoked my pipe & went to bed tolerably early'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. Mr Gordon a well known sporting man & a poet of some pretensions blew his brains out yesterday. This suicide has created much sensation'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at Murder followed by determined suicide at Castlemaine (& that is nothing in these times) there appeared to be no news of any importance'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After muster although it was raining & the weather was exceedingly unpleasant I went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After muster this afternoon I went into town & read the evening paper, Nothing particular in it, the newspaper boys were however calling out the arrival of the Mail so I suppose I was too early for the intelligence she brought & that it appeared later in the evening in a second edition'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Temple Bar
'Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald which was eagerly sought after for further intelligence concerning the fire, brought a Herald home for Polly & Harry's satisfaction'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening after Muster I went into Melbourne & read the papers. The English ones were on the table. Got home before nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'This evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband. The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man used to beat her brutally on Saturday night however he struck her once too often & ended the miserable life she was leading. From the report of the case in the papers it seems the woman was brutally ill treated & that before life was extinct she must have been fearfully battered. The handle of a saucepan was used'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Suggestion Book" in which there were a great many sarcastic remarks some of which showed not over good feeling on the part of some of the members one to the other'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

club members : The Suggestion Book
'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Suggestion Book" in which there were a great many sarcastic remarks some of which showed not over good feeling on the part of some of the members one to the other'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & skimmed the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After muster went to the Yorick Club & peeped at the papers came home to dinner'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I went to "the Mechanics" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - comic periodicals]
'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my mind to read'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening paper. There was nothing however particular in it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Australasian
'Read the Australasian, till Mr Wyburn & Miss Morphy put in an appearance'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Argus
'Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found it was too true'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwood's Magazine
'Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it was a most withering attack & Disreali (sic) can but wince pretty smartly at it though of course as far as the Book itself goes it is very likely to help sell it'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'went to the Yorick Club & read for a time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'called at the Yorick Club, read the papers, very little new in any of them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'went to the Yorick Club & had another look at the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yorick". Saw in the Evening Paper that a Bank Accountant at Geelong was supposed to have embezzled a considerable sum of money & to have gone to Fidgi, should this be true it will be another great scandal as Mr Farrell the person accused was a very old resident of Geelong & much respected by the inhabitants of that place'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yorick". Saw in the Evening Paper that a Bank Accountant at Geelong was supposed to have embezzled a considerable sum of money & to have gone to Fidgi, should this be true it will be another great scandal as Mr Farrell the person accused was a very old resident of Geelong & much respected by the inhabitants of that place'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of "Earl" as Second favourite for the Metropolitan. This is one of the horses that Ellis & I have in our double Metn. & Cup'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the whole of the time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening "Castieau" was mentioned among the passengers in a Steam-boat from Sydney felt convinced however it was a mistake as I have never heard of any one of our name on this side of the world excepting my sisters & myself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather believed in the accident than otherwise'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather believed in the accident than otherwise'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'After muster went into Melbourne & called at "the Yorick", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not a very flattering one but still a good likeness. The letter-press added to the picture was kindly worded so I suppose the doctor will not be very much displeased though the lips are represented as decidedly heavy & his general expression rather more sleepy than intellectual looking'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking for a change'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'The "Argus" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astounding is its brief history.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them all Ordinary, Illustrated or Comic. "War" is the inspiration of their columns. Stayed at home this evening played cribbage with Polly. Then when she went to bed sat & read the Standard'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Standard
'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them all Ordinary, Illustrated or Comic. "War" is the inspiration of their columns. Stayed at home this evening played cribbage with Polly. Then when she went to bed sat & read the Standard'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the names of three gentleman who were to take their places'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Solicitor General to the Honorary Magistrates in which was pointed out that it had become known some of the magistrates had received payment for the performance of their honorary duties & that this was highly improper Of course the magistrates as a whole were "highly honorable men" but some were not the "clean potato" & this circular was just a warning, that any magistrate taking "tip" & being found out would be kicked out of the Commission without delay, really a remarkable circular & highly flattering to the "great unpaid".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Australasian
'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded. Read also another portion of Lothair must confess with less pleasure than I felt in perusing some of the previous chapters. The part I read to-day related exclusively to the Wiles of the Roman Catholic Clergy in their strenuous efforts to ensnare Lothair in their toils & win him & his money over to the Church. It did not seem natural to me High Dignitaries of the Church within a step of the Pope himself would have condescended to plot as they are represented to Plot, nor that any one in his senses could have been imposed upon & made act so foolishly as Lothair is represented to have acted.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Benjamin Disraeli : Lothair
'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded. Read also another portion of Lothair must confess with less pleasure than I felt in perusing some of the previous chapters. The part I read to-day related exclusively to the Wiles of the Roman Catholic Clergy in their strenuous efforts to ensnare Lothair in their toils & win him & his money over to the Church. It did not seem natural to me High Dignitaries of the Church within a step of the Pope himself would have condescended to plot as they are represented to Plot, nor that any one in his senses could have been imposed upon & made act so foolishly as Lothair is represented to have acted.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied with myself & the world in general'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown]
'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) that the hope of man lies in the historic realization of the Gospel. I rejoiced in the Introduction, which appeared to me to be the mature summing up after an interval of the many strains of thought in the "Elegies." Now the stress of controversy is over, I think so still. As I look at my original copy of "In Memoriam," I recognise that what impressed me most was your father's splendid faith (in the face of the frankest acknowledgement of every difficulty) in the growing purpose of the sum of life, and in the noble destiny of the individual man as he offers himself for the fulfilment of his little part (LIV., LXXXI., LXXXII. and the closing stanzas). This faith has now largely entered into our common life, and it seems to me to express a lesson of the Gospel which the circumstances of all time encourage us to master.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Brooke Foss Westcott      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) that the hope of man lies in the historic realization of the Gospel. I rejoiced in the Introduction, which appeared to me to be the mature summing up after an interval of the many strains of thought in the "Elegies." Now the stress of controversy is over, I think so still. As I look at my original copy of "In Memoriam," I recognise that what impressed me most was your father's splendid faith (in the face of the frankest acknowledgement of every difficulty) in the growing purpose of the sum of life, and in the noble destiny of the individual man as he offers himself for the fulfilment of his little part (LIV., LXXXI., LXXXII. and the closing stanzas). This faith has now largely entered into our common life, and it seems to me to express a lesson of the Gospel which the circumstances of all time encourage us to master.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Brooke Foss Westcott      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Idylls of the King
John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860): 'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I could get them across the water, and have only not written about them because I could not quite make up my mind about that increased quietness of style [...] 'The four songs seem to me the jewels of the crown, and bits come every here and there, the fright of the maid for instance, and the "In the darkness o'er her fallen head," which seem to me finer than almost all you have done yet. Nevertheless I am not sure but I feel the art and finish in these poems a little more than I like to feel it [...] 'As a description of various nobleness and tenderness the book is without price: but I shall always wish it had been nobleness independent of a romantic condition of externals in general.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir John Herschel : 'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre'
'The note by my father, that originally headed his blank verse translation from the Iliad beginning 'He ceased, and sea-like roar'd the Trojan host, 'ran: "Some, and among these one at least of our best and greatest, have endeavoured to give us the Iliad in English hexameters, and by what appears to me their failure have gone far to prove the impossibility of the task [...]" [...] This was written after reading Sir John Herschel's "Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre," Cornhill Magazine, May 1862.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Serial / periodical

Bowden : Life of Hildebrand
Benjamin Jowett to Emily Tennyson, May 1868: 'I am glad that Alfred is thinking of Hildebrand. I remember a long time ago reading Bowden's Life of him, and either the man or the book struck me greatly. 'Hildebrand's dying in exile might give an opportunity of drawing first the Roman Catholic Ideal, secondly, the impossibility of it, notwithstanding its grandeur.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Preface, The Ring and the Book
From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, full of strange vigour and remarkable in many ways; doubtful whether it can ever be popular.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning

Alfred Tennyson : poem on the Holy Grail
From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'November. The Hollies, Clapham Common. I have sent the "Grail" to be [italics]printed[end italics] [...] I read it last night to Strahan and Pritchard, who professed themselves delighted.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

Ivan Turgenev : Lisa
From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere et Enfants A. liked much) and Mr Ralston arrived. Tourgeueneff (a tall, large, white-haired man with a strong face) was most interesting, and told us stories of Russian life with a great graphic power and vivacity.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

Ivan Turgenev : Fathers and Sons
From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere et Enfants A. liked much) and Mr Ralston arrived. Tourgeueneff (a tall, large, white-haired man with a strong face) was most interesting, and told us stories of Russian life with a great graphic power and vivacity.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

George Eliot : Adam Bede
From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (George Eliot) [...] He likes her Adam Bede, Scenes of Clerical Life, Silas Marner best of her novels. Romola he thinks somewhat out of her depth.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

George Eliot : Scenes of Clerical Life
From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (George Eliot) [...] He likes her Adam Bede, Scenes of Clerical Life, Silas Marner best of her novels. Romola he thinks somewhat out of her depth.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

George Eliot : Silas Marner
From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (George Eliot) [...] He likes her Adam Bede, Scenes of Clerical Life, Silas Marner best of her novels. Romola he thinks somewhat out of her depth.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

George Eliot : Romola
From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (George Eliot) [...] He likes her Adam Bede, Scenes of Clerical Life, Silas Marner best of her novels. Romola he thinks somewhat out of her depth.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

: The Graphic
'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerisque”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have pleased the public this time!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Australasian
'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : All the Year Round
'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : Edwin Drood
'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Dickens : Edwin Drood
'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Australasian
'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown]
'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy & then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate copy of a Photograph of Bismarck'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'then went to "the Yorick" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about "Supple" read the papers then came home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [placard]
'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which was posted outside "the Argus office" as follows "The Prussians are in Paris" This flew like wild-fire & was left uncontradicted though the placard was after a time taken down, it proved of course to have been a mistake, but it certainly whetted the appetite very strongly for the Extraordinary which was eagerly rushed so soon as it was procurable about eight thousand copies were sold a nice little extra for the Argus Proprietors & the News Boys. Was at home most of the evening the news was most exciting & much anxiety was felt with regard to the feeling said to be shown in England in favour of the French Republic & against the Queen & Prince of Wales.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster

[n/a] : The Extraordinary (Argus)
'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which was posted outside "the Argus office" as follows "The Prussians are in Paris" This flew like wild-fire & was left uncontradicted though the placard was after a time taken down, it proved of course to have been a mistake, but it certainly whetted the appetite very strongly for the Extraordinary which was eagerly rushed so soon as it was procurable about eight thousand copies were sold a nice little extra for the Argus Proprietors & the News Boys. Was at home most of the evening the news was most exciting & much anxiety was felt with regard to the feeling said to be shown in England in favour of the French Republic & against the Queen & Prince of Wales.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Home News
'After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading "The Home News" particularly interesting in this war time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Charles Dickens : Edwin Drood
'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown]
'Went to the Yorick Club in the afternoon & read for some time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown]
'then went to the Yorick where I stayed for a short time & had a look at the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been drowned & much damage has been caused at other parts of the Colony'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown]
'Went into Melbourne in the evening, took a book to the Mechanics & read for a time at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown]
'In the evening went to the Mechanics changed some Periodicals, then went over to the Yorick & read for a time
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed a book, then went over to the Yorick did not stay long, looked through all the Country papers, their correspondents all described the flogging yesterday as having been very severe'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & a smoke went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & a smoke went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown]
'In the evening went to the Yorick, read for a time then took a walk up Bourke Street'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Extraordinary (Argus)
'Went to the Yorick club this afternoon & read the Extraordinary the Mail having been Telegraphed to-day. Paris was according to a Telegram from Mr Verdon being bombarded. The bombardment commenced on October 1st. Metz had capitulated & the Prussian Star was still in the ascendant'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'Went to "The Yorick" & read the English Punches'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - comic periodicals]
'went to the Mechanics & turned over some of the "funny" periodicals'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Blackwood's Magazine
'then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [Roman history]
'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or opposed to wild beasts & wonder how the populace could delight in such cruel amusement. I do not however think the men of the modern age are much different & I feel confident if a scene of the kind was to take place in Melbourne to-morrow there would be any number of applications for admission'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'then to the Yorick at the latter place had a chat with Semple & Eville & a look at Punch'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a pipe & then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Punch
'In the evening went to the "Yorick" & read Punch & some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Touchstone
'After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper came out under difficulties this week, not being able to raise a "cartoon" the Artist having struck for "wages" I expect'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown]
'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryborough. It seems Bowman pitched into Smith for slandering him, poor Smith seems bound to be constantly & unpleasantly before the Public. Went in the evening to the Mechanics to change a book, then looked in at the Yorick & read for a time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Argus
'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryborough. It seems Bowman pitched into Smith for slandering him, poor Smith seems bound to be constantly & unpleasantly before the Public. Went in the evening to the Mechanics to change a book, then looked in at the Yorick & read for a time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Punch
'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this month, one cartoon especially a Study in the Palace of Versailles, the king of Prussia Booted & spurred, yet in an easy chair having a pipe over the Plans of Paris & wearing a self satisfied air, behind him the shades of Louis the fourteenth & Napoleon "Is this the end of all the triumphs" Another Cartoon represents "a real German defeat" the Marquis of Lorn with his royal bride leaning fondly on him while in the distance are to be seen a crowd of Uniformed, Whiskered & bewaxed German princes wailing, & gnashing at the sight though still sucking away at their Meerchaums.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Australasian
' I passed the morning reading the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Argus
'Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'then read the papers at "The Yorick"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the article I took them last night'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I [spouted?] for his & my amusement. From a Telegram in the evening paper I saw that some lucky ones had got a nugget of 43 lbs weight at Berlin, a nice New Year's Gift for the lucky finders'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I [spouted?] for his & my amusement. From a Telegram in the evening paper I saw that some lucky ones had got a nugget of 43 lbs weight at Berlin, a nice New Year's Gift for the lucky finders'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Leader
'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader" & then came away home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'Some excitement as the English mail was expected & in the morning a report was spread that she had been [telegraphed?]. It turned out however not to be correct, there was news however in the Argus by "the Queen of the Thames" just sufficient to whet the appetite for the mail news when the Extraordinary makes its appearance'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Yorick & read the English [papers?] or rather looked at the Pictures in them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Called at the Yorick & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
'I was sitting between one & two o'clock quietly enjoying a chapter in "Vanity Fair" when there was a bustling noise [?] to the Gaol. Polly looked out of the window & immediately called out "Mr Castieau there is some prisoners escaping."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Age
'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Telegraph
'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, then after a look at Punch came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
'I have been reading "Vanity Fair" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I really think I like the Book better even than any of those of Dickens. "Becky Sharp" is prodigious. I thought however it to be a great mistake to pull Mr Sedley down so quickly after his bankruptcy & make him so soon appear so dreadfully shabby, humble & contemptible, particularly as "Jos" did what was necessary to prevent his parents being in want as he is stated to have sent instructions to his agents to furnish what money was required. The description given of poor old "Sedley" is the most painful & most truthful description of a ruined man without hopes or friends but the fall to such a condition would be very gradual & Sedley had'ent the time given him to arrive at it any more than his glossy coats had had time to become white in the Seams & Greasy in the collars.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
'Came home & finished "Vanity Fair" before tea-time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading to them from Grimm's Goblins.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Brothers Grimm : [fairy tales]
'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading to them from Grimm's Goblins.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness of manner on the Bench'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette
'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of "Hanging" was carried out. The writer from English experience argued that the necks of the criminals were as a rule not dislocated & that those who died at the hangman's hands were simply throttled. The writer considered the punishment might be much more humanely carried out. The simple truth of the matter is the ropes used in England are not long enough. If more fall was given dislocation of the neck would take place & from what I have seen in this country no fault could then be found as the death would be both merciful & speedy.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is said to have been the cause of the accident. Did Harry's sums for him this evening & then read "Handy Andy" as the weather was so bad I could not very well go out.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Handy Andy
'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is said to have been the cause of the accident. Did Harry's sums for him this evening & then read "Handy Andy" as the weather was so bad I could not very well go out.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Punch
'Went to the Club in the evening & had a look at Punch.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Australasian
'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [fairy tales?]
'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went into Melbourne & read the papers at "The Yorick" then took a turn through Bourke Street & then home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'then I went into town & called in at the Yorick to read the papers. Recently a youthful individual with innumerable buttons & very tight clothes has appeared at the Club as an attendant sprite upon the Members. He is a very lively boy. To-night while I was reading he came into the room, knelt in a chair before the open window but his body half way into the street & commenced whistling in a spirited manner keeping time with his heels against the chair. I was brute enough to growl at him & he desisted leaving the room however with the air of one whose feelings had been outraged'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that "Tommy Hoyle" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident yesterday being thrown from the Coach which passed over & killed him.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Yorick in the afternoon. The Club however was unusually empty for Saturday afternoon & so I did not do much more than look at the Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [fairy tales?]
'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Went to "The Yorick" but did not stay longer than necessary to have a look at the Herald. The Victorians won the Cricket Match at Sydney with 48 runs to spare & so had certainly something to be cocky about.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Graphic
'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly seemed to think it was not so bad & I expect she is the best judge, particularly as I have not found her disposed to be unreasonably complimentary to me on the quality of my literary attempts'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went into town & read the Newspapers at the Club'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : School for Scandal
'Was pleased with Harry. This evening he read a scene with me from the School for Scandal & showed a good deal understanding'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [stories]
'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Club in the evening & read some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Club. Skimmed some of the papers then purchased The Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening after Mr & Mrs Hall were gone I went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'in the evening went to the Yorick where I spent some time in reading the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Telegraph
'A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr Wright of the Railway Department & Mr Colles of Castlemaine'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Punch
'In the evening went to Melbourne & called at the Club where I had a look at Punch & the other papers '
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance
'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'after Muster went into town & read the papers at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Telegraph
'went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of this morning & which contained a lot of rot with regards to prison servants & the employment of prisoners in Gaols'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown]
'In the evening when the weather had taken up I went to the Club & read for some time, then came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild
'When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was reading or skimming was called "Blueskin" or the adventures of "Jonathan Wild" the great thief taker. It was taken away from a prisoner in the Gaol & is certainly as mischievous a work as could possibly gain access to a place of confinement. It describes fully all sorts of different plans & attempts at Escape made by "Jack Sheppard" & others & is just such a book as would fire the imagination of the "larrikin" class who evidently consider "breaking prison" a most heroic exploit & who would as a rule put up with extra loss of liberty for the glory of appearing in the papers & being thought "lads of spirit" by their contemporaries.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild
'Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in "Blueskin", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies "Jack Sheppard" & contains most wonderful & thrilling episodes of his career. Escapes from Gaol were this great man's "weakness" & such trumpery aids to safe-keeping as "Heavy Chains", "Massive doors", Walls of extra strength & solidity were of no avail when the hero made up his mind he would be free. Hurrah'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown]
'After Muster I went to the Club & stayed there reading for a short time, then came home to tea'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild
'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the "Yorick" & had a look over the newspapers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers until tea time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, nothing very ... or interesting'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, the only item in the Evening Herald of any consequence was the announcement of the arrival of The Somersetshire after a passage of 56 days. The vessel is however in Quarantine as there had been some cases of smallpox on board'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, then came home to tea.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [fairy tales?]
'Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [fairy tales?]
'Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [fairy tales?]
'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Australasian
'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were original matter. This is strange of the Ovens & Murray as the Lecture was published in its own columns.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were original matter. This is strange of the Ovens & Murray as the Lecture was published in its own columns.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Edward Bulwer Lytton : [ghost story]
'In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of a "Strange Story" by that nobleman that she left everything go to the bad'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'This evening's Herald gave the names of Duffy's Ministry'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [weekly newspapers]
'so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspapers]
'Went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Mark Lemon : Wait for the End
'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until after eleven o'clock though I did little more than skim the reading to get at the Plot & the "denouemont"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Extraordinary (Argus)
'On the Road bought an Extraordinary which was published this morning, the English Mail having arrived in the night. There was terrible news of the Civil War in Paris, of the murder of the Archbishop, two other clergymen & 64 hostages by the Insurgents & of the fearful retaliation of the troops, 30,000 of the Reds being said to be killed or wounded in the Streets. Some of the finest buildings in Paris were wilfully set fire to by the insurgents & women were shot by the infuriated soldiers while they were like fiends rushing about endeavouring to set light to anything that could be consumed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Cornhill
'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Australasian
'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away the time. I was very much amused by a skit in The Australasian by "Hans Beste" called "Lothau", a satire upon "Lothair", Disreali's last work. "Lothau" is a capital burlesque upon Lothair & in a couple of columns of newspaper type takes off all the leading incidents of the novel in a most amusing manner.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs Castieau'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to "the Yorick" & had a look at some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'After Muster read "Gil Blas" for a while, then played "Bezique" with Polly.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'In the evening read "Gil Blas"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not see much of her as she & Polly left me in the dining room while they gossiped away in the Drawing Room.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'In the evening I was very lazily inclined & sat over "Gil Blas" for some time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has however suffered much for a long time past. She was very kind to me when I first went to Beechworth'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so I sat & read till tea time. After tea I read again till the women went into the Gaol '
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & chatted a little, then came away home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown]
'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & chatted a little, then came away home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [Poems]
'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how much they seemed to enjoy them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Poems]
'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : Le Fevre
'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Unknown : Unknown
'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alteration of which, attended with other sorry enough drawbacks, has kept me occupied to the present hour. Henceforth nothing but fireman haste awaits me, for week after week! My spare hours filled with critical meditations, and ever and anon the thought of this solemn treaty intervening!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Title page and preface of 'German Romance'
'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the Title-page and Preface; then Jonathan on Wednesday morning; the management of all which things has occiped my whole disposable time till this morning.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter

Frederick Marryat : The Pirate
'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering production.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : The Critique of Pure Reason
'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcendental Philosophy! So it is: I am at the hundred and fiftieth page of the Kritik der reinen verbubft; not only reading but partially understanding, and full of projects for instructing my benighted countrymen on the true merits of this sublime system at some more propitious season.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

JMH Doring : Jean Paul Richters Leben
'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late for assisting my printed critical labours I perused with great interest. My curiosity indeed was rather excited than satisfied by the strange 'string of shreds and patches' which Doering calls a Life; but Richter is a subject of such attraction that any account of him however meagre was peculiarly welcome.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : unknown
'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern Writers on Modern Writers". When he invited her to contribute a volume and choose her own author, she selected Virginia Woolf, whose novels she had always admired, as a deliberate exercise in intellectual discipline.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Winifred Holtby : Good Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Health"
'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he prefaced his announcement that she could not hope to live for more than two years.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch
'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published novel , "Inheritance", which Winifred had voted "magnificent," and never dreamed that sentence of death was being passed upon her behind the closed door.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Winifred Holtby : Virginia Woolf
'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Winifred Holtby : Mandoa, Mandoa!
'"I am going to call attention in this department," it ran, "to the fact that the most informing - and upsetting - book to read to-day on the Abyssinian crisis is "Mandoa, Mandoa!" I wrote the review in "Books"; this summer I bought the English edition to re-read in the light of present events. Heavens, how well it stood the test!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: May Lamberton-Becker      Print: Book

N. A. : 'Young Rob Roy' in Stirling Observer
'In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what authority he has for understanding so much in his notes.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

Virgil : Aeneid
'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Superstitious Intention by way of trying the "Sortes Virgilanae": the Book spontaneously open'd where Turnus welcomes Camilla, and fixing his fine Eyes upon her cries out with a mixture of Admiration & Gratitude Oh Decus Italiae &c. I thought it a good omen'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

John Moore : View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany
'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to endure it, shot himself' [there follows a long account of her daughters' responses and evaluation of their characters]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Tale of a Tub, A
'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I always thought it was borrowed from "les trois Anneaux de Fontenelle".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : [translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah']
'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Graves, who wrote the Spiritual Quixote'. [the Latin verses follow]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

William Derham : Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simple Philosophers praising God Almighty for making the World so wisely - saying in what a [italics] Workman-like [end italics] Manner he has managed Things: how should he [italics] not [end italics] make the World wisely? and how should their Praises add any Thing to him?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: 'To Melancholy'
'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melancholy seems odd enough, as he is a merry Mortal, and full of native Drollery. [the verses are given and Mrs Thrale says] the 6th Stanza is worth all the rest - [italics] I think it very fine [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

: [verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her whom I love best']
'[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Devices - compiled in the Reign of Elizabethe' [the (unidentified) verses are given]
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Manuscript: Unknown

: [French Memoirs]
'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had not a Notion it was worth while'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

: [English history]
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

: [Roman history]
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

: Bible
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

John Milton :
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

Alexander Pope : [translations of Homer and other works]
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

: [books of European travels]
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield, The
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Zadig
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

Edward Young :
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

Joseph Addison : works
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

: [plays]
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres
'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him, & my Influence perished by my Connection with Piozzi - I have read to them what I could not force or perswade them to read for themselves. The English & Roman Histories, the Bible; - not Extracts, but the whole from End to End - Milton, Shakespeare, Pope's Iliad, Odyssey & other Works, some Travels through the well-known Parts of Europe; some elegant Novels as Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Voltaire's Zadig &c. Young & Addison's works, Plays out of Number, Rollin's Belles Lettres - and hundreds of Things now forgot, have filled our Time up since we left London for Bath.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia     Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure
'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with what Taylor described as 'morbid satisfaction'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: David John Thomas      Print: Book

: Rainbow
'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Serial / periodical, comic

William Shakespeare : Richard II
'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands over his ears and burst out, 'I can't stand it, I can't stand it.' Subsequently he and his fellow pupils were allowed to recite poems of their choice. Standing alongside Mrs Hole, the seven-year-old Dylan annouced he was going to do 'my grave poem', and started to intone: 'Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Mark sorrow on the bosom of the earth...' He ended in stunned silence. His class had no idea he had been quoting Shakespeare's "Richard II".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

Thomas Browne :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

Henry Newbolt :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

William Blake :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

John Keats :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

Emmuska Orczy :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

Edgar Allan Poe :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

: Bible
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

: Chums Magazine
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Serial / periodical

: Bible
'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's "Songs of Innocence", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

William Blake : Songs of Innocence
'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's "Songs of Innocence", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's "Songs of Innocence", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

: [Border Ballads]
'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's "Songs of Innocence", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas      Print: Book

St. John Ervine : God's Soldier
'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently completed biography of General Booth, "God's Soldier".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Thomas Edward Lawrence : Seven Pillars of Wisdom
'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Liddell Hart : T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After
'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a review of Liddell Hart's "T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After".'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby

Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to her abiding sense of the Yorkshire that made her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Unknown

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'The weather was very wet all the evening so I was not able to go out & contented myself with reading Gil Blas till nearly bed-time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'In the evening I stayed at home & read "Gil Blas" till it was time to go to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'in the evening I went into town, called at the Yorick & looked at the Weeklies'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Anthony Trollope : West Indies
'In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies '
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Newcomes
'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the day & I read some little stories to them & Walter'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [stories]
'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the day & I read some little stories to them & Walter'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Punch
'Went to the Club & had a glance at the Illustrated Papers & Punch which arrived by this Mail'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [fairy tales]
'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling?] home & Sissy & Dotty went away good temperedly to bed. Read "Poor dog [Tray?]" out of ["Ingolitsby"?] to Harry & then sent him off to bed also'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Richard Harris Barham : Ingoldsby Legends
'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling?] home & Sissy & Dotty went away good temperedly to bed. Read "Poor dog [Tray?]" out of ["Ingolitsby"?] to Harry & then sent him off to bed also'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'After Muster had tea & read the Evening Paper'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwood's Magazine
'then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Anthony Trollope : The Vicar of Bullhampton
'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullhampton", much the same sort of Book as Trollope's books always are'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer
'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer
'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Australasian
'Polly read the Australasian till she was tired & then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went into the town in the evening & read the papers at the Club.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Fraser's Magazine
'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read an article in Fraser on "The Imperial connection" by Jardine Smith. It is very well written & made me admire the ability of Mr Smith & to feel proud of his acquaintance, an acquaintance which has almost ripened into fellowship.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Argus
'In The Argus this morning I was very sorry to see the death of Dempster's little boy recorded. This was the only son & his loss will I am sure be a great blow to both Mr & Mrs Dempster'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Good Words
'Commenced reading a tale in Good Words "Oswald [?]"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three chapters to Harry who was very attentive & in a sad state when I had to send him away to his lessons.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was time to go to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaols & showing pretty clearly it was impossible he could do justice to all the establishments placed under his control.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Charles Reade : The Cloister and the Hearth
'Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Charles Reade : The Cloister and the Hearth
'Came home to tea & spent the evening reading "The Cloister & Hearth".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Heard Dotty read to-night & was quite pleased at finding she was very much improved & able to read easy words without any trouble'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I had not heard before'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [sign]
'There was a notice on the Board that baths could be had at the Club at a charge of 3d each to pay for towells &c. I called the Secretary quietly & pointed out that only one l was necessary to be used in spelling towel. He seemed doubtful & said he would look at the dictionary.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Manuscript: Sheet

Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers
'There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then went across to Dr Robertson's & rang the bell'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'then went to the Club & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destroyed the Prince of Wales Theatre & occasioned loss of life from a portion of the walls falling upon some people'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'In the Evening Herald, of this night, there was a Report of an Argument before the Supreme Court with respect to Parkin who had been arrested on a Fraud Summons & committed to Jamieson Gaol. De Verdon tried to get the warrant upset but did not succeed in doing so. I am very sorry for Mrs Parkin & the children & so I am for poor Parkin though I know little about him'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Extraordinary (Argus)
'After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus Extraordinary, "Arrival of the English Mail", one vagabond as he passed us with an armful of papers shouted "Death of the Prince of Wales". This thrilled me & excited Polly & so I purchased a paper. The Prince was not dead, but if the news be true was in a bad way when the Mail left St Francisco & there was but little hopes of his recovery.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'By the Argus we found that the Mail had been telegraphed at midnight. The Prince had been most dangerously ill but the last telegrams represented him to be apparently recovering.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Punch
'in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'In the evening went to the Club & on the Road called in at the Albion as I wanted to see the Ovens & Murray Advertiser & my letter if it had been published. After some trouble I found the paper I wanted & my letter in it, though in very small type. The type I would'ent have minded but I was very much annoyed in finding two or three paragraphs I did'ent write were put into the letter above the signature I used on this as on other occasions'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Extraordinary (Argus)
'The English mail was telegraphed this afternoon ... Extraordinaries were being sold when we were coming home. I bought one & was glad to see the Prince of Wales was ... to be out of danger'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - periodicals]
'In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll with Duerdin'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & Mrs Mathews.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Alexandre Dumas : Memoirs of a physician
'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes however would'ent allow anything of the kind & so after kicking about & turning over several scores of times I got up again, raised the gas & went on reading Dumas' "Memoirs of a Physician".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'In the Evening Herald published to night it was stated that Mr Dunn now Crown Prosecutor was to be made a County Court Judge in place of Judge Maceboy who is to retire in consequence of ill health. Mr Hughes was named to succeed Mr Dunne as Crown Prosecutor.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'The Case of Blair V Clarson was commenced in the Supreme Court to day & from what I saw in The Herald the details are likely to satisfy the most prurient of readers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown]
'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown]
'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Punch
'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated & Papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Saturday Review
'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article in one of the numbers on the republication of Mrs Aphra Behn's Dramas & Novels. The writer truly said that if this class of disgusting literature could be got up in expensive bindings for the rich the law would be no more outraged by Penny Editions for the crowd & if not put down in the first case the town might be reasonably expected soon to abound in literary filth till lately all but ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Review article; and 'Husbands and Wives'.
'Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the "Spectators" for August 5th and 12th; and you will see how the poor Spectatorists were puzzled and ("Scottice") affronted at my paper. It is charming.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Whitford : The Larrikin's Story
'While out to-night we purchased Whitford's stories of "Under the Dray". There is not much in them but they are decidedly readable & very good for sixpence. Harry commenced "The Larrikin's Story" & was of course immensely interested in it particularly as it was a kind of reading in which his mother thought it wrong for him to get a hold of.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Leader
'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each copy of the paper. The likeness was a very good one & I bought it for the sake of "Auld lang syne" but why "John" should have received such public notice I can scarcely understand. He is an enterprising man & may be a "successful colonist" but few people know him & comparatively few have ever heard of him. The whole thing smacks rather much of the advt. & I expect a pretty large share of this week's Leader will be purchased by "John Wallace".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Chatterbox
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
'I bought "The Age" as to-day it published a paper larger than "The Argus" for a penny & announced the intention of doing so every Saturday. The paper is really a wonderful one for a penny & will no doubt have a great circulation in fat I expect too large a one to make even the advertisements pay as I feel confident the paper &c must cost quite the charge for the News. In the Age of to-day was commenced a novel by the author of Lady Audley's Secret called "To the bitter end", this the proprietors announce they have the sole right to publish in Australia'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Bible [?]
'In the evening, Polly read to the children & then gave them a bible lesson'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full that the papers must be very interesting to folks Up Country on the mornings of publication'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & took a stroll through Bourke Street.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & the youngsters returned which they did at about eleven o'clock
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Age
'There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as far as Spencer Street Railway Station'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

: Le Courant
'I have found […] a "Courant" which was speedily dismembered and has been read eagerly down to the Theatre Advertisements.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : The Graphic
'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Engravings relating to "Thanksgiving Day" ... to the Tichbourne Case'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Marcus Clarke : The Jolly Beggars
'In the Evening went again to the Club, found no one there but Marcus Clarke & Shillingham. Had a chat with them. Marcus read a portion of a comic Opera he was writing to be called "The Jolly beggars". It was very funny but I should think better adapted for the pages of Punch than for the Stage'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marcus Clarke      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'There was a heavy article in the Argus this morning ... on the Government for the appointments they have made since they took office. The article was [?] the style of the men who usually write for the [?] Journal & I should like to know if it is new blood whose blood it is'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeared daily. It is not to be wondered at for it must be a serious undertaking the bringing out a daily at "the Ovens".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Sydney Colvin : Review of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which pleased me so much. You might have pitched it stronger about the time D.D. chose for proposing; it was simple caddish.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening reading & trying to amuse the children.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening reading & trying to amuse the children.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [story books]
'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After tea I read with Harry some Dramatic [?]. Harry understands well what he reads, but is in too great a hurry & consequently leaves out little words which spoil the effect of his delivery'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Family Herald
'Polly then buried her [?] in the last number of the Family Herald & I smoked away at a new pipe'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to anyone living outside the Ovens District & so they did not take me long to skim'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'"Telo" one of the Age staff was hunting up material for an Article & spent the whole day in the prison. He had some lunch with us & also came in at tea time. We had some recitations or rather reading in the evening, Harry rather distinguishing himself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is Attorney General so Harriette's present home will be a house of importance. The Australasian of to-day contained a panegyric of Mr Caldwell the Keeper of the Dunedin Gaol. He has issued a Report that his Gaol is more than self supporting & the paper takes him at his own estimate.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Australasian
'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is Attorney General so Harriette's present home will be a house of importance. The Australasian of to-day contained a panegyric of Mr Caldwell the Keeper of the Dunedin Gaol. He has issued a Report that his Gaol is more than self supporting & the paper takes him at his own estimate.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners had effected their escape?] from Ballaarat Gaol'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Anthony and Cleopatra
'He read to-night Mark Antony's Oration very fairly indeed for a boy of his age'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Argus
'The Argus of this morning contained a manifesto from Alipius, Roman Catholic bishop of Melbourne calling upon good churchmen to vote against the return of the present Ministers & endeavouring to inflame the blood of ignorant catholics by declaring that the system of secular instruction about to be introduced by the Ministry would be the means of enslaving the catholic people & depriving them of their religious rights'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Heard Harry read & was much pleased with the understanding he shows though he is at times very careless with regard to little words'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [drama?]
'Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls & Harry'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of "The first direct Telegram as it ought to have been".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After tea Harry began to read & was pretty successful with his lesson for which he was duly rewarded a mark.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Leader
'Telo gave me "The Leader" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave the Author an opportunity of earning. There was however I was glad to observe little that could be construed into a breach of Regulations in allowing it to be published'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

William Edmondstoune Aytoun : The Execution of Montrose
'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading "The Execution of Montrose" & was by particular desire reading Byron's "Battle of Waterloo" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Eve of Waterloo)
'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading "The Execution of Montrose" & was by particular desire reading Byron's "Battle of Waterloo" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading "The Execution of Montrose" & was by particular desire reading Byron's "Battle of Waterloo" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [dialogue]
'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading "The Execution of Montrose" & was by particular desire reading Byron's "Battle of Waterloo" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]
'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]
'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the employment & I was still busy reading when Polly & Sissy got back'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Aesop : Fables
'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the employment & I was still busy reading when Polly & Sissy got back'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the employment & I was still busy reading when Polly & Sissy got back'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'heard Harry & Sissy read'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'heard Harry & Sissy read'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'"Bowman" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & Nolan.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an account of Mrs Slater having had an accident & broken her leg, poor woman she will be ill able to bear a trouble of this kind.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [dialogue]
'Harry & I read for a long time together. Harry is beginning to understand what he reads & takes a fair part in Dialogue Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : Married Beneath Him
'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [dialogue?]
'In the evening Harry & I read for a long time together while mamma amused herself with the piano.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

[n/a] : Punch
'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Vanity Fair
'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Australasian
'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Family Herald
'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England
'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Public Opinion
'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in "Public Opinion", one especially which lamented the decadence of "the Turf" from the want of honor among the owners of horses. Horses said the writer now win if it suits their owners' pockets to let them do so, the Derby it is predicted will soon be shorn of all the national importance once attached to it & will soon be the ordinary common place affair that other races have become.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[prisoner] : [letter]
'I was much amused by one prisoner's letter that in the course of Duty I read to-day. The prisoner is in Gaol for beating his wife & excused himself in this fashion.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Manuscript: Letter

John Buckley Castieau : diary
'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my last year's Diary.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Manuscript: Codex

Peter Parley [pseud.] : [unknown]
'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my last year's Diary.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England
'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my last year's Diary.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]
'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Telegraph
'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: Shorter Catechism
'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standing at the head of a juvenile class, who read the Shorter Catechism and the Proverbs of Solomon'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Bible
'Next year my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me to school with a lad named Ker, who was teaching the children of a neighbouring farmer. Here I advanced so far as to get into the class who read in the Bible'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Bible [Psalms]
'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. I was greatly taken with our version of the Psalms of David, learned the most of them by heart, and have a great partiality for them unto this day'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Allan Ramsay : Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy
'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got a perusal of "The Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace", and "The Gentle Shepherd"; and though immoderately fond of them, yet (which you will think remarkable in one who hath since dabbled so much in verse) I could not help regretting deeply that they were not in prose, that every body might have understood them; or, I thought if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them. The little reading that I had learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the preceding one; and if I came to a triplet, a thing of which I had no conception, I commonly read to the foot of the page without perceiving that I had lost the rhyme altogether. I thought the author had been straitened for rhymes, and had just made a part of it do as well as he could without them. Thus, after I got through both works, I found myself much in the same predicament with the man of Eskdalemuir, who had borrowed Bailey's Dictionary from his neighbour. On returning it, the lender asked him what he thought of it. "I dinna ken man", replied he: "I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life!".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Henry the Minstrel : Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace
'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got a perusal of "The Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace", and "The Gentle Shepherd"; and though immoderately fond of them, yet (which you will think remarkable in one who hath since dabbled so much in verse) I could not help regretting deeply that they were not in prose, that every body might have understood them; or, I thought if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them. The little reading that I had learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the preceding one; and if I came to a triplet, a thing of which I had no conception, I commonly read to the foot of the page without perceiving that I had lost the rhyme altogether. I thought the author had been straitened for rhymes, and had just made a part of it do as well as he could without them. Thus, after I got through both works, I found myself much in the same predicament with the man of Eskdalemuir, who had borrowed Bailey's Dictionary from his neighbour. On returning it, the lender asked him what he thought of it. "I dinna ken man", replied he: "I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life!".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Nathan Bailey : Dictionarium Britannicum
'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got a perusal of "The Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace", and "The Gentle Shepherd"; and though immoderately fond of them, yet (which you will think remarkable in one who hath since dabbled so much in verse) I could not help regretting deeply that they were not in prose, that every body might have understood them; or, I thought if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them. The little reading that I had learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the preceding one; and if I came to a triplet, a thing of which I had no conception, I commonly read to the foot of the page without perceiving that I had lost the rhyme altogether. I thought the author had been straitened for rhymes, and had just made a part of it do as well as he could without them. Thus, after I got through both works, I found myself much in the same predicament with the man of Eskdalemuir, who had borrowed Bailey's Dictionary from his neighbour. On returning it, the lender asked him what he thought of it. "I dinna ken man", replied he: "I have read it all through, but canna say that I understand it; it is the most confused book that ever I saw in my life!".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

: Bible [Proverbs]
'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standing at the head of a juvenile class, who read the Shorter Catechism and the Proverbs of Solomon'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: [newspapers]
'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, that I remember any thing of, is "Bishop Burnet's Theory of the Conflagration of the Earth". Happy it was for me that I did not understand it! for the little of it that I did understand had nearly overturned my brain altogether. All the day I was pondering on the grand millennium, and the reign of the saints; and all the night dreaming of new heavens and a new earth - the stars in horror, and the world in flames! Mrs Laidlaw also gave me sometimes the newspapers, which I pored on with great earnestness - beginning at the date, and reading straight on, through advertisements of houses and lands, balm of Gilead, and every thing; and, after all, was often no wiser than when I began'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Newspaper

: [theological books]
'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, that I remember any thing of, is "Bishop Burnet's Theory of the Conflagration of the Earth". Happy it was for me that I did not understand it! for the little of it that I did understand had nearly overturned my brain altogether. All the day I was pondering on the grand millennium, and the reign of the saints; and all the night dreaming of new heavens and a new earth - the stars in horror, and the world in flames! Mrs Laidlaw also gave me sometimes the newspapers, which I pored on with great earnestness - beginning at the date, and reading straight on, through advertisements of houses and lands, balm of Gilead, and every thing; and, after all, was often no wiser than when I began'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Thomas Burnet : Sacred Theory of the Earth
'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, that I remember any thing of, is "Bishop Burnet's Theory of the Conflagration of the Earth". Happy it was for me that I did not understand it! for the little of it that I did understand had nearly overturned my brain altogether. All the day I was pondering on the grand millennium, and the reign of the saints; and all the night dreaming of new heavens and a new earth - the stars in horror, and the world in flames! Mrs Laidlaw also gave me sometimes the newspapers, which I pored on with great earnestness - beginning at the date, and reading straight on, through advertisements of houses and lands, balm of Gilead, and every thing; and, after all, was often no wiser than when I began'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: unknown
'Mr Laidlaw having a number of valuable books, which were all open to my perusal, I about this time began to read with considerable attention; - and no sooner did I begin to read so as to understand, than, rather prematurely, I began to write.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

William Hogg : 'Urania's Tour'
'[regarding a poetry contest with his brother William, himself and another, Hogg says of William's poem] it was far superior to either of the other two in the sublimity of the ideas; but, besides being in bad measure, it was often bombastical. The title of it was "Urania's Tour"'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read to the youngsters in the evening'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Argus
'Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The Argus in her hand. "Listen here Castieau" said she & straightway she read a paragraph which announced that a terrible outrage had been committed at Pentridge & an attempt made to murder the Inspector General of Penal Establishments.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Newspaper

James Hogg : [a pamphlet of poems]
'[on receiving the first printed copies of his poems] no sooner did the first copy come to hand, than my eyes were open to the folly of my conduct; for, on comparing it with the MS. which I had at home, I found many of the stanzas omitted, others misplaced, and typographical errors abounding in every place'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After Muster I went to the Club & had a look at the Weekly Papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I heard Harry read. He could not however get on very well & so I turned him over to his mother & played first "Beggar my neighbour" with Dotty'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

James Hogg : [a verse drama]
'I wrote another musical drama of three acts, and showed it to Mr Siddons. He approved of it very highly, with the exception of some trivial scenes, which I promised to alter'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Siddons      Manuscript: Unknown

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Guardian Angel
'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it had not been for it & the papers I should have had dull times as I did'ent stir out at all.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it had not been for it & the papers I should have had dull times as I did'ent stir out at all.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Good Words
'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from the difficulties of the English language. He gave the name of the Street he was living in as Stick no Bill Street. F.P. 13ft. Harry read to-night but I was obliged to tell him he had not improved at all lately.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from the difficulties of the English language. He gave the name of the Street he was living in as Stick no Bill Street. F.P. 13ft. Harry read to-night but I was obliged to tell him he had not improved at all lately.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The Soul of a Bishop
'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

James Hogg : 'The Queens Wake'
'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it would do. As I lived at Deanhaugh then, I invited Mr and Mrs Gray to drink tea, and to read a part of it with me before offering it for publication, Unluckily, however, before I had read half a page, Mrs Gray objected to a word, which Grieve approved of and defended, and some high disputes arose; other authors were appealed to, and notwithstanding my giving several very broad hints, I could not procure a hearing for another line of my new poem. Indeed, I was sorely disappointed, and told my friends so on going away; on which another day was appointed, and I took my manuscript to Buccleugh Place. Mr Gray had not got through the third page when he was told that an itinerant bard had entered the lobby, and was repeating his poetry to the boarders. Mr Gray went out and joined them, leaving me alone with a young lady, to read, or not, as we liked'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Grieve      Manuscript: Unknown

James Hogg : 'The Queens Wake'
'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it would do. As I lived at Deanhaugh then, I invited Mr and Mrs Gray to drink tea, and to read a part of it with me before offering it for publication, Unluckily, however, before I had read half a page, Mrs Gray objected to a word, which Grieve approved of and defended, and some high disputes arose; other authors were appealed to, and notwithstanding my giving several very broad hints, I could not procure a hearing for another line of my new poem. Indeed, I was sorely disappointed, and told my friends so on going away; on which another day was appointed, and I took my manuscript to Buccleugh Place. Mr Gray had not got through the third page when he was told that an itinerant bard had entered the lobby, and was repeating his poetry to the boarders. Mr Gray went out and joined them, leaving me alone with a young lady, to read, or not, as we liked'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Gray      Manuscript: Unknown

James Hogg : 'The Queens Wake'
'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it would do. As I lived at Deanhaugh then, I invited Mr and Mrs Gray to drink tea, and to read a part of it with me before offering it for publication, Unluckily, however, before I had read half a page, Mrs Gray objected to a word, which Grieve approved of and defended, and some high disputes arose; other authors were appealed to, and notwithstanding my giving several very broad hints, I could not procure a hearing for another line of my new poem. Indeed, I was sorely disappointed, and told my friends so on going away; on which another day was appointed, and I took my manuscript to Buccleugh Place. Mr Gray had not got through the third page when he was told that an itinerant bard had entered the lobby, and was repeating his poetry to the boarders. Mr Gray went out and joined them, leaving me alone with a young lady, to read, or not, as we liked'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Gray      Manuscript: Unknown

James Hogg : 'The Queen's Wake'
'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it would do. As I lived at Deanhaugh then, I invited Mr and Mrs Gray to drink tea, and to read a part of it with me before offering it for publication, Unluckily, however, before I had read half a page, Mrs Gray objected to a word, which Grieve approved of and defended, and some high disputes arose; other authors were appealed to, and notwithstanding my giving several very broad hints, I could not procure a hearing for another line of my new poem. Indeed, I was sorely disappointed, and told my friends so on going away; on which another day was appointed, and I took my manuscript to Buccleugh Place. Mr Gray had not got through the third page when he was told that an itinerant bard had entered the lobby, and was repeating his poetry to the boarders. Mr Gray went out and joined them, leaving me alone with a young lady, to read, or not, as we liked'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Frank Swinnerton : Shops and Houses
'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point that I was obliged to buy a second copy. I think this book shows marked development on the part of the author. There are about 150 pp. as good as the very best few pages of On the Staircase, & some much better.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [drama]
'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoked several pipes & then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

[n/a] : Argus
'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church of England Bishop "on the Bible". His Lordship treated the Bible as a historical record & urged that without attributing to it its holy character there was ample evidence of [its faithfulness?] handed down from Age to Age. The Bishop treated his subject altogether in a most liberal spirit & the Lecture will when published have no doubt a large circulation.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

James Hogg : 'The Queens Wake'
'[George Goldie] earnestly requested to see my MS. I gave it to him with reluctance, being predetermined to have nothing to do with him. He had not, however, well looked into the work till he thought he perceived something above common-place; and, when I next saw him, he was intent on being publisher of the work, offering me as much as Mr Constable, and all the subscribers to myself over and above'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Goldie      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [stories]
'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from the Merchant of Venice when Mr Henry Smith of the Argus called to see me'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice
'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from the Merchant of Venice when Mr Henry Smith of the Argus called to see me'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

John Wilson : Isle of Palms, and Other Poems
'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scenes, descriptive of bliss and woe, that it had a tendency to divest me occasionally of all worldly feelings. I reviewed this poem, as well as many others, in a Scottish Review then going on in Edinburgh'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Secret City
'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I think you have not achieved the same.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Graphic
'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately arrived by the mail. The Graphic had a fine coloured engraving of the monument recently erected in Hyde Park to the memory of the Prince Albert of Exhibition renown. The monument seems one worthy of the Queen who has erected it & of the noble man whose memory it celebrates. Was home at about nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

:
'[on a visit to his publisher, Constable] I read the backs of some books on his shelves, then spoke of my poem; but he would not deign to lift his eyes, or regard me'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'In the evening read for some time with Harry, he manages Shakespeare tolerably well for a boy of his age'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book, Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book, Serial / periodical

James Hogg : [poem from] The Poetic Mirror
'[having written an imitation of Byron, Hogg got] a large literary party together, on pretence, as I said, of giving them a literary treat. I had got the poem transcribed, and gave it to Mr Ballantyne to read, who did it ample justice. Indeed, he read it with extraordinary effect; so much so, that I was astonished at the poem myself, and before it was half done all pronounced it Byron's. Every one was deceived, except Mr Ballantyne, who was not to be imposed on in that way'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ballantyne      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechworth in connection with the Victorian Exhibition to be opened at Melbourne.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

R.S. Surtees : Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
'I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Australasian
'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Age
'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [stories]
'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Australasian
'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Old Mortality
'I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked on as an imitation of the tale of "Old Mortality", and a counterpart to that; whereas it was written long ere the tale of "Old Mortality" was heard of, and I well remember my chagrin on finding the ground, which I thought clear, pre-occupied before I could appear publicly on it, and that by such a redoubted champion.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

[n/a] : Arabian Nights, The
'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

W. Somerset Maugham : The Moon and Sixpence
'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have laid sufficient [? stress] on the positive qualities of the book. Any how, I read it with interest, and I think the Tahiti chapters are really very good. Also the man has a sardonic crude humour which pleaseth me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

James Hogg : Brownie of Bodsbeck
'I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the manuscript. One of them was "The Brownie", which, I believe, was not quite finished. He approved of it, but with "The Bridal of Polmood" he would have nothing to do'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Blackwood      Manuscript: Unknown

James Hogg : Bridal of Polmood
'I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the manuscript. One of them was "The Brownie", which, I believe, was not quite finished. He approved of it, but with "The Bridal of Polmood" he would have nothing to do'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Blackwood      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great disaster" & purported to be a report of the destruction occasioned to the City & inhabitants of Melbourne through the Powder Magazine in the Royal Park being blown up'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: New Statesman
'I regret that you have given up the "New Statesman". The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its best form.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [prison report]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

William Wordsworth : [poems]
'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [stories]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Book

John Buckley Castieau : [article]
'Scribbled away for some hours at the Article I was writing. Altered the whole of the Introduction & then let Polly read the Paper. She approved & I felt a little excited & went away to the Argus office with my production at once.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Manuscript: Sheet

William Wordsworth : [poems]
'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three books in the world that are worth the opening in search of mottos and quotations, and all of them are alike rich. These are, the Old Testament, Shakspeare, and the poetical works of Wordsworth, and, strange to say, the "Excursion" abounds most in them'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The
'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three books in the world that are worth the opening in search of mottos and quotations, and all of them are alike rich. These are, the Old Testament, Shakspeare, and the poetical works of Wordsworth, and, strange to say, the "Excursion" abounds most in them'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three books in the world that are worth the opening in search of mottos and quotations, and all of them are alike rich. These are, the Old Testament, Shakspeare, and the poetical works of Wordsworth, and, strange to say, the "Excursion" abounds most in them'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

: Old Testament
'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three books in the world that are worth the opening in search of mottos and quotations, and all of them are alike rich. These are, the Old Testament, Shakspeare, and the poetical works of Wordsworth, and, strange to say, the "Excursion" abounds most in them'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

[unknown] : [drama?]
'Read with Harry in the Evening, then played a long game of Bezique with Sissy'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

Frank Swinnerton : September
re: 'September' 'This work is admirably conceived and just about perfectly constructed . . . It is incomparably the best novel by an author under 40 that I have read since 'The Rainbow', and of course vastly superior to that in technical qualities.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Allan Cunningham :
'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas Mouncey, I had, previous to that, conceived a very high idea, and I always marvel how he could possibly put his poetical vein under lock and key, as he did all at once; for he certainly then bade fair to be the first of Scottish bards'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

Thomas Mouncey :
'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas Mouncey, I had, previous to that, conceived a very high idea, and I always marvel how he could possibly put his poetical vein under lock and key, as he did all at once; for he certainly then bade fair to be the first of Scottish bards'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [stories]
'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

: New Statesman
'Have you read the 'New Statesman' this week? If not, read it. I take pride in the fact that I more than anybody else kept that paper alive during the war.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Allan Cunningham : [imitations of Ossian]
'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was likewise then a great mannerist in expression, and no man could mistake his verses for those of any other man. I remember seeing some imitations of Ossian by him, which I thought exceedingly good; and it struck me that that style of composition was peculiarly fitted for his vast and fervent imagination. When Cromek's "Nithsdale and Galloway Relics" came to my hand, I at once discerned the strains of my friend, and I cannot describe with what sensations of delight I first heard Mr Morrison read the "Mermaid of Galloway", while at every verse I kept naming the author'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Unknown

R.H. Cromek : Remains Of Nithsdale And Galloway Song
'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was likewise then a great mannerist in expression, and no man could mistake his verses for those of any other man. I remember seeing some imitations of Ossian by him, which I thought exceedingly good; and it struck me that that style of composition was peculiarly fitted for his vast and fervent imagination. When Cromek's "Nithsdale and Galloway Relics" came to my hand, I at once discerned the strains of my friend, and I cannot describe with what sensations of delight I first heard Mr Morrison read the "Mermaid of Galloway", while at every verse I kept naming the author'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Allan Cunningham : 'Mermaid of Galloway, The'
'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was likewise then a great mannerist in expression, and no man could mistake his verses for those of any other man. I remember seeing some imitations of Ossian by him, which I thought exceedingly good; and it struck me that that style of composition was peculiarly fitted for his vast and fervent imagination. When Cromek's "Nithsdale and Galloway Relics" came to my hand, I at once discerned the strains of my friend, and I cannot describe with what sensations of delight I first heard Mr Morrison read the "Mermaid of Galloway", while at every verse I kept naming the author'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Morrison      Print: Book

James Hogg : The Spy
'Some of the fine madams pointed out to him [Mr Sym] a few inadvertencies [in Hogg's "The Spy"], or, more properly, absurdities, which had occurred in the papers; but he replied, "O, I don't deny that; but I like them the better for these, as they shew me at once the character of the writer. I believe him to be a very great blockhead; still I maintain, that there is some smeddum in him".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sym      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weechurch & so causing me a lot of more trouble. When they came out however this morning I found they had reported very fairly & so my mind was much relieved'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak plainly & so makes a great hash of some of the hard words.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak plainly & so makes a great hash of some of the hard words.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was not the Governor of the Melbourne Gaol but an Up Country official'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Douglas Jerrold : A man made of money
'In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of "A man made of money" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think appeared originally in Punch'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Argus
'In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on "Prisons & Prisoners". It appeared to me to read tolerably well but I am sure I do not know what Messrs Duncan & Snelling may think of it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'The Evening Herald published an account of the trial of the Captain of the Carl at Sydney. The brutalities that took place according to the evidence were something terrible. "Mount" who I have in custody, according to Dr Murray, went on the Islands disguised as a Missionary in the hope of luring natives on board the ship. Morris who is also a prisoner with me is said on the night of the butchery to have been occupied all night in loading guns for those who were engaged in slaughtering the natives in the Hold. The whole affair is more horrible than anything I remember reading of even in the African Slave Trade.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly when Polly returned home'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Richard Harris Barham : Ingoldsby Legends
'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser
'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in them however that interested me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, complaining of the price paid for it. As it happens, it is now three weeks since any was done except for the Government. I have however always protested at the price paid by Messrs Sargood for their work'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I stayed at home & read'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

G. B. Shaw : Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets About the War
'Speaking of the drama, you should read the preface to Shaw’s new book of plays. As a journalistic performance it is of the very highest order. Nobody can state a case like this fellow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'then returned home & amused myself for an hour reading "Gil Blas".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: London Mercury
'I have now perused the L.M.I. & will inflict my views on you. It is on the whole what I should call a "sound" number – good, considering that it is a first number. . . . Nichols’s story is fair . . . I assume that the insertion of the Gosse article was chiefly politic. It does not seem to me to possess any positive merit. The Lynd & the Stobart are both A1 Alice leaves me cold. I think you did a lot of the poetry reviews, & I expect they are quite all right . . . Thibaudet is really excellent, much better than I thought he would be.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

George Moore : Avowals
'George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]
'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine. Some of them interested me very much though I was reading under difficulties for the book was one that had been ill used in the Gaol & it frequently happened that when I came to some particularly interesting point there was a leaf gone & the thread of the story lost in consequence'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]
'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the pantomime delighted Harry very much & he could'ent help noticing a great similarity in his own manner with that of the young gentleman who accompanied Mr [Spee?] to the play.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Weekly Times
'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melbourne [?] & Melbourne Life. The Article to-day described Camomile or Collins Street. Marcus has set himself a difficult task, he will have either to be very personal & so [?] enemies or be dull & considered commonplace. He might if he were mean enough perhaps make his subject the vehicle for advertisers. If his work is read many would pay to have their establishments even appear wicked in it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

H. G. Wells : The Outline of History
'The more I read of H.G.’s 'Outline' the more staggered I am by it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Argus
'Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Dr Syntax
'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

: London Mercury
'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'London Mercury'. I find the L.M. very dull & pompous.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

John Buckley Castieau : [papers]
'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & reading through printed papers that I had published from time to time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity of having the Court at the Insolvent Court House.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown]
'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

: Nation
‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This he should not do. Charles Garvice had an immensely greater hold on the public than Mrs, Barclay . . . The work of Charles Garvice has little artistic importance; but he was a thoroughly competent craftsman.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Unknown

Charles Garvice : unknown
‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This he should not do. Charles Garvice had an immensely greater hold on the public than Mrs, Barclay . . . The work of Charles Garvice has little artistic importance; but he was a thoroughly competent craftsman.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Florence Barclay : unknown
‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This he should not do. Charles Garvice had an immensely greater hold on the public than Mrs, Barclay . . . The work of Charles Garvice has little artistic importance; but he was a thoroughly competent craftsman.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In the evening I tried the reading powers of Walter & Godfrey with a chapter in the testament, both of the boys have lost their front teeth & were not able to speak plainly in consequence. Harry & Sissy then read a chapter, Sissy cannot pronounce the hard words very well but for all that reads very nicely.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau children     Print: Book

[n/a] : The Age
'There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called "The wife's revenge" it was very well written & described a heartless scoundrel who to the world appeared everything that was good & jolly, he is loved deeply by his wife but without any cause save that he wants a change he leaves her to shift for herself & coldly writes & informs her that he has left for Australia ...[long account of story] ... I read this story aloud on Sunday evening to a very attentive audience consisting of Mamma, Sissy & Harry'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

John Buckley Castieau : diary
'Commenced as soon as I had been through the Gaol to read some of my Diary for 1871'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Manuscript: Codex

George Moore : Avowals
'. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown]
'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Anton Chekhov : Letters
. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'in the evening I did a little reading & went to bed early'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Had some reading with Harry & Dotty, Dotty went to sleep but Harry joined me in a Piece & listened to my reading another.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Taming of the Shrew
'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-diggers. Harry read the Gravediggers very well. Afterwards Polly & I did Pericles & Catherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" this amused us very well & brought on ten o'clock, then Polly & I had our toddy & then I got in real life a lesson of how absurd the Play was we had been reading & how false it was to nature for my Katherina gave me a lecture & shut me up in very quick time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-diggers. Harry read the Gravediggers very well. Afterwards Polly & I did Pericles & Catherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" this amused us very well & brought on ten o'clock, then Polly & I had our toddy & then I got in real life a lesson of how absurd the Play was we had been reading & how false it was to nature for my Katherina gave me a lecture & shut me up in very quick time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelve o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Age
'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to bed shortly after'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Chorus in Macbeth & would insist upon his audience encoring him in it. To please him we duly went over it with him again. Polly, Harry & I then read the Trial Scene in Othello, Polly taking Desdemona & Harry Brabantio, leaving Othello for your humble servant.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello
'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Chorus in Macbeth & would insist upon his audience encoring him in it. To please him we duly went over it with him again. Polly, Harry & I then read the Trial Scene in Othello, Polly taking Desdemona & Harry Brabantio, leaving Othello for your humble servant.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

Miss McDermott : [story]
'Got home to tea & after tea listened to Polly who read a manuscript Miss McDermott wanted to get an opinion about. It was a very [?] thrilling story for young ladies, but no originality, nor yet much grit about it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Blackwood's Magazine
'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [drama?]
'In the evening Harry & I did some Readings. It was a great night for Harry & he did'ent go to bed till after ten o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

[n/a] : Argus
'Was much annoyed by a Leading Article in The Argus about the Gaol & Penal Department'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evidently well disposed towards me but also it was evident that the writer had to put the black side of the labor question as much forward as possible'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'read in the evening & went to bed early'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening I read the papers & went to bed before ten o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a previous article which had been inserted which the present one acknowledged had been written on incorrect information. It then pointed out the defects of the Gaol system owing to want of accommodation & then went in to give credit for what was done to make the best of things. Altogether the article was a very favorable one & one judiciously written so as not to tread upon the toes of any one but David Blair the writer of the first article that the Editor published.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'spent the evening at home reading'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : School for Scandal
'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very much to show off their capabilities. Sissy & I read a scene from the School for Scandal. Harry & I soared higher for we tried several Shaksperian (sic) pieces.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very much to show off their capabilities. Sissy & I read a scene from the School for Scandal. Harry & I soared higher for we tried several Shaksperian (sic) pieces.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'This night I went to bed at ten o'clock. Polly stayed down stairs reading'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Age
'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was commented upon'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Baker : Cast up from the sea
'In the evening I amused myself by reading "Cast up from the Sea" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served well to wile away a couple of hours'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

George MacDonald : The Vicar's Daughter
'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits aloud. Polly who was very tired got interested also & pressed me to go on reading I did so till nearly ten o'clock then we had some toddy & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Alexandre Dumas : The Count of Monte Cristo
'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" managed to get through the evening until Polly went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read at the Athenaeum.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we had our tot & went off to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a look at the Papers Harry waiting for me outside until I was ready to go home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'before tea I took a stroll to the Athenaeum where I read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light did not make them better. I am beginning to get disgusted with badly printed newspapers or periodicals & dont look at them unless obliged to do so.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three games of cribbage with Polly'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'When I came home I found Charley Gee engaged with our youngsters singing comic songs & making himself otherwise entertaining, the children enjoyed his company very much before he went away he joined Harry & myself in some Shakesperian (sic) Readings'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Leader
'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of Mr Yellow Plush's experiences in Australia. I do not know who the writer is but I was very much pleased with the imitation of the style of the original celebrated foot-man who is represented as having given up the Wheel of Fortune & taken a situation as Wally de sham to Mr Ramm a young Australian & started with him from England for the Antipodes.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I got".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwood's Magazine
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I got".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Argus
'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that it would appear from the conduct of the House as if the Members of it were anxiously striving to make it appear contemptible.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Castlemaine Representative
'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here to Castlemaine Gaol in December last, had died there & that there was some talk about his having been overworked.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same thing, it is of course quite the thing that there should not be any talking in the Reading Room. I must however admit that I find it very dreary work to keep altogether quiet & that I should like a little yarn now & then again'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons of Europe & America & suggesting to the Government speedy consideration of the subject.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Age
'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the European Prisons, the writer spoke in very flattering terms of my competence to furnish an [able?] report of the different systems that came under my observation'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & read the papers, got home by a little after eight'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'This evening I was sitting quietly reading the Evening Herald when I noticed Polly show some considerable excitement & I asked her what was the matter, she told me that Harry had been up to some of his tricks & had hurt himself'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown - novel]
'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Stayed up late reading & smoking'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Sarah Barnham
'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by reading her very strange history as related by her biographer or assumed biographer who has certainly taken considerable license as she details the death of her subject though it is well known that "Sarah Barnham" is meant for Sara Bernhardt the great actress & that Sara is still among the illustrious living. The Book is a horribly spiteful one & well illustrates the spite one woman can show against another.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[n/a] : Evening Herald
'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns of the Cerberus when she was lately firing shell for practice. It seems that the expensive monster is rendered unsafe if not altogether useless'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

Max O'Rell : John Bull and his island
'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Sarah Barnham
'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes the great actress out to be little better than a beast. It is however humorously written & I sat up reading it till nearly midnight.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the morning'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Five Years in Penal Servitude
'In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prisons & professes to have been written by one who has served a sentence. It evidently is the work of an author well up in what he has made his subject.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read & wrote till bed time'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]
'In the evening read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Went to bed after reading for a long while'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Argus
'A Paragraph appeared in the Argus to the effect that I was to retire & Brett to be appointed in my place'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

: [newspaper]
'[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the paragraphs about Papa. The L's showed them me on Saturday. You can imagine the excitement I was in on Saturday night, not knowing whether it was true or not'. [this refers to a newspaper report of her father's abandonment of Catholicism]
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold      Print: Newspaper

Matthew Arnold : Essays in Criticism
'[from Mary Arnold, later Ward's diary] "Read Uncle Matt's [Matthew Arnold's] Essay on Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment. Compares the religious feeling of Pompei and Theocritus with the religious feeling of St Francis and the German Reformation. Contrasts the religion of sorrow as he is pleased to call Christianity with the religion of sense, giving to the former for the sake of propriety a slight pre-eminence over the latter". She does not like the famous "Preface" at all. "The 'Preface' is rich and has the fault which the author professes to avoid, that of being amusing. as for the seductiveness of Oxford, its moonlight charms and Romeo and Juliet character, I think Uncle Matt is slightly inclined to ride the high horse whenever he approaches the subject".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold      Print: Book

: [Latin and German writings about early Spanish literature]
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema de Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold      Print: Book

: [Spanish poems and chronicles]
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema de Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold      Print: Book

: El Cantar de Mio Cid
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema del Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold      Print: Book

: New Testament
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called the scheme of Christianity'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

: [French and Spanish books]
'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish books to review in 'The Times', the 'Pall Mall Gazaette' etc] quickly enough. "Three or four volumes of these books a week is about all I can do, and that seems to go no way".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime
'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Miss Bretherton
'[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself carried away by the delicate feeling with which the development of character was traced. The Nuneham scene, the death-bed and the final reconciliation were really touching and powerfully worked out. At the same time it is not a novel of my sort. I demand that I should have given me an entire slice of life, and that I should see the mutual interaction of a number of characters. Your interest centres entirely on one character: your characters all move in the same region of ideas, and that a narrow one.' [the critique continues at length; Creighton asks Mrs Ward] 'Have you read Sainte Beuve's solitary novel, "Volupte"? it is instructive reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Creighton      Print: Book

Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve : Volupte
'[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself carried away by the delicate feeling with which the development of character was traced. The Nuneham scene, the death-bed and the final reconciliation were really touching and powerfully worked out. At the same time it is not a novel of my sort. I demand that I should have given me an entire slice of life, and that I should see the mutual interaction of a number of characters. Your interest centres entirely on one character: your characters all move in the same region of ideas, and that a narrow one.' [the critique continues at length; Creighton asks Mrs Ward] 'Have you read Sainte Beuve's solitary novel, "Volupte"? it is instructive reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Creighton      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Othello
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Joseph Joubert : Pensees
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Joseph Joubert : Correspondance
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Horace : Epistles
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Étienne Pivert de Senancour :
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Thucydides :
'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thucydides in Godalming one day and was delighted to find it easier than she expected'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime
'[letter from Mrs Ward's brother William Arnold] I served on a jury at the Assizes last week - two murder cases and general horrors. I sat next to a Mr Amiel - prounounced "Aymiell" - a worthy Manchester tradesman; no doubt his ancestor was a Huguenot refugee. I had one of your vols. in my pocket, and showed him the passage about the family. He was greatly interested, and borrowed it. Returned it next day with the remark that it was "too religious for him". Alas divine philosophy!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Amiel      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Robert Elsmere
'After reading the first volume [of Mrs Ward's "Robert Elsmere"] he [William Arnold] wrote to Mrs Arnold, "You may look forward to finding yourself the mother of a famous woman!".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Arnold      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Original Stories from Real Life
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 10-11 December 1791: 'As I have nothing else to say take a story I read yesterday as a true one which strikes me as an instance of more refined barbarity than any in the annals of cruelty – a prisoner in the dreary cells of the Bastile had familiarized a spider the only tenant except himself of the miserable spot. to a man secluded thus from the light of day & every living creature this reptile was a kind of mournful companion. the Keeper at length took notice of it & told the Governor – the Governor commanded him to tread upon it.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : [memorial verse]
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c.3 April 1792: '"A soul prepard needs no delays/ The summons come the Saint obey —/ Swift was his flight & short the road/ He closd his eyes & saw his God/ The flesh rests here till Jesus come/ And claim the treasure from the tomb." I studied this from the monument at Church & planned a paper upon Epitaps.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: monument

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see I have been reading Tristram Shandy & I want that whistle as bad as ever Toby did. Watsons Chemical Essay are [sic] my present study & I hope to practice a little chemistry at Oxford when I get there.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Watson : Chemical Essay
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. as I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see I have been reading Tristram Shandy & I want that whistle as bad as ever Toby did. Watsons Chemical Essay are [sic] my present study & I hope to practice a little chemistry at Oxford when I get there.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Gay : [unknown]
'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey
Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer may tell us of the method to cut up an ox three thousand years ago, or give a specimen of Penelopes politesses when she calls her maid bitch — or Ulysses decency when he threatens to leave Thersites in the situation of the man who cut off his hairs — but Homer can give no information either of men or manners as they are now — knowledge of the world is unattainable from books you have made a judicious choice.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Homer : Iliad
Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer may tell us of the method to cut up an ox three thousand years ago, or give a specimen of Penelopes politesses when she calls her maid bitch — or Ulysses decency when he threatens to leave Thersites in the situation of the man who cut off his hairs — but Homer can give no information either of men or manners as they are now — knowledge of the world is unattainable from books you have made a judicious choice.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Morning Post
Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'The bloody proceeding [a reference to a disturbance at Westminster School] I have seen no account of in the papers — the Morning Post had a very scurrilous paragraph respecting the general behaviour of the fellows which was answered the following day. One strange circumstance you have neglected to explain...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Newspaper

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : Ode
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you translate? It is a servile employment & not worthy of you. You want a metre you say for your next. You know Parnells Fairy tale? but I am the worst person to apply to as all my odes are irregular except Ignorance which you have. Gray's Spring & drownd cat are pretty I think — but I am not regular myself & detest regularity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Parnell : A Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you translate? It is a servile employment & not worthy of you. You want a metre you say for your next. You know Parnells Fairy tale? but I am the worst person to apply to as all my odes are irregular except Ignorance which you have. Gray's Spring & drownd cat are pretty I think — but I am not regular myself & detest regularity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray Gray : Ode on the Spring
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you translate? It is a servile employment & not worthy of you. You want a metre you say for your next. You know Parnells Fairy tale? but I am the worst person to apply to as all my odes are irregular except Ignorance which you have. Gray's Spring & drownd cat are pretty I think — but I am not regular myself & detest regularity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Thomas Gray Gray : Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you translate? It is a servile employment & not worthy of you. You want a metre you say for your next. You know Parnells Fairy tale? but I am the worst person to apply to as all my odes are irregular except Ignorance which you have. Gray's Spring & drownd cat are pretty I think — but I am not regular myself & detest regularity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Rousseau : unknown
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take that wretch & make draw triangles below) but Rousseau being more calculated for me the geometrician lies as stupid as he would make me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Euclid : Elements
Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry study contributed but I did not want perseverance — my brain was so confused with parallels horizontals triangles parallellograms & all the jargon of mathematical precision that after a fortnights hard study I fairly laid it on the shelf & took up my constant study Spenser.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry study contributed but I did not want perseverance — my brain was so confused with parallels horizontals triangles parallellograms & all the jargon of mathematical precision that after a fortnights hard study I fairly laid it on the shelf & took up my constant study Spenser.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: The Reply of the Delegates of the Several Parishes, and of the Castle-Precincts, in the City of Bristol, to the Report of the Committee of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in Answer to the Objections Delivered by the Delegates on the 4th of August
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet proposes the abolition of the corporation as unconstitutional & arbitrary & hints the same to all other corporate towns it is very well written — these little attacks sap the foundations of the citadel. If France models a republic & enjoys tranquillity who knows but Europe may become one great republic & Man be free of the whole? You see I use Paines words. But politics must not make us quarrel. You know the fable of the oak & the reed. I have been the oak & was pulled up by the roots & cast up. Let me try to be the reed.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey

Tom Paine : The Rights of Man. Part the Second
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet proposes the abolition of the corporation as unconstitutional & arbitrary & hints the same to all other corporate towns it is very well written — these little attacks sap the foundations of the citadel. If France models a republic & enjoys tranquillity who knows but Europe may become one great republic & Man be free of the whole? You see I use Paines words. But politics must not make us quarrel. You know the fable of the oak & the reed. I have been the oak & was pulled up by the roots & cast up. Let me try to be the reed.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey

Henry Evans Holder : Miscellaneous Poems
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Some poems have been lately printed here by the Revd. E Holder written between the age of 17 & 20. I only mention them as he happens to have translated two pieces one which you sent me & the other I think you have seen translated by your humble servant & an original by Bunbury & another of your own. Integer vitæ etc is the one. Gray on the grande Chartreuse the other. & seriously the printed ones are the worst of all.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Horace : Odes, 2:13
Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: '"Ille & nefasto te posuit die,/ Quicumque primum, & sacrilega manu/ Produxit, arbos, in nepotum/ Perniciem." so said Horace to the tree that fell upon him — if you like to look at the original it is the 13th ode of the 2nd book.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Voltaire : Candide, ou l'Optimisme
Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: 'If the Baron of Thundertentroncks castle had not been destroyd (said Dr Pangloss to Candidus) if Miss Cunegonda had not been ript up alive by the Bulgarian soldiers — if I had not been hung, if you had not killd an inquisitor & been burnt by the inquisition, we should not have been now eating pistachio nuts. alls for the best.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Tombstone epitaph
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-17 November 1792: 'I send the epitaph which at present is inscribed upon one of the cankerd sides. Perhaps the production of some one of my forefathers who possessd more piety than poetry. Farewell this World With all Its Vanity Wee hope through Christ To live Eternally You have the exact orthography & this inscription will probably cover the remains of one who has written so much for others & must be content with so humble an epitaph himself, unless you will furnish him with one more characteristical.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: tomb

William Chamberlayne : Pharonnida, a Heroick Poem
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4 December 1792: 'I have already said too much. I have an old poem of the heroic class before me. Pharonnida — one of the Cantos was finishd on the morning of the second battle of Newberry. [Quotes several lines of "Pharonnida"] This man would have written blank verse wonderfully well. he mistook his bent & in spite of an interesting story & a bold imagination Pharonnida is forgotten. you see he was a royalist...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : Translation of Horace, Odes, 2:14
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation this moment together. the three last stanzas are certainly best but altogether it is in my opinion very good — tho ‘th’unpardoning God’ I do not like the epithet is rather prosaic — (you see I will point out what appears to me as faulty) a better may easily be found. & now as I have picked your bone take mine to pick cum notis Sancti Basilii.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Horace : Odes, 2:14
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation this moment together. the three last stanzas are certainly best but altogether it is in my opinion very good — tho ‘th’unpardoning God’ I do not like the epithet is rather prosaic — (you see I will point out what appears to me as faulty) a better may easily be found. & now as I have picked your bone take mine to pick cum notis Sancti Basilii.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Juvenal : Satires
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have read 12 Satires of Juvenal with a vast deal of pleasure — the 8th is the only one which my head (desirous of levelling all to my system) has imitated — but as I have no wish to fall under the inquisitorial jurisdiction of our new Star chamber — to lose my hand nose & ears like Lilburne or the Englishman whom Elizabeth punishd for writing against her intended marriage with Anjou — or to run away like Ridgeway — my poor imitation must lie in my desk.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : London
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined criticks prefer the sneering strokes of Horace — for me I think otherwise — Johnsons London & Vanity of Human Wishes are two of the noblest compositions in our language — the satire of the first is already become obsolete & some centuries hence posterity will believe the supple French Fop only a creation of some drunken Englishmans brain. the last will retain its original beauty even if 1600 years hence some future Bard should imitate Johnson in some future language.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined criticks prefer the sneering strokes of Horace — for me I think otherwise — Johnsons London & Vanity of Human Wishes are two of the noblest compositions in our language — the satire of the first is already become obsolete & some centuries hence posterity will believe the supple French Fop only a creation of some drunken Englishmans brain. the last will retain its original beauty even if 1600 years hence some future Bard should imitate Johnson in some future language.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

[anon.] : Journal Amoureux
'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal Amoureux'. She pronounced best and I translated best. Between us we did very well'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell and Louisa     Print: Book

David Hume : History of England
'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my mind and excites noble feelings of every kind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

David Hume : History of England
'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

John Dryden : [unknown]
'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

[n/a] : The North Briton
'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludgate Street, hard by Child's. I have it now sent to me regularly by the Penny Post, and I read it with vast relish. There is a poignant acrimony in it that is very relishing. Noble also sends me from time to time a fresh supply of novels from his circulating library, so that I am very well provided with entertainment'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [novels]
'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludgate Street, hard by Child's. I have it now sent to me regularly by the Penny Post, and I read it with vast relish. There is a poignant acrimony in it that is very relishing. Noble also sends me from time to time a fresh supply of novels from his circulating library, so that I am very well provided with entertainment'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'This forenoon I read the history of Joseph and his brethren, which melted my heart and drew tears from my eyes. It is simply and beautifully told in the Sacred Writings. It is a strange thing that the Bible is so little read. I am reading it regularly at present.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

David Hume : History of England
'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me happy'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

[n/a] : The North Briton
'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [Church service]
'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Joseph Addison : The Spectator
'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Lives of the convicts
'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagerness to be there'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

Unknown : Unknown
'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box; where a 'spunk of fire' is lit for the forenoon; and I meanwhile sit scribbling and meditating, and wrestling with the powers of Dulness, till one or two o'clock; when I sally forth into city, or towards the sea-shore, taking care only to be home for the important purpose of consuming my mutton-chop at four. After dinner, we all read learned languages till coffee (which we now often take instead of tea), and so on till bed-time...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Unknown : Unknown
'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box; where a 'spunk of fire' is lit for the forenoon; and I meanwhile sit scribbling and meditating, and wrestling with the powers of Dulness, till one or two o'clock; when I sally forth into city, or towards the sea-shore, taking care only to be home for the important purpose of consuming my mutton-chop at four. After dinner, we all read learned languages till coffee (which we now often take instead of tea), and so on till bed-time...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Robert Elsmere
'Matthew Arnold wrote from Wilton, the Pembrokes' house, a week before his death (which occurred on April 15), that he found all the guests there reading or intending to read it [Mrs Ward's Robert Elsmere], and added, "George Russell, who was staying at Ashton Clinton with Gladstone, says it is all true about his interest in the book. He talked of it incessantly and said he thought he should review it for Knowles".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: guests at Wilton     Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Robert Elsmere
'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he wrote to his daughter in March, "are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with "Robert Elsmere". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book". And to Lord Acton he wrote: "It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Robert Elsmere
'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he wrote to his daughter in March, "are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with "Robert Elsmere". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book". And to Lord Acton he wrote: "It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Gladstone      Print: Book

Thucydides :
'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] profoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he wrote to his daughter in March, "are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with "Robert Elsmere". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book". And to Lord Acton he wrote: "It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone      Print: Book

Mark Pattison : Memoirs
'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone      Print: Book

Mark Pattison : Memoirs
'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Mark Pattison : 'Confession of Faith'
'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Manuscript: Unknown

William Gladstone : Gleanings Of Past Years
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

T.H. Green : Witness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay Sermons
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T.H. Green], will you look at his two Lay Sermons, of which I enclose my copy? - particularly the second one, which was written eight years after the first, and to my mind expresses his thought more clearly'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

: Gospels
'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she had striven to inculcate at University Hall. The audience sat on low stools or lay on the floor, while she read to them usually a part of the Gospels, making the scene live again, as only she could make it, not only by her intimate knowledge of the times, but by her gift of presentation. Systematically, making us use our minds to follow her, she would work through a section of St Mark or St Matthew, comparing each with the other, showing the touches of the "later hand", taking us deep into the fascinating intricacies of the Synoptic Problem. [the account continues at length, discussing Mrs Ward's attitudes to various parts of the Bible, later saying] it was impossible to listen to her reading the Walk to Emmaus, or the finding of the empty tomb, without coming under the spell of an emotion as deep as it was austere. For the fact that we in these latter days had outgrown our childhood and must distinguish truth from phantasy was no reason in her mind, why we should renounce the poetic value of scenes and pictures woven into the very fabric of our being'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

: Gospels
'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she had striven to inculcate at University Hall. The audience sat on low stools or lay on the floor, while she read to them usually a part of the Gospels, making the scene live again, as only she could make it, not only by her intimate knowledge of the times, but by her gift of presentation. Systematically, making us use our minds to follow her, she would work through a section of St Mark or St Matthew, comparing each with the other, showing the touches of the "later hand", taking us deep into the fascinating intricacies of the Synoptic Problem. [the account continues at length, discussing Mrs Ward's attitudes to various parts of the Bible, later saying] it was impossible to listen to her reading the Walk to Emmaus, or the finding of the empty tomb, without coming under the spell of an emotion as deep as it was austere. For the fact that we in these latter days had outgrown our childhood and must distinguish truth from phantasy was no reason in her mind, why we should renounce the poetic value of scenes and pictures woven into the very fabric of our being'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Ward      Print: Book

: [books on 18th century Lancashire life]
'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have not improved - if they are not less brutal, less earthy, nearer altogether to the intelligent type of life.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

: [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians]
'[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars and [italics] cellae [end italics], their priests' sleeping rooms and dining rooms [in Pompeii], I read this morning St Paul's directions to the Corinthians about meat offered to idols - in fact, the whole first letter - with quite different eyes'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : David Grieve
'[letter from T.H. Huxley to Mrs Ward] You will think I have taken my time about thanking you for "David Grieve"; but a virtuous resolution to stick to a piece of work I have had on hand for a long time intefered with my finishing it before last night. The temptation was severe, and as I do not often stick to virtuous resolutions under these circumstances, I parade the fact. I think the account of the Parisian episode of David's life the strongest thing you have done yet. it is alive -every word of it - and without note or comment produces its ethical effect after the manner of that "gifted authoress", Dame Nature, who never moralizes'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Henry Huxley      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : David Grieve
'[letter to Mrs Ward from Edward Burne-Jones] The book has just come - and to my pride and delight with such a pretty autograph: so that to-day I am mightily set up. I cannot tell you how comforting the words read to me - and how sunny they have made this grey day'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Burne Jones      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Bessie Costrell
'[letter from Henry James to Mrs Ward] I think the tale very straightforward and powerful - very direct and vivid, full of the real and the [italics] juste [end italics]. I like your unelambicated rustics - they are a tremendous rest after Hardy's - and the infallibility of your feeling for village life. Likewise I heartily hope you will labour in this field and farm again. [italics] But [end italics] I won't pretend to agree with one or two declarations that have been wafted to me to the effect that this little tale is the best thing you've done". It has even been murmured to me that [italics] you [end italics] think so. This I don't believe, and at any rate I find, for myself, your best in your deallings with [italics] data [end italics] less simple, on a plan less simple.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

: [biblical criticism]
'[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical criticism that Mrs Ward had placed in his room, and would infinitely have preferred to go on talking about them, found himself confronted by the question: "Why is Lord Rothschild like a poker?".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton      Print: Book

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin (Madame de Genlis) : Theatre de l'Education
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to theologians & metaphysicians. That education tends to give it him I do not even doubt. Rousseau's plan is too visionary — it supposes such unremitted attention in the tutor & such natural virtue in the pupil that I doubt its practability of this however when we read Emilius (an occupation I look forward to with pleasure) we will freely determine. Madame Brulerck (late Genlis) appears to me to have struck out a path equally new & excellent — the Emilius of L Homme de la Nature existed only in his imagination. but the two sons of Phillipe Egalitè are living proofs of her capacity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to theologians & metaphysicians. That education tends to give it him I do not even doubt. Rousseau's plan is too visionary — it supposes such unremitted attention in the tutor & such natural virtue in the pupil that I doubt its practability of this however when we read Emilius (an occupation I look forward to with pleasure) we will freely determine. Madame Brulerck (late Genlis) appears to me to have struck out a path equally new & excellent — the Emilius of L Homme de la Nature existed only in his imagination. but the two sons of Phillipe Egalitè are living proofs of her capacity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Mary Augusta Ward : Bessie Costrell
'[letter from Mr Morley to Mrs Ward] It was most pleasant to me to receive the little volume ["Bessie Costrell"] in its pretty dress, and with the friendly dedication. It will take its place among my personal treasures, and I am truly grateful to you for thinking of me. The story is full of interest to me, and in the vein of a true realism, humanising instead of brutalising. The "severity" of the poor dead woman's look, and the whole of that page, redeems with a note of just pity all the sordid elements'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Morley      Print: Book

Juvenal : Satires
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile more adapted to me than the sly sarcasms of Horace but I have no time for more church is ready & I go to hear a sermon very probably about right divine sedition & impiety which last are always linked together in the pulpit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Horace : Odes
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile more adapted to me than the sly sarcasms of Horace but I have no time for more church is ready & I go to hear a sermon very probably about right divine sedition & impiety which last are always linked together in the pulpit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: [blue books of statistics]
'[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the East End of London at that time; wading through piles of Blue-books.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : Ode
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'Of your ode a few words before I set to transcribing. Before I read the last half sheet I wished you to lengthen it for only three authors are mentioned & only Shakespear of the first rank — Nature had so little to do with Dryden that I wonder at your ranking him with the Swan of Avon — Milton Spenser — Pope — Akenside Collins — Churchill — Beaumont — Fletcher would each afford a fine scope for your fancy & will you refuse one stanza to deck the unnoted grave of Chatterton? When this fault is noticed I have noticed all. If however (as I hope) you mean to lengthen it I would not wish you to fetter yourself in the chains of precedent — regular lyrics are like despotic monarchies they look stately but lose all the energy of freedom.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

: [papers on Factory Law]
'[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the same thing foreshadowed in various other things on Factory Law I have been reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Unknown

Horace : Odes 4:4
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'This day has been a most unpleasant one all except the earlier part of the morning when I read your favourite Horace. That beginning Qualem ministrum fulminis alitem struck me as well adapted to the present times & I think I shall attempt it this week — certain of falling as much short of Horace as his subject will be inferior to mine. notwithstanding the admiration with which I read his works there is a something in the character of the little fat parasite which sullies it very much.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'I do not know in the annals of history & barbarity any character which I so much abhor as that of the vain the vile Augustus — the death of Cicero the banishment of Ovid — the black boys & the incestuous daughter the total suppression of liberty these are blots which all the art of Flattery cannot hide from the eye of Reason. “With the same hand & probably with the same frame of mind did he sign the proscription of Cicero & the pardon of Cinna” — you remember Gibbons remark upon Augustuss appearance at the banquet in that very elegant piece of the virtuous Julian.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Sir George Tressady
'[letter from Beatrice Webb to Mrs Ward about her novel "Sir George Tressady"] the story is very touching and you have an indescribable power of making your readers sympathise with all your characters, even with Letty and her unlovely mother-in-law. Of course, as a strict utilitarian, I am inclined to estimate the book more in its character of treatise than as a novel. From this point of view it is the most useful piece of work that has been done for many a long day. You have managed to give the arguments for and against factory legslation with admirable lucidity and picturesqueness - in a way that will make them comprehensible to the ordinary person without any technical knowledge'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Beatrice Webb      Print: Book

Tacitus : unknown
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus the hours of study pass rapidly as even those which are devoted to my friends & I have not found as yet one hour which I could wish to have employed otherwise this is saying very much in praise of a collegiate life — but remember that a mind disposed to be happy will find happiness everywhere & why we should not be happy is beyond my philosophy to account for — Heraclitus certainly was a fool & what is much more rare an unhappy one.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Heraclitus :
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus the hours of study pass rapidly as even those which are devoted to my friends & I have not found as yet one hour which I could wish to have employed otherwise this is saying very much in praise of a collegiate life — but remember that a mind disposed to be happy will find happiness everywhere & why we should not be happy is beyond my philosophy to account for — Heraclitus certainly was a fool & what is much more rare an unhappy one.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

George Richards : Songs of the Aboriginal Bards of Britain
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'The man who gaind the last English verse prize in Oxford has since published two odes which he calls Songs of the Aboriginal Britains — of these the Review speaks very well & yet to me who as you know have written upon the same plan these odes appear ill planned & ill executed — some metaphors are good but young Wynns observation is just that he should have mistaken the odes for burlesque.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Johannes Secundus : Liber Basiorum (Book of Kisses)
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: Charles Collins has been so busy with his Lent verses that I see little of him — he is my monitor be you his — I catch him frequently reading the Basia of Johannes Secundus — he pleads the elegance of the composition but that will not atone for the whole tenor of the work. He laughs at my admonitions...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Collins      Print: Book

John Milton : Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my travelling equipage consisting of my diary — writing book, pen & ink silk handkerchief & Miltons defence. We reached Woodstock to breakfast where I was delighted with reading the Nottingham address for peace...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : Address to the major of Nottingham
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my travelling equipage consisting of my diary — writing book, pen & ink silk handkerchief & Miltons defence. We reached Woodstock to breakfast where I was delighted with reading the Nottingham address for peace...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Handbill

Henry Mackenzie : The Man of Feeling
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4-20 April 1793: 'I have lately read the Man of Feeling — if you have never yet read it — do now from my recommendation — few books have ever pleasd me so painfully or so much — it is very strange that man should be delighted with the highest pain that can be produced — I even begin to think that both pain & pleasure exist only in idea but this must not be affirmed, the first twitch of the toothache or retrospective glance will undeceive me with a vengeance. It is Mackenzies writing if I am not mistaken the author of Julia de Roubigne & La Roche & Louisa Venoni in the Mirror.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Confessions, Book 12
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau which expresses some of my religious opinions better than I could do it myself. "Je ne trouve point de plus doux hommage a la divinite, que l’admiration enuette qu’excite la contemplation de ses œuvres. Je ne puis comprendre comment des campagnards, et sur-tout des solitaires, peuvent ne pas avoir de foi; comment leur ame ne s’eleve pas cent fois le jour avec extase a l’auteur des merveilles qui les frappent. Dans ma chambre je prie plus rarement & séchement, mais a l’aspect d’un beau paysage, je me sens emu. Une vielle femme, pour toute priere, ne savoit dire que ô! L’eveque lui dit: Bonne femme continuez de prier ainsi, votre priere vaut mieux que les notres. — cette meilleure priere est aussi la mienne." — '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I proceeded on sad & solitary to Hounslow & there gave one shilling for Sir Launcelot Greaves to amuse me on the road.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occurrd upon reading Sir Launcelot Greaves on the road. Broad coarse humour seems to be the chief excellence of Smollet incidents almost too gross to please & too strange to be probable happen at every inn his heroes stop at & we are sure to find the sailors dialect & the clowns broad Scotch or broad Yorkshire in the place of humour. When he gets upon those subjects which perhaps none but Rousseau knew how to treat he rhapsodizes about charms angels & Hymens & thinks passion & nonsense mean the same. Some strange discovery of birth comes in at the end & all the dramatis personæ are tacked together at the altar. Yet with all these faults you are not soon tired of Smollets novels. They insensibly lead you on & if they do not come near the heart certainly play round the head. Humphrey Clinker strikes me as his best — the characters are less outrè & of course more natural. perhaps the epistolary form of it kept him in some bounds.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : The Adventures of Humphry Clinker
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occurrd upon reading Sir Launcelot Greaves on the road. Broad coarse humour seems to be the chief excellence of Smollet incidents almost too gross to please & too strange to be probable happen at every inn his heroes stop at & we are sure to find the sailors dialect & the clowns broad Scotch or broad Yorkshire in the place of humour. When he gets upon those subjects which perhaps none but Rousseau knew how to treat he rhapsodizes about charms angels & Hymens & thinks passion & nonsense mean the same. Some strange discovery of birth comes in at the end & all the dramatis personæ are tacked together at the altar. Yet with all these faults you are not soon tired of Smollets novels. They insensibly lead you on & if they do not come near the heart certainly play round the head. Humphrey Clinker strikes me as his best — the characters are less outrè & of course more natural. perhaps the epistolary form of it kept him in some bounds.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : [lines at the Hospital in Reading]
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I copied these four lines from the hospital at Reading {Aye whose hours exempt from sorrow flow {Behold the seat of Pain of Want & Woe {Think whilst your hands the intreated alms extend {That what to us ye give to God ye lend.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Lord Byron : Don Juan
'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong point. . . . Not long since I re-read Quentin Durward. What a book of hasty expedients, adroit evasions of difficulties, and artistic ‘slimness’. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Quentin Durward
'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong point. . . . Not long since I re-read 'Quentin Durward'. What a book of hasty expedients, adroit evasions of difficulties, and artistic ‘slimness’.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of Plato — the logic of Aristotle & the heterogeneous dogmas of Pythogoras Antisthenes Zeno Epicurus & Pyrrho till I have metaphysicized away all my senses & so you are the better for it. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Aristotle : on Logic
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of Plato — the logic of Aristotle & the heterogeneous dogmas of Pythogoras Antisthenes Zeno Epicurus & Pyrrho till I have metaphysicized away all my senses & so you are the better for it. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Pythagoras :
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of Plato — the logic of Aristotle & the heterogeneous dogmas of Pythogoras Antisthenes Zeno Epicurus & Pyrrho till I have metaphysicized away all my senses & so you are the better for it. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Antisthenes :
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of Plato — the logic of Aristotle & the heterogeneous dogmas of Pythogoras Antisthenes Zeno Epicurus & Pyrrho till I have metaphysicized away all my senses & so you are the better for it. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Zeno :
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of Plato — the logic of Aristotle & the heterogeneous dogmas of Pythogoras Antisthenes Zeno Epicurus & Pyrrho till I have metaphysicized away all my senses & so you are the better for it. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Epicurus :
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of Plato — the logic of Aristotle & the heterogeneous dogmas of Pythogoras Antisthenes Zeno Epicurus & Pyrrho till I have metaphysicized away all my senses & so you are the better for it. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Pyrrho :
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of Plato — the logic of Aristotle & the heterogeneous dogmas of Pythogoras Antisthenes Zeno Epicurus & Pyrrho till I have metaphysicized away all my senses & so you are the better for it. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Mary Berenson : [article on C18th architecture]
'Mrs Mary Berenson’s article on eighteenth century architecture in Spain most interestingly illustrates a principle which is capable of wide application. Our attitude towards architecture is far too much dominated by the aesthetic canons of the past.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

John Gillies : The History of Ancient Greece
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29-30 October 1793: 'I have laid down Gillies to write to you the third letter in one fortnight. thank yourself for the intrusion — had my casette arrived I should have been otherwise employed, so to your negligence my industry must be attributed...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Economic Review of the Foreign Press
'I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'. . . . I know the periodical very well as I have read it consistently for over three years.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

: Times Literary Supplement
'Can’t something be done to buck up the 'Lit. Suppl'.? It is getting duller & duller, though it always contains 1 or 2 good articles.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Bond : [unknown]
'and after I had reed some of bond of the suboth, I walked abroad: and so to supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Rhodes : [Examination of the trial of a Christian]
[unsure if reading or writing?] 'then I wrett the most part of an examenation or triall of a christian, framed by Mr Rhodes'.
Unknown
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby

Philip Gibbs : Realities of War
I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by this post, It is no good, but as you want it you shall have it.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after dinner I wrought and read tell 4, and then I walked a litle abroad and, after I Cam home, read and [torn] tell all most 6'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Unknown

Arthur Conan Doyle : The British Campaign in France and Flanders
'I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by this post, It is no good, but as you want it you shall have it. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'that don, I walked tell praiers, then hard Mr Rhodes read a chapter, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Thomas Cartwright : [unknown]
'tell supper time I hard Mr Rhodes read of Cartwright'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and dispossinge of busenes in the House, tell after 5:, at which time I praied, read a sermon, and examened my selfe'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and dispossinge of busenes in the House, tell after 5:, at which time I praied, read a sermon, and examened my selfe'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and dispossinge of busenes in the House, tell after 5:, at which time I praied, read a sermon, and examened my selfe'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Catechism
'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : Diet of the Soul
'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and walkinge tell supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and walkinge tell supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

George Gifforde : Sermons upon the Songe of Salomon
'After praier in the morninge, I, beinge not well, did heare Mr Rhodes read of Gyffard upon the songe of Sallemon: sone after I went to breakfast'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of the people in the church to Mr Hoby, and then we went to church'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [a book of the pews in the church]
'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of the people in the church to Mr Hoby, and then we went to church'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Manuscript: Codex

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'after I had supped, I reed of grenhame, and se went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'and reed of Granhame tell supper time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

George Gifforde : Sermons upon the Songe of Salomon
'and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the song of Salomon'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Turner : New herball
'after dinner I went about the house, and read of the arball'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I hard Mr Rhodes read tell allmost dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)
'and after that I hard one of the men read of the book of Marters, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)
'hard one of the men reade of the book of marters, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid I
John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I translated [while of school age]. Pope's Homer I had by heart. The old Lord Shannon had given me one when my father once took me (aet. 10) to Castle Martyr. I dare say I knew of no translation of Virgil, and, stimulated by the example of Mr. Pope, was resolved to fill up that chasm in English literature.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Virgil : Eclogues I
John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I translated [while of school age]. Pope's Homer I had by heart. The old Lord Shannon had given me one when my father once took me (aet. 10) to Castle Martyr. I dare say I knew of no translation of Virgil, and, stimulated by the example of Mr. Pope, was resolved to fill up that chasm in English literature.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : translations from Homer
John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I translated [while of school age]. Pope's Homer I had by heart. The old Lord Shannon had given me one when my father once took me (aet. 10) to Castle Martyr. I dare say I knew of no translation of Virgil, and, stimulated by the example of Mr. Pope, was resolved to fill up that chasm in English literature.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave : letters to Lord Lonsdale
John Wilson Croker to his wife, 28 July 1850: 'After dinner I read some of the letters written by Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave to the late Lord Lonsdale about the time I came into political life, which of course amused me. Lord Mulgrave writes to Lord Lonsdale, in October, 1809, to say that he had written to offer the Secretary of the Admiralty "to Mr. Croker who was active, quick, and intelligent, and who might go off to Canning if he were not attended to." In this last point, at least, Lord Mulgrave was mistaken, for before the offer was made me, I had already answered Mr Canning that I could not take his view of the differences in the Cabinet.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker

John Wilson Croker : The Battles of Talavera
The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 15 November 1809: 'I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 20th October, and your poem, which I have read with great satisfaction. I did not think a battle could be turned into anything so entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after that I walked abroade, then I Cam in and wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, then I praied with Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)
'after the Lector I hard Helurn read of the Book of marters, and talked with Mr Rhodes, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Huskisson : 'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined'
Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810: 'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I have run through it, I cannot say [italics]read[end italics] it, for it requires much more [italics]reading[end italics] than I have had time yet to give it. It is in many parts very able -- in all very specious; in many, however, I presume to think very fallacious, and particularly unfair in keeping out of sight so much as it does the circumstance of interrupted commercial intercourse with the Continent, which in my opinion is sufficient, together with the causes which he mentions, to account for almost all these symptoms and phenomena which he ascribes solely to the supposed excess in our paper circulation [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Spencer Perceval

[unknown] : [sermon - Revelation]
'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)
'and then hard one of the men read of the book of marters, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Napoleon Bonaparte : letter to the Prince Regent
John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815: '[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prince Regent, in which he says that driven out of home by internal factions and foreign enemies, he came, like Themistocles, to sit on the British hearth, and to claim the protection of our laws [...] In reading this, when I came to "[italics]Themistocle[end italics]" who certainly was the last person I expected to meet there, I could not help bursting out into a loud laugh, which astonished the French, who thought all beautiful, but "[italics]Themistocle[end italics]" sublime and pathetic. I called the whole letter a base flattery, and said Buonaparte should have died rather than have written such a one; the only proper answer would have been to have enclosed him a copy of one of his Moniteurs, in which he accused England of assassination and every other horror.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Manuscript: Unknown, Copied.

Gervase Babington : [unknown]
'after, I walked a while, and read of Babington, and then went to supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Timothy Bright : A treatise of melancholie, containing the causes thereof
'and then reed of Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible?
'after the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston of that was deliuered'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

'a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash' : A Sketch of Irish History
Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents' on Ireland: 'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a more infamous work than Cox's magazine [Irish nationalist publication described earlier in letter, a copy of which also enclosed]. I have the volumes from which it contains some excerpta. They contain a regular history of Ireland, and on the first page are these words, printed at the bottom, "Intended chiefly for the Young Ladies educated at the Ursuline Convents. By a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash." 'This work is written with great care -- most mischievous and inflammatory -- and yet it is thought to be impossible to convict the printer for libel. [...] 'Perhaps the most noteworthy and extraordinary document of all is the letter which I send you. It was written by a priest in Longford to one of his flock, whom he suspected of giving information. He admitted the writing of it to Major Wiles, a police magistrate, but he has not been convicted yet, and therefore names must not be used. Pray read it, it is very curious -- an admirable example of the purposes for which the priests of Ireland exert their spiritual influence.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Peel      Print: Book

'a priest at Longford' : letter to parishioner
Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents' on Ireland: 'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a more infamous work than Cox's magazine [Irish nationalist publication described earlier in letter, a copy of which also enclosed]. I have the volumes from which it contains some excerpta. They contain a regular history of Ireland, and on the first page are these words, printed at the bottom, "Intended chiefly for the Young Ladies educated at the Ursuline Convents. By a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash." 'This work is written with great care -- most mischievous and inflammatory -- and yet it is thought to be impossible to convict the printer for libel. [...] 'Perhaps the most noteworthy and extraordinary document of all is the letter which I send you. It was written by a priest in Longford to one of his flock, whom he suspected of giving information. He admitted the writing of it to Major Wiles, a police magistrate, but he has not been convicted yet, and therefore names must not be used. Pray read it, it is very curious -- an admirable example of the purposes for which the priests of Ireland exert their spiritual influence.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Peel      Manuscript: Letter

William Turner : New herball
'then I hard Mrs Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Brutnell      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)
'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for beinge not well, partly through myne owne folly'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, hard Euerill Read, and then praied, so went to supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Euerill Aske      Print: Book

[unknown] : [letter]
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe Letter and wret an other'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Manuscript: Letter

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold III
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816: 'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe Harold III]. It is written with great vigour, and the descriptive part is peculiarly to my taste, for I am fond of realities, even to the extent of being fond of localities. A spot of ground a yard square, a rock, a hillock, on which some great achievement has been performed, or to which any recollections of interest attach, excite my feelings more than all the monuments of art [...] But I did not read with equal pleasure a note or two which reflects [sic] on the Bourbon family. What has a poet who writes for immortality, to do with the little temporary passions of political parties? [...] I wish you could persuade Lord Byron to leave out these two or three lines of prose, which will make thousands dissatisfied with his glorious poetry [comments further in defence of French royal family] [...] pray use your influence on this point. As to the poem itself, except a word or two suggested by Mr. Giffard, I do not think anything can be altered for the better.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker

[n/a] : Bible
'then I medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron :
John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more of Pope and Dryden than I do of even Scott and Byron; that is to say, I do not return to Scott and Byron with the same regular appetite that I do to the others.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time: then I hard that, and so went to supper: ... and, after, reed a whill, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Walter Scott :
John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more of Pope and Dryden than I do of even Scott and Byron; that is to say, I do not return to Scott and Byron with the same regular appetite that I do to the others.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

John Dryden :
John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more of Pope and Dryden than I do of even Scott and Byron; that is to say, I do not return to Scott and Byron with the same regular appetite that I do to the others.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Alexander Pope :
John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more of Pope and Dryden than I do of even Scott and Byron; that is to say, I do not return to Scott and Byron with the same regular appetite that I do to the others.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I did read a while to my workwemen, and then to the Lector'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I reed a while of the Bible'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I reed of the Bible, and spock of Certaine Chapters to Mrs Ormston and John douson'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after supper, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then went to priuat praier'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, hard him read, then praied, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

unknown : unknown
From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 7th. [...] The Duchess[of York]'s life is an odd one; she seldom has a female companion, she is read to all night and falls asleep towards morning, and rises about 3'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Duchess of York      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I Came home and reed to Mrs Ormstone'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and so read tel supper Came'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did read of the Bible and then eate my breakfast'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : works (including correspondence)
From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been reading Walter Scott's edition of Swift, which, and particularly the correspondence, amused him; and above all he was surprised to find Dr. Sheridan's character to be so exactly that of poor Sheridan. He said he thought the best letters were Lord Bolingbroke's [...] I had shown H.R.H. in the morning, a copy of a letter written 40 years ago by Mrs. Delany (widow of the Dr. Swift's friend) giving an account of a visit of the Royal family to Bulstrode, in which H.R.H. was mentioned; he was pleased at this revival of early reflections, and assured me every word of the account was true.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I dimed, and talked with some strangers that Came to visitt me, and after, being not well, I slept a while and then reed a while'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after dinner I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell all most supper time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

Mrs Delany : letter containing account of Royal visit
From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been reading Walter Scott's edition of Swift, which, and particularly the correspondence, amused him; and above all he was surprised to find Dr. Sheridan's character to be so exactly that of poor Sheridan. He said he thought the best letters were Lord Bolingbroke's [...] I had shown H.R.H. in the morning, a copy of a letter written 40 years ago by Mrs. Delany (widow of the Dr. Swift's friend) giving an account of a visit of the Royal family to Bulstrode, in which H.R.H. was mentioned; he was pleased at this revival of early reflections, and assured me every word of the account was true.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales      Manuscript: Letter, Copied.

[n/a] : Bible
'then I walked, reed of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I walked and talked with Mr Rhodes, Reed of the bible, and, after, praied'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'and then I hard Margaret Rhodes reed of Mr Grenhm'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Rhodes      Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine
John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819: 'I have received your last number [...] As a series of essays, critical and humorous, it is excellent; but in this part of the world we think there is too much criticism and humour for a magazine. In a work of this kind we expect curious facts and miscellaneous information [...] the personal and local pleasantry which is so abundant in your magazine, and which, I have no doubt, must be delightful in Edinburgh and Glasgow, is [italics]here[end italics] scarcely understood, and in Ireland I have some reason to know that it is a perfect puzzle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
After priuat praers I did read of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read of Grenhame, and then I praied and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Grenhame, and so praied priuatly and then went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review'
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819: 'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good, but it will vex these old women of British critics, which is perhaps all the author intended. I told you from the first moment that I read "Don Juan," that your fears had exaggerated its danger. I say nothing about what might have been suppressed; but if you had published "Don Juan" without hesitation or asterisks, nobody would ever have thought worse of it than as a larger Beppo, gay and lively and a little loose. Some persons would have seen a strain of satire running beneath the gay surface, and might have been vexed or pleased according to their temper; but there would have been no outcry against the publisher or author.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker

[n/a] : Bible
'after, to supper, then to work, and hard readinge of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after I wrought, reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I wrought and reed tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'and hard Auerill reed of Grenham, and then praied'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Euerill Aske      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan: cantos I-II
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little offensive. It is by no means worse than "Childe Harold," which it resembles as comedy does tragedy. There is a prodigious power of versification in it, and a great deal of very good pleasantry. There is also some magnificent poetry, and the shipwreck, though too long, and in parts very disgusting, is on the whole finely described [...] on the score of morality, I confess it seems a more innocent production than "Childe Harold." What "Don Juan" may become by-and-bye I cannot foresee, but at present I had rather a son of mine were Don Juan than, I think, any other of Lord Byron's heroes. Heaven grant he may never resemble any of them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Crabbe : Tales
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasure. I never was so much taken with anything. The tales are in general so well conducted that, in prose, they would be interesting as mere stories; but to this are added such an admirable [italics]ease[end italics] and [italics]force[end italics] of diction, such good pleasantry, such high principles, such a strain of poetry, such a profundity of observation, and such a gaiety of illustration as I never before, I think, saw collected. He imagines his stories with the humour and truth of Chaucer, and tells them with the copious terseness of Dryden, and the tender and thoughtful simplicity of Cowper. There are sad exceptions here and there, which might easily be removed, but on the whole it is a delightful book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast, then I wrough and reed of the bible tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Perkins : [unknown]
'then reed a whill of perkins, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

: Courier
John Wilson Croker to Robert Peel, 24 December 1821: 'I have seen in the Courier the accounts from the Irish papers of O'Connell's affair.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I reed a hard readinge a whill'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then reed of the bible and wrought'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'praied with Mr Rhodes, hard one read, and then went to priuat praier'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast: then I reed of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : letters to Lord Hertford
Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you have sent me of Horace Walpole's letters to Lord Hertford, which I return. I have been very much amused by it, but [...] I believe Horace Walpole to have been as bad a man as ever lived; I cannot call him a violent party man, he had not virtue enough to be so; he was the most sensuous and selfish of mortals [comments further].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool

[un : [unknown]
'after, I talked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read, then I went to dimer'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

Prior : Life of Burke
Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the greatest satisfaction [...] There are very few things in it which I should want to alter, and it is a most important addition to our literature.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool

[unknown] : [ardenton's book]
'then I hard one read of ardentons book, and after I talked with Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'after dimer I talked a whill, and then wrought and hard Mr Maude read of a sermon'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Maude      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then I reed of the bible and write in my table book, and so went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Sheridan
From John Wilson Croker's Note Book: 'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sleep at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. His Majesty had intended to have shown me the plantations and improvements made during the autumn, but it snowed heavily in the night, and next morning the weather was so exceedingly bad that there was no possibility of stirring out, and His Majesty admitted me to his dressing-room, and conversed with me for a considerable time -- indeed all the morning. Mr. Moore's "Life of Sheridan" was lying on the table, and in allusion to the variety of misstatements made in that work with regard to His Majesty's conduct, he took up the book to point out to me particularly some of these errors.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: King George IV and John Wilson Croker     Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'after, I hard Mr Maud read of a sarmon book, then I praied, after dinned: then then I wrought and hard Mr Maud read againe'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Maude      Print: Book

T. Crofton Croker : Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (vol. 1)
Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826: 'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose work entertains me very much.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I went about the house, and reed, did eate my breakfast, then I reed againe tell dinner time, then praied'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Sir George Tressady
'[Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Mrs Ward] I am delighted to have "Sir George Tressady" from your hand. I have followed him from month to month with the liveliest wonder as to how the inevitable smash in his affairs was to fall, and now that I have read the tale as a whole I see that of course there was but one way. Like all human books it has the unpleasant power of making you think and bother as one only bothers over real folk: but how splendidly you have done the lighter relief-work!'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Rudyard Kipling      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a while, reed, went about'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a while, reed, went about'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I Reed tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling :
'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of which she read them a great deal of Stevenson and Kipling'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Camille Desmoulins : journal
From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825: 'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner at Lord Liverpool's in Combe Wood [...] During dinner she talked incessantly but admirably, but several of her apparently spontaneous mots were borrowed or prepared. For instance, speaking of the relative states of England and the Continent at that period, the high notion we had formed of the danger to the world from Buonaparte's despotism, and the high opinion the Continent had formed of the riches, strength and spirit of England; she insisted that these opinions were both just, and added with an elegant elan, "Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine." This expression I have since found in the journal of Camille Desmoulins.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker

Robert Louis Stevenson :
'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of which she read them a great deal of Stevenson and Kipling'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

: [Catholic literature]
'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Helbeck of Bannisdale"].
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after that, praied priuatly, hauinge reed a Chapter of the bible, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, dispatched diuerse busenes in the house, praied, and then read of the bible, and so dined'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I did reed of the bible, praied, walked a litle abroad, dinned'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

: [Catholic literature]
'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house she rented in Kent], giving her that grip of detail in matters of belief or ritual without which she could not have approached her subject [the novel "Helbeck of Bannisdale"], but which she had now learnt to absorb and re-fashion far more skilfully than in the days of "Robert Elsmere".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, eate my breakfast, and went to Church'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I caused one to Read vnto me'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

: [Catholic literature]
'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me perceive the enormous intellectual pre-eminence of Newman. Another impression - I know you will forgive me for saying quite frankly what I feel - has been to fill me with a perfect horror of asceticism, or rather of the austerities - or most of them - which are indispensable to the Catholic ideal of a saint. [she discusses this at length, concluding] Don't imagine, dearest, that I find myself in antagonism to all this literature. The truth in many respects is quite the other way. The deep personal piety of good Catholics, and the extent to which their religion enters into their lives, are extraordinarily attractive.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Gleig : 'The Subaltern'
From John Wilson Croker's notes on conversations with the Duke of Wellington at Beaudesert: '"The Subaltern" [Mr Gleig's book, which I [Croker] had brought with me and lent the Duke, who had not before seen it] is all true enough. Two points which fell under my own personal view are quite so. I mean the scene in which he describes my meeting his regiment, and my rallying the army after Sir John Hope was wounded. But the Subaltern talks too much of his own personal comforts, and too little of his men; if you believe him implicitly, you would imagine that he thought of nothing but his own dinner; but this is the usual fault of journalizers, who are naturally struck with what concerns one's self; and in fact, a subaltern in an army can in general have little else to tell. I hope, and indeed know, that the regimental officers were in general much more attentive to the comforts of their men than the Subaltern tells us; but he is a clever, observing man, and I shall enquire about him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington

: Civilta Cattolica
'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breathe fire and flame'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, then brake my fast and walked abroad'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

: Tribuna
'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breathe fire and flame'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'att :5: a cloke, I returned againe to examenation and praier: then I reed a whill and, after, went to supper'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand :
'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after priuat praers I did read of the bible, brake my fast, and then went to church'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont :
'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'
Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Rhodes      Print: Book

Alfred von Harnack :
'[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, Rome] I said not a word - and came home and read Harnack!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : [prefaces to Haworth edition of the Brontes' novels]
'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, having had a similar experience. I could never go beyond the terrible beginning of "Shirley" - and yet I tried and did my best, and the book remains unread, and I the more sorry as my copy does not belong to me, but to Lady Jersey, who charged me to return it when I had finished reading. I really tried earnestly: I took the volume with me on several occasions; it has seen, I am sure, as many lands as wise Ulysses, having crossed the Mediterranean more than once and visited Assuan. But there it is, and I see from my writing-table its threatening green cloth and awful back, with plenty of repulsive persons within. And yet I [italics] can [end italics] read. I have read with delight and unflagging interest Vol. I in-folio of the Rolls of Parliament, without missing a line. "Shirley", I cannot'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: M. Jusserand      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, having had a similar experience. I could never go beyond the terrible beginning of "Shirley" - and yet I tried and did my best, and the book remains unread, and I the more sorry as my copy does not belong to me, but to Lady Jerseyu, who charged me to return it when I had finished reading. I really tried earnestly: I took the volume with me on several occasions; it has seen, I am sure, as many lands as wise Ulysses, having crossed the Mediterranean more than once and visited Assuan. But there it is, and I see from my writing-table its threatening green cloth and awful back, with plenty of repulsive persons within. And yet I [italics] can [end italics] read. I have read with delight and unflagging interest Vol. I in-folio of the Rolls of Parliament, without missing a line. "Shirley", I cannot'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: M. Jusserand      Print: Book

: [Rolls of Parliament]
'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, having had a similar experience. I could never go beyond the terrible beginning of "Shirley" - and yet I tried and did my best, and the book remains unread, and I the more sorry as my copy does not belong to me, but to Lady Jerseyu, who charged me to return it when I had finished reading. I really tried earnestly: I took the volume with me on several occasions; it has seen, I am sure, as many lands as wise Ulysses, having crossed the Mediterranean more than once and visited Assuan. But there it is, and I see from my writing-table its threatening green cloth and awful back, with plenty of repulsive persons within. And yet I [italics] can [end italics] read. I have read with delight and unflagging interest Vol. I in-folio of the Rolls of Parliament, without missing a line. "Shirley", I cannot'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: M. Jusserand      Print: Unknown

Adolf Julicher : An Introduction to the New Testament
'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Penrose Ward      Print: Book

Adolf Julicher : An Introduction to the New Testament
'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Adolf Julicher : An Introduction to the New Testament
'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Unknown, page proofs

Thomas Arnold : [private papers]
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end italics] nature. Among his papers that have now come to me I have come across the most touching and remarkable things - things that are a revelation even to his children'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Manuscript: Unknown

Joseph Joubert : Pensees
'[Mrs Ward] had found a task for Mrs Lyttelton's quick mind, to while away the too-long hours of that summer [while her husband was fighting in the Boer war], in a translation into English of the "Pensees" of Joubert; their consultations over the fine shades of his meaning, while the bees hummed in the lime tree on the lawn, became the light and relaxation of her days, while, later on, the Introduction she contributed to the book helped its appearance with the public'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Lyttelton      Print: Book

George Meredith :
'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this latter they both had a feeling akin to adoration, based on a knowledge not only of his novels but of his poems (then not a common accomplishment); and I remember W.T.A. once saying to me that he thought the jolliest line in English poetry was Gentle beasties through pushed a cold long nose'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Arnold      Print: Book

George Meredith :
'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this latter they both had a feeling akin to adoration, based on a knowledge not only of his novels but of his poems (then not a common accomplishment); and I remember W.T.A. once saying to me that he thought the jolliest line in English poetry was Gentle beasties through pushed a cold long nose'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

George Meredith : Richard Feverel
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

George Meredith : Egoist, The
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

George Meredith : Vittoria
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

George Meredith : Beauchamp's Career
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Herbert Spencer :
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls were deep in "Anderson's [sic] Fairy Tales" or "The Cuckoo Clock", the little ones were reading Mr Stead's "Books for the Bairns" or looking at pictures'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: boys at the Passmore Edwards Settlement     Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : Masterman Ready
'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls were deep in "Anderson's [sic] Fairy Tales" or "The Cuckoo Clock", the little ones were reading Mr Stead's "Books for the Bairns" or looking at pictures'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: boys at the Passmore Edwards Settlement     Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : Fairytales
'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls were deep in "Anderson's [sic] Fairy Tales" or "The Cuckoo Clock", the little ones were reading Mr Stead's "Books for the Bairns" or looking at pictures'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: girls at the Passmore Edwards Settlement     Print: Book

M.L. Molesworth : Cuckoo Clock, The
'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls were deep in "Anderson's [sic] Fairy Tales" or "The Cuckoo Clock", the little ones were reading Mr Stead's "Books for the Bairns" or looking at pictures'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: girls at the Passmore Edwards Settlement     Print: Book

William Thomas Stead : [Books for the Bairns]
'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls were deep in "Anderson's [sic] Fairy Tales" or "The Cuckoo Clock", the little ones were reading Mr Stead's "Books for the Bairns" or looking at pictures'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: young children at the Passmore Edwards Settlement     Print: Book

: [newspaper interviews with herself]
'[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof and entirely re-writing what had been put into her mouth'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs

Julia Ward Howe : Reminiscences
'[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who had lately brought out her memoirs. Mrs Ward had been somewhat wickedly amused by certain passages in the latter: "Imagine Mrs Ward Howe declaring in public that a poem of hers, which a critic had declared to be in 'pitiable hexameters' (English of course) was not 'in hexameters at all - it was in pentameters of my own make - I never followed any special school or rule!' - I have been gurgling over that in bed this morning".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

George Bancroft : History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
'[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [end italics] fools! - but really, I rather agree with H.G. Wells that they make too much fuss about it! [separation from Britain]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : 'Let women say'
'[letter from Lord Bryce to Mrs Ward] Thank you for your admirable article and for the copy of the Memorial, an effective repy to that of the Suffragist ladies'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Serial / periodical

Emile Faguet : Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward      Print: Book

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward      Print: Book

Walter Raleigh : Wordsworth
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward      Print: Book

Homer :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward      Print: Book

Horace :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward      Print: Book

Euripides :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Aeschylus : Agamemnon
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : David Grieve
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Reginald Smith] I heard such pleasing things about "David [Grieve]" from Lord Arran in Dublin the other day. He knows it absolutely by heart, and he says that when he was campaigning in South Africa two battered copies of "David" were read to pieces by him and his brother-officers, and every night they discussed it round the camp fires'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : David Grieve
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Reginald Smith] I heard such pleasing things about "David [Grieve]" from Lord Arran in Dublin the other day. He knows it absolutely by heart, and he says that when he was campaigning in South Africa two battered copies of "David" were read to pieces by him and his brother-officers, and every night they discussed it round the camp fires'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: army officers     Print: Book

Wlliam James :
'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

George Tyrrell :
'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

Henri Bergson :
'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

William James :
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth of being alive - and before that the Emmaus story and the appearance to the Maries'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

: bible
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth of being alive - and before that the Emmaus story and the appearance to the Maries'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After I was readie, had praied and broake my fast, I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after that, I hard him read tell all most night'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers and my breakfast, I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after I was in my Chamber, I praied priuatly, reed of the Testament, and then supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Perkins : [unknown]
'and againe took order of for supper and hard one of my wemen read of perkins'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, hard mr Rhodes read praies, and went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after I Came home I praied, reed of the bible, and dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I tooke order for diner and then reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I hard Mr Rhodes Read of a good mans book, who proueth against Bis: Bilson that Christ suffered in soule the wrath of god and that he desended not into hell ... and hard Mr Rhodes Read of the same book'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'reed a Chapter of the testement, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'read tell diner time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I reed a whill and then did eate my breakfast'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Perkins : [unknown]
'then I reed in perkins tell I went againe to the Church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Thomas Cartwright : A Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegifte agaynst the Admonition to the Parliament
'after, tell night, I kept Companie with Mr Hoby who reed a whill of Cartwrights book to me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

William Enfield : History of Philosophy, From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overjoyd at a reprieve than I was at the recovery. I have begun to transcribe Joan of Arc — read Enfield History of Philosophy, Gillies History of Greece V.2nd & begun Adam Smith since my return so you see Bristol does not make me idle. I may not form a taste here but I can increase a stock of useful knowledge and you know the prettiest nosegays are formed of various flowers.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Gillies : The History of Ancient Greece
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overjoyd at a reprieve than I was at the recovery. I have begun to transcribe Joan of Arc — read Enfield History of Philosophy, Gillies History of Greece V.2nd & begun Adam Smith since my return so you see Bristol does not make me idle. I may not form a taste here but I can increase a stock of useful knowledge and you know the prettiest nosegays are formed of various flowers.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overjoyd at a reprieve than I was at the recovery. I have begun to transcribe Joan of Arc — read Enfield History of Philosophy, Gillies History of Greece V.2nd & begun Adam Smith since my return so you see Bristol does not make me idle. I may not form a taste here but I can increase a stock of useful knowledge and you know the prettiest nosegays are formed of various flowers.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6-8 November 1793: 'Were men what they ought to be — Rousseau would be canonized for a greater saint than any in the calendar. Read his Julia & tell me whence may we learn the most instructive lesson from the mistress of St Preux or the temptation of St Anthony. My comparison of the Man of Nature with Richardson would have been branded with the epithets of immoral atheistical & licentious. Clodius accuset moechos! Xtianity is less understood & less practised in this country than in the desarts of Arabia! Let him who is innocent cast the first stone was the judgement of the most moral of philosophers, to use no superior title.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Courtney Melmoth [pseud.] : Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12-15 November 1793: 'I have been reading Courtney Melmoths Liberal Opinions to-day. I know not if you have ever read the book — but it contains the history of Benignus — some parts of which pleasd me much. a young man sets out in life with this principle. To be good is to be happy. of course he becomes miserable by practising or rather by attempting to practise theoretical principles of universal benevolence. Men of feeling (I hate to use the word but no other expresses the meaning) men of feeling are exposed to a thousand pangs which the fool escapes because his faculties are too gross to comprehend them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Voltaire : Candide, ou l'Optimisme
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Do not imagine that I am vindicating the stile of Candide when I differ with you in judgement. no book perhaps is more subversive of morality — but has not the poignant ridicule many advantages? were ever the pride of birth & of heroism better held up to the contempt they merit? against these vices that have so long infected society ridicule is the best weapon. had Voltaires heart been equal to his head such a man might have reformd the world. to argue against the arrogance of hereditary honors — or the glory of military atchievements is labor lost. their absurdity & injustice are evident as noon-day light — ridicule shews them in their strongest colours. when you laugh at the Baron of Thundertentroach & Candides heroism do you feel a satisfaction superior to common merriment?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Martin Scriblerus [pseud.] : Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Your plan of a general satire I am ready to partake when you please. Pope Swift & Atterbury you know once attempted it but malevolence intruded into the design & Martinus Scriblerus bore too strong a resemblance to Dr Woodward. Swifts part is more levelld at follies than at vice. establish the empire of Justice & folly & vice will be annihilated together. draw out your plan & send it me — if you have resolution for so arduous a task.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Horace Walpole Bedford : MS verses
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 11 December 1793: 'Let me turn to more chearful subjects. your verses were particularly good — & they have the additional merit of novelty in manner & metre. write more. fame is a very late consideration — but let us remember that Pope acquired independance by his Homer. let me say Horace that Popes abilities were not above comparison. undertake some great work. it will take up your attention certainly — you certainly have abilities for any work. chuse either epic or a metrical romance. & in the intervals exercise yourself in the lower ranks for with us lyrics are very subordinate.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

William Godwin : Enquiry concerning Political Justice
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'I would recommend you to read Godwins enquiry concerning Political Justice — but the work is large & I might act culpably in wishing to influence your sentiments. observe my meaning. to consider you as HW Bedford with respect to your family I should act wrongly. as a man justice would dictate otherwise.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Lucan : unknown
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher of humanity. Lucan pleases me more than any author in despite of his numerous faults. his ninth book is wonderful & when I say that he has not fallen short of Cato in his character of that illustrious stoic panegyric can go no farther. the character of Erictho is wonderfully imagined. how would Lucan have excelled himself in the death of Cato & of Caesar! I will venture to assert that had he finishd his Pharsalia — it would have been the noblest monument of human genius. Mays supplement disappointed me. I expected more from his abilities — forgetting that the sycophant of a Stuart was ill qualified to handle the pen of Lucan. Beccaria pleases me much. I had long been self-convinced that the punishment of death was as improper as inhuman. Godwin carries this idea farther. so far I agree with him that society makes the crime & then punishes it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Cesare Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana : Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishments)
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher of humanity. Lucan pleases me more than any author in despite of his numerous faults. his ninth book is wonderful & when I say that he has not fallen short of Cato in his character of that illustrious stoic panegyric can go no farther. the character of Erictho is wonderfully imagined. how would Lucan have excelled himself in the death of Cato & of Caesar! I will venture to assert that had he finishd his Pharsalia — it would have been the noblest monument of human genius. Mays supplement disappointed me. I expected more from his abilities — forgetting that the sycophant of a Stuart was ill qualified to handle the pen of Lucan. Beccaria pleases me much. I had long been self-convinced that the punishment of death was as improper as inhuman. Godwin carries this idea farther. so far I agree with him that society makes the crime & then punishes it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Thomas May : continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher of humanity. Lucan pleases me more than any author in despite of his numerous faults. his ninth book is wonderful & when I say that he has not fallen short of Cato in his character of that illustrious stoic panegyric can go no farther. the character of Erictho is wonderfully imagined. how would Lucan have excelled himself in the death of Cato & of Caesar! I will venture to assert that had he finishd his Pharsalia — it would have been the noblest monument of human genius. Mays supplement disappointed me. I expected more from his abilities — forgetting that the sycophant of a Stuart was ill qualified to handle the pen of Lucan. Beccaria pleases me much. I had long been self-convinced that the punishment of death was as improper as inhuman. Godwin carries this idea farther. so far I agree with him that society makes the crime & then punishes it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Phineas Fletcher : The Purple Island, or, the Isle of Man
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple island. the specimens of the poem in Headleys selection & Warton are beautiful — you promised me some information relative to a late edition. the other remark is that two more letters will probably grow out of this. the last stanza has given birth to a train of thoughts which wait your next for maturity. your last letter I found on my return from Bath — I had prolonged my stay there to enjoy Lovells company. you know the no-ceremony I stand upon when I wish to make a friend — it may be singular but I am sure to me singularly fortunate. as a poet in some walks I do not know his equal — in the plaintive & soft kinds — elegy & sonnet for instance but this is not his only merit — epistles & various other species he has handled with peculiar delicacy. I do not scruple to say that for elegance & simplicity of versification I know no Author in our language that surpasses him. most probably we shall soon publish together.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Henry Headley : Select Beauties of Ancient English poetry
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple island. the specimens of the poem in Headleys selection & Warton are beautiful — you promised me some information relative to a late edition. the other remark is that two more letters will probably grow out of this. the last stanza has given birth to a train of thoughts which wait your next for maturity. your last letter I found on my return from Bath — I had prolonged my stay there to enjoy Lovells company. you know the no-ceremony I stand upon when I wish to make a friend — it may be singular but I am sure to me singularly fortunate. as a poet in some walks I do not know his equal — in the plaintive & soft kinds — elegy & sonnet for instance but this is not his only merit — epistles & various other species he has handled with peculiar delicacy. I do not scruple to say that for elegance & simplicity of versification I know no Author in our language that surpasses him. most probably we shall soon publish together.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Robert Lovell : verses
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple island. the specimens of the poem in Headleys selection & Warton are beautiful — you promised me some information relative to a late edition. the other remark is that two more letters will probably grow out of this. the last stanza has given birth to a train of thoughts which wait your next for maturity. your last letter I found on my return from Bath — I had prolonged my stay there to enjoy Lovells company. you know the no-ceremony I stand upon when I wish to make a friend — it may be singular but I am sure to me singularly fortunate. as a poet in some walks I do not know his equal — in the plaintive & soft kinds — elegy & sonnet for instance but this is not his only merit — epistles & various other species he has handled with peculiar delicacy. I do not scruple to say that for elegance & simplicity of versification I know no Author in our language that surpasses him. most probably we shall soon publish together.'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey

John Milton : ‘The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I’
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa &c. it is since used most elegantly by Collins Mrs Barbauld — in the gent. of Devon & Cornwalls poems — & by my favourite Dr Sayers — so here I have strong authority.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Collins : Ode to Evening
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa &c. it is since used most elegantly by Collins Mrs Barbauld — in the gent. of Devon & Cornwalls poems — & by my favourite Dr Sayers — so here I have strong authority.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Ode to Spring
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa &c. it is since used most elegantly by Collins Mrs Barbauld — in the gent. of Devon & Cornwalls poems — & by my favourite Dr Sayers — so here I have strong authority.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

various : Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa &c. it is since used most elegantly by Collins Mrs Barbauld — in the gent. of Devon & Cornwalls poems — & by my favourite Dr Sayers — so here I have strong authority.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Frank Sayers : Ode to Aurora
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa &c. it is since used most elegantly by Collins Mrs Barbauld — in the gent. of Devon & Cornwalls poems — & by my favourite Dr Sayers — so here I have strong authority.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : ['sixpenny history of England']
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'Forgive egotism if I mention one circumstance which happened above twelve years ago. I was struck with the apparent falshood in “I believe in the holy catholic church” when my sixpenny history of England taught me I was a protestant. I mentioned it & was severely reprimanded for impiety, but the passage was never explained & I was silenced instead of convinced till Greek gave the information.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Cowper : The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much satisfaction has the perusal afforded me. a quotation I had occasion to make gave me an opportunity of discovering how unlike Homer is Popes version.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Mark Akenside : Pleasures of the Imagination
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read in this manner. it is very seldom that I am without a book in my pocket. & the half & quarters of hours wasted so often in waiting amount to a great deal in the year. ten to one but I read all the way to Bath & should the sun shine it makes glad the heart of man spout vociferously to the edification of all the stage coachmen. this however only happens in abstraction.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Lucan : Works
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read in this manner. it is very seldom that I am without a book in my pocket. & the half & quarters of hours wasted so often in waiting amount to a great deal in the year. ten to one but I read all the way to Bath & should the sun shine it makes glad the heart of man spout vociferously to the edification of all the stage coachmen. this however only happens in abstraction.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Johann Wilhelm von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werther
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'I need not tell you with what pleasure my frequent perusals of Werter have been attended. for six months I was never without it in my pocket — the character is natural. at least it appeared so when tried by the touch-stone of my own heart. yet there are some minds upon which this would operate differently. to use a vulgar proverb “what's one man's meet [sic] is another man's poison". I consider suicide as a crime — as heinous as irrevocable. if you can suppose a man without connections friends or relations, still suicide would not be justifiable. while there is a possibility that life can be of service to society it is criminal to die.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Richard Glover : Boadicia
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the first I see but one fault it is that the Romans are treated too respectfully — the remark has been made by abler critics & will be confirmd by every one who reads the drama. in Medea he has introduced blank lyric but confined them to Iambics & Trochaics. I speak from memory but think it is right. this is all that I have seen of Glovers.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Richard Glover : Medea
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the first I see but one fault it is that the Romans are treated too respectfully — the remark has been made by abler critics & will be confirmd by every one who reads the drama. in Medea he has introduced blank lyric but confined them to Iambics & Trochaics. I speak from memory but think it is right. this is all that I have seen of Glovers.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Richard Glover : Leonidas
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'The Leonidas is a very fine poem in my opinion. J. Warton says it is written with the simplicity of an antient; when Glover wrote that simplicity of diction was the fashion — a more vitiated taste prevails at present, since Johnson sonorized our prose & the imitators of Collins & Gray loaded our poetry with awkard imagery & cumbrous metaphor. into this meretricious stile I know myself frequently to have fallen & am pleased to see myself daily reclaiming. simplicity is all in all. you will read the epics of Glover with renewed pleasure upon every perusal.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : Review of Joseph Priestley, The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies; A Sermon, Preached at the Gravel Pit Meeting in Hackney, February 28, 1794
Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'I have not yet seen Priestleys reasons for quitting this country. from the review I collect that he compares the present state of Europe with ancient prophecies & foretells the most dismal scenes of devastation. “Oh I could prophesy” says Hotspur & so say I but to prophecy no good evil is melancholy — & good impossible, when indeed after evil. Belsham is elected Pastor in his place & by the little I know of this man he is more qualified to succeed, Joseph Priestley than the generality of dissenting preachers. he is the author of one or two very good works —thoughts on parliamentary reform & Memoirs of the house of Brunswick—Lunenburg. my knowledge of this is from the reviews.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Reviews of William Belsham's Remarks on the Nature and Necessity of a Parliamentary Reform (1793) and Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-Lunenberg (1793).
Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'I have not yet seen Priestleys reasons for quitting this country. from the review I collect that he compares the present state of Europe with ancient prophecies & foretells the most dismal scenes of devastation. “Oh I could prophesy” says Hotspur & so say I but to prophecy no good evil is melancholy — & good impossible, when indeed after evil. Belsham is elected Pastor in his place & by the little I know of this man he is more qualified to succeed, Joseph Priestley than the generality of dissenting preachers. he is the author of one or two very good works —thoughts on parliamentary reform & Memoirs of the house of Brunswick—Lunenburg. my knowledge of this is from the reviews.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

William Lisle Bowles : Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive. Written During a Tour
Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'Have you ever seen Bowles’s poems & more particularly his sonnets? tho he be an Oxford man,[MS torn] name is little known here; & tho [MS torn] first poet the University can now boast. Allen has lent a [MS torn] copy of his sonnets, for he printed but few copies & they are a[MS torn] to be obtained. they pleasd me so much that I shall trans[|MS torn] your opinion.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

unknown : [works on science]
Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'My silence on natural history & natural philosophy, arose from ignorance. they are subjects upon which till lately I knew nothing, & now but little. it is not however my nature to sit down contented with ignorance. The study claims my attention; anatomy chymistry & botany will be my chief studies. how much truth is there in the old adage Life is short—Science is long! I experience the truth every day. one book leads on another one study demonstrates the necessity of another, & so we proceed from year to year till Death—compresses all our acquisition into a clod of the valley!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Hawkesworth : The Adventurer
Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'Hawkesworth argues very strongly against indulging in these fantastical pleasures — they enervate the mind & by accustoming it to the dreams of fancy render it totally unfit for serious contemplation & abstract reasoning — they have likewise a worse effect even than this — they tend to render society odious & the world contemptible, till the dreamer possesses all the austerity of a Cynic without the sublimity of his virtues.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Donne : Satyre II
Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'How like you the gallant city of London? is it not an overgrown monster devouring its own children? a large sink of folly dissipation & iniquity? "Sir I do thank God for it, I do hate Most righteously the town" so said old Donne. & thank God I join with him heartily. four years residence there gave me experience. & I had rather dwell in the poorest hovel to which Monarchy & Aristocracy have condemnd honest labour, than in the proud palaces of London.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Dell : The Doctrine of Baptisms
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'Saturday last the day I began this letter I was at Downing at old Robert Lovells. the most primitive of Quakers but withall an affable intelligent pleasant man. he was pleasd with me & in a manner which interested me very much, offerd to lend me a good book written by William Dell. the offer was so made that if I could I would not have refused him. & in fact I am reading a large octavo full of mysticism. tis but a few hours stole from rhyming — it gives him pleasure & I shall get a little knowledge of John Huss Jerome of Prague & Martin Luther. Nullus est alius antichristus in mundo, neque venturus quam sacerdotes. Jo. Huss. you may see the tenor of the book from these quotations in it) however the followers of Aristotle (who certainly is dead & as Luther says damned if the imprecations of those he has puzzled take effect) may ridicule the idea of tragicomedy I am myself partial to that stile of writing. look at Hamlet. who would feel half the pleasure at seeing it represented if it were all upon the stills of tragedy.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Tacitus : Annals
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'I have ventured upon the drama at last. & chosen for my subject that memorable passage in Tacitus which struck me so powerfully on the first perusal & which I pointed out to you at Brixton. possibly you may have forgotten it. if so turn to the fourteenth annal & read the murder of Pedanius Secundus & the execution of four hundred slaves. tis a bloody tale. with what success I manage it you will judge hereafter.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : translations and verses
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 11-18 May 1794: 'Your Anacreon & Æschylus please me much — unluckily I have neither the one nor the other in the original — & let me add do not want them with such spirited translations. I will however read them as you desire. in your lines ‘Harder than the pointed spear’ the word harder strike me as inappropriate. does the Greek signify the same? something like resistless as the pointed spear, would be more consonant to the intended meaning — your ode Quique pii vates is with me but would be unfair to fill up my letter with transcribing your verses.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Horace Walpole Bedford : Ode to Indolence
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 7 June 1794: 'In return for your ode to Indolence I know nothing better than these strains to her eldest born. they immortalize a man who is the ne plus ultra of folly.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Robert Allen : Ludi Scenici (unpublished)
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20-21 July 1794: 'When Coleridges work is published you will see a Latin Poem of Allens which did not gain the praise. the subject Ludi Scenici. of the execution you will judge for my own part I will not scruple to pronounce it very excellent. Coleridge means to translate it. he won the Greek Ode at Cambridge & I have promisd to translate it for his work, so you will have some memorial of us all.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Ode on the slave trade
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20-21 July 1794: 'When Coleridges work is published you will see a Latin Poem of Allens which did not gain the praise. the subject Ludi Scenici. of the execution you will judge for my own part I will not scruple to pronounce it very excellent. Coleridge means to translate it. he won the Greek Ode at Cambridge & I have promisd to translate it for his work, so you will have some memorial of us all.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : Ode
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 August 1794: 'When your ode reachd me it reminded me of neglect & I blushed as I read.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Robert Southey (ed.) : The Flagellant
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8-9 February 1795: 'I have been reading the four first numbers of the Flagellant — they are all I possess — my dearest Grosvenor they have recalled past times forcibly to my mind...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, after, I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes Read of a booke against some newe spronge vp herisies'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I reed a whill, after I went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I wrett Certaine thinges in my sermon book and did read of the bible, praied, and then dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers in the morninge I reed of the bible, and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after dinner I hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'satt with Mr Hoby tell 6: then I went to priuat examenatione and praier, and to Read of the Testament'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'...tell all most :11: a cloke: then I praied, read of the bible, dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I went about the house and then I reed of the bible tell dinner time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after dinner I dressed vp my Clositte and read and, to refreshe my selfe beinge dull, I plaied and sunge to the Alpherion'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After I was readie and had praied, I did read of the testemente and bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Perkins : [unknown]
'and, after, Hard Mr Hoby read of perkins tell all most 5 a clock'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'brake my fast: after, reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Thomas Cartwright : A Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegifte agaynst the Admonition to the Parliament
'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

Bishop of Canterbury : [unknown]
'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read tell 4 acloke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after took a lector, read of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Turner : New herball
'tell about 3 a Cloke: then I rede of the arball'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after I Came home I reed of the testement'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and, when I Came home, I mad an end of writing my sermon, then reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Charles Baxter : letter
'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours to the Baronick, and was surprised at one piece of intelligence therein. Mine are always married before I begin, which simplifies things.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then Mr Rhodes reed to me tell 4'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I reed of the bible: after, I praied and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I reed of the bible, praied, and lastly dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I walked a whill and hard one read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and allmost all the afternone, I hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'hard Mr Rhodes read, took order for supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'hard Mr Rhodes read, conferred with him Vpon some thinges touchinge himselfe'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

William Perkins : [unknown]
'after that, I reed of perkins, hauinge som further Conference with my Cossine'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible tell diner time: then I wrought, and walked a whill, and after hard him read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I talked with a neighbour, then wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did break my fast, read of the bible, walked to my workmen'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did eate, then dressed my patients, reed of the bible, and then saluted some strangers'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I kept Companie tell they departed and, after, reed and talked with a yonge papest maid'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Justinian : 'Institutes and Pandects'
Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 30 January 1829: 'I [...] rejoice to learn from yourself that you are seriously set about adding [as editor] to the charms of the most entertaining book in the world [Boswell's Life of Johnson]. I doubt my acquaintance with the most part of the book is too slight to furnish annotations. I was, when it was published, a raw young fellow, engrossing with the one hand, and thumbing the Institutes and Pandects of old Justinian with the other; little in the way of hearing any literary conversations or anecdotes.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Horace :
Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829: 'I understand from Mr. Murray that you are engaged [as editor] upon a "Life of Dr. Johnson." [...] 'Mr. Cary, the Assistant Keeper of our Printed Books, tells me a very old edition (I think 1504) of "Horace," belonging to the Burney Collection, has a few notes in Dr. Johnson's hand.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

: Report on John Wilson Croker's speech on the first Reform Bill, 4 March 1831
The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831: 'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspapers; and I read it again last night with great satisfaction. 'It is a most able view of the plan of Reform; and dissects admirably some parts of the measure.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington      Print: Newspaper

John Wilson Croker : Speech on the first Reform Bill, 4 March 1831
The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831: 'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspapers; and I read it again last night with great satisfaction. 'It is a most able view of the plan of Reform; and dissects admirably some parts of the measure.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington      Print: Unknown

: Death reports
John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833: 'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at A. Baring's, I told them at breakfast that I dreamt a tooth had dropped out, and that, of course, I should hear of the death of a friend. So we looked at the newspapers for a couple of days with some kind of interest, but no bad news came, and we were about to give up our superstition, when lo! two days after, I read an account of the death that very same night of my dear old friend Lord Exmouth, who with his dying breath sent me a most affectionate message.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker and others at home of A. Baring     Print: Newspaper

: report of death of Lord Exmouth
John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833: 'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at A. Baring's, I told them at breakfast that I dreamt a tooth had dropped out, and that, of course, I should hear of the death of a friend. So we looked at the newspapers for a couple of days with some kind of interest, but no bad news came, and we were about to give up our superstition, when lo! two days after, I read an account of the death that very same night of my dear old friend Lord Exmouth, who with his dying breath sent me a most affectionate message.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Newspaper

Lord Brougham and others : 'The Reformed Ministry and the Reformed Parliament' (extracts)
Sir Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker, 29 September 1833: 'Strange as it may seem, I have not read nor have I seen the Ministerial pamphlet. I saw some extracts from it in the newspapers, which sated my appetite for such reading.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Robert Peel      Print: Newspaper

:
John Wilson Croker to his wife, whilst in Oxford for the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the University, 12 June 1834: 'The dinner at Christ Church was very fine [...] we dined at five, and got away by daylight [...] The Master and his wife had dined at Brasenose, and did not come back till I had come to Ned [Edward Giffard]'s rat-hole, where I read till eleven o'clock, and then went to bed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Unknown

Fouche : Memoires
From John Wilson Croker's Diary, 3 October 1834: 'I happened to mention the profuse fabrication of French Memoires, and instanced those of Fouche; the Duke said: "I dare say they were not written by Fouche, and that they are what therefore may be called fabrications, but they are certainly done by some one who had Fouche's confidence or his papers, for there are several passages in them of a secret nature, in which I myself happened to be concerned and which I know to be true. I won't at all answer for the whole book; but as far as my own knowledge goes, I find them tolerably correct, and am therefore disposed to give some degree of credit to the rest [...] my evidence can only apply to the short period of the Restoration [of French monarchy] in which I came into contact with him."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington      Print: Book

John Wilson Croker : article on Robespierre
John Wilson Croker to Sir Robert Peel, 7 October 1835: 'I am glad you like Robespierre. It is only an essay, which you put me upon, and which I wrote at the seaside without a single book but the "Liste des Condamnes." When I came home I spent a couple of days in verifying, as far as I could, my recollections; but it is miserably short of what it ought to have been, and even of what it would have been, if I had written it at leisure and among my books.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Robert Peel      Print: Serial / periodical

William Sewell : article on 'the Oxford Divines'
The Rev W. F. Hook to John Wilson Croker, 8 April 1839: 'Mr. Murray forwarded to me a copy of the "Quarterly Review" a few days ago, and he did so, I presume, by your desire, for I conclude that we are indebted to you for the admirable article on the Oxford Divines. For that article it is impossible to express my thanks in language sufficiently strong. To you we owe entirely the exorcism of that evil spirit of Reform which a few years ago threatened the destruction of all that was sacred in the English Church [discusses issue of Tractarianism further] [...] May I request you to thank Mr. Murray for sending me the Review. I have ordered many copies that I may lend them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: T. W. Hook      Print: Serial / periodical

: Galignani['s Messenger?]
Sir W. Follett to John Wilson Croker, from Paris, 6 October 1840: 'We saw in Galignani yesterday that George Giffard [Follett's brother-in-law, and a ward of Croker's] had been wounded in this affair on the coast of Syria [...] I should hope, however, from the way it is mentioned in the paper, that his wound is not very serious.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir W. Follett      Print: Newspaper

John Wilson Croker : article on British foreign policy
The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 31 December 1840: 'I will not deny myself the satisfaction of telling you with what delight I have perused your article in the Quarterly Review on the Foreign Policy [...] I believe that there are few persons who know so much of what is called the Eastern Affair as I do [...] and I must say that I have not seen any statement of the case of the country, including that of Ministers, half so clear or strong as you have made out.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible
'took order for dimer, reed of the bible, walked abroad'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I dressed my patients, reed, talked with a neighbour, praied, then dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Case of Richard Meynell, The
'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, the persons, the questions it dealt with. It has given me the most lively interest both as romance - as fine as anything since "Adam Bede" - and also as controversy - as important as anything since "Essays and Reviews". Meynell seems to me a far higher type than Elsmere, both as a man and as a book, and I am sure will have a greater permanent value'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederic Harrison      Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede
'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, the persons, the questions it dealt with. It has given me the most lively interest both as romance - as fine as anything since "Adam Bede" - and also as controversy - as important as anything since "Essays and Reviews". Meynell seems to me a far higher type than Elsmere, both as a man and as a book, and I am sure will have a greater permanent value'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederic Harrison      Print: Book

: Essays and Reviews
'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, the persons, the questions it dealt with. It has given me the most lively interest both as romance - as fine as anything since "Adam Bede" - and also as controversy - as important as anything since "Essays and Reviews". Meynell seems to me a far higher type than Elsmere, both as a man and as a book, and I am sure will have a greater permanent value'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederic Harrison      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Perkins : [unknown]
'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read, and wrought, took order for supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did read of the bible, then wret in my sermon book'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : England's Effort
'[Having asked Lord Rosebery for a Preface to her "England's Effort"] Knowing that he was never strong, she fully expected a refusal, but found instead that he had already done what she asked, being deeply moved by the proofs that she had sent him'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery      Print: proofs

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I did eate, read, and then goe to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I did eate, heare Mr Rhodes read, dressed my patients'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

:
'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from her short nights - for her hours of sleep were rarely more and often less than six - was that the long hours of wakefulness in the early morning gave her time for the reading of many books and of poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'took a lector, reed of the testament, praied with Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Mary Augusta Ward : Fields of Victory
'[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Victory"] is her marvellous insight into the way of thinking of the soldiers - I mean those who knew most of what was really happening - who were actually engaged in the great struggle. One would say the book was written by one who had played a prominent part in the War in France, and with knowledge of the thoughts of the high directing staffs'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hastings Anderson      Print: Book

:
'[whilst Mrs Ward suffered her last illness] her son and her daughters took turns in reading to her the poets that she loved'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praer I did read, break my fast, and then went with Mr Hoby to the Garden'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'reed a whill of another good book, and then went to priuat medetations and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Henri Beyle [Stendhal] : Lucien Leuwen
'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Henri Beyle [Stendhal] : La Chartreuse de Parme
'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

André Gide : Isabelle
'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itself to me, and I began to write it at once. Yet nothing could be less like calm 'Isabelle' than this feverish novel.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then wrought, reed, and wrett tell diner tim'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and obsarued mine accustomed exercises tell night'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I reed of the bible, went about the house, praied, and after dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I took order for supper and read abroad with Mr Hoby'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas and Margaret Hoby     Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I did eate, tooke a lector, reed of the bible and testement, and then dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I hard the sarmon and after reed of a good book tell supper time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and was busie deliueringe some monie'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Captives
'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly admonitions & my fatherly threats apropos of previous books there are at least as many grammatical slips in this one as in any. . . . Such, imperfectly, respectfully, & fragmentarily are my views about this history which you have so affectionately dedicated to the aged one. There are lots of questions I want to ask you about it. Will you dine Thursday 21st?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)
'after, I wrought and hard one read of the book of Marters'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I had praied I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes read tell dinner time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and then I reed of the Testemente and so to supper, then to publeck praers, and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Robert Nichols : Guillty Souls
'About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine. I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act. . . . I only met the dedication tonight. Thanks. It is very agreeable to me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: completed draft of play

George Moore : A Mummer's Wife
'. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district that I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years. You are indeed the father of all my Five Towns books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praers I did goe about the house and, hauing dune som busenes, I did eate a litle, read, and lastly dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I did read, eate, and went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I had praied and reed, some of my freinds came, with whom I talked'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I reed, talked with my phesition and som other gentlewemen, and so went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Ethel Smyth : Streaks of Life
Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Ethel Smyth : Impressions that Remained
Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: Express
I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impartial and full labour news, and the worst sinner is the 'Daily Herald'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

: Daily Herald
I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impartial and full labour news, and the worst sinner is the 'Daily Herald'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

: Daily Mail
It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didn’t get the Wells Washington stuff. His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have been absolutely tremendous.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

Hugh Walpole : The Young Enchanted
Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God you can tell a story! Also the first half of the book is full of charming things, excellent bits of observation and fancy, new gleams of light on the world, But, also by God, I will not hide from you my conviction that the book does not improve as it goes on . . . . The mere details of writing I think are better than in 'The Captives'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses
I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'. It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene genuine literature ever published, not excepting Juvenal and Co.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: Grand Larousse
Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas. But I had the wit to look for it in the 'Grand Larousse'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

H Hamer [anon] : Roasted Angels
I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full of wit and fancy and most admirably written. I should like to know who H. Hamer is. He, or she, must have been writing for quite some little time.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land
'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountry]" which was lying there and opening it at hazard I showed sentences here and there asking whether they could have been written from any other conceivable motive.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Norman Douglas : The Island of Typhoeus
'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Hugh Broughton : Master Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answered
'and then I walked awhill, and after reed of Mr Broughtons booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Hugh Broughton : Master Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answered
'when I had praied, I took a litle phesick and then I reed of Mr Browghtons book'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Du Coté chez Swann
I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it is more marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Les Frères'. Well, it is most marvellous. Das ist das.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I got vp and was lett blood: then I made me readie and went to priuat praier and reeadinge of the bible, as I was wonte'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it is more marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Les Frères'. Well, it is most marvellous. Das ist das.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I dinned, then I walked about with my mother and reed, tell towardes night: then I praied priuatly and went to my booke again: after I went to supper and lastly to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers, I reed of the bible and walked about before dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I was busie in the house, and walkinge and reading tell supper time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Les Freres Karamazov
I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it is more marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Les Frères'. Well, it is most marvellous. Das ist das.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Victor Margueritte : La Garconne
I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness. The indecency is only episodic, but I have never read such indecency in the work of a reputable author published by a reputable firm. . . . It has also to be remembered that M. Margueritte has written, whether alone or in collaboration with his late brother, several novels of genuine importance, such as 'Le Désastre'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I reed of the bible tell all most Church time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Paul Margueritte : Le Désastre
I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness. The indecency is only episodic, but I have never read such indecency in the work of a reputable author published by a reputable firm. . . . It has also to be remembered that M. Margueritte has written, whether alone or in collaboration with his late brother, several novels of genuine importance, such as 'Le Désastre'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I did read, eate, and so went to Church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [prayer]
'then I went about a whill, and reed a praier, and then went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I went about tell supper time and reed of the Testement'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then went to priuat praer and reed a whill, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I went to supper, then I reed, and lastly went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I went about the house when I had reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, after, went about the house and reed a whill, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I wrought tell all most 5 a cloke, and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I Came home and praied priuatly and reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of the principles of poperie out of one of their owne bookes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'when I Came home, I read of the bible, wrought, and after dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I did eate, read, and after went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praere I did read to my wemen'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of a popeshe booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after I brake my fast, wrought, hard Mr Rhodes Read, took a lector'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I wrough and hard Mr Rhodes reead'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, when I had reed a whill, I went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I reed a whill and praied, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I kept in my Chamber workinge tell allmost night and hard my Cosine Isons Read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : minutes of XII Book Club meeting
'The minutes of the first meeting were read and confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Frederick J. Edminson : [paper on Annie Wood Besant's 'An Autobiography']
'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excited some remark. Mrs W.H. Smith also commented on some of the points in F. Harrison's Meaning of History in which she was joined by other members'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Annie Wood Besant : Autobiography, An
'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excited some remark. Mrs W.H. Smith also commented on some of the points in F. Harrison's Meaning of History in which she was joined by other members'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Print: Book

Andrew Martin Fairbairn : Place Of Christ In Modern Theology
'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excited some remark. Mrs W.H. Smith also commented on some of the points in F. Harrison's Meaning of History in which she was joined by other members'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold J. Morland      Print: Book

Frederic Harrison : Meaning of History, The
'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excited some remark. Mrs W.H. Smith also commented on some of the points in F. Harrison's Meaning of History in which she was joined by other members'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [minutes of XII Book Club meeting]
'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [paper on William Watson]
'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

William Watson :
'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

William Watson :
'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Bertha M. Pollard      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [XII Book Club minutes]
'The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

John Luther Hawkins : [paper of Stopford Brooke's 'Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life']
'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Luther Hawkins      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting]
'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Stopford Brooke : Tennyson: his Art and Relation to Modern Life
'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Luther Hawkins      Print: Book

H.W. Jones : [letter resigning from XII Book Club]
'A letter from H.W. Jones resigning membership in the Club was read'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club Meeting]
'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Frederick Burgess : [paper on matthew Arnold as man and politician]
'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in culture and Anarchy and Mrs Morland as a poet. In these papers, many, and sometimes conflicting estimates of the author were expressed'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Burgess      Manuscript: Unknown

Frederick Edminson : [paper on Matthew Arnold as essayist]
'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in culture and Anarchy and Mrs Morland as a poet. In these papers, many, and sometimes conflicting estimates of the author were expressed'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Adelaide Morland : [paper on Matthew Arnold as poet]
'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in culture and Anarchy and Mrs Morland as a poet. In these papers, many, and sometimes conflicting estimates of the author were expressed'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Adelaide Morland      Manuscript: Unknown

Matthew Arnold :
'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in culture and Anarchy and Mrs Morland as a poet. In these papers, many, and sometimes conflicting estimates of the author were expressed'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Adelaide Morland      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold :
'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in culture and Anarchy and Mrs Morland as a poet. In these papers, many, and sometimes conflicting estimates of the author were expressed'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold :
'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in culture and Anarchy and Mrs Morland as a poet. In these papers, many, and sometimes conflicting estimates of the author were expressed'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Burgess      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : 'Rugby Chapel'
'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Bertha Pollard      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : 'Dover Beach'
'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Luther Hawkins      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : 'Forsaken Merman, The'
'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Hawkins      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed, praied, and went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after I Came in I reed, praied, and then went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'all the followinge I went about and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell my time of priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after priuat praers I reed, walked and medetated'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I was readie I was Called to some busenes, which dine I went to priuat praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed and went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of Grenhame'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I had gone about some busenes I praied priuatly, and after reed and took a lecture'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, when I Came in, I reed a litle of humanitie, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then I went to work and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After I was readie, I praied, went about the house, took a lecture, reed of the bible, praied, and went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I wrett notes in my testement, reed a whill, and went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I reed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I reed of the bible, after praied and so went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I did read of the bible and then went about the house'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after diner, I went about a whill, hard Mr Rhodes Read, and then I went to priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I did eate, read a whill, and then went to church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I withdrew my selfe and reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'when they were gone, I reed and wrett in my sarmon booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'when I Came in, I wrought and reed tell 5 a cloke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed a whill and so went to church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after reed and praied, and then I went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'after diner I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a sarmon booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

J. H. Jesse : (apparently) Selwyn and His Contemporaries
John Wilson Croker to J. H. Jesse, 5 December 1843: 'I am much obliged by your kind attention in sending me your Selwyn volumes: but to be candid with you, I can by no means approve of the publication of letters of so peculiarly a private, and in many instances, scandalous, character. I cannot, I honestly confess, understand what authority can exist for such a ripping up of private life. I am sorry also to observe some few considerable, and many small errors, in the notes. Some of them are probably typist errors, but some are not.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : The New Timon
John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846: 'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[end italics], but it is the work of a clever man, and who understands the construction of lines and the rhythm, and in short, all that people can learn without inspiration. I should suspect the Timon to be by Bulwer or Disraeli, or possibly Dicky Milnes'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Gibson Lockhart      Print: Book

: Bedford Letters vol 3
John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846: 'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of Lord John [?Bedford] -- he said he had read his preface to Bedford letters, vol.iii, and thought it very poor -- but I found he had [italics]not[end italics] read it to the end, for he knew nothing of the only remarkable part of it, the little disquisition on [italics]party[end italics]. I think he has merely read the [italics]note[end italics] on one of his own productions; and I doubt if he ever reads anything but what is written by or about himself!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Brougham      Print: Book

anon : 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'
John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, which is in the press, and about to be published in defence of the policy, and still more of the fairness of and consistency of Sir R. Peel's conduct [...] 'When you come to see the pamphlet you will find on p.45, &c, your personal accordance with Sir Robert's free trade measures, and particularly your Canada Corn Bill produced in his behalf. 'The pamphlet is well-written, and in rather a conciliatory tone, and certainly looks like like a move towards re-uniting the party under Sir R. Peel; but there is no argument for, and indeed hardly any palliation of, the particular steps of his proceeding in 1845-6. It [italics]assumes[end italics] that the Irish famine has proved, and that the state of England by and by will further prove, that all he did was [italics]right[end italics], as the writer thinks that he has shown that it was all [italics]fair[end italics].'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker

John Wilson Croker : article on Parliament and Irish Catholics
Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 30 June 1847: 'I have read your article in the Quarterly and think it quite admirable -- a complete stunner for the Peel party. You are quite right as regards a State provision for the Irish Roman Catholic Church'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord George Bentinck      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wilson Croker : 'Peel Policy'
Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'I have got the Quarterly and am highly delighted with your contribution to it, which I esteem most admirable, and I feel confident that in the way you have put the statistics they cannot be disputed; indeed in my conscience I believe them to be substantially correct.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord George Bentinck      Print: Serial / periodical

: Manchester Monthly Trade Circular
Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention [...] Ferguson and Taylor's "Manchester Monthly Trade Circular," which I have received to-day, after generally observing "that at no former period in the course of a long experience had they ever known the business of that [?cotton] market so embarrassed as at this moment," note in their postscript that for money the terms are: One and a quarter per cent. for cash in ten days!"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord George Bentinck      Print: Serial / periodical

: Hansard (parliamentary reports)
Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 28 December 1847: I have only got Hansard to-day; I have marked the particular passages in the Coercion Bill debate, and send them to you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord George Bentinck      Print: Serial / periodical

: report of death of Lady Follett
Sir James Graham to John Wilson Croker, 18 September 1847: 'I have read in the newspapers with great regret, but without surprise, the report of the death of Lady Follett.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir James Graham      Print: Newspaper

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
The Earl of Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, in response to a query regarding quotation from Homer by Thucydides, 1 September 1846: 'I should have answered your letter sooner, but I had not a copy of the Life of Johnson at hand; and before writing to you, I wished to see the passage to which you refer. 'From the expressions of Johnson, it would appear that he thought the lines quoted by Thucydides were from the Iliad or Odyssey, in which case they certainly would not be found in any of our copies. But the quotation is from the hymn to Apollo. It is in the third book of his history, and in that part of it in which he gives an account of the extraordinary and barbarous proceeding, called by the Athenians the purification of Delos.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Aberdeen      Print: Book

C. W. Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, editor : Correspondence, Dispatches, and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, vols 1 and 2
Charles Arbuthnot to John Wilson Croker, 7 December 1848: 'That I had the greatest regard and affection for my departed friend Lord Castlereagh is most true. But I have not read his brother's memoirs of him, though I happened to see the first two volumes; but I did no more than just look at them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Arbuthnot      Print: Book

John Wilson Croker : article on Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England
The Bishop of Exeter to John Wilson Croker, 13 April 1849: 'I was not satisfied with one reading of your article. 'The repetition has more than doubled my gratification, and my sense of the effectiveness of your chastisement. 'The great point of all is that you have decidedly fixed Mr. Macaulay's position in the literary republic. He is a great -- a very great -- historical novelist, and can never more be regarded in the severe character of an historian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Bishop of Exeter      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England, vols 1 and 2
John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: 'He has written some very brilliant essays [...] but he has written [italics]no history[end italics] [...] his bitter hatred of the Church of England all through is evident; it is, I think, the only very strong feeling in the book [...] 'Then his treatment of the Whig criminals Sidney and Russell, is very shabby [...] 'You will tell me by-and-bye what you think of this. I own that I read the book with breathless interest, in spite of occasional indignations, but I am now reading Grote's new volume of his "History of Greece," and, upon my word, I find the contrast of his calm, stately, tranquil narrative very soothing. In short, I doubt if Macaulay's book will go down as a standard addition to our [italics]historical[end italics] library, though it must always keep a high place among the specimens of English rhetoric.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Gibson Lockhart      Print: Book

Grote : History of Greece
John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: 'He has written some very brilliant essays [...] but he has written [italics]no history[end italics] [...] his bitter hatred of the Church of England all through is evident; it is, I think, the only very strong feeling in the book [...] 'Then his treatment of the Whig criminals Sidney and Russell, is very shabby [...] 'You will tell me by-and-bye what you think of this. I own that I read the book with breathless interest, in spite of occasional indignations, but I am now reading Grote's new volume of his "History of Greece," and, upon my word, I find the contrast of his calm, stately, tranquil narrative very soothing. In short, I doubt if Macaulay's book will go down as a standard addition to our [italics]historical[end italics] library, though it must always keep a high place among the specimens of English rhetoric.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Gibson Lockhart      Print: Book

John Wilson Croker : review of Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England
The Duke of Rutland to John Wilson Croker, 7 May 1849: 'I read with much interest your review of Macaulay's book. I cannot deny that I read the book itself with much amusement and gratification. But there are very many parts of it which I could not read without pain, and for the very reason which you give in the criticisms you have made upon it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Duke of Rutland      Print: Book

Arthur Young : Travels in France and Italy During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

Arthur Young : 'northern tour'
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

Arthur Young : Farmer's Calendar
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

Arthur Young : A Tour in Ireland
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

Xenophon :
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

Virgil :
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

Mechi :
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

Huxtable :
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I think him the most truthful writer and fuller of information upon any subject than any other author [...] He is the only man of eminence of my time that I unfortunately was not acquainted with; I did not then appreciate his merits. Since I have turned my attention to agriculture, I look upon him as the real source of information upon all matters [...] I have a duplicate of his works, one at Lowther and another in London, and some odd ones both at Barnes and Whitehaven. His agricultural tours in France and Italy I consider the only works that give an intelligible account of those countries. 'His tour in Ireland has given me the idea that his views of Ireland were nearer the truth than any other work. When I received your letter yesterday, I was just starting to make a journey with Mr. Parker to look at some land that he had recommended in his northern tour seventy years ago to be cultivated, and drained, and whch is now in the same state as it was at the time he wrote. We found it exactly as he described it [...] I have read everything as regards agriculture, from Xenophon and Virgil, to Mechi and Huxtable. There is everything in Arthur Young [...] His "Farmer's Calendar," which is for the management [of a farm] advising what to do each month by month, is the standard book of all farmers at present, and has gone through many editions. I have three different editions of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Lonsdale      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51): 'And so you are reading my Bozzy'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Brougham      Print: Book

Henry Richard Lord Holland : Foreign Reminiscences
Lord Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, 21 February 1851: 'In reading Lord Holland's book, which I did very cursorily, I was more struck by its dulness than by any other quality. A senseless hostility to all legitimate Kings and Queens, and a ludicrous exaltation of "[italics]that great Prince[end italics]," Bonaparte, might have been expected; but it is wonderful how little the volume contains which has not either been long well known, or which is not worth knowing [discusses text further]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Aberdeen      Print: Book

: The Times
Lord Stanley to John Wilson Croker, 22 March 1851: 'There is at the moment an utter break up of all parties, except the Protectionists, who are, I hope, notwithstanding their recent disappointment, gradually consolidating themselves [...] If I can consolidate with them the now awakened spirit of Protestantism, and at the same time can keep the latter within reasonable bounds, I can go to the country with a strong war-cry, with which, indeed, the Times furnished me the other day, "Protestantism, Protection, and down with the Income Tax."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Stanley      Print: Newspaper

Benjamin Disraeli : 'Buckinghamshire speeches'
John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853: 'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to become from such a strange mixture of things [described earlier in letter, about Lord John Russell's leadership of House of Commons] at once odious and ridiculous [...] I despair, and have done so ever since I read Disraeli's Buckinghamshire speeches.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker

John Wilson Croker : review of Lord John Russell, Memoirs of [Thomas] Moore
Lord Strangford to John Wilson Croker, 30 July 1853: 'You must think me an ungrateful brute not to have given you signe de vie on the subject of the last Quarterly beyond my brief acknowledgement of your kindness in sending me the revised sheets before its publication. 'On Tuesday, the 19th inst. I was stuck on a confounded Railway Committee in the House of Lords, and I have been nailed to my green morocco chair at the rate of seven hours per diem ever since [...] 'The article is quite admirable, and a model in the art of unmasking [...] I am glad, however, that you do not publish the supplementary pages [...] it would have been scarcely compatible with your dignity.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Strangford      Print: revised (?proof) sheets

Charlotte Smith :
John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria Edgeworth; Scott I have by heart; but I so far differ from you about Hook's that I date my later indifference to novels from my disappointment at his.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth :
John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria Edgeworth; Scott I have by heart; but I so far differ from you about Hook's that I date my later indifference to novels from my disappointment at his.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Theodore Hook : Gilbert Gurney
John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria Edgeworth; Scott I have by heart; but I so far differ from you about Hook's that I date my later indifference to novels from my disappointment at his. '"Gilbert Gurney" is something of an autobiography, as you say [...] the book might have been called a picture, for which our society furnished the principal sitters; yet I could not read it. I diligently tried to do so, but never accomplished a volume, and I have often debated in my own mind how I, who looked with admiration and wonder at Hook's power of oral amusement, should be so repelled by his novels [...] it led me at first to read no novel, that I might have a better excuse to my poor dear Hook for not reading his; and insensibly I lost the taste for them altogether, partly from mu mind's growing less impressionable, but partly, or perhaps chiefly, from a very matter-of-fact cause, that I happened never to have subscribed to a circulating library, and since I left office I have had, I know not how, less spare time than I had at the Admiralty in the height of the war. I was greatly struck with some early detached tales of Mr. Dickens, and some stray livraisons of his longer works, but I found I could not read them continuously'.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : short fictions
John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria Edgeworth; Scott I have by heart; but I so far differ from you about Hook's that I date my later indifference to novels from my disappointment at his. '"Gilbert Gurney" is something of an autobiography, as you say [...] the book might have been called a picture, for which our society furnished the principal sitters; yet I could not read it. I diligently tried to do so, but never accomplished a volume, and I have often debated in my own mind how I, who looked with admiration and wonder at Hook's power of oral amusement, should be so repelled by his novels [...] it led me at first to read no novel, that I might have a better excuse to my poor dear Hook for not reading his; and insensibly I lost the taste for them altogether, partly from mu mind's growing less impressionable, but partly, or perhaps chiefly, from a very matter-of-fact cause, that I happened never to have subscribed to a circulating library, and since I left office I have had, I know not how, less spare time than I had at the Admiralty in the height of the war. I was greatly struck with some early detached tales of Mr. Dickens, and some stray livraisons of his longer works, but I found I could not read them continuously'.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Unknown

Charles Dickens : novels
John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria Edgeworth; Scott I have by heart; but I so far differ from you about Hook's that I date my later indifference to novels from my disappointment at his. '"Gilbert Gurney" is something of an autobiography, as you say [...] the book might have been called a picture, for which our society furnished the principal sitters; yet I could not read it. I diligently tried to do so, but never accomplished a volume, and I have often debated in my own mind how I, who looked with admiration and wonder at Hook's power of oral amusement, should be so repelled by his novels [...] it led me at first to read no novel, that I might have a better excuse to my poor dear Hook for not reading his; and insensibly I lost the taste for them altogether, partly from mu mind's growing less impressionable, but partly, or perhaps chiefly, from a very matter-of-fact cause, that I happened never to have subscribed to a circulating library, and since I left office I have had, I know not how, less spare time than I had at the Admiralty in the height of the war. I was greatly struck with some early detached tales of Mr. Dickens, and some stray livraisons of his longer works, but I found I could not read them continuously'.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Unknown

Benjamin Disraeli : Coningsby
Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I read "Coningsby," and was told that one of the characters was meant to represent him. Disraeli never spoke to me upon the subject. 'I think the biography [of Disraeli] is a very blackguard publication, and written in a very blackguard style. I don't know who Mr. Vernon-Harcourt is, though I read last year a pamphlet written by him, attacking Lord Derby somewhat in a similar manner, but with more scanty materials.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lyndhurst      Print: Book

Macknight : Benjamin Disraeli: A Biography
Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I read "Coningsby," and was told that one of the characters was meant to represent him. Disraeli never spoke to me upon the subject. 'I think the biography [of Disraeli] is a very blackguard publication, and written in a very blackguard style. I don't know who Mr. Vernon-Harcourt is, though I read last year a pamphlet written by him, attacking Lord Derby somewhat in a similar manner, but with more scanty materials.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lyndhurst      Print: Book

W. Vernon-Harcourt : pamphlet attacking Lord Derby
Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I read "Coningsby," and was told that one of the characters was meant to represent him. Disraeli never spoke to me upon the subject. 'I think the biography [of Disraeli] is a very blackguard publication, and written in a very blackguard style. I don't know who Mr. Vernon-Harcourt is, though I read last year a pamphlet written by him, attacking Lord Derby somewhat in a similar manner, but with more scanty materials.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lyndhurst

: article on Duke of Wellington
John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857: 'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yesterday to look at the Raglan article in the last Quarterly [...] In reading it, however, I find a statement that the Duke of Wellington "had been often heard to say in after years that there were two or three periods of the battle of Waterloo when he thought it all over with us." I am very curious to know that reviewer's authority for this statement [discusses article further, referring to other accounts of battle and Welington] [...] 'I write with difficulty and in great pain, but I am anxious to record my evidence on this particular point which had from the first excited my surrpise and curiosity'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I did read, then I wrought a peece of work for a freind'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Hugh Latimer : Fruteful Sermons
'After priuat praers I made me readie, and then went to work and hard Mr Rhides read of Latimers sarmons and some other thinges'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat I stoudied my lecture and, after, I I took a newe, wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I had praied I went about the house, then I hard Mr Rhodes read, took a lecture, praied, wrought, and went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I praied and dined, and then I talked with my Mother and reed to hir'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed, praied, and dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I had praied I brake my fast: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought tell allmost dinner time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I was readie and had praied, I went about the house, wrought a whill, reed, and praied'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I reed and went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after diner I talked of the sarmon, and reed of the bible with some Gentlewemen that were with me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praier I went about the house, and then went to my work and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I hard Mr Rhodes read, and so I went to priuatt examenation and praier: after I went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex : Apology of the Earl of Essex against those who falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of this kingdom
'I spent the after none in my Chamber and hard Mr Rhodes read a book that was mad, as it was saied, by my lord of Esex in defence of his owne Causes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Sermons]
'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'when I had ben a whill about the house, I reed of the testement and then praied and examened my selfe'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and then, towardes night, I wrett to my Cosine bouser, and reed of the Testement, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I did read and went about the house, and, after I had broken my fast, I went to church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, dined: and then I talked and reed to some good wiffes that was with me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and then I went againe to the church, and, after, I reed of the testement'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I reed of the bible, and then went to priuatt praier and, after publeck, so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I went about the house, and, hauinge eaten some thinge, I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and after returned to priuat praier and readinge of the testement'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I went about the house, reed of the testement, wrett some medetation that I had the day before'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'reed of the bible, and after returned to priuat medetation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praier I reed and went to church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I went about and wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read, and praied with him, and so went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'when I had talked a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read 2 chapters of the Testement, I went to priuat praers and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after I diner I made an end of writinge my sarmon, then I walked, Red, and wrought'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then walked abroad into the feedles'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I sung a psalme with some of the saruants and, lastly, reed a chapter, praied, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I reed a whill to my mother, and then went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I talked and reed to some good wiues that dined [with] me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

:
5 March 1853: 'At 6 I went down again to the [workmen's] Room and to my surprise found the library finished and furnished, the refreshments all about and everything looked as nice as possible. How grateful I shall be if this may save some from frequenting the Beer house. I staid about half an hour making various arrangements ... Great numbers came in, and were all delighted, and there were a great many readers of papers etc. Indeed when we left there were above a hundred people there, reading, eating, talking and smoking!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dowlais Iron Company workers     Print: Newspaper

:
19 March 1853: 'I turned into the workmen's Room for a moment [...] About a dozen men were enjoying the smoking room. Maria [Lady Charlotte's daughter] counted 50 in the long room all reading or writing and perfectly silent. So intent were they on their books that no one looked up as we went in. Not a head was raised till I spoke in a low voice to one of the readers and asked if they had all they wanted [...] Such a sight I never hoped to see, so orderly, so well dressed, so rationally happy; I only hope it may last.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dowlais Iron Company workers     Print: Book

Euclid :
'As if she had not already enough to occupy her mind [with business and legal affairs following her first husband's death in November 1852] Lady Charlotte now suddenly developed an enthusiasm for the study of Euclid, and a number of daily entries in her journal begin in the following way: '"May 4 [1853]. Down at 7. Ivor [teenaged son] has given me an hour's Euclid.'"
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte and Ivor Guest     Print: Book

Euclid :
14 June 1853: 'Another lovely morning, Euclid tilll 8.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

: The Prayer Book
24 June 1853: 'Mr. White [doctor] came early and found Mr. Schreiber much the same [with feverish illness]. He had asked again for me and I went up. He begged me to pray with him and I read from the Prayer Book, from the Visitation of the Sick etc.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

:
26 June 1853: 'Went to Mr. Schreiber before going to Church [...] I certainly thought him weaker and less well. I read and prayed as usual. How I got through it I cannot tell [...] This morning I almost broke down, but I mastered myself and went on'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

: The Prayer Book
27 June 1853: 'After breakfast [...] Mrs. Schreiber [visiting her sick son Charles] asked me if I would read to the invalid, which at her request I could not refuse to do ... He seemed more tranquil during the few minutes I was in the room, and my short prayer, part from the Prayer Book part extempore, he joined in very fervently.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales (Prologue)
6 July 1853: 'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

Bode : Ballads from Herodotus
'The strike [at Dowlais Iron Company works] being over, Lady Charlotte left Dowlais for Canford. She stopped in London on the way [...] In the evening there was "Music with Ivor [son], and some reading of Bode's Ballads from Herodotus."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

Euclid :
'At Dowlais again alone [following period spent in London and elsewhere], the day's record started prosaically: "Works journal till 8, then Euclid till 9."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :
19 February 1854: 'After breakfast I walked with my boys [i.e. two of her sons] to Trinity College [Cambridge]. They took me through the Great Court [...] and thence into Neville's Court, where it was proposed to beat up Mr. [Charles] Schreiber's quarters, which were 3rd door from West corner on North side of court [...] there we found him, his toilet being only just completed [...] The boys went out to order dinner [...] The oak was forthwith sported to keep out strangers, and I was at peace. Mr. Schreiber meanwhile went on with his breakfast; I sat on the sofa behind him, with Longfellow, my own Longfellow, that I found on the shelves, in my hand.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

: report on Parliamentary speech of Henry Layard
3 April 1854: 'At Basingstoke I got The Times, where I expected to find a very violent tirade against Henry Layard [Lady Charlotte's cousin, an M.P.], but the article was very mild and weak. He made a very strong speech on Friday night on moving of the address to the Queen on the occasion of the war, and his remarks were in denunciation of Lord Aberdeen and Lord Clarendon. I think the speech told, and I feel he was right [...] Many think he was imprudent; but one may weigh every word and every expression till one becomes a nonentity like the greater part of the rest of the world.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Newspaper

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : My Novel
19 May 1854: 'My birthday [...] No cause of congratulations to me, alas, to have completed another year, when more than ever I should wish to be as young as I feel ... The chapter in My Novel [by Bulwer-Lytton] on courage and patience is admirable. It ought to be useful to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Unknown

: biography of Hartley Coleridge
14 June 1854 [following account of morning spent sitting for portrait to Watts, and attending two business meetings]: 'I got a hasty luncheon and started alone for my train to go to Harrow. Arrived there at 5, and made my way to Mr. Rendall's house, where I waited till past 6 in his drawing room for Augustus [one of Lady Charlotte's sons, a pupil at Harrow] to come out from school. I employed myself looking at H. Coleridge's biography which is a melancholy one'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

Signed as 'Q' : Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas Carlyle
'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspaper, where it was rather sensibly criticised. The man praises me for this and that: but then, it seems, I am terribly to blame for condemning Voltaire and the Sceptics!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Golden Beetle
22 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor read a fairy tale, the Golden Beetle, and Charles Schreiber slept in an armchair. In due time came dinner [...] Afterwards we commenced whist, but when the evening paper came in we laid aside the cards and listened with sad interest to the account of the battle and the long list of killed and wounded.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Guest      Print: Unknown

: report of Crimea battle [?Inkermann]
22 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor read a fairy tale, the Golden Beetle, and Charles Schreiber slept in an armchair. In due time came dinner [...] Afterwards we commenced whist, but when the evening paper came in we laid aside the cards and listened with sad interest to the account of the battle and the long list of killed and wounded.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest, Ivor Guest, Monty Guest, Charles Schreiber      Print: Newspaper

Frances Burney D'Arblay : Memoirs of Dr Burney
17 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. he had not read it before, and I had not read it since it first came out.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Frances Burney D'Arblay : Memoirs of Dr Burney
17 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. He had not read it before, and I had not read it since it first came out.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bertie      Print: Book

: article on new method of iron production
'Lady Charlotte stopped a few days with friends near Winchester, and while there her husband read in The Times '"[...] of a wonderful discovery in the manufacture of iron, made by one Mr. Bessemer, who, by an application of cold blast to pig iron, converts it into material of the quality of wrought iron, without using any fuel, thus superseding puddling etc. Charley was quite excited about it, and read the account aloud to me before we set out on the afternoon walk."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Schreiber      Print: Newspaper

: military intelligence column
16 July 1857: 'Sitting alone at breakfast I took up the paper and saw in the military intelligence that Montague [son]'s regiment (2nd Batt. Rifle Brigade) was under orders for the East. For a moment I felt stupefied, then I dropped to my knees and prayed God to shield him from harm and keep him from evil in the strange land. Then I went upstairs to Charley [husband] and had a hearty cry upon his shoulder'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Newspaper

Aldous Huxley : Vulgarity in Literature
'Today I bought and read Aldous Huxley's essay Vulgarity in Literature. It's a surprisingly powerful thing, one of those treats in reading, of which our modern authors never afford me more than one a year. But much of the lighter pleasure it gave me was due to my having met him last week at your house & all the time he seemed to be saying it inside your amber drawing-room; ( where by the way I usually feel like a fly in amber). so I think I must thank you for what a great pleasure my last visit has brought me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter D'Arcy Cresswell

Alfred Tennyson : Morte d'Arthur
3 November 1857: 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons [i.e. Charles Hay, and Julia Margaret Cameron]. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson [...] When they were all gone Tennyson read us his own Morte d'Arthur, and that really was a pleasure. It is a poem I have always been very fond of.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : unknown
'This morning I have been reading Matthew Arnold, for my Anthology, in an easy chair in the sun. This afternoon I shall do some gardening. I have a garden-bed, under my window, which is my own but the whole surrounding the house must be got ready for the reception of Ceres. My chief and most regular exercise is wood-chopping, which I do in honour of Ares.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter D'Arcy Cresswell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'at the time of praier, I returned to priuat examenation, praier, and reading: after, I went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I reed, did eate my breakfast, and then went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then dined: after, I talked of the sarmon, and reed to the good wiues that was with me, and then I praied and againe went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed, wrett diuers notes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I went about the house, and, after I had reed of the bible and praied'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'some thinge I did eate, and then did reed, and made prouision for som strangers that Came'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and after, when I had praied and reed of the bible, I dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after I reed and so went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, after, I hard a good booke reed by Mr Vrpeth, and sonne after I went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praers I reed of the bible, talked [with] some of my freindes, praied, and then went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'after I Came home I hard Mr Ardington Read of Grenhame vnto me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

Ardington : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I reed of Mr Ardington's booke, and then did eate my breakfast'
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby

[unknown] : [sermon]
'and, when the sarmon was don, I Came in and hard Mr Ardington Read a sarmon'
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington

[unknown] : [sermon]
'and then I hard Mr Ardington read a sarmon and talked with hime tell allmost night'
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington

[unknown] : [sermon]
'and, after Diner, I went about the house, wrett 2. letters, hard Mr Rhodes read a sarmon, then walked with Mr Ardington'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I went to work and hard readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed and praied and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I went to the Church when I had reed and eaten somethinge ... and when I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I wrought and hard Mr Genking Read tell 4 a cloke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed abroad'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after I dined, I wrought, walked and reed tell allmost night'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed, praied, was busie about waxe lights, and then I dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, after I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier: then to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I was busie in the kitchine allmost all the after none, and then I reed of the bible, and so went to priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day I Continewed my orderarie exercises of praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I took accountes, did reead of the bible, praied, and walked, and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier and readinge a whill I went to the church ... then dined: after, I talked [with] some of my neighbours and then reed againe ... I went againe to the church: then I reed a whill'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'All but the times of my ordenarie exercises of praier and readinge I was busie takinge order for my going to london, and packinge of thinges'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and then I wrought tell allmost diner time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I went to worke tell dinner time: after, I wrought and reed, and was accompened with Mr Edward Gatt and after with Mistress Mari. Gatt'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I brake my fast and wroug, reed of the bible, and then praied and dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'then I praied, reed of the bible, and went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, after I had reed and praied, I went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and after I dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and wrett a letter to Mr Rhodes: then I dined ... and after I went to my booke: then to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praers I reed, and talked with Mr Vrpith'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praiers I went to readinge: then I was busie tell diner time ... then I returned home, and reed, and after I was Veseted by my brother'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'and then I reed a sarmon, and so, hauinge praied, went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I went about and reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I went to Read a whill and, when I had praied, I went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]
'After praiers I went to diner: after, I went to a standinge to se the quene Come to London, were I Reed a serome'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'and after I had dined I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I went to worke, and read, and so, when I had praied and supped, I went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed and wrought and was Vesited by my brother, and, after I had praied and suped, I reed and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'after, I wrette to Mr Rhodes, and reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After prairs, I reed and dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I had praied I reed, and went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I was readie, and had praied and reed, I walked'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I walked and was veseted by my Cousine Cookes wiffe, and, after they were gone, I went to readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

H. G.(Herbert George) Wells : New Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism
'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thought suggested by your pages would take many pieces of papers like this. I must resist the temptation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I reed, and walked to the Comune Garden'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praiers I reed, and wrett to Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and I had praied, reed, wrought, and dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and when I Came home I went to priuat readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I busied myself in my Chamber and then went to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I went to Mr Egertons sermon and so, within litle time, I went to priuat readinge and praier, and settinge downe some notes I had Colected'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, when he was gome, I went to priuat praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after supper I went againe to priuat praier and reading, and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After my praier and readinge I went into the feedles with Mistress Thornbrow ... and, after she was gone, I went to priuat praier and readinge, and so to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier and readinge I went to walk'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'had so great a Cough that I Could not goe abroad, nor the next day goe to church, but exercised my selfe at home in writinge, readinge, and prainge, as well as I Could'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Fifth Queen Crowned
'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very well. There is a singular fascination about this last volume of the trilogy. I've been dropping into it ever since it came and I am as far as ever from discovering a particularly precise formula of my admiration.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Richard Rhodes? : [papers of instruction]
'After praier I reed ouer certaine papers of instruction [which] I had receiued from Mr Rhodes'
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby

[unknown] : [unknown]
'at night I went to priuat praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'at my accustomed time I went to priuat praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after I Cam home I was pained in the toothach which Continewed with me 4 days after, in which time I exercised prainge and readinge as I was able'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praiers And readinge I went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuatt praier I went to readinge and worke tell diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

John Udall : [Sermons]
'after I Came home Mr Hoby rede to me a sarmon of Vdale'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day I, beinge not well, praied and reed in mine owne chamber'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : A Commentary
'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...] But in the introspective silence that came over me after I closed the volume and sat through a solitary afternoon I felt that this may be the Conscience of the Age overheard by John Galsworthy in its uneasy whisperings [...].' Hence follow 18 lines of appreciative comment.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day was rainie so that I Could nor durst goe abroad but exersised in the house, with prainge and reading and singing psa[lms], and Conferinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuatt prairs I went to my worke, after I had reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After prairs I went to work, and, hauinge reed a Litle, I talked with some that Came to Dine with vs'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praiers I brake my fast and reed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuatt praiers I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After, I went to priuat readinge and medetation'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

Stephen Reynolds : The Holy Mountain
'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading the whole. My impression--which you know of--is generally strengthened. The book stands looking into very well, very well indeed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After my accustomed prairs I did eate and read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardington to read to me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardington to read to me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

[n/a] : Catechism
'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'before diner I praied and read of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I praied and reed, dined'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Conscience, I thanke god, hauinge Learned some thing from Mr Rhodes his readinge vnto me, as, first, that no Callinge is lawfull with out a growne for itt in godes word: 2., that the title of Lord Archbusshopes are Vnlawfull: 3., that no minister should be made without a minestrie and charge, vnto which he should be ordained'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Conscience, I thanke god, hauinge Learned some thing from Mr Rhodes his readinge vnto me, as, first, that no Callinge is lawfull with out a growne for itt in godes word: 2., that the title of Lord Archbusshopes are Vnlawfull: 3., that no minister should be made without a minestrie and charge, vnto which he should be ordained'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I returned in to my Chamber, and there reed and praied tell all most I went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'the rest of the day, after the afternone sermon, I spent in readinge, singing, praing, and hearinge repeticions'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After prairs and readinge I kept Mr Gatt Companie'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after Diner, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, walked about with Hoby, and then returned to priuatt reading and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I went about the howse, and then reed and wrought a whill before diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I went to priuatt prairs and medetation and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After I had reed and praied I went about the house'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, after, went to readinge and preparation for the next day'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I Came home and Caused Mr Stillington to Read of Grenhame, and, after, I went to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Greenham : [unknown]
'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I Came home and Caused Mr Stillington to Read of Grenhame, and, after, I went to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Stillington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'was buseed about that all day tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after went to readinge and medetation'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bible of the morninge exercise'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bible of the morninge exercise'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

William Perkins : A warning against the idolatrie of the last times
'hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr perkins new booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

William Perkins : A warning against the idolatrie of the last times
'after, I hard Mr Rhodes read of perkin'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after supper, I hard Mr Aston praie and reade, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Aston      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Fraternity
'I found Jessie crazy with tooth ache which lasted all day, and transported--it's the only word for it--with admiration of the fifteen chapters, it appears, she has read before posting the MS to you. She cried "wonderful"--which she has never done for anthing of mine. But I am not jealous, since I share, I won't say her opinion, but her feeling. Without exaggeration it's no mean achievement for an imaginative work to produce such an effect on a person in bodily suffering and mental strain.' hence follow several more lines about Jessie's reaction to the work.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jessie Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

John Galsworthy : Fraternity
'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely reading) there occurs a simple sentence which came forcibly to my mind. He had been looking at some picture in a provincial gallery--and he says: All this is painted in a manner to bring tears into one's eyes. I don't quote literally--(the book is downstairs where it is dark and I feel too fagged out doing nothing to move from my chair)--but that's just it! It [Galsworthy's MS] brings tears into one's eyes literally by the way its done. After finishing my reading I sat perfectly still I don't know for how long as a pilgrim may sit after a long and breathless ascent, on a commanding summit in view of the promised land.' Hence follow 23 lines of praise for the MS.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

Henry James : A Little Tour in France
'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely reading) there occurs a simple sentence which came forcibly to my mind. He had been looking at some picture in a provincial gallery--and he says: All this is painted in a manner to bring tears into one's eyes. I don't quote literally--(the book is downstairs where it is dark and I feel too fagged out doing nothing to move from my chair)--but that's just it!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : Mr. Apollo
' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.' Hence follow 14 lines of almost unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: BookManuscript: proofs

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read: after diner I went abroad, and when I come home I dresed some sores: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought with in a while'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wise in the after none Iohn Corrow and he did read by Course vnto me tell a litle before I went to priuat praier and medetation'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex : Apology of the Earl of Essex against those who falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of this kingdom
'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wise in the after none Iohn Corrow and he did read by Course vnto me tell a litle before I went to priuat praier and medetation'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

W.B. Maxwell : Spinster of this Parish
'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . I had the happy idea of reading the McLauchlin trial, one of the most captivating of the Hodge series, & found it full of small useful ‘sordid’ details of daily life in a small house. The old grandfather (87) trying to get into bed with the servant, & refusing to go away when she wanted to make water (after he’d tried to murder her). A1 stuff. . . . Look here, I’ve exchanged books with W. B. Maxwell, & read 'Spinster of This Parish'. The opening of it is a masterly exposition of narrative - the sort of thing Hughie would like to do but can’t. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Cathedral
I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . I had the happy idea of reading the McLauchlin trial, one of the most captivating of the Hodge series, & found it full of small useful ‘sordid’ details of daily life in a small house. The old grandfather (87) trying to get into bed with the servant, & refusing to go away when she wanted to make water (after he’d tried to murder her). A1 stuff. . . . Look here, I’ve exchanged books with W. B. Maxwell, & read 'Spinster of This Parish'. The opening of it is a masterly exposition of narrative - the sort of thing Hughie would like to do but can’t.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praier I went to the church, and, after, I Came from thence, I praied and reed: after, I dined: then, I talked a whill, and after, wrett notes in my bible, and reed, tell church time'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I reed, and wrought tell :2: a cloke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praier I wrought, reed, went about the house, and praied againe before diner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

: Notable British Trials
I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . I had the happy idea of reading the McLauchlin trial, one of the most captivating of the Hodge series, & found it full of small useful ‘sordid’ details of daily life in a small house. The old grandfather (87) trying to get into bed with the servant, & refusing to go away when she wanted to make water (after he’d tried to murder her). A1 stuff. . . . Look here, I’ve exchanged books with W. B. Maxwell, & read 'Spinster of This Parish'. The opening of it is a masterly exposition of narrative - the sort of thing Hughie would like to do but can’t.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After praier I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a good booke'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)
'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church: after, I Came home, and after diner I reed a Litle to som good wiffes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : Some Impressions of my Elders
Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, I’ve only read myself in it yet! The one point on which I would seriously oppose you is your statement that old people who have mannerisms always had them. Briefly, this is not so. In consideration of the generosity & insight you display in dealing with me I overlook the lapse from verity.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine: after I Came home and that I had dined, I talked of good matters [with] him, and he reed to me, and after we went forthe and sawe some sheepe which he was to buy'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after diner, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and, sonne after, went to priuatt prairs and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'dined, reed of the bible, walked abroad'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible [?]
'hard Kate read a chapter'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Kate      Print: Book

William Perkins : [unknown]
'After priuat prairs I reed of Mr perkins, and after went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I praied, dined, and reed, and Conferred of good thinges to such wemen as dined with me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Geoffrey Lapage : Tommy Fidler
I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in order of merit, are: 1. Tommy Fiddler By “Muda” [may have been Lapage] 2. From Bondage By “Cinna” [Geoffrey Bullough] 3. The Best Policy By Kate Simmonds.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

Geoffrey Bullough : From Bondage
I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in order of merit, are: 1. Tommy Fiddler By “Muda” [may have been Lapage] 2. From Bondage By “Cinna” [Geoffrey Bullough] 3. The Best Policy By Kate Simmonds.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

Kate Simmonds : The Best Policy
I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in order of merit, are: 1. Tommy Fiddler By “Muda” [may have been Lapage] 2. From Bondage By “Cinna” [Geoffrey Bullough] 3. The Best Policy By Kate Simmonds.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'at my accustomed Hower, I returned to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : Book of Discipline
'hard Mr Rhodes read of the true diCeplen of christes church'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day I Continewed my accustomed exercises, and wrough, hard Mr Ardington read, and singe psa: tell I went to priuatt praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

H. G. Wells : Men Like Gods
.. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel by that generation, and 'Men Like Gods', with all its limitations, seems to me to contain more fundamental ‘stuff’ than anything else I have read for a long time. I am very disappointed with Lawrence, who appears to me to have genius concealed somewhere within him. Joyce has enormous power and originality, but he lacks the balance which is essential to great work. George Moore can write the heads off any of you, and he is nearly 70. I will tell you the men you need for your paper- Lynd, Forster, MacCarthy, Tomlinson. Get them.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'then I busied my selfe about the house, and hard some readinge, and after I went to priuatt praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'in the afternone Mr Ardington Reed to me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after, I went to my Clositt, and there reed and praied'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After prairs I wrought, and hard Mr Ardington Reed'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

: Adelphi
Pardon a word of unsolicited criticism about your venture. I think the contents are pretty creditable, but I think that the material presentation leaves something to be desired. The page is not good, and the type is entirely without distinction. . . . Taken as a whole, the mere look of the review is extremely disappointing—even to the sinister colour of the cover.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After prairs I wrought, as I was accustomed, with my maides, and hard Mr Ardington read: and, after I had dined and had slept a Litle, I went to worke againe, and hard Mr Ardington againe'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then read and praied priuatly'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after diner I went about, and walked abroad, and hard Mr Ardington read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After priuatt praiers I reed, and kept Companie with Mrs Girlington and diuers that Came'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Richard Rhodes : letter
'and att night, I had read a letter that Came from Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Manuscript: Letter

D.H. Lawrence : Trees and Babies and Papas and Mamas
The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong. But really this article is the goods. The Tomlinson article is also magnificent. Not better stuff than this is being done. The K.M. story is excellently characteristic. Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning. . . . I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wass[e] : letter
'after I perused Iohn wass his accussinge Letter, I went to priuatt praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Manuscript: Letter

H.M. Tomlinson : The Estuary
The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong. But really this article is the goods. The Tomlinson article is also magnificent. Not better stuff than this is being done. The K.M. story is excellently characteristic. Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning. . . . I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'After piruatt praier I went about the house, and hard Mr Rhodes read'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

H.M. Tomlinson : The Estuary
The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong. But really this article is the goods. The Tomlinson article is also magnificent. Not better stuff than this is being done. The K.M. story is excellently characteristic. Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning. . . . I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Katherine Mansfield : The Samuel Josephs
The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong. But really this article is the goods. The Tomlinson article is also magnificent. Not better stuff than this is being done. The K.M. story is excellently characteristic. Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning. . . . I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible [?]
'This day and the next I went about the house, after I had hard Kate [read] a chapter'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Kate      Print: Book

: Mr Joiner and the Bible
The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong. But really this article is the goods. The Tomlinson article is also magnificent. Not better stuff than this is being done. The K.M. story is excellently characteristic. Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning. . . . I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'after the sarmon and dimer, I reed to the wiues and talked of the sarmon'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'reed to the good wiffes, as I had wont, after dinner'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after dinner I reed to some good neighbours'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I Continewed well, I thanke god, these daies: and reed some medetations of the Lady Bowes hir Makinge'
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby

Lord Byron : Don Juan
I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian preface. I am bound to say, with all my modesty, that it takes me to find these things.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Anatole France : Vie de Jeanne d'Arc
'I am keeping the "Jeanne d'Arc" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the whole I think it is disappointing. One asks oneself why on earth A[natole]F[rance] wanted to touch that subject at all, and if he had to touch why in that way precisely.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Egerton : [lectures]
'at Night went to priuatt praier, after Mr Hoby had reed vnto me some notes of Mr Egertons Lecturs'
Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby

[unknown] : [unknown]
'this day I Continewed to heare, and read, and pray, I praise god, [with] much Comfort as before'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Thomas Bodkin : Adrien van de Venne
It is not an article at all. [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an epic; and puts you in the grande lignée des collectionneurs. I read it with greatest interest, and pride in you. I shall certainly not return it. I shall keep it to astound people with.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I haue Continewed my duties or praier and readinge, both findinge my corruption and receiuinge stringth
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and hard from my Cossine Arthur dakine: and so, in the afternone likewise, hard some readinge of a book he sent me'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

Robert Nichols : Golgotha & Co.
I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movement and somewhat naïve in its philosophy. Do you realise that the main ideas in it are the ideas that dominated such as myself 25 years ago? [Aldous Huxley] is a fine journalist, & I thought that the best things in 'On the Margin' were as good as such things could be. They were about equal to, though quite different from, the essays of that master, Robert Lynd.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Aldous Huxley : On the Margin
I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movement and somewhat naïve in its philosophy. Do you realise that the main ideas in it are the ideas that dominated such as myself 25 years ago? [Aldous Huxley] is a fine journalist, & I thought that the best things in 'On the Margin' were as good as such things could be. They were about equal to, though quite different from, the essays of that master, Robert Lynd.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

André Gide : Dostoevsky
Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almost nothing about his technique, which interests me considerably . . . (If he had any technique!)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoyevsky : The Eternal Husband
After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again. Je le trouve un peu manqué, surtout vers le fin.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Thomas Rogers : A pretious book of heavenly meditations, called a private talk of the soule with God
'in the after none, when she was Gon, I reed a Little of Mr Rogers book to Anne france'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'towarde Night I went to my accostomed exercises of Readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'priuatt praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after the exercises I went to readinge and priuatt praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after dinner went into the Garden, vntill I retourned to priuat praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and at night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and in the afternone I went to priuatt prairs and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and at night returned to priuat readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and towardes night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after they were gone I retourned to Readinge and priuat praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after went to priuatt praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'towardes Night I went to priuatt praier and readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after I had praied I went to readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'at Night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'and towardes night went to priuatt readinge and praier'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'priuat Readinge'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Fraternity
'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appalling. Of course it can be attacked but its quality comes out in the fact that the objections fade away as soon as one tries to formulate them to oneself. I will not touch on the [a]ethestic value of these last pages.That cannot be questioned.' Hence follow four pages of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

John Dryden : Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'Drydens denunciation of Time & Space is by no means so ridiculous as Critics have pretended — I cry out against them most heartily.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Erasmus Darwin : Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'How wonderfully must the brain be organized to form all these sensations in a twentieth part of the time I wrote them in. how can motion be thought? & yet how can thought be any thing else? is it not as difficult to conceive colour as nothing but motion — & this is demonstrated by Darwin. — & what consequence is it what it is! all useful knowledge is easily acquired.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Proverbs, 13:12
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. Statius says "quâ non gravior mortalibus addita cura Spes ubi longa venit" Grosvenor when you have lived upon that cameleon fare so long as I have done — you will acknowledge the wisdom of Solomon & feel the poetry of Statius.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Publius Papinius Statius : Thebaid
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. Statius says "quâ non gravior mortalibus addita cura Spes ubi longa venit" Grosvenor when you have lived upon that cameleon fare so long as I have done — you will acknowledge the wisdom of Solomon & feel the poetry of Statius.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : The Death of Ivan Illyich and other stories
'[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutzer Sonata" for instance; where an obvious degenerate not worth looking at twice, totally unfitted not only for married life but for any sort of life is presented as a sympathetic victim of some sort of sacred truth that is supposed to live within him.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

James Jennings : Sonnets on Metaphor and Personification
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, 'Grosvenor I have a curiosity for you. two sonnets by James Jennings — seriously intended. upon Metaphor & Personification. he had personified a Catastrophe once & upon my noticing it as bold introduced it here.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Unknown

Sir Philip Sidney : The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'A good phrase of Sir P Sidneys for looking foolish. "he lookd like an Ape that had newly taken a purgation".'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platiere : Appel a L’Impartiale Postérité
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me — there is little ability at the head of affairs — Louvet may mean well — but the decree of 5th Fructidor is an oppressive one. Lanjuinais is almost the only man of whom I entertain a tolerable opinion. of all possible villains what think you of Barrere? have you read Helen Williams’ letters & Louvet account of his escape?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Helen Maria Williams : Letters from France
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me — there is little ability at the head of affairs — Louvet may mean well — but the decree of 5th Fructidor is an oppressive one. Lanjuinais is almost the only man of whom I entertain a tolerable opinion. of all possible villains what think you of Barrere? have you read Helen Williams’ letters & Louvet account of his escape?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Godwin : Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Experience never wasted her lesson on a less fit pupil — yet Bedford my mind is considerably expanded — my opinions are better grounded & frequent self-conviction of error has taught me a sufficient degree of scepticism upon all subjects to prevent confidence. the frequent & careful study of Godwin was of essential service — I read & all but worshipped — I have since seen his fundamental error — that he theorizes for another state — not for the rule of conduct in the present — I despise the man — I can confute his principles. but all the good he has done me remains. tis a book I should one day like to read with you for our mutual improvement, — when we have been neighbours six months our opinions will accord. a bold prophecy — but it will be fulfilled.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Robert Nares : Review of work by Southey
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. it is my intention next year to write a tragedy. the subject from the Observer. the Portuguese accused before the Inquisition of incest & muder. read the story.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Cumberland : The Observer
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. it is my intention next year to write a tragedy. the subject from the Observer. the Portuguese accused before the Inquisition of incest & muder. read the story.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne : Essais
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essays & hugely delighted am I with this honest egotism! buy Cottles poems for the mans sake — I love him so well that I would have you love whatever comes from him — read nothing but the monody — omne ignotum pro magnifico — & you will think him a first rate poet. it is a most masterly composition.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Joseph Cottle : Poems
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essays & hugely delighted am I with this honest egotism! buy Cottles poems for the mans sake — I love him so well that I would have you love whatever comes from him — read nothing but the monody — omne ignotum pro magnifico — & you will think him a first rate poet. it is a most masterly composition.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : "alchemical receipt"
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Curious beginning of an alchemistical receipt. “In the name of God! take an urinal".'
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : verses on Hope
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Your stanza on Hope may be made excellent. your translation I have not yet compared with the Greek — when I have you shall have my remarks. you should study Pope & Dryden more for your versification.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: BookManuscript: Sheet

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : The Loves of Hero and Leander
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'If you print your Musæus print the Greek likewise. for my own part — I think the poem of too immoral a nature ever to advise its circulation — & this fault no excellence of diction or splendor of imagination can ever atone for...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

William Gifford : The Mæviad
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 23 October 1795, 'Have you seen the Mæviad? the poem is not equal to the former production of the same author — but the spirit of panegyric is more agreable than that of satire & I love the man for his lines to his own friends. there is an imitation of Otium Divos very eminently beautiful. Merry has been satyrized enough too much & praised too much — his taste is debauched but he is a man of Genius.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 21-22 November 1795, 'This is a foul country. the tinners inhabit the most agreable part of it for they live underground. above it is most dreary — desolate. my Sans Culotte like Johnsons in Scotland becomes a valuable piece of timber — & I — as most dull & sullenly silent fellow. such effects has place!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Anatole France : Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine, and La Leçon bien apprise see also additional comments
'But "La leçon bien apprise" is really quite....And what is wrong with "Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine"? I don't like it most, but I think it most suitable owing to its humorous and sentimental characteristics. I recommend it strongly as perfectly fit for general reading and even seasonable [for the December issue of the "Review"]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream, A
'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that Mr and Mrs Morland read a selection from Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club members     Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that Mr and Mrs Morland read a selection from Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold J. Morland      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that Mr and Mrs Morland read a selection from Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Adelaide Morland      Print: Book

Lope Felix de Vega Carpio : La Hermosura de Angelica
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de Vega & extracting from it — the same with a most curious Portuguese poem — all this you will see if I escape that horrible Bay of Biscay. in the interim take these two fables from the Spanish of Yriarte'. [here follow some verses beginning 'Judge gentle reader as you will...']
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Pedro de Azevedo Tojal : Carlos Reduzido, Inglaterra Illustrada
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de Vega & extracting from it — the same with a most curious Portuguese poem — all this you will see if I escape that horrible Bay of Biscay. in the interim take these two fables from the Spanish of Yriarte'. [here follow some verses beginning 'Judge gentle reader as you will...']
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Tomás de Iriarte : Fábulas Literarias
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de Vega & extracting from it — the same with a most curious Portuguese poem — all this you will see if I escape that horrible Bay of Biscay. in the interim take these two fables from the Spanish of Yriarte'. [here follow some verses beginning 'Judge gentle reader as you will...']
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

William Wordsworth :
'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

William Wordsworth :
'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Alexander Jardine : Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal &c.
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 29 January 1796, 'We remained five days at Coruña — the only place where I met with the society I wished. Jardine is Consul there — you have probably waded thro his travels — a book that conveys much thought in a most uninteresting manner. such at least was the opinion I formed of it three years ago. he behaved to me with that degree of attention that soon produces intimacy — my time at Coruna was chiefly spent at his house & he gave much information respecting the country.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Wordsworth :
'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

William Wordsworth :
'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Wallis      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [paper on Wordsworth and Poetic Diction]
'a short paper on Wordsworth and Poetic diction was read by the Secretary'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Leopold Graf von Berchtold : An Essay to Direct and Extend the Inquiries of Patriotic Travellers
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Joseph) is one of those rare travellers characters who spend their lives in doing good. it is his custom in every country he visits to publish books in its language on some use subject of practical utility — these he gave away. I have now lying before me the two which he printed in Lisbon. the one is an Essay on the means of preserving life in the various dangers to which men are daily exposed. the other — an Essay on extending the limits of benevolence not only towards men but animals. his age was about 25 — his person fine, & his manners the most polished....'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Wordsworth :
'a short paper on Wordsworth and Poetic diction was read by the Secretary'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Leopold Graf von Berchtold : Ensaio Sobre a Extensão dos Limites da Beneficiencia a Respeito, Assim dos Homens Como dos Mesmos Animaes
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Joseph) is one of those rare travellers characters who spend their lives in doing good. it is his custom in every country he visits to publish books in its language on some use subject of practical utility — these he gave away. I have now lying before me the two which he printed in Lisbon. the one is an Essay on the means of preserving life in the various dangers to which men are daily exposed. the other — an Essay on extending the limits of benevolence not only towards men but animals. his age was about 25 — his person fine, & his manners the most polished....'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Monthly Review
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'I have so much to read & lose so much time in this detestable visiting. I have seen the Monthly Rev. they speak well of Fawcetts poem — but abuse Joel Barlow'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

: British Critic
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'I have seen the B. Critic. stupid hounds not to prefer the Monody! however our friends there behave very well.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Harold J. Morland : [paper on William Morris]
'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold J. Morland      Manuscript: Unknown

William Morris :
'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold J. Morland      Print: Book

Bartolomè Leonardo de Argensola : sonnet
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Take a sonnet for the Ladies imitated from the Spanish of Bartolomè Leonardo, in which I have given the author at least as many ideas as he has given me. Nay cleanse this filthy mixture from thy hair And give the untrickd tresses to the gale!...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Morris :
'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Adelaide Morland      Print: Book

Timothy Dwight : The Conquest of Canaan
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic poem on the Conquest of Canaan in 1785. I had heard of it & long wishd to read it in vain — but now the American minister — (a good humourd man whose poetry is worse than any thing except his criticisms) has lent me the book. there certainly is some merit in the poem — but when Colonel Humphreys speaks of it he will not allow me to put in a word in defence of John Milton. if I had written upon this subject I should have been terribly tempted to take part with the Canaanites, for whom I cannot help feeling a kind of brotherly compassion.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

David Humphreys : verses
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic poem on the Conquest of Canaan in 1785. I had heard of it & long wishd to read it in vain — but now the American minister — (a good humourd man whose poetry is worse than any thing except his criticisms) has lent me the book. there certainly is some merit in the poem — but when Colonel Humphreys speaks of it he will not allow me to put in a word in defence of John Milton. if I had written upon this subject I should have been terribly tempted to take part with the Canaanites, for whom I cannot help feeling a kind of brotherly compassion.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Burnett : The Sacred Theory of the Earth
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment extracted from Thomas Burnett — Author of The Theory of Earth a book which equals Milton in sublimity, & which for ingenuity never perhaps was equalled.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Thomas Burnett : De Statu Mortuorum
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment extracted from Thomas Burnett — Author of The Theory of Earth a book which equals Milton in sublimity, & which for ingenuity never perhaps was equalled.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Luis Vaz de Camoëns : The Lusiad
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens deficient in feelings if I had only read his Lusiad — but the Sonnets of Camoens are very beautiful. those given by Hayley in his notes to the Essay on Epic P. tho among the best are but a wretched specimen to the English reader. the translations are detestable — & the originals so printed as to be unintelligible. I bought some ballads in Spain in remembrance of Rio Verde — but they prove bad enough. but six months after my return I will tell you more.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Luis Vaz de Camoëns : Sonnets
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens deficient in feelings if I had only read his Lusiad — but the Sonnets of Camoens are very beautiful. those given by Hayley in his notes to the Essay on Epic P. tho among the best are but a wretched specimen to the English reader. the translations are detestable — & the originals so printed as to be unintelligible. I bought some ballads in Spain in remembrance of Rio Verde — but they prove bad enough. but six months after my return I will tell you more.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Hayley : An Essay on Epic Poetry
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens deficient in feelings if I had only read his Lusiad — but the Sonnets of Camoens are very beautiful. those given by Hayley in his notes to the Essay on Epic P. tho among the best are but a wretched specimen to the English reader. the translations are detestable — & the originals so printed as to be unintelligible. I bought some ballads in Spain in remembrance of Rio Verde — but they prove bad enough. but six months after my return I will tell you more.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : Spanish Ballads
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens deficient in feelings if I had only read his Lusiad — but the Sonnets of Camoens are very beautiful. those given by Hayley in his notes to the Essay on Epic P. tho among the best are but a wretched specimen to the English reader. the translations are detestable — & the originals so printed as to be unintelligible. I bought some ballads in Spain in remembrance of Rio Verde — but they prove bad enough. but six months after my return I will tell you more.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Bird: 'last Monday week, the 29th of December, about half-past nine o'clock in the morning, I was reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Bird      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas James Francis: 'On the morning of the 17th of April, 1834, I saw three man in conversation several times, as I passed, getting my work in from the binders, nearly facing Boston-street—when I returned the second time the three men divided—the one who was convicted was leaning over the pales—he had a parcel in his hand—the other two were in a public-house, next door to Bell's—I saw one of them looking through the window, and the other reading a newspaper—that was the prisoner—I passed him about four times, as I was going to different binders with my work—I first saw him about half-past nine o'clock—I was backwards and forwards, passing and re-passing, for about an hour and a quarter, he was looking through the glass, the last time I saw him he was standing with his back to the table'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Goodwin      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times
Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Forster: 'I had heard of his loss, and seen an advertisement in the Times newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Forster      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for deception: Philip Farmer: 'Q. How came you here to-day? A. I saw it in the newspaper—a party read the paper to me, about the trial—I understood it was coming on again to-day, and came to hear it'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Farmer      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Weekly Dispatch
Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch newspaper, and afterwards saw handbills, which induced me to come forwards.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Murray      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [handbill]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch newspaper, and afterwards saw handbills, which induced me to come forwards.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Murray      Print: Handbill

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Wignall: 'the 1st of January was Sunday—on the 1st of January I was in my own room, up stairs, reading the newspaper—he was in Mrs. Gale's apartment—I was reading the newspaper that morning to my wife, and a friend of mine, and my sister—I read of the trunk of a body being found in the Edgeware-road. Q. Did you read loud enough for the prisoners to hear you? A. They must have heard me read it—they had the door of their room ajar, and must have heard me—they staid there all day, and slept there all night—they did not say a word about this trunk that was found.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Wignall      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for deception: William Spicer: 'On the 28th of December I had been at home the whole day, and for a fortnight before, as I was very ill—about twenty minutes before twelve o'clock that night, as I was reading the newspaper in the bar parlour, I heard a strange noise in my house, and Mrs. Ivory rushed in'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Spicer      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Morning Advertiser
Witness statement in trial for deception: Charles Baldwin: 'On Tuesday, the 6th of June, I read this advertisement in the newspaper, which I produce—("Situations:—So numerous are the applications from merchants 'and tradespeople for men of various ages to fill vacancies in their establishments, the Proprietors of this Office are induced, through means of this advertisement, to inform all those seeking employment, that situations, not only as abovementioned, but also in private families, for those possessing good characters, may be heard of daily by applying at the Agency Office, No. 65 1/2, Cannon-street, City.")—I had been some time out of employ—on Thursday, the 8th of June, I went to No. 65 1/2 Cannon street—I did not take the newspaper with me—I saw the Defendant there, and told him I bad seen an advertisement in the Morning Advertiser news paper, respecting situations, that I was to apply there about'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Baldwin      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for bigamy: Mrs Webb: 'after she was separated from her husband, she read in the newspaper about a marriage being illegal, in consequence of a person being married in a wrong name'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Burden      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times
Witness statement in trial for deception: John Dawson: 'about a year and nine months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper-in consequence of which I went to No. 3, Jewin-court, Jewin-street—I there saw the prisoner—I said I called in reference to an advertisement I had seen in the paper, stating that money was to be obtained on freehold property, life Interest, &c.—inquired for J. Pepper, Esq.—the prisoner said, "I am the principal—I caused the advertisement in the paper—I do business in that way, walk in"—I went in—he inquired the nature of the property'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Dawson      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner Austin brought some things to my mistress's stall, and asked her to buy them—she said she did not want them—he brought them to me, and I bought two petticoats, four aprons, and four pairs of stockings of him for 95 ... I afterwards read something in the newspaper about the robbery, and went to the office, and gave up the things.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Hatton      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: John Peto: 'On Sunday night, the 26th of August, Bostock came to my house, about eight o'clock ... that was just about nine o'clock, when the policemen were relieving their men—after that we sat, and Stubbs read the newspaper out loud—I do not know what paper—it was about the trail of the man for using the cow ill—he read that aloud—my wife heard that—I do not know what the conversation was about the cow—we only talked about what a shocking thing it was—we were joking one another—my wife was in the room all the time—all eight of us ... I am not capable of reading—I do not know the name of the newspaper—I borrowed it from the public-house the time I sent for the porter'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Stubbs      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for forgery: Frederick Cooper: 'I remember reading in the newspaper, that the prisoner was taken into custody'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Cooper      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Gollinos: 'on Saturday morning, the 26th of January, I was reading in the newspaper of the loss of Mr. Platt's plate, in Russellsquare—I went up to my master, and pointed it out to him; and, in consequence of his directions, I went down to the pantry to bring up the spare plate, and found it was gone—I suspected the prisoner, and gave information to the police'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Gollinos      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for stealing a ring, and I went to Bow-street to see him, a fortnight ago'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jonas Levy      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Edward Smith: 'On the 17th of June I was at the Feathers public-house, in Oxford-street, between two and three o'clock—I had a box containing the property stated—I put it on a ledge in the window, above my head—the prisoner was there, with his brother and another—I was reading the newspaper, and then looked for my box—all the parties were gone, and my box too'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Smith      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Weekly Dispatch
Witness statement in trial for theft: Dennis Power: 'Q. Do you ever read the "Weekly Dispatch" newspaper? A. I do not think any thing of it—I do read it occasionally—I read the account in it of my own affair before the commissioners, and a more gross falsehood was never published—I wrote to the editor of the "Dispatch," and was about to enter an action against him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Smith      Print: Newspaper

Stephen Reynolds : A Poor Man's House
'There are books one seems to have read before, and books one doesn't want to read, books that one reads with annoyance, pleasure, exasperation or wonder; but this, your "P[oor]M[an's] H[ouse" is a book for which one seems to have waited all the time [...]. I am not a critic. [...]. I will tell you instead what has happened. I walked into my room, came up to the table you know, took up your book and opened it at the first page of the text (not of the preface). When I came to myself with a queer sense of unutterable fatigue I was still standing and I had reached page 62--not glancing through mind you, but giving each phrase, each word, each image its full value as I went.' Hence follow 16 lines of unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Joseph Smith: 'There was a gentleman in the tap-room, reading the newspaper—I said, "Let me look at the paper, I wish to see an advertisement"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times
witness statement in trial for theft: Charles Blakeley Brown: 'On the 3rd of December, I read this advertisement in the "Times" newspaper—(looking at it)—in consequence of which I proceeded to the stables in Welbeck-street, and saw a stable boy—I then saw a man named Jem, who was dressed as a groom in mourning, all in black—I asked to look at the horse which was advertised in the "Times" of that morning, the bay gelding by Waterloo'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Blakeley Brown      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for murder: Charlotte Peolaine: 'Q. Had the parcel been left with you before you heard of the murder, or not? A. Oh yes—I took the parcel out of the closet yesterday morning, for the first time—I was induced to take it out, on account of what my cousin brought up stairs in a French newspaper—he read it to me, and showed it to me—in consequence of that I had some conversation with my cousin, and sent for Mr. Gardie, who lives in King-street'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Peolaine      Print: Newspaper

E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] Lucas : Over Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle
'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced with your wit. [...]; This is delightful [...].' Hence follow 15 more lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: John Henry Bradley: 'I heard no more of it till I saw in the newspaper that the prisoner was taken—I went to the office with the gentleman who had been in my shop, and we identified him—this is the ring I missed—(looking at it)—I am quite sure the prisoner is the person who was in my shop.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Henry Bradley      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for conspiracy: Mr Deller: 'I believe I am a judge of the value of gold—I have been a pawnbroker six years—I did not make the discovery till I saw in the newspaper about this affair.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Deller      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Samuel Birchfield: 'About eleven o'clock, on the 26th of February, I left my horse and chaise at the gate of St. Katharine's Dock—I left my blue cape in my chaise, and when I returned it was gone—I saw an account in the newspaper, by which I found it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Birchfield      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Weekly Dispatch
witness statement in trial for theft: John Kissick: 'On the 10th of November, the prisoner came into my shop, in Tottenham-court-road, and purchased half a sheet of paper, and wrapped up two old knives and forks, which he stated he was to leave there for the conductor of one of the omnibuses—I said it was a mistake —he said no, it was all right—he went to the public-house, and then came and asked us to let him look at the Dispatch newspaper—he stood with his back to the door, reading the paper—while we were at tea a coach came to the door, I went to speak to the coachman, the prisoner went out past me, I turned, and missed three volumes off the counter'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Holmes      Print: Newspaper

Tadeusz Bobrowski : Pamietniki
'[...]the 2 vols of my uncle's memoirs which I have by me, to refresh my recollections and settle my ideas.' [while starting to write his own memoirs].
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Eliza Warr: 'Q. What did the prisoner do there from one o'clock till after three? A. Waiting for his boots—I was in the room, sitting, reading the newspaper, all the time he was there—I saw the watch at five minutes after three exactly'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Warr      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Catherine Stewart: 'I remember the night of Shrove Tuesday—he was at home with me that very night reading the newspaper—we went to bed about half-past eleven o'clock that night—he went to bed at that time—he had been at home the whole evening'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Keep      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for violent theft: George Verry: 'the only thing that induced me to appear as a witness was from reading in the newspaper the observation of the Magistrate'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Verry      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Lincoln: 'I had heard "worked money" spoken of by my master, and had read about it in the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lincoln      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for deception: Frederick Skerratt: 'I then saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper, stating that this bill had been lost'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Skerratt      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times
witness statement in trial for theft: James Dignum: 'I had heard something about the state of Lord Fitzgerald's health at that time—I had read in the "Times" newspaper of his lordship's state of health—I cannot say whether it was the day I read that account that Howse first called on me—I think he called on me before his lordship's death.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Dignum      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Reeves: 'he was reading the newspaper—it might have been for half an hour—that was perhaps about eight o'clock—he had a pint of porter to drink about eight—I saw him drink out of a quart pot, a person sitting in the next box handed it over'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Hatton      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: William John Boden: 'Q. Where were you? A. In the parlour—the door was open—no one could have come in without my seeing them—I did not see Cotterill come in—I was reading a newspaper—it might be twenty minutes or half an hour before I missed the parcel—I had been up stairs in the meantime—my father came down before I went up.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William John Boden      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for wounding: Thomas Waller: 'I was sitting reading the newspaper when the prisoner came in'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Waller      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Edmund Fargens: 'I afterwards saw a paragraph in the newspaper, in consequence of which I went and gave information of what I had seen'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Fargens      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Esther Lane: 'she had had half a pint of beer, and been reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Barnett      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for theft: Frederick Shaw: 'Q. Were there any persons at the tap? A. There was one person at the bar reading a newspaper—I never lost sight of Jacobs during the whole of this time'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times
witness statement in trial for deception: William Angerstein: 'At the time in question I was staying with my father at Blackheath—I saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper referring to some horses—I will not be quite certain as to the date—(looking at the Times newspaper)—it was an advertisement to this effect'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Angerstein      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
witness statement in trial for deception: William Godfrey: 'I was reading the newspaper on the Friday morning that I went with the note, and I saw the date on the top it, so I know [it] was the 18th—I go with a great many notes, and often read the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Godfrey      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

:
'[By 1800, when George Grote was five years old] Mrs. Grote had already taught him to read and write at home, and had even grounded him in the rudiments of Latin'.
Unknown
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Selina and George Grote

: classical texts
'On the evening of the days when it was necessary for him to stay in the City, to "lock up" [the family banking-house], George occupied himself principally with study. He had contracted a strong taste for the classics at Charterhouse, and felt prompted to cultivate them on quitting the scene of his boyish training.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

David Ricardo :
'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working steadily at the banking-house, partaking sparingly of amusements of a social character, and devoting the greater portion of his leisure to reading and meditating upon subjects of an instructive cast. 'Among these, political economy, history and metaphysics occupied the leading interest in his mind. To the first of these sciences he had been attracted by the writings of Mr. David Ricardo, with whom personally he afterwards became acquainted (in 1817)'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

: historical texts
'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working steadily at the banking-house, partaking sparingly of amusements of a social character, and devoting the greater portion of his leisure to reading and meditating upon subjects of an instructive cast. 'Among these, political economy, history and metaphysics occupied the leading interest in his mind. To the first of these sciences he had been attracted by the writings of Mr. David Ricardo, with whom personally he afterwards became acquainted (in 1817)'.
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: 'metaphysics'
'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working steadily at the banking-house, partaking sparingly of amusements of a social character, and devoting the greater portion of his leisure to reading and meditating upon subjects of an instructive cast. 'Among these, political economy, history and metaphysics occupied the leading interest in his mind. To the first of these sciences he had been attracted by the writings of Mr. David Ricardo, with whom personally he afterwards became acquainted (in 1817)'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

: historical and political texts
'With George W. Norman he [George Grote] kept up a steady and intimate intercourse [...] They read books in common, chiefly on historical and political subjects, and they both applied themselves seriously to the subject of Political Economy, then coming into something like "vogue" among the rising generation, as being a proper object of study.'
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: 'Political Economy'
'With George W. Norman he [George Grote] kept up a steady and intimate intercourse [...] They read books in common, chiefly on historical and political subjects, and they both applied themselves seriously to the subject of Political Economy, then coming into something like "vogue" among the rising generation, as being a proper object of study.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote and George W. Norman     Print: Book

Sismondi : history of Italy (vol. 1)
George Grote to George W. Norman, 26 June 1816: 'From England, in 1816, it is delightful to retire, even to Italy in its most disorganized periods. I have not yet arrived at Sismondi's second volume, as I have employed myself in deducing a short narrative of Italian transactions, from the invasion of the Lombards [...] I have always found that, in order to make myself master of a subject, the best mode was to sit down and give an account of it to myself.'
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Lucretius : De rerum natura
George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unintelligible, yet in those passages where he indulges his vein of poetry without reserve, the sublimity of his conceptions and the charm and elegance of his language are such as I have hardly ever seen equalled [...] I likewise send you the Tragedies attributed to Seneca, which I think I have heard you express an inclination to read. I have read one or two of them, and they appeared to me not above mediocrity. **** 'I am now studying Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics." His reasonings on the subject of morals are wonderfully just and penetrating, and I feel anxious, as I read on, for a more intimate acquaintance with him. Hume's Essays, some of which I have likewise read lately, do not improve, in my view, on further knowledge.'
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Seneca : Tragedies
George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unintelligible, yet in those passages where he indulges his vein of poetry without reserve, the sublimity of his conceptions and the charm and elegance of his language are such as I have hardly ever seen equalled [...] I likewise send you the Tragedies attributed to Seneca, which I think I have heard you express an inclination to read. I have read one or two of them, and they appeared to me not above mediocrity. **** 'I am now studying Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics." His reasonings on the subject of morals are wonderfully just and penetrating, and I feel anxious, as I read on, for a more intimate acquaintance with him. Hume's Essays, some of which I have likewise read lately, do not improve, in my view, on further knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Aristotle : Nicomachean Ethics
George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unintelligible, yet in those passages where he indulges his vein of poetry without reserve, the sublimity of his conceptions and the charm and elegance of his language are such as I have hardly ever seen equalled [...] I likewise send you the Tragedies attributed to Seneca, which I think I have heard you express an inclination to read. I have read one or two of them, and they appeared to me not above mediocrity. **** 'I am now studying Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics." His reasonings on the subject of morals are wonderfully just and penetrating, and I feel anxious, as I read on, for a more intimate acquaintance with him. Hume's Essays, some of which I have likewise read lately, do not improve, in my view, on further knowledge.'
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David Hume : Essays
George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unintelligible, yet in those passages where he indulges his vein of poetry without reserve, the sublimity of his conceptions and the charm and elegance of his language are such as I have hardly ever seen equalled [...] I likewise send you the Tragedies attributed to Seneca, which I think I have heard you express an inclination to read. I have read one or two of them, and they appeared to me not above mediocrity. **** 'I am now studying Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics." His reasonings on the subject of morals are wonderfully just and penetrating, and I feel anxious, as I read on, for a more intimate acquaintance with him. Hume's Essays, some of which I have likewise read lately, do not improve, in my view, on further knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Jeremy Bentham : works
'The writings of this remarkable man [Jeremy Bentham] were now beginning to tell upon the thinking portion of young public men and lawyers [...] Grote caught the infection with readiness, and not only became a reader of Bentham's works on Jurisprudence, Reform of the Law, and Political Philosophy, but he also frequented the society of the recluse author'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Say : Economie politique
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1818): 'Tuesday, Sept, 22nd, 1818. 'Rose at 7. Read Say for a couple of hours. [...] 'Rose at 8. Breakfasted, and finished Say's "Economie Politique."'
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Jean Baptiste Say : Economie politique
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] read over again that part of Say's second volume which refers to consumption. It requires further meditation before I shall have thoroughly comprehended it.'
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Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading Smith's "Wealth of Nations" until 8.'
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Lord Shaftesbury : 'letter on Enthusiasm'
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some of Lord Shaftesbury's letter on Enthusiasm until 9 [...] I finished it after breakfast, and was extremely pleased with it [...] At 12 I read a chapter of the German Bible with my sister.'
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Lord Shaftesbury : 'letter on Enthusiasm'
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some of Lord Shaftesbury's letter on Enthusiasm until 9 [...] I finished it after breakfast, and was extremely pleased with it [...] At 12 I read a chapter of the German Bible with my sister.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

: German Bible
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some of Lord Shaftesbury's letter on Enthusiasm until 9 [...] I finished it after breakfast, and was extremely pleased with it [...] At 12 I read a chapter of the German Bible with my sister.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote and sister     Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Thursday, October 8th. 'Rose soon after 6. Read the second chapter of Say's "Economie," and I wrote down on paper some remarks on production, after meditating the subject much, as some parts of it are very thorny. I had occasion to differ with some of Say's positions. 'Rose soon after 6. Read over again Say's chapter in capital, and put down some remarks on it in order to clear up my notions on the subject, as I found occasion to suspect the soundness of some I had before entertained [...] 'Rose at 1/2 past 6. Read some more Say on the Division of Labour.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

: 'Dissertation on Virtue'
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 8. Read once again the "Dissertation on Virtue" which is subjoined to Butler's "Analogy" with very great pleasure [...] After breakfast I opened the second volume of the "Wealth of Nations" and read the first chapter on the employment and accumulation of capital stock. With the exception of a few points, chiefly I believe of phraseology, I agree with him in all he says.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, volume 2 chapter 1
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 8. Read once again the "Dissertation on Virtue" which is subjoined to Butler's "Analogy" with very great pleasure [...] After breakfast I opened the second volume of the "Wealth of Nations" and read the first chapter on the employment and accumulation of capital stock. With the exception of a few points, chiefly I believe of phraseology, I agree with him in all he says.'
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Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th October, 1818. 'Rose soon after 6. Read Say's chapter on Commercial Industry [...] After dinner read some of Schiller's "Don Carlos," then practiced on the bass from 1/2 past 7 till 9; at 9 I drank tea, then read some more of Say, on the mode in which capital operates.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th October, 1818. 'Rose soon after 6. Read Say's chapter on Commercial Industry [...] After dinner read some of Schiller's "Don Carlos," then practiced on the bass from 1/2 past 7 till 9; at 9 I drank tea, then read some more of Say, on the mode in which capital operates.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th October, 1818. 'Rose soon after 6. Read Say's chapter on Commercial Industry [...] After dinner read some of Schiller's "Don Carlos," then practiced on the bass from 1/2 past 7 till 9; at 9 I drank tea, then read some more of Say, on the mode in which capital operates.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Thursday, October 15th, 1818. 'Rose at 6. Read Say's chapter on the Accumulation of Capital. Wrote some remarks on the meaning which he annexes to the word unproductive, in which I think he has fallen into some confusion. 'Rose at 6. Read Say's chapter on the Circulation of Commodities, which is admirable; equally deep and accurate.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Turgot :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Turgot : [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Turgot : [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at 6. Studied some more of Turgot's Dissertation, which cost me considerable labour [...] Sat to Manskirch for my picture. Between 4 and 5 I read a little more of Turgot's Dissertation.'
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Turgot : [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at 6. Studied some more of Turgot's Dissertation, which cost me considerable labour [...] Sat to Manskirch for my picture. Between 4 and 5 I read a little more of Turgot's Dissertation.'
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Turgot : [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Having passed a sleepless night I did not rise until 1/2 past 7. Read some more of Turgot's "Valeurs et Monnoies," and also an old Edinburgh Review, on the subject of money [...] I think Turgot has proceeded throughout upon a misapprehension of the true theory of exhangeable values'.
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: Edinburgh Review
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Having passed a sleepless night I did not rise until 1/2 past 7. Read some more of Turgot's "Valeurs et Monnoies," and also an old Edinburgh Review, on the subject of money [...] I think Turgot has proceeded throughout upon a misapprehension of the true theory of exhangeable values'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

David Ricardo : 'Political Economy'
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] Cameron with me [...] Between 7 and 8 I locked up [family banking house] and we drank tea. We then read some of Ricardo's "Political Economy" until 1/2 past 10'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote and Charles Cameron     Print: Book

David Ricardo : 'Political Economy'
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] Cameron with me [...] Between 7 and 8 I locked up [family banking house] and we drank tea. We then read some of Ricardo's "Political Economy" until 1/2 past 10. 'Rose at 6. Read some of A. Smith on Wages, and also that part of Ricardo that we had read the night before over again'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

: poetry
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] Cameron with me [...] Between 7 and 8 I locked up [family banking house] and we drank tea. We then read some of Ricardo's "Political Economy" until 1/2 past 10. 'Rose at 6. Read some of A. Smith on Wages, and also that part of Ricardo that we had read the night before over again [...] At 10 Charles Cameron came to me, and we walked down to Bromley Common [...] G. Norman there by himself. Had a very pleasant dinner and evening. Read some poetry aloud in the evening. Went to bed about 1/2 past 11.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote, George Norman, and Charles Cameron     Print: Unknown

David Ricardo :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Saturday -- Rose at 1/4 before 9. Breakfasted and worked at Ricardo until I was obliged to go into the office [...] Between 4 and 5 read some more of Ricardo, out of different parts of the book, to clear up my notions on Foreign Trade'.
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David Ricardo :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Sunday -- Rose about 9. After reading Ricardo for some little time, I set to and wrote down some stuff upon Foreign Trade [...] At 1 I mounted my horse and rode to the Park [...] Returned to dinner at 6, very tired; read some of Lessing's "Laocoon" [...] After tea set to at Ricardo again, but not finding my attention sufficiently alive, I dropt him, and looked over Melon's "Essai sur le Commerce," which I had had some curiosity to see. I found it the stupidest and most useless volume I ever opened.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Laocoon
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Sunday -- Rose about 9. After reading Ricardo for some little time, I set to and wrote down some stuff upon Foreign Trade [...] At 1 I mounted my horse and rode to the Park [...] Returned to dinner at 6, very tired; read some of Lessing's "Laocoon" [...] After tea set to at Ricardo again, but not finding my attention sufficiently alive, I dropt him, and looked over Melon's "Essai sur le Commerce," which I had had some curiosity to see. I found it the stupidest and most useless volume I ever opened.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Melon : 'Essai sur le commerce'
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Sunday -- Rose about 9. After reading Ricardo for some little time, I set to and wrote down some stuff upon Foreign Trade [...] At 1 I mounted my horse and rode to the Park [...] Returned to dinner at 6, very tired; read some of Lessing's "Laocoon" [...] After tea set to at Ricardo again, but not finding my attention sufficiently alive, I dropt him, and looked over Melon's "Essai sur le Commerce," which I had had some curiosity to see. I found it the stupidest and most useless volume I ever opened.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Unknown

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : 'theological writings'
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass for 1 hour, and then read some of Lessing's theological writings'.
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Aristotle : Politics
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Read part of the first book of Aristotle's Politics, with a view to ascertain his notions on the original barrenness of money, and trade in general.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Norman Douglas : The Isle of Typhoeus
'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th century Sicilian doctor and instigator of the Sicilian Vespers massacre] interested us very much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Frederick Burgess : [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Letters were read from Mr Hawkins and Mr Burgess resigning membership in the Society'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

John Hawkins : [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Letters were read from Mr Hawkins and Mr Burgess resigning membership in the Society'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

Anatole France : L'Ile des Pingouins
'Does the A[natole] F[rance] next book consist of the proofs you've let me see? And what on earth is one to write about it?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

William Shakespeare : Tempest, The
'The programme included [...] a Shakespearean reading in the garden from the Tempest in which many members and some visitors took part'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club, and guests     Print: Book

Henry Woodd Nevinson : The New Spirit in India
'The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well as men may find themselves in a bitterly false position.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Frederick J. Edminson : [paper on The Tempest]
'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Tempest, The
'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

John Galsworthy : A Fisher of Men
'Both Jessie and I are very much struck with "[A] Fisher of Men".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Kingsley :
'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a visit to Warsley [?]. Readings were given by Mrs Stansfield, Mrs Goadby and A. Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley :
'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a visit to Warsley [?]. Readings were given by Mrs Stansfield, Mrs Goadby and A. Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley :
'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a visit to Warsley [?]. Readings were given by Mrs Stansfield, Mrs Goadby and A. Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lilian Goadby      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Kingsley as religious leader]
'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a visit to Warsley [?]. Readings were given by Mrs Stansfield, Mrs Goadby and A. Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Frederick Edminson : [paper on Kingsley]
'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a visit to Warsley [?]. Readings were given by Mrs Stansfield, Mrs Goadby and A. Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry James : The American
'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,not to read any of them --I could not settle to that, but to commune with them all, and gloat over the promise of the prefaces. But of these last I have read one already, the preface to "The American",the first of your long novels I ever read--in '91.[...] I could not resist the temptation of reading the beautiful and touching last ten pages of the story. There is in them a perfection of tone which calmed me; and I sat for a long time with the closed volume in my hand going over the preface in my mind and thinking--that's how it began,that's how it was done!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henry James : The American
'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,not to read any of them --I could not settle to that, but to commune with them all, and gloat over the promise of the prefaces. But of these last I have read one already, the preface to "The American",the first of your long novels I ever read--in '91.[...] I could not resist the temptation of reading the beautiful and touching last ten pages of the story. There is in them a perfection of tone which calmed me; and I sat for a long time with the closed volume in my hand going over the preface in my mind and thinking--that's how it began,that's how it was done!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 May, 1796: 'The reliance that I can place on my own application renders me little anxious for the future — & for the present I can live like a silkworm by spinning my own brains. have I published too hastily? — remember that Virgil in the spirit of poetical prophecy gives to Fames the epithet of malesuada.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Joseph Fawcett : The Art of War
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults of Young it possesses more beauties — & is in many parts — in my opinion — excellent.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint, or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults of Young it possesses more beauties — & is in many parts — in my opinion — excellent.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Warburton : 'A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aeneis’
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Warburton has said that the Epic is arrived at perfection & consequently incapable of improvement — for Homer is possessed of the province of Morality Virgil of politics & Milton of Religion. all this I deny. the morality of Homers heroes is as savage as the age they lived in — as for politics they are yet in their infancy — & the tale of Paradise Lost is the fatal source of all the corruptions of Xtianity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & utility — yet have I hitherto seen very few that really are so. in his Anna St Ives Holcroft has succeeded — but his Hugh Trevor is outrageously caricatured. Things as they are — is likewise a very faulty novel, & one which shews William Godwin to be little acquainted with human characters. I have planned a work to delineate existing systems & their consequent vices & misery, & hope to do some good by it if I have ever leisure to fill up the outlines.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Thomas Holcroft : The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & utility — yet have I hitherto seen very few that really are so. in his Anna St Ives Holcroft has succeeded — but his Hugh Trevor is outrageously caricatured. Things as they are — is likewise a very faulty novel, & one which shews William Godwin to be little acquainted with human characters. I have planned a work to delineate existing systems & their consequent vices & misery, & hope to do some good by it if I have ever leisure to fill up the outlines.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Godwin : Things as They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & utility — yet have I hitherto seen very few that really are so. in his Anna St Ives Holcroft has succeeded — but his Hugh Trevor is outrageously caricatured. Things as they are — is likewise a very faulty novel, & one which shews William Godwin to be little acquainted with human characters. I have planned a work to delineate existing systems & their consequent vices & misery, & hope to do some good by it if I have ever leisure to fill up the outlines.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Cambridge Intelligencer
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 26 June 1796: 'The Cambridge Intelligencer has this day informed me that George Strachey has won the Greek Ode.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Newspaper

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 26 June 1796: 'Christian went a long way to fling off his burden in the Pilgrims Progress. I doubt only my lungs. I find my breath affected when I read aloud. but exercise may strengthen these.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Monthly Magazine
Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earlier date than the noble author imagined: it may be found in a work of bishop Hall entitled Resolutions and Decisions of divers Practical Cases of Conscience, in continual Use amongst Men; of which the second edition, dated 1650, is now lying before me. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Joseph Hall : Resolutions and Decisions of divers Practical Cases of Conscience, in continual Use amongst Men
Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earlier date than the noble author imagined: it may be found in a work of bishop Hall entitled Resolutions and Decisions of divers Practical Cases of Conscience, in continual Use amongst Men; of which the second edition, dated 1650, is now lying before me. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The Minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

: Wisdom of Solomon 2:23
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'In the second chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon & at the 23rd verse are these words: For GOD created man to be immortal, & made him to be an image of his own eternity....'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Taylor : Lenora
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'But the other ballad of Bürger in the M. Magazine is most excellent. I know no commendation equal to its merit. read it again Grosvenor & read it aloud. the man who wrote that should have been ashamed of Lenora.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller : Cabal and Love
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'Have you read Cabal & Love? in spite of a translation for which the translator deserves hanging — the fifth act is dreadfully affecting.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Charles Collins : On Hastings Castle
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29 August- 7 September 1796: 'Charles Collins wrote a Sonnet upon Hastings Castle — which Horace once showed me — it was ——— fourteen lines.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Sheet

Alfred Rawlings : [paper on Le Gallienne's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Lefalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Matthew ("Monk") Lewis : The Monk
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'I have now read the Monk — & admire the delicacy of Lewis in criticising the Bible. there is genius in the book — but no good can possibly be produced by it. I would not have men distrust themselves...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [paper on Life of Edward Fitzgerald]
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller : The Ghost Seer
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story is bad — & the most striking part very inferior to what appears to me its original the Franciscan monk at the marriage of Lorenzo in the Ghost-Seer of Frederick Schiller. an author compared to whom the sublimity of Eschylus & Shakespere is little have you read Fiesco? Stodhard of Christ Church is one of the translators. you may hear something of him from Collins — if you still retain his acquaintance: with friendship I believe him totally unacquainted.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller : Fiesco; or the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story is bad — & the most striking part very inferior to what appears to me its original the Franciscan monk at the marriage of Lorenzo in the Ghost-Seer of Frederick Schiller. an author compared to whom the sublimity of Eschylus & Shakespere is little have you read Fiesco? Stodhard of Christ Church is one of the translators. you may hear something of him from Collins — if you still retain his acquaintance: with friendship I believe him totally unacquainted.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Henry Tresham : The Sea-Sick Minstrel; or, Maritime Sorrows. A Poem, in Six Cantos
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'Somebody (a painter I believe — Tresham?) has [MS torn] a poem called the Sea Sick Minstrel lately. tis a villainous subject.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

: Monthly Magazine (June 1796)
Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 2 September 1796: 'IN your Magazine for June, a Correspondent, who signs himself M.H. has defended the system of Helvetius, and asserted that “nothing can be more monstrous and hypothetical, than the notion of a child (whose mind having received no impression, is a total blank, without a single idea) being born with a power of discrimination, a correct judgment, &c.”'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [Paper on Life of Fitzgerald and Omar's Philosophy]
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Sheridan : Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I have been reading Sidney Biddulph. Grosvenor what a mass of misery do prejudices occasion? the distress of many novels turns upon the discovery of incest — where is the crime if a brother & sister should marry unknowingly? or knowingly? — here again is a young woman must not marry the man she loves because he is a Bastard forsooth: the very reason says Mr Shandy why she should: & there was wisdom in all his systems.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

John Donne : Satyre II
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I wish I could give you a satisfactory answer to a very interesting question. I ardently wish for children — yet if God should bless me with any I shall be unhappy to see them poisoned by the air of London. "Sir I do thank God for it, I do hate Most heartily that city." so said John Donne. tis a favorite quotation of mine — my spirits always sunk when I approachd it. green fields are my delight — I am not only better in health, but even in heart in the country — a fine day exhilarates my heart — if it rains I behold the grass assume a richer verdure as it drinks the moisture — every thing that I behold is “very good" except Man — & in London I see nothing but Man & his works.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Paul et Virginie
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read that most delightful work & you will love the author as much as I do.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Etudes de la Nature
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read that most delightful work & you will love the author as much as I do.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Joseph Dacre Carlyle : Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Kaliphat, with some Account of the Authors
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8 December, 1796: 'I have just read Carlyles Arabic Translations — Zounds what stuff is called Poetry!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Robert Browning : 'One Word More'
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'May and Death'
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Prospice'
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Phedippides'
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Evelyn Hope'
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Garden Fancies'
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha'
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby      Print: Book

Pattie Stansfield : [paper on Browning]
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Browning :
'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & passed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Reynolds : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & agreed to'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Rudyard Kipling :
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling :
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Stubington      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling :
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: T.T. Stubington      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling :
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stubington      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling :
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby      Print: Book

H.M. Wallis : [paper on Kipling]
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Unknown

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : 'A Poem'
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [from] Sylvie and Bruno
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Neild      Print: Book

Lillian Goadby : [explanation of Jabberwock etymology] from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lilian Goadby      Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : 'Jabberwocky' [from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There]
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [the Mock Turtle's Story from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [from] Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Cass      Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [the Mad Tea Party, from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby      Print: Book

Robert Glasgow Brown : letter
'You are quite right, according to me, in being dissatisfied with my work; but not right at all in expressing your dissatisfaction as you did. I have never written rudely to you. Although hastily and curtly without doubt; and so you have no possible excuse for writing rudely to me. I shall give you the Feuilleton as far as I can without personal inconvenience. As for reading three volumes and writing an article in two days, I shall make an attempt this once without promising success; but I must ask you not to put me again in the same position […] As to the Whispering Gallery, it is only right to point out that one of your stories was in the "World" a month ago and in the "Queen" the week after.
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Auguste Maquet : Les Feuilles Vertes
'Rondeau On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles. See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them here uncut, − Drop them, recoiling, at the first debut − Lay down the book and with superb disdain, Smiling but sold, go on my way again Through life’s green vale, remarking simply “Zut!” Devoid of style, of fable and of smut, How, how, shall I portray its dullness? − Tut! See for yourself − see, whelmed in grief and pain, − See "The Green Leaves"! Thus one, sweet-toothed, yet of a tender gut, Who sees before him many peaches put In some tall cafe by the shores of Seine, Schools his bold heart to choose and to refrain: The ripe he eats with gluttonous ardour − but, See, the green leaves!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : extract
"Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or maker, is imitation... to follow him (Auden, in my case) till he grow very He; or so like him that the copy may be mistaken for the principal...'"
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin

Katherine Mansfield : Letters and diary
'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read her letters again. The trouble with her seems to be that she luxuriated in emotion far too much. Admittedly the head is an evil thing & I'm a tied-up bugger, but anyone who can spew out their dearest and closest thoughts, hopes, and loves to J. M. Murry must be a bit of an anus.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin

D. H. Lawrence : Jimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)...' Lawrence so good I daren't really read him.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : unknown
'As Lawrence (+ sign of cross - not christian cross - no devil down in Hell: [Christian cross] (!!)) said 'The reason the English Middle Classes chew every mouthful 30 times is that a bite any bigger than a pea would cause stoppage in their narrow guts,' or words to that effect). Which I approve [...] I am reading Lawrence daily (like the bible) and with great devotion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Unknown

David Herbert Lawrence : Kangaroo
'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is well written, but it is so full of Spite, bitterness & nasty "cur" like ( in italics) snarly feeling. Odd again, for I never saw that side of him. have you read his "Letters"?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ottoline Morrell      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'During the daytime I could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the only secure retreat - the long, narrow, WC. In much later years, when my family was "too much with me", I was again driven to use this apartment in order to polish verses'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present
'I heard about the great Abbot Sampson, of the twelfth century, whom I was to meet again at the age of fourteen, when I read "Past and Present" while waiting in Westminster Abbey to hear Canon Farrar preach.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [poetry]
'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of "Daniel Deronda", should also have produced "The Spanish Gipsy".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

George Eliot : The Spanish Gipsy
'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of "Daniel Deronda", should also have produced "The Spanish Gipsy".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

George Eliot : Daniel Deronda
'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of "Daniel Deronda", should also have produced "The Spanish Gipsy".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh
'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to me from reading "Lalla Rookh".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Luis Vaz de Camoëns : ‘Babylon and Sion’
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1-7 January, 1797: '...the view is bounded by the accursed smoke of London. methinks like Camoens I could dub it Babylon & write lamentations for the “Sion” of my birth place, having like him no reason to regret the past [words scored out] except that it is not the present. it is the country I want. a field thistle is to me worth all the flowers of Covent Garden.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Lisle Bowles : Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with which we have been cloyed since the days of Pope. Churchill is too rough: but there is a medium, & I am on the side of Bowles versus Reviewers: who by the by are in general a set of stupid fellows.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with which we have been cloyed since the days of Pope. Churchill is too rough: but there is a medium, & I am on the side of Bowles versus Reviewers: who by the by are in general a set of stupid fellows.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

anon : Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with which we have been cloyed since the days of Pope. Churchill is too rough: but there is a medium, & I am on the side of Bowles versus Reviewers: who by the by are in general a set of stupid fellows.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Aristotle : Ethics
'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

[unknown] : [nineteenth-century poets]
'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : [poetry]
'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

William Gilbert : The Hurricane
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I wish Bob would insert a review of my writing in the British Critic. it is upon a strange poem with still stranger notes, written by a man of brilliant genius & polishd manners who is deranged. it is easy to imply this without doing it in such terms as would wound his feelings. the book is “the Hurricane a Theosophical & Western Eclogue by William Gilbert.”'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : The Loves of Hero and Leander
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 29 January 1797: 'I have received Bedfords book this morning — he has much amended it since I saw the manuscript.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

François Rabelais : [unknown]
'Although Mrs Craigie carried out her "duties" as a Roman Catholic, she took her religion lightly, and from her writings it was easy to read that she did not mind jests about the saints ... She told me that her conversion was entirely due to her reading Rabelais, which at the time I believed literally'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie      Print: Book

Mary Hays : articles in the Monthly Magazine
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'When I was with George Dyer one morning last week Mary Hayes & Miss Christall entered, & the ceremony of introduction followed. Mary Hayes writes in the M. Magazine under the signature M.H. & sometimes writes nonsense about Helvetius there. she has lately published a novel — Emma Courtney — a book much praised & much abused; I have not seen it myself. but the severe censures passed upon it by persons of narrow mind, have made be curious, & convinced me that it is at least an uncommon work. Mary Hays is an agreable woman — & a Godwinite.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Ann Batten Cristall : Poetical Sketches
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'But Miss Christall. have you seen her Poems? — a fine, artless sensible girl, now Cottle that word sensible must not be construed here in its dictionary acceptation. ask a Frenchman what it means & he will understand it, tho perhaps no circumlocution define its explain its French meaning. her heart is alive. she loves Poetry — she loves retirement — she loves the country. her verses are very incorrect, & the Literary Circle say she has no genius. but she has Genius, Joseph Cottle! or there is no truth in physiognomy.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

George Meredith : [novels]
'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great privilege and I waited eagerly for her description of the hour she spent with him. I was disappointed when she was able to tell me very little about the conversation. I had read all his novels and devoured the poems with great enthusiasm'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

George Meredith : [poetry]
'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great privilege and I waited eagerly for her description of the hour she spent with him. I was disappointed when she was able to tell me very little about the conversation. I had read all his novels and devoured the poems with great enthusiasm'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Sir William Blackstone : Commentaries on the Laws of England
Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'Blackstone & I agree better than perhaps you imagine. true it is that I should like to write Commentaries upon his Commentaries — but mine would be an illegal book. the study fixes my attention sufficiently, when my attention begins to flag, I relieve myself by employing half an hour differently, & then set to again with fresh spirits. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : German Grammar
Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'My mornings are devoted to Law; I allow the evening for pleasanter employments & divide it between the German Grammar & [writing] Madoc. with both of which I am getting forwards. I am fond of learning languages. nothing exercises a mans ingenuity more, he sees the progress he makes, & this at once gratifies & encourages. it is my intention to learn Welsh.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : Law books
Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 March, 1797: 'We have been here now nearly a month. I read much Law — & find time to write. for company I have neither leisu[re or MS torn] inclination, & therefore confine myself to a very fe[MS torn] friends.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Standard
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Morning Post
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Newspaper

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux : [plays]
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

[unknown] : Girls' Own Paper
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Serial / periodical

Honoré de Balzac : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Stendhal : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Anatole France : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

[Italian poets] : [poetry]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers]
'In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Newspaper

John Prior Estlin : The Nature and Causes of Atheism, Pointed Out in a Discourse, Delivered at the Chapel in Lewin’s-Mead, Bristol. To Which Are Added, Remarks on a Work, Entitled Origine de Tous Les Cultes, ou Religion Universelle. Par Dupuis, Citoyen François
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'Mr Estlin has sent me his sermon — a most superb copy — tho not I have not the one he sent — for Johnsons man could not find it & so he gave me another. it is I think the best paper I ever saw. I wrote to day to thank him — & make a few remarks upon his book, freely & respectfully — therefore properly.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

George Dyer : The Poet’s Fate, a Poetical Dialogue
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'George Dyer gave me what he calls his “crotchet” & what I call an indifferent poem. “I could not bring in Wordsworth & Lloyd & Lamb in the poem (said he to me) but I put them in in a note —.” that man is all benevolence — he even shows it in notes to his dedication.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Thomas Baynton : Descriptive Account of a New Method of Treating Old Ulcers of the Legs
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'I have seen Bayntons Book. it is vilely written. but the theory seems good, & the practise appears to have been successful. my friend Carlisle means to try it at the Westminster Hospital. I was somewhat amused at seeing a treatise on sore legs printed on wove paper & hot-pressed.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

[n/a] : Church Times
'Not knowing that I had reached the end of my travels for that day, I seated myself on the one chair and proceeded to read the "Church Times" which I had brought as reading matter. At about midnight my cell door was flung open and I was told to pass "out".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Park : Sonnets, and Other Small Poems
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 26 April, 1797: 'Some Mr T Park sent me a volume of his poems last week, with a note; its praises too gross for one who is no fowl-feeder. I read his book it was not above mediocrity; he seems very fond of poetry, & even to a superstitious reverence for Thomsons old table & Miss Sewards manuscripts which he “rescued” from the printers. I called on him to thank him & was not sorry to find that he was not at home. But the next day a note arrives with more praise — he wishes my personal acquaintance & “trusts I shall excuse the frankness that avows that it would gratify his feelings to receive a copy of Joan of Arc from the Author.” now I thought this, to speak tenderly, not very modest.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 28 April, 1797: 'Have you ever met with Mary Wollstonecrafts letters from Sweden & Norway? she has made me in love with a cold climate & frost & snow, with a Northern moonlight.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Henderson : Treatise upon Miracles
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 2 May, 1797: 'I have a treasure in store for you. a little treatise in old English, very short, upon miracles — written by John Henderson for Coleridges brother — & given me by a pupil of his — John May — a Lisbon acquaintance — & a very valuable one. '
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Gisborne : The Vales of Wever, a Loco-Descriptive Poem
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 May, 1797: 'This New Forest is very lovely. I should like to have a house in it — & dispeople the rest like William the Conqueror. of all land objects a forest is the finest. Gisborne has written a feeble poem upon the subject.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Robert Robinson : Ecclesiastical Researches
Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want when settled. whilst I was packing them up, a friend brought me Robinsons Ecclesiastical Researches. he has as much wit as Jortin & yet never ceases to be serious, & with erudition at least equal to Mosheim, possesses a candour & discrimination which Mosheim wanted. have you read George Dyers life of Robert Robinson? it is the history of a very extraordinary man told with infinite simplicity by one as extraordinary as himself.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

George Dyer : Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Robert Robinson
Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want when settled. whilst I was packing them up, a friend brought me Robinsons Ecclesiastical Researches. he has as much wit as Jortin & yet never ceases to be serious, & with erudition at least equal to Mosheim, possesses a candour & discrimination which Mosheim wanted. have you read George Dyers life of Robert Robinson? it is the history of a very extraordinary man told with infinite simplicity by one as extraordinary as himself.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Grosvenor Charles Bedford : The Rhedycenian Barbers
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, c. 25 June, 1797: '“The Rhedycenian Barbers” is Grosvenor Bedfords — & a most incomparable parody it is.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon : unknown
Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossible in their metres; & for the prose of Fenelon Florian & Bitaubè — I find it peculiarly unpleasant. I have sometimes read the works of Florian aloud; his stories are very interesting & well conducted, but in reading them I have been felt obliged to simplify as I read & omit most of the similes & apostrophes. they disgusted me & I felt ashamed to pronounce them. Ossian is the only book bearable in this stile, there is a melancholy obscurity in the history of Ossian & of almost his heroes that must please — ninety nine readers in an hundred cannot understand Ossian & therefore they like the book. I read it always with renewed pleasure.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian : unknown
Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossible in their metres; & for the prose of Fenelon Florian & Bitaubè — I find it peculiarly unpleasant. I have sometimes read the works of Florian aloud; his stories are very interesting & well conducted, but in reading them I have been felt obliged to simplify as I read & omit most of the similes & apostrophes. they disgusted me & I felt ashamed to pronounce them. Ossian is the only book bearable in this stile, there is a melancholy obscurity in the history of Ossian & of almost his heroes that must please — ninety nine readers in an hundred cannot understand Ossian & therefore they like the book. I read it always with renewed pleasure.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Paul Jérémie Bitaubè : unknown
Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossible in their metres; & for the prose of Fenelon Florian & Bitaubè — I find it peculiarly unpleasant. I have sometimes read the works of Florian aloud; his stories are very interesting & well conducted, but in reading them I have been felt obliged to simplify as I read & omit most of the similes & apostrophes. they disgusted me & I felt ashamed to pronounce them. Ossian is the only book bearable in this stile, there is a melancholy obscurity in the history of Ossian & of almost his heroes that must please — ninety nine readers in an hundred cannot understand Ossian & therefore they like the book. I read it always with renewed pleasure.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Ossian [James Macpherson] : Poems
Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossible in their metres; & for the prose of Fenelon Florian & Bitaubè — I find it peculiarly unpleasant. I have sometimes read the works of Florian aloud; his stories are very interesting & well conducted, but in reading them I have been felt obliged to simplify as I read & omit most of the similes & apostrophes. they disgusted me & I felt ashamed to pronounce them. Ossian is the only book bearable in this stile, there is a melancholy obscurity in the history of Ossian & of almost his heroes that must please — ninety nine readers in an hundred cannot understand Ossian & therefore they like the book. I read it always with renewed pleasure.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere : Appel a l’Impartiale Posteritè
Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: 'Have you seen Madame Rolands Appel a l’impartiale Posteritè? it is one of those books that makes me love individuals & yet dread detest & despise mankind in a mass.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jean Chapelain : La Pucelle ou la France Délivrée
Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'I thank you for Chapelain. I read his poem with the hope of finding something & would gladly have reversed the sentence of condemnation, which I must in common honesty confirm. it is very bad indeed, & please only by its extreme absurdity. I have analyzed it, & the analysis will amuse you.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

S.T. Coleridge : Poems, by S. T. Coleridge, Second Edition. To Which are Now Added Poems by Charles Lamb, and Charles Lloyd
Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'Cottle brought with him the new edition of Coleridges poems, they are dedicated to his brothe[MS torn] George, in one of the most beautiful poems I ever read. [MS torn] know S T Coleridge better than any existing being, & yet great part of his conduct is utterly inexplicable to me. last night I wrote to him, requesting some thing for insertion in Chattertons works that his name might appear in the proposals. I then told him that his brother had not known where he was till he learnt it from you. You will be delighted with his new edition, it contains all the poems of Lloyd & Lamb, & I know no volume that can be compared to it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Bernando Tasso : Amadis of Gaul
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'The old Lady Strathmore has some curious books. I hope to get from her library the Amadigi of Tassos father.if he had been a very bad poet Tasso would never have published his works — & I love every thing belonging to Amadis & Galaor.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Isabel Godin des Odonais : Lettre Contenant la Relation des Madame Godin (par le Fleuve des Amazons)
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'If you can get me any poetical information about the River of Amazons I shall be glad — but I must have no Amazons as Madoc was buried long before Orellana learnt to tell lies. Did you ever see Madame Godines melancholy account? I shall allude to it by & by.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Pierre Le Moyne : Saint Louis
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 28 July 1797: 'Since you left me I have been reading the Saint Louis of Le Moyne: an epic poem in 18 books. Le Moyne had genius — but he has introduced the most incredibly ridiculous thing in his poem. Louis is wounded with a poisoned arrow, for which there is no earthly cure, but he is healed by the waters of a fountain in which the Virgin Mary had, on the way to Egypt, washed her little boys clouts!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Epictetus : Encheiridion
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 3 August 1797: 'I think you would derive more good from Epictetus than from studying yourself. there is a very proud independance in the Stoic philosophy which has always much pleased me; you would find certain sentences in the Enchiridion which would occur to the mind when such maxims were wanted & operate as motives. besides when you are examining yourself you ought to have a certain standard by which to measure yourself: & however far an old Stoic may be from perfection, he is almost a God when compared to the present race who libel that nature which appeared with such exceeding lustre in Athens in Lacedæmon & in Rome. I could send you to a better system than that of the bondsman Epictetus, where you would find a better model on which to form your conduct. but the mind should have arrived at a certain stage to profit properly by that book, which few have attained. it should be cool & confirmed.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Thomas James Mathias : The Pursuits of Literature, or What You Will. A Satirical Poem in Dialogue. With Notes. Part the Second
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have only seen the former parts of the Pursuits of Literature. the author appeared to me to have the malevolence of Gifford without his wit. the lines on Darwin were however uncommonly good. if he has wiped me with civility he will serve the book, & the advertisement makes amends for the censure.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Sir William Blackstone : Commentaries on the Laws of England
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have now gone thro Blackstone often & attentively, so repeatedly reperusing the more important parts, that I think I know the book well. nor does farther study of it now appear necessary or useful.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Joshua Barnes : The History of That Most Victorious Monarch Edward III
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have got learnt much military knowledge from a history of Edward 3rd. by old Joshua Barnes, who, Bentley said, knew as much Greek as an Athenian cobbler. did you ever see the book? it is a large folio, so minute as almost to make me amends for the want of Froissard: & I expect to be very accurate in my costume, but if this merit be not pointed out by explanatory notes it will be lost, for the Reviews did not discover my blunders...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Epictetus : Encheiridion
Robert Southey to John May, 15 August 1797: 'I am fond of great part of the Stoical system, & there are few characters that I contemplate with more reverence than the slave Epictetus. his book was for some months my pocket companion, & I think I am the better for it. our language, & perhaps every other, wants a name for that pride which every man ought to possess, & without which he can never be compleatly respectable. the Stoic doctrines tend to make a man tranquil & self-contented. such too is the end of Christianity when well understood, but among its many corruptions is the wretched doctrine that we ought to be vile in our eyes — alas! if we are not respectable to ourselves to whom shall we be so?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Edmund Howes : The Annales, or Generalle Chronicle of England, Begun First by Maister John Stow, and After Him Continued and Augmented with Matters Forreine and Domesticall unto the End of Yeare 1610, by E. H.
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 August 1797: 'Our Edwards were tolerable considering the day they lived in. I have never thought so highly as our historians of the Black Princes waiting at supper upon the captive King, it was an ill judged condescension & must have been painful to John. he should have supped with him. but Henry after the battle of Agincourt made the his prisoners wait upon him. I find this in an old Chronicler whose name seems almost to have perished. Edmond Howes. he wrote under Elizabeth James & in the earlier years of Charles & expresses obligations to Sir Edward Coke & Master Camden.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Anna Seward : 'Written by Anna Seward, After Reading Southey’s Joan of Arc’
Robert Southey to John May, 24 August 1797: 'Have you seen a poem addressed to me by Miss Anna Seward? if not I can much amuse you by it. she applies to my poetry what Milton says of the Pandæmonium chorists.calls me an unnatural boy, a beardless parricide, & dark of heart; says I cry like a crocodile & bids me laugh like a hyena. — & laugh I did most heartily — & so I think will you at perusing this very delectable poem.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Newspaper

Robert Loveday : Cléopâtre
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 August 1797: '...tis in the translation of the huge romance Cleopatra by a Robert Loveday, who from the recommendatory verses prefixd to his book seems to have possessed more celebrity than diffidence.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Godwin : The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'Nothing disgusts me so much as the affectation of fine language. Godwins Enquirer is a sad example. if a writer has a plain thing to express let him express it plainly, & if he ought to write at all the ideas will elevate the language — he may rest assured that his language will not elevate the idea.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Francis Quarles : Argalus and Parthenia
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I doubted not that you would agree with me in thinking very highly of quaint old Quarles. you shall see his Argalus & Parthenia when we meet, it is more ridiculous than his Emblems, but often very fine & never tame.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : Palmerin of England
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I much want the latter books of Amadis, subsequent to those which Tressan has abridged & prior to Amadis of Greece: you know my great attachment to the old romances. I know the Portugueze Palmerin. it has fine parts but deserves not the praise of Cervantes.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jean Froissart : Le Premier (-Quart) Volume De Messire Jehan Froissart Lequel Traicte de Choses Vingts de Memoire Advenues Tant es Pays de France, Angleterre, Flandres, Espaigne que Escoce, ets Aus Tres Lieux Circonvoisins
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I have been reading old Froissart. after Sir Walter Manny & about a dozen Knights with three hundred archers had sallied out & broken an engine than annoyed them — the Countess of Montford met them in the on their return, & she kissed them all three or four times, like a noble & valiant Lady. I have a great love for this plain quaintness of speech — it is often ludicrous, but it as often beautiful — & one who wishes to write good poetry now should read old prose.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Jean Jacques Rousseau : La Lévite d’Ephraim
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Do you know Rousseaus Levite of Ephraim? if not — you will find a poem that has not a word too much.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

anon : Review of William Rough, Lorenzini di Medici
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I see Roughs Lorenzino reviewed. I had not expected much.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Anna Letitia Barbauld : ‘To S. T. Coleridge, 1797’
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Mrs Barbauld has written some lines to Coleridge advising him to abandon metaphysics. the poem is not good. if however you are inclined to see it I will copy it for you.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

S.T. Coleridge : Osorio
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Coleridge has written a tragedy — by request of Sheridan. it is uncommonly fine — tho every character appears to me to possess qualities which can not possibly exist in the same mind.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey

William Wordsworth : The Borderers
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: '...but there is a man, whose name is not known in the world — Wordsworth — who has written great part of a tragedy, upon a very strange & unpleasant subject — but [MS obscured] is equal to any dramatic pieces, [MS obscured] I have ever seen.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : [history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and II]
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine years old. I had been reading the historical plays of Shakespere — concluded that there must be civil war in my own time & resolved to be a very great man, like the Earl of Warwick.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Fraternity
'A fine book dearest boy ! I've read it several times. There's a breadth, an ease in it which gives one a quite new view of John Galsworthy.The humanity of it is infinitely deeper than "[A] Man of Property" or the "C[ountry]H[ouse]". Mr. Stone is an amazing creation, a memorable figure--and the whole a great performance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

S.T. Coleridge : Osorio
Robert Southey to John May, 6 October 1797: 'Coleridge has so far compleated his tragedy that he has only the task of correcting it to perform. he passed thro Bath & read it to me. it is wonderfully fine — it must secure its own success, & my own opinion of it is so high that I should not be surprized were it again to make tragedy fashionable. you know Sheridan requested him to write it. his profits will be 5 or 600£.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Manuscript: Unknown

André Maurois : Ariel: ou la vie de Shelley
I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Jean de Serres : Histoire de France
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans] is in the Histoire de l’Eglise Gallican par Berthier,a book I have sought for in vain. in Weys book from Le Grand there is a note from the Journal of Paris at that period, relating to her, which furnished me with subject for some of my best lines — they relate to a place she frequented in Lorraine called the Fountain of the Fairies. do you know either of these books?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Gregory Lewis Way : Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries by M. Le Grand, Selected and Translated into English Verse
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans] is in the Histoire de l’Eglise Gallican par Berthier,a book I have sought for in vain. in Weys book from Le Grand there is a note from the Journal of Paris at that period, relating to her, which furnished me with subject for some of my best lines — they relate to a place she frequented in Lorraine called the Fountain of the Fairies. do you know either of these books?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: La Nouvelle Revue Francaise
Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it. The foremost is fundamental and unanswerable literary criticism! Yes, I had read 'Clodomir l’assassin'. It was marvellous.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have used one word which nobody understands. the jazerent of double mail — I shall not take the same liberty with another. jazerina often occurs in the Guerras Civiles de Granada.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Gines Perez de Hita : Guerras Civiles de Granada
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have used one word which nobody understands. the jazerent of double mail — I shall not take the same liberty with another. jazerina often occurs in the Guerras Civiles de Granada.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Stephen Reynolds : unknown
'All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a string of complimentary phrases for you. You are a big boy and know what "very good" means.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

: account of death of William Buller
Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'I saw Bullers death in the news-paper. — it surprized me. we are accustomed to think it dreadful for a young man to die during when his conduct is wrong. — perhaps tho a natural feeling this is a mistaken one. two young men live in wickedness. the one dies unreclaimed in his youth. the other grows old & repents. so might the first, but for the accident of death. may we not then expect the process of amendment to be carried on in the next state of existence? else — can we expect the same work to be performed in a week or in a month? ...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Newspaper

Marcel Jouhandeau : Clodomir l'assassin
Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it. The foremost is fundamental and unanswerable literary criticism! Yes, I had read 'Clodomir l’assassin'. It was marvellous. Inspired by your letter, I searched out the Numbers containing it and read it again. . .
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

: Monthly Magazine
Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'We have had a dreadful suicide here. the whole is in the Monthly Magazine.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Serial / periodical

Amos Simon Cottle : Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund Translated into English Verse
Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 11 November 1797: 'Amos Cottles translation of the Edda is published, & I have brought over a copy for you. you know it was my intention to write him some lines that might be prefixed, & perhaps sell some half dozen copies among my friends. you will find them there. the book itself will not interest you. it is only calculated for those who study mythology in general, the antiquities of the north, or who read to collect images for poetry. it happens to suit me in all these points.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

William Cowper : poem [unidentified]
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'You will be surprized perhaps at hearing that Cowpers poem does not at all please me. you must have heard it in some moment when your mind was predisposed to be pleased, & the first impression has remained. indeed I think it — not above mediocrity — I cannot trace the Author of the Task in one line.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Unknown

Charles Lamb : 'Written Soon after the Preceding Poem’
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'I know that our tastes differ much in poetry. & yet I think you must like these lines by Charles Lamb. I believe you know his history — & the dreadful death of his mother'. Southey then quotes several lines beginning: 'Thou shouldst have longer lived, & to the grave...'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Mark Rutherford : The Novels of Mark Rutherford
'We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford). It is a miserable and ill-printed edition, but it exists, and I am reading him all over again. Hale White is a great writer who adopted a form which he never learnt how to use: the novel. His construction is usually naïf to the point of absurdity. But he is full of great stuff, and a most genuine stylist—one of the best, I think.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Johannes Ravisius Textor : De Memorabilibus et Claris Mulieribus: Aliquot Diversorum Scriptorum Opera
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Redcross Street; from which, by permission of Dr Towers one of the Trustees, I brought back books of great importance for my Maid of Orleans. a hackney coach horse turned into a field of grass falls not more eagerly to a breakfast which lasts the whole day, than I attacked the old folios so respectably covered with dust. I begin to like dirty rotten binding, & whenever I get among books pass by the gilt coxcombs & yet disturb the spiders. — But you shall hear what I have got. a Latin poem in four long books upon Joan of Arc. very bad — but it gives me a quaint note or two — & Valerandus Valerius is a fine name for a quotation. a small quarto of the Life of the Maid, chiefly extracts from forgotten authors, printed at Paris. 1612. with a print of her on horseback, & another on foot in the same dress & attitude as the one I have. A sketch of her life, by Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis — bless the length of his erudite name! — this is short but the most valuable of all, inasmuch as I have his authority for her prediction of her death — & that he has given me matter for a noble speech in Book 3. (I write in the spirit of prophecy for its nobleness.) by saying that her first vision was in a ruined church, where the weather drove her to pass the night with her flock. there are more treasures in this library — & I go there again on Monday next.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

: Express
My objection to the policy of the 'Express' of late is that I can’t understand it—nor have I met anyone else who can. Therefore, however good the policy may be, the paper fails as the vehicle of it. . . . Lastly I will mention the question of your recent headlines. Considering that the immense psychological effect of headlines is largely the creation of people like yourself, Blum, and the Harmsworths, I think the Express might handle headlines with greater care than apparently it has been doing.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

Jean Masson : Histoire Memorable de la Vie de Jeanne d’Arc, Appelée la Pucelle d’Orleans
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Redcross Street; from which, by permission of Dr Towers one of the Trustees, I brought back books of great importance for my Maid of Orleans. a hackney coach horse turned into a field of grass falls not more eagerly to a breakfast which lasts the whole day, than I attacked the old folios so respectably covered with dust. I begin to like dirty rotten binding, & whenever I get among books pass by the gilt coxcombs & yet disturb the spiders. — But you shall hear what I have got. a Latin poem in four long books upon Joan of Arc. very bad — but it gives me a quaint note or two — & Valerandus Valerius is a fine name for a quotation. a small quarto of the Life of the Maid, chiefly extracts from forgotten authors, printed at Paris. 1612. with a print of her on horseback, & another on foot in the same dress & attitude as the one I have. A sketch of her life, by Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis — bless the length of his erudite name! — this is short but the most valuable of all, inasmuch as I have his authority for her prediction of her death — & that he has given me matter for a noble speech in Book 3. (I write in the spirit of prophecy for its nobleness.) by saying that her first vision was in a ruined church, where the weather drove her to pass the night with her flock. there are more treasures in this library — & I go there again on Monday next.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo : De Claris Mulieribus
Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Redcross Street; from which, by permission of Dr Towers one of the Trustees, I brought back books of great importance for my Maid of Orleans. a hackney coach horse turned into a field of grass falls not more eagerly to a breakfast which lasts the whole day, than I attacked the old folios so respectably covered with dust. I begin to like dirty rotten binding, & whenever I get among books pass by the gilt coxcombs & yet disturb the spiders. — But you shall hear what I have got. a Latin poem in four long books upon Joan of Arc. very bad — but it gives me a quaint note or two — & Valerandus Valerius is a fine name for a quotation. a small quarto of the Life of the Maid, chiefly extracts from forgotten authors, printed at Paris. 1612. with a print of her on horseback, & another on foot in the same dress & attitude as the one I have. A sketch of her life, by Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis — bless the length of his erudite name! — this is short but the most valuable of all, inasmuch as I have his authority for her prediction of her death — & that he has given me matter for a noble speech in Book 3. (I write in the spirit of prophecy for its nobleness.) by saying that her first vision was in a ruined church, where the weather drove her to pass the night with her flock. there are more treasures in this library — & I go there again on Monday next.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

Havelock Ellis : The Dance of Life
On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee. (But I have been an admirer of Havelock for 30 years.)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Frank Swinnerton : Young Felix
'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

James Kirkton : Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the year 1678
'He has infinite wit and a great turn for antiquarian lore as the publications of Kirkton etc. bear witness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed by the Club.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of the XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Taming of the Shrew, The
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: T.T. Cass      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Taming of the Shrew, The
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Cass      Print: Book

Wilhelm Stekel : Peculiarities of Behaviour
'I am reading "Peculiarities of Behaviour" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything down to food urge or sex urge.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'I read the "Syonan Times" it says: "The era of equality for all in Greater Asia is at hand"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Walter Wilkinson : Puppets into Scotland
I am reading "Puppets into Scotland" by W. Wilkinson - it makes one very homesick'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

Walter Wilkinson : Puppets into Scotland
'I finish the "Puppets" book; it induced too great a longing for home and freedom and the end of this nightmare the world is plunged into - to appreciate it as I should have done'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

Allan Ramsay : Tea-Table Miscellany: My Jo Janet
Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

: The Vocal Miscellany
Walter Scott quotes two lines from 'The Vocal Miscellany': 'Come, come my Hearts of Gold' (163) and ' Every man take a glass in his hand' (103).
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Henry Fielding : Tom Thumb the Great
Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

David Ricardo : 'on the depreciation of our paper currency'
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (January 1819): 'Rose at 9 [...] Mr. Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphlet on the depreciation of our paper currency. Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass; read some more of Ricardo -- his reply to Mr. Bosanquet, which is most able [...] spent the evening in going on with my "thoughts," looking at some parts of Xenophon and Arsitotle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

[unknown] : Prison Regulations
'I find a copy of the "Prison Regulations" for December 1938: European rations total over three pounds daily and Japanese 2lbs 10oz. I give this in to the Committee as evidence'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says Java surrendered unconditionally on Monday [9 Mar]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" also gives a list of Nipponese taking positions as Advisers in various States of Malaya except Pahang'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [sign]
'Notice over the bakery - "Wedding Cakes A Speciality"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Graffito

[n/a] : The Changi Guardian
'A statement about the position as regards the exchange of internees is given by "The Changi Guardian" (the prisoners' bulletin): no steps have been taken yet and can only be initiated by the government concerned'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" reports there is no resistance in Northern Sumatra. In the newspaper, there is a remarkable similarity in the wording of the various official notices, eg. "Those who do not comply will be severely punished". Thus falls the British tyranny'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" reports that Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the prisoners in Hong Kong and of their "wonderful treatment" by the Japanese. There is no mention of Singapore ... According to the "Syonan Times" our and the Allies' naval losses are astronomical and the Nipponese microscopic'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says that 11 ships have been sunk off Colombo, Rangoon and the Indian coast; also the Queen Mary with 10,000 troops in the South Atlantic. The newspaper also warns the Asiatic population that the way to happiness etc. will be hard, but they must tread it for the sake of their children! The arrogant British then come in for more castigation'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [marginalia in Dandelion Days]
'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the General Hopsital, thus: "23.25 - what the hell has the night sister done to me? Injection refused but given some other awful stuff - made to feel like a drunk in five minutes - didn't ask for anything - or injection - God, she's a bitch. Evacuated from Penang and now a thorough defeatist - anti-everything. I feel stewed except the pain in my leg has not gone." Signature illegible.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Graffito

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times announces with a flourish the resumption of the delivery of letters.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" announces the resumption of the retail sale of sugar. And they are to re-open the schools soon'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" reports that 200 mixed British and Dutch refugees have been rounded up in Northern Sumatra. They had fled there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says the Nipponese have given Hong Kong internees money and cigarettes and they allow canteens where they can buy anything ... "The Syonan Times" has announced that, by order, the first Nipponese public holiday is to be April 29th, the Emperor's birthday'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : [unknown]
'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "Cavalcade". It is very inspiring; it ends with "God Save The King".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war     Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : [unknown]
'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "Cavalcade". It is very inspiring; it ends with "God Save The King".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war     Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : [unknown]
'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "Cavalcade". It is very inspiring; it ends with "God Save The King".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war     Print: Book

Noel Coward : Cavalcade
'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "Cavalcade". It is very inspiring; it ends with "God Save The King".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war     Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says the scorched earth policy in Malaya was a failure - the rubber and tin are still there!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says the lack of food grown in Malaya is due to the deliberate policy of the British government, who thought of nothing but wealth for their merchant princes. And there are fewer motor accidents in Singapore now. This is due to the imposition of a 30mph limit and the superior driving of the Nipponese'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Changi Guardian
'"The Changi Guardian" says in the "Do You Know?" pages: "That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet - two enthusiasts, etc!" The editors must have been a long time waking up, as this is our 50th successive day running round the exercise yard in the morning'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

anon. : J'y suis, J'y reste
'After Lights Out, Bayley reads a poem - anonymous. "J'y suis, j'y reste" about the war in Malaya. It is good and comprehensive. I disagree with the part, which mentions rape and looting by our troops. I have never heard of rape by them, but looting - ye gods - they were past masters'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'According to "The Syonan Times", 10,000 prisoners are working on it [war memorial]. A "Lisbon cable" published in the same newspaper says that Sir Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has told the House of Commons that conditions in the prisoner-of-war camps in Singapore and Hong Kong are good and the food is enough'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" has a headline: "European War Decided in Two Months", but I cannot get near enough to see which way! As usual, the paper vanishes in the night. Some swine does it systematically.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'I take the chance of a leisurely read of "The Syonan Times" of May 18th. The headlines include: "Decline of the British Empire Inevitable" (how true!); and "Shaping of Future Destiny of World in Nipponese Hands".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'I inspect "The Syonan Times" from May 23rd to 28th: the usual unadulterated propaganda - in such mass and so blatant you would expect it to stultify itself completely. The highlight is: "Our treatment of the prisoners-of-war is such as to win the admiration of the world and the chivalry of our army is a by-word". Headlines include: "Day of Reckoning At Hand for Britain"; "Spectre of Revolution and Famine Stalks Through the Land"; "Britain and US Reduced to Third-Rate Naval Powers" (by the "smashing victory" in the Coral Sea)'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Oxford Advanced Atlas
'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the Oxford Advanced - borrowed from Bayley'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says very naively that the essay competition on Nipponese culture was very disappointing. There were only 45 entries: no first and second prizes will be awarded. The population of Syonan don't seem to have realised that Nipponese culture is the finest in the world, especially in science and engineering. This is proved by the fact that her inventions have been adopted all over the world.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Anne Lindbergh : North to the Orient
'I read "North to the Orient" by Anne Lindbergh. I imagined they had flown over the top of the world! But actually it was via North Canada, Alaska, Kanchatka, and the Kurile Islands to Tokyo and Hunkow. The Nipponese were kindness itself. I don't think they met the Nipponese High Command.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times reports that Mrs Arbenz, wife of the Swiss Consul, has been killed in a motor accident. Joan knew the daughters well. "The Syonan Times" leader complains bitterly that the population of Syonan-To are just waiting. They don't learn Nippon-Go, they don't take off their coats and work'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'A notice in "The Syonan Times" asks the public to cooperate in measures for the suppression of mosquitoes'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" gives full details for an exchange of diplomats and others from the US, Canada and South America and the names of the ships involved'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Axel Munthe : San Michele
'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportable life. They are so busy finding out all that is going on inside and outside their cage, so full of intrigue and gossip, that they hardly have time to be unhappy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Malcolm Campbell : My Greatest Adventure
'I read "My Greatest Adventure" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of the hardships they had to endure the fact that he had to eat a boiled egg without a spoon. This makes us laugh like drains.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

R.H. Bruce-Lockhart : Guns and Butter
'In "Guns and Butter" by Bruce-Lockhart (written October 1938), he says: "To anyone who knows the East, it was already clear that, whoever won the war between Japan and China, the white races have already lost it'. It is probably true in the long run, but, now that the East has seen, the time may be postponed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Changi Guardian
'"The Changi Guardian", in its cricket report, says: "Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, when the final two came just before time, there was wild cheering".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Richard Doddridge Blackmore : Lorna Doone
'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" of August 7th says: "Grow more food. It is essential. It is to be planted on enemy-owned rubber plantations. The shortage is the result of bad administration by the British, but the Malayans must take their share of the blame, as there is responsibility both as government and governed." It sounds OK, but the soil won't respond.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says there is to be a public holiday today for the half-anniversary of the New Birth of Malaya.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Arnold Bennett : Accident
'I finish "Accident" by Arnold Bennett, write up my diary, and so to bed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[unknown] : [notice]
'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do the Japanese sentries. If internees do not bow to Indian policemen sentries, they will be severely punished". Bow-wow."
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching

[unknown] : [notice]
'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for readers and others. There is to be no talking. So there is a notice: "B-Sanctuary. Do not pluck the flowers or disturb the wildlife. You may sleep, but do not snore. Keep your B-trap shut. Silence is golden. Gather riches here".'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says that, in spite of the "evil scorched-earth policy" of the British, the hydro-electric installations are now in working order, also 70% of the tin mines.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'A comparison with other internees culled from "The Syonan Times": Manila, S. Thomas University - 3,200 internees in 64 acres, Changi - 2,800 in less than 11 acres. In Hong Kong, they are in villas. In Peking, they are in their own houses.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Changi Guardian
'"The Changi Guardian" reports: "The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring energy of Mr Tom Kitching".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" informs us that one Nipponese is worth at least six white soldiers because he fights for ideals and love of country, but whites are materialistic and fight only under the influence of rum and drugs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'According to "The Syonan Times", the Government of Malaya says that the Nipponese will educate the youth of Malaya properly. We only did it intellectually.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says that M. Egle, the Red Cross representative, entertained to dinner by the Nipponese in Shanghi, said, "Your kindness (to the prisoners-of-war) has been just wonderful".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says that the Raffles statue is being moved to a museum.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
[in this entry, lists extracts from "The Syonan Times" of 10 Sept]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" refers to the "miserable hordes of distressed humanity who were barely able to eke out an existence on the borderline of starvation in British times" and who are now on top of the world! ... You can get a lot from reading between the lines. Sometimes we wonder is this is done purposely by the pro-British on the newspaper staff.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'There is unconscious humour in "The Syonan Times". Two headlines state: "New Order Simplifies Chinese Funerals" and "Nipponese Culture - Why Does the West Fail to Understand It?".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" has the speech of welcome given by the Mayor to Nipponese internees who have arrived on the Tatuta Maru from India and Great Britain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says the evil influences of the British education system are to be swept away completely and replaced by an education in which the mainspring in faith is universal brotherhood.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" of September 17th contains an account by a Chinese nurse who, I think, must have been on Nora's ship'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" is running heavy propaganda for the people to learn Japanese. They say people evidently don't like it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" says the Tatuta Maru brought parcels for the prisoners of war "direct from their kith and kin"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield, The
'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" reports that "owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Malayan-Chinese Goodwill Mission's visit to Japan is postponed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'There is not so much bombast in the latest "Syonan Times" report on the war: "Our nation remains determined ... to achieve ultimate victory".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
[Tom quotes the "Syonan Times" on] '"British Maltreatment of Nipponese Internees" and on how the local people "fail to appreciate the realities of freedom, happiness and prosperity they now enjoy!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" carries a report about Miss Estrop, a Eurasian from Kuala Lumpar.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

anon [Trad.] :
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Dated Garrow, 1823, is transcribed the traditional Scottish folk song "Chevy Chase", beginning "God prosper long our noble King/ Our lives and safeties all."
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[unknown] : [unknown]
'A quotation from a book I am reading says: "The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it." How one realises that as an internee!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" leader says: "today, hundreds of thousands of people in Malaya are suffering severely from insufficient food, not because there is a shortage of food, but because they have no money".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'In "The Syonan Times" there is a very anti-British speech by S.C. Goho - the Indians are not supporting the Indian Independence League.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" has more about the wonderful conditions of prisoners-of-war and internees in Hong Kong and Shanghi, but nothing about us!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

William Cowper : John Gilpin
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Shewing how he went farther than he intended and came safe home again', beginning 'John Gilpin was a Citizen /Of credit and renown.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" reports that a week's holiday starts in Japan and elsewhere on December 5th at the end of a year's successful warfare.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" has an amusing erros in its leader today.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Brian Kitching : [letter]
'I have Brian's letter. The opening words are: "Dear Mum and Dad, I hope you are all right". This fills me with gloom. It can only mean that they have heard nothing of Nora.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'There is an article in "The Syonan Times" by Charles Nell about Malayan Shylocks.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Edward Jenner : Signs of Rain
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Signs of Pain: An excuse for not accepting the Invitation of a Friend to make a Country Excursion', beginning 'The hollow winds begin to blow,/ The clouds look black, the glass is low...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

Seabridge : [letter]
'I see Seabridge's letter from South Africa; it is very interesting. There are details about many people who escaped and about the casualties. [quotes from letter]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

Barry Cornwall : Anacreontic Lay
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Anacreontic Lay', beginning 'Sing! - who sings!/ To her who weareth a hundred rings? / Ah who is this Lady fine? The Vine boys! the Vine!...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" gives it away: "The English who formerly lived like kings are now sighing in Changi Prison".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Traditional : The Sportsman and the Countryman
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of the traditional story of the 'Sportsman and the Countryman', beginning 'A sportsman had been out all day with his Gun, and was wending his way homeward greatly dissatisfied...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

Anon. Traditional : A Conservative Song
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'A Conservative Song, to the tune of "There's nae luck about the House"', beginning 'How happy we, the sun and moon/ Are placed so very high...' At the end of the song is written "Essex Standard, Feb. 2 1833"
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Changi Guardian
'And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of "The Changi Guardian" suddenly have their cells turned inside out this morning. They are sent for. We all wonder what the offence is. It is in Saturday's [14th] "Changi Guardian": "Sad Demise of the Sabbath Paper" - "With mixed feelings, we announce that, owing to shortage of newsprint, publication of the 'Changi Chimes' ceased on Staurday last ... From all parts of the world we have received messages of sympathy and codolence and, from these, we append the following extracts: 'your ... little journal' ('The Feathered World'); 'The orginality of the contents never failed to surprise us' ('The Dredgemaster's Weekly')" ... The Japanese open the proceedings by asking how we got these papers into the camp. (They were looking for them, hence the ransacking of the cells.) And, after the most painstaking explanations, the editors are reluctantly released.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

St. George Tucker [attrib.] : Days of my Youth
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Lines written on the Author's being asked why he ceased his Poetical effusions', beginning, 'Days of my youth - ye have glided away/ Hairs of my youth - ye are frosted and grey...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Jap Times and Advertiser
'"The Jap Times and Advertiser" held a slogan competition.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'A paragraph has been cut out of "The Syonan Times"; internees are not allowed to see it, but, with the usual efficiency, enough of the tops of the letters in the headline are left to enable one to read it: "Allied Airmen Bomb Civilians".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : wrapper
'I am amused by a purchase I make today: it is toilet paper and on the wrapper it says in large letters, obviously as a guarantee of excellence: "British Product. Made in Syonan-To".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: wrapper/ packaging

: 'Oh could we read on every brow'
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines beginning 'Oh, could we read on every brow/ The inward grief in silence bred...' At the bottom of the two stanzas is written 'Rob. Bland'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" is again full of articles putting the blame for the war on the Allies'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'"The Syonan Times" advertises a movie in the Capitol, now disguised as Kyo-El-Gekizyo: "Love Finds Andy Hardy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Times
'To quote "The Syonan Times", "All houses will hoist the Rising Sun Flag".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Merivale : On a Laurel, cut down by a Hatchet
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines from 'On a Laurel, cut down by a Hatchet. Merivale', beginning 'Oh! where was Phoebus, when the God of arms/ Dared to profane his Daphne's virgin charms.' (unidentified).
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'Aha! The transformed newspaper is an accomplished fact. The issue of December 12th carries its new name of "Syonan Sinbun" (=newspaper) but this is number five. Where are one, two, three and four? There is not a scrap of news in it. It's full of banquets and mutual admiration society meetings of the Axis partners.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Helen Ball : [letter]
'Helen Ball's letter from South Africa to James is like a breath of fresh spring air in this lousy gaol' [describes letter at length and copies extracts; Tom's son Brian under care of Helen]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

: Magazine of Health
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of advice from the 'Maga. of Health, 1836', beginning, 'Beware of studying, reading or straining the head while at table. Laughter is one of the greatest helps to digestion: and the custom, prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" publish a long interview given by the Bishop of Singapore a few days ago, which is entirely fictitious!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" headline on December 18th: "Tokyo Wins War of Radio Waves". The newspaper lauds the superiority of Japanese broadcasts over those of the Allies.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Robert Southey : March to Moscow
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'March to Moscow, Southey', beginning, 'Buonaparte he would set out/ For a summer excursion to Moscow...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'A notice in "The Syonan Sinbun" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for conversion to medium wave only, "failing which punishment shall be meted out accordingly".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

R.J.H.S. : Diary
'I finish reading the 1942 diary of R.J.H.S. (another internee). It is an intensely personal document totally unlike mine, though we live under precisely similar conditions and environments.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but also discover its causes.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" advertises a slogan competition for the anniversary of the fall of Singapore: "Slogans should clearly show the invulnerable position of Nippon for the successful consummation of a protracted war". Difficult, one thinks.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the museum authorities in Singapore are busy translating all the thousands of explanatory data from English to Nippon-go. English is to be done away with!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

E. C. Bentley : Trent's Last Case
'I go to the library; luckily there is no queue. I get "Trent's Last Case" - a grand book. I've read it at least three times in a previous existence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that there are 18 large mailbags in Tokyo with letters from Great Britain for war prisoners in the Southern Region - that's us.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports Tokyo as saying that "the maltreatment and petty annoyances to which Nipponese internees are subjected in Great Britain and the USA are in sharp contrast to the warm, sympathetic treatment extended by the Nipponese to enemy nationals and prisoners of war." Why put this sort of rubbish in the local paper, when the inhabitants know quite well how WE have been treated?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Creech : 'Do not slay him...'
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines 'Do not slay him who deserves alone/ A whipping for the fault that he has done. Creech'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya, has been promoted to General.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" for Tuesday and Wednesday surpasses itself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

: Lines written in East Barnet Churchyard
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines 'In East Barnet Churchyard': 'Couldst thou but view the distant shores, / Where endlass joys I find/ You'd weep not that I went before / But that you staid behind.' Dated '1827'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" leader is quite amusing; it tells the people how changed things are for them compared with a year ago and adds in brackets "for the better" - in case there should be some misapprehension!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the Nipponese Government has decided not to consider Indians and the other peoples of the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo and the Dutch East Indies as enemy nations any longer.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Isabel Constance Clarke : Haworth Parsonage
'I am reading "Haworth Parsonage" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have often passed Cowan Bridge, the notorious school, which caused the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

anon [Traditional] : The Old and Young Courtier
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'These very pretty rhymes were written in the times of Elizabeth and James!!'. Follows a transcription of 'The Old Courtier', beginning 'An old song made by an aged fate,/ Of an old worshipful Gentleman that had a great estate...' and 'The Young Courtier', beginning 'Like a flourishing young gallant, newly come to his land'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

Lennox Robinson : The White Headed Boy
'It is St Patrick's Day - there is a reading of "The White Headed Boy" by an Irish author with an Irish cast.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

anon [Traditional] : The Old English Gentleman
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Ballad "The old English Gentleman" sung by Mr Phillips, May 10th 1833 - at Mr Anderson's concert', and beginning 'We sing you an ancient song, which was made in ancient days...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

William Bray (ed.) : Life of John Evelyn
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Extract from the Life of John Evelyn Esq published by (and edited) William Bray Esq., Fellow and treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries in London. 1819 - ' and beginning '"July 7th 1656. I began my journey to see some parts of ye North East of England...' and ending with '"Jan. 1 1657. Having praised w. my family and celebrated ye anniversary, I spent some time in imploring God's blessing the yeare I was enterd into."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

: 2 Kings 5: 18-19
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 2 Kings, 1:18-19, prefaced by 'Naaman to the Prophet Elisha, after he had cured him of his Leprosy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

William Stephen Gilly : Waldensian Researches, during a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont...
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Gilly's Waldensian Researches'. Transcription of several lines beginning '"A very little experience and observation will soon teach the travellor to conjecture, from the appearance of vegetation, the probable height of the mountains which he has ascended..."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Horace :
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'The intrepidity of a just and good man nobly set forth by Horace. "The man resolved and steady to his trust,/ Inflexible to ill and obstinately just,/ May the rude rabble's insolence despise"...Spec. Vol.8 No. 615.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Serial / periodical

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin Comtesse de Genlis : Memoirs of the Countess of Genlis, Written by Herself
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Translation of Madame la Countess de Genlis invocation at the beginning of her own history. London 1825'. This begins, 'If I were conscious in my heart of the slightest resentment - of any rancour against the persons of whom I am to speak...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Parish Register
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of '"Crabbe's Paris Register" - Burials', beginning '"True, I'm a sinner", feebly he begins/ "But trust in Mercy to forgive my sins..."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Thomas Abercromby Trant : Two Years in Ava, from May 1824-May 1826
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of information about the Burmese, 'Vid. 2 Years in Ava, 182'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Marie Blanche de Grignan : unidentified
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines by '"Maria Blanche - eldest daughter of Madame de Grignan. She became a Nun in the Convent of St Marie D'Aix and died there at the age of 62."' The lines read: '"Would you know a soldiers life, it is this, when the army is on the march, we work like horses, when it halts nothing can exceed our idleness. We are always in extremes. For three or four days perhaps we do not close our eyes or else for three or four days we never quit our beds; we feast, or we starve."'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné : The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'March 1837'. Transcription of various of Madame de Sévigné's letters.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

David Ricardo : 'on the depreciation of our paper currency'
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphlet on the depreciation of our paper currency. Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass; read some more Ricardo -- his reply to Mr. Bosanquet, which is most able [...] spent the evening in going on with my "thoughts,' looking at some parts of Xenophon and Aristotle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

David Ricardo : 'reply to Mr Bosanquet'
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphlet on the depreciation of our paper currency. Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass; read some more Ricardo -- his reply to Mr. Bosanquet, which is most able [...] spent the evening in going on with my "thoughts,' looking at some parts of Xenophon and Aristotle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

Xenophon :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphlet on the depreciation of our paper currency. Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass; read some more Ricardo -- his reply to Mr. Bosanquet, which is most able [...] spent the evening in going on with my "thoughts,' looking at some parts of Xenophon and Aristotle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Aristotle :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphlet on the depreciation of our paper currency. Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass; read some more Ricardo -- his reply to Mr. Bosanquet, which is most able [...] spent the evening in going on with my "thoughts,' looking at some parts of Xenophon and Aristotle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Galton : Chart on the Late Depreciation of Bank Notes
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on the Late Depreciation of Bank Notes" [...] During the evening I read some more of Hemsterhuis'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Unknown

Hemsterhuis : De l'Homme et de ses Rapports
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on the Late Depreciation of Bank Notes" [...] During the evening I read some more of Hemsterhuis'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Unknown

Hemsterhuis : (possibly) De l'Homme et de ses Rapports
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): '[after 11pm] Read Hemsterhuis for an hour -- some beautiful passages on religion. Bed at 12.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Unknown

: Edinburgh Review
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read some more of the "Edinburgh Review," but was little fit for anything, being so miserable at heart [over family matters relating to his and Harriet's engagement] [...] Between 4 and 5 read some more of Schiller's "Wallenstein," [...] locked up [banking house] about 8. Read Kant's "Anthropology" for two hours.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

Schiller : Wallenstein
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read some more of the "Edinburgh Review," but was little fit for anything, being so miserable at heart [over family matters relating to his and Harriet's engagement] [...] Between 4 and 5 read some more of Schiller's "Wallenstein," [...] locked up [banking house] about 8. Read Kant's "Anthropology" for two hours.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Imanuel Kant : 'Anthropology'
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read some more of the "Edinburgh Review," but was little fit for anything, being so miserable at heart [over family matters relating to his and Harriet's engagement] [...] Between 4 and 5 read some more of Schiller's "Wallenstein," [...] locked up [banking house] about 8. Read Kant's "Anthropology" for two hours.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Giovanni Pontano : Pontani Opera, 'Hendecasyllaborum, Liber Primus' xx
'Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Hemsterhuis : Sur la divinite
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hemsterhuis, "Sur la Divinite." my brother Joseph came to town and interrupted me. Between 4 and 5 read the "Edinburgh Review" on Mill's British India, which is excellent [...] read with considerable attention some more of Hemsterhuis' "Sur la Divinite."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Unknown

: article on 'Mill's British India'
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hemsterhuis, "Sur la Divinite." my brother Joseph came to town and interrupted me. Between 4 and 5 read the "Edinburgh Review" on Mill's British India, which is excellent [...] read with considerable attention some more of Hemsterhuis' "Sur la Divinite."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

Immanuel Kant :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819: 'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and read Kant for a couple of hours [...] finished the evening with Kant.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819: 'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and read Kant for a couple of hours [...] finished the evening with Kant.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times
Prisoner's statement in trial for murder: Daniel Johncock: 'I read the Times newspaper, and read of the suicide of a young woman by taking oxalic acid'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Johncock      Print: Newspaper

: 'Franklin's Life'
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 12 March 1819: 'Read some of Franklin's Life in the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné : The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Of M. De Glessir, Tutor to the young Marquis Grignan (Admirable advice!), "The Chevalier is of more use to the dear boy, than can easily be imagined; he is continually striking the full chords of honour and respectability, and takes an interest in his affairs, for which you cannot sufficiently thank him, he enters into everything, attends to every thing, and wishes the Marquis to regulate his own accounts, and incur no necessary expenses..." M. de Sevigne to Mad de Grignan Letter DCCCXXII. Vol. VL.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

David Hume : Essay on the Academical Philosophy
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819: 'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a sleepless night. Read some of Hume's Essay on the Academical Philosophy [...] Between 4 and 5 read some more of Kant.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Michael Benson: 'I called for a glass of ale, and paid for it; I was there a considerable time, reading the newspaper, and saw the parcel on the counter that Drury had placed there for me to take, and I had another glass of ale'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Benson      Print: Newspaper

Theodore Hook : Love and Pride
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Snowdon': '"...and so he went on expatiating upon his honour and his feelings, his conviction and his independence, seeing before him more plainly and distinctly than the mighty murderer saw the 'air-drawn dagger'..." From Theodore Hook's "Love and Pride"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819: 'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a sleepless night. Read some of Hume's Essay on the Academical Philosophy [...] Between 4 and 5 read some more of Kant.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A. Yes, she went to the opposite box—she did not go directly back—she stood for five minutes reading the newspaper, where the men were, and then went back to her own box—when she got of to go away, there was a general scuffle amongst all those men'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Martin      Print: Newspaper

Immanuel Kant :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Monday 22 March 1819: 'Rose at 6 [...] Read some of Kant for 1 hour ...] between 4 and 5 read some more of Kant; began to acquire a better idea of his doctrines than I had before [...] read Kant until 1/2 past 7, when I went to the "Crown and Anchor" to hear Coleridge's Lecture.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: John Scott: 'about one o'clock in the day on the 1st of May, I was in the French Horn reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Scott      Print: Newspaper

Immanuel Kant :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Wednesday 24 March 1819: 'Rose soon after 6. Read Kant, and breakfasted, until 9.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : Prolegomena
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819: 'Between 4 and 5 I read some of Kant's Prolegomena [...] went up to Palsgrave Place; drank tea with [Charles] Cameron; we conversed about Kant, and read some of Bentham upon Legislation.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Lord Eldon : Speech against the appeal of the Test and Corporation Act
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Eldon's speech against the appeal of the Test and Corp. Act. April 1828' is transcribed a paragraph, in full here: 'The Church of England if properly furnished within, might defy all danger from without; but if those who ought to be its pillars are to be mere weights hanging from the roof - dragging down that which it is their duty to support - it must follow the fate of the Brunswick Theatre, and in that calamity, it will be little consolation that its authors will be the first victims."'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: George Patterson: 'Q. What were you doing there? A. I was reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Patterson      Print: Newspaper

Jeremy Bentham : 'upon Legislation'
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819: 'Between 4 and 5 I read some of Kant's Prolegomena [...] went up to Palsgrave Place; drank tea with [Charles] Cameron; we conversed about Kant, and read some of Bentham upon Legislation.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote and Charles Cameron     Print: Unknown

Theodore Hooke : Jack Bragg
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a paragraph from 'T. Hooke, Jack Bragg', beginning, 'The certain Nobodies, who happen to have fine houses, have been glad to let the few Somebodies they chance to know, invite the Everybodies of their acquaintance to ball and parties in order to make a display...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819: 'Rose at 6. Read and meditated Kant for some time [...] attempted to read some Kant in the evening, but found my eyes so weak that I was compelled to desist, and to think without book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819: 'Rose at 6. Read and meditated Kant for some time [...] attempted to read some Kant in the evening, but found my eyes so weak that I was compelled to desist, and to think without book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for wounding: George Rogers: 'it was quite by accident I saw this affair in the newspaper, which made me attend here'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Rogers      Print: Newspaper

James Boswell : Life of Johnson
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of men, Dr Johnson, we are consoled with the assurance that happiness may be attained if we "apply our hearts" to piety' Transcribes poem beginning "Where then shall hope and fear their object find? / Shall dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind?..." and ends '1749- aged 40.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

David Ricardo :
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 27 March 1819: 'George Norman appeared [...] Had some very interesting conversation about Ireland. After his departure I read a chapter in Ricardo's "Pol. Econ."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Theodore James: 'I did not go before the Magistrate on this matter—I saw in the newspaper that the prisoner was before the Magistrate—he did not call me as a witness there'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Theodore James      Print: Newspaper

: Bell's Weekly Messenger (obituaries)
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Bell's weekly Messenger, April 13 1834. "The late Rudolph Ackermann, Esqr, whose death we announced in our last weeks paper, was born at Schneeberg, in the Kingdom of Saxony, in 1764, and bred to the trade of a coach-builder...." Mr and Mrs Ackermann were my neighbours for the seven years I have lived at Finchley. CMG. April 16 1834. Finchley Common.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Newspaper

Pausanias :
From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being about 40 pages [...] Read some very interesting matter in the first volume of Goguet respecting the early arts, agriculture, baking, brewing [...] and clothes. This is far the best part of Goguet which I have yet seen.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times
Witness statement in trial for theft: George Sweet: 'On the 15th Dec. I saw an advertisement in the Times Newspaper which I have here—(read "Horse for sale...)'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Sweet      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Goguet :
From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being about 40 pages [...] Read some very interesting matter in the first volume of Goguet respecting the early arts, agriculture, baking, brewing [...] and clothes. This is far the best part of Goguet which I have yet seen.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

: Gospel of St Luke, 23: 20-30
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. '"Weep not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem" St Luke 23 Chapters 20 to 30'. Here follows a poem, by "CMG", dated March 26, 1834, Finchley which is clearly a reflection on the Biblical text.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

Goguet :
From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after breakfast read some articles in Voltaire's Dictionn. Philosoph.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Voltaire : Dictionnaire [?philosophique]
From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after breakfast read some articles in Voltaire's Dictionn. Philosoph.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

George Crabbe : The Mother's Funeral
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called not away, when time had loosed each hold/ On the fond heart, and each desire grew cold; / But when to all that knit us to our kind,/ He felt fast-bound, as Charity can bind..." Crabbe.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times
Witness statement in trial for murder: Charles Evans: 'I was in the room when the Coroner summed up the case to the Jury, and I afterwards read it in the Times' newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Newspaper

Goguet : Dissertation on Sanchoniathon
From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings about the genuineness or spuriousness of this author. Read also his Dissertation on the Book of Job, which I think poor. In the evening read 60 pages of Wolf's Proleg. in Homer, which I think very good.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Goguet : Dissertation on the Book of Job
From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings about the genuineness or spuriousness of this author. Read also his Dissertation on the Book of Job, which I think poor. In the evening read 60 pages of Wolf's Proleg. in Homer, which I think very good.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Wolf : Proleg[omena] 'in Homer'
From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings about the genuineness or spuriousness of this author. Read also his Dissertation on the Book of Job, which I think poor. In the evening read 60 pages of Wolf's Proleg. in Homer, which I think very good.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Childs: 'Turner sat down, and fell asleep—Grimes sat near him, and seemed asleep too—Collins was on the other side of the shop, reading a newspaper—I was obliged to go up stairs for hot water'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Collins      Print: Newspaper

William Shakespeare : Much Ado About Nothing
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??illegible] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Neild      Print: Book

Wolf : Proleg[omena] 'in Homer'
From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822: 'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very much instruction as to the literature and MSS. of antiquity. 'In the evening read some excellent articles in Volt. "Dict. Ph."; particularly articles Consequent and Democratic. Perused Wolf until bed-time.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

Voltaire : Dictionnaire [?philosophique]
From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822: 'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very much instruction as to the literature and MSS. of antiquity. 'In the evening read some excellent articles in Volt. "Dict. Ph."; particularly articles Consequent and Democratic. Perused Wolf until bed-time.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

: The Life of Thomas Sydenham M.D.
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed two pages starting '"Aug 3rd 1664. During the Plague which raged at that season Terror and apprehension now led the multitude into a thousand weak and absurd things...". This is attributed to 'Sydenham . M.D. Life of. Family Library.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Shakespeare]
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare :
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Wolf : Proleg[omena] 'in Homer'
From George Grote's Journal, 7 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Wolf. My opinion of him not lessened; from some passages I think he is a Free- thinker, especially as to the Old Testament [...] Went on with Wolf until bed; I get on slowly with him, from taking constant notes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

William Bray : Life of John Evelyn
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a letter from 'Mr Evelyn to Mr Pepys, Wotton August 9 1700', beginning, 'The confirmation of your health under your own hand, and that I still live in your esteem revives me...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for treason: George Davis: 'Q. How came you to alter your mind? A. Through reading the newspaper this morning, and seeing the character the witness had yesterday, and 1 knew no one could bring such charges against me—it was from reading the account of the cross-examination of Powell—it occurred to me that he bore rather a bad character, and cut rather a bad figure—I did not want to bolster him up—I came to give the light evidence, because I thought the Jury would not believe Powell's statement to be true, as he bore such a bad character.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Davis      Print: Newspaper

Anna Brownell Jameson : Diary of an Ennuyee
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Wolf : Proleg[omena] 'in Homer'
From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon Diod. Sicul., having previously cast my eye over Heyne's Dissent [...] Read Diod. until 2 o'clock -- about 35 pages, as I found it necessary to take down notes of considerable length.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

'Diod.' Siculus :
From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon Diod. Sicul., having previously cast my eye over Heyne's Dissent [...] Read Diod. until 2 o'clock -- about 35 pages, as I found it necessary to take down notes of considerable length.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

'Diod.' Siculus :
From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon Diod. Sicul., having previously cast my eye over Heyne's Dissent [...] Read Diod. until 2 o'clock -- about 35 pages, as I found it necessary to take down notes of considerable length.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Elizabeth Edminson : [Paper on Lecky's 'Map of Life']
'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : The Times
Witness statement in trial for deception: William James Bedel: 'On Monday, 6th Nov. last, I saw this advertisement in the Times newspaper:—"A pair of brown geldings...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William James Bedel      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

William Edward Hartpole Lecky : Map of Life
'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

'Diod.' Siculus :
From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and got through 80 pages, taking notes. He seems a more sensible writer than I had expected. A few articles in the "Dictionn. Philos." filled up odd moments. The article on Miracles is admirable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Voltaire : 'Miracles'
From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and got through 80 pages, taking notes. He seems a more sensible writer than I had expected. A few articles in the "Dictionn. Philos." filled up odd moments. The article on Miracles is admirable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Divina Commedia: Inferno
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (mis)quotes a line from Dante, "Inferno," Canto 7: "Qui vid'i gente, piu che altrove troppa..."
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [Paper delivered to XII Book Club]
'Mrs Goadby then sang a song which was followed by a paper by Mr Stansfield on "The Hasty"'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: George Dawson: 'Campbell was in my house on that Saturday, from three to four o'clock—he read the newspaper—he said he had been to Smithfield, and bought a saddle, on the Friday'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Campbell      Print: Newspaper

William Henry Smith : [Paper on Ruskin]
'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

James Hogg : Queen Hynde
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. C.M.G. transcribes, under title 'The Ettrick Shepherd, Queen Hynde' poem beginning 'As when, in ages long agone,/ The Sons of God before the throne / Of their almighty Father came...'. At end of poem is written 'Queen Hynde. Ettrick Shepherd - J. Hogg - Died 21 Nov 1835.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for deception: Thomas Holmman: 'I afterwards saw an account in the newspaper of the prisoner's examination, in conesquence of which I went to the police-office'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Holmman      Print: Newspaper

John Ruskin : Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War
'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with reference to "Unto this Last".' [the lengthy discussion that ensued is given in the MS]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

Rev. J.E. Hankinson : St Paul at Philippi
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By the Revd. J.E. Hankinson M. A. - 1833.' A poem beginning 'Twas a lone spot, that shrine of prayer!/ Some river nymph's deserted haunt/ Whose sacred springlet diamond clear/ Welled bubbling from its rocky front...' is then transcribed.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]

Charles Stansfield : [Paper on Ruskin's Economics]
'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with reference to "Unto this Last".' [the lengthy discussion that ensued is given in the MS]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

James Mill : Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind
'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of students in this branch of knowledge resumed the habit begun two years previous, of meeting at George Grote's house on two mornings of the week, at half past eight A.M. 'They read Mr. Mill's last work, "Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind," Hartley on Man, Dutrieux's Logic, Whately's works, &c., discussing as they proceeded.. Mr. John Stuart Mill, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Eyton Tooke [...] Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, Mr. G. J. Graham, Mr. Grant, and Mr. W. G. Prescott formed part of this class. Mr. George Grote was always present at their meetings, which lasted an hour, or an hour and a half, as time served.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others     Print: Book

John Ruskin : Unto this Last
'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with reference to "Unto this Last".' [the lengthy discussion that ensued is given in the MS]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Hannah More : Essay on Saint Paul
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he had the loftiness of Isaiah, the devotion of David, the pathos of Jeremiah, the vehemence of Ezekiel, the didactic gravity of Moses...' etc. Various other parts of the Essay are transcribed in the next 3 pages.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]

Hartley : 'on Man'
'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of students in this branch of knowledge resumed the habit begun two years previous, of meeting at George Grote's house on two mornings of the week, at half past eight A.M. 'They read Mr. Mill's last work, "Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind," Hartley on Man, Dutrieux's Logic, Whately's works, &c., discussing as they proceeded.. Mr. John Stuart Mill, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Eyton Tooke [...] Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, Mr. G. J. Graham, Mr. Grant, and Mr. W. G. Prescott formed part of this class. Mr. George Grote was always present at their meetings, which lasted an hour, or an hour and a half, as time served.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others     Print: Book

Dutrieux : 'Logic"
'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of students in this branch of knowledge resumed the habit begun two years previous, of meeting at George Grote's house on two mornings of the week, at half past eight A.M. 'They read Mr. Mill's last work, "Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind," Hartley on Man, Dutrieux's Logic, Whately's works, &c., discussing as they proceeded.. Mr. John Stuart Mill, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Eyton Tooke [...] Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, Mr. G. J. Graham, Mr. Grant, and Mr. W. G. Prescott formed part of this class. Mr. George Grote was always present at their meetings, which lasted an hour, or an hour and a half, as time served.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others     Print: Book

Whately : works
'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of students in this branch of knowledge resumed the habit begun two years previous, of meeting at George Grote's house on two mornings of the week, at half past eight A.M. 'They read Mr. Mill's last work, "Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind," Hartley on Man, Dutrieux's Logic, Whately's works, &c., discussing as they proceeded.. Mr. John Stuart Mill, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Eyton Tooke [...] Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, Mr. G. J. Graham, Mr. Grant, and Mr. W. G. Prescott formed part of this class. Mr. George Grote was always present at their meetings, which lasted an hour, or an hour and a half, as time served.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others     Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: George Gordon Chitlock: 'both these bags were in the booking-office—the prisoner came to take his ticket some time after the prosecutor had left his bag—the prisoner put his bag on a form—he borrowed a newspaper; he read it till the bell rang—he then seized a bag and went off, leaving his own bag behind.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Game      Print: Newspaper

: Salisbury Herald
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Approved remedies for Everyday Maladies. For a Fit of Passion. - Walk out in the open air, you may speak your mind to the wind and without hurting anyone, or proclaiming yourself to be a simpleton....[other maladies include A fit of Idleness, A Fit of Extravagance and Folly, a Fit of Ambition, a Fit of repining, a Fit of Despondency, and All Fits of Doubt Perplexity and Fear]. Salisbury Herald - John Bull, April 9th 1837.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Newspaper

Alfred Rawlings : [paper on Ruskin as art critic]
'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with which the paper chiefly dealt. The style was condemned as quite unsuited to the subject by reason of its verbosity its looseness of expression & inexact terminology. This view met with strong dissent. Extracts were then read from Modern Painters showing the argument of the work which was criticised later'. [the critique is summarised]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with which the paper chiefly dealt. The style was condemned as quite unsuited to the subject by reason of its verbosity its looseness of expression & inexact terminology. This view met with strong dissent. Extracts were then read from Modern Painters showing the argument of the work which was criticised later'. [the critique is summarised]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

: The Spectator
C. B. Fripp to George Grote, 26 December 1836: 'In the Spectator of this week (of which I am a regular reader), I am delighted to see it stated that you have resolved to move in the House of Commons, on the first opportunity, for leave to bring in a [italics]Bill[end italics] in favour of the [italics]Ballot[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C. B. Fripp      Print: Serial / periodical

: Bible
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Notes are made on relationships in the Bible, e.g. two columns entitled 'Husband' and 'Wife' have below them Adam ---- Eve; Abram---Sarai...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with which the paper chiefly dealt. The style was condemned as quite unsuited to the subject by reason of its verbosity its looseness of expression & inexact terminology. This view met with strong dissent. Extracts were then read from Modern Painters showing the argument of the work which was criticised later'. [the critique is summarised]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Richard James: 'I put the key of the cupboard into my pocket, and went to the public-house—I looked at a newspaper to see what Consols were—he said they were very high, and he would not advise me to buy in, as they would be lower—I parted with him then, and returned to my own house'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard James      Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: The Federalist
'[By 1837] American politics had for many years occupied Grote's attention, and engaged his sympathy. He was a great admirer of the "Federalist," the pages of which, he always declared, showed the highest qualities of philosophical statesmanship.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'the minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Richardson : unknown
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed: '"I compare marriage, even where there is no unhappiness, to a journey in a stage Coach, six passengers in it. Very uneasy do they sit at first, though they know by the number of places taken what they are to expect...' This is attributed to 'Richardson, Cor..t'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]

Bishop Middleton : Maxims
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, including 'Keep your temper', 'Employ leisure in study,' and [doubled underlined] 'remember the final account.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]

Thomas Hobbes :
Sir William Molesworth to Harriet Grote, September 1838, regarding his planned edition of the works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: 'I have written this day to Mr. Grote, to ask permission to dedicate the volumes to him [...] I shall ever feel the deepest gratitude for the philosophical instruction he gave me when I first knew him, which induced me to study Hobbes and similar authors, and created a taste in my mind for that style of reading.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Molesworth      Print: Book

: John Bull Newspaper
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Copied from the John Bull Newspaper, Novr 19 1837. Speech of the Vicar, the Red Walter Farquer Hook D.D. at a meeting at Leeds, for the proposed enlargement of the Leeds Parish Church...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for murder: Richard John Moxey: '[Manning] said, "Is the wretch taken?"—I said I did not know, 1 believed so from what I had seen in the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard John Moxey      Print: Newspaper

Lilian Goadby : [account of life of William Morris]
'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in review. After some comments Mrs Edminson read the opening verses to the Earthly Paradise the idle singer of an empty day. Miss Goadby followed with an excellent paper entitled "Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of Nature" which showed a wide knowledge and keen appreciation of the author's works both in prose & verse. After some appreciative remarks Mrs Ridges read a paper on Wm Morris & Socialism in which it was pointed out that the socialism was the direct & logical outcome of his artistic attitude. [this argument is summarised] Some discussion folowed & was hardly concluded at ten o clock when the Chairman called upon A. Rawlings for some remarks on the art of Wm Morris. In two or three minutes a very incomplete statement of Morris's methods & aims was made & a very pleasant evening was brought to a close'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lilian Goadby      Manuscript: Unknown

Hare : Confidence and Distrust
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Confidence and Distrust, 1840 Hare', beginning "Righteously have jealousy and suspicion been ever regarded as among the meanest and most hateful features which cannot coexist with any gentle or generous feeling...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Comte : Traite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3)
George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of which a third volume has just been published? It seems a work full of profound and original thinking [...] I am sorry to say, however, that I do not find in it the solution of those perplexities respecting the fundamental principles of geometry which I have never yet been able to untie to my own satisfaction. Nor can I at all tolerate the unqualified manner in which he strikes out morals and metaphysics from the list of positive sciences.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Red. G. Walker : sermon
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Given me by the Revd. G. Walker.' Follows transcription of a sermon on the history of the sects of the Church.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Sheet

Miss Goadby : 'Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature'
'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in review. After some comments Mrs Edminson read the opening verses to the Earthly Paradise the idle singer of an empty day. Miss Goadby followed with an excellent paper entitled "Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature" which showed a wide knowledge and keen appreciation of the author's works both in prose & verse. After some appreciative remarks Mrs Ridges read a paper on Wm Morris & Socialism in which it was pointed out that the socialism was the direct & logical outcome of his artistic attitude. [this argument is summarised] Some discussion folowed & was hardly concluded at ten o clock when the Chairman called upon A. Rawlings for some remarks on the art of Wm Morris. In two or three minutes a very incomplete statement of Morris's methods & aims was made & a very pleasant evening was brought to a close'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Manuscript: Unknown

William Morris : Earthly Paradise
'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in review. After some comments Mrs Edminson read the opening verses to the Earthly Paradise the idle singer of an empty day. Miss Goadby followed with an excellent paper entitled "Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature" which showed a wide knowledge and keen appreciation of the author's works both in prose & verse. After some appreciative remarks Mrs Ridges read a paper on Wm Morris & Socialism in which it was pointed out that the socialism was the direct & logical outcome of his artistic attitude. [this argument is summarised] Some discussion folowed & was hardly concluded at ten o clock when the Chairman called upon A. Rawlings for some remarks on the art of Wm Morris. In two or three minutes a very incomplete statement of Morris's methods & aims was made & a very pleasant evening was brought to a close'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Blanche Ridges : [paper on William Morris and socialism]
'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in review. After some comments Mrs Edminson read the opening verses to the Earthly Paradise the idle singer of an empty day. Miss Goadby followed with an excellent paper entitled "Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature" which showed a wide knowledge and keen appreciation of the author's works both in prose & verse. After some appreciative remarks Mrs Ridges read a paper on Wm Morris & Socialism in which it was pointed out that the socialism was the direct & logical outcome of his artistic attitude. [this argument is summarised] Some discussion folowed & was hardly concluded at ten o clock when the Chairman called upon A. Rawlings for some remarks on the art of Wm Morris. In two or three minutes a very incomplete statement of Morris's methods & aims was made & a very pleasant evening was brought to a close'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Cousin : Documens pour servir a l'Histoire de France
George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'The other day at the Athenaeum I took up one of the volumes of the "Documens pour servir a l'Histoire de France," which I found to be the production of Victor Cousin, and to relate to the philosophy of the Middle Ages during the age of Abelard and Roscellinus. There are some clear and instructive reflections in it on the controversy of that day between the Nominalists and Realists.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

William Morris : [political works]
'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in review. After some comments Mrs Edminson read the opening verses to the Earthly Paradise the idle singer of an empty day. Miss Goadby followed with an excellent paper entitled "Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature" which showed a wide knowledge and keen appreciation of the author's works both in prose & verse. After some appreciative remarks Mrs Ridges read a paper on Wm Morris & Socialism in which it was pointed out that the socialism was the direct & logical outcome of his artistic attitude. [this argument is summarised] Some discussion folowed & was hardly concluded at ten o clock when the Chairman called upon A. Rawlings for some remarks on the art of Wm Morris. In two or three minutes a very incomplete statement of Morris's methods & aims was made & a very pleasant evening was brought to a close'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

William Morris : [poetry and prose]
'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in review. After some comments Mrs Edminson read the opening verses to the Earthly Paradise the idle singer of an empty day. Miss Goadby followed with an excellent paper entitled "Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature" which showed a wide knowledge and keen appreciation of the author's works both in prose & verse. After some appreciative remarks Mrs Ridges read a paper on Wm Morris & Socialism in which it was pointed out that the socialism was the direct & logical outcome of his artistic attitude. [this argument is summarised] Some discussion folowed & was hardly concluded at ten o clock when the Chairman called upon A. Rawlings for some remarks on the art of Wm Morris. In two or three minutes a very incomplete statement of Morris's methods & aims was made & a very pleasant evening was brought to a close'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Print: Book

Immanuel Kant : Kritik der reinen Vernunft
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always leads me into very instructive trains of metaphysical thought, and which I value exceedingly, though I am far from agreeing in all he lays down. I have also been looking into Plato's "Timaeus" and "Parmenides," and some of Locke, and have been writing down some of the thoughts generated in my mind by this philosophical melange.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Plato : Timaeus
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always leads me into very instructive trains of metaphysical thought, and which I value exceedingly, though I am far from agreeing in all he lays down. I have also been looking into Plato's "Timaeus" and "Parmenides," and some of Locke, and have been writing down some of the thoughts generated in my mind by this philosophical melange.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Plato : Parmenides
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always leads me into very instructive trains of metaphysical thought, and which I value exceedingly, though I am far from agreeing in all he lays down. I have also been looking into Plato's "Timaeus" and "Parmenides," and some of Locke, and have been writing down some of the thoughts generated in my mind by this philosophical melange.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

John Locke :
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always leads me into very instructive trains of metaphysical thought, and which I value exceedingly, though I am far from agreeing in all he lays down. I have also been looking into Plato's "Timaeus" and "Parmenides," and some of Locke, and have been writing down some of the thoughts generated in my mind by this philosophical melange.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on "Tennyson and his Books"]
'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

B. de St Hilaire : De la logique d'Aristote
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840: 'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De la Logique d'Aristotle.' I have been going through several parts of the Analyse which he gives, and comparing it with the original [...] The more I read of Aristote, the more I am impressed with profound admiration of the reach of thought which his works display. He is, however, excessively difficult, and the process of reading him is slow, almost to tediousness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Aristotle :
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840: 'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De la Logique d'Aristote.' I have been going through several parts of the Analyse which he gives, and comparing it with the original [...] The more I read of Aristotle, the more I am impressed with profound admiration of the reach of thought which his works display. He is, however, excessively difficult, and the process of reading him is slow, almost to tediousness.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : poetry
'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : poetry
'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : poetry
'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T.T. Cass      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : poetry
'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 'Sir Galahad'
'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 'St Agnes' Eve'
'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

George Waddington : The History of the Reformation
'Early in 1841 Grote was called upon to add another duty to the already full catalogue, for his friend Dr. Waddington now entreated him to look through his ponderous and learned work, "The History of the Reformation," then preparing for publication! [...] True to the obligations of friendship, Grote immediately "set to," [a favourite expression of Grote's] upon his critical labours. It certainly was a sacrifice of time and thought to acquiesce in Waddington's modest request, and wade through those thick volumes: and I remember his making humorous observations upon his own disqualification -- I might add, his distaste -- for the task, which he regarded as lying outside his own familiar sphere of study. Nevertheless, the "History of the Reformation" was conscientiously scanned; letters and disquisitions on the subject frequently passing between the two friends.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

: Italian grammar
'On the evening of our arrival at Verona, George said to me, "H, have you got an Italian grammar with you?" -- "Yes." -- "Because I want to look up the verbs." I handed the grammar to G., who quietly pored over it for the space of an hour or so.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Lillian Goadby : [paper on Burns's life]
'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?] on Burns as songwriter & Fred Edminson one devoted to Burns's personality. [various songs were performed] Mrs Stansfield read To a Mouse & To a Mountain Daisy Mrs Rawlings the Cotter's Saturday Night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lilian Goadby      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [paper on Burns as song writer]
'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as songwriter & Fred Edminson one devoted to Burns's personality. [various songs were performed] Mrs Stansfield read To a Mouse & To a Mountain Daisy Mrs Rawlings the Cotter's Saturday Night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Frederick Edminson : [paper on Burns's personality]
'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as songwriter & Fred Edminson one devoted to Burns's personality. [various songs were performed] Mrs Stansfield read To a Mouse & To a Mountain Daisy Mrs Rawlings the Cotter's Saturday Night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

: 'English comedies'
'Within a day or two of our arrival in Rome (which was on the 7th December, 1841) Grote engaged a master, in order to familiarise himself with the Italian tongue: to which end he translated, as best he could, English comedies into Italian, viva voce, for an hour daily.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Robert Burns : 'To a Mouse'
'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as songwriter & Fred Edminson one devoted to Burns's personality. [various songs were performed] Mrs Stansfield read To a Mouse & To a Mountain Daisy Mrs Rawlings the Cotter's Saturday Night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Robert Burns : 'To a Mountain Daisy'
'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as songwriter & Fred Edminson one devoted to Burns's personality. [various songs were performed] Mrs Stansfield read To a Mouse & To a Mountain Daisy Mrs Rawlings the Cotter's Saturday Night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Robert Burns : 'Cotter's Saturday Night'
'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as songwriter & Fred Edminson one devoted to Burns's personality. [various songs were performed] Mrs Stansfield read To a Mouse & To a Mountain Daisy Mrs Rawlings the Cotter's Saturday Night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Robert Burns :
'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as songwriter & Fred Edminson one devoted to Burns's personality. [various songs were performed] Mrs Stansfield read To a Mouse & To a Mountain Daisy Mrs Rawlings the Cotter's Saturday Night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :
'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield, Miss Pollard, T.T. Cass & S.A. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :
'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield, Miss Pollard, T.T. Cass & S.A. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T.T. Cass      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :
'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield, Miss Pollard, T.T. Cass & S.A. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :
'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield, Miss Pollard, T.T. Cass & S.A. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :
'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield, Miss Pollard, T.T. Cass & S.A. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Pollard      Print: Book

Miss Goadby : 'A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers'
'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield, Miss Pollard, T.T. Cass & S.A. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Manuscript: Unknown

William Makepeace Thackeray : Some Roundabout Papers
'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield, Miss Pollard, T.T. Cass & S.A. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Print: Book

Francis Jeffrey : Edinburgh Review: Combinations of Workmen
'Read Jeffrey's neat and well intended address to the Mechanics upon their combinations.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

: [essay entitled] 'Recollections of Childhood'
'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the following is a list of the titles. Recollections of Childhood, Superstitions, On the Origin of Mourning, Procrastination, An Alpine Climb, Wanted a new Line of Temperance Work and De Pueris [?]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

: [essay entitled] 'Superstitions'
'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the following is a list of the titles. Recollections of Childhood, Superstitions, On the Origin of Mourning, Procrastination, An Alpine Climb, Wanted a new Line of Temperance Work and De Pueris [?]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

: [essay entitled] 'On the Origin of Mourning'
'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the following is a list of the titles. Recollections of Childhood, Superstitions, On the Origin of Mourning, Procrastination, An Alpine Climb, Wanted a new Line of Temperance Work and De Pueris [?]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

: [essay entitled] 'Procrastination'
'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the following is a list of the titles. Recollections of Childhood, Superstitions, On the Origin of Mourning, Procrastination, An Alpine Climb, Wanted a new Line of Temperance Work and De Pueris [?]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

: [essay entitled] 'An Alpine Climb'
'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the following is a list of the titles. Recollections of Childhood, Superstitions, On the Origin of Mourning, Procrastination, An Alpine Climb, Wanted a new Line of Temperance Work and De Pueris [?]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

: [essay entitled] 'Wanted a New Line of Temperance Work '
'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the following is a list of the titles. Recollections of Childhood, Superstitions, On the Origin of Mourning, Procrastination, An Alpine Climb, Wanted a new Line of Temperance Work and De Pueris [?]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

: [essay entitled ?] 'De Pueris '
'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the following is a list of the titles. Recollections of Childhood, Superstitions, On the Origin of Mourning, Procrastination, An Alpine Climb, Wanted a new Line of Temperance Work and De Pueris [?]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Miss Goadby : [Paper on Charles Lamb]
'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [Paper on Charles Lamb]
'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Lamb :
'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Pollard      Print: Book

Charles Lamb :
'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Charles Lamb :
'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Charles Lamb :
'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Charles Lamb :
'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Print: Book

Mr Stubington : [letter of resignation from XII Book Club]
'A letter was read from Mr Stubington expressing regret at withdrawing from the Club on account of leaving the town.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

Jane Austen :
'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr Goadby'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

Jane Austen :
'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr Goadby'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Jane Austen :
'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr Goadby'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

Jane Austen :
'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr Goadby'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson and Allan Goadby     Print: Book

Lilian Goadby : [paper on Jane Austen]
'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr Goadby'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lilian Goadby      Manuscript: Unknown

Jane Austen :
'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr Goadby'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lilian Goadby      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'After reading the minutes the arrangements for the next meeting were made'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

George Eliot :
'various readings from George Eliot in character & otherwise were then given by members bringing a very pleasant meeting to a close.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Blanche Ridges : [paper on Elizabeth von Arnim's 'Solitary Summer']
'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth von Arnim : Solitary Summer, The
'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

John Morley : Oliver Cromwell
'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another hand and crossed out] paper on Wm Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

Frederick Edminson : [paper on Morley's life of Oliver Cromwell]
'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another hand and crossed out] paper on Wm Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Rawlings : [paper on William Morris]
'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another hand and crossed out] paper on Wm Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Roger Martin du Gard : Jean Barois
I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed by it that I had it charmingly bound, and I often read in it again. . . . I am very pleased with 'Amants, heureux amants', especially that last story; Valery’s best work, I think.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Valery Larbaud : Amants, heureux amants
I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed by it that I had it charmingly bound, and I often read in it again. . . . I am very pleased with 'Amants, heureux amants', especially that last story; Valery’s best work, I think.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Valery Larbaud : Amants, heureux amants
I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is, in my opinion, a very fine book, highly distinguished, and certainly your best work. I enjoyed it immensely. Especially the last story, which throws light on many things—including yourself. We have no new young novelists in England. D.H. Lawrence is the best, & he is very uneven; also he is growing older. Of course there is Joyce. Your study of him was very useful to me when I wrote a review of 'Ulysses' some time ago. I think that he also is too uneven ever to be quite first-rate. But his best chapters amount to genius.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses
I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is, in my opinion, a very fine book, highly distinguished, and certainly your best work. I enjoyed it immensely. Especially the last story, which throws light on many things—including yourself. We have no new young novelists in England. D.H. Lawrence is the best, & he is very uneven; also he is growing older. Of course there is Joyce. Your study of him was very useful to me when I wrote a review of 'Ulysses' some time ago. I think that he also is too uneven ever to be quite first-rate. But his best chapters amount to genius.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Pauline Smith : The Little Karoo
I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishing enterprise has not come to anything. I have been wondering whether you would care to publish them. . . . I ought to mention that Miss Smith is now at work on a novel, which, so far as I have read it, is at least as fine as the best things in the short stories.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

Pauline Smith : The Beadle
I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishing enterprise has not come to anything. I have been wondering whether you would care to publish them. . . . I ought to mention that Miss Smith is now at work on a novel, which, so far as I have read it, is at least as fine as the best things in the short stories.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

Norman Douglas : Siren Land
His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished and interesting pice of work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Stephen Reynolds : The Holy Mountain
'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel [ "The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

J. (James) G. Gibbons Huneker : Egoists: A Book of Supermen
'I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a man who loves "la littérature critique" (not literary criticism). According to my habit when a fascinating book comes in my way (a sort of angel's visit) I've read it at once,wilfully and of malice prepense, neglecting my daily task to entertain the rare visitor.' Hence follow eight lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : The Feud
'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page of praise, including a comparison with the middle plays of Ibsen, and some rather subjective criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: playscript

Reginald Perceval Gibbon : Afrikander Memories
'I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his Afrikander memories. I didn't quite tell him how good they are for fear he should think I was gushing. But really, in that short production, look at the poetic vision, the existence of simple language, the breadth and force of the effects.' Hence follow 15 lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'Byron's example has formed a sort of Upper House of poetry. There is Lord Leveson Gower a very clever young man. Lord Porchester too, nephew to Mrs Scott of Harden, a young man who lies on the carpet and looks poetical and dandyish - fine lad too - But There be many peers Ere such another Byron.' (footnote - An allusion to Cymbeline)
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'The newspaper praises it [loaf made of maize flour and rice]: "Bread reappears in Syonan. The doctors are enthusiastic about it; it is more palatable and equally nourishing" (compared with that of the effete and non-prosperous days of British rule!)'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : postcard
'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia and gives me some hope that Nora may be there, although I don't think much of the chance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: postcard

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'Very neatly put is this from "The Syonan Sinbun": "With the return of warm weather, the submarine threat has become a burning question."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [letters]
'I receive two letters - one (undated) from Nellie [Tom's eldest sister] in Australia and the other from Amy Hallom in Lancaster, dated 19.7.1942. Both think Nora is here with me. [summarises content of letters]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'There is an appeal in "The Syonan Sinbun" to stop the black-marketeering in drugs. Quinine is available at five cents per tablet - "a price well within reach of the poor". In the bad old days of British rule, the said poor got it for nothing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [letter]
'There is a letter from Joan, Barn Close, Milford, Godalming. It is dated 14.7.42 and addressed to both of us, of course. It is an excellent letter, with the limitations of censorship considered: "I am well and truly started on my career at last and enjoying it hugely".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

M Arlen : Jesting Pilate
'I see a quotation in "Jesting Pilate" by M. Arlen who just passed through Japan. He says: "It is as though there was some inherent vice in Japanese art which made the genuine seem false and the expensive shoddy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[unknown] : Wonderful Britain
'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. What attracts me specifically, apart from the pictures, are articles on things to see around London, Manchester and Sheffield - Wansdyke and Offa's dyke, the magic of the fens.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says: 'What were considered ridiculous prices a few months after the fall of Singapore are as nothing, compared to the prices obtaining today." What a confession! And we are told there is no inflation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

: [letter]
'A few letters are released today. I get my fifth and last - it is from Amy addressed to Nora at 24, Mount Rosie Road and dated July 19th. It contains no new news.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a speech made by Colonel Okabo to a meeting of Mohammedan delegates. He tells them to warn the population against the lying and malicious propaganda of the British and Americans about retaking this part of the world.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

: [letter]
'I receive another letter from Joan, dated June 30th. She had just started the massage course for which the fee was 142 guineas. And she hoped that, when the course was finished, we would have no objection to her marrying John M!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

Margaret Mitchell : Gone with the wind
'I finish reading "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell - A most remarkable book. I enjoyed it very much, but what a little bitch Scarlet O'Hara is! Vic's invariable comment is: "What a wonderful book for a WOMAN to have written!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

: [letter]
'I get my letter; it is from Pip [Tom's sister, Phyllis] and is dated June 21st, 1942. She says Colin looks absolutely splendid and is fighting fit; he is proud of us. And Joan is well too. [war news]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'The Saturday newspaper has part of a column cut out. As there is no war news from Europe elsewhere, you can put omission and exclusion together and make Tunis.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Walking in the Grampians
'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is over.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'Both Tuesday and Wednesday editions of "The Syonan Sinbun" have bits cut out - one-and-a-half columns then one column.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'There is more censorship of the newspaper. It is cut about all over the place.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'I discover a new Nipponese word in a newspaper report: "Three of our planes committed jibaku" ie. deliberately dived into objectives'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'An article in "The Syonan Sinbun" headed "Red Cross Says Syonan Prisoners Well-Treated" reports that the International Red Cross representative in Tokyo has told Geneva: "The representative of the International Red Cross in Syonan is satisfactorily carrying on HIS ASSIGNED DUTIES" - which is quite true, but they do not include an inspection report!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that Nipponese is to be the future lingua franca of Malaya, but do not be perturbed - English will be permitted as a medium of expression for some time yet. How magnaminous is this.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"Nippon knows no class or racial distinctions which were so hateful under the British", says a leader in "The Syonan Sinbun". Yet a railway notice in the paper says, "Owing to current exigencies, first-class tickets will only be issued to certain specified people". Well, well! We never descended to that.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun", under the heading "No Room for Criminals", reports on the new regime's effective campaign against crime.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says the Axis have won the first round in Sicily, but doesn't explain how they let the Allies get there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a spokesman of the Nipponese Army Board of Information as saying Britain has sent warships to the Indian Ocean from the Mediterranean. This is good news, as it means that we can spare them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

Thomas Kitching : The Development of Malayan Surveys
'My talk on "The Development of Malayan Surveys" is read by Sworder. It goes very well. Many people come and congratulate me on it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Sheet

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says a cable from Lisbon on July 22nd reported the arrival in London of 20,000 postcards and letters from the Pacific Theatre. I hope ours are amongst them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

A.J. Evans : The escaping club
'I finish reading "The Escaping Club" by A.J. Evans; it is very interesting, but what a contrast to our lot and treatment. He got so many food parcels from home, plus what he could buy (his pay from the Germans was 100 marks a month), that he never touched the German rations. And when they got dried fish they threw it away.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

[n/a] : Pow-Wow
'A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, "Go over to the Men's Camp". Comment of "Pow-Wow", the ladies periodical is: "WE can't even look forward to that."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Syonan Sinbun
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says goods supplied by the Nipponese will be distributed today; the goods include crockery, glassware, earthenware, vases, beer mugs, cutlery, buckets, needles, lunch boxes, toys, stationery and trays.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Government Blue Books
'I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3rd, 1939 - four years ago. And the most pessimistic prognostications as to the world scope of the war and the wholesale destruction have been fulfilled. But it is strongly heartening to read this book.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : unspecified poem
'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like best the one I am reading at the time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Faith
'Its really good of you to have sent "Faith". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthusiasm is roused always to the highest pitch by your amazing prose. I have already read (the book arrived but two hours ago) "The Idealist" and "The Saint". Admirable in concepton and feeling are these two sketches.[...] This afternoon I shall sit down with the book and forget my miseries in the delight of your art so strong and human.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: [letter]
'AT LAST! A letter from Brenda [Tom's sister] dated July 27th, 1942, with some news of Nora: 'I expect Joan has told you of the letter she had from Mrs Noble giving an account of Nora's adventures - it upsets us very much ...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

: [letter]
'There is a letter to both of us from Joan dated July 28th, 1942. She is enjoying her work "hugely".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

: [letter]
'I receive another letter from Joan, dated October 13th, 1942, and numbered two. She is full of enthusiasm for her work...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

: [letter]
'I receive two letters from Brenda. One dated July 22nd, 1942, says she was just moving to London and was going to do all she could for Colin and Joan.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

: [advertisement]
'An advertisement for the Japanese film of the fall of Singapore, "On to Singapore" announces "Syonan - City of Peace, Plenty and Prosperity".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Advertisement

: [letter]
'I receive a letter from Brenda, dated September 18th, 1942. She writes: "We are hoping it won't be long now before we have news of your safety"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

Mary Webb : [unknown]
'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is read by the Bishop of Singapore.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war     Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : [unknown]
'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is read by the Bishop of Singapore.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war     Print: Book

Adrian Bell : [unknown]
'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is read by the Bishop of Singapore.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war     Print: Book

: [letter]
'A note from Nic says that, if I send a coconut weekly, she will send sago pudding - very nice of her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

A Berkeley : The Silk Stocking Murders
'With nothing else to do, the library queue has grown beyond all bounds. It took me an hour yesterday to get "The Silk Stocking Murders" by A. Berkeley - quite a good detective yarn.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

F Yeats Brown : Golden Horn
'I read "Golden Horn" by F. Yeats Brown. He was a prisoner in Turkish hands for two-and-a-half years. As in all these prisoners biographies, they had much more latitude compared with us: they had money, luxuries (eg. drinks and good smokes), individual purchases of food and other commodities, opportunities of escape, and a reasonable rapport with their captors.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

: [letters]
'All the letters have been distributed; they have been here only two months. I get my six, two-and-a-half from Joan, two-and-a-half from Brenda and one from Pip, with dates from 2.11.42 to 29.1.43. A "Post Early for Christmas" postmark on a letter of 1.12.42 strinkes and ironic note when I receive it on 23.12.43! The gist of the news in the letters is: there is no news of Nora or me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Letter

Agatha Christie : Peril at End House
'I read "Peril at End House" by Agatha Christie; it is excellent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

Ella Maillart : Forbidden Journey
'Reading "Forbidden Journey" written by Ella Maillart in 1936, I am interest in her remarks about our friend, the enemy: "Once again, I saw the military supreme, not only over civilians of their own country who often have different ideas, but also over the natives who are full of hatred for their brutal masters..."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)
G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 April 1846: 'I cannot resist writing to express to you the satisfaction, as well as instruction, which I have gained from reading the two published volumes of your "History." You have succeeded completely in placing the whole question of the mythology and legendary narrations of the Greeks upon what I believe to be their true footing [comments further on text].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. C. Lewis      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)
Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846: 'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "History" -- namely, that the avocations of London at the one time, and a tour on the Continent afterwards, gave me no leisure till lately to do more than look cursorily at one volume. I have now had the pleasure of going through it, and cannot refuse myself that also of telling you how greatly I admire your work, and of congratulating you on the very high place it entitles you to take among living historians [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)
Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846: 'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "History" -- namely, that the avocations of London at the one time, and a tour on the Continent afterwards, gave me no leisure till lately to do more than look cursorily at one volume. I have now had the pleasure of going through it, and cannot refuse myself that also of telling you how greatly I admire your work, and of congratulating you on the very high place it entitles you to take among living historians [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)
The Bishop of St David's to George Grote, 21 June 1847: 'My expectations, though they had been raised very high, were more than fulfilled by your first two volumes; and in its progress the work appears to me to have been continually rising, not perhaps in merit, but in value.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Bishop of St David's      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 3 and 4)
The Bishop of St David's to George Grote, 21 June 1847: 'My expectations, though they had been raised very high, were more than fulfilled by your first two volumes; and in its progress the work appears to me to have been continually rising, not perhaps in merit, but in value.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Bishop of St David's      Print: Book

George Grote : Letters from Switzerland
G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 November 1847: 'I received yesterday the volume on "Swiss Politics" which you were so good as to send me. I have since read it with great interest, and feel much indebted to you, both for having written the book, and having sent me a copy of it. The narrative is lucid and flowing, and the view taken of the whole series of events appears to me perfectly just and discriminating. It carries one back to the seventeenth century and seems to place one in the midst of the Thirty Years' War.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. C. Lewis      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece
Sarah Austin to Harriet Grote, wife to George Grote, 29 August 1847: 'His [Austin's husband John] great comfort, during his tedious illness, has been Mr. Grote's History, which Alexander Gordon brought over to him. To me it has been a heartfelt pleasure to hear him ejaculating at intervals, "What a conscientious book!" "It is delightful!" "There is all Grote's honesty!" and so on.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Austin      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 5 and 6)
John Stuart Mill to George Grote, January 1849: 'I have just finished reading the two volumes with the greatest pleasure and admiration. 'The fifth volume seems to be all that we had a right to expect, and the sixth is splendid! [...] Every great result which you have attempted to deduce seems to me most thoroughly made out.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill      Print: Book

Lord Hervey : Memoirs
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 22 January 1849: 'I have recently read Lord Hervey's Memoirs, on the recommendation of a friend. If you have not read them I recommend them to your notice, for they really afford the best expose of the real interior of a court which I ever happened to light upon, resting, too, upon evidence which seems above all suspicion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Abbe St Pierre : Annees Politiques
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 30 September 1852: 'Neither the work of Beaufort sur l'Histoire Romaine -- nor the works of the Abbe St. Pierre -- are to be got in Paris [...] I was directed by the concurrent advice of several of the booksellers, to apply to one of their fraternity named Guillemot, on the Quai des Augustins [...] He told me, that within the last two years, he had had a copy of both; that they were rare, and never turned up except by accident -- but were still not unobtainable. He procured for me one work of the Abbe St. Pierre, in two volumes, small octavo, entitled "Annees Politiques;" which I will send you on the first opportunity. I have read it myself, with great interest and instruction. It contains a sort of annalistic review of each separate year of the Abbe's life -- 1658 to 1730; and exhibits a degree of knowledge, beneficent views, and power of original thought, which impress me with a very high esteem for the author -- whom I before knew only by name.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Stephens : 'Book of the Farm'
'The farm [a family property] in Lincolnshire consumed a vast deal of our time all through [...] 1853 [...] Grote worked at intervals even at the farm [...] the operations of husbandry were not without a certain "bucolic" attraction for him; the rather as he studied Stephens's "Book of the Farm" with regularity, even taking interest in the theory of cultivation, involving as it did a touch of [italics]science[end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : Article on George Grote's History of Greece
George Grote to Harriet Grote (wife), 14 October 1853: 'I immediately sent for the "Edinburgh Review," and have read [italics]the[end italics] article with much satisfaction and even delight. 'It seems to me executed in John's best manner [...] It is certainly complimentary to me, in a measure which I fear will bring down upon me the hand of the reactionary Nemesis.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

William Smith : Article on George Grote's History of Greece
'In the course of the summer of this year [1856] an article appeared in the pages of the "Quarterly Review," upon Mr. Grote's "History of Greece," taken collectively as a complete work. 'Among the numerous tributes which flowed in upon the author after the publication of the final volume, I recollect his being unusually impressed by the perusal of this paper in the "Quarterly." Not only at the time, but on repeated occasions, would he avow the lively satisfaction he had derived from perceiving how thoroughly his views and arguments had been understood.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

: Life of Daunou
George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857): 'I send you Thomas's book on the provincial administration of La Bourgogne [...] I also send another book, which I got from the London Library -- the Life of Daunou. It interested me very much, as the history of one of the most intelligent, consistent, and patriotic among the conventionnels -- who is hardly known (by name even) among Englishmen [comments further on text].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

W. Humboldt :
George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857): 'I have looked at W. Humboldt's book: it is written in a very excellent spirit, and deserves every mark of esteem for the frankness with which it puts forward free individual development as an end, also for the low comparative estimate which it gives of passive imitation and submission.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

G. C. Lewis : articles on ancient history
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857: 'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries;" which is an agreeable collection of matters to read when one comes across it, though I do not habitually take it in. 'Your remarks upon Niebuhr's description of Pyrrhus are most just and instructive, and the exposure of his inaccuracies complete [comments further].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

: Notes and Queries
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857: 'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries;" which is an agreeable collection of matters to read when one comes across it, though I do not habitually take it in. 'Your remarks upon Niebuhr's description of Pyrrhus are most just and instructive, and the exposure of his inaccuracies complete [comments further].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

Donaldson :
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 21 October 1858 'The day before yesterday I got Donaldson's book, the completion of Muller's "Greek Literature." I have only had time to turn over the pages; but, as far as I can judge from this cursory view, it appears a truly learned and comprehensive work. I think it will be a great addition to every classical library.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Aldington : [brochure on Lawrence]
'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and nurses here all very decent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Golden Treasury
'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and nurses here all very decent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Dixon : Hellas Revisited
'Mr S- came in before 2.0 and gave me an interesting reading - here and there - from Dixon's "Hellas Revisited". Now and then he would mouth a passage from the Greek and the Latin and our eyes would meet in wondering approval - "That's great", we would say simultaneously - equally lost in admiration and translation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

[n/a] : Encyclopaedia Britannica
'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's "Twentieth Cent. Dictionary" seems to be within a year of completion - that will make it nine years - one less than my calculated time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Chambers : Twentieth Century Dictionary
'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's "Twentieth Cent. Dictionary" seems to be within a year of completion - that will make it nine years - one less than my calculated time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Paul Gauguin : The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
'Finished reading "The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin". Very fresh mind - he at once joins the company of those whom we wish we could have met. Such a distinctive French book makes a Scot feel that he is rather a dog-collared dog. We cannot recall Mary Stuart without seeing the shadow of Knox at her back.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

M : [personal writings]
'Mr M- along. I lay back and listened to all his plans for the regeneration of Scotland - including the one in which he is to be editor of a terrifically high-brow and inter-stellar-national review. Then he read me potential journalism of his own and a synopsis of a short story which ought never to have been even a synopsis - and after he had filled my room full of cigarette smoke he "swep out" with a smile on his face'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [ballads]
'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar

Chambers : Twentieth Century Dictionary
'An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's "Dictionary" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have still 30 pages of supplement - but last night saw the completion of the dictionary proper.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

John Buchan : The Northern Muse
'Finished reading "The Northern Muse", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greatest poems are ballads by unknown men. If a choice had to be made, we could not sacrifice the ballad corpus even for Burns or Dunbar. Here all the passions and pains of humanity stark clear from the shadow of individuality. Here are the poems of Everyman.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share in the Scottish Renaissance perhaps I'll justify my parasitism yet.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Unknown

F Yeats-Brown : Bengal Lancer
'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whets our appetite for a feast of yoga - but cannot satisfy it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob and the stealing of Esau's birthright - she suddenly looked up and said in a pleasantly surprised voice: - "Why, the Bible's just as good as a story book"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Evelyn Soutar      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a literary reputation is so easily won here.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Unknown

Edmund Blunden [ed] : An Anthology of War Poems
'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put together - or nearly so. Branford's sonnets are conspicuous and Sassoon's work distinctive, but Owen has not only Branford's "high seriousness" and Sasoon's objectivity but also a sure craftsmanship - he is always the artist in full control of his medium. Beside his work, Sassoon's sounds almost hysterical and Blunden's slightly artificial. After laying down this book I realised for the first time that, notwithstanding the large company of our war poets, our really fine war poems are very few in number.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting
'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put together - or nearly so. Branford's sonnets are conspicuous and Sassoon's work distinctive, but Owen has not only Branford's "high seriousness" and Sasoon's objectivity but also a sure craftsmanship - he is always the artist in full control of his medium. Beside his work, Sassoon's sounds almost hysterical and Blunden's slightly artificial. After laying down this book I realised for the first time that, notwithstanding the large company of our war poets, our really fine war poems are very few in number.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon : [poems]
'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put together - or nearly so. Branford's sonnets are conspicuous and Sassoon's work distinctive, but Owen has not only Branford's "high seriousness" and Sasoon's objectivity but also a sure craftsmanship - he is always the artist in full control of his medium. Beside his work, Sassoon's sounds almost hysterical and Blunden's slightly artificial. After laying down this book I realised for the first time that, notwithstanding the large company of our war poets, our really fine war poems are very few in number.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Friedrich Nietzsche : [unknown]
'Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is the only one. His words are often as near to actual living as it is possible for words to be - they are very nearly made of flesh. Often, when reading Nietzsche, one feels as if one were on a high hill in a bright windy day; we are always aware of action, space and an atmosphere which is best rendered by the word "caller". We may call Nietzsche's philosophy pantomimic - every word is a bold gesture, a moment in a noble dance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

C.J. Jung : Psychology of the Unconscious
'When looking at Hacker's "Annunciation" I was especially attracted by the water-pot, and said as much in my letter to L-. Afterwards, from Jung, I learned how much symbolism has gathered about the "vas". I learned from Jung also why I chose the whale as a symbol in "Stanzas on Time" and in the bairn-rhyme "The Whale". Sunch an illuminating explanation of one;s own intuitive choosing is startling.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

[n/a] : Glasgow Evening News
'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overpraised - but some truth too in it: certainly a good send-off to the verse.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Newspaper

T.S. Eliot : Poems 1909-1925
'Read "Poems 1909-1925" by T.S. Eliot. I have never had any inclination to read Eliot's book but a whim prompted me to name it when Moll asked what book I'd like. I am afraid reading Eliot hasn't changed my opinion of him. His poetry is rooted in a pedantic intellectuality: a waste-land verily: a valley of dry bones without any blood: there is wit - but the wit is also dry; brittle - no Rabelsaisian sap: no human richness: only the false disillusionment of the young could model itself on this verse.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Karl Marx : Capital
'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

[n/a] : New Britain
'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" - I felt as if in my sonnet, "To Marx", I had put Murray's prose into verse. Both the article and the sonnet must have been written practically at the same time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Serial / periodical

T.S. Eliot : After Strange Gods
'Has Eliot, for example, not returned from the "Waste Land" back to a more dogmatic climate - his latest book, "After Strange Gods", is almost priggish in tone; and slightly medieval. I do not suggest that his attitude is valueless - it is, I fancy, a necessary corrective'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

William Soutar : The Solitary Way
'Copies of "The Solitary Way" came along: looks quite nice. Looking at this handful of lyrics of unequal quality, one is tempted to question if they are worth all the bother of a publication. Yet a glimpse of life may be reflected here and there which might have been unrecorded by any other intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

William Soutar : journal
'Reading over the adjoining note, on Gibbon's death, today, leaves me with a sense of inhumanity.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Manuscript: Codex

William Soutar : Brief Words
'Advance copy of "Brief Words" came along; looks very well - scarcely anything that could be improved upon - excepting the actual contents. I can understand something of a woman's feelings on seeing her child.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Lewis Grassic Gibbon : Sunset Song
'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessarily "course", to employ his own far too much over-worked word, but the humanity is there, and the bright objectiveness which is the need of modern art.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Gerard Manley Hopkins : [poems]
'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intellectual and has a tortured quality about it; indicative almost of an unnatural constriction of the body: and this may be so, as Hopkins was a Jesuit priest.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Aldous Huxley : Brave New World
'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" might have been a truly creative challenge to our machine age. But, lacking the moral indignation and the humanising solicitude of Swift, he fails in his Savage to create a real sponsor for humanity. And the superficiality of his philosophy is shown in the last scene.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Lewis Grassic Gibbon : Grey Granite
'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. One is ever conscious of a certain rank liveliness about G's work: much of it fermentive - like maure'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] : Red Scotland
'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and read part of his "Red Scotland", which sounded quite convincing. As he read, he supported himself at an angle over my table, the angle increased with the reading until he was literally dropping cigarette ash and dialectical materialism all about me. I thought it might relieve the congestion if he removed his plaid - but discovered that it was part of the regalia.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Murray Grieve      Manuscript: Unknown

John Middleton Murray : Keats and Shakespeare
'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I can think of no other study - of this nature - carried through so consistently and with so keen an awareness: it is a classic of imaginative sensitivity.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Alfred Edward Housman : More Poems
'Having read again Housman's "More Poems", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been definitely exploited in his previous two collections; and his self-awareness is shown in limiting his work to these.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

H. Thomas : As It Was
'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my diary entry on the "spiritual" type of women suggested by Mrs X.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

T.F. Henderson : Scottish Vernacular Literature
'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on Hume's "The Day Estivall". I had just been reading this poem again - a poem to which I am often persuaded to return when prompted by a lovely day - and, having its freshness so vividly in my mind, it was all the more astonishing to be confronted by Henderson's contemptuous aside: "...'The Day Estivall', if absurdly prosaic, is occasionally picturesque."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Alexander Hume : The Day Estivall
'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on Hume's "The Day Estivall". I had just been reading this poem again - a poem to which I am often persuaded to return when prompted by a lovely day - and, having its freshness so vividly in my mind, it was all the more astonishing to be confronted by Henderson's contemptuous aside: "...'The Day Estivall', if absurdly prosaic, is occasionally picturesque."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Rudolph Roeber : Anarcho-Syndicalism
'Finished reading "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there is something in its basic recognition of the living struggle of the people which essentially appeals to me. It has an element of humanness which seems lacking in Marx-Leninism, but at present I am not qualified to compare and contrast the two.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Tom Scott : On my 21st Birthday
'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this particular sample of it is too intimate in incident for general understanding. Scott also brought a couple of poems by his pal George Fraser. There is a ninetyish quality about the verse of these young moderns - but with a difference; the self-conscious daring is not in the carnality but in the technique: this gives their poetry a hardness which cuts through sentimentality but also shears away something of humankindness.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Manuscript: Sheet

G.S. Fraser : [poems]
'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this particular sample of it is too intimate in incident for general understanding. Scott also brought a couple of poems by his pal George Fraser. There is a ninetyish quality about the verse of these young moderns - but with a difference; the self-conscious daring is not in the carnality but in the technique: this gives their poetry a hardness which cuts through sentimentality but also shears away something of humankindness.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Manuscript: Unknown

David Guest : Dialectical Materialism
'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the relationship between love and necessity has much in common with Marx's philosophy, and I hope to be able to resolve them both. As a contrast to Guest's book I read, in the latter part of the day, T.S. Eliot's essat "The Idea of Christian Society". Eliot has an aristocratic clarity of style, but dry in the mouth, and if it keeps the mind alert it rarely warms the heart; the quality is fine but lacks fullness; and we savour him in sips, never in a mouthful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

T.S. Eliot : The Idea of Christian Society
'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the relationship between love and necessity has much in common with Marx's philosophy, and I hope to be able to resolve them both. As a contrast to Guest's book I read, in the latter part of the day, T.S. Eliot's essat "The Idea of Christian Society". Eliot has an aristocratic clarity of style, but dry in the mouth, and if it keeps the mind alert it rarely warms the heart; the quality is fine but lacks fullness; and we savour him in sips, never in a mouthful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

John Spiers : The Scots Literary Tradition
'Finished reading "The Scots Literary Tradition" by John Spiers - a capable little study within its limits, and comes near enough the truth in its analysis of the frustration which contemporary Scottish poets inherit.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
'There are besides, Sir Adam Fergusson, Colin Mackenzie, James Hope, Dr. James Buchan, Claud Russell, and perhaps two or three more of and about the same time period. But Rari apparent nantes in gurgite vasto.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

A.C. Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy
'Finished reading A.C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penetration. Not only has it taught me much about Shakespeare; but its analysis of those values which underlie Shakespeare's tragic conception has in some measure confirmed my own convictions embodied in "But the Earth Abideth".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

W.S. Graham : Cage Without Grievance
'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; and inscribed on it by him is Marston's line: "I feare Gods onely know what Poets meane" - certainly applies to Graham's stuff.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Richard III
'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him So wise and young they say never live long.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Henri-Frédéric Amiel : The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards this most sensitive man who was so critical of himself. But it is Amiel who reveals the world's malformities in the undistorted mirror of his self-revelation'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] : Scots Unbound
'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; why must Grieve so often use his verse as a shop-window for displaying curiosities of erudition?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

[unknown] : Edward
'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as the form of the verses in itself reveals.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

George Burnett [ed] : Book of Scottish Verse
'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish poets there are of the latter part of last century and the beginning of this who are remembered in the one or two poems. How circumscribed the themes; how limited the vocabulary; yet within their narrow field they were assured of the usage of their speech'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream
'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Tom Scott : [poems]
'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two years in the tropics. Brought some poems for me to look over with a critical eye. Much experimentation in his verse in English; his solitary poem in Scots, and his first, exhibited the chief fault of all the younger school: many of the words haven't passed through the blood and imagination; they remain counters and are often set into the wrong context.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter De La Mare : [poems]
'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the most comprehensive poet of the three, and has definitely created a world of imagination; but Davies and Housman have a reality in their poems which is often absent from De la Mare, and in the optimism of the one and the fatalism of the other we are ever conscious of listening to human utterance, the warmth of the flesh is in the words.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : [unknown]
'If one may judge from the young men and women in their twenties who call here - one must accept that exceptionally few of them have any interest in serious or solid reading; indeed, many seem to read hardly anything at all. Last night, for example, M- admitted that she had never read a book through; and her boyfriend claimed that once as a test of will-power he had forced himself to read through three books by Conrad. It would certainly appear that the interwar years had produced a generation restless, and recreated by light amusements.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar
'Three days ago I would have been contented to buy this consola as Judy says, dearer than by a dozen falls in the mud - for had the great Constable fallen O my countrymen what a fall were there!'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Claude Bernard :
'After the first week or so I became tired of reading aloud to George [husband, suffering from disorders of eyes], so we fortunately, obtained the services of a lady who, for several hours daily, fed the appetite of the disabled student through the ear in default of the visual organs. 'The book we were employed to read to him was a treatise by a profound physiologist, M. Claude Bernard, on the nervous system. I remember halting now and then, as I read out passages inconceivably scientific and abtruse, when I would enquire: "George, do you understand what I am reading to you?" -- "Perfectly." -- "Oh! very well, then I will go on; for my part it is quite above [italics]my[end italics] comprehension." A bland smile would be all he had to give in reply to this confession.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grote      Print: Book

John Logan : Sermons
'Just as this is written enter my Lord of St Albans and Lady Charlotte to beg I recommend a book of sermons to Mrs. Coutts - much obliged for her good opinion - recommended Logan's - One poet should always speak for another - '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

:
'Early in December [1858] we removed, with our household, to "The Priory" at Reigate, belonging to Earl Somers [...] we were glad to enjoy the repose and seclusion which the place afforded. A huge library, filled with old books, formed an attractive feature in "The Priory," and many a spare hour was passed by Grote in exploring its treasures, perched upon the steps of the lofty ladder, candle in hand.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

: The Times
The elderly Charles Austin to Harriet Grote (October 1861): 'The world is very full of noise just now. Here, however, in the depth of the country, the echoes are faint, and I am compelled to draw, as well as I can, conclusions from the "Times."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Austin      Print: Newspaper

Degerando : Histoire des systemes de philosophie
'While we were [visiting] at Harpton Court, passing one forenoon in Mr. Grote [husband]'s dressing-room, I asked him (as was my wont to do), "What are you reading there, George?" '"I am studying Degerando's 'Histoire des Systemes de Philosophie," and here is something which it will amuse [italics]you[end italics] to read (handing me the book). 'I looked through the passage, and then enjoyed a hearty laugh over it, along with the Historian [Grote].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Degerando : Histoire des systemes de philosophie
'While we were [visiting] at Harpton Court, passing one forenoon in Mr. Grote [husband]'s dressing-room, I asked him (as was my wont to do), "What are you reading there, George?" '"I am studying Degerando's 'Histoire des Systemes de Philosophie," and here is something which it will amuse [italics]you[end italics] to read (handing me the book). 'I looked through the passage, and then enjoyed a hearty laugh over it, along with the Historian [Grote].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grote      Print: Book

John Stuart Mill : articles 'upon the Principles of Utility'
George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862): 'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazine," upon the Principle of Utility, having waited until I could peruse them all de suite. I consider the essay altogether a most useful and capital performance.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

G. C. Lewis : 'book of Ancient Astronomy'
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 9 February 1862: 'I ought before this to have written to thank you for your book of Ancient Astronomy. But I delayed doing so until I had read the book through; and having now done so, I can perform the task with more satisfaction. I can say, without the least exaggeration, that it is a truly useful and instructive exposition [...] You deserve every compliment for the example which you set of always producing authorities and giving copious references. 'Your chapters on the AEgyptian [sic] and Assyrian interpretations are also exceedingly valuable. I never knew so much about the Egyptian [sic] matters before.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Irving : pamphlet on mythology and the human mind
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862: 'I send you herewith a letter and pamphlet which was forwarded to me by an unknown correspondent. I read the pamphlet with much interest, and think you will be pleased with it also. Mr. Irving is right in saying that his narrative illustrates very forcibly the myth-creating propensities of the human mind'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

Colenso :
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862: 'I suppose you have read Colenso's book. It is certainly singular to see a bishop applying the historical principles of Sir George Lewis to the narrative of the Old Testament [...] Among the most interesting parts of the book are the extracts given from the most orthodox expositors: the artifices by which they slur over or blot out contradictions.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

G. C. Lewis : 'Egyptological pamphlet'
George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 29 December 1862: 'Your Egyptological pamphlet is a very ingenious jeu d'esprit, and the general observations contained in the first pages of it are very instructive: the citations which you give out of Niebuhr are curious.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

Bain : article
George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the advertisement that it contained an article by you. I read it with very great pleasure: it seems to me most excellent; it is the lecture (apparently) that I did [italics]not[end italics] hear last May at the Royal Institution. The same number contained also an admirable article upon the Science of History, written with great ability, and in the best spirit, by an American author, whose name I never heard before -- John Fiske [comments further on article] [...] There was also another good article in the same number -- on John Wilkes.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

John Fiske : article on 'the Science of History'
George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the advertisement that it contained an article by you. I read it with very great pleasure: it seems to me most excellent; it is the lecture (apparently) that I did [italics]not[end italics] hear last May at the Royal Institution. The same number contained also an admirable article upon the Science of History, written with great ability, and in the best spirit, by an American author, whose name I never heard before -- John Fiske [comments further on article] [...] There was also another good article in the same number -- on John Wilkes.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

: article on John Wilkes
George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the advertisement that it contained an article by you. I read it with very great pleasure: it seems to me most excellent; it is the lecture (apparently) that I did [italics]not[end italics] hear last May at the Royal Institution. The same number contained also an admirable article upon the Science of History, written with great ability, and in the best spirit, by an American author, whose name I never heard before -- John Fiske [comments further on article] [...] There was also another good article in the same number -- on John Wilkes.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Serial / periodical

Edward Gibbon :
From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken down Gibbon's work and read occasionally therein; and, he added, he had been penetrated with admiration of the exactitude and fidelity of the references [...] Grote had tested Gibbon's trustworthiness, on several points, by reference to ancient writers, and invariably found his statements correct and candid. Dr. William Smith said that he too had compared the references in Gibbon with the works cited, and that he was affected by the same feeling of respect and admiration [comments further on George Grote's enthusiasm for Gibbon].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

anon ('ancient writers') :
From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken down Gibbon's work and read occasionally therein; and, he added, he had been penetrated with admiration of the exactitude and fidelity of the references [...] Grote had tested Gibbon's trustworthiness, on several points, by reference to ancient writers, and invariably found his statements correct and candid. Dr. William Smith said that he too had compared the references in Gibbon with the works cited, and that he was affected by the same feeling of respect and admiration [comments further on George Grote's enthusiasm for Gibbon].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

Edward Gibbon :
From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken down Gibbon's work and read occasionally therein; and, he added, he had been penetrated with admiration of the exactitude and fidelity of the references [...] Grote had tested Gibbon's trustworthiness, on several points, by reference to ancient writers, and invariably found his statements correct and candid. Dr. William Smith said that he too had compared the references in Gibbon with the works cited, and that he was affected by the same feeling of respect and admiration [comments further on George Grote's enthusiasm for Gibbon].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Harris      Print: Book

George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 1-5)
'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History of Greece," having got hold of the first five volumes. He was so absorbed in the book, that he made copious notes upon portions of it; which I have since had the privilege of reading, and Mr. Grote also looked through them. The observations and comments indicate an attentive following of the author's text, especially in connection with the military incidents, on which Sir W.'s remarks are pertinent and even instructive.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Gomm      Print: Book

Sir William Gomm : Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5)
'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History of Greece," having got hold of the first five volumes. He was so absorbed in the book, that he made copious notes upon portions of it; which I have since had the privilege of reading, and Mr. Grote also looked through them. The observations and comments indicate an attentive following of the author's text, especially in connection with the military incidents, on which Sir W.'s remarks are pertinent and even instructive.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grote

Sir William Gomm : Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5)
'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History of Greece," having got hold of the first five volumes. He was so absorbed in the book, that he made copious notes upon portions of it; which I have since had the privilege of reading, and Mr. Grote also looked through them. The observations and comments indicate an attentive following of the author's text, especially in connection with the military incidents, on which Sir W.'s remarks are pertinent and even instructive.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

: Le Siecle
'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the railway station, we got hold of two Paris journaux -- "Le Siecle" and "The Tribune." Our astonishment was mutual at the altered tone of these papers. "Why, bless me! H.," cried George, "here are these French papers talking the freest language. I cannot understand how it comes to pass that, all at once, the press should break forth in such unwonted style!" "Well," replied I, "we shall know more about it when we get to Paris, I suppose."' 'When we arrived there, sure enough we found a wonderful state of things. None of my readers needs to learn at this time of day, from my pen, what were the circumstances under which the democratic sentiment found a vent in the autumn of 1869.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Newspaper

: Tribune
'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the railway station, we got hold of two Paris journaux -- "Le Siecle" and "The Tribune." Our astonishment was mutual at the altered tone of these papers. "Why, bless me! H.," cried George, "here are these French papers talking the freest language. I cannot understand how it comes to pass that, all at once, the press should break forth in such unwonted style!" "Well," replied I, "we shall know more about it when we get to Paris, I suppose."' 'When we arrived there, sure enough we found a wonderful state of things. None of my readers needs to learn at this time of day, from my pen, what were the circumstances under which the democratic sentiment found a vent in the autumn of 1869.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Newspaper

: anti-Empire articles
'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, which Grote devoured with avidity, of course, appeared to me to be more beneficial to his health and spirits than anything he had yet tried. He used to go out and buy a heap of these trashy diatribes every day, bringing in an armful to our apartment at Meurice's [...] moreover, I own to having spent much time over the "trash" in question, myself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Newspaper, Unknown

: anti-Empire articles
'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, which Grote devoured with avidity, of course, appeared to me to be more beneficial to his health and spirits than anything he had yet tried. He used to go out and buy a heap of these trashy diatribes every day, bringing in an armful to our apartment at Meurice's [...] moreover, I own to having spent much time over the "trash" in question, myself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grote      Print: Newspaper, Unknown

: 'treatises of medieval authors'
'We proceeded to Chatsworth on the 13th of August [1870] -- that is to say, to the "Edensor Inn," hard by [...] Lady Eastlake joining us on the same day, from London, we all profited by the good offices of Sir James Lacaita to pass our mornings, at our ease, within the walls of that palatial residence. We three ladies naturally betook ourselves to the art department [...] The Historian [George Grote, author's husband], meanwhile, would plant himself comfortably in the vast library, poring upon some rare, and even to [italics]him[end italics], unknown treatises of medieval authors, in Latin, which Lacaita would select as the very "morceaux" for his learned friend's delectation.'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote

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Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'When we got home [from walking and visiting] I read and played till desert, after desert I wrote to you.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

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Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'As soon as breakfast was over I read and played on the harp'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

: 'the black penitent'
Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now reading it in the window in mamma's little room.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Georgina Cavendish      Print: Book

Voltaire : L'Enfant prodige
Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us storys. The last thing she read us was Voltaire's "enfant prodige," it is beautiful. Only think how good my dear dear aunt was to me last night; I took some pills and she came and read me a very interesting story while I took them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Ponsonby      Print: Book

: story
Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us storys. The last thing she read us was Voltaire's "enfant prodige," it is beautiful. Only think how good my dear dear aunt was to me last night; I took some pills and she came and read me a very interesting story while I took them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Ponsonby      Print: Book

: Gazette Extraordinary
Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1798): 'The dinner here consisted of Mr. Hare sitting all the evening with his taper legs crossed like a taylor's [sic] reading the "Gazette extraordinary" to the wondering [Lord] Coleraine'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hare      Print: Serial / periodical

: Gallery catalogue, Hardwick Hall
Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 10 October 1801: 'We arrived here last night [...] This morning [...] Caro [Caroline Ponsonby, cousin] and I explored the park [...] I have since been examining the pictures in the gallery with the catalogue. The pictures have been cleaned and look very well.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Cavendish

: poetry
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (c. August 1802): 'Mama, my aunt, Corisande and Caro Ponsonby have been spending 2 or 3 days at Brocket Hall [The Melbournes' country house] [...] 'There was an extraordinary flirtation between William Lamb and Caro. Ponsonby, and they seem, I hear, mutually captivated. When the rest were at games, etc., William was in a corner, reading and explaining Poetry to Car., and in the morning, reading tales of wonder together on the [italics]tithertother[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lamb      Print: Book

: 'tales of wonder'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (c. August 1802): 'Mama, my aunt, Corisande and Caro Ponsonby have been spending 2 or 3 days at Brocket Hall [The Melbournes' country house] [...] 'There was an extraordinary flirtation between William Lamb and Caro. Ponsonby, and they seem, I hear, mutually captivated. When the rest were at games, etc., William was in a corner, reading and explaining Poetry to Car., and in the morning, reading tales of wonder together on the [italics]tithertother[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lamb and Caroline Ponsonby     Print: Book

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 27 August 1802: 'Ramsgate does not abound with incident [...] We get up at seven, and today for the first time I bathed [...] We breakfast at nine, and then I write, read, and practice till dinner at four.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Unknown

George Lamb : 'John O'Thanet'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 23 September 1802: 'I am now going, my dearest G. (depending upon your secrecy), to transcribe for you some of George's verses, which he gave me last night. Some lines are very good and some very bad, but it will give you a good idea of our proceedings and I think them very amusing. It is a parody on Burns' Tim [sic] O'shanter, and called John O'Thanet. The beginning is long and tiresome, so I shall not send it you. You must know that [italics]John[end italics] is making a tour round the Island, and arrives at Ramsgate just in time for the ceremonies' ball:-- [transcribes 17 lines of satirical poem on Ramsgate social life, opening: '"When now the moon shot forth her gleams And ocean glistened in her beams, When winds blow cold and loud and drear And Ladies 'gin to walk the Pier, When chattering teeth by Luna's light Just stammer out a 'charming night'"] 'I send you these merely because they give a faithful account of our evening walks.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Manuscript: Unknown

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (January 1803): 'I am now going for 2 or 3 hours to experience that most delightful of pleasures; solitude in Devonshire House, for Miss Trimmer and Hart [Lady Harriet's brother William], the only inhabitants, are now occupied, the one in reading to George Ridgeway [a footman who became the Duke[of Devonshire]'s steward] in an audible voice, and the other in writing a love letter with much difficulty and consideration to Miss Berry.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Selina Trimmer      Print: Unknown

anon : Review of 'German Romance'
'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article in the Monthly Review devoted to our "German Romance". The man is little better than an ass; but a well-disposed one; and never dreams that his ears are long. He calls me point-blank by the name of the city Carlisle, without apology or introduction...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

: 'le Nouveau pere de famille'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803): 'I have been crying my eyes out over "le Nouveau pere de famille." I wonder I did not hear more of it, as it seems to me quite beautiful; the 3rd volume heartbreaking. I believe I am going to read "Amelie de Mansfield." They are all [italics]dying[end italics] over it and it is the general opinion that as I have read "Delphine" [by Madame de Stael] I may read anything.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Germaine de Stael : Delphine
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803): 'I have been crying my eyes out over "le Nouveau pere de famille." I wonder I did not hear more of it, as it seems to me quite beautiful; the 3rd volume heartbreaking. I believe I am going to read "Amelie de Mansfield." They are all [italics]dying[end italics] over it and it is the general opinion that as I have read "Delphine" [by Madame de Stael] I may read anything.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Hester Piozzi : biography of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Hester Piozzi : biography of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

McCormick : Life of Burke
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 13 November 1803: 'I have been reading M'Cormick's [sic] Life of Burke, a violent and abusive book, but chiefly composed of extracts from his works and speeches in parliament. These I think in eloquence and brilliancy of talent quite unrivalled and in the beginning of his life, his sentiments delightful. I hope you will approve in my choice of [italics]hero[end italics] [comments further][...] I have been reading more (at least more to the purpose) in this last week, than I have for a good while before, and I cannot express to you how much pleasure it gives me, and the difference to me in making my time pass quickly or tediously is inconceivable. Indeed here in bad weather and the very small party we are, it is necessary not to make our sejour here very disagreeable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Belsham : History of England
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 16 November 1803: 'I have begun Belsham's History of England. It begins with Charles the second, and comes down to our present reign. I mean to confine myself for some time to the history of England as it is a shame not to be well acquainted with it, and I certainly am not.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Belsham : Life of Charles II
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Belsham : Life of James II
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Madame de Sevigne : Letters
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring [...] In the evening we all read and oh! the pleasures of Ignorance. Madame de Sevigne's is to me more entertaining and to my shame I confess, much more [italics]new[end italics], than any novel I could read.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Clarendon :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Madame de Sevigne : Letters
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 19 November 1803 ('Friday evening'): 'I just this moment found these lines in one of Madame de Sevigne's letters: "Il faut avouer que nous sommes a une belle distance l'une de l'autre, et que si l'on avoit quelquechose sur le coeur, dont on attendit du soulagement, on auroit un beau loisir de se pendre." The tedious six days before it is possible that I should receive your answer to my last letter are indeed enough to tempt one to some tragical end, and I know not how I shall go through them with patience.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Madame de Sevigne : Letters (vol. 5)
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 24 November 1803: 'I lament the reason I am going to give you for keeping to one book at a time. I find from the long habits of inattention and unsteadiness of reading to which I have accustomed myself that I cannot remember or connect what I am about as well if I vary the subject, as when I keep steadily to one, and in fact, I gain as much information from constantly having my book [italics]near[end italics] or [italics]about[end italics] me, I get on very fast [sic]. I am now in the 5th volume of Madame de Sevigne's letters, and I own myself to be quite captivated by her style, wit and variety of sentiment. I think people are much mistaken who only dip into this book, as it is impossible to do her, or one's own judgement of her, justice without reading it through with attention and I am sure then with delight.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Cowper :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (September 1804): 'My sister and I finished the 3rd volume of Cowper yesterday. I am enthusiastic about him, and if there was anybody like him alive, I should certainly be [italics]very poorly[end italics], as Sir John Shelley calls it. He is one of the few persons who have as much heart as head, and more of either than dozens of [italics]existing[end italics] men, who dispute his having had at least the latter.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth     Print: Book

Cowper :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804: 'We have finished Cowper and have begun to read Charles the Vth.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth     Print: Book

: 'Charles the Vth'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804: 'We have finished Cowper and have begun to read Charles the Vth.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth     Print: Book

Metastasio : Isacco
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (December 1804): 'I have been reading a great deal of Italian, there are a thousand beauties in Metastasio that I had never observed and I had never read some of the best parts of it. "Isacco" is, I think, almost more beautiful and affecting than any of them.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 10 November 1805: 'Lady B[essborough]. [aunt] has just been at the Priory of which, allowing for her usual exggeration, she gave me many entertaining accounts [...] she found Caroline and William reading out of the same book, sitting on one chair; Lord and Lady Aberdeen on another, also reading in the same manner, or playing Spillikens, with their arms round one another's necks -- this is her account, remember -- Lord and Lady Hinchbrooke sitting on the couch very civil and simpering; Mr. and Mrs. Hooley and Mr. and Mrs. Huddlestone finished the group.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William and Caroline Lamb     Print: Book

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 10 November 1805: 'Lady B[essborough]. [aunt] has just been at the Priory of which, allowing for her usual exggeration, she gave me many entertaining accounts [...] she found Caroline and William reading out of the same book, sitting on one chair; Lord and Lady Aberdeen on another, also reading in the same manner, or playing Spillikens, with their arms round one another's necks -- this is her account, remember -- Lord and Lady Hinchbrooke sitting on the couch very civil and simpering; Mr. and Mrs. Hooley and Mr. and Mrs. Huddlestone finished the group.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Aberdeen     Print: Book

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 November 1805: 'In the morning I read by myself for two hours, and this though not a large portion of time to devote to reading, if persevered in will lighten at least -- if it cannot remove -- the heavy burthen of ignorance that on many subjects I often feel.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Unknown

Paley : 'Theology'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1806): 'Mama is too good to me. She tells me she shall like to read with me. We have begun Paley's Theology and we are going to read Sarche's Herodotus together.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Lady Harriet Cavendish     Print: Book

Leigh Hunt et al : The Examiner
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (December 1806): 'We had the Examiner yesterday. Mr. Hunt's jokes are really wretched. I am more convinced than ever that jokes are the Rocks upon which 9 understandings out of 10 split. When he is serious and impudent his writing often seems to me to be very good, but the Turtle, the sauce etc. in his remarks upon Ld. Ellenborough font Pitie. I wish there was a House of Correction somewhere for people who cut bad jokes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Devonshire family     Print: Serial / periodical

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, during stay with her Spencer relations (c.1807): 'We are all as regular as clocks: read, work, and play on the piano forte all the morning by the rules that are fixed, and play at Speculation all the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and family     Print: Unknown

John Milton : Paradise Lost
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807: 'This morning I got up between 8 and 9, read 500 lines of Milton's Paradise Lost, walked in the garden, played upon a Russian Bilboquet Willy brought me last night, and pride myself upon my candour in confessing this last occupation to you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Bossuet : [possibly] 'Sur l'histoire universelle'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 3 August 1807: 'I walked an hour and read 50 pages of Bossuet ths morning before breakfast, which to a person who gets up at half past six is easy. I hope you admire my triumphant style. Yet my journal has most of the merit of these good deeds, for I do not know that my industry or Bossuet's eloquence had half the weight as the idea of being able to boast in my writing today had with me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807: 'George's reading goes on prosperously and Georgiana is the quickest little creature that ever was met with, but Caroline remains on my knee sometimes (to the credit of the patience of both aunt and niece) with b a, b e, before us, till I hardly know them better than she does, and my sister, who is a great instructress, must have great talents for teaching if she makes anything of her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Howard      Print: Book

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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807, on her nephew and nieces' progress in education: 'George's reading goes on prosperously and Georgiana is the quickest little creature that ever was met with, but Caroline remains on my knee sometimes (to the credit of the patience of both aunt and niece) with b a, b e, before us, till I hardly know them better than she does, and my sister, who is a great instructress, must have great talents for teaching if she makes anything of her.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish and Caroline Howard

Bossuet :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 12 August 1807: 'I have been, since I last wrote, going on with my [italics]usual[end italics] regularity. I do not think I have ever been in bed after 7, and I am half way through the last volume of Bossuet, with which I am quite delighted.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Bossuet :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 16 August 1807: 'I got up this morning at 6 and finished Bossuet -- I am very much pleased with it and afraid that Russell's Modern Europe, which I mean to begin tomorrow, will sound but ill after the eloquent language and beautiful style I have been accustomed to in the other.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

Russell : 'Modern Europe'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 29 August 1807: 'I find Modern Europe really very entertaining, at least as much as is quite independant of the Author, Mr. Russell, who seems insupportably flippant and conceited, but my ignorance makes much of it new to me and I am continually deeply interested in the denouement of events that I dare say the rest of the world know as well as their Alphabets. I am now in the beginning of the 16th century, and am rather proud of being a little tired of the three great rivals -- Charles, Henry and Francis, but these are symptoms of ignorance that I cannot expect you to enter into.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Eldest Son
'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of exultation over the sheer art of the thing.' After approximately 25 lines of praise and constructive criticism, Conrad adds '[...]I am writing after a second reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Carl Murrell Marris :
'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess wife and his kid, right away. I have asked him to come on Monday here for the day.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Letter

Stephen Reynolds : The Holy Mountain
'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now for some weeks.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Some Platitudes Concerning Drama
'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clarifies and expresses.I read it the evening you left [...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Italian Republics
'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Italian Republics
'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", and my day has been rather profitable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

St Augustine : Confessions
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

St Augustine : De Civitate Dei [The City of God]
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Blaise Pascal : Pensees
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Blaise Pascal : Provincial Letters
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Walter Pater : Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

T Mommsen : History of Rome
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia
'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; "Don Quixote" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : The Grammar of Ascent
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas
'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; "Don Quixote" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Two Essays on Miracles
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : The Idea of a University
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincial Letters"; Walter Pater, "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"; T. Mommsen, "The History of Rome" (5 vols); Cardinal Newman, "The Grammar of Ascent", "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", "Two Essays on Miracles" and "The Idea of a University".
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; "Don Quixote" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Divina Commedia
'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's "Greek Lexicon", and Lewis and Short's "Latin Dictionary". More Adey, the tranlator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was writing "[The]N[igger]of [the] N[arcissus]", "Salammbô" was my morning book.While taking coffee I would read a page or two at random--and there is hardly a page that isn't marvellous.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: Italian Grammar Book
'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's "Greek Lexicon", and Lewis and Short's "Latin Dictionary". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

: Italian Dictionary
'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's "Greek Lexicon", and Lewis and Short's "Latin Dictionary". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

James Galiffe : Italy and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in that country in 1816 and 1817
'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

: [Anthology of all surviving Greek and Latin poetry and Drama]
'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's "Greek Lexicon", and Lewis and Short's "Latin Dictionary". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Lidell and Scott : Greek Lexicon
'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's "Greek Lexicon", and Lewis and Short's "Latin Dictionary". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Lewis and Short : Latin Dictionary
'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's "Greek Lexicon", and Lewis and Short's "Latin Dictionary". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Captain Frederick Marryat : Diary in America
'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they should not be true'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert : Salammbô
'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was writing "[The]N[igger]of [the] N[arcissus]", "Salammbô" was my morning book.While taking coffee I would read a page or two at random--and there is hardly a page that isn't marvellous.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: New Testament in Greek
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : History of the Jews
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Louis Agassiz : Recherches sur les poissons fossiles
'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book wants both a hero and a heroine, for Tressilian, who is unsuccessful in almost all he does, is too unlucky. Leicester too vacillating. Raleigh and Elizabeth have more of the interest, or of claim to it at least.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Frederick William Farrar : Life and Works of St Paul
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth: a romance
'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book wants both a hero and a heroine, for Tressilian, who is unsuccessful in almost all he does, is too unlucky. Leicester too vacillating. Raleigh and Elizabeth have more of the interest, or of claim to it at least.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Complete Poems
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Complete Works
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Life of Frederick the Great
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

John Keats : Poems
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Poems
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Sir Archibald Alison : History of Europe
'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French revolution. Good deal of inaccurate English, but clever on the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Joseph Ernest Renan : Vie de Jesus
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Joseph Ernest Renan : The Apostles
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Leopold von Ranke : History of the Popes
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Thomas Henry Newman : Critical and Historical Essays
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Complete Works
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Jacob Bryant : Treatise on the Authenticity of the Scriptures
'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; at present I feel disposed to place this work above all other works of fiction I know. It is very, very grand, and has, I think, a greater practical effect on me for good than anything I ever read in my life.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xxii, 47. 2nd Kings iii, 9, viii, 20, xiv, 7. conf. 2 Ch. xxv. Isaiah xi, 14, xxi, 12. I Ch. xviii, 12. 2 Ch. xx, 10. Is. lxiii, 1, conf. Jerem. xlix, 7, 13, xxv, 21, 23. Lament iv, 21. Ezek. xxv, 8, 12, xxxv, 5. Amos i, II, 12, ii, I. Obediah all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Walter Pater : Gaston de Latour
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Henry Hart Milman : History of Latin Christianity
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : Complete Works
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : Poems
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Dean Church : Dante and Other Essays
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Thomas Percy : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Hallam : History of the Middle Ages
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Essay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical History
'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Dryden : Poems
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Robert Burns : Poems
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Morte d'Arthur
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Jean Froissart : Chronicles
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Henry Thomas Buckle : History of Civilisation
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Friend
'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

John Addington Symonds : Introduction to Dante
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

A.J. Butler : Companion to Dante
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Walter Pater : Miscellaneous Essays
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Jean-Baptiste Dumas : Essai de statique chimique des étres organisés
'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King John
'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsummer Night's Dream" I like least of any in Shakespeare. I think the death scene in "King John" one of the very finest things in Shakespeare; but Constance talks too much Billingsgate.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

W. Orme : Life and Times of Richard Baxter
'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful picture of the state of the church at that time - players, gamblers, drunkards with forged notes; men 80 or 90 years old, of course never preaching; Maypole dancing &c. on the Sunday.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

W. Orme : Life and Times of Richard Baxter
'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, especially by the advantage of his age and very hard studies and methodological head, but above all by his great skill in politicks, wherein he is most exact, and which contributeth not a little to the understanding of Divinity."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Allan Cunningham : Life of Sir David Wilkie
'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Allan Cunningham : Lives of eminent British painters
'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Phaedrus
'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour's command, to call to the feast only the poor, the maimed, the halt and the blind.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Archibald Alison : History of Europe
'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

: Gospels
'Every morning, after I have cleaned my cell and polished my tins, I read a little of the Gospels, a dozen verses taken by chance anywhere. It is a delightful way of opening the day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)
'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [chemistry]
'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]
'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]
'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Gustav Friedrich Waagen : [unknown]
'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Italian]
'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]
'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Pliny : [unknown]
'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Alexis François Rio : De la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans sa matiere at dans ses formes
'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Gustav Friedrich Waagen : [unknown]
'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Italian]
'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Gustav Friedrich Waagen : [unknown]
'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek]
'read some Greek'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

E.V. Rippingille [ed.] : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine
'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

E.V. Rippingille [ed.] : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine
'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Art Union
'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

E.V. Rippingille : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine
'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The
'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Richard Owen : Fossil Mammalia
'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
'Read some Sir Joshua"
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Aristophanes : Clouds, The
'Read some of "Clouds".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Witness
'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

Aristophanes : Clouds, The
'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser [?] : [unknown]
'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Richard Hooker [?] : [unknown]
'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
'read a little Sir Joshua'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Maurice Baring : C
I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me throughout its immense length.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

J.S. Davenport : Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church
'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tract, "Catholick and Apostolick Church") and past away to the Col de Balme.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: tract

Hubert Griffith : Tunnel Trench
I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained another one. . . . Of course the play is not ‘nice’ reading, and of course we who never went to the front in a fighting capacity hate to be reminded by those who did so go that there ever was a war. But all that does not matter. My criticism of the play, or of myself, would be that I cannot quite find the central moral idea upon which it is based.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

J.B. Priestley : Figures in Modern Literature
'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury. (One never misses these things.) Equally of course I did not agree with all of it, but at any rate I thought it very able...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

George [?] Berkeley : Guardian
'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that setting out with deprecating any intention to turn argument into satire, by attributing ill designs to his opponents, the writer yet uses no argument throughout but what is derived from designs supposed of one sort or another...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Guardian
'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of the "Guardian", wherein I was much pleased first by that soliloquy attributed to Alcibiades, of which I would fain see the original, and again by the conclusion'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

J.B. Priestley :
Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercury'. (One never misses these things.) Equally of course I did not agree with all of it, but at any rate I thought it very able and I agree heartily with all the praise; also I thought that some of the animadversions were rather good.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contrariety of God to evil is expressed as regards his three attributes of wisdom, truth and love...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the moment chosen by Turner in the battle of Trafalgar.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Guardian
'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Guardian
'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

Margaret Kennedy : The Constant Nymph
I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments of depression. For myself, I have been more impressed by it than by any novel from a new writer for years.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : Guardian
'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our lives, and conf. Dante, "Inferno" VII. 75-80.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too important.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

L.G. Johnson : Arnold Bennett of the Five Towns
I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the first edition of Darton’s. I never read the second.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

George Herbert : [poems]
'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

Henry Vaughan : [poems]
'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

George Smith : Hints for the times
'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painful instance of the weak and conventional writing which does so little honour to its cause.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton : Arnold Bennett
I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the first edition of Darton’s. I never read the second.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Acts)
'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after labouring and preaching all night, seek this retirement in the day, and walk alone across the country at least 25 miles to Assos. Query: what kind of scenery on this journey?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam : L'Eve Future
I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it. Axel (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it. His short stories are very renowned indeed. Contes Cruels and Nouveaux Contes Cruels. I have read all these. I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: 'Hint to a Young Reviewer'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 6 November 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth [Foster, Lady Harriet's father's mistress] went to the play last night and I dined alone with my father. Till desert it was a very rapid and silent performance, but we then talked a great deal and I felt very much at my ease with him [...] We [...] talked about the Edinburgh Review and the Hint to a young reviewer, that I sent you, which he thinks very clever. Upon this subject he was really formidable, for in asking me what I thought of different parts, both of the review and the criticism of it, he questioned me so closely, contradicted me so flatly or agreed with me so cautiously, that it was more like a trial than a conversation, and I got up from this cross examination with my face as hot as fire and my hands as cold as ice.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Cavendish      Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

: 'Hint to a Young Reviewer'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 6 November 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth [Foster, Lady Harriet's father's mistress] went to the play last night and I dined alone with my father. Till desert it was a very rapid and silent performance, but we then talked a great deal and I felt very much at my ease with him [...] We [...] talked about the Edinburgh Review and the Hint to a young reviewer, that I sent you, which he thinks very clever. Upon this subject he was really formidable, for in asking me what I thought of different parts, both of the review and the criticism of it, he questioned me so closely, contradicted me so flatly or agreed with me so cautiously, that it was more like a trial than a conversation, and I got up from this cross examination with my face as hot as fire and my hands as cold as ice.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Forbes : Life of Beattie
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807: 'Miss Trimmer [former governess and companion] went out of town yesterday morning and I therefore spent almost the whole day here [at grandmother's London residence]. My grandmother and I had a dinner after our own hearts, a little in style of Cumberland's jew, Egg shells and potatoe skins, but quite enough for people on regimes as strict as ours. We played 5 games at Chess, read above a hundred pages of Forbes' life of Beattie, and 60 of Lord Gardenstone's travelling Memorandums, not a new book but a very entertaining one. Played old songs upon the harpsichord, and before the carriage came to fetch me, were both all but fast asleep upon our chairs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet Cavendish     Print: Book

Francis Garden : 'travelling Memorandums'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807: 'Miss Trimmer [former governess and companion] went out of town yesterday morning and I therefore spent almost the whole day here [at grandmother's London residence]. My grandmother and I had a dinner after our own hearts, a little in style of Cumberland's jew, Egg shells and potatoe skins, but quite enough for people on regimes as strict as ours. We played 5 games at Chess, read above a hundred pages of Forbes' life of Beattie, and 60 of Lord Gardenstone's travelling Memorandums, not a new book but a very entertaining one. Played old songs upon the harpsichord, and before the carriage came to fetch me, were both all but fast asleep upon our chairs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet Cavendish     Print: Book

William Spencer : Latin epitaph on Mr Sargent
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 November 1807: 'I attribute my cold to going to Jermyn Street [grandmother's London residence] last night in a thick fog. 'I found Mr. Spencer and Mr. Preedy there. William Spencer just come to town in a violent hurry as he says he is going to have a share in Drury Lane [...] He was brilliant with rouge and spirits, but must have been rather disappointed in his audience's behaviour. I did nothing but blow my nose and wink my eyes; Mr. Preedy had one of his lethargic fits upon him and never had his open for a minute and my grandmother [the Dowager Countess Spencer] was nodding the whole evening in a comfortable nap. He repeated to us however (just as if we had been awake) quantities of his own poetry, of which, by the bye, he is going to publish a small volume, his bookseller having offered him two hundred pound for it, and read us a Latin epitaph he has just written upon the death of poor Mr. Sargent and contrived to introduce in the course of the conversation, all the compliments that have ever been paid him, de part a l'autre for the last twelvemonth.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Spencer      Manuscript: Unknown

: report of Lord Granville's embarkation
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 December 1807: 'I see in the papers today that Lord Granville is set out upon his journey and it is likely, "dans une saison si rude," as Mr. Foster said of his to C. Howard in September, to be about as unpleasant a one as can be performed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Newspaper

Semple : 'travels through Spain'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 16 December 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth is reading Semple's travels through Spain and says they are excessively interesting and entertaining. You will see a review of them in the last number of the Edinburgh Review. Let me know if I shall send them you, they are in two small volumes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Elizabeth Foster      Print: Book

James Thompson : The Castle of Indolence
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808: 'I am glad that I mentioned the Castle of Indolence to you, as I am sure you will be pleased with it. There are descriptions of the Aeolian and British Harp, one of the Musick of Indolence and the other of Industry, and an address to Dreams, that I think beautiful poetry and 3 verses beginning "It was not by vile loitering in ease," that I beg you to admire. Lady Stafford pointed these last out to me, and, in this instance, I admire her taste and agree with her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish      Print: Book

James Thompson : The Castle of Indolence
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808: 'I am glad that I mentioned the Castle of Indolence to you, as I am sure you will be pleased with it. There are descriptions of the Aeolian and British Harp, one of the Musick of Indolence and the other of Industry, and an address to Dreams, that I think beautiful poetry and 3 verses beginning "It was not by vile loitering in ease," that I beg you to admire. Lady Stafford pointed these last out to me, and, in this instance, I admire her taste and agree with her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Stafford      Print: Book

Barrow : Sermons
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her brother, the Marquis of Hartington (b. 1790), 1 February 1809: 'How surprized Barrow's sermons must have been upon first opening to see you and Sir William. I wonder it did not shut of itself. Do you know, it is very delightful of you both, and it is incalculable what advantage serious study, steadily persevered in, would be to you. A frivolous woman is a bad thing, but if there is one thing more contemptible than another, it is a frivolous man.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Spencer Cavendish and 'Sir William'     Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]
'I staid in and read Byron'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Revelations)
'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System of the world as the Mystery of God, in Chap. X. 7, compared with Hebrews XI. 6, which chapter I read this morning in our usual course. Theme enough for the day's course.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. Consider also the beautiful 17th verse of the 46th chapter.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, respecting Infant Regeneration by Baptism.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Proverbs)
'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures', showing that we must indeed do this in order to understand at all, and how few do it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II. 1, etc, while in David's mouth indeed meant the Gentiles, was intended to signify for us, the world in general'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

John Charles Ryle : [unknown]
'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, by chance, not knowing it was the day on which they both suffered.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)
'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to the marginal readings and interpretations of names than I have attempted yet'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

William Bell Scott : [memoir David Scott]
'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek worshippers: himself a mere bad imitation of the Germans, throwing heaps of muscles together and calling them men, and thinking a mass of vernicular attitudes composition.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson : Egypt
'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

St Bede : An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in marginal reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Christian Year
'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I had never read before.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

W.E. Channing : Remarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte
'Read Channing on Napoleon'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Henriette Cabrieres : La dame aux cheveux gris
'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Hans Christen Andersen : [tales]
'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicate fancy and wit; too much of rosebowers and crystal palaces, prettily heaped together but without detail of parts or bearing on the story. On the whole, I am disappointed in him. The ugly duck is perfect; the "fat needle" very good. Nearly all the others, too much of opera nymph in them, or of pure ugliness and painfulness - the princess maing the nettle-shirts, and the "grand Klaus" killing his nurse, and many other such pieces, quite spoiling the tone of the book for me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Journal pour tous
'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

George Sand : La Petite Fadette
'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and passion of George Sand among French writers, and her sense of goodness among general thinkers.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

George Sand : Le peche de M. Antoine
'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

George Sand : Le peche de M. Antoine
'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it suits them; then Carpenter so angry at the blow of the cane and shouting at his work"
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

George Sand : Francois le Champi
'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and la petite Marie, are enough to justify all Mrs Browning's love of George Sand.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Morning Post
'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of Cheltenham".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Newspaper

Xenophon : Memorabilia
'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorabilia
'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times
'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Alexandre ` Dumas : La Dame aux Camélias
'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias"
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Gaullieur : Histoire de Geneve
'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avant de s'eteindre ont vu le liberateur de la France et des fideles."' (Gaullieur, "Historie de Geneve")'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Read to end of p. 269.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Read to end of p. 270.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]
'Read only Geology'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]
'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Republic
'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]
'Read geology'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read to children under tree.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Franz Horn : Unknown
'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter. You may conceive whether I am in a hurry, for I have not yet put pen to paper! I have merely been reading Horn, somewhat of Fichte, Schelling, etc., and have not yet shaped the thing into any form.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

William Cobbett : Cottage Economy: A New Edition
'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with her husband and daughter, in a cottage belonging to a little farm called Myer, in the parish of Hoddam, Dumfriesshire...About four years ago she procured a loan of Cobbet[t]'s Cottage Economy from a Farmer of that district, and finding there some instructions about the plaiting of Leghorn Bonnets, she forthwith set about turning it to advantage. By means of Cobbet[t]'s figures & descriptions she succeeded in discovering the proper sort or rather sorts of Grass in the fields...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Graham      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Thomas de Quincey : Review of 'State of German Literature'
'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe. Thus for instance, de Quinc[e]y praises it in his Saturday Post. Sir W. Hamilton tells me that it is 'cap'tal'; and Wilson informs John Gordon that it has 'done me a deal o'good'.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph
'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer made of soot or lampblack". "Daily Telegraph". June 15th, 1866, p. 5 last column but one. Conf. Henry's white plume and Achilles' crest.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Newspaper

Jeremias Gotthelf : Anne Babi
'Read "Anne Babi".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Excursion
'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, p. 194, for Greek character.)'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Telegraph
'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Newspaper

Jeremias Gotthelf : Anne Babi
'Read "Anne Babi" to my mother in evening'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Jeremias Gotthelf : Anne Babi
'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Laws
'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

anon : Dorothea Trudel
'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome
'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Bleak House
'Read "Bleak House" in evening'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Psalter
'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part I
'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Julia Cecilia Stretton : Lady of Glynne
'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Julia Cecilia Stretton : Lady of Glynne
'finished "Lady of Glynne".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Fortunes of Nigel
'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Quentin Durward
'Chess and "Quentin Durward".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Quentin Durward
'Finished "Quentin Durward"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Jeremias Gotthelf : Tour de Jacob
'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Read 61st Psalm'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'37th Psalm in evening!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Jean Ingelow : [poems?]
'Read Jean Ingelow'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : Lady Audley's Secret
'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible often does open there, but it was a happy first reading.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

J.R. Seeley : Ecce Homo
'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam : L'Eve Future
I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it. 'Axel' (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it. His short stories are very renowned indeed. 'Contes Cruels' and 'Nouveaux Contes Cruels'. I have read all these. I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam : Contes Cruels
I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it. 'Axel' (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it. His short stories are very renowned indeed. 'Contes Cruels' and 'Nouveaux Contes Cruels'. I have read all these. I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Ormond
'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam : Nouveaux Contes Cruels
I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the end of it. 'Axel' (play) is another famous book of his but I have not read it. His short stories are very renowned indeed. 'Contes Cruels' and 'Nouveaux Contes Cruels'. I have read all these. I should say that they were pretty wonderful fifty or sixty years ago , but what they would look like in a translation I cannot predict.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [life of Lord Byron]
'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby
'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to their opinion".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Elizabeth Barret Browning : [poems]
'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judgement.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible
'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]
'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]
'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Topffer : Nouvelles Genevoises
'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

George Sand : Mademoiselle de Merquem
'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise of marriage party.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Julia Cecilia Stretton : Lady of Glynne
'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [poems]
'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream
'"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]
'Read of Empress Theodora'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]
'read economy of 12th century'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)
'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John James Ruskin : diary
'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible (Tobit)
'Opened 3rd of Tobit'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Ernest Renan : St Paul
'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I was closing the book: "Graces a Dieu pour son ineffable don."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament
'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Fortnightly Review
'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (John)
'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Michael Angelo : Pastoral
'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Arthur Helps : Conquerors of the New World
'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : [advertisement]
'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Advertisement

[n/a] : Bible (Luke)
'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John James Ruskin : diary
'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

John James Ruskin : diary
'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)
'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]
'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late sorrow'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'Began "Friedrich" to purpose and worked well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read Rouen missal with advantage'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'"Friedrich".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Foster : [essays]
'Foster's essays.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]
'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Francis Hackett : That Nice Young Couple
Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district. . . . There is not, really, much fault to be found with 'T.N.Y.C.' It is well-constructed; and the pace is maintained; I mean it doesn’t flag.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Edward Knoblock : stories [unidentified]
I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excellent saleable stories. I have practically no fault to find with these technically.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

H. G. Wells : Christina Alberta's Father
I noticed strangely few misprints in 'C.A.’s Pa'. though I had my malicious eye open for them.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Max Beaverbrook : Politicians and the Press
I return the typescript of your book. ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was interesting. It is very interesting, and it is all interesting. But of course it is barefaced propaganda on behalf of the two 'Expresses'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: typescript

: unknown
I have new books by Maurice Baring, Sylvia Lynd, and W Gerhardi lying unread and they are all coming to dinner on the 17th inst.! And I shan’t have read anything of them by that time. I only read in bed, and before napping in the afternoon . . .
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Maurice Baring : Cat's Cradle
I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Rome'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Stendhal : Promenades dans Rome
I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Rome'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : Faithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic Ballad
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby      Print: Book

: Demon Sleep
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby      Print: Book

Thomas Hood : Song of the Shirt
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Frederick Edminson : [Paper on Thomas Moore and Thomas Hood]
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Miss Goadby : [Paper on 'Reminscences of Moore']
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Moore :
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby      Print: Book

Thomas Moore :
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

Thomas Hood :
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

Harold Fielding Hall : Soul of a People
'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his book of Christianity & Buddhism necessitated impartiality between the religions on the part of critic [sic]. The role of philosophic doubter assumed for the time by the writer added greatly to the interest of the paper & the discussion which followed. Mrs Ridges afterwards read from the Light of Asia & Mrs Stansfield from Dhammapada'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on 'The Soul of a People']
'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his book of Christianity & Buddhism necessitated impartiality between the religions on the part of critic [sic]. The role of philosophic doubter assumed for the time by the writer added greatly to the interest of the paper & the discussion which followed. Mrs Ridges afterwards read from the Light of Asia & Mrs Stansfield from Dhammapada'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Edwin Arnold : Light of Asia
'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his book of Christianity & Buddhism necessitated impartiality between the religions on the part of critic [sic]. The role of philosophic doubter assumed for the time by the writer added greatly to the interest of the paper & the discussion which followed. Mrs Ridges afterwards read from the Light of Asia & Mrs Stansfield from Dhammapada'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

: Dhammapada
'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his book of Christianity & Buddhism necessitated impartiality between the religions on the part of critic [sic]. The role of philosophic doubter assumed for the time by the writer added greatly to the interest of the paper & the discussion which followed. Mrs Ridges afterwards read from the Light of Asia & Mrs Stansfield from Dhammapada'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia
'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more than half the preface" to his lectures, he found time to send home a long letter'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Tancred
'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more than half the preface" to his lectures, he found time to send home a long letter'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley      Print: Book

Mrs Henry Wood : East Lynne
'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my reading "East Lynne", which I did at three sittings. Yesterday I stood a tolerable examination in it. A brisk cross-examination took place between H.R.H., A.P.S, Meade and Keppel. I came off with flying colours, and put a question which no one could answer: "with whom did Lady Isabel dine on the fatal night?"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley      Print: Book

[n/a] : Psalms
'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already occured to me and was arranged with General Bruce, that our service at Thebes should be in some tomb or temple. Accordingly I chose today a corner in the Great Hall of Karnak, read the Psalms of the day (Mar 16), and preached on the two verses about Egypt which they contain. It was, I must say, a striking scene. In the furtherest aisles of that vast Cathedral were herded together the horses, dromedaries, asses, and their attendants. In the shade of the two gigantic pillars, seated on a mass of broken stones, were ourselves, two or three stray travellers, and the servants in the background. The Prince expressed great pleasure at the sermon, and begged to have a copy of it. It was on the good and evil of the old Egyptian religion.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley      Print: Book

D H Lawrence : Letters
'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it takes turn with Shakespeare and Gibbon, & catching the English mail which leaves tomorrow.....The same night they arrived I had a huge fire in my shack outside & read nearly thro' the 'Living Poets'. Do not feel your kindness was wasted if I say I loved its company more than its contents. I loved its blue cover, crisp new paper & Londonish presence in my lonely Antarctic room. It took me back to London people and parties, the talk & the fashions & the jungle of reputations. This is how you solaced & delghted me for an evening by sending it......By adding the 'Poets' to the Letters you added a delicate melting sweet to a meal. It was just to my taste. The Lawrence letters are so far delightful. he is among the great letter-writers, of a lighter kind. I have been lately reading the Keats' letters you gave me in London. His matter is more searching and profound. His far greater fame attracts a far greater attention. How unbearably sad they are at the end. I had to to rush to the poems to reassure myself, that such a life was not a tragedy but a triumph.......Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter D'Arcy Cresswell      Print: Book

Dorothy Wellesley : Hogarth Living Poets
'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it takes turn with Shakespeare and Gibbon, & catching the English mail which leaves tomorrow.....The same night they arrived I had a huge fire in my shack outside & read nearly thro' the 'Living Poets'. Do not feel your kindness was wasted if I say I loved its company more than its contents. I loved its blue cover, crisp new paper & Londonish presence in my lonely Antarctic room. It took me back to London people and parties, the talk & the fashions & the jungle of reputations. This is how you solaced & delghted me for an evening by sending it......By adding the 'Poets' to the Letters you added a delicate melting sweet to a meal. It was just to my taste. The Lawrence letters are so far delightful. he is among the great letter-writers, of a lighter kind. I have been lately reading the Keats' letters you gave me in London. His matter is more searching and profound. His far greater fame attracts a far greater attention. How unbearably sad they are at the end. I had to to rush to the poems to reassure myself, that such a life was not a tragedy but a triumph.......Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter D'Arcy Cresswell      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you. I had a kitten & my terrier Mick, (who shiver and stare at each other) & the wireless muttering and playing music ever so distantly.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter D'Arcy Cresswell      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : History
'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading Smollett's History [...] She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There seem to have been more weak kings than wise ones."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passages"'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Milbanke      Print: Book

Thomas Otway :
From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passages"'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Milbanke      Print: Book

John Dryden :
From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passages"'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Milbanke      Print: Book

John Milton :
'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick in everybody's pie, and consequent plums to bring back for the Jack Horners at home, writing their verses and reading their Milton and Cowper and Campbell.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke     Print: Book

Cowper :
'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick in everybody's pie, and consequent plums to bring back for the Jack Horners at home, writing their verses and reading their Milton and Cowper and Campbell.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke     Print: Book

Thomas Campbell :
'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick in everybody's pie, and consequent plums to bring back for the Jack Horners at home, writing their verses and reading their Milton and Cowper and Campbell.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke     Print: Book

Joseph Blacket : poetry
'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne Isabella Milbanke's] parents actively befriended. Whether they took him seriously as a poet, or (like Byron) very much the reverse, Annabella [i.e. Anne Isabella] was impressed by his attempts. One of the early records is a copy of verses to her, "on her presenting the author with a beautiful edition of Cowper's Poems" -- just a year before Blacket's death in 1810, at twenty-three.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke

Anne Isabella Milbanke : 'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses
'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earliest of her compositions extant [goes on to quote 11 lines from poem, beginning with "Degraded genius! o'er the untimely grave / In which the tumults of thy breast were still'd, / The rank weeds wave...."] [...] These, with some other verses, were sent to Byron for his opinion, in 1812, by Annabella's cousin-by-marriage, Lady Caroline Lamb. He liked the Dermody lines "so much that I could wish they were in rhyme."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Manuscript: Unknown

Horace :
'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was taking shape. Translations from Horace [...] Three lines and a half of English verse ... and then this phoenix sank for evermore amid its scanty ashes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Glad to get back to my Testament'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary
'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer to, which I had chanced to put forward on my first shelf last night'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : [Biblical verse]
'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : [Biblical verses]
'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : [Biblical verses]
'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : [Biblical verses]
'Today, much helped by my brown book'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Voltaire [pseud.] : [unknown]
'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is invaluable to me, because the devil being called Lucifer is such a prophetic intimation of Science!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : American Notes
'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing sin of all Israel. Jerusalem, the capital, or high places of Judah, v. 5. Therefore, in v. 6 introduces the condemnation of Samaria, and in v. 8 that of Jerusalem. The fourth verse is deeply interesting, of natural destruction: the volcanic melting and river-sculpture: the violence of both, for transgression of men'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Maurice Baring : Cat's Cradle
I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quite so strongly as 'C'. As with 'C'., 'C. C.' is strongest & best in the last ¼ or 1/3. . . . My boy, you may have made 70 corrections in the new edition, but there are plenty more to make. . . .
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Chester Francis Cobb : Mr Moffat
I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throughout, with a good plot well constructed and improving as it goes on. . . . As for the alleged originality of technique, I cannot honestly agree that there is any. James Joyce has already done the ‘running accompaniment of thought’ business far more elaborately, realistically, and brilliantly than Mr. Cobb. And Joyce is already responsible for a school.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

William Gerhardi : The Polyglots
Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'. I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter. I have read it, & though it is loose & contains some merely silly pages, I much enjoyed it. I think it is an original and diverting work, with power in many places, and un peu touchant.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)
'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Then read 64th Isaiah.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold or clay alike ... Ecclesiasticus XXXIV. 20-24. Glorious.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (John)
'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its vacant stupidity is a mere trial of faith.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Kings)
'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Kings)
'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wrong unless explained by side note. See chap. III. 7 and compare chap. VIII. 16, 17.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Maurice Barres : Jardin de Bérénice
Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s 'Jean Barois'. These books will hold you. I should suggest also Colette’s 'Chéri', only I gravely doubt if you would be able to follow its very difficult colloquialisms. . . . Roulette is a bit of a lark, but very dangerous. See the diary of Madame Dostoevsky on the subject of Feodor’s gambling mania. It is appalling.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Kings)
'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Charles Louis Philippe : Bubu de Montparnasse
Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s 'Jean Barois'. These books will hold you. I should suggest also Colette’s 'Chéri', only I gravely doubt if you would be able to follow its very difficult colloquialisms. . . . Roulette is a bit of a lark, but very dangerous. See the diary of Madame Dostoevsky on the subject of Feodor’s gambling mania. It is appalling.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)
'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Roger Martin du Gard : Jean Barois
Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s 'Jean Barois'. These books will hold you. I should suggest also Colette’s 'Chéri', only I gravely doubt if you would be able to follow its very difficult colloquialisms. . . . Roulette is a bit of a lark, but very dangerous. See the diary of Madame Dostoevsky on the subject of Feodor’s gambling mania. It is appalling.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Amos)
'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. 4; V. 5, 6; VII. 10.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Colette : Chéri
Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s 'Jean Barois'. These books will hold you. I should suggest also Colette’s 'Chéri', only I gravely doubt if you would be able to follow its very difficult colloquialisms. . . . Roulette is a bit of a lark, but very dangerous. See the diary of Madame Dostoevsky on the subject of Feodor’s gambling mania. It is appalling.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Heliodorus : [unknown]
'Read chapter of Heliodorus.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Anna Dostoevsky : Dostoevsky portrayed by his wife(?)
Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s 'Jean Barois'. These books will hold you. I should suggest also Colette’s 'Chéri', only I gravely doubt if you would be able to follow its very difficult colloquialisms. . . . Roulette is a bit of a lark, but very dangerous. See the diary of Madame Dostoevsky on the subject of Feodor’s gambling mania. It is appalling.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)
'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)
'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)
'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)
'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

F.A. Hornibrook : The Culture of the Abdomen
I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marvellous. Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting (in accordance with a book entitled 'Eat & Grow Thin') to reduce my weight & have clearly diminished myself by ½ a stone.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: Eat and Grow Thin: The Mahdah Menus
I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marvellous. Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting (in accordance with a book entitled 'Eat & Grow Thin') to reduce my weight & have clearly diminished myself by ½ a stone.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [ghost story]
'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

H.G. Wells : The World of William Clissold
I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good. It is full of brains, & very provocative & stimulating, & I enjoyed it. If you want to realise how positively good 'Clissold' is, read a bit of 'The Silver Spoon'. But I know you won’t. Coward!
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible
'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

John Galsworthy : The Silver Spoon
I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good. It is full of brains, & very provocative & stimulating, & I enjoyed it. If you want to realise how positively good 'Clissold' is, read a bit of 'The Silver Spoon'. But I know you won’t. Coward!
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)
'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)
'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [Moschele's life]
'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)
'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin : The Gentleman from San Francisco
I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am. 'A Gentleman from San Francisco' I thought very crude indeed, and I could not get on with 'The Village'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary
'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible
'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin : The Village
I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am. 'A Gentleman from San Francisco' I thought very crude indeed, and I could not get on with 'The Village'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom which is from above is first pure" &c.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary
'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

John Ruskin : diary
'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Psalter
'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin

John Ruskin : diary
'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Sinner! I seem to catch both, just now.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[unknown] : Munera
'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 66-80.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Adelaide Philpotts : Akhnaton
Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely imperative perusal that I’ve got frightfully behind. I am still six behind with friends' books.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Washington Irving : Rip Van Winkle
'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)
'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present
'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Marmion
'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Old Mortality
'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

George Sturt : A Small Boy in the Sixties
I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of George Bourne—very good. I mean really). In order to write it I read through all the letters I received from him in the course of about 28 years.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Louis Golding : Day of Atonement
I received your book some time ago, from the publishers. My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article. When I took the job on it was clearly understood that I should be absolutely free to review or not to review or not to review, just as I chose. I cannot read all the books which I ought to read, nor even 10% of them. Often I am so puzzled how to be fair that I ignore a whole lot of books and write about some general subject. It is a way out.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

J.B. Priestley : Benighted
I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of it. I certainly think it is a much better book than 'Adam in Moonshine', which appeared to me to be not the work of a novelist. 'Benighted' seems to me to be the work of a novelist.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

J.B. Priestley : Adam in Moonshine
I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of it. I certainly think it is a much better book than 'Adam in Moonshine', which appeared to me to be not the work of a novelist. 'Benighted' seems to me to be the work of a novelist.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Elizabeth Edminson : [paper on [?] J.S. Brown]
'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Brown : [letters of [?] J.S. Brown]
'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Blanche Ridges : [paper on Augustine Birrell's Essays]
'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from the two volumes which had just completed the rota'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

Augustine Birrell : Essays About Men, Women And Books
'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from the two volumes which had just completed the rota'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

Augustine Birrell : Essays About Men, Women And Books
'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from the two volumes which had just completed the rota'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

Matthew Arnold :
'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the prose & poetical works of Matthew Arnold were given by various members.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

Frederick J. Edminson : [essay on Matthew Arnold]
'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the prose & poetical works of Matthew Arnold were given by various members.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Matthew Arnold : Literature and Dogma
'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the prose & poetical works of Matthew Arnold were given by various members.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Print: Book

Goadby : [letters of resignation from the Goadbys from the XII Book Club]
'Letters of resignation were read from Miss Goadby and from Mr and Mrs A.L. Goadby'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

John Greenleaf Whittier : Meeting, The
'A short programme of selections from American authors had been arranged but time only sufficed for the reading of The Meeting by Whittier the rendering of which by Mrs Edminson was much appreciated'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree : Poverty, A Study of Town Life
'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the book which were defended by Mr Edminson and others but apparently neither section was convinced by the other. [a discussion ensued comparing Reading with Rowntree's York]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book club     Print: Book

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree : Poverty, A Study of Town Life
'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the book which were defended by Mr Edminson and others but apparently neither section was convinced by the other. [a discussion ensued comparing Reading with Rowntree's York]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree : Poverty, A Study of Town Life
'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the book which were defended by Mr Edminson and others but apparently neither section was convinced by the other. [a discussion ensued comparing Reading with Rowntree's York]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Print: Book

Cass : [letters of resignation from XII Book Club]
'The resignation of Mr & Mrs Cass was read'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

M.A. Wallis : [paper on Marcus Aurelius]
'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: M.A. Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Marcus Aurelius :
'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: M.A. Wallis      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene
'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Spenser]
'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene
'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene
'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene
'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Blanche Ridges : [paper on Emerson]
'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoints. Selections from his writings were read by Miss Pollard, Edward Little & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Emerson]
'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoints. Selections from his writings were read by Miss Pollard, Edward Little & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Ralph Waldo Emerson :
'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoints. Selections from his writings were read by Miss Pollard, Edward Little & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson :
'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoints. Selections from his writings were read by Miss Pollard, Edward Little & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Pollard      Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson :
'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoints. Selections from his writings were read by Miss Pollard, Edward Little & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Little      Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson :
'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoints. Selections from his writings were read by Miss Pollard, Edward Little & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyle's "Teutsch Ritter".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Allan Kardec [pseud.] : Experimental Spritism
'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Numbers)
'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Psalter
'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible
'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably grander in English than Greek'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Mark)
'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Mark)
'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [French novel]
'finally concluding in reading a French novel'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Deuteronomy)
'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of the S.M., I did open it; by Fors order, at Deuteronomy XXIX. 29. Taking this verse, for year's and life's guide...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Expectans expectavi
'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Mariegola
'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'19th Psalm."
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)
'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really "that's me"!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Matthew)
'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Daniel)
'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequence, however, whether it is desolate or desolator in last verse'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]
'Terribly difficult bit of Plato'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Laws
'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Ariadne
'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Laws
'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, lovely for new Sheffield colony'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Laws
'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary
'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible (Romans)
'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misleads us.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary
'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

George Sand : Marquise de Villemer
'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)
'Read Ezekiel 34th'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)
'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)
'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my first text at I Corinthians VII. 1. And yet the second verse directly reverses the nobleness of all youthful thought'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Plato : Laws
'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : [notes]
'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Walter Scott's Pen! Comforted a little by reading my own notes above on Sisyphus.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

Horace : [unknown]
'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary
'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

Cardinal Wiseman : [unknown]
'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Deucalion
'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Job)
'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all the rest with comfort'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Cuthbert Collingwood : [poems]
'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Machiavelli : Florence
'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife asking why - "To get them into the way of it."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible
'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)
'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)
Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not." II Cor. iv.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

anon : Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age
'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : World
'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, "La petite Comtesse", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

Octave Feuillet : La Petite Comtesse
'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, "La petite Comtesse", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

G. Baker : [Gladstone]
'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, "La petite Comtesse", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Psalter
'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

Edward Fitzgerald : Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Isaac Taylor : Natural History of Enthusiasm
'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]
'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Thomas More : [unknown]
'Read Sir T. More in evening'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : Roma Sotternea
'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)
'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette
'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

anon : History of Fair Rosamond
'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son
'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible death of Mrs Skewton in Dickens' abominable "Dombey".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Froude : Carlyle
'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield, The
'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Citizen of the World, The
'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Fortunes of Nigel
'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[unknown] : Aladdin
'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Chronicles)
'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his heart was lifted up - nor why at first he was so helped.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)
'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Deuteronomy)
'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Proverbs)
'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary
'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

[unknown] : [unknown]
'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Horace-Bénédicte de Saussure : Voyage dans les Alpes
'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four emblems'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Andrea Alciati : Emblems
'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four emblems'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Harry and Lucy
'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph
'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Newspaper

Thomas Carlyle : French Revolution
'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Blanche Roosevelt : Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore
'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two girls burnt together in ball dress.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great
'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Peter)
'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

[unknown] : [French novel]
'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As you like it
'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Abbot, The
'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Elzabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh
'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well appreciate - and I found myself marking the whole book.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Radclyffe Hall : The Well of Loneliness
'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well of Loneliness]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Keats : Sonnet in Blue
'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the sweet comeliness of his charactery'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Manuscript: Sheet

Oscar Wilde : Magdalen Walks
'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magazines she compiled a scrapbook of them, and frequently offered her enthusiastic criticisms. Of "Magdalen Walks" she wrote: "the last lines have a bold, true thought, bravely uttered... I recognise you at once...there is Oscar!"'
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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Speranza Wilde

H. G. Wells : Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
'Thoroughgood’s notice of Wells’s book was deplorable. ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island']. For one thing the book is magnificently written. To me it is the best novel Wells has written for years. Being a member of what are called ‘The Big Four’ I make a rule of never dealing with the work of the other three myself. It would not be becoming of me to do so. Moreover I could not possibly say what I think of Galsworthy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

J.W. Meinhold : Sidonia the Sorceress
'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". Wilde's mother, who was an accomplished translator of European fiction, produced a celebrated English version of this German book. Wilde would remember it fondly as "my favourite romantic reading when a boy" and he returned to it at various times in his adult life.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Charles Maturin : Melmoth the Wanderer
'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it was stylistically "imperfect" and laughed at its aburdity'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Chartres Biron : Pious Opinions
I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the reference to this passage? One of them is entitled 'Pious Opinions'. I have it.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Radclyffe Hall : The Well of Loneliness
On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I need not tell you that I am anti-police.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Voltaire : Histoire de Charles XII
'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar Wilde September 2nd 1865 [...] On page 171 the ten-year-old boy has written the words "Oscar 8 November 1865", no doubt to mark his remarkable progress with the demanding French text.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

: ['classics books']
'Surviving copies of his classics books - which contain copious and meticulous annotations concerning syntax and grammar - and his dazzling success in classical examinations, which focused on linguistic issues, suggest that he was, in his own words, a lover of the "small points" of language and literature.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Chartres Biron : To the Pure
I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote and delivered before the summons was taken out. As the summons preceded the day for publication of the article. The article of course had to be held over. I shall embody the substance of it in another article which will appear as soon as Biron has delivered himself.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Thucydides :
'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He "startled everyone", too, "in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Plato :
'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He "startled everyone", too, "in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Virgil :
'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He "startled everyone", too, "in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Aeschylus : Agamemnon
'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He "startled everyone", too, "in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : novels
'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wilde admired the author's humour and his gift for caricature he loathed Dickens's moralising.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : novels
'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly unusual literary passion at Portora... Speranza literally passed her passion on to her youngest son by lending him several Disraeli novels. Wilde was ravished by the books...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

André Gide : The Vatican Swindle
I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a large number of American translations, and I have not yet seen one which was not extremely inferior to Madame Bussy’s translation of you.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

André Gide : The School of Women
I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a large number of American translations, and I have not yet seen one which was not extremely inferior to Madame Bussy’s translation of you.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Heinrich Heine :
'As a boy [Wilde] "cared little for German literature, excepting only [Heinrich] Heine and Goethe."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Lost Illusions
'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by two acknowledged masters of imaginative realism, impressed him particularly - Balzac's "Lost Illusions" and "A Harlot High and Low" (whose hero is Lucien de Rubempre), and Stendhal's "Scarlet and Black", which featured Julien Sorel. Wilde would nominate the pair as the "two favourite characters" of his boyhood.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : A Harlot High and Low
'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by two acknowledged masters of imaginative realism, impressed him particularly - Balzac's "Lost Illusions" and "A Harlot High and Low" (whose hero is Lucien de Rubempre), and Stendhal's "Scarlet and Black", which featured Julien Sorel. Wilde would nominate the pair as the "two favourite characters" of his boyhood.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Stendhal : Scarlet and Black
'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by two acknowledged masters of imaginative realism, impressed him particularly - Balzac's "Lost Illusions" and "A Harlot High and Low" (whose hero is Lucien de Rubempre), and Stendhal's "Scarlet and Black", which featured Julien Sorel. Wilde would nominate the pair as the "two favourite characters" of his boyhood.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

André Gide : L'Ecole des Femmes
I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Livy : Roman History
'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wilde was still at Portora. It is full of marginal notes dealing with linguistic matters.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Euripides : The Bacchae
'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On the title-page of the famous play... Wilde wrote "Oscar Wilde T.C.D. Trinity [i.e. summer term], 1872. Clearly intent on acquiring a "minute and critical knowledge" of the text, Wilde underlines countless words and phrases which he then presumably looked up in his lexicon; he frequently glosses lines in the drama with notes such as "C.f. Xenophanes", "C.f. [line] 342"'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Richard Hughes : A High Wind in Jamaica
Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best book of the autumn. As for Powys, he is a friend of mine, but I could not get on with his book, and so I have said nothing about it. I think that you have touched its weak spot in saying that it is too abnormal.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Cowper Powys : Wolf Solent
Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best book of the autumn. As for Powys, he is a friend of mine, but I could not get on with his book, and so I have said nothing about it. I think that you have touched its weak spot in saying that it is too abnormal.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Addington Symonds : Studies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2
'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Trinity [Dublin]. The second volume came out in 1876, when he was at Oxford. On the title-page, he wrote "Oscar F.O'F. W. Wilde. S.M. Magdalen College, Oxford, May '76." The date indicates that Wilde purchased the book hot off the printing press.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Aristotle : Ethics
'The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] "Ethics", which is inscribed "Oscar Wilde, Magdalen College, October 1877", illustrate his passionate opposition to [the Historicist] view. Interleaved with the Greek text are around 200 pages on which Wilde has written copious notes in English and Greek. In them he creates a bridge between the past and the present by comparing Aristotle to modern writers such as David Hume and Tennyson...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Hector Berlioz : Soirées de l'Orchestre
Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually written and composed in Berlioz’s time.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

John Pentland Mahaffy : Rambles and Studies
'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles and Studies" before its original publication in 1876.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Manuscript: proofs

Algernon Swinburne : unknown
'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "The Imitation of Christ, the pious manual for Christian living penned by the fifteenth-century German monk Thomas a Kempis. Wilde read the book before going to sleep...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Thomas a Kempis : The Imitation of Christ
'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "The Imitation of Christ, the pious manual for Christian living penned by the fifteenth-century German monk Thomas a Kempis. Wilde read the book before going to sleep...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

William Rothenstein : Men and Memoirs
I am returning your Memoirs. Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips here and there. And also one or two places where I think a little cutting might be done. . . . Finally you need have no qualms about the book, either technically of as to its interestingness. As a fact you write a damned sight too skilfully for a painter.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: typescript

Plato : Dialogues
'"The Dialogues of Plato" became one of Wilde's golden books. He marked and annotated most of the dialogues, and many of Jowett's [editor's] introductions.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

James Hanley : ?A Passion before Death
I have now read your story. I return it herewith. I think that it is very well done.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Pater : Studies in the History of the Renaiisance
'It was during Michaelmas term of 1874 that Wilde first opened "Studies in the History of the Renaissance", a collection of art essays penned by the Oxford Classics don Walter Pater in 1873.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Herman Melville : The Piazza Tales
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Pierre: or the Ambiguities
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Typee
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Omoo
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

George Meredith : Evan Harrington
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

George Meredith : Beauchamp's Career
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publicity and 8 or 10 years ago, in the Reform Club, we decided to convince the world that 'Moby Dick' was the greatest of all sea-novels. And we did! There is a lot more of Melville that you ought to read, if you have not already read it. Some of the ‘Piazza Tales’ are wonderful. And the novel 'Pierre', though while mad and very strange and overstrained, is really original and remarkable. Some of the still stranger books I have not yet read or tried to read. The trouble is that the esoteric books can only be obtained in the complete edition of the works. Happily I possess it. I believe that the original editions of 'Typee' and 'Omoo' are much better than the current editions, which have been expurgated. Please note that I think 'Evan Harrington' is better than 'Beauchamp’s Career' and 'The Woodlanders' better than the 'Mayor of Casterbridge'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoon’s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'. I thought that I could never tolerate another war book, but this one, after the first 30 or 40 pages is really extremely distinguished. It has style, wit, beauty and truthfulness.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: Sunday Express
In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sunday Express) was fulsome. I wrote privately to the Editor of the Standard pointing out grave misstatements in fact in Bruce Lockhart’s article on it. He could offer no defence whatever. Similarly I protested to the editor of the Times Lit. Supplement about its assertion that I had been imitating Priestley’s fashion of length, for the sake of gain. . . . Maugham’s Cakes & Ale is 1st rate. But easily the finest of all recent novels is D.H. Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy. Nothing else exists by the side of it. Believe me. It is marvellous, truly.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

Bruce Lockhart : Evening Standard
In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sunday Express) was fulsome. I wrote privately to the Editor of the Standard pointing out grave misstatements in fact in Bruce Lockhart’s article on it. He could offer no defence whatever. Similarly I protested to the editor of the Times Lit. Supplement about its assertion that I had been imitating Priestley’s fashion of length, for the sake of gain. . . . Maugham’s Cakes & Ale is 1st rate. But easily the finest of all recent novels is D.H. Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy. Nothing else exists by the side of it. Believe me. It is marvellous, truly.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Newspaper

: Times Literary Supplement
In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sunday Express) was fulsome. I wrote privately to the Editor off the Standard pointing out grave misstatements in fact in Bruce Lockhart’s article on it. He could offer no defence whatever. Similarly I protested to the editor of the Times Lit. Supplement about its assertion that I had been imitating Priestley’s fashion of length, for the sake of gain. . . . Maugham’s Cakes & Ale is 1st rate. But easily the finest of all recent novels is D.H. Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy. Nothing else exists by the side of it. Believe me. It is marvellous, truly.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

W. Somerset Maugham : Cakes and Ale
In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sunday Express) was fulsome. I wrote privately to the Editor off the Standard pointing out grave misstatements in fact in Bruce Lockhart’s article on it. He could offer no defence whatever. Similarly I protested to the editor of the Times Lit. Supplement about its assertion that I had been imitating Priestley’s fashion of length, for the sake of gain. . . . Maugham’s 'Cakes & Ale' is 1st rate. But easily the finest of all recent novels is D.H. Lawrence’s 'The Virgin and the Gipsy'. Nothing else exists by the side of it. Believe me. It is marvellous, truly.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : The Virgin and the Gypsy
In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sunday Express) was fulsome. I wrote privately to the Editor off the Standard pointing out grave misstatements in fact in Bruce Lockhart’s article on it. He could offer no defence whatever. Similarly I protested to the editor of the Times Lit. Supplement about its assertion that I had been imitating Priestley’s fashion of length, for the sake of gain. . . . Maugham’s 'Cakes & Ale' is 1st rate. But easily the finest of all recent novels is D.H. Lawrence’s 'The Virgin and the Gipsy'. Nothing else exists by the side of it. Believe me. It is marvellous, truly.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : The Virgin and the Gypsy
When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if you can get it. It was suppressed here by the police and I have no copy. Some unprincipled friend has stolen it from me. I am delighted that you enjoyed 'Evan Harrington'. . . . I agree with you that 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' is an even better book than 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : The Virgin and the Gypsy
When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if you can get it. It was suppressed here by the police and I have no copy. Some unprincipled friend has stolen it from me. I am delighted that you enjoyed 'Evan Harrington'. . . . I agree with you that 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' is an even better book than 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : The Woman who Rode Away
When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if you can get it. It was suppressed here by the police and I have no copy. Some unprincipled friend has stolen it from me. I am delighted that you enjoyed 'Evan Harrington'. . . . I agree with you that 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' is an even better book than 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if you can get it. It was suppressed here by the police and I have no copy. Some unprincipled friend has stolen it from me. I am delighted that you enjoyed 'Evan Harrington'. . . . I agree with you that 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' is an even better book than 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if you can get it. It was suppressed here by the police and I have no copy. Some unprincipled friend has stolen it from me. I am delighted that you enjoyed 'Evan Harrington'. . . . I agree with you that 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' is an even better book than 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

D.H. Lawrence : The Rainbow
When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if you can get it. It was suppressed here by the police and I have no copy. Some unprincipled friend has stolen it from me. I am delighted that you enjoyed 'Evan Harrington'. . . . I agree with you that 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' is an even better book than 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

: [books about Russia or by Russians]
'Illustrative readings from various [Russian] authors were given by members which elicited a considerable amount of discussion'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

W.H. Bruce : [paper on Swiss history]
'W.H. Bruce read an interesting paper on the history [of Switzerland] which was followed by soome supplementary remarks by C.E. Stansfield & a general discussion'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: W.H. Bruce      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard R. Smith : [paper on H. G. wells's 'Mankind in the Making']
'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals and C.E. Stansfield of the Educational system suggested by the author. Both papers prompted considerable discussion'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on H. G. Wells's 'Mankind in the Making']
'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals and C.E. Stansfield of the Educational system suggested by the author. Both papers prompted considerable discussion'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

H.G. Wells : Mankind in the Making
'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals and C.E. Stansfield of the Educational system suggested by the author. Both papers prompted considerable discussion'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

H.G. Wells : Mankind in the Making
'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals and C.E. Stansfield of the Educational system suggested by the author. Both papers prompted considerable discussion'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R Smith      Print: Book

George Meredith :
'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. This gave rise to considerable discussion. W.J. Rowntree gave a resume of Diana of the Crossways illustrated by copious extracts from the book & other members also read from the book & his poems'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

George Meredith : Diana of the Crossways
'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. This gave rise to considerable discussion. W.J. Rowntree gave a resume of Diana of the Crossways illustrated by copious extracts from the book & other members also read from the book & his poems'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

George Meredith : Diana of the Crossways
'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. This gave rise to considerable discussion. W.J. Rowntree gave a resume of Diana of the Crossways illustrated by copious extracts from the book & other members also read from the book & his poems'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

Walter Rowntree : [resume of Meredith's 'Diana of the Crossways']
'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. This gave rise to considerable discussion. W.J. Rowntree gave a resume of Diana of the Crossways illustrated by copious extracts from the book & other members also read from the book & his poems'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Meredith's works]
'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. This gave rise to considerable discussion. W.J. Rowntree gave a resume of Diana of the Crossways illustrated by copious extracts from the book & other members also read from the book & his poems'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

George Meredith : [two poems]
'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. This gave rise to considerable discussion. W.J. Rowntree gave a resume of Diana of the Crossways illustrated by copious extracts from the book & other members also read from the book & his poems'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

George Meredith : [poetry and prose]
'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. This gave rise to considerable discussion. W.J. Rowntree gave a resume of Diana of the Crossways illustrated by copious extracts from the book & other members also read from the book & his poems'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [paper on Tolstoy's philosophy]
'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. J. Ridges also gave a reading from [text uncertain but this line is inserted above the following sentence on 'The Resurrection'] H.R. Smith read an extract from The Resurrection. A. Rawlings dealt with his philosophy. C. E. Stansfield read extract [sic] from 'Ivan the Fool' while A. Rawlings also read some extracts from the author's 'Life'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

: [Life of Tolstoy]
'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. J. Ridges also gave a reading from [text uncertain but this line is inserted above the following sentence on 'The Resurrection'] H.R. Smith read an extract from The Resurrection. A. Rawlings dealt with his philosophy. C. E. Stansfield read extract [sic] from 'Ivan the Fool' while A. Rawlings also read some extracts from the author's 'Life'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Edward Little : [paper on Tolstoy]
'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. J. Ridges also gave a reading from [text uncertain but this line is inserted above the following sentence on 'The Resurrection'] H.R. Smith read an extract from The Resurrection. A. Rawlings dealt with his philosophy. C. E. Stansfield read extract [sic] from 'Ivan the Fool' while A. Rawlings also read some extracts from the author's 'Life'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Little      Manuscript: Unknown

Leo Tolstoy : Resurrection, The
'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. J. Ridges also gave a reading from [text uncertain but this line is inserted above the following sentence on 'The Resurrection'] H.R. Smith read an extract from The Resurrection. A. Rawlings dealt with his philosophy. C. E. Stansfield read extract [sic] from 'Ivan the Fool' while A. Rawlings also read some extracts from the author's 'Life'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : [extract from an unknown work]
'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. J. Ridges also gave a reading from [text uncertain but this line is inserted above the following sentence on 'The Resurrection'] H.R. Smith read an extract from The Resurrection. A. Rawlings dealt with his philosophy. C. E. Stansfield read extract [sic] from 'Ivan the Fool' while A. Rawlings also read some extracts from the author's 'Life'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Ivan the Fool
'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. J. Ridges also gave a reading from [text uncertain but this line is inserted above the following sentence on 'The Resurrection'] H.R. Smith read an extract from The Resurrection. A. Rawlings dealt with his philosophy. C. E. Stansfield read extract [sic] from 'Ivan the Fool' while A. Rawlings also read some extracts from the author's 'Life'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy :
'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. J. Ridges also gave a reading from [text uncertain but this line is inserted above the following sentence on 'The Resurrection'] H.R. Smith read an extract from The Resurrection. A. Rawlings dealt with his philosophy. C. E. Stansfield read extract [sic] from 'Ivan the Fool' while A. Rawlings also read some extracts from the author's 'Life'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Rhyme of Sir Thopas
'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fit i) [i.e. section 1] respectively'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Prioress' Tale
'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fit i) [i.e. Section 1] respectively'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [Paper responding to Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration]
'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration was discussed in many of its bearings, introduced by C.E. Stansfield in a paper having special reference to the housing problem. It was generally considered that there was much more in the report offering material for interesting discussion so that the committee appointed to arrange the programme of the evening was continued with the addition of Mrs Wallis to prepare a programme for the next meeting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

: Departmental Committee Report on Physical Deterioration
'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration was discussed in many of its bearings, introduced by C.E. Stansfield in a paper having special reference to the housing problem. It was generally considered that there was much more in the report offering material for interesting discussion so that the committee appointed to arrange the programme of the evening was continued with the addition of Mrs Wallis to prepare a programme for the next meeting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'the previous minutes were read & confirmed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

Miss Player : [Letter declining to join XII Book Club]
'The Secretary read a letter from Miss Player regretting her inability to join the Club'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

Florence Reynolds : [paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' ]
'Mrs Reynolds then read a paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' describing actual experiences of a friend'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Manuscript: Unknown

John Ridges : [paper on Napoleon]
'Mr Ridges read a paper on Napoleon & A. Rawlings one entitled an 'Argument for Peace'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Rawlings : [paper entitled 'An Argument for Peace']
'Mr Ridges read a paper on Napoleon & A. Rawlings one entitled an 'Argument for Peace'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [a biography of Keats]
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

John Keats : 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

John Keats : Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

John Keats : Endymion
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

John Keats : 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

John Keats : [sonnets]
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [paper on Keats's poetry]
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

John Keats :
'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from Endymion & Mrs Ridges the Ode to a Nightingale. Alfred Rawlings read a paper upon the poetry of Keats & Mrs Edminson some of the sonnets & H.M. Wallis a portion of "Isabella".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

John Murray : Letter
'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no idea of permitting him to start from the course after my son giving up his situation and profession merely because a contributor or two chose to suppose gratuitously that Lockhart was too imprudent for the situation. My physic has wrought well for it brought a letter from Murray saying all was right (Footnote: Scott enclosed Murray's letter in one written to Lockhart the previous day. Murray writes that 'There is nothing to apprehend'), that D'Israeli was sent to me not to Lockhart, and that I was only invited to write two confidential letters, and other incoherencies which intimate his fright has got into another quarter. It is interlined and franked by Barrow (Footnote: That interlineation reads 'No one has any ill will against Mr Lockhart!!!') which shows that all is well and that John's induction in to his office will be easy and pleasant.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Manuscript: Letter

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton -- and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boothby (met during the London season) as a visitor with whom to read the last, but not the other two. For he did not admire either Campbell or Ossian [...] They were reading Paradise Lost; he said that he "believed almost all the events in it." Only almost; and he went on to point out a passage in Book X which proves that, when diction was his theme, he knew what he was talking about [cites lines 'While yet we live, but one short hour perhaps, / Between us two let there be peace,' and notes Boothby's admiration of their simplicity].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain Boothby     Print: Book

Joseph Blacket : poetry
'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was his acquaintance with Joseph Blacket's poetry and fate. He thought slightingly of the poetry, as she was to learn; and not less slightingly of the patronage [from the Milbanke family] which, in his view, had done the poor young cobbler more harm than good.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Homer : Iliad
'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to Evelina. In Evelina she was disappointed [...] There was study of Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina
'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to Evelina. In Evelina she was disappointed [...] There was study of Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

William Wordsworth :
'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to Evelina. In Evelina she was disappointed [...] There was study of Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :
'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to Evelina. In Evelina she was disappointed [...] There was study of Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

Alfieri :
'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to Evelina. In Evelina she was disappointed [...] There was study of Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke and 'the family-solicitor's daughter'     Print: Book

Robert Southey : Madoc
'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most strongly of all. So Annabella waded through Madoc. She found some passages wearisome, but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high "among the ancient poets." Her prophecy may have come true, for it is impossible to tell what she meant by it. She was often guilty of this woolly kind of writing.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : novels
'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's [sic] sensation-making Vathek, in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, "Lord Byron's Childe Harold." Childe Harold's only rival in her poetic reading was The Faerie Queene.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

William Beckford : Vathek
'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's [sic] sensation-making Vathek, in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, "Lord Byron's Childe Harold." Childe Harold's only rival in her poetic reading was The Faerie Queene.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's [sic] sensation-making Vathek, in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, "Lord Byron's Childe Harold." Childe Harold's only rival in her poetic reading was The Faerie Queene.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's [sic] sensation-making Vathek, in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, "Lord Byron's Childe Harold." Childe Harold's only rival in her poetic reading was The Faerie Queene.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Instantly Rogers was summoned to Melbourne House, where the William Lambs were then living. '"I must see him -- I am dying to see him!" '"He has a club-foot," said Rogers, "and he bites his nails." '"If he is as ugly as Aesop, I must see him!"'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)
'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuinely tired of the principal topic as recorded in Annabella's journal -- Childe Harold, poem and poet, about both of whom his wife [Lady Caroline Lamb] had lost her head [...] 'Annabella could not join in that discussion, for she had not read Childe Harold. And she let another week go by before she did read it [...] on the following Sunday she surrendered to the spirit of the season, and began. Two days later she had finished the two cantos of which it then consisted; in her diary for March 24, she set down her opinion: '"It contains many stanzas in the best style of poetry. He is rather too much of a [italics]mannerist[end italics], that is, he wants variety in the turns of his expression. He excels most in the delineations of deep feeling, and in reflections relative to human nature." [...] 'Annabella met him the day after that entry in her diary.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejudice, "which is at present the fashionable novel. It is written by a sister of Charlotte Smith's and contains more strength of character than other productions of this kind."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Giaour
'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition of the Giaour. "The description of Love almost makes [italics]me[end italics] in love ... I consider his [Byron's] acquaintance so desirable that I would incur the risk of being called a Flirt for the sake of enjoying it."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : ode to Napoleon Bonaparte
Anne Isabella Milbanke to Lord Byron (1814): 'Your ode to Buonaparte was read in the company which I have just left. It was thought not perfectly lyrical -- of this I cannot judge, but it appeared to me like a spontaenous effusion.... I was amazed indeed when his "magic of the mind" melted into air. I rejoice in the hope of peace, yet could not join in the triumphant exultation over his fall -- a very serious, if not melancholy contemplation'.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara
'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

Sismondi : Italian Republics
'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke      Print: Book

John Dryden : Don Sebastian
'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron [husband] a question. He said angrily: "Where did you hear that?" '"I looked up and saw that he was holding over me the dagger which he usually wore. I replied, "Oh, only from this book." I was not afraid -- I was persuaded he only did it to terrify me. He put the dagger down and said (I am sure I say it without a feeling of vanity) "If anything could make me believe in heaven, it is the expression of your countenance at this moment."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles
'They [newly married Lord and Lady Byron] read books together, and discussed them; Scott's Lord of the Isles was sent to Byron by [John] Murray [his publisher]. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, "with a miserable smile," the description of the wayward bridegroom: '"She watched, yet feared to meet, his glance, And he shunned hers, till when by chance They met, the point of foemen's lance Had given a milder pang."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Byron     Print: Book

William Godwin : Caleb Williams
'"You will know my secret if you will; but if I tell you, you shall be made miserable throughout your life -- I will be another Falkland to you." This reference to Godwin's Caleb Williams was frequent with [Byron]: she [Anne Isabella, his wife] had read the book and understood its meaning'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Erasmus Darwin : article 'on Diseased Volition'
'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon the patient's making a mystery of the diseased association, "which if he could be persuaded to divulge, the effect would cease." Acting upon this hint from Darwin, and from him, she led him on to speak of his infirmity [i.e. his club foot]. He came to talk familiarly of his "little foot" (as he called it) and said that some allowance must surely be made to him on the Day of Judgment, that he had often wanted to revenge himself on Heaven for it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Unknown

Erasmus Darwin : article 'on Diseased Volition'
'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon the patient's making a mystery of the diseased association, "which if he could be persuaded to divulge, the effect would cease." Acting upon this hint from Darwin, and from him, she led him on to speak of his infirmity [i.e. his club foot]. He came to talk familiarly of his "little foot" (as he called it) and said that some allowance must surely be made to him on the Day of Judgment, that he had often wanted to revenge himself on Heaven for it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Byron     Print: Unknown

Leigh Hunt : Rimini
'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was to her as a portrait of another difficult husband [reproduces eight lines of passage, beginning "He kept no reckoning with his sweets and sours; / He'd hold a sullen countenance for hours"]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : Rimini
'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was to her as a portrait of another difficult husband [reproduces eight lines of passage, beginning "He kept no reckoning with his sweets and sours; / He'd hold a sullen countenance for hours"]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Cicero :
'[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading Cicero and admiring his rejection of Expediency, "his assertion of the duties we owe to our Natures."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [Leigh]), and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learnt to know better [as Byron's estranged wife].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion
'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [Leigh]), and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learnt to know better [as Byron's estranged wife].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III)
'[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supposed to be spoken in the Colosseum: '"... Let me not have worn This iron in my soul in vain -- shall [italics]they[end italics] not mourn?" '-- with the two lines which prophesied his immortality of personal rather than poetic fame: '"But I have that within me that shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire." 'She feigned indifference at first. "The passage was probably intended to make a great impression on [italics]me[end italics]. Whilst I am so free from disordered brains, this will at least be postponed." It was not long postponed. A day or two later she was "well, but very [italics]weak[end italics] ... The new canto is beautiful indeed"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan
'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrote Annabella [Anne Isabella, Byron's estranged wife]. '"In the first place I am very much relieved to find that there is not anything which I can be expected to notice [...] I do not think that my sins are in the pharisaical or pedantic line, and I am very sure that he does not think they are, but avails himself of the prejudices which some may entertain against me, to give a plausible colouring to his accusations. I must however confess that the quizzing in one or two passages was so good as to make me smile at myself -- therefore others are quite welcome to laugh.... I do not feel inclined to continue the perusal. It is always a task to me now to read his works, in which, through all the levity, I discern enough to awaken very painful feelings."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

David Herbert Lawrence : Lady Chatterley's Lover
'On the way up I read Lady Chatterley's Lover, in the new full continental edition a friend got from Germany. I now retract what I said that DHL's letters are more important than his novel. Lady C. is a vastly important book. I understand it. I understand it as necessary. It is delicate and pure. One of the purest things I have ever read. It is far too long. But the strong necessary teaching is there. In parts its as direct and simple as the Bible. Its an amazing love-song; no not a love-song, a life-song. It has given me confidence and courage. It could purge the world.Nevertheless I feel its a thing, a teaching, I must take and pass. I could not stay just in that region. That was Lawrence. But I feel that my goal is quite different. I salute Lady Chatterley, & I will not say leave it behind, but leave it aside. As I said in my last, sex is to art what sleep is to waking life. Full spiritual wakefulness is without sex & is a new innocence, a new childishness if you like.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter D'Arcy Cresswell      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not have published them'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate pages [...] Lord Rancliffe told [John Cam] Hobhouse that "the flames were the fit place for it," and that no decent person could regret the destruction.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord John Russell      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate pages [...] Lord Rancliffe told [John Cam] Hobhouse that "the flames were the fit place for it," and that no decent person could regret the destruction.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Holland      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate pages [...] Lord Rancliffe told [John Cam] Hobhouse that "the flames were the fit place for it," and that no decent person could regret the destruction.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Rancliffe      Manuscript: Unknown

Paisley : Geometry
'[Ada Byron's] mother wrote [to Ada's tutor]: "There are no weeds in her mind; it has to be planted. Her greatest defect is want of order, which mathematics will remedy. She has taught herself part of Paisley's Geometry, which she likes particularly."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Ada Byron      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Giaour
'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. With the first she was highly pleased, from its [italics]effusion-of-feeling[end italics] character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person." This disproves once for all the legend invented by Teresa Guiccioli [Byron's last mistress] that Ada never heard of her father's poetry until a year before she died in 1852!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : 'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)
'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. With the first she was highly pleased, from its [italics]effusion-of-feeling[end italics] character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person." This disproves once for all the legend the legend invented by Teresa Guiccioli [Byron's last mistress] that Ada never heard of her father's poetry until a year before she died in 1852!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : 'the Satire'
'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. With the first she was highly pleased, from its [italics]effusion-of-feeling[end italics] character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person." This disproves once for all the legend the legend invented by Teresa Guiccioli [Byron's last mistress] that Ada never heard of her father's poetry until a year before she died in 1852!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Five Years of Youth
'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, and wrote to a friend: "It is very good -- chiefly directed against Romance, and therefore not necessary for Ada."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

: 'astronomy'
'A second London season over, and [Lady Byron] and Ada made their factory-tour, the daughter [i.e. Ada] meanwhile studying hard at astronomy'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Ada Byron      Print: Book

George MacDonald : Within and Without
'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic. 'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, Within and Without (published in 1855, but written a few years earlier), that their acquaintance began. She wrote to him of her admiration, and soon afterwards they met.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron      Print: Book

Howard R Smith : [paper on the House of Lords]
'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion. Mr Binns then followed with an exhaustive paper which was much appreciated & which also led to free expression of opinion'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

W Binns : [a paper on an unknown subject]
'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion. Mr Binns then followed with an exhaustive paper which was much appreciated & which also led to free expression of opinion'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: W. Binns      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [a paper on Carlyle]
'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle & his philosophy and Mrs Stansfield an extract from Sartor Resartus. Mr Rowntree gave a general resume of Sartor Resartus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Rowntree : [resume of Sartor Resartus]
'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle & his philosophy and Mrs Stansfield an extract from Sartor Resartus. Mr Rowntree gave a general resume of Sartor Resartus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus
'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle & his philosophy and Mrs Stansfield an extract from Sartor Resartus. Mr Rowntree gave a general resume of Sartor Resartus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle :
'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle & his philosophy and Mrs Stansfield an extract from Sartor Resartus. Mr Rowntree gave a general resume of Sartor Resartus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus
'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle & his philosophy and Mrs Stansfield an extract from Sartor Resartus. Mr Rowntree gave a general resume of Sartor Resartus.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

Howard R Smith : [paper on life of RL Stevenson]
'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read by H. R. Smith & a critical appreciation of the works by J. Ridges & selections by several members.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

John Ridges : [paper on works of RL Stevenson]
'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read by H. R. Smith & a critical appreciation of the works by J. Ridges & selections by several members.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson :
'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read by H. R. Smith & a critical appreciation of the works by J. Ridges & selections by several members.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson :
'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read by H. R. Smith & a critical appreciation of the works by J. Ridges & selections by several members.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley :
'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characteristics while other members read selections from his works'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Smith      Print: Book

William Smith : [paper on Shelley]
'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characteristics while other members read selections from his works'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Dr Scott : [paper on Shelley]
'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characteristics while other members read selections from his works'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges

Percy Bysshe Shelley :
'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characteristics while other members read selections from his works'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII book Club     Print: Book

W Binns : [paper on W.S. Landor]
'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

William [?] Harris : [paper on W.S. Landor]
'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William [?] Harris      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Walter Savage Landor :
'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Walter Savage Landor :
'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Romola
'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joyce Heelas      Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Romola
'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Angus [?]      Print: Book

W.S. Gilbert : Palace of Truth
'A meeting of the Club & a large number of guests met at Manor House Earley [?] on the kind invitation of Mr & Mrs Heelas on July 6 1908 to witness a []performance crossed out] reading of W.S. Gilbert's Palce of Truth. It is due to the host & his family & the committee of performers to record here the great amount of care & preparation they took in presenting this piece'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club and friends     Print: Book

Walter Rowntree : [paper on 'Punch' artists]
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Manuscript: Unknown

: Punch
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Heelas      Print: Serial / periodical

: Punch
'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a very varied nature by S. A. Reynolds, Miss J. Heelas, H.M. Wallis, H.R. Smith, Helen Rawlings, C.E. Stansfield & A. Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Serial / periodical

Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile (vol. 1)
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810: 'I am in the middle of [Rousseau's] "Emile." I think parts of it excellent, and the foundation of most of what has been since written on the subject of education. The parts I do not like seem to me more ridiculous than immoral [...] I have, however, only read one volume [...] He has too much of looking up to the sky with larmes dans les yeux, which, though it may be a part and certainly is the consequence of sincere and ardent piety -- I mean that sort of grateful emotion one feels in all the pleasures of fine weather and the works of Nature -- is but a sad loophole or dependance for those who consider it as the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

:
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811: 'Do you wish to see us tonight, G[eorgiana]. with a veil and shawl, near the fire, Mrs. Canning by her [...] Lady Harrowby in an arm-chair [...] Mr. Canning, Charles Ellis and my husband extended at their full length reading, and Lord Harrowby and Lord Morpeth [...] examining folios. Mr. Elliot and I are writing letters, his probably as wise as mine are foolish.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Canning      Print: Unknown

:
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811: 'Do you wish to see us tonight, G[eorgiana]. with a veil and shawl, near the fire, Mrs. Canning by her [...] Lady Harrowby in an arm-chair [...] Mr. Canning, Charles Ellis and my husband extended at their full length reading, and Lord Harrowby and Lord Morpeth [...] examining folios. Mr. Elliot and I are writing letters, his probably as wise as mine are foolish.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Ellis      Print: Unknown

:
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811: 'Do you wish to see us tonight, G[eorgiana]. with a veil and shawl, near the fire, Mrs. Canning by her [...] Lady Harrowby in an arm-chair [...] Mr. Canning, Charles Ellis and my husband extended at their full length reading, and Lord Harrowby and Lord Morpeth [...] examining folios. Mr. Elliot and I are writing letters, his probably as wise as mine are foolish.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Granville      Print: Unknown

: 'folios'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811: 'Do you wish to see us tonight, G[eorgiana]. with a veil and shawl, near the fire, Mrs. Canning by her [...] Lady Harrowby in an arm-chair [...] Mr. Canning, Charles Ellis and my husband extended at their full length reading, and Lord Harrowby and Lord Morpeth [...] examining folios. Mr. Elliot and I are writing letters, his probably as wise as mine are foolish.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Harrowby and Lord Morpeth     Print: Book

Princess Wilhelmine : Memoirs (vol. 1)
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (August 1812): 'La Princesse Wilhelmine is not as interesting as she might be. There is so much detail of the pettiest kind, all the valets and governesses brought so much sur la scene, but I have only read the first volume. Her descriptions, her abuse and her coarseness, put me much in mind of the Princess of Wales, whose early life was probably spent in much the same way.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: Parliamentary debate
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth 9 November 1814: 'I have just been reading the debate. Tierney's seems a very good speech, and, alas! a very fair attack. I abhor Mr. Whitbread, so I will not allow myself to talk of his.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: 'French papers'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 June 1815: 'The French papers rouse even me from my political apathy, they are so curious. Fouche's appointment is what excites most discussion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: Moniteur
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Calais, 26 July 1815: 'I wish you could see them at breakfast: Hart [brother] with one leg making side steps for joy all the time [...] Granville poring over an old "Moniteur."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Granville      Print: Newspaper

Dupaty : Voyage en Italie
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: 'I know of no new books. I have been reading an old one in two volumes, two tiny ones, "Voyage en Italie," par Dupaty. It was strongly recommended to me by Mr. Ward, and I can only say that it is as clever and ridiculous as himself, and therefore very entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Milman : Fazio
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: '"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is in parts very fine and in others as bad. It is written by a young Mr. Milman, son to the physician. It is well worth sending for. Some people think it beautiful. Lord Lansdowne brought it to Saltram and said it was one of the finest things he had ever read, so do get it. The woman's character is very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Milman : Fazio
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: '"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is in parts very fine and in others as bad. It is written by a young Mr. Milman, son to the physician. It is well worth sending for. Some people think it beautiful. Lord Lansdowne brought it to Saltram and said it was one of the finest things he had ever read, so do get it. The woman's character is very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lansdowne      Print: Book

: 'two new reviews'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1816): 'Lady Harrowby and Susan [Lady Harrowby's daughter] are arrived, and I repose my cares upon them, knowing that to Messrs. Standish and Montagu at least they are everything. They are all in the library reading out loud and shouting with laughter over the two new reviews.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harrowby and daughter (?and 'Messrs. Standish and Montagu')     Print: Serial / periodical

:
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 13 January 1817: 'Yesterday evening we had no whist, and the evening passed rapidly, a great deal of reading, talking, and some music.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Duke of Devonshire and family     Print: Unknown

Camoens :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818: 'Yesterday evening Granville [husband], Hart [her brother, the Duke of Devonshire] and I looked over books. A beautiful edition of Camoens, brown and gold, with D. and the coronet inlaid in diamonds. It is like a book in a fairy tale. The Duchess of Devonshire's editions of Horace's journey. The prints are from beautiful drawings, one by herself.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister)     Print: Book

Horace :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818: 'Yesterday evening Granville [husband], Hart [her brother, the Duke of Devonshire] and I looked over books. A beautiful edition of Camoens, brown and gold, with D. and the coronet inlaid in diamonds. It is like a book in a fairy tale. The Duchess of Devonshire's editions of Horace's journey. The prints are from beautiful drawings, one by herself.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister)     Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819: 'I think parts of "Don Juan" more beautiful than anything he has written, some wit and a great deal of bad taste.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 August 1819: 'I admire F. Lamb perhaps more than I like him. I think him uncommonly agreeable and clever, but he sees life in the most degrading light, and he simplifies the thing by thinking all men rogues and all women ----. He looks old and world-beaten, but still handsome. He seems to enjoy being here [Bolton Abbey], and sport, food, and sleep fill up his time. At any spare moment he reads the "Heart of Midlothian," of which he says: "Why, if you wish for my opinion, I think it the worst novel I ever read."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: F. Lamb      Print: Book

Chalmers : sermon
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820: 'I send you a list of new books. Chalmers' sermon, preached after the disturbances in Glasgow, very good. '"Sketches of Life and Manners," clever and entertaining, supposed to be by Lord John.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Unknown

: 'Sketches of Life and Manners'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820: 'I send you a list of new books. Chalmers' sermon, preached after the disturbances in Glasgow, very good. '"Sketches of Life and Manners," clever and entertaining, supposed to be by Lord John.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: parliamentary debate
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 August 1820: 'I have been doing my duty, reading the debate. I suppose it would not be easy to find an act of that sort so devoid of pleasure. The Lords seem to me to flounder deeper and deeper'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: parliamentary debate
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 August 1820: 'I have been doing my duty, reading the debate. I suppose it would not be easy to find an act of that sort so devoid of pleasure. The Lords seem to me to flounder deeper and deeper'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: 'the Red Book'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 2 September 1820: 'The Lords are all tired and suffocated [with the royal adultery trial] [...] Lord Portsmouth takes to the late but desirable task of strengthening his mind. Granville [husband], anxious to ascertain the nature of his studies, looked over his shoulder and saw he was deep in the list of fairs in the Red Book.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Portsmouth      Print: Book

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : School for Scandal
'I begin to find like Joseph Surface that too good a character is inconvenient.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Critic
'I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff says, one of "those whom Heaven has blessed with afluence."'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Robert Southey :
A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him and quoting the twaddle of some old woman, male or female, about Lockhart's earlier jeux d'espirt but concluding most kindly that in regard to my daughter and me he did not mean to withdraw. That he has done the yeoman's service to the Review is certain - and his genius, his universal reading, his powers of regular industry and at the outset a name which though less generally popular than it deserves is still to respectable to be withdrawn without injury.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Manuscript: Letter

Henry Mackenzie : The Man of Feeling
The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the Edinburgh Review.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Carlyle      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : State of German Literature
The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the Edinburgh Review.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

George Moir : Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schiller's Thirty Years War, I
Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to look at that before we go farther.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : A Motley
'I received the volume ["A Motley"] the day before yesterday and laid it aside till this afternoon.' Hence follow one and a half pages of almost unqualified praise for the short stories and sketches in this collection, apart from Conrad's rejection of one piece, "A Reversion To Type".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Norman Douglas : The Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited in evidence
'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[eview]. [...] The "[The]Headland of Minerva" and the "Caves of [the]S[iren Land]" I just cut in half. The "Upland[s] of Sorrento" I sent whole. I did this to give your prose a better chance for they are everlastingly cramped for room in that Review. Of course I didn't touch the text.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Woodd Nevinson : Sitting at a Play
'In the same No. [of Harper's Magazine] Nevinson has a story-- and Lord it is bad. The whole No. is so inept that I feel sick to see myself there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

David Bone : The Brassbounder
'Your gift is none the less welcome because I read your book a few weeks ago. E[dward] Garnett, Duckworth's literary advisor sent it to me shortly after publication.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Francis Warrington Dawson : The Scar
'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have not been disappointed.There is power to begin with, and a great charm of style, a soberness of presentation which appeals to me extremely, [...] for as you can imagine I am not writing this after one reading only.' Hence follow nine lines of further praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jean Gachet de la Fournière : unknown
'Without any doubt Jean [Gachet de la Fournière] has talent.[...] I wrote my immediate impression right after reading the manuscript.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Stephen Reynolds : The Puffin (uncertain)
'I must thank you for the "B[lack]wood" where your "Puffin" was really interesting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce') : African Sketches and Impressions
'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they are intetesting in themselves. I've spent all yesterday with your pages [...].' Hence follow almost two pages of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Norman Douglas : unidentified
'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

E.F. Wedgwood : The Shadow of a Titan
'I wouldn't throw a doubt on his [Edward Garnett's] judgement but I understand he has been lately crying up [through his review in "The Nation" ] two books of which one (a sea book) is the most suburban thing (I mean spiritually) I've ever read. The other is a South American novel both portly and strangely disorderly--if I may express it so. But I had better say nothing more since I have written once a sea book and also a portly S.American novel.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ivan Turgenev : A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories
'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] Lear of the Steppes"), "perfectly superfluous chatter". '
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Windlestraw
'I send back "The Windlestraw" by return of post. In this sort of apologue you are simply incomparable.' Hence follows a page of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Guy de Maupassant : Yvette and Other Stories
'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : Hogarth
'It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was glad to learn.' Hence follow 13 lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Douglas Goldring : A Country Boy and Other Poems
'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for the pleasure it has given me.' Hence follow eight lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Abbot
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I have only read the first volume. I delight in even the faults of his novels, "Ivanhoe" excepted.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet, Countess Granville and family and houseguests     Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Abbot (volume 1)
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I have only read the first volume. I delight in even the faults of his novels, "Ivanhoe" excepted.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I have only read the first volume. I delight in even the faults of his novels, "Ivanhoe" excepted.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 8 October 1820: 'To-day I perform alone upon a roast chicken, and mean to devour "Kenilworth" with it. There are different opinions. Charles Greville told me last night that he did not stir out or go to bed till five in the morning of the day he begun it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville      Print: Book

George Howard : Paestum
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (October 1821): '"Paestum" was in the "Times" to-day. I have cut it out for Berry, who wished to see it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: lines to Lady Holland
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth 25 October 1821: 'We, including Mr. Canning, admire grandpapa's verses extremely.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville, Canning and others in Granville household at Wherstead, Suffolk     Print: Serial / periodical

: Edinburgh Review
'I mentioned that Jack's letter had arrived. It was dated the day before new-years-day, and brought good tidings of the Doctor's entire prosperity. He is dissecting, and operating, and speculating, and dining with boundless alacrity. The Baron is delighted with him, and even me and you; for he has read with great contentment of heart that 'able article' in the Edinr Review...'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon Lord Byron : Cain
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but not without feeling or passion. Parts of it are magnificent, and the effect of Granville [husband] reading it out loud to me was that I roared [i.e. wept] till I could neither hear nor see. The scene, too, in "Sardanapalus" where Myrrha says "Oh, frown not on me," and the speech, "Why do I love this man?" I think beautiful and affecting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Granville Leveson Gower      Print: Book

David (dr) Brewster : Recommendation
'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Goethe, to Irving, to Buller, to Brewster &c &c. These same recommendations are now beginning to come in upon me: I had one from Brewster two days ago (with the offer of farther help); and this morning, came a decent testificatory letter from Buller, and a most majestic certificate in three pages from Edward Irving.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter of recommendation

George Gordon Lord Byron : Sardanapalus
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but not without feeling or passion. Parts of it are magnificent, and the effect of Granville [husband] reading it out loud to me was that I roared [i.e. wept] till I could neither hear nor see. The scene, too, in "Sardanapalus" where Myrrha says "Oh, frown not on me," and the speech, "Why do I love this man?" I think beautiful and affecting.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

:
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Bruton Street, 3 January 1824: 'We landed here at half-past three yesterday, dined tete-a-tete without dressing [...] read till ten, played at chess till near one.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harriet Leveson Gower)     Print: Unknown

: 'little book upon prayer'
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from St Omer, 27 February 1824: 'You have no idea what a comfort and pleasure it is to me to have your copy of my little book upon prayer. I begin the morning with it, and the handwriting adds to its power of fixing my attention.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Manuscript: Unknown, Copied in MS.

: French newspapers
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824: 'Here is again the most delicious spring weather. I wish you could see us in my little boudoir, the window open, Granville [husband] reading the French papers in the green armchair you may remember in Bruton Street.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Granville Leveson Gower      Print: Newspaper

Basil Hall : Journal in South America
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the greatest pleasure. I prefer the first, which I think beautiful. The last are full of soul and subject; but I think there is a little confusion dans la marche.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Basil Hall : Journal in South America
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the greatest pleasure. I prefer the first, which I think beautiful. The last are full of soul and subject; but I think there is a little confusion dans la marche.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

George Howard : verses
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the greatest pleasure. I prefer the first, which I think beautiful. The last are full of soul and subject; but I think there is a little confusion dans la marche.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville

Madame Campan : Journal
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824: 'It amused me to open a new volume of Mme. Campan's journal at these words: "Tu dois juger si je suis fatiguee, mais je m'etais laissee un peu arrieree, et quand une fois les lettres s'amassent, il faut un jour de sainte colere pour deblayer les tiroirs de mon bureau." It is so exactly the state of my case. I have more than a dozen letters for tomorrow's courier [...] I have paid a number of English visits and have been receiving them three times a week, between two and half-past three.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Segur : Life of Buonaparte
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825: 'I feel already the hundred comforts of the [Mardi Gras] carnival being at an end. I have had time already, today and yesterday, to read nearly a whole volume of Segur's Life of Buonaparte during the war in Russia. It is interesting and entrainant beyond measure.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: Bible
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 1 August 1825: 'I have begun reading the Bible with notes regularly. I always liked what is called serious reading, to me so much more light in hand than much that is called lively [...] I think it a beautiful and most delightful confirmation of all that the Bible is, that it should be not only the most interesting, but the most awakening pursuit, so that all that is in the letter, when once read in the spirit, becomes the delight and comfort of one's life.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: report of Duchess of Rutland's death
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister Georgiana, Lady Carlisle, 5 December 1825: 'We are much shocked to see in "Galignani" an account of the poor Duchess [of Rutland]'s death. No private letter had mentioned it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harroet Leveson Gower)     Print: Newspaper

(Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture : Peter's Mother
'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came. But I daresay you were confident. And with reason. No native or acquired cantankerousness could resist the charm of style, the delicate simplicity of expression[...].' Hence follow four more lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Samuel Dill : Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

: [Sagas]
'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

John Ridges : [paper on the Sagas]
'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

: [Sagas]
'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

: [Sagas]
'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

: [Sagas]
'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter S. Rowntree      Print: Book

: [Sagas]
'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The minutes of the previous meeting were read'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: book

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Love of a Nation
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Tiger & the Lady, The
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Building
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Quaker Stories
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Henry Lawrence
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Pleasure of Winter Bathing, The
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : On Washing Seldom & then not much
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Poetry
'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

George Borrow :
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

John Ridges : [paper on Works of George Borrow]
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

R. Heelas : [paper on Life of George Borrow]
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R. Heelas      Manuscript: Unknown

George Borrow : Bible in Spain, The
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

George Borrow : Lavengro
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Marriage      Print: Book

George Borrow : Lavengro
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E.P. Kaye      Print: Book

George Borrow : Romany Rye, The
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

George Borrow : Romany Rye, The
'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marriage & Mr Kaye from Lavengro & H.R. Smith & W.J. Rowntree from Romany Rye'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Frederick Edminson : [paper on English ballads]
'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, and illustrated by readings recitations & songs. Recitations were given by Rosamund Wallis & Mrs Ridges. Readings by H.M. Wallis, Mrs Smith & Mrs Edminson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on English ballads]
'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, and illustrated by readings recitations & songs. Recitations were given by Rosamund Wallis & Mrs Ridges. Readings by H.M. Wallis, Mrs Smith & Mrs Edminson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

: [either an English ballad or text about ballads]
'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, and illustrated by readings recitations & songs. Recitations were given by Rosamund Wallis & Mrs Ridges. Readings by H.M. Wallis, Mrs Smith & Mrs Edminson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

: [either an English ballad or text about ballads]
'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, and illustrated by readings recitations & songs. Recitations were given by Rosamund Wallis & Mrs Ridges. Readings by H.M. Wallis, Mrs Smith & Mrs Edminson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

: [either an English ballad or text about ballads]
'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, and illustrated by readings recitations & songs. Recitations were given by Rosamund Wallis & Mrs Ridges. Readings by H.M. Wallis, Mrs Smith & Mrs Edminson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

: [folklore]
'Mr Binns opened the subject of folklore with an excellent paper & Sybil Heelas & W.J. Rowntree gave readings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sybil Heelas      Print: Book

: [folklore]
'Mr Binns opened the subject of folklore with an excellent paper & Sybil Heelas & W.J. Rowntree gave readings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

W Binns : [paper on folklore]
'Mr Binns opened the subject of folklore with an excellent paper & Sybil Heelas & W.J. Rowntree gave readings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Herbert Ernest Bates :
[Lengthy, uncomplimentary quote from H. E. Bates on D. H. Lawrence] 'Perhaps you would like to know who is writing this? H. E. Ballocks. I mean H. E. Bastard. That is, H. E. Bates: [Quotes H. E. Bates comparing Lawrence unfavourably to Rilke]... No, I can't go on. When will these sodding loudmouthed cunting shitstuffed pisswashed sons of poxed-up bitches learn that there is something greater than literature? A bastard who can bastard well write bastard shit like that bastard well ought to be bastard well stuffed with broken glass, the bastard.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin

John Ridges : [paper on J.M. Barrie]
'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part readings from Window in Thrums & Mrs Reynolds selections from Peter Pan'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Manuscript: Unknown

James Barrie : Window in Thrums, A
'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part readings from Window in Thrums & Mrs Reynolds selections from Peter Pan'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Kaye      Print: Book

James Barrie : Window in Thrums, A
'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part readings from Window in Thrums & Mrs Reynolds selections from Peter Pan'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Marriage      Print: Book

James Barrie : Window in Thrums, A
'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part readings from Window in Thrums & Mrs Reynolds selections from Peter Pan'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

James Barrie : Window in Thrums, A
'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part readings from Window in Thrums & Mrs Reynolds selections from Peter Pan'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

James Barrie : Peter Pan
'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part readings from Window in Thrums & Mrs Reynolds selections from Peter Pan'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

James Barrie :
'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part readings from Window in Thrums & Mrs Reynolds selections from Peter Pan'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ridges      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [minor poems]
'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds read selections from Tess & S.A. Reynolds from Under the Greenwood Tree'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Thomas Hardy]
'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds read selections from Tess & S.A. Reynolds from Under the Greenwood Tree'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

W Binns : [paper on Thomas Hardy's Life]
'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds read selections from Tess & S.A. Reynolds from Under the Greenwood Tree'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the d'Urbervilles
'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds read selections from Tess & S.A. Reynolds from Under the Greenwood Tree'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Under the Greenwood Tree
'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds read selections from Tess & S.A. Reynolds from Under the Greenwood Tree'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus Reynolds      Print: Book

Walter Rowntree : [Paper on W.W. Jacobs]
'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readings from his works H.R. Smith read a paper on Pett Ridge & his works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard Smith : [Paper on William Pett Ridge]
'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readings from his works H.R. Smith read a paper on Pett Ridge & his works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

William Wymark Jacobs :
'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readings from his works H.R. Smith read a paper on Pett Ridge & his works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

William Wymark Jacobs :
'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readings from his works H.R. Smith read a paper on Pett Ridge & his works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

William Wymark Jacobs :
'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readings from his works H.R. Smith read a paper on Pett Ridge & his works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

William Wymark Jacobs :
'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readings from his works H.R. Smith read a paper on Pett Ridge & his works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Print: Book

William Pett Ridge :
'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readings from his works H.R. Smith read a paper on Pett Ridge & his works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on parodies]
'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.I. Evans, W. Binns, H.M. Wallis & Helen Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Wallis and Charles Evans     Manuscript: Unknown

: [a parody]
'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.I. Evans, W. Binns, H.M. Wallis & Helen Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Marriage      Print: Book

: [a parody]
'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.I. Evans, W. Binns, H.M. Wallis & Helen Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

: [a parody]
'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.I. Evans, W. Binns, H.M. Wallis & Helen Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

: [a parody]
'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.I. Evans, W. Binns, H.M. Wallis & Helen Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

: [a parody]
'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.I. Evans, W. Binns, H.M. Wallis & Helen Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

: [a parody]
'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.I. Evans, W. Binns, H.M. Wallis & Helen Rawlings'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken'
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord Byron', beginning 'Ill-fated Heart! and can it be,/ That thou should'st thus be rent in twain?'
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'To My Daughter'
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'.
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

George Gordon Lord Byron : memoranda
Sunday, 20 November 1825 (first entry): 'I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal] [...] I have bethought me on seeing lately some volumes of Byron's notes that he probably had hit upon the right way of keeping such a memorandum-book by throwing aside all pretence to regularity and order and marking down events just as they occurred to recollection. I will try this plan'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Manuscript: Unknown

: Epitaph
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Epitaph In the Church Yard of Brading, in the Isle of Wight': 'Forgive blest shade the tributary tear / That mourns thy exit from a world like this;/ Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here,/ And stay’d thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin’d to grov’ling scenes of night, / No more a tenant spent in mortal day:/ Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, / And trace thy journey to the realms of day.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen      Print: tombstone

Henry Mackenzie : 'Essay on Dreams' (extract)
Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant meeting of from 20 to 25. It is a very good institution. We pay two guineas only for six dinners in the year present or absent. Dine at 5 or rather 1/2 past 5 at the Royal hotel [...] till half past seven then coffee and we go to the Society [...] 'Henry Mackenzie now in his eighty second year read part of an Essay on Dreams.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Mackenzie

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Bright be the place of thy soul'
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Bright be the place of thy Soul” Lord Byron', beginning (first verse): 'Bright be the place of thy soul!/ No lovelier spirit than thine/ E'er burst from its mortal control,/ In the orbs of the blessed to shine.'
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

William Knox : The Lonely Hearth
Thursday, 8 December 1825: 'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeeding to good farms under the Duke of Buccleuch [he] became too soon his own Master and plunged into dissipation and ruin. His poetical talent -- a very fine one -- then shewd itself in a fine strain of pensive poetry calld I think The Lonely Hearth [...] I am a bad promoter of subscriptions but I wished to do what I could for this lad whose talent I really admired [...] I tried to help him but there were temptations he could never resist [...] His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well [...] all his works are grave and pensive a style'.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

William Knox : 'Spiritual hymns'
Thursday, 8 December 1825: 'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeeding to good farms under the Duke of Buccleuch [he] became too soon his own Master and plunged into dissipation and ruin. His poetical talent -- a very fine one -- then shewd itself in a fine strain of pensive poetry calld I think The Lonely Hearth [...] I am a bad promoter of subscriptions but I wished to do what I could for this lad whose talent I really admired [...] I tried to help him but there were temptations he could never resist [...] His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well [...] all his works are grave and pensive a style'.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Harriet Wilson : Memoirs
Friday, 9 December 1825: 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson [...] She must have been assisted in the style spelling and diction though the attempt at wit is very poor -- that at pathos sickening. But there is some good retailing of conversations in which the stile of the speakers so far as known to me is exactly imitated [comments further on text and its author]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

I. S. : 'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'
From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"On happiness” [unattributed], beginning 'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'.
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto : poems
Friday, 23 December 1825: 'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very intimately at the beginning of the century [...] He loved the Muses and worshipd them in secret and used to read some of [his] poetry which was but middling. One upon a walk with his lady which involved certain conclusions (most delicately couchd) but which it is not usual to allude [to].'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto

William Davenant :
Sunday, 12 February 1826; 'Read a few pages of Will d'Avenant who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare intrigued with his mother. I think the pretension can only be treated as Phaeton's was according to Fielding's farce [Tumbledown Dick]. '"Besides by all the village boys I'm sham'd, You the Sun's son, you rascal? -- you be damnd." 'Egad I'll put that into Woodstock.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

G. Chastellain : Vie de Jacques de Lalaine
Sunday, 19 February 1826; 'Being troubled with thick-coming fancies and a slight palpitation of the heart I have been reading the Chronicle of the Good Knight Messire Jacques de Lalain, curious but dull from the constant repetition of the same species of combats in the same stile and phrase [...] It passes the time however, especially in that listless mood when your mind is half on your book half on something else: you catch something to arrest the attention every now and then and what you miss is not worth going back upon. Idle man's studies in short. [goes on to muse upon possibilities for own imaginative use of episodes in text]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

John Galt : The Omen
Thursday, 23 February 1826: 'Read a little volume called the OMEN very well written, deep and powerfull language [...] it is [John Gibson] Lockhart or I am strangely deceived -- it is passd for Wilson's though, but Wilson has more of the falsetto of assumed sentiment, less of the depth of gloomy and powerful feeling.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Dr Arnott : An Account of the Last Illness, Decease, etc. of Napoleon Bonaparte
Thursday, 2 March 1826: 'Slept indifferently and dreamd of Napoleon's last moments and last illness of which I was reading a medical account last night by Dr. Arnott. Horrible death -- a cancer on the pylorus'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

M. De Pastoret : Le Duc de Guise a Naples etc. en 1647 et 1648
Wednesday, 8 March 1826: 'Being jaded and sleepy I took up Le Duc de Guise en Naples. I think this, with the old Memoires on the same subject [...] would enable me to make a pretty essay for the Quarterly [Review].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Captain George Longmore : Tales of Chivalry and Romance
Friday, 10 March 1826: 'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has written a book of poetry, Tales of Chivalry and Romance, far from bad yet wants spirit'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Henry Weber : Metrical Romances
Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collection of antient Romances superior I think to the elaborate Ritson.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Ritson : Ancient English Metrical Romances
Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collection of antient Romances superior I think to the elaborate Ritson.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan : O'Donnel
Tuesday, 14 March 1826: 'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over Lady Morgan's novel of O'Donnel which has some striking and beautiful passages of situation and description and in the comic part is very rich and entertaining. I do not remember being so much pleased with it at first -- there is a want of story always fatal to a book the first reading and it is well if it gets the chance of a second [...] 'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with [...] What a pity such a gifted creature died so early.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Tuesday, 14 March 1826: 'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over Lady Morgan's novel of O'Donnel which has some striking and beautiful passages of situation and description and in the comic part is very rich and entertaining. I do not remember being so much pleased with it at first -- there is a want of story always fatal to a book the first reading and it is well if it gets the chance of a second [...] 'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with [...] What a pity such a gifted creature died so early.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Charlotte Smith : Desmond
Thursday, 16 March 1826: 'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the worst of her compositions.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Marmion
Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow Ladies -- One whom I had already assisted on some law business on the footing of her having visited my mother [...] Another widowed dame whose claim is having read Marmion and the Lady of the Lake besides a promise to read all my other works [...] demands that I shall either pay £200 to get her cub into some place or settle him in a seminary of education [...] I do believe your destitute widow, especially if she hath a charge of children and one or two fit for patronage, is one of the most impudent animals living.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake
Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow Ladies -- One whom I had already assisted on some law business on the footing of her having visited my mother [...] Another widowed dame whose claim is having read Marmion and the Lady of the Lake besides a promise to read all my other works [...] demands that I shall either pay £200 to get her cub into some place or settle him in a seminary of education [...] I do believe your destitute widow, especially if she hath a charge of children and one or two fit for patronage, is one of the most impudent animals living.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

T. H. Lister : Granby
Tuesday, 28 March 1826: 'Reading at intervals a novel called Grandby [sic] one of that very difficult class which aspires to describe the actual current of society; whose colours are so evanescent that it is difficult to fix them on the canvas. It is well written but over labourd -- too much attempt to put the reader exactly up to the thoughts and sentiments of the parties -- The women do this better -- Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society far superior to anything Man vain Man has produced of the like nature.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor Oudney : Narrative of Travels in Northern and Central Africa in 1822, 1823, and 1834 [sic in source]
Wednesday, 5 April 1826: 'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less botheration about mineralogy botany and so forth than usual. Pity Africa picks up so many brave men however.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

J. G. Lockhart : review of Thomas Moore, Life of Sheridan
Sunday 9 April 1826: 'Lockhart's Review -- Don't like his article on Sheridan's Life. There is no breadth in it, no general views -- the whole flung away in smart but party criticism [...] he lets himself too easily into that advocatism of stile which is that of a pleader not a judge or a critic and is particularly unsatisfactory to the reader.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Serial / periodical

: 'The murder of [William] Weare by Thurtell and Co. at Gill's-Hill, in Hertfordshire'
Sunday, 16 July 1826: 'Very unsatisfactory to-day. Sleepy, stupid, indolent -- finished arranging the books and after that was totally useless -- unless it can be called study that I slumbrd for three or four hours over a variorum edition of the Gill-Hill's tragedy. Admirable recipe for low spirits [comments further on text]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Middleton : Michaelmas Term
Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled through two -- One called Michaelmas Term full of traits of manners and another a sort of bouncing tragedy called The Hector of Germany or The Palsgrave. The last, worthless in the extreme, is like many of the plays in the beginning of the 17th. Century written to a good tune [goes on to comment further on language in seventeenth- century drama].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Wentworth Smith : The Hector of Germany, or The Palsgrave
Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled through two -- One called Michaelmas Term full of traits of manners and another a sort of bouncing tragedy called The Hector of Germany or The Palsgrave. The last, worthless in the extreme, is like many of the plays in the beginning of the 17th. Century written to a good tune [goes on to comment further on language in seventeenth- century drama].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Ellis : Specimens of the Early English Poets
'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friendly correspondence.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Ellis : Specimens of Early English Romances
'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friendly correspondence.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
'[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the family circle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
'[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the family circle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Harrison Ainsworth : Sir John Chiverton
Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Death of Dr. Swift," lls. 57-8] '"Which I was born to introduce Refined it first and showd its use." 'They are both clever books, one in imitation of the days of chivalry, the other by John Smith [...] dated in the time of the civil wars and introducing historical characters. I read both with great interest during the journey [to London].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

John Smith : Brambletye House
Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Death of Dr. Swift," lls. 57-8] '"Which I was born to introduce Refined it first and showd its use." 'They are both clever books, one in imitation of the days of chivalry, the other by John Smith [...] dated in the time of the civil wars and introducing historical characters. I read both with great interest during the journey [to London].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Howard Smith : [paper on Subliminal Consciousness]
'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper on Subliminal Consciousness & W.S Rowntree on Evidence of continued existence after corporeal death.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Rowntree : [paper on Evidence of continued existence after corporeal death]
'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper on Subliminal Consciousness & W.S Rowntree on Evidence of continued existence after corporeal death.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Manuscript: Unknown

: [example of Vers de Societe]
'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors were given by H.M. Wallis, C.E. Stansfield, C.J [?]. Evans, H.R. Smith, J.J. Cooper, A. Rawlings & others'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

: [example of Vers de Societe]
'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors were given by H.M. Wallis, C.E. Stansfield, C.J [?]. Evans, H.R. Smith, J.J. Cooper, A. Rawlings & others'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

: [example of Vers de Societe]
'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors were given by H.M. Wallis, C.E. Stansfield, C.J [?]. Evans, H.R. Smith, J.J. Cooper, A. Rawlings & others'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

: [example of Vers de Societe]
'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors were given by H.M. Wallis, C.E. Stansfield, C.J [?]. Evans, H.R. Smith, J.J. Cooper, A. Rawlings & others'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

: [example of Vers de Societe]
'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors were given by H.M. Wallis, C.E. Stansfield, C.J [?]. Evans, H.R. Smith, J.J. Cooper, A. Rawlings & others'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John James Cooper      Print: Book

: [example of Vers de Societe]
'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors were given by H.M. Wallis, C.E. Stansfield, C.J [?]. Evans, H.R. Smith, J.J. Cooper, A. Rawlings & others'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Philip H. Wicksteed : Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen
'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt composed by Grieg. Helen & Margery Rawlings & the Secretary gave readings & Kathleen Rawlings another song from the same play. F.J. Edminson gave a few biographical details of Ibsen & a synopsis of the plot of the Doll's House followed by a reading from the play. Miss Marriage, H.M Wallis, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye took part in a reading from Pillars of Society'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt
'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt composed by Grieg. Helen & Margery Rawlings & the Secretary gave readings & Kathleen Rawlings another song from the same play. F.J. Edminson gave a few biographical details of Ibsen & a synopsis of the plot of the Doll's House followed by a reading from the play. Miss Marriage, H.M Wallis, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye took part in a reading from Pillars of Society'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt
'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt composed by Grieg. Helen & Margery Rawlings & the Secretary gave readings & Kathleen Rawlings another song from the same play. F.J. Edminson gave a few biographical details of Ibsen & a synopsis of the plot of the Doll's House followed by a reading from the play. Miss Marriage, H.M Wallis, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye took part in a reading from Pillars of Society'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margery Rawlings      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt
'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt composed by Grieg. Helen & Margery Rawlings & the Secretary gave readings & Kathleen Rawlings another song from the same play. F.J. Edminson gave a few biographical details of Ibsen & a synopsis of the plot of the Doll's House followed by a reading from the play. Miss Marriage, H.M Wallis, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye took part in a reading from Pillars of Society'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Doll's House, The
'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt composed by Grieg. Helen & Margery Rawlings & the Secretary gave readings & Kathleen Rawlings another song from the same play. F.J. Edminson gave a few biographical details of Ibsen & a synopsis of the plot of the Doll's House followed by a reading from the play. Miss Marriage, H.M Wallis, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye took part in a reading from Pillars of Society'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Pillars of Society, The
'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt composed by Grieg. Helen & Margery Rawlings & the Secretary gave readings & Kathleen Rawlings another song from the same play. F.J. Edminson gave a few biographical details of Ibsen & a synopsis of the plot of the Doll's House followed by a reading from the play. Miss Marriage, H.M Wallis, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye took part in a reading from Pillars of Society'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Marriage, Henry Marriage Wallis, Percy Kaye and Walter Rowntree     Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Doll's House, The
'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt composed by Grieg. Helen & Margery Rawlings & the Secretary gave readings & Kathleen Rawlings another song from the same play. F.J. Edminson gave a few biographical details of Ibsen & a synopsis of the plot of the Doll's House followed by a reading from the play. Miss Marriage, H.M Wallis, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye took part in a reading from Pillars of Society'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells : The New Machiavelli
' This is really great, great in every dimension. [...] I have read the book ["The New Machiavelli"] yesterday and this evening I re-read it from p.290-504. I don't know what a "masterpiece" may be --but I know what masterwork is when I see it. And this is it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc
'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine.Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll with your leave keep the MS for 3 days before I read it again. I wanted to give the very freshest first impression just now, but won't say more at present.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Norman Douglas : Siren Land
'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted. There are mighty fine things there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Patrician
'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on that ground alone you have done a very fine thing.' Hence follow over a page of only slightly qualified praise for this work. 'I haven't told you half of what I thought about the book. While writing [the first time] I felt still a little "in the air" about it -- but after a second reading I felt so no longer.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Arthur Symons : unidentified
'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodious soul. I see quite a new aspect of you in these few delightful pages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Thomas : Light and Twilight
'Thanks for the little book ["Light and Twilight"] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your prose with its quiet,flowing felicity of phrase and what I call "penetrative" power of expression.' Hence follow 11 lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

W.H.(William Henry) Hudson : A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (probable)
'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveable, and as one reads on, one feels one's affection increase at every page.' Hence follow 8 lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

unknown :
'"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Walter Rowntree : [paper on Dante & Florence]
'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Manuscript: Unknown

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

E.H. Plumptre : Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri
'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on the Purgatorio which was also supplemented with readings by various members. A. Rawlings gave a few selections from Plumtree's [sic] notes on Dante, concerning the Paradiso.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on the Purgatorio which was also supplemented with readings by various members. A. Rawlings gave a few selections from Plumtree's [sic] notes on Dante, concerning the Paradiso.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mebers of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on the Purgatorio which was also supplemented with readings by various members. A. Rawlings gave a few selections from Plumtree's [sic] notes on Dante, concerning the Paradiso.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Frederick Edminson : [paper on Dante's Purgatorio]
'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on the Purgatorio which was also supplemented with readings by various members. A. Rawlings gave a few selections from Plumtree's [sic] notes on Dante, concerning the Paradiso.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on the Purgatorio which was also supplemented with readings by various members. A. Rawlings gave a few selections from Plumtree's [sic] notes on Dante, concerning the Paradiso.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson      Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on the Purgatorio which was also supplemented with readings by various members. A. Rawlings gave a few selections from Plumtree's [sic] notes on Dante, concerning the Paradiso.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Marriage      Print: Book

Edward Young : The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginning 'Celestial Happiness, when’er she stoops. To visit earth, one shrine the Goddess finds…'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'If that high world'
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If that high world -- which lies beyond Our own, surviving love endears...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Mrs O’Neil : Ode to the Poppy
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Ode to the Poppy, By the Honble Mrs O’Neil', beginning 'Not for the promise of the cultured field/ Not for the good the yellow harvests yield…’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

James Thomson : Ode: Tell me thou Soul of her I love
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', beginning 'Tell me thou Soul of her I love’.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

George Gordon, Lord Byron : To Mary
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the flames of jealous rage, By all her torments deeply curst, Of hell-born passions far the worst, What hope my pangs can now assuage'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

anon : Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines entitled ‘Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks’ [unattributed] beginning 'On, on! To the just and glorious strife! With your swords your freedom shielding; Nay, resign, if it must be so, even life; But die, at least, unyielding…’.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

anon : Lines by a Lady at a Ball
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of Lines by a Lady at a Ball', beginning 'So, Sir, you really do declare, / You’ll dance with none but ladies fair...'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

G Canning : Epitaph On the Tombstone erected over the Marquis of Anglesey’s leg
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘An Epitaph. On the Tombstone erected over the Marquis of Anglesey’s leg. By the Rt. Honble. G. Canning.’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Thomas Little : Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady's Common Place Book
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady’s common place Book', lines beginning 'Here is one leaf reserv’d for me, / From all thy sweet memorials free; / And here my simple song might tell / The feelings thou must guess so well…’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Robert Southey : The Well of St Keyne
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but by Southey] beginning 'A well there is in the West Country, / And a cleverer one never was seen…’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

John Marriott : A Devonshire Lane
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘"A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage" by Mr Marriott' beginning ‘In a Devonshire lane as I trotted along…’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Walter Scott : Rokeby
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from “Rokesby” (for Rokeby), beginning 'When lovers meet in adverse hour/ Tis like a sun glimpse through a shower…’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Bridge of Abydos
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byron].
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled and unattributed], beginning 'I wept thy absence – oer and oer again’.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Mary Queen of Scots : Sonnet
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'The following lines are a translation of a Latin Sonnet written by Mary Queen of Scots when in the vessel which conveyed her from France.' The lines begin ‘Stay cruel breeze, rude ocean cease thy roar….’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

T Moore : Lines on the death of a dear friend
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On the death of a friend” T. Moore.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

John Gay : The Hare and Many Friends
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Friendship like love is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame” Gay.' This is followed by lines clearly inspired by this, beginning “The British fabulist misleads the mind, / Friendship and love are better thus defined…’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

: Hampshire Advertiser
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Lord Buckingham was once at a dinner where a Mr Grub was requested to sing. He begged to be excused, urging that he knew not what to sing, “Sing ‘I’d be a butterfly’” suggested the nobleman.” From Hampshire Advertiser.’
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen      Print: Newspaper

: Hampshire Advertiser
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To a Flirt" [unattributed, but the poem is "To his Forsaken Mistress" by Sir Robert Ayton, and begins 'I do confess thou’rt smooth and fair'].
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Lord Palmerston : Epitaph on Vicountess Palmerston
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Epitaph on Viscountess Palmerston written by her Husband” Romsey Church.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen      Print: tombstone

anon : Black eyes and Blue eyes
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines beginning 'Black eyes may dazzle at a ball'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

M S : What is Love?
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "What is Love?” by M. S'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : L’Improvisatrice
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spirit’s bitterest pain / To love – to be beloved again'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Hannah More : Sensibility
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (“Mrs H. More”) beginning “Since trifles make the sum of human things”.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Princess Amelia :
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Lines by the Princess Amelia” beginning 'Unthinking, idle, wild and young, I laughed, and danced, and talked and sung…'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Thomas Moore : My Birthday
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthday” what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful ear!'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Hugh Clifford : The Downfall of the Gods
'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the Gods" three times from end to end. As to pages and psasages read and re-read and meditated over I can 't give you that tale of them even approximately'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Sheridan : [verses to his wife]
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'By Mr B Sheridan Esq to his Wife'.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Rev. Francis Murray : Friendship
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

: Southampton Newspaper
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'lament of the Single Ladies of Southampton' 'from the Southampton Paper' beginning 'We’re ready, we’re ready, it really is hard/ That from Hymen’s sweet bonds we so long are debarred.’
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Rogers : To the Butterfly
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ”To the Butterfly” by Samuel Rogers.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Verses
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Verses by R. B. Sheridan Esq'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : On Sir Walter Scott
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "On Sir Walter Scott" by LEL.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Thomas Haynes Bailey : 'They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair'
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair by Thos Haynes Bailey Esq”
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Stephen Reynolds : unidentified
'I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evidently my dearest boy it is your synthesis, of course sketched in merely.' Hence follow three more lines of approval.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Thomas Haynes Bailey : 'In Happiness Hours'
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“In Happiness Hours” By Thos Haynes Bailey Esq'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Hannah More : A Search after Happiness
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“A Search after Happiness H. More” beginning “Expect not perfect happiness below…’
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen

Wilkie Collins : The Moonstone
The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the detective prime?”
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Henry James : The Outcry
'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightness, I have for a moment been able to forget the passage of time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

(Francis) Warrington Dawson : unspecified
'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Frederic Andre : letter
'Translation enclosed, very literal, for the fun’s sake. I have taken stock/made acquaintance of the ["Treatise of Marine Works" which you have published in 1874 […] Kindly accept, Mister and dear colleague, the expression of my sentiments of perfect estime. (signed) Fred Andre'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Henri Ghéon : Nos Directions
'Thank you for the book. So judicious, so interesting, so touching--why shouldn't I say so when I have been touched?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William James : Memories and Studies
'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William] James ever wrote it's most suggestive and interesting and morally valuable.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley) : Seems So! A Working Class View of Politics
'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong but constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : Lords and Masters
'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.' Hence follows a page of praise with one minor reservation.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: playscript

Robert Southey : History of the Peninsular War
Thursday, 19 October 1826: 'I rose at my usual time [7 am] but could not write so read Southey['s] History of the Peninsular War. It is very good indeed, honest English good principle in every line, but there are many prejudices and there is a tendency to augment a work already too long by saying all that can be said of the history of ancient times appertaining to every place mentioned.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

R. B. Sheridan : The Critic
Thursday, 4 January 1827: 'After tea I broke off work and read my young folks the farce of The Critic and "merry folks were we."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Foote : The Commissary
Saturday, 6 January 1827: 'In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir Laurence Dundas.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: report of funeral of William Gifford
Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd [sic] at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Newspaper

William Gifford : translation of Juvenal
Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

William Gifford : The Baviad
Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

William Gifford : The Maeviad
Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Christian Isobel Johnson : Elizabeth de Bruce
Tuesday, 23 January 1827: 'Betwixt dinner and tea while husbanding a tumbler of whisky and water I read the new novel Elizabeth de Bruce -- part of it that is'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Christian Isobel Johnson : Elizabeth de Bruce
Saturday, 27 January 1827: 'Read Elizth. de Bruce -- it is very clever but does not show much originality: the characters though very entertaining are in the manner of other authors and the finishd and filldup portraits of which the sketches are to be found elsewhere. One is too apt to feel on such occasions the pettied resentment that you might entertain against one who had poachd on your manor. But [...] a claim set up on having been the first who betook himself to the illustration of some particular class of characters or department of life is no more a right of monopoly than that asserted by the old buccaneers by setting up a wooden cross and killing an Indian or two on some new discovered Island.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV
'An excellent plot, excellent friends, and full of preparations'. Footnote: An allusion to Hotspur's plot in I Henry IV, ii. 3.
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Jacques Copeau(and Jean Croue, after Fyodor Dostoievski : Les Frères Karamazov: une drame en 5 actes Dostoievski
'Very many thanks for your kind and friendly notion of sending me "The Brothers Karamazov". I am quite simply astonsihed to see how you and your collaborator have succeeded in tearing out so to speak the very heart of that stout book, laying it bare in 5 acts.[...] It is admirably well done.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: playscript

Peter Tytler : 'essay [...] on the first encourager of Greek learning in England'
Monday, 5 February 1827: 'Dined at the Royal Society club -- above 30 present. Went to the Society in the evening and heard an essay by Peter Tytler on the first encourager of Greek learning in England.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

: Bible: Ecclesiastes
'I am come to the time when those who look out at the windows shall be darkend.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Lord Frederick Leveson Gower : Tale of the Mill
Saturday, 10 February 1827: 'I got a present of Lord Frederick Leveson Gower's printed but unpublishd "Tale of the Mill" -- it is a fine tale of terror in itself and very happily brought out. He has certainly a true taste for poetry. I do not know why, but from my childhood I have seen something fearful or melancholy at least about a Mill [speculates on possible reasons for this] [...] So I enterd into the spirit of the terror with which Lord Frederick has invested his haunted spot.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Unknown

Horace Walpole : Historic Doubts on Richard III
Thursday, 1 March 1827: 'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always acted at London on this day [...] Walpole's Historic Doubts threw a mist about this Reign. It is very odd to see how his mind dwells upon [them] at first as the mere sport of imagination till at length they become such Dalilahs of his imagination that he deems it far worse than infidelity to doubt his Doubts.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Samuel Foote : The Maid of Bath
'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Sir James Melville : Memoirs
Saturday, 10 March 1827: 'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintending a capital edition of Sir James Melville's Memoirs. It is brave to see how he wags his Scots tongue and what a difference there is in the force and firmness of his language compared to the mincing English edition in which he has hitherto been alone known.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

André Gide : L'Immoraliste
'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wanted to get the book from you. As to the volume of criticism, all I can tell you is that I am so much in accord with the sentiment of this book that the sympathy--permit me to say affection-- that I felt for you from the first moment is infinitely increased.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: Almacks
Monday, 12 March 1827: 'I have been trying to read a new novel which I have heard praised. It is calld Almacks an[d] the author has so well succeeded in describing the cold selfish fopperies of the time that the copy is almost as dull as the original.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

André Gide : unknown
'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wanted to get the book from you. As to the volume of criticism, all I can tell you is that I am so much in accord with the sentiment of this book that the sympathy--permit me to say affection-- that I felt for you from the first moment is infinitely increased.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Ward : De Vere
Sunday, 22 April 1827: 'Wrought [i.e. worked] in the afternoon and tried to read De Vere, a sensible but heavy book written by an able hand -- but a great bore for all that'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Captain Thomas Hamilton : The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton
Sunday, 13 May 1827: 'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes reading the new and interesting volumes of Cyril Thornton, sometimes chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy which strangely alternated in my mind idly stirred by the succession of a thousand vague thoughts and fears'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Sir James Melville : Memoirs
Friday, 8 June 1827: 'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, over Sir James Melville's Memoirs.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Benjamin Disraeli : Vivian Grey
Monday, 11 June 1827: 'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took up my morning and the rest dribbled away in correcting proofs and trifling, reading among the rest an odd volume of Vivian Grey -- clever but not so much so as to make [me] in this sultry weather go up stairs to the drawing room to seek the other volumes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Life of Napoleon
Thursday, 28 June 1827: 'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napoleon's history with which he had himself been interested as commanding a flotilla, thought he had detected a mistake, but was luckily mistaken to my great delight.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Robert Ward : De Vere
Wednesday, 4 July 1827: 'Read De Vere the rest. It is well written in point of language and sentiment but has too little action in it to be termd a pleasing Novel. Every thing is brought out by dialogue, or worse, through the medium of the author's own reflections, whiich is the clumsiest of all expedients.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: Greek texts
Monday, 9 July 1827: 'At eleven [am] went by appointment with Colin Mackenzie to the New Edinr. Academy. In the fifth class, Mr. Mitchell's, we heard Greek of which I am no otherwise a judge than that it was fluently read and explaind.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils in fifth class at New Edinburgh Academy     Print: Book

Walter Scott : article on E. T. W. Hoffmann
Wednesday, 1 August 1827: 'Smoked a cigar after dinner, laughd with my daughters and read them the review of Hoffmann's production out of Gillies's new Foreign review.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Serial / periodical

Pryce Gordon : Memoirs
Friday, 3 August 1827: 'Huntley Gordon lent me a volume of his father's Manuscript Memoirs. They are not without interest, for Pryce Gordon though a bit of a roue, is a clever fellow in his way [comments further on text].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Manuscript: Unknown

: 'Refutation' of Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon
Friday, 14 September 1827: 'Read a Refutation as it calls itself of Napoleon's history. It is so very polite and accomodating that every third word is a concession -- the work of a man able to judge distinctly on specific facts but erroneous in his general results. He will say the same of me perhaps.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Jane Austen :
Tuesday, 18 September 1827: 'Whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen's Novels; there is a truth of painting in her writings which always delights me. They do not it is true get above the middle classes of Society. But there she is inimitable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

:
Thursday, 27 September 1827: 'We dined at Gattonside with Mr. Bembridge who kindly presented me with 6 bottles of super-excellent Jamaica Rum and with a manuscript collection of poetry said to be Swift's hand writing, which it resembles. It is I think poor Stella's. Nothing very new in it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Kingsley : The Water Babies
Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were reading Gone with the Wind, and my mother decided she would rather I didn’t read Gone with the Wind because of a very racy chapter where Melanie gives birth to a baby and she didn’t think that was suitable for me. I was thirteen or fourteen and I didn’t read it but I did read Vicky Baum’s Hotel Berlin which had a much worse scene where a woman gave birth in a rowing boat… I can’t think of anything that was actually banned at all. I read lots and lots of my father’s books and this was a book that I loved - Palgrave’s Golden Treasury [shows book]. My mother gave me this [shows book]. This is the one I learned to read on. This is the Water Babies. I remember sitting up in bed reading Mrs Be Done By As You Did and shouting out “I can read, I can read”! I was six. I didn’t learn to read until quite late.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Vicky Baum : Hotel Berlin
Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were reading Gone with the Wind, and my mother decided she would rather I didn’t read Gone with the Wind because of a very racy chapter where Melanie gives birth to a baby and she didn’t think that was suitable for me. I was thirteen or fourteen and I didn’t read it but I did read Vicky Baum’s Hotel Berlin which had a much worse scene where a woman gave birth in a rowing boat… I can’t think of anything that was actually banned at all. I read lots and lots of my father’s books and this was a book that I loved - Palgrave’s Golden Treasury [shows book]. My mother gave me this [shows book]. This is the one I learned to read on. This is the Water Babies. I remember sitting up in bed reading Mrs Be Done By As You Did and shouting out “I can read, I can read”! I was six. I didn’t learn to read until quite late.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Thomas Palgrave (ed) : Golden Treasury
Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were reading Gone with the Wind, and my mother decided she would rather I didn’t read Gone with the Wind because of a very racy chapter where Melanie gives birth to a baby and she didn’t think that was suitable for me. I was thirteen or fourteen and I didn’t read it but I did read Vicky Baum’s Hotel Berlin which had a much worse scene where a woman gave birth in a rowing boat… I can’t think of anything that was actually banned at all. I read lots and lots of my father’s books and this was a book that I loved - Palgrave’s Golden Treasury [shows book]. My mother gave me this [shows book]. This is the one I learned to read on. This is the Water Babies. I remember sitting up in bed reading Mrs Be Done By As You Did and shouting out “I can read, I can read”! I was six. I didn’t learn to read until quite late.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Lou Wallis : Ben Hur
Transcript of interview: 'He [her father] gave me a copy of Lou Wallis's Ben Hur in a slip case and I put in my diary which you’ll find there [points to MS diary] that I was very much enjoying it but that was completely untrue – I only read the first few pages and just couldn’t get into it and it was still in its slip case when I think I gave it to a charity shop not very long ago!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Collected Plays
Transcript of interview: 'The one [book] that I was given was Bernard Shaw. We went into a bookshop and my father said you can have any book you like which was very unwise because I plumped for the most expensive book in the shop which was 3 guineas, which was terrifically expensive when you think that someone got 2 pounds 3 shillings a week wage.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Hervey Allen : Anthony Adverse
Transcript of interview: 'The school library had a reasonably wide selection – we could take out one fiction and one non-fiction a week but the English teacher would vet them to see what we were taking out. There was a book called Anthony Adverse that fell open at a specific page because it had what we thought was a scene of terrifically kinky sex – I think actually that it was probably really very mild – just the woman was on top and we were very intrigued by it. I’m sure the English teacher had never read that.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Georgette Heyer : [novels]
Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

D.K. Broster : [novels]
Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

A.J. Cronin : [novels]
Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Axel Munter : [novels]
Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : [novels]
Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Francis Brett Young : [novels]
Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Helen Waddell : Peter Abelard
Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munter, Hugh Walpole. And then there were F Brett Young and my own particular favourite Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard – I read that when I was about 15 and I read it almost every year for about 6 years afterwards. I loved it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Margaret Irwin : Still She Wished for Company
Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre. I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Harrison Ainsworth :
Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre. I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre. I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre. I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

: [medical books]
Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company which was a ghost story. And I had a soft spot for Harrison Ainsworth, who wrote historical novels about the plague, and the fire of London and so forth. I had a strong sense of the macabre. I loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which I read when I was 15/16 and I was very interested in books on medical discoveries, medical research and so on.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Forsyte Saga
Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved his books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

John Buchan : Hunting Tower
Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved his books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

John Dickson Carr :
Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved his books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

Dornford Yates : various
Transcript of interview: 'She [mother] introduced me to Dornford Yates, and I devoured him when I was about 16.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

: Picture Post
Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Serial / periodical

: Illustrated London News
Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler
Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Serial / periodical

: Women's Journal
Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop them up when my parents had finished with them and cut out all the pictures of John Gielgud. The Women’s Journal was my mother’s favourite and I used to read the stories in that.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Serial / periodical

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Theory of Language
'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Further East
'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Kathleen Windsor : Forever Amber
Transcript of interview: 'There’s a bit in my diary about Forever Amber which was notorious. My mother surprisingly read it first and let me read it. But my great friend Jean’s mother dropped it in the incinerator. Anyway, we all read Forever Amber which circulated round.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Perpetual Motion
'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century
'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Court of Appeal, The
'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Feat of Journalism, A
'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

: Daily Telegraph
Transcript of interview: 'What we did have in the common room was the Daily Telegraph, which I never read, except the racing results.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Newspaper

[members of the XII Book Club] : [two essays entitled 'A Vignette of Local History']
'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Goldwin Smith : William Lloyd Garrison
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an historian & A. Rawlings read some extracts from his Life of Wm Lloyd Garrison'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

John James Cooper : [Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith]
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an historian & A. Rawlings read some extracts from his Life of Wm Lloyd Garrison'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John James Cooper      Manuscript: Unknown

Frederick J. Edminson : [Essay on Goldwin Smith as historian]
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an historian & A. Rawlings read some extracts from his Life of Wm Lloyd Garrison'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Manuscript: Unknown

Goldwin Smith : [historical works]
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an historian & A. Rawlings read some extracts from his Life of Wm Lloyd Garrison'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick J. Edminson      Print: Book

Goldwin Smith :
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an historian & A. Rawlings read some extracts from his Life of Wm Lloyd Garrison'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John James Cooper      Print: Book

Henri Bergson :
'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R. Smith & Mary Hayward who dwelt particularly on Bergson's views upon Instinct, Intuition & Intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Henri Bergson :
'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R. Smith & Mary Hayward who dwelt particularly on Bergson's views upon Instinct, Intuition & Intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Henri Bergson :
'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R. Smith & Mary Hayward who dwelt particularly on Bergson's views upon Instinct, Intuition & Intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Print: Book

Mary Hayward : [paper on Henri Bergson]
'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R. Smith & Mary Hayward who dwelt particularly on Bergson's views upon Instinct, Intuition & Intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard R. Smith : [paper on Henri Bergson]
'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R. Smith & Mary Hayward who dwelt particularly on Bergson's views upon Instinct, Intuition & Intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

George Bernard Shaw : Doctor's Dilemma, The
'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's Dilemma" & next F.J. Edminson, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye a part reading from "Man & Superman" & C.I. Evans completed the programme by reading in the Introduction to Fabian Essays'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : Fabian Essays
'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's Dilemma" & next F.J. Edminson, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye a part reading from "Man & Superman" & C.I. Evans completed the programme by reading in the Introduction to Fabian Essays'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [essay on Shaw's Life and Works]
'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's Dilemma" & next F.J. Edminson, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye a part reading from "Man & Superman" & C.I. Evans completed the programme by reading in the Introduction to Fabian Essays'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

George Bernard Shaw : Man and Superman
'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's Dilemma" & next F.J. Edminson, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye a part reading from "Man & Superman" & C.I. Evans completed the programme by reading in the Introduction to Fabian Essays'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson, Percy Kaye & Walter Rowntree     Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw :
'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's Dilemma" & next F.J. Edminson, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye a part reading from "Man & Superman" & C.I. Evans completed the programme by reading in the Introduction to Fabian Essays'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Anne Grant : Memoirs of a Highland Lady
'Some months since I joined with other literary folks in subscribing a petition for a pension to Mrs. G- of L-n which we thought was a tribute merited by her works as an authoress and in my opinion much more by the firmness and elasticity of mind with which she had borne a succession of great domestic calamity.' Footnote: Mrs Anne Grant, widow of minister of Laggan, and author of Letters from the Moutain, Superstitions of the Highlands, and Memoirs of a Highland Lady.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: Gazette
Wednesday, 14 November 1827: 'Read the Gazette of the great battle of Navarrino in which we have thumped the Turks very well.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Newspaper

Robert Chambers : History of the Rebellion 1745-6
Thursday, 15 November 1827: 'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for Constable's Miscellany. It is really a lively work and must have a good sale.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Cooper : Red Rover
Monday, 14 January 1828: 'I read Cooper's new novel work, the Red Rover; the current of the [novel] rolls entirely upon the Ocean. Something there is too much of nautical language; in fact it overpowers every thing else. But so people [sic] once take an interest in a description they will swallow a great deal which they do not understand [...] He has much genius, a powerful conception of character and force of execution. The same ideas I see recur upon him that haunt other folks. The graceful form of the spars and the tracery of the ropes and cordage against the sky is too often dwelt upon.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

James Fenimore Cooper : Prairie
Monday, 28 January 1828: 'I have read Cooper's Prairie, better I think than his Red Rover in which you never got foot on shore and to understand entirely the incidents of the story it requires too much nautical language. It is very clever though.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Theodore Hook : Sayings and Doings (third series)
Thursday 21 February 1828: 'Last night after dinner I rested from my work and read third part of Sayings and Doings, which shows great knowledge of life in a certain sphere and very considerable powers of wit which somewhat damages the effect of his tragic [scenes]. But he is an able writer and so much of his work is well said that it will carry through what is manque.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Wilson : review of Leigh Hunt, Anecdotes of Byron
Saturday, 23 February 1828: 'I saw at the printing office [Ballantyne's] a part of a review on Leigh Hunt's Anecdotes of Byron by Wilson. It is written with power (apparently by Professor Wilson) but with a degree of passion wihch rather diminishes the effect, for nothing can more lessen the dignity of the satirist than being or seeming to be in a passion.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Gerald Griffin : Tales of the Munster Festivals
Thursday, 13 March 1828: 'I found that like the foolish virgins the servants had omitted to get oil for my lamp so I was obliged to be idle all the evening. But though I had a diverting book, the Tales of the Munster Festivals, yet an evening without writing hung heavy on my hand. The tales are admirable. But they have one fault, that the crisis is in more cases than one protracted after a keen interest has been excited, to explain and to resume parts of the story which should have been told before. Scenes of mere amusement are often introduced betwixt the crisis of the plot and the final catastrophe. This is impolitic. But the scenes and characters are traced by a firm, bold and true pencil and my very criticism shows that [the] catastrophe is interesting, otherwise who would care for its being interrupted?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

James Thomson : Tales of an Antiquary
Friday, 28 March 1828: 'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a ringing. He really is entitled to the name of an Antiquary. But he has too much description in proportion to the action. There is a capital wardrope [sic] of properties but the performers do not act up to their character.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Washington Irving : Sketch Book
Tuesday, 8 April 1828: 'Learning from Washington Irving's description of Stratford that the hall of Sir Thomas Lucy the Justice who renderd Warwickshire too hot for Shakspeare [sic] and drove him to London was still extant, We [sic] went in quest of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter and Anne Scott     Print: Book

Frances Burney : notes 'about her novels'
Monday, 26 May 1828: 'I walkd down to call with [Samuel] Rogers on Mrs. D'Arblay. She shewd me some notes which she was making about her novels which she induced me to believe had been recollected and jotted down in compliance with my suggestions on a former occasion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Manuscript: Unknown

Lockhart : Life of Burns
Thursday, 29 May 1828: 'I have amused myself to-day with reading Lockhart's Life of Burns which is very well written -- in fact an admirable thing. He has judicious[ly] slurd over his vices and follies [...] as the Dead corpse is straightend, swathd and made decent so ought the character of such an inimitable genius as Burns to be tenderly handled after the death. The knowledge of his various weaknesses or vices are only subjects of sorrow to the well disposed and of triumph to the profligate.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Colonel W. F. P. Napier : History of War in the Peninsula (vol. 1)
Saturday, 31 May 1828: 'I have finishd Napier's War in the Peninsula. It is written in the spirit of a Liberal but the narrative is distinct and clear and I should suppose accurate [comments further on specific points in text] [...] Good even to him untill next volume which I shall long to see.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: The Gentleman's Magazine
Sunday, 1 June 1828: 'We reachd Carlisle at seven o' clock and were housed for the night. My books being exhausted I lighted on an odd volume of the Gentleman's Magazine, a work in which as in a pawnbroker's shop much of real curiosity and value are [sic] stowd away and conceald amid the frippery and trumpery of those reverend old gentlewomen who were the regular correspondents of the work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Serial / periodical

John A. Carlyle : Letter dated 6th Feb, Munich
'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Oken and Wilhelmi are true portraits, as I described them from your letter. Above all I am glad to find both that you admire Schelling and know that you do not understand him.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

: Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. etc.
Tuesday, 3 June 1828: 'I smoked a segar, slept away an hour and read Mure of Auchendrayne's trial and thus ended the day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. etc.
Wednesday, 4 June 1828: 'Started [for Edinburgh] at half past four and arrived at home if we must call it so at nine o'clock in the evening. I employd my leisure in the chaise to peruse Mure of Auchendrane's trial out of which something might be cooperd up for the publick. It is one of the wildest stories I ever read. Something might surely be twisted out of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Bell : 'specimen of a historical novel'
Wednesday, 23 January 1829: 'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to write it. He is too general and not sufficient[ly] minute. It is not easy to convey this to an author with the necessary attention to his feelings and yet in good faith and sincerity it must be done.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

H. U. Tighe : Historical Account of Cumnor ... illustrative of the Romance of Kenilworth
Saturday, 31 January 1829: 'Lookd over Cumnor Hall by Mr. Usher Tighe of Oxford.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

The Revd. Dr. R. Henry : History of Great Britain; from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Henry VIII
Tuesday, 10 February 1829: 'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian after all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Jean Carlyle : Package of Proofsheets
'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and had reason to approve your activity and sagacity in managing so many new concerns. It was a deadening and a killing Letter that of the unfranked Proofs; more especially as it was totally superfluous, and must have been sent you by mistake alone.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Proofsheets

Robert Chambers : Picture of Scotland
Sunday, 15 February 1829: 'I wrought [i.e. worked at writing] to day but not much -- rather dawdled and took to reading Chambers' Beauties of Scotland which would be admirable if they were more accurate. He is a clever young fellow but hurts himself by too much haste.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Jane Welsh Carlyle : Message about Aunt's death
'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose yourself, my beloved Wife, and try to feel that the great Father is Good, and can do nothing wrong, inscrutable, and stern as his ways often seem to us.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

Sir William Hamilton : 'On the size of the brain and the proportion of its parts, as affected by age, sex, or sexual mutilation.'
Monday. 16 February 1829: 'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some anatomical investigations, which containd a maskd battery against the phrenologists. It seems these worthies are agreed that the cerebellum is that part of the headpiece which influences the sexual organs and according to this hypothesis that same cerebellum should be stronger in men than in women, in adults than in children, in old men than in youths, in persons mutilated than in those who are in the natural state [...] But if Sir William's course of experiments are correct the very opposite is the truth.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Hamilton

The Revd. C. H. Hartshorne : Ancient Metrical Tales
Friday, 20 February 1829: 'I glanced over some romances metrical publishd by Hartshorne several of which have not seen the light. They are considerably curious but I was surprized to see them mingled with "Blanchflour" and "Florice" and one or two others which might have been spared. There is no great display of notes or prolegomena and there is moreover no glossary. But the work is well edited.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

:
Tuesday, 24 February 1829: 'Went to breakfast with Mr. Drummond Hay, where we [Scott and daughter Anne, with his niece Anne] again met Colonel and Mrs. Blair with Thomas Thompson. We lookd over some most beautiful drawings which Mrs. Blair had made in different parts of India exhibiting a species of architecture so gorgeous and on a scale so extensive as to put to shame the magnificence of Europe [...] Mrs. Blair is full of enthusiasm. She told me that when she workd with her pencil she was glad to have some one read to her as a sort of sedative, otherwise her excitement made her tremble and burst out a crying.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Blair

: Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete jusqu'en 1827
Saturday, 28 February 1829: 'Read part of a curious work calld Memoirs of Vidocque, a fellow who was at the head of Bonaparte's police. It is a picaresque tale, in other words a romance of roguery. The whole seems much exaggerated and got up but I suppose there is truth au fond.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie : The Man of Feeling
'Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to find out the lady's mind and I take on myself the task of making her peace with Lord M-' (Footnote: Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) author of Man of Feeling).
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

T.R. Malthus : Principle of Population
'Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings of widows...This is the reverse of our system of increasing game by shooting the old cock-birds. It is a system would aid Malthus rarely.' (Footnote: Scott sent to Lockhart on 17 February a short article on the burnings for publication in the Representative).
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Walter Villiers : Sir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks)
'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last chance given to its drunken author; not Villiers - that was a nom de plume - but Viles, brother to my old boyhood's guide, philosopher and friend, Edward Viles ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Will. J. Sharman : article in Young Folks
'Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Bracebridge Hemyng : Bondage of Brandon
'Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : letter to Sidney Colvin
'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter to Colvin and have roared over it ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Oscar Wilde : Poems
'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter ... I read his poems and found, with disappointment, they were not even improper.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

William Ernest Henley : review of Vol 3 Letters of Charles Dickens in Athenaeum
'I had already spotted your Dickens; very pleasant and true.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

William Morris : translation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
'Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on historical setting of Browning's 'Sordello']
'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem. Selections were read by Miss Marriage and C.I. Evans'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [prefatory notes to Browning's 'Sordello']
'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem. Selections were read by Miss Marriage and C.I. Evans'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Browning : Sordello
'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem. Selections were read by Miss Marriage and C.I. Evans'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles I. Evans      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Sordello
'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem. Selections were read by Miss Marriage and C.I. Evans'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Marriage      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Sordello
'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem. Selections were read by Miss Marriage and C.I. Evans'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]
'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]
'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]
'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]
'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree      Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]
'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]
'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Browning : Evelyn Hope
'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margery Rawlings      Print: Book

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [notes on Christian Science]
'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the literature on the subject. The Secretary read a letter of resignation of membership from W. Binns'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

W Binns : [letter of resignation from XII Book Club]
'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the literature on the subject. The Secretary read a letter of resignation of membership from W. Binns'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

: [literature on Christian Science]
'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the literature on the subject. The Secretary read a letter of resignation of membership from W. Binns'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

John James Cooper : [Paper on Robert Bridges]
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John James Cooper      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Evans : [Paper on Henry Newbolt]
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Paper on John Masefield]
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield :
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Henry Newbolt :
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Robert Bridges :
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John James Cooper      Print: Book

Alice Meynell :
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

C.H. Frogley : Voice from the trees, A
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Henry Charles Beeching :
'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonais
'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Essay on Shelley'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Skylark, The
'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Essay on Shelley'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Francis Thompson : Shelley
'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Essay on Shelley'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Maurice, Count Maeterlinck :
'A series of readings from Maeterlinck were given by various members'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

John Millington Synge : Tinker's Wedding, The
'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3. A reading from the playboy of the Western World 4. Two Songs by E.E. Unwin 5. readings from Countess Cathleen etc.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

John Millington Synge : Playboy of the Western World, The
'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3. A reading from the Playboy of the Western World 4. Two Songs by E.E. Unwin 5. readings from Countess Cathleen etc.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

William Butler Yeats : Countess Cathleen
'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3. A reading from the Playboy of the Western World 4. Two Songs by E.E. Unwin 5. readings from Countess Cathleen etc.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

ernest E. Unwin : [paper on neo-Irish theatre]
'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3. A reading from the Playboy of the Western World 4. Two Songs by E.E. Unwin 5. readings from Countess Cathleen etc.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

Bronte :
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from the sisters' works by S.A. Reynolds, H.M. Wallis. C.I. Evans, Helen & Janet Rawlings & the secretary'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

Bronte :
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from the sisters' works by S.A. Reynolds, H.M. Wallis. C.I. Evans, Helen & Janet Rawlings & the secretary'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Bronte :
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from the sisters' works by S.A. Reynolds, H.M. Wallis. C.I. Evans, Helen & Janet Rawlings & the secretary'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Bronte :
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from the sisters' works by S.A. Reynolds, H.M. Wallis. C.I. Evans, Helen & Janet Rawlings & the secretary'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Bronte :
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from the sisters' works by S.A. Reynolds, H.M. Wallis. C.I. Evans, Helen & Janet Rawlings & the secretary'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Bronte :
'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from the sisters' works by S.A. Reynolds, H.M. Wallis. C.I. Evans, Helen & Janet Rawlings & the secretary'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : "Giotto's Gospel of Labour"
'I read your “Giotto”; it’s almighty well written, I don’t know how the devil you can write like that.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Sidney Colvin : "The Grosvenor Gallery"
'I read your “Grosvenor”; I’ve seen more interesting articles of yours (beg parding!); but it seemed to me very nice in tone, and I think all the fellows should be pleased, except perhaps poor Tissot. I can’t think anything “debased and odious” that has such a nice light and air about it, as anything of his I ever saw; that seems to me to be an ideal after a fashion.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Arthur Patchett Martin : Sweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random Rhymes
It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, your little book, coming from so far, gave me all the pleasure and encouragement in the world...' [Note 1]Martin read RLS’s essay ‘Virginibus Puerisque’ in "Cornhill" for August 1876 and wrote to him expressing his pleasure.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Vidocque : Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete jusqu'en 1827
Sunday, 1 March 1829: 'I labourd heard [i.e. 'hard'?] the whole day and between hands refreshd myself with Vidocque's Memoirs.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Bauld : paper on mining-compass design
Monday, 2 March 1829: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club and went to the Society in the evening. There was a paper read by Mr. Bauld engineer upon the Subject of the miner's compass and the variations to which it is subject from magnetic and electrical qualities in the box of the compass itself or in different substances which approach the needle [makes further observations].'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

Reginald Heber : Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India
Wednesday, 12 March 1829: 'I read Reginald Heber's journal after dinner. I spent some merry days with him at Oxford when he was writing his prize-poem. He was then a gay young fellow, a wit and a satirist and burning for literary fame. My laurels were beginning to bloom and we were both mad-caps -- Who would have fortold our future lot?'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: 'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpherson of Cluny]'
Wednesday, 25 March 1829: 'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Scott

: Prayers
Sunday, 5 April 1829: 'Read prayers to what remains of our [house] party, being Anne [daughter], my niece Anne, the four Skenes and William Forbes.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Duke de Leviz : The Carbonaro, A Piedmontese Tale
Thursday, 9 April 1829: 'I got a book from the Duke de Leviz, the same gentleman with whom I had an awkward meeting at Abbotsford [in August 1828] owing to his having forgot his credentials which left me at an unpleasant doubt as to his character and identity. His book is inscribed to me with hyperbolical praises [...] The book is better than would be expected from the exaggerated nonsense of the dedication.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary Bill for metropolitan police force
Saturday, 18 April 1829: 'In the evening I heard Anne read Mr. Peel's excellent bill on the police of the Metropolis which goes to disband the whole generation of Dogberry and Verges.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Scott      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : The Doom of Devorgoil
Sunday, 26 April 1829: 'Looking for something I fell in with the Little drama long amissing calld the Doom of Devorgoil. I believe it was out of mere contradiction that I sate down to read and correct it merely because I would not be bound to do aught that seemd compulsory [i.e. current novel in progress]. So I scribbled at [the] piece of nonsense till two o'clock [...] spent the evening in reading the Doom of Devorgoil to the girls who seemd considerably interested. Anne objects to the mingling of the comick goblinry which is comic with the serious which is tragic. After all I could greatly improve [it] and it would [not] be a bad composition of that odd kind to some pick-nick receptacle of all things.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Manuscript: Unknown

: The Book of Rights
Thursday, 28 May 1829: 'Mr. MacIntosh Mackay breakfasted and inspected my curious MS. which Dr. Brindley [sic for Brinkley] gave me. Mr. Mackay, I should say Doctor who well deserved the name, read it with tolerable [ease] so I hope to knock the marrow out of the bone with his assistance.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: MacIntosh Mackay      Manuscript: Unknown

William Mudford : The Five Nights of St Albans
Wednesday, 10 June 1829: 'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I.72] extra moenia flammantia mundi ['Beyond the flaming walls of the universe'] and possessed of considerable merit though the author loves to play at Cherry pit with Satan.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

William Mudford : The Five Nights of St Albans
Friday, 12 June 1829: 'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my novel so concluded the evening idly enough.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

General Miller : Memoirs of General Miller, in the Service of the Republic of Peru
Monday, 15 June 1829: 'I read Genl. Miller's account of the South American War. I liked it the better that Basil Hall brought the author to breakfast with [me] in Edinr., a fin[e] tall military figure, his left hand withered like the prophet's gourd and plenty of scars on him. There have been rare doings in that vast continent but the strife is too distant, the country too unknown, to have the effect upon the imagination which European wars produce.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

John Galt : The Spaewife
Sunday, 19 July 1829: 'I read the Spae-wife of Galt. There is something good in it and the language is occasionally very forcible but he has made his story difficult to understand by adopting a region of history little known and having many heroes of the same name whom it is not easy to keep separate in his memory. Some of the traits of the Spaewife who conceits herself to be a Changeling or Ta'en away is very good indeed. His highland Chief is a kind of Caliban and speaks like Caliban a jargon never spoken on earth but full of effect for all that.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Ursula Unwin : [biography of Tolstoy]
'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message of Tolstoi.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

: [works by and about Tolstoy]
'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message of Tolstoi.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

: [works by and about Tolstoy]
'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message of Tolstoi.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

: [works by and about Tolstoy]
'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message of Tolstoi.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Anatole France : [Careers for Women]
'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard V. Wallis - Thais E.E. Unwin C.I. Evans & H.R. Smith'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: F. Ridges      Print: Book

Anatole France : Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, The
'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard V. Wallis - Thais E.E. Unwin C.I. Evans & H.R. Smith'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: V. Ridges      Print: Book

Anatole France : Thais
'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard V. Wallis - Thais E.E. Unwin C.I. Evans & H.R. Smith'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Anatole France :
'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard V. Wallis - Thais E.E. Unwin C.I. Evans & H.R. Smith'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Anatole France :
'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard V. Wallis - Thais E.E. Unwin C.I. Evans & H.R. Smith'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Anatole France :
'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard V. Wallis - Thais E.E. Unwin C.I. Evans & H.R. Smith'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Alfred Rawlings : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of the last two meetings were read'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest Unwin      Manuscript: book

John J. Cooper : [paper on Oliver Wendell Holmes]
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John J. Cooper      Manuscript: Unknown

Oliver Wendell Holmes : 'Latter Day Warnings'
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John J. Cooper      Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Poet at the Breakfast Table, The
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Professor at the Breakfast Table, The
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Elsie Venner
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: K. Evans      Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : 'Chambered Nautilus, The'
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : 'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay: A Logical Story
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Reginald Robson : [paper on Holmes's 'the Professor at the Breakfast Table']
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting were read'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest Unwin      Manuscript: book

[members of XII Book Club] : [short stories]
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the reading of a number of short stories which were more or less anonymous. Most of the stories were seasonal in that they dealt with some ghostly episode.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting were read'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest Unwin      Manuscript: book

Alfred Russel Wallace : My Life; A Record of Events and Opinions.
'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of well chosen extracts. This was followed by a paper from Henry M. Wallis on his scientific work and one from Mrs Smith on his psychical work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter S. Rowntree      Print: Book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [Paper on A.R. Wallace's scientific writings]
'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of well chosen extracts. This was followed by a paper from Henry M. Wallis on his scientific work and one from Mrs Smith on his psychical work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [Paper on A.R. Wallace's psychical writings]
'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of well chosen extracts. This was followed by a paper from Henry M. Wallis on his scientific work and one from Mrs Smith on his psychical work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Russel Wallace : [psychical writings]
'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of well chosen extracts. This was followed by a paper from Henry M. Wallis on his scientific work and one from Mrs Smith on his psychical work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Alfred Russel Wallace : [scientific writings]
'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of well chosen extracts. This was followed by a paper from Henry M. Wallis on his scientific work and one from Mrs Smith on his psychical work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Ernest Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest Unwin      Manuscript: book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Chaucer's Life and Times]
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Evans : [paper on Chaucer's poetry]
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Manuscript: Unknown

Geoffrey Chaucer : Knight's Tale, The
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Wallis      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : [poetry, including the General Prologue]
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John J. Cooper : [paper on Thackeray]
'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfield from Pendennis Charles I. Evans from Newcomes Mrs W.H. Smith from Vanity Fair H.M Wallis from Roundabout Papers H.R. Smith from Esmond'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Marriage      Manuscript: Unknown

William Makepeace Thackeray : Pendennis
'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfield from Pendennis Charles I. Evans from Newcomes Mrs W.H. Smith from Vanity Fair H.M Wallis from Roundabout Papers H.R. Smith from Esmond'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Newcomes, The
'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfield from Pendennis Charles I. Evans from Newcomes Mrs W.H. Smith from Vanity Fair H.M Wallis from Roundabout Papers H.R. Smith from Esmond'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfield from Pendennis Charles I. Evans from Newcomes Mrs W.H. Smith from Vanity Fair H.M Wallis from Roundabout Papers H.R. Smith from Esmond'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Roundabout Papers
'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfield from Pendennis Charles I. Evans from Newcomes Mrs W.H. Smith from Vanity Fair H.M Wallis from Roundabout Papers H.R. Smith from Esmond'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Henry Esmond
'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfield from Pendennis Charles I. Evans from Newcomes Mrs W.H. Smith from Vanity Fair H.M Wallis from Roundabout Papers H.R. Smith from Esmond'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Ernest Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest Unwin      Manuscript: book

Rabindranath Tagore : Chitra
'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans King of the Dark Chamber - Violet Wallis The Gardener - C.E. Stansfield Post Office - C.I. Evans'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred, Helen and Janet Rawlings     Print: Book

Rabindranath Tagore : Crescent Moon, The
'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans King of the Dark Chamber - Violet Wallis The Gardener - C.E. Stansfield Post Office - C.I. Evans'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Rabindranath Tagore : King of the Dark Chamber
'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans King of the Dark Chamber - Violet Wallis The Gardener - C.E. Stansfield Post Office - C.I. Evans'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Wallis      Print: Book

Rabindranath Tagore : Gardener, The
'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans King of the Dark Chamber - Violet Wallis The Gardener - C.E. Stansfield Post Office - C.I. Evans'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

Rabindranath Tagore : Post Office
'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans King of the Dark Chamber - Violet Wallis The Gardener - C.E. Stansfield Post Office - C.I. Evans'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

John Bunyan : John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With Life of the Author
Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I expected from his anti-religious frenzy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

William Hone : Every-Day Book and Table Book: or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, etc.
Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I expected from his anti-religious frenzy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

John Galt : Lawrie Todd
Sunday, 11 July 1830: 'I have begun Lawrie Todd which ought considering the author's indisputed talents to have been better. He might have laid [James Fenimore] Cowper aboard but he follows far behind. No wonder. Galt, poor fellow, was in the King's Bench when he wrote it; no whetter of genius is necessity though said to be the mother of invention.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: Civil war tracts
Sunday, 26 December 1830: 'I shut myself up in Mr. [Henry] Scott's room. He has lately become purchaser of his Grandfather's valuable Library which was collected by Pope's Lord Marchmount. Part of it is a very valuable collection of Tracts during the great Civill war. I spent several hours in turning them over but I could not look them through with any accuracy. I passed my time very pleasantly and made some extracts however, and will resume my research another day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Unknown

: 'German novels'
Sunday, 27 February 1831: 'Being Saturday no Mr. Laidlaw [amanuensis] came yesterday evening nor to-day being Sunday. Truth is I began to fear I was working too hard and gave myself to putting things in order and working at the magnum [edition of his collected novels] and reading stupid German novels in hopes a thought will strike me when I am half occupied with other things.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Liddell : The Savoyard
Monday, 4 April 1831: 'Mr. Liddell and Hay Mackenzie left us this morning. Liddell shewd me yesterday a very good old fashioned poem worthy of Pope or Churchill in old fashioned hexameters, called "The Savoyard". He has promised me a copy for it is still being printed. There are some characters very well drawn. The force of it belies the author's character of a Dandie too hastily ascribed to its author.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Captain Basil Hall : Fragments of Voyages and Travels
Wednesday, 13 April 1831: 'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages. Every thing about the i[n]side of a vessell is interesting and my friend has the great sense to know this is the case.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

E.T.A. Hoffman : The Devil's Elixirs
'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he never wants choice of good words, and Lockhart had got Constable to offer some sort of terms for them.' (footnote: Scott owned his translation of Hoffman's The Devil's Elixirs, 1824)
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Smith : New Forest
Wednesday, 26 October 1831: 'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new novel by Mr. Smith calld New Forest. It is written in an old stile calculated to meet the popular ideas, somewhat like Man as He is Not [by Robert Bage] and that class. The author's opinions seem rather to sit loose upon [him] and to be adopted for the nonce and not very well brought out. His idea of a heroe is an American philosopher with all the affected virtues of a republican which no man believes in. This is all very tiresome not to be able to walk abroad for an instant but to be kept in this old house which they call the Fountain [inn], a mansion made of wood in imitation of a ship.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: Newspapers
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 22 February 1828: 'I have not read the debates [...] I have no zest at all in politics one way or the other, yet I do read all the papers, all the speeches, but it is upon principle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: Annuals
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 22 November 1829: 'Ladies Sandon, Mary Saurin, Harriet and Louisa Ryder, devouring the two annuals you gave my girls. They had seen none and are enchanted, twittering like house-sparrows.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: 'Ladies Sandon,' Mary Saurin, Harriet and Louisa Ryder     Print: Serial / periodical

Dante Alighieri :
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829: 'We have a quantity of leisure here, and go on in a spirited manner with Dante. I am now reading a book that interests and enchants me, Sumner's "Records of the Creation."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Granville family     Print: Book

Sumner : Records of the Creation
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829: 'We have a quantity of leisure here, and go on in a spirited manner with Dante. I am now reading a book that interests and enchants me, Sumner's "Records of the Creation."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: French newspapers
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, (1-10 January 1831): 'We have the two latest French papers here. Nothing can, I think, be more promising than the state of Paris.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Granville     Print: Newspaper

: Galignani
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, and her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 8 February 1831: 'What odd reports I spy in "Galignani" about Sir Robert Peel! I wish he was with us or against us, only because I hate him in a merciful protecting attitude.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: society reports (on reader's own daughters)
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 23 September 1831: 'I could hardly believe when I read the "Times" that my girls had dined at the Palais Royal and been to the Italian Opera on the night of the disturbances and vitres brisees. There is nothing like being in the midst of anything for knowing little of its danger.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: 'Le Temps'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 October 1831: 'Perhaps I am foolish in having no misgivings about public tranquillity [following the Lords' rejection of Reform Bill] [...] Yet when I read in "Le Temps," "ils ont fait leur 25 Juillet," it gives me a shudder.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

Fenn : Sermons
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, that I know much better what I am not and what I ought to be, that the subject interests and occupies me deeply, whilst I am employed on it [...] I have been reading Fenn's sermons and like most of them extremely as explaining and directing. Bradley's third volume is excellent. Adams' "Private Thoughts" one likes better and better. There are parts that one cannot, but these always redeemed by something so true, so feeling, so practical.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Bradley :
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, that I know much better what I am not and what I ought to be, that the subject interests and occupies me deeply, whilst I am employed on it [...] I have been reading Fenn's sermons and like most of them extremely as explaining and directing. Bradley's third volume is excellent. Adams' "Private Thoughts" one likes better and better. There are parts that one cannot, but these always redeemed by something so true, so feeling, so practical.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Adams : Private Thoughts
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, that I know much better what I am not and what I ought to be, that the subject interests and occupies me deeply, whilst I am employed on it [...] I have been reading Fenn's sermons and like most of them extremely as explaining and directing. Bradley's third volume is excellent. Adams' "Private Thoughts" one likes better and better. There are parts that one cannot, but these always redeemed by something so true, so feeling, so practical.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: bill/report of [cholera] mortality
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 2 August 1832: 'The cholera remains in its diminished state. Only twenty-eight deaths yesterday; I believe I am the only person in Paris who still looks regularly at the chiffre.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Unknown

Peter Christen Asbjorsen : Round the Yule Log
'Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

: Louis XVIII
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 17 August 1832: 'I enjoy my life here more than I can say. My walks before breakfast, a new work, "Louis XVIII.," which I am so much obliged to Lord Carlisle for having advised me to read. It amuses and interests me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: report of death of Duke of Sutherland
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 26 July 1833: 'I see in the "Globe" just arrived an account of the Duke of Sutherland's death.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

: The Morning Herald
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1834): 'I see with delight that your journey is over in the "Morning Herald."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Newspaper

Mrs Fry :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] I make to myself all sorts of reproaches. I read in a little book I like, Mrs. Fry's last, "Fear is not sorrow."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Mrs Fry :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] The only thing that calms my nerves is sitting at an open window, reading Mrs. Fry or Adams' "Private Thoughts;" but my religion is like my feeling, and I do not find its influence when I have the immediate occupation of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Adams : Private Thoughts
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] The only thing that calms my nerves is sitting at an open window, reading Mrs. Fry or Adams' "Private Thoughts;" but my religion is like my feeling, and I do not find its influence when I have the immediate occupation of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

?Pierson :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 September 1834: 'Our host at the inn at Avignon, a poet and a very gentlemanlike man, gave me the enclosed translation. Granville [husband] read the original out loud, which is beautiful, and Monsieur Pierson has meant better than executed.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Granville Leveson Gower

Mrs Norton :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 June 1835: 'I am with the window open, the orange flower smelling too strong, the nightingales singing too loud, and this in the middle of a city is very delicious. There is a beautiful passage in Mrs. Norton's book about that, the gifts so impartially granted to all and what ought to be our gratitude. How excellent, how beautiful I think some of her writing; but somehow or other [...] she is not in keeping with her own opinions and feelings, and it is impossible to bind her up with her own stories.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: 'comic annual'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five offspring came [...] Meg took them under her especial care, hurried them off to a couch in the ball-room, got partners for the girls, offered her own two pretty little things up to the boys. But the youngest, Wentworth, preferred sitting all night in the drawing room, studying the comic annual, and, that done, beginning "Belford Regis."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Mary Russell Mitford : Belford Regis
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five offspring came [...] Meg took them under her especial care, hurried them off to a couch in the ball-room, got partners for the girls, offered her own two pretty little things up to the boys. But the youngest, Wentworth, preferred sitting all night in the drawing room, studying the comic annual, and, that done, beginning "Belford Regis."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam      Print: Book

Lady Carlisle : 'verses'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (March 1836): 'We were quite delighted with your beautiful verses. What power of description to the very life you have! How much power of painting and feeling your subject! Poetry in short, rare quality amongst poets.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Leveson Gower family

: Picciola
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 11 November 1836: 'Read Picciola. It is to me the prettiest thing I know, though it pretes to the scorn of the worldly and unfeeling. Read it without prejudice, letting yourself go to your impressions about it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Unknown

: newspapers
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 23 June 1837: 'I hope Granville [husband] will be well enough to pay a visit to England [...] but he cannot yet walk [?due to previously-mentioned gout] [...] We therefore remain here for the present, avide [sic] of news [of accession of Queen Victoria], devouring newspapers, gasping for letters, and marking days by the intelligence received: for it is history, fate, romance, all in one [...] Such a little love of a Queen!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Leveson Gower family     Print: Newspaper

Richard Jefferies :
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [paper on life and works of Richard Jefferies]
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

Richard Jefferies :
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Richard Jefferies :
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Richard Jefferies :
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Richard Jefferies :
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula D. Unwin      Print: Book

Richard Jefferies :
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Richard Jefferies :
'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his life & the main aspects of his work. In this it was shown how the changes in environment & in health affected the style of his writings & an attempt was made to give a critical appreciation of his work. This was helped by numerous readings given by H.M. Wallis, Rosamund Wallis, C.I. Evans, Ursula D. Unwin, Howard R. Smith, & Ernest E. Unwin'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John James Cooper : [letter of resignation from XII Book Club]
'The secretary read the following letter from John James Cooper'. [the letter, of resignation from the club, is pasted in]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Letter

Miguel de Cervantes :
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes :
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes :
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes :
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes :
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Cervantes]
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Miguel de Cervantes :
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Eagle: A Fragment'
'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of his soaring eagle 'the wrinkled sea beneath him crawled'. Yes, it was like that. Then we hit an air pocket and we seemed to be dropping alarmingly, and I forgot about Tennyson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh      Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : 'Ulysses'
'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. I think it is true that we were. We were reading now, or having read to us by our English master, the newly published sonnets of Rupert Brooke: 'Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleep.' 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead.' and 'Honour has come back, as a king, to earth.' 'If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England.' We had been prepared for these heights: conditioned may be the right word. Tennyson and Browning (besides Shakespeare, of course) we read in the English lessons and learnt by heart; and it cannot be by chance that there comes to my mind unbidden 'Ulysses' - 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' and the well-known 'Epilogue to Asolando': One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh      Print: Book

Robert Browning : 'Epilogue to Asolando'
'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. I think it is true that we were. We were reading now, or having read to us by our English master, the newly published sonnets of Rupert Brooke: 'Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleep.' 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead.' and 'Honour has come back, as a king, to earth.' 'If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England.' We had been prepared for these heights: conditioned may be the right word. Tennyson and Browning (besides Shakespeare, of course) we read in the English lessons and learnt by heart; and it cannot be by chance that there comes to my mind unbidden 'Ulysses' - 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' and the well-known 'Epilogue to Asolando': One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : 'Peace'
'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. I think it is true that we were. We were reading now, or having read to us by our English master, the newly published sonnets of Rupert Brooke: 'Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleep.' 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead.' and 'Honour has come back, as a king, to earth.' 'If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England.' We had been prepared for these heights: conditioned may be the right word. Tennyson and Browning (besides Shakespeare, of course) we read in the English lessons and learnt by heart; and it cannot be by chance that there comes to my mind unbidden 'Ulysses' - 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' and the well-known 'Epilogue to Asolando': One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : 'The Dead'
'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. I think it is true that we were. We were reading now, or having read to us by our English master, the newly published sonnets of Rupert Brooke: 'Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleep.' 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead.' and 'Honour has come back, as a king, to earth.' 'If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England.' We had been prepared for these heights: conditioned may be the right word. Tennyson and Browning (besides Shakespeare, of course) we read in the English lessons and learnt by heart; and it cannot be by chance that there comes to my mind unbidden 'Ulysses' - 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' and the well-known 'Epilogue to Asolando': One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : 'The Soldier'
'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. I think it is true that we were. We were reading now, or having read to us by our English master, the newly published sonnets of Rupert Brooke: 'Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleep.' 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead.' and 'Honour has come back, as a king, to earth.' 'If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England.' We had been prepared for these heights: conditioned may be the right word. Tennyson and Browning (besides Shakespeare, of course) we read in the English lessons and learnt by heart; and it cannot be by chance that there comes to my mind unbidden 'Ulysses' - 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' and the well-known 'Epilogue to Asolando': One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. I think it is true that we were. We were reading now, or having read to us by our English master, the newly published sonnets of Rupert Brooke: 'Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleep.' 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead.' and 'Honour has come back, as a king, to earth.' 'If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England.' We had been prepared for these heights: conditioned may be the right word. Tennyson and Browning (besides Shakespeare, of course) we read in the English lessons and learnt by heart; and it cannot be by chance that there comes to my mind unbidden 'Ulysses' - 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' and the well-known 'Epilogue to Asolando': One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John James Cooper : [poem on the XII Book Club]
'The Secretary read the following poem which he had received from J.J. Cooper in reply to his letter.' [the poem is pasted in below]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Letter

Alfred Noyes :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Henry Newbolt : Clifton Chapel
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Henry Newbolt : Vitai Lampada
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Henry Newbolt : Ballad of John Nicholson, A
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Henry Newbolt : Vigil, The
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Henry Newbolt :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Alfred Noyes :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Print: Book

Ursula Unwin : [paper on Alfred Noyes]
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Henry Newbolt]
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Reginald Robson : [paper on Rupert Brooke]
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Meredith]
'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Richard Feverel. Mrs Robson - The Egoist. C.E. Stansfield introduced us to the poems of Meredith. The evening closed with the reading of [Jerry in another hand] the Juggler by C.I. Evans. This poem came as a pleasant surprise after the more obscure & difficult poems to which we had been introduced & should certainly encorage some of us to dig deeper into his poetical works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

George Meredith :
'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Richard Feverel. Mrs Robson - The Egoist. C.E. Stansfield introduced us to the poems of Meredith. The evening closed with the reading of [Jerry in another hand] the Juggler by C.I. Evans. This poem came as a pleasant surprise after the more obscure & difficult poems to which we had been introduced & should certainly encorage some of us to dig deeper into his poetical works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

George Meredith :
'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Richard Feverel. Mrs Robson - The Egoist. C.E. Stansfield introduced us to the poems of Meredith. The evening closed with the reading of [Jerry in another hand] the Juggler by C.I. Evans. This poem came as a pleasant surprise after the more obscure & difficult poems to which we had been introduced & should certainly encorage some of us to dig deeper into his poetical works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

George Meredith : Richard Feverel
'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Richard Feverel. Mrs Robson - The Egoist. C.E. Stansfield introduced us to the poems of Meredith. The evening closed with the reading of [Jerry in another hand] the Juggler by C.I. Evans. This poem came as a pleasant surprise after the more obscure & difficult poems to which we had been introduced & should certainly encorage some of us to dig deeper into his poetical works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

George Meredith : Egoist, The
'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Richard Feverel. Mrs Robson - The Egoist. C.E. Stansfield introduced us to the poems of Meredith. The evening closed with the reading of [Jerry in another hand] the Juggler by C.I. Evans. This poem came as a pleasant surprise after the more obscure & difficult poems to which we had been introduced & should certainly encorage some of us to dig deeper into his poetical works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

George Meredith : 'Juggling Jerry'
'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Richard Feverel. Mrs Robson - The Egoist. C.E. Stansfield introduced us to the poems of Meredith. The evening closed with the reading of [Jerry in another hand] the Juggler by C.I. Evans. This poem came as a pleasant surprise after the more obscure & difficult poems to which we had been introduced & should certainly encorage some of us to dig deeper into his poetical works.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

: [article in 'Scribners' by or about Galsworthy]
'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. Rosamund Wallis described & read from 'The Freelands', a recent novel Mrs Rawlings described & read from 'Fraternity' A Rawlings read from 'The Patrician' There was considerable discussion upon the subject of novel writing & whether Galsworthy had chosen in novel writing the right medium for his moralising.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Serial / periodical

John Galsworthy : Freelands, The
'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. Rosamund Wallis described & read from 'The Freelands', a recent novel Mrs Rawlings described & read from 'Fraternity' A Rawlings read from 'The Patrician' There was considerable discussion upon the subject of novel writing & whether Galsworthy had chosen in novel writing the right medium for his moralising.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Fraternity
'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. Rosamund Wallis described & read from 'The Freelands', a recent novel Mrs Rawlings described & read from 'Fraternity' A Rawlings read from 'The Patrician' There was considerable discussion upon the subject of novel writing & whether Galsworthy had chosen in novel writing the right medium for his moralising.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Patrician, The
'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. Rosamund Wallis described & read from 'The Freelands', a recent novel Mrs Rawlings described & read from 'Fraternity' A Rawlings read from 'The Patrician' There was considerable discussion upon the subject of novel writing & whether Galsworthy had chosen in novel writing the right medium for his moralising.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

John Galsworthy :
'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. Rosamund Wallis described & read from 'The Freelands', a recent novel Mrs Rawlings described & read from 'Fraternity' A Rawlings read from 'The Patrician' There was considerable discussion upon the subject of novel writing & whether Galsworthy had chosen in novel writing the right medium for his moralising.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

: 'two little books'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire: 'Let me just say that two little books you gave me were the greatest pleasure and comfort to me whilst I was sick. I am quite well now, only rather wishy-washy.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: sermon
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 7 December 1839: 'Georgy [daughter] read me a sermon of his yesterday morning which quite charmed me on part of the Lord's Prayer, such warmth and feeling and eloquence.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower

Schiller : 'Ideale'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842: 'Did I not at Tixal translate the "Ideale," [by Schiller] and read my translation to Francis Egerton, by that means persuading him to learn the [German] tongue? If I had not lost the copy, would I not read my poem to prove my words? It is a proof that then, as now, I think it the most beautiful thing I ever read in any language.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

Schiller : 'Ideale'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842: 'Did I not at Tixal translate the "Ideale," [by Schiller] and read my translation to Francis Egerton, by that means persuading him to learn the [German] tongue? If I had not lost the copy, would I not read my poem to prove my words? It is a proof that then, as now, I think it the most beautiful thing I ever read in any language.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Manuscript: Unknown

: Fremdenbuch
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 19 September 1842: 'Granville [husband] has found you out in the Fremdenbuch, and all our friends and relations by turns.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Granville      Print: Book

De Brosses : Lettres Historiques et Critiques sur l'Italie
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 25 November 1842: 'You have no idea of the amusement of reading De Brosses over again here [Rome]. His levity is atrocious, his want of principle revolting, and yet his fun, his perfect simplicity, his good-natured malice and joyous recklessness, make him an enchanting companion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

: texts on Ireland / Irish politics
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843: 'We read about Ireland with great interest [...] Georgy [daughter] reads us Mr. Sheil's speech, as Mlle. Rachel [famous actress] would say it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Leveson Gower family     Print: Unknown

Mr Sheil : speech
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843: 'We read about Ireland with great interest [...] Georgy [daughter] reads us Mr. Sheil's speech, as Mlle. Rachel [famous actress] would say it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower      Print: Unknown

Harriet Martineau : 'tales'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old tales, which I have been re-reading, have such an effect upon me that I can scarcely read them. She writes in a way that harrows up every feeling. It is, I think, quite a strange power, because no writer is so simple and so strong upon sorrows that come to all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Unknown

Harriet Martineau : 'tales'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old tales, which I have been re-reading, have such an effect upon me that I can scarcely read them. She writes in a way that harrows up every feeling. It is, I think, quite a strange power, because no writer is so simple and so strong upon sorrows that come to all.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Unknown

Harriet Martineau :
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1844): 'I should like Miss Martineau, if somebody would translate it. I have only read a chapter, which I cannot understand.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Unknown

Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower : Ellen Middleton
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle 8 March 1844: '"Ellen Middleton" is no longer a secret and will be out in three weeks [...] Opinions given without her name being known have been more than gratifying, and Mrs. Sartoris read till four in the morning with intense interest that never flagged for a moment.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Sartoris

Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower : Ellen Middleton
Lady Georgiana Fullerton [nee Leveson Gower] to her mother, Harriet, Countess Granville [from letter enclosed in letter of 4 April 1844 from Lady Granville to her sister Lady Carlisle]: 'I am rather angry with Charles Granville for having shown the proof sheets [of Ellen Middleton] to Lord Clarendon, and I regret for my own sake that he praises it so extravagantly. I think it is like when a new beauty appears. Instead of prepossessing people in its favour, it will make them find fault with it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Clarendon      Print: Unknown, In proof

: 'an old book of plays'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 30 October 1844: 'There is Granville, as if he had been settled here a year, cracking his sides over an old book of plays he has found.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Granville      Print: Book

: treatise on algebra
'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a lodging-house. This he considered as a treasure, and he was enabled to study it by means of "Fenning's Introduction," which he found hid away among the books of his master's son. The way in which he was enabled to produce algebraic signs was remarkable. Being deprived by his hard master of pen, ink, and paper, he beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and worked out his problems on them with a blunted awl.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

Fenning : 'Introduction' [on algebra]
'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a lodging-house. This he considered as a treasure, and he was enabled to study it by means of "Fenning's Introduction," which he found hid away among the books of his master's son. The way in which he was enabled to produce algebraic signs was remarkable. Being deprived by his hard master of pen, ink, and paper, he beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and worked out his problems on them with a blunted awl.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

: Bible
'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

Thomas a Kempis : Imitatio Christi
'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

: 'odd numbers of magazines'
'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Serial / periodical

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John Galsworthy : Justice
'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice. A bit o' Love. Strife.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Bit o' Love, A
'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice. A bit o' Love. Strife.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Strife
'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice. A bit o' Love. Strife.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Charles Evans : [paper on William Barnes and / or West Country songs]
'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dick & I did S.A. Reynolds The Sky Man W.S. Rowntree Ellen Brine of Allenburn Mrs Reynolds The Waggon (a tripartite dram. prem) by Whinfell family Praise o' Dorset Mrs Evans The Settle C.I. Evans [a list of songs and singers follows]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Manuscript: Unknown

William Barnes : 'What Dick and I did'
'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dick & I did S.A. Reynolds The Sky Man W.S. Rowntree Ellen Brine of Allenburn Mrs Reynolds The Waggon (a tripartite dram. prem) by Whinfell family Praise o' Dorset Mrs Evans The Settle C.I. Evans [a list of songs and singers follows]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

William Barnes : 'Sky Man, the'
'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dick & I did S.A. Reynolds The Sky Man W.S. Rowntree Ellen Brine of Allenburn Mrs Reynolds The Waggon (a tripartite dram. prem) by Whinfell family Praise o' Dorset Mrs Evans The Settle C.I. Evans [a list of songs and singers follows]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter S. Rowntree      Print: Book

William Barnes : 'Ellen Brine of Allenburn'
'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dick & I did S.A. Reynolds The Sky Man W.S. Rowntree Ellen Brine of Allenburn Mrs Reynolds The Waggon (a tripartite dram. prem) by Whinfell family Praise o' Dorset Mrs Evans The Settle C.I. Evans [a list of songs and singers follows]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence E. Reynolds      Print: Book

William Barnes : 'Settle, The'
'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dick & I did S.A. Reynolds The Sky Man W.S. Rowntree Ellen Brine of Allenburn Mrs Reynolds The Waggon (a tripartite dram. prem) by Whinfell family Praise o' Dorset Mrs Evans The Settle C.I. Evans [a list of songs and singers follows]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

: 'Waggon, the'
'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dick & I did S.A. Reynolds The Sky Man W.S. Rowntree Ellen Brine of Allenburn Mrs Reynolds The Waggon (a tripartite dram. prem) by Whinfell family Praise o' Dorset Mrs Evans The Settle C.I. Evans [a list of songs and singers follows]'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: family who lived at 'Whinfell'

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Mary Hayward : [paper on life of Lewis Carroll]
'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak gently. Mary Hayward. Readings by S.A. Reynolds, C.E. Stansfield, The Rawlings & Unwin families.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Manuscript: Unknown

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :
'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak gently. Mary Hayward. Readings by S.A. Reynolds, C.E. Stansfield, The Rawlings & Unwin families.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :
'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak gently. Mary Hayward. Readings by S.A. Reynolds, C.E. Stansfield, The Rawlings & Unwin families.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :
'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak gently. Mary Hayward. Readings by S.A. Reynolds, C.E. Stansfield, The Rawlings & Unwin families.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rawlings family     Print: Book

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :
'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak gently. Mary Hayward. Readings by S.A. Reynolds, C.E. Stansfield, The Rawlings & Unwin families.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Unwin family     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: BookManuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: BookManuscript: book

Reginald Robson : [paper on Dostoevsky]
'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson for an interesting & valuable introduction dealing with his life as the background of his works. All his writings are in the main autobiographical & the story of his life is necessary for a study of his work. One of the main lessons of his writings is a new & deeper meaning in the term 'brotherhood'. It may be that the Russians will reveal the true democracy to the world. Readings from his novels were given by C. E Stansfield, Mrs Evans, E.E. Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Fyodor Dostoevsky :
'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson for an interesting & valuable introduction dealing with his life as the background of his works. All his writings are in the main autobiographical & the story of his life is necessary for a study of his work. One of the main lessons of his writings is a new & deeper meaning in the term 'brotherhood'. It may be that the Russians will reveal the true democracy to the world. Readings from his novels were given by C. E Stansfield, Mrs Evans, E.E. Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky :
'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson for an interesting & valuable introduction dealing with his life as the background of his works. All his writings are in the main autobiographical & the story of his life is necessary for a study of his work. One of the main lessons of his writings is a new & deeper meaning in the term 'brotherhood'. It may be that the Russians will reveal the true democracy to the world. Readings from his novels were given by C. E Stansfield, Mrs Evans, E.E. Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky :
'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson for an interesting & valuable introduction dealing with his life as the background of his works. All his writings are in the main autobiographical & the story of his life is necessary for a study of his work. One of the main lessons of his writings is a new & deeper meaning in the term 'brotherhood'. It may be that the Russians will reveal the true democracy to the world. Readings from his novels were given by C. E Stansfield, Mrs Evans, E.E. Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky :
'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson for an interesting & valuable introduction dealing with his life as the background of his works. All his writings are in the main autobiographical & the story of his life is necessary for a study of his work. One of the main lessons of his writings is a new & deeper meaning in the term 'brotherhood'. It may be that the Russians will reveal the true democracy to the world. Readings from his novels were given by C. E Stansfield, Mrs Evans, E.E. Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Mark Twain :
'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Mark Twain :
'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Mark Twain :
'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Mark Twain :
'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Print: Book

Mark Twain :
'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [essay on Twain]
'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

: [material by or about Wordsworth]
'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by reading papers, offering criticism or reading from the poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings

: [material by or about Wordsworth]
'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by reading papers, offering criticism or reading from the poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings

: [material by or about Wordsworth]
'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by reading papers, offering criticism or reading from the poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith

: [material by or about Wordsworth]
'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by reading papers, offering criticism or reading from the poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans

: [material by or about Wordsworth]
'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by reading papers, offering criticism or reading from the poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield

: [material by or about Wordsworth]
'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by reading papers, offering criticism or reading from the poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Clough

: [material by or about Wordsworth]
'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by reading papers, offering criticism or reading from the poems'.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Wallis

: Harper's Magazine
'Shortly after we arrived, a writer in "Harper's Magazine" inquired, "Is this a Christian land?" and went on to comment regretfully: "Many of us seem almost hopelessly enamoured of a religion that is little better than a sanctified commercialism....Self-interest bulks large as the fuel which makes the present economic machine go."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Bruce Bliven : Current History
'But in "Current History" for September, Bruce Bliven, an editor of "The New Statesman", ventured upon a prophecy: "An active progressive movement is needed as it has never been before.... Such a progressive movement may not play a part in the national campaign in 1928 or 1932, but when it finally comes it will amount to something!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

: [letter from Mudies library]
'The Secretary read a letter which A. Rawlings had received from Mudies Libr. The question of using Mudies was discussed but it was felt that the advantages offered by Mudie did not meet our need. It was therefore decided to do nothing further in the matter.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Letter

Ernest E. Unwin : [paper on life of William Morris]
'William Morris - Craftsman - Socialist was the subject of the meeting. The Secretary read a paper dealing with the main currents of Morris's life & the parts that art & socialism took in determining his course in life. [the contents of the paper are summarised'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

William Morris : Earthly Paradise, The
'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & described the extraordinary conditions under which many of the poems were written. Some little discussion upon his poetical works followed but lack of time prevented the reading of further poems'. [the 'crowded' tendency of the meetings is then commented on]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

William Morris :
'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & described the extraordinary conditions under which many of the poems were written. Some little discussion upon his poetical works followed but lack of time prevented the reading of further poems'. [the 'crowded' tendency of the meetings is then commented on]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

William Morris : Earthly Paradise, The
'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & described the extraordinary conditions under which many of the poems were written. Some little discussion upon his poetical works followed but lack of time prevented the reading of further poems'. [the 'crowded' tendency of the meetings is then commented on]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

William Morris : Earthly Paradise, The
'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & described the extraordinary conditions under which many of the poems were written. Some little discussion upon his poetical works followed but lack of time prevented the reading of further poems'. [the 'crowded' tendency of the meetings is then commented on]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

William Morris : Sigurd the Volsung
'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & described the extraordinary conditions under which many of the poems were written. Some little discussion upon his poetical works followed but lack of time prevented the reading of further poems'. [the 'crowded' tendency of the meetings is then commented on]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Francis Bret Harte : 'Waif of the Plains, The'
'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduce the [underlined] Man [end underlining] to the Club boldly inaugurated a new procedure & in the capable hands of C.I. Evans became a great success [this was for every member to furnish some facts about him - these are redacted] We then had some readings from his works 'The Waif of the Plains' by Miss Wallis 'Luck of Roaring Camp' by Mrs Rawlings This last was the short story with which he leaped into fame as a short-story writer of Western mining life. Mr Evans read a story from the published biography - a book that seemed well worth reading, & Mrs Unwin read two of his poems. other members read poems & the discussion upon his work was continued. To many of us - the Secretary is one of these - the evening introduced us to a new novelist - we had heard of the short poems - 'Jim' & 'In the Tunnel' but The Luck of Roaring Camp & his other prose work are surely worthy to rank with the best.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Wallis      Print: Book

Francis Bret Harte : 'Luck of Roaring Camp, The'
'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduce the [underlined] Man [end underlining] to the Club boldly inaugurated a new procedure & in the capable hands of C.I. Evans became a great success [this was for every member to furnish some facts about him - these are redacted] We then had some readings from his works 'The Waif of the Plains' by Miss Wallis 'Luck of Roaring Camp' by Mrs Rawlings This last was the short story with which he leaped into fame as a short-story writer of Western mining life. Mr Evans read a story from the published biography - a book that seemed well worth reading, & Mrs Unwin read two of his poems. other members read poems & the discussion upon his work was continued. To many of us - the Secretary is one of these - the evening introduced us to a new novelist - we had heard of the short poems - 'Jim' & 'In the Tunnel' but The Luck of Roaring Camp & his other prose work are surely worthy to rank with the best.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Francis Bret Harte : [poems]
'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduce the [underlined] Man [end underlining] to the Club boldly inaugurated a new procedure & in the capable hands of C.I. Evans became a great success [this was for every member to furnish some facts about him - these are redacted] We then had some readings from his works 'The Waif of the Plains' by Miss Wallis 'Luck of Roaring Camp' by Mrs Rawlings This last was the short story with which he leaped into fame as a short-story writer of Western mining life. Mr Evans read a story from the published biography - a book that seemed well worth reading, & Mrs Unwin read two of his poems. Other members read poems & the discussion upon his work was continued. To many of us - the Secretary is one of these - the evening introduced us to a new novelist - we had heard of the short poems - 'Jim' & 'In the Tunnel' but The Luck of Roaring Camp & his other prose work are surely worthy to rank with the best.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Print: Book

Francis Bret Harte : [poems]
'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduce the [underlined] Man [end underlining] to the Club boldly inaugurated a new procedure & in the capable hands of C.I. Evans became a great success [this was for every member to furnish some facts about him - these are redacted] We then had some readings from his works 'The Waif of the Plains' by Miss Wallis 'Luck of Roaring Camp' by Mrs Rawlings This last was the short story with which he leaped into fame as a short-story writer of Western mining life. Mr Evans read a story from the published biography - a book that seemed well worth reading, & Mrs Unwin read two of his poems. Other members read poems & the discussion upon his work was continued. To many of us - the Secretary is one of these - the evening introduced us to a new novelist - we had heard of the short poems - 'Jim' & 'In the Tunnel' but The Luck of Roaring Camp & his other prose work are surely worthy to rank with the best.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Francis Bret Harte : [short poems]
'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduce the [underlined] Man [end underlining] to the Club boldly inaugurated a new procedure & in the capable hands of C.I. Evans became a great success [this was for every member to furnish some facts about him - these are redacted] We then had some readings from his works 'The Waif of the Plains' by Miss Wallis 'Luck of Roaring Camp' by Mrs Rawlings This last was the short story with which he leaped into fame as a short-story writer of Western mining life. Mr Evans read a story from the published biography - a book that seemed well worth reading, & Mrs Unwin read two of his poems. Other members read poems & the discussion upon his work was continued. To many of us - the Secretary is one of these - the evening introduced us to a new novelist - we had heard of the short poems - 'Jim' & 'In the Tunnel' but The Luck of Roaring Camp & his other prose work are surely worthy to rank with the best.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Pattie Stansfield : [letter to the XII Book Club]
'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Letter

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Gilbert Murray]
'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject & it was followed by several readings from his work. Mrs Rawlings read from 'The Rise of the Greek Epic' & H.M. Wallis later also read from the same book. Miss Marriage also read some extracts from one of his volumes of translations'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Gilbert Murray : Rise of the Greek Epic, The
'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject & it was followed by several readings from his work. Mrs Rawlings read from 'The Rise of the Greek Epic' & H.M. Wallis later also read from the same book. Miss Marriage also read some extracts from one of his volumes of translations'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Gilbert Murray : Rise of the Greek Epic, The
'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject & it was followed by several readings from his work. Mrs Rawlings read from 'The Rise of the Greek Epic' & H.M. Wallis later also read from the same book. Miss Marriage also read some extracts from one of his volumes of translations'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Gilbert Murray : [translations]
'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject & it was followed by several readings from his work. Mrs Rawlings read from 'The Rise of the Greek Epic' & H.M. Wallis later also read from the same book. Miss Marriage also read some extracts from one of his volumes of translations'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

[Members of XII Book Club] : [anonymous essays]
'Then followed the reading of 7 essays. They were supposed to be anonymous & were certainly read withot any author's name being attached but the inquisitive by internal or external evidence began to sort them out & at the end of the meeting the identity of the various writers was disclosed' [the essays are then discussed, but without mention of authors or readers]
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Francis William Bain : 'Bubbles of the Foam'
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice to these extraordinary books. That they are beautiful with the overpowering scents & colours of the East is too obvious - that the author has a wonderful power of description hardly a word out of place or a jarring note is also obvious - that they are unique in literature is very likely - but --- perhaps I had better give the programme. [all extracts from] Bubbles of the Foam by E.E. Unwin Ashes of a God " Rosamund Wallis Syrup of the Bees " Alfred Rawlings In the Great God's Hair " Miss Marriage Digit of the Moon " Mrs Reynolds The club is indebted to Alfred Rawlings for introducing us to a new type of literature and if it left some of us gasping as with asthma in its rather overscented & sensuous atmosphere so that we longed for the moors & the winds of Heaven - others, whose breathing organs can cope with this Eastern air & whose palates are tickled by The Syrup of the Bees will feel that a new star has entered their literary constellation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Francis William Bain : 'Ashes of a God'
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice to these extraordinary books. That they are beautiful with the overpowering scents & colours of the East is too obvious - that the author has a wonderful power of description hardly a word out of place or a jarring note is also obvious - that they are unique in literature is very likely - but --- perhaps I had better give the programme. [all extracts from] Bubbles of the Foam by E.E. Unwin Ashes of a God " Rosamund Wallis Syrup of the Bees " Alfred Rawlings In the Great God's Hair " Miss Marriage Digit of the Moon " Mrs Reynolds The club is indebted to Alfred Rawlings for introducing us to a new type of literature and if it left some of us gasping as with asthma in its rather overscented & sensuous atmosphere so that we longed for the moors & the winds of Heaven - others, whose breathing organs can cope with this Eastern air & whose palates are tickled by The Syrup of the Bees will feel that a new star has entered their literary constellation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Francis William Bain : 'Syrup of the Bees'
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice to these extraordinary books. That they are beautiful with the overpowering scents & colours of the East is too obvious - that the author has a wonderful power of description hardly a word out of place or a jarring note is also obvious - that they are unique in literature is very likely - but --- perhaps I had better give the programme. [all extracts from] Bubbles of the Foam by E.E. Unwin Ashes of a God " Rosamund Wallis Syrup of the Bees " Alfred Rawlings In the Great God's Hair " Miss Marriage Digit of the Moon " Mrs Reynolds The club is indebted to Alfred Rawlings for introducing us to a new type of literature and if it left some of us gasping as with asthma in its rather overscented & sensuous atmosphere so that we longed for the moors & the winds of Heaven - others, whose breathing organs can cope with this Eastern air & whose palates are tickled by The Syrup of the Bees will feel that a new star has entered their literary constellation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Francis William Bain : 'In the Great God's Hair'
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice to these extraordinary books. That they are beautiful with the overpowering scents & colours of the East is too obvious - that the author has a wonderful power of description hardly a word out of place or a jarring note is also obvious - that they are unique in literature is very likely - but --- perhaps I had better give the programme. [all extracts from] Bubbles of the Foam by E.E. Unwin Ashes of a God " Rosamund Wallis Syrup of the Bees " Alfred Rawlings In the Great God's Hair " Miss Marriage Digit of the Moon " Mrs Reynolds The club is indebted to Alfred Rawlings for introducing us to a new type of literature and if it left some of us gasping as with asthma in its rather overscented & sensuous atmosphere so that we longed for the moors & the winds of Heaven - others, whose breathing organs can cope with this Eastern air & whose palates are tickled by The Syrup of the Bees will feel that a new star has entered their literary constellation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

Francis William Bain : 'Digit of the Moon'
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice to these extraordinary books. That they are beautiful with the overpowering scents & colours of the East is too obvious - that the author has a wonderful power of description hardly a word out of place or a jarring note is also obvious - that they are unique in literature is very likely - but --- perhaps I had better give the programme. [all extracts from] Bubbles of the Foam by E.E. Unwin Ashes of a God " Rosamund Wallis Syrup of the Bees " Alfred Rawlings In the Great God's Hair " Miss Marriage Digit of the Moon " Mrs Reynolds The club is indebted to Alfred Rawlings for introducing us to a new type of literature and if it left some of us gasping as with asthma in its rather overscented & sensuous atmosphere so that we longed for the moors & the winds of Heaven - others, whose breathing organs can cope with this Eastern air & whose palates are tickled by The Syrup of the Bees will feel that a new star has entered their literary constellation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

George Gissing : Private Papers of Henry Rycroft, The
'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to apreciate the side of life painted by Gissing. However the Secretary protests that there is need for all sides of 'Life' to be depicted & that we cannot obtain the all round knowledge so essential to a right understanding of the problems of living without our Gissings, Hardys. Kiplings & Masefields. The details of the programme included an introductory paper by E.E. Unwin New Grub Street by H.R. Smith The Odd Women by H.M. Wallis Private Papers of Henry Rycroft by C.S. Stansfield'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

George Gissing : New Grub Street
'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to apreciate the side of life painted by Gissing. However the Secretary protests that there is need for all sides of 'Life' to be depicted & that we cannot obtain the all round knowledge so essential to a right understanding of the problems of living without our Gissings, Hardys. Kiplings & Masefields. The details of the programme included an introductory paper by E.E. Unwin New Grub Street by H.R. Smith The Odd Women by H.M. Wallis Private Papers of Henry Rycroft by C.S. Stansfield'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

George Gissing : Odd Women, The
'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to apreciate the side of life painted by Gissing. However the Secretary protests that there is need for all sides of 'Life' to be depicted & that we cannot obtain the all round knowledge so essential to a right understanding of the problems of living without our Gissings, Hardys. Kiplings & Masefields. The details of the programme included an introductory paper by E.E. Unwin New Grub Street by H.R. Smith The Odd Women by H.M. Wallis Private Papers of Henry Rycroft by C.S. Stansfield'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [paper on Gissing]
'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to apreciate the side of life painted by Gissing. However the Secretary protests that there is need for all sides of 'Life' to be depicted & that we cannot obtain the all round knowledge so essential to a right understanding of the problems of living without our Gissings, Hardys. Kiplings & Masefields. The details of the programme included an introductory paper by E.E. Unwin New Grub Street by H.R. Smith The Odd Women by H.M. Wallis Private Papers of Henry Rycroft by C.S. Stansfield'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gissing :
'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to apreciate the side of life painted by Gissing. However the Secretary protests that there is need for all sides of 'Life' to be depicted & that we cannot obtain the all round knowledge so essential to a right understanding of the problems of living without our Gissings, Hardys. Kiplings & Masefields. The details of the programme included an introductory paper by E.E. Unwin New Grub Street by H.R. Smith The Odd Women by H.M. Wallis Private Papers of Henry Rycroft by C.S. Stansfield'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Juvenal : Satire X
'While under the tuition of Mr. Smerdon, Gifford had translated the "Tenth Satire" of Juvenal for a holiday task.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

Voltaire : works
'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays twice and Voltaire's works once.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

Moliere : plays
'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays twice and Voltaire's works once.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

De Guignes : History of the Dutch Embassy to China
From Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow (1847): '[William Gifford] begged me to name any book to make choice of, which he would take care to send to me [for reviewing]. [...] I mentioned one I had just been reading, De Guignes's "History of the Dutch Embassy to China"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Barrow      Print: Book

: Quarterly Review (no. 5)
Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 2 August 1810: 'I took the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]. with me. I like it well; and I do think it is far better than what you imagined it to be. The article on the "Fatal Revenge" is exquisite in humour, and very ingenious in criticism. I long to get to the Chinese article -- "Ramayuna."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Disraeli      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : The Lay of the Last Minstrel
John Murray to Walter Scott, 27 June 1812: 'I cannot refrain [...] from mentioning to you a conversation which Lord Byron had with H. R. H. the Prince Regent, and of which you formed the leading subject. He was at an evening party at Miss Johnson's this week, when the Prince, hearing that Lord Byron was present, expressed a desire to be introduced to him; and for more than half an hour they conversed on poetry and poets [...] the Prince's great delight was Walter Scott, whose name and writings he dwelt upon and recurred to incessantly. He preferred him far beyond any other poet of the time, repeated several passages with fervour, and criticized them faithfully. He spoke chiefly of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," which he expressed himself as admiring most of the three poems.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Prince of Wales      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II
Walter Scott to John Murray, 2 July 1812, with enclosed letter of appreciation to Lord Byron: 'I trouble you with a few lines to his Lordship [...] I hope he will not consider it as intrusive in a veteran author to pay my debt of gratitude for the high pleasure I have received from the perusal of "Childe Harold," which is certainly the most original poem which we have had this many a day'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Bride of Abydos
John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813): 'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of Abydos]," that I ventured last night to introduce her to the protection of Mr. Frere. He has just returned, quite delighted; he read several passages to Mr. Heber as exquisitely beautiful. He says there is a simplicity running through the whole that reminds him of the ancient ballad. [...] I asked if it was equal to the "Giaour;" he said that the "Giaour" contained perhaps a greater number of splendid passages, but that the mind carries something to [italics]rest upon[end italics] after rising from the "Bride of Abydos." It is more perfect.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Giaour
John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813): 'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of Abydos]," that I ventured last night to introduce her to the protection of Mr. Frere. He has just returned, quite delighted; he read several passages to Mr. Heber as exquisitely beautiful. He says there is a simplicity running through the whole that reminds him of the ancient ballad. [...] I asked if it was equal to the "Giaour;" he said that the "Giaour" contained perhaps a greater number of splendid passages, but that the mind carries something to [italics]rest upon[end italics] after rising from the "Bride of Abydos." It is more perfect.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: ?Richard Heber      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Disraeli      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay; but I rest most upon the warm feeling it has created in Gifford's critical heart.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay; but I rest most upon the warm feeling it has created in Gifford's critical heart.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment [...] I sold, on the day of publication, -- a thing perfectly unprecedented -- 10,000 copies; and I suppose thirty people, who were purchasers (strangers), called to tell the people in the shop how much they had been delighted and satisfied. Mr. Moore says it is masterly, -- a wonderful performance. Mr. Hammond, Mr. Heber, D'Israeli, every one who comes [...] declare their unlimited approbation. Mr. Ward was here with Mr. Gifford yesterday, and mingled his admiration with the rest [...] Gifford did what I never knew him do before -- he repeated several passages from memory [...] I was with Mr. Shee this morning, to whom I had presented the poem; and he declared himself to have been delighted [...] I have the highest encomiums in letters from Croker and Mr. Hay; but I rest most upon the warm feeling it has created in Gifford's critical heart.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara
John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the passages in the second canto -- descriptive of the morning after the battle, which delighted me so much, and indeed Mr. Wilmot and many other persons. His [Frere's] remark was that he thought it rather too shocking. This is perhaps a little fastidious. Sir Jno. Malcolm [...] called to express his satisfaction; and by the way, I may add that Mr. Frere has been here this moment to take another copy with him to read again in his carriage. He told me that Mr. Canning liked it equally. Mr. Frere, and in his report, Mr. Canning, are the only persons who have spoken in praise of "Jacqueline"; but they say it is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara
John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the passages in the second canto -- descriptive of the morning after the battle, which delighted me so much, and indeed Mr. Wilmot and many other persons. His [Frere's] remark was that he thought it rather too shocking. This is perhaps a little fastidious. Sir Jno. Malcolm [...] called to express his satisfaction; and by the way, I may add that Mr. Frere has been here this moment to take another copy with him to read again in his carriage. He told me that Mr. Canning liked it equally. Mr. Frere, and in his report, Mr. Canning, are the only persons who have spoken in praise of "Jacqueline"; but they say it is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara
John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the passages in the second canto -- descriptive of the morning after the battle, which delighted me so much, and indeed Mr. Wilmot and many other persons. His [Frere's] remark was that he thought it rather too shocking. This is perhaps a little fastidious. Sir Jno. Malcolm [...] called to express his satisfaction; and by the way, I may add that Mr. Frere has been here this moment to take another copy with him to read again in his carriage. He told me that Mr. Canning liked it equally. Mr. Frere, and in his report, Mr. Canning, are the only persons who have spoken in praise of "Jacqueline"; but they say it is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara
John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the passages in the second canto -- descriptive of the morning after the battle, which delighted me so much, and indeed Mr. Wilmot and many other persons. His [Frere's] remark was that he thought it rather too shocking. This is perhaps a little fastidious. Sir Jno. Malcolm [...] called to express his satisfaction; and by the way, I may add that Mr. Frere has been here this moment to take another copy with him to read again in his carriage. He told me that Mr. Canning liked it equally. Mr. Frere, and in his report, Mr. Canning, are the only persons who have spoken in praise of "Jacqueline"; but they say it is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir J. Malcolm      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara
John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the passages in the second canto -- descriptive of the morning after the battle, which delighted me so much, and indeed Mr. Wilmot and many other persons. His [Frere's] remark was that he thought it rather too shocking. This is perhaps a little fastidious. Sir Jno. Malcolm [...] called to express his satisfaction; and by the way, I may add that Mr. Frere has been here this moment to take another copy with him to read again in his carriage. He told me that Mr. Canning liked it equally. Mr. Frere, and in his report, Mr. Canning, are the only persons who have spoken in praise of "Jacqueline"; but they say it is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Jacqueline
John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the passages in the second canto -- descriptive of the morning after the battle, which delighted me so much, and indeed Mr. Wilmot and many other persons. His [Frere's] remark was that he thought it rather too shocking. This is perhaps a little fastidious. Sir Jno. Malcolm [...] called to express his satisfaction; and by the way, I may add that Mr. Frere has been here this moment to take another copy with him to read again in his carriage. He told me that Mr. Canning liked it equally. Mr. Frere, and in his report, Mr. Canning, are the only persons who have spoken in praise of "Jacqueline"; but they say it is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Samuel Rogers : Jacqueline
John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the passages in the second canto -- descriptive of the morning after the battle, which delighted me so much, and indeed Mr. Wilmot and many other persons. His [Frere's] remark was that he thought it rather too shocking. This is perhaps a little fastidious. Sir Jno. Malcolm [...] called to express his satisfaction; and by the way, I may add that Mr. Frere has been here this moment to take another copy with him to read again in his carriage. He told me that Mr. Canning liked it equally. Mr. Frere, and in his report, Mr. Canning, are the only persons who have spoken in praise of "Jacqueline"; but they say it is beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley
'[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the book. Canning called on Murray next day; said he had begun it, found it very dull, and concluded: "You are quite mistaken; it cannot be by Walter Scott." But a few days later he wrote to Murray: "Yes, it is so; you are right: Walter Scott, and no one else."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Murray      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley
'[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the book. Canning called on Murray next day; said he had begun it, found it very dull, and concluded: "You are quite mistaken; it cannot be by Walter Scott." But a few days later he wrote to Murray: "Yes, it is so; you are right: Walter Scott, and no one else."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Bride of Abydos
Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814: 'I have read Lord Byron's "Bride of Abydos" with great delight, and only delay acknowledging the receipt of a copy from the author till I can send him a copy of the "Life of Swift."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Lara
William Blackwood to John Murray, 8 November 1814: 'Since I was a little better [following illness] I have been again reading "Lara," and the delight it afforded me was exquisite. The very incongruities which a number of our small critics have been nibbling at, afforded me the highest enjoyment.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Blackwood      Print: Book

: report of robbery of John Murray
From letter to John Murray from his brother-in-law, Elliot, 27 June 1815: 'I was much alarmed by seeing in the newspapers that you had been knocked down and robbed of all your money (3s. 6d. in silver, and 4d. in copper coin). Fortunately Annie's (his sister) letter of the 16th arrived at same time, and informed me of your not having suffered much personal injury.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

George Gordon Lord Byron : poems
From recollections of John Murray junior: 'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to my father. His voice and manner were very impressive. His voice, in the deeper tones, bore some resemblance to that of Mrs. Siddons.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

: [poems by Georgian poets]
'A number of Members helped by reading poems from one or other of these authors' [de la Mare, Newbolt and other George V period poets]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [paper on child study]
'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Evans & Mr Stansfield so as to give the remaining time to discussion. Mrs Smith in reading the opening paper quoted part of an extremely interesting article from 'The Spectator' - dealing with the child's mind & what the problems were about which the young members of society thought. [the discussion on the subject and Unwin's own opinions are then given at length]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

: Spectator, The
'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Evans & Mr Stansfield so as to give the remaining time to discussion. Mrs Smith in reading the opening paper quoted part of an extremely interesting article from 'The Spectator' - dealing with the child's mind & what the problems were about which the young members of society thought. [the discussion on the subject and Unwin's own opinions are then given at length]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Serial / periodical

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ethel C. Stevens : [letter to XII Book Club]
'A letter from Miss Ethel C. Stevens offering to entertain the Book Club for the Sept meeting was read'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Letter

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells]
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Wells's 'Romances']
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Herbert George Wells : [a short story]
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [novels]
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : Mankind in the Making
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [novels]
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : [extracts from novels]
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Print: Book

Eagle : Journal of Penrose, the Seaman
John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814: 'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the Seaman" [...] Lord Byron sent me word this morning by letter (for he borrowed the MS. last night): "Penrose is most amusing. I never read so much of a book at one sitting in my life. he kept me up half the night, and made me dream of him the other half. It has all the air of truth, and is most entertaining and interesting in every point of view."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Manuscript: Unknown

Helen Maria Williams : Narrative of Events in France in 1815
Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end italics], written with great skill, talent, and care; full of curious and new developments, and some facts which we did not know before. There breathes through the whole a most attractive spirit, and her feelings sometimes break out in the most beautiful effusions [...] it must be popular, as it is the most entertaining [book] imaginable; one of those books one does not like to quit before finishing it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac D'Israeli      Print: Book

Helen Maria Williams : Narrative of Events in France in 1815
Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end italics], written with great skill, talent, and care; full of curious and new developments, and some facts which we did not know before. There breathes through the whole a most attractive spirit, and her feelings sometimes break out in the most beautiful effusions [...] it must be popular, as it is the most entertaining [book] imaginable; one of those books one does not like to quit before finishing it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac D'Israeli      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
William Gifford to John Murray (1815): 'I have for the first time looked into "Pride and Prejudice;" and it is really a very pretty thing. No dark passages; no secret chambers; no wind-howlings in long galleries; no drops of blood upon a rusty dagger -- things that should now be left to ladies' maids and sentimental washerwomen.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Gifford      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815: 'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] -- 'tis very good -- wretchedly printed, and so pointed as to be almost un-intelligible. make no apology for sending me anything to read or revise. I am always happy to do either, in the thought that I may be useful to you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Gifford      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815: 'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] -- 'tis very good -- wretchedly printed, and so pointed as to be almost un-intelligible. Make no apology for sending me anything to read or revise. I am always happy to do either, in the thought that I may be useful to you [...] 'Of "Emma," I have nothing but good to say. I was sure of the writer before you mentioned her. The MS., thought plainly written, has yet some, indeed many little omissions; and an expression may now and then be amended in passing through the press. I will readily undertake the revision.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Gifford      Manuscript: Unknown

Lyall : review of Stewart, Philosophy of the Human Mind
Number 24 of the [Quarterly] Review pleased Gifford very much. In writing to [John] Murray on the subject, he said [in letter of 27 January 1815] [...] ["]I will beg you to get a work for Mr. Lyall. His article, which I have looked at again, is truly excellent [...] Seriously, the sterling, manly sense of the Review pleases me very much, indeed.["]'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Gifford      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Quarterly Review
The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...] Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of Saxony," is a most useful performer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. P. Elmsley      Print: Serial / periodical

F. Cohen : [?review of] Paradise of Coquettes
The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...] Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of Saxony," is a most useful performer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. P. Elmsley      Print: Serial / periodical

F. Cohen : [?review of] Brand's Popular Antiquities
The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...] Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of Saxony," is a most useful performer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. P. Elmsley      Print: Serial / periodical

: article on King of Saxony
The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...] Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of Saxony," is a most useful performer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. P. Elmsley      Print: Serial / periodical

C. R. Maturin : Bertram
John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me say how much he was indebted to your introduction of your poor Irish friend Maturin, who had sent him a tragedy, which Lord Byron received late in the evening and read through, without being able to stop. He was so delighted with it that he sent it immediately to his fellow-manager [at Drury Lane theatre], the Hon. George Lamb, who, late as it was, could not go to bed without finishing it. The result is that they have laid it before the rest of the [theatre] Commitee; they, or rather Lord Byron, feels it his duty to the author to offer it himself to the managers of Covent Garden.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

C. R. Maturin : Bertram
John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me say how much he was indebted to your introduction of your poor Irish friend Maturin, who had sent him a tragedy, which Lord Byron received late in the evening and read through, without being able to stop. He was so delighted with it that he sent it immediately to his fellow-manager [at Drury Lane theatre], the Hon. George Lamb, who, late as it was, could not go to bed without finishing it. The result is that they have laid it before the rest of the [theatre] Commitee; they, or rather Lord Byron, feels it his duty to the author to offer it himself to the managers of Covent Garden.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Hon. George Lamb

Goethe : Faust
S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworthy German poems, the "Louisa" of Voss, and the "Faust" of Goethe, are the two, if not the [italics]only[end italics] ones, that are emphatically [italics]original[end italics] in their conception, and characteristic of a new and peculiar sort of thinking, I should not be averse from exerting my best efforts in an attempt to import whatever is importable of either or of both into our own language.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

Voss : Louisa
S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworthy German poems, the "Louisa" of Voss, and the "Faust" of Goethe, are the two, if not the [italics]only[end italics] ones, that are emphatically [italics]original[end italics] in their conception, and characteristic of a new and peculiar sort of thinking, I should not be averse from exerting my best efforts in an attempt to import whatever is importable of either or of both into our own language.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

Robert Southey : article on Parliamentary Reform
S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 26 March 1817: 'I read Southey's article [...] It is, in my judgement, a very masterly article.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : review of Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming etc
Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 2 June 1809: 'I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through you to express my best acknowledgements to the unknown reviewer. I do not by this mean to say that I think every one of his censures just [...] But altogether I am pleased with his manner, and very proud of his approbation. He reviews like a gentleman, a Christian, and a scholar.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell      Print: Serial / periodical

John Wilson Croker : Stories for Children from the History of England (extracts)
John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1816): 'I send you seven stories [for 'Stories for Children from the History of England'], which, with the eleven you had before, brings us down to Richard III [...] I think you told me that you gave the first stories to your little boy to read. Perhaps you or Mrs. Murray would be so kind as to make a mark over against any such words as he may not have understood, and to favour me with any criticism the child may have made, for on this occasion I should prefer a critic of 6 years old to one of 60.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Murray      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Siege of Corinth / Parisina
John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815): 'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is very interesting, pathetic, beautiful -- do you know, I would almost say moral [...] I have been most agreeably disappointed (a word I cannot associate with the poem) at the story, which -- what you hinted to me and wrote -- had alarmed me; and I should not have read it aloud to my wife if my eye had not traced the delicate hand that transcribed it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Murray      Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Siege of Corinth
Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815): 'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal of the poem last night, that I feel it is one which stands quite by itself [...] There is no scene, no incident, nothing so marvellous in pathos and terror in Homer, or any bard of antiquity [comments further ] [...] Homer has never conveyed his reader into a vast Golgotha, nor harrowed us with the vulture flapping the back of the gorged wolf, nor the dogs: the terror, the truth, and the loneliness of that spot will never be erased from my memory [...] I never read any poem that exceeded in power this, to me, extraordinary production. I do not know where I am to find any which can excite the same degree of emotion.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac D'Israeli      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Siege of Corinth
John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816): 'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Parisina" also, and he called yesterday to express his mind at your hesitation about their merits [...] I lent Parisina to Mr. Hay (Mr. Wilmots friend) last night, and I enclose his note. I send the proof [...] I will send a revise of "Corinth" to-night or to-morrow.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Parisina
John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816): 'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Parisina" also, and he called yesterday to express his mind at your hesitation about their merits [...] I lent Parisina to Mr. Hay (Mr. Wilmots friend) last night, and I enclose his note. I send the proof [...] I will send a revise of "Corinth" to-night or to-morrow.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Parisina
John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816): 'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Parisina" also, and he called yesterday to express his mind at your hesitation about their merits [...] I lent Parisina to Mr. Hay (Mr. Wilmots friend) last night, and I enclose his note. I send the proof [...] I will send a revise of "Corinth" to-night or to-morrow.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Parisina
John Murray to Byron, 4 January 1816: 'Nothing can be more interestingly framed and more interestingly told than this story [Parisina] [...] I read it last night to D'Israeli and his family, and they were perfectly overcome by it [comments further on text].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Murray      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Prisoner of Chillon
Dr John Polidori, Byron's secretary, to John Murray, 10 July 1816: 'Since it has given you hopes of entering well into the literary world next winter, that "Childe Harold" has got another canto [...] you will be more pleased to hear of another poem of 400 lines called "The Castle of Chillon" [sic]; the feelings of a third of three brothers in prison on the banks of the Geneva Lake. I think it very beautiful, containing more of his tender than his sombre poetry.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Polidori      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold IV
John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816, on William Gifford's response to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV: 'He has been exceedingly ill with jaundice [...] He said he was unable to leave off last night, and that he had sat up until he had finished every line of the canto. It had actually agitated him into a fever [...] He had persisted this morning in finishing the volume [...] He says that what you have heretofore published is nothing to this effort. He says also, besides its being the most original and interesting, it is the most finished of your writings; and he has undertaken to correct the press for you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Sketch from Private Life
'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murray showed the verses to Rogers, Frere, and Stratford Canning. In communicating the result to Byron, he said:-- '"They have all seen and admired the lines; they agree that you have produced nothing better; that satire is your forte; and so in each class as you choose to adopt it [goes on to add readers' suggestions]."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Rogers      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Sketch from Private Life
'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murray showed the verses to Rogers, Frere, and Stratford Canning. In communicating the result to Byron, he said:-- '"They have all seen and admired the lines; they agree that you have produced nothing better; that satire is your forte; and so in each class as you choose to adopt it [goes on to add readers' suggestions]."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Hookham Frere      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Sketch from Private Life
'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murray showed the verses to Rogers, Frere, and Stratford Canning. In communicating the result to Byron, he said:-- '"They have all seen and admired the lines; they agree that you have produced nothing better; that satire is your forte; and so in each class as you choose to adopt it [goes on to add readers' suggestions]."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Stratford Canning      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Monody [on Sheridan]
John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this morning from Sir James Mackintosh: "I presume I have to thank you for a copy of the "Monody" on Sheridan received this morning. I wish it had been accompanied by the additional favour of mentioning the name of the writer, at which I only guess: it is difficult to read the poem without desiring to know." 'Generally speaking it is not, I think, popular, and spoken of rather for fine passages than as a whole [...] Gifford does not like it; Frere does.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir James Mackintosh

George Gordon Lord Byron : Monody [on Sheridan]
John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this morning from Sir James Mackintosh: "I presume I have to thank you for a copy of the "Monody" on Sheridan received this morning. I wish it had been accompanied by the additional favour of mentioning the name of the writer, at which I only guess: it is difficult to read the poem without desiring to know." 'Generally speaking it is not, I think, popular, and spoken of rather for fine passages than as a whole [...] Gifford does not like it; Frere does.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford

George Gordon Lord Byron : Monody [on Sheridan]
John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this morning from Sir James Mackintosh: "I presume I have to thank you for a copy of the "Monody" on Sheridan received this morning. I wish it had been accompanied by the additional favour of mentioning the name of the writer, at which I only guess: it is difficult to read the poem without desiring to know." 'Generally speaking it is not, I think, popular, and spoken of rather for fine passages than as a whole [...] Gifford does not like it; Frere does.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Hookham Frere

George Gordon Lord Byron : poems [apparently including Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III]
John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so with the third canto [...] Walter Scott always mentions you with kindness in his letters, and he thinks nothing better than Canto III.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so with the third canto [...] Walter Scott always mentions you with kindness in his letters, and he thinks nothing better than Canto III.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so with the third canto [...] Walter Scott always mentions you with kindness in his letters, and he thinks nothing better than Canto III.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so with the third canto [...] Walter Scott always mentions you with kindness in his letters, and he thinks nothing better than Canto III.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Walter Scott : Review of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817: 'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I received two days ago, I cannot express myself better than in the words of my sister Augusta, who (speaking of it) says, that it is written in a spirit "of the most feeling and kind nature."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Print: Serial / periodical

?Thomas ?Holcroft : Life [?of Thomas Holcroft]
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady Calantha Limb." The authoress, actuated by a holy zeal, says in her preface that she is resolved to turn me into ridicule. She chooses an easy task -- too easy, I fear -- yet fails, and makes a most blundering business. Wit's razor's edge she has not, but an unkind tongue to make up for it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Book

: 'Lady Calantha Limb'
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady Calantha Limb." The authoress, actuated by a holy zeal, says in her preface that she is resolved to turn me into ridicule. She chooses an easy task -- too easy, I fear -- yet fails, and makes a most blundering business. Wit's razor's edge she has not, but an unkind tongue to make up for it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Book

: The Morning Chronicle
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'They say a black mare of mine (not the one I ride, but a beautiful one) has broken its back. This is all the news I have, except that the Morning Chronicle disgusts me, and that I wish a little enthusiasm for victories and commanders were allowed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Newspaper

George Gordon Lord Byron : 'Swiss Journal [letter]'
Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superstitious age would certainly have believed him possessed of the [italics]art magic[end italics], so completely does he continue to force attention and sympathy wherever he pleases [comments further in praise of text and author] [...] I always forget myself when I think of our greatest genius [i.e. Byron]. Therefore I will hasten to thank you for the two dramas. The French one amuses me, the other does so for a different reason.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham      Manuscript: Unknown

: French play
Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superstitious age would certainly have believed him possessed of the [italics]art magic[end italics], so completely does he continue to force attention and sympathy wherever he pleases [comments further in praise of text and author] [...] I always forget myself when I think of our greatest genius [i.e. Byron]. Therefore I will hasten to thank you for the two dramas. The French one amuses me, the other does so for a different reason.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham

: play
Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superstitious age would certainly have believed him possessed of the [italics]art magic[end italics], so completely does he continue to force attention and sympathy wherever he pleases [comments further in praise of text and author] [...] I always forget myself when I think of our greatest genius [i.e. Byron]. Therefore I will hasten to thank you for the two dramas. The French one amuses me, the other does so for a different reason.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham

George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV
John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817: 'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the three cantos already published [comments further] [...] it is possible that all other readers may agree with my simple self in liking this fourth canto better than anything Lord B. has ever written. I must confess I feel an affection for it more than ordinary, as part of it was begot, as it were, under my own eyes; for some of the stanzas owe their birth to our morning walk or evening ride at La Mara.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cam Hobhouse      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Beppo
John Murray to Byron, 16 June 1818: 'Mr. Frere is at length satisfied that you are the author of "Beppo." He had no conception that you possessed the protean talent of Shakespeare, thus to assume at will so different a character.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Hookham Frere

: Edinburgh Review
Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818): 'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand thanks for your kindness in lending it to me. It will surely please him (Byron) whom it most concerns.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan, Cantos I and II
'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in my heart."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and Sardanapalus: 'If it be not presumptuous of me to say so, I should venture to assert that tragedy-writing is not Lord Byron's forte; that is to say, it will not turn out to be the best thing that he can do. According to my poor way of thinking, the "Corsair" and the Fourth Canto [of "Childe Harold"] will always bear away the palm.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cam Hobhouse      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Sardanapalus
'Mr. Hobhouse wrote that [Sardanapalus] interested him very deeply, though it might be thought fantastical and unnatural by some [goes on to quote letter from Hobhouse to Murray of 22 October 1821].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cam Hobhouse      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Cain, a Mystery
Walter Scott to John Murray, regarding Byron's Cain: 'I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings. He has certainly matched Milton upon his own ground. Some part of the language is bold, and may shock one class of readers [...] But then they must condemn "Paradise Lost" if they have a mind to be consistent [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Cain, a Mystery
Sharon Turner (lawyer) to John Murray, 31 January 1822: 'Mr. Shadwell, whom I have just seen, has told me that he had read "Cain" some time ago, -- that he thinks it contains nothing but what a bookseller can be fairly justified in publishing, that it is not worse in many parts than "Paradise Regained" and in "Paradise Lost" [...] He is King's Counsel and a religious man. He thinks it can hurt no reasonable mind. He will lead the case.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Life of Napoleon
'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with attentino from beginning to end. To me it was full of meaning to observe how the first novelist of the century took upon himself a task and business, so apparently foreign to him, and passed under review with rapid stroke those important events of which it had been our fate to be eyewtinesses. The division into chapters, embracing masses of intimately connected events, gives a clearness to the historical sequence that otherwise might have been only to easily confused, while, at the same time, the individual events in each chapter are described with a clearness and a vividness quite invaluable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe      Print: Book

: [German literature]
'On the whole, our study and love of German Literature seems to be rapidly progressive: in my time, that is, within the last six years, I should almost say that the readers of your language have increased tenfold; and with the readers, the admirers; for with all minds of any endowment these two titles, in the present state of matters, are synonymous. In proof of this, moreover, we can now refer not to one but to two Foreign Journals, published in London, and eagerly if not always wisely looking towards Germany: The Foreign Quarterly Review, and the Foreign Review, with the last of which I too have formed some connexion.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: British Population (general)      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on H.G. Wells' religious development]
'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the growth of Wells' mind & thought as revealed in the series of published writings and showed by extracts from '1st & last things', 'God the invisible King' & 'The Soul of a Bishop' the striking development of his religious nature. Miss Hayward & Mrs Smith read extracts in support of this view.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Herbert George Wells : First and Last Things. Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the growth of Wells' mind & thought as revealed in the series of published writings and showed by extracts from '1st & last things', 'God the invisible King' & 'The Soul of a Bishop' the striking development of his religious nature. Miss Hayward & Mrs Smith read extracts in support of this view.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : God the Invisible King
'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the growth of Wells' mind & thought as revealed in the series of published writings and showed by extracts from '1st & last things', 'God the invisible King' & 'The Soul of a Bishop' the striking development of his religious nature. Miss Hayward & Mrs Smith read extracts in support of this view.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : Soul of a Bishop, The
'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the growth of Wells' mind & thought as revealed in the series of published writings and showed by extracts from '1st & last things', 'God the invisible King' & 'The Soul of a Bishop' the striking development of his religious nature. Miss Hayward & Mrs Smith read extracts in support of this view.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells :
'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the growth of Wells' mind & thought as revealed in the series of published writings and showed by extracts from '1st & last things', 'God the invisible King' & 'The Soul of a Bishop' the striking development of his religious nature. Miss Hayward & Mrs Smith read extracts in support of this view.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Hayward      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells :
'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the growth of Wells' mind & thought as revealed in the series of published writings and showed by extracts from '1st & last things', 'God the invisible King' & 'The Soul of a Bishop' the striking development of his religious nature. Miss Hayward & Mrs Smith read extracts in support of this view.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Reginald Robson : [paper on Conrad]
'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a number of readings were given to illustrate his descriptive power & his style. C.I. Evans helped by H.M. Wallis read from Lord Jim Mrs Reynolds - Almayer's Folly Mrs Rawlings - Typhoon Joseph Conrad seemed to have been known to but few of the club before the meeting, but certainly as a result members will turn to his writings with considerable [interest] and find possibly that a new star has sailed into their literary sky. If so one object of the club, to be a literary telescope, will have been achieved.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Joseph Conrad : Lord Jim
'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a number of readings were given to illustrate his descriptive power & his style. C.I. Evans helped by H.M. Wallis read from Lord Jim Mrs Reynolds - Almayer's Folly Mrs Rawlings - Typhoon Joseph Conrad seemed to have been known to but few of the club before the meeting, but certainly as a result members will turn to his writings with considerable [interest] and find possibly that a new star has sailed into their literary sky. If so one object of the club, to be a literary telescope, will have been achieved.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans and Henry Marriage Wallis     Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Almayer's Folly
'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a number of readings were given to illustrate his descriptive power & his style. C.I. Evans helped by H.M. Wallis read from Lord Jim Mrs Reynolds - Almayer's Folly Mrs Rawlings - Typhoon Joseph Conrad seemed to have been known to but few of the club before the meeting, but certainly as a result members will turn to his writings with considerable [interest] and find possibly that a new star has sailed into their literary sky. If so one object of the club, to be a literary telescope, will have been achieved.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad : Typhoon
'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a number of readings were given to illustrate his descriptive power & his style. C.I. Evans helped by H.M. Wallis read from Lord Jim Mrs Reynolds - Almayer's Folly Mrs Rawlings - Typhoon Joseph Conrad seemed to have been known to but few of the club before the meeting, but certainly as a result members will turn to his writings with considerable [interest] and find possibly that a new star has sailed into their literary sky. If so one object of the club, to be a literary telescope, will have been achieved.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Joseph Conrad :
'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a number of readings were given to illustrate his descriptive power & his style. C.I. Evans helped by H.M. Wallis read from Lord Jim Mrs Reynolds - Almayer's Folly Mrs Rawlings - Typhoon Joseph Conrad seemed to have been known to but few of the club before the meeting, but certainly as a result members will turn to his writings with considerable [interest] and find possibly that a new star has sailed into their literary sky. If so one object of the club, to be a literary telescope, will have been achieved.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Apology for Idlers
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Janet Rawlings     Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : 'Christmas at Sea'
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : 'Tropic Rain'
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : 'Vagabond'
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Travels with a Donkey
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Master of Ballantrae, The
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : [letters]
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Katherine Evans     Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Island Nights' Entertainments
'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live is explained] To enable us to review his work readings were given as under from the Essays - 'An Apology for Idlers' by Alfred vice Janet Rawlings Poems - 'Christmas at Sea' 'Tropic Rain' 'Vagabond' [all read by] Mrs W.H. Smith Travel Books - 'Travels with a Donkey' by E.E. Unwin Novels - 'Master of Ballantrae' by H.M. Wallis Letters - Mr & Mrs Evans. [some remarks on songs sung by various members] It is difficult for any one to sum up the results of the discussion - it was soon apparent that to some members his essays were the one & only thing worth having, to others his stories, 'Treasure Island', 'Island Nights Entertainments' & so on reveal his greatness: to others, his letters are the thing & so one might proceed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [paper on psychic phenomena]
'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief introductory paper, giving some indication of the way in which the subject had come under his notice, and one or two general fundamental points which he was prepared to accept. This was followed by a paper dealing with the sub-conscious mind by Mary Hayward. The very great importance of the subconscious - the way in which we can use it to free our minds of worry - the relationship between mind & mind or telepathy were clearly brought out. Then Mrs Smith read a paper which gave a deeper note to the subject. She dealt with communications from the spirit world with living people - giving personal experiences & experiences of her friends'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Hayward : [paper on the sub-conscious]
'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief introductory paper, giving some indication of the way in which the subject had come under his notice, and one or two general fundamental points which he was prepared to accept. This was followed by a paper dealing with the sub-conscious mind by Mary Hayward. The very great importance of the subconscious - the way in which we can use it to free our minds of worry - the relationship between mind & mind or telepathy were clearly brought out. Then Mrs Smith read a paper which gave a deeper note to the subject. She dealt with communications from the spirit world with living people - giving personal experiences & experiences of her friends'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [paper on the spirit world]
'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief introductory paper, giving some indication of the way in which the subject had come under his notice, and one or two general fundamental points which he was prepared to accept. This was followed by a paper dealing with the sub-conscious mind by Mary Hayward. The very great importance of the subconscious - the way in which we can use it to free our minds of worry - the relationship between mind & mind or telepathy were clearly brought out. Then Mrs Smith read a paper which gave a deeper note to the subject. She dealt with communications from the spirit world with living people - giving personal experiences & experiences of her friends'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Raymond : [a text on spiritualism]
'In the absence of C.E. Stansfield Mrs Stansfield read extracts from Raymond chosen by C.E.S.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on an altar stone found near Carthage]
'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. 1. Read by R.H. Robson. An essay written by H.M.W. about the remains of an altar stone found near Carthage. Vivid & interesting, bloodstained though the stone was, with human sacrifice. 2. Mrs Smith read a very interesting paper dealing with the mind & its training. 'My mind to me a kingdom is'. Considerable discussion followed. 3. Mr Stansfield read a fantasia (written surely by a historian. R.H.R.) relating the musings of Mendax II giving expression to a cynical prophecy of European politics if events evolved or devolved along present lines. We hope that the assassination of Ld. George by a Quaker pacifist & the suppression of L.P.S. will not be fulfilled. 4. E.E. Unwin read a paper entitled 'The Humours of Man' which consisted of a number of humorous stories lightly linked together'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Ann Smith : [paper on the mind and its training]
'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. 1. Read by R.H. Robson. An essay written by H.M.W. about the remains of an altar stone found near Carthage. Vivid & interesting, bloodstained though the stone was, with human sacrifice. 2. Mrs Smith read a very interesting paper dealing with the mind & its training. 'My mind to me a kingdom is'. Considerable discussion followed. 3. Mr Stansfield read a fantasia (written surely by a historian. R.H.R.) relating the musings of Mendax II giving expression to a cynical prophecy of European politics if events evolved or devolved along present lines. We hope that the assassination of Ld. George by a Quaker pacifist & the suppression of L.P.S. will not be fulfilled. 4. E.E. Unwin read a paper entitled 'The Humours of Man' which consisted of a number of humorous stories lightly linked together'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Reginald Robson : [paper on political situation]
'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. 1. Read by R.H. Robson. An essay written by H.M.W. about the remains of an altar stone found near Carthage. Vivid & interesting, bloodstained though the stone was, with human sacrifice. 2. Mrs Smith read a very interesting paper dealing with the mind & its training. 'My mind to me a kingdom is'. Considerable discussion followed. 3. Mr Stansfield read a fantasia (written surely by a historian. R.H.R.) relating the musings of Mendax II giving expression to a cynical prophecy of European politics if events evolved or devolved along present lines. We hope that the assassination of Ld. George by a Quaker pacifist & the suppression of L.P.S. will not be fulfilled. 4. E.E. Unwin read a paper entitled 'The Humours of Man' which consisted of a number of humorous stories lightly linked together'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [essay on 'The Humours of Man']
'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. 1. Read by R.H. Robson. An essay written by H.M.W. about the remains of an altar stone found near Carthage. Vivid & interesting, bloodstained though the stone was, with human sacrifice. 2. Mrs Smith read a very interesting paper dealing with the mind & its training. 'My mind to me a kingdom is'. Considerable discussion followed. 3. Mr Stansfield read a fantasia (written surely by a historian. R.H.R.) relating the musings of Mendax II giving expression to a cynical prophecy of European politics if events evolved or devolved along present lines. We hope that the assassination of Ld. George by a Quaker pacifist & the suppression of L.P.S. will not be fulfilled. 4. E.E. Unwin read a paper entitled 'The Humours of Man' which consisted of a number of humorous stories lightly linked together'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper introducing Balzac]
'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the author followed and Mrs Unwin read some extracts from an article upon Balzac published some few years ago in 'Everyman'. [these extracts, summarising Balzac's career are quoted at length] Mrs Robson read from 'Le Pere Goriot' 'Old Goriot' Rosamund Wallis read 'Christ in Flanders' with its fine description of a ferryboat in a storm & the mysterious stranger who lead [sic] those who had faith walking over the waters to safety when the boat capsized'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Honore de Balzac : Wild Ass's Skin, The
'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the author followed and Mrs Unwin read some extracts from an article upon Balzac published some few years ago in 'Everyman'. [these extracts, summarising Balzac's career are quoted at length] Mrs Robson read from 'Le Pere Goriot' 'Old Goriot' Rosamund Wallis read 'Christ in Flanders' with its fine description of a ferryboat in a storm & the mysterious stranger who lead [sic] those who had faith walking over the waters to safety when the boat capsized'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Pere Goriot
'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the author followed and Mrs Unwin read some extracts from an article upon Balzac published some few years ago in 'Everyman'. [these extracts, summarising Balzac's career are quoted at length] Mrs Robson read from 'Le Pere Goriot' 'Old Goriot' Rosamund Wallis read 'Christ in Flanders' with its fine description of a ferryboat in a storm & the mysterious stranger who lead [sic] those who had faith walking over the waters to safety when the boat capsized'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : Christ in Flanders
'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the author followed and Mrs Unwin read some extracts from an article upon Balzac published some few years ago in 'Everyman'. [these extracts, summarising Balzac's career are quoted at length] Mrs Robson read from 'Le Pere Goriot' 'Old Goriot' Rosamund Wallis read 'Christ in Flanders' with its fine description of a ferryboat in a storm & the mysterious stranger who lead [sic] those who had faith walking over the waters to safety when the boat capsized'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

: [essay in 'Everyman' on Balzac]
'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the author followed and Mrs Unwin read some extracts from an article upon Balzac published some few years ago in 'Everyman'. [these extracts, summarising Balzac's career are quoted at length] Mrs Robson read from 'Le Pere Goriot' 'Old Goriot' Rosamund Wallis read 'Christ in Flanders' with its fine description of a ferryboat in a storm & the mysterious stranger who lead [sic] those who had faith walking over the waters to safety when the boat capsized'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Print: Serial / periodical

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Newbolt : [writings on Nature of poetry]
'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poetry' & gave as the final requisite [underlined] Rhythm [end underlining]. [This definition is discussed at length with quotation and contrary views from other members] Alfred Rawlings gave us Th. Walls Dutton's [?] ideas of poetry quoting him as expressing his own views almost entirely.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Thomas Walls Dutton : [writings on Nature of poetry]
'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poetry' & gave as the final requisite [underlined] Rhythm [end underlining]. [This definition is discussed at length with quotation and contrary views from other members] Alfred Rawlings gave us Th. Walls Dutton's [?] ideas of poetry quoting him as expressing his own views almost entirely.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Reginald Robson : [essay on Keats' life]
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [essay on Keats]
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

John Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

John Keats :
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

John Keats :
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

John Keats :
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

John Keats : [1820 poems]
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

John Keats :
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & confirmed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on the Comic]
'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected in the works of the writers of last century. Readings were given & stories told as illustrations'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

: [readings to illustrate the theme of the Comic]
'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected in the works of the writers of last century. Readings were given & stories told as illustrations'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

[a member of the XII book Club] : [open letter to the XII Book Club]
'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed until later in the evening.' [the letter was about the Club's relationship with the wider Quaker community]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Letter

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [paper entitled 'An English Lumber Camp']
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Edwards      Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival']
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Leslie's 'The End of a Chapter']
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

Algernon Blackwood : Garden of Survival, The
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Richard Jefferies : Story of my Heart, The
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Print: Book

Shane Leslie : End of a Chapter, The
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin
'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till she must have known by heart every incident of that famous work. She was partial to telling the story to those women who were unable to read; and she would relate with such animation the villainies and atrocities of Legree, that considerable virtuous indignation would be aroused in the breasts of her listeners. "What an awful wretch that man must have been!" was the remark made on that personage, by a woman suffering a long sentence for the cold-blooded murder of her child.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Mrs Molesworth : The Tapestry Room
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Pigeon Pie
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Eliza Meteyard : Lillian's Golden Hours
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Hesba Stretton : The Christmas Child
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Redgauntlet
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Talisman
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : St Ives
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Alain-Réné Lesage (Le Sage) : The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santilane
'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquatance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

J.M. Neale : Theodora Phranza
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

A.D. Crake : The House of Walderne
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : The Black Arrow
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Caged Lion
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Little Duke
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : The Jungle Books
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : The Maltese Cat
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

William Harrison Ainsworth : Boscobel
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Puck of Pook’s Hill
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Rewards and Fairies
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Armourer’s Apprentice
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

: [poetry]
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire: The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth) The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge) Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson) Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale) The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake) The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge) The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling) The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling) Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth) Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling) The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge) and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp      Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : Don Quixote
'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquatance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz de Poraj : Pan Tadeuz
'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquatance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope :
'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby
'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the MS. to read." Lord John Russell also states, in his "Memoirs of Moore," that he had read "the greater part, if not the whole," and that he should say that some of it was too gross for publication. When the memoirs came into the hands of Mr. Murray, he entrusted the Memoirs to Mr. Gifford, whose opinion coincided with that of Lord John Russell. A few others saw the memoirs, amongst them Washington Irving and Mr. Luttrell.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Holland      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the MS. to read." Lord John Russell also states, in his "Memoirs of Moore," that he had read "the greater part, if not the whole," and that he should say that some of it was too gross for publication. When the memoirs came into the hands of Mr. Murray, he entrusted the Memoirs to Mr. Gifford, whose opinion coincided with that of Lord John Russell. A few others saw the memoirs, amongst them Washington Irving and Mr. Luttrell.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord John Russell      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the MS. to read." Lord John Russell also states, in his "Memoirs of Moore," that he had read "the greater part, if not the whole," and that he should say that some of it was too gross for publication. When the memoirs came into the hands of Mr. Murray, he entrusted the Memoirs to Mr. Gifford, whose opinion coincided with that of Lord John Russell. A few others saw the memoirs, amongst them Washington Irving and Mr. Luttrell.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs
'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the MS. to read." Lord John Russell also states, in his "Memoirs of Moore," that he had read "the greater part, if not the whole," and that he should say that some of it was too gross for publication. When the memoirs came into the hands of Mr. Murray, he entrusted the Memoirs to Mr. Gifford, whose opinion coincided with that of Lord John Russell. A few others saw the memoirs, amongst them Washington Irving and Mr. Luttrell.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Luttrell      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
William Blackwood to John Murray (early January 1815), on having seen a copy of Guy Mannering during a visit to his fellow publisher, Ballantyne: 'He [Ballantyne] would not allow me to look at it, but he read me a few pages. The painting is admirable and quite graphic -- Scottish to the life. [...] it will be a wonderful performance, and greatly superior to "Waverley" both in interest and effect.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles
'At the beginning of Janaury 1815 Blackwood wrote to Murray that he had seen Ballantyne, and found a copy of "Guy Mannering" lying on his table [from which Ballantyne had read to him] [...] Blackwood had also seen and read "The Lord of the Isles," avowedly by Scott, but he was grievously disappointed by it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Blackwood      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering (vols I and II)
William Blackwood to John Murray (early 1815): 'Yesterday I wrote a letter of thanks to Ballantyne for the delight I had received [from Guy Mannering], and expressed my feelings in the best way I could with regard to this beautiful production. I did not of course appear in it at all as the Bookseller, but merely as the Amateur. I know he will have shown my letter to the author, and though humble the offering, as it will be the first, it may perhaps be of some use to the Bookseller.' [Source author continues] 'He [...] refers to "Guy Mannering," the first two volumes of which he had now finished, and was even more delighted with it than before [when Ballantyne had read out extracts to him].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Blackwood      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Field of Waterloo
'In October [1815] Scott published his poem, the "Field of Waterloo," and its appearance convinced Blackwood [incorrectly] that Scott was not the author of "Guy Mannering."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Blackwood      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Siege of Corinth
'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to send the early sheets to Blackwood, who proposed to hold a dinner in honour of the occasion, to which Scott, Erskine, and James Ballantyne were to be invited. Scott [...] unfortunately, could not accept the invitation for the day named; but, to secure his attendance, the dinner was put off for a week, and then he made his appearance with Erskine and Ballantyne. The poems were read, to the immense delight of the audience.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : Parisina
'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to send the early sheets to Blackwood, who proposed to hold a dinner in honour of the occasion, to which Scott, Erskine, and James Ballantyne were to be invited. Scott [...] unfortunately, could not accept the invitation for the day named; but, to secure his attendance, the dinner was put off for a week, and then he made his appearance with Erskine and Ballantyne. The poems were read, to the immense delight of the audience.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Unknown

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Holland and family     Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Glenbervie     Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Hookham Frere      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Heber      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lamb      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Henry Mackenzie :
A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on the very brink of human dissolution as actively anxious about it as if the curtain must not soon be closed on that and every thing else...No man is less known from his writings.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Archibald Constable : Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, the Sciences, & the Arts
Received a letter from Sir W. Knighton mentioning that the King acquiesced in my proposal that Constable's Miscellany should be dedicated to him.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Isaac D'Israeli : Curiosities of Literature
Walter Scott to William Blackwood, following a period of illness: 'I am greatly better, but not able to write. The author's copy of the third volume of the "Curiosities of Literature" reached me two or three days ago, as Robinson Crusoe says, to my exceeding refreshment.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Patrick Walker : 'Lives of Cameron [etc]'
Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818: 'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the original edition of the "Lives of Cameron," &c., by Patrick Walker, which I had not seen since a boy, and now I have got it, and find, as I suspected, that some curious morceaux have been cut out by subsequent editors.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Patrick Walker : 'Lives of Cameron [etc]'
Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818: 'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the original edition of the "Lives of Cameron," &c., by Patrick Walker, which I had not seen since a boy, and now I have got it, and find, as I suspected, that some curious morceaux have been cut out by subsequent editors.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Captain Riley : The Authentic Narrative of the loss of the American Brig Commerce, on the Western Coast of Africa, with the sufferings of her surviving Officers and Crew
William Blackwood to John Murray (May 1817): 'What a treat you have given to Mrs. B. and me in "Riley"! I never read anything so affecting and interesting. We cried over it yesterday like children. Surprising and almost incredible as the events are, yet there is a verity and touching simplicity, with a natural eloquence of language, which have perhaps never been surpassed. Our philosophers laugh at religious feeling, but if it were no more than a matter of taste, if they thought justly, they would acknowledge its power.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William and Mrs Blackwood     Print: Book

Macleod : Voyage of the Alceste to China
John Barrow to John Murray, 1 September 1830: 'I sat up last night over Mr. Macleod's narrative till I had nearly got through it, which proves at least that it interested [italics]me[end italics], and I am much deceived if it will not interest others. There is no pretence of science or fine writing about it; but the story of the voyage, and the description of the Loo-Choo islands in particular, is told in a plain, intelligible, and unaffected manner. It will certainly make a very entertaining readable octavo volume'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Barrow      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon Lord Byron : works
Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817: 'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lord Byron? You know my admiration for his works, and my thoughts for the best, the very best, of the man [...] I have seen but one new book -- a Danish account of the north of Africa, interesting and curious [...] It is straight from the Baltic, having been comissioned by my good friend, Dr. Ross'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham      Print: Book

: 'a Danish account of the north of Africa'
Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817: 'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lord Byron? You know my admiration for his works, and my thoughts for the best, the very best, of the man [...] I have seen but one new book -- a Danish account of the north of Africa, interesting and curious [...] It is straight from the Baltic, having been comissioned by my good friend, Dr. Ross'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham      Print: Book

John Barrow : Review of Dupin, On the Navy of England and France
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare say, sell 12,000, it only shows that you have an estate which produces wholly independent of its culture. All that ridiculous importance given to Dupin, a wretched ecrivasseur, and that affectation of naval statistics, I think very unsuitable. Your "Alchemy" is appropriate enough, great elaboration and pomp of work ending in smoke and dross. If Dalzell's "Lectures" are as obscure and dull as your commentary, they were not worth reviewing, no more than the commentary is worth reading [...] The article on Hazlitt is good, and that on the Scotch novels [italics]excellent[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Cohen : 'Astrology and Alchemy'
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare say, sell 12,000, it only shows that you have an estate which produces wholly independent of its culture. All that ridiculous importance given to Dupin, a wretched ecrivasseur, and that affectation of naval statistics, I think very unsuitable. Your "Alchemy" is appropriate enough, great elaboration and pomp of work ending in smoke and dross. If Dalzell's "Lectures" are as obscure and dull as your commentary, they were not worth reviewing, no more than the commentary is worth reading [...] The article on Hazlitt is good, and that on the Scotch novels [italics]excellent[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

T. Mitchell : Review of Dalzell, Lectures on the Ancient Greeks
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare say, sell 12,000, it only shows that you have an estate which produces wholly independent of its culture. All that ridiculous importance given to Dupin, a wretched ecrivasseur, and that affectation of naval statistics, I think very unsuitable. Your "Alchemy" is appropriate enough, great elaboration and pomp of work ending in smoke and dross. If Dalzell's "Lectures" are as obscure and dull as your commentary, they were not worth reviewing, no more than the commentary is worth reading [...] The article on Hazlitt is good, and that on the Scotch novels [italics]excellent[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

Col. Matthews : 'article on Hazlitt'
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare say, sell 12,000, it only shows that you have an estate which produces wholly independent of its culture. All that ridiculous importance given to Dupin, a wretched ecrivasseur, and that affectation of naval statistics, I think very unsuitable. Your "Alchemy" is appropriate enough, great elaboration and pomp of work ending in smoke and dross. If Dalzell's "Lectures" are as obscure and dull as your commentary, they were not worth reviewing, no more than the commentary is worth reading [...] The article on Hazlitt is good, and that on the Scotch novels [italics]excellent[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

Nassau senior : '[article] on the Scotch novels'
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare say, sell 12,000, it only shows that you have an estate which produces wholly independent of its culture. All that ridiculous importance given to Dupin, a wretched ecrivasseur, and that affectation of naval statistics, I think very unsuitable. Your "Alchemy" is appropriate enough, great elaboration and pomp of work ending in smoke and dross. If Dalzell's "Lectures" are as obscure and dull as your commentary, they were not worth reviewing, no more than the commentary is worth reading [...] The article on Hazlitt is good, and that on the Scotch novels [italics]excellent[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

: court news
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1821: 'Ramsgate is still empty and dull; our good weather fled with the pomp of the Coronation.... Blessings on the Queen! I see by this morning's paper that she is determined to make a part of the show. But her day is gone by, and there wanted but this last part of her farce to finish her character [following her trial for adultery and estrangement from husband] with the few respectable people that yet cling to her.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Newspaper

: 'Grecian history and antiquity'
The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fifteen he has read so much Grecian history and antiquity that he has these last ten years been sick of the subject. He does not like Ellis's account of "The Embassy to China," but is pleased with Macleod's narrative. He bids me tell you to say the best and what is least obnoxious of the [former] book. The composition and the narrative are so thoroughly wretched that he should be ashamed to let it stand in his library.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Marquess of Abercorn      Print: Book

Henry Ellis : Journal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to China, comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Peiho to the Return to Canton
The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fifteen he has read so much Grecian history and antiquity that he has these last ten years been sick of the subject. He does not like Ellis's account of "The Embassy to China," but is pleased with Macleod's narrative. He bids me tell you to say the best and what is least obnoxious of the [former] book. The composition and the narrative are so thoroughly wretched that he should be ashamed to let it stand in his library.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Marquess of Abercorn      Print: Book

John Malcolm, surgeon of the Alceste : Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste to the Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar
The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fifteen he has read so much Grecian history and antiquity that he has these last ten years been sick of the subject. He does not like Ellis's account of "The Embassy to China," but is pleased with Macleod's narrative. He bids me tell you to say the best and what is least obnoxious of the [former] book. The composition and the narrative are so thoroughly wretched that he should be ashamed to let it stand in his library.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Marquess of Abercorn      Print: Book

John Malcolm, surgeon of the Alceste : Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste to the Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar
The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, in reponse to a gift of books: 'Lord Abercorn says he thinks your conduct with respect to sending books back that he does not like is particularly liberal. He bids me tell you how very much he likes Mr. Macleod's book; we had seen some of it in manuscript before it was published.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Abercorn     Manuscript: Unknown

Jane Austen : novels
The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray (1817-18): 'Pray send us Miss Austen's novels the moment you can. Lord Abercorn thinks them next to W. Scott's (if they [i.e. "W. Scott's" novels] are by W. Scott); it is a great pity that we shall have no more of hers.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Abercorn      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian
Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818: 'It was with your usual kindness that you sent us the "Heart of Midlothian," which we return with our best thanks. All that concerns the Deans family, David and Jeanie, is the masterly production of the same genius, and I like the broad and natural humour of many of the characters. [italics]Character-painting[end italics] is his forte, and he is both pathetic and humorous. With all these excellences there is too much alloy of modern romance-writing in the fourth volume [...] But the first of our novelists likes to have [italics]make-weights[end italics], and must have, for so many thousand pounds.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac D'Israeli and family     Print: Book

: The Observer
Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818: 'Mr. Stewart [Mr. Murray's clerk] has been so attentive as to send me down the Observer, without which I should scarcely know that such a place as the Metropolis existed.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac D'Israeli      Print: Newspaper

Giovanni Belzoni : Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia
'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand traveller, and his English is very prettily broken."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

Lady Caroline Lamb : Ada Reis
William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822: 'The incongruity of, and objections to, the story of "Ada Reis" can only be got over by power of writing, beauty of sentiment, striking and effective situation, &c. [...] Mr. [William] Gifford [Murray's reader], I dare say, will agree with me that since the time of Lucian all the representations of the infernal regions, which have been attempted by satirical writers, such as Fielding's "Journey from this World to the Next," have been feeble and flat. The sketch in "Ada Reis" is commonplace in its observations and altogether insufficient [...] I think, if it were thought that anything could be done with the novel, and that the faults of its design and structure can be got over, that I could put her [i.e Lady Caroline Lamb] in the way of writing up this part a little, and giving it something of strength, spirit, and novelty, and making it at once more moral and more interesting. I wish you would communicate these my hasty suggestions to Mr. Gifford, and he will see the propriety of pressing Lady Caroline to take a little more time to this part of the novel. She will be guided by his authority, and her fault at present is to be too hasty and too impatient of the trouble of correcting and recasting what is faulty.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Hon. William Lamb      Manuscript: Unknown

Captain Lyon : Private Journal during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 1824 [sic]
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (May 1823 [sic]): 'Do tell Captain Lyon that I, and others far better than I am, are enchanted with his book.'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb

James Morier : Hajji Baba
'"Hajji Baba" was more read than any other of [James Morier's] works. Sir Walter Scott was especially pleased with it, and remarked that "Hajji Baba" might be termed the Oriental "Gil Blas."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: report of death of William Moorcroft in India
William Gifford to John Murray, 29 April 1826 [sic]: 'I see with regret in the papers of this morning that my poor friend [William] Moorcroft is dead.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Newspaper

Daniell : paper
Professor W. T. Brande to John Murray, 2 January 1826: 'Sir H. Davy [...] is extremely sore at Mr. Daniell's paper which appeared in late numbers of [of "Brande's Journal of Science," published by Mr. Murray]. He told me he had spoken to you on the subject. Pray pay no kind of attention to this exceedingly impertinent interference of that self-constituted autocrat of science, who, if he continues to intermeddle, may receive a lesson through the "Journal" that shall teach him better manners.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Humphry Davy      Print: Serial / periodical

Sidney Colvin : Landor
'... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.
'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can be imagined; and deals with so many absorbing problems from different points of view….'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Frederick James Furnivall : Review in The Academy
'I knew I had forgot something: Furnivall is too free; it is permitted to be insolent, but not to be so strangely dull.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Browning : Sordello
'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one likes the moon, I fancy'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John Drinkwater : Abraham Lincoln
'The evening was then devoted to a reading of Drinkwater 'Abraham Lincoln' - most members taking part'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Hardy's life and work]
'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works and a general criticism of his writing. The announced programme for the evening then came to an abrupt end - for health kept Mr Evans away & Mr Stansfield also was unable to come, and these two members had arranged to introduce the novels & poems of Hardy & also to start a discussion upon Hardy's religious views. We were very sorry to miss our friends & their contribution & hope that we may have another evening upon Hardy at some future time. To fill this gap in our programme H.M. Wallis told in his graphic way the short story called The 3 Travellers & Rosamund Wallis read the wife auction scene from 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' & the Secretary read a critique by Lawrence Binyon on the poems of Hardy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Hardy : 'Three Travellers, The'
'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works and a general criticism of his writing. The announced programme for the evening then came to an abrupt end - for health kept Mr Evans away & Mr Stansfield also was unable to come, and these two members had arranged to introduce the novels & poems of Hardy & also to start a discussion upon Hardy's religious views. We were very sorry to miss our friends & their contribution & hope that we may have another evening upon Hardy at some future time. To fill this gap in our programme H.M. Wallis told in his graphic way the short story called The 3 Travellers & Rosamund Wallis read the wife auction scene from 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' & the Secretary read a critique by Lawrence Binyon on the poems of Hardy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Mayor of Casterbridge, The
'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works and a general criticism of his writing. The announced programme for the evening then came to an abrupt end - for health kept Mr Evans away & Mr Stansfield also was unable to come, and these two members had arranged to introduce the novels & poems of Hardy & also to start a discussion upon Hardy's religious views. We were very sorry to miss our friends & their contribution & hope that we may have another evening upon Hardy at some future time. To fill this gap in our programme H.M. Wallis told in his graphic way the short story called The 3 Travellers & Rosamund Wallis read the wife auction scene from 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' & the Secretary read a critique by Lawrence Binyon on the poems of Hardy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Laurence Binyon : [criticism of Hardy]
'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works and a general criticism of his writing. The announced programme for the evening then came to an abrupt end - for health kept Mr Evans away & Mr Stansfield also was unable to come, and these two members had arranged to introduce the novels & poems of Hardy & also to start a discussion upon Hardy's religious views. We were very sorry to miss our friends & their contribution & hope that we may have another evening upon Hardy at some future time. To fill this gap in our programme H.M. Wallis told in his graphic way the short story called The 3 Travellers & Rosamund Wallis read the wife auction scene from 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' & the Secretary read a critique by Lawrence [sic] Binyon on the poems of Hardy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy :
'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works and a general criticism of his writing. The announced programme for the evening then came to an abrupt end - for health kept Mr Evans away & Mr Stansfield also was unable to come, and these two members had arranged to introduce the novels & poems of Hardy & also to start a discussion upon Hardy's religious views. We were very sorry to miss our friends & their contribution & hope that we may have another evening upon Hardy at some future time. To fill this gap in our programme H.M. Wallis told in his graphic way the short story called The 3 Travellers & Rosamund Wallis read the wife auction scene from 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' & the Secretary read a critique by Lawrence [sic] Binyon on the poems of Hardy'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

R.B. Graham : [paper on Gilbert & Sullivan]
'The evening was then given up to the subject Gilbert & Sullivan's operas. Mr R.B. Graham read an able paper dealing with the subject in a most interesting & vivid way'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Edmund Gosse : Two visits to Denmark
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : [literary criticism]
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : [poetry]
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : [poetry]
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Violet Wallis : [paper on carols]
'Violet Wallis read a paper on Carols'. [the paper's contents are summarised]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [paper on Miracle and Morality plays]
'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with some illustrative readings from one or two of the earlier episodes. Then briefly traced the growth of the religious drama through the stages of its association with the Liturgy to its divorce from the Church & its elaboration by the city guilds. The development of Moralities was referred to & Mrs Unwin gave a reading from 'Everyman'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Unknown

anon. : Everyman
'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with some illustrative readings from one or two of the earlier episodes. Then briefly traced the growth of the religious drama through the stages of its association with the Liturgy to its divorce from the Church & its elaboration by the city guilds. The development of Moralities was referred to & Mrs Unwin gave a reading from 'Everyman'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Print: Book

anon. : York Miracle Cycle
'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with some illustrative readings from one or two of the earlier episodes. Then briefly traced the growth of the religious drama through the stages of its association with the Liturgy to its divorce from the Church & its elaboration by the city guilds. The development of Moralities was referred to & Mrs Unwin gave a reading from 'Everyman'.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Washington Irving : Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? "Knickerbocker." Mr. Irving has a charming English style, formed by a careful and affectionate study of Addison, perhaps a little too much sweetened; and so polished that, although the surface is proportionably bright, it is nothing but surface. I can no more go on all day with one of his books than I could go on sucking a sugar-plum. The "American Dutchmen" I do not understand at all; an historical account of such people might be entertaining, but, without any means of distinguishing how much is fiction and how much truth, these stories tire and puzzle me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Washington Irving : Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? "Knickerbocker." Mr. Irving has a charming English style, formed by a careful and affectionate study of Addison, perhaps a little too much sweetened; and so polished that, although the surface is proportionably bright, it is nothing but surface. I can no more go on all day with one of his books than I could go on sucking a sugar-plum. The "American Dutchmen" I do not understand at all; an historical account of such people might be entertaining, but, without any means of distinguishing how much is fiction and how much truth, these stories tire and puzzle me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Washington Irving : 'Knickerbocker'
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? "Knickerbocker." Mr. Irving has a charming English style, formed by a careful and affectionate study of Addison, perhaps a little too much sweetened; and so polished that, although the surface is proportionably bright, it is nothing but surface. I can no more go on all day with one of his books than I could go on sucking a sugar-plum. The "American Dutchmen" I do not understand at all; an historical account of such people might be entertaining, but, without any means of distinguishing how much is fiction and how much truth, these stories tire and puzzle me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Washington Irving : The American Dutchmen
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? "Knickerbocker." Mr. Irving has a charming English style, formed by a careful and affectionate study of Addison, perhaps a little too much sweetened; and so polished that, although the surface is proportionably bright, it is nothing but surface. I can no more go on all day with one of his books than I could go on sucking a sugar-plum. The "American Dutchmen" I do not understand at all; an historical account of such people might be entertaining, but, without any means of distinguishing how much is fiction and how much truth, these stories tire and puzzle me.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831): 'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read it many more. It is the most amusing book in the world [...] I do not see, in your list of authors whose anecdotes are extracted, the name of Mrs. D'Arblay; her account of Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Thrale, &c., in her "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," are highly interesting and valuable [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Frances Burney : 'Memoirs of Dr Burney'
Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831): 'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read it many more. It is the most amusing book in the world [...] I do not see, in your list of authors whose anecdotes are extracted, the name of Mrs. D'Arblay; her account of Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Thrale, &c., in her "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," are highly interesting and valuable [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : 'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828: 'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole's Letters to Mr. Mason" [discusses text further] [...] [These letters] are the least amusing of Walpole's. The reason is that he and Mason had at this time no [italics]common[end italics] acquaintance, and no [italics]common[end italics] topic, but Mason's "Life of Gray" [discusses further]."
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron
John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 29 September 1829: 'Sir Walter [Scott] has just read the first 120 pages of Moore's "Life of Byron"; and he says they are charming, and not a syllable de trop.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron
'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm, and met with a very favourable reception. Moore says in his Diary, that "Lady Byron was highly pleased with the 'Life'"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 1)
Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830: 'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read, since I got "Lord Byron's Life." I have no pretensions to being a critic, yet I know infinitely well what pleases me. Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy [italics]tact[end italics] displayed by Mr. Moore, which distinguish the book, I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece, and on his return. There is strength and richness, as well as sweetness. 'The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same to you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is [italics]our[end italics] Lord Byron -- the fascinating, faulty, philosophical being [...] I live with him in these pages -- getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful tone of his conversation and manners. 'His own letters and journals mirror him as he was, and are invaluable. There is something cruelly kind in this first volume. When will the next come? [...] Among its many other virtues, this book is accurate to a miracle. I have not stumbled upon one mistake with regard either to time, place, or feeling.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 1)
Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron." In my opinion, it is very superior to the first; there is less repetition of the letters; they are better written, abound more in criticism and observation, and make the reader better acquainted with Lord Byron's principles and character. His morality was certainly more suited to the meridian of Italy than England; but with all his faults there is a charm about him that excites the deepest interest and admiration [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Somerville      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 2)
Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron." In my opinion, it is very superior to the first; there is less repetition of the letters; they are better written, abound more in criticism and observation, and make the reader better acquainted with Lord Byron's principles and character. His morality was certainly more suited to the meridian of Italy than England; but with all his faults there is a charm about him that excites the deepest interest and admiration [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Somerville      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 2)
Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'I have sat up all the night, and devoured every line of it. As a whole it is beautiful, the genuine transcript of his mind and body. But there are passages in it on the score of discretion which can never be sufficiently regretted. I lament this the more because you know the pains I took to prevent it..... The minor and minute detail of those grosser irregularities, to which, for a time, he abandoned himself in the rashness of despair, and when his mind was without an object, should never have been inserted..... I grieve over this beyond measure, becuase so little is wanting to make the book perfect.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Colonel D'Aguilar      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 2)
John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'No doubt there are longeurs, but really not many. The most teasing part is the blanks, which perplex without concealing [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : The Tatler
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt makes more of Moore's letters than they deserve. I certainly wish that Moore had not flattered him so much, but we should recollect that Moore and Mr. Hunt were at that day fellow labourers in a party [...] Party is much the strongest passion of an Englishman's mind [..] There is not one of us who does not tolerate partizans whom one would indignantly reject as ordinary acquaintances. So that, on the whole, I look with a very excusing eye on the flummery with which Moore thought fit to feed the vanity of the weekly critic. As to his present opinions of the man, I suppose they are the correct ones, but I know neither him nor his works, except "Rimini."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Serial / periodical

Leigh Hunt : Rimini
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt makes more of Moore's letters than they deserve. I certainly wish that Moore had not flattered him so much, but we should recollect that Moore and Mr. Hunt were at that day fellow labourers in a party [...] Party is much the strongest passion of an Englishman's mind [..] There is not one of us who does not tolerate partizans whom one would indignantly reject as ordinary acquaintances. So that, on the whole, I look with a very excusing eye on the flummery with which Moore thought fit to feed the vanity of the weekly critic. As to his present opinions of the man, I suppose they are the correct ones, but I know neither him nor his works, except "Rimini."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Life of Byron
Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831: 'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and though it can be matter of surprise to no one to find himself the object of the spleen of the noble author, yet I confess I [italics]am surprised[end italics] at seeing myself so gratuitously offered up as a victim to the public [comments further] [...] The second volume appears to me to be neither more nor less than "Don Juan" in prose, and I cannot say how much I regret to see Lord Byron's amours so openly paraded before the public. It is an indecorous exhibition, and but too likely to do harm, for young men will admire [italics]the whole[end italics] of the life, because it belonged to genius; and will imitate the only part of it with which metal superiority had nothing to do.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Gally Knight      Print: Book

: Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada'
Sir Francis Knight to John Murray (1839): 'I was glad [...] to hear the child's voice crying in the Times this morning. The extract [from his work] was the very best that could be given to create an appetite.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Head      Print: Newspaper

: Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada'
Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 5 March 1839: 'What is most extraordinary is the article in my favour which lately appeared in the Globe. That paper, after defending me, says that my "Narrative" will be a "useful appendix to Lord Durham's Report" -- a butcher's knife sticking in a pig's throat might just as much be called "a useful appendix."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Head      Print: Newspaper

John Wilson Croker : 'Colonial Government -- Head's Narrative [of his Administration in Upper Canada] -- Lord Durham's Report'
Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 1 April 1839: 'I cannot help thanking you for having sent us such a shower of Quarterly Reviews. My Hens are quite delighted at the review of my "Narrative," and chuckle with great pride. Although I cannot presume to crow on the occasion, yet I may tell you that I feel deeply gratified at the view that has been taken of my services [...] It is certainly not only kindly but very ably done.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Francis Head and (apparently) female family members     Print: Serial / periodical

Sir John MacNeill : 'England, France, Russia, and Turkey'
Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835: 'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have been reperusing the very article which treats of Mahommed Ali in that able essay regarding the encroachment of Russia. The Journal from which the quotations are made regarding the state and government of Egypt prove the writer to have been an accurate and an acute observer, but I do think that he has been too severe on the Pasha. To be sure he [Pasha] is a wholesale merchant and a wholesale oppressor, but compare him with his predecessors in this land of bondsmen, and then judge [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Alexander Burnes      Print: Serial / periodical

Frances Kemble : Francis the First
Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a copy of Miss Kemble's tragedy. I have read it very eagerly and found it a very extraordinary work, written with much force and ability, containing many traits of real genius. It well deserves the success which I see by to-day's papers it has met with, and I doubt not it will continue to enjoy the favour of the public. If you have an opportunity I should be very much obliged to you to convey my congratulations to the young authoress on this brilliant beginning of her career as a dramatic writer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joanna Baillie      Print: Book

: reviews of Frances Kemble, Francis the First
Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a copy of Miss Kemble's tragedy. I have read it very eagerly and found it a very extraordinary work, written with much force and ability, containing many traits of real genius. It well deserves the success which I see by to-day's papers it has met with, and I doubt not it will continue to enjoy the favour of the public. If you have an opportunity I should be very much obliged to you to convey my congratulations to the young authoress on this brilliant beginning of her career as a dramatic writer.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joanna Baillie      Print: Newspaper

Milman : Review of Fanny Kemble, Francis the First
Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832): 'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me, for it made me out a great deal cleverer than ever I thought I was, or ever, I am afraid, I shall be.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble      Print: Serial / periodical

Fanny Kemble Butler : Journal [of residence in America]
Lady Dacre to John Murray, 27 May 1835: 'Thousands of thanks, dear Mr. Murray, for allowing us to read those sheets of the wonderful Fanny's "Journal" in their rough state. I cannot tell you the entertainment they have proved to Lord Dacre, and how strongly they interest me, who have always been a greater enthusiast about her than he has. The depth of thought, the vigour of writing, the high tone of poetry in her descriptions, the absolute reality of all she portrays, make her work enchanting and piquant in the extreme [comments further] [...] The vigorous style shows the advantage of having studied the older authors as she has done. I wish she would not "progress." How I hate that word as a verb. A few more American expressions I would fain change for the honest English she delights in.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord and Lady Dacre     Print: Unknown

Fanny Kemble Butler : Journal [of residence in America]
Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835: 'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen enough of it to feel that she has been most unkindly and unjustly treated by the reviewers [...] I know of no subject I would more willingly undertake than her vindication. People say she is vulgar! So was Eve, for she scratched whatever part of her itched, and did a hundred things we should call vulgar. But the fact is, everything is vulgar now-a-days [...] Poor Fanny Kemble has fallen a victim to this tyranny. Her book is full of cleverness, talent, simple-heartedness, nature and nakedness. Her style is a little rough spot, but did you ever know a woman who was without one? I have no patience with the way she has been treated.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Francis B. Head      Print: Book

Captain Marryat :
Fanny Kemble Butler to John Murray, 26 March 1836: 'Surely Captain Marryat is not a man to be trifled with; he don't write as if he were. How much I like his books, and how much I should like to know him!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Butler      Print: Book

Fanny Kemble Butler : Journal [of her residence in America]
Lady Callcott to John Murray (c.1835): 'Let me thank you for Mrs. Butler: very clever, very romantic, some excellent feelings, but (may I say) not as [italics]womanly[end italics] as I would have liked. A little too much of the tone of one living chiefly with men -- the green-room, in short. I have read a volume and a half [...] Mrs. Butler's "Journal" appears to me to improve as she goes on. The things to be objected to appear more seldom, and her criticisms on her own art and what is connected with it are so good that I should like to see tham separated and much enlarged. She is a clever, and moreover a shrewd observer; and setting apart the intentional descriptions, there are traits throughout that mark a strong and fine hand.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Callcott      Print: Book

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan
Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837: 'I have received "Don Juan" and the October Quarterly [Review]. ... In thanking you for the two volumes of Byron belonging to the present beautiful edition, I must tell you that I had never read "Don Juan" [italics]through[end italics] before, which very few women in England of my age in England could say, -- and which I do not mind owning, since it adds greatly to the pleasure with which I perused the poem. I am afraid, in spite of the beauty, the wit, and the originality of the work, I think, with the Guiccioli [Byron's last mistress] -- "Mi rincrese solo che Don Giovanni non resti al inferno." It is a book which no [italics]woman[end italics] will ever like, whether for the reasons given by the author, or on other accounts, I will not dispute. To me the effect is like hearing some sweet and touching melody familiar to me as having been sung by a lost friend and companion, suddenly struck up in quick time with all the words parodied.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Norton      Print: Book

Catherine Gore : Cecil
Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840: 'Blessed be he [sic] who lately wrote "Cecil" (though it be but a novel), for it beguiled me through a weary night, and made me forget I had a pain in my side.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Norton      Print: Book

H. Nelson Coleridge : 'Modern English Poetesses'
Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840: 'I ought to have thanked you from Ventnor, instead of waiting till my return to town, for your kindness in sending me an early copy of the Quarterly, containing all that comfortable flattery respecting "The Dream" [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Norton      Print: Serial / periodical

: 'Bubbles'
Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837: 'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimrod [i.e. C. Apperly]) and Washington Irving's works, I know little of modern publications, and that little causes no regret at not knowing more. I was seduced into reading Washington Irving by accidentally stumbling on his "Stout Gentleman."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Scrope Davies      Print: Unknown

Washington Irving : 'Stout Gentleman'
Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837: 'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimrod [i.e. C. Apperly]) and Washington Irving's works, I know little of modern publications, and that little causes no regret at not knowing more. I was seduced into reading Washington Irving by accidentally stumbling on his "Stout Gentleman."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Scrope Davies      Print: Unknown

William Ernest Henley : 'A Note on Japanese Art' in Magazine of Art
'The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me sprawling down to posterity as an ignoramus who thought the Ill-Favoured Ones were in the first part; when I was nine years old, I knew better than that. Christian never saw 'em; they were people who attacked women, a point really felt by Miss Bagster, God bless her old heart.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Jean-Pierre Lanfry : Histoire de Napoleon 1er
'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald : Life of George IV
'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has been misinformed. I shall reserve the patent until I have an opportunity of learning your Majesty's pleasure upon it!!' O the groans of George, who knew his man, and whimpered under the rod.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

William Shakespeare : Winter's Tale, The
'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of 'The Winter's Tale'. The production was under the joint management of Mrs Robson & R.B. Graham. The play had been 'cut' to bring it within the compass of the time at our disposal and the cast was so arranged that most members took some part. Where all were so good it would be invidious to mention names. Suffice it to say that all felt the evening to have been a good one and the result of the evening was two fold: a new or renewed acquaintance with the genius of Shakespeare and a sense of fellowship induced by the collective contributions of a large number of members'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Violet Wallis : [paper on Faust legends]
'Violet Wallis read a paper on the Faust legends from the point of view of Medieval History. It was a most interesting introduction to the subject.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Goethe's 'Faust']]
'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finished when over 80 yrs is an expression of his own life & the influences which played upon it during the period of 60 years a period beginning in storm & stress & ending in calmness. The paper brought out very well the story of the bargain, the fulfilling of the terms & the final rescue of Faust by a horde of angels.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finished when over 80 yrs is an expression of his own life & the influences which played upon it during the period of 60 years a period beginning in storm & stress & ending in calmness. The paper brought out very well the story of the bargain, the fulfilling of the terms & the final rescue of Faust by a horde of angels.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Christopher Marlowe : Dr Faustus
'The remainder of the evening was occupied by the reading of Dr Faustus. The various parts were read by the members - the chief being Mephisto - C.I. Evans Faustus - R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club including Charles Evans and Reginald Robson     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of the last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John Galsworthy : Skin Game, The
'A play-reading of Galsworthy's Skin-Game was then given. The members taking part were as follows Hillcrest R.H. Robson Amy, his wife Miss Marriage Jill his daughter Miss R. Wallis Dawker his agent R.B. Graham Hornblower E.E. Unwin Charles his soldier son S.A. Reynolds Chloe wife to Charles Miss M. Hayward Rolf his younger son R.B. Graham Fellows & Anna Mrs Unwin the Jackmans Mr & Mrs H.R. Smith An auctioneer H.R. Smith The reading was much enjoyed & gave rise to a short but interesting discussion as to Galsworthy's meaning. R.B. Graham put forward an interesting suggestion that the play was symbolic of the struggle seen in the war.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of the last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: book

Charles Evans : [paper on Ben Jonson]
'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & suggestive'. It fulfilled both these requisites & was also interesting. b) Short poems were illustrated by H. Marriage Wallis & R.B.Graham c) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Drink to me only' d) Mrs Smith dealt with the proverbial sayings e) Miss R. Wallis gave a lively & lucid description of the play 'A Tale of a Tub'. This deals with the affairs of a fetching but impartial damsel yclept Audrey Turfe whose matrimonial adventures form a complicated & amusing plot f) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Have you seen but the white lily grow?' (The Devil's an Ass)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Manuscript: Unknown

Ben Jonson : [short poems]
'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & suggestive'. It fulfilled both these requisites & was also interesting. b) Short poems were illustrated by H. Marriage Wallis & R.B.Graham c) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Drink to me only' d) Mrs Smith dealt with the proverbial sayings e) Miss R. Wallis gave a lively & lucid description of the play 'A Tale of a Tub'. This deals with the affairs of a fetching but impartial damsel yclept Audrey Turfe whose matrimonial adventures form a complicated & amusing plot f) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Have you seen but the white lily grow?' (The Devil's an Ass)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : [short poems]
'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & suggestive'. It fulfilled both these requisites & was also interesting. b) Short poems were illustrated by H. Marriage Wallis & R.B.Graham c) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Drink to me only' d) Mrs Smith dealt with the proverbial sayings e) Miss R. Wallis gave a lively & lucid description of the play 'A Tale of a Tub'. This deals with the affairs of a fetching but impartial damsel yclept Audrey Turfe whose matrimonial adventures form a complicated & amusing plot f) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Have you seen but the white lily grow?' (The Devil's an Ass)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

Ben Jonson :
'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & suggestive'. It fulfilled both these requisites & was also interesting. b) Short poems were illustrated by H. Marriage Wallis & R.B.Graham c) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Drink to me only' d) Mrs Smith dealt with the proverbial sayings e) Miss R. Wallis gave a lively & lucid description of the play 'A Tale of a Tub'. This deals with the affairs of a fetching but impartial damsel yclept Audrey Turfe whose matrimonial adventures form a complicated & amusing plot f) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Have you seen but the white lily grow?' (The Devil's an Ass)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Tale of a Tub, A
'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & suggestive'. It fulfilled both these requisites & was also interesting. b) Short poems were illustrated by H. Marriage Wallis & R.B.Graham c) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Drink to me only' d) Mrs Smith dealt with the proverbial sayings e) Miss R. Wallis gave a lively & lucid description of the play 'A Tale of a Tub'. This deals with the affairs of a fetching but impartial damsel yclept Audrey Turfe whose matrimonial adventures form a complicated & amusing plot f) Miss Bowman Smith sang 'Have you seen but the white lily grow?' (The Devil's an Ass)
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Lockhart : article on Lord Mahon
Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836: 'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review which I am reading with great pleasure. The article on myself was very gratifying to me. Its approbation of the work is joined to so much knowledge of the subject as to make the former truly valuable. Pray, when you see Mr. Lockhart, tell him how highly I appreciate it. 'Lord Wellesley's letter is quite beautiful -- no less noble in sentiment than nervous in language [...] 'The third article on Napier makes me think the following no bad plan [goes on to suggest collection of all Quarterly Review article on this subject in a 'a pocket volume, for the use of the army']'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Mahon      Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy'

Lord Wellesley : 'Letter [on the character of Pitt, addressed to J. W. Croker]'
Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836: 'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review which I am reading with great pleasure. The article on myself was very gratifying to me. Its approbation of the work is joined to so much knowledge of the subject as to make the former truly valuable. Pray, when you see Mr. Lockhart, tell him how highly I appreciate it. 'Lord Wellesley's letter is quite beautiful -- no less noble in sentiment than nervous in language [...] 'The third article on Napier makes me think the following no bad plan [goes on to suggest collection of all Quarterly Review article on this subject in a 'a pocket volume, for the use of the army']'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Mahon      Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy'

Sir George Murray : 'article on Napier'
Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836: 'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review which I am reading with great pleasure. The article on myself was very gratifying to me. Its approbation of the work is joined to so much knowledge of the subject as to make the former truly valuable. Pray, when you see Mr. Lockhart, tell him how highly I appreciate it. 'Lord Wellesley's letter is quite beautiful -- no less noble in sentiment than nervous in language [...] 'The third article on Napier makes me think the following no bad plan [goes on to suggest collection of all Quarterly Review article on this subject in a 'a pocket volume, for the use of the army']'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Mahon      Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy'

W. E. Gladstone : Church and State
Lord Mahon to John Murray, 7 December 1840: 'Mr. Gladstone's volume has of late engaged much of my attention. It is difficult to feel quite free from partiality where so amiable and excellent a man is concerned; but, if my friendship does not blind me, I should pronounce his production as marked by profound ecclesiastical learning, and eminent native ability. At the same time I must confess myself startled at some of his tenets; his doctrine of Private Judgment [sic] especially seems to me a contradiction in terms, attempting to blend together the incompatible advantages of the Romanist and of the Protestant principle upon that point.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Mahon      Print: Book

: 'Wilberforce' vol. 3
Mr Longman to John Murray, from 2 Hanover Terrace (1838): 'Can you oblige me by letting me have a third volume of ["]Wilberforce." The fact is, that at in [sic] reading that work, my neighbour, Mr. Alexander, fell fast asleep from exhaustion, and, setting himself on fire, burnt the volume and his bed, to the narrow escape of the whole Terrace. Since that book has been published, premiums of fire assurance are up, and not having already insured my No. 2, now that the fire has broken out near my own door, no office will touch my house nor any others in the Terrace until it is ascertained that Mr. Alexander has finished with the book. So pray consider our position, and let me have a third volume to make up the set as soon as possible.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Alexander      Print: Book

Captain W. Cornwallis Harris : Wild Sports in South Africa
W. J. Broderip to John Murray, submitting Captain W. Cornwallis Harris's Wild Sports in South Africa, 8 April 1839: 'Capt. Harris's book is entertaining, and seems to be the work of an honest man devoted to sport, and not caring what he suffers provided he gets his shot [...] There is a little expression here and there in the Captain's book, that might be changed for the better -- such as a rhinoceros giving up "the ghost"!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: W. J. Broderip      Manuscript: Unknown

Miss Rigby : 'Letters from Esthonia' [?i.e. Letters from the Baltic]
Lady Palgrave to John Murray: 'I have many thanks to give you for the kind present of my cousin's "Letters on Esthonia [ apparently Letters from the Baltic]," with which, not only myself, but all our boys are delighted. I read the book to them for a treat at night, and we all enjoy the lively descriptions and the clever details extremely. The writer seems to me to unite all a woman's delicacy and discrimination in home scenes and views with a want of diffuseness which is very unusual in a woman's writing. I think, too, that there is a great evidence of originality and of being [italics]undoctored[end italics], if I may use such a term, which gives much interest to Miss Rigby's work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Palgrave      Print: Book

: 'Handbook'
Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read many parts of it with great interest. It is really a useful and amusing work for those who do not travel. Do not you think that a very interesting work might be written, to be entitled, "A Historical Account of the Celebrated Villas in the Neighbourhood of London? I mean rather the villas that [italics]have[end italics] been, rather than those that now exist [makes various suggestions of villas for inclusion] [...] Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a book would be read. I certainly do not, if it would equal that with which I myself read the account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history, but the traces of many of which are fast fading away'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Robert Peel      Print: Book

: 'account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris'
Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read many parts of it with great interest. It is really a useful and amusing work for those who do not travel. Do not you think that a very interesting work might be written, to be entitled, "A Historical Account of the Celebrated Villas in the Neighbourhood of London? I mean rather the villas that [italics]have[end italics] been, rather than those that now exist [makes various suggestions of villas for inclusion] [...] Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a book would be read. I certainly do not, if it would equal that with which I myself read the account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history, but the traces of many of which are fast fading away'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Robert Peel      Print: Book

: The Quarterly Review
Sir Francis Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842: 'My son will be quite proud at receiving the [italics]first[end italics] copy of the new Quarterly, the only one, I believe, that can go to India by to-morrow's mail [...] 'I have been peeping into it, and if the gaudy debauchery of Paris, as detailed in Art. No. 1, be contrasted with the dark picture described by Lord Ashley, and alluded to in Art. 6, it must, I think, be admitted that the [italics]outside[end italics] of this world has no more right to be shocked at the immorality of the [italics]inside[end italics], than the pot, many years ago, had to complain of the complexion of the kettle.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Francis Head      Print: Serial / periodical

Hallam : 'Literature'
Mr Lockhart to John Murray, 24 September 1839: 'Morritt has just finished "Hallam's Literature." He is in raptures with it, and says such a book, forty years ago, would have been beyond all price for the direction of his studies. He is going to interleave his copy and annotate largely.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Miss Rigby : Letters from the Baltic
George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842: 'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with it; very clever writer; critique in Despatch harsh and unjust; quite uncalled for; blackguard affair altogether.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Borrow      Print: Book

: Review of Miss Rigby, Letters from the Baltic
George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842: 'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with it; very clever writer; critique in Despatch harsh and unjust; quite uncalled for; blackguard affair altogether.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Borrow      Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain
George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in the Times, I fully agree with you that it was harsh and unjust, and the passages selected by no means calculated to afford a fair idea of the contents of the work. A book, however, like "The Bible in Spain" can scarcely be published without exciting considerable hostility, and I have been so long accustomed to receiving hard knocks that they make no impression upon me. After all, the abuse of the Times is better than its silence; it would scarcely have attacked the work unless it thought it of some importance, and so the public will think [...] You ask me my opinion of the review in the Quarterly. Very good, very clever, very neatly done. Only one fault to find -- too laudatory. I am by no means the person which the reviewer had the kindness to represent me [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Borrow      Print: Newspaper

: Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain
George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in the Times, I fully agree with you that it was harsh and unjust, and the passages selected by no means calculated to afford a fair idea of the contents of the work. A book, however, like "The Bible in Spain" can scarcely be published without exciting considerable hostility, and I have been so long accustomed to receiving hard knocks that they make no impression upon me. After all, the abuse of the Times is better than its silence; it would scarcely have attacked the work unless it thought it of some importance, and so the public will think [...] You ask me my opinion of the review in the Quarterly. Very good, very clever, very neatly done. Only one fault to find -- too laudatory. I am by no means the person which the reviewer had the kindness to represent me [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Borrow      Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain
George Borrow to John Murray, 25 February 1843: 'I have seen the article in the Edinburgh about the Bible [in Spain] -- exceedingly brilliant and clever, but rather too epigrammatic, quotations scanty and not correct.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Borrow      Print: Serial / periodical

Lieutenant Eyre : Military Operations in Cabool
W. E. Gladstone to John Murray (from January 1843), on Lieutenant Eyre, Military Operations in Cabool [sic for Kabul]: 'I have read it with great pain and shame, which are, as I fear one must say in such a case, the test of its merits as a work. May another occasion for such a narrative never arise!'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: W. E. Gladstone      Print: Book

Lady Sale : Journal [of experience of retreat from Afghanistan]
Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 19 April 1843: 'I was at a committee this morning, when I heard a gentleman say: "My friend, Mr. Bouverie, got hold of Lady Sale's book yesterday evening and sat reading it till five o'clock this morning. In fact, he passed the night with Lady Sale instead of with his own wife. I mention this as one of the sins for which, as a publisher, you will some of these days have to account.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Bouverie      Print: Book

Alexander Ireland : List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt : chronologically arranged with notes, descriptive, critical, and explanatory; and a selection of opinions regarding their genius and characteristics, by distinguished contemporaries and friends as we
'I have your List of Writings etc: a copy of it was lent to me by Mr Bain the bookseller.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Edward Leedes : English Examples. To be Turned into Latin
Transcribed (not entirely accurately) in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes from a later edition of the grammar by Edward Leedes, headmaster of King Edward VI's School at Bury St Edmunds, originally published in 1676: extracts from the preface; seven 'Examples of Exercises preparatory to Themes' ('Of the Spring', 'Of The Summer', 'Of Autumn', 'Of Winter', 'Of Laziness', 'Of Drunkenness', and 'Of Covetousness'); two 'Examples of Themes according to the method usually prescribed' ('Trust, but know whom' and 'We all desire Peace'); three 'Examples of Themes in a more loose and free method' ('Fortune helps the daring', 'All things obey Money', and 'Rest doth much delight the wearied man'); three 'Examples of the Concords' (unheaded); and thirteen 'Examples in English, fitted to the Grammar Rules' (also unheaded).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

John Dryden : The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whigs' (A2r–A4r) and the poem itself.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

John Dryden : Epistle to the Whigs
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whigs' (A2r–A4r) and the poem itself.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

John Dryden : 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. Written after the Celebration of his Funerall'
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. Written after the Celebration of his Funerall', in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1659), pp. 1-9.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Thomas Sprat : 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. Pindarick Ode'
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. Pindarick Ode', in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1659), pp. 11-30.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Thomas Sprat : The Plague of Athens
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plague of Athens (1688) [p.34] [...] his allegory on the English revolution.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Samuel Pordage : Azaria and Hushai. A Poem
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Samuel Pordage's Azaria and Hushai. A Poem (1682) p.38.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

John Dryden : The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a Poem
Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a Poem (1682).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Richard Saunders : Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, … Whereunto is Added the Art of Memory
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on Raymond Lull's Art of Memory, copied from the second edition of Richard Saunders's Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, … Whereunto is Added the Art of Memory (1671), pp. 371-7.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Francis Bacon : Of the proficience and advancement of learning
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from Francis Bacon's Of the proficience and advancement of learning (1605).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Thomas Vaughan : Magia Adamica. Or the Antiquity of Magic, And the Descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. Whereunto is added a perfect and full discovery of the true Cœlum Terræ, or the Magicians Heavenly Chaos, & first Matter of all Things. By Eugenius Philalethes.
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Detailed reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Thomas Vaughan : The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes (1650), followed by one page of the scribe's reflections and comments on the work (p. 103).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Michał Sędziwój : A New Light of Alchymy; Taken out of ye Fountain of Nature & Manual Experi-ence. To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur.
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the English translation of A New Light of Alchymy (1674) by Michał Sędziwój (Sendivogius).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Thomas Wilson : The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence (1567).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Samuel Chandler : An Impartial Account of the Portsmouth Disputation
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the second edition of Samuel Chandler's An Impartial Account of the Portsmouth Disputation (1699) [...] including 'Some Iust Reflections on Dr Russel's pretended Narrative' (pp. 221-223).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Robert Ferguson : A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins, or a Just Reprimand given to Mr Alsop, for his Foppish, Pedantick, Detractive, and Petulant Way of Writing.
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extensive reading notes from Robert Ferguson's A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins (1698).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

John Newton : The Scale of Interest. Or ye Use of Decimal Fractions With a Table of Logarithms, &c. — For ye use of ye English Mathematical School and Grammar School at Ross in Herefordshire.
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the dedicatory epistle to Dr John Newton's The Scale of Interest (1668).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

James Howell : Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James Howell's Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions (1688).
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Aeschylus : Agamemnon
'The rest of the evening was devoted to a play-reading. Gilbert Murray's translation of The Agamemnon had been selected. The following took part. Chorus & Elders H.M. Wallis Watchman & Elder C.E. Stansfield Herald R.H. Robson Aigisthos H.R. Smith Cassandra Mrs Unwin Cytemnestra [sic] Eliot Wallis instead of Miss B.S. Agamemnon E.E. Unwin For the ordinary member some introduction & description of the Greek Drama would have added to the interest of the evening. Probably those who were reading enjoyed it more than those who had to listen.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Jean Froissart : Chronicles
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

Anon. : Migrations
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Serial / periodical

R.B. Graham : 'Pious Atrocity, The'
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Manuscript: Unknown

: 'Wedding Presents'
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Serial / periodical

Rudyard Kipling : 'How the Camel got his Hump'
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Smith      Print: Book

A.A. Milne : 'Man of the Evening, The'
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Serial / periodical

: Arms of Wipplecrack
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus Reynolds      Print: Unknown

E.V. Lucas : Joints in the Armour
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Unknown

Reginald Robson : 'Bad Morality & Bad art'
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard R. Smith : 'Etaples & the Air raids'
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Browning : 'In a gondola'
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith 2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith 3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings 4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole 5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin 6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham 7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds 8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson 9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith 10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin 11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis 12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith 13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds 14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis 15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto] 16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson 17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith 18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith 19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin 20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Bowman-Smith      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Browning's The Ring & the Book]
'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in introduction. This enabled those who had not read the long poem to understand the story & the way in which Browning treated the story. The success of the evening was largely due to this introduction. The story from several standpoints was then dealt with by members of the club. R.H. Robson read a description of the 1st Guido A. Rawlings read extracts from the book Capansacchi Mrs Evans [ditto] Pompilia Mr Gidham [ditto] Pope Mr Robson [ditto] Guido in prison'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Browning : Ring and the Book, The
'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in introduction. This enabled those who had not read the long poem to understand the story & the way in which Browning treated the story. The success of the evening was largely due to this introduction. The story from several standpoints was then dealt with by members of the club. R.H. Robson read a description of the 1st Guido A. Rawlings read extracts from the book Capansacchi Mrs Evans [ditto] Pompilia Mr Gidham [ditto] Pope Mr Robson [ditto] Guido in prison'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Ring and the Book, The
'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in introduction. This enabled those who had not read the long poem to understand the story & the way in which Browning treated the story. The success of the evening was largely due to this introduction. The story from several standpoints was then dealt with by members of the club. R.H. Robson read a description of the 1st Guido A. Rawlings read extracts from the book Capansacchi Mrs Evans [ditto] Pompilia Mr Gidham [ditto] Pope Mr Robson [ditto] Guido in prison'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Ring and the Book, The
'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in introduction. This enabled those who had not read the long poem to understand the story & the way in which Browning treated the story. The success of the evening was largely due to this introduction. The story from several standpoints was then dealt with by members of the club. R.H. Robson read a description of the 1st Guido A. Rawlings read extracts from the book Capansacchi Mrs Evans [ditto] Pompilia Mr Gidham [ditto] Pope Mr Robson [ditto] Guido in prison'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Gidham      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Ring and the Book, The
'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in introduction. This enabled those who had not read the long poem to understand the story & the way in which Browning treated the story. The success of the evening was largely due to this introduction. The story from several standpoints was then dealt with by members of the club. R.H. Robson read a description of the 1st Guido A. Rawlings read extracts from the book Capansacchi Mrs Evans [ditto] Pompilia Mr Gidham [ditto] Pope Mr Robson [ditto] Guido in prison'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Robert Browning : Ring and the Book, The
'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in introduction. This enabled those who had not read the long poem to understand the story & the way in which Browning treated the story. The success of the evening was largely due to this introduction. The story from several standpoints was then dealt with by members of the club. R.H. Robson read a description of the 1st Guido A. Rawlings read extracts from the book Capansacchi Mrs Evans [ditto] Pompilia Mr Gidham [ditto] Pope Mr Robson [ditto] Guido in prison'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

:
'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some − mostly the Republicans − simply state their name, and that they have been one of the majority turned out by the Marshal. The others, the so-called Conservatives − have a big poster of statements here and there, backwards and forwards, some of them about the the Marshal’s policy. It is altogether a curious spectacle for an Englishman [...]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster

William Henry Hudson : Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life
'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events of the author's life, long forgotten, floated before his eyes as he lay in a semi-trance. E. E. Unwin described his Naturalist writing & read from The Book of a Naturalist. Mrs Unwin read an extract from Hampshire Days. Mr Evans described his books dealing with life among the village [sic] abutting on Salisbury plain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

William Henry Hudson : Book of a Naturalist, The
'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events of the author's life, long forgotten, floated before his eyes as he lay in a semi-trance. E. E. Unwin described his Naturalist writing & read from The Book of a Naturalist. Mrs Unwin read an extract from Hampshire Days. Mr Evans described his books dealing with life among the village [sic] abutting on Salisbury plain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

William Henry Hudson : Hampshire Days
'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events of the author's life, long forgotten, floated before his eyes as he lay in a semi-trance. E. E. Unwin described his Naturalist writing & read from The Book of a Naturalist. Mrs Unwin read an extract from Hampshire Days. Mr Evans described his books dealing with life among the village [sic] abutting on Salisbury plain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Print: Book

William Henry Hudson : [naturalist writing]
'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events of the author's life, long forgotten, floated before his eyes as he lay in a semi-trance. E. E. Unwin described his Naturalist writing & read from The Book of a Naturalist. Mrs Unwin read an extract from Hampshire Days. Mr Evans described his books dealing with life among the village [sic] abutting on Salisbury plain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

William Henry Hudson : [writing on Hampshire villages]
'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events of the author's life, long forgotten, floated before his eyes as he lay in a semi-trance. E. E. Unwin described his Naturalist writing & read from The Book of a Naturalist. Mrs Unwin read an extract from Hampshire Days. Mr Evans described his books dealing with life among the village [sic] abutting on Salisbury plain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last two meetings read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

: [Penn and Mead trial]
'The rest of the evening was devoted (except for a pianoforte solo & a pianola performance) to a dramatic rendering of the Penn & Mead trial the cast being as under. Lord Mayor H.M. Wallis Magistrates John Smith, Thos Bloodworth, John Robinson etc. H.R. Smith Recorder E.E. Unwin Clerk of Court C.I. Evans Cryer Janet Rawlings Wm Penn C.E. Stansfield Wm Mead R.B. Graham Bushell A. Rawlings Judy The Ladies'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Reading Group     Print: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Miss Cole : [paper on life of Fanny Burney]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Fanny Burney : [from works or diary]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Stevens      Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole

Fanny Burney : [from works or diary]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole

Fanny Burney : [from works or diary]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole

Fanny Burney : [from works or diary]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole

Fanny Burney : [from works or diary]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole

Fanny Burney : [from works or diary]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Cole      Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole

Fanny Burney : [works and diary]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Cole      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Thomas Love Peacock]
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr Miss Cole Love & Age E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Love Peacock : War Song of Dinas Vawr, The
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr Miss Cole Love & Age E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Nightmare Abbey
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr Miss Cole Love & Age E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Three Men of Gotham
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr Miss Cole Love & Age E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : [poems from the novels]
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr Miss Cole Love & Age E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Love and Age
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr Miss Cole Love & Age E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Cole      Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock :
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr Miss Cole Love & Age E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

: report of death of W. Blagrove
1 November 1858: 'Went to Drury lane [theatre] where we had stalls. The Opera was the Maritana, and was pretty enough [...] but I could not help thinking there was some hurry and confusion, and that something must have gone wrong. We read in the paper next morning that poor Blagrove had dropped down dead, as he was proceeding to the orchestra just before the opera began'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Newspaper

Alfred Tennyson : Guinevere
17 July 1859: 'I sat, very sad, in the garden [at Exeter House], took up Tennyson's Guinevere, and was engrossed with it. Arthur is the noblest creature that ever lived in fiction. What a speech is that of his on parting with the Queen. I can never read it without tears.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Hereward
8 February 1875: 'We had an agreeable journey to Folkestone where we took ship [for china-collecting expedition in Europe] [...] I was driven below by the intense cold so I lay down and read, with the greatest interest, my friend Charles Kingsley's Hereward. The subject is laid in my own Lincolnshire, and I know all the scenery he describes o'er well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: Life of Macaulay
'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a great deal. After revelling "in that pleasant life of Macaulay" she started on Pride and Prejudice.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a great deal. After revelling "in that pleasant life of Macaulay" she started on Pride and Prejudice.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Persuasion
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History
2 July 1876, from Brussels: 'After I went to bed I read over that wonderful part of Macaulay's History, the death of Charles II, and was quite excited by it, when I dropped asleep about 1 a.m.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Esmond
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Peregrine Pickle
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Mrs Elliot : Old Court Life in France
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Pottier : works on ceramics
The Earl of Bessborough describes events following Lady Charlotte Schreiber and her husband's sale of 'a gourd-shaped bottle of Wedgwood ware' bought at Rotterdam in 1873, following assessment of it as of 'no value whatsoever': 'In August 1874 the Schreibers were in Rouen, and according to their custom visited the Museum. What was their dismay when they found exactly similar bottles on the most conspicuous shelf in the place of honour. They immediately consulted the magnificent quartos of Pottier, the well-known archaeologist and ceramic expert, and learnt that there was nothing in Europe so rare as those productions, the work of one Dorio, an Italian, who made a few fine things at Rouen when on his way to Holland, where he introduced the same style in a few pieces.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber     Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil, or The Two Nations
27 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] I first heard it on the Sunday. I was already awake and reading Disraeli's Sybil, which has interested us [Lady Charlotte and her husband Charles, a Conservative politician] by reason of the political opinions expressed in it. I finished the book today on the way to Berlin.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil, or The Two Nations
27 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] I first heard it on the Sunday. I was already awake and reading Disraeli's Sybil, which has interested us [Lady Charlotte and her husband Charles, a Conservative politician] by reason of the political opinions expressed in it. I finished the book today on the way to Berlin.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: report of Sir Charles Du Cane's appointment to Government post
'That evening [12 June 1878] the Schreibers read an announcement in the Times that Sir Charles Du Cane, whom they had expected to present himself as a candidate for Colchester, had been given a Customs appointment under the Government, and would accordingly be obliged to give up any parliamentary candidature. Charles Schreiber had his eye on this constituency and now telegraphed to his brother Brymer, who was quartered at Colchester, to move in the matter on his behalf.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber     Print: Newspaper

?Benjamin ?Disraeli : Alroy
19 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: Wilhelm Meister
19 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: report of Sir E. Tyler's probable Parliamentary canditature
10 July 1878: 'This morning we saw in the Times of the 28th ult., that Sir E. Tyler is the probable candidate for Colchester at the next election, so I fear all our aspirations in that quarter are doomed to come to naught.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber     Print: Newspaper

Ouida : Friendship
14 July 1878: 'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gordon's daughter, very mischievous. Presently C[harles]. S[chreiber]. came out, and I read him the commencement of Lecky's History of the XVIIIth Century in England.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Enid Layard      Print: Book

Lecky : History of the Eighteenth Century in England
14 July 1878: 'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gordon's daughter, very mischievous. Presently C[harles]. S[chreiber]. came out, and I read him the commencement of Lecky's History of the XVIIIth Century in England.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

:
'After a few days at Canford the Schreibers visited Lord St. Germans, a great invalid, at Port Eliot in Cornwall. Lady Charlotte read to him, sometimes for as long as four hours a day.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Unknown

William Shakespeare : The Merry Wives of Windsor
15 October 1879, from Berlin: 'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been going through the historical plays of Shakespeare from King John to Henry VIII since I came abroad [in September 1879], and hope to read them more carefully again.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : history plays
15 October 1879, from Berlin: 'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been going through the historical plays of Shakespeare from King John to Henry VIII since I came abroad [in September 1879], and hope to read them more carefully again.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Mrs Edwards, ed. : Selections from the Poets
[following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selections from the Poets.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Harrison Ainsworth : South Sea Bubble
[between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespeare of an evening for Harrison Ainsworth's South Sea Bubble and John Law.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Benjamin Disraeli : pamphlet [featuring descriptions of Syria and Cyprus]
1 November 1879: 'We left Bruges by an early train, the express, joining the steamer at Ostend, and had a beautiful passage home reading Disraeli's pamphlet, which has given me great pleasure, especially by his descriptions of the scenes [in Syria and Cyprus] that Enid [reader's daughter] had been lately visiting.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber

William Makepeace Thackeray : Humorists
[following journal entry for 1 November 1879] 'The next few days [following seven weeks' travels in Europe] were occupied unpacking, after which the Schreibers went to Canford, the railway journey from London being enlivened by Thackeray's Humorists.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: Psalm
25 November 1879, following account of husband's attendance at Conservative Party dinner at Poole, and late return home: 'It must have been 1/2 past 2 ere I was in bed. C[harles]. S[chreiber]. sat by the fire and I read to him, as is now our usual custom. I had just finished a psalm, when we heard some stir in the passage, and found that the butler, who had been providentially up late, had discovered that a room immediately over the children's wing was on fire.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Freeman : 'account of the Bayeux tapestry'
7 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bayeux tapestry, then some of Thackeray's Humorists.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Unknown

William Makepeace Thackeray : Humorists
7 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bayeux tapestry, then some of Thackeray's Humorists.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Miss Freer : Anne of Austria
'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Miss Freer : Henri III
'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Miss Freer : Jeanne d'Albret
'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: Memoirs of the Cambridge A. D. C.
15 March 1880: 'He [Charles Schreiber, reader's husband] canvassed again [as Parliamentary candidate for Poole] from 6 to 9, and I mooned and wept over a book that I had just received, The Memoirs of the Cambridge A[mateur]. D[ramatic]. C[lub]., which had many notices of my dear, dear boy [her son Augustus Guest, 1840-1862], and recalled many memories.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: report of Merthyr Guest's Parliamentary candidacy
15 March 1880: 'I read in this morning's Times that Merthyr [Guest, son by her first marriage] has accepted the requisition of the electors to come forward for his native town of Merthyr-Tydvil as a Liberal [...] There cannot be better men or truer, according to their convictions, than these my belongings. For myself I am different to them all. I hold on to my own Whig principles in domestic policy; but I go with the Conservatives in their eastern and other foreign policy.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Newspaper

Miss Freer : memoir of Henri IV
29 March 1880: 'I have not read very much since I came here, but have finished Miss Freer's memoirs of that bold, bad man, Henri Quatre. When one reads of such doings how can one wonder at the French revolution...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: Life of Marguerite de Valois
29 March 1880: 'I had one of my wakeful nights and read a great deal of the Life of Marguerite de Valois, Philip's Queen.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: report on Liberal petition against return of Charles Schreiber to Parliament
12 April 1880: 'Towards the evening there came a telegram from Mr. Drysdale, drawing attention to a notice in the Echo. C[harles]. S[chreiber] was out, but I sent for the Echo at once, and when it came it was found to contain a paragraph to the effect that the Liberals at Poole had decided to petition against C. S.'s return. I have not had much peace since.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Newspaper

Stephen Reynolds : How 'Twas: Short Stories and Small Travels.
'You have given me a very invidious task.[...]. Well I have read all your copy. And the result of all my extreme fastidiousness is enclosed in the envelope. But my dear who am I to pick and choose in the stuff of a a man who can write, always has something to say and never fails on one side or the other to secure my sympathy.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

John Galsworthy : The Pigeon: A Fantasy in Three Acts
'I won't say anything of "The Pigeon"-- except that it reads admirably and that I have been fascinated by the theme and the handling of the personages.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Francis Warrington Dawson : Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis
'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and even racial--glowing through it and adding to the fascination of the perfectly simple diction.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William Knox : Lonely Hearth
'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox (Footnote: William Knox), a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since...His poetical talent - a very fine one - then shewd itself in a fine strain of pensive poetry calld I think the Lonely Hearth, far superior to those of Michael Bruce, whose consumption by the way has been the life of his verses.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Michael Bruce : Elegy - Written in Spring
'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since...His poetical talent - a very fine one - then shewd itself in a fine strain of pensive poetry calld I think the Lonely Hearth, far superior to those of Michael Bruce (Footnote: Scott probably had in his mind his 'Elegy - Written in Spring'), whose consumption by the way has been the life of his verses.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Ben Jonson : Everyman in his Humour
'His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well. In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit infinite humour but all his works are grave and pensive a stile, perhaps like Master Stephen's melancholy affected for the nonce (Footnote: an allusion to Ben Jonson's Everyman in his Humour).'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Harriet Wilson : Memoirs
'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Unknown

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Charity
'[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch of the Pampa as it was, it has been one huge delight. Of course some of these stries--gems--I've read (The incomparable "Aurora" is a long time ago first) but the cumulative effect is magnificent in its pictorial force and emotional power.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

E.(Edwin) A.(August) Bjorkman : Voices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spirit of Literature
'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional comment]. It is with great pleasure that I discover in myself an intellectual (or perhaps instinctive) sympathy for what you say in your book with such force, clearness and conviction. In the article on myself what I see first is the generosity of your appreciation.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Brothers Karamazov
'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was very dear of you to remember me; and of course I was extremely interested. But it's an impossible lump of valuable matter. It's terrifically bad and impressive and exasperating. Moreover I don't know what D[ostoevsky] stands for or reveals, but I do know he is too Russian for me. [..] Of course your wife's translation is wonderful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Thomas Reed : House Flags and Funnels of English and Foreign Steamship Companies
'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River paper. In the E.[nglish] R.[eview]. Jolly well done and rightly felt and artistically expressed. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

H.|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson : The Fog
'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River paper. In the E.[nglish] R.[eview]. Jolly well done and rightly felt and artistically expressed. '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Norman Douglas : Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia
'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 lines of praise and constructive commentary.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Francis Warrington Dawson : The Sin
'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distnctly stuff that can be handled.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Warrington Dawson      Manuscript: Unknown

John Galsworthy : The Inn of Tranquillity
'It's ["The Inn of Tranquillity"] wholly excellent and certainly fascinating.[...] Of course I had read many of the papers before.' Hence follow ten lines of praise for this collection of stories.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Richard Curle : Shadows out of the Crowd
'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"]. We shall have a talk about it when you come, with the corpus delicti there before us to refer to.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : Leonora
'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of absolutely genuine expression has been with me an unshakable conviction. I often look through the book noting on the pages those gifts which have found now their fullest expression.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon : [political manifesto]
'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, editor of a Radical journal, calling on the people to be calm, and rest on the weight of their majority. The other, a declaration of the President’s, which made me so mad that I could have broken his head if he had been within my reach. It was written, I firmly believe, with the intention of driving on the Republicans to extremities, and shook the cat in the air with a sort of paternal menace, that must have been maddening to the Opposition.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Poster, election posters.

Thomas Stevenson : Christianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testimony and the Deductions from Physical Science
'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

William Ernest Henley : 'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'.
'"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded you.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan.

Tristan Bernard : unknown
'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's another matter.There are magnificent pages there. But all together more than anything else, it's surprising. You say to yourself: so that is "Le Crépuscule des Dieux"! And you continue to be struck by the poverty of the subject.[...]. You told me to start with that book. After fnishing it I opened the other ["Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent"]. It moved me by its splendour, the colours, the movement.' Hence follow 16 lines of reserved comment.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Elémir Bourges : Le Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs Contemporaines
'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's another matter.There are magnificent pages there. But all together more than anything else, it's surprising. You say to yourself: so that is "Le Crépuscule des Dieux"! And you continue to be struck by the poverty of the subject.[...]. You told me to start with that book. After fnishing it I opened the other ["Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent"]. It moved me by its splendour, the colours, the movement.' Hence follow 16 lines of reserved comment.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Elémir Bourges : (probably) Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent
'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's another matter.There are magnificent pages there. But all together more than anything else, it's surprising. You say to yourself: so that is "Le Crépuscule des Dieux"! And you continue to be struck by the poverty of the subject.[...]. You told me to start with that book. After fnishing it I opened the other ["Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent"]. It moved me by its splendour, the colours, the movement.' Hence follow 16 lines of reserved comment.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) :
'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's more I think nothing could be fairer. As for "L'enseignement de Goethe" I am all the more inclined to accept it from your hand since I have never read a line of the Great Man. I don't know German and I quail before translations.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) : Pierre Loti: Biographie-critique
'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's more I think nothing could be fairer. As for "L'enseignement de Goethe" I am all the more inclined to accept it from your hand since I have never read a line of the Great Man. I don't know German and I quail before translations.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) : L'enseignement de Goethe
'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's more I think nothing could be fairer. As for "L'enseignement de Goethe" I am all the more inclined to accept it from your hand since I have never read a line of the Great Man. I don't know German and I quail before translations.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Francis Warrington Dawson : The Novel of George (published as The Pyramid)
'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a second reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

André Ruyters : Le Mauvais Riche
'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well conceived, well said! Your "Ariane" is easily the most charming morality given to me to read in this vale of tears and grimaces where I have wandered for nearly 53 years. In the sequel to "Robinson Crusoe" the most delightful thing is to see how you have succeeded in capturing the charm of this good animal that only ever walked on four legs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marguerite Poradowska : Hors du Foyer
'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am charmed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

James Marie Hopper : Caybigan
'I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work.I spotted it first in the old MacClure Mag.;certainly without any help from anyone.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker : The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"] as I hoped [...] to have the pleasure of seeing you here for a day.[...]. Je goute infiniment tout ce que vous écrivez. Apart from the temperamental sympathy I feel for your work the lightness of your surface touch playing over the deeper meaning of your criticism is very fascinating.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Sara Morgan Dawson : A Confederate Girl's Diary
'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 14 lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text)

Francis Warrington Dawson : Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)
'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 lines of constructive criticism.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Valéry-Nicolas Larbaud : A.O.Barnabooth
'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first reading of the "Journal Intime" makes an unforgettable impression.' Hence follow 16 lines of unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Bertrand Russell : The Problems of Philosophy
'Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] aside till Monday -- when the short story will be off my hands.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Bertrand Russell : Philosophical Essays
'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]. If in reading the first I felt moving step by step, with delight, on the firmest ground, the other gave me the sense of an enlarged vision in the clearest, the purest atmosphere.' Hence follow another 10 lines of praise and gratitude.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Hugh Clifford : Malayan Monochromes
'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volume and surely I acknowledged it! [...] You mean "Monochromes" don't you? Well I have that volume of which I wrote to you that it delighted me [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Radclyffe Hall : The Well of Loneliness
'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness", had been suppressed for impropriety. I had reviewed this earnest and harmless story on publication, and now joined the thirty-nine "expert" witnesses who appeared before the Bow Street magistrate, Sir Chartres Biron.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Winston Churchill : The Gathering Storm
'Winston Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Government of 1924, which now, after five years of office, sought re-election. In "The Gathering Storm", Churchill describes this administration as "a capable sedate government".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Storm Jameson : No Time Like the Present
'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days later I agreed to write the notice, and subsequently reviewed a number of well-known books which included Storm Jameson's autobiographical "No Time Like the Present".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Arthur Symons : Knave of Hearts
'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with admiration of the poet and affection for the man...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

André Gide : Les Caves du Vatican (Book 1)
'I am proud to learn that there is [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les Caves du Vatican". What a beautiful start! What things you have put in the so characteristic and interesting pages of this fine beginning!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: see additional information

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : A Hatchment
'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon my word it's a marvellous volume [...]. The Ranee's book is delightfully ladylike but her sentiment for the land and the people is so obviously genuine that all her sins of omission shall be forgiven her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

(Lady) Margaret Brooke : My Life in Sarawak
'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon my word it's a marvellous volume [...]. The Ranee's book is delightfully ladylike but her sentiment for the land and the people is so obviously genuine that all her sins of omission shall be forgiven her.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Howard R. Smith : [paper on Bunyan's life]
'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Bunyan's writing]
'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

John Bunyan : Grace Abounding
'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Smith      Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ursula Unwin      Print: Book

John Bunyan :
'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Austin Harrison : Foreign Politics
'Thanks for the copy of the "E.[English] R.[Review]". You won't mind me saying that your article on international politics is first rate. It has the quality of naked truth excellently and skilfully stated--a combination rare these days.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read and signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Maurice Hewlett : Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, The
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lovers - by giving an outline of the story with one or two extracts he was able to bring us into the story & to illustrate the strange archaic manner of writing adopted in this novel. E.E. Unwin introduced 'Richard Yea & Nay' as a fine study of personality. Two short extracts were read to show the style of vigorous writing with vivid word pictures. Queen's Quair was discussed by H.M. Wallis who carried us into a discussion of the history of Mary Queen of Scots. It was a very able contribution though it erred on the side of being more history than Hewlett. C.I. Evans described the modern novels & pointed out the increasing simplicity of his style & R.B. Graham read a part of an article recently published in 'The Nation' in which Maurice Hewlett makes great play of the wail of the Duke of Bedford for housemaids to keep up Welbeck House. This illustrated a modern development of Hewlett's writing for he seems to be very keen upon a right settlement of the land problem & indeed the whole social problem.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett : Forest Lovers, The
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lovers - by giving an outline of the story with one or two extracts he was able to bring us into the story & to illustrate the strange archaic manner of writing adopted in this novel. E.E. Unwin introduced 'Richard Yea & Nay' as a fine study of personality. Two short extracts were read to show the style of vigorous writing with vivid word pictures. Queen's Quair was discussed by H.M. Wallis who carried us into a discussion of the history of Mary Queen of Scots. It was a very able contribution though it erred on the side of being more history than Hewlett. C.I. Evans described the modern novels & pointed out the increasing simplicity of his style & R.B. Graham read a part of an article recently published in 'The Nation' in which Maurice Hewlett makes great play of the wail of the Duke of Bedford for housemaids to keep up Welbeck House. This illustrated a modern development of Hewlett's writing for he seems to be very keen upon a right settlement of the land problem & indeed the whole social problem.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett : [article in The Nation]
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lovers - by giving an outline of the story with one or two extracts he was able to bring us into the story & to illustrate the strange archaic manner of writing adopted in this novel. E.E. Unwin introduced 'Richard Yea & Nay' as a fine study of personality. Two short extracts were read to show the style of vigorous writing with vivid word pictures. Queen's Quair was discussed by H.M. Wallis who carried us into a discussion of the history of Mary Queen of Scots. It was a very able contribution though it erred on the side of being more history than Hewlett. C.I. Evans described the modern novels & pointed out the increasing simplicity of his style & R.B. Graham read a part of an article recently published in 'The Nation' in which Maurice Hewlett makes great play of the wail of the Duke of Bedford for housemaids to keep up Welbeck House. This illustrated a modern development of Hewlett's writing for he seems to be very keen upon a right settlement of the land problem & indeed the whole social problem.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Serial / periodical

L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-Byng : A Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China
'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jade]". Very fine. Extraordinary subtle feeling I'll write more about them after getting the full taste.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett : Queen's Quair Or The Six Years' Tragedy
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lovers - by giving an outline of the story with one or two extracts he was able to bring us into the story & to illustrate the strange archaic manner of writing adopted in this novel. E.E. Unwin introduced 'Richard Yea & Nay' as a fine study of personality. Two short extracts were read to show the style of vigorous writing with vivid word pictures. Queen's Quair was discussed by H.M. Wallis who carried us into a discussion of the history of Mary Queen of Scots. It was a very able contribution though it erred on the side of being more history than Hewlett. C.I. Evans described the modern novels & pointed out the increasing simplicity of his style & R.B. Graham read a part of an article recently published in 'The Nation' in which Maurice Hewlett makes great play of the wail of the Duke of Bedford for housemaids to keep up Welbeck House. This illustrated a modern development of Hewlett's writing for he seems to be very keen upon a right settlement of the land problem & indeed the whole social problem.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett : Forest Lovers, The
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lovers - by giving an outline of the story with one or two extracts he was able to bring us into the story & to illustrate the strange archaic manner of writing adopted in this novel. E.E. Unwin introduced 'Richard Yea & Nay' as a fine study of personality. Two short extracts were read to show the style of vigorous writing with vivid word pictures. Queen's Quair was discussed by H.M. Wallis who carried us into a discussion of the history of Mary Queen of Scots. It was a very able contribution though it erred on the side of being more history than Hewlett. C.I. Evans described the modern novels & pointed out the increasing simplicity of his style & R.B. Graham read a part of an article recently published in 'The Nation' in which Maurice Hewlett makes great play of the wail of the Duke of Bedford for housemaids to keep up Welbeck House. This illustrated a modern development of Hewlett's writing for he seems to be very keen upon a right settlement of the land problem & indeed the whole social problem.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett : Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , The
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lovers - by giving an outline of the story with one or two extracts he was able to bring us into the story & to illustrate the strange archaic manner of writing adopted in this novel. E.E. Unwin introduced 'Richard Yea & Nay' as a fine study of personality. Two short extracts were read to show the style of vigorous writing with vivid word pictures. Queen's Quair was discussed by H.M. Wallis who carried us into a discussion of the history of Mary Queen of Scots. It was a very able contribution though it erred on the side of being more history than Hewlett. C.I. Evans described the modern novels & pointed out the increasing simplicity of his style & R.B. Graham read a part of an article recently published in 'The Nation' in which Maurice Hewlett makes great play of the wail of the Duke of Bedford for housemaids to keep up Welbeck House. This illustrated a modern development of Hewlett's writing for he seems to be very keen upon a right settlement of the land problem & indeed the whole social problem.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Maurice Hewlett :
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lovers - by giving an outline of the story with one or two extracts he was able to bring us into the story & to illustrate the strange archaic manner of writing adopted in this novel. E.E. Unwin introduced 'Richard Yea & Nay' as a fine study of personality. Two short extracts were read to show the style of vigorous writing with vivid word pictures. Queen's Quair was discussed by H.M. Wallis who carried us into a discussion of the history of Mary Queen of Scots. It was a very able contribution though it erred on the side of being more history than Hewlett. C.I. Evans described the modern novels & pointed out the increasing simplicity of his style & R.B. Graham read a part of an article recently published in 'The Nation' in which Maurice Hewlett makes great play of the wail of the Duke of Bedford for housemaids to keep up Welbeck House. This illustrated a modern development of Hewlett's writing for he seems to be very keen upon a right settlement of the land problem & indeed the whole social problem.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Richard Curle : Life is a Dream
'You don't mind if I suggest that you should take a glance at Curle's short stories "Life is a Dream"-- not all in the vol. but three of them. Read first "Blanca Palillos", then the "Remittance Man" and finish with the one called "A Memory". Each in its way has a distinct value [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : Tolstoy:A Study (also catalogued as Tolstoy: His Life and Writings)
'You have succeeded so well in effacing your personality in that little book ["Tolstoy: A Study"] ( and very interesting it is too) that but for an occasional turn of phrase I--even I! can't see you there at all.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : Henry James:A Critical Study
'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having written to him [Ford Madox Ford] about the [Henry] James book for which the precise word is: delightful.' Hence follow 6 lines of praise for Ford's new book.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy :
''We are so glad to know you are both flourishing. We know of your Sicilian interlude from your letter to the "Times".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Raymond Swing : Harper's Magazine
'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline", while Harold Laski sustained this verdict by writing in "The Forum" on Britain's "prevailing temper of depression" and "widespread fatalism".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Winifred Holtby : South Riding
'Not until I read the fictitious account of this consultation four years afterwards in "South Riding" did I realise that the diagnosis then given her amounted to a verdict of early death, which she understood and accepted.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Phyllis Bentley : Inheritance
'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: [books on war topics]
'After reading these books, I began to ask: "Why should these young men have the war to themselves? Didn't women have their war as well?"
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John Drinkwater : Oliver Cromwell
'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of Oliver Cromwell by John Drinkwater'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on History of Berkshire]
'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touched upon the History of the County in his inimitable way from the Piltdown race to Archbishop Laud. Alfred & his battles. Reading & the 35 religious houses & the breweries are prominent features of the story & may be responsible for the saying Piety Spiders & Pride. 6. Rosamund Wallis read a gruesome story from Thomas of Reading about a couple of Reading inhabitants who had murdered 60 people by the simple device of a trapdoor floor to the spare bedroom & a cauldron of boiling water below. 7. 3 Berkshire folksongs were then given by Mrs Robson & E.E. Unwin. 8. S.A Reynolds read a Ballad entitled 'A Berkshire Lady', though speaking as a mere male I doubt whether her conduct would be considered quite lady-like today'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas of Reading : [tale about murders in Reading]
'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touched upon the History of the County in his inimitable way from the Piltdown race to Archbishop Laud. Alfred & his battles. Reading & the 35 religious houses & the breweries are prominent features of the story & may be responsible for the saying Piety Spiders & Pride. 6. Rosamund Wallis read a gruesome story from Thomas of Reading about a couple of Reading inhabitants who had murdered 60 people by the simple device of a trapdoor floor to the spare bedroom & a cauldron of boiling water below. 7. 3 Berkshire folksongs were then given by Mrs Robson & E.E. Unwin. 8. S.A Reynolds read a Ballad entitled 'A Berkshire Lady', though speaking as a mere male I doubt whether her conduct would be considered quite lady-like today'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

: 'Berkshire Lady, A'
'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touched upon the History of the County in his inimitable way from the Piltdown race to Archbishop Laud. Alfred & his battles. Reading & the 35 religious houses & the breweries are prominent features of the story & may be responsible for the saying Piety Spiders & Pride. 6. Rosamund Wallis read a gruesome story from Thomas of Reading about a couple of Reading inhabitants who had murdered 60 people by the simple device of a trapdoor floor to the spare bedroom & a cauldron of boiling water below. 7. 3 Berkshire folksongs were then given by Mrs Robson & E.E. Unwin. 8. S.A Reynolds read a Ballad entitled 'A Berkshire Lady', though speaking as a mere male I doubt whether her conduct would be considered quite lady-like today'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Piltdown Woman]
'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. This was a learned & valuable paper upon the problems of prehistoric man, problems of date, of mental capacity, of relationships & of ancestry. These were dealt with in an interesting way & the paper was assisted greatly by a number of drawings giving details of the skulls & the reconstructions of facial peculiarities.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Thomas de Quincey : Recollections of Charles Lamb
'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to De Quincey & his literary work. The contributions were as follows. Mrs Rawlings. Paper on De Quincey prepared by Miss Cole Miss Wallis Reading from Suspiria De Profundis Miss Cole Paper with an account of his episode with Ann his protectress E.E. Unwin Reading from Recollections of Charles Lamb Miss Marriage [ditto] Confessions of an Opium Eater Miss Bowman Smith & Mrs Reynolds also gave reading [sic] Mrs Robson contributed a song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Suspiria de Profundis
'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to De Quincey & his literary work. The contributions were as follows. Mrs Rawlings. Paper on De Quincey prepared by Miss Cole Miss Wallis Reading from Suspiria De Profundis Miss Cole Paper with an account of his episode with Ann his protectress E.E. Unwin Reading from Recollections of Charles Lamb Miss Marriage [ditto] Confessions of an Opium Eater Miss Bowman Smith & Mrs Reynolds also gave reading [sic] Mrs Robson contributed a song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Wallis      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to De Quincey & his literary work. The contributions were as follows. Mrs Rawlings. Paper on De Quincey prepared by Miss Cole Miss Wallis Reading from Suspiria De Profundis Miss Cole Paper with an account of his episode with Ann his protectress E.E. Unwin Reading from Recollections of Charles Lamb Miss Marriage [ditto] Confessions of an Opium Eater Miss Bowman Smith & Mrs Reynolds also gave reading [sic] Mrs Robson contributed a song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey :
'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to De Quincey & his literary work. The contributions were as follows. Mrs Rawlings. Paper on De Quincey prepared by Miss Cole Miss Wallis Reading from Suspiria De Profundis Miss Cole Paper with an account of his episode with Ann his protectress E.E. Unwin Reading from Recollections of Charles Lamb Miss Marriage [ditto] Confessions of an Opium Eater Miss Bowman Smith & Mrs Reynolds also gave reading [sic] Mrs Robson contributed a song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Bowman-Smith      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey :
'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to De Quincey & his literary work. The contributions were as follows. Mrs Rawlings. Paper on De Quincey prepared by Miss Cole Miss Wallis Reading from Suspiria De Profundis Miss Cole Paper with an account of his episode with Ann his protectress E.E. Unwin Reading from Recollections of Charles Lamb Miss Marriage [ditto] Confessions of an Opium Eater Miss Bowman Smith & Mrs Reynolds also gave reading [sic] Mrs Robson contributed a song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

Celia Cole : [paper on de Quincey]
'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to De Quincey & his literary work. The contributions were as follows. Mrs Rawlings. Paper on De Quincey prepared by Miss Cole Miss Wallis Reading from Suspiria De Profundis Miss Cole Paper with an account of his episode with Ann his protectress E.E. Unwin Reading from Recollections of Charles Lamb Miss Marriage [ditto] Confessions of an Opium Eater Miss Bowman Smith & Mrs Reynolds also gave reading [sic] Mrs Robson contributed a song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Celia Cole : [paper on de Quincey]
'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to De Quincey & his literary work. The contributions were as follows. Mrs Rawlings. Paper on De Quincey prepared by Miss Cole Miss Wallis Reading from Suspiria De Profundis Miss Cole Paper with an account of his episode with Ann his protectress E.E. Unwin Reading from Recollections of Charles Lamb Miss Marriage [ditto] Confessions of an Opium Eater Miss Bowman Smith & Mrs Reynolds also gave reading [sic] Mrs Robson contributed a song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Cole      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Oliver Goldsmith : Good-natured Man, The
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although this play was Goldsmith's first experiment in writing for the theatre & contains many obvious faults it succeeded in obtaining a fair hearing at its first production in 1768 & brought the author a sum of £500. It has a rather weak plot & the character of Honeywood is not well brought out. Undoubtedly Croaker saved the piece, with help from Lofts. The reading of the play by members of the club made an interesting & enjoyable evening. The play certainly goes better in dialogue than when read through to oneself, although there is too little action in it for any success for acting. In this respect it is much inferior to 'She Stoops to Conquer'. [a lengthy cast list is given]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : Good-natured Man, The
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although this play was Goldsmith's first experiment in writing for the theatre & contains many obvious faults it succeeded in obtaining a fair hearing at its first production in 1768 & brought the author a sum of £500. It has a rather weak plot & the character of Honeywood is not well brought out. Undoubtedly Croaker saved the piece, with help from Lofts. The reading of the play by members of the club made an interesting & enjoyable evening. The play certainly goes better in dialogue than when read through to oneself, although there is too little action in it for any success for acting. In this respect it is much inferior to 'She Stoops to Conquer'. [a lengthy cast list is given]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although this play was Goldsmith's first experiment in writing for the theatre & contains many obvious faults it succeeded in obtaining a fair hearing at its first production in 1768 & brought the author a sum of £500. It has a rather weak plot & the character of Honeywood is not well brought out. Undoubtedly Croaker saved the piece, with help from Lofts. The reading of the play by members of the club made an interesting & enjoyable evening. The play certainly goes better in dialogue than when read through to oneself, although there is too little action in it for any success for acting. In this respect it is much inferior to 'She Stoops to Conquer'. [a lengthy cast list is given]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read and signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

John Milton : Paradise Lost
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the Crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

John Burroughs : Under the Apple Trees
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Higson : Of an Orchard
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Unknown

A.C Curtis : Small Garden Useful, The
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Thomas Edward Brown : My Garden
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Sidney Lanier : Ballad of Trees and the Master, A
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

: My Garden, a parody
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis

Charles Stansfield : [essay entitled 'Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life']
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Browning : 'Flower's Name, The'
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Cole      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : 'Gardens'
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Cole      Print: Book

Agnes Herbert : unknown
'Today I saw a good review of your book ["Bernal Diaz del Castillo"] in the D[ai]ly Chr[onicle]: by some woman. I am going to get the vol. forthwith.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

John Galsworthy : The Little Man and other satires
'Thanks for the book ["The Little Man"]. "Abracadabra" is immense. Indeed every page is as full as it can be right through the book.' Hence follow five more lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Little Man and other satires
'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer to call them by that name.' Hence follow twelve lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: galley proofs

W. H. (William Henry) Davies : either The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Nature
'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

unknown unknown : Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Poland
'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Violet Hunt : The House of Many Mirrors
'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing till I had read those pages you have been so good to dedicate to me.' Hence follow ten lines of praise written in a mix of French and English.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : Concentration in English Poetry
'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an opinion.' Hence follows a page of appreciative comment.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Frederic Harrison : The German Peril: Forecasts 1864-1914, Realities 1915, Hopes 191-
'Your father's book is wonderful. I read the articles of course at the time; but now collected, in the mass, they astonish one by their marvellous insight into the future.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Freelands
'It ["The Freelands"] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it about midnight. Then I put out the light opened the window and listened to the noise of the Zep passing nearly overhead.[...] That was the night of the second raid on London.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : EITHER Between St Dennis and St George: A Sketch of Three Civilisations OR When Blood is their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture
'Many thanks for the book which is excellent and super excellent; even to the point of making me uneasy lest its true and vibrating notes be lost in the beating of the pans and (more or less) savage yowling of the market place.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Bernal Diaz de Castillo:Being Some Account of Him Taken From His True History of the Conquest of New Spain
' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable reference to the tempi passati. As to the book itself no personal friend of the old Conquistador could have put it together with greater skill and more tender care.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Good Soldier
'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) till I got a few pages out of the way.' Hence follow six lines of praise for the novel.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Samuel Pepys : Diary
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job. Readings from the diary were given by Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire" Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys E.E. Unwin on "The Plague" & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Diary
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job. Readings from the diary were given by Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire" Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys E.E. Unwin on "The Plague" & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Diary
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job. Readings from the diary were given by Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire" Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys E.E. Unwin on "The Plague" & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Diary
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job. Readings from the diary were given by Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire" Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys E.E. Unwin on "The Plague" & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [essay on Pepys]
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job. Readings from the diary were given by Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire" Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys E.E. Unwin on "The Plague" & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard R. Smith : [essay on Pepys]
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job. Readings from the diary were given by Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire" Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys E.E. Unwin on "The Plague" & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Mary Hayward : [paper on ballads]
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on ballads]
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

: [readings from ballads]
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Unknown

: Demon Lover, The
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Unknown

: Thomas the Rhymer
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Unknown

: Edward, Edward
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Unknown

: Sir Patrick Spens
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Unknown

: Bonnie House of Airlie, The
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Unknown

: Nut Brown Maid
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Katherine Evans     Print: Unknown

: Death of Robin Hood
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Unknown

: Battle of Otterburn, The
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Unknown

: Helen of Kirconnel
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Unknown

: Undaunted Mary
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

George Burrow : [paper on Dr Johnson]
'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw an interesting sidelight on Dr Johnson & By H.R. Smith who gave us an interesting account of the biographer. Readings from the biography were given by Mr Rawlings, Mr Unwin, Mr Evans & Mr Wallis, Mr Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard R. Smith : [paper on Boswell]
'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw an interesting sidelight on Dr Johnson & By H.R. Smith who gave us an interesting account of the biographer. Readings from the biography were given by Mr Rawlings, Mr Unwin, Mr Evans & Mr Wallis, Mr Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

James Boswell : Life of Johnson
'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw an interesting sidelight on Dr Johnson & By H.R. Smith who gave us an interesting account of the biographer. Readings from the biography were given by Mr Rawlings, Mr Unwin, Mr Evans & Mr Wallis, Mr Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson
'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw an interesting sidelight on Dr Johnson & By H.R. Smith who gave us an interesting account of the biographer. Readings from the biography were given by Mr Rawlings, Mr Unwin, Mr Evans & Mr Wallis, Mr Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson
'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw an interesting sidelight on Dr Johnson & By H.R. Smith who gave us an interesting account of the biographer. Readings from the biography were given by Mr Rawlings, Mr Unwin, Mr Evans & Mr Wallis, Mr Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson
'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw an interesting sidelight on Dr Johnson & By H.R. Smith who gave us an interesting account of the biographer. Readings from the biography were given by Mr Rawlings, Mr Unwin, Mr Evans & Mr Wallis, Mr Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

James Boswell : Life of Johnson
'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw an interesting sidelight on Dr Johnson & By H.R. Smith who gave us an interesting account of the biographer. Readings from the biography were given by Mr Rawlings, Mr Unwin, Mr Evans & Mr Wallis, Mr Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Richard Curle : The Echo of Voices
'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The value of these tales relies in the "nuances" of colour of half light and in [an] almost evanescent tremor of emotions.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker : Ivory Apes and Peacocks
'The "[Ivory] Apes and Peacocks" book is good and immensely characteristic of our extremely "alive" friend.' Hence follow five more lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Journal
'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion they made Cologne their first stopping-place. The evenings there were spent in reading Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber     Print: Book

Samuel Pepys : Journal
[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber     Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Walpoliana
[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber     Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy
[between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880] 'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in Lady Charlotte a feeling of disgust, and she thought it sad that a man who could write so finely should have so perverted his talents, though she recognized the number of beautiful passages.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber     Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Humphrey Clinker
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : A Sentimental Journey
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Tobias Smollett : Peregrine Pickle
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

John Keats : Endymion
[between journal entries for 26 January and 29 September 1881] 'When Parliament adjourned for a recess in April Charles Schreiber [M.P.] was obliged to go to Liverpool to look after a nephew and niece there: Lady Charlotte accompanied him [...] In an entry in her journal during this visit she says that she has seen enough of it [Liverpool] and never wishes to revisit it [...] A few days laterr she records that she was reading Endymion with much interest, none the less for all the anxiety she felt about Lord Beaconsfield [Benjamin Disraeli]'s health, which was causing great anxiety at the time. He died on April 19.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [on Mme de Sevigne]'
18 November 1881: 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors recommended a sea journey to South Africa. On October 26 [1883] they [Schreiber and his wife, Lady Charlotte] left England in the Hawarden Castle, and on November 14 anchored in Table Bay. Lady Charlotte found solace during an uneventful journey in Shakespeare and Walter Scott.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Walter Scott :
'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors recommended a sea journey to South Africa. On October 26 [1883] they [Schreiber and his wife, Lady Charlotte] left England in the Hawarden Castle, and on November 14 anchored in Table Bay. Lady Charlotte found solace during an uneventful journey in Shakespeare and Walter Scott.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Stanley : Jewish Church
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Green : History of England
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Junius : Letters
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Ellen (Anderson Gholson) Glasgow : Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage
'I was delighted with Miss Glasgow's novel ["Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage"]; the insight, the mastery of her craft, the interest and charm of the narrative-- all this is of the very first order.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henry James : A Small Boy and Others
'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henry James : Notes of a Son and Brother
'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

(Basil) Macdonald Hastings : The Advertisement: A Play in Four Acts
'I read "[The]Advertisement" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Arthur Symons : Figures of Several Centuries
'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reached me yesterday. I sat up with it of course. There are marvellous pages there.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

George Bernard Shaw : Candida
'The rest of the evening was devoted to a Play-Reading of Bernard Shaw's Candida.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII book Club     Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on Laurence Housman]
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Evans : [paper on Housman's 'The Sheepfold']
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Katherine Evans     Manuscript: Unknown

R.B. Graham : [paper on Housman's 'Little Plays of St.Francis']
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Manuscript: Unknown

Reginald Robson : [paper on Housman's 'New Child's Guide to Knowledge']
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Laurence Housman : Queen, The! God Bless Her
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage, Ernest Unwin & Alfred Rawlings     Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Laurence Housman : Englishwoman's Love-letters, An
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Laurence Housman : Sheepfold, The
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine and Charles Evans     Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Laurence Housman : Little Plays of St. Francis, The
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Laurence Housman : New Child's Guide to Knowledge
'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal details & H.M. Wallis's encyclopaedic summary of Housman's artistic gifts & works put us in touch with the versatility of the man. "A charming man" says H.M.W. & so say all of us tho' I'm not sure whether someone did not say "a little effeminate". It was news perhaps to some to know that "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" published some years ago anonymously were by Housman. The bill of fare was varied & we were introduced to a novel, a St Francis play, a Victorian play & the Child's Guide to Knowledge. The choice whether conscious or otherwise gave us a rather curious result for in the main it dealt with the struggles & characters of women. Mrr & Mrs Evans dealt with The Sheepfold which relates the spirited history of a woman, 'Jane Sterling'. R.B. Graham chose out of all the St Francis cycle the coming of Sister Clair into the monkish community. Miss Marriage. E.E. Unwin & Alfred Rawlings gave a part-reading of "The Queen God Bless Her" which brought into prominence the foibles of Victoria and showed her in relation to two intimates, John Brown her favourite man-servant & Beaconsfield - her favourite minister. There was but little time left for R.H. Robson to display the fun of "A Child's Guide to Knowledge".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Ernest E. Unwin : [minutes of XII Book Club]
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Manuscript: book

Harold Begbie : [book of 'backstairs biographies']
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polisher of mirrors & duster of painted windows - Mr Harold Begbie - had included Jacks in his latest volume of backstairs biographies: perhaps it was just as well for it concentrated attention on the writings & these gave us amusement, interest & profit. Mr Evans out of "From the Human End" read about the change from individual to cooperative gardening with an amusing but very neat indication of the gains & losses of such social changes. Mr & Mrs Stansfield selected readings from "Among the Idol makers". the Magic Formula - "Please will you tell me the time" is a delightful story of the young for the old. "Made out of Nothing" takes us behind the scenes in the antique furniture manufactory and missionary enterprise is seen from a new angle. H.R. Smith read an account of an old farmer "Farmer Jeremy & his Ways" & told of farmers he knew of whom this account was aa true picture. E.E. Unwin read a story about two tramps sheltering from rain with the author in a shepherd's box. "Macbeth & Bangus upon the blasted heath", a story in which humour & pathos went hand in hand. He also spoke about the "Snarley Bob" series in which a famous shepherd with curious psychic powers is the hero of the stories. Through most of the stories & essays runs irony & every one of his writings gives us furiously to think - for Jacks strips the rags & coverings from off our conventions & our conventional thought, & with remorseless logic leads us face to face with our inconsistencies & prejudices.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

L.P. Jacks : From the Human End
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polisher of mirrors & duster of painted windows - Mr Harold Begbie - had included Jacks in his latest volume of backstairs biographies: perhaps it was just as well for it concentrated attention on the writings & these gave us amusement, interest & profit. Mr Evans out of "From the Human End" read about the change from individual to cooperative gardening with an amusing but very neat indication of the gains & losses of such social changes. Mr & Mrs Stansfield selected readings from "Among the Idol makers". the Magic Formula - "Please will you tell me the time" is a delightful story of the young for the old. "Made out of Nothing" takes us behind the scenes in the antique furniture manufactory and missionary enterprise is seen from a new angle. H.R. Smith read an account of an old farmer "Farmer Jeremy & his Ways" & told of farmers he knew of whom this account was aa true picture. E.E. Unwin read a story about two tramps sheltering from rain with the author in a shepherd's box. "Macbeth & Bangus upon the blasted heath", a story in which humour & pathos went hand in hand. He also spoke about the "Snarley Bob" series in which a famous shepherd with curious psychic powers is the hero of the stories. Through most of the stories & essays runs irony & every one of his writings gives us furiously to think - for Jacks strips the rags & coverings from off our conventions & our conventional thought, & with remorseless logic leads us face to face with our inconsistencies & prejudices.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

L.P. Jacks : 'The Magic Formula'
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polisher of mirrors & duster of painted windows - Mr Harold Begbie - had included Jacks in his latest volume of backstairs biographies: perhaps it was just as well for it concentrated attention on the writings & these gave us amusement, interest & profit. Mr Evans out of "From the Human End" read about the change from individual to cooperative gardening with an amusing but very neat indication of the gains & losses of such social changes. Mr & Mrs Stansfield selected readings from "Among the Idol makers". the Magic Formula - "Please will you tell me the time" is a delightful story of the young for the old. "Made out of Nothing" takes us behind the scenes in the antique furniture manufactory and missionary enterprise is seen from a new angle. H.R. Smith read an account of an old farmer "Farmer Jeremy & his Ways" & told of farmers he knew of whom this account was aa true picture. E.E. Unwin read a story about two tramps sheltering from rain with the author in a shepherd's box. "Macbeth & Bangus upon the blasted heath", a story in which humour & pathos went hand in hand. He also spoke about the "Snarley Bob" series in which a famous shepherd with curious psychic powers is the hero of the stories. Through most of the stories & essays runs irony & every one of his writings gives us furiously to think - for Jacks strips the rags & coverings from off our conventions & our conventional thought, & with remorseless logic leads us face to face with our inconsistencies & prejudices.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Pattie Stansfield     Print: Book

L.P. Jacks : 'Made out of Nothing'
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polisher of mirrors & duster of painted windows - Mr Harold Begbie - had included Jacks in his latest volume of backstairs biographies: perhaps it was just as well for it concentrated attention on the writings & these gave us amusement, interest & profit. Mr Evans out of "From the Human End" read about the change from individual to cooperative gardening with an amusing but very neat indication of the gains & losses of such social changes. Mr & Mrs Stansfield selected readings from "Among the Idol makers". the Magic Formula - "Please will you tell me the time" is a delightful story of the young for the old. "Made out of Nothing" takes us behind the scenes in the antique furniture manufactory and missionary enterprise is seen from a new angle. H.R. Smith read an account of an old farmer "Farmer Jeremy & his Ways" & told of farmers he knew of whom this account was aa true picture. E.E. Unwin read a story about two tramps sheltering from rain with the author in a shepherd's box. "Macbeth & Bangus upon the blasted heath", a story in which humour & pathos went hand in hand. He also spoke about the "Snarley Bob" series in which a famous shepherd with curious psychic powers is the hero of the stories. Through most of the stories & essays runs irony & every one of his writings gives us furiously to think - for Jacks strips the rags & coverings from off our conventions & our conventional thought, & with remorseless logic leads us face to face with our inconsistencies & prejudices.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Pattie Stansfield     Print: Book

L.P. Jacks : 'Farmer Jeremy and his Ways'
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polisher of mirrors & duster of painted windows - Mr Harold Begbie - had included Jacks in his latest volume of backstairs biographies: perhaps it was just as well for it concentrated attention on the writings & these gave us amusement, interest & profit. Mr Evans out of "From the Human End" read about the change from individual to cooperative gardening with an amusing but very neat indication of the gains & losses of such social changes. Mr & Mrs Stansfield selected readings from "Among the Idol makers". the Magic Formula - "Please will you tell me the time" is a delightful story of the young for the old. "Made out of Nothing" takes us behind the scenes in the antique furniture manufactory and missionary enterprise is seen from a new angle. H.R. Smith read an account of an old farmer "Farmer Jeremy & his Ways" & told of farmers he knew of whom this account was aa true picture. E.E. Unwin read a story about two tramps sheltering from rain with the author in a shepherd's box. "Macbeth & Bangus upon the blasted heath", a story in which humour & pathos went hand in hand. He also spoke about the "Snarley Bob" series in which a famous shepherd with curious psychic powers is the hero of the stories. Through most of the stories & essays runs irony & every one of his writings gives us furiously to think - for Jacks strips the rags & coverings from off our conventions & our conventional thought, & with remorseless logic leads us face to face with our inconsistencies & prejudices.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

L.P. Jacks : 'Macbeth and Bangus upon the blasted heath'
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polisher of mirrors & duster of painted windows - Mr Harold Begbie - had included Jacks in his latest volume of backstairs biographies: perhaps it was just as well for it concentrated attention on the writings & these gave us amusement, interest & profit. Mr Evans out of "From the Human End" read about the change from individual to cooperative gardening with an amusing but very neat indication of the gains & losses of such social changes. Mr & Mrs Stansfield selected readings from "Among the Idol makers". the Magic Formula - "Please will you tell me the time" is a delightful story of the young for the old. "Made out of Nothing" takes us behind the scenes in the antique furniture manufactory and missionary enterprise is seen from a new angle. H.R. Smith read an account of an old farmer "Farmer Jeremy & his Ways" & told of farmers he knew of whom this account was aa true picture. E.E. Unwin read a story about two tramps sheltering from rain with the author in a shepherd's box. "Macbeth & Bangus upon the blasted heath", a story in which humour & pathos went hand in hand. He also spoke about the "Snarley Bob" series in which a famous shepherd with curious psychic powers is the hero of the stories. Through most of the stories & essays runs irony & every one of his writings gives us furiously to think - for Jacks strips the rags & coverings from off our conventions & our conventional thought, & with remorseless logic leads us face to face with our inconsistencies & prejudices.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

L.P. Jacks : ['Snarley Bob' tales]
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polisher of mirrors & duster of painted windows - Mr Harold Begbie - had included Jacks in his latest volume of backstairs biographies: perhaps it was just as well for it concentrated attention on the writings & these gave us amusement, interest & profit. Mr Evans out of "From the Human End" read about the change from individual to cooperative gardening with an amusing but very neat indication of the gains & losses of such social changes. Mr & Mrs Stansfield selected readings from "Among the Idol makers". the Magic Formula - "Please will you tell me the time" is a delightful story of the young for the old. "Made out of Nothing" takes us behind the scenes in the antique furniture manufactory and missionary enterprise is seen from a new angle. H.R. Smith read an account of an old farmer "Farmer Jeremy & his Ways" & told of farmers he knew of whom this account was aa true picture. E.E. Unwin read a story about two tramps sheltering from rain with the author in a shepherd's box. "Macbeth & Bangus upon the blasted heath", a story in which humour & pathos went hand in hand. He also spoke about the "Snarley Bob" series in which a famous shepherd with curious psychic powers is the hero of the stories. Through most of the stories & essays runs irony & every one of his writings gives us furiously to think - for Jacks strips the rags & coverings from off our conventions & our conventional thought, & with remorseless logic leads us face to face with our inconsistencies & prejudices.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin      Print: Book

Ernest E. Unwin : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: book

Mrs Barry Pain : 'A Lesson in Pearls'
'Mr & Mrs Unwin & Miss Bowman Smith gave a vivacious reading of a clever & witty sketch, "A Lesson in Pearls" by Mrs Barry Pain.'
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest & Ursula Unwin & Muriel Bowman Smith     Print: Unknown

unknown :
'She [Mona Limerick, South American-born actor being considered for the leading female role in "Victory"] had excellent notices in J[osé] Echegarrays play ("Cleansing Stain" Pioneer Players). There's a suggestion of trouble and sorow about her which would just do for Lena.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

: Observer newspaper
'I see the "Obs[erv]er" every Sunday and I am waiting the next number with impatience.' [ For a review by Sidney Colvin of "The Shadow-Line"]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

: Singapore Free Press
'Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the "Singapore Free Press" which was the [underlined] paper of the East as between Rangoon and Shanghai.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

Herbert George Wells : Modern Utopia
'My diary for October 5th, 1932, recorded the impression made upon me by the writer whose "Modern Utopia" had been a beacon light of my schooldays:'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de) : Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812
'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for another in him but I fancy too macabre (and improper) to use.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Vera Brittain : Testament of Youth
'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entirely changed his opinion of me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: St. John Ervine      Print: Book

Vera Brittain : Testament of Youth
'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax: "Your book, I think, is a very great, a very moving book...powerful, significant, important - for me it is oppressive also - to it I am an outsider, intruding, shamefaced, feeling very unworthy, painfully unworthy to the verge of tears."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Catlin      Print: Book

: The Times
'As he left Frankfort the passengers in the train were discussing the break-up of the Disarmament Conference, and in London a "Times" editorial reproved the Fuhrer like an outraged schoolmaster upbraiding a recalcitrant pupil.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

H. N. Brailsford : The New Clarion
'"We face a choice of evils," H. N. Brailsford had written in "The New Clarion" after the break-up of the Disarmament Conference.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

anon : Fascists at Olympia
'Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled "Fascists at Olympia", which contained statements from eye-witnesses, vistims of assault, and doctors who attended the injured.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain

Walter Scott : Rob Roy
16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop [...] C.S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Barnaby Rudge
16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop [...] C.S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop
16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop [...] C.S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: reports on talks towards Franchise Bill
18 November 1884: 'Ivor [son] went to attend a Conservative meeting summoned by Lord Salisbury to settle to new programme [for the Franchise Bill], invited by Gladstone's overtures of the previous night. I very much feared the Tories would continue obstinate, but, by the papers I have since seen, it would appear that there are hopes of their listening to reason. It is so odd that I should care about this.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Newspaper

Cooke : Memoirs
1 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures in the drawing room, and while she drew I read to her one of those amusing gossiping letters of Horace Walpole on my subjects [i.e. ceramics connoisseurship], about which I have all the Hogarth and all the Wedgwood books here [...] Besides that I have done very little except read some part of Cooke's Memoirs, and I am now amusing myself with Froude's Carlyle.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Froude : life of Thomas Carlyle
1 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures in the drawing room, and while she drew I read to her one of those amusing gossiping letters of Horace Walpole on my subjects [i.e. ceramics connoisseurship], about which I have all the Hogarth and all the Wedgwood books here [...] Besides that I have done very little except read some part of Cooke's Memoirs, and I am now amusing myself with Froude's Carlyle.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [of Maria Edgeworth]'
20 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Barbauld and Mrs Opie. I read a good deal of one kind and another, but forget it all as soon as read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Unknown

Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [of Anna Laetitia Barbauld]'
20 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Barbauld and Mrs Opie. I read a good deal of one kind and another, but forget it all as soon as read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Unknown

Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [of Amelia Opie]'
20 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Barbauld and Mrs Opie. I read a good deal of one kind and another, but forget it all as soon as read.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Unknown

Thomas Babington Macauley : Essay on Atterbury
21 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager to be at work. A passage in Macaulay's Essay on Atterbury struck me very much the other day. He says: "Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless." I am sure this is the case with me, I must be always doing something. My reading, this past summer, has chiefly been Macaulay's History. It has been of immense interest to me, but I forget it almost as fast as I read it. My chief time for reading is in the night if I happen to wake, or in the early morning.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macauley : History
21 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager to be at work. A passage in Macaulay's Essay on Atterbury struck me very much the other day. He says: "Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless." I am sure this is the case with me, I must be always doing something. My reading, this past summer, has chiefly been Macaulay's History. It has been of immense interest to me, but I forget it almost as fast as I read it. My chief time for reading is in the night if I happen to wake, or in the early morning.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: Divine service
6 December 1886: 'I have just come in from Regent's Park, where, notwithstanding a bitter wind, I went and read my [Divine] service. Sunday is always such a sad day with me. I cannot bear to go to church with anyone, and when I am alone I find myself brooding over the past, and the happy days when we went together, and he always held my hand in his dear hand during the lessons and the sermon.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
[between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887] 'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovered [following operation on 9 January] Maria [daughter] had acted as her secretary and had read Shakespeare to her.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria [nee Guest]      Print: Book

Charlotte Bertie Guest : journals of c.1833
3 April 1887: 'Today I have been tempted to open old journals of 54 years ago. Many of the circumstances to which allusion is made in them, are now forgotten, and all is painful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Bertie Guest : journals
4 April 1887: 'Woke early and resumed the reading [from 3 April] of the old journal. What strikes me most is that I speak several times of being tired, and once of having a headache. I did not think I ever had one, and have no recollection of such a thing.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Layard : 'book on his early travels'
1 October 1887: 'Henry [Layard, son-in-law] has given me the revises of a new book on his early travels, which Murray is about to bring out, and I have been reading them over to make any corrections that may strike me. I have gone through them carefully and found many errors. I don't think Spottiswoode prints as he ought to do.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: In proofs from John Murray

Horatio Brown : Venetian Studies
[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889] 'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian history and art, was one of the English colony who came to Ca' Capello, and Lady Charlotte read his Venetian Studies which he had just published.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

: Nollekens and his Times
[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889, concerning period following Easter 1888] 'In order to save her eyes, which now increasingly troubled her, [Lady Charlotte Schreiber] started having Moody read to her. The first book was Nollekens and his Times, which she found stupid.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : New England Tragedies
'Only recently I discovered its origin in Longfellow's "New England Tragedies", read and re-read during my childhood when Longfellow and Matthew Arnold were the only poets in the parental library.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

:
'On the plane I saw in the paper of the fellow ahead of me, "Le Marechal Pilzudski est mort hier".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Catlin      Print: Newspaper

Winifred Holtby : South Riding
'At the time of her death I had read only part of "South Riding", which was to bring her back to me, and I found no reason to change the words which I had written in my notebook as she lay dying.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: typescript

Howard R. Smith : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: book

Howard R. Smith : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The Minutes of last meeting were read & agreed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: book

Geoffrey Young [?] : 'Mountain Playmates'
'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated snapshots illustrating this reading & his own climb of the same mountain. After supper R.B. Graham gave a general chat on Mountaineering with views. A passage by Whymper on accidents was summarised by A. Rawlings who then read Whymper's account of an extraordinary accident he himself sustained. To conclude the Secretary read a parody of Wadsworth [Wordsworth?] 'We are Seven' composed by H.M. Wallis on climbing at Arolla'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Leslie Stephen : [account of climbing the Zinal Rothorn]
'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated snapshots illustrating this reading & his own climb of the same mountain. After supper R.B. Graham gave a general chat on Mountaineering with views. A passage by Whymper on accidents was summarised by A. Rawlings who then read Whymper's account of an extraordinary accident he himself sustained. To conclude the Secretary read a parody of Wadsworth [Wordsworth?] 'We are Seven' composed by H.m. Wallis on climbing at Arolla'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward      Print: Book

Edward Whymper : [on mountaineering accidents]
'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated snapshots illustrating this reading & his own climb of the same mountain. After supper R.B. Graham gave a general chat on Mountaineering with views. A passage by Whymper on accidents was summarised by A. Rawlings who then read Whymper's account of an extraordinary accident he himself sustained. To conclude the Secretary read a parody of Wadsworth [Wordsworth?] 'We are Seven' composed by H.m. Wallis on climbing at Arolla'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Henry Marriage Wallis : [parody of 'We are Seven']
'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated snapshots illustrating this reading & his own climb of the same mountain. After supper R.B. Graham gave a general chat on Mountaineering with views. A passage by Whymper on accidents was summarised by A. Rawlings who then read Whymper's account of an extraordinary accident he himself sustained. To conclude the Secretary read a parody of Wadsworth [Wordsworth?] 'We are Seven' composed by H.m. Wallis on climbing at Arolla'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Anatole France : La Reine Pedauque
'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Anatole France : La Reine Pedauque
'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Anatole France : Penguin Island
'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Anatole France : Garden of Epicures, The
'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Anatole France : Red Lily, The
'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

Anatole France : Life of Joan of Arc, The
'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Anatole France :
'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

John Masefield :
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Everlasting Mercy, The'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Sea Change'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Cargoes'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Ships'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Reynard the Fox'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

John Masefield : Gallipoli
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis

John Masefield : 'Tewkesbury Road'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Beauty'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'I Went into the Fields'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Laugh and be Merry'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

John Masefield : 'By a Bierside'
'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch : 'Once aboard the lugger'
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic] and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch : [a short story]
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic]and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch : [a poem]
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic] and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch : Interlude: On Jargon
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic] and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch : Mayor of Troy, The
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic] and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch : [a short story]
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic] and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch :
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic] and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Arthur Quiller-Couch : Foe-Farrell
'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work & read a tragic short story & poem. Mr Evans read from Couch's lecture on the Art of Writing an Interlude on Jargon. H.R. Smith read from the Mayor of Troy Mr Stansfield whose health unfortunately did not allow him to be present sent a short appreciation of Quiller Couch's novel Pho & Farrell [sic] and Miss Marriage read a short story (very sad). Perhaps the selection of his work put before us was a little one-sided for the club certainly got the impression of a writer too fond of the gloom & pain of life'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Henry Layard : article on Lord Beaconsfield
[following journal entry for 19 February 1889] 'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanche, dined and read to her the article on Lord Beaconsfield in the Quarterly Review. Lady Charlotte's comment was: "This I am sure could have been written by no one but Henry Layard." It was so.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Countess of Bessborough      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times
[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and then whatever book was interesting to her at the moment. There was reason to believe that on his way to [No. 17] Cavendish Square Mr. Upton moistened his throat for reading aloud by a visit to a publican in the neighbourhood. A story is told that one day when sitting down to read he lost his balance and fell on the floor. Lady Charlotte rang the bell [...] for her maid, and when she arrived said: "Remove Mr. Upton, Moody, I don't think he is well." In the evening Moody herself was the reader, generally of some memoirs. Her sister, whom Lady Charlotte had helped to become an actress, had just returned from America [...] Moody therefore was now occasionally replaced as a reader by her sister, who read the Shakespeare plays in which she had been acting with Mary Anderson.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Upton      Print: Newspaper

: 'book'
[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and then whatever book was interesting to her at the moment. There was reason to believe that on his way to [No. 17] Cavendish Square Mr. Upton moistened his throat for reading aloud by a visit to a publican in the neighbourhood. A story is told that one day when sitting down to read he lost his balance and fell on the floor. Lady Charlotte rang the bell [...] for her maid, and when she arrived said: "Remove Mr. Upton, Moody, I don't think he is well." In the evening Moody herself was the reader, generally of some memoirs. Her sister, whom Lady Charlotte had helped to become an actress, had just returned from America [...] Moody therefore was now occasionally replaced as a reader by her sister, who read the Shakespeare plays in which she had been acting with Mary Anderson.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Upton      Print: Book

: texts including 'some memoirs'
[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and then whatever book was interesting to her at the moment. There was reason to believe that on his way to [No. 17] Cavendish Square Mr. Upton moistened his throat for reading aloud by a visit to a publican in the neighbourhood. A story is told that one day when sitting down to read he lost his balance and fell on the floor. Lady Charlotte rang the bell [...] for her maid, and when she arrived said: "Remove Mr. Upton, Moody, I don't think he is well." In the evening Moody herself was the reader, generally of some memoirs. Her sister, whom Lady Charlotte had helped to become an actress, had just returned from America [...] Moody therefore was now occasionally replaced as a reader by her sister, who read the Shakespeare plays in which she had been acting with Mary Anderson.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Moody      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : plays
[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and then whatever book was interesting to her at the moment. There was reason to believe that on his way to [No. 17] Cavendish Square Mr. Upton moistened his throat for reading aloud by a visit to a publican in the neighbourhood. A story is told that one day when sitting down to read he lost his balance and fell on the floor. Lady Charlotte rang the bell [...] for her maid, and when she arrived said: "Remove Mr. Upton, Moody, I don't think he is well." In the evening Moody herself was the reader, generally of some memoirs. Her sister, whom Lady Charlotte had helped to become an actress, had just returned from America [...] Moody therefore was now occasionally replaced as a reader by her sister, who read the Shakespeare plays in which she had been acting with Mary Anderson.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Lines to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story of melancholy import never failed to arrest my attention, and, before I was seven years old, I could correctly repeat Pope's Lines ot the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Mason's Elegy on the Death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry; and many smaller poems on similar subjects.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Darby      Print: Book

Mason : Elegy upon the death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry
'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story of melancholy import never failed to arrest my attention, and, before I was seven years old, I could correctly repeat Pope's Lines ot the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Mason's Elegy on the Death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry; and many smaller poems on similar subjects.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Darby      Print: Book

:
'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington frequently read to me after school hours, and I to her: I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses; and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Darby      Print: Book

:
'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington frequently read to me after school hours, and I to her: I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses; and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Meribah Lorrington      Print: Book

Mary Darby : poems
'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington frequently read to me after school hours, and I to her: I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses; and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Meribah Lorrington      Manuscript: Unknown

Anna Laetitia Aikin : Poems
'[Lord Lyttleton] presented me with the works of Miss Aikin (now Mrs Barbauld). I read them with rapture; I thought them the most beautiful Poems I had ever seen, and considered the woman who could invent such poetry, as the most to be envied of human creatures.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robinson      Print: Book

Mary Robinson : 'pastoral [poem]'
'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] The next subject of praise [following Fitzgerald's compliments on Robinson's baby daughter] was my poetry [...] Mr. Fitzgerald took up the proof sheet and read one of the pastorals.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Robert Fitzgerald      Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs

:
Account of Mary Robinson's deathbed, from the 'Continuation by a Friend' of her memoirs: 'Pressing to her heart her daughter [...] she held her head for some minutes clasped against her bosom [...] "[italics]Poor heart[end italics]!" murmured she, in a deep and stifled tone, "[italics]what will become of thee[end italics]!" She paused some moments, and at length, struggling to assume more composure, desired in a calmer voice, that some one would read to her. Throughout the remainder of the evening, she continued placidly and even cheerfully attentive to the person who read.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robinson      Print: Book

Pliny the Younger : account of eruption of Vesuvius over Pompeii
Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,' describing her experiences following a nearby volcanic eruption: 'At this time yesterday morning we thought ourselves on the verge of eternity, & waited in total darkness & almost uninterrupted silence the expected shock which was to destroy us [...] It began, I believe, about two o Clock on Friday morning [...] I thought it the longest night I had ever known, & was watching for some appearance of daylight that I might get up, when Margaret came into my room, & told me, in a voice of terror, that it was past 7 o Clock. It was totally dark [...] I went into the balcony & felt that it [italics]rained[end italics], as I thought, but returning into the room I found I was covered with wet sand or ashes [...] Everyone thought an Earth-quake was coming [...] Mr R[utherford]. borrowed from Mr Ford, our next neighbour, the younger Pliny's account of an irruption of Mount Vesuvius, & read it. Pliny describes a fall of dust or ashes previous to the great shock. We all, I believe, thought the shock was coming [...] After breakfast I proposed going to Church, but none but my two companions in wickedness [Miss Simms and Mr Rutherford, who had also wanted breakfast, while the rest of Fenwick's companions slept, wept, or stayed silent with fear] were willing to join me [...] My next plan of of reading prayers was not better approved of. Mrs D[yke]. preferred the more pious amusement of abusing us to her black Confidant Margaret [...] Mr R. read the bible in his own room, I the Morning Service to Miss Brailsford in mine [...] We passed an hour in this manner, & met again to wonder at the still encreasing darkness'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Rutherford      Print: Book

: Bible
Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,' describing her experiences following a nearby volcanic eruption: 'At this time yesterday morning we thought ourselves on the verge of eternity, & waited in total darkness & almost uninterrupted silence the expected shock which was to destroy us [...] It began, I believe, about two o Clock on Friday morning [...] I thought it the longest night I had ever known, & was watching for some appearance of daylight that I might get up, when Margaret came into my room, & told me, in a voice of terror, that it was past 7 o Clock. It was totally dark [...] I went into the balcony & felt that it [italics]rained[end italics], as I thought, but returning into the room I found I was covered with wet sand or ashes [...] Everyone thought an Earth-quake was coming [...] Mr R[utherford]. borrowed from Mr Ford, our next neighbour, the younger Pliny's account of an irruption of Mount Vesuvius, & read it. Pliny describes a fall of dust or ashes previous to the great shock. We all, I believe, thought the shock was coming [...] After breakfast I proposed going to Church, but none but my two companions in wickedness [Miss Simms and Mr Rutherford, who had also wanted breakfast, while the rest of Fenwick's companions slept, wept, or stayed silent with fear] were willing to join me [...] My next plan of of reading prayers was not better approved of. Mrs D[yke]. preferred the more pious amusement of abusing us to her black Confidant Margaret [...] Mr R. read the bible in his own room, I the Morning Service to Miss Brailsford in mine [...] We passed an hour in this manner, & met again to wonder at the still encreasing darkness'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Rutherford      Print: Book

: Morning Service
Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,' describing her experiences following a nearby volcanic eruption: 'At this time yesterday morning we thought ourselves on the verge of eternity, & waited in total darkness & almost uninterrupted silence the expected shock which was to destroy us [...] It began, I believe, about two o Clock on Friday morning [...] I thought it the longest night I had ever known, & was watching for some appearance of daylight that I might get up, when Margaret came into my room, & told me, in a voice of terror, that it was past 7 o Clock. It was totally dark [...] I went into the balcony & felt that it [italics]rained[end italics], as I thought, but returning into the room I found I was covered with wet sand or ashes [...] Everyone thought an Earth-quake was coming [...] Mr R[utherford]. borrowed from Mr Ford, our next neighbour, the younger Pliny's account of an irruption of Mount Vesuvius, & read it. Pliny describes a fall of dust or ashes previous to the great shock. We all, I believe, thought the shock was coming [...] After breakfast I proposed going to Church, but none but my two companions in wickedness [Miss Simms and Mr Rutherford, who had also wanted breakfast, while the rest of Fenwick's companions slept, wept, or stayed silent with fear] were willing to join me [...] My next plan of of reading prayers was not better approved of. Mrs D[yke]. preferred the more pious amusement of abusing us to her black Confidant Margaret [...] Mr R. read the bible in his own room, I the Morning Service to Miss Brailsford in mine [...] We passed an hour in this manner, & met again to wonder at the still encreasing darkness'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Fenwick junior      Print: Book

George Burrow : [paper on George Sand]
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman". Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales. From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow Consuelo H.R. Smith The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

George Sand : Tillage of the Soil, The
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman". Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales. From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow Consuelo H.R. Smith The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

George Sand : Consuelo
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman". Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales. From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow Consuelo H.R. Smith The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

George Sand : Devil's Pool, The
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman". Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales. From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow Consuelo H.R. Smith The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

George Sand : Countess of Rudolfstadt, The
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman". Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales. From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow Consuelo H.R. Smith The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence E. Reynolds      Print: Book

Sabine Baring-Gould : John Herring
'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Baring Gould's work from which we learn that he wrote too fast for revision and his fiction was marred by many improbabilities. In short a maker of books rather than an artist. After supper Mrs Pollard read from The Broom Squire and E.A. Smith gave us an appreciation of our Author more favourable than H.M.W.'s perhaps because it dealt mainly with the archaeological side of his work. F.G. Pollard kindly took C.I. Evans' place (he had lost his voice) by reading from "Strange Survivals & Supersititions" & H.R. Smith read from "The Vicar of Morwenstow".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Sabine Baring-Gould : Broom Squire, The
'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Baring Gould's work from which we learn that he wrote too fast for revision and his fiction was marred by many improbabilities. In short a maker of books rather than an artist. After supper Mrs Pollard read from The Broom Squire and E.A. Smith gave us an appreciation of our Author more favourable than H.M.W.'s perhaps because it dealt mainly with the archaeological side of his work. F.G. Pollard kindly took C.I. Evans' place (he had lost his voice) by reading from "Strange Survivals & Supersititions" & H.R. Smith read from "The Vicar of Morwenstow".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Sabine Baring-Gould : Strange Survivals and Superstitions
'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Baring Gould's work from which we learn that he wrote too fast for revision and his fiction was marred by many improbabilities. In short a maker of books rather than an artist. After supper Mrs Pollard read from The Broom Squire and E.A. Smith gave us an appreciation of our Author more favourable than H.M.W.'s perhaps because it dealt mainly with the archaeological side of his work. F.G. Pollard kindly took C.I. Evans' place (he had lost his voice) by reading from "Strange Survivals & Superstitions" & H.R. Smith read from "The Vicar of Morwenstow".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Sabine Baring-Gould : Vicar of Morwenstow, The
'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Baring Gould's work from which we learn that he wrote too fast for revision and his fiction was marred by many improbabilities. In short a maker of books rather than an artist. After supper Mrs Pollard read from The Broom Squire and E.A. Smith gave us an appreciation of our Author more favourable than H.M.W.'s perhaps because it dealt mainly with the archaeological side of his work. F.G. Pollard kindly took C.I. Evans' place (he had lost his voice) by reading from "Strange Survivals & Superstitions" & H.R. Smith read from "The Vicar of Morwenstow".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Sabine Baring-Gould :
'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Baring Gould's work from which we learn that he wrote too fast for revision and his fiction was marred by many improbabilities. In short a maker of books rather than an artist. After supper Mrs Pollard read from The Broom Squire and E.A. Smith gave us an appreciation of our Author more favourable than H.M.W.'s perhaps because it dealt mainly with the archaeological side of his work. F.G. Pollard kindly took C.I. Evans' place (he had lost his voice) by reading from "Strange Survivals & Superstitions" & H.R. Smith read from "The Vicar of Morwenstow".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Sabine Baring-Gould :
'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Baring Gould's work from which we learn that he wrote too fast for revision and his fiction was marred by many improbabilities. In short a maker of books rather than an artist. After supper Mrs Pollard read from The Broom Squire and E.A. Smith gave us an appreciation of our Author more favourable than H.M.W.'s perhaps because it dealt mainly with the archaeological side of his work. F.G. Pollard kindly took C.I. Evans' place (he had lost his voice) by reading from "Strange Survivals & Superstitions" & H.R. Smith read from "The Vicar of Morwenstow".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

William Butler Yeats : Land of Heart's Desire
'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingly into the spirit of the piece. Maureen Bruin by H.M. Wallis Bridget Bruin [ditto] F.E. Reynolds Shawn Bruin [ditto] R.B. Graham Mary Briuin [ditto] K.S. Evans Father Hart [ditto] Geo Burrow A Faery Child [ditto] E.A. Smith After supper Celia S. Burrow recited Down by the Salley Gardens & half a dozen short readings from Yeats poetry were given by the members which was followed by a desultory discussion on Irish Humour, Fairies &c.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

William Butler Yeats : [poetry]
'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingly into the spirit of the piece. Maureen Bruin by H.M. Wallis Bridget Bruin [ditto] F.E. Reynolds Shawn Bruin [ditto] R.B. Graham Mary Briuin [ditto] K.S. Evans Father Hart [ditto] Geo Burrow A Faery Child [ditto] E.A. Smith After supper Celia S. Burrow recited Down by the Salley Gardens & half a dozen short readings from Yeats poetry were given by the members which was followed by a desultory discussion on Irish Humour, Fairies &c.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

William Butler Yeats : 'Down by the Salley Gardens'
'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingly into the spirit of the piece. Maureen Bruin by H.M. Wallis Bridget Bruin [ditto] F.E. Reynolds Shawn Bruin [ditto] R.B. Graham Mary Briuin [ditto] K.S. Evans Father Hart [ditto] Geo Burrow A Faery Child [ditto] E.A. Smith After supper Celia S. Burrow recited Down by the Salley Gardens & half a dozen short readings from Yeats poetry were given by the members which was followed by a desultory discussion on Irish Humour, Fairies &c.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Doctor Thorne
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Prime Minister, The
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Warden, The
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Three Clerks, The
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Francis Pollard : [essay on Trollope]
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victorian writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works]
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victorian writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Anthony Trollope :
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victorian writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Anthony Trollope :
'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victorian writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate different aspects of him and these were interspersed with brief informal & sometimes penetrating discussions. We were indebted to E.A. Smith for quotations on public & private life to C.I. and K.S. Evans for a reading from King Lear R.B. Graham gave us a series on Death & after several short items C.E. Stansfield appropriately concluded with Shakespeare's description of a wet Summer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate different aspects of him and these were interspersed with brief informal & sometimes penetrating discussions. We were indebted to E.A. Smith for quotations on public & private life to C.I. and K.S. Evans for a reading from King Lear R.B. Graham gave us a series on Death & after several short items C.E. Stansfield appropriately concluded with Shakespeare's description of a wet Summer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

William Shakespeare :
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate different aspects of him and these were interspersed with brief informal & sometimes penetrating discussions. We were indebted to E.A. Smith for quotations on public & private life to C.I. and K.S. Evans for a reading from King Lear R.B. Graham gave us a series on Death & after several short items C.E. Stansfield appropriately concluded with Shakespeare's description of a wet Summer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream, A
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate different aspects of him and these were interspersed with brief informal & sometimes penetrating discussions. We were indebted to E.A. Smith for quotations on public & private life to C.I. and K.S. Evans for a reading from King Lear R.B. Graham gave us a series on Death & after several short items C.E. Stansfield appropriately concluded with Shakespeare's description of a wet Summer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear
'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate different aspects of him and these were interspersed with brief informal & sometimes penetrating discussions. We were indebted to E.A. Smith for quotations on public & private life to C.I. and K.S. Evans for a reading from King Lear R.B. Graham gave us a series on Death & after several short items C.E. Stansfield appropriately concluded with Shakespeare's description of a wet Summer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Katherine Evans     Print: Book

Llewelyn Powys : Ebony and Ivory
'The Secretary reported that he had found "Ebony & Ivory" to be an unsuitable book to go round the club & had procured The Incredible Journey (the book to secure next higherst votes) in its place.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] :
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minister
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham and Francis Pollard     Print: Book

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Series of Character Sketches
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Revolution in Tanner's Lane, The
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Catharine Furze
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds      Print: Book

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Mark Rutherford's Deliverance
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Constance Burrow      Print: Book

George Burrow : [paper on Mark Rutherford]
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Mazeppa
'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he belonged to the Romantic Movement especially as it was a Recoil of the Human Spirit against Tyranny. His work is witty & vitriolic full of energy & passion. Mr Robson expounded Childe Harold to us and Alfred Rawlings read to us from the same poem 4th canto. Mr Robson then read The Isles of Greece and Mr Pollard a stirring passage the Giaour'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he belonged to the Romantic Movement especially as it was a Recoil of the Human Spirit against Tyranny. His work is witty & vitriolic full of energy & passion. Mr Robson expounded Childe Harold to us and Alfred Rawlings read to us from the same poem 4th canto. Mr Robson then read The Isles of Greece and Mr Pollard a stirring passage the Giaour'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Isles of Greece, The'
'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he belonged to the Romantic Movement especially as it was a Recoil of the Human Spirit against Tyranny. His work is witty & vitriolic full of energy & passion. Mr Robson expounded Childe Harold to us and Alfred Rawlings read to us from the same poem 4th canto. Mr Robson then read The Isles of Greece and Mr Pollard a stirring passage the Giaour'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Giaour, The
'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he belonged to the Romantic Movement especially as it was a Recoil of the Human Spirit against Tyranny. His work is witty & vitriolic full of energy & passion. Mr Robson expounded Childe Harold to us and Alfred Rawlings read to us from the same poem 4th canto. Mr Robson then read The Isles of Greece and Mr Pollard a stirring passage the Giaour'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [essay on Byron]
'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he belonged to the Romantic Movement especially as it was a Recoil of the Human Spirit against Tyranny. His work is witty & vitriolic full of energy & passion. Mr Robson expounded Childe Harold to us and Alfred Rawlings read to us from the same poem 4th canto. Mr Robson then read The Isles of Greece and Mr Pollard a stirring passage the Giaour'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he belonged to the Romantic Movement especially as it was a Recoil of the Human Spirit against Tyranny. His work is witty & vitriolic full of energy & passion. Mr Robson expounded Childe Harold to us and Alfred Rawlings read to us from the same poem 4th canto. Mr Robson then read The Isles of Greece and Mr Pollard a stirring passage the Giaour'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Mark Twain : Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a general & interesting discussion the substantial result being that she refused to be so put. Mrs Evans read a fervid passage from De Quincey & H.R. Smith & C.I. Evans gave some estimate of the Lives by Mark Twain & Andrew Lang & read short passages from these works. After supper Mr Graham Mr Pollard Mr Robson & Miss M.B. Smith read in parts most spiritually the first scene from Shaw's St Joan; Mr Evans read from the Epilogue, & another general discussion brought a most fascinating evening to a conclusion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Andrew Lang : Story of Joan of Arc, The
'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a general & interesting discussion the substantial result being that she refused to be so put. Mrs Evans read a fervid passage from De Quincey & H.R. Smith & C.I. Evans gave some estimate of the Lives by Mark Twain & Andrew Lang & read short passages from these works. After supper Mr Graham Mr Pollard Mr Robson & Miss M.B. Smith read in parts most spiritually the first scene from Shaw's St Joan; Mr Evans read from the Epilogue, & another general discussion brought a most fascinating evening to a conclusion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Andrew Lang : Story of Joan of Arc, The
'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a general & interesting discussion the substantial result being that she refused to be so put. Mrs Evans read a fervid passage from De Quincey & H.R. Smith & C.I. Evans gave some estimate of the Lives by Mark Twain & Andrew Lang & read short passages from these works. After supper Mr Graham Mr Pollard Mr Robson & Miss M.B. Smith read in parts most spiritually the first scene from Shaw's St Joan; Mr Evans read from the Epilogue, & another general discussion brought a most fascinating evening to a conclusion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Mark Twain : Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a general & interesting discussion the substantial result being that she refused to be so put. Mrs Evans read a fervid passage from De Quincey & H.R. Smith & C.I. Evans gave some estimate of the Lives by Mark Twain & Andrew Lang & read short passages from these works. After supper Mr Graham Mr Pollard Mr Robson & Miss M.B. Smith read in parts most spiritually the first scene from Shaw's St Joan; Mr Evans read from the Epilogue, & another general discussion brought a most fascinating evening to a conclusion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Joan of Arc
'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a general & interesting discussion the substantial result being that she refused to be so put. Mrs Evans read a fervid passage from De Quincey & H.R. Smith & C.I. Evans gave some estimate of the Lives by Mark Twain & Andrew Lang & read short passages from these works. After supper Mr Graham Mr Pollard Mr Robson & Miss M.B. Smith read in parts most spiritually the first scene from Shaw's St Joan; Mr Evans read from the Epilogue, & another general discussion brought a most fascinating evening to a conclusion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : St Joan
'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a general & interesting discussion the substantial result being that she refused to be so put. Mrs Evans read a fervid passage from De Quincey & H.R. Smith & C.I. Evans gave some estimate of the Lives by Mark Twain & Andrew Lang & read short passages from these works. After supper Mr Graham Mr Pollard Mr Robson & Miss M.B. Smith read in parts most spiritually the first scene from Shaw's St Joan; Mr Evans read from the Epilogue, & another general discussion brought a most fascinating evening to a conclusion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

George Bernard Shaw : St Joan
'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a general & interesting discussion the substantial result being that she refused to be so put. Mrs Evans read a fervid passage from De Quincey & H.R. Smith & C.I. Evans gave some estimate of the Lives by Mark Twain & Andrew Lang & read short passages from these works. After supper Mr Graham Mr Pollard Mr Robson & Miss M.B. Smith read in parts most spiritually the first scene from Shaw's St Joan; Mr Evans read from the Epilogue, & another general discussion brought a most fascinating evening to a conclusion.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

William de Morgan : Joseph Vance
'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical business methods. Mrs Rawlings read a powerful but sad scene of shipwreck from Joseph Vance. F.E. Pollard chatted on the novels emphasizing their apparent but not real shapelessness the author's great interest in problems of memory the reality of the conversations the way in which characters were drawn & well drawn in all kinds of situations & from all ranks of society. The ensuing discussion showed how the healthy & delightful tone of the books had been enjoyed. R.H. Robson & H.R. Smith read from Alice for short & Somehow Good & A. Rawlings gave some account of De Morgan's methods on his tiles & pottery.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

William de Morgan : Alice for Short
'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical business methods. Mrs Rawlings read a powerful but sad scene of shipwreck from Joseph Vance. F.E. Pollard chatted on the novels emphasizing their apparent but not real shapelessness the author's great interest in problems of memory the reality of the conversations the way in which characters were drawn & well drawn in all kinds of situations & from all ranks of society. The ensuing discussion showed how the healthy & delightful tone of the books had been enjoyed. R.H. Robson & H.R. Smith read from Alice for short & Somehow Good & A. Rawlings gave some account of De Morgan's methods on his tiles & pottery.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

William de Morgan : Somehow Good
'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical business methods. Mrs Rawlings read a powerful but sad scene of shipwreck from Joseph Vance. F.E. Pollard chatted on the novels emphasizing their apparent but not real shapelessness the author's great interest in problems of memory the reality of the conversations the way in which characters were drawn & well drawn in all kinds of situations & from all ranks of society. The ensuing discussion showed how the healthy & delightful tone of the books had been enjoyed. R.H. Robson & H.R. Smith read from Alice for short & Somehow Good & A. Rawlings gave some account of De Morgan's methods on his tiles & pottery.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

William de Morgan : [novels]
'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical business methods. Mrs Rawlings read a powerful but sad scene of shipwreck from Joseph Vance. F.E. Pollard chatted on the novels emphasizing their apparent but not real shapelessness the author's great interest in problems of memory the reality of the conversations the way in which characters were drawn & well drawn in all kinds of situations & from all ranks of society. The ensuing discussion showed how the healthy & delightful tone of the books had been enjoyed. R.H. Robson & H.R. Smith read from Alice for short & Somehow Good & A. Rawlings gave some account of De Morgan's methods on his tiles & pottery.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

William de Morgan : [novels]
'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical business methods. Mrs Rawlings read a powerful but sad scene of shipwreck from Joseph Vance. F.E. Pollard chatted on the novels emphasizing their apparent but not real shapelessness the author's great interest in problems of memory the reality of the conversations the way in which characters were drawn & well drawn in all kinds of situations & from all ranks of society. The ensuing discussion showed how the healthy & delightful tone of the books had been enjoyed. R.H. Robson & H.R. Smith read from Alice for short & Somehow Good & A. Rawlings gave some account of De Morgan's methods on his tiles & pottery.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Walt Whitman :
'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression which he sought he also told us something of the leading ideas expressed in his work "The Splendour of Life" World wide Comradeship Immortality Freedom Broad Vistas. Geo Burrow read from the poem Memories of President Lincoln. After supper R.B. Graham read Captain, My Captain & Manhattan Faces. F.E. Pollard sang "Ethiopian Saluting the Colours". R.H. Robson amused us by reading passages showing Whitman's fondness for lists. In the discussion which concluded the evening it was concluded that whilst Whitman is often effective his poems are often not poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Walt Whitman : 'Memories of President Lincoln'
'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression which he sought he also told us something of the leading ideas expressed in his work "The Splendour of Life" World wide Comradeship Immortality Freedom Broad Vistas. Geo Burrow read from the poem Memories of President Lincoln. After supper R.B. Graham read Captain, My Captain & Manhattan Faces. F.E. Pollard sang "Ethiopian Saluting the Colours". R.H. Robson amused us by reading passages showing Whitman's fondness for lists. In the discussion which concluded the evening it was concluded that whilst Whitman is often effective his poems are often not poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Walt Whitman : 'O Captain! My Captain!'
'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression which he sought he also told us something of the leading ideas expressed in his work "The Splendour of Life" World wide Comradeship Immortality Freedom Broad Vistas. Geo Burrow read from the poem Memories of President Lincoln. After supper R.B. Graham read Captain, My Captain & Manhattan Faces. F.E. Pollard sang "Ethiopian Saluting the Colours". R.H. Robson amused us by reading passages showing Whitman's fondness for lists. In the discussion which concluded the evening it was concluded that whilst Whitman is often effective his poems are often not poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

Walt Whitman : 'Manhattan Faces'
'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression which he sought he also told us something of the leading ideas expressed in his work "The Splendour of Life" World wide Comradeship Immortality Freedom Broad Vistas. Geo Burrow read from the poem Memories of President Lincoln. After supper R.B. Graham read Captain, My Captain & Manhattan Faces. F.E. Pollard sang "Ethiopian Saluting the Colours". R.H. Robson amused us by reading passages showing Whitman's fondness for lists. In the discussion which concluded the evening it was concluded that whilst Whitman is often effective his poems are often not poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

Walt Whitman :
'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression which he sought he also told us something of the leading ideas expressed in his work "The Splendour of Life" World wide Comradeship Immortality Freedom Broad Vistas. Geo Burrow read from the poem Memories of President Lincoln. After supper R.B. Graham read Captain, My Captain & Manhattan Faces. F.E. Pollard sang "Ethiopian Saluting the Colours". R.H. Robson amused us by reading passages showing Whitman's fondness for lists. In the discussion which concluded the evening it was concluded that whilst Whitman is often effective his poems are often not poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Rosamund Wallis : [paper on Anglo-India and Forster]
'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Pollard : [paper on Forster's 'A Passage to India']
'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A
'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A
'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A
'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A
'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Rosamund Wallis : Some Thoughts on Racing
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Reginald Robson : Intimations of Immortality
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Mrs R.B. Graham : Lady of the Marsh, The
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

R.B. Graham : If Christianity had Won
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

George Burrow : Revolt of the Innocents, The
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Evans : Revenge or Justice
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

[anon. member of XII Book Club] : Scandalous Affair, A
'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Edith Smith : [financial statement of XII Book Club]
'The Financial Statement was read & approved'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

James M. Barrie : Admirable Crichton, The
'A reading in parts of Barrie's "Admirable Crichton" was then given with considerable spirit & was much appreciated. The characters were read as follows [a list of 14 members and characters follows]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Herman Melville : Typee
'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Typee. After supper R.B. Graham C.I. Evans K.S. Evans Geo Burrow & H.R. Smith gave readings from Moby Dick giving us glimpses of the power & wonder of this work of genius.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick
'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Typee. After supper R.B. Graham C.I. Evans K.S. Evans Geo Burrow & H.R. Smith gave readings from Moby Dick giving us glimpses of the power & wonder of this work of genius.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick
'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Typee. After supper R.B. Graham C.I. Evans K.S. Evans Geo Burrow & H.R. Smith gave readings from Moby Dick giving us glimpses of the power & wonder of this work of genius.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick
'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Typee. After supper R.B. Graham C.I. Evans K.S. Evans Geo Burrow & H.R. Smith gave readings from Moby Dick giving us glimpses of the power & wonder of this work of genius.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick
'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Typee. After supper R.B. Graham C.I. Evans K.S. Evans Geo Burrow & H.R. Smith gave readings from Moby Dick giving us glimpses of the power & wonder of this work of genius.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Herman Melville : Moby Dick
'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Typee. After supper R.B. Graham C.I. Evans K.S. Evans Geo Burrow & H.R. Smith gave readings from Moby Dick giving us glimpses of the power & wonder of this work of genius.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Fortitude
'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from "The Secret City". After supper the Secretary attempted some analysis & estimate of Walpoles work which was followed by some discussion. Mr Stansfield read from "Jeremy" & in conclusion Mr Robson read from "The Cathedral". An interesting evening about work which both attracts & repels. The man perhaps just missing greatness but frequently gripping us by powerful intriguing work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Secret City, The
'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from "The Secret City". After supper the Secretary attempted some analysis & estimate of Walpoles work which was followed by some discussion. Mr Stansfield read from "Jeremy" & in conclusion Mr Robson read from "The Cathedral". An interesting evening about work which both attracts & repels. The man perhaps just missing greatness but frequently gripping us by powerful intriguing work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Jeremy
'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from "The Secret City". After supper the Secretary attempted some analysis & estimate of Walpoles work which was followed by some discussion. Mr Stansfield read from "Jeremy" & in conclusion Mr Robson read from "The Cathedral". An interesting evening about work which both attracts & repels. The man perhaps just missing greatness but frequently gripping us by powerful intriguing work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Cathedral, The
'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from "The Secret City". After supper the Secretary attempted some analysis & estimate of Walpoles work which was followed by some discussion. Mr Stansfield read from "Jeremy" & in conclusion Mr Robson read from "The Cathedral". An interesting evening about work which both attracts & repels. The man perhaps just missing greatness but frequently gripping us by powerful intriguing work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole :
'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from "The Secret City". After supper the Secretary attempted some analysis & estimate of Walpoles work which was followed by some discussion. Mr Stansfield read from "Jeremy" & in conclusion Mr Robson read from "The Cathedral". An interesting evening about work which both attracts & repels. The man perhaps just missing greatness but frequently gripping us by powerful intriguing work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

William Blake :
'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects of his work. Mrs Burrow recited three lyrics. We were then to have inspected Blakes drawings which F.E. Pollard was obtaining but the General Strike delayed their arrival. Mrs Robson sang "Piping down the Valleys Wild" & "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet lot". R.B. Graham read from the Prophetic books Marriage of Heaven & Hell The Birds & the Flowers & To the Deists. Mrs Robson sang "Little Lamb Who Made Thee" & F.E. Pollard read from the descriptive catalogue of The Canterbury Pilgrims'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

William Blake : Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The
'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects of his work. Mrs Burrow recited three lyrics. We were then to have inspected Blakes drawings which F.E. Pollard was obtaining but the General Strike delayed their arrival. Mrs Robson sang "Piping down the Valleys Wild" & "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet lot". R.B. Graham read from the Prophetic books Marriage of Heaven & Hell The Birds & the Flowers & To the Deists. Mrs Robson sang "Little Lamb Who Made Thee" & F.E. Pollard read from the descriptive catalogue of The Canterbury Pilgrims'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

William Blake : Birds and the Flowers, The
'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects of his work. Mrs Burrow recited three lyrics. We were then to have inspected Blakes drawings which F.E. Pollard was obtaining but the General Strike delayed their arrival. Mrs Robson sang "Piping down the Valleys Wild" & "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet lot". R.B. Graham read from the Prophetic books Marriage of Heaven & Hell The Birds & the Flowers & To the Deists. Mrs Robson sang "Little Lamb Who Made Thee" & F.E. Pollard read from the descriptive catalogue of The Canterbury Pilgrims'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

William Blake : To the Deists
'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects of his work. Mrs Burrow recited three lyrics. We were then to have inspected Blakes drawings which F.E. Pollard was obtaining but the General Strike delayed their arrival. Mrs Robson sang "Piping down the Valleys Wild" & "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet lot". R.B. Graham read from the Prophetic books Marriage of Heaven & Hell The Birds & the Flowers & To the Deists. Mrs Robson sang "Little Lamb Who Made Thee" & F.E. Pollard read from the descriptive catalogue of The Canterbury Pilgrims'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

: [catalogue of Blake's canterbury Pilgrims pictures]
'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects of his work. Mrs Burrow recited three lyrics. We were then to have inspected Blakes drawings which F.E. Pollard was obtaining but the General Strike delayed their arrival. Mrs Robson sang "Piping down the Valleys Wild" & "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet lot". R.B. Graham read from the Prophetic books Marriage of Heaven & Hell The Birds & the Flowers & To the Deists. Mrs Robson sang "Little Lamb Who Made Thee" & F.E. Pollard read from the descriptive catalogue of The Canterbury Pilgrims'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

William Blake : [lyrics]
'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects of his work. Mrs Burrow recited three lyrics. We were then to have inspected Blakes drawings which F.E. Pollard was obtaining but the General Strike delayed their arrival. Mrs Robson sang "Piping down the Valleys Wild" & "How Sweet is the Shepherd's Sweet lot". R.B. Graham read from the Prophetic books Marriage of Heaven & Hell The Birds & the Flowers & To the Deists. Mrs Robson sang "Little Lamb Who Made Thee" & F.E. Pollard read from the descriptive catalogue of The Canterbury Pilgrims'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell :
'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs Gaskell and her homes, Mrs Burrow read from "Cousin Phillis" and Mrs Evans from the "Life of Charlotte Bronte". A dramatic reading from Cranford by Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith followed. Alfred Rawlings read from "North & South" & Howard R. Smith read from Mary Barton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cousin Phillis
'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs Gaskell and her homes, Mrs Burrow read from "Cousin Phillis" and Mrs Evans from the "Life of Charlotte Bronte". A dramatic reading from Cranford by Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith followed. Alfred Rawlings read from "North & South" & Howard R. Smith read from Mary Barton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte, The
'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs Gaskell and her homes, Mrs Burrow read from "Cousin Phillis" and Mrs Evans from the "Life of Charlotte Bronte". A dramatic reading from Cranford by Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith followed. Alfred Rawlings read from "North & South" & Howard R. Smith read from Mary Barton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford
'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs Gaskell and her homes, Mrs Burrow read from "Cousin Phillis" and Mrs Evans from the "Life of Charlotte Bronte". A dramatic reading from Cranford by Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith followed. Alfred Rawlings read from "North & South" & Howard R. Smith read from Mary Barton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith     Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : North and South
'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs Gaskell and her homes, Mrs Burrow read from "Cousin Phillis" and Mrs Evans from the "Life of Charlotte Bronte". A dramatic reading from Cranford by Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith followed. Alfred Rawlings read from "North & South" & Howard R. Smith read from Mary Barton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton
'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs Gaskell and her homes, Mrs Burrow read from "Cousin Phillis" and Mrs Evans from the "Life of Charlotte Bronte". A dramatic reading from Cranford by Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith followed. Alfred Rawlings read from "North & South" & Howard R. Smith read from Mary Barton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Arthur Patchett Martin : Bret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction.
'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more particularly than I can from memory; […] I was very much pleased with the article on Bret Harte; it seemed to me just, clear, and to the point.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Catherine Spence :
'I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

George Eliot : Daniel Deronda
'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself? − the Prince of Prigs: the literary abomination of Desolation in the way of manhood: a type which is enough to make a man forswear the love of women, if that is how it must be gained….'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Arthur Patchett Martin : 'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'.
'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodious[end italics]. I confess I like the Sonnet in the last number of the "Review"− the ‘Sonnet to England’.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical).

Mademoiselle de Scudery :
[from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn'] 'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. She loved grossness for its own sake, because it was congenial to her [...] The noble examples of Mademoiselle de Scudery and Madame de la Fayette were lost upon her -- she read their works, she knew well their object, and she wrote not one coarse passage the less for either.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Aphra Behn      Print: Book

Madame de la Fayette :
[from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn'] 'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. She loved grossness for its own sake, because it was congenial to her [...] The noble examples of Mademoiselle de Scudery and Madame de la Fayette were lost upon her -- she read their works, she knew well their object, and she wrote not one coarse passage the less for either.'
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Aphra Behn      Print: Book

Aphra Behn : [?]Oroonoko
Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquainted by an old lady of family, who assured him that in her younger days Mrs. Behn's novels were as currently upon the toilette as the works of Miss Edgeworth at present; and described with some humour her own surprise when the book falling into her hands after a long interval of years, and when its contents were quite forgotten, she found it impossible to endure at the age of fourscore what at fifteen she, like all the fashionable world of the time, had perused without an idea of impropriety."'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Aphra Behn : [?]Oroonoko
Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquainted by an old lady of family, who assured him that in her younger days Mrs. Behn's novels were as currently upon the toilette as the works of Miss Edgeworth at present; and described with some humour her own surprise when the book falling into her hands after a long interval of years, and when its contents were quite forgotten, she found it impossible to endure at the age of fourscore what at fifteen she, like all the fashionable world of the time, had perused without an idea of impropriety."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : 'works'
From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, and learnt by heart the passages which her sister recited.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)     Print: Book

Virgil : Aeneid
From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, and learnt by heart the passages which her sister recited.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)     Print: Book

: announcement of publication of Evelina
'In January, 1778, Mrs. Burney [Frances Burney's stepmother], who was glancing over the newspaper at the breakfast table, read aloud the advertisement of a new book, "Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World." Thus Fanny learned that her book was out.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Burney      Print: Newspaper

Frances Burney : Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccoboni's Tales [...] she lent it to Dr. Johnson. He was very unwilling to read it -- but once he was persuaded to begin the story, he was delighted with it. "Why, madam, what a charming book you lent me," he said to Mrs. Thrale, on finishing the first volume, and he anxiously asked to know whom Evelina married. He protested, too, that there were passages in it that would do honour to Richardson, and that Henry Fielding never drew such a character as Mr. Smith.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccoboni's Tales [...] she lent it to Dr. Johnson. He was very unwilling to read it -- but once he was persuaded to begin the story, he was delighted with it. "Why, madam, what a charming book you lent me," he said to Mrs. Thrale, on finishing the first volume, and he anxiously asked to know whom Evelina married. He protested, too, that there were passages in it that would do honour to Richardson, and that Henry Fielding never drew such a character as Mr. Smith.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Madame Riccoboni : Tales
'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccoboni's Tales [...] she lent it to Dr. Johnson. He was very unwilling to read it -- but once he was persuaded to begin the story, he was delighted with it. "Why, madam, what a charming book you lent me," he said to Mrs. Thrale, on finishing the first volume, and he anxiously asked to know whom Evelina married. He protested, too, that there were passages in it that would do honour to Richardson, and that Henry Fielding never drew such a character as Mr. Smith.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua Reynolds did as much on a day when he had no time to spare, and declared he would give fifty pounds to know the author.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Burke      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua Reynolds did as much on a day when he had no time to spare, and declared he would give fifty pounds to know the author.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Joshua Reynolds      Print: Book

Frances Burney : Cecilia
'In 1782 "Cecilia" [...] made its appearance [...] Burke called it an extraordinary performance, and the public were delighted with it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Burke      Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : novels
'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth is contemporary opinion, and tales which delighted Burke, Fox, and Sheridan, must, when compared with the novels then published, have possessed a singular amount of merit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Burke      Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : novels
'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth is contemporary opinion, and tales which delighted Burke, Fox, and Sheridan, must, when compared with the novels then published, have possessed a singular amount of merit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles James Fox      Print: Book

Ann Radcliffe : novels
'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth is contemporary opinion, and tales which delighted Burke, Fox, and Sheridan, must, when compared with the novels then published, have possessed a singular amount of merit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Brinsley Sheridan      Print: Book

Elizabeth Inchbald : Nature and Art
'[William] Godwin, no mean judge of a novel's excellence, could not help lamenting the fewness of [Elizabeth Inchbald's] productions. On reading the MS. of "Nature and Art," he wrote to her: "It seems to me that the drama puts shackles upon you, and that the compression it requires prevents your genius from expanding itself."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Godwin      Manuscript: Unknown

:
'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on terms of close intimacy. While her husband painted, she and John Philip Kemble read. On Sundays, if they were not near a Catholic chapel, it was she or her husband who read Mass to their visitor [Philip Kemble], who listened with due humility.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Inchbald      Print: Unknown

:
'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on terms of close intimacy. While her husband painted, she and John Philip Kemble read. On Sundays, if they were not near a Catholic chapel, it was she or her husband who read Mass to their visitor [Philip Kemble], who listened with due humility.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Philip Kemble      Print: Unknown

: [Roman Catholic] Mass
'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on terms of close intimacy. While her husband painted, she and John Philip Kemble read. On Sundays, if they were not near a Catholic chapel, it was she or her husband who read Mass to their visitor [Philip Kemble], who listened with due humility.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Inchbald and husband     Print: Book

Cowper :
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Prose writings
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Unknown

Henry Fielding :
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Jane Austen : fiction writings
'[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient docility, and read her tales aloud with great effect, "and they were never heard to so much advantage as from her own mouth," says Sir Egerton Brydges, who knew her.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Amelia Opie : verses opening 'Go, youth beloved...'
'In [1802] [...] [Amelia Opie] published a volume of poems. It included those charming and well-known lines, which, as giving the key to her nature -- tenderness -- we shall quote here [reproduces two stanzas opening "Go, youth beloved, in distant glades"] [...] It was of this very sweet song that Sir James Mackintosh playfully wrote to Mr. Sharpe, saying: "Tell the fair Opie that if she would address such pretty verses to me as she did to Ashburner, I think she might almost bring me back from Bombay, though she could not prevent his going thither."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Mackintosh      Print: Book

Amelia Opie : Father and Daughter
On literary life of Amelia Opie, 1804-25: 'It must have been something [...] to breakfast with Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott: the gifted man condescending to tell her "that he had cried more over her 'Father and Daughter' than he cried over such things."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Rosamond
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [?The] Purple Jar
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Simple Susan
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children     Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Simple Susan
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Rosamond
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : [?The] Purple Jar
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Harry and Lucy
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Journal (extracts)
'[Thomas] Carlyle saw Scott's greatness in the extracts from the Diary given by Lockhart. The stern critic rightly recalls the feelings and conduct evidenced by those extracts "tragical and beautiful"'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

J. G. Lockhart : Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk
'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk was written by [J. G.] Lockhart, aided probably by one or more [...] clever young advocates [...] Sophia probably knew who its author was, and judged it favourably'.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sophia Scott

J. G. Lockhart : Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk
Charlotte Sophia Scott to Miss Millar (former governess), 5 July 1819: 'I would advise you to read a new book, which will be out soon called Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk. It is one of the most clever, and at the same time rather severe books that has been written for ages. That is Papa's opinion.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

William Shakespeare : plays
'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's plays and the Arabian Nights in the family circle'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

: The Arabian Nights' Entertainment
'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's plays and the Arabian Nights in the family circle'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Emma
Quoted from Mrs Maxwell Scott: 'My cousin, Baroness von Appell (grand-daughter of Sir Walter [Scott]'s brother Thomas) will be one of those most interested in these letters. Her mother was the Eliza mentioned by my great-aunt Anne in one letter, and was a most clever and delightful lady, whose reading aloud of Emma is one of the remembrances of my girlhood.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Scott      Print: Book

:
[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] From Samuel Richardson's account of his childhood, up to about age 13: 'As a bashful and not forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson      Print: Book

: Psalms
[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beautiful Psalms in Smith's Devotions were read responsively in the nursery by herself, and daughters, standing in a circle [...] After breakfast the younger ones read to her in turns the Psalms, and lessons for the day.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs [Samuel] Richardson and daughters     Print: Book

: Psalms
[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beautiful Psalms in Smith's Devotions were read responsively in the nursery by herself, and daughters, standing in a circle [...] After breakfast the younger ones read to her in turns the Psalms, and lessons for the day.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Richardson children     Print: Book

: Lessons
[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beautiful Psalms in Smith's Devotions were read responsively in the nursery by herself, and daughters, standing in a circle [...] After breakfast the younger ones read to her in turns the Psalms, and lessons for the day.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Richardson children     Print: Book

:
[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'We [...] spent the evening in Mrs Richardson's parlour, where the practice was for one of the young ladies to read, while the rest sat with mute attention, round a large table, and employed themselves in some kind of needle-work. Mr Richardson generally retired to his study, unless there was particular company.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs [Samuel] Richardson and daughters     Print: Unknown

John Milton : Prose writings
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with those I threw out, under influence of that back-handed inspiration, which his malevolent genius had filled me with, as I drew in the bad air of his pages [...] One might venture on a very new use of two writers: I would pick out my friends and my enemies, by setting them to read [italics]Milton[end italics] and [italics]Cowley[end italics]. I might take it for granted, that I ought to be afraid of his [italics]heart[end italics], who, in the fame and popularity of the first, could lose sight of his malice and wickedness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill      Print: Unknown

: Leonidas
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737: 'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which excellent poem I herewith return you. I am told that the author is young; and I gather comfort, in his right, for the rising generation.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill

: 'folio'
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1738: 'I will carefully and speedily return the folio with which you so kindly surprised me. It promises me, as I turn the leaves transiently over, a good deal of pleasure in the perusal.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill      Print: Book

Robert Burns : Tam o' Shanter
'The storm around might roar and rustle We didna mind the storm a whistle'.
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Samuel Richardson : Pamela
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Though I opened this powerful little pie with more expectation than from common designs of like promise, because it came from your hands for my daughters, yet who could have dreamed he should find, under the modest disguise of a novel, all the soul of religion, good breeding, discretion, good-nature, wit, fancy, fine thought and morality? I have done nothing but read it to others, and have others again read it to me, ever since it came into my hands [...] if I lay the book down, it comes after me. When it has dwelt all day long upon the ear, it takes possession, all night, of the fancy [goes on to request that Richardson let him know the name of the author, saying 'since I feel him the friend of my soul, it would be a kind of violation to pretend him a stranger']'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Though I opened this powerful little pie with more expectation than from common designs of like promise, because it came from your hands for my daughters, yet who could have dreamed he should find, under the modest disguise of a novel, all the soul of religion, good breeding, discretion, good-nature, wit, fancy, fine thought and morality? I have done nothing but read it to others, and have others again read it to me, ever since it came into my hands [...] if I lay the book down, it comes after me. When it has dwelt all day long upon the ear, it takes possession, all night, of the fancy [goes on to request that Richardson let him know the name of the author, saying 'since I feel him the friend of my soul, it would be a kind of violation to pretend him a stranger']'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740: 'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriended, and born to no prospect. He is the son of an honest, poor soldier [...] the boy [...] is so pretty, so gentle, and gay-spirited, that we have made him, and designed him, our own, ever since he could totter and aim at words [...] He is an hourly foundation for laughter [...] ever since my first reading of Pamela, he puts in for a right to be one of her hearers; and, having got half her sayings by heart, talks in no other language but hers; and what really surprises, and has charmed me into a certain foretaste of her influence, he is, at once, become fond of his books, which (before) he could never be brought to attend to -- that he may read Pamela, he says, without stopping. The first discovery we made of this power, over so unripe and unfixed an attention, was one evening, when I was reading her reflections at the pond to some company. The little rampant intruder [...] had crept under my chair, and was sitting before me on the carpet [...] on a sudden we heard a succession of heart-wrenching sobs, which, while he strove to conceal from our notice, his little sides swelled as though they would burst [...] All the ladies in the company were ready to devour him with kisses, and he has since become doubly a favourite, and is, perhaps, the youngest of Pamela's conquests.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill      Print: Book

: newspapers
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741: 'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see nothing that busies the public, except now and then a few newspapers; but even from those I have the joy to discern the justice that is done to your Pamela [novel]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Richardson : Pamela (two sheets from part II)
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741: 'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets of Pamela, part II. Where will your wonders end? [goes on to praise text further]'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Aaron Hill

: 'a new play'
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new play at Lord Tyrconnel's, there was present a gentleman, distinguished for rank and genius, who [...] repeated those fine lines to the earl of Oxford, printed before Dr Parnell's poems [...] this gentleman had been so generously warmed, in his repeating them, that he was the most undeniable example I had ever seen of all Longinus's effect of the sublime, in its most amiable force of energy! [...] he told us, "He could never read those verses without rapture; for, that sentiments such as those were, appeared to carry more of the god in them than the man, and he was never weary of admiring them!" [goes on to relate how he identified this reader to Pope as the Speaker of the House of Commons]'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Earl of Tyrconnel and guests including Aaron Hill

: 'lines to the earl of Oxford'
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new play at Lord Tyrconnel's, there was present a gentleman, distinguished for rank and genius, who [...] repeated those fine lines to the earl of Oxford, printed before Dr Parnell's poems [...] this gentleman had been so generously warmed, in his repeating them, that he was the most undeniable example I had ever seen of all Longinus's effect of the sublime, in its most amiable force of energy! [...] he told us, "He could never read those verses without rapture; for, that sentiments such as those were, appeared to carry more of the god in them than the man, and he was never weary of admiring them!" [goes on to relate how he identified this reader to Pope as the Speaker of the House of Commons]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Hervey : Meditations [?Among the Tombs]
Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745: 'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and yourself, and many thanks for the present I brought her from you. She is far from well, but no symptoms of the disease we would particularly guard against: the disorder hangs chiefly on her spirits; and she told me, after she had dipt into your book, that she fancied flowers and tombs were (tho' seeming so remote) as near in nature, as in that author's composition.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline [?Young]      Print: Book

Hartley :
Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1749: 'When I was in town, I ask'd you if you had read Dr Hartley's book. You told me you had not [...] I have since read it a second time, and with great satisfaction. It is certainly a work of distinction [...] It is calculated for men of sense [...] there is no man who seriously considers himself as immortal, but will find his pleasure, if not his profit, in it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Young      Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : The Governess
[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fielding's proof, which relates to Mrs. Teachum's method of punishing her scholars; and give me leave to tell you my reasons for thinking it rather better to remain as she has left it, than to have it altered even as [italics]you[end italics] proposed [goes on to discuss treatment of theme of punishment in text in detail].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: J[?ane] Collier      Print: Unknown, In proof

: 'play'
[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749: 'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by what I have read of it, I think Mr Garrick is very much obliged to the author for shewing the world how much he is in the right for refusing it.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: J[?ane] Collier

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
[?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754: 'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary patience I ever met with; for Miss L---- and Miss B---- agree'd to read Sir Charles Grandison together, and really waited from time to time till they could meet, each honourably performing their covenant, and not so much as taking one unlawful peep in the absence of the other.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: 'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----'     Print: Book

Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755: 'I met with some lines the other day in a translation of a famous Italian poet, which in a few expressive words, gives a better account of this sweet country, than I could in a hundred [quotes eight lines opening "She wishes much to tarry in this land ..."]. This poem was the only book of amusement I brought with me; it is called Ariosto,; or, Orlando Furioso, and is, in its way, a most wonderful piece of imagination, and really a very extraordinary work.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Collier      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time the pleasure of going through that admirable work; they never read it nor heard of it till now, and are so delighted, and so interested for your beloved sweet girl [i.e. character Clarissa], that you cannot imagine what a new entertainment it is to me to hear the remarks, and the observations they make, and this from minds so innocent and ignorant of the world as they seem.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Collier      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time the pleasure of going through that admirable work; they never read it nor heard of it till now, and are so delighted, and so interested for your beloved sweet girl [i.e. character Clarissa], that you cannot imagine what a new entertainment it is to me to hear the remarks, and the observations they make, and this from minds so innocent and ignorant of the world as they seem.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Collier      Print: Book

: newspapers
Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'I still feel anxiety, painful anxiety, for some good account of those I knew and esteemed at Lisbon [...] I see the public newspapers pretty constantly, and have watched earnestly for some account amongst the English who got on board ships and are coming to England [...] but am not yet satisfied. But how terribly extensive have these shocks been! Sure never was heard of an earthquake being felt so far, and in so many places, and so many leagues at sea, as this before!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Collier      Print: Newspaper

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756: 'My good old folks --you can't think how I love them! -- the more I believe, because they hearken with such attention and admiration to Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, which latter I have now begun to them [sic]. They believe both Clarissa and Sir Charles to be real stories, and no work of imagination, and I don't care to undeceive them. The good man is more than three score, he believes [...] They love each other, and the husband rejoices in the balance of sense being of her side, which it is, in some degree, and glories in her being able to read and write, which he can scarcely do.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Collier      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa (volume 3)
Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1748 [comments in detail, with page references, on passages in latest instalment of Clarissa, before remarking]: 'I have got through 210 pages [of volume 3] with a continual resolution to give every occasional beauty its laudable remark; but they grow too thick and strong upon me, to give me that agreeable leisure. I read a course of full five hours and a half, without drawing bit (as the jockeys call it); in which time my attention has got the better of my approbation, which all the while longed to tell you how I liked it [goes on to comment further in detail, apparently breaking off and resuming letter to read, and report on, successive passages of text]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 6 June 1753, following visit to Richardson on 3 June 1753: 'The delicious meal I made of Miss Byron on Sunday last, has given me an appetite for another slice of her, off from the spit before she is served up to the public table.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 27 May 1750: 'I have just finished the sheets [of Clarissa] you favoured me with [...] I have not patience, till I know what's become of her [...] What piteous, d----d, disgraceful, pickle have you plunged her in? For God's sake send me the sequel [...] My girls are all on fire and fright to know what can possibly become of her.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Colley Cibber

Samuel Richardson : 'writings'
J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and expressed a great desire to be acquainted with you,as he already thoroughly is with your writings [...] The short epigram which Mr Graham sent you was wrote by himself, and is much liked here, because we think it partakes of the sublime simplicity of the ancients.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

Graham : epigram
J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and expressed a great desire to be acquainted with you,as he already thoroughly is with your writings [...] The short epigram which Mr Graham sent you was wrote by himself, and is much liked here, because we think it partakes of the sublime simplicity of the ancients.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge

Lord Orrery : Letters on Swift
J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 17 November 1751: 'I have been reading lately, with great satisfaction, the Letters of Lord Orrery on Dr Swift; and pleased myself with reflecting on the resemblance they bear to those of Cicero, in the tender expressions of his love for his children [comments further]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Duncombe      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
J. Channing to Samuel Richardson, 31 October 1748: 'I returned your papers on Saturday, with sincere thanks, myself very truly affected with them. I had attended the last moments of your heroine [Clarissa] with such emotions of soul, as every unsteeled reader must experience.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Channing

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[N/A] : Rambler
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751: 'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good one) upon Milton, because the author has been much censured for carrying his humanity and good- nature so much too far, as to assist that villainous forger Lauder in his Apology.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

: Directions for the Employment of Time
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1751: 'I have a [...] curiosity to find out the author of a book Mrs Underdown has lately been reading to me, with which we are both greatly charmed. The title is "Directions for the Employment of Time" [...] Have you seen Stanzas in a Country Church-yard? and do not you greatly admire them?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Underdown      Print: Book

Fielding : [?The] Patriot
Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751: 'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age [...] Have you read Fielding's excellent, incomparable "Patriot," truly patriot book? or the Bishop of Worcester upon Gin? -- Yet these things can be published, talked of, acknowledged to be just and well writ, and not wake one statesman out of his dream of ambition, or fashion, or amusement, into care of the real interests of the public. Not one heart seems to glow with the desire of extirpating villainy or preventing misery and pain. Very soon we shall be a nation of savages.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : 'Rambler' [essay]
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751: 'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I had no idea when I sent it to you that it was worth a second reading [...] Having honestly told you my humility, I will now, with equal honesty, tell you my vanity, that upon the whole it pleases me better than Mr Richardson's Rambler [identified by source ed. as probably No. 97]. Do you like that Paper? and will you be angry with me for not liking it at all? I cannot see how some of his doctrines can be founded on any other supposition than that Providence designed one half of the human species for idiots and slaves. One would think the man was, in this respect, a Mahometan.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Richardson : 'Rambler' [essay]
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Rambler' essay: 'Fie upon you! indeed I see no harm in that poor Paper, and must own myself particularly fond of it. He does not pretend to give a scheme (not an entire scheme) of female education, only to say how when well educated they should behave, in opposition to the racketing life of the Ranelagh-education misses of these our days. Do read it over again a little candidly. How can you imagine that the author of Clarissa has not an idea enough of what women may be, and ought to be?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Richardson : 'Rambler' [essay]
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751: 'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson another reading, and confess myself to have been too much prejudiced both by the opinions of those who read it before me, and from some of his own notions which I had lately seen on another subject, and that the Paper itself, if my head had not been full of those when I read it, might have appeared to much greater advantage.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Idler
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751: 'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on the whole, and yet it so far amuses me that I am glad to take it in rather than any other.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

Plutarch : Morals
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which my lord reads us now and then out of a very so so translation. They seem to me the most amiable, the most lively, and the least dry of any moral book, but 'tis indeed very little I have heard of them. I am deep in the Memoires [sic] of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with pleasure, as he seems to have an honest, brave, and worthy heart [...] I am reading many other books, but will not trouble you with my thoughts of them till I have read them through.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Secker      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.
'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one of the rarest and certainly one of the best of books − [italics]Clarissa Harlowe[end italics]. For any man who takes an interest in the problem of the two sexes, that book is a perfect mine of documents. And it is written, sir, with the pen of an angel. Miss Howe and Lovelace, words cannot tell how good they are! And the scene where Clarissa beards her family, with her fan going all the while; and some of the quarrel scenes between her and Lovelace; and the scene where Colonel Marsden goes to Mr Hall, with Lord M. trying to compose matters, and the Colonel with his eternal "finest woman in the world", and the inimitable affirmation of Mowbray − nothing could be better! You will bless me when you read it for this recommendation; but, indeed, I can do nothing but recommend [italics]Clarissa[end italics].'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de :
'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, against the very bad, or very stupid, or else both, person, Marshal MacMahon. It was an interesting time, you may imagine. On the morning of the elections, a manifesto of the President’s came out. I was living at the time in what we call Bohemian style, buying and cooking my own food, and had occasion to go out early for some chocolate. When I read the proclamation, which was on all the walls, I could have beaten MacMahon with my cane. It was a scandalous attempt to insult the poor people and so drive them to the barricades; if that was not the intention of the document, it was either written by a man out of his mind, or I do not know the meaning of words when I see them. They disappointed him for one while; but how it is all to end, who can foresee?'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Poster

Duc de Sully : Memoirs
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with pleasure, as he seems to have an honest, brave, and worthy heart [...] I am reading many other books, but will not trouble you with my thoughts of them till I have read them through.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Christopher Smart : On the Eternity of the Supreme Being
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751: 'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only late publication I have met with is Mr Smart's Prize Verses.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

Alexander Pope : The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'Our present after-supper author is Mr Pope, in Mr Warburton's edition. Is it because one's strongest partialities, when in any point deceived, turn to the strongest prejudice of dislike, that I read those admirable poems and letters with a considerable mixture of pain and indignation? [...] one can scarce help looking upon all those eloquent expressions of benevolence and affection as too much paradox, while one sees them overbalanced by such bitterness and cutting severity [comments further].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Maximilien de Bethune de Sully : Memoirs
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know none that shews the world in a more entertaining and instructive way, and numberless are the reflections that every page suggests to me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Alison Cockburn : prose writing/s
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 20 August 1751: 'You tell me nothing of Mrs Cockburn. I have read but little yet, but she seems to have had a most remarkable clear understanding and an excellent heart. By what I have read of her prose, I should by no means suspect she had a genius formed for poetry, which is perhaps one reason why I have not yet looked into her play.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

Bernard de Montfaucon : French Antiquities
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751: 'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would you be if you had been turning over with me five great folios of Montfaucon's French Antiquities, where warriors, tyrants, queens, and favourites, have past before my eyes in a quick succession, of whose pomp, power, and bustle, nothing now remains but quiet Gothic monuments, vile prints, and the records of still viler actions [...] [later comments, in same letter] Let me do justice to human nature and French history; my last night's reading afforded some instances of most charming generosity [...] and of real goodness.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, did you ever call Pigmalion a fool, for making an image and falling in love with it -- and do you know that you and I are two Pigmalionesses? Did not Mr Richardson ask us for some traits of his good man's character? And did not we give him some? And has he not gone and put these and his own charming ideas into a book and formed a Sir Charles Grandison? [...] I have seen some parts of this amiable book, but I tell you this as a profound secret, which I have not named even to Lady Grey, who is therefore much puzzled why we cannot find time to read Amelia, when she knows we read en famille after supper.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle : Plays
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'I want to talk to you of Fontanelle's Plays, have you seen them? They are incomparable. Truth, virtue, simplicity, and good sense, are the characteristics of his heroines, and there is besides something agreeably odd and uncommon in the whole manner.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Charlotte Lennox : The Female Quixote
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read to my mother last night while we were undressing were whimsical enough and not at all low.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia (volumes 1 and 2)
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read to my mother last night while we were undressing were whimsical enough and not at all low. I have not read Amelia, yet, but have seen it read and commented upon much to my edification by that good Bishop of Gloucester, who seldom misses spending two or three days of the week at this deanery [...] I have been particularly delighted with some of our afternoons, when we have sat unmolested by my dressing-room fire-side, he reading Amelia (and quarreling excessively at the two first volumes) my mother and I reading or working, or following our own devices as it might happen, and every one mixing little interruptions of chat as things come into their heads; with not a single ring at the door to disturb us.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Martin Benson      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751: 'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia is past my skill, as it does not appear that she was in very good health when she read the book.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Mulso      Print: Book

Hester Mulso : verses
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses, Mr Richardson has been so good as to shew them to me. I admire her and them as I ought, and indeed from all I have heard of her character, or seen of her writing, I love and esteem her much.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot

Henry Fielding : Amelia
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'At last we have begun Amelia, it is very entertaining. I do love Dr Harrison and the good Serjeant; and Mrs James's visit to Amelia has extremely diverted me. How many Mrs James's in that good-for-nothing London! But Mr Fielding's heroines are always silly loving runaway girls. Amelia makes an excellent wife, but why did she marry Booth?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family.     Print: Book

: report of death of Bishop of Durham
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 23 June 1752: 'I am heartily sorry, my dear Miss Talbot, to find by to-day's Paper that your apprehensions were too well grounded. The loss of so great and good a man, in such a rank [Bishop of Durham], is a general misfortune, but I cannot help finding myself particularly interested in it, as it so immediately affects those for whose happiness I have such uncommon reason to be solicitous.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Newspaper

: 'Arlequin'
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving trouble and reading idle books to while away the hours of prescribed solitude [...] Dear, dear, with what companions have I been spending my lonely hours! Arlequin, a stupidissima Princess Mesirida, an infamous Con. Philips, and a ten times more profligate Jack Connor!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Unknown

: 'Princess Mesirida'
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving trouble and reading idle books to while away the hours of prescribed solitude [...] Dear, dear, with what companions have I been spending my lonely hours! Arlequin, a stupidissima Princess Mesirida, an infamous Con. Philips, and a ten times more profligate Jack Connor!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Unknown

Con. [Teresia Constantia] Phillips : An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving trouble and reading idle books to while away the hours of prescribed solitude [...] Dear, dear, with what companions have I been spending my lonely hours! Arlequin, a stupidissima Princess Mesirida, an infamous Con. Philips, and a ten times more profligate Jack Connor!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

William Chaigneau : The History of Jack Connor
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving trouble and reading idle books to while away the hours of prescribed solitude [...] Dear, dear, with what companions have I been spending my lonely hours! Arlequin, a stupidissima Princess Mesirida, an infamous Con. Philips, and a ten times more profligate Jack Connor!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Mary Jones : Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]: 'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellanies. Is it possible you could really admire them? Is it the cleanliness or delicacy of Holt Waters, or the Letter to a Physician, that delights you? The Letters appear to me in a forced style -- in the very "false gallop" of wit! [comments further]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Françoise d'Aubigné de Maintenon : Letters
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752: 'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Letters? [...] She seems to have been both a great and a good woman. [comments further]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: The Adventurer
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752: 'Pray can you tell me any history of a new paper called the Adventurer? We hope much from it, though we have seen but one. It seems, with a style not unlike the Rambler, to go upon that amusing scheme which people expected from the title of the Rambler.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Serial / periodical

: The Adventurer
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 January 1753: 'I like the Adventurers; we all like them exceedingly [...] They do not abound in hard words, they are varied with a thousand amusing stories, they touch with humour the daily follies and peculiarities of the times.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Serial / periodical

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sevigne : Letters (vol. 7)
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local countryside (around Oxford): 'Yesterday we set off soon after four [...] Our road lay through a most pleasant country. In the coach we amused ourselves with some of the seventh volume of Mad. de Sevigne's Letters, and some of Mrs Fielding's. 'Tis vexatious in the last-named book to find such a mixture of refinement a perte de vue proceeding from her inclination to support, I fancy, a false system [...] But where she writes naturally one loves and honours her extremely; there is a goodness of heart and a delicacy of sentiment that makes me think you happy in her acquaintance.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : Letters
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local countryside (around Oxford): 'Yesterday we set off soon after four [...] Our road lay through a most pleasant country. In the coach we amused ourselves with some of the seventh volume of Mad. de Sevigne's Letters, and some of Mrs Fielding's. 'Tis vexatious in the last-named book to find such a mixture of refinement a perte de vue proceeding from her inclination to support, I fancy, a false system [...] But where she writes naturally one loves and honours her extremely; there is a goodness of heart and a delicacy of sentiment that makes me think you happy in her acquaintance.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Elizabeth Singer Rowe :
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one is fond of with persons of taste and candour, to whom it is entirely new. A great deal of this pleasure I have had lately. Mrs Rowe's excellent works were an undiscovered treasure to Mrs Berkeley, and she values them as they deserve. We read one night a certain Vision in the Rambler, that I saw fixed her whole attention.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: 'Vision'
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one is fond of with persons of taste and candour, to whom it is entirely new. A great deal of this pleasure I have had lately. Mrs Rowe's excellent works were an undiscovered treasure to Mrs Berkeley, and she values them as they deserve. We read one night a certain Vision in the Rambler, that I saw fixed her whole attention.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753: 'Our days here pass too pleasantly to want any foreign enlivening [...] country scenes, charming weather, agreeable companions, and every evening an hour's reading en famille of Sir C. Grandison.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753: 'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes of his most charming work, and I heartily wish, for his sake as well as their own, that all the world may be as fond of it as I am [comments further].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly : Theorie des sentimens agréables
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754: 'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des Sentimens Agreables? [...] I have some curiosity about it, from hearing a very ingenious and good kind of man say it always made him form resolutions of amendment.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly : Theorie des sentimens agreables
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754: '"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago, and quite forget. It made no deep impression upon me, but that may be my fault.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Carlo Maria Maggi : Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no modern author, but from one whom I am sure you never met with, because you never mentioned him, Carlo Maria Maggi [...] [reproduces sonnet opening "Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici..."] Is not this sonnet perfect in its way? And is it not utterly untranslatable?'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot

Richard Owen Cambridge : papers (i.e. essays)
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively papers in the World this winter from the mere motive of charity; and some of them are very pretty.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

Carlo Maria Maggi : Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754: 'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you sent me. I am afraid your opinion is too well grounded of its being absolutely untranslatable, at least into our Gothic language.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754.

Metastasio : 'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante'
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754: 'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi, opening 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'] you sent me, I am quite ashamed to let you see poor Metastasio's love song [as previously promised], but the simplicity of it pleased me, and simplicity is an excellence not often to be met with in any modern compositions, except those of our own country, of which I think it is the characteristic.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter

David Fordyce : Elements of Moral Philosophy
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754: 'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of moral philosophy, to find that the moral frame was not perfect without a due degree of fear, and of all sorts of passions. 'Tis a posthumous work of Mr Fordyce, and all together an excellent little book.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Unknown

Sarah Fielding : The Cry
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754: 'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my way till very lately, and I read it with low spirits, but upon the whole it pleased me mightily. There is sometimes rather too strong a spirit of refining in it, which I believe is the case in all Mrs Fielding's compositions, and she often puts me in mind of Tacitus. But is she not in general a most excellent writer?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Anthony Ashley Cooper : Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [volume 1].
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask you whether I had dreamt it, or whether it was possible that I should ever have heard you mention that bigotted heathen Lord Shaftesbury with approbation? I have only looked into the first volume [...] but I have met with so many things that offend me excessively as to leave little little inclination to look further. Arrogance, bitterness, prejudice and obscurity, the falsest reasoning, the absurdest pride, the vilest ingratitude, the most offensive levity, disgrace whatever there was of elegant, and fair, and honest in some of the ideas, and whatever is easy and genteel in some parts of his style.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : The Cry
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much out of charity with one sign-post painting in it, to name it to you. Ferdinand's way of making love did charm me, but his hard-hearted, dishonest, lying, unnatural absurdity of behaviour at last provoked me absolutely beyond all patience.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: The World, No. CIV
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 December 1754: 'I cannot help being so ungenteel as to send you the good wishes of the season, though to any of the fine folks of this town it would certainly be an affront. There was a pretty "World" [No. CIV] on this subject last night, accounting with humour, and also with truth, for the general indistinction of all seasons that prevails.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

Anthony Ashley Cooper : Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions.
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 January 1755: 'It is very long since I read Lord Shaftesbury, and I only remember that I was in general charmed with his imagination and language, but thought him a very bad reasoner, and was greatly offended at his levity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

: Barbarossa
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 27 January 1755: 'I read Barbarossa in a great hurry, but remember in general that I was as well pleased with it as I could be with a tragedy that has so little poetry in it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

: 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Stoic philosophy, which the Bishop of Norwich has lent me for your service, as he thinks there is the best account given in them that he has any where met with.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Stoic philosophy, which the Bishop of Norwich has lent me for your service, as he thinks there is the best account given in them that he has any where met with.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Bishop of Norwich      Print: Book

: work on Stoic philosophy
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755: 'I read that part of the Bishop of Norwich's quarto which relates to the Stoic philosophy, but met with nothing there that seems of any consequence to add to the Introduction [?to her translation of Epictetus]. The turn which that author gives to the doctrine of the Stoics is a very severe one.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Jawaharlal Nehru : Towards Freedom
'He did not mention that as a prisoner he himself had written an autobiography, of which H. N. Brailsford was to comment in the "New Statesman" the following May: "This book ... is the most vital contribution that any Indian has yet made to political literature."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Noel Brailsford      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : The Outline of History
'They could no more accept it than they or any other powerful nation had ever accepted the teaching of his Master and Friend - for "to take him seriously", as H.G. Wells wrote of "this Galilean" in "The Outline of History", "was to enter upon a strange and alarming life, to abandon habits, to control instincts and impulses, to essay an incredible happiness...."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Julien Benda : La Trahison des Clercs
[Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear] 'Presumably these writers had never read the French critic Julien Benda, who nine years earlier had prophesied in a famous book, "La Trahison des Clercs", that mankind was heading for the greatest war which the world had ever experienced.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: Article entitled "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", in the Chicago Sunday Tribune (24 October 1937)
'Under the caption "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", it told me that on the previous day Dick Sheppard had been chosen as Lord Rector, polling 538 votes to Churchill's 281.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Compton Mackenzie : Guy and Pauline
'At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the "lighted door" in his novel "Guy and Pauline".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Romain Rolland : Declaration of the Independence of the Mind
'Years afterwards, I was to discover the "Declaration of the Independence of the Mind" issued to his fellow brain-workers by the French writer, Romain Rolland, from Villeneuve in 1919.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

Marie Tempest : [letter published in the "Sunday "Times"]
'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from G., who described the contrasting practice of the Spaniards in the Civil War.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper, Unknown

Marie Tempest : [Letter published in the "Sunday Times"]
'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from G., who described the contrasting practice of the Spaniards in the Civil War.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper, Unknown

: [sonnets]
'To conclude some 15 sonnets were read & recited by members & much enjoyed'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club     Print: Unknown

Walter Raymond : The Book of Simple Delights
'K.S. Evans assisted [her husband's discussion of superstition] by reading from Walter Raymond's "The Book of Simple Delights".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Henry Marriage Wallis : "The Price of his Soul"
'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith read a story written by H.M. Wallis who was unable to be present entitled "The Price of his Soul" dealing with sin eating in Wales'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold : "The Amber Witch"
'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith read a story written by H.M. Wallis who was unable to be present entitled "The Price of his Soul" dealing with sin eating in Wales'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

William Henry Hudson : Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in recent Geology'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Charles Evans : [paper on Hudson's "Green Mansions"]
'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in recent Geology'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard R. Smith : [paper on "Rates and taxes"]
'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in recent Geology'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [paper on geology]
'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in recent Geology'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

John Galsworthy : Escape, an Episodic Play in a Prologue and Two Parts
'Gallsworthy's [sic] play "The Escape" was then read in parts by the Club except that the Prologue was omitted. The reading was greatly enjoyed by all & it was felt that the Committtee had been singularly successful in their casting of the piece.' [the long cast list follows]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

William Cowper : [letters]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Unknown

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne : [letter]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: C. Elliott      Print: Unknown

Victor Hugo : [letter]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: C. Elliott      Print: Unknown

Robert Louis Stevenson : [letters]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Unknown

George Bernard Shaw : [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Unknown

James Matthew Barrie : [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Unknown

Charles Lamb : [letters]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Unknown

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : [letter to his son]
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Molly Elliott Seawell : The Ladies' Battle
'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Edith Smith : [treasurer's report of XII Book Club]
'The treasurers report showing a balance in hand of 19/- was read'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Reade : Christie Johnson
'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue from drowning. F.E. Pollard spoke of the characteristics of Reades work. Following & arising from his remarks a lively discussion arose on Art & Propaganda & the artists right to exaggerate and T.C. Elliott read a vivid & amusing scene from "the Cloister & the Hearth". C.I. Evans also read from "Hard Cash".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Charles Reade : Cloister and the Hearth, The
'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue from drowning. F.E. Pollard spoke of the characteristics of Reades work. Following & arising from his remarks a lively discussion arose on Art & Propaganda & the artists right to exaggerate and T.C. Elliott read a vivid & amusing scene from "the Cloister & the Hearth". C.I. Evans also read from "Hard Cash".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T.C. Elliott      Print: Book

Charles Reade : Hard Cash
'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue from drowning. F.E. Pollard spoke of the characteristics of Reades work. Following & arising from his remarks a lively discussion arose on Art & Propaganda & the artists right to exaggerate and T.C. Elliott read a vivid & amusing scene from "the Cloister & the Hearth". C.I. Evans also read from "Hard Cash".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Charles Reade : [novels]
'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue from drowning. F.E. Pollard spoke of the characteristics of Reades work. Following & arising from his remarks a lively discussion arose on Art & Propaganda & the artists right to exaggerate and T.C. Elliott read a vivid & amusing scene from "the Cloister & the Hearth". C.I. Evans also read from "Hard Cash".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Elizabeth Carter : 'To a Lady fond of Life'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She shewed it lately to Sir George Lyttleton, who thought and spoke of it as he ought, and earnestly begged for a copy. This she was too honourable to grant. The Bishop of Oxford says she was [italics] too [end italics] scrupulous.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Highmore      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Carter : 'To a Lady Fond of Life'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She shewed it lately to Sir George Lyttleton, who thought and spoke of it as he ought, and earnestly begged for a copy. This she was too honourable to grant. The Bishop of Oxford says she was [italics]too[end italics] scrupulous.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Donnelon      Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Carter : 'To a Lady Fond of Life'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She shewed it lately to Sir George Lyttleton, who thought and spoke of it as he ought, and earnestly begged for a copy. This she was too honourable to grant. The Bishop of Oxford says she was [italics] too [end italics] scrupulous.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir George Lyttleton      Manuscript: Unknown

: Man: A Paper for Ennobling the Species
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'There is a whole shoal of new books. The Centaur, well worth reading I think; Theron and Aspasia, too grave, I am afraid, to be much read; the Bishop of London's second volume of excellent Sermons; Dean Swift's poor and conceited account of his Uncle [Jonathan Swift], with some few things in it one likes to see [...] Man is a serious Paper, but a dull one.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

Plato : Republic
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, which I had not patience to read through. My present study is Plato's Republic. I have got through as much as I can read of Fielding's Miscellanies, which I never saw before. Did you ever read them? and are they not extremely good and extremely bad?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

: [novels]
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, which I had not patience to read through. My present study is Plato's Republic. I have got through as much as I can read of Fielding's Miscellanies, which I never saw before. Did you ever read them? and are they not extremely good and extremely bad?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Miscellanies
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, which I had not patience to read through. My present study is Plato's Republic. I have got through as much as I can read of Fielding's Miscellanies, which I never saw before. Did you ever read them? and are they not extremely good and extremely bad?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Preface to Dictionary
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have just been reading Mr Swift's account of the Dean, a book at which I am greatly scandalized. I do not remember ever to have met with so open and shameful a vindication of that species of idolatry which is the absolute ruin of all virtue, the worship of the world.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Deane Swift : Essay on the Life, &c. of Dr Swift
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have just been reading Mr Swift's account of the Dean, a book at which I am greatly scandalized. I do not remember ever to have met with so open and shameful a vindication of that species of idolatry which is the absolute ruin of all virtue, the worship of the world.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : Dictionary
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 February 1756:] 'We have looked in Johnson [i.e. his Dictionary] for [italics] Athlete [end italics], no such word there, nor any thing of the kind but Athletic, with explanations every body knows.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Thomas Newton : Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, once at Oxford, twice at Richmond with Lady Grey, who is far from well. How dearly you would love her little girl! just turned of five, has no joy but in books, and of those will not read little idle stories such as were first given to her [...] her knowledge in geography and English history is astonishing; her present book is Dr Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies, which she has almost by heart, and gives the most connected and rational account of it. With all this she is just such a romp as a child ought to be [...] and bating such little weeds of pride and passion as will shoot up spontaneously in every human soil, an exceeding good little heart.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Fulke Greville : Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'Have you seen the reflections, maxims, and characters moral and satirical? Amusing, I think, and not bad; writ by a fine man that no mortal suspected for an author; a Mr Greville [...] somebody said of it very well, that it is quite a French book written in English.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Fulke Greville : Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical [extract]
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 3 May 1756:] 'I had read an extract from that book which you say is writ by Mr Greville, and concluded it must be a translation from some French author, and I can scarcely forbear wishing my notion had been right. I believe there might be some good things in it, but, Genius of Britain, forbid that any such frippery kind of writing should grow into fashion amongst us!'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter

Thomas Browne : Christian Morals
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:] 'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals? 'Tis a collection of the noblest thoughts, drest in the uncouthest language possible, for which reason few will read, and half of those despise, a book as superior to Mr Greville's [Reflections, Maxims, and Characters...] as Epictetus to Tom Thumb.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Thomas Browne : Religio Medici
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:] 'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but your recommendation of it [in letter of 7 May 1756] will set me to reading his Religio Medici again, which I have utterly forgot, except that when I read it I thought it contained many excellent things.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:] 'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share with her, and we study the various characters of the poultry with infinite amusement. Two of our hens are called Cleopatra and Octavia, my mother named them, and with perfect justice, and we divert ourselves with studying how the chickens take after them. These names put me in mind to ask you how could Mrs Fielding who is so good a woman make Octavia self-sufficient under suffering and trials, and not so much as hint the smallest degree of uninstructed piety as even heathens had [...] I do not love any dialogues of the dead, because it is representing a true and awful state in generally a false light [...] Fine people are too apt to think they may live very happy, and be very remarkably good without any religion, and Octavia will convince them of it, for her story is enchantingly told, and in some parts made [italics] even me [end italics] cry very heartily -- [italics] even me [end italics] as if I was of adamant.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Robert Dodsley : The Ladies' Memorandum Book
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:] 'I have looked in Dodsley, to see if any events had happened between your leaving town [on 'Wednesday last'] and this time worth mentioning.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Lennox : Henrietta
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758]:] '"Henrietta" has been useful to us here, but there are many things in it that I dislike, and that tally with my opinion of the writer. That brother is execrable. -- There are bits of pride and sauciness in Henrietta, and reflections in one place tending to ridicule the belief of a particular Providence, to which I object very greatly.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Françoise Langlois de Motteville : Memoirs for the History of Anne of Austria
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:] 'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu's the Memoirs of Anne of Austria, in a vile and most unintelligible translation; yet I keep reading on, and am much inclined to love Madame Motteville a great deal better than her heroine, against whom I have just now an irreconcileable quarrel for leaving her to all the dangers and miseries of a siege.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Ben Jonson :
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his household's change of residence:] 'I have not had any spare time, not but that I have lounged away many a half hour over Ben Jonson, Marivaux's Spectateur Francois, and any such idle books as chance presented me'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Pierre de Marivaux : Le Spectateur Francois
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his household's change of residence:] 'I have not had any spare time, not but that I have lounged away many a half hour over Ben Jonson, Marivaux's Spectateur Francois, and any such idle books as chance presented me'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Unknown

: 'ridiculous French books'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during convalescence from illness, 1 January 1759:] 'I have run over a heap of most ridiculous French books, and think with real grief how shameful it is that people should sit down to study such trash in perfect health -- in [italics] real [end italics] illness they woud be a still more unfit occupation, and I can scarce excuse myself for turning over so many, even in the state of langour in which I am, and which makes me unfit for application, and under a necessity of amusement. Indeed many of them are so vile that a page at a time was quite enough.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: 'French plays'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 November 1759:] 'I thank you for the Barrow, and in idle hours, for the French plays.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

anon : The Histories of some of the Penitents in the Magadalen House
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1759:] 'The book you enquire after is "The History of some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House." I think that is the title of the very pretty book we have been reading. I know not who writ it, but it is at least a very good likeness of Mrs Fielding.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Horace : The Art of Poetry
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Lang Jones :
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Edward Verrall Lucas :
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Gilbert Keith Chesterton : 'Lepanto'
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T.C. Elliott      Print: Book

Colin D. B. Ellis :
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

J. C. Squires : [poem possibly entitled 'Birds']
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Alfred Noyes : The Torch Bearers
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [poems]
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

Burrow : [poems]
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : [poems]
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

W. Watson : 'Lakeland'
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Rupert Brooke :
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany : Fame and the Poet
'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord Dunsany & a delightful evening was spent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Windows
'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord Dunsany & a delightful evening was spent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Stanley Houghton : The Dear Departed
'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord Dunsany & a delightful evening was spent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

Alan Alexander Milne : The Boy Comes Home
'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord Dunsany & a delightful evening was spent.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII Book Club     Print: Book

M. B Synge : A Book of Discovery
"Mrs C. Elliott reviewed "A Book of Discovery" by N. B. [sic] Synge'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: C. Elliott      Print: Book

Marco Polo : Travels of Marco Polo
'Mrs Rawlings read from Polo's description of the Great Khan.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Marion Cran : The Story of my Ruin
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Print: Book

Dorothy Brain : [essay on Hampton Court Gardens]
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Manuscript: Unknown

William Temple : [on gardens]
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Michael Drayton : 'The Daffodil'
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [essay on gardening]
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter de la Mare : 'Sunken Garden'
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

: [reading about the Garden of Eden]
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Howard R. Smith : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'After supper the Secretary read the Minutes of the last Meeting'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: book

Howard R. Smith : [Minutes of XII Book Club]
'The Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Manuscript: book

John Galsworthy : [Introduction to the 'Forsyte Saga']
'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in listening to a series of readings from the Saga as under. The opinion being expressed that the Saga read aloud even better than to oneself. T.C. Elliott The Man of Property K. S. Evans Indian Summer of a Forsyte R. B. Graham / Janet Rawlings In Chancery R. Wallis Awakening F. E. Pollard To Let D. Brain The White Monkey'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Indian Summer of a Forsyte
'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in listening to a series of readings from the Saga as under. The opinion being expressed that the Saga read aloud even better than to oneself. T.C. Elliott The Man of Property K. S. Evans Indian Summer of a Forsyte R. B. Graham / Janet Rawlings In Chancery R. Wallis Awakening F. E. Pollard To Let D. Brain The White Monkey'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine S. Evans      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : In Chancery
'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in listening to a series of readings from the Saga as under. The opinion being expressed that the Saga read aloud even better than to oneself. T.C. Elliott The Man of Property K. S. Evans Indian Summer of a Forsyte R. B. Graham / Janet Rawlings In Chancery R. Wallis Awakening F. E. Pollard To Let D. Brain The White Monkey'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R. B. Graham      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : In Chancery
'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in listening to a series of readings from the Saga as under. The opinion being expressed that the Saga read aloud even better than to oneself. T.C. Elliott The Man of Property K. S. Evans Indian Summer of a Forsyte R. B. Graham / Janet Rawlings In Chancery R. Wallis Awakening F. E. Pollard To Let D. Brain The White Monkey'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Awakening
'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in listening to a series of readings from the Saga as under. The opinion being expressed that the Saga read aloud even better than to oneself. T.C. Elliott The Man of Property K. S. Evans Indian Summer of a Forsyte R. B. Graham / Janet Rawlings In Chancery R. Wallis Awakening F. E. Pollard To Let D. Brain The White Monkey'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : To Let
'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in listening to a series of readings from the Saga as under. The opinion being expressed that the Saga read aloud even better than to oneself. T.C. Elliott The Man of Property K. S. Evans Indian Summer of a Forsyte R. B. Graham / Janet Rawlings In Chancery R. Wallis Awakening F. E. Pollard To Let D. Brain The White Monkey'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The White Monkey
'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in listening to a series of readings from the Saga as under. The opinion being expressed that the Saga read aloud even better than to oneself. T.C. Elliott The Man of Property K. S. Evans Indian Summer of a Forsyte R. B. Graham / Janet Rawlings In Chancery R. Wallis Awakening F. E. Pollard To Let D. Brain The White Monkey'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

Edith Smith : [financial statement of XII Book Club]
'The financial statement was read showing a balance in hand of 11/ 3 1/2'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Hugh I'Anson Faussett : Tolstoy; The inner drama
'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". R. B. Graham gave an account of "Anna Karenina" with some short readings. After Refreshments Mrs Robson read a parable from "Master & Man" & Geo Burrow read from "The Cossacks". F. E. pollard read an essay of Tolstoy on the Russian Famine. Some general discussion of Tolstoy & his work but more especially of the man himself closed the evening'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T. C. Elliott      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". R. B. Graham gave an account of "Anna Karenina" with some short readings. After Refreshments Mrs Robson read a parable from "Master & Man" & Geo Burrow read from "The Cossacks". F. E. pollard read an essay of Tolstoy on the Russian Famine. Some general discussion of Tolstoy & his work but more especially of the man himself closed the evening'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R. B. Graham      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Master and Man
'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". R. B. Graham gave an account of "Anna Karenina" with some short readings. After Refreshments Mrs Robson read a parable from "Master & Man" & Geo Burrow read from "The Cossacks". F. E. pollard read an essay of Tolstoy on the Russian Famine. Some general discussion of Tolstoy & his work but more especially of the man himself closed the evening'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : The Cossacks
'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". R. B. Graham gave an account of "Anna Karenina" with some short readings. After Refreshments Mrs Robson read a parable from "Master & Man" & Geo Burrow read from "The Cossacks". F. E. pollard read an essay of Tolstoy on the Russian Famine. Some general discussion of Tolstoy & his work but more especially of the man himself closed the evening'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : [essay on the Russian Famine]
'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". R. B. Graham gave an account of "Anna Karenina" with some short readings. After Refreshments Mrs Robson read a parable from "Master & Man" & Geo Burrow read from "The Cossacks". F. E. Pollard read an essay of Tolstoy on the Russian Famine. Some general discussion of Tolstoy & his work but more especially of the man himself closed the evening'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina
'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". R. B. Graham gave an account of "Anna Karenina" with some short readings. After Refreshments Mrs Robson read a parable from "Master & Man" & Geo Burrow read from "The Cossacks". F. E. Pollard read an essay of Tolstoy on the Russian Famine. Some general discussion of Tolstoy & his work but more especially of the man himself closed the evening'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R. B. Graham      Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : 'Cold Iron'
'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fairies. "Cold Iron" F. E. Pollard sang "Do you wonder where the Fairies are?" C. I. Evans read "True Thomas" & H. M. Wallis contributed an original Phantasia [?] on Rigmarole After Refreshments Muriel B. Smith played two passages from Pier Gynt. This was followed by a somewhat desultory & inconclusive discussion on Fairies & Fairy Stories & in conclusion Miss Brain read a Swedish Tale & Mrs Rawlings told the story of Puss in Boots.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

: 'True Thomas'
'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fairies. "Cold Iron" F. E. Pollard sang "Do you wonder where the Fairies are?" C. I. Evans read "True Thomas" & H. M. Wallis contributed an original Phantasia [?] on Rigmarole After Refreshments Muriel B. Smith played two passages from Pier Gynt. This was followed by a somewhat desultory & inconclusive discussion on Fairies & Fairy Stories & in conclusion Miss Brain read a Swedish Tale & Mrs Rawlings told the story of Puss in Boots.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans      Print: Book

: [a Swedish fairy tale]
'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fairies. "Cold Iron" F. E. Pollard sang "Do you wonder where the Fairies are?" C. I. Evans read "True Thomas" & H. M. Wallis contributed an original Phantasia [?] on Rigmarole After Refreshments Muriel B. Smith played two passages from Pier Gynt. This was followed by a somewhat desultory & inconclusive discussion on Fairies & Fairy Stories & in conclusion Miss Brain read a Swedish Tale & Mrs Rawlings told the story of Puss in Boots.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Zadig
'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale from Zadig. After refreshments F. E. Pollard gave us an idea of Voltaire's thought & influence Mrs Evans read from Letters From England & Mrs T. C. Eliott gave us some conception of his place in French literature some discussion closing an interesting evening.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Letters on England
'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale from Zadig. After refreshments F. E. Pollard gave us an idea of Voltaire's thought & influence Mrs Evans read from Letters From England & Mrs T. C. Eliott gave us some conception of his place in French literature some discussion closing an interesting evening.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Evans      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] :
'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale from Zadig. After refreshments F. E. Pollard gave us an idea of Voltaire's thought & influence Mrs Evans read from Letters From England & Mrs T. C. Eliott gave us some conception of his place in French literature some discussion closing an interesting evening.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] :
'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale from Zadig. After refreshments F. E. Pollard gave us an idea of Voltaire's thought & influence Mrs Evans read from Letters From England & Mrs T. C. Eliott gave us some conception of his place in French literature some discussion closing an interesting evening.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: C. Elliott      Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : [article on Hardy]
'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R.H. Robson read from "Far from the Madding Crowd. T. C. Elliott read some of Hardy's poems. Mrs Rawlings read a description of Egdon Heath from "the return of the Native" Muriel B. Smith read from The Mayor of Casterbridge & Miss Brain from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Geo Burrow gave a short introduction to & some readings from the Dynasts. In conclusion F. E. Pollard made some provocative remarks which achieved their object'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Unknown

Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd
'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from the Madding Crowd. T. C. Elliott read some of Hardy's poems. Mrs Rawlings read a description of Egdon Heath from "the return of the Native" Muriel B. Smith read from The Mayor of Casterbridge & Miss Brain from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Geo Burrow gave a short introduction to & some readings from the Dynasts. In conclusion F. E. Pollard made some provocative remarks which achieved their object'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : [poems]
'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from the Madding Crowd. T. C. Elliott read some of Hardy's poems. Mrs Rawlings read a description of Egdon Heath from "the return of the Native" Muriel B. Smith read from The Mayor of Casterbridge & Miss Brain from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Geo Burrow gave a short introduction to & some readings from the Dynasts. In conclusion F. E. Pollard made some provocative remarks which achieved their object'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T. C. Elliott      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Return of the Native, The
'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from the Madding Crowd. T. C. Elliott read some of Hardy's poems. Mrs Rawlings read a description of Egdon Heath from "the return of the Native" Muriel B. Smith read from The Mayor of Casterbridge & Miss Brain from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Geo Burrow gave a short introduction to & some readings from the Dynasts. In conclusion F. E. Pollard made some provocative remarks which achieved their object'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Mayor of Casterbridge, The
'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from the Madding Crowd. T. C. Elliott read some of Hardy's poems. Mrs Rawlings read a description of Egdon Heath from "the return of the Native" Muriel B. Smith read from The Mayor of Casterbridge & Miss Brain from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Geo Burrow gave a short introduction to & some readings from the Dynasts. In conclusion F. E. Pollard made some provocative remarks which achieved their object'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Bowman Smith      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the d'Urbervilles
'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from the Madding Crowd. T. C. Elliott read some of Hardy's poems. Mrs Rawlings read a description of Egdon Heath from "the return of the Native" Muriel B. Smith read from The Mayor of Casterbridge & Miss Brain from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Geo Burrow gave a short introduction to & some readings from the Dynasts. In conclusion F. E. Pollard made some provocative remarks which achieved their object'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

Thomas Hardy : Dynasts, The
'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from the Madding Crowd. T. C. Elliott read some of Hardy's poems. Mrs Rawlings read a description of Egdon Heath from "the return of the Native" Muriel B. Smith read from The Mayor of Casterbridge & Miss Brain from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Geo Burrow gave a short introduction to & some readings from the Dynasts. In conclusion F. E. Pollard made some provocative remarks which achieved their object'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Essay on Jonathan Swift
'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several passages from Gulliver's travels & T. C. Elliott read from the Drapers Letters & explained them Alfred Rawlings read from the Tale of a Tub'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Journal to Stella
'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several passages from Gulliver's travels & T. C. Elliott read from the Drapers Letters & explained them Alfred Rawlings read from the Tale of a Tub'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several passages from Gulliver's travels & T. C. Elliott read from the Drapers Letters & explained them Alfred Rawlings read from the Tale of a Tub'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Drapier's Letters, The
'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several passages from Gulliver's travels & T. C. Elliott read from the Drapers Letters & explained them Alfred Rawlings read from the Tale of a Tub'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T. C. Elliott      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Tale of a Tub, A
'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several passages from Gulliver's travels & T. C. Elliott read from the Drapers Letters & explained them Alfred Rawlings read from the Tale of a Tub'.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Epictetus : Ode
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 6 January 1760, following illness:] 'Now I am well [...] as my mornings are engaged by exercise, I am glad enough in the evening of two or three solitary hours to read and write. Indeed I have seldom so much, for we are only admitted into the study between eight and nine [...] I was sadly reduced too for want of books -- I supplied that want by reading Epictetus. A thousand thanks to you for the treasure! Though the good old man continually vexed me with his half right notions, and I longed to talk with him and set him right on a thousand points. The sweet Ode I read with a higher admiration than ever, and to do it true justice cried over it very heartily, and yet on the whole found my mind relieved and my spirits the better for it.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Euripides : The Phoenician Women
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I fancy, though, what in Italian is peculiarly provoking, rugged and inharmonious. The Phenicians, and the Medea, filled me with horror [comments further] [...] The Orestes amused me very well, for its turn is rather comic; and I am now breaking my heart over the Hecuba.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Euripides : Medea
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I fancy, though, what in Italian is peculiarly provoking, rugged and inharmonious. The Phenicians, and the Medea, filled me with horror [comments further] [...] The Orestes amused me very well, for its turn is rather comic; and I am now breaking my heart over the Hecuba.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Euripides : Orestes
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I fancy, though, what in Italian is peculiarly provoking, rugged and inharmonious. The Phenicians, and the Medea, filled me with horror [comments further] [...] The Orestes amused me very well, for its turn is rather comic; and I am now breaking my heart over the Hecuba.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Euripides : Hecuba
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I fancy, though, what in Italian is peculiarly provoking, rugged and inharmonious. The Phenicians, and the Medea, filled me with horror [comments further] [...] The Orestes amused me very well, for its turn is rather comic; and I am now breaking my heart over the Hecuba.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Roger Boyle : Parthenissa
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:] 'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to go into the country [following visit to Talbot 'on Tuesday'], I denied myself the telling you how very sorry and grieved I was to part with you. Perhaps I did wrong [...] I have learnt from the heroines of Parthenissa that these sorts of offences are never to be forgiven. Oh dear, what a precious treasure of false thoughts, and refinements, and hyperbole have you brought me in that volume. It does me a vast deal of good, for its absurdities make me laugh more than any book of intended humour could do.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

King Frederick of Prussia : Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:] 'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le Philosophe Sans Souci." Some lines in that wickedest of all books are so evidently taken from the wrong reasonings of the ungodly in the Wisdom of Solomon, chap. 2, that I confess to me they are perfectly harmless, but I tremble to think what mischief they will do in the fine world. In other parts of the book there seem to be really pretty things -- but how is it possible a man should be such an ideot? How unaccountable is it that pride [...] should make a writer so very mean and grovelling as to triumph in the very thought of annihilation, rather than acknowledge any being in the universe superior to himself? But there would be more use in writing these things to [italics] him [end italics] than to you, so I will have done.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : The Family Instructor
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:] 'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with some faults that would make it dangerous to some sort of people, and some excellencies in it that would make it excessively despised by others, has a great deal of merit. It is written by the author of Robinson Crusoe, and called "The Family Instructor," and is so engaging, that when I had once taken it up I knew not how to lay it down again, and have recommended it to my mother as an amusing book, that with all her nicety of taste will not set her to sleep.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Salomon Gessner : La Mort d'Abel
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:] 'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collected from all the frippery shelves throughout Westminster and London, I will mention a book which, if you have not read it, it is fit you should, 'La Mort d'Abel.' It is a High Dutch poem translated into French prose. This general account of it, does not, I confess, look very promising, but I think you will be pleased with the book. I believe it may not by any means be conformable to the rules of Epic poetry, but the manner and the sentiments are charming, and to me it was extremely affecting. There are two pastorals in the same volume, by the same author, which pleased me better than almost any thing I have met with of that kind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

: 'two pastorals'
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:] 'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collected from all the frippery shelves throughout Westminster and London, I will mention a book which, if you have not read it, it is fit you should, 'La Mort d'Abel.' It is a High Dutch poem translated into French prose. This general account of it, does not, I confess, look very promising, but I think you will be pleased with the book. I believe it may not by any means be conformable to the rules of Epic poetry, but the manner and the sentiments are charming, and to me it was extremely affecting. There are two pastorals in the same volume, by the same author, which pleased me better than almost any thing I have met with of that kind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Katherine Phillips : Letters (as 'Orinda')
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'Did you ever chance to see Orinda's Letters? They are rather stiff, but seem to have an air of genuineness -- and were not printed for Curl, but Lintot.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Jonas Hanway : 'two volumes'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which you saw, and only told me you had seen them, but for which I love and honour him (and so far as spending thirty hours upon them I believe I shall also [italics] obey [end italics] him) as much as the world, and the wits, and the critics will, I suppose, despise him [...] Not that I would have licensed [italics] every [end italics] word in his book neither, but the whole delights me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Jonas Hanway : 'two volumes'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which you saw, and only told me you had seen them, but for which I love and honour him (and so far as spending thirty hours upon them I believe I shall also [italics] obey [end italics] him) as much as the world, and the wits, and the critics will, I suppose, despise him [...] Not that I would have licensed [italics] every [end italics] word in his book neither, but the whole delights me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Katherine Phillips : Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since I met with them that I remember very little what they were. All that I recollect of her poetry is, that it is very moral and sentimental; and all that I know of herself is, that her genius and character are mentioned with the highest respect, admiration, and reverence by the writers of that time. I believe her Poems are very scarce; I have two or three little pieces in a miscellany, which if you have any curiosity to see I will send you. I never saw Mr Hanway's two volumes but in an advertisement, nor do I know what they are about, but am glad they have afforded you an agreeable amusement.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Katherine Phillips : poetry
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since I met with them that I remember very little what they were. All that I recollect of her poetry is, that it is very moral and sentimental; and all that I know of herself is, that her genius and character are mentioned with the highest respect, admiration, and reverence by the writers of that time. I believe her Poems are very scarce; I have two or three little pieces in a miscellany, which if you have any curiosity to see I will send you. I never saw Mr Hanway's two volumes but in an advertisement, nor do I know what they are about, but am glad they have afforded you an agreeable amusement.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

: advertisement for work by 'Mr Hanway'
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since I met with them that I remember very little what they were. All that I recollect of her poetry is, that it is very moral and sentimental; and all that I know of herself is, that her genius and character are mentioned with the highest respect, admiration, and reverence by the writers of that time. I believe her Poems are very scarce; I have two or three little pieces in a miscellany, which if you have any curiosity to see I will send you. I never saw Mr Hanway's two volumes but in an advertisement, nor do I know what they are about, but am glad they have afforded you an agreeable amusement.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

Salomon Gessner : La Mort d'Abel
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:] 'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to Mrs Donnelan; but the truth is, I began reading it to my mother, and cannot find in [sic] my heart to send it away till I have done. It has taught us to be fond of a sweet flowery spot in the garden, which is our reading place, and we impatiently sigh for a quiet hour or two to finish it [...] It is not faultless to be sure, but it seems to me absolutely one of the most charming and instructive things I ever read.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: report of death of Mr Chapone
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 September 1761:] 'I have seen an article in the newspaper which I am particularly sorry for as it will affect you -- I imagine you have heard of the melancholy situation of a very excellent friend of mine by the death of Mr Chapone.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Newspaper

George Lord Lyttelton : The Vision
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! What? Why a reflection upon the Vision, but that was of a kind I will not suffer myself to write [...] 'I am enclosing back the Vision the very night I received it, to prevent all temptations to dishonesty or carelessness; 'tis certainly very elegant.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Unknown

Edward Young :
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the noblest storms I ever enjoyed, and truly this was not enjoyed without some mixture of terror. My mother sat with me till past one, and I tried to amuse away her fears as suitably as I could by reading her some of the noblest passages in Dr Young. By that hour we were both, even in spite of [italics] him [end italics], somewhat sleepy, and there was an interval of lightning (I mean an interval of darkness) that made the hall just passable.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Carlo Maggi : 'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the laughing prologue to a comedy of Plautus? Surely it is quite original: and whether Carlo is penitential, or merry, or critical, or satirical, or complimental, one sees the same pure amiable good mind through every form. Indeed it hurts me grievously that he should have been born in a popish country, and some flights of his popery are quite shocking [...] but surely there might be a scelta made even with parts of his Letters to Rosa, that would be a most valuable book.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Carlo Maggi : Letters to Rosa
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the laughing prologue to a comedy of Plautus? Surely it is quite original: and whether Carlo is penitential, or merry, or critical, or satirical, or complimental, one sees the same pure amiable good mind through every form. Indeed it hurts me grievously that he should have been born in a popish country, and some flights of his popery are quite shocking [...] but surely there might be a scelta made even with parts of his Letters to Rosa, that would be a most valuable book.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Carlo Maggi : poems
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:] 'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agree with you in lamenting that one cannot recommend the most elegant, the most amiable, and the most useful of all the Italian poets without so many cautions and qualifications [...] I fear some of his finest pieces have often a mixture of popish wildness and absurdity. I do not particularly recollect the prologue ["to a comedy of Plautus"] you mention, and perhaps never read it, as I am apt to skip the humorous pieces, but I will look over it on your recommendation.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Carlo Maggi : 'the Death of Adam'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so painful, that at first it gives one's thoughts a wrong turn -- one cannot get it out of one's head; yet if one thinks it thoroughly over, one may get a great deal of good out of it. We shall have a very different one after supper, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters. They are very amusing for that half hour, and I dare say genuine. Mrs Montagu whom I saw a few days ago, first told me of them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Turkish Embassy Letters
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so painful, that at first it gives one's thoughts a wrong turn -- one cannot get it out of one's head; yet if one thinks it thoroughly over, one may get a great deal of good out of it. We shall have a very different one after supper, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters. They are very amusing for that half hour, and I dare say genuine. Mrs Montagu whom I saw a few days ago, first told me of them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Frances Brooke : The History of Lady Julia Mandeville
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:] 'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all places of that sort here) a circulating bookseller: if you have I shall not wonder you have no time to write, for as his shop must contain the whole collected nonsense of Europe, it must be a temptation irresistible. We have a Lady a Julia Mandeville here, written by Mrs Sheridan [sic], that has faults and excellencies enough to raise it above this denomination.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Epictetus :
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:] 'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us here [...] to be sure I was unhappy enough. My mother laid open some useful pages of your Epictetus, and I read them with profit. How shall I thank you for them?'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: treatise 'sur la gaiete'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which the author recommends as essential to health, and as health is also essential to gaiety, he prescribes a proper regimen. One part of it I have long been in, for he advises above all things to avoid cards, large assemblies, routs, and strings of engagements for a fortnight beforehand. These he very justly calls chains and shackles, un art de s'ennuier, painful studies, and assujetissemens; 'tis a very pretty book. Talking of books, I will tell you in what a large one you have engaged me -- Dr Jortin's Life of Erasmus. I know you will wonder how [italics] I [end italics] could be tempted to read any thing of [italics] his [end italics], considering how widely (I thank God) we differ in some points; but in good truth, in this book, so far as I have gone, I have been very much pleased with him in many places, and found a candour that I did not expect.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

John Jortin : Life of Erasmus
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which the author recommends as essential to health, and as health is also essential to gaiety, he prescribes a proper regimen. One part of it I have long been in, for he advises above all things to avoid cards, large assemblies, routs, and strings of engagements for a fortnight beforehand. These he very justly calls chains and shackles, un art de s'ennuier, painful studies, and assujetissemens; 'tis a very pretty book. Talking of books, I will tell you in what a large one you have engaged me -- Dr Jortin's Life of Erasmus. I know you will wonder how [italics] I [end italics] could be tempted to read any thing of [italics] his [end italics], considering how widely (I thank God) we differ in some points; but in good truth, in this book, so far as I have gone, I have been very much pleased with him in many places, and found a candour that I did not expect.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

David Hume : History of England
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763: 'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however; but I hear it with infinite caution.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

: 'Treatise on Gaiety'
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you met with a refutation of Rousseau's Emile? It is in many parts admirably well writ, and with great strength of argument; but the effect is sometimes unhappily weakened by the mixture of popish doctrines. -- Probably you have seen Rousseau's answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile. There are sometimes so many right things blended with Rousseau's very dangerous errors, that I suppose there are few authors whom is it so difficult to answer in a proper way.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

: 'refutation of Rousseau's Emile'
Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763: 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you met with a refutation of Rousseau's Emile? It is in many parts admirably well writ, and with great strength of argument; but the effect is sometimes unhappily weakened by the mixture of popish doctrines. -- Probably you have seen Rousseau's answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile. There are sometimes so many right things blended with Rousseau's very dangerous errors, that I suppose there are few authors whom is it so difficult to answer in a proper way.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile'
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you met with a refutation of Rousseau's Emile? It is in many parts admirably well writ, and with great strength of argument; but the effect is sometimes unhappily weakened by the mixture of popish doctrines. -- Probably you have seen Rousseau's answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile. There are sometimes so many right things blended with Rousseau's very dangerous errors, that I suppose there are few authors whom is it so difficult to answer in a proper way.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

Desiderius Erasmus : 'Dialogues'
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:] 'It is more from the testimony of others than from any recollection of my own, that I had formed the idea that Erasmus was in some parts of his works a very indecent writer [...] It is I believe more than thirty years since I read his dialogues, and then only those which were pointed out to me.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

?Elizabeth ?Carter : sonnet
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as you kindly sent me in confidence, I have shewn to no one but my mother.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

?Elizabeth ?Carter : sonnet
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as you kindly sent me in confidence, I have shewn to no one but my mother.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Secker      Print: Book

: 'French books'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have been reading French books lately that represent us as a nation of infidels. The specimens we most commonly send abroad, and the books they most commonly get from hence, give too much colour to this most injurious and abominable opinion.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : Messiah
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or keep it till you come? I admire many things in it extremely, but am grievously hurt and disappointed at many more. I wish Dr Young had been the translator, and I the correctress.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Catherine Macaulay : 'History' [extracts]
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:] 'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only some extracts from it, which seemed to be writ with strength and spirit.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

Richard Hurd : Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel Considered as a Part of an English Gentleman’s Education
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dialogues on Education, which have entertained his Grace very well, and a silly harmless story book called Maria, which serves to entertain myself at minutes when I am fit for nothing else.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Secker      Print: Unknown

Edward Kimber : Maria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of rank and fortune, and of some of her friends
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dialogues on Education, which have entertained his Grace very well, and a silly harmless story book called Maria, which serves to entertain myself at minutes when I am fit for nothing else.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:] 'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord Herbert [of Cherbury]? So few copies are dispersed, that I know Lord Chesterfield was not able to get one, and it is so amusing I wish you had it to wear away a rainy evening.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Robert Leighton : Sermons
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:] 'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of Sermons of Abp. Leighton, strongly recommended to me by the Bishop of Man.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Robert Leighton : Works including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer'
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:] 'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at present. There is, I think, the best exposition of the Lord's Prayer I ever read; were I to educate a child, instead of teaching it prayers by rote, I would, as soon as it was old enough to comprehend any thing, read to it with proper familiarisations the most striking parts of this exposition, till it had learnt that one prayer word by word, with full sense of the meaning of every one.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Thomas Leland : The History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King of Macedon
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1765:] 'What an agreeable fellow was that Philip of Macedon! We are reading his history; but the wise and elegant Athenians put me out of all patience, they are so like moderns: and all the Greeks of that time, some three or four excepted, appear such arrant scoundrels, that Philip, who was a clever scoundrel and made fools of them all, appears to great advantage.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette : ?Peruvian Tales (vol 3)
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it does not hurt me in these as in the Tales of the Genii. The Peruvian seems a patriarchal religion before it grew corrupted, but Christian piety with Mahometan doctrines, is "a jewel of gold in a swine's snout."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Charles Morrell : The Tales of the Genii
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it does not hurt me in these as in the Tales of the Genii. The Peruvian seems a patriarchal religion before it grew corrupted, but Christian piety with Mahometan doctrines, is "a jewel of gold in a swine's snout."'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Letters
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766, on her pursuit of her 'journal-letter scheme':] 'I shall fancy if I write thus Journal-wise, by bits and scraps, that I am Dean Swift, and you Stella and Mrs Dingley, for we are reading those three new volumes, in which he writes to them in that style [...] I love him in those letters very well'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

?Jean ?de la Chapelle : Zaide
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calculated to undo all the good impressions that may have been made by the Marquis de Rozelle.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

James Fordyce : Sermons to Young Women
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I entreat you to like, as I do, exceedingly. -- It is in two volumes, Sermons to Young Women. [italics]You[end italics] are in, and handsomely in, but not [italics]so[end italics] handsomely as you would have been, had the author known you better.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Pedro de Ribadeneira : ?Flos Sanctorum
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:] 'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish saints, on which I have wasted many a half hour lately. -- It is a translation of Ribadeneira, lent me by Dr Hawkesworth, whom I like mightily, and his wife likewise.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New York
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:] 'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastleshire of the charming Mrs Wilson of 104 [?years old], who has taken a trip to New York to visit her grandchildren there. I fell in love with her in yesterday's paper, and want to know if it is true.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Newspaper

: Lloyd's Chronicle
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:] 'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole folio [of saints' lives] is not half so well worth reading as Lloyd's Chronicle, which has often given me the comfort of seeing the archbishop [of Canterbury]'s name, and inferring because he was very busy he must be very well.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

George Lyttelton : History of the Life of Henry II
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 July 1767:] 'We are deep (for our after supper book) in Lord Lyttleton [i.e. his History of Henry II]. For my own amusement I am glad he digresses so much; but does he not digress too much for a biographer? I am much entertained with the History of the Crusades, though indeed it is terrible. If you ever meet with the History of Nourjahad it will interest and amuse you [...] the only shocking part is when he grows what the author meant for very pious, and aspires after the beatific vision of that rascal Mahomet.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family     Print: Book

Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri : Six assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of learned men among the Arabians
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:] 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assemblies, or ingenious conversations, by Hariri, the son of Himam; there are fifty of them, six just translated by a gentleman of Cambridge, and we are undone to know whether the whole fifty can be equally dull and unedifying. Did you ever read Noah? it seems to me even in the translation delightfully fine.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Bodmer Johann Jakob : Noah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In twelve books.
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767: 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assemblies, or ingenious conversations, by Hariri, the son of Himam; there are fifty of them, six just translated by a gentleman of Cambridge, and we are undone to know whether the whole fifty can be equally dull and unedifying. Did you ever read Noah? it seems to me even in the translation delightfully fine.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Gautier de Costes de la Calprenède : Pharamond; or the History of France
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pray return my thanks for the amusement it has afforded me. This day I also begin Mrs Montagu's [copy of] "Chevaliers de Malthe." I rejoice to hear so good an account of her.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

Rene Aubert de Vertot : Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pray return my thanks for the amusement it has afforded me. This day I also begin Mrs Montagu's [copy of] "Chevaliers de Malthe." I rejoice to hear so good an account of her.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

: report of illness of Archbishop of Canterbury
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfather Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury:] 'Since I wrote the above, a gentleman called here and mentioned his having read in Sunday night's paper that his Grace was attended by four physicians; I feel greatly alarmed about it: a line to relieve me, pray.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim : ?An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern, from the birth of Christ to the beginning of the present century
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 October 1768, during a visit to the Cornwall family:] ''We found them here reading Mosheim. They are in the second volume, which we read in the evenings; and I have got the first in my room here studying it with great pleasure.' Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 October 1768: 'Mosheim has really convinced me that the desart [sic] unsociable system is a very wrong and a false one. In the main he seems a very sensible and candid writer -- now and then we differ, and I grumble over my book.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Talbot and Cornwall family     Print: Book

Oswald Garrison Villard : Inside Germany
'In a lecture at Friends' House he spoke of a new Blitzkrieg timed to start on May 1st, and designed to overthrow England in Polish fashion by the end of the summer. His series of "Daily Telegraph" articles, subsequently republished as a small book called "Inside Germany", caused a sensation by supplying chapter and verse for this prophecy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: Reviews in the "Observer," "Reynold's News," "Sunday Chronicle," "Yorkshire Post" and "TLS."
'Main page reviews in the "Observer", "Reynolds News" and the "Sunday Chronicle", and a warm tribute in the "Yorkshire Post" to both Winifred and the book on publication day, counteracted a colder douche from the "Times Literary Supplement".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: Il Secolo
'That night three calls from newspaper offices were put through to my bedroom; next morning the front page of "Il Secolo" carried an account of my arrival. I also read a description of my fellow train-traveller, Eve Curie, a handsome woman in her thirties whose biography of her mother had been a recent best seller.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Francis Warrington Dawson : The True Dimension
'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever forgotten.'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Ivan Turgenev : Smoke
'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a boy I remember reading "Smoke" in a Polish translation (a feuilleton of some newspaper) and the "Gentlefolks" in French.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton')

Ivan Turgenev : A Nest of Gentlefolks
'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a boy I remember reading "Smoke" in a Polish translation (a feuilleton of some newspaper) and the "Gentlefolks" in French.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

(Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts) : The Angel in the House
'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts] much to do with the "Angel"? It seems to me to be pure Hastings.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: probably an acting edition

William Rothenstein : A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and Craftsmen
'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishable" being. And how beautifully all those deeply felt truths are said!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Carlo Maggi : Malincolia d'Alicino
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:] 'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like the Malincolia d'Alcindo, which is beautiful in the highest degree, and it is impossible to be unaffected by it without an absolute want of all taste and all feeling [comments further]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar of Wakefield," and likewise that I do not [...] Indeed it has admirable things in it, though mixt with provoking absurdities, at which one should not be provoked if the book in general had not great merit [comments further].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Edward Fairfax :
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'I thank you for your transcript from Fairfax [translator of Torquato Tasso], which is very pretty.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Manuscript: Unknown, Transcribed by Elizabeth Vesey.

Horace Walpole : ?Royal and Noble Authors
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertainment in what he writes, but less I think in this than usual, and it is rather more peevish and flippant. It is a great pity he should ever write any thing but Castles of Otranto, in which species of composition he is so remarkably happy [comments further on Walpole as a history writer]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertainment in what he writes, but less I think in this than usual, and it is rather more peevish and flippant. It is a great pity he should ever write any thing but Castles of Otranto, in which species of composition he is so remarkably happy [comments further on Walpole as a history writer]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Thomas Gray : ?Ode for Music
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 28 July 1769:] 'I only saw the Cambridge Ode in a newspaper [...] I thought there were some fine stanzas in it: but in general it seemed to be the effort of a writer struggling under the necessity of saying something to a patron, and conscious how little could with truth be said. But perhaps this may be mere refining. Upon the whole I was vexed and fretted at such an application of Mr Gray's genius'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Newspaper

:
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:] 'My sister and all her family are with me at present, among the rest the little prattling boy who breakfasted with you last year, and who is now reading in my room.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

: Sermon on text 'It is well...'
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 3 December 1769:] ''If the text of the sermon you mention is [italics]It is well[end italics], &c. I have read it and thought it very original and striking.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

?Thomas Sherlock : Sermons
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are very excellent. Most of those in which he defends the general truth of Christianity, and answers the cavils of unbelievers, are writ with a clearness and a spirit which are seldom equalled. But in others he is obscure and confused, and seems either not to have understood himself, or not to have wished to be understood by others. Archbishop Secker's Sermons are absolutely free from these objections, and are, I think, upon the whole the most calculated to awaken the conscience and amend the heart, of any that perhaps were ever published.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Thomas Secker : Sermons
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are very excellent. Most of those in which he defends the general truth of Christianity, and answers the cavils of unbelievers, are writ with a clearness and a spirit which are seldom equalled. But in others he is obscure and confused, and seems either not to have understood himself, or not to have wished to be understood by others. Archbishop Secker's Sermons are absolutely free from these objections, and are, I think, upon the whole the most calculated to awaken the conscience and amend the heart, of any that perhaps were ever published.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Anna Laetitia Aikin : Essays [?on Various Subjects]
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aikin, and Mr Bryant's Analysis of Ancient Mythology, of which I have read one volume in quarto. It is a work of immense learning and very great ingenuity, but has to me the fault of almost all the mythological systems I ever read, the want of sufficient proof [discusses text and author further] [...] I am told that the second volume is much more satisfactory than the first. I find it is a fashionable book, from which one would infer that this is an age of most profound literature, and from the very nature of his subject it is scarcely possible to discover what he means but by the assistance of Greek and Hebrew.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Jacob Bryant : A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology (vol. I)
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aikin, and Mr Bryant's Analysis of Ancient Mythology, of which I have read one volume in quarto. It is a work of immense learning and very great ingenuity, but has to me the fault of almost all the mythological systems I ever read, the want of sufficient proof [discusses text and author further] [...] I am told that the second volume is much more satisfactory than the first. I find it is a fashionable book, from which one would infer that this is an age of most profound literature, and from the very nature of his subject it is scarcely possible to discover what he means but by the assistance of Greek and Hebrew.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett) : Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates
'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one does not forget. I saw some time ago a study of Galsworthy by him (and a lady who must be either his wife or his sister) which within the limits if a magazine article was simply admirable for insight and expression.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to His Son
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:] 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete system of French morality that ever disgraced the English language. A system founded neither on principles of virtue, nor sentiments of heart, but upon those selfish motives, which aim at nothing higher than mere bienseance, and which never yet, through the general course of life, procured to any character, confidence, or esteem, or love [comments further].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

: A Letter to a Young Nobleman Setting out on his Travels
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 31 May 1776:] 'As you are acquainted with all possible authors, pray be so good as to tell me who is the writer of a Letter to a Young Nobleman setting out on his Travels. I found it here on my return [home], directed to me [...] I shall be much obliged to you if you will return my best thanks to the author for his favor [sic] to me, and still more for the noble and beneficial tendency of his work. Happy would it be for this nation if it was received with the attention it deserves!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

: report of Burgoyne's actions in American War of Independence
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 2 October 1777:] 'Every body seems very impatient for important news from America; for my own part, I have so little hope of any good to the public by such a quarrel, that I chiefly wish intelligence for the sake of the poor people who are anxious for their friends. Oh that they were all safe in England! I felt for the Miss Clarkes, when I read in the papers, that General Burgoyne was going to storm a place. It is terrible to be kept in suspence [sic] about the event, till another express can cross the Atlantic.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Newspaper

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Hymns
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:] 'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They are all excellent, but there are some passages amazingly sublime. Amongst these is the manner in which she introduces the Saviour, after the description of the devastations of death, as the restorer of life and immortality.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Vesey : 'Ode'
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 20 November 1779:] 'A thousand thanks to you, my dear Mrs Vesey, for your charming Ode, which breathes all the spirit of that wild unfettered genius of poetry, that transports the imagination, and touches the heart with a power unattainable by scientific rules, and cold correctness [...] [Miss Sharpe] asked, how I supposed she could think of her breakfast while she was regaling on your Ode. She desires me to tell you, with her love, that she hates you mortally, for your intention of concealing it from us [...] You will be pleased that Miss Sharpe and I agreed at being particularly struck with the same passages in your very charming poem.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter

?Thomas Francois ?Raynal :
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 9 January 1782:] 'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writings or conversation of a licentious profligate infidel like the Abbe R---- that can compose the astonished mind amidst the awful terrors of a midnight storm, such as you so nobly describe: you well know that from sources such as these no solid comfort can be derived, why then will you idly spend your time in reading what ought never to have been written? But you do it, you say, merely for amusement: 'tis dangerous amusement to a mind like yours, indeed to any mind.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Vesey      Print: Book

James Cook : A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 21 August 1784:] 'Have you read Captain Cook's last voyages? I have just finished them. The description of the savage inhabitants of the southern climates is a fine eloge of a [italics]state of nature[end italics], of which one species of philosophers is fond of speaking in such rapturous terms! I was heartily glad to take my leave of those barbarians, and to find myself among the harmless gentle contented race, that dwell on the borders of the arctic circle [...] they enjoy the blessings of a mild government, and the illumination of the Christian religion. Ever since I read this account, I have felt a very high respect for the Russians, to whose humanity and instructions the inhabitants of Kamtschatka owe their inestimable advantages.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

: 'ancient account of India'
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 11 June 1786:] 'I have just been reading, in an ancient acount of India, that the women there were remarkably chaste, unless the gallant was able to present them with an elephant; and this temptation was considered as so very irresistible, that in that case a lady might sacrifice her virtue without forfeiting her character. This sounds very ridiculous, but it seems the riding upon an elephant is in that country a mark of the highest dignity.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:] 'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to the author of the divine Clarissa till I can meet with words that will fully express what I think and feel on that subject, I must for ever seem either insensible or ungrateful [...] Whether it be a milkiness of blood in me, as Shakespeare calls it, I know not, but I have never felt so much distress in my life as I have done for that dear girl [comments further]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : ?The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be published in a very hasty and careless manner: a very great number of faults I could discover and correct, without comparing with any other edition. Some time since I borrowed the folio of 1609; but it was not till lately that I could get a sight of the first quarto of 1590, which was published in Spenser's lifetime: and I proposed this summer, if I should have life and health, to collate the three together, -- as indeed I have begun to do [discusses this editorial project and related issues further]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751: 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be published in a very hasty and careless manner: a very great number of faults I could discover and correct, without comparing with any other edition. Some time since I borrowed the folio of 1609; but it was not till lately that I could get a sight of the first quarto of 1590, which was published in Spenser's lifetime: and I proposed this summer, if I should have life and health, to collate the three together, -- as indeed I have begun to do [discusses this editorial project and related issues further]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be published in a very hasty and careless manner: a very great number of faults I could discover and correct, without comparing with any other edition. Some time since I borrowed the folio of 1609; but it was not till lately that I could get a sight of the first quarto of 1590, which was published in Spenser's lifetime: and I proposed this summer, if I should have life and health, to collate the three together, -- as indeed I have begun to do [discusses this editorial project and related issues further]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Edmund Spenser :
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Spenser; but to what purpose except my own private satisfaction? There, however, it will repay me: for every time I read I find new beauties in him; such fine moral sentiments, such height of colouring in his descriptions, such a tenderness when he touches any of the humane passions! -- Were but his language better understood, he must be admired by every one who has a a [italics]heart[end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

: Proposal for 'Universal Dictionary of Commerce'
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'I had just been reading a paper which I met with at Aylesbury: it was a most puffy preface to proposals published by John and Paul, -- of what date I know not, for that was torn off. The name of the book was the Universal Dictionary of Commerce [comments further on proposal, mocking especially the author's wish "That our young British nobility and gentry [...] would condescend for a year or two to be initiated into the business of a merrchant in a well-regulated and methodical counting-house"] [...] A blessed scheme this! To fill our merchants' houses with a parcel of young, lawless, privileged rakes, to debauch their wives and daughters!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Unknown

Hester Mulso : 'Odes'
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:] 'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming Odes of Miss Mulso's, and admire them more and more every time I read them. I am so proud of the honour she has done me in one of them, that my gratitude has forced from me another sonnet [...] which I desire you to give her.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards

:
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 March 1752, following his account of recent storm damage to rooks' nests in his garden:] 'This impertinent episode of the rookery interrupted the account I was giving of my employment, which I was going to tell you is chiefly reading the choicest authors my little library affords; which, as they are few, I go over and over again; and indeed I almost read my eyes out.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : 'Essays'
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:] 'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and admired him as a poet, yet I must own I never had any great opinion of him in any other light [...] With all his affectation of humanity and a general benevolence, he was certainly a very ill-natured man; and can such a one easily be a good man? 'But were I ever so indisposed, what can I vindicate? Not the morality of his essays, for I think it very faulty. Mr Warburton has, indeed, tinkered it in some places to make it look orthodox, but yet it will not hold water [comments further on Warburton's edition of Pope]'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Hester Mulso : sonnet
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:] 'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'.
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:] 'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give you pleasure, the good fortune that has fallen to one of your pretty disciples in my neighbourhood, who is a great admirer of Clarissa. She is the daughter of a yeoman near me [goes on to tell how the young woman has been married to "a gentleman in possession of a very handsome estate, and who will have a greater"] [...] Her neatness, modesty, and sweetness of temper, often put me in mind of your Pamela in her single state: but when I visited them lately on their marriage, the likeness was extremely striking [...] the same unaffected humility towards those whom she was now raised to a level with, and that sort of awful regard for her benefactor which you so finely paint in that amiable character, were truly exemplified here. The gentleman, like Mr. B., has the majority against him on this occasion; but he is contented rather to be happy than fashionable.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:] 'I have not been a fort'n-night [sic] at home. The contrast between my late situation, happy in the enjoyment of the company of my friends, and my present solitary circumstances, was too strong for me not to want something to compensate the difference. I therefore called Sir Charles Grandison to my assistance; for the conversation I had with him at Ember and in town was so broken and interrupted that it had by no means satisfied my longing. And what was the consequence? Why, just the fable of the horse and the man: he whom I called in for an ally became my master, and made me spend with him every leisure hour I could command, till I had again gone through the five books; and had they been fifteen, I must have done so.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Anna Williams : verses addressed to Samuel Richardson
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 March 1754:] 'Who is that Miss Nanny Williams who has published a pretty copy of verses addressed to you in the Gentleman's Magazine of January last? Whoever she be, the girl has a good heart; and writes very well [...] If you know her, I desire my service and thanks to her.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Serial / periodical

John Duncombe : The Feminiad
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:] 'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a syllable of Mr Duncombe's performance, till Miss Sally happened to rummage it out among other things for my entertainment that evening which I spent without you at North-End. I have since got it. I hope I am not bribed by the compliment to me, but I think it a very pretty poem. I indeed very much dislike the title [...] there can be no such word as Feminiad with an [italics]i[end italics] after the [italics]n[end italics] formed from femina; the Battiad, the Causidicad, and other foolish things which have come out with that termination in imitation of the Dunciad, have given people a surfeit of, and even an aversion to, "omne quod exit in ad." But what say the ladies to it? I wish it might be a means to persuade them to publish, though without names. If they would join to give us a miscellany, it would be a better collection than most we have had, and do honour both to themselves and the sex.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Unknown

: [Poetry by women]
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'I did say, and I really do think, that it is a pity so many fine performances, as you and I have seen written by ladies, should be lost to the world; that the public should be robbed of the pleasure and instruction, and they themselves of the honour of them [...] The prejudices against a learned wife (such I mean as are free from pedantry, and neglect not their proper duty to acuire their learning) are absurd, irrational, and often flow from envy, but they are strong, inveterate, and too general. Who then is she who dares step forth to vindicate her sex, and assert their claim to genius, at the hazard of forfeiting all her own hopes of a settlement in the world, and friendship with the rest of her sex? [reflects further on women's education and intellectual endeavour]'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

Miss Farrer : 'Ode on the Spring'
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'I return you many thanks for Miss Farrer's Ode on the Spring; it is a charming piece, and must do her honour with all judges.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Manuscript: Unknown

Miss Highmore : sonnet
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'The verses from my fair [italics]Pupil[end italics], as she does me the honour to call herself, did indeed a little alarm me. To chide me in a sonnet for writing of sonnets, was doing as a physician did by me the other day, -- who at the very time he was taking a pinch out of my box reproved me for taking snuff.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards

Edmund Spenser : Sonnets
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:] 'The reading of Spenser's Sonnets was the first occasion of my writing that species of little poems, and my first six were written in the same sort of stanza as all his and Shakespeare's are. But after that Mr Wray brought me acquainted with the Italian authors, who are the originals of that sort of poetry, and whose measures have more variety and harmony in them, -- ever since, I wrote in that stanza; drawing from the same fountain as Milton drew from'.
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant Wilson : The Mainland
'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with your novel.[...] The book is captivatng enough in all conscience as a piece of writng and of course as a story too.' [Hence follow 9 lines of comment.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Beyond
'This ["Beyond"] is a gripping piece of writing. I got as far as p.47 before it dawned on me that these were marvellous opening pages. The others are not less so. My dearest Jack they are sheer delight to read [...].' [Hence follow 25 lines of unqualified praise.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : France, 1916-1917: An Impression
'PS I've seen your most charming article on the French in the "Fortnightly [Review]". '
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Stevenson :
'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson

Roman Dmowski : Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe
'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].[...] Your arguments and your conclusions seem to me absolutely incontrovertible.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain

Edith Wharton : Summer
'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a quiet field on a hot brooding summer day.' [Hence follow two paragraphs of appreciative comment.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : Turgenev: A Study
'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrusts to all that thick headed crowd. As to the rest of the book you know that I do know it well.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: Courier-Journal
'Later I sent my mother a clipping from the Louisville "Courier-Journal", whose woman reporter had been present.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: Yorkshire Post
'Among 200 reviews and notices, another clipping from the "Yorkshire Post" remarked on the astonishing persistence with which Winifred remained "news" when so many writers, once dead, were forgotten.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: New York Times
'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: Yorkshire Post
'In a 'Yorkshire Post' article he subsequently described his three days on Willkie's campaign train, with its eleven cars and freight of one hundred politicians, journalists, and stenographers.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: "Star Man's Diary"
'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's Diary" and a short appreciation which I had vainly sent to "The Times".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

Virginia Woolf : The Waves
'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book, Unknown

Thornton Wilder : Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
'I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book, Unknown

John Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress
'"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book, Unknown

John Frederick Charles Fuller : article in the "Evening Standard"
'In the "Evening Standard", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America suggested preparation for the next war rather than this.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper, Unknown

: "Time" Magazine
'"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New York that summer.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Sidney Colvin : John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, and After-fame [With plates, including portraits]
'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jessie's instructions (I live en vieux garçon, in the spare room now); and now after reading the preface and looking at the illustrations I sit down in robe-de-chambre and pantoufles to thank you for the copy, for the inscription [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Reginald Perceval Gibbon : article published in "Daily Chronicle"
'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's corespondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]C[hronicle]" was very reserved.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

: article in "Times Literary Supplement"
'There was a study of you [André Gide] in the "Times". Have you sen it? It is intelligent up to a point and respectful.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Nathaniel Gubbins : comment in the "Sunday Express"
'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk!" and the "Sunday Express" philosopher, Nathaniel Gubbins, produced a characteristic comment: "The worse the news is, the more we talk about what we are going to do with Germany after the war."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Michael Monahan : New Adventures
'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he deserves.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Ezra Pound : Pavannes and Divisions
'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he deserves.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"] : An Airman's Outings
'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor : Miniature History of the War
'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 bombers on Cologne...each marked an epoch" in Allied achievement.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Land: A Plea
'I am of course with you entirely both as to the matter and the expression of the Agricultural pamphlet. Thanks very much for sending me the copy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Hugh Walpole : The Green Mirror
'"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you here for a talk about that and other things.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments
'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the last was in '12 or early '13 when the copy disappeared [...] Directly the little friendly looking vol. was put into my hands yesterday afternoon I read [...] the intro. and the first 15 pages where there are passages for which I have a special affection [...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Miss Farrer : 'Ode to Cynthia'
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 August 1754:] 'I give you many thanks for that sweet little Ode of Miss Farrer's. I think myself honoured by the trust, and promise that the conditions [of his being given permission to read it] shall be religiously observed.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Pamela
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:] 'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your company: I have it in those excellent works which do honour to the present age, and are a great alleviation of my solitude [...] Pamela I have lately read, and begun upon Clarissa, and I must still say, the more I read the more I admire.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:] 'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your company: I have it in those excellent works which do honour to the present age, and are a great alleviation of my solitude [...] Pamela I have lately read, and begun upon Clarissa, and I must still say, the more I read the more I admire.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke : Essays
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:] 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As far as I have seen, and I read at Ember the last volume, which contains his essays, there is nothing in his objections but what has been published and answered over and over [...] I know not whether his system may be more properly called deistical, or atheistical; since, though in words he allows a God, he seems to make him such a one as Epicurus did; and to think that we are beneath his notice, or have very little to do with him. He laughs at all notions of revelation, or a particular providence, and reckons the present life the whole of man's existence. These essays, by the way, afford us abundant and irrefragable proof, that the plan of the Essay on Man was St. John's, and not Pope's [...] You have here the whole scheme, the thoughts and in many places the very words of the poem; and a more consistent scheme it is here, than it appears there, after the poet and the parson had laid their heads together to disguise and make it pass for a christian system [comments further].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Essay on Man
Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755: 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As far as I have seen, and I read at Ember the last volume, which contains his essays, there is nothing in his objections but what has been published and answered over and over [...] I know not whether his system may be more properly called deistical, or atheistical; since, though in words he allows a God, he seems to make him such a one as Epicurus did; and to think that we are beneath his notice, or have very little to do with him. He laughs at all notions of revelation, or a particular providence, and reckons the present life the whole of man's existence. These essays, by the way, afford us abundant and irrefragable proof, that the plan of the Essay on Man was St. John's, and not Pope's [...] You have here the whole scheme, the thoughts and in many places the very words of the poem; and a more consistent scheme it is here, than it appears there, after the poet and the parson had laid their heads together to disguise and make it pass for a christian system [comments further].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:] 'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and instruction. I have been this day weeping over the seventh volume of Clarissa, as if I had attended her dying bed, and assisted at her funeral procession. O may my latter end be like hers!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Voyage to Lisbon
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:] 'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last piece, called his Voyage to Lisbon. That a man, who had led such a life as he had, should trifle in that manner when immediate death was before his eyes, is amazing. From this book I am confirmed in what his other works had fully persuaded me of, that with all his parade of pretences to virtuous and humane affections, the fellow had no heart.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Pamela
[Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:] 'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) again, and already made use of some of Mr Locke's maxims, made clear and plain by her, upon my little boy, which I highly approve, and intend strictly to adhere to.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scudamore      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from the collection of sublime sentences which you have so ably made the divine Clarissa apply to in her deepest distresses. 'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seems composed with a pious spirit; but I own calling them Psalms disappointed me. I never met with any composition, either as paraphrase or imitation of those divine compositions, that I liked; they come so infinitely short of the true sublime, that I should rather chuse a mere human composition in any other shape. 'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antagonist, which I had read before I left London, but forgot to return you [sic]. They made me laugh: a great merit to us splenetic folks!'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan

: 'Psalms'
[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seems composed with a pious spirit; but I own calling them Psalms disappointed me. I never met with any composition, either as paraphrase or imitation of those divine compositions, that I liked; they come so infinitely short of the true sublime, that I should rather chuse a mere human composition in any other shape.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan      Print: Book

Thomas Edwards : Canons of Criticism
[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antagonist, which I had read before I left London, but forgot to return you [sic]. They made me laugh: a great merit to us splenetic folks!'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss Howe, and execrated Lovelace with her; and a little despised Mr Hickman. I have shook with horror and resentment at Lovelace and all his crew. I have detested the whole Harlowe family. In short, I am thoroughly acquainted with them all, and have had every passion and affection raised in me by them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
[Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750: '[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for you and all your works. I rejoice at every addition you make to Clarissa [...] I can't help wishing you would publish Clarissa's meditiations, as they must be of great use and pleasure to all who read them; and the few friends to whom I have shewed those you favoured me with, are greatly pleased with them, especially Lady Anne Coventry, aunt to the Duke of Beaufort, a lady of singular piety and religion [...] a widow [...] She is also near fourscore, but enjoys health, and all the faculties of her mind in full vigour; employs them in goodness and ingenuity, and is very fond of Clarissa.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: '[Mrs A. Dewes's] sister and the Dean'     Print: Book

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
Mary Delany to Samuel Richardson, 16 August 1751: 'I am now reading Dr Young's Night Thoughts, and can hardly forbear sending him a rapture of thanks for the entertainment and delight they give me, and above all for raising my mind so much above [italics]This poor terrestrial citadel of man[end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Delany      Print: Book

Eliza Haywood : The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 11 February 1752: 'Who the author of Betsy Thoughtless is, I don't know, but his [sic] poetic justice I think very bad: he kills a good woman to make way for one of the worst, in my opinion, I ever read of.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752: 'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading some of your last scenes [...] I have made some little marks in the books I had, and as you seem to desire to shorten, I have in some places thrown out words that I thought did not strengthen the sense, &c. &c. [comments further on aspects of characterisations etc] [...] I had wrote thus far, when I recollected I was writing down my own scattered incoherent thoughts, when I had a new book of yours to read; so down went the pen, and I never quitted your book till I finished it (nine o'clock at night). I have run over it very quick, from my own eagerness, and your desire of having it soon, and can only say, my dear Mr Richardson, do not marry the angel Clementina to the hare-brained Count de Belvidere.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
Patrick Delany to Samuel Richardson, 20 December 1753: 'I have begun a second time with Sir Charles Grandison, and assure you, in the main, I am better pleased with it than I was upon the first reading it; and yet now and then a little objection starts up before me, which I think it the part of a friend to communicate with an honest openness. I was offended with three words, [italics]leer[end italics], [italics]ogle[end italics], and [italics]stare[end italics], to which I am sure I shall never be reconciled, at least from the mouth of a fair lady, as they are there used [comments further on text].'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Delany

unknown : History of the Magdalens (extracts)
Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757: 'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdalens, which gives me a curiosity to read the whole.'
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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Sheridan

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa (volumes 1-4)
[From ed. notes:] '[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following manner: -- A lady, calling herself Belfour, wrote to the author of Clarissa, after reading the first four volumes, acquainting him that a report prevailed, that The History of Clarissa was to end in a most tragical manner, and, expressing her abhorrence of such a catastrophe, begged to be satisfied of the truth by a few lines inserted in the Whitehall Evening Post. -- Mr Richardson complied with her request; in consequence of which many letters passed between them.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa (volume 5)
[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson (letter undated):] 'Just as I was sending this to the post, your fifth volume came to my hand [...] I long to read it -- and yet I dare not. But I have a kind friend who will first look it over [...] [he] is willing to save me pain, though at the expence of suffering it himself. If I find the dreaded horrid act is not perpetrated, I will promise to read it [...] 'O, Sir! I have been prevailed upon to read a part of your story [i.e. Lovelace's drugging and rape of Clarissa], that I thought would have torn my heart in a thousand pieces. You have drawn a villain above nature; and you make that villain a sensible man, with many good qualities, and you have declared him not an unbeliever. Indeed, Sir, I am more out of conceit with your scheme than ever; it must do harm, indeed it must. What will any villain care what becomes of a Clarissa, when he has gained his horrid ends, which you have taught him how to gain [...] it is too shocking and barbarous a story for publication [...] Blot out but one night, and the villainous laudanum, and all may be well again.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh      Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa (final 3 volumes)
[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson, 11 January [1748/9], on completing reading of final three volumes of Clarissa:] 'I have, Sir, with much pain, much greater than you imagine, gone through your inimitable piece [...] It must be acknowledged by every body a noble work [...] 'I once intended to point out, and take notice, as I went along, of what I thought particular beauties, but they came so thick upon me, that I found it would be an endless piece of work [...] Besides, I am conscious I have not strength of judgement for such an undertaking; more especially at present, being every way weakened by reading your most moving relation [discusses responses to text (including copious weeping and disturbed sleep) further].'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh      Print: Book

Seneca : Morals ('twentieth chapter')
[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749:] 'O Sir! how I regret your want of time! As I lately read the twentieth chapter of Seneca's Morals, I thought of and pitied you, and every one who is tied to business, and pitied the world for the loss it sustains by your being so constantly engaged.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh      Print: Book

: The Spectator No. 476
[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749, in discussion of her view that his characters Anna Howe and Clarissa Harlowe would have been made happy by marriage:] 'Here I cannot help giving you the Spectator's opinion upon a married state, so agreeable to my way of thinking: "I am verily persuaded, that whatever is delightful in human life, is to be enjoyed in greater perfection in the married than in the single condition." -- No. 476, vol. vii. I am verily persuaded so too; for which reason I [as author] would have married Clarissa.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh      Print: Unknown

: 'The wise son of Sirach'
[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, in undated letter:] 'I have lately very often put the question to myself, whether I would chuse to live my time over again, if I had it in my power [...] I am positive I would rather advance than retire, tho' my days have been happy. I have a pleasing view before me, thanks to you, Sir, Seneca, the Spectator, and the [italics]wise son of Sirach[end italics], which last I have just read, with much greater attention than I ever did before, and think it is the most beautiful and instructive, as well as the most entertaining piece I ever met with in the course of my divine studies.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh      Print: Unknown

: "Confessions"
[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, on reading 'confessions,' 16 December 1749:] 'I have read many of them over, and have been so puzzled, that I knew not what I was guilty of, and what not, till, at last, I threw them all aside, but that most excellent one, in our Common Prayer, in which I hope I have not erred. You will smile, Sir, when I tell you (being taught early to think confession a duty) that finding a paper belonging to a pious christian with her sins marked, I copied it, and confessed them as my own, thinking I did right.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh      Print: Unknown

Corder Catchpool : On Two Fronts: Letters of a Prisoner.
'His books, "On Two Fronts" and "Letters of a Prisoner", described those early experiences.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Emanuel Miller : The Neuroses in War
'Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a "background" book, "The Neuroses in War", published by the Tavistock Clinic, for the psychology of my chief character.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

William Blake : Book of Urizen
'During the interval of waiting, my mind dwelt on the evidences of his mental development during recent months; the many drawings and poems which he had sent us; his enthusiasm for Blake's "Book of Urizen", my latest Christmas gift; and finally a letter written at Easter telling me how much he wanted to come home.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Catlin      Print: Book

: [Report in the "Daily Mail"]
'At the end of October, a paragraph by the "Daily Mail" Correspondent in Lisbon "revealed" the peril which she and her fellow evacuees were fortunate to survive.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: New Statesman
'The "New Statesman" described the exponents of this policy as "Bitterenders"; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, whose propaganda seemed guaranteed to defeat the struggling German Resistance movement.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte
[From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:] 'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in Suffolk, of which place he was rector. The good man had never read a novel in his life, and of course had never heard of the famous Bronte books. I was reading Mrs Gaskell's Life [of Charlotte Bronte] with absorbed interest, and one day my uncle said, "I have heard lately a name mentioned with which I was well familiar. What is it all about?" He was told, when he added, "Patrick Bronte [father of Charlotte] was once my greatest friend. Next morning my uncle brought out a thick bundle of letters and said, "These were written by Patrick Bronte. They refer to his spiritual state. I have read them once more, and now I destroy them."'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

Arthur Harris : Bomber Offensive
'In a post-war record entitled "Bomber Offensive", Sir Arthur Harris himself described the ordeal of Hamburg, which caused civilian casualties variously estimated at between ten and sixty thousand.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

George Lyttelton : Advice to a Lady
[Maria Branwell to her fiance, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, 5 December 1812:] 'Since I began this [letter] Jane put into my hands Lord Lyttleton's Advice to a Lady. When I read those lines, "Be never cool reserve with passion joined, with caution choose, but then be fondly kind, etc.," my heart smote me for having in some cases used too much reserve towards you. Do you think you have any cause to complain of me? If you do, let me know it. For were it in my power to prevent it, I would in no instance occasion you the least pain or uneasiness. I am certain no one ever loved you with an affection more pure, constant, tender, and ardent than that which I feel [...] I long to improve in every religious and moral quality, that I may be a help, and if possible an ornament to you. Oh let us pray for much wisdom and grace to fill our appointed stations with propriety, that we may enjoy satisfaction in our own souls, edify others, and bring glory to the name of Him who has so wonderfully preserved, blessed and brought us together.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Branwell      Print: Book

: National-Zeitung
'"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoker who deserted from a German ship told the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph": "People went mad in the shelters. ..."
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 January 1816:] 'Read Lord of the Isles again.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Old Mortality
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 21 June 1817:] 'Read Old Mortality; did not like it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth      Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 April 1818:] 'Read Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth      Print: Book

: Evening Standard
'By 1944 Lord Lang, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was supporting the persistent protests of the Bishop of Chichester in the House of Lords, and the ageing Dean Inge predicted in an "Evening Standard" article that "when the war is over we shall be very sorry for what we have done."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Edward Young : Night Thoughts
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 13 May 1818:] 'Read Young's Night Thoughts.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth      Print: Book

Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 May 1818:] 'Read Remains of H. K. White.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 2 January 1819:] 'Read the Heart of Midlothian.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth      Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : History of Rome
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:] 'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Tales of a Grandfather
'There is a copy of the Imitation of Christ extant, given to Charlotte [Bronte] in 1826, and there are other books that we know the [Bronte] children read during this period, including Scott's Tales of a Grandfather.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne)     Print: Book

G. S. Spinks : The Bases of Civilisation
'That autumn a friend sent me a booklet entitled "The Bases of Civilisation", by Dr. G. S. Spinks, one-time editor of the "Hibbert Journal". Reading it I found some sentences which, in the Quaker phrase, "spoke to my condition".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Booklet

Voltaire : Henriade
'A very fair measure of French and some skill in drawing appear to have been the most striking accomplishments which Charlotte carried back from Roe Head [school] to Haworth. There are some twenty drawings of about this date, and a translation into English verse of the first book of Voltaire's Henriade.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth
[Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:] 'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certainly a splendid production, more resembling a Romance than a Novel, and in my opinion one of the most interesting works that ever emanated from the great Sir Walter's pen. I am exceedingly amused at the characteristic and naive manner in which you expressed your detestation of Varney's character [...] he is certainly the personification of consummate villainy, and in the delineation of his dark and profoundly artful mind, Scott exhibits a wonderful knowledge of human nature, as well as surprising skill in embodying his perceptions so as to enable others to become participators in that knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Nussey      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth
[Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:] 'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certainly a splendid production, more resembling a Romance than a Novel, and in my opinion one of the most interesting works that ever emanated from the great Sir Walter's pen. I am exceedingly amused at the characteristic and naive manner in which you expressed your detestation of Varney's character [...] he is certainly the personification of consummate villainy, and in the delineation of his dark and profoundly artful mind, Scott exhibits a wonderful knowledge of human nature, as well as surprising skill in embodying his perceptions so as to enable others to become participators in that knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

:
[From Ellen Nussey's account of her first visit to the home of her schoolfriend, Charlotte Bronte:] 'In summer [Elizabeth Branwell] spent part of the afternoon in reading aloud to Mr Bronte. In the winter evenings she must have enjoyed this; for she and Mr Bronte had often to finish their discussions on what she had read when we all met for tea.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      Print: Unknown

James Hogg :
[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I commence my letter with the name of James Hogg; for the writings of that man in your numbers, his speeches in your "Noctes," when I was a child, laid a hold on my mind which succeeding years have consecrated into a most sacred feeling. I cannot express, though you can understand, the heavenliness of associations connected with such articles as Professor Wilson's, read and re-read while a little child [...] when a child "Blackwood" formed my chief delight, and I feel certain no child before enjoyed reading as I did, because none ever had such works as "The Noctes," "Christmas Dreams," "Christopher in his Sporting Jacket" to read [goes on comment further, and to quote passage concerning the death of its narrator's "golden-haired sister," with the remark that he had read it at the time of his own sister's death]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Branwell Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine
[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I commence my letter with the name of James Hogg; for the writings of that man in your numbers, his speeches in your "Noctes," when I was a child, laid a hold on my mind which succeeding years have consecrated into a most sacred feeling. I cannot express, though you can understand, the heavenliness of associations connected with such articles as Professor Wilson's, read and re-read while a little child [...] when a child "Blackwood" formed my chief delight, and I feel certain no child before enjoyed reading as I did, because none ever had such works as "The Noctes," "Christmas Dreams," "Christopher in his Sporting Jacket" to read [goes on comment further, and to quote passage concerning the death of its narrator's "golden-haired sister," with the remark that he had read it at the time of his own sister's death]'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Branwell Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

William Cowper : The Task
[Mary Taylor to Elizabeth Gaskell, on the Bronte brother and sisters' religious reading and its relation to their depressive tendencies:] 'Cowper's poem The Castaway was known to them all, and they all at times appreciated, or almost appropriated it. Charlotte told me once that Branwell had done so'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne)     Print: Book

: Bible
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to read; a feeling stole over me such as I have not known for many long years -- a sweet, placid sensation like those that I remember used to visit me when I was a little child, and on Sunday evenings in summer stood by the open window reading the life of a certain French nobleman who attained a purer and higher degree of sanctity than has been known since the days of the Martyrs. I thought of my own Ellen -- I wished she had been near me that I might have told her how happy I was, how bright and glorious the pages of God's holy word seemed to me. But the "foretaste" passed away, and earth and sin returned.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

: 'life of a certain French nobleman'
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to read; a feeling stole over me such as I have not known for many long years -- a sweet, placid sensation like those that I remember used to visit me when I was a little child, and on Sunday evenings in summer stood by the open window reading the life of a certain French nobleman who attained a purer and higher degree of sanctity than has been known since the days of the Martyrs. I thought of my own Ellen -- I wished she had been near me that I might have told her how happy I was, how bright and glorious the pages of God's holy word seemed to me. But the "foretaste" passed away, and earth and sin returned.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Thomas Sims : Brief Memorials of Jean Frédéric Oberlin
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously and unvaryingly as ever, nothing but teach, teach, teach, from morning till night. The greatest variety I ever have is afforded by a letter from you, or a call from the Taylors [friends], or by meeting with a pleasant new book. "The Life of Oberlin" and Legh Richmond's "Domestic Portraiture" are the last of this description I have perused. The latter work strongly attracted, and strangely fascinated, my attention. Beg, borrow, or steal it without delay; and read the "Memoir of Wilberforce," that short record of a brief, uneventful life, I shall never forget; it is beautiful, not on account of the incidents it details, but because of the simple narration it gives of the life and death of a young, talented, and sincere Christian. Get the book, Ellen (I wish I had it to give you), read it and tell me what you think of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Legh Richmond : Domestic Portraiture
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously and unvaryingly as ever, nothing but teach, teach, teach, from morning till night. The greatest variety I ever have is afforded by a letter from you, or a call from the Taylors [friends], or by meeting with a pleasant new book. "The Life of Oberlin" and Legh Richmond's "Domestic Portraiture" are the last of this description I have perused. The latter work strongly attracted, and strangely fascinated, my attention. Beg, borrow, or steal it without delay; and read the "Memoir of Wilberforce," that short record of a brief, uneventful life, I shall never forget; it is beautiful, not on account of the incidents it details, but because of the simple narration it gives of the life and death of a young, talented, and sincere Christian. Get the book, Ellen (I wish I had it to give you), read it and tell me what you think of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Thomas Price : Memoir of William Wilberforce
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously and unvaryingly as ever, nothing but teach, teach, teach, from morning till night. The greatest variety I ever have is afforded by a letter from you, or a call from the Taylors [friends], or by meeting with a pleasant new book. "The Life of Oberlin" and Legh Richmond's "Domestic Portraiture" are the last of this description I have perused. The latter work strongly attracted, and strangely fascinated, my attention. Beg, borrow, or steal it without delay; and read the "Memoir of Wilberforce," that short record of a brief, uneventful life, I shall never forget; it is beautiful, not on account of the incidents it details, but because of the simple narration it gives of the life and death of a young, talented, and sincere Christian. Get the book, Ellen (I wish I had it to give you), read it and tell me what you think of it.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

: reports of lectures by William Weightman and Patrick Bronte
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, in postscript to letter of 7 April 1840:] 'Mr [William] Weightman [curate at Haworth] has given another lecture at the Keighley Mechanic's [sic] Institute, and Papa has also given a lecture -- both are spoken of very highly in the Newspaper and it is mentioned as a matter of wonder that such displays of intellect should emanate from the village of Haworth "situated amongst the bogs and mountains and until very lately supposed to be in a state of semi-barbarism" such are the words of the newspaper.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Newspaper

: The Lady's Magazine
[Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840):] 'I am sorry I did not exist, sir, fifty or sixty years ago, when the "Ladies' Magazine" was flourishing like a green bay tree. In that case, I make no doubt, my aspirations after literary fame would have met with due encouragement [...] I recollect, when I was a child, getting hold of some antiquated old volumes, and reading them by stealth with the most exquisite pleasure. You give a correct description [in letter] of the patent Grisels of those days. My aunt was one of them; and to this day she thinks the tales of the "Ladies' Magazine" infinitely superior to any trash of modern literature. So do I; for I read them in childhood, and childhood has a very strong faculty of admiration, but a very weak one of criticism'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Lady's Magazine
Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840): 'I am sorry I did not exist, sir, fifty or sixty years ago, when the "Ladies' Magazine" was flourishing like a green bay tree. In that case, I make no doubt, my aspirations after literary fame would have met with due encouragement [...] I recollect, when I was a child, getting hold of some antiquated old volumes, and reading them by stealth with the most exquisite pleasure. You give a correct description [in letter] of the patent Grisels of those days. My aunt was one of them; and to this day she thinks the tales of the "Ladies' Magazine" infinitely superior to any trash of modern literature. So do I; for I read them in childhood, and childhood has a very strong faculty of admiration, but a very weak one of criticism'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      Print: Serial / periodical

: 'French books'
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 20 August 1840:] 'I have got another bale of French books from Gomersal -- containing upwards of 40 volumes -- I have read about half -- they are like the rest clever wicked sophistical and immoral -- the best of it is they give one a thorough idea of France and Paris -- and are the best substitute for French Conversation I have met with.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

: Manchester Guardian
'These included excerpts from the "News Chronicle" and "Manchester Guardian", which reported that a so-called "article" of mine on saturation bombing, supported by a signed statement from twenty-eight Protestant "leaders of opinion", had created a "furore" in the United States, and had even inspired three and a half columns of adverse criticism in the "New York Times".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

:
'Of Charlotte Bronte's sojourn at Upperwood House, Rawdon, there is only one slight record apart from her letters. It is contained in a communication to the Westminster Gazette [May, 1901]. The writer [Mrs Strickland of Halstead Hastings] says: '"My mother, Mrs Slade of Hastings, now in her seventy-ninth year, distinctly remembers meeting the afterwards distinguished novelist at the house of Mr [John] White, a Bradford merchant, something like sixty years ago. At that time Miss Bronte was acting as governess to Mr White's children, and my mother has a vivid recollection of seeing her sitting apart from the rest of the family in a corner of the room, poring, in her short-sighted way, over a book. The impression she made on my mother was that of a shy nervous girl, ill at ease, who desired to escape notice and to avoid taking part in the general conversation."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Dorothy Thompson : [article in the "Sunday Chronicle"]
'My first real understanding of the "terrific sensation" came from an article published in the "Sunday Chronicle" on March 12th by the American columnist, Dorothy Thompson. [Brittain then proceeds to quote from the article.]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: Blackwood's Magazine
From Emily Bronte's 'diary paper' of 30 July 1841: 'It is Friday evening, near 9 o'clock -- wild rainy weather. I am seated in the dining-room alone [...] Papa is in the parlour -- aunt upstairs in her room. She has been reading Blackwood's Magazine to papa.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      Print: Serial / periodical

: Human Events
'About the same time a correspondent sent me a copy of "Human Events", issued weekly from Washington by Dr. Felix Morley, a former editor of the "Washington Post".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times
'In 1943, soon after Britain adopted "obliteration" as a policy, an article in the "Times" reported that "the German home front morale had grown stronger"; bombing "united" and "stiffened" the German people just as the Nazi Blitzkrieg in 1940 had united and stiffened the British.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: Turenne's New French Manual for 1840
'In the Bronte Museum, there is a manuscript French phrase book, written and used by the Rev. Patrick Bronte during this [February 1842] visit to Brussels. It is a little home-made note-book, consisting of 36 pages, stitched into a back of limp, straight-grained calf. The first page is occupied by the following note: '"The following conversational terms, suitable to a Traveller in France, or any part of the Continent of Europe -- are taken from Turenne's New French Manual for 1840 -- and with those in my pocket book will be sufficient for me -- and must be fully mastered, and ready -- semper -- All these must be kept -- semper. There are first the French -- 2 -- The right pronunciation -- and lastly the English. [name and address details follow]" [...] 'The phrases written on the next 19 pages are divided under headings: -- Of the mind, -- Of food, -- Spices &c., -- Dessert and drink, -- Numerals, -- Days & Months, -- French Coin, &c. At the foot of p.17 is the following note: "I have thus made extracts once over all Turenne's excellent French Manual. May -- 1842 -- B."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Bronte      Print: Book

Oswald Garrison Villard : Last Plea for Europe
'From the United States Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, inspired by the same thought, sent me an article called "Last Plea for Europe" which he had published in "The Christian Century".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: article published in a periodical

: Evening News
'During the second week of the battle, a Letter reader sent me from that day's Evening News a clipping which contained only two headlines: CHILDREN SEE GERMANS DIE. "C'est bon," they say. "C'est bon."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Branwell Bronte :
[Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:] 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lately seen something of my "head work" wish me to turn my attention to literature, and along with that advice, they give me plenty of puff and praise. All very well, but I have little conceit for myself, and great desire for activity.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Montgomery      Manuscript: Unknown

Branwell Bronte :
Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842: 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lately seen something of my "head work" wish me to turn my attention to literature, and along with that advice, they give me plenty of puff and praise. All very well, but I have little conceit for myself, and great desire for activity.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Unknown

: Daily Express
'Coming up to London on the morning of September 8th, I read with the same happiness as my neighbours a "Daily Express" article by Duncan Sandys, M.P., the chairman of the War Cabinet committee on operational counter-measures against the flying bomb.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: The Stars and Stripes
'On May 5th the U.S. Forces' newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes", quoted a description by British war prisoners of this fourteen-hour attack.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: Jewish Chronicle
'A letter in the "Jewish Chronicle" subsequently assailed Victor for publishing and commending "Above All Nations".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Victor Gollancz : What Buchenwald Really Means
'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain

Victor Gollancz : article in the "Left News"
'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Victor Gollancz : Article in the "Left News"
'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan
'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

S. L. Solon : Article in the "News Chronicle"
On March 14th the "News Chronicle's" correspondent, S. L. Solon, had called Cologne "End-of-the-World City".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

Anne Matheson : Article in the "Evening Standard"
'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

George Orwell : Article in "The Observer"
'Even George Orwell, who had dismissed "Seed of Chaos" with contempt the previous year, now expressed deep misgivings in "The Observer" for April 8th.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Newspaper

: New York Post
'He told me later that the "New York Post" announced the conclusion of the war in Europe under the headline: "Now We Must Crush the Japs!"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Catlin      Print: Newspaper

Howard Spring : Article in "St Martin's Review"
'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review", the monthly magazine of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, for September 1942.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

Somerset Maugham : A Christmas Holiday
'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies
'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and the heart loses its life for ever."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

John Steinbeck : The Moon is Down
'Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, "The Moon is Down".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

: French book/s
[Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger (in source eds' translation from French), 24 July 1844:] 'I greatly fear that I shall forget French [...] To avoid such a misfortune I learn every day by heart half a page of French from a book written in familiar style: and I take pleasure in learning this lesson, Monsieur; as I pronounce the French words it seems to me as if I were chatting with you.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

: articles on railways and railway stock
[Charlotte Bronte to Margaret Wooler, on the Bronte sisters' investment plans, 23 April 1845:] 'There is nothing so uncertain as rail-roads; the price of shares varies continually -- and any day a small share-holder may find his funds shrunk to their original dimensions. Emily has made herself mistress of the necessary degree of knowledge for conducting the matter, by dint of carefully reading every paragraph and every advertisement in the news papers that related to rail-roads and as we have abstained from all gambling, all mere speculative buying- in and selling-out -- we have got on very decently.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Bronte      Print: Newspaper

Emily Bronte : poems
[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my sister Emily's handwriting. Of course I was not surprised, knowing that she could and did write verse. I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me -- a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear they had also a peculiar music, wild, melancholy, and elevating. My sister Emily was not a person of demonstrative character, nor one on the recesses of whose mind and feelings even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicenced: it took hours to reconcile her to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication.... Meantime my younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure I might like to look at hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these verses too had a sweet, sincere pathos of their own.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Manuscript: Unknown

Anne Bronte : poems
[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my sister Emily's handwriting. Of course I was not surprised, knowing that she could and did write verse. I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me -- a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear they had also a peculiar music, wild, melancholy, and elevating. My sister Emily was not a person of demonstrative character, nor one on the recesses of whose mind and feelings even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicenced: it took hours to reconcile her to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication.... Meantime my younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure I might like to look at hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these verses too had a sweet, sincere pathos of their own.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Manuscript: Unknown

Jean Henri Merle D'Aubigne : "Letter"
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 31 March 1846:] 'I received the number of the Record you sent and despatched it forwards to Mr Young &c. am I right? I read D'Aubigne's letter -- it is clever and in what he says about catholicism very good -- the evangelical alliance part is not very practicable yet certainly it is more in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel to preach unity amongst Christians than to inculcate mutual intolerance and hatred'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Unknown

: review of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to the Editor of the Dublin University Magazine, 6 October 1845:] 'I thank you in my own name and that of my brothers, Ellis [Emily Bronte] and Acton [Anne Bronte], for the indulgent notice that appeared in your last number of our first humble efforts in literature; but I thank you still more for the essay on Modern poetry which preceded it -- an essay in which seems to me to be condensed the very spirit of truth and beauty; if all or half of all your other readers shall have derived from its perusal the delight it afforded to myself and my brothers, your labours have produced a rich result. 'After such criticism an author may indeed be smitten at first by a sense of his own insignificance -- as indeed we were -- but on a second and a third perusal he finds a power and beauty therein which stirs him to a desire to do more and better things -- it fulfils the right end of criticism -- without absolutely crushing -- it corrects and rouses'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Bronte sisters     Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
[W. M. Thackeray to W. S. Williams, 23 October 1847:] 'I wish you had not sent me Jane Eyre. It interested me so much that I have lost (or won if you like) a whole day in reading it at the busiest period with the printers I know wailing for copy. Who the author can be I can't guess, if a woman she knows her language better than most ladies do, or has had a "classical" education. It is a fine book though, the man and woman capital, the style very generous and upright so to speak. I thought it was Kinglake for some time. The plot of the story is one with wh. I am familiar. Some of the love passages made me cry, to the astonishment of John, who came in with the coals. St John the missionary is a failure I think but a good failure, there are parts excellent [...] I have been exceedingly moved and pleased by Jane Eyre. It is a woman's writing, but whose? Give my respects and thanks to the author, whose novel is the first English one (and the French are only romances now) that I've been able to read for many a day.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray      Print: Book

: Review of Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"
[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 26 October 1847:] 'I have received the newspapers. They speak quite as favourably of "Jane Eyre" as I expected them to do. The notice in the "Literary Gazette" seems certainly to have been indited in rather a flat mood, and the "Athenaeum" has a style of its own, which I respect, but cannot exactly relish; still, when one considers that journals of that standing have a dignity to maintain which would be damaged by a too cordial recognition of the claims if an obscure author, I suppose there is every reason to be satisfied.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 26 October 1847:] 'I have received the newspapers. They speak quite as favourably of "Jane Eyre" as I expected them to do. The notice in the "Literary Gazette" seems certainly to have been indited in rather a flat mood, and the "Athenaeum" has a style of its own, which I respect, but cannot exactly relish; still, when one considers that journals of that standing have a dignity to maintain which would be damaged by a too cordial recognition of the claims if an obscure author, I suppose there is every reason to be satisfied.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:] 'The "Weekly Chronicle" seems inclined to identify me with Mrs Marsh. I never had the pleasure of perusing a line of Mrs Marsh's in my life, but I wish very much to read her works, and shall profit by the first opportunity of doing so. I hope I shall not find I have been an unconscious imitator.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:] 'I have just received the "Tablet" and the "Morning Advertiser." Neither paper seems inimical to the book [Jane Eyre], but I see it produces a very different effect on different natures. I was amused at the analysis in the "Tablet," it is oddly expressed in some parts. I think the critic did not always seize my meaning; he speaks, for instance, of "Jane's inconceivable alarm at Mr Rochester's repelling manner." I do not remember that.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:] 'I have just received the "Tablet" and the "Morning Advertiser." Neither paper seems inimical to the book [Jane Eyre], but I see it produces a very different effect on different natures. I was amused at the analysis in the "Tablet," it is oddly expressed in some parts. I think the critic did not always seize my meaning; he speaks, for instance, of "Jane's inconceivable alarm at Mr Rochester's repelling manner." I do not remember that.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Newspaper

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
[George Henry Lewes to Elizabeth Gaskell:] 'When Jane Eyre first appeared, the publishers courteously sent me a copy. The enthusiasm with which I read it made me go down to Mr Parker, and propose to write a review of it for Fraser's Magazine [...] Meanwhile I had written to Miss Bronte to tell her the delight with which her book filled me'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes      Print: Book

: review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 13 November 1847:] 'This morning I received the "Spectator." The critique [of Jane Eyre] in the "Spectator" gives that view of the book which will naturally be taken by a certain class of minds; I shall expect it to be followed by others of a similar nature. The way to detraction has been pointed out, and will most likely be pursued [...] I fear this turn of opinion will not improve the demand for the book -- but time will show. If "Jane Eyre" has any solid worth in it, it ought to weather a gust of unfavourable wind.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 17 November 1847:] 'The perusal of the "Era" gave me much pleasure, as did that of the "People's Journal." An author feels peculiarly gratified by the recognition of a right tendency in his works; for if what he writes does no good to the reader, he feels he has missed his chief aim, wasted, in a great measure, his time and his labour. The "Spectator" seemed to have found more harm than good in "Jane Eyre," and I acknowledge that distressed me a little.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

: review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 17 November 1847:] 'The perusal of the "Era" gave me much pleasure, as did that of the "People's Journal." An author feels peculiarly gratified by the recognition of a right tendency in his works; for if what he writes does no good to the reader, he feels he has missed his chief aim, wasted, in a great measure, his time and his labour. The "Spectator" seemed to have found more harm than good in "Jane Eyre," and I acknowledge that distressed me a little.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

George Henry Lewes : Ranthorpe
[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to G. H. Lewes, 22 November 1847:] 'I have now read "Ranthorpe." I could not get it till a day or two ago; but I have got it and read it at last; and in reading "Ranthorpe" I have read a new book -- not a reprint -- not a reflection of any other book, but a [italics]new book[end italics]. 'I did not know such books were written now. It is very different to any of the popular works of fiction; it fills the mind with fresh knowledge. Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

: Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 1 December 1847:] 'The "Examiner" reached me to-day [...] The notice in the "Examiner" gratified me very much; it appears to be from the pen of an able man who has understood what he undertakes to criticise; of course approbation from such a quarter is encouraging to an author, and I trust it will prove beneficial to the work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Serial / periodical

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I can hardly credit that anything I have done should be found worthy to give even transitory pleasure to such men as Mr Thackeray, Sir John Herschel, Mr Fonblanque, Leigh Hunt, and Mr Lewes -- that my humble efforts should have had such a result is a noble reward.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Herschel      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I can hardly credit that anything I have done should be found worthy to give even transitory pleasure to such men as Mr Thackeray, Sir John Herschel, Mr Fonblanque, Leigh Hunt, and Mr Lewes -- that my humble efforts should have had such a result is a noble reward.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Henry Leigh Hunt      Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray :
Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847: 'I hardly ever felt delight equal to that which cheered me when I received your letter containing an extract from a note by Mr Thackeray, in which he expressed himself gratified with the perusal of "Jane Eyre." Mr Thackeray is a keen, ruthless satirist. I had never perused his writings but with blended feelings of admiration and indignation. Critics, it appears to me, do not know what an intellectual boa-constrictor he is [...] his is a most scalping humour, a most deadly brilliancy: he does not play with his prey, he coils round it and crushes it in his rings [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Unknown

Richard Hengist Horne : Orion
Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 December 1847: 'You will have thought me strangely tardy in acknowledging your courteous present, but the fact is it never reached me till yesterday [...] 'I have to thank you, not merely for the gift of a little book of 137 pages, but for that of a [italics]poem[end italics]. Very real, very sweet is the poetry of "Orion"; there are passages I shall recur to again and yet again -- passages instinct both with power and beauty. All through it is genuine -- pure from one fault of affectation, rich in noble imagery [...] You could not, I imagine, have written that epic without at times deriving deep happiness from your work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla
Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 25 December 1847: 'Permit me to thank you for your present, which reached me yesterday. I was not prepared for anything so truly tasteful, and when I had opened the parcel, removed the various envelopes, and at last got a glimpse of the chastely attractive binding, I was most agreeably surprised. What is better, on examination I find the contents fully to answer the expectation excited by the charming exterior; the [italics]Honey[end italics] is quite as choice as the [italics]Jar[end italics] is elegant. The illustrations too are very beautiful, some of them peculiarly so.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

Astolphe de Custine : ?Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic
'most striking & thrilling... twice to my mother & sisters'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

William Ellery Channing : Sermon on Spiritual Freedom
'very good, rather political in character'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

William Ellery Channing : Sermon on the Imitableness of Christ
'very good, with his peculiar views'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

William Ellery Channing : Sermons on Love to Christ
'good, with the Unitarian views'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

George Stillman Hillard : The Relation of the Poet to His Age
'a vague subject, but treated in the refined & elevated spirit peculiar to him'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Thomas Farnham : Travels in the Great Western Prairies
'written in a bad American style, turgid, & obscurely fractious, but interesting from its matter'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Astolphe de Custine : La Russia
'I have been extremely interested by it, and think it a most remarkable book, beyond measure severe, every line is written with a brand of frame, but I feel that my recollections and convictions assent the whole way… I image he does justice to the character of the Emperor, a great sovereign, not a great man; who thinks it would show weakness ever to forgive'. The reader continues to say that the book showed 'an indignation against oppression & fraud too well-grounded and too energetic not to be in great part genuine'.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

William Ellery Channing : Sermon on Dr Tuckerman
'the founder of the Ministry at large, excellent. I must have talk with Ly Byron about this subject, & the similar institution that has been set on foot here'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

: [Articles on the French Revolution and Robespierre, journal unknown]
'interesting, but I should say indicative of rather a deficient moral standard & Providential recognition'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Melvill : Sermon on the Ascension
'fine imagery, but is too speculative'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Unknown

Thomas Arnold : Sermon on the text 'except ye eat the flesh of the son of man'
'short as all his are, & excellent as almost all are'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Unknown

William Ellery Channing : Lecture on the Present Age
'very interesting & able. I have read the entire contents of his published works, and every page has impressed upon me increased admiration, sympathy & veneration. I make of course the deduction which is to be set down to his Unitarian doctrines, though even with respect to these what I have read has led me to modify much that was uncharitable and ignorant'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Thomas Arnold : Sermon on the Three Comings of Christ
'pithy & good. He is sure never to offend, usually to instruct & amend'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Thomas Arnold : Sermon on Ceasar's Household
'Read loud… I like better & better, it is so clever & so practical'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

James Kay-Shuttleworth : Proof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training School
'full of good & useful matter'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Unknown

George Selwyn : Correspondence
'entertained me much, though they would probably have not so much interest out of this family, to which so many of them relate. My father is much annoyed at having so many particulars disclosed'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Leighton : Sermon on Divine Grace and Obedience
'excellent, some antidote is salutary amidst such frivolities'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : Truth's Welcome Home
'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly done. It is mordant, it is witty.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: proof

Edward Garnett : A Week in Paris
'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly done. It is mordant, it is witty.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: typescript

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame Bovary". In fact I have read it only after finishing "A.[Almayer's] F.[Folly]" as I did all the other works of Flaubert; and anyway my Flaubert is the Flaubert of "St. Antoine" and "Ed[ucation] Sent[imentale]" and that only from the point of view of rendering of concrete things and visual impressions.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France
'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : Mr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy.
'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is done!' [Hence follow four more lines of appreciative comment.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Basil Montagu : Thoughts on Laughter By a Chancery Barrister
'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it. Why does he not publish more such?'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle

Roger Ascham : ?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster'
'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle

Sir William Hamilton : Review of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (Paris, 1828) in Edinburgh Review, XCIV (OCt 1829), 194-221
'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw from it? Pity that Sir W. had not the gift of delivery! He has real knowledge on those matters; but all unsorted, and tumbled topsy-turvy like a "bankrupt stock."'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

Theodore James Gordon Gardiner : The Reconnaissance
'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very difficult one because of its deep nature and its necessarily superficial aspects.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts :
'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].'
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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

John William Fortescue : History of the British Army: Extracts from British Campaigns in Flanders
'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Arthur Symons : Colour Studies in Paris
'That vol[ume]["Colour Studies in Paris"] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous like pearls[...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

:
'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, thinks so well of my work. I trust we may meet [...] on your return from Damascus next year.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Schiller & Goethe : Correspondence
'I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Schiller, grounded on that work, for the Foreign Review.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

John A. Carlyle : 'Animal Magnetism'
'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they are among the worst payers in existence.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen : Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie von der altesten Zeit, bis in das sechzhnte Jarhrundert
'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a few pages of it.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Patrick Fraser Tytler : History of Scotland
'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Book; seems well-founded, accurate, authentic; and without pretending to be a classical History, may well enjoy several years of extensive popularity. I shall be very glad to see the First and all the other Volumes, when they appear.'
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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

: The Examiner
'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, if it came on Saturday (that is half a week old) this were perhaps the best of all arrangements.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James Mercier : Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred
[Charlotte Brontë to the grandson of Henry James Mercier, 1 June 1848:]

'I have read 2,500 with pleasure. It is a very clever and ingenious production, Your grandfather must have been an intellectual, clever and accomplished man.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

John Stores Smith : Mirabeau: A Life History
[Charlotte Brontë, as Currer Bell, to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 15 June 1848:] 'I duly received Mirabeau from Mr Smith [...] When I have read the book, I will tell you what I think of it — its subject is interesting. One thing a little annoyed me — as I glanced over the pages I fancied I detected a savour of Carlyle's peculiarities of style. Now Carlyle is a great man, but I always wish he would write plain English; and to imitate his Germanisms is, I think, to imitate his faults.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burnet (Own Time, began).
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time
[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Samuel Knight : Life of Dr John Colet
[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Algernon Swinburne : A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose) immensely.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

: Gold Coast Blue Book
'Thank you for your green book which I have read with the greatest of interest.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : Papa's War and Other Satires
'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at once. You know my opinion of all the pieces composing it.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henry Major Tomlinson : Old Junk
'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"] and I have appreciated their graphic power, personal point of view and felicity of expression. I glanced in here and there with renewed pleasure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Sydney Dobell : Balder
[Charlotte Bronte to Sydney Dobell, 3 February 1854:]

'"Balder" arrived safely. I looked at him, before cutting his leaves, with singular pleasure [...] I have read him. He impresses me thus: He teems with power; I found in him a wild wealth of life [...]

'There is power in that character of "Balder," and to me a certain horror. Did you mean it to embody, along with force, any of the special defects of the artistic character? It seems to me that those defects were never thrown out in stronger lines. I did not and could not think you meant to offer him as your cherished ideal of the true great poet; I regard him as a vividly coloured picture of inflated self-esteem, almost frantic aspiration; of a nature that has made a Moloch of intellect — offered up, in pagan fires, the natural affections — sacrificed the heart to the brain. Do we not all know that true greatness is simple, self-oblivious, prone to unambitious, unselfish attachments? I am certain you feel this truth in your heart of hearts.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

: Railway timetable for February [?1854]
[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 14 May 1854:]

'I took the time of the Leeds-Keighley-Skipton trains from Mr Clapham's Feby Time-Table and when I got to Leeds [from stay with Nussey] found myself all wrong. The trains on that line were changed — one had at that moment left the station [...] there was not another till a quarter after 5 o'clock; so I had just four hours to sit and twirl my thumbs [...] It was just 7 o'clock when I reached home.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Timetable

Edmund Candler : Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life
'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. The same evening I picked up "Sri Ram" as I limped to bed, and went on reading it through the still, very still, hours of night to the end, marvelling and musing over the pages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life
'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : The Sepoy
'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; and in the case of this book I must say I enjoyed thoroughly in every way, in the facts, in the presentation and in the spirit of the writing itself.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : Some Personal Recollections
'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read your two articles — and it was a delightful (c'est le mot juste) experience.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

John Galsworthy : Another Sheaf
'The justness of all these things said in "Another Sheaf" is what strikes one most.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: The Life of George Eliot (vol. 1)
[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]

'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! — At 34 years of age she became Editor of the "Westminster Review," the most intellectual Review of the day [...] At 24 years of age this most wonderful of girls translated from the German Strauss's "Leben Jesu" after only 4 years study of the language! — When Sonie has finished the first volume I will send it you. — I am nearly through this volume myself.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sidney Biddell and 'Sonie' [also Biddell?]     Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]

'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Writing to a correspondent in June 1848, she says, "I have read 'Jane Eyre' [...] All self- sacrifice is good, but one would like it to be in a somewhat nobler cause than that of a diabolical law which chains a man soul and body to a putrefying carcase. However the book is interesting; only I wish the characters would talk a little less like the heroes and heroines of police reports."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte
[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]

'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Of Mrs Gaskell's "Life" she writes to a friend in 1857: "But there is one new book we have been enjoying [...] the "Life of Charlotte Bronte"'.
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
[A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to Charlotte Bronte's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls:]

'On first reading Jane Eyre several years ago I recognised immediately the picture there drawn [of the school], and was far from considering it in any way exaggerated. In fact, I thought at the time, and still think the matter rather understated than otherwise [comments further on points of comparison between the real and fictional schools] [...] I had no knowledge of Mrs Nicholls [Bronte] personally, therefore my statement may fairly be considered an impartial one.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Anon      Print: Book

Wilfred Scawen Blunt : My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1888-1914
'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very seriously.'

[Hence follow thirteen lines of mainly negative comments.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

George Bradshaw (ed) : Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Britain and Ireland
'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is lost and the book produces the effect of being a mere fairy-tale. It's imposible to believe that all this takes place every day! The more popular and picturesque treatment of the same subject in the "A.B.C." carries more conviction to my frivolous mind.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide
'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is lost and the book produces the effect of being a mere fairy-tale. It's impossible to believe that all this takes place every day! The more popular and picturesque treatment of the same subject in the "A.B.C." carries more conviction to my frivolous mind.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Christopher Sandeman : [untitled]
'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the expression of the writer's personality.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Sidney Colvin : Gambetta
'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas James Wise : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Part 1)
'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Gerald Cumberland (pseud.) : Tales of a Cruel Country
'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.

[Conrad then makes several comments indicating that he has at least read some of them.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham : Brought Forward
'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'. Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comment.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

David Bone : Merchantmen-at-Arms:The British Merchants' Service in the War
'I was laid up directly on arriving here, and this is the explanation of the delay in thanking you for the precious copy of the book. Pray convey to your brother my great appreciation of his signature on the fly leaf.'

[Hence follow four lines of praise.]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Paul Adam : Lettres de Malaisie
'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon : Les Mémoires de Saint-Simon
'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yesterday. Tonight I finish revising. Tomorrow I plunge into "Saint-Simon".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Richard Curle : Wanderings
'Just a line to thank you for the book. As I turn the pages my consideration for you grows to the proportions of respect. There is a beauty of easy moving prose - charm of phrase — felicity of words which give the strongest possible impression of mastery of language [...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham : A Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro
'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but you to render so poignantly the pathetic and desperate effects of human credulity. It is a marvellous piece of sustained narrative and of intensely personal prose.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : In Chancery
'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the handling [of] the subject and (in sober truth) the sheer beauty of these pages.[...]

I keep the MS for Jessie to read. In the Nursing Home she could only read "Tatterdemalion" which I have not yet seen. I didn't want to take it away from her for even an evening as she seemed unable to tackle any of the other 12 volumes she had in her room.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

John Galsworthy : Tatterdemalion
'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the handling [of] the subject and (in sober truth) the sheer beauty of these pages.[...]

I keep the MS for Jessie to read. In the Nursing Home she could only read "Tatterdemalion" which I have not yet seen. I didn't want to take it away from her for even an evening as she seemed unable to tackle any of the other 12 volumes she had in her room.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jessie Conrad      Print: Book

Joseph Hergesheimer : Wild Oranges
'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [...] You will be good enough to give my most friendly regards to Hergesheimer whose vital work combing strength of vision with delicate perception and masterly expression arouses my admiration and sympathy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Rodney Mundy : Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke
'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of the first Rajah's enterprise and even by the lecture [i.e.reading] of his journals as partly reproduced by Captain Mundy and others.[...]. It was a great pleasure to read "My Life in Sarawak" [...] I have looked into that book many times since.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon : Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke
'E. [Edward] Grey's book, of which I have already read a considerable portion, has certainly the charm of a genuine feeling expressed in plain language worthy of a great fisherman.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Prosper Mérimée : Tamango
'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Gérard Jean-Aubry : Mérimée
'Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read it yesterday. It is one of the best pieces by you I've read, though your work never fails to delight.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

Hugh Walpole : The Captives: A novel in Four Parts
'This is only to tell you that I have read the book.'

[Hence follow six lines of praise.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

André Gide : La Symphonie Pastorale
'Many thanks indeed for your good letter and for the little book ["La Symphonie Pastorale"] whose precious pages I will cut tonight "in the silence of my study" in a peaceful house where everyone has gone to bed.[...] For me that is the moment for friends' books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Cortes Holliday :
'Thank you very much for Mr Holliday's book, which has certainly got a lot of good things in it and which I enjoyed greatly.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William Rothenstein : Twenty-Four Portraits, with Critical Appreciation by Various Hands
'Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the people one knows, if ever so little.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham : Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu
'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the Carthagena book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength of feeling, steadfastness of sympathies and force of expresssion. I turned the pages with unfailing delight [...].
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece
'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece
'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece
Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ...
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece
Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Thomas William Lancaster : The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a
[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Thomas William Lancaster : The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a
[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Thomas William Lancaster : The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a
[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Baden Powell : The elements of curves: designed for the use of students of the
18,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Baden Powell : An elementary treatise on the geometry of curves and curved surfaces :
25 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in aftn & evg [...].
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Edward Burton : Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ
[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

Edward Burton : Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ
[...] Finished Burton [...]
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : To Let
'Yesterday I read the first inst[alment] of "To Let" in a spirit of philistinish curiosity.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

John Galsworthy : The Awakening
'Rudo [R.H.Sauter] shows much charm in "Awakening", which harmonised with the charm of the text in a fascinating way.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Family Man
'Thank you very much for sending me the text [of John Galsworthy's play "The Family Man"] which I have looked over with considerable interest. There are several rather considerable typing mistakes in that copy [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: playscript

Bruno Winawer : Ksiega Hioba (The Book of Job)
'Thank you for sending me the comedy. I found it [...] interesting and greatly entertaining, which however dd not prevent me from taking your work quite seriously.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: playscript

Bruno Winawer : Groteski
'I must begin by thanking you for the little book of satirical pieces ["Groteski"] which I read with great enjoyment and in that sympathetic mood which your work arouses in me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

André Gide : Les Caves du Vatican
'A few days ago in fact I re-read "Les Caves du Vatican", with the same intetest but with an admiration that grows on each new reading. The infinity of things you put into that book, where the hand is so light and the thought so deep, is truly marvellous.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Frederick O'Brien : White Shadows in the South Seas
'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Frederick O'Brien : Mystic Isles of the South Seas
'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Stefan Zeromski : Dzieje grzechu
'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a little space after all. The whole thing is disagreeable and often incomprehensible in comment and psychology. Often it is gratuitously ferocious. You now I am not sqeamish. The other work the great historical machine is called "Ashes" (Popioly). Both of course have a certain greatness.[...] [but] both take too much for granted in the way of receptivity and tolerance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Stefan Zeromski : Popioly
'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a little space after all. The whole thing is disagreeable and often incomprehensible in comment and psychology. Often it is gratuitously ferocious. You now I am not sqeamish. The other work the great hstorical machine is called "Ashes" (Popioly). Both of course have a certain greatness.[...] [but] both take too much for granted in the way of receptivity and tolerance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

David Bone : The Brassbounder
'Many thanks for the charming copy of "The Brassbounder". It is as fresh and attarctive as ever to read and I am still under the charm of this sincere and fascinating record of things that have now passed away for ever.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Margaret Isabella Stevenson :
'Your last letter was very nice.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

William Ernest Henley :
'At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demanded by Hueffer for the New Tarterly [sic]. It’s a real story, damned fine; but the dénouementdoesn’t please me yet: the beginning is so good, that it is difficult to get up to that pitch again, and the story sort of dies away.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Harold Waldo : Stash of the Marsh County
'I want to thank you at once for the book you have been good enough to send me.It is of course of the greatest interest and secures my personal sympathy by the kindly attitude of the author towards the people he treats, [i.e. Polish immigrants in U.S.] of and by the poignancy of the action.'
[Hence follows alomost a page of constructive criticism.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Sidney Colvin : Memories and Notes of Persons and Places, 1852-1912
'The readng of "Memories and Notes" has been one continuous delight. As you know I have been privileged to see some of these papers even in typescript and some in their serial form. But the quality of their interest and freshness is of the kind that does not perish in the reading and re-reading.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Bertrand Russell : Analysis of Mind
'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Hugh Walpole : The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Story
'And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing experience.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Francis Warrington Dawson : The Gift of Paul Clermont
'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching performance which one likes more the deeper one gets into it.'
[Hence follow nine lines of praise.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Alfred Comyn Lyall :
'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Alfred [Lyall] whose verse and prose appeal strongly to my mind and feelings.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Anton Chekhov : The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
'Thanks my dearest fellow for he Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with every page of her translations I read. The renderings in this vol have impressed me extremely.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Alexandr Fredro : Trzy po Trzy
'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plaisir extrème à lire et à regarder les images.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jean Fayard : Oxford et Margaret
'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Basil Lubbock : The Colonial Clippers
'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : Abdication
'"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As you may imagine I read it at once.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Garnett : Friday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciation, First Series
'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint of the typewriter.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jean Aubry : La Musique et les nations
'I was very happy to receive "La Musique et les nations" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greatest of pleasure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Addington Symonds : Animi Figura
'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a few of us.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Proof copy

: Bible
'Thank you heartily for the Bible, which is exquisite.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham : The Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada
'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly swollen wrist which prevented me from holding the pen.'
[Hence follow eight lines of praise.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Cecil Roberts : A Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four Acts
'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I was just fiinishng a novel and putting off looking at the play deliberately. [...] Let me at once congratulate you affectionately on the charm and skill and beauty that is in your work.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, playscript

Bruno Winawer : Slepa latarka (Dark Lantern)
'I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I have read with absolute delight and appreciation of every point, and greatest sympathy wth the mind which conceived it and the literary gift which guided the pen. During the last few weeks I have been finishing a novel and have been too absorbed to write to anyone.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Forsythe Saga
'For the last two days I have been reading "The [Forsythye] Saga" which makes a wonderful volume.[...] How fresh "The Man of Property" reads. For that book I have a special affection. I have not read it for a couple of years, or more...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Garnett : The Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet
'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet affair. All this story is quite new to me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Bertrand Russell : The Problem of China
'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledged the receipt at once. But I preferred to read it before I wrote. Unluckily a very unpleasant affair was sprung on me and absorbed all my thinking energies for a fortnight. I simply did not attempt to open the book till all the worry and flurry was over, and I could give it two clear days.'
[Hence follow three pages of commentary.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Clarence Andrews : Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas
'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the book ["Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas"] in its human zest for impressions, in its pervading sympathy for strange mankind, its acuity of observation [...] has given me a very real pleasure [...] You will see that neither the lapse of 2 months [since receiving and reading the book?] nor the fact of re-reading, has altered my original judgement "by first impression".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

David Garnett : Lady into Fox
'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever seen.'
[Hence follow ten lines of praise.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Drinkwater : Preludes, 1921-1922
'I consider myself highly privileged by the possession of an inscribed copy of the limited edition of the "Preludes"; and thanking you for the beauty and music therein contained I am especially grateful for the kind thought which prompted you to send them to me in this form.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Fryniwyid Tennyson Jesse : The White Riband; Or a Young Female's Folly
'Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loveday, who had no other name.[...] Its a gem in its way.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann
'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann
'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
[Hence follows another page and a half of commentary on the translation and on Proust in general.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka : Pozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Reminiscences of Volhynia 1917-18
'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as by the manner of its writing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jules Laforgue :
'Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is very very well done. Your author's text is odd [curieux]. Its charm is felt through the facts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Julian Street : Mysterious Japan
'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I was looking into it again only the other day. Pray do send me your "Roosevelt" and don't forget to write your name on the flyleaf.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jan Tadeusz Zuk-Skarszewski : Rumak Swiatowida:karykatura wczorajsza (Swiatowid's Steed: A Caricature of Yesterday)
'Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the "Rumak" with the greatest possible interest. I think it's simply wonderful in its sustained power and charm of expression.[...] I haven't benn able as yet to find time to begin "Pustka.''
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

W. A. H. Mull : A True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the Ship "Dalgonar" of Liverpool
'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Jean Aubry : Sainte Beuve (exact title unknown)
'I've had the "Fortnightly [Review]" sent to me. I've just finished your "Sainte Beuve". My dear fellow! It's an admirable analytical exposition of the man himself. I've never read anything of this kind that gave me the same sense of penetrating vision coupled with formal perfection.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Richard Curle : Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya
'Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Bruno Winawer : Roztwor profesora Pytla (Professor Pytel's Solution)
'Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This formula expresses the highest praise.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, or playscript

Bruno Winawer : R.H., Inzynier
'I liked "Engineer" very very much indeed! The idea, the execution, the style.[...] Shall I return the MS to you?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

Richard Curle : Scandals of the Dole
'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitude, interest.[...] Jessie is lost in admiration.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

Liam O'Flaherty : The Cow's Death
'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

David John Nicoll : "Commonweal": The Greenwich Mystery
'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

John Galsworthy : Captures
'The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. Some of them I've seen before in Mags. but not many.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Hubert Wellington : William Rothenstein
'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — this little selection.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: [Rule Book of the National Club]
'I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, my dear Gardiner [...] I cannot very well belong to the Club by the mere fact that I was born a R[oman] C[atholic]...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Bruno Winawer : Jeszcze o Einstein: teoria wzglenosci z lotu ptaka (More about Einstein: A Bird's-eye View of the Theory of Relativity
'Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Christopher Morley : Inward Ho!
'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner and matter of your essays.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William Henry Hudson : 153 Letters from W. H. Hudson
'I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the worry and general horror of the situation. I think that your little introduction at the beginning is the most charming and touching thing that I ever remember having read. The letters themselves are of course particularly interesting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: The Criterion
'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very good and did help me through some pretty bad sleepless hours of more than one night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Beer : Stephen Crane: A Study in American Letters with an introduction by Joseph Conrad
'Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively got up. I very well like your fount and the spacing of the lines. I am going to drop a few lines to Mr Beer to congratulate him on his achievement. It is a live book, more so than any biography I ever read.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Christopher Ward : The Triumph of the Nut and Other Parodies
Sorry I am late in thanking you for the little book and the friendly inscription. I greatly enjoyed the parodies on those writers I have read.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin] : Kimono
'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he given you a copy?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Enoch Arnold Bennett : Riceyman Steps
'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any special gems but it is the whole achievement as I went from page to page that secured my admiration. [...] I closed the book at 7 in the morning after the shortest sleepless night of my experience [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Allan Monkhouse : A Bookman's Notes
'I read with the greatest pleasue what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of remarkable talent for imaginative rendering of the social life of his time, with its activities and interests and incipient thoughts.[ ...] I was considerably impressed with them [The "Palliser" novels] in the early eighties when I chanced upon a novel entitled "Phineas Finn". Haven't seen them since, to tell you the truth [...]'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

Anthony Trollope : Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of remarkable talent for imaginative rendering of the social life of his time, with its activities and interests and incipient thoughts.[ ...] I was considerably impressed with them [The "Palliser" novels] in the early eighties when I chanced upon a novel entitled "Phineas Finn". Haven't seen them since, to tell you the truth [...]'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Allan Monkhouse :
'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' [...] Some day — if you permit me — I'll send you the copy so you may write your name and mine on the flyleaf.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, playscript

Jacques Copeau : La Maison natale
'Many thanks for "La Maison natale", which you have so kindly sent me. I have just finished reading it and am greatly impressed by the simple and effective way you treat what I consider the most difficult subject in the realm of the spirit.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, playscript

Roman Dyboski : Modern Polish Literature: a course of lectures delivered in the School of Slavonic studies, King's College, University of London
'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious element in Polish national life which told me many things I did not know before.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Roman Dyboski : Periods of Polish Literary History: Being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1923
'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious element in Polish national life which told me many things I did not know before.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Roman Dyboski : ?The Religious Element in Polish National Life
'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious element in Polish national life which told me many things I did not know before.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

Hugh Clifford : Address to the Legislative Council of Nigeria
'I had letter from Sir Hugh Clifford. He sends me six copies of his address to the Legislative Council.[...] The report is very interesting.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

: Robotnik (The Worker)
'Thank you for the magazines and books. I haven't yet dipped into the novel. I am very touched by the favourable response of the critics to the translation [of "A Set of Six"]. The article in "Robotnik" is very good and has greatly pleased me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt'] : I Say
'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

David Garnett : A Man in the Zoo
'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be congratulated in pulling off this piece with great tact and subtlety.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Some Do Not
'As to the novel I think that between us two, if I tell you that I consider it "tout à fait chic" you will understand perfectly how much that "phrase de l'atelier" means to the initiated.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Horatio Nelson :
'Many thanks for letting me have a view of the Nelson letter which is most interesting. I appreciate very much you taking the risk of loss in order to give me that pleasure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Letter

André Gide : Incidences
'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But I don't need to tell you that I find your pages always congenial beyond measure. In the volume you so kindly sent to me there are some pages that I know. I did not know the Prefaces. I read them with delight — and also the reflections on mythology.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Louis-Marie-Emile Roché : Temps perdu
'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] What more can I say to give you an idea of the pleasure (complete and faultless) that the reading of your verses has given me?'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Francis McCullagh : The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity
'My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of "Bolshevik Persecution" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read with interest this most remarkably able account of a significant episode in the long tale of religious persecution.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Forest
'I feel compunctions not having written before about "The Forest" — a piece of work to which I came with the greatest interest. [...]. Anyway its a fine thing.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: playscript

Edward Lancelot Sanderson : An Episode of Southern Seas
'As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem — and it may be true — now.[...] But its charm and music are for me. I have read it more than once.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Norman : The Peoples and Politics of the Far East:Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya
'Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his "Far East".'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Millar : Books: A Guide to Good Reading
'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : Strife
'I simply had to tell you having been impressed by seeing for the first time in my life a work of imagination acting upon an average sensibility with the personal, mysterious and irresistable power of oratory[...]. I will keep the MS until tomorrow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Ivan Turgenev : A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories
'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Faust"] Turg[enev] wrote in French I believe first and they are not good specimens of his art.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

James Johnston Abraham : A Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East
'Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : The House of Many Mirrors
'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I had read those pages you have been so good as to dedicate to me.[...] Altogether a treat as mere reader [...].
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edmund Candler : The General Plan
'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall take up your copy on Monday myself and deliver it to Pinker with my own hands.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

David Morton : ?Old Ships
'I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm thanks. The verse is very genuine and has appealed to me. My compliments to David Morton for having captured this musing mood so charmingly and with such a felicity of expression and images.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer) : Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Grand-daughter
'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It certainly has a quality but it is very much like the one-time Juliet.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

François-Marie Arouet Voltaire : Candide
'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the particular quality of this translation.'
[Hence follow five lines of further praise for the translation.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle] : Vie de Napoléon
'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write "Suspense", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Gaspard Gourgaud : Journal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818
'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write "Suspense", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Marcellin Pellet : Napoléon à l'île d'Elbe
'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write "Suspense", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Paul Gruyer : Napoléon, roi de l' île d'Elbe
'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write "Suspense", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Jean Rapp : Mémoires écrits par lui-même
'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write "Suspense", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Léon Lanzac de Laborie : Paris sous Napoléon
'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write "Suspense", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt] : The Ascending Effort
'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But] you will admit that Bourne's writing in its slightly grotesque heaviness made it very difficult to read the whole book in a spirit of impartiality[...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Lear : Nonsense Songs and Stories
'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and "The Old Man from the Kingdom of Tess", were favorites, but he enjoyed reading all of them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Alfred Russel Wallace : The Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise
'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's book about that part of the world.

[...]

He would read to me about far away places, explaining how the natives built their houses on poles driven into the river beds of eastern rivers.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

: Boy's Own Annual
'I am pretty sure that J[oseph] C[onrad] read it [the bound Christmas annual of "Boy's Own Paper"] after I had gone to bed because I found little spills of cigarette ash between the pages.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

: La Vie Parisienne
'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light reading in English, "Punch".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

: Punch
'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light reading in English, "Punch".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass
'He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading "The Nonsense Songs and Stories" and he was also very fond of the Lewis Carroll books. The verses in these seemed to have a particular attraction for him and he would read them through aloud several times.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

:
'He would say he bought books to read, not to stare at their backs on a shelf while they collected dust over the years. He liked books to be well bound but it was their contents that mattered and he never kept a book of which he did not approve — there was no room for "bosh" in his bookcases. He was a fast reader, not a skimmer reading bits here and there, but a perspicacious reader who obtained the greatest satisfaction from a good story well written.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

William Wymark Jacobs :
'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Adler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Max Adeler pseud. i.e Charles Heber Clark : Out of the Hurly Burly: or Life in an Odd Corner
'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Adler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Guy De Maupassant :
'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Ad[e]ler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Gustave Flaubert :
'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Ad[e]ler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

John Galsworthy :
'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Ad[e]ler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham :
'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Ad[e]ler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

:
' Most mornings he spent reading the papers until about half past ten, then answered any letters that had come [...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Newspaper

José Raul Capablanca : My Chess Career or Chess Fundamentals
'[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing through the games in Capablanca's book. We played every game in the book, J[oseph] C[onrad] reading the moves, stopping where Capablanca had made a comment, so we could write down our own observations.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

:
'If my father saw my mother, brother or myself reading a book he would cruise around and pounce on it if we put it down when we went out of the room. When we returned the book had vanished and could not be found; most mysterious until we realised what was happening. A day or to later the book reappeared in exactly the same place from which it had vanished, and open at exactly the same page.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

:
'The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by having his right hand in bandages, the gout had twisted his wrist and left it very weak and painful [...]. I was glad when my husband left me to finish the packing and retired to another room to read. But I was busy all night.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad

:
'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, that adjoined the drawing room. Then he had been wont to appear at the door clad only in a yellow and blue striped bath-robe, a wet parti-coloured bath towel wound around his head, and his feet encased in a big pair of Moorish slippers. In this garb he would mount to the top of the stage, right under the glass roof, and armed with a book ad a supply of cigarettes, take a sun-bath.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

:
'3rd mo. 15th. In looking over the events of today, I believe I suffered loss from reading the light and frivolous contents of a newspaper. May it serve as a caution for the future. The enemy is ever on the alert to instil poison into our minds.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Foster Brady      Print: Newspaper

: The Terrific Register
'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly; which, considering that there was an illustration to every number in which there was always a pool of blood, and at least one body, was cheap."'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens      Print: Serial / periodical

William Shakespeare :
'In a mill town in the late 1840's, a group of girl operatives met at five o'clock in the morning to read Shakespeare for an hour before going to work.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

John Locke :
'... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on there free of charge, the library and papers of John Locke, the famous English philosopher. So I went in and had a look. There were the books that the sage used, his desk, his manuscripts, his private notebooks ... One of the notebooks was open and I read a note to the effect that a man told him how at a certain place in France five miles from such and such a spot was "a spring which was cold in summer and hot in winter." "This," added Locke, in a touch which I appreciated, "he told me he knew from his own observation."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James      Manuscript: Manuscript notebook.

Gilbert Frankau :
'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again. He read me extracts from a book by Mr. Gilbert Frankau and proved to me what I could not have believed, that Mr. Frankau is a man of real high spirits which frequently almost achieve wit and humour.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James      Print: Book

Edmond Rostand : Cyrano de Bergerac
'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again.... On his shelf was ... Edmund Rostand's [italics] Cyrano de Bergerac [end italics] in the original French. I started to read the famous speech on his nose. My good friend went ahead with me line for line without the book. Then he in turn read the "Non merci" speech with immense gusto.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James      Print: Book

Luigi Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author
'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twelve because she would be at home then. I went, we went for lunch, went to the Student Movement House and read magazines and talked about them between for and eight, and then six of us met in her room and read Pirandello's Six characters in search of an author ... That is the sort of thing that is happening day after day. That is, of course, if you want it. If you want to go dancing you can ... But if you want to live the intellectual life Bloomsbury is the place.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James      Print: Book

: The Times
'Frank was reading [italics] The Times [end italics] and the first account of the battle that we had seen, the others were sleeping. I heard Frank's short bitter laugh, not a cheerful sound at any time. "We have fought the enemy to a standstill," he quoted, "and I think you'll be glad to know that we're all in our usual high spirits."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell      Print: Newspaper

:
'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myself that I might obtain some useful information ... But I saw no-one and it was frightening ... I stopped going out on these adventures. I talked to my signallers instead, I read my book. I reckoned I could read a book a day at the O.P. [observation post], the kind of book I took with me, I did not feel able to read any other sort.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell      Print: Book

:
'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, I saw Germans, Germans coming over the crest, lines of Germans advancing down the hill, single Germans crouching behind their derelict huts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell      Print: Book

:
'"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing. It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, addressed in Cherry's handwriting to the O.C. A Battery. It was only orders for the day, but when I opened the envelope I saw there was only a single sheet inside, instead of the usual sheaf of papers. I opened it and read: "Hostilities will cease from 11.00 hours today, November 11th." "What does it mean?" I asked him. "The War's over," he said.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell      Print: Orders for the day.

:
[Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive] 'Their home was very like one of ours, maps and pictures stuck on the walls, shelves cut out of the earth, a sheaf of orders on the hook, newspapers on the table, a half-written letter, a pair of spectacles. I looked at their books, but I could not tell whether they were like ours, whether they were novels or not.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell      Print: Book

Alexander Smith : "Barbara"
'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slowly and dully, staring at my candle. I took my Palgrave from the valise head; it opened at "Barbara" and I read quite coldly and critically until I came to the lines

In vain, in vain, in vain
You will never come again.
There droops upon the dreary hills a mournful fringe
of rain

then with a great gulp I knocked my candle out and buried my face in the valise.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan      Print: Book

Robert Greene : Pandosto
'I said rather dazedly aloud - to Beston - I wonder what time the next train to London goes - & a stranger with a time-table told me. I had just time to catch it. I had a carriage to myself & tried to read the "Triumph of Time" - through tears.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Asquith      Print: Book

Gilbert Keith Chesterton : Backfile of his own articles published in the "Daily Herald."
'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call on a friend. As I entered the building a taxi stopped at the door and I found G. K. C. [G. K. Chesterton] by my side. "I have half an hour for my article," said he, rather breathlessly. "Wait here till I come back." The first sentence was addressed to himself, the second to the taxi-driver, but as we were now in the office the driver heard nothing. Chesterton called for a back file of the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics], sat down, lit a cigar and began to read some of his old articles. I watched him. Presently he smiled. Then he laughed. Then he leaned back in his chair and roared. "Good - oh, damned good!" exclaimed he. He turned to another article and frowned a little, but a third pleased him better. After a while he pushed the papers from him and sat a while in thought.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gilbert Keith Chesterton      Print: Newspaper

John A. Carlyle : Review of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, II'
'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

John A. Carlyle : 'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St John Long'
'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 March 1928]
A Meeting held at Mark Ash Tuesday May 8th 1928 C. J. Evans in the Chair 1 Minutes of last approved
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

George Burrow : [A very short introduction to Elizabethan drama other than Shakespeare]
'The subject of the evening Elizabethan Drama other than Shakespear was then taken. Geo Burrow read a very short introduction to the subject.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

anon : Arden of Faversham
'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T. C. Elliott

anon : Arden of Faversham
'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus Reynolds

anon : Arden of Faversham
'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow

Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot Faustus R H Robson Metistopholes [sic] A Rawling An old Man
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Live dramatic reading featuring T. C. Elliott, R. H. Robson, and A. Rawling of XII Book Club

Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot Faustus R H Robson Metistopholes [sic] A Rawling An old Man
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson

:
'We are to make roads for the next few days. Out occasionally on work parties. Those officers not on duty all stayed in bed (valises!) and so did the men. We ate, slept, read in our valises. It was so cold outside. We had no fires, absolutely nothing, yet I really believed we enjoyed ourselves. There was practically no shelling.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay

Ben Jonson : Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles I. Evans

Ben Jonson : Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow

Robert Browning : The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I could have written a better love letter myself in spite of my tender years - and lack of experience.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: Book

Robert Browning : The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my spare time.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: Book

Gene Stratton-Porter : Michael O'Halloran: A Novel
'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the 21st. Heard that my school (Hillhead H.S.) are sending out 10,000 cigarettes to the battalion. Very decent indeed! Finished "Micky O'Halloran" by Gene Stratton Porter.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson

Gilbert Frankau :
'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war. Famous literary men have tried their powers of description and All (with the possible exception of Gilbert Frankau) have failed to convey the repulsiveness and awfulness of the scene. The Ecole was one of these places - That's all!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: Unknown

Robert Browning : The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the Browning Letters - rather a feat for Active Service!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: Book

James Shirley : 'Death the Leveller'
'16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that the boat would not cross today, so took an exceedingly good lunch. After lunch we were informed that the boat would sail at 2.30 p.m. Left then, tremendous rolling and pitching. Everybody sick. I remember well standing at the rail with a general on my left hand and a major of the R.A.F. on my right, and talking to the deep with them. I felt like quoting "Death the Leveller" to them, substituting "seasickness" for "death". There was some humour in the situation. Boulogne. Put up at the Meurice and went to bed after tea.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: Unknown

: [telegrams, letters, and reports]
'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as a/adjutant. Weather wet and cold. More "Strafes". Spent a very busy three days until night of 2nd/3rd. Nov. when we were relieved. During these three days in the line the number of letters, telegrams and reports received or sent out by me was no less than 451! I counted them! War! Eugh!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet

Robert Browning : The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet

Robert Browning : The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my part to get through them. Felt that if I had been in love I could have written better letters than those!!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : Ann Veronica
'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned turtle and nose dived. Pilot unhurt. Am doing a fair amount of reading. Enjoying "Ann Veronica" by H.G.Wells.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet

Edward Verrall Lucas : Mr. Ingleside
'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Stopped a staff car, and got back to Aubigny for tea. Shifted into a fine comfortable hut with a fire. Finished "Mr Ingleside".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet

Henry Jones : ?Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall. Poor Arras! It is in a worse condition than ever before. All our new erections, Y.M.C.A., huts, transport lines, and canteens and officers club are no more. I salvaged a copy of Jones' "Life of R. Browning" from the wreckage of the Y.M.C.A. Library. Our quarters are damp, and they smell. There are also rats, and the place is dark. Some of the Tommies had had a good time. There has been a bit of looting of such wine cellars and estaminets as previous bombardments had left.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet

: ['some novels']
'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sisters. God bless them! "P.U.O." seems rather a good illness. (Pyrexia of unknown origin, an army classification). There are 12,000 cases of it just now in the First Army. Very cheery, but terribly weak in the back. Read some novels. McDougall of the lst/8th. is in the bed next to mine. R.K.Drummond of the Camerons is in the bed opposite. Hospital crowded out.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet

: Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting Men
'Grouped into platoons. Lectures. Finished "Soldier Poets".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay      Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet

William Shakespeare : The Two Noble Kinsmen
'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evans and Miss Brain taking respectively the character of Emilia and her maid.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard

Shakespeare and Fletcher : The Two Noble Kinsmen
F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evans and Miss Brain taking respectively the character of Emilia and her maid
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: T. C. Elliott      Print: Book

Shakespeare and Fletcher : The Two Noble Kinsmen
F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evans and Miss Brain taking respectively the character of Emilia and her maid
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katharine S. Evans      Print: Book

Shakespeare and Fletcher : The Two Noble Kinsmen
F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evans and Miss Brain taking respectively the character of Emilia and her maid
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. Dorothy Brain

Nicholas Udall : Ralph Roister Doister
The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

Nicholas Udall : Ralph Roister Doister
The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott      Print: Book

Nicholas Udall : Ralph Roister Doister
The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith B. Smith      Print: Book

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928]
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]

Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[This apparently refers both to the minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928, which were signed off by the chair of the current meeting on 19 October, and to the minutes/report of the picnic meeting held on 12 June 1928, which are also signed off by Miss Stevens.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Howard Smith : [Minutes/report of the picnic meeting held 12 Jun 1928]
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]

Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[This apparently refers both to the minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928, which were signed off by the chair of the current meeting on 19 October, and to the minutes/report of the picnic meeting held on 12 June 1928, which are also signed off by Miss Stevens.]
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Henry Marriage Wallis : War Time Tree Fellings
H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 November 1928]
'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

8[.] Essays were read (1) Alfred Rawlings on Beauty (2) R H Robson on The Abolition of the House of Commons'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Alfred Rawlings : Beauty
'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

8[.] Essays were read (1) Alfred Rawlings on Beauty (2) R H Robson on The Abolition of the House of Commons'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Edward Gibbon : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Decline and Fall" all afternoon and evening.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Martin Wentworth Littlewood      Print: Book

: The Daily Mail
'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home with Asparagus and Turtle Soup & the Daily Mail.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Martin Wentworth Littlewood      Print: Newspaper

: [A work on vegetal medicine]
'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home with Asparagus and Turtle Soup & the Daily Mail.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Martin Wentworth Littlewood      Print: Book

Reginald H. Robson : The Abolition of the House of Commons
'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

8[.] Essays were read (1) Alfred Rawlings on Beauty (2) R H Robson on The Abolition of the House of Commons'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard Smith : [Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 1928]
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Martha L. (Pattie) Stansfield

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. Dorothy Brain

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Bowman-Smith

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings

William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved

[...]

4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting held 4 Dec 1928]
'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of Plato was then taken F. E. Pollard explained briefly the subject and manner of "The Republic" following which Alfred and Janet Rawlings read one of the earlier dialogues. H. B. Lawson then gave us a most fascinatingly interesting account of Plato's life and work.

After supper Chas E. Stansfield read from Book 7 of the "Republic" "The Cave" this reading being illustrated by a diagram kindly made and explained by F. E. Pollard. F. E. Pollard then outlined for us the main thoughts of Platos [sic] Philosophy Ideas the true reality[.] The evening concluded by T. C. Elliott reading the affecting account of Socrates death in the Phaedo. Thus came to an end a most interesting evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Plato : The Republic
'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of Plato was then taken F. E. Pollard explained briefly the subject and manner of "The Republic" following which Alfred and Janet Rawlings read one of the earlier dialogues. H. B. Lawson then gave us a most fascinatingly interesting account of Plato's life and work.

After supper Chas E. Stansfield read from Book 7 of the "Republic" "The Cave" this reading being illustrated by a diagram kindly made and explained by F. E. Pollard. F. E. Pollard then outlined for us the main thoughts of Platos [sic] Philosophy Ideas the true reality[.] The evening concluded by T. C. Elliott reading the affecting account of Socrates death in the Phaedo. Thus came to an end a most interesting evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

Plato : The Republic
'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of Plato was then taken F. E. Pollard explained briefly the subject and manner of "The Republic" following which Alfred and Janet Rawlings read one of the earlier dialogues. H. B. Lawson then gave us a most fascinatingly interesting account of Plato's life and work.

After supper Chas E. Stansfield read from Book 7 of the "Republic" "The Cave" this reading being illustrated by a diagram kindly made and explained by F. E. Pollard. F. E. Pollard then outlined for us the main thoughts of Platos [sic] Philosophy Ideas the true reality[.] The evening concluded by T. C. Elliott reading the affecting account of Socrates death in the Phaedo. Thus came to an end a most interesting evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Print: Book

H. B. Lawson : [An account of Plato's life and work]
'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of Plato was then taken F. E. Pollard explained briefly the subject and manner of "The Republic" following which Alfred and Janet Rawlings read one of the earlier dialogues. H. B. Lawson then gave us a most fascinatingly interesting account of Plato's life and work.

After supper Chas E. Stansfield read from Book 7 of the "Republic" "The Cave" this reading being illustrated by a diagram kindly made and explained by F. E. Pollard. F. E. Pollard then outlined for us the main thoughts of Platos [sic] Philosophy Ideas the true reality[.] The evening concluded by T. C. Elliott reading the affecting account of Socrates death in the Phaedo. Thus came to an end a most interesting evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: H. B. Lawson      Manuscript: Unknown

Plato : ‘Allegory of the Cave’ from Book 7 of The Republic
'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of Plato was then taken F. E. Pollard explained briefly the subject and manner of "The Republic" following which Alfred and Janet Rawlings read one of the earlier dialogues. H. B. Lawson then gave us a most fascinatingly interesting account of Plato's life and work.

After supper Chas E. Stansfield read from Book 7 of the "Republic" "The Cave" this reading being illustrated by a diagram kindly made and explained by F. E. Pollard. F. E. Pollard then outlined for us the main thoughts of Platos [sic] Philosophy Ideas the true reality[.] The evening concluded by T. C. Elliott reading the affecting account of Socrates death in the Phaedo. Thus came to an end a most interesting evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

Francis Pollard : Plato’s Philosophy: Ideas the true reality
'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of Plato was then taken F. E. Pollard explained briefly the subject and manner of "The Republic" following which Alfred and Janet Rawlings read one of the earlier dialogues. H. B. Lawson then gave us a most fascinatingly interesting account of Plato's life and work.

After supper Chas E. Stansfield read from Book 7 of the "Republic" "The Cave" this reading being illustrated by a diagram kindly made and explained by F. E. Pollard. F. E. Pollard then outlined for us the main thoughts of Platos [sic] Philosophy Ideas the true reality[.] The evening concluded by T. C. Elliott reading the affecting account of Socrates death in the Phaedo. Thus came to an end a most interesting evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

Plato : Phaedo [The account of Socrates' death]
'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of Plato was then taken F. E. Pollard explained briefly the subject and manner of "The Republic" following which Alfred and Janet Rawlings read one of the earlier dialogues. H. B. Lawson then gave us a most fascinatingly interesting account of Plato's life and work.

After supper Chas E. Stansfield read from Book 7 of the "Republic" "The Cave" this reading being illustrated by a diagram kindly made and explained by F. E. Pollard. F. E. Pollard then outlined for us the main thoughts of Platos [sic] Philosophy Ideas the true reality[.] The evening concluded by T. C. Elliott reading the affecting account of Socrates death in the Phaedo. Thus came to an end a most interesting evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliot      Print: Book

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 Jan 1929]
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Howard Smith : [A brief sketch of Victor Hugo's life]
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Frances D'Arblay : The Wanderer
[Letter 24 March 1814]
'''The Wanderer'' is to be out on Monday. It is the most interesting novel I have ever read.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Allen      Print: Book

Thomas C. Elliott : [An estimate of Vitor Hugo's verse and his position in French literature]
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Hugo : Booz endormi, from La légende des siècles
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : L’Expiation (section on Waterloo)
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les Misérables
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer)
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize)
'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved

[...]

4. The Subject of the evening Victor Hugo was then taken[.] Howard R Smith gave a brief sketch of his life[.] Thos C. Elliott gave some estimate of Hugos verse & his position in French literature following this up by reading in French "Boaz" & Waterloo. after supper Mis Brain read from Les Miserables which was followed by some general discussion on Hugos work. R. H. Robson read from Toilers of the sea & H. B. Lawson read from Ninety three'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: H. B. Lawson      Print: Book

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 26 Feb 1929]
'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

Min 2 The date of the next Meeting was fixed for Friday May 3rd at Grove House by kind invitation of Mrs Lawson[.] Mr H. B. Lawson was added to the committee

Min 3 Three short Plays of John Galsworthy were then read in parts. The first was "Hall Marked" not a great success as it depends so much on exit. [illegible word similar to ‘cutranas’] glances & backs. After supper Came "The Little Man" which was much enjoyed and finally Punch & Go which also gave much pleasure.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

John Galsworthy : Hall-Marked
'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

Min 2 The date of the next Meeting was fixed for Friday May 3rd at Grove House by kind invitation of Mrs Lawson[.] Mr H. B. Lawson was added to the committee

Min 3 Three short Plays of John Galsworthy were then read in parts. The first was "Hall Marked" not a great success as it depends so much on exit. [illegible word similar to ‘cutranas’] glances & backs. After supper Came "The Little Man" which was much enjoyed and finally Punch & Go which also gave much pleasure.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Un-named members of the XII Book Club

John Galsworthy : The Little Man
'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

Min 2 The date of the next Meeting was fixed for Friday May 3rd at Grove House by kind invitation of Mrs Lawson[.] Mr H. B. Lawson was added to the committee

Min 3 Three short Plays of John Galsworthy were then read in parts. The first was "Hall Marked" not a great success as it depends so much on exit. [illegible word similar to ‘cutranas’] glances & backs. After supper Came "The Little Man" which was much enjoyed and finally Punch & Go which also gave much pleasure.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Un-named members of the XII Book Club

John Galsworthy : Punch and Go
'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

Min 2 The date of the next Meeting was fixed for Friday May 3rd at Grove House by kind invitation of Mrs Lawson[.] Mr H. B. Lawson was added to the committee

Min 3 Three short Plays of John Galsworthy were then read in parts. The first was "Hall Marked" not a great success as it depends so much on exit. [illegible word similar to ‘cutranas’] glances & backs. After supper Came "The Little Man" which was much enjoyed and finally Punch & Go which also gave much pleasure.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Un-named members of the XII Book Club

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 Mar 1929]
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

H. B. Lawson : [Humour]
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: H. B. Lawson      Manuscript: Unknown

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales (General Prologue)
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Prioress's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice (Mr Collins proposes)
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Charles Lamb : [a letter]
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings

Lewis Carroll : The Lobster Quadrille, from Alice in Wonderland
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Reynolds

Jerome K. Jerome : Three Men in a Boat
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard

Hilaire Belloc : Cautionary Tales for Children
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

[...]

[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.

After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the Ages[:]

Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith

Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

Robert Graves :
'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and real beauty. He oughtn't to publish yet.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon

Howard Smith : [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 3 May 1929]
'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.]

Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.]

Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.]

Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.]

R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Francis Pollard : [A survey of modern American literature]
'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.]

Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.]

Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.]

Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.]

R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

: [Un-named modern American works in verse]
'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.]

Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.]

Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.]

Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.]

R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow

Thornton Wilder : The Bridge of San Luis Rey
'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.]

Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.]

Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.]

Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.]

R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

George Santayana : [An essay on war]
'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.]

Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.]

Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.]

Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.]

R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott

Edna St. Vincent Millay : Renascence and Other Poems
'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.]

Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.]

Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.]

Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.]

R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield

Sinclair Lewis : Babbitt
'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.]

Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.]

Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.]

Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.]

R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson

Howard Smith : [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 6 June 1929]
'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elliott was wellcomed to the club in a felicitous speech by the chairman

3 The Secretary read a letter of resignation of Membership from Muriel Bowman Smith he was directed unanimously to ask her to reconsider the matter.

[...]

7 Holiday Essays were read R H Robson a family holiday at Mort[?] Geo Burrow The Jamboree & thoughts thereon C. E. Stansfield on a Swiss Holiday whilst H M Wallis chatted on some aspects of Bordighera.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Muriel Bowman-Smith : [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elliott was wellcomed to the club in a felicitous speech by the chairman

3 The Secretary read a letter of resignation of Membership from Muriel Bowman Smith he was directed unanimously to ask her to reconsider the matter.

[...]

7 Holiday Essays were read R H Robson a family holiday at Mort[?] Geo Burrow The Jamboree & thoughts thereon C. E. Stansfield on a Swiss Holiday whilst H M Wallis chatted on some aspects of Bordighera.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Letter

Reginald H. Robson : [essay on a family holiday]
'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elliott was wellcomed to the club in a felicitous speech by the chairman

3 The Secretary read a letter of resignation of Membership from Muriel Bowman Smith he was directed unanimously to ask her to reconsider the matter.

[...]

7 Holiday Essays were read R H Robson a family holiday at Mort[?] Geo Burrow The Jamboree & thoughts thereon C. E. Stansfield on a Swiss Holiday whilst H M Wallis chatted on some aspects of Bordighera.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

George Burrow : The Jamboree and Thoughts thereon
'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elliott was wellcomed to the club in a felicitous speech by the chairman

3 The Secretary read a letter of resignation of Membership from Muriel Bowman Smith he was directed unanimously to ask her to reconsider the matter.

[...]

7 Holiday Essays were read R H Robson a family holiday at Mort[?] Geo Burrow The Jamboree & thoughts thereon C. E. Stansfield on a Swiss Holiday whilst H M Wallis chatted on some aspects of Bordighera.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles E. Stansfield : [essay on a Swiss holiday]
'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elliott was wellcomed to the club in a felicitous speech by the chairman

3 The Secretary read a letter of resignation of Membership from Muriel Bowman Smith he was directed unanimously to ask her to reconsider the matter.

[...]

7 Holiday Essays were read R H Robson a family holiday at Mort[?] Geo Burrow The Jamboree & thoughts thereon C. E. Stansfield on a Swiss Holiday whilst H M Wallis chatted on some aspects of Bordighera.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard Smith : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 25 Sep 1929]
'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

Gilbert Murray : [Introduction to his translation of Euripides’ Alcestis]
'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Euripides : Alcestis
'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved

[...]

5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

Howard Smith : Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 Dec 1929
Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30 R. H. Robson in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting approved 5. The subject of “Medieval Social Life” which by some strange metamorphosis had changed into “Renaissance Social Life” was then taken. Mrs T. C. Elliott read a paper on “Domestic Life in the Fifteenth Century as seen in the Paston Letters”. Alfred Rawlings read a paper on “Medieval Artists and their Methods”, illustrated by Medici reproductions of Giotto’s fresco St. “Francis: the birds”, Fra Angelico’s fresco “The Annunciation”, and Mantegna’s painting “Madonna and Child with Cherubim”[.] This was followed up by some readings anent the development of painting and the Renaissance. R. H. Robson read a paper on “Vittorino da Feltre”, a Renaissance Schoolmaster & a “Romance of Federigo, Duke of Urbino”, illustrated by a Medici card reproduction of Piero della Francesca’s portrait of Duke Federigo. Mr Burrow read extracts from Children of the Olden Time [sic] by Eliz[abe]th Godfrey particularly on the education of Royal Children.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Notebook

Johann Wyss : The Swiss Family Robinson
'I read the whole of Swiss Family Robinson, and was not deterred by the bloodstain which had obliterated half the print on a page in the middle of the book, at the point where Ernest fitted retractable blinkers to the ostrich, so that he could guid to to right or left while seated on its back, riding the whirlwind. I read the book four times before venturing further.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Church      Print: Book

: The Daily Chronicle
'The new faculty had to be fed, however, and my eye fastened on all printed matter. I read passages in the Daily Chronicle which had just replaced the Daily Mail in our home, as a result of my father's increasing rancour towards the governing class ...'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Church      Print: Newspaper

Thomas Carlyle : Chartism
'I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of England called ''Chartism.'' It is full of compassion and good feeling but utterly unreasonable.'
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith B. Smith      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Rawlings      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel C. Stevens      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

Howard Smith : Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 June 1930
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Notebook

George Burrow : [an account of the life of John Masefield]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield : Beauty
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield : Posted Missing
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow

John Masefield : Sard Harker
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

John Masefield : Midsummer Night
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Clough

John Masefield : Philip the King
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edgar Castle

John Masefield : Philip the King
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mignon Castle

John Masefield : Philip the King
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard

John Masefield : Philip the King
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

John Masefield : Philip the King
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds

Pierre Lanfrey : History of Napoleon I
'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing for ''la gloire''... '
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Ossian :
'The character of the people that Ossian describes, their manners, their habits, but above all, their superstitions, are essentially poetic.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Story      Print: Book

Robert Story : The Poetical Works Of Robert Story
'Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me; and have looked over it with interest and pleasure—certainly with hearty good will to the amiable and worthy brother-man who sketches out in that manner his pilgrimage through this confused world, alongside me. A certain rustic vigour of life, breezy freshness, as of the Cheviot hills; a kindly healthiness of soul breathes every where out of the book. No one that reads it, I should think, but will feel himself better for its influences. I can honestly wish success to it; and to its author, peace and comfort for the days and years that remain. With many thanks and regards, I remain, yours sincerely. T. CARLYLE.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve : Causeries du lundi (Monday Chats)
[Letter] 'I am taking to some of the St Beuve ''Causeries'', and find them very pleasant, especially anything about the time of Louis XIV always amuses me...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book, Newspaper

Charles Buxton : Notes of Thought
[Letter] 'I make C. Buxton's book quite my Bible at present. He hits so many small nails on the head that suit my feelings and opinions so exactly, and I think he is so very acute, and sometimes a little cynical to my surprise.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Robert Southey : [extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Monthly Review"]
'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have I the opportunity of borrowing the Work. The extracts from it in the Monthly Review, and the short passages in your Watchman seem to me much superior to any thing in his partnership account with Lovell.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Religious Musings
'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religious Musings, but I thought them elaborate. I am somewhat glad that you have given up that Paper - it must have been dry, unprofitable, and of "dissonant mood" to your disposition.'
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical.

: Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 April 1931
'Meeting held at Broomfield: 15. V. 31 George Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 5. George Burrow read a short paper introducing the Taming of the Shrew and the Club then read this play in parts'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

William Shakespeare : The Taming of the Shrew
Meeting held at Broomfield: 15. V. 31 George Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 5. George Burrow read a short paper introducing the Taming of the Shrew and the Club then read this play in parts
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

Victor Alexander : Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 31 May 1931
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

George Burrow : [an introduction to the topic of the Sitwells]
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

: Who's Who
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Edith Sitwell : Sleeping Beauty
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings

Edith Sitwell : Perrine
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow

Henry Marriage Wallis : Southern Baroque Art
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell :
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard

Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell :
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings

Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell :
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield

Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell :
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow

Victor Alexander : Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2 June 1931
'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved. [...] 4. John L. Hawkins then read us his paper on the Natural History of the neighbourhood [...] 6. After the interval Henry Marriage Wallis gave a vivid account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

John L. Hawkins : [A paper on the natural history of the neighbourhood of Reading]
Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved.
'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved. [...] 4. John L. Hawkins then read us his paper on the Natural History of the neighbourhood [...] 6. After the interval Henry Marriage Wallis gave a vivid account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland.' [...] 4. John L. Hawkins then read us his paper on the Natural History of the neighbourhood [...]
6. After the interval Henry Marriage Wallis gave a vivid account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland.
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John L. Hawkins      Manuscript: Notebook

Henry Marriage Wallis : [an account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland]
Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair
'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved. [...] 4. John L. Hawkins then read us his paper on the Natural History of the neighbourhood [...] 6. After the interval Henry Marriage Wallis gave a vivid account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland.' 1. Minutes of last approved.
[...] 4. John L. Hawkins then read us his paper on the Natural History of the neighbourhood [...]
6. After the interval Henry Marriage Wallis gave a vivid account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Alexander : Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 16 September 1931
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 16. X. 31. Ethel C. Stevens in the chair. 1 Minutes of last were read[...].
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

William Ewart Gladstone : England's Mission
[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full of elan.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Serial / periodical

William Rathbone Greg : Is popular judgement in politics more just than that of the higher classes?
[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full of elan.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Serial / periodical

Frederic Soulie : La Lionne
'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne ...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Frederic Soulie : La Comtesse de Monrion
'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by La Comtesse de Monrion.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Frederic Soulie : Le Fils de la Folle
'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by La Comtesse de Monrion... I have also read a play by him: Le Fils de la Folle.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 22 March 1932]
'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

br/>[...]

4. F. E. Pollard then spoke on the spirit of Cricket, telling some good anecdotes to illustrate its fun and its art, both for those who play & those who frequently see it.[...]

5. Readings were then given by Victor Alexander from Nyren, by Howard Smith from Francis Thompson, & by R. H. Robson from de Delincourt's "The Cricket Match".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Booklet

Francis E. Pollard : [on the spirit of cricket]
'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

br/>[...]

4. F. E. Pollard then spoke on the spirit of Cricket, telling some good anecdotes to illustrate its fun and its art, both for those who play & those who frequently see it.[...]

5. Readings were then given by Victor Alexander from Nyren, by Howard Smith from Francis Thompson, & by R. H. Robson from de Delincourt's "The Cricket Match".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

John Nyren : ?The Cricketers of my Time
'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

br/>[...]

4. F. E. Pollard then spoke on the spirit of Cricket, telling some good anecdotes to illustrate its fun and its art, both for those who play & those who frequently see it.[...]

5. Readings were then given by Victor Alexander from Nyren, by Howard Smith from Francis Thompson, & by R. H. Robson from de Delincourt's "The Cricket Match".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Print: Book

Francis Thompson : ?"At Lords"
'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

br/>[...]

4. F. E. Pollard then spoke on the spirit of Cricket, telling some good anecdotes to illustrate its fun and its art, both for those who play & those who frequently see it.[...]

5. Readings were then given by Victor Alexander from Nyren, by Howard Smith from Francis Thompson, & by R. H. Robson from de Delincourt's "The Cricket Match".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Hugh de Selincourt : The Cricket Match
'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

br/>[...]

4. F. E. Pollard then spoke on the spirit of Cricket, telling some good anecdotes to illustrate its fun and its art, both for those who play & those who frequently see it.[...]

5. Readings were then given by Victor Alexander from Nyren, by Howard Smith from Francis Thompson, & by R. H. Robson from de Delincourt's "The Cricket Match".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 April 1932]
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Victor Alexander : [an outline of the career of Molière and a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France]
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Unknown

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edgar Castle      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Print: Book

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved

[...]

6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.

[...]

7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:

Philinte      Charles Stansfield
Alceste      Frank Pollard
Oronte      George Burrow
Célimène      Rosamund Wallis
Basque      Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante      Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre      Edgar Castle
Acaste      Henry M. Wallis
A Guard      Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé]      Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 31 May 1932]
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard

Reginald H. Robson : [a paper on the life of Goethe]
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werther
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Print: Book

Mary. E Robson : [a description of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther]
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werther
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Gefunden
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Print: Book

Charles E. Stansfield : [a paper on Goethe]
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 22 June 1932]
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue, 20.ix.'32.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 September 1932]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

5. Francis E. Pollard then gave us an account of the life of Scott, interspersed with racy anecdotes. He gave us a lively picture of Scott's romantic outlook & of his keen historical interests.

6. Alfred Rawlings, who is endeared to us among other reasons as the stormy petrel of the Club, next launched an attack upon Scott as a poet, decrying his imperfections and slovenliness.

7. Henry M. Wallis then entertained us with the later work of Scott. Speaking as one wizard of another he almost succeeed in making us believe that he had been Scott's contemporary, & under his spell we caught something of the dazzling popularity of Scott's writings throughout the whole of Europe, and in particular of the cult for the Highlands and the Highlanders which sprang into being from his pen.

8. Towards the end of the evening we heard three readings, the first from Ivanhoe by Charles Stansfield who used the supper scenne in which Friar Tuch entertains the unknown knight, the second from the Heart of Midlothian by Frank Pollard in which Jeannie Deans pleads for her sister's life, & the third from Old Mortality by Rosamund Wallis describing the interrogation and torture inflicted upon the Covenanters.

All three readings held us enthralled, & all three papers aroused the maximum of discussion which a benevolent Chairman and a lenient hostess could allow. The time sped on beyond our usual hours, and as we took our leave we were still talking Scott.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Francis E. Pollard : [an account of the life of Walter Scott]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

5. Francis E. Pollard then gave us an account of the life of Scott, interspersed with racy anecdotes. He gave us a lively picture of Scott's romantic outlook & of his keen historical interests.

6. Alfred Rawlings, who is endeared to us among other reasons as the stormy petrel of the Club, next launched an attack upon Scott as a poet, decrying his imperfections and slovenliness.

7. Henry M. Wallis then entertained us with the later work of Scott. Speaking as one wizard of another he almost succeeed in making us believe that he had been Scott's contemporary, & under his spell we caught something of the dazzling popularity of Scott's writings throughout the whole of Europe, and in particular of the cult for the Highlands and the Highlanders which sprang into being from his pen.

8. Towards the end of the evening we heard three readings, the first from Ivanhoe by Charles Stansfield who used the supper scenne in which Friar Tuch entertains the unknown knight, the second from the Heart of Midlothian by Frank Pollard in which Jeannie Deans pleads for her sister's life, & the third from Old Mortality by Rosamund Wallis describing the interrogation and torture inflicted upon the Covenanters.

All three readings held us enthralled, & all three papers aroused the maximum of discussion which a benevolent Chairman and a lenient hostess could allow. The time sped on beyond our usual hours, and as we took our leave we were still talking Scott.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

Alfred Rawlings : [on Walter Scott as a poet]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

5. Francis E. Pollard then gave us an account of the life of Scott, interspersed with racy anecdotes. He gave us a lively picture of Scott's romantic outlook & of his keen historical interests.

6. Alfred Rawlings, who is endeared to us among other reasons as the stormy petrel of the Club, next launched an attack upon Scott as a poet, decrying his imperfections and slovenliness.

7. Henry M. Wallis then entertained us with the later work of Scott. Speaking as one wizard of another he almost succeeed in making us believe that he had been Scott's contemporary, & under his spell we caught something of the dazzling popularity of Scott's writings throughout the whole of Europe, and in particular of the cult for the Highlands and the Highlanders which sprang into being from his pen.

8. Towards the end of the evening we heard three readings, the first from Ivanhoe by Charles Stansfield who used the supper scenne in which Friar Tuch entertains the unknown knight, the second from the Heart of Midlothian by Frank Pollard in which Jeannie Deans pleads for her sister's life, & the third from Old Mortality by Rosamund Wallis describing the interrogation and torture inflicted upon the Covenanters.

All three readings held us enthralled, & all three papers aroused the maximum of discussion which a benevolent Chairman and a lenient hostess could allow. The time sped on beyond our usual hours, and as we took our leave we were still talking Scott.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : [on the later work of Walter Scott]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

5. Francis E. Pollard then gave us an account of the life of Scott, interspersed with racy anecdotes. He gave us a lively picture of Scott's romantic outlook & of his keen historical interests.

6. Alfred Rawlings, who is endeared to us among other reasons as the stormy petrel of the Club, next launched an attack upon Scott as a poet, decrying his imperfections and slovenliness.

7. Henry M. Wallis then entertained us with the later work of Scott. Speaking as one wizard of another he almost succeeed in making us believe that he had been Scott's contemporary, & under his spell we caught something of the dazzling popularity of Scott's writings throughout the whole of Europe, and in particular of the cult for the Highlands and the Highlanders which sprang into being from his pen.

8. Towards the end of the evening we heard three readings, the first from Ivanhoe by Charles Stansfield who used the supper scenne in which Friar Tuch entertains the unknown knight, the second from the Heart of Midlothian by Frank Pollard in which Jeannie Deans pleads for her sister's life, & the third from Old Mortality by Rosamund Wallis describing the interrogation and torture inflicted upon the Covenanters.

All three readings held us enthralled, & all three papers aroused the maximum of discussion which a benevolent Chairman and a lenient hostess could allow. The time sped on beyond our usual hours, and as we took our leave we were still talking Scott.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

5. Francis E. Pollard then gave us an account of the life of Scott, interspersed with racy anecdotes. He gave us a lively picture of Scott's romantic outlook & of his keen historical interests.

6. Alfred Rawlings, who is endeared to us among other reasons as the stormy petrel of the Club, next launched an attack upon Scott as a poet, decrying his imperfections and slovenliness.

7. Henry M. Wallis then entertained us with the later work of Scott. Speaking as one wizard of another he almost succeeed in making us believe that he had been Scott's contemporary, & under his spell we caught something of the dazzling popularity of Scott's writings throughout the whole of Europe, and in particular of the cult for the Highlands and the Highlanders which sprang into being from his pen.

8. Towards the end of the evening we heard three readings, the first from Ivanhoe by Charles Stansfield who used the supper scenne in which Friar Tuch entertains the unknown knight, the second from the Heart of Midlothian by Frank Pollard in which Jeannie Deans pleads for her sister's life, & the third from Old Mortality by Rosamund Wallis describing the interrogation and torture inflicted upon the Covenanters.

All three readings held us enthralled, & all three papers aroused the maximum of discussion which a benevolent Chairman and a lenient hostess could allow. The time sped on beyond our usual hours, and as we took our leave we were still talking Scott.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

5. Francis E. Pollard then gave us an account of the life of Scott, interspersed with racy anecdotes. He gave us a lively picture of Scott's romantic outlook & of his keen historical interests.

6. Alfred Rawlings, who is endeared to us among other reasons as the stormy petrel of the Club, next launched an attack upon Scott as a poet, decrying his imperfections and slovenliness.

7. Henry M. Wallis then entertained us with the later work of Scott. Speaking as one wizard of another he almost succeeed in making us believe that he had been Scott's contemporary, & under his spell we caught something of the dazzling popularity of Scott's writings throughout the whole of Europe, and in particular of the cult for the Highlands and the Highlanders which sprang into being from his pen.

8. Towards the end of the evening we heard three readings, the first from Ivanhoe by Charles Stansfield who used the supper scenne in which Friar Tuch entertains the unknown knight, the second from the Heart of Midlothian by Frank Pollard in which Jeannie Deans pleads for her sister's life, & the third from Old Mortality by Rosamund Wallis describing the interrogation and torture inflicted upon the Covenanters.

All three readings held us enthralled, & all three papers aroused the maximum of discussion which a benevolent Chairman and a lenient hostess could allow. The time sped on beyond our usual hours, and as we took our leave we were still talking Scott.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Old Mortality
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

5. Francis E. Pollard then gave us an account of the life of Scott, interspersed with racy anecdotes. He gave us a lively picture of Scott's romantic outlook & of his keen historical interests.

6. Alfred Rawlings, who is endeared to us among other reasons as the stormy petrel of the Club, next launched an attack upon Scott as a poet, decrying his imperfections and slovenliness.

7. Henry M. Wallis then entertained us with the later work of Scott. Speaking as one wizard of another he almost succeeed in making us believe that he had been Scott's contemporary, & under his spell we caught something of the dazzling popularity of Scott's writings throughout the whole of Europe, and in particular of the cult for the Highlands and the Highlanders which sprang into being from his pen.

8. Towards the end of the evening we heard three readings, the first from Ivanhoe by Charles Stansfield who used the supper scenne in which Friar Tuch entertains the unknown knight, the second from the Heart of Midlothian by Frank Pollard in which Jeannie Deans pleads for her sister's life, & the third from Old Mortality by Rosamund Wallis describing the interrogation and torture inflicted upon the Covenanters.

All three readings held us enthralled, & all three papers aroused the maximum of discussion which a benevolent Chairman and a lenient hostess could allow. The time sped on beyond our usual hours, and as we took our leave we were still talking Scott.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 October 1932]
Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32

     Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

5. The Secretary then performed the invidious task of putting the dozen books favoured by the Selection Committee before the Meeting.

[...]

The other seeded books then underwent their ordeal and the subsidiary list was read a first time.

[...]

Nevertheless twelve books emerged with no less than 11 votes apiece. They are:

They were defeated    R. Macaulay    8/6 E. T. Alexander
The Cruel Victorians    Forty Authors    8/6    H. R. Smith
Flowering Wilderness    J. Galsworthy    7/6    C. E. Stansfield
The New Morality    G. E. Newsom 6/-    G. Burrow
Sir W. Scott[?]    Buchan    9/6    G. Burrow
Strawberry Roan    A. G. Street    7/6    E. D. Brain
Bonnie Prince Charlie    Wickinson    12/6    R. H. Robson
Nansen    Reynolds    10/6    E. D. Brain
As we are    E. F. Benson    15/-    E. C. Stevens
Northern Lights    Chapman    18/-    M. S. Stansfield
Youth looks at the World    Fletcher    7/6    H. M. Wallis
Land and Labour in China    Tawney    7/6     S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

XII Book Club Book Selection Committee : [List of twelve books proposed for purchase by the book club]
Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32

Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

5. The Secretary then performed the invidious task of putting the dozen books favoured by the Selection Committee before the Meeting.

[...]

The other seeded books then underwent their ordeal and the subsidiary list was read a first time.

[...]

Nevertheless twelve books emerged with no less than 11 votes apiece. They are:

They were defeated R. Macaulay 8/6 E. T. Alexander
The Cruel Victorians Forty Authors 8/6 H. R. Smith
Flowering Wilderness J. Galsworthy 7/6 C. E. Stansfield
The New Morality G. E. Newsom 6/- G. Burrow
Sir W. Scott[?] Buchan 9/6 G. Burrow
Strawberry Roan A. G. Street 7/6 E. D. Brain
Bonnie Prince Charlie Wickinson 12/6 R. H. Robson
Nansen Reynolds 10/6 E. D. Brain
As we are E. F. Benson 15/- E. C. Stevens
Northern Lights Chapman 18/- M. S. Stansfield
Youth looks at the World Fletcher 7/6 H. M. Wallis
Land and Labour in China Tawney 7/6 S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Unknown

XII Book Club Book Selection Committee : [Subsidiary list of books to be considered for purchase by the XII Book Club]
Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32

Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

5. The Secretary then performed the invidious task of putting the dozen books favoured by the Selection Committee before the Meeting.

[...]

The other seeded books then underwent their ordeal and the subsidiary list was read a first time.

[...]

Nevertheless twelve books emerged with no less than 11 votes apiece. They are:

They were defeated R. Macaulay 8/6 E. T. Alexander
The Cruel Victorians Forty Authors 8/6 H. R. Smith
Flowering Wilderness J. Galsworthy 7/6 C. E. Stansfield
The New Morality G. E. Newsom 6/- G. Burrow
Sir W. Scott[?] Buchan 9/6 G. Burrow
Strawberry Roan A. G. Street 7/6 E. D. Brain
Bonnie Prince Charlie Wickinson 12/6 R. H. Robson
Nansen Reynolds 10/6 E. D. Brain
As we are E. F. Benson 15/- E. C. Stevens
Northern Lights Chapman 18/- M. S. Stansfield
Youth looks at the World Fletcher 7/6 H. M. Wallis
Land and Labour in China Tawney 7/6 S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 January 1933]
Meeting held at Reckitt House, L. P. : 17. ii. 33

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 17 February 1933]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Alfred Rawlings : [a thoughtful essay]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mignon Castle      Manuscript: Unknown

Helen Rawlings : [reminiscences]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry M. Wallis : [Of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Howard Smith : [A paper on English justice]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Reginald H. Robson : [The life and writings of John Galsworthy]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow      Manuscript: Unknown

Edgar Castle : The English - are they modest?
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Unknown

Janet Rawlings : [Moroccan memories]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles E. Stansfield : [Safety First]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Alexander : Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 March 1933
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's Schooldays
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

Dorothy Brain : [on old Berkshire Ballads]
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Manuscript: Unknown

Anon : [old Berkshire ballad on a lad who died from eating custard]
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain

Anon : The lay of the hunted pig
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain

Charles E. Stansfield : [an introduction to 'Sumer Is Icumen In']
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

John J. Cooper : Some Worthies of Reading
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Francis E. Pollard : [a short account of the life and work of Mary Russell Mitford]
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Russell Mitford : 'The Gypsy', from Our Village
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Matthew Arnold : The Scholar Gipsy
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow

Matthew Arnold : Thyrsis
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow

H. V. Morton : In Search of England
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edgar Castle      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 16 Feb 1934]
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Howard Smith : Newcomers to Reading
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Manuscript: Unknown

Janet Rawlings : Uniforms
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander      Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Marriage Wallis : My dear Twelve
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Manuscript: Unknown

Charles E. Stansfield : Canaries
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook

Dorothy Brain : Hors d’Oeuvres
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Edith Goadby : Glastonbury
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Wilhelm Scherer :
'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Unknown

Walter Russell Brain : Spoonbill
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 March 1934]
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.

[...]

4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.

5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.

6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.

7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Manuscript: Notebook

Howard Smith : [An account of the life of William Morris]
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.

[...]

4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.

5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.

6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.

7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Percy Corder : The Life of Robert Spence Watson
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.

[...]

4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.

5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.

6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.

7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Ethel C. Stevens : [an account of Kelmscott Manor]
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.

[...]

4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.

5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.

6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.

7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel C. Stevens      Manuscript: Unknown

Reginald H. Robson : [On the artistic and socialist aspects of William Morris’s work]
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.

[...]

4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.

5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.

6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.

7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Manuscript: Unknown

J. W. Mackail : The Life of William Morris
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.

[...]

4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.

5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.

6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.

7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

[Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] : Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 April 1934
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.

[...]

4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.

5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.

6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.

7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

: The New Testament
'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with coloured pictures. It went with me always, mainly unconsulted; it survives.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

unknown unknown : unknown
'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking of the entrance, and gleamed stupendously in our candlelight, followed by an almost equally menacing Staff Captain.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

unknown unknown : unknown
'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dialect, and walk out to see the neighbouring inns and shrines, and read -- Bless me, Kapp [a fellow officer and satirical artist, recently sent away to the Press Bureau] has gone away with my "John Clare"! He has the book yet for all I know [...].
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

unknown unknown : unknown
'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scrawl of poor people in Thiepval and other places of the past who bemoaned the bad crops, and their consequent inability to pay up.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Manuscript: Letter

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 May 1935]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Marjorie C. Cole : [letter expressing interest in the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Letter

Howard Smith : [A paper on the early history of London]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Manuscript: Unknown

Daniel Defoe : A Journal of the Plague Year
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Unknown

Samuel Pepys : Diary
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

Edith Goadby : [An evocation of Old London]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Goadby

Ethel Stevens : [On Chelsea, Carlyle, Tennyson, J. S. Mill, et. al.]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel C. Stevens

William Wordsworth : Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield

William Morris :
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with enjoyment. [...]

[...]

6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings to to a variety of causes.

[...]

7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.

[...]

8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.

[...]

9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.

10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital, Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas More.

11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge, and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis

Robert Bridges : The Spirit of Man
'More enduring [than the chocolates sent by Eden's mother, which were eaten by rats] was a copy of Robert Bridge's The Spirit of Man, sent to me by my cousin Violet Dickinson who alone among my family had an unerring instinct for the present which would delight one most ... the Bridges anthology, which naturally contained much that was a revelation to a nineteen-year-old boy, made a perfect retreat for the sensibilities. Battered now, it still has a place in my library.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Eden      Print: Book

: [A Russian Grammar]
'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone Hall, Durham, the Eden family's country seat], were into French. The single exception was Constance Garnett's brilliant translations of Turgenev. In my last visits to Windlestone and encouraged by my father, I had broken into the Russian novelists who soon proved a joyous revelation to me. It was then that I made up my mind to read them in their own language. Even an adjutant could find time heavy on his hands in winter in Flanders. My plan was to snatch at least an hour's study every day and in addition to learn by heart some grammar exercise every morning while shaving. I persevered for many weeks but then had to accept disappointment at my slow rate of progress.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Eden      Print: Book

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev :
'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone Hall, Durham, the Eden family's country seat], were into French. The single exception was Constance Garnett's brilliant translations of Turgenev. In my last visits to Windlestone and encouraged by my father, I had broken into the Russian novelists who soon proved a joyous revelation to me. It was then that I made up my mind to read them in their own language. Even an adjutant could find time heavy on his hands in winter in Flanders. My plan was to snatch at least an hour's study every day and in addition to learn by heart some grammar exercise every morning while shaving. I persevered for many weeks but then had to accept disappointment at my slow rate of progress.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Eden      Print: Book

: [Russian novels]
'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone Hall, Durham, the Eden family's country seat], were into French. The single exception was Constance Garnett's brilliant translations of Turgenev. In my last visits to Windlestone and encouraged by my father, I had broken into the Russian novelists who soon proved a joyous revelation to me. It was then that I made up my mind to read them in their own language. Even an adjutant could find time heavy on his hands in winter in Flanders. My plan was to snatch at least an hour's study every day and in addition to learn by heart some grammar exercise every morning while shaving. I persevered for many weeks but then had to accept disappointment at my slow rate of progress.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Anthony Eden      Print: Book

: [review of "Inland Voyage" in the "New York Critic"]
'A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 June 1935]
Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Reginald H. Robson : The Excursion – Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways of the Chiltern Hills
Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account of the Excursion, contributed by R. H. Robson, read and approved.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Manuscript: Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text.

Celia Burrow : [A letter offering to hold a meeting of the XII Book Club at her new house]
Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account of the Excursion, contributed by R. H. Robson, read and approved.

[...]

3. An invitation was received by letter from Celia Burrow to hold our November meeting at her new house. We thank her very much & suggest Friday 22nd as a likely date.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Letter

Ann Bridge : Illyrian Spring
Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account of the Excursion, contributed by R. H. Robson, read and approved.

[...]

7. We then listened to a number of extracts from books read during the summer. Rosamund Wallis gave us some descriptive passages from Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge, dealing with the Dalmation [sic] coast, and a happy scene with a monk and marketwomen in a bus.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

H. A. L. Fisher : History of Europe
Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account of the Excursion, contributed by R. H. Robson, read and approved.

[...]

7. We then listened to a number of extracts from books read during the summer.

[...]

8. F. E. Pollard followed with an analysis of Dante and his philosophy from H. A. L. Fisher’s History of Europe. There was a rather arresting comparison between the journeyings of Christian in the Pilgrim’s Progress + Dante’s Voyage of the Soul. Dante was portrayed as an aristocratic mystic and statesman, and the Roman Catholic Church appeared rather unexpectedly as a great mystical democracy owing to the melancholy relegation of several Pope to Hell.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Charles Lutwidge Dodson : Alice Adventures in Wonderland
'On the whole my experience of being read to by my parents was not a success. Alice in Wonderland was spoiled by my constant habit of asking questions and my intolerance of frustration. The mouse's tail made me feel, well, like the animals. Why was it dry? Who was Fury? Why? What was he furious about? Why did the mouse's tail get smaller later? Yes, but why do mice's tails...? My father was torn between the desire to be patient and the wish to get on with the book. "It gets better later", he said, but it did not.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion      Print: Book

Frederick W. Farrar : Eric, or, Little by Little
'On Wednesdays the bells of St. Michael's Church on the neighbouring hill pealed for a service or, as some said, "choir practice". They filled me with dread, a reminder of Sunday yet to come. In Eric or Little by Little which I had begun to read, the bell was always tolling. Or the World of School it said, and in that school it seemed that the boys died off like flies.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion      Print: Book

: Search the Scriptures
'For hour after hour we did "Search the Scriptures". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were printed with blank spaces; we were to fill in the chapter and the verse where they could be found. I could not find them; other boys could.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

Frederick W. Farrar : Eric, or, Little by Little
'Religion was a sore trial ... Dean Farrar contributed to my suspicion of God, and my suspicion of God — "I haven't done anything; really I haven't" — gave ghastly reality to Eric's school in which the mortality should have attracted the attention of authority.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V
'Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... "We are quite near Agincourt", I wrote dutifully to my old history master at school, feeling as far from the thin skin of my patriotism as I could be. "This quarrel honourable" -- of course we all "did" Henry V -- seemed to be some quirk in Shakespeare rather than anything stable in the English character.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : The Wife of Sir Eric Harman
'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time. We have both been reading Wells' last book The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and C. thinks it is his most brilliant work. Wells has modified his views considerably, though, since he wrote Anne Veronica!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : Anne Veronica
'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time. We have both been reading Wells' last book The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and C. thinks it is his most brilliant work. Wells has modified his views considerably, though, since he wrote Anne Veronica!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson      Print: Book

Herbert George Wells : The Wife of Sir Eric Harman
'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time. We have both been reading Wells' last book The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman and C. thinks it is his most brilliant work. Wells has modified his views considerably, though, since he wrote Anne Veronica!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: David Lloyd George      Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Les Miserables
'"I think it was Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables that decided me to do what I could to alleviate the distress and suffering of the poor. That story gives you such a vivid picture of the under side of life, all the wretched & sordid details of the troubles of the poor -- troubles that could be lessened."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: David Lloyd George      Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : A Doll's House
'C. [David Lloyd George] says that Ibsen's Doll's House was the work that converted him to woman suffrage, & presented the woman's point of view to him.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: David Lloyd George      Print: Book

George Meredith : The Egoist
'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says that Meredith has just such an insight on character as the physician has on your body when he puts the electric light arrangement on his forehead. C says too that Meredith was the first to conceive the revolt of woman — the revolt against the accepted relations of husband and wife, that is to say.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: David Lloyd George      Print: Book

George Meredith : The Egoist
'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says that Meredith has just such an insight on character as the physician has on your body when he puts the electric light arrangement on his forehead. C says too that Meredith was the first to conceive the revolt of woman -- the revolt against the accepted relations of husband and wife, that is to say.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Stevenson      Print: Book

Francis E. Pollard : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 April 1937]
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Victor Alexander : [A paper on Jane Austen’s life and literary style]
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Unknown

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

Jane Austen : Love and Friendship
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander      Print: Book

Lucy Harrison : A Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of Lucy Harrison
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.

7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park

8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Charles E. Stansfield : [a biographical sketch of Percy Bysshe Shelley with an estimate of his views and character]
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

  C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonaïs
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander

William Watson : [unidentified poetry]
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings

Victor Alexander : Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 April 1937
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 5 May 1937]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

  Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Henry Marriage Wallis : [a paper on witchcraft]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Manuscript: Unknown

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Taylor      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Macbeth
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Print: Book

: First Book of Samuel, chapter 28 [The Witch of Endor]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Print: Book

Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Print: Book

: Trials for Witchcraft
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

Mary Webb : Precious Bane
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.

H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis

Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 July 1937]
Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.

  Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

2. Charles Stansfield then introduced the momentous question of the evening. Was the Book Club to end its existence? He had felt for some time that it was moribund. [...]

He referred to E. B. Castle who shared his concern and to a letter which he believed had been written to the Secretary by E. B. Castle.

3. The Secretary then read this; it supported the opinions expressed by C. E. Stansfield.

4. The subject was then discussed informally.

[...]

9. We then turned to the work of Barrie. Howard Smith gave us a chat – he would not call it a paper – on the plays he had seen.

[...]

A considerable part of “What every woman knows” was then read in which a number of people took part.

Charles Stansfield appropriately gave a reading from My Lady Nicotine.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Edgar Castle : [Letter to the Secretary of the XII Book Club]
Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

2. Charles Stansfield then introduced the momentous question of the evening. Was the Book Club to end its existence? He had felt for some time that it was moribund. [...]

He referred to E. B. Castle who shared his concern and to a letter which he believed had been written to the Secretary by E. B. Castle.

3. The Secretary then read this; it supported the opinions expressed by C. E. Stansfield.

4. The subject was then discussed informally.

[...]

9. We then turned to the work of Barrie. Howard Smith gave us a chat – he would not call it a paper – on the plays he had seen.

[...]

A considerable part of “What every woman knows” was then read in which a number of people took part.

Charles Stansfield appropriately gave a reading from My Lady Nicotine.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Letter

J. M. Barrie : What Every Woman Knows
Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

2. Charles Stansfield then introduced the momentous question of the evening. Was the Book Club to end its existence? He had felt for some time that it was moribund. [...]

He referred to E. B. Castle who shared his concern and to a letter which he believed had been written to the Secretary by E. B. Castle.

3. The Secretary then read this; it supported the opinions expressed by C. E. Stansfield.

4. The subject was then discussed informally.

[...]

9. We then turned to the work of Barrie. Howard Smith gave us a chat – he would not call it a paper – on the plays he had seen.

[...]

A considerable part of “What every woman knows” was then read in which a number of people took part.

Charles Stansfield appropriately gave a reading from My Lady Nicotine.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

J. M. Barrie : My Lady Nicotine
Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

2. Charles Stansfield then introduced the momentous question of the evening. Was the Book Club to end its existence? He had felt for some time that it was moribund. [...]

He referred to E. B. Castle who shared his concern and to a letter which he believed had been written to the Secretary by E. B. Castle.

3. The Secretary then read this; it supported the opinions expressed by C. E. Stansfield.

4. The subject was then discussed informally.

[...]

9. We then turned to the work of Barrie. Howard Smith gave us a chat – he would not call it a paper – on the plays he had seen.

[...]

A considerable part of “What every woman knows” was then read in which a number of people took part.

Charles Stansfield appropriately gave a reading from My Lady Nicotine.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford : [article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"]
'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns us again.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Newspaper

: National Review
'Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September "National Review" he will be surprised at the warning of the writer against the Cabinet. It is well worth reading. It says that in the Black Week, Haldane didn't want any interference of England; Asquith didn't want any Expeditionary Force and Churchill saved the situation in ordering Fleet Mobilization "on his own" before the war. Also the Territorials at the event of war are untrained: we have no army really: all are practically recruits now in England.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Daily Mail
'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postcards now. I am in a hurry to catch the mail, so I must close.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Newspaper

:
'I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciated. I see by a paper of the 18th that Whitby and Scarborough have been bombarded. The photographs in it are very similar to sights very common here.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Newspaper

: [March magazines]
'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules drowned in shell craters last night, it is terrible.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Serial / periodical

:
'The newspapers amuse us here immensely — we read of the Ger[mans] being driven back by our chaps — in reality he is walking away of his own free will, as slowly and as fast as he likes to.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Newspaper

: Motor Cycling
'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Motor Cycle
'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Daily Mail
'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Newspaper

: Daily Mail
'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Newspaper

: Motor Cycle
'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Serial / periodical

: Motor Cycling
'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Serial / periodical

:
'I received on the 3rd a parcel from you with biscuits and bulls eyes, and same time books and jersey with letter. The books are very welcome. I shall enjoy reading what I read before the war, but no matter.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those not relating to the future of the club) 14 September 1937]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those relating to the future of the club) 14 September 1937]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Edgar and Mignon Castle : [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Letter

Dorothy Brain : [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Letter

Victor Alexander : [A brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Unknown

Victor Alexander : [A review of We were Seven, by William Fryer Harvey]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander

William Fryer Harvey : Laughter and Ghosts
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

William Fryer Harvey : Caprimulgus
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander      Print: Book

William Fryer Harvey : August Heat
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

William Fryer Harvey : Patience
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Print: Book

William Fryer Harvey : Laughter and Ghosts
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

William Fryer Harvey : Laughter and Ghosts
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings      Print: Book

William Fryer Harvey : The Tortoise
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

Edgar and Mignon Castle : [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Letter

Dorothy Brain : [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair

1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading of some of the minutes until after the literary part of the programme had been taken, as these minutes would bear directly upon the discussion which would necessarily follow as to the future of the Club. This permission was given and the other minutes were then read and approved.

2. Victor Alexander then gave a brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey, followed by an appreciation and review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.

3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].

4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.

5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.

6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.

7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”

8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.

9. The Secretary then read the minutes referring to last time’s discussion on the Club’s future, and also two letters of resignation. These were from Edgar and Mignon Castle and from Dorothy Brain.

10. Discussion then followed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Letter

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 October 1937]
'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Victoria Regina were then read. The young Queen’s part was read by Rosamund Wallis who abdicated later in favour of Celia Burrow. The Duchess of Kent was read by Ethel Stevens, and Francis Pollard was Prince Albert. Other members took subsidiary parts.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Laurence Housman : Victoria Regina
'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Victoria Regina were then read. The young Queen’s part was read by Rosamund Wallis who abdicated later in favour of Celia Burrow. The Duchess of Kent was read by Ethel Stevens, and Francis Pollard was Prince Albert. Other members took subsidiary parts.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Laurence Housman : Victoria Regina
'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Victoria Regina were then read. The young Queen’s part was read by Rosamund Wallis who abdicated later in favour of Celia Burrow. The Duchess of Kent was read by Ethel Stevens, and Francis Pollard was Prince Albert. Other members took subsidiary parts.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow      Print: Book

Laurence Housman : Victoria Regina
'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Victoria Regina were then read. The young Queen’s part was read by Rosamund Wallis who abdicated later in favour of Celia Burrow. The Duchess of Kent was read by Ethel Stevens, and Francis Pollard was Prince Albert. Other members took subsidiary parts.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Laurence Housman : Victoria Regina
'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Victoria Regina were then read. The young Queen’s part was read by Rosamund Wallis who abdicated later in favour of Celia Burrow. The Duchess of Kent was read by Ethel Stevens, and Francis Pollard was Prince Albert. Other members took subsidiary parts.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel C. Stevens      Print: Book

Laurence Housman : Victoria Regina
'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Victoria Regina were then read. The young Queen’s part was read by Rosamund Wallis who abdicated later in favour of Celia Burrow. The Duchess of Kent was read by Ethel Stevens, and Francis Pollard was Prince Albert. Other members took subsidiary parts.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Un-named members of the XI Book Club     Print: Book

Victor Alexander : [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 27 Nov 1937]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

2. It should have been mentioned in last meeting’s minutes that the Secretary was asked to write to Dorothy Brain and to Edgar & Mignon Castle acknowledging their letters of resignation. [...] This was duly done and all three offered their best wishes for the Club’s happy continuance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Victor Alexander : [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

2. It should have been mentioned in last meeting’s minutes that the Secretary was asked to write to Dorothy Brain and to Edgar & Mignon Castle acknowledging their letters of resignation. [...] This was duly done and all three offered their best wishes for the Club’s happy continuance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edgar Castle      Manuscript: Letter, Notebook

Victor Alexander : [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

2. It should have been mentioned in last meeting’s minutes that the Secretary was asked to write to Dorothy Brain and to Edgar & Mignon Castle acknowledging their letters of resignation. [...] This was duly done and all three offered their best wishes for the Club’s happy continuance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edgar Castle      Manuscript: Letter, Notebook

Victor Alexander : [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

2. It should have been mentioned in last meeting’s minutes that the Secretary was asked to write to Dorothy Brain and to Edgar & Mignon Castle acknowledging their letters of resignation. [...] This was duly done and all three offered their best wishes for the Club’s happy continuance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mignon Castle      Manuscript: Letter

Victor Alexander : [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

2. It should have been mentioned in last meeting’s minutes that the Secretary was asked to write to Dorothy Brain and to Edgar & Mignon Castle acknowledging their letters of resignation. [...] This was duly done and all three offered their best wishes for the Club’s happy continuance.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain      Manuscript: Letter

[A committee of the XII Book Club] : [List of books suggested for purchase by the XII Book Club]
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
4. The Book list committee then submitted a list of twelve books with various alternatives. With one exception the original twelve were accepted by the Club[...].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Manuscript: Unknown

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English translations.
R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis
Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin
L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill
H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard
S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

Ivan Bunin : The Village
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English translations.
R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis
Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin
L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill
H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard
S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Eugene O'Neill : The Village All God’s Chillun Got Wings
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English translations.
R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis
Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin
L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill
H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard
S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothea Taylor      Print: Book

Roger Martin du Gard : Les Thibault
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English translations.
R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis
Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin
L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill
H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard
S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Book

John Galsworthy : The White Monkey
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English translations.
R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis
Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin
L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill
H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard
S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 Dec 1937
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Charles E. Stansfield : [A detailed biographical sketch of Æ (AE, or George William Russell)]
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Manuscript: Unknown

George William Russell : Gandhi
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard      Print: Book

Æ [pseud.] : The one dimensional mind
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Æ [pseud.] : [One or more unidentified poems]
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard

Æ [pseud.] : [One or more unidentified poems]
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander

J. M. Synge : The Tinker’s Wedding
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 Jan 1938
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

Saki [pseud.] : Beasts and Super-Beasts
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

Saki [pseud.] : Beasts and Super-Beasts
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

A. W. Lawrence : Lawrence by his Friends
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary S. Stansfield      Print: Book

Julian Huxley : Africa View
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard L. Sikes      Print: Book

Halliday Sutherland : A Time to Keep
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander      Print: Book

Halliday Sutherland : A Time to Keep
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander      Print: Book

Benjamin Robert Haydon : Autobiography
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret L. LLoyd      Print: Book

Benjamin Robert Haydon : Autobiography
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Moore      Print: Book

Benjamin Robert Haydon : Autobiography
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Moore      Print: Book

Benjamin Robert Haydon : Autobiography
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read and approved [...] 4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro 5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist. 6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...]. 7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives. 8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too. 9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...]. 10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Moore      Print: Book

John A. Spender : The Comments of Bagshot
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

John A. Spender : The Comments of Bagshot
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Kurt Von Stutterheim : Those English!
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Kurt Von Stutterheim : Those English!
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.

6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].

7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

Victor Alexander : Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 15 Feb 1938
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Manuscript: Notebook

George A. Birmingham : Spanish Gold
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

George A. Birmingham : Spanish Gold
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield      Print: Book

: [a story about an illicit still]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

George Bernard Shaw : Preface to John Bull’s Other Island
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson      Print: Book

unknown : [a specimen of Irish literature]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis

Ross and Somerville : An Irish R.M.
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Alexander      Print: Book

unknown : [Irish Bulls]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elsie Sikes

: Saturday Review
'Here I sit reading the Saturday Review, New Statesman etc and feeling rather humpy.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Hardy : The Return of the Native
'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

Robert Curzon : Visits to Monasteries in the Lavant
'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's Arabia Deserta spoils one for every other book of that sort.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

Frederic Harrison : Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century
'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic] Harrison's novel which he has just published, a strange mixture of historic fact of the most interesting kind, and melodrama of the most conventional. The romantic episodes will not, I think, redound to Harrison's philosophic fame, for it is naively unreal, but these take up but a few pages, and might as well have been omitted altogether, while the historic background is vigorous and well told, only, as in every historical novel, the parts that are true ought to be printed in sober type, the parts untrue in red.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt      Print: Book

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt : The Shame of the Nineteenth Century: A Letter Addressed to the "Times"
'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expressed strong views on the pauperization of India. There was a number of the paper "Light" lying on his table, and I asked him if he still adhered to his belief in spiritualism, and he said very postively that he had not receded from it in the smallest degree.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Russel Wallace

: Light
'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expressed strong views on the pauperization of India. There was a number of the paper "Light" lying on his table, and I asked him if he still adhered to his belief in spiritualism, and he said very postively that he had not receded from it in the smallest degree.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Russel Wallace      Print: Serial / periodical

Ralph Milbanke : Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord Byron
'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case against Byron and Mrs. Leigh in the form of a book called "Astarte." This is very ably done, but to my mind is marred by an introduction violently attacking Murray, the publisher, with whom he has quarrelled over Murray's recent edition of Byron's Works. I shall endeavour to get him to modify this; indeed, I think the whole thing might without much injustice to Lady Byron's memory be let to sleep. It is an ugly story, however told.''
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt      Manuscript: Unknown

Margaret Oliphant : Squire Arden?
'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well. A very clever description of the feelings of a widow on losing a dull husband she did not much care for...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Unknown
'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly does not suit Wedgwoods, who never have any intuitions.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

:
'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, and, anyway, we are too self-centred and interested in our job to worry much about the War.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Newspaper

:
'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by post - just what I want here.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Newspaper

:
'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of periodicals, a glowing brazier, puddings, and plenty.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Serial / periodical

: [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 1914]
'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, at their request.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Unknown

:
'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians. On the other hand, the official communique (known as Comic Cuts) dismisses the whole thing in two lines. Can't help thinking Comic Cuts has a better sense of values.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Unknown

: [Army Communique]
'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians. On the other hand, the official communique (known as Comic Cuts) dismisses the whole thing in two lines. Can't help thinking Comic Cuts has a better sense of values.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Serial / periodical

Rudyard Kipling :
'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kipling's stories in which [italics]"Belait"[end italics] occurs as a Hindustanee word for Europe. I suppose they brought it from India.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Book

George William Russell : "Shadows and Lights"
'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty in the trenches; and they seem filled with majesty and peace, as does the sunrise too [quotes stanza five of A. E.'s poem "Shadows and Lights"].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell      Print: Unknown

:
'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field and wood, when if you move two feet you are as good as dead. A pied wagtail keeps running about in front, heedless of the cracking bullets.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell

:
'It does my heart good — I, who have been so deeply distressed by the tone of the newspapers since my return from France — to hear the soldiers reading them with running comment. "If those newspaper blokes that go to the front would ask the fellows in the trenches straight, they'd hear a different story." Reading a picture paper account of Silvertown, where soldiers are depicted clearing away debris "with great energy, but showing clearly their eagerness to be at grips with the enemy" — chorus: "I don't think."'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Newspaper

Henry Jones : Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guard. In our recent tour of the home counties under his superintendence we had established a certain authority over him by reason of his dependence upon us for remembering his documents, catching trains, and most principally, not losing ourselves! Thanks to this moral ascendancy, we were able to raid our kits and get almost anything we wanted — toilet things and books were the greatest desiderata — and since then I have been enjoying Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher. I hope to finish this and then do Sartor again, so as to take Browning's and Carlyle's philosophies of life with me to think over during the Scrubs [detention] months.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Sartor Resartus
'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guard. In our recent tour of the home counties under his superintendence we had established a certain authority over him by reason of his dependence upon us for remembering his documents, catching trains, and most principally, not losing ourselves! Thanks to this moral ascendancy, we were able to raid our kits and get almost anything we wanted — toilet things and books were the greatest desiderata — and since then I have been enjoying Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher. I hope to finish this and then do Sartor again, so as to take Browning's and Carlyle's philosophies of life with me to think over during the Scrubs [detention] months.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

: [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp]
'A new officer has been censoring our letters the last two days. I fancy the C.O. gave orders that they were to be much more strict. He seems needlessly and brutally inquisitive, asking as he looks at the signatures, "Who's this fellow?" "Who's so-and-so?" "What woman's this, your sweetheart?" and so on, reading through every word of the letters, and laying down his dictum, "Nothing connected with your beliefs, peace, your position here, etc." — I hardly know what he expects one's friends to write about.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Letter

: [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp]
'The censoring here has become such an unpleasant occasion as almost to take away the joy of receiving letters — chiefest of guard-room amenities. The new officer brings up another with him to share the fun — reads carefully and slowly through every word, making obnoxious little noises or verbal comments and then passes it on to his colleague — a side-light on the phrase "an officer and a gentleman". He makes a sheep and goat pile. The latter he slowly and wrathfully tears up into little pieces.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Letter

: The Fellowship Hymn-Book
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Richard Weymouth : The Naval, Military and Village Hymn Book
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Walther Rauschenbusch : Christianity and the Social Crisis
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Harry Emerson Fosdick : The Meaning of Prayer
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Harry Emerson Fosdick : The Manhood of the Master
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Student Christian Movement : A Book of Prayers for Students
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Emil Otto : ?An Elementary German Grammar
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Charles Hugo : ?German Grammar Simplified
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

: The New Testament
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Charlotte Mary Yonge :
'My mother had a school-board pupil-teacher to read aloud to her during part of the winter; she wrote: ''I embarked with her in such a frivolous novel all about flirtations and lovers that I have changed it for Miss Yonge — all about scarlet-fever and drains.'''
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Charles Waldstein : The Work of John Ruskin: Its influence on Modern Thought and Life.
''I have been reading Waldstein's ''Ruskin''. The admiring part I did not feel up to, but the chapter on social questions delights me as speaking so strongly of his narrow want of sympathy...'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Shandy [end italics] said "our armies swore terribly in Flanders". They had the same sort of weather and probably less comfort.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert John Martin      Print: Book

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice
'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle because we have no other sources of information than our imagination. [italics] The Merchant of Venice [end italics], which Elsie sent me, has just settled one grevious point, viz. who was in love with Portia. I was a bit hazy over most of the play but I said Bassanio. Hamilton stuck out that Bassanio eventually trotted off with Nerissa. He had got it into his head that although Bassanio and Portia were lovers in the early part of the play, the ring episode upset things and Bassanio married Nerissa. But I was correct and I can now gloat over Hamilton although really I have little right to do so for it was more of a guess than a feat of memory, but I don't admit that to Hamilton.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert John Martin      Print: Book

Siegfried Sassoon : Counter-Attack and Other Poems
'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics] Counter-attack [end italics] by Siegfried Sassoon. Very good and very outspoken, revealing things as they actually are, not as they are represented by the daily press. They will do old Glasspoole's heart good when he reads them.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert John Martin      Print: Book

: La Vie Parisienne
'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried to recollect some French, that admirable language so widely understood, if not spoken, throughout the Middle East. In the absence of language primers or serious books, I was assisted by being able to borrow some rather salty French novels and some old copies of [italics] La Vie Parisienne [end italics].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Collis Spackman      Print: Serial / periodical

: "salty French novels"
'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried to recollect some French, that admirable language so widely understood, if not spoken, throughout the Middle East. In the absence of language primers or serious books, I was assisted by being able to borrow some rather salty French novels and some old copies of [italics] La Vie Parisienne [end italics].'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Collis Spackman      Print: Book

Robert Browning : "The Wanderers"
'... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [italics] Wanderers [end italics] .... For on my kelek I had my [italics] Book of Verses [end italics], my Loaf of Bread and even my Jug of Wine and I only lacked some visionary "Thou" beside me.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Collis Spackman      Print: Book

Erskine Childers : The Riddle of the Sands
'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabbage & potatoes, rice. Slept a little. Head shaved, wound dressed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

William Magnay : The Amazing Duke
'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Jack London : The Call of the Wild
'D[inner] Stew, potatoes, rice. Read "The Call of the Wild". Dozed.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Gertrude Page : The Edge o' Beyond
'Read. Received kit. Read "The Edge o' Beyond". Inoculated.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Douglas Sladen : The Japs at Home
'Read. Wounds dressed. Read "The Japs at Home".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

John Oxenham : Barbe of Grand Bayon
'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Robert W. Service : Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Ethel Dell : The Way of an Eagle
'Read, wounds dressed. Read "The Way of an Eagle".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Henry Seton Merriman : Barlasch of the Guard
'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Gilbert Parker : An Adventure of the North
'Read "An Adventure of the North".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Anthony Hope Hawkins : The Chronicles of Count Antonio
'Read. Wounds dressed ... Visit from Miss Davies and a friend (Miss Stevenson). She brought 8 books & chocs. Talked for 1/2 hour. Also a book of Camp Songs by Dr Walford Davies. Writing & read "Count Antonio". Made several trips around the ward on crutches.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

:
'Much as he had liked [his previous employers], George Michael [Clarkson] liked the builder-brothers just as well. The feeling was mutual, and the brothers tried to fill some of the voids in George Michael's home environment. "I was the only apprentice they ever had. And they used to lend me books and look after my moral welfare. They were great church-goers and that sort of thing".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Michael Clarkson      Print: Book

: The Bible
'When asked how he passed the time in the [ship's jail] cell, [Edward] Pullen replied, "Just read the Bible, that's all. Nothing else. You wouldn't have nothing else ... And pick your pound of oakum, see. When you'd picked that, you had nothing else to do ... Just loiter about, see, in the cell".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pullen      Print: Book

: The Bible
'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

George Otto Trevelyan : The Life and Letters of Lord Macauley
'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : Cranford
'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slang expression''. I can't perceive she is ever amused.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

A. J. Balfour : The Foundations of Belief
'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Voltaire : The Age of Lewis XIV
'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impressed with his magnanimity and generosity ... V. seems really to forget where the money came from.'
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

: The Bible
'"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the Bible. Having been a freethinker for several years ... I decided to give this [latter] tome the benefit of the doubt and read it from cover to cover, which did nothing to convince me, but only reinforced my views".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Edward Needham      Print: Book

John Masefield : Gallipoli
'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Anthony Hope Hawkins : Tales of Two People
'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

John Masefield : Gallipoli
'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Mrs Humphry Ward : The Coryston Family
'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Ian Hay : The Right Stuff
'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsley and her aunt - Mrs Frank Wright. Sweets & 5 books.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Edward Bulwer-Lytton : Ernest Maltravers
'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Owen Maddox      Print: Book

: [POW camp publication]
'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consisting of the various "officials" taken from the German papers, with leading articles on any special bits of news. There is also a monthly production with short stories and illustrations which is wonderfully good. The summer number is just out, and there is a hit at me under "Things We Want to Know": whether "Joy Riding in an aeroplane over imperfectly known country is not an overrated amusement?"'
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Lyall Grant      Print: Serial / periodical

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Hitchcock Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Katey Dickens Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Austen Print: Book

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Aubrey Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Madame de Montalembert Manuscript: Codex

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: A.W. Kinglake Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: A.W. Kinglake Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Print: Newspaper

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Thrale Print: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Humphry Repton

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Delany Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Delany Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wully Carruthers Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wully Carruthers Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wully Carruthers Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Sibbald Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Charlotte Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Newspaper

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Weeton Print: Book

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilaire Belloc

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter de la Mare

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Collyer Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Crooks Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical